Underearth/Book 3/Chapter 7

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"A-attention." a quivering voice echoed through a loud-speaker. "This is a general evacuation notice. All Hotland residence, please report to... the laboratory at the base of Mount Hot for further instructions. This message will repeat every few minutes."

*They're really evacuating. How cute.* Frisk thought as he walked along a bridge that stretched over a river of lava.

When he reached the other side of the river, four guards who were standing outside the entrance to the laboratory all looked at him.

"... you're here..." one of them said.

"So that means Undyne... She's..." another said.

They all looked solemnly to one-another, then they all drew their swords.

"Like, Undyne! We'll avenge you!"

Frisk chuckled to himself a bit.

"Four against one? Really? How's that fair?" he said.

"Who cares about 'fairness' when you've murdered so many!" the cat-Monster said.

Frisk began laughing.

"You misunderstand." he said. "I mean..." Frisk then drew the dagger. "you should have brought more soldiers."

The cat-Monster charged Frisk at this insult. When she got close, she began to bring her sword down on him. Before it hit Frisk, though, the blade was caught between two chitinous hands.

"Wha— What the hell!?!" she said when she saw the chitinous figure behind Frisk. "What is that thing!?!?!"

While she was distracted with the chitinous figure, Frisk took the opportunity to stab her in one of the spaces between the platemail.

Upon being stabbed, she screamed in pain, letting go of the sword to clutch her wound.

"LINDA!!!" the bug-Monster screamed. She, too, then charged Frisk.

Frisk put the dagger away and grabbed the sword the chitinous figure was still holding. As soon as he grabbed it, the chitinous figure let go, and disappeared once again.

As soon as the bug-Monster got close to Frisk, Frisk swung the sword at her. While the swing didn't penetrate her armor, it did send her off course, straight at the edge of the cliff. Frisk didn't even do so much as give a side-glance the moment she fell.

"LARISA!!!" the cat-Monster screamed as the bug disappeared behind the horizon of the cliff.

At that moment, the other two guards, a bunny-Monster and a lizard-Monster, ran ahead to guard the cat.

"Leave this thing to us, Linda." the bunny-Monster said.

Just then, both the bunny and lizard Monsters attacked in sync, swinging their swords the same way, letting off a wave of energy while they did so.

As the waves approached, Frisk summoned a shield to block them. Once they'd fizzled against the summoned shield, he dropped it and charged the two guards.

Once in range, the chitinous figure reappeared, catching the swinging sword of the lizard while Frisk brought his own sword over and sliced off the leg of the bunny. Frisk then brought the sword back up and sent it sailing through the bunny's throat. They then turned to dust.

Frisk turned around to face the cat-Monster, who was still on the ground, albeit slowly crawling away. As he began approaching her, the burning feeling in his chest returned.

"This Monster first." the voice said.

Frisk turned to face the lizard-Monster, who was wrestling control of the sword back from the chitinous figure. Frisk casually approached them.

"RAFIQ! LOOK OUT!!!" the cat-Monster called.

It was too late. Frisk had already pulled his sword up and stabbed the lizard-Monster in the side. Frisk then heaved the Monster, with the sword still in him, off the cliff into the lava below.

Once the lizard had fallen, Frisk turned back to face the cat, and began walking towards her. As he did so, the chitinous figure grabbed the bunny's sword, which was still on the ground, and brought it over to Frisk. Upon taking it, Frisk kicked the cat-Monster in the face, sending her sprawling onto the ground.

As Frisk walked over to her new location, the cat-Monster started coughing. In response to this, she shook off her glove and pulled her helmet off, gasping for air. After doing so, she looked over at Frisk, her eyes wide and filled with terror as this freak approached her. As she realized death was here, knocking at her door, she looked down at the wrist of the hand she'd removed the glove from, specifically at the bracelet she wore.

"I'm so sorry, Larisa..." she mumbled, tears beginning to seep from her eyes.

Frisk brought the sword up over his head, readying to bring it down right on her skull. When the sword had reached the summit of its ascend, both Human and Monster heard a familiar voice.

"LINDA!!!" something called out from Frisk's left.

They both looked. It was the bug-Monster. She was missing most of her armor, yet she'd ascended the cliff. After she'd screamed this, she sank her left hand into the ground, marring the rock. She then brought up her right hand, which carried her sword, and sank it into the ground and well.

"Larisa—" the cat began saying, tears beginning to stream down her face harder, before Frisk finally brought the sword down, concaving her skull and turning her to dust.

"NOOOO!!!" the bug-Monster screamed before charging Frisk again. Frisk simply brought the sword back up and readied it to strike the bug down.

As she ran, the chitinous figure re-appeared at her feet and tripped her, sending her unbalanced right to where Frisk stood. As soon as she'd gotten into range, Frisk stabbed her with the sword. He then twisted it and pulled it out through her side. Once he'd finished, she too turned to dust.

Frisk let out a sigh.

*Finally.* he thought as he walked over to the dusty armor of the bunny-Monster and grabbed the scabbard. As he walked towards the laboratory, Frisk attached the scabbard to his belt, and sheathed the sword.

The inside of the lab, unlike both times Frisk had first entered before, was bright.

"OH, THERE YOU ARE." Frisk heard a familiar self-centered voice say.

He looked further into the lab. Mettaton was standing near the elevator that connected to the hidden laboratory beneath the one they were both in.

"YOU UGLY LITTLE CREATURE. YOU'VE MADE QUITE A NAME FOR YOURSELF." they said. "SUCH INFAMY...! I'M IMPRESSED."

"Where's Alphys?" Frisk asked.

"SHE'S NOT HERE. WHILE YOU WERE BUSY DOING YOUR, AHEM, THING... SHE WAS RUNNING AROUND MAKING SURE EVERYONE MADE IT OUT SAFELY. NOW THEY'RE IN A PLACE WHERE YOU'LL NEVER GET TO THEM."

Mettaton then chuckled to themselves a bit.

"DECIDING NOT TO FIGHT YOU. MY MY, SHE REALLY IS THE ONLY SMART ONE, ISN'T SHE?"

Frisk decided that he'd heard enough. He began advancing towards Mettaton, drawing his sword.

"OH? HOW SASSY." they said. "YOU'RE JUST ITCHING TO GET YOUR HANDS ON ME, AREN'T YOU? WELL... T-O-O B-A-D! THIS WORD NEEDS MORE STARS THAN IT NEEDS CORPSES! TOODLES!"

Mettaton then fled as fast as they could.

*Tss, cowards. Both of them.* Frisk thought as he sheathed the sword.

Frisk then crossed to the other side of the lab and exited through the door. After exiting, he began making his way through the Hotlands, slaughtering any few that remained after the evacuation notice.

Eventually, he reached the R1 elevator. Upon entering it, the burning feeling within his chest returned.

"Go to L3." the voice said.

*L3 it is.*

Upon arriving at the L3 elevator, Frisk exited the cabin and onto the summit platform. He then continued through, following LOV's guidance, until he arrived outside the Home Memorial Hall.

"Burn it to the ground." the voice said.

A sadistic smile spread across Frisk's face.

"Gladly." he said, bringing his hand up and focusing until a ball of fire formed. Once it formed, he threw it into the hallway. The webbing that caked the hall lit up like a bushfire. Not long after, screams could be heard escaping the hall amidst the fire.

Every now and then, a spider would appear out of the flames, on fire himself, screaming in agony. Their lives wouldn't last long outside the hall, however, as any escapees would be swiftly killed by Frisk.

After some time, the flames began to die out. When they'd finally suffocated, the purple brick beneath was scorched black, and all the webbing was gone.

Once clear, Frisk entered the hall. There were still a few tiny flames that licked the walls of the hallway and the great chasm to the left. Yet the giant spiders that inhabited the area seemed to all be dead. With his safety through the hallway secured, Frisk casually walked through, thrilled to not be under threat of being eaten alive.

Frisk entered the MTT Resort. The place was completely abandoned, all except for the Burger Emporium, which even now still housed the orange cat-Monster behind the counter. Frisk walked over to him.

"Aren't you supposed to have evacuated?" Frisk asked him.

The Monster looked confused.

"Evacuation?" he said. "You're yanking my chain, little weirdo. So *what* if everyone else left work? So *what* if nobody's buying anything? Par for the course, little weirdo. Par for the course."

"And what'd Mettaton tell you?" Frisk then asked.

The Monster looked down at the counter.

"Well, Mettaton didn't tell me I *had* to work today, I guess... But that's the thing! Sometimes he doesn't even call me into work until halfway into my shift! If I don't play it safe, he's going to yell at me."

"Yell at you...? That's what you're worried about...?" Frisk asked.

The Monster chuckled a bit. "Okay, maybe 'yell' is the wrong term. It's more like he has this... CD album he plays... That's entirely full of songs about how bad I am at my job."

"You know everyone else is dead, right?" Frisk asked.

The Monster looked back at the counter in silent contemplation.

"Does this mean I don't have to work today?" he asked. The Monster then broke into laughter. "That it were true, little weirdo. That it were true."

"It is true, you idiot. In fact, I'm the one killing everyone." Frisk said. He then drew the dagger. "And you're next."

The Monster simply grabbed a stool and sat down in it, sitting back into a relaxing posture.

"Sorry, little weirdo." the Monster said. "Threats don't work on me. I can't go to hell. I'm all out of vacation days."

"Oh we'll see about that."

Frisk then jumped over the counter onto the Monster, holding the dagger firmly in his hand.

Upon seeing this display of aggression, the Monster dropped his act and began screaming in absolute terror. His screams were swiftly silenced after Frisk sank the dagger into his throat.

With that last death, Frisk could feel that there were no more SOULs left in the Hotlands, and so he moved on to Helios Station.