MemoryTale --- Hopes and Dreams

Not only is Undyne scary, Walls are scary too!

The weight of the previous argument between me and my brother still weighed on me, but I tried to not pay it any mind. Frisk needed me. Asriel didn't. I could worry about this if we got another break, like back in the RUINS. Or before I was thrown out in the snow.

Frisk jumped as her phone started ringing.

"Who would be calling me even-" She muttered. She picked it up anyways.

"Uh hi-"

"HELLO! THIS IS PAPYRUS!!!" Papyrus' loud voice echoed through the cavern.

"Shoot, left it on speaker," Frisk muttered. She turned off speaker and covered the microphone, "sorry Chara! I just don't want Undyne to hear. She has... Big ears I think." Frisk brought the phone back to her face.

"How did you even get my number? Oh. Oh yeah... I'm uh. Wearing that. You probably should tell her. I'm sorry for ruining her trust in you... Okay, bye." Frisk hung up.

"Oh! He was just wondering what I was wearing because Undyne saw me and stuff. I told him to be honest 'cause I didn't want Undyne to feel even more betrayed," Frisk said sheepishly, "plus, she'd probably figure it out anyways. Really no point lying about it."

That was fair, I guess.

"Sure. Whatever. Are we gonna get going now?"

"I guess!"

"Alright. There's a telescope here - Ooh! If I look through it there's some patches... Hmm... 'Check wall'?" Frisk said.

"Then maybe you should check the wall," I said dryly. Frisk scoffed and rolled her eyes.

"Fine, smarty," Frisk sarcastically said. She tapped the wall ahead and it crumbled down. Frisk flinched.

"Alright. Didn't expect that to happen," she said quietly. She peaked inside the room.

"Hellooo. Anyone there?" She called out, still quietly.

"You're too quiet. If there was someone there they wouldn't hear you," I insisted.

"Well I don't wanna be any louder!" Frisk skipped inside the door frame, obviously scared that more walls would crumble on her.

"You're probably safe. If all walls just crumbled randomly, monsterkind would be dead by now," I insisted.

"Mmm!" Frisk squeaked. I sighed.

I pulled myself underground with my roots and popped back above ground (though technically everywhere here was underground but that would get too confusing I'm just assuming you know what I'm talking about).

"Seems safe enough to me," I said.

"There's some plaques here that say stuff," Frisk said.

I glanced at them. From my angle it was hard to read them, but that may have also had something to do with the messy handwriting. Or it was because Frisk was wiping the dust off and her sleeve covered half of the words.

Probably a bit of all three.

"The war of humans and monsters... Man, a history lesson? I thought I left those behind on the surface," Frisk rolled her eyes. She went over to the next one.

"Why did the humans attack? Indeed, it seemed that they had nothing to fear... Yadda yadda human SOULs are really powerful and stuff," Frisk sighed.

"It doesn't say 'yadda yadda'."

"It doesn't. Alright, next!" Frisk skipped down a bit.

"But humans have one weakness. Ironically, it is the strength of their SOUL. It sticks around once you die and stuff," Frisk continued, "man, this has NOTHING to do with the war! I was actually kinda interested!"

That was true. Somehow really old words on the wall invented clickbait without the clicking.

"If a monster defeats a human, they can take its SOUL... Isn't that theft? Anyways that apparently turns them into a-"

"Can we move on?"

Frisk stopped reading suddenly.

"Oh- uh okay then!" Frisk seemed a little uncertain. She glanced at the next one, the depiction of something a little too familiar for my tastes, but in a way that she was trying to not let me see.

"C'mon!" I said tensely. She just nodded.

Frisk walked across the docks slowly.

"Huh. It gets really turn-y up ahead. That looks..."

"Really inconvenient actually. It just uses extra wood. They're underground, I don't think they have an unlimited tree supply," I continued on.

"I was going to say I wanted to try jumping across but that works too," Frisk said sheepishly.

"Don't blame me if you fall in!" I said. Frisk nodded and ran ahead. For a second it felt unnaturally quiet.

"Watch this!" Frisk said happily. She leaped across with a bit of room to spare on the other end, "hAha!" She cheered.

"Nice!" I was feeling a bit jealous. I wanted to jump across too!

She ran around the next gap, which was a fair bit bigger and not as safe looking.

"These ones look like an M if you, like, look like this," Frisk leaned backwards. She straightened herself out and jumped...

...And promptly fell into the lake.

I immediately went to help her, what kind of friend would I be if I didn't? But it looked like I wasn't needed. By the time I got over there she already had one hand on the dock.

"I guess all my swimming lessons came out to mean something!" Her teeth were chattering. I sighed. I still lowered a vine for her other hand.

"Never doing that again," Frisk said sarcastically.

"You better not! I mean, how cold is that water? You seem freezing!" I chastised. She put her other arm on the dock as a loud thunk rang out.

"Huh-?" Frisk said before almost falling off. Again. I turned around to be greeted with a bright blue spear.

I looked over to the path beside the doc to be greeting with someone I really didn't feel like seeing right now.

Frisk scrambled up the dock and started running as fast as she could as her soaking wet clothes kept weighing her down. She dodged a few more of Undyne's cyan spears, but luckily there wasn't much more room on the dock.

I caught up to her quickly, "maybe you should hide in that tall grass-?" I called out but she was too busy running.

...I probably should hide too at this point. Undyne probably saw me too. I kinda wish I was still invisible. Whatever, there was conveniently tall grass (I didn't want to hide in the dirt while he was still pouting).

I watched as Undyne, who was visible because she was tall while Frisk and I were small, walked through the grass. She bumped into something and I held my nonexistent breath. Was it Frisk? I mean who else would be sitting in really tall grass waiting-

Oh it was that yellow Monster Kid. They were fine. I forgot they were here too.

As Undyne stalked off Frisk stealthily left the safety of the tall grass. Probably. I didn't actually see her. I just also left and by then she was also getting out.

"Yo... did you see that!? Undyne just... TOUCHED ME! I'm never washing my face ever again! Man, are you unlucky. If you were sitting just a LITTLE bit to the right..!" MK said happily. Frisk shook her head.

"It's fine. There's always next time."
"I suppose so! Want to come with me!? Then we'll make sure there's a next time! Your little flower can come too!" MK offered. I didn't exactly like being referred to as 'your' but I wasn't exactly in the mood of talking right now.

"Sure! More the merrier! Right Ch- Flowey?"

I just nodded. Whatever.

"Alright! I'll meet you up ahead. There's just something I want to do first!" MK stumbled ahead. Frisk sighed.

"They seem nice enough, though I remember a Mr. Grumpypants last time wasn't a fan," Frisk said in an overly cheerful voice. I scoffed. Maybe I just wanted to be a trio again.