Undertale

Chapter 25: Dating Start!

I reset. I was back at the archway before the barrier. Asgore was alive again, and he was waiting for me as though nothing had happened. I felt dazed. I remembered what Flowey had said: go talk to Dr. Alphys.

As I was walking to the MTT resort, I got a phone call. "Hey...! Uh, this is Undyne... (Shut up, Papyrus! This was YOUR idea!) HUMAN! You have to deliver something for me! Uh, please? I'm at Snowdin in front of Papyrus's. See ya, punk!" She hung up. Okay. To Snowdin!

While I was passing through the MTT resort, I talked to Burgerpants again. "What can I do for you, little buddy?"

"Hey, Burgerpants! Bratty and Catty said that if you made them feel respected, they'd be friends with you! They think you're okay, and that you should just... try to understand each other."

"The girls were... talking about me...? They say I should stop acting like they owe me... and if I want to be friends with them, I should just... uh, try to see things from their perspective?"

"Yeah!"

"Wow. Poor, naïve little buddy. They've brainwashed you. 'Friendship' is just a hot person's way of making you their slave."

"Maybe that's sometimes true, like (ahem) Mettaton, but those girls sell things they find in the trash. I think you're okay."

"So, uh, what time would they wanna hang out?"

I went to ask Bratty and Catty. "Burgerpants wants to hang out with you."

"Oh, uh..." Bratty began,

"Yeah!!" Catty finished. "He should come look for junk with us!"

"But like, if we let him hang out with us... I just worry it'll..."

"...be really super fun!" Catty interjected.

"Um, that was not what I was gonna say," said Bratty with a laugh.

"But I was close, right!?"

While they were bickering, I went back to Burgerpants to talk about the outing. "Hey little buddy, want to help me pick a spicy outfit for my little shindig later? Though, now that I think about it, I had to throw away all of my clothes to make room for the outfits Mettaton gave me... Don't take it the wrong way. They're just all these... weird getups. 'Promotional' costumes. For 'holidays'. Or 'specials'. Or 'because he felt like it'. The thing IS though! Most of the time I'm the only employee who has to wear this stuff! Sometimes he even calls me into his office just to... make me put something on... then he laughs and lets me go back to work as normal. Anyways, I won't sweat it, little buddy. I'll take it casual. Never let hot people think you care. That's how they get you."♥

Poor Burgerpants. Bratty and Catty were still bickering about him. "Well, that kind of guy... you hang out with him once, and then he wants to hang out... All. The. Time."

"But don't you feel bad for him, Bratty? Poor Burgerpants... Think about how cool we are compared to him!!! We'd be saving his life with our friendship! His LIFE, Bratty!"

"Uh, so?"

"Think of all the glamburgers he could get for us!!"

She seemed to have convinced Bratty. "...so is he free after work?"

I doubted it would go well, but I went to tell Burgerpants. "They wanna hang out after work? Ha! Ahahaha!! Yes!!! I won't let you down!! Little buddy... thank you. You've brought a tear to the eye of this old man. So, uh, where do they want to go?"