Chapter 6. Papyrus
Iffy was packing some things into this magic box and pulled out the heavy winter wear, "I hope Frisk is right about this box being magic, yet all the boxes we come in contact with will magically have our stuff in it." Iffy closes the box and turns around seeing Compa behind her with a cute tan coat, "Hey, you look cute!"
Compa asks out of nowhere, "Hey, um, don't you think it is a little strange that there is a human down here?"
Iffy puts on the heavy coat as she says, "Yeah, and I don't get the feeling she is telling the entire truth to us, which is weird. This makes me wonder if something fishy is going on around here. We will worry about that later, come on, let's get going the sooner we get on the move the sooner we will be back home."
"Yessy!" Compa hummed. Iffy smiled as she walked past her to the pathway, and behind Iffy's back Compa said quietly to herself, "I think you look cute too."
Compa and Iffy walked along the path until they were face to face with the skeleton brothers, and Frisk talking with them. Papyrus was head saying, "So, as I was saying about Undyne." Papyrus looks up, and his grin widens even more "OH MY GOD! SANS! FRISK! IT'S TWO HUMANS!"
Sans chuckles, "Congratulations Papyrus, you didn't mistake a human for a rock this time."
Frisk smiles, "You have me to thank for that. Silly Papyrus thought I was a rock last time."
Papyrus jumps in pure joy, "I have finally done it! And I have done it even better, for I, The Great Papyrus, did not find just one human, but two! Undyne will… I'm gonna… I will be so… Popular! Popular! POPULAR!"
Frisk laughs as she facepalms, "Oh Papyrus. You never change."
Iffy smiles in both confusion and amusement, "Wow, what a weird monster you turn out to be."
Compa giggles, "What a silly skeleton!"
Papyrus coughs, "Ahem. Humans! You shall not pass this area, for I, The Great Papyrus will stop you! I will capture you! You will be delivered to the capital!"
Iffy smirks at Papyrus, "Oh really now?"
"Yes, really! What do you take me for an imbecile?" Papyrus spat.
"You would not be the dumbest person I ever met if that was the case" Iffy responded with another smirk earning a glare from Sans and Frisk.
Compa asks, "What happens if we are taken to the capital?"
Papyrus ponders, "I… I am not quite sure blonde human, but in any case, continue if you dare!" Papyrus begins moonwalking away from them.
Compa pouts, "But my hair is pink."
Frisk follows Papyrus, "Hey, be careful, Papy! Papy, watch out for that tree!"
Sans chuckled, "Well, that went well. Don't sweat it, young ladies. I'll keep an eye socket out for ya," Sans bows and follow Papyrus up the path.
Iffy scoffs, "This place is weird."
"Iffy, be nice!" Compa demanded.
As the girls walk, a bird-like monster flutters beside them as they continue to walk, "Name is Snowdrake! Ice puns are Snow Problem!"
"You got to be kidding me," Iffy complains.
Compa laughs and responds, "Ice see what you did there!"
Iffy groans, "Oh hell no, not having from you today, Compa," and proceeds to pull her away from Snowdrake.
Snowdrake stops and laughs, "I've heard that one."
Compa waves at Snodrake as she is pulled away by an annoyed Iffy, "Bye Snowdrake!"
Iffy sighs, "What is this Alice in Wonderland?" She looks at a guard station and walks up to it to see a letter on the station. Iffy reads, "You observe the well-crafted sentry station! Who could have built this, you ponder? I bet it was that famous royal guardsman." Iffy shakes her head, "Nep would have loved this guy." Iffy walk away from the station.
Compa reads the side note on it, "Note: not yet a royal guardsman." Compa smiles and giggles once more, "Wow, he sure got some big dreams, doesn't he?"
Iffy groans, "Yeah, when Neptune starts doing work by herself."
Suddenly as they approached another guard station a sharp gruff voice shouted, "Did something move? Was it my imagination?"
Iffy quickly draws her weapons, "Who's there!"
A bipedal dog comes out of the guard station, he looks around and from closer examination, appears to be blind "I can only see moving things. If something was moving, for example, a human. I'll make sure it will never move again!" He draws his blades.
Compa observes with her medical knowledge, "He is blind."
The dog swipes at Iffy, who blocks with her weapon, "How is this dumb dog!" With her free hand, she punches the dog in the face knocking him down
The dog rolled to his feet, "Something moved! Something hit me!"
"Iffy, do not hurt him! He is blind!" Compa was caught off-guard when she saw a blue sword phase through her chest harmlessly. "Huh…. The sword didn't hurt me."
Iffy had a look of terror. She was about to rush the dog until she notices the blue blade harmlessly pass through her, and then out of Compa, "Wha… What the hell going on?" Iffy rushes up to Compa, "Are you ok?"
Compa blinks, "Yeah…. I was standing still, and the sword passed through me."
Iffy baffled, yelled, "I saw that? The hell kind of magic is this?"
Compa pets the dog "Ummm, good doggy? For not hurting me?"
The bipedal dog barks in confusion, "What? I've been pet?" his tail begins to wag.
Iffy just stood there, "What?"
Compa smiles as she pets the dog more, "Awe, what a cute doggie."
The dog barks in utter confusion, "Where is that coming from?"
Iffy scratches her head, "I can't believe what I am seeing."
Compa scratches behind the ears, "He is so silly."
The dog barks and pants, "There is no end to this."
Iffy laughs, "I can't believe this! Compa just beat a blind ninja-looking dog monster by standing still and just petting him. Where was that on how to train your dog 101?"
"Ok, that's enough," The dog hops back into his sentry station with a flustered look, "S…something petted me. Something that is not moving. I am going to need some dog treats for this" He pulls out a bone treat and a lighter and begins smoking his dog treat like a cigarette.
Compa huffs, "Hey, smoking is bad for you! Hmph" She walks away, upset.
"Are we not going to question the fact that there is a dog that is blind, dressed like a ninja, and is smoking a dog treat?" Iffy questions but sees that Compa is not having it. She follows along until they meet Frisk again.
Frisk waved at them to come over, and the two girls obliged, "Hey, I need to explain blue attacks to you. It is about the blue attacks. Blue attacks will hurt you if you are moving but cannot hurt you if you are still as possible. Think of a blue stop sign, if you see blue, then you know to be still with blue attacks."
Compa blinks, "But stop signs are not blue."
Iffy snaps her fingers, "So that's why the sword did not hurt Compa. She was completely still when the dog tried to stab her. Yet I went to block the sword, it hit my blade. So, see blue attack, stay still got it."
Frisk laughs and palms her forehead, "Oh my, did that grouchy dog cause you trouble, I should have told you sooner. Anyways come on, both of you, Papyrus got something waiting for you guys, and he gets cranky if we wait too long."
The three girls walk down the snow-patched path, a snowman waves at them and yells, "Frisk! Thanks for taking a part of me to Waterfall!"
"You are welcome!" Frisk yelled back.
Compa points, "Look, a talking snowman!"
"Why am I not surprised," Iffy stated.
"Hey, there is a sign!" Compa walks up to read it "North ice, West ice, and East Snowdin also ice."
Iffy comments, "Talk about stating the obvious."
They continue to follow Frisk until they see Sans and Papyrus up ahead. Frisk purposely falls behind Iffy and Compa to let them see Papyrus was yelling at Sans as the girls approach them, "Sans! You are so lazy! You were napping all night!"
Sans rolls his spectral eyes in his eyesockets, "I think that is called sleeping."
"EXCUSES! EXCUSES!" Papyrus yelled.
Unknown to Iffy and Compa, Frisk slips away and appears on the other side where Papyrus and Sans are, "Papyrus, I have brought them here."
Iffy blinks and points, "Frisk, how the hell did you get over there?"
Sans chuckles, "Hehe! Nice shortcut, Frisk!"
Frisk smiles and hugs Sans, "Learned it from you, bro! And now for The Great Papyrus to make his intro!"
Papyrus pats Frisk, "Now here is someone I can count on, Sans." Then he snaps his attention to Iffy and Compa, "Ahem, Oh-ho, the two humans have arrived!"
Iffy crosses her arms, "Why do I get the feeling? This will be absolutely absurd."
Papyrus grins and pumps his fist in the air with a dramatic pose, "In order to stop you! My little sister Frisk, my brother Sans, and I have created some puzzles. I think you will find this first one quite shocking! For you see this is an Invisible electricity maze!"
Iffy stomps her foot in frustration, "Are you joking? An invisible maze of death?"
Compa completely ignoring Iffy outburst, says, "Frisk is Papyrus's little sister, that means Papyrus must be in his 30s because Frisk obviously looks like a young healthy adult."
Papyrus Continues, "When you touch the walls" Papyrus pulls an orb from his pocket, "This orb will administer a hearty zap! Sound like Fun? Because the amount of fun you would have is actually rather small, I think" He glances to the side slightly unsure of this.
Compa looks at the orb in Papyrus's hand, "That orb?"
Iffy rolls her eyes. "This is stupid!" She pounds the wall of the invisible maze and, suddenly Papyrus himself was electrocuted by the orb, "What the? Did that just happen?"
Compa winces and looks away, "That looked like it hurt really bad!"
Papyrus stomps his feet in anger, "What did you two do!?"
Sans sighs, "Papyrus, they need to hold the orb, silly."
Frisk shows concern, "Are you okay, Papyrus?"
Papyrus blinks and looks at the orb in his hand, "oh, right!" Papyrus walks through the maze leaving tracks behind, "Here hold this!" He gives the orb to Compa. Papyrus rushes back to his original position, "You can start now!"
Iffy looks at the orb in Compa's hand, "What?"
Compa follows the tracks Papyrus left behind While Iffy stood there as a smile formed on her face. Compa finishes the maze and hands the orb back to Papyrus. "Here you go," Compa says.
Papyrus gleams a happy expression on his skeletal face, "Now for the other human!"
Iffy looks at Papyrus and the tracks and busts into full-blown laughter even falling to the ground, oh, I cannot believe this happened! He is such a dork! A dumb silly clueless dork!" Iffy pounds the ground, as she continues with her uncontrolled laughter.
Compa shyly chuckles, "Iffy is losing it."
Papyrus cackles, Nyehehe! I see she trembles before the might of The Great Papyrus!"
Sans chuckles, "Sure thing, bro."
Frisk nervously scratches the back of her head with a slight chuckle, "I think Iffy considers this hilarious to her."
Iffy slowly stood up still giggling and holding her side as she followed the trail, "I know dense, but this is next level."
Compa shows an apologetic smile to Iffy as Iffy came from the end of the maze, "I think you might be losing it again Iffy."
Papyrus laughs even enjoying himself, "Wowie! This must be a fun puzzle to earn such laughter."
Frisk shakes her head with a smile, "My second big, adopted brother is a dork."
Papyrus points his finger at Iffy who has calmed down from her laughing fit, "So, you may have solved this puzzle, but the next one, you may not be so lucky. It was designed by my brother Sands. You will surely be confounded! I know I am! Nyehehehehehe!" Papyrus raises his arms in the air like a lunatic and runs off ahead.
Frisk sighs, "Papyrus, you are too innocent for this world."
Sans walks up, "Hey, thanks! My brother seems like he is having fun."
Compa laughs, "He is a very funny and silly Skeleton."
Iffy responds, "Hey, no harm done, though next time, ditch the electricity maze less, unless he becomes a skeleton Christmas tree again."
"Noted," Sans agreed.
Frisk looks at Compa and Iffy and speaks, "By the way, girls, did you see that weird outfit he wears?"
"Yes," Iffy and Compa said in unison.
Sans claps his hand together, "We made that a few weeks ago for a costume party. He has not worn anything since then."
Frisk smile, "He calls it his "Even better battle body," and it replaces his old broken battle body. It is also "battle ready" because he uses it when he and I train with him. Now let me go make sure he doesn't get himself hurt again; Sans will walk with ya," Frisk, goes on ahead.
Sans sighs, "Kiddo knows how to pull one over on me nowadays. Heh, I remembered it used to be the other way around."
Iffy asks, "What that suppose to mean?"
Sans chuckles as he walks with Compa and Iffy, "Don't worry about it. You know, this is the first time in a long time a human came down to the underground, let alone two. Compa, you seemed to be a nice girl though I can see you are clueless at times. Iffy, I have to admit you can get really "Iffy" at times, but hey, let's see what the future holds in your next encounters with the others in the underground."
Iffy whispers to Compa, "Is it just me or is he judging us, I mean, we literally just met him."
Compa whispers, "I don't know."
Iffy spoke up to thank the skeleton, "Hey, thanks, Sans."
"Don't mention it. Say, I was thinking about doing a business selling fried snow. Want some fried snow? It is only five G." Sans joked.
Iffy raise an eyebrow, "Fried snow, I think I will pass on that. Thanks anyway."
Sans shrugs, "That's fine, I am all out of snow anyways."
Compa Asks, "How can someone fry snow, and how are you out of snow where there is lots of snow?"
Sans laughed as they walked. They see a monster on an ice cream cart sighed to themselves, "I don't understand why these are not selling. This is the perfect weather for a nice frozen treat."
Iffy looks at the monster and says to him, "You are selling frozen treats in a place that is snowing."
The monster suddenly perks up with a smile, "Oh, customers! Hello! Would you like some Nice Cream? It's a frozen treat that warms the heart! Now just 5 g!"
"I'll take one!" Compa blurted out.
Sans grins, "I'll pass."
Iffy shrugs and sighs, "Guess I might as well take one. Here is the ten G." Iffy gives the money to the Nice Cream seller. "I found some of this in the snow where we met Frisk."
"Here you go! Two nice cream bars! Have a nice day!" The monster salesman gave both Iffy and Compa the Nice Cream treat.
As the group walks ahead, Iffy sees a giant snowball and decides to kick it down the hill. The ball gets smaller and smaller and manages to get in the goal before it loses all its mass. A flag shoots up, "Score! A hole in one!"
"Hey, nice one!" Sans compliments Iffy, "Anyways, we should keep things "rolling" before my brother gets too upset for us being late."
"Yeah, it would be very rude to keep Sans's brother waiting," Compa agreed.
The group came across Papyrus and Frisk. Papyrus notices and smiles at Compa and Iffy, "Humans! I hope you like this puzzle!" He looks around for the puzzle, then he glares at Sans, "Sans, where is the puzzle?"
Sans casually points to a piece of paper on the ground, "Right there on the ground. Trust me, there's no way they can get past this one."
Frisk facepalms as she giggles, "Sans, please tell me that's today's crossword puzzle."
Sans snaps his fingers as he swings his arm, "Dang it! I knew I was forgetting something. Should have used today's crossword puzzle. Heh, I am such a "Bonehead" for not swapping them out!"
Compa asks, "Why a crossword puzzle?"
Iffy sighs, "Exactly why a crossword puzzle?"
Iffy picks up the paper to satisfy her curiosity while Papyrus yells at Sans, "Sans! I can't believe you said that! Crossword puzzles again? I swear, your laziness is unfathomable! In my humble opinion, I find junior jumble easily the hardest!"
Sans laughed, "What? Really dude? That easy-peasy word scramble? That is for babies."
Frisk awkwardly smiles and just watches the scene play out. Papyrus squints at Sans, "Unbelievable. Both of you, humans, solve this dispute! Which one is harder crosswords or junior jumble?"
Iffy answers, "Crosswords."
Compa answers, "Junior Jumble" which made Iffy turn to her and gave a bewildered expression.
Papyrus grins and walks up to Compa, "So the blonde human gets it! While the blue human is weird."
Compa grins and sighs, "My hair is pink."
"How in the world am I weird?" "Iffy complains as she throws her hands in the air. She cannot believe that she is in this situation.
"Crosswords are easy! All I put is z's because all I do when I look at them is snore!"
"What And you call me weird?" Iffy protested
Papyrus laughs once again, "Now the blonde human is very intelligent! She finds junior jumble so difficult. Nyhehehehehe!" Papyrus pumps his fist in the air and rushes off ahead once again.
Compa grins in annoyance, "I am not blonde. I have pink hair."
Frisk pat Compa's shoulder, "Hey, don't worry about it."
Sans chuckles, "Compa, thanks for saying junior jumble just to appease my brother. Yesterday he got stumped trying to solve the horoscope."
Frisk adds, "And he still has not figured it out."
Compa giggles, "Well, junior jumble is pretty hard for me."
Iffy blinks several times, "What the hell just happened? Compa, how do you find junior jumble hard? That so easy!? So easy a baby can do it!"
Compa turned to Iffy with a hurt expression, "So… you think I am stupid?"
Iffy realized she said something that shouldn't have been said, "I uh…"
Frisk grabs Iffy and Compa, "Come on, there is a camp up ahead, and I got something for you guys to eat. Papyrus made spaghetti, but it is frozen to the plate, and the plate is also frozen to the table."
Iffy laughed, "Frozen to the table? Man, that's just next-level stupid."
Compa still hurt, replies, "Stupid like me?"
Iffy bites her tongue, and Frisk laughs nervously to break the awkwardness, "At least it is edible this time."
Iffy and Compa blinked and said with puzzled expressions, "Edible?"
"Don't ask," Frisk said.
They walked to the campsite with a plate of frozen spaghetti, that is frozen to the table, and an unplugged microwave with all the settings set on Spaghetti. Compa looks at the settings and scratches her head, "They are all set to Spaghetti?"
Frisk smiles, "Don't worry about it. Go to the camp and relax, ok."
Sans walks past them, "I am going to go on ahead and make sure Papyrus is doing alright" He walks on ahead.
Iffy and Compa went to the campsite and see, one tent, Compa just went inside the tent while Iffy followed, "Compa I…"
Compa cuts Iffy off, "Don't. Let us just go to sleep." Compa lays in the sleep bed and covers herself up. Iffy sighs and just heads to the other bed to sleep.
Meanwhile, in Gamindustri. Neptune approaches the bacilicom to see Vert following 5pb inside. Chika greets them at the door, "Why hello, 5bp, and I see Neptune decided to follow you here for some reason."
Neptune gives a big cheeky smile, "I came here to see Vert about something?"
"She is quite busy," Chika said.
"Busy playing video games, I bet," Neptune jokes. She walks into the Bacilicom and shouts, "Oh, Vert! Verty Vert! Come out, come out wherever you are!"
5pb laughs a little shaking her head, "That one way to do an introduction."
Vert comes out of her room yawning. She looked for who was calling her, "5pb? Neptune? What are you two doing here?"
Neptune chuckles and gets straight to the point, "Ayo! Vert! I am looking for my friends, they went to a place called Mount Ebbot, heard of it?"
Vert perks up a bit, "Ah, yes! That is from a game called Undertale. Been wanting to get my hands on a copy for quite some time."
Neptune starts to panic a bit, "Oh No! Compa and Iffy are trapped in a naughty game! We need to get them out of there before they get censored and censored!"
5pb laughed, "I recognize that game, it's about befriending a bunch of silly and goofy monsters. I love the music in it! Oh, Bonetrousle, Heartache, and Megalovania are the favorite among a lot of fans. You would not believe how many songs I sang with just those three tracks."
Vert lets out a comforting laugh, "Neptune, the game does not have anything of that nature. You befriend all the monsters for the good ending."
Neptune asks, "So what's the bad ending? I hope it's not like ours."
Vert sighs, "Bad ending is total genocide."
Neptune bit her lip, "Okay. That is REALLY bad! So did I mention Iffy and Compa are trapped in Mt. Ebbot, where they may or may not be getting the good or bad ending?"
Vert blinks and realizes, "Oh dear me. I got so caught up I didn't listen to you when you said Iffy was trapped inside Mt Ebbot. We must free her at once!"
Chika interrupts, "My darling Vert, you know you have a slight problem. The problem is we have no clue where this Mount Ebbot is!"
Vert sighs, "Alas, she is right. We need to get more information about it. Blanc might know since Lowwe has found new terrain, and mountains as such."
Neptune was shocked to hear that from Vert, "Huh, you need Blanc's help. Okay, then."
Vert nervously laughed, "I bet even Blanc would be a fan of Undertale. Enough this dilly dally, we have our friends to save after all." Vert walks to the entrance.
Chika looks around nervously, "But you have lots of work, and you need to catch up and…"
5pb interrupts her, "I can help! And maybe make this place look a little nice too."
Vert chuckles, "Oh, do not worry, Chika; I am saving a dear old friend. Thank you, 5pb, you are very sweet. I will be back, be good!" Vet winks before transforming into her CPU form and flies off.
Neptune turns to Chika and 5pb and backs up with a cheeky smile, "I will love to stay and chat, but now I have to go" She transforms into her CPU form spread out her wings makes, and hand signs 'see you later' whiles saying "Da svidania!" and she flies off as well.
Chika blinks, "The hell did she just say?"
5pb laughed, "She was just being silly and said goodbye in one language she knows because she can. Now," Goes to Vert's rooms and office to help tidy around, and to set up for her private concert in the Bacilicom.
