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The king and queen treated the human child as their own. The underground was full of hope.\nThen… One day… The human became very ill.\nThe sick human had only one request: to see the flowers from their village. But there was nothing we could do.\nThe next day… The human died.\nAsriel, wracked with grief, absorbed the human's soul. He transformed into a being with incredible power.\nWith the human soul, Asriel crossed through the barrier. He carried the human’s body into the sunset. Back to the village of the human.\nAsriel reached the center of the village. There, he found a bed of golden flowers. He carried the human onto it.\nSuddenly, screams rang out. The villagers saw Asriel holding the human's body. They thought that he had killed the child.\nThe humans attacked him with everything they had. He was struck with blow after blow. Asriel had the power to destroy them all.\nBut… Asriel did not fight back. Clutching the human… Asriel smiled, and walked away.\nWounded, Asriel stumbled home. He entered the castle and collapsed, his dust spread across the garden.\nThe kingdom fell into despair. The king and queen had lost two children in one night. The humans had once again taken everything from us.\nThe king decided it was time to end our suffering. Every human who falls down here must die. With enough souls, we can shatter the barrier forever.\nIt’s not long now.\nKing Asgore will let us go. King Asgore will give us hope. King Asgore will save us all.\nThe group was silent after hearing Alphys's story.\n“W-what I mean is… the only thing that can pass through the barrier… is if a monster possesses a human soul… or a human possesses the soul of a monster…” Alphys said, her head bowed. “I-if you want the human to be free… you’ll have to kill Asgore… O-only with his soul… will the human be able to leave the Underworld.”\nThe human looked depressed at Alphys upon learning the whole story, while Nami felt a chill run down her spine, and Eris had her eyes closed while the others looked down.\nWhat they had just discovered was a surprise to everyone, shattering all their schemes at the time. Kill someone so the human could be free? And it couldn't be just any monster. It had to be the soul of the king of monsters. And if that story was true, Asgore was the only glimmer of hope the monsters had left.\nEris cursed to herself, now knowing what she was up against if what she had learned since being down there was true, forcing her to make a decision.\nKill Asgore to free the human, but doom the monsters? Or let Asgore use the souls to free the monsters, but doom humanity? She was raised to always make the right choice. But at first glance, neither seemed right at the time.\n“I-I’m sorry for putting you in this bind… but you should know. I-I know it won’t be an easy decision,” Alphys said. “S-sorry…”\nAlphys tried to move Mettaton's torso, but it seemed a bit heavy for her until she saw Eris approaching her with her gaze fixed on the scientist.\nBack in the present and at the end of the memory, Alphys was still working on repairing Mettaton. She then put down the soldering iron and reached for something, but eventually had to stop looking at the robot and start looking around.\n“H-hell, where did I leave the star screwdriver? I remember leaving it here a moment ago,” Alphys said as she looked around.\nThen a hand approached her holding the screwdriver she was looking for, catching her attention.\n“Oh, thank you so much!” Alphys exclaimed.\nThe human smiled as Alphys took the screwdriver from its hand.\nAgainst all logic, Eris decided to help Alphys carry the robot back to the lab, with the human and the rest of the group following behind them. While Alphys and the human were distracted repairing Mettaton downstairs, Eris, Nami, Catilia, Gida, and Noka discussed their next move upstairs.\n“I’m still amazed at what you’ve done for Alphys, despite everything that’s happened to us because of her actions,” Catilia said.\n“Yeah, I needed to do something after all this. Especially considering the dire decisions we have before us,” Eris said, arms crossed.\n“I understand. No matter what we do, someone will end up having a very bad time,” Gida said, hands on her hips.\n“So what do we do now?” Nami asked. “It’s one thing to beat someone up. But to kill someone…”\n“Well, we haven’t had any trouble with these creatures that have been attacking us since we’ve been here,” Catilia said.\n“That’s different. Those things were no different from demons,” Gida said. “Those things had no mercy for anyone.”\n“Yes, and yet compared to them, the inhabitants of the underground are peaceful once you know them… and know how to treat them,” Nami said.\n“But that doesn't make the problem go away,” Eris said. “I'm not interested in killing anyone's king. If it were my father, I might have the idea run in mind, but Asgore? I'm not too keen on that.”\nNami thought for a moment. “What if we get some supplies around here and climb up the hole in the ruins?”\n“Two problems,” Catilia said. “One: the doors to the ruins are tightly closed. And two: Do you even know how high that hole is in the ground?”\n“Also, there’s the fact that what could happen next is worth mentioning. What if another human falls through the hole?” Gida asked. “Even worse, what if this Duke decides to wait for the next human from there?”\n“True, and there we have other problems. We have to do something about this Duke, whoever he is,” Catilia said.\n“Yeah, as if we didn’t already have problems around here,” Eris said, casting a fleeting, serious glance toward the back of the lab, startling a certain flower that had hidden itself in the ground.\n“Yeah, what a mess we’ve gotten ourselves into,” Gida muttered.\nWhile the girls were arguing, Noka decided to look through Alphys's books, until she came across some notes that she read, unable to help but let out a small laugh.\n“What’s so funny?” Gida asked, looking at Noka.\n“I’m sorry, teacher, but this letter just seems a little funny the way it’s written,” Noka said, holding the notes. “Guess who it’s addressed to?”\nAlphys heard the conversation upstairs, stopped working on what she was doing, and ran upstairs like lightning, grabbing the papers from Noka's hand, holding it with both hands with her face flushed.\n“D-don’t read it! I-it’s none of your business!” Alphys exclaimed, blushing.\nThe girls looked at Alphys in confusion as the human went upstairs, joining the conversation. Unfortunately, one of Alphys's papers fell to the floor, revealing something on the sheet: some poorly drawn drawings of Undyne and Alphys with a heart between them.\n“You… like Undyne, right?” Nami asked, tilting her head.\nAlphys continued blushing with the papers in her hand until she took a deep breath.\n“W… well, I guess it’s obvious, huh?” Alphys asked. “I… uh… I really like her. I mean, more than I like other people!”\n“That’s visible,” Eris said as the human picked up the paper from the floor.\n“Y-you see… Undyne is the person I… um… really want to go on a date with…” Alphys said. “But, I mean, she’s way out of my league. She’s so confident… and strong… and funny… and I’m just a nobody. A fraud,” she said depressed.\n“Excuse me?” Noka asked.\n“I’m the royal scientist, but… all I’ve done is hurt people. I’ve told her so many lies, she thinks I’m… She thinks I’m a lot cooler than I really am,” Alphys said with regret in her voice. “If she gets close to me, she’ll… she’ll find out the truth about me.” She was silent for a moment. “What should I do?”\nThe group was silent for a while until the human opened his mouth.\n“Tell her the truth,” the human said calmly.\n“The truth…?” Alphys asked nervously. “But if I tell her that, she’ll hate me. Isn’t it better this way? To live a lie where both people are happy… Or a truth where neither of us are?”\nEris put an upper hand to her face with a groan.\n“They say ‘be yourself’. But I don't really like who 'myself' is,” Alphys said, looking down at the floor. “I'd rather just be whatever makes people like me.”\n“If you keep this up, this is all going to blow up in your face,” Nami said.\n“No, you’re right,” Alphys said, her head down. “Every day I’m scared… Scared what will happen if people learn the truth on their own. They’ll all get hurt because of me. But how can I tell Undyne the tr… truth?” Alphys put her hands to her head. “I-I don’t have the confidence… I’m going to mess it up! How can I practice?!”\nThe group looked at each other in this doubt, but the human spoke again.\n“Maybe with a roleplay,” the human suggested. “By pretending to go on a date as one of us plays as Undyne.”\n“Yeah, a- what?!” Eris asked the human.\n“R… roleplay?” Alphys asked, smiling at the moment. “… That actually sounds kind of fun! OK, which one of us will be Undyne?”\nNo one answered the question, but then everyone looked at Eris who looked back at them.\n“Are you serious?” Eris asked.\n“Honestly, you’re the one who most resembles Undyne,” Nami said. “At least in personality.”\n“Sorry, but I’m not one of those who go all the time doing ‘NGAHHH’,” Eris said.\n“Please, it will be fun,” Nami said. “Besides, we have nothing to do right now.”\nEris slapped her face with a groan. “The patience one must get…” Eris groaned.\n“All right, let me wear something decent for the occasion!” Alphys said, smiling. “And I know the perfect place for the ‘date’!”\n\nSoon, Alphys, wearing a black dress with white polka dots, led the group to their chosen date spot, which she said was perfect for the occasion. But…\n“Are you serious?” Eris asked, her eyes twitching. “Of all the places you could choose for this parody of a date… you had to choose this place?!”\nContrary to what seemed logical, Alphys had taken the group to what could be considered the least romantic place in the underground: Waterfall’s dump.\nEris, and possibly the other girls, were wondering why Alphys would choose such a filthy place for this date, while the human was scratching its head in confusion.\n“This is where Undyne and I come all the time…” Alphys began. “We find all sorts of great stuff. Heh, she’s really…”\nEris crossed her four arms with a frown, not interested in her stories.\n“R-right, the date…” Alphys said, glancing away. She took a moment to breathe before continuing. “H-hi Undyne… H-how are you doing today?”\nEris sighed. “I’m fine,” she replied.\nAlphys laughed for a moment. “Glad to hear it!!”\n“I doubt the real Undyne would respond like that,” Catilia commented to the others.\n“Well, Alphys isn’t much of an actress either,” Gida commented.\nAlphys started speaking again after a silence. “Uhhh, so I’d like to, um, talk to you about something.”\n“What’s wrong, Alphys?” Eris asked, trying to continue playing Undyine’s role in this pantomime of a date.\n“Um, you see… I… I… I… I haven’t exactly b-been truthful w-w-with you…” Alphys said nervously. “Y… you see, I… I… Oh, forget it! Undyne!!!” She exclaimed without warning, startling everyone.\n“I… I wanna tell you how I feel!” Alphys continued. “Y-you’re so brave, a-and s-strong… A-and nice… Y-you always listen t-to me when I talk about n-n-nerdy stuff… Y-you al-always d-d-do your best to m-make me f-f-feel special… L-like t-telling me th-that y-you’ll b-beat up anyone g-gets in my way…”\n“UNDYNE!!! I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANY LONGER!!!” She exclaimed again without warning, backing away as things got worse. “I’M MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU!!! HOLD ME, UNDYNE!! HOLD ME!!!”\nThe group was caught off guard by how Alphys had acted at that moment, especially Eris who was confused by what was happening, but then the human pointed in a direction, making everyone look there.\nWhere Undyne stood, in ordinary clothes, looking shocked. “WHAT did you just say?” was all she could manage after a moment of tense silence.\n“U… Undyne!” Alphys exclaimed upon seeing her, backing away from her. “I… was… just…”\nEris sighed deeply, raising her four arms and shaking her head, wondering where the mood was that Alphys was showing so lately.\n“Hey, whoa, wait a second!” Undyne interrupted. “Your outfit’s really cute! What’s the occasion?” She thought for a moment until an idea popped into her head. “Wait a second. Are you two… On a date?”\n“EHHH, YES! 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And time I…”\n“Alphys,” Undyne said, interrupting her when she was already very close to her.\n“I… I just wanted to impress you!” Alphys continued, her eyes cast downwards. “I just wanted you to think I was smart and cool. That I wasn’t some… nerdy loser.”\n“Alphys,” Undyne said, rubbing her hand on Alphys’s head.\n“Undyne, I… I think you’re neat, OK…” Alphys continued speaking.\n“Alphys. Shhhh.” Undyne said as she knelt and hugged her calmly.\nThe group just stared at the two of them as they talked.\nBut without warning, Undyne lifted Alphys with both arms and threw her through the air, landing inside a trash can that closed itself, but not before passing through the hoop of a basketball hoop just above. The group was surprised not only by what happened but by the maneuver itself. Even the human held up a sign with a 10 on it.\n“Alphys!” Undyne started. “I… I think you’re neat, too, I guess. But, you’ve gotta realize… Most of what you said really doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care if you’re watching kid’s cartoons or reading history books. To me, ALL of that stuff is just NERDY CRAP! What I like about you is that you’re PASSIONATE! You’re ANALYTICAL!! It doesn’t matter what it is! YOU CARE ABOUT IT!! 100-PERCENT!! AT MAXIMUM POWER!!!” Undyne said at the top of her lungs until she calmed down. “...so, you don’t have to lie to me. I don’t want you to have to lie to anyone else. Alphys… I want to help you be happy with who you are! And I know just the training you need to do that!”\nSomehow, Alphys managed to get her feet out from under the trash can and her tail out from behind it, as she lifted the lid to see. “Undyne… You… Y-you’re gonna train me?” she asked, blushing, from inside the can.\n“Pffft, what? ME?” Undyne asked sarcastically.\n“If you’re not going to do it, then who will?” Catilia asked.\nAt that moment Papyrus appeared from behind the trash wearing a sports 'uniform'.\n“Nah, I’m gonna get to Papyrus to do it,” Undyne said.\nBoth Alphys from inside the cube and the others, except the human, deadpanned at the revelation.\nPapyrus jumped out of the trash, landing near Alphys.\n“GET THOSE BONES SHAKIN!!! IT’S TIME TO JOG 100 LAPS, HOOTING ABOUT HOW GREAT WE ARE!!!” Papyrus exclaimed.\n“Ready? I’m about to start the timer!” Undyne said, holding a stopwatch.\n“U-Undyne…” Alphys said from inside the cube. “I’ll do my best…”\nAt that moment they both started running, while the group watched them walk away.\n“Well, there they go,” Eris said, crossing her four arms, while Nami nodded.\n“OH MY GOD!!!” Undyne suddenly exclaimed, startling Eris.\n“Now what?!” asked the hell beast.\n“She was kidding, right?!” Undyne asked. “Those cartoons… those comics… Those are still REAL, right?! ANIME’S REAL, RIGHT?!?!” She asked with the most nervous smile she’d ever put on.\nExcept for the human, all the girls collapsed to the ground in shock with their eyes momentarily closed.\n“Do we have to answer that question?!” Eris exclaimed angrily as she stood up.\nThen Undyne started to think for a moment. “Hey, weren’t you supposed to be at Asgore’s castle by now?”\n“Yeah, Alphys told us the story about the king’s late son and the barrier, so we’re considering possible alternatives,” Gida said.\n“Yeah, I don’t think it’s okay for everyone to kill the king so the human can get out, or to let the human die and the king attack the humans,” Nami said as Eris nodded.\n“Ah, I see…” Undyne said. “It’s pretty bad. Well, anyway, at least don’t worry about Alphys for now. I’ll take care of her. Later!” she said before leaving.\nThe group sat silently alone in the dump until Nami stretched.\n“Well, things turned out better than I expected,” Nami said.\n“Considering we're still in this mess, everything has gone perfectly,” Noka said.\n“Okay, if we have to come up with a plan, we’d rather do it somewhere else. The smell of this place is sticking to me!” Eris said, starting to walk.\nThe group began walking through the dump until the human's phone started ringing. It picked it up and began listening to who was speaking, hanging up after a while.\n“Who was it?” Nami asked.\n“It was Papyrus,” the human said. “He said he finished training with Alphys and sent her home. And he suggested we go there as well.” The group looked at each other for a moment. “He sounded a little worried when he suggested it.”\n“I have a bad feeling about this,” Gida said to the others.\n\nThe group returned to Alphys's lab, but there seemed to be no sign of her anywhere. Not even Mettaton, who seemed to be active again, knew where she'd gone. And there was no sign that anyone had taken her by force or anything like that.\n“Where the hell has she gone?” Noka asked hands on her hips.\n“She’s nowhere to be seen,” Catilia said.\nThe human then looked at the ground and found a note, which he picked up with his hand and read carefully.\n“Hey, here!” the human exclaimed.\nThey all approached the human, and Eris, seeing the note in his hand, took it.\n“It’s clearly a note from Alphys…” Eris said, recognizing the handwriting and how difficult it was to read.\n“Hey. Thanks for your help back there. You guys… Your support really means a lot to me. But… As difficult as it is to say this… You guys alone can’t magically make my own problems go away. I want to be a better person. I don’t want to be afraid anymore. And for that to happen, I have to be able to face my own mistakes. I’m going to start doing that now. I want to be clear. This isn’t anyone else’s problem but mine. But if you don’t ever hear from me again… If you want to know ‘the truth,’ enter the door to the north of this note. You all at least deserve to know what I did…”\nAfter reading the note, everyone turned their gaze toward the nearest door, which was wide open.\n“Alphys may be more than just a mere geek,” Gida said.\n“If so, what is this 'truth' she mentions?” Nami asked.\n“There’s only one way to find out,” Eris said, dropping the note on the floor.\nThe group cautiously went through the door, but upon entering, they found themselves inside an elevator.\n“An elevator? That’s weird.” Noka asked.\n“Why would Alphys hide this like it’s a washroom?” Catilia asked.\n“The question here is, where will this elevator lead?” Eris asked.\nThe human pressed the only button there seemed to be. The doors closed, and the elevator began to descend without any problems until it suddenly stopped.\n“So what now?” Catilia asked, looking around.\n“I have a bad feeling…” Gida said, glancing sideways.\nWithout warning, the elevator alarm began to sound as it began to fall out of control, landing forcefully at the bottom with the light going out.\nFor several seconds there was a deathly silence in the dark elevator until a voice was heard.\n“All right, who’s not dead? Sound off,” Eris said in the darkness.\nThey all started to moan and complain of pain from the fall and the impact of the elevator, including the human.\n“What the heck just happened?” Nami asked.\n“I think the power in this elevator has gone out,” Noka replied.\n“Well, then. And where are we now?” Catilia asked.\n“Well, trapped in the elevator. Where do you think?” Nami asked.\nAt that moment the elevator door opened, letting in a faint light from the other side.\n“Not quite…” Eris said.\nCautiously, the group left the elevator, finding themselves in a place that apparently hadn't been visited by anyone in a long time, as could be seen by the layers of dust all over the place.\n“What place is this?” Eris asked.\nThe group advanced down the hallway before them, keeping their guard up. As they advanced, they noticed that the place looked like some kind of medical center or something similar, as they found themselves in what appeared to be a waiting room that hadn't been used in a long time.\nThe group continued advancing and investigating the area until they found an old note on the floor. It was barely legible, but it seemed to indicate that if the elevator lost power, they should go to the room behind the door in the center.\nEris tried to force the door open, but Gida had to stop her before she could destroy it, making it clear that they couldn't just open it. Upon closer inspection, they noticed that the door seemed to have colored sensors that were turned off.\n“Okay, if we have to turn on those sensors, we have to find what’s turning them on,” Nami said.\n“Well, let’s start looking. This place is giving me the creeps,” Noka said, rubbing her arms.\n“You’re not the only one who suffers from them,” Gida said.\nThe group began walking down the only route they could continue. It didn't take long for them to reach a room with several stretchers lined up in a row, which seemed odd in that location. After a bit of searching, the group found in an adjacent room what looked like a light switch with a keyhole in the center, but no key in sight. But another note they found on the floor gave them a clue as to where this supposed key might be, which seemed to be inside the sinkhole. Eris thought to herself about the stupidity of hiding something in the sinkhole.\nThe girls began turning on the faucets in the previous room, hoping to find the one that contained the key, but without much luck. When the human turned on the last faucet, no water came out of its spout, but a strange white liquid which began to accumulate in the sink until it overflowed, forming a strange smiley face.\n“What the hell is this?” Eris asked, raising an eyebrow.\nAt first, it did nothing, but suddenly the creature grew out of sudden, taking on a grotesque form with many faces, incapable of assuming a concrete appearance.\nGida and Noka stood in front of the amorphous creature and instinctively used their lightsabers to try to push the creature back, but for some reason, their weapons simply passed through them harmlessly.\nThe creature made a strange sound through its multiple mouths that deafened the group, just before attempting to surprise them with ethereal blasts. Fortunately, the group was able to avoid them, but they were powerless against the creature.\n“Any ideas?” Eris asked, yanking one of the stretchers out and throwing it at the creature. But the maneuver didn’t seem to cause any damage to the thing.\n“I don’t know! That thing seems invulnerable to everything!” Gida exclaimed, trying to cut it with her weapon.\nThe creatures made strange sounds again, but the human noticed something on the phone, and as soon as he picked it up, he began to hear voices through it.\n“Come join the fun.” “It’s a real get-together.” “Become one of us!” was the constant echo from the phone as the strange creature attacked them constantly.\n“Oh, come on! Either talk or fight! But not both at once!” Eris exclaimed, avoiding the creature’s sinister attack.\nThen the human approached the creature with its hands raised. “I know you want to hang out, but we can’t right now. We’re a little busy. You understand, right?”\nAfter a moment, the phone went “Oh well” and the creature vanished without a trace.\nThe group stared at the place where the strange amalgam was for a moment until Eris raised her four arms.\n“What the heck just happened?” Eris asked loudly.\n“I have no idea,” Catilia said, scratching her head.\nThe human approached the bathroom, took a red key from there, and showed it to the group. With questions in mind, the group returned to the switch, and upon using the key, it turned on. With this done, they returned to the blocked room, seeing that they could now cross a closed door, allowing the group to continue, but this time they were more careful in the next room, which was full of beds.\nAt that moment Nami had the group stop.\n“Does anyone want to address the elephant in the room?” Nami asked as everyone looked at her.\n“It’s true, something strange is clearly going on here,” Gida said, thinking for a moment before looking at Noka. “Try to find the file and find out everything you can about this place.”\n“Okay, master.” Noka nodded before running away from the group.\n“What got into your head?” Eris asked.\n“To begin with, this place is right under Alphys’s lab. It doesn’t look like it’s been used in years, and to top it all off, there’s that thing from before,” Gida said. “What’s more, I’m sure there’s more of those things all over the place.”\n“You say that this it’s like a secret lab or something,” Nami said.\n“It is it,” Gida said. “I don’t know why exactly, but for Alphys, this place is her Pandora’s Box. Something very big has happened here, and these creatures are proof of that.”\n“But while your apprentice looks for those files, what do we do?” Catilia asked.\nThe group then noticed the human looking under the covers of some beds, soon finding a yellow key in one of them.\n“Well, find those keys and try to open that door,” Gida suggested.\n“Well, with nothing better to do…” Eris shrugged.\nThe rest of the group advanced along a different route than the one Noka took, although the place seemed more like a labyrinth than a laboratory.\n\nNoka, for her part, wandered through the corridors of the laboratory until she reached what appeared to be the archives area of the laboratory, which seemed as abandoned as the rest of the place.\n“Okay, let’s see what we can find here,” she told herself, searching through old reports and documents, both written and computerized, eventually finding what looked like a diary on the computer, reading the first entry.\nENTRY NUMBER 1: This is it… Time to do what the King has asked me to do. I will create the power to free us all. I will unleash the power of the SOUL.\nNoka thought for a moment after reading this, and read the following entries.\nENTRY NUMBER 2: The barrier is locked by SOUL power. Unfortunately, this power cannot be recreated artificially. SOUL power can only be derived from what was once living. So, to create more, we will have to use what we have now... The SOULs of monsters.\nENTRY NUMBER 3: But extracting the SOUL from a living monster would require incredible power… Besides being impractical, doing so would instantly destroy the SOUL’s host. And, unlike the persistent SOULs of humans… The SOULs of most monsters disappear immediately upon death. If only I could make a monster's SOUL last…\nNoka continued reading the reports on the computer until she noticed a presence behind her and immediately turned around, seeing a white octopus-like figure lunge at her.\nBefore she would react, Noka had the white creature’s tentacles holding her arms and legs, while more tentacles began to roam on her body, sliding them under her clothes until they were pulled down. Noka held her moans as she felt the strange creature caressing her exposed breasts with its tentacles roughly, even moving them across her pussy.\nAs she struggled to get free as she was ravaged by the octopus-like monster, she felt something strange from the white creature. Its actions were not only of desperate lust. They were more of something that was desperate from contact with anyone, wanting to be with someone.\n“Calm down.” Noka said gently. She was able to release one hand from the tentacles, and caressed the creature’s head gently. “If you feel alone, allow me to help you with that.” She said, caressing its head.\nAs she caressed its head, the white octopus-like monster loosened its hold on Noka’s arm and legs. But she didn’t pulled them away, just allowed it to keep caressing them, even moaned as the creature kept moving its tentacles over her breasts and cunt. The strange creature soon moved two of its tentacles around Noka’s huge boobs with the tips between them and began to squeeze them gently, making her moan louder with it.\nEventually Noka saw how the tentacle tips began to shapeshift into fat cockheads, and smiling gently she began to stroke the cock-tentacles, moaning as she felt the tentacles on her boobs squeeze them while shoving their cock-tentacles between her breasts. Also she could hear some sounds coming from the white amalgamate as it was enjoying it too.\nAs she moaned, Noka saw how some tentacles sprouted out the white amorphous’ body, some of the getting wide and roaming her ass and pussy, but the tentacles seemed to hesitate.\n“Come on, you can do it.” Noka said to calm the white amalgamate’s hesitation. “You can get inside as many as you like.”\nHearing her words, the amalgamate eventually shoved both massive tentacles inside her ass and pussy, making her moan loudly as she felt her belly bulge by their sheer size. But that didn’t stop, as the white octopus began to sprout more tentacles that began to shove inside her already stuffed holes, spreading her ass and pussy wider with each new tentacle, deforming her belly with their shapes. But these tentacles didn’t enter inside her in a sharp and forceful way, but in a very gentle way. Even the thrusts of the multiple tentacles were gentle.\n“Oh, may…” Noka moaned as she felt those tentacles penetrate and tangle inside her ass and pussy. “You’re the gentlest partner I ever had.”\nEventually Noka saw another cock-tentacle floating around her head, and after giving a smile she opened her mouth, allowing that tentacle to get inside, shoving it into her throat. But the creature didn’t fucked her mouth roughly, but slowly, letting her taste every inch of that tentacle.\nNoka kept moaning by how the white octopus fucked he holes, enjoying the treatment she was receiving from the amalgamate even with her huge boobs, her hands stroking the cock-tentacles in the same gentle way. Why get rough with a partner when he goes nice with her?\nAs she moaned with the tentacle into her mouth and throat, she felt how all these cock-tentacles began to shake and get wider, meaning that the white octopus was getting close to an orgasm, but didn’t speed up its movements inside her holes and mouth, so simply allowed it to keep with it until he reached to his limit at his own pace.\nThen, without any warning, huge ropes of cum began to be shot from the cock-tentacles, showering her body by the ones on her hands and legs as lots were shot from the ones between her boobs. Noka gasped by these unloads, but then gave a loud muffed moan as she felt how the large amount of cock-tentacles inside her ass and pussy began to shoot huge loads of cum inside her, with the one inside her mouth doing the same. \nBy the amount of tentacles inside her body, the quantity of cum inside her increased absurdly fast, swelling her belly widely in seconds, getting larger and rounder the more they shot their cum into her, while more cum from the tentacles out of her body coated her skin with their white seed.\nNoka moaned loudly, feeling how her body was coated in white by the cock-tentacles out of her, while the ones inside her holes and mouth made her belly bigger and wider each passing second, her eyes rolling in pleasure as the white octopus kept unloading inside and over her.\nWhen the amalgamate finished cumming, Noka’s belly was as massive as her own body. She panted loudly after the creature took the tentacle out of her mouth and throat, and gave a loud moan as she felt the mass of tentacles being pulled out of her ass and pussy, leaving them wide gapping which allowed lots of cum fall to the ground.\nNoka moaned as she felt all that cum inside her holes being gushed as a pair of faucets, placing one hand on her massively swollen belly, and another hand on the creature’s head, with a smile on her face.\n\nDuring their exploration, the girls found the strangest machine they had seen in a long time, as it looked like a strange animal head.\n“What is this thing?” Nami asked, looking at the enormous machine.\nThe human approached a plate that appeared to be on the machine, reading what it said. “DT Extraction Machine. Status: Inactive.”\n“DT? What is that?” Eris asked.\n“I don’t know, but I’d rather not touch it too much,” Gida said. “I have a feeling this thing is partly responsible for what happened here.”\n“Well, that’s not helping,” Eris retorted. “Does anyone see anything useful around here?”\nCatilia looked through the door of an adjoining room, peering inside. “I think I just found another light switch.”\n“Okay, let’s see if this switch works here,” Eris said as the human walked over to Catilia’s side.\nBut then Eris noticed a strange presence behind her, as well as a strange smell of sweet lemons, and when she turned around she found herself facing another amorphous creature or something that looked like a bipedal creature with muscular arms, but whose head looked like a gelatinous amoeba acting as a mouth with a pair of enormous eyes.\n“Welcome to my special hell,” the creature said in a distorted voice.\nThe strange creature tried to bite Eris with its strange, sharp-looking mouth, forcing her to use two of her hands to avoid the bite.\n“Hey, I’m not on the menu!” Eris exclaimed, trying to hit the creature with her lower arms while holding its mouth with her upper hands. Emphasis on trying, as none of her blows seemed to be having any effect on the creature.\nGida quickly used a Force push to push the creature away from Eris, the strange being disappearing into the shadows.\nEris shook herself from the exertion as Catilia and the human returned.\n“What happened?” the human asked.\n“Nothing, you guys missed another of those things which almost ate Eris,” Nami said.\n“Yes, and one thing has become clear,” Eris said, turning to them. “Attacks are useless against those things. When I went to hit it, it was like hitting a wall made of air or something.”\n“Well, we must change tactics, since the current ones are no good here,” Gida said.\n“Okay, let’s find the rest of the keys and switches before these things eat us,” Nami said.\nAfter this, the group advanced through the place, but they had to stop because one of the rooms was completely covered in a fog so thick that it made it impossible to see anything, so they were forced to go back and investigate other possible routes in the laboratory.\nOn one occasion, the group found themselves in a strange corridor with a curtained bathroom, with a strange, long shape swaying on the other side of the curtain. Keeping their guard down, the group slowly made their way toward the bathroom, watching as the strange shape moved faster the closer they got.\nAs they neared the curtain, the group nodded before Eris moved the curtain aside, ready to fight whatever was there.\nBut all they saw was the empty bathroom, with a green key in it. The group glanced around without moving.\n“Is anyone else scared of all this?” Nami asked as the human took the key, receiving stares from the others.\n\nEventually, they found a large room with many exhaust fans, figuring it would be a good idea to turn them all on to suck out the fog that seemed to be covering part of the lab.\nThey quickly found the switch that turned on the extractor fans, and after turning it on, they turned on, swallowing up the dense fog that covered the place.\nBut to their surprise, several white particles began to merge together, forming a huge deformed creature that apparently looked like a dog blocking the way.\n“Great, just what we needed,” Nami moaned. “We can’t get through with that thing blocking the way.”\nEris prepared to face the creature, soon looking at the human who seemed to be worried about what was happening, then remembering how the last encounters with these creatures were.\n“If brute force doesn’t work…” Eris said, looking at one of her upper hands.\nSlowly, Eris approached the enormous being, extending her upper hand toward it, the girls wondering what she was planning to do. When her hand landed on the creature, and recalling a memory of how her adoptive father would occasionally rub its head, Eris began rubbing the spot.\nThe strange being began to react to the caresses it received from Eris, until the beast began to calm down, lying on the ground while Eris continued to rub its body gently.\n“Wow, it was just a giant dog after all,” Catilia said, sighing.\n“I don’t know, I think that dog isn’t normal,” Gida said.\n“Master, can you hear me?”\nGida jumped slightly when she heard Noka's voice on the communicator, switching it to hands-free mode. \"Noka, tell me you found something.\"\n“Oh, I found something! You won’t believe what I found,” Noka said.\nNoka was sitting sideways in the archive chair in front of the computer, with the head of the strange white octopus resting between her breasts and on her swollen belly now the size of be pregnant for 9 months, its tentacles delicately gripping her body, one hand on the keyboard, and the other on the being's head, caressing it, while her ass and pussy kept gushing cum out of her body and the cum over her falling on the cum-coated soil.\n“I have in front of me Alphys’s data that covers the history of this place,” Noka said, looking at the monitor.\n“So tell us! What’s going on with this place?” Eris’s voice sounded through the communicator.\n“Well, prepare yourselves,” Noka began. “It turns out that the experiments were conducted in this laboratory with the intention of destroying the barrier that kept the monsters trapped. According to Alphys, humans possess a strange force that allows their souls to temporarily remain after the body dies, which she called 'determination,' and she went so far as to use a machine to extract said energy.”\n“Let me guess, he used the strange machine we found at the scene,” Catilia said.\n“The Determination Extraction Machine? Yes, that’s right,” Noka confirmed.\n“And I assume that ‘determination’ came from the souls they have in safekeeping, right?” Nami asked.\n“Correct,” Noka said. “After extracting that energy from the souls in their possession, Alphys began her experiments, using monsters that were in a terminal state, close to turning to dust. At first, nothing happened despite the tests, but then a miracle occurred. The monsters regained consciousness, acting as if nothing had happened.”\n“I bet we can guess now,” Eris said. “Everything went terribly wrong in the end.”\n“You’re right,” Noka said. “All the monsters exposed to the experiments began to lose stability in their bodies, starting to melt. Apparently, monsters aren’t able to maintain ‘determination’ like humans, which has caused most of them to fuse with each other.”\n“Are you saying the creatures we faced were fusions of monsters?” Gida asked.\n“That’s right,” Noka replied. “A terrible fate for everyone, in my opinion, driven by despair.” She stroked the amalgam’s head tenderly, feeling sorry for what they must have been through.\n“And how come no one has heard about this?” Nami asked.\n“There are some entries here that seem to indicate that she has been trying to avoid responding to the various calls related to the experiment… ending up deciding to stay at the dump…” Noka said.\n“I see…” Eris said, stopping petting the amalgam of dogs to get it to leave.\n“But that’s not all,” Noka said. “I’ve found some recordings that seem to indicate the Duke discovered Alphys’ secret and has been using it to blackmail and manipulate her for his own purposes.”\n“If people found out about that and how he treated her, it would probably cause a revolt against him,” Gida said.\n“Yes, it seems that Alphys secretly gathered enough evidence to end the Duke’s influence, but I suppose she never dared to use it,” Noka said.\n“Okay, see if you can find anything else in those reports,” Gida said, ending the conversation.\n“And I was already hating the Duke,” Eris said.\n“First things first. We need to find Alphys, or at least try to get that elevator working,” Gida said.\n“Whatever you say, blue tiger,” Eris said, starting to walk.\n\nThe group returned to the room, which was originally covered in fog, and noticed it was filled with coolers, likely filled to store any samples they had taken. Clearly, upon searching, each cooler was either empty or had some strange sample inside.\nBut to their surprise, one of the refrigerators turned white, transforming into another amalgam. But unlike the other amalgams, this creature seemed slower, and seemingly depressed.\nThe group saw that the amalgamator was holding a blue key. But how could they get it away if nothing worked against those things?\nThe human thought for a moment and told a joke to the amalgam.\n“What’s a skier dressed in black on a snowy mountain? A perfect target!” the human said with a smile.\nThe girls stared at him with doubt on their faces.\n“Please don’t tell me you’ve picked up the stupidity of the skeleton’s bad jokes…” Eris said with a groan.\nThe amalgam began to react to the joke as if it was funny.\n“Okay, that seems to work,” Gida said. “Tell another joke.”\nThe human nodded.\n“In the middle of a dizzying descent, one ski says to the other: 'Hey man, we're going full speed ahead, huh?' And the other ski says: 'Wow, a talking ski!'”\nEris looked at him with a raised eyebrow at how bad the joke was, although the amalgam reacted to the joke again.\n“Once upon a time, it was so cold, so cold, that the snowman in the garden asked us to let him into the house.”\nEris slapped herself in the face at how bad it was.\nThe amalgam 'laughed' for a moment before disappearing from the scene, leaving the blue key on the ground, which the human quickly picked up.\n“Thank goodness! I couldn’t stand any more of those bad jokes!” Eris exclaimed.\n“That’s a shame, I had more jokes ready,” said the human.\n“Do you want a knock?” Eris threatened, frowning and raising one of her upper arms with a clenched fist.\n\nThe group continued on their way until they finally found the rest of the switches that needed the keys, without too much trouble from the amalgams that were roaming around the laboratory.\nWithout further ado, the group returned to the waiting room where the door was closed, and after opening it now that all the switches were active, they realized it was another elevator, but this one seemed to be without power.\n“Noka, can you hear me?” Gida called through the communicator. “The door appears to be an elevator, but it seems to have lost power too,” Gida said, directing her gaze to another elevator exit. “Let’s see if we can find the main generator to power it up. Get here as soon as possible.”\nAfter that, the group moved forward through the nearby hallway, quickly reaching what appeared to be the generator that powered the elevator.\n“Come on, let’s get this going and get out of here,” Eris said, turning on the generator.\nThey didn't have time to see if it had worked, as a noise behind them startled them. They turned around to find a large group of amalgams slowly approaching them. Eris, Nami, Catilia, and Gida stood in front of the human to protect him as they approached.\n“Hey! Stop!!!”\nThe amalgams stopped turning around, revealing Alphys running towards them.\n“I got you guys some food, okay!?” Alphys said.\nMeanwhile, Noka appeared behind Alphys, dropping a few sacks of food, causing the monsters to head towards the food, leaving the group alone.\nThe group fell silent after what happened, looking at Alphys.\n“Sorry about that… They get kind of sassy when they don’t get fed on time,” Alphys explained.\nThe group stared at Alphys as Noka oversaw that the amalgams didn't cause any more problems.\n“Um!! Anyway!” Alphys began. “The power went out, and I’ve been trying to turn it back on! But it seems like you were one step ahead of me. This was probably just a big inconvenience for you… B-but I appreciate that you came here to back me up!”\n“Honestly, you had us worried when you just disappeared after the dump,” Nami said. “Why exactly did you come here if it was dangerous? And why did you come here in the first place?”\n“As I said, I was afraid I might…” Alphys said, looking depressed. “Not come back… But that’s not because of these guys or anything! I was just worried I would be too afraid…”\n“Afraid of what?” Eris asked, crossing her lower arms.\n“To tell the truth…” Alphys replied. “That I might run away, or do something… cowardly…” Alphys was silent for a moment. “Uh… I… I suppose I owe you an explanation.”\n“You don’t need to explain this to us, Alphys,” Gida said. “Noka told us about your reports. How Asgore asked you to study the nature of the soul, how you isolated something you called ‘determination,’ and used it on dying monsters, causing this… mess.” Gida gestured to the amalgams.\n“That’s right,” Alphys said. “You see, unlike humans’, monsters’ bodies don’t have enough… Physical matter to take those concentrations of ‘determination.’ Their bodies started to melt, and lost what physicality they had.”\n“And in the end they all ended up merging into each other…” Catilia said.\n“Seeing them like that, I knew… I couldn’t tell their families about it. I couldn’t tell anyone about it. No matter how much everyone was asking me,” Alphys said. “And I was too afraid to do any more work, knowing… everything I’d done so far has been such a horrific failure.”\n“But somehow the Duke found out,” Eris said.\n“Yes,” Alphys replied. “The Duke blackmailed me into helping him set up a surveillance network and use my systems for his own benefit. And when he was done with me, I didn’t dare to confront him… for fear he’d expose my secret.”\n“...but now… Now, I’ve changed my mind about all this,” Alphys said. “I'm going to tell everyone what I’ve done.” She was silent for a moment. “It’s going to be hard. Being honest… believing in myself… I'm sure there will be times where I’ll struggle. I'm sure there will be times when I screw up again. But knowing, deep down, that I have friends to fall back on… I know it’ll be a lot easier to stand on my own. Thank you.”\n“And what will happen to the Duke?” the human asked.\n“Oh, him?” Alphys asked. “When I met Noka, she told me about all the recordings I made with the Duke, and how he used me, using these poor guys to manipulate me. I plan to upload all the videos online, so everyone can see them. So the entire underworld can see what kind of person the Duke truly is. Surely… with luck… many will rise against him and his henchmen… there might be trouble, but it's the only solution…”\nAt that moment the amalgams approached Alphys, who turned to them.\n“Come on, guys. It’s time for everyone to go home,” Alphys said, taking the fillings with her.\nBut then she paused for a moment. “By the way, the elevator in the center should take you to New Home, where Asgore lives. If you run into the Duke up there, well… don’t let him get away, okay?”\nAfter those words, she and the amalgams left the room.\nThe group fell silent as Noka joined them.\n“By the skin of our teeth,” Gida said.\n“I know, master. But at least we can get out of here,” Noka said.\n“Well, let’s get out of here! I’ve been down here long enough,” Eris said, starting to walk until she stopped. “By the way, I’ve been thinking about it… And maybe… we don’t have any other choice,” she said, turning her gaze to the human. “So let’s get this over with as soon as possible.”\nThe girls looked at the human, nodding together before starting to walk.\n“By the way, I found something interesting,” Noka said. “Apparently, the amalgams weren’t the only result of Alphys’s experiments. It also seems she experimented on one of the flowers that sprouted after the prince’s… death.”\nThe group paused, pondering this revelation for a moment. Gida was intrigued, but the others didn't.\n“Hey, are you implying that the flower you’re talking about is the same flower that’s been hanging around us all the time?” Eris asked.\n“Oh, come on!” Gida exclaimed, seeing the lack of reaction from Eris and her sisters. “How many flowers have you seen that can talk?”\nEris turned to Gida and Noka. “You’ve never seen an Alraune, have you?”\nNoka and Gida looked at each other at the question, shrugging their shoulders, not knowing how to respond to that.\nThe group returned to the elevator they had discovered, and with everything done, they prepared for the button that would take them upstairs, out of that gloomy place. But then the human's phone rang, and they heard a voice they had never heard before.\n“Chara… Are you there?”\nThat name again. The name Flowey mentioned when referring to the human. Could it be…? However, the voice is very different.\n“It’s been a long time, hasn’t it…? But you’ve done well. Thanks to you, everything has finally fallen into place.”\n“Into place?” Eris asked. “What do you mean?”\n“Chara… See you soon.”\nAfter the call was hung up, the elevator doors closed automatically, and the elevator began to rise abruptly, not a pleasant ride for those inside.\n\n\n",
  "writing_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>Alphys was working in her lab, repairing the damage Mettaton had sustained during her encounter with Eris and the others as they fought over the human. Alphys was soldering some wires while recalling the conversation she had with the group right after the fight.<br />&ldquo;What do you mean?&rdquo; Nami asked as the others looked at Alphys kneeling before the Mettaton&rsquo;s turned-off remains.<br />Alphys placed her hand on Mettaton&#039;s metallic body as she sighed heavily.<br />&ldquo;A-among all the stories that monsters know, there is one that everyone knows without exception&hellip; I-if you want to bring the human out of the underground, you must know the story too.&rdquo; Alphys said.<br />Eris frowned, not knowing if she could trust her again.<br />A long time ago, a human fell into the ruins. Injured by its fall, the human called out for help.<br />Asriel, the king&#039;s son, heard the human&#039;s call. He brought the human back to the castle.<br />Over time, Asriel and the human became like siblings. The king and queen treated the human child as their own. The underground was full of hope.<br />Then&hellip; One day&hellip; The human became very ill.<br />The sick human had only one request: to see the flowers from their village. But there was nothing we could do.<br />The next day&hellip; The human died.<br />Asriel, wracked with grief, absorbed the human&#039;s soul. He transformed into a being with incredible power.<br />With the human soul, Asriel crossed through the barrier. He carried the human&rsquo;s body into the sunset. Back to the village of the human.<br />Asriel reached the center of the village. There, he found a bed of golden flowers. He carried the human onto it.<br />Suddenly, screams rang out. The villagers saw Asriel holding the human&#039;s body. They thought that he had killed the child.<br />The humans attacked him with everything they had. He was struck with blow after blow. Asriel had the power to destroy them all.<br />But&hellip; Asriel did not fight back. Clutching the human&hellip; Asriel smiled, and walked away.<br />Wounded, Asriel stumbled home. He entered the castle and collapsed, his dust spread across the garden.<br />The kingdom fell into despair. The king and queen had lost two children in one night. The humans had once again taken everything from us.<br />The king decided it was time to end our suffering. Every human who falls down here must die. With enough souls, we can shatter the barrier forever.<br />It&rsquo;s not long now.<br />King Asgore will let us go. King Asgore will give us hope. King Asgore will save us all.<br />The group was silent after hearing Alphys&#039;s story.<br />&ldquo;W-what I mean is&hellip; the only thing that can pass through the barrier&hellip; is if a monster possesses a human soul&hellip; or a human possesses the soul of a monster&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys said, her head bowed. &ldquo;I-if you want the human to be free&hellip; you&rsquo;ll have to kill Asgore&hellip; O-only with his soul&hellip; will the human be able to leave the Underworld.&rdquo;<br />The human looked depressed at Alphys upon learning the whole story, while Nami felt a chill run down her spine, and Eris had her eyes closed while the others looked down.<br />What they had just discovered was a surprise to everyone, shattering all their schemes at the time. Kill someone so the human could be free? And it couldn&#039;t be just any monster. It had to be the soul of the king of monsters. And if that story was true, Asgore was the only glimmer of hope the monsters had left.<br />Eris cursed to herself, now knowing what she was up against if what she had learned since being down there was true, forcing her to make a decision.<br />Kill Asgore to free the human, but doom the monsters? Or let Asgore use the souls to free the monsters, but doom humanity? She was raised to always make the right choice. But at first glance, neither seemed right at the time.<br />&ldquo;I-I&rsquo;m sorry for putting you in this bind&hellip; but you should know. I-I know it won&rsquo;t be an easy decision,&rdquo; Alphys said. &ldquo;S-sorry&hellip;&rdquo;<br />Alphys tried to move Mettaton&#039;s torso, but it seemed a bit heavy for her until she saw Eris approaching her with her gaze fixed on the scientist.<br />Back in the present and at the end of the memory, Alphys was still working on repairing Mettaton. She then put down the soldering iron and reached for something, but eventually had to stop looking at the robot and start looking around.<br />&ldquo;H-hell, where did I leave the star screwdriver? I remember leaving it here a moment ago,&rdquo; Alphys said as she looked around.<br />Then a hand approached her holding the screwdriver she was looking for, catching her attention.<br />&ldquo;Oh, thank you so much!&rdquo; Alphys exclaimed.<br />The human smiled as Alphys took the screwdriver from its hand.<br />Against all logic, Eris decided to help Alphys carry the robot back to the lab, with the human and the rest of the group following behind them. While Alphys and the human were distracted repairing Mettaton downstairs, Eris, Nami, Catilia, Gida, and Noka discussed their next move upstairs.<br />&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still amazed at what you&rsquo;ve done for Alphys, despite everything that&rsquo;s happened to us because of her actions,&rdquo; Catilia said.<br />&ldquo;Yeah, I needed to do something after all this. Especially considering the dire decisions we have before us,&rdquo; Eris said, arms crossed.<br />&ldquo;I understand. No matter what we do, someone will end up having a very bad time,&rdquo; Gida said, hands on her hips.<br />&ldquo;So what do we do now?&rdquo; Nami asked. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s one thing to beat someone up. But to kill someone&hellip;&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Well, we haven&rsquo;t had any trouble with these creatures that have been attacking us since we&rsquo;ve been here,&rdquo; Catilia said.<br />&ldquo;That&rsquo;s different. Those things were no different from demons,&rdquo; Gida said. &ldquo;Those things had no mercy for anyone.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Yes, and yet compared to them, the inhabitants of the underground are peaceful once you know them&hellip; and know how to treat them,&rdquo; Nami said.<br />&ldquo;But that doesn&#039;t make the problem go away,&rdquo; Eris said. &ldquo;I&#039;m not interested in killing anyone&#039;s king. If it were my father, I might have the idea run in mind, but Asgore? I&#039;m not too keen on that.&rdquo;<br />Nami thought for a moment. &ldquo;What if we get some supplies around here and climb up the hole in the ruins?&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Two problems,&rdquo; Catilia said. &ldquo;One: the doors to the ruins are tightly closed. And two: Do you even know how high that hole is in the ground?&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Also, there&rsquo;s the fact that what could happen next is worth mentioning. What if another human falls through the hole?&rdquo; Gida asked. &ldquo;Even worse, what if this Duke decides to wait for the next human from there?&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;True, and there we have other problems. We have to do something about this Duke, whoever he is,&rdquo; Catilia said.<br />&ldquo;Yeah, as if we didn&rsquo;t already have problems around here,&rdquo; Eris said, casting a fleeting, serious glance toward the back of the lab, startling a certain flower that had hidden itself in the ground.<br />&ldquo;Yeah, what a mess we&rsquo;ve gotten ourselves into,&rdquo; Gida muttered.<br />While the girls were arguing, Noka decided to look through Alphys&#039;s books, until she came across some notes that she read, unable to help but let out a small laugh.<br />&ldquo;What&rsquo;s so funny?&rdquo; Gida asked, looking at Noka.<br />&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry, teacher, but this letter just seems a little funny the way it&rsquo;s written,&rdquo; Noka said, holding the notes. &ldquo;Guess who it&rsquo;s addressed to?&rdquo;<br />Alphys heard the conversation upstairs, stopped working on what she was doing, and ran upstairs like lightning, grabbing the papers from Noka&#039;s hand, holding it with both hands with her face flushed.<br />&ldquo;D-don&rsquo;t read it! I-it&rsquo;s none of your business!&rdquo; Alphys exclaimed, blushing.<br />The girls looked at Alphys in confusion as the human went upstairs, joining the conversation. Unfortunately, one of Alphys&#039;s papers fell to the floor, revealing something on the sheet: some poorly drawn drawings of Undyne and Alphys with a heart between them.<br />&ldquo;You&hellip; like Undyne, right?&rdquo; Nami asked, tilting her head.<br />Alphys continued blushing with the papers in her hand until she took a deep breath.<br />&ldquo;W&hellip; well, I guess it&rsquo;s obvious, huh?&rdquo; Alphys asked. &ldquo;I&hellip; uh&hellip; I really like her. I mean, more than I like other people!&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;That&rsquo;s visible,&rdquo; Eris said as the human picked up the paper from the floor.<br />&ldquo;Y-you see&hellip; Undyne is the person I&hellip; um&hellip; really want to go on a date with&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys said. &ldquo;But, I mean, she&rsquo;s way out of my league. She&rsquo;s so confident&hellip; and strong&hellip; and funny&hellip; and I&rsquo;m just a nobody. A fraud,&rdquo; she said depressed.<br />&ldquo;Excuse me?&rdquo; Noka asked.<br />&ldquo;I&rsquo;m the royal scientist, but&hellip; all I&rsquo;ve done is hurt people. I&rsquo;ve told her so many lies, she thinks I&rsquo;m&hellip; She thinks I&rsquo;m a lot cooler than I really am,&rdquo; Alphys said with regret in her voice. &ldquo;If she gets close to me, she&rsquo;ll&hellip; she&rsquo;ll find out the truth about me.&rdquo; She was silent for a moment. &ldquo;What should I do?&rdquo;<br />The group was silent for a while until the human opened his mouth.<br />&ldquo;Tell her the truth,&rdquo; the human said calmly.<br />&ldquo;The truth&hellip;?&rdquo; Alphys asked nervously. &ldquo;But if I tell her that, she&rsquo;ll hate me. Isn&rsquo;t it better this way? To live a lie where both people are happy&hellip; Or a truth where neither of us are?&rdquo;<br />Eris put an upper hand to her face with a groan.<br />&ldquo;They say &lsquo;be yourself&rsquo;. But I don&#039;t really like who &#039;myself&#039; is,&rdquo; Alphys said, looking down at the floor. &ldquo;I&#039;d rather just be whatever makes people like me.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;If you keep this up, this is all going to blow up in your face,&rdquo; Nami said.<br />&ldquo;No, you&rsquo;re right,&rdquo; Alphys said, her head down. &ldquo;Every day I&rsquo;m scared&hellip; Scared what will happen if people learn the truth on their own. They&rsquo;ll all get hurt because of me. But how can I tell Undyne the tr&hellip; truth?&rdquo; Alphys put her hands to her head. &ldquo;I-I don&rsquo;t have the confidence&hellip; I&rsquo;m going to mess it up! How can I practice?!&rdquo;<br />The group looked at each other in this doubt, but the human spoke again.<br />&ldquo;Maybe with a roleplay,&rdquo; the human suggested. &ldquo;By pretending to go on a date as one of us plays as Undyne.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Yeah, a- what?!&rdquo; Eris asked the human.<br />&ldquo;R&hellip; roleplay?&rdquo; Alphys asked, smiling at the moment. &ldquo;&hellip; That actually sounds kind of fun! OK, which one of us will be Undyne?&rdquo;<br />No one answered the question, but then everyone looked at Eris who looked back at them.<br />&ldquo;Are you serious?&rdquo; Eris asked.<br />&ldquo;Honestly, you&rsquo;re the one who most resembles Undyne,&rdquo; Nami said. &ldquo;At least in personality.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Sorry, but I&rsquo;m not one of those who go all the time doing &lsquo;NGAHHH&rsquo;,&rdquo; Eris said.<br />&ldquo;Please, it will be fun,&rdquo; Nami said. &ldquo;Besides, we have nothing to do right now.&rdquo;<br />Eris slapped her face with a groan. &ldquo;The patience one must get&hellip;&rdquo; Eris groaned.<br />&ldquo;All right, let me wear something decent for the occasion!&rdquo; Alphys said, smiling. &ldquo;And I know the perfect place for the &lsquo;date&rsquo;!&rdquo;<br /><br />Soon, Alphys, wearing a black dress with white polka dots, led the group to their chosen date spot, which she said was perfect for the occasion. But&hellip;<br />&ldquo;Are you serious?&rdquo; Eris asked, her eyes twitching. &ldquo;Of all the places you could choose for this parody of a date&hellip; you had to choose this place?!&rdquo;<br />Contrary to what seemed logical, Alphys had taken the group to what could be considered the least romantic place in the underground: Waterfall&rsquo;s dump.<br />Eris, and possibly the other girls, were wondering why Alphys would choose such a filthy place for this date, while the human was scratching its head in confusion.<br />&ldquo;This is where Undyne and I come all the time&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys began. &ldquo;We find all sorts of great stuff. Heh, she&rsquo;s really&hellip;&rdquo;<br />Eris crossed her four arms with a frown, not interested in her stories.<br />&ldquo;R-right, the date&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys said, glancing away. She took a moment to breathe before continuing. &ldquo;H-hi Undyne&hellip; H-how are you doing today?&rdquo;<br />Eris sighed. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m fine,&rdquo; she replied.<br />Alphys laughed for a moment. &ldquo;Glad to hear it!!&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;I doubt the real Undyne would respond like that,&rdquo; Catilia commented to the others.<br />&ldquo;Well, Alphys isn&rsquo;t much of an actress either,&rdquo; Gida commented.<br />Alphys started speaking again after a silence. &ldquo;Uhhh, so I&rsquo;d like to, um, talk to you about something.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;What&rsquo;s wrong, Alphys?&rdquo; Eris asked, trying to continue playing Undyine&rsquo;s role in this pantomime of a date.<br />&ldquo;Um, you see&hellip; I&hellip; I&hellip; I&hellip; I haven&rsquo;t exactly b-been truthful w-w-with you&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys said nervously. &ldquo;Y&hellip; you see, I&hellip; I&hellip; Oh, forget it! Undyne!!!&rdquo; She exclaimed without warning, startling everyone.<br />&ldquo;I&hellip; I wanna tell you how I feel!&rdquo; Alphys continued. &ldquo;Y-you&rsquo;re so brave, a-and s-strong&hellip; A-and nice&hellip; Y-you always listen t-to me when I talk about n-n-nerdy stuff&hellip; Y-you al-always d-d-do your best to m-make me f-f-feel special&hellip; L-like t-telling me th-that y-you&rsquo;ll b-beat up anyone g-gets in my way&hellip;&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;UNDYNE!!! I CAN&rsquo;T TAKE THIS ANY LONGER!!!&rdquo; She exclaimed again without warning, backing away as things got worse. &ldquo;I&rsquo;M MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU!!! HOLD ME, UNDYNE!! HOLD ME!!!&rdquo;<br />The group was caught off guard by how Alphys had acted at that moment, especially Eris who was confused by what was happening, but then the human pointed in a direction, making everyone look there.<br />Where Undyne stood, in ordinary clothes, looking shocked. &ldquo;WHAT did you just say?&rdquo; was all she could manage after a moment of tense silence.<br />&ldquo;U&hellip; Undyne!&rdquo; Alphys exclaimed upon seeing her, backing away from her. &ldquo;I&hellip; was&hellip; just&hellip;&rdquo;<br />Eris sighed deeply, raising her four arms and shaking her head, wondering where the mood was that Alphys was showing so lately.<br />&ldquo;Hey, whoa, wait a second!&rdquo; Undyne interrupted. &ldquo;Your outfit&rsquo;s really cute! What&rsquo;s the occasion?&rdquo; She thought for a moment until an idea popped into her head. &ldquo;Wait a second. Are you two&hellip; On a date?&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;EHHH, YES! I mean, EHHH NO!&rdquo; Alphys exclaimed, causing Undyne to make weird faces at her response. &ldquo;I mean, we were, but- I mean, actually we were only romantically roleplaying as you!&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;WHAT???&rdquo; Undyne asked in shock.<br />Eris began to back away, not wanting to get into the argument.<br />&ldquo;I MEAN!!!&rdquo; Alphys exclaimed, nervous. &ldquo;I mean&hellip; Undyne&hellip; I&hellip; I&rsquo;ve been lying to you!&rdquo; She said without warning.<br />&ldquo;WHAT??? ABOUT WHAT???&rdquo; Undyne asked.<br />&ldquo;About&hellip; well&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys began. &ldquo;Everything!&rdquo;<br />Alphys started to walk over to Undyne. &ldquo;I told you that seaweed was like&hellip; scientifically important&hellip; Actually, I just&hellip; I just use it to make ice cream! And those human history books I keep reading&hellip; Those are just dorky comic books! And the history movies&hellip; those&hellip; Those are just, uh, anime! They aren&rsquo;t real! And that time I told you that I was busy with work on the phone&hellip; I&hellip; Was just eating frozen yogurt in my pajamas! And time I&hellip;&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Alphys,&rdquo; Undyne said, interrupting her when she was already very close to her.<br />&ldquo;I&hellip; I just wanted to impress you!&rdquo; Alphys continued, her eyes cast downwards. &ldquo;I just wanted you to think I was smart and cool. That I wasn&rsquo;t some&hellip; nerdy loser.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Alphys,&rdquo; Undyne said, rubbing her hand on Alphys&rsquo;s head.<br />&ldquo;Undyne, I&hellip; I think you&rsquo;re neat, OK&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys continued speaking.<br />&ldquo;Alphys. Shhhh.&rdquo; Undyne said as she knelt and hugged her calmly.<br />The group just stared at the two of them as they talked.<br />But without warning, Undyne lifted Alphys with both arms and threw her through the air, landing inside a trash can that closed itself, but not before passing through the hoop of a basketball hoop just above. The group was surprised not only by what happened but by the maneuver itself. Even the human held up a sign with a 10 on it.<br />&ldquo;Alphys!&rdquo; Undyne started. &ldquo;I&hellip; I think you&rsquo;re neat, too, I guess. But, you&rsquo;ve gotta realize&hellip; Most of what you said really doesn&rsquo;t matter to me. I don&rsquo;t care if you&rsquo;re watching kid&rsquo;s cartoons or reading history books. To me, ALL of that stuff is just NERDY CRAP! What I like about you is that you&rsquo;re PASSIONATE! You&rsquo;re ANALYTICAL!! It doesn&rsquo;t matter what it is! YOU CARE ABOUT IT!! 100-PERCENT!! AT MAXIMUM POWER!!!&rdquo; Undyne said at the top of her lungs until she calmed down. &ldquo;...so, you don&rsquo;t have to lie to me. I don&rsquo;t want you to have to lie to anyone else. Alphys&hellip; I want to help you be happy with who you are! And I know just the training you need to do that!&rdquo;<br />Somehow, Alphys managed to get her feet out from under the trash can and her tail out from behind it, as she lifted the lid to see. &ldquo;Undyne&hellip; You&hellip; Y-you&rsquo;re gonna train me?&rdquo; she asked, blushing, from inside the can.<br />&ldquo;Pffft, what? ME?&rdquo; Undyne asked sarcastically.<br />&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re not going to do it, then who will?&rdquo; Catilia asked.<br />At that moment Papyrus appeared from behind the trash wearing a sports &#039;uniform&#039;.<br />&ldquo;Nah, I&rsquo;m gonna get to Papyrus to do it,&rdquo; Undyne said.<br />Both Alphys from inside the cube and the others, except the human, deadpanned at the revelation.<br />Papyrus jumped out of the trash, landing near Alphys.<br />&ldquo;GET THOSE BONES SHAKIN!!! IT&rsquo;S TIME TO JOG 100 LAPS, HOOTING ABOUT HOW GREAT WE ARE!!!&rdquo; Papyrus exclaimed.<br />&ldquo;Ready? I&rsquo;m about to start the timer!&rdquo; Undyne said, holding a stopwatch.<br />&ldquo;U-Undyne&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys said from inside the cube. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll do my best&hellip;&rdquo;<br />At that moment they both started running, while the group watched them walk away.<br />&ldquo;Well, there they go,&rdquo; Eris said, crossing her four arms, while Nami nodded.<br />&ldquo;OH MY GOD!!!&rdquo; Undyne suddenly exclaimed, startling Eris.<br />&ldquo;Now what?!&rdquo; asked the hell beast.<br />&ldquo;She was kidding, right?!&rdquo; Undyne asked. &ldquo;Those cartoons&hellip; those comics&hellip; Those are still REAL, right?! ANIME&rsquo;S REAL, RIGHT?!?!&rdquo; She asked with the most nervous smile she&rsquo;d ever put on.<br />Except for the human, all the girls collapsed to the ground in shock with their eyes momentarily closed.<br />&ldquo;Do we have to answer that question?!&rdquo; Eris exclaimed angrily as she stood up.<br />Then Undyne started to think for a moment. &ldquo;Hey, weren&rsquo;t you supposed to be at Asgore&rsquo;s castle by now?&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Yeah, Alphys told us the story about the king&rsquo;s late son and the barrier, so we&rsquo;re considering possible alternatives,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />&ldquo;Yeah, I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s okay for everyone to kill the king so the human can get out, or to let the human die and the king attack the humans,&rdquo; Nami said as Eris nodded.<br />&ldquo;Ah, I see&hellip;&rdquo; Undyne said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s pretty bad. Well, anyway, at least don&rsquo;t worry about Alphys for now. I&rsquo;ll take care of her. Later!&rdquo; she said before leaving.<br />The group sat silently alone in the dump until Nami stretched.<br />&ldquo;Well, things turned out better than I expected,&rdquo; Nami said.<br />&ldquo;Considering we&#039;re still in this mess, everything has gone perfectly,&rdquo; Noka said.<br />&ldquo;Okay, if we have to come up with a plan, we&rsquo;d rather do it somewhere else. The smell of this place is sticking to me!&rdquo; Eris said, starting to walk.<br />The group began walking through the dump until the human&#039;s phone started ringing. It picked it up and began listening to who was speaking, hanging up after a while.<br />&ldquo;Who was it?&rdquo; Nami asked.<br />&ldquo;It was Papyrus,&rdquo; the human said. &ldquo;He said he finished training with Alphys and sent her home. And he suggested we go there as well.&rdquo; The group looked at each other for a moment. &ldquo;He sounded a little worried when he suggested it.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;I have a bad feeling about this,&rdquo; Gida said to the others.<br /><br />The group returned to Alphys&#039;s lab, but there seemed to be no sign of her anywhere. Not even Mettaton, who seemed to be active again, knew where she&#039;d gone. And there was no sign that anyone had taken her by force or anything like that.<br />&ldquo;Where the hell has she gone?&rdquo; Noka asked hands on her hips.<br />&ldquo;She&rsquo;s nowhere to be seen,&rdquo; Catilia said.<br />The human then looked at the ground and found a note, which he picked up with his hand and read carefully.<br />&ldquo;Hey, here!&rdquo; the human exclaimed.<br />They all approached the human, and Eris, seeing the note in his hand, took it.<br />&ldquo;It&rsquo;s clearly a note from Alphys&hellip;&rdquo; Eris said, recognizing the handwriting and how difficult it was to read.<br />&ldquo;Hey. Thanks for your help back there. You guys&hellip; Your support really means a lot to me. But&hellip; As difficult as it is to say this&hellip; You guys alone can&rsquo;t magically make my own problems go away. I want to be a better person. I don&rsquo;t want to be afraid anymore. And for that to happen, I have to be able to face my own mistakes. I&rsquo;m going to start doing that now. I want to be clear. This isn&rsquo;t anyone else&rsquo;s problem but mine. But if you don&rsquo;t ever hear from me again&hellip; If you want to know &lsquo;the truth,&rsquo; enter the door to the north of this note. You all at least deserve to know what I did&hellip;&rdquo;<br />After reading the note, everyone turned their gaze toward the nearest door, which was wide open.<br />&ldquo;Alphys may be more than just a mere geek,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />&ldquo;If so, what is this &#039;truth&#039; she mentions?&rdquo; Nami asked.<br />&ldquo;There&rsquo;s only one way to find out,&rdquo; Eris said, dropping the note on the floor.<br />The group cautiously went through the door, but upon entering, they found themselves inside an elevator.<br />&ldquo;An elevator? That&rsquo;s weird.&rdquo; Noka asked.<br />&ldquo;Why would Alphys hide this like it&rsquo;s a washroom?&rdquo; Catilia asked.<br />&ldquo;The question here is, where will this elevator lead?&rdquo; Eris asked.<br />The human pressed the only button there seemed to be. The doors closed, and the elevator began to descend without any problems until it suddenly stopped.<br />&ldquo;So what now?&rdquo; Catilia asked, looking around.<br />&ldquo;I have a bad feeling&hellip;&rdquo; Gida said, glancing sideways.<br />Without warning, the elevator alarm began to sound as it began to fall out of control, landing forcefully at the bottom with the light going out.<br />For several seconds there was a deathly silence in the dark elevator until a voice was heard.<br />&ldquo;All right, who&rsquo;s not dead? Sound off,&rdquo; Eris said in the darkness.<br />They all started to moan and complain of pain from the fall and the impact of the elevator, including the human.<br />&ldquo;What the heck just happened?&rdquo; Nami asked.<br />&ldquo;I think the power in this elevator has gone out,&rdquo; Noka replied.<br />&ldquo;Well, then. And where are we now?&rdquo; Catilia asked.<br />&ldquo;Well, trapped in the elevator. Where do you think?&rdquo; Nami asked.<br />At that moment the elevator door opened, letting in a faint light from the other side.<br />&ldquo;Not quite&hellip;&rdquo; Eris said.<br />Cautiously, the group left the elevator, finding themselves in a place that apparently hadn&#039;t been visited by anyone in a long time, as could be seen by the layers of dust all over the place.<br />&ldquo;What place is this?&rdquo; Eris asked.<br />The group advanced down the hallway before them, keeping their guard up. As they advanced, they noticed that the place looked like some kind of medical center or something similar, as they found themselves in what appeared to be a waiting room that hadn&#039;t been used in a long time.<br />The group continued advancing and investigating the area until they found an old note on the floor. It was barely legible, but it seemed to indicate that if the elevator lost power, they should go to the room behind the door in the center.<br />Eris tried to force the door open, but Gida had to stop her before she could destroy it, making it clear that they couldn&#039;t just open it. Upon closer inspection, they noticed that the door seemed to have colored sensors that were turned off.<br />&ldquo;Okay, if we have to turn on those sensors, we have to find what&rsquo;s turning them on,&rdquo; Nami said.<br />&ldquo;Well, let&rsquo;s start looking. This place is giving me the creeps,&rdquo; Noka said, rubbing her arms.<br />&ldquo;You&rsquo;re not the only one who suffers from them,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />The group began walking down the only route they could continue. It didn&#039;t take long for them to reach a room with several stretchers lined up in a row, which seemed odd in that location. After a bit of searching, the group found in an adjacent room what looked like a light switch with a keyhole in the center, but no key in sight. But another note they found on the floor gave them a clue as to where this supposed key might be, which seemed to be inside the sinkhole. Eris thought to herself about the stupidity of hiding something in the sinkhole.<br />The girls began turning on the faucets in the previous room, hoping to find the one that contained the key, but without much luck. When the human turned on the last faucet, no water came out of its spout, but a strange white liquid which began to accumulate in the sink until it overflowed, forming a strange smiley face.<br />&ldquo;What the hell is this?&rdquo; Eris asked, raising an eyebrow.<br />At first, it did nothing, but suddenly the creature grew out of sudden, taking on a grotesque form with many faces, incapable of assuming a concrete appearance.<br />Gida and Noka stood in front of the amorphous creature and instinctively used their lightsabers to try to push the creature back, but for some reason, their weapons simply passed through them harmlessly.<br />The creature made a strange sound through its multiple mouths that deafened the group, just before attempting to surprise them with ethereal blasts. Fortunately, the group was able to avoid them, but they were powerless against the creature.<br />&ldquo;Any ideas?&rdquo; Eris asked, yanking one of the stretchers out and throwing it at the creature. But the maneuver didn&rsquo;t seem to cause any damage to the thing.<br />&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know! That thing seems invulnerable to everything!&rdquo; Gida exclaimed, trying to cut it with her weapon.<br />The creatures made strange sounds again, but the human noticed something on the phone, and as soon as he picked it up, he began to hear voices through it.<br />&ldquo;Come join the fun.&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a real get-together.&rdquo; &ldquo;Become one of us!&rdquo; was the constant echo from the phone as the strange creature attacked them constantly.<br />&ldquo;Oh, come on! Either talk or fight! But not both at once!&rdquo; Eris exclaimed, avoiding the creature&rsquo;s sinister attack.<br />Then the human approached the creature with its hands raised. &ldquo;I know you want to hang out, but we can&rsquo;t right now. We&rsquo;re a little busy. You understand, right?&rdquo;<br />After a moment, the phone went &ldquo;Oh well&rdquo; and the creature vanished without a trace.<br />The group stared at the place where the strange amalgam was for a moment until Eris raised her four arms.<br />&ldquo;What the heck just happened?&rdquo; Eris asked loudly.<br />&ldquo;I have no idea,&rdquo; Catilia said, scratching her head.<br />The human approached the bathroom, took a red key from there, and showed it to the group. With questions in mind, the group returned to the switch, and upon using the key, it turned on. With this done, they returned to the blocked room, seeing that they could now cross a closed door, allowing the group to continue, but this time they were more careful in the next room, which was full of beds.<br />At that moment Nami had the group stop.<br />&ldquo;Does anyone want to address the elephant in the room?&rdquo; Nami asked as everyone looked at her.<br />&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true, something strange is clearly going on here,&rdquo; Gida said, thinking for a moment before looking at Noka. &ldquo;Try to find the file and find out everything you can about this place.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Okay, master.&rdquo; Noka nodded before running away from the group.<br />&ldquo;What got into your head?&rdquo; Eris asked.<br />&ldquo;To begin with, this place is right under Alphys&rsquo;s lab. It doesn&rsquo;t look like it&rsquo;s been used in years, and to top it all off, there&rsquo;s that thing from before,&rdquo; Gida said. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s more, I&rsquo;m sure there&rsquo;s more of those things all over the place.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;You say that this it&rsquo;s like a secret lab or something,&rdquo; Nami said.<br />&ldquo;It is it,&rdquo; Gida said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know why exactly, but for Alphys, this place is her Pandora&rsquo;s Box. Something very big has happened here, and these creatures are proof of that.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;But while your apprentice looks for those files, what do we do?&rdquo; Catilia asked.<br />The group then noticed the human looking under the covers of some beds, soon finding a yellow key in one of them.<br />&ldquo;Well, find those keys and try to open that door,&rdquo; Gida suggested.<br />&ldquo;Well, with nothing better to do&hellip;&rdquo; Eris shrugged.<br />The rest of the group advanced along a different route than the one Noka took, although the place seemed more like a labyrinth than a laboratory.<br /><br />Noka, for her part, wandered through the corridors of the laboratory until she reached what appeared to be the archives area of the laboratory, which seemed as abandoned as the rest of the place.<br />&ldquo;Okay, let&rsquo;s see what we can find here,&rdquo; she told herself, searching through old reports and documents, both written and computerized, eventually finding what looked like a diary on the computer, reading the first entry.<br />ENTRY NUMBER 1: This is it&hellip; Time to do what the King has asked me to do. I will create the power to free us all. I will unleash the power of the SOUL.<br />Noka thought for a moment after reading this, and read the following entries.<br />ENTRY NUMBER 2: The barrier is locked by SOUL power. Unfortunately, this power cannot be recreated artificially. SOUL power can only be derived from what was once living. So, to create more, we will have to use what we have now... The SOULs of monsters.<br />ENTRY NUMBER 3: But extracting the SOUL from a living monster would require incredible power&hellip; Besides being impractical, doing so would instantly destroy the SOUL&rsquo;s host. And, unlike the persistent SOULs of humans&hellip; The SOULs of most monsters disappear immediately upon death. If only I could make a monster&#039;s SOUL last&hellip;<br />Noka continued reading the reports on the computer until she noticed a presence behind her and immediately turned around, seeing a white octopus-like figure lunge at her.<br />Before she would react, Noka had the white creature&rsquo;s tentacles holding her arms and legs, while more tentacles began to roam on her body, sliding them under her clothes until they were pulled down. Noka held her moans as she felt the strange creature caressing her exposed breasts with its tentacles roughly, even moving them across her pussy.<br />As she struggled to get free as she was ravaged by the octopus-like monster, she felt something strange from the white creature. Its actions were not only of desperate lust. They were more of something that was desperate from contact with anyone, wanting to be with someone.<br />&ldquo;Calm down.&rdquo; Noka said gently. She was able to release one hand from the tentacles, and caressed the creature&rsquo;s head gently. &ldquo;If you feel alone, allow me to help you with that.&rdquo; She said, caressing its head.<br />As she caressed its head, the white octopus-like monster loosened its hold on Noka&rsquo;s arm and legs. But she didn&rsquo;t pulled them away, just allowed it to keep caressing them, even moaned as the creature kept moving its tentacles over her breasts and cunt. The strange creature soon moved two of its tentacles around Noka&rsquo;s huge boobs with the tips between them and began to squeeze them gently, making her moan louder with it.<br />Eventually Noka saw how the tentacle tips began to shapeshift into fat cockheads, and smiling gently she began to stroke the cock-tentacles, moaning as she felt the tentacles on her boobs squeeze them while shoving their cock-tentacles between her breasts. Also she could hear some sounds coming from the white amalgamate as it was enjoying it too.<br />As she moaned, Noka saw how some tentacles sprouted out the white amorphous&rsquo; body, some of the getting wide and roaming her ass and pussy, but the tentacles seemed to hesitate.<br />&ldquo;Come on, you can do it.&rdquo; Noka said to calm the white amalgamate&rsquo;s hesitation. &ldquo;You can get inside as many as you like.&rdquo;<br />Hearing her words, the amalgamate eventually shoved both massive tentacles inside her ass and pussy, making her moan loudly as she felt her belly bulge by their sheer size. But that didn&rsquo;t stop, as the white octopus began to sprout more tentacles that began to shove inside her already stuffed holes, spreading her ass and pussy wider with each new tentacle, deforming her belly with their shapes. But these tentacles didn&rsquo;t enter inside her in a sharp and forceful way, but in a very gentle way. Even the thrusts of the multiple tentacles were gentle.<br />&ldquo;Oh, may&hellip;&rdquo; Noka moaned as she felt those tentacles penetrate and tangle inside her ass and pussy. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re the gentlest partner I ever had.&rdquo;<br />Eventually Noka saw another cock-tentacle floating around her head, and after giving a smile she opened her mouth, allowing that tentacle to get inside, shoving it into her throat. But the creature didn&rsquo;t fucked her mouth roughly, but slowly, letting her taste every inch of that tentacle.<br />Noka kept moaning by how the white octopus fucked he holes, enjoying the treatment she was receiving from the amalgamate even with her huge boobs, her hands stroking the cock-tentacles in the same gentle way. Why get rough with a partner when he goes nice with her?<br />As she moaned with the tentacle into her mouth and throat, she felt how all these cock-tentacles began to shake and get wider, meaning that the white octopus was getting close to an orgasm, but didn&rsquo;t speed up its movements inside her holes and mouth, so simply allowed it to keep with it until he reached to his limit at his own pace.<br />Then, without any warning, huge ropes of cum began to be shot from the cock-tentacles, showering her body by the ones on her hands and legs as lots were shot from the ones between her boobs. Noka gasped by these unloads, but then gave a loud muffed moan as she felt how the large amount of cock-tentacles inside her ass and pussy began to shoot huge loads of cum inside her, with the one inside her mouth doing the same. <br />By the amount of tentacles inside her body, the quantity of cum inside her increased absurdly fast, swelling her belly widely in seconds, getting larger and rounder the more they shot their cum into her, while more cum from the tentacles out of her body coated her skin with their white seed.<br />Noka moaned loudly, feeling how her body was coated in white by the cock-tentacles out of her, while the ones inside her holes and mouth made her belly bigger and wider each passing second, her eyes rolling in pleasure as the white octopus kept unloading inside and over her.<br />When the amalgamate finished cumming, Noka&rsquo;s belly was as massive as her own body. She panted loudly after the creature took the tentacle out of her mouth and throat, and gave a loud moan as she felt the mass of tentacles being pulled out of her ass and pussy, leaving them wide gapping which allowed lots of cum fall to the ground.<br />Noka moaned as she felt all that cum inside her holes being gushed as a pair of faucets, placing one hand on her massively swollen belly, and another hand on the creature&rsquo;s head, with a smile on her face.<br /><br />During their exploration, the girls found the strangest machine they had seen in a long time, as it looked like a strange animal head.<br />&ldquo;What is this thing?&rdquo; Nami asked, looking at the enormous machine.<br />The human approached a plate that appeared to be on the machine, reading what it said. &ldquo;DT Extraction Machine. Status: Inactive.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;DT? What is that?&rdquo; Eris asked.<br />&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know, but I&rsquo;d rather not touch it too much,&rdquo; Gida said. &ldquo;I have a feeling this thing is partly responsible for what happened here.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Well, that&rsquo;s not helping,&rdquo; Eris retorted. &ldquo;Does anyone see anything useful around here?&rdquo;<br />Catilia looked through the door of an adjoining room, peering inside. &ldquo;I think I just found another light switch.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Okay, let&rsquo;s see if this switch works here,&rdquo; Eris said as the human walked over to Catilia&rsquo;s side.<br />But then Eris noticed a strange presence behind her, as well as a strange smell of sweet lemons, and when she turned around she found herself facing another amorphous creature or something that looked like a bipedal creature with muscular arms, but whose head looked like a gelatinous amoeba acting as a mouth with a pair of enormous eyes.<br />&ldquo;Welcome to my special hell,&rdquo; the creature said in a distorted voice.<br />The strange creature tried to bite Eris with its strange, sharp-looking mouth, forcing her to use two of her hands to avoid the bite.<br />&ldquo;Hey, I&rsquo;m not on the menu!&rdquo; Eris exclaimed, trying to hit the creature with her lower arms while holding its mouth with her upper hands. Emphasis on trying, as none of her blows seemed to be having any effect on the creature.<br />Gida quickly used a Force push to push the creature away from Eris, the strange being disappearing into the shadows.<br />Eris shook herself from the exertion as Catilia and the human returned.<br />&ldquo;What happened?&rdquo; the human asked.<br />&ldquo;Nothing, you guys missed another of those things which almost ate Eris,&rdquo; Nami said.<br />&ldquo;Yes, and one thing has become clear,&rdquo; Eris said, turning to them. &ldquo;Attacks are useless against those things. When I went to hit it, it was like hitting a wall made of air or something.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Well, we must change tactics, since the current ones are no good here,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />&ldquo;Okay, let&rsquo;s find the rest of the keys and switches before these things eat us,&rdquo; Nami said.<br />After this, the group advanced through the place, but they had to stop because one of the rooms was completely covered in a fog so thick that it made it impossible to see anything, so they were forced to go back and investigate other possible routes in the laboratory.<br />On one occasion, the group found themselves in a strange corridor with a curtained bathroom, with a strange, long shape swaying on the other side of the curtain. Keeping their guard down, the group slowly made their way toward the bathroom, watching as the strange shape moved faster the closer they got.<br />As they neared the curtain, the group nodded before Eris moved the curtain aside, ready to fight whatever was there.<br />But all they saw was the empty bathroom, with a green key in it. The group glanced around without moving.<br />&ldquo;Is anyone else scared of all this?&rdquo; Nami asked as the human took the key, receiving stares from the others.<br /><br />Eventually, they found a large room with many exhaust fans, figuring it would be a good idea to turn them all on to suck out the fog that seemed to be covering part of the lab.<br />They quickly found the switch that turned on the extractor fans, and after turning it on, they turned on, swallowing up the dense fog that covered the place.<br />But to their surprise, several white particles began to merge together, forming a huge deformed creature that apparently looked like a dog blocking the way.<br />&ldquo;Great, just what we needed,&rdquo; Nami moaned. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t get through with that thing blocking the way.&rdquo;<br />Eris prepared to face the creature, soon looking at the human who seemed to be worried about what was happening, then remembering how the last encounters with these creatures were.<br />&ldquo;If brute force doesn&rsquo;t work&hellip;&rdquo; Eris said, looking at one of her upper hands.<br />Slowly, Eris approached the enormous being, extending her upper hand toward it, the girls wondering what she was planning to do. When her hand landed on the creature, and recalling a memory of how her adoptive father would occasionally rub its head, Eris began rubbing the spot.<br />The strange being began to react to the caresses it received from Eris, until the beast began to calm down, lying on the ground while Eris continued to rub its body gently.<br />&ldquo;Wow, it was just a giant dog after all,&rdquo; Catilia said, sighing.<br />&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know, I think that dog isn&rsquo;t normal,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />&ldquo;Master, can you hear me?&rdquo;<br />Gida jumped slightly when she heard Noka&#039;s voice on the communicator, switching it to hands-free mode. &quot;Noka, tell me you found something.&quot;<br />&ldquo;Oh, I found something! You won&rsquo;t believe what I found,&rdquo; Noka said.<br />Noka was sitting sideways in the archive chair in front of the computer, with the head of the strange white octopus resting between her breasts and on her swollen belly now the size of be pregnant for 9 months, its tentacles delicately gripping her body, one hand on the keyboard, and the other on the being&#039;s head, caressing it, while her ass and pussy kept gushing cum out of her body and the cum over her falling on the cum-coated soil.<br />&ldquo;I have in front of me Alphys&rsquo;s data that covers the history of this place,&rdquo; Noka said, looking at the monitor.<br />&ldquo;So tell us! What&rsquo;s going on with this place?&rdquo; Eris&rsquo;s voice sounded through the communicator.<br />&ldquo;Well, prepare yourselves,&rdquo; Noka began. &ldquo;It turns out that the experiments were conducted in this laboratory with the intention of destroying the barrier that kept the monsters trapped. According to Alphys, humans possess a strange force that allows their souls to temporarily remain after the body dies, which she called &#039;determination,&#039; and she went so far as to use a machine to extract said energy.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Let me guess, he used the strange machine we found at the scene,&rdquo; Catilia said.<br />&ldquo;The Determination Extraction Machine? Yes, that&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; Noka confirmed.<br />&ldquo;And I assume that &lsquo;determination&rsquo; came from the souls they have in safekeeping, right?&rdquo; Nami asked.<br />&ldquo;Correct,&rdquo; Noka said. &ldquo;After extracting that energy from the souls in their possession, Alphys began her experiments, using monsters that were in a terminal state, close to turning to dust. At first, nothing happened despite the tests, but then a miracle occurred. The monsters regained consciousness, acting as if nothing had happened.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;I bet we can guess now,&rdquo; Eris said. &ldquo;Everything went terribly wrong in the end.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;You&rsquo;re right,&rdquo; Noka said. &ldquo;All the monsters exposed to the experiments began to lose stability in their bodies, starting to melt. Apparently, monsters aren&rsquo;t able to maintain &lsquo;determination&rsquo; like humans, which has caused most of them to fuse with each other.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Are you saying the creatures we faced were fusions of monsters?&rdquo; Gida asked.<br />&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; Noka replied. &ldquo;A terrible fate for everyone, in my opinion, driven by despair.&rdquo; She stroked the amalgam&rsquo;s head tenderly, feeling sorry for what they must have been through.<br />&ldquo;And how come no one has heard about this?&rdquo; Nami asked.<br />&ldquo;There are some entries here that seem to indicate that she has been trying to avoid responding to the various calls related to the experiment&hellip; ending up deciding to stay at the dump&hellip;&rdquo; Noka said.<br />&ldquo;I see&hellip;&rdquo; Eris said, stopping petting the amalgam of dogs to get it to leave.<br />&ldquo;But that&rsquo;s not all,&rdquo; Noka said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve found some recordings that seem to indicate the Duke discovered Alphys&rsquo; secret and has been using it to blackmail and manipulate her for his own purposes.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;If people found out about that and how he treated her, it would probably cause a revolt against him,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />&ldquo;Yes, it seems that Alphys secretly gathered enough evidence to end the Duke&rsquo;s influence, but I suppose she never dared to use it,&rdquo; Noka said.<br />&ldquo;Okay, see if you can find anything else in those reports,&rdquo; Gida said, ending the conversation.<br />&ldquo;And I was already hating the Duke,&rdquo; Eris said.<br />&ldquo;First things first. We need to find Alphys, or at least try to get that elevator working,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />&ldquo;Whatever you say, blue tiger,&rdquo; Eris said, starting to walk.<br /><br />The group returned to the room, which was originally covered in fog, and noticed it was filled with coolers, likely filled to store any samples they had taken. Clearly, upon searching, each cooler was either empty or had some strange sample inside.<br />But to their surprise, one of the refrigerators turned white, transforming into another amalgam. But unlike the other amalgams, this creature seemed slower, and seemingly depressed.<br />The group saw that the amalgamator was holding a blue key. But how could they get it away if nothing worked against those things?<br />The human thought for a moment and told a joke to the amalgam.<br />&ldquo;What&rsquo;s a skier dressed in black on a snowy mountain? A perfect target!&rdquo; the human said with a smile.<br />The girls stared at him with doubt on their faces.<br />&ldquo;Please don&rsquo;t tell me you&rsquo;ve picked up the stupidity of the skeleton&rsquo;s bad jokes&hellip;&rdquo; Eris said with a groan.<br />The amalgam began to react to the joke as if it was funny.<br />&ldquo;Okay, that seems to work,&rdquo; Gida said. &ldquo;Tell another joke.&rdquo;<br />The human nodded.<br />&ldquo;In the middle of a dizzying descent, one ski says to the other: &#039;Hey man, we&#039;re going full speed ahead, huh?&#039; And the other ski says: &#039;Wow, a talking ski!&#039;&rdquo;<br />Eris looked at him with a raised eyebrow at how bad the joke was, although the amalgam reacted to the joke again.<br />&ldquo;Once upon a time, it was so cold, so cold, that the snowman in the garden asked us to let him into the house.&rdquo;<br />Eris slapped herself in the face at how bad it was.<br />The amalgam &#039;laughed&#039; for a moment before disappearing from the scene, leaving the blue key on the ground, which the human quickly picked up.<br />&ldquo;Thank goodness! I couldn&rsquo;t stand any more of those bad jokes!&rdquo; Eris exclaimed.<br />&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a shame, I had more jokes ready,&rdquo; said the human.<br />&ldquo;Do you want a knock?&rdquo; Eris threatened, frowning and raising one of her upper arms with a clenched fist.<br /><br />The group continued on their way until they finally found the rest of the switches that needed the keys, without too much trouble from the amalgams that were roaming around the laboratory.<br />Without further ado, the group returned to the waiting room where the door was closed, and after opening it now that all the switches were active, they realized it was another elevator, but this one seemed to be without power.<br />&ldquo;Noka, can you hear me?&rdquo; Gida called through the communicator. &ldquo;The door appears to be an elevator, but it seems to have lost power too,&rdquo; Gida said, directing her gaze to another elevator exit. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see if we can find the main generator to power it up. Get here as soon as possible.&rdquo;<br />After that, the group moved forward through the nearby hallway, quickly reaching what appeared to be the generator that powered the elevator.<br />&ldquo;Come on, let&rsquo;s get this going and get out of here,&rdquo; Eris said, turning on the generator.<br />They didn&#039;t have time to see if it had worked, as a noise behind them startled them. They turned around to find a large group of amalgams slowly approaching them. Eris, Nami, Catilia, and Gida stood in front of the human to protect him as they approached.<br />&ldquo;Hey! Stop!!!&rdquo;<br />The amalgams stopped turning around, revealing Alphys running towards them.<br />&ldquo;I got you guys some food, okay!?&rdquo; Alphys said.<br />Meanwhile, Noka appeared behind Alphys, dropping a few sacks of food, causing the monsters to head towards the food, leaving the group alone.<br />The group fell silent after what happened, looking at Alphys.<br />&ldquo;Sorry about that&hellip; They get kind of sassy when they don&rsquo;t get fed on time,&rdquo; Alphys explained.<br />The group stared at Alphys as Noka oversaw that the amalgams didn&#039;t cause any more problems.<br />&ldquo;Um!! Anyway!&rdquo; Alphys began. &ldquo;The power went out, and I&rsquo;ve been trying to turn it back on! But it seems like you were one step ahead of me. This was probably just a big inconvenience for you&hellip; B-but I appreciate that you came here to back me up!&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Honestly, you had us worried when you just disappeared after the dump,&rdquo; Nami said. &ldquo;Why exactly did you come here if it was dangerous? And why did you come here in the first place?&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;As I said, I was afraid I might&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys said, looking depressed. &ldquo;Not come back&hellip; But that&rsquo;s not because of these guys or anything! I was just worried I would be too afraid&hellip;&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Afraid of what?&rdquo; Eris asked, crossing her lower arms.<br />&ldquo;To tell the truth&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys replied. &ldquo;That I might run away, or do something&hellip; cowardly&hellip;&rdquo; Alphys was silent for a moment. &ldquo;Uh&hellip; I&hellip; I suppose I owe you an explanation.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t need to explain this to us, Alphys,&rdquo; Gida said. &ldquo;Noka told us about your reports. How Asgore asked you to study the nature of the soul, how you isolated something you called &lsquo;determination,&rsquo; and used it on dying monsters, causing this&hellip; mess.&rdquo; Gida gestured to the amalgams.<br />&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; Alphys said. &ldquo;You see, unlike humans&rsquo;, monsters&rsquo; bodies don&rsquo;t have enough&hellip; Physical matter to take those concentrations of &lsquo;determination.&rsquo; Their bodies started to melt, and lost what physicality they had.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;And in the end they all ended up merging into each other&hellip;&rdquo; Catilia said.<br />&ldquo;Seeing them like that, I knew&hellip; I couldn&rsquo;t tell their families about it. I couldn&rsquo;t tell anyone about it. No matter how much everyone was asking me,&rdquo; Alphys said. &ldquo;And I was too afraid to do any more work, knowing&hellip; everything I&rsquo;d done so far has been such a horrific failure.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;But somehow the Duke found out,&rdquo; Eris said.<br />&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; Alphys replied. &ldquo;The Duke blackmailed me into helping him set up a surveillance network and use my systems for his own benefit. And when he was done with me, I didn&rsquo;t dare to confront him&hellip; for fear he&rsquo;d expose my secret.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;...but now&hellip; Now, I&rsquo;ve changed my mind about all this,&rdquo; Alphys said. &ldquo;I&#039;m going to tell everyone what I&rsquo;ve done.&rdquo; She was silent for a moment. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be hard. Being honest&hellip; believing in myself&hellip; I&#039;m sure there will be times where I&rsquo;ll struggle. I&#039;m sure there will be times when I screw up again. But knowing, deep down, that I have friends to fall back on&hellip; I know it&rsquo;ll be a lot easier to stand on my own. Thank you.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;And what will happen to the Duke?&rdquo; the human asked.<br />&ldquo;Oh, him?&rdquo; Alphys asked. &ldquo;When I met Noka, she told me about all the recordings I made with the Duke, and how he used me, using these poor guys to manipulate me. I plan to upload all the videos online, so everyone can see them. So the entire underworld can see what kind of person the Duke truly is. Surely&hellip; with luck&hellip; many will rise against him and his henchmen&hellip; there might be trouble, but it&#039;s the only solution&hellip;&rdquo;<br />At that moment the amalgams approached Alphys, who turned to them.<br />&ldquo;Come on, guys. It&rsquo;s time for everyone to go home,&rdquo; Alphys said, taking the fillings with her.<br />But then she paused for a moment. &ldquo;By the way, the elevator in the center should take you to New Home, where Asgore lives. If you run into the Duke up there, well&hellip; don&rsquo;t let him get away, okay?&rdquo;<br />After those words, she and the amalgams left the room.<br />The group fell silent as Noka joined them.<br />&ldquo;By the skin of our teeth,&rdquo; Gida said.<br />&ldquo;I know, master. But at least we can get out of here,&rdquo; Noka said.<br />&ldquo;Well, let&rsquo;s get out of here! I&rsquo;ve been down here long enough,&rdquo; Eris said, starting to walk until she stopped. &ldquo;By the way, I&rsquo;ve been thinking about it&hellip; And maybe&hellip; we don&rsquo;t have any other choice,&rdquo; she said, turning her gaze to the human. &ldquo;So let&rsquo;s get this over with as soon as possible.&rdquo;<br />The girls looked at the human, nodding together before starting to walk.<br />&ldquo;By the way, I found something interesting,&rdquo; Noka said. &ldquo;Apparently, the amalgams weren&rsquo;t the only result of Alphys&rsquo;s experiments. It also seems she experimented on one of the flowers that sprouted after the prince&rsquo;s&hellip; death.&rdquo;<br />The group paused, pondering this revelation for a moment. Gida was intrigued, but the others didn&#039;t.<br />&ldquo;Hey, are you implying that the flower you&rsquo;re talking about is the same flower that&rsquo;s been hanging around us all the time?&rdquo; Eris asked.<br />&ldquo;Oh, come on!&rdquo; Gida exclaimed, seeing the lack of reaction from Eris and her sisters. &ldquo;How many flowers have you seen that can talk?&rdquo;<br />Eris turned to Gida and Noka. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve never seen an Alraune, have you?&rdquo;<br />Noka and Gida looked at each other at the question, shrugging their shoulders, not knowing how to respond to that.<br />The group returned to the elevator they had discovered, and with everything done, they prepared for the button that would take them upstairs, out of that gloomy place. But then the human&#039;s phone rang, and they heard a voice they had never heard before.<br />&ldquo;Chara&hellip; Are you there?&rdquo;<br />That name again. The name Flowey mentioned when referring to the human. Could it be&hellip;? However, the voice is very different.<br />&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a long time, hasn&rsquo;t it&hellip;? But you&rsquo;ve done well. Thanks to you, everything has finally fallen into place.&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Into place?&rdquo; Eris asked. &ldquo;What do you mean?&rdquo;<br />&ldquo;Chara&hellip; See you soon.&rdquo;<br />After the call was hung up, the elevator doors closed automatically, and the elevator began to rise abruptly, not a pleasant ride for those inside.<br /><br /><br /></span>",
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