Loving Every Bone in Your Body

Chapter 1.14 || You Make My Heart Saur

Though you'd been less than a couple minutes behind, Alphys and Mettaton's powered down body were nowhere to be found.

You suspected some magic shenanigans. However, when you bumped into a few monsters at the hotel, they mentioned seeing Alphys and Mettaton leaving. Their cooperation was short lived as their excitement over meeting the two human took over.

When the two of you get a good distance from the resort, carefully making your way back to Alphys's lab, your phone rings.

You pull it out from the depths of your bag. Frisk makes grabby hands up at you so you slide the pack off your shoulders and hand it to them as you answer.

"It's-"

"Hey!" You flinch at Undyne's excited scream. "Me and Paps saw you and the kid on TV!"

"You watched?" You ask slightly surprised. For some reason you couldn't imagine Undyne sitting still and watching TV.

"Well , I wasn't planning on it til Papyrus said that you two were gonna be on. He loves that Mettaton guy." She laughs but then goes quiet and clears her voice. She does it a couple more exaggerated times.

"Undyne?"

She mumbles something.

"Uh...What?"

"The letter!" You jump at the shout. She makes a weak sound and then coughs. "I was, uh, wondering if you passed the letter on to Alphys, while you were with her."

You blink.

"Th-the letter..." You send a nervous glance to Frisk, who had a cinna-bun half way in their mouth. The kids immediately starts digging into the pack. "Well, no-"

"Oh..."

"Not yet!" You hastily correct. "We're, uh, heading back to the lab now, to give it to her."

"Oh yeah?" Undyne laughs heartily. "See, I knew I could trust you two not to forget." Thankfully Undyne can't see your sweaty face and nervous glances to Frisk.

"What're friends for?" You remark, hiding your relief when Frisk produces the letter with triumph. "We'll anyway we're almost there so talk to you later!"

Hanging up you scoop your bag up and onto your back.

"Well, I guess now we have multiple reasons to go visit Alphys." Frisk nods happily, waving the letter back and forth as if it was a flag. "C'mon kid." You nudge them along, staying by their side, slowly continuing on.

There was something sweet to backtracking through the Hotlands. The first go around it felt a lot more time sensitive to quickly get through as fast as possible. That and every other half hour of puzzles Mettaton would appear to dish out his death wish on you two. You were jumping over lava pits and avoiding well disguised bombs. You were so focused on the venture over to keep Frisk safe from the cliffs that led to molten lava-... actually you think it'd be molten magma since you were still under Mt.Ebott- that you never really looked around.

It was nice to take a small breather and walk at your own pace with an excited little Frisk leading the way.

You remind yourself that you need to live up the moments like this as much as possible. You wouldn't have these chances for much longer.

You see the lab near miles before you reach it. It was a silver shining beacon that admittedly hurt your eyes a little the longer you looked at it. This was the second time seeing it, and the monstrous size and the way it did not seem to be really apart of Hotland still surprised you. For some reason it made you think of a Twilight Zone episode.