Sethlan was in a state of bliss as he made his heroic charge. The power of his battle cry, the glint of his mighty sword in the sunlight, the look of terror on the blonde human girl's face as he approached...all the signs were right! It was his moment to shine at last! It was the new dawn of Sethlan Cael, the hero of legend, enemy to evil hearts and the savior of the good and the just!

And then Annie moved slightly to the side to climb up her tree.

Propelled forward by his own momentum and dreams of heroism, Sethlan tried to adjust his aim and felt his feet slip through the mud as though he were on a skating rink, his battle cry morphing into a terrified, girly shriek as his inertia carried him forward. Skidding right past where the girl was standing, Sethlan nearly dropped his sword as he flailed around helplessly before he hit solid ground again and face-planted in front of the group. Right as he landed the smoke bombs went off, concealing the group from one another and giving Annie a chance to escape from her "attackers" and allowing Sethlan to desperately wish for the ability to vanish and go really, really, far away from here. By the time the smoke cleared, Sethlan was back on his feet, dusting off the dirt and muffin crumbs in an attempt to save face.

"Greetings friends, I-"

But he was cut off when the human in the leather jacket started screaming at the group in a righteous fury. Sethlan was too dazed to follow the exact words, but he got the gist of what he was saying. By the time the rant was finished and the boy had calmed down, Sethlan's pointed face was the color of a red hot poker as he wondered if it were possible to die of embarrassment.

"And if she ends up blowing the mountain down," the boy added in a comment Sethlan felt was directed at him personally, "Don't ask why, cause that was a bad impression of monsters you gave her." Sethlan just nodded mutely as the boy strode past him after the girl. Noticing the others staring at him, he tried to put on a brave face that looked more like he was trying not to burst into tears.

"H-hi, I'm Sethlan," he said shakily, placing his hands on his hips to look heroic.

Alphys

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Alphys watched and grew pale as the human ran away. She felt like she not only made the group fail whatever mission they were going on, but that she also just ruined the image of monsters forever. As Alphys watched the human run away, her eyes began to gloss over. She then listened to the human yelling quite, quite loudly, most of it seeming to be directed right towards her, and she tensed up and closed her eyes. She took a few sputtering breaths and she looked right at the human, her eyes red as tears streamed down her face. She tried to say something witty and mean in response, but ended up choking on her words and coughing a little bit before putting the ray gun away and walking off, muttering about how she was always the cause of problems. She walked behind a few trees and sat down, trying to bawl as silently as possible. As she cried she thought, "Why do I have to be the walking proof of Murphy's Law?" and listened as the second culprit in the misunderstanding tried to make up for it.

Sans

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After walking into the other room, Sans watched a doll house come from the walls, and he felt a little suspicious, but he crouched down anyway and looked inside. He opened the little doors and windows, and noticed the little human. He gently pulled them out by detaching the roof and letting her climb on his flanges, setting her down on the table and rubbing his chin bone. "Well then... I have a feeling if you're returned to 'normal size', we'll see quite well what an atom looks like if we had a microscope. You didn't break the floors, or my fingers so you don't have the same mass or the same amount of matter... I'm sorry to say, but you might be stuck tiny forever. Unless we use... quantum mechanics, and quite precise surgery, perhaps?" Sans pondered as he took out the key. "Hm... if you'd like, I can carry you and see if one of my friends has decent enough magic to get you back to normal," Sans said to the little person, thinking about his friend David. He offered his hand and waited.

Erion started to calm down even more... before seeing one of the monster having tears and walking away. Now he felt bad. The other one also seemed to have been affected by what he said. Erion was the one that had his weapon drawn... and accidents could have happened. And what he said... He looked down, really feeling sorry right now.
"I... I am sorry.... I think I really blew it there... It was all an accident that made it fall into this." he says before moving to Alphys, sad.
"I am sorry for having yelled. It's not your fault. I should have lowered my weapon or put it back when I started to speak to her... It is partially my fault. I guess everyone though of her as a threat and... this happen." he says, looking down, a bit of tears in his eyes.
"I hate it when I act like this." he says sitting down, sad.
"I should have tried to keep my calm here, tried to see about another solution. If... if we see her again, we all need to try to apologize for that accident and try to convince her that we didn't want to attack her." he says, sad still, a tear falling from his eye.
"I feel so stupid for having drawn my weapon here. I though she was going to blow us up or something... ugh.... why the heck did I even draw my weapon here, all this could have been avoided." he then says, really feeling bad, sitting down and putting a hand over his eyes to wipe out the tears. I look at the other guy that just arrived. That act that he was having... that was really a bad timing. He wished that he could have just gone and explain that it was an accident for the first thing, but 2 things at once like that... that was unexpected.

Pressing the side of his head to listen to the door, and then freaking out for a few seconds when he realised he had no ears, Papyrus eventually pushed off of the door when he hear the loud sound, eyes bulging out of their sockets, “NYEEEEEEH! WHAT WAS THAT?!” Checking on Flowey again, the taller skeleton made his way across the room, getting over to Celes and Skylar, “I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WANTED TO KNOW IF THAT COMMOTION CAME FROM YOUR SIDE OF THE ROOM…?”

“IT IS ALRIGHT IF IT DIDN’T, I…” Eye sockets narrowing as he looked about, only just realizing, “WAIT, WHERE IS MY BROTHER, SANS?”

She sat against the cold golden metal of the key, her face in her hands as she tried to hold back the tears that kept threatening to form. Aria hated being trapped in this place with no light or anything to find comfort in since it was just her now miniature self and a lone key that was of little use to her. How long had she been in here? She couldn't even remember. It had all happened so fast and before she knew it Aria was in this tiny form feeling very much like Alice in Wonderland but with no help on being herself again. She had thought monsters to be nice but apparently just like humans not all were too friendly but at least food always seemed to be appearing so at least it cared enough to do that.

Aria didn't look up from her hand till she heard the sound of gears, light suddenly pouring in causing her to blink rapidly and feel a bit blinded at the lack of light there had been for so long before. She was glad she had already been sitting since the movement of the doll house would have surely knocked her over anyways as it popped out of the wall. It was then she notice someone outside the doll house looking in and she stiffened, fearing on what this new person might do since she was practically defenseless in this form. She felt a flood of relief as whoever outside opened up the roof only to stick their hand in for her to climb onto bony fingers. Aria didn't say a word as she looked up to the skeleton before her, feeling completely grateful to the monster above for saving her well she was grateful till her heart dropped at the fact of never being 'normal' again or the possibility of surgery which didn't sound pleasant for obvious reasons. It wasn't until he mentioned that his friend might be able to help with magic that her hope ignited once more and a large small appeared on her face as she quickly crawled back into his hand and took a seat on his palm. Aria wasn't sure if he could hear her but she decided to give it a try anyway,"Thank you very much, I would rather magic than the other options."

Digging around in the small gaps near the levers revealed a strange, crumpled-up note, and just as I tried to uncrumple it, the sound of grinding gears filled the room. Almost as if it was a reflex, I checked behind me, where Chen was... he was silent, but thankfully, he wasn't holding his dagger to my back. "Heh, y...you scared me back there, buddy..." I said to him, sounding legitimately nervous about the possibility of him stabbing me in the back. You know... I'm pretty sure he's going to attack us if we sleep... maybe, just maybe... I think as I start to get an idea of what to do, provided there was a dummy I could use for my idea, that is. Of course, the only dummy I ever saw was somewhere in waterfall, shouting about revenge for some... random thing I couldn't even try to guess. I made absolutely sure to keep Chen in my view, just to be as sure that he won't kill someone while we're not looking. Of course... I had to read the note, but I did so in a way where I could still see Chen, and what he was up to. The place was somehow both dusty (and thankfully, not much, if any of it was monster dust), and humid. I assumed that the humidity came from the nearby sources of water, which I could only guess were an absolute necessity for ancient monsters who lived here back when this was the only home we had... here, as in the ruins, not the underground, of course. I was, obviously, around back when we were stuck in the underground, but I don't think anyone who's still alive, save for the king and queen, have been around back when the ruins were still called 'Home'.

Standing there with his hands on his hips, Sethlan watched Alphys move behind the trees and start crying while the yelling boy went to go comfort her. Still wearing the goofy smile on his face, the kind of smile that Burgerpants would wear to his job, the pangolin monster fell back on his usual tactic of trying desperately not to lose his nerve when everything came crashing down around him. It didn't exactly help that the others were largely ignorant of his sudden appearance, but it was a step up from the usual barrage of ridicule he got when pulling a stunt like that. Sethlan mulled over the details in his head to better understand what happened and refine his entrance so he could catch the bad guy before she ran away deeper into the woods. It was this particular detail that reminded Sethlan of something rather important about the current. Namely that there was bad guy running away deeper into the woods. Dreams of heroism surged back to the forefront as he went to get his sword again, which once again embedded itself in the ground next to where Alphys was being apologized to by the loud angry human.

"Pardon the interruption," Sethlan explained hurriedly to them as he jimmied the blade out of the earth. "But we'd better catch that human before she gets away! Granted I don't know why, but I totally trust your judgement!" Sheathing the blade on his back, he snapped his fingers and made dual finger pistols at them before turning on his heel and rapidly giving chase to the fleeing human.

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"If there was a piano around here I would have had this one solved already!" Undyne proclaimed as she carefully observed the door. Lying on her stomach in between Papyrus' legs, she was attempting to peer under the heavy wooden door with her good eye when the loud noise resounded throughout the cavern. Leaping to her feet just as Papyrus backed away in time not to get taken out on the way up, she instinctively summoned and heaved a magic spear directly upwards into the cavern's ceiling where it struck home with a resounding 'thunk'. Realizing that the group was not in any immediate danger, she casually brushed off her nice leather jacket as she looked around for the source of that strange sound.

“WAIT, WHERE IS MY BROTHER, SANS?” Papyrus suddenly interjected. Undyne looked around again, and indeed Sans was nowhere to be found. Probably fell asleep in the other room, she thought to herself.

"Don't worry, I'm sure Sans is around here somewhere," she told Papyrus with a reassuring smile. "Heck, he's probably already investigating that weird noise." Undyne quickly backtracked and spotted the familiar blue-coated skeleton, standing in front of a hole in the wall. "Yo, Sansy! Your brother is worried about y-WOW A TINY HOUSE!" Undyne slipped past the lethargic skeleton and peered in one of the tiny windows excitedly. "This is great! If I had one of these I could use it to store all of my action figures in neat little poses and..." Undyne flushed and peered at a bemused looking Sans as she remembered she wasn't exactly alone. "...AND THEN I CAN DEADLIFT THE LITTLE HOUSE BECAUSE I'M TOUGH AND AWESOME! FUHUHU!" She briefly wondered if she nerded out this much in public before she got together with Alphys. It took her another moment to figure out that Sans was holding something...an action figure? Undyne leaned in to get a closer look and noticed the little girl moving around in San's palm.

"Sans...why is that human so tiny?" she asked suspiciously.

Underground Search Party-Ruins

Skylar looked to Celes when she spoke up and showed that she grew a vine and moved it with a simple wave of her fingers. Skylar looked to Flowey as she mentally noted Celes's ability. Celes may be able to help, if that flower ever tried anything...hopefully. She looked up when small pebbles and dust came down from the ceiling, as though something happened above them. What was going on up there? She hoped that Erion, Alphys, and Asgore were alright. When Undyne made her comment from her lying position on the ground, she couldn't help but smile at the thought of Undyne breaking down the door with the piano.

After the noise resounded, and Papyrus had made his way to both her and Celes, Skylar answered his first question, "I'm not really sure...It sounded like it came from further back..." She blinked at Papyrus's next question and she looked around. He was right, Where was Sans anyways? Soon enough Undyne spoke up, and somehow, Skylar wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, even if Sans did seem lazy. She followed Undyne to the previous room, and sure enough, there was Sans and Undyne. Skylar couldn't help but grin widely as she tried to hold back a laugh while Undyne gushed about the dollhouse and putting her action figures in there. From what Frisk said from their stories from the Underground, Skylar would've expected this reaction from Papyrus, not Undyne.

Skylar's grin faded as she looked at Sans, he was holding something and that something was a person. She looked closely at the figure, and from behind they looked like...

"Frisk...?"

After stepping closer, and looking at the person much more carefully, and seeing the minute differences, Skylar realized that the person wasn't their sibling. She shook her head and answered, trying to hide the fear and worry that clawed at her heart again, and the disappointment that they hadn't found their sibling, "O-Oh. You're not Frisk," She laughed hesitantly and she asked the person, "Sorry, my mistake. Who are you?" Considering Undyne already asked why the person was tiny, asking who this person was was the next best question.

---

Surface Group-Forest

Annie kept on running through the forest, heading towards the town, and she looked behind her to see if anyone was giving chase. Indeed, there was the Pangolin monster from earlier, chasing after her. She screamed in fright and she shouted at the Pangolin Monster "GO AWAY! LEAVE ME ALONE!" As she kept running, she took more smoke screen bombs from her bag, and tossed them onto the ground. Once she was out of the smoke screen, she pulled normal marbles and tossed them onto the ground in an attempt to slow her pursuer down even further. She took every measure to try and slow the Pangolin down and escape, including trying to use the low hanging tree branches, just trying to reach town.

Flowey

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The flower had been quiet for quite some time as he stayed in his own thoughts and trying to ignore the idiots that surrounded him. Papyrus was the worse of them all and the damn creature never left him be for any single moment. He did and said the most outrageous garbage and why the others liked it was beyond him...oh wait...he knew why...they were all completely stupid. The only few of interest seemed to be Chen but...somehow that seemed like it would be a bad idea in the long run if he tried to team up with them but at least the option was there. The other one was this, Celes. Now, this one seemed like a great candidate to help in hopefully the escape of this potted prison of hell. She seemed nice enough which meant possibly gullible and with that nice little power with plants, well that just wonderful. Unfortunately, he had to keep a true smile off his face as Skylar was watching him closely during the others show. Oh yes...maybe not all idiots after all but we will see how this little venture played out. Skylar could not keep him in this pot and neither could the others if he put his mind to it. Let the ga... he began to think before his thoughts were interrupted.What is that insufferable skeleton on about now...distracting me from my thoughts with that grating voice. Flowey thought before finally listening in and wanting to roll his eyes. Who cared if the other bone head was missing!?!

Aria

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Aria watched in amusement as the next monster that entered gushed over the doll house that had been her prison and talk about action figures before stopping and continuing in a more rough manner. It was too bad she was trying to be a closet nerd because Aria would have had more things to talk about with this fish woman but oh well. She frowned a bit as she was being talked about like she couldn't speak for herself though it was probably the truth for her size but that was no excuse. Aria had been to busy watching Undyne that she hadn't noticed the new guest behind them till a hopeful voice said the name 'Frisk'. Suddenly, her previous wish to be noticed was more like a curse as the girl looked her over. Her heart went out to the one in front of her as she noticed the worry as well as the disappointment of their hope being crushed. It made her almost wish she was this Frisk person just so the other didn't have to be so upset and worried about finding this person. "I am sorry I am not who you are looking for. My name is Aria. I came down here to take some photos and before I knew it some Boss Monster had shrunk me down to this. They trapped me in that dollhouse with a key. I am really not sure why and don't know much more than that." Aria spoke, hoping they could hear her. If not than they were going to need someone smaller in their group to be able to communicate till she was of normal size.

Sethlan barreled through the woods as fast as his scrawny legs could carry him, chasing after the human girl and his dreams of glory and heroism at the same time. Even without a giant sword in his arms throwing him off balance, it was miraculous that he even managed to keep up his speed, let alone stay in sight of the girl, as he gave chase. More clouds of smoke burst from the ground as the girl fled, and yet Sethlan powered through, clipping the sides of trees he couldn't see and scratching up his arms in his attempts to keep up. He nearly lost his footing again when the ground gave way underneath his feet, courtesy of a pile of marbles spread across a smooth patch of dirt in the forest, but somehow he managed to stay on his feet and continue giving chase, legs pumping hard against the ground to make up for lost time.

Sethlan was reaching the end of his rope. His muscles burned, his extremities went numb, and every jagged breath he took felt like it would set his lungs on fire, and yet he kept going. And somehow, he was catching up to her. Only yards away, then feet, then just a few paces. His body screamed in agony, but with a smile on his face he kept going, getting close and closer until he was sure he could have reached out and touched her. This was it! He was about to catch her! He was going to do something amazing, and everyone would love him for it! It was his time to shine! It was his time to be the hero!

"Y-you...evil-...doer!" he cried out in great shuddering gasps. "You...can't...escape...your...crimes! For I...am...the...great...and...heroic...SETH...LAN...-

*THWACK*

Sethlan did not have the energy or the capacity to even notice the tree branch that Annie had pulled back during her escape. Thus with a crack like a whip, the errant tree limb struck home right between the conquering hero's eyes and deposited him in a patch of flowers on the forest floor, completely and utterly knocked out.

Erion calmed down soon after, before seeing a certain energetic warrior was gone, probably going to chase that woman. That idiot was probably going to get himself killed or something... or make things even worst. Erion got up, wiped his tear off a bit, before looking at the group.
"I will try to catch up to our little energetic monster that don't seem to understand." He then says before starting to run full speed towards where the girl had went, knowing that the monster probably went and fallowed her, which would cause even more trouble. He continued to run, as fast as he could. He kept running, going faster and faster. Lucky for him he actually trained in running a lot to keep a good form. He soon caught up, only to see that monster was actually on the ground, knocked out. He looked at a distance and saw the girl. Maybe there was still a chance to convince her... maybe there would still be a chance to talk to her. He continued to run, actually moving side to side to evade some trees. He started to yell.
"Wait! Please! I only want to talk!" he yells, woried right now.

---

Celes moved forwards to fallow Skylar, and then saw the small human named Aria. She told them that she was changed by a boss monster. But... didn't all the boss monster end up moving up on the surface, as well as everyone else? What was going on here. First that 2 headed girl, then some boss monster.... unless both were one and the same. Maybe that girl was mistaken. Anyway, she frowned as she moved forwards, and though a bit.
"I am unsure if this could help but...." she says before using her healing water on Aria, wondering if maybe it would counter-act the effect that whatever spell was put on her and maybe get her back to a normal size? She breath deeply afterwards and stopped her magic, before looking back to see if the group fallowed.

Nodding at Undyne’s words, and holding a finger up as if about to lecture, Papyrus’ eyes popped out of his skull, “SANS, INVESTIGATING AHEAD OF THE HIS BROTHER, THE GREAT PAPYRUS?! I AM SPEECHLESS, MY GREATNESS HAS INFLUENCED HIM POSITIVELY THIS DAY!” Or it could be a false alarm, but who knows?! Holding onto the flowerpot carefully as he carried along with the group, the taller skeleton stopped at the mention of the familiar name, before speeding along to see if Skylar was correct in her observation.

“FRISK?” Coming in closer to his brother and Skylar, squinting hard, “O-OH…GREETINGS TINY NON-FRISK HUMAN! DO NOT FEAR, FOR I AM NOT DISAPPOINTED THAT YOU ARE NOT FRISK, ON THE CONTRARY, I AM QUITE HAPPY TO MAKE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE! I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS…THIS IS FLOWEY, MY GOOD FRIEND AND SENTIENT FLOWER PRISONER…THIS IS UNDYNE, CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL GUARD…THIS IS MY BROTHER, SANS…THIS IS SKYLAR, ONE OF MY NUMEROUS HUMAN FRIENDS…!” Going down the line of present individuals…

Holding out a hand to offer the end of his mitten to shake, the direction suddenly changed course when Papyrus noticed the doll house as well, pointing at it as his eyes went huge and sparkly, “WOWIE! CAN YOU IMAGINE THE SORT OF THEORETICAL DATING SCENERIOS YOU WOULD PRACTICE AND PERFECT I—” Remember where he was, and that everything had a time and place, the skeleton cleared his throat and spoke in a slightly more quieter tone for a note, offering out a mitten again, “I KNOW WHAT I WILL BE PUTTING IN MY LETTER SANTA, THIS YEAR…WAIT,” Pausing and looking to Undyne, “SOME HUMANS AREN’T JUST NATURALLY THIS TINY?”

Underground Search Party-Ruins

Skylar mentally face palmed herself at the fact that Aria had seen through her smile so easily. But she didn't let it fall as Aria introduced herself and explained what happened just as Papyrus (with Flowey), Celes, and David entered the room. She was glad that she was able to hear Aria, but she wasn't sure about the others. She watched as both Celes and David tried to use their healing magic on Aria to get her back to normal size. Aria remained at the same height, but both Celes and David would learn that their healing magic would need the help of the original caster in order to get Aria back to normal size.

Before Skylar could answer Aria, Papyrus already spoke up and Skylar couldn't help but smile genuinely as Papyrus spoke and introduced everyone in the room to Aria. When Papyrus introduced her, Skylar waved hi to Aria, and she said "It's nice to meet you, Aria," She smiled widely as she held back another laugh as Papyrus became distracted by the dollhouse that was in the room. Welp, she knew what Sans was going to get Papyrus for the next holiday. She shook her head to answer Papyrus's question about humans being naturally tiny.

However, her attention went to a sudden glow that was coming from Sans's other hand and she asked out loud in confusion "Huh?". It was the key. It was glowing a golden aura as it suddenly lifted itself out of Sans's hand and flew towards the door, back further into the Ruins, and towards the door, and possibly the rest of the group. Skylar stared after it with wide eyes and after snapping out of the surprised stupor, she shook her head and dashed after it, only to find that it had placed itself into the keyhole and opened the door. Skylar released a breath out of relief; At least they didn't have to try and catch the key. That would make for a very annoying puzzle.

She walked back to the others back in the room with the dollhouse and she told them, "Well...the door's open. We can continue on,"

---

Surface Group

Annie didn't listen to the voice. Now whether she knew who was calling after her or not was not made clear, but she kept on running, stubbornly desperate in trying to reach the town. There weren't anymore low hanging branches that she could use to hit her pursuer, but she made do with whatever else she could pull out from her bag (marbles, smoke screen, and throwing a pair of socks behind her. Scandalous!). It wasn't long after she used the last item that she managed to reach the town.



Annie dashed down the sidewalk, making sure to weave through the thinning crowd (and shoving past them if she had to). The sun was starting to set, and Annie made a sharp turn into an alleyway as soon as she could, trying to disappear into the darkness of said alleyway.

Erion saw the girl tired with all her might to escape. He didn't want to let her leave. He kept running, going as fast as he can, dodging branches and also jumping over anything she throw out of her bag. God those running exercises that his old fencing teacher gave him payed off. He kept running, until he got in the town of Ebbott. He knew he had to catch up to her real soon, or else he would lose her. Soon he saw her again as she shove people around to run away. He moved quickly, dodging people as he moved, soon seeing her move in a alleyway. He moved in to catch up to her.
"Wait! I just want to talk! Please!" he yelled, really worried right now. He hoped he could convince her... maybe make her givea chance to monsters. At least get her to see that not all of them are bad, just that with everything that happened, some are less... used to being so close to humans.
"I am alone, that monster that chased you was unconscious in the forest." he then adds.

---

Celes smiled as she looked at Papyrus and chuckles softly at what he said, smiling. Well, he was... adorable she could say. Like a innocent child maybe. Pure of heart... but also... maybe gullible unfortunately. She looked at the flower a bit more. She would need to keep a close eye on it she guessed. Sure, it didn't do anything, but a flower doesn't just start to speak and such. There was something special about it. She just didn't know what to think about it. Maybe it was friendly, maybe it was not, she was not sure. Maybe if she did show friendship to it, it would be nice to her and others... maybe not. She just didn't know. So she walked forwards, smiling also that Sans found the key. Finally the group could move forwards. She hoped they would find Frisk soon.

Chen paced around out of boredom as everyone tried to solve the puzzle. This was such a waste of time, those girl monsters were going to pay. He would make sure of it. Someone got startled by his presence and he jumped in surprise as well. "Oh, sorry about that." 'He's on to me. They're all onto me.' His head swiveled over to Papyrus, who was in the middle of a riveting conversation with the fat skeleton and what appeared to be a tiny human. 'Except for him. I need to stick by him. Nobody is willing to upset him.'

Chen walked over to Papyrus with a smile on his face and a greeting in store. And then a key flew past Chen's head, nearly smacking into his face. Chen turned around and followed the key to his destination and let out a genuinely happy grin. "Nice job guys! Now we can go in further!" Chen turned back to Papyrus and looked at him in admiration. 'One step closer to immortality. Your days are numbered Frisk. You're my key to the Boss Soul.'

Undyne was busy searching the dollhouse for an all-important solution to the puzzle and had gone up to her neck into the upper floor of the tiny house looking for it when Skylar announced that the door had been unlocked. "That door is open already?" Undyne said, disappointment apparent in her muffled voice. "Aww, I was hoping there would be a tiny piano in that tiny house. Why does no one respect the piano!? Fine, let's just nggah-" Undyne said then stuttered as she tried to stand up, only to find that she probably should not have tried to wedge her head inside that tiny window just a minute ago. Her fingers wedged in between her neck and the diminutive window pane, she tried a few times to free herself but to no avail. Her breathing becoming heavier and more desperate, Undyne's eyes darted from one side of the tiny room to the other, wondering who had dared to play this devious prank on her. No, not a prank. A trap. A most cunning trap. One might even say...a challenge?

"You devious tiny house!" Undyne shouted loud enough to shake the roof of the dollhouse. "You may be cool and full of neat things, but if you think you can trap me like this....THEN I WILL STRIKE! YOU! DOWN! NGAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

*musical cue*

With a tremendous shout Undyne brought both fists down on the roof and ripped her head from the window simultaneously, causing a tremendous shower of broken wood as she utterly destroyed the roof of the dollhouse in her escape. Pausing to utter a victorious laugh, she turned to the others in the group triumphantly, her good eye twitching and wood splinters tangled in her red hair.

"THE DOOR IS OPEN, IT'S FRISK-SAVING TIME, NERDS! HYAAAA!"

Thus with another triumphant shout, Undyne summoned one of her magic spears and barreled past the group, charging through the door to whatever was on the other side.

Neither my, nor Celes' magic worked on the newcomer, who introduced herself as Aria, and I came to the conclusion of "We're gonna need the twins to reverse this spell. Sorry, Aria, I guess I can't he-" my voice got cut off by the door opening, and Undyne shouting that it was Frisk-saving time. Before I bolted off like I assumed the rest would do, I remembered that odd note I found in the lever. I showed the note, which went on about a doctor, and how he's going to be a father soon to both Sans and Aria, wondering if either of them had any idea who wrote it, or why it was down here.

"So... why do you think that note was HERE, of all places?" I finally asked the two. Of course, I was really just stalling to make sure Chen wasn't in the back of the group... as, again, that's the best time to backstab someone... and I'd rather this whole thing go through without anyone dying. Once the group answered, I slowly made my way to the next room, remembering that it should still have a dummy... that is, unless some monster actually brought it up to the surface for... whatever reason. Unfortunately, due to the fact that I stayed behind, I couldn't actually see what the next room had to offer, and since I wasn't as tall as Papyrus, or Undyne, I couldn't try to see over them without flying, which was something I didn't really want to do, given how low the ceiling was right now. I wonder if that dummy's still here... I've got a plan if it is. I thought as I tried my best to see what was in the room, though, again, the fact that everyone else was ahead of me, and several of them were taller, I couldn't tell whether I had to improvise, or if I could use the dummy for my future plans.

The taller skeleton did not have time to be embarrassed at his incorrect assumptions about humans, as his eyes popped out of their sockets at Undyne’s destruction of the tiny house…which was admittedly some form of clever trap, now that she had pointed such out…Papyrus took a moment to stare down sadly at the broken pieces scattered along the floor, “OH…WHAT A PITY THAT UNDYNE DESTROYED IT, EVEN IF IT WAS BUT A CLEVERLY DISGUISED TRAP!”

Seeing the human boy smile at him admiringly, Papyrus returned with a innocuously friendly smile all his own, before reacting in surprise at Undyne’s exclamation nearly a room away. The thing that came from his brother’s hand, and the door unlocking…?! Taking a few steps along to follow with the rest of them, his eyes popping out of their sockets again, “OH MY GOD, SANS, YOU SOLVED A PUZZLE THAT ISN’T A BORING WORD SEARCH OR CROSSWORD…AND WITHOUT MY HELP! I’M SHOCKED, BUT ALSO INSANELY PROUD!

IT WAS DUE TO MY, THE GREAT PAPYRUS’, PROFOUND AND GREAT INFLUENCE THAT YOU HAVE BECOME TO GREAT IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME! OF COURSE, I KNEW YOU WERE CAPAPBLE OF SUCH A GREATNESS, I WAS JUST NOT EXPECTING SUCH SO SOON!” Eye going bit teary, he watched one in an almost admiring way all his own. Oh no, what if his brother got better at him with puzzles, would that mean he, the great Papyrus, would have to become the lazy one?! No, such a thing…! Shaking his skull, and noticing one of their fellow monster companions staring over at Flowey…

Holding the flower pot, and subsequently the Flowey out before him, presenting...one mitten set on his own chest-piece, ”AH, I SEE YOU ARE INTERESTED IN MY FLOWER POTTED FLOWER PRISONER, AND BY EXTENTION….THE GUARD TASKED WITH GUARDING HIM, WHICH IS I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS! IS THERE SOMETHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, AS I AM FULL OF HELPFUL INFORMATION THAT I AM NOT SHY WITH SHARING, AS SUCH VITAL PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT WOULD LIKELY NEED TO BE KNOWN IN ORDER FOR US ALL TO CONDUCT OURSELVES…!”

Underground Search Party-Ruins

Sans watched as the key flew off nonchalantly shrugged before he commented "well, that was easier than expected," He looked to Chen when he spoke up and he clearly noticed how he seemed to be close to Papyrus. Skylar and Sans both looked to Undyne and Skylar yelped out loud in surprise (and concern for the tough fish lady's well being), "HOLY SMOKES! How did she get her head stuck in that window?!" Sans couldn't help but feel his grin widen as he held in laughter at Skylar's surprise. Soon enough, Undyne managed to break free from the dollhouse, breaking it into pieces, and then run off. Skylar called after her "AH! Undyne wait!" She sighed at the fact that the fish lady was too far ahead of her now to hear her.

Sans looked to Papyrus when his brother praised him for solving the puzzle, and he shrugged answering Papyrus "ehhh...i don't think i could've done it without your help, bro," He then turned his attention to David, noticing that Skylar came over as well. Both Sans and Skylar looked over the note with them, Sans lifting his hand so that Aria could see if she wanted to look at the note as well. Skylar answered David, "It looks like a diary entry...but I don't know why it would be here..." Sans shrugged and he joked "i can't say i know for sure either. maybe a monster moving to the surface left it here? well, either way, i'm surprised you note-ticed it," Skylar shook her head at the pun. She laughed "That...was a lame pun!"

After she calmed down a bit she said to them, "Well, I'll keep an eye out for any more notes like this. There may be more entries that'll answer that question. For now, let's go catch up with Undyne,"

She turned and headed towards the door. Sans looked to Aria and he said to her, "welp, looks like your stuck with us, and my hilarious jokes, for a bit. i hope you don't find it too punishing," He didn't really make much of a move though. He stayed close to Papyrus, considering that Chen guy was acting weird and was too close to his brother.

Speaking of his brother he saw that his brother was holding Flowey the abomination out towards Celes. He added after Papyrus told her, "sometimes, it's best to just leaf that flower alone,"

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Skylar followed after Undyne into the next room. That room was just a small room that didn't seem to have anything in it. Thankfully the door was open and she went through it into the fourth room. She looked to see that there was a particular pathway laid out in one part of the room and when she went over to the sign she read it saying that the eastern part is the map for the western part. She soon found that the room had a bunch of spikes over water. There was an open door on the other side of the spikes. She mumbled "OK. Easiest puzzle I've encountered,"

"WELL, I SHOULD HOPE SO DAHLING! YOU WERE TAKING FOREVER IN THAT OTHER ROOM!"

Skylar looked up to see that Mettaton (in his boxy form) was flying above them and she asked in deadpan "There you are! Finally got over your shock? And it's only been a few minutes!" She wouldn't doubt that he was still filming. Mettaton huffed and answered "IT FELT LIKE AN ETERNITY! AND YES, I'M NOT SURPRISED ANYMORE. THOSE TWO SISTERS SHALL KNOW THE GLORY THAT IS I! METTATON!"

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Surface Group

Asgore had watched the entire encounter unfold, willing to talk things out along with Erion. But things spiraled into chaos as Alphys accidentally fired the gun and another monster rushed out attacking the girl. Before Asgore could even say anything, Alphys had bursted out in tears, and Erion had shouted at everyone. Asgore agreed with Erion, but remained silent. Unfortunately, the pangolin monster had rushed off after the girl, and Erion followed him, leaving him and Alphys in the clearing near the hole. Alphys, who was still sniffling from crying, spoke to Asgore, "I-I'm sorry...I-I..."

Asgore shook his head and answered Alphys "It is alright. But I must request that you get...whatever you can from Mettaton, so we can show that young lady, Annie, that we're telling the truth," Alphys nodded and answered "Oh! Ri-Right!" Asgore turned and headed down the direction the three went with Alphys following him, and soon enough, they find Sethlan, unconscious.

Asgore easily towered over the pangolin, while Alphys checked on him. She called to the pangolin, "He-Hey! Ca-Can you hear me?" She looked to Asgore after checking his head, and she stated "I-It looks like he was hi-hit pretty hard..."



Annie stopped running in the alleyway after Erion stated that he was alone and that the pangolin was in the forest. She turned to face him, her face wary and angry, her eyes lined with tears of fright. She growled at him as she turned to face him, "Why can't you just leave me alone?! You got what you wanted for now! You got me to leave that hole!" She then became silent, and the air around them suddenly became cold and tense.

She spoke slowly, "Are you here to kill me yourself? ...Is that it? ...Yeah. Yeah, it has to be! If those monsters were murderous lunatics than you must be too!" She picked up a nearby metal pole off of a nearby metal trash can. She then raised it and charged at Erion screaming "I won't let myself be killed! I'd rather go down fighting!" After she screamed she tried to strike Erion with the metal pole.

Chen walked into the next room with everyone else and noticed a strange path to the other side of the room. He shrugged and followed the path along with Skylar. He smiled as he made turn after turn and reached the end of the room. "Blueprint huh? Simple enough I guess." Chen shrugged and entered the next room, stopping when he saw the spiky bridge. "Never mind. Of course it's not that simple." Chen sighed and his shoulders sagged. "Oh well, I guess that means it's my turn to solve this conundrum." Chen perked up and put a smile on his face. 'Because god knows you idiots will take forever and a half.'

Chen was then immediately interrupted by a giant floating box, otherwise known as Mettaton. "Oh, hi there! I didn't get to thank you properly for helping me get down here! So, uh, thanks!" Chen then took on a thoughtful expression and his eyes lit up. "Wait a second! Aren't you that one TV star? Mettaton? I love your cooking show! It really helps me out when I'm confused." Chen looked excited and pleased to meet Mettaton. This was a semi-genuine statement, as he did need help with cooking a lot. Chen once burnt cereal because of various misconceptions he had about Lucky Charms.