//------------------------------// // 12 - Blueberry Pie Tango // Story: Underworld Frisk // by Darkonshadows //------------------------------// “Oh how nice of you to walk me back to my room you chivalrous thing you, but I must ask why haven’t you talked in a while Pinkie?” It worried Toriel that Pinkie hadn’t said anything since they left the restaurant, the smile Pinkie sent her was quite reassuring. “Oh I haven’t talked in a while, because I’m a little horse!” They both burst out laughing; Pinkie could probably have helped herself at anytime. “It took you long enough to notice I haven’t said anything for a while, the punch line was definitely worth the set up for it!” “Oh indubitably my dear little equine, let’s see how Gyft has been doing as I pick up my things. I see he’s had a meal since we’ve been gone.” Toriel looked around the room and saw a lot of empty plates around deer monster with a distended belly that was slowly standing up upon hearing them enter the room. “Quite a few of them it would seem, I’ll pay Carol for the extra services and then we’ll be on our way. Are you still insistent on coming with us Mr. Trot?” “Of course I want to come with you and Pinkie!” The sideways mouthed deer didn’t look to be taking no for an answer. Gyft stood up and bowed to the goat lady as she gathered her backpack and nodded to him. “Okay then, also Pinkie I’m going to arrest you for stealing from me!” Toriel became stern with Pinkie as she looked through her backpack. “Wait, what did I steal? If I took something without asking I could reimburse you for it, eventually… I think all my money is still back at Sugar Cube Corner.” Pinkie looked particularly pitiable when purposefully panicked. “My heart, I think it’s rather hard to reimburse.” Toriel said with a simple smile forming on her face, it eventually led to a burst of giggles as she equipped her backpack and checked on the jar of snow to make sure the magic on the jar was doing okay. “Oh you, not only are you beautiful, but you’re also filled with a love for the classics!” Pinkie pranced around Toriel while happily humming a tune and then made for the door to the room. “Come on, we’re burning… wait how can we burn daylight? Wouldn’t that set the whole world on fire? I don’t want to set the world on fire; I just want to start a flame in your heart!” “Oh it’s on fire alright. I just hope it’s not too hot for you Pinkie.” It made Toriel happy to joke with Pinkie and to have friends to help her out of her chronic depression problem. - Walking through the town They saw a mailbox that was stuff with what looked to be unread junk mail, next to it was a mailbox clearly labeled ‘Papyrus’. The house near the two mailboxes must have belonged to Papyrus and Sans; it was festively decorated with Hearths Warming lights and a wreath on the door. It must have been decorated like that year round, given that Papyrus did have a thing for being silly when it came to standing out from a crowd. Next to the house was the other end of the cross town igloo tunnel and a locked shed. The three, well four if you count the sentient snow still connected to a snowman, travelers made their way out of town following the road that moved along the side of the cold river with the giant ice cubes floating down it. As they continued onwards, things started to get foggy and the traveler’s visibility started dropping drastically until they came upon a tall shadow waiting for them. Having stopped, Pinkie knew what was coming as she could practically feel it in her bones. It wasn’t hard to figure out what the guy that wanted to be the royal guard was going to do. He wanted to catch Pinkie Pie and this was obviously his last chance before that duty was passed on to someone who was monumentally more dangerous than this silly goofball. “Monumentally dangerous, so they’re as strong as a statue of Celestia? Well they must be ‘stone cold’ ruthless if they are going to hurt someone as cute as I am.” Pinkie shook her head and moved forward to face Papyrus in what would be a rather ‘interesting’ battle. “That sounds highly ominous.” “Pony, allow me to tell you about some complex feelings! Feelings like the joy of finding another pasta lover! The admiration of another’s puzzle-solving skills! To know that a cool, cute and smart creature finds you cool as well!” The Epic Papyrus started off only for Pinkie to answer him. “Yeah, it’s pretty ‘cool’ out here with this foggy blizzard of air around us.” Pinkie said with friendly smile that was unseen due to the visibility being so low that they could only see shadows of each other. “Excuse me; but I’m trying to monologue here!” The Vaguely Upset Papyrus shouted while stomping his foot into the snow. “I’m sorry, Pappy!” Pinkie shouted back while waving at him. “It’s okay I forgive you and… ahem nice nickname for me by the way. It sounds like Papyrus only shorter and with more P’s.” Papyrus’s shadow crossed his arms and nodded his head. “Now where was I? Oh yes, these feelings, they must be the feelings you are experiencing having met someone of my intricately incredible nature! Why, I can hardly imagine what it must feel like to feel that way around someone else!” “You’re incredibly silly and crazy, I like that about you.” Pinkie heard The Blushing Papyrus growl at her and he started stomping his feet again.”Oh I guess you weren’t done yet, sorry again Pappy.” “No worries, after all I’m a forgiving being in my greatness! I don’t ever wonder what having lots of friends would be like, since I’m a popular guy around these parts.” The Nonchalant Papyrus took on a heroic pose. “Why my window smashing prowess is renowned for being stared at by all who look upon me doing so with such wonder!” “Yeah, it’s a wonder why he keeps jumping out of windows so often even when there aren’t even celebrities around.” Gyft’s flat commentary earned him giggles from Toriel and Pinkie. “Hey, I needed to practice! You can’t just expect me to jump through windows all willy-nilly; you have no idea how hard it is to jump through windows without showering innocent bystanders with glass! There’s a method for making sure the glass doesn’t arc off and hit someone, plus there are all the calculated movements for putting enough oomph into actually breaking the window in the first place! It’s actually hard if there are cross sections of wood or metal in the way, not to mention choosing which exact portions of the window you wish to be destroyed when you do so! Don’t even get me started on what it takes to get stained glass window to shatter in just a way so that it sparkles beautifully upon you, especially without any of the glass actually hitting you or getting it stuck in your eye sockets when you do it right! That's on top of not hurting anyone else!” The Expert Window Breaker Papyrus explained, it sounded like he was actually prominently good at something other than being just half baked at cooking, puzzle making and inflating his curiously somewhat eccentric ego. “Yes, anyway, I see that you have many friends too. Worry not for I the great Papyrus shall become one of your friends as well!” “Really, well I happily accept you’re offer of friendship!” Pinkie was willing to be friends even if he was being rather antagonistic. She was quite willing to look past being attacked or forced to go through puzzles or traps if they were quite sincere about it as The Master of Way Too Many Titles Papyrus sounded. “No wait, this is all wrong! I cannot be your friend!” The Supremely Saddened Papyrus shouted. If Pinkie’s mane weren’t already deflated, it would have been deflated by this statement. “I’m supposed to be capturing you! Sure you may not be human, but you still shouldn’t be let by without a fight! I have to fulfill my lifelong dream and this is a ticket that I shouldn’t pass up. Powerful, popular, prestigious, that is Papyrus! I Papyrus shall be the newest member of the royal guard, now let us fight!” “Hold up, before we do that and you pull my soul out of my body to attack it… can we go on a date after this?” The sweet little pony that Pinkie was, she looked hopeful for a date with The Super Silly Papyrus. Off to the side Toriel didn’t seem upset in the slightest and had been expecting Pinkie to eventually ask some other monster out on a date eventually. Papyrus seemed like a nice guy; if a little dim in the skull for ‘her’ sweet little pie. She had personally felt Pinkie’s boundless love and didn’t see a reason to stop her from being who she was. She would step in to protect Pinkie from this idiot should he prove to be less friendly than he was currently acting. “Ah so you want a date with me, The Great Papyrus!” The Skeleton of Standards Papyrus took on a haughty look. “Well, I’ll have you know I’m a skeleton of incredibly high standards!” “I can bake lasagna; make a pot of spaghetti, macaroni and cheese is easy for me and I can do a mean rigatoni zucchini casserole that you haven’t lived until you tasted it. Is living harmful to skeletons Tori? Hey, why are you laughing at me like that? ” Pinkie saw Toriel busting up with laughter at her question; she shook her head and continued on. “Of course being a pony all my dishes are healthy and loaded with vegetables, but where I truly specialize is baked goods of a sugary variety. So any dessert I make will be extra special! I’m also not bad at a broccoli casserole.” “Oh no, she’s surpassed all my incredible standards with flying colors and she’s not even my type!” The Utterly Surprised Papyrus stated aside to himself out loud where everyone could hear him. It was in awe that Pinkie had met, from his point of view, his surprisingly high standards. “Right well, we’ll go on a date after I’m done pummeling your soul until your unconscious!” “Either that or I’ll dance around your attacks until I can convince you to stop, whichever comes first I suppose. I like the route where no one gets hurt. Though if no one got hurt, this wouldn’t be much of an adventure now would it? Hold on a minute, I need to put something on for the occasion before we fight!” Taking off her saddlebags and searching around in it, she found what she was looking for and slipped it on. It was a red flamenco styled dress and a dressy looking fake flower that she placed behind her right ear, it made her look extravagant as she passed her saddlebags off to Gyft. “I’m ready to dance my socks off now!” “Pinkie you’re not wearing socks, though the image sounds absolutely adorable to cuddle with” After Toriel was done pointing that out, they turned to The Exceedingly Patient Papyrus while she whispered to the pony. “Where did you even get that dress from Pinkie? Also when did you even make it and the other one?” “I made it off screen between the end at the restaurant and the start of returning to the inn. Although I think I’m going to eventually run out of the red fabric from the bolt that I was carrying for Rarity.” Well Pinkie just explained away some of the hundreds of plot holes going on around here. “Right then let’s get this started!” The Needy Papyrus shouted at and sent out the soul pulling field towards Pinkie and then something really bizarre happened. Pinkie felt that usual wrenching sensation of her soul popping from her body and blinked as she saw something rather unusual and she continued blink at it. She looked to Toriel questioningly and looked back to what was floating in the air. Toriel just stood there staring at what was now floating in the air with wide eyes, as Pinkie’s soul wasn’t the only one floating up in the air. She had felt a twisting sensation in her chest before it came out of her; it was the same thing that Pinkie had described when her soul was pulled. “Was that supposed to happen to you Tori?” It had to be asked as Pinkie didn’t understand what she was seeing, as she hadn’t previously seen it happen to someone else aside from her before. “I mean, this didn’t happen the last few times I was attacked… are you okay?” “Pinkie… this… should be impossible. It’s not possible, something like this shouldn’t be happening!” Despite saying it to herself in a crazed tone, Toriel was in fact staring at her own pulsing soul floating before her right next to Pinkie’s large pink pulsating heart. A heart which she finally noted that didn’t seemed to have diminished in size. The heart that was supposedly Toriel’s soul was about half the size or less of that of Pinkie’s. It was wildly shifting between bright reds and oranges in color like a fire, while also giving off faint blue ethereal pulses. The soul even had The Befuddled Papyrus too perplexed by this sudden turn of events to even think of beginning his assault. “Wow, that… I don’t even know what I’m looking at, but it’s definitely pretty.” It was hard for Gyftrot to put it into words, because it was or should be completely impossible for a monster to be separate from their soul as they basically were intrinsically connected to their soul. This was quite a huge impossibility to any monster that saw it, but apparently it was possible for Queen Toriel who now had her own soul outside of her body. After a moment of staring at the shifting reds and oranges of the soul, The Opinionated Papyrus came to his senses. “Oh my god, I didn’t know the queen had a soul like a humans! It looks incredible, just like my awesome battle body!” After rubbing a gloved hand at the side of the skull The Always Ready Papyrus decided to start the fight. “Right, well I’ll just have to attack you both as I’m tired of standing around, nyeh heh heh!” The Attacking Papyrus started launching his first wave of attacks by rattling his bone at them and this caused a parade of bones to pop up out of the ground and slide towards their hearts, only they were missing and the hearts didn’t even need to be moved. “Tori, can you move it around? You might have to figure things out quickly because Papyrus seems to be just warming up, given his music hasn’t even started yet that's a good bet.” Pinkie didn’t know if those bones could pop further out of the ground, but it looked like they could. “I’m not really that good at dancing without a partner, but I’ll try.” Toriel tried a short shuffle, but her heart stayed in place. Deciding that she’d figure out later, she tried to knock out Papyrus with a blast of fire to the skull only to not have her hands light up. Her soul lighting up was another manner entirely and it started moving as jets of fire shot out of the heart giving it propulsion. “That feels really weird. Maybe…” Toriel tried something different as The Not Overly Aggressive At The Moment Papyrus continued to warm up his small bone attacks beneath their floating hearts. She performed a slow movement while trying to ignite her hands as she had before, but this time she watched was she was doing and her heart started to zip about in the air at an incredible speed. It moved counterintuitive with her motions as she directed the direction the fire pushed out and it moved the heart the other way. When she stopped, her soul took a while to slow down in momentum and bounced off an invisible wall. “Right, give me a minute to get out my fabled ‘blue attack’!” The skeleton started concentrating and he rattled his bones hard, which started to form more white bone bullet walls to go sliding underneath their hearts and through their bodies without an effect. With the time she had, Toriel was getting used to moving her heart around. It felt incredible and a little weird. Her soul was fast and hard to control, but it was becoming a little easier to figure out how her shifting about caused it to dance in the air like Pinkie’s did. She was clumsy now, but in the future she would get better at it as it seemed to be highly important to her survival that she did. “Right here I go!” Suddenly a wave of blue bones launched themselves from The Badass Bone Blaster Papyrus. They were going at Pinkie and Toriel’s hearts and more kept coming, neither of them moved their souls as they both knew to avoid doing so in the case of a blue attack. After the attack ended something strange happened to both the souls, there was a loud ding sound followed by two loud thumping noises hitting the snow. “You’re both blue now, that’s my attack!” After that The Rhythmic Battle Leader Papyrus started stomping his left and right legs to the music and he would start launching his attacks with fervor and exclamation points! “No I’m… what!” Pinkie had pointed her hoof at Papyrus to notice that her fur had turned blue, so had her red dress. Even looking to Toriel, she could see that she was also all blue. Gyft on the other hoof was perfectly fine and normal though; he had moved away from the fight that was just getting started and was looking to them with worry. “I’m not supposed to be Blueberry Pie, my distant cousin is creepy and I don’t think I can think of my own sister Marble like that! Also why does everything feel heavier? This better not be another fat joke at my expense!” Pinkie looked to hers soul on the ground and looked to Papyrus who sent a wave of bones at her heart and she tried to get it in the air. It hopped rapidly with her hooves tapping at the snow and she just couldn’t get off the ground as the first row of sliding white sliding bones closed in. Becoming frustrated Pinkie slapped her hoof on the ground and her heart bounced over the first bone, it was followed by Toriel’s heart jetting into the air slightly only to slam back into the ground. Pinkie’s soul jumped the next two bones with two more stomps, while Toriel followed clapping her hands rhythmically to cause her soul jet upwards to clear the rest of the attack as well. “You make this look so easy Pinkie… I hope this blue isn’t permanent.” Toriel didn’t know what she would do if she were permanently blue for the rest of her life, which would be short if Papyrus was actually actively trying to kill them. Papyrus launched a wave of white bones; this time there was a wall of them floating through the air at the two like what happened with the blue attack that turned their souls a different colors. Trying to dodge the incoming wall in the air and on the ground Toriel launched her flame powered heart too high with a clap and felt what Pinkie felt when her soul was damaged by the long floating bones in the air. It was quite excruciating and it made her wonder what Pinkie felt when she burned her soul. Pinkie’s heart didn’t jump high enough with her stomps and the tall sliding bones on the ground slammed into her soul causing her to cringe and wince in pain. Looking to Toriel, Pinkie saw that she was in far more pain than Pinkie was. She seemingly had a higher tolerance for it, ‘with Toriel’s soul being a new thing, it was probably weaker than Pinkie’s even if it was faster and more mobile’. It would be a good idea for Pinkie to ‘protect Toriel’s soul’, because ‘Pinkie’s heavyset soul could take it better’ since she has a big heart. “I’m okay with you saying my heart is big in a compassionate sense, but please leave my weight out of it! Also there aren’t as many sweets in the Underworld and my point about that is, this place is kind of like hell for me if you think about it.” The irony of that statement should not be lost on Pinkie when she sees another part of the Underworld later, provided she’s not captured and fed dog food. As she stomped her heart barely cleared a long row of low sliding walls of bones. Toriel’s heart easily jetted straight over the wall of bones without a problem and in fact could hover in the air for a while due to its interesting properties, in comparison to Pinkie’s strange soul which likely had unknown properties of its own. “Stop complaining to the air Pinkie and pay attention to the skeleton attacking us!” Toriel didn’t snap harshly, she was just trying to pull Pinkie’s mind back to the situation. Especially considering the pony’s heart got damaged again while her own made it through a narrow gap with her barely controlled rocket heart. “Attention pony, my name is Papyrus and for my battle here’s my status effects rule! It causes you’re soul to be weighed down and it will stop you from avoiding my attacks to make me look like a complete fool!” The Crazy Awesome Papyrus sung with his theme music. “I see you trying to avoid my attacks with your cute little dancing; well I’ll tell you right now that all you are doing is hopelessly prancing!” “Okay you know what? Tori let’s dance, all this stomping alone is rough on my hooves!” Pinkie took to her hind legs and put on hoof around Toriel’s waist while taking her hand with her other hoof. “Now follow my lead, if you think you can do better then I’ll follow yours!” They started performing a frantic swinging tango together, with quick twirls, heavy steps and concise movement where one would lead the other on a moments notice. Not only were their bodies pressed together, but so did their souls and the one leading performed perfectly when they were needed to avoid being hit by the parading bone walls. If they needed short jumps Pinkie lead, if they needed high jumps Toriel lead them and when they needed moderate jumps they both stomped at the same time moving forward or back together. “What is that he keeps dabbing on the side of his head?” Pinkie asked out of the blue as their combined dancing got their hearts safely through a series of bone walls. “On the side of my head, what are you talking about? I’m dabbing this stuff behind my ears!” Missing The Obvious Fact Papyrus didn’t have ears, so this made no sense at all. “Pinkie could you please keep your attention on me and not what Papyrus is doing, I would like the dance to end with both our souls in good condition.” Hearing Toriel plead to her in a soft voice, Pinkie got a look of determination on her face as she nodded to the goat lady and their dancing became far more synchronized. Beforehand their dancing was barely passable as dancing together, as much as it was holding one another and moving them both around. “Hey stop working together, it’s not fair to me that I have to deal with two souls as nice as yours are! Don’t make me use my special attack!” The Super Slow Papyrus exclaimed as he stomped his boots and rattled his body to send more waves of bones at their souls. “Oh wait… I don’t have ears. Huh, silly me, ‘tibia’ honest I forgot!” Both the dancing ladies giggled at his pun and he smiled a bit at them. That he could get them to laugh, despite attacking them made him feel strangely fuzzy inside. He could almost taste his future popularity… did that really matter when he sorely wanted to be popular with these two? Well three if he counted the deer monster that was watching them dance with worry. “Hey Papyrus, can you guess why skeleton pirates are always considered the worst? It’s because they always have bone-arrs!” A sad sounding rim shot played out on some drums as Sans showed up out of nowhere and winked at the air with a cheeky grin. This wasn’t actually out of character for him; he probably would actually tell a joke like that one. “Sans that’s highly inappropriate! Also my sensitive ear holes didn’t need to hear that!” The Utterly Aggravated Papyrus stopped attacking the two dancers to yell at his brother. “I was kind of in the middle of something important here you know!” The two dancing together started laughing louder as they continued to strut about together having completely forgotten they were being attack aggressively by a skeleton with childish tendencies. They stopped when the blue bones came up to their souls and danced them around the walls of white bones. Sometimes the bones moved up and down, but that didn’t stop the two from working together as Toriel twirled then dipped Pinkie before bringing her back up. Their eyes stopped paying attention to the fight entirely and their souls were starting to make perfect dodges, even when they separated with a spin and spun back together stomping in rhythm as they rejoined one another. “Undyne will be proud of me; the king will trim a hedge in the shape of my smile!” The Uncertain Papyrus didn’t sound like he was trying to put his heart into it anymore as he watched the two dance beautifully together, there was even a tear in the corner of his eye socket that he had to hastily wipe away. Their hearts were bouncing over multiple rising walls of bone, in time to the beat of his music no less as they stepped in tune and swung around looking into each other’s eyes. “I’ll do my ultimate attack, don’t think I won’t!” Sans moved over to stand next to Gyftrot as he watched his brother slowly have a mental breakdown, he considered the fact that Queen Toriel now had a soul that could be separated from her body very interesting. He smiled as the two souls dodged over two enclosing bone walls coming from two directions at once; it was all amazing to watch in action. The walls passed through each other harmlessly trying to crush the souls between them in the form of a bone sandwich, they were failing to hit the two hearts snuggled together and Papyrus was putting up a good fight too. “My brother… he won’t change very much…” The Poor Papyrus was losing his steam; he looked on at the two and decided to still give it his all in an attempt to capture them. Though he wasn’t as happy about it as he sounded before, it seemed as if he was slowly started to reject his mission to capture them. “I’ll have lots of admirers, but… I won’t have my new friends who don’t care how goofy I am at times and will always like me for me…. who is Papyrus.” “Will anyone like me as sincerely as they do once I’m popular?” He continued stomping his boots, rattling his bones and he even started clapping his hands to start putting more oomph into his attacks. His attacks started moving faster and the gates were becoming much hard to jump through and yet the two souls wouldn’t separate no matter whether or not one or the other took damage, which was becoming a rare thing to see as time went on. “Seeing anyone like them is really rare… I want to be popular for the right reasons… I’ve always wanted to be a hero, is this really the right way?” There were up and down bone gates, rising waves of bones and the enclosing bone doors that required that the two hearts to squeeze between them. Yet they didn’t let go of one another and still performed the quick tango styled dance with such passion. They were no longer paying attention to what Papyrus had to say and were enjoying their dance, so Papyrus really didn’t want to stop his theme music. “Dating might be kind of hard, I’ve never really been on one and yet she’s willing to give me a chance and she’s practically an expert at dating with a ‘hot’ celebrity like that. What does she even see in me?” The Depressed Papyrus was lost in what to do as he sent a wall after wall of blue and white bones. Bones shifted, colliding together and flew through the air and it should have been getting easier for him. Only it was actually getting harder to actually hit either heart. “My ultimate attack is coming so you two better prepare! I thought you two might want an advanced warning…” “Bring it on; we’re having so much fun Pappy!” Pinkie said joyously as she cuddled up against Toriel’s larger form, the goat lady had large pupils in the shape of hearts as she looked down at the pony. “Right, here’s my ultimate attack!” The bone that would start a series of dangerous walls was launched out by The Emotionally Distraught Papyrus, only to be caught by an annoying looking white dog that started gnawing on it. “What the heck! That’s my special attack! You stupid dog, stop munching on that bone! Come back here with my special attack! Nyeh… alright I’ll just throw whatever else I have left at you!” Pinkie and Toriel were dancing at a more frantic pace that looked rather majestic as they dodged the bones coming at their souls from all angles. After dodging so many wild bone attacks, it got really weird and absurd. Their souls soon bounded over the annoying white dog that ran through the area with the still active bone that hadn’t been set off yet, they quickly dodged the following bones in the shape of the word ‘COOL’, followed by more forming the word ‘DUDE’ and finally what looked to be a living T-bone riding a small skateboard while wearing an awesome jacket. Through it all Pinkie and Toriel kept up the pace admirably, it was then that Toriel saw a large forest of bones forming ahead of them and she looked at Pinkie who stared right back at her. Pinkie looked at Toriel’s weakened soul and then gave Toriel a certain look. “Oh Pinkie… please don’t...” Toriel started before the pony forced them both to jump into the air and stomp down hard, Pinkie’s heart leapt for the sky above the forest of sliding bones holding Toriel’s soul above it. “If we’re boned, then it’s going to be me that will take the hit Tori!” Pinkie’s heart and soul continued to rise higher and higher, the large blue heart started cracking at the force of will being pushed into it. “The Underworld needs you alive more than it needs me.” A monolithic bone began forming at the end of the veritable forest, it slowly slid forward and Pinkie strained to keep pushing her soul upwards to make sure Toriel’s didn’t get hit. As she did so this was the first time Pinkie actually initiated a kiss with Toriel and the goat lady didn’t cry, instead she was downright furious and cracks started to form along her blue soul as well. Pinkie’s heart was almost to the point that it was getting Toriel’s soul out the range of danger, but it didn’t look like it was going to make the leap itself. Toriel was not going to lose Pinkie Pie! What was it with this pony and being stupidly self sacrificial for others? She came out here to make sure that the pony stayed safe and alive, all the monsters souls in the Underworld would have to be stolen by some crazy monstrosity before she would ever let something bad happen to her sweet little pie! Given where they were and everything, that shouldn’t be too hard to imagine as happening. “You’re not doing this to me Miss Pie! I’m not letting this happen again, especially not on my watch!” Toriel let loose a primal scream that caused her soul to burst into flames and grow wings. She pushed both their souls higher to the point that it cleared the giant bone attack by twenty feet before Toriel could let go of her rage. She became very tired in Pinkie’s hooves and slumped forward. The pony held her up admirably despite being the smaller of the two. “So this is what you have to go through when monsters attack you? I guess it’s a pretty rough world we live in My Little Slice.” Pinkie just stared wide eyed at Toriel with her ears laying back and then noticed one last teeny tiny bone wall creeping along the ground. The Rather Upset Papyrus was looking at them from beyond the attack. Pinkie managed one final stomp. The two hearts that had returned to normal in Toriel’s outburst just hopped into the air above the last wall and hovered there. Toriel’s tired looking face smiled at her endearingly, before her eyes closed as she collapsed and her soul went back into her body alongside Pinkie’s going to hers. “I… I… I elect… to have pity for you two. Please, take the mercy that I am willing to give to you.” The pink pony looked at him and nodded, Papyrus felt a fragile smile appear on his bony face. He couldn’t even bring himself to actually attack them anymore; maybe following the queen was a much better idea than the king. “Of course we’ll still be friends with you Pappy.” The skeleton broke down crying at Pinkie’s kind words as she had seen through his most incredible acting skills, the skills that he didn’t actually have. She could feel a softly breathing Toriel slumped against her and she looked to Gyftrot for a little help.