Eye For An Eye

IT'S FINALLY DONE! I have been working hard on this for 2 weeks so I hope you all like it. This is a contest entry and I hope I do well!

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This was it.

It was time.

The noodles... were finished.

Steam pooled out of the microwave making my glasses mist up as I grabbed the cup of re-hydrated noodles. The flavor packet was already open and at the ready to give my tasteless noodles life. Ooohhh, the aroma that the instant dish made when the packet was added always got my tongue salivating and I couldn't help but start eating it mid-stir with my own hand-made chopsticks. A loud satisfying slurping noise broke the silence as the noodles slide between my lips. Noted, these instant noodles probably paled in comparison to the real bowls of ramen that are shown in the comic books and animated movies. Though Sans told me that they were just made up mumbo jumbo. At least, he was nice enough to help me make a monster version of the noodles that could be recreated through magical cooking.

It was a lot better than finding the soggy containers in the dump and praying that they hadn't been contaminated. The dump was great but sometimes I will admit... it can be really gross. That doesn't stop me from digging through the mountains of trash though.

Taking my savory dinner, I waddle on my little legs over to the large TV that acts as a surveillance terminal and my own personal home theater. After several long days of experimenting with the four human SOULs (progress was slow but hey. Progress!), it will be nice to just wind down and watch the newest anime that I found about a month ago. There was just one more thing that I had to do before I could start my night of binging. Plopping down in my computer chair, my claws flew across the keyboard and the screen came to life. The big monitor was cut off into a bunch of tiny little screens with each one showing a different part of the underground. A small smile spread across my yellow lips as I took another slurp.

This was my current greatest accomplishment... other than Mettaton's body (though that was still a work in progress, to be honest). An intricate surveillance system that allowed me to look at any part of the Underground with the simple click of my mouse. After the last human had fallen, I had brought the idea up to Asgore so that, instead of hoping one of the sentries found the human first, we would know as soon as one was traversing the Underground. Then all we would have to do is call the Royal Guard to that location. Not only was it more efficient, but it could also save lives. The damage done from the fourth human SOUL... the orange one...

My body violently shivered at the memory. So many innocent monsters had been lost... Needless to say, Asgore had been all for it when I explained that with this security system we may have prevented all that loss of life with a couple of button clicks. So gathering as much technology as I could, I built the cameras, set it up, and even went so far as to have the system alert me on my cellphone if any movement was caught at the doorway to the ruins. Which there was a lot more going on by that door than I originally would have guessed. Most generally it was a monster out for a stroll or an animal. Thank God. I don't know what I would do if I actually found a human.

Shaking my head to pull myself out of my own mind, I looked back to the big monitor and brought up the first camera, the one that I had hidden in the bushes right next to those huge double doors.

...Only for the screen to come up black.

That camera was brand new. I built it myself. It had only been in place for a couple of months. There was no way that it could have just died. My claws clicked loudly as I typed out on the keyboard. Running diagnostics programs to see why my camera had decided to not work but nothing was found. All of the programs came back to me saying that it had been working fine until about two hours ago. The worst part is that I don't have the recording system completely functional yet so any prior footage was long gone.