Iffy awakens hearing something outside of the sentry station. "Now what?" Iffy shakes Compa to wake her, "Hey, wake up!"

Compa grabs Iffy closer and hugs her closely. She says in her sleep, "So what if they are flat…. Zzzz. You look great in that swimsuit."

Iffy goes bright red and blushes like a tomato. Iffy screams, "Wake up!"

Compa snaps awake, "Whoa! Hey, what's wrong?"

Iffy recomposes herself and points outside, "I heard something. We need to see what is going on," They walk out of the sentry station to see a very strange sight, "Okay! This is not weird at all."

A monster who wears a purple shirt with teal blotches on it walks up to them, "Yeah, a dog just rushed in here, filled with inspiration. It kept building snow dogs that expressed its own emotion, but as it built, the poor dog kept getting more and more excited about the sculpture. Its neck got longer and longer, so it added more and more snow, until… Well, it is rather sad to watch, because of the whimpering of the broken sculptures, but I could not turn away."

Compa giggles, "Explains all the dog heads, and all the long necks. That little doggie sounds so silly."

Iffy laughs, "The very definition of insanity." She walks up, and sees a save point, "This world is nuts." Iffy laughed at the ridiculousness of knowing that the dog would never give up trying to make the perfect snowdog sculpture somehow fills her with determination. The girls leave the scene and see something interesting.

Compa innocently points at the skeleton snow structure that looks a lot like Papyrus with a red scarf on it, "That looks like peperoos!"

Iffy looks at it, "Think you should call him Pap, Compa. Anyways, this fits his egotistical nature. Does not surprise me that there is a lump of snow that I assume is Sans's attempt on a snowman because he actually wrote his name."

Compa huffs, "Iffy, be nice!"

Iffy points at the lump of snow with the name "Sans" on it, "Look for yourself."

Compa looks at it and facepalms, "How can someone that lazy?"

Iffy snickers, "Wow, this is new. Even you are bewildered by Sans's laziness." Iffy continues to laugh as the girls continue forward and see a sign, and past it is a completed puzzle, with a path already open for them, "Huh, it says this puzzle is under maintenance. Please, skip it. Well, win for us!"

"Puzzles can be under maintenance?" Compa said in confusion. Iffy responded with a shrug and guided Compa through the path until they ran across a deer monster with lots of decoration on his horns, "Awww, poor thing."

Iffy, slightly feeling bad for the monster takes off the decoration, "There you go, buddy. Now, you do not have to worry about these being on you."

The deer monster smiled, "Why, it is nice to have someone help you for a change. Thanks!" The monster trotted off home.

Compa smiled at the sight, "You know, Iffy, you can be real sweet when you want to be."

Iffy shyly looks away from Compa, "I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Anyways let us please keep going." Iffy walks a bit faster, because this would be the second time she has gotten flustered in one day. They come across a clearing with a tiny dog house surrounded by snow puffs. Iffy did not know how to change the conversation to avoid her shyness and embarrassment, so she blurted out, "Hey, Compa!" She points at a snow puff, and even she has absolutely no idea what she is thinking when she says, "It's a snow puff! And this is… also a snow puff!" Iffy quietly says to herself, even more embarrassed, "What the hell am I doing?"

Compa thinks this is a game, plays along, and points at a snow puff, "This, however, is a snow puff!"

Iffy laughs, slightly relieved, and decides to just go with it, "Surprisingly, it is another snow puff." Pointing at another patch of snow.

Compa points at another and can barely control her laughter, "Is it really a snow puff?"

Iffy throws out her arms in a grand gesture like a professional showman to a lump of snow, "Behold a snow puff!"

Both of the girls dropped to the snow-patched ground laughing, and having a great, old time together with each other. Compa and Iffy held hands for a moment of silence for a while. They let go of each other's hand, and Compa broke the silence asking, "Could they be looking for us? Ge-Ge, Histy, Nep-Nep, and the others."

Iffy is still lying down on the ground, her green eyes looking upon the ceiling of the caverns, "Heh, knowing Neptune, she would be looking for us right now." She kicks up to her feet and offers a hand to Compa, "So what are we waiting for? Our friends are waiting for us!"

Compa takes Iffy hand to get back to her feet and smiles being reassured that everything is alright, "Some of the monsters here, there are very nice and helpful."

Iffy rubs the back of her head, "Yeah, makes me wonder why some are so hell-bent on getting us, though. This place is so freaking weird, I tell you. Despite what I said earlier, this place isn't so bad." They walk to a large patch of snow and see a small cute white dog head peaking out, "Aw, look at the little tiny puppy."

Compa squeals with joy, seeing the dog, "Oh my gosh, he is so adorable!"

They bark with a 'squeak' and then rise from the snow with large plated human-like armor with several pads, and shoulder pads, along with pads you never thought possible to be pads. There were pads on the speak and even the spear blade itself, even made less sense to Compa and Iffy. Iffy blinks, seeing this, "What the? Why so many pads? Why is the spear padded? Why is a tiny dog wearing a large suit of armor?"

Both girls' heart crystals glow their respective colors as the dog known as The Greater Dog approaches. Compa shouts. "Why are all the doggies fighting us?"

Iffy facepalms, "Why did I not see this coming, Okay fine, time to fight a giant armored pooch with an unreasonable amount of pads on its armor. Screw it, let's nickname this one Greater dog!"

Greater Dog excitedly runs up to them. Compa tries to run but can't as the dog is already very close to her. Compa gulps and says, "Nice puppy." Compa timidly pets the Greater Dog, and the dog curls up and falls asleep on poor Compa, "Aie! It's crushing me!"

Iffy throws a snowball at Greater Dog, "Hey mutt, get off of her!" The dog gets hit by the snow, and thinking Iffy wants to play, it gets back up grabs a large pile of snow, and begins to run towards Iffy, "Uh oh." Iffy would sprint away if the Greater dog didn't just drop all the snow right onto Iffy.

"Iffy!" Compa cries out in sheer terror while the giant dog innocently yawns and approaches Compa panting happily. Compa scared out of her mind, gulps and says, "Nice doggie, can you go home now?" Compa pets the dog not knowing what to do, and the dog falls asleep on top of her, "Aye! You are too heavy!" Compa cries as she is crushed by the dog, "Doggie! Get off me!"

Iffy burns the snow that was burying her with her demon flame ability. She stands up and marches up to Greater Dog. Iffy grabs the dog tightly on its ear, causing it to welp. "GET OFF OF HER YOU LITTLE TWERP!" The dog whined with puppy dog eyes which sadly was in vain, for Iffy yelled, "Oh no! You have been a bad dog! Now Up!" The Dog got up from Compa, and slowly walked towards Iffy, "Stop! And sit right here!" The dog obeyed her since it was terrified that she might hurt it.

Compa sat up, "Owie! My ribs hurt now." She slowly stood to her feet, "He wasn't so bad, but he did accidentally lay his full weight on me."

Iffy snaps her fingers, commanding Greater Dog, "Now, get your sorry butt in that doghouse and leave us alone" Greater Dog whined in protest, "I said…. Get. In. The. Dog. House. Now!" Greater Dog retreated as it was getting out its armor and retreated into its doghouse. Iffy walks up to Compa and sighs, "That dog played way too rough. Where was the discipline for this thing? Anyways, are you alright, Compa?"

Compa reiterates, "I could be better. I think that I am never going to let a giant doggie lay on me again because they are so heavy."

Iffy rubs her forehead in frustration, "Look, I get he was just wanting to play, but if he has that kinda armor and from the sigil, he is like some kind of guard. You would expect them to be more disciplined. That mutt ought to be in his kennel and think about what he has done."

Compa looked at the sad dog lying inside the doghouse, "Don't you think you are being a little too hard on him?" She turns to see Iffy already walking forward, "Hey! Wait!"

Iffy stops at the entrance of the bridge, and Compa comes up to her and hears her say shakenly, "It's so high! And it's a rope bridge of all things!"

Compa spoke, "Iffy?" Iffy jolted and turned around sharply, then she breathed a sigh of relief, "Um, what was that about?"

Iffy chuckles nervously, "N-nothing. Let us just get across this bridge." She grabs Compa's hand tightly and starts crossing the bridge with Compa in tow, not realizing she is tightening her grip.

Compa asked, "Hey, can you not hold my hand so tight?"

Iffy didn't hear Compa as she focused on just getting across, "It's alright, don't look down, and just get across."

"Iffy! You are hurting me!" Compa begged.

"Humans!" A familiar skeletal voice came from the other side of the bridge.

Iffy while frightened softly says to herself, "No, not now!"

"Iffy, what's wrong with you?" Compa asked.

Papyrus came to view at the other end of the bridge with Sans and Frisk, "This is your final and most dangerous challenge!"

Iffy starts shaking and saying to herself, "Why does this have to be at a suspended bridge of all places?"

Compa blinks, "Since when are you afraid of heights?"

Iffy answered, "Blame Neptune's crazy flying!"

Papyrus continues with his signature smirk, "Behold the Gauntlet of Deadly Terror!" Suddenly a slew of deadly weapons, a flamethrower, and for some reason a happy dog tied to a rope panting happily appeared from nowhere.

Compa looked terrified, "Ok, that is scary!"

Iffy gulps, "It is official, he is trying to kill us. Gee, thanks Sans, you call him not dangerous. Well, What the freaking hell is this huh!? Something crazy happens, there is always something this damn stupid that happens, and why is it always a bridge?"

Papyrus cackles like there is nothing wrong about this, "When I say the word! It will fully Activate! Cannons will fire! Spikes will swing! Blades will slice! Each part will swing up and down violently! Only the tiniest chance of…"

Iffy screams and cuts off Papyrus, "YOU ARE INSANE! HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK THIS IS FAIR!?"

Compa chuckles nervously, "Oh dear, Iffy is really mad, and kinda having a panic attack at the same time. Poor Mr. Skeleton. The last person that really made her this mad was Nep-Nep when she went flying with her." Compa then blinks in realization, "Ohhhhhhh! Okay, that explains why she is afraid of heights."

Iffy in anger says, "Oh really! You just now noticed that you dolt!"

Compa looks down and begins to cry, "Why are you being mean again?"

Iffy realizes what she said, "Compa, I didn't…. I wasn't…. oh no, don't start crying."

Papyrus blinks as he notices Compa is crying, and sighs to himself, "Huh, guess The Great Papyrus made a big mistake! This Puzzle is too unfair to use. Begone! And disassemble yourself, vile puzzle!" Papyrus pressed a button, and all the dangerous contraptions just disappeared.

Frisk smiled, "Good job, big bro!"

Sans chuckles, "Heh, Good thing you retired this one, I kind of hate seeing ya crying over this one. Hey, Paps, where are you going?"

Papyrus sighs as he carefully walks to the girls saying to himself, "They were right. That puzzle was way too unfair. How silly of me to make the same mistake twice, so to never do it again! The puzzle has been dismantled! I am a skeleton with standards, make sure my puzzles are fair and traps expertly well cooked! That method was too direct and had no class at all. Most importantly, it seemed to scare the humans too much, which is poor sportsmanship." He approached the girls and said, "The Great Papyrus must apologize for poor professionalism with that puzzle it was not up to my code and standards! Rest assured it will never happen again."

Iffy focuses on a crying Compa, "Geez, I didn't mean it like that. I guess I got a little too worked up."

Compa continues to cry, "Just leave me alone!"

Papyrus notices the situation, "Oh dear, this is not good at all! Come with me and off this bridge, because it seems the height of this bridge is what is bothering you!" He gestures for them to follow him.

Iffy totally confused, says, "Uh, okay? Guess we are doing that now? What a weird dude." She facepalms and groans as she and Compa make their way across, "Geez, I feel like a Grade A jerk right now."

Compa goes to a nearby tree and sits down for a moment while Frisk smiles at Papyrus, "Good boy!"

Papyrus stamps his feet, "I am not a dog, Frisk!"

Iffy sighs in relief, "Thank goodness I am not on that bridge anymore."

Papyrus smirks, "Oh ho! You may have thought you won this round! But! This was a victory for The Great Papyrus!" The skeleton bows and then runs off ahead, "Time to go check on that other human!"

Iffy crosses her arms, "Other human?"

Sans chuckles and then lets out a sigh, "Yeah, it's the strangest thing we've ever seen. We had another human who had a very weird look about her, and the weirder part was that she came to our doorstep and passed out due to her injuries."

Iffy grunts, "Huh, I wonder who fault that is?"

Sans closes his eyes, dropping his cheery demeanor, "Look, I know you want to go home and want to protect your friend. But you need to chill out less you push her away."

Frisk closes her eyes and adds, with her voice sounding cold, "You don't need to kill any monsters, but you do not need to be a jerk about it. I get you are protective of her, but seeing the way she is now. You are doing more harm than good!"

Frisk and Sans spoke in unison, "But if you don't cut the crap!"

Sans opened his eyes and his sockets were hollow with no lights, "You are going to have a bad time"

Frisk opens her eyes, and her eyes are cold and calculating with no light in her eyes at all, "And trust me, you don't want that!"

Iffy feeling slightly intimidated by these two relents, "OK. Ok, let's not get ahead of ourselves, I freaked out because I am truthfully terrified of heights. Thanks to one of my friends on the surface. If you want me to chill the hell out? Ok, I will. But you would know as much as I, and that I will protect her with my life, even! Even if it means," Iffy looks down very saddened, "Pushing her away sometimes."

Sans eyes went back to normal, and he chuckled, "Heh, seems we are like-minded individuals. That makes sense why you act the way you do, but take it from me, eventually, you have to accept that your friends and family will be there for you as you are with them."

Frisk eyes gain light within them again, "Yeah, when are you going to tell Papyrus about all those timelines, hmm?"

Sans chuckled once more, "I only told him the good ones so far. He is still trying to wrap his head around it. Baby steps, Frisk."

Frisk laughed, "You still got a lot to learn, Sans, but at least you are beginning to let people in, so I will take that as a win."

Iffy walked up to Compa and held out a hand, "Hey, sorry about that earlier. I kind of lost control of myself."

Compa looks up and still hurt says, "That is the second time you did that while we are down here? Why do you keep doing it?"

Iffy sighs, "I just don't know. I know I am a bit more agitated since I came down here. I keep having this dark feeling since Flowey."

Compa sighs, "I am worried about you, Iffy. You have been different lately. Just be careful."

Frisk spoke to them, "Hey girls, I don't know what Papy is going to do next. You should watch out for his blue attack. Oh, Snowdin is up ahead; let me take you girls to the Inn to explain things about the underground and get some delicious lunch, as well! Can't fight big bro on an empty stomach now!"

Sans points his finger up, "I will get the grub. I have my shortcuts!" He turns around walks across the bridge, and disappears.

Compa stared at where Sans went, "Uhhh, isn't that the wrong way?"

Frisk giggles as she takes both of their hands, "Don't worry, Sans is just being Sans! Come on, let's go!" Frisk takes Iffy and Compa to the Inn, and while they are going in, Iffy stands outside to activate her save point. At the corner of her eye, she sees Flowey the Flower stalking them.

"Can't a girl have some privacy down here?" Iffy complains to herself before heading in, "Hey guys, does this place have a shower?"

The bunny monster looked up and said, "Up the stairs to your right. You can't miss it."

Iffy nods, and heads upstairs to take a shower. She enters the shower room and begins to undress until she hears a giggle, "Hey! Who goes there!" No response for a while, and Iffy snickers, "Yeah, serves you, right perverts!" She continued to do so until she heard the giggle in the curtains, "Alright! You ask for it!" She pulls back the curtains to see no one, "Okay then? Huh was I imagining it? Well since I am in the shower anyway." She cleans herself in the shower getting annoyed at the giggling she hears, and, as soon as she is done, she turns off the shower wraps a towel around herself, and walks up to the mirror to dry her face. As soon she finished and looked at the mirror again she saw herself with red eyes looking back at her with an evil smile, "What the hell?"

The figure in the mirror spoke to Iffy, "Well, well, it was about time someone else came to the underground with Determination! It was getting so tiresome dealing with Frisk all the time and the audacity of her to give up such a wonderful gift."

Iffy quickly grabs a blade from her clothes on the ground, "Who and what are you?"

"I assume an introduction is in order," The figure walked out of the mirror, revealing a green and yellow striped shirt, hair like Frisk, and seemed to be around Frisk's age. The ghosts looked feminine, though they had a powerful, unsettling field about them. She looks at Iffy with her crimson eyes, "The name is Chara, Chara Dreemurr, and oh, do I have a lot to learn about this…. Gamindustri, you have, because if I remember correctly, that was not what my home was called back then. Guess a lot of time has passed while I was here in the underground."

Iffy angrily spat, "Okay, first of all, why all the peeping and parlor tricks? Second of all, what the hell is your plan because, from the looks of it, you aren't the 'let's be friends' type, and third, are you the one causing these weird feelings I have been having?"

Chara chuckles, "To answer your first question, I want to isolate you, so I can say hello! You have been joined at the hip of that idiot girl, and while you are quite stunning, you are not my type. Sorry, not sorry." Sighs happily, "So this is what it's like to have a grown-up body. Didn't think ghosts can mature, but I wonder if Frisk had something to do with that." She goes back to her malicious demeanor, "I wonder if I could take control of one those… CPUs in that world, and yes, I probed your mind have to say lots of weird things on the surface. Nothing like I remember."

Iffy scoffs, "So that is your evil master plan. Wait? You have been invading my mind!?"

Chara snickers, "Oh, guilty as charged though you have kept walls in your head, now that you are aware, I can start having real fun. Bring out that delicious anger of yours, hm? Make you say what is truly in your mind. Drive a wedge between you and oh ho, your love interest."

Iffy snaps, "Leave her out of it!"

Chara smiles and fades away, "We will chat again, dear Iffy. I will be watching, always watching."

Frisk rushed to the shower room and asked, "Hey, are you alright? Was that Flowey?"

Iffy was shaken up and looked at Frisk, "I…. think I need to eat something then go to sleep." They went down and had their lunch, and Frisk caught them up on monster culture.

Meanwhile, in Gamindustri.

Neptune, who is dressed up like Sherlock Holmes, examines every detail even if it has absolutely no bearing on the problem at hand. Vert just walked into the room where the oracle is, and, to her horror, can see that the oracle is groaning and sweating in a comatose state. Vert looked at the girls, "She is very sick. She needs a doctor immediately!"

Ram tries her absolute best not to cry, "She better not die on us, all we know is that dumb pervert lizard weirdo came back and his weird-looking boss poisoned her somehow."

Rom adds, "The boss was really scary. He was a weird skeleton with a melting face."

Neptune crossed her arms for once, and she started to get creeped out, "So it was not my imagination," she thought to herself, and then she spoke out loud, "I get the teensy-weensy feeling he might be trying to revive the Deity of Sin, though I don't know how since she has been mega destroyed by Nepgear. I like a good mystery, but not when answers lead to more questions. Uggggghhhh, now my head hurts."

Vert looked at Neptune raising an eyebrow, "Huh, you are not your usual cheery self, I take it this monster is starting to get to you?"

Neptune laughed, "Get to me! Ha! I am Neptune, the main character, and I shall vanquish this evil, weird monster we still have not seen but will see in the future! He just got to show his ugly face, and we will beat him up!"

Rom timidly looked up, though her eyes were red from crying, "That weird monster big sister faced, and he also brought back Tricks, and that was no fun. We beat the creepy lizard, but when we went to find our sister there was no sign of her."

Ram gets shaken up, "And what happened next was terrifying!"

Vert answers in disgust, "Let me guess he licked you."

Ram nervously looked at her sister, "After that, we beat him and he somehow got turned into a small lizard, and for some reason, Rom was really mad or something because she just picked up Tricks who was just a lizard at the point and proceeded to take him home, turn on the stove and boiled him alive. Without saying a word, without a smile, or even screaming, she just… boiled him alive and watched with that very disturbing stare. No emotion at all." Ram shivers from saying that.

Vert and Neptune looked at Rom, and they both laughed Vert said, "It is not nice to blame your sister again little one."

Neptune rolls on the floor, "Rom couldn't hurt a fly. You were the one that probably boiled that creep!"

Rom timidly taps her fingers, "It was true, I got mad, and I made sure he would not come back. I read in a picture book that boiling holy water will keep the dead from not coming back."

Neptune makes a concerned look, "Yikes, guess you wanted to make sure he was dead." She then spoke to herself, "How come it's always the quiet ones?"

Vert applies the herb and medicine to help Mina while checking her pulse. Neptune asks the twins, "Hey so how did the creep get turned into a lizard?"

Ram giggled from this, "It was kinda a humiliating defeat for him. At the end of the fight, he fell into a large batch of this weird potion, and it turned him into a lizard."

Rom adds, "We were fighting in an al-chem-mist lab-bor-tory. I think I said that right."

Ram sighs, "Already told you what happened after, but that's not the point. We came back, and both Blanc and this weird skeleton man were gone. She said she would come back. Why has she not come back?"

Rom cries again, "And Mina, we came back, and she was sick."

Vert sharply stood up and transformed into her CPU form, "She is dying, she needs to get to a hospital now, and I might as well take that responsibility." Wasting no time Ver rushed Mina out the door carrying her and flew as fast as she could to a medical facility.

Ram and Rom both screamed in terror, "What!"

Neptune scratches her head, "Well, this keeps getting worse and worse, what else can go wrong?"

Ram screamed, "Don't jinx us!"

Rom spoke in a monotone low voice, "Neptune, don't you dare jinx us."

Neptune just looked at Rom, "Whoa, maybe is it just me or is she creepier than before?"

Ram screams again, "Neptune! You're more of a dummy than Nepgear!"

Rom breathes, "I am tired, I want to sleep, I am too sad, and a little mad."

Ram scoffs to herself, "A little? Yeah, a little bit mad."

Neptune kneels to the twins, "Heya you two, everything will be all right, ya hear me? Trust your good ol pal Neptune to fix everything! Now let us head to bed! Can't figure out what is going on if we are really tired now." Both candidates walked into their rooms and started crying themselves to sleep, "Should have brought Nepgear she is usually good with them. Oh well, let's just keep a positive attitude while we can!" She shrugs, goes by a nearby couch, and goes to sleep.

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Authors notes: This chapter took 2 months to write, one of the reasons was I had to redo some of my work, and the other is I want to amp some things up and begin revealing the 3 major antagonists they are dealing with. We already know Flowey one of them, and revealed Chara, and Gaster in this chapter as well. I felt like I needed to reveal Chara to Iffy before waterfall for my plans for waterfall. This was a hard chapter to write, and I hoped it paid off.

Also I have been working very hard on my Computer science degree and I have made incredible progress in it, while dealing with some in real life issues as well. Nanowrimo November is coming up so I should make a lot of progress with this story.