VOXISTALE: Season 1

The Messiah

The wall was nothing but an assortment of screens illuminating the dark room, a console before it sat a monster in a chair, leaning back, snoring lightly, her glasses askew on her slacked face. Behind her was an operating table, a robotic figure under construction beneath a white sheet, immobile and cold; Mettaton 2.0.

The sound of a doorbell ringing made the monster wake with a snort, Alphys jolting up, blinking drearily, smacking her lips which tasted like stale ramen and bad breath. "Whosat?" she asked, half-awake, before the doorbell rang again and she quickly sat forward, taping something on her control panel. One small screen switched to the outside of her front door. She'd been expecting to see Asgore, but to her surprise . . . It was Undyne. Fumbling for the speaker at the door, she put the receiver to her mouth and pressed the activation button. "U-Undyne, hey! What're you doing here?"

"Uh . . . just checking on the Mettaton body. Papyrus was curious about it. And I wanted to see you," Undyne informed her, looking up to stare through the camera glaring down on her. Alphys was a bit nervous to see the fish monster. The two were currently dating, though they seldom had time to spend together due to their very different career paths. To say their relationship was a bit rocky would be an understatement, especially with all the stress on Undyne from work, but that wasn't why Alphys was nervous.

She gulped, "O-Oh, of course! Let me just . . ." she pressed another button, causing the motion-sensor door to unlock. Once Undyne shifted on her spot, the two glass panels separated, granting her access to the inside. Alphys spun in her seat to greet her girlfriend, but paused, deciding against it when she saw how exhausted Undyne looked. It was surprising, and she had no doubts that the 'recent events' were to blame. Really, it was fortunate Alphys was here to begin aiding in the location of the mystery people. Had she just stayed in Clearasia within her government-sponsored lab (the current one paled in every regard to it), she probably wouldn't have known about any of these events. It had been chance that she'd heard of the attack on Toriel and flew down to attend the funeral.

"Hey . . ." Undyne gave Alphys a small smile, walking toward her.

"H-hey," the other monster replied.

There was a brief moment of awkward silence shared between the two before Undyne nodded her head to the covered operating table, "How's Mettaton coming along?" she asked.

"He suffered a lot of damage. I've been having to rebuild him from the ground up," Alphys admitted, a bead of sweat lining her forehead. "Which is fine, I already had a new body frame in storage I made last year."

"When do you think it'll be finished?" Undyne asked, folding her arms and leaning against the wall.

"W-Well, it shouldn't b-be any more than a couple more d-days," Alphys explained. "A-And once I'm finished, he should be able to tell us about his . . . attacker."

"Well, that's good news," Undyne nodded, a small grin appearing on her face. "After all this, we might finally get a lead."

"Yeah . . ." Alphys replied, turning back to her console to shut off the screens, which only now did Undyne notice.

"That's a lot of security cameras," she commented.

"C-can't be too careful . . . these days . . . y-y'know?" Alphys chuckled nervously. "Um . . . I was actually gonna . . . head to bed . . ."

"I didn't even know the lab was that big," Undyne continued, looking confused. She glanced around the lab- there were only two security cameras in this room, and they were both in the upper corners. Alphys had easily about eighty screens behind her. Very weird, and the lizard monster was sweating. "Alright. Well, I won't keep you awake," Undyne said. "I have to go anyway, have a meeting at six."