//------------------------------// // 29 - Met A Ton Of Friends // Story: Underworld Frisk // by Darkonshadows //------------------------------// The nut-bar tea was actually pretty good, quite nutty it was to Pinkie’s sense of taste. She was sitting near the crazy Miss Muffet who was sitting on a still unconscious Mister Tuffet and she was eating some curds and whey. For some reason Pinkie couldn’t help but think something about this was rather cheesy. It also seemed that Muffet was milking the time she had left with her spider kin before they unblocked the exit for Pinkie. A spider came up to Pinkie and gave her a piece of paper based on the autopsy of her shovel. “Huh, wow did I really push it that hard? I didn’t know how strong I was until I saw your examination of my shovels pieces.” Pinkie didn’t know she could put that much pressure on a shovel; it was surprising that the shovel lasted as long as it did under the circumstances. She saw some of the efforts they were going to, in getting her a new more permanent shovel while she continued on her way. She could probably come by a temporary shovel while she was it. “So when can I leave?” “As soon as I’m done eating this dear, I can’t go traveling on an empty stomach.” Muffet held her bowl in her middle left arm while her upper right arm held the spoon. Her upper left was in the middle of pouring tea to her middle right arm. Her lower left arm was doing nothing while her lower right reached out and squeezed Pinkie’s butt causing her to back away from the humanoid spider monster. “Sorry, I can only keep five of my arms controlled at a time and one is always an independent thinker. I get by well enough without that being too much of a problem; my five eyes are a bit of a bother though. So do you have a girlfriend Pinkie?” “I do have a goat friend and I’m still a bit unsure about letting you follow me around.” Pinkie narrowed her eyes at the lower right arm which waved jovially at her. “You let that Tsunderplane follow you around.” Using her lower left arm to point it out as she took a sip of tea, Muffet smiled at the taste of a home brewed cup of tea. She wouldn’t be able to get some once she left with her mistress, since it just wouldn’t be at home then. “Yes, but at least she’s really unobtrusive about it and she’s my distant friend.” Looking up at her, Pinkie noticed that the flying metal monster blushed and flew slightly farther away at being noticed. “So should I wear a maid outfit my dear Mistress Pie? I think I can be that wonderful servant you’ve always been looking for.” Muffet was still rather insistent on being Pinkie Pie’s servant, most in part to make it for the pony and because she happened to have a thing for pink and fluffy. Now if only Pinkie were a unicorn that danced on rainbows. “No you don’t need a maid outfit and I’m not looking for a servant! Also I’m so sure that pink fluffy unicorns’ dancing on rainbows means so much to this screwball plot.” Pinkie stated sarcastically to the air. - “I the eggplant am!” Screwball said as she snuggled up to a large carrot in Carrot Top’s garden. “Again Screwball… what am I going to do with you?” Carrot Top sighed and looked around for something to dig up the crazy pony with. She wondered how Screwball even planted herself in her garden in the first place, especially without her noticing it happening in the first place. “I emptied your fridge Carrot, no need to thank me!” Derpy walked on by with a jar on her face licking at the preserves inside, the grey furred queen of muffins with blonde hair was happy to eat all of Carrot Top’s provisions again. Her seven bubbles cutie mark made the world a brighter place, plus she could hold her breath underwater for ten minutes and would make for an excellent pirate. - “That cut away sequence made no sense whatsoever… I liked it!” Pinkie said cheerily while staring at the air. Once again Muffet had to sniff the spout of her teapot to make sure she wasn’t damaging the pony’s brain with the noxious soul binding gas by accident. “There is one thing I really wanted to know, why doesn’t my phone work around here?” “Well that’s simple; it’s because of our webs and the spiders jamming in them. Spiders happen to be particularly good at music.” A nearby spider with a tiny green mohawk held a leg up in the air as three other legs worked the tiny guitar, Muffet just smiled at the performance and tiny rock concert going on. “Aside from that a lot of monster spiders also like peanut butter and jam, so the communication devices don’t work very well around here because of all the jam we have.” “Speaking of music and completely ignoring the fact that that makes no sense whatsoever from a technical standpoint, you wouldn’t happen to know my friend Napstablook would you?” Pinkie was okay with being surrounded by thousands of spiders, she certainly wasn’t going to freak out like Rarity probably would have in this situation. She could be friends with anything… except The Jerry. “Oh the ghost guy, yeah I know him. He’s a bit of a downer, but he’s a musical genius… well if you consider him altering one track slightly to fit multiple monsters genius anyway. He’s still good at it and knows what he’s doing at least. He’s a friend of the spiders like you are.” Muffet watched as Pinkie munched on some crumpets that didn’t have spiders or any other unwholesome ingredient in them. She smiled broadly at making the pony smile and took a sip of her tea. She was glad to be such an accommodating host after her rather boorish if at the time somewhat necessary actions from her point of view, which was five different things at once given how many eyes she had. “Almost done here, anything you want to know before we leave.” “Yeah, what do you look like with your hair down?” In answer to Pinkie’s curiosity Muffet’s upper arms set about untying her hair to let it flow free, it hung down slightly past her shoulders and it looked nice. “I think it looks nice, but you can do whatever you want with it. The pigtails looked cute so go back to that if you want to, so about opening the exit to the Spider Hive?” “Right, hey guys, move the webs away from our exit!” A few hundred spiders set about the task of removing the webbing from the exit after having placed it there to prevent Pinkie from escaping, if the limo hadn’t come then Muffet and the spiders would have won the fight. The webbing at the entrance didn’t need to be removed as the limo did that on its own. The conclusion of their recent scuffle worked out in the favor of the spiders anyway and Muffet had a new job, following Pinkie Pie and making her as happy as she herself felt to see all of her kin reunited. She wanted to return Pinkie’s generosity at least ten fold for having run a bake sale so successful, that her kin afforded a limo without needing to be wired the money and still had plenty leftover to last several generations. Her price gouging was nowhere near as effective as Pinkie’s kindness was, the pony even left the bake sale without the money she helped earn and it resonated with Muffet. She grabbed her fashionable black and purple backpack and supplies; she also put in a maid outfit as she got ready to leave. - Pinkie walked out of the exit of the Spider Hive and immediately came upon a scene that had her sighing. It was a nice backdrop and the staircase was a rather fancy touch, but things had reached a level of ridiculous that even Pinkie was exasperated. What was so ridiculous you ask? Mettaton was wearing a frilly blue dress and was standing at the top of the staircase at a balcony, looking like he was ready to start singing a song or start reciting poetry. “Is that Mettaton in a dress? That guy has done some of the best stuff the Underworld has ever seen in show business… well when we can watch it anyway. Darn our love of mulched nuts, fruit preserves and rocking out hard enough to ruin our cable and internet access!” Tittering slightly at the sight of the robot in a dress, Muffet stayed by Pinkie’s side wondering what he was going to do as a spotlight was now shining down up him. “Though this is one of the most amusing sights I have ever seen in my life darling.” “Well just don’t take him lightly; he’s really dangerous even when he’s acting like a complete goofball.” Pinkie winced at the memory of her shovel falling apart in her hooves. “I should know how dangerous he is given I’m one myself.” Pulling out a microphone, Mettaton seemed to test it a bit before moving to the top of the stairs away from the balcony. “Hello my friendly beauties, I would like to say it’s been a while but it hasn’t cuties. I’m here to say that our time together is almost up and I hope you don’t survive my most ingenious of traps, because getting you to fall into it will only take one of my snaps.” Holding up his other hand that wasn’t holding the microphone Mettaton snapped his glove hand, snapping your fingers while wearing gloves was pretty hard to do but this miraculous egotisical robot managed it somehow. “You haven’t got a clue, because now I bid you adieu!” “Wait… what?” Pinkie didn’t get much farther when she and Muffet fell down a trap door that suddenly sprung open beneath them. Pinkie managed to get a yell out as she fell down. “I don’t like you! Why do fall down or get hurt so much in this story?” - After sliding sideways for a bit, Pinkie fell straight down and almost struck the ground. Only something slowed down her momentum, to the point where she gently dropped onto the ground on her belly with the sound of something snapping, looking to her back she saw some bits of webbing stuck there. Muffet slowly lowered down after her on two pieces of webbing before they heard the distant sound of the trap door snapping shut. It cut Muffet’s webs causing her to fall on her butt with a grunt; she got up and quickly cleaned the webs off of Pinkie with a few swipes of her hands. “You okay Mistress Pinkie? I didn’t give you whiplash when I stuck that bit of webbing to your back did I darling? A fall like that could have broken a limb, but I don’t exactly see the part of this where this is a trap.” Muffet rubbed her head with two right arms and looked about curiously. She saw a huge grey board of faded colors. “The part where this is a trap comes in when you have to go through a maze, so here I go!” A hovering Mettaton flicked a remote out into his hand and pressed a button causing the board to light up and a wall of fire to erupt behind Pinkie and Muffet. “These fire walls will burn you up if you don’t complete the maze. So run, run or you’ll be well done! It’s not like you remember every single rule for it either, especially not a hundred rooms or area’s back where I met this pony.” Muffet cried out and leapt onto Pinkie’s back to start cowering into Pinkie’s body, she had two arms wrapped around Pinkie’s neck, two around her chest and her final two around her midsection. She also had her legs around Pinkie and was whimpering. Looking at her back, Pinkie could see Muffet was crying from her five eyes. She was whimpering pathetically in a manner that Pinkie almost couldn’t believe that this was the brave and charismatic spider monster that almost killed her for no good reason, which obviously Muffet didn’t know about until the limo came in. Raising a hoof she started patting Muffet softly to calm her down, it only caused the spider monster to tighten her grip on her. On a side note Pinkie didn’t like the idea of being called mistress. “Before you ask, I use magic to heat up my tea. I don’t like real fire my dear, not one bit.” Muffet was usually a proactive monster and quite a cute one at that, but in the case of fire it seems she breaks down entirely. It was easy to see that she was terrified of fire, then again most spiders probably were given their homes were easy to set ablaze. “Don’t worry Muffet, just hold on to me and I’ll get us out of this.” Pinkie looked forward at the panels before her. “Yes and you’ll only have thirty seconds to do it too. Now start, I’ll be singing you a miraculous ballad of Mettaton as you go through the dungeon maze of doom!” Mettaton grasped the microphone in both his hands prepared to start singing only to be hit by several explosives that sent him falling past the area Pinkie and Muffet were trapped on. Tsunderplane wasn’t very happy with Mettaton at the moment and wasn’t going to let him get away that easily. Pinkie immediately set off for the maze ignoring what happened to Mettaton, she rode the convey belt over to the first colored square and started mentally preparing a path forward through the maze. She remembered seeing Papyrus touching Mettaton after they had crossed over the grayed out puzzle, then she came to the very strange conclusion that Mettaton might have had a secret crush on the skeleton. So Pinkie went left onto a green tile, then right across an orange, purple and blue tile, she turned right onto a pink tile and then left across two blue tiles. She turned right onto a pink tile, she was moving pretty fast as she turned left and ran across a green tile, followed by orange, two purples and another orange and stopped at the next pink tile. Turning left she went across a purple onto a blue tile, turned right and went through two more blue tiles, turned right again and move over a pinkie to an orange tile, where she turned left and moved over another pink tile stopping at the next orange one. “How do you even know which way you’re going through the maze?” Muffet cried out as various scents assaulted her nostrils. “I know because of what my friend Papyrus once said about the tiles.” Pinkie move to the left onto a green tile, turned right and galloped over a purple tile to another orange one. She stopped for a moment and then turned left onto a pink tile where she moved right onto another pink one and then turned right once more crossing over a purple tile to a blue tile. Turning left she moved over a pink tile to an orange one again. “The green tiles are thankfully not working right.” “Wait, why did you go around back there?” Muffet was confused, but Pinkie seemed to know what she was doing. “I would hit a yellow tile. Purple is slippery so… look I have no time to explain, I know what I’m doing so trust me on this.” Pinkie answered as she turned left and moved over a purple to blue, turned right onto a pink tile and right again back over a purple tile to a blue one. She turned left onto a green, passed over and orange one and stopped at pink before a blue tile. Looking to her left she winced slightly. “Oh this is going to sting a little, sorry but I need a lemony scent!” Pinkie ran to her left past a pink tile, skidded over a purple intentionally into a yellow tile that electrocuted her causing her to cry out in pain and caused Muffet to yelp as they slid backwards over the purple tile to the pink one. Turning around Pinkie moved forward to back to pink tile that she had previously stopped at. She turned left to move over the blue one she stopped at previously and across the purple to orange and turned left moving over another purple tile to another orange tile. “Almost there.” Turning right she ran over two purple tiles onto a pink one and turned left one last time onto an orange tile, before she turned right and ran along the green pathway to the end. As soon as she stepped off the colored panels there was a playful fanfare that played out and the walls of fire disappeared as the floor behind her grayed out. “Yes, I did it, I solved the maze puzzle!” “Well good for you… wait… I forgot to activate the green tiles features. No matter, it’s time for me to… AGH! Stop attacking me, I’m trying to give my audience another epic battle scene!” Mettaton was last seen fleeing the angry Tsunderplane into the distance, while Pinkie flopped to the floor with a great big sigh. “Are you alright… that shock must have hurt.” Muffet slowly let go of Pinkie to check her over with her six arms. “I’m fine…. though I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of the scent of lemons until I take a bath.” A phone rang out and Pinkie quickly reached into her saddlebags to fish it out with a hoof. “Hello, can you hear me now?” “Oh my goodness Pinkie, are you alright? Who is that with you that was clinging so tightly to you?” Toriel sounded slightly upset. “What’s going on?” “It’s my new friend Madeline Muffet or as she prefers to be called Miss Muffet. Mettaton dropped us into a trap maze and we made it through alright, though I didn’t like the need to electrify myself and now I smell like lemons Tori. Lemons Tori, it’s really horrible!” Pinkie could hear laughter on the other end of the phone. “This is serious, I need a bath soon or else this smell will drive me crazy.” “Only you could complain about smelling like lemons Pinkie, and here I was more worried about you getting electrocuted! Huh, Alphys says there’s something suddenly interfering with the signal in the area and that she’s sorry that she invented the trap maze Mettaton used on you. She says it was supposed to be impossible to finish, I guess she doesn’t know you very well does she Pinkie Pie.” Toriel saw Pinkie gain a confused look before she glared at her six armed companion who was eating a sandwich with the crust cut off. “Can you see what is causing the interference Pinkie?” “Muffet… I’m trying to talk on the phone to my goat friend, you’re PB and J is interfering with it.” Pinkie watched as Muffet smiled abashedly showing her teeth covered in peanut butter and red jam before she walked over to nearby stairs leading back to the upper floor. “I’m sorry, but I wanted to eat something a little more substantial. Fear and terror really does a lot to help you lose weight darling.” Muffet sat down at the stairs and continued to eat her sandwich in solitude. “I’ll let you talk with your goat friend by staying over here, this seems like the only way out.” “A sandwich was causing the interference?” Toriel sounded particularly befuddled. “That doesn’t make any sense at all!” “Tori, what part of being around me makes any kind of sense at all?” Waiting for a minute, Pinkie had to think that she had Toriel completely stumped by asking that question. It was taking so long for her goat friend to respond. “Also I’ve been over this very fact with Muffet already and chose to ignore it.” “Do you like her?” Toriel suddenly asked and she was obviously referring to Muffet, it was change of subject and Pinkie went with it. “No, I don’t like her like that. Though she’s seems adamant to follow me around, I do however think she’s cute... even though she almost killed me.” Pinkie cringed when she heard an angry shout on the other end of the phone, her goat friend was not happy so she quickly explained the situation. - “So she doesn’t have anything better to do, but include herself into your life? Ever after she almost fed you to her pet?” Toriel queried as she finished listening to Pinkie’s tale of going to the spider hive, she sighed over the phone. “Look, Alphys almost has the elevators that Mettaton has tampered with back up and running. I and Undyne will still be in wheel chairs for a while longer, but we’ll be able to meet up with you soon. Gyftrot says hello by the way. I’m sorry to hear your shovel broke, please stay safe Pinkie. You’re willingness to befriend anyone who almost kills you on a regular basis is one of the reasons why I like you, because you even gave me a chance when… I almost did it myself by accident.” “It’s Okay Tori, hopefully we’ll be able to see other soon. I need cuddles to keep me from getting sad that I haven’t thrown a part in several weeks.” Pinkie was a little stir crazy about not throwing parties at the drop of a hat, but she kept a tight control of herself to not go crazy from her current inability to do so. Flicking her phone shut and storing it away she turned to Muffet who was a bit busy licking jam off of her fangs. She smiled sweetly at Pinkie as she stood up; with the jam on her fangs it couldn’t have been anything else other than sweet… also since it was strawberry it looked vaguely creepy. “Right let’s get a move on my dear friend.” Muffet bowed to Pinkie before waving her arms towards the stairs. “Darling, you take the lead as I am but a humble spider in your presence.” “Thanks for helping me back there Muffet. Also I’m not your deer friend; I’m your pony friend!” Pinkie moved up the stairs with a smile. “You’re friends with a deer monster aren’t you?” Muffet asked as she rolled her five eyes while chuckling a bit. She followed after the cute pink equine up the stairs back to the next floor. - Upon coming up the stairs, Pinkie saw a familiar friend of hers. “Hey Blue Bunny, it’s been a while!” Pinkie approached the bunny at the nice cream stand. “Hey Pinkie, it’s nice to see you… where’s Toriel?” Blue Bunny’s smile lowered in quality slightly. “Oh she’s been hurt, but she’s mostly okay. She’ll get better; I just recently got a call from her so I know she’s okay.” Pinkie smiled brightly for her friend. “So have any nice cream to cheer me up?” “Sorry Pinkie, I’m actually sold out right now. Four armored royal knights came by and completely cleaned me out; I think they might have been some friends of yours as they mentioned you in their conversation. I still do have one thing and it’s for free… my bright smile!” Blue Bunny gave Pinkie a great big happy smile. “You’re still one of my best customers and you’ve helped my stand become a big success, especially when I ran across all those pirates you were busy escaping from. “Speaking of escaping, how do I continue on from this area, do you know anything Blue?” While Pinkie was busy talking to, Muffet stood off to the side looking out of place and a bit shy. “Well that way leads to a floor three elevator which only goes down, other than that I think the only way forward would probably have to be through the Mettaton Hotel up the stairs that way.” Blue Bunny rubbed his chin looking thoughtful. “Okay thanks for the help Mr. Bunny, come on let’s go check out the elevator!” It reminded Pinkie that she had missed seeing some parts of the underworld because she was captured by pirate Temmies. She wanted to see the elevator and if any monster was there. Upon walking up to the elevator, she saw a familiar face. “Hey, hey there, did you remember my name?” Heats Flamesman said wondering if Pinkie did in fact remember him introducing himself to her earlier. “Of course I do Heats Flamesman!” Pinkie said in a cheery manner. “Oh no, to be defeated this easily by being remembered, I’m so embarrassed!” The flame head monster looked surprised for some reason which confused Pinkie. “I’ll always remember that you remember, so remember the ember! Is there something wrong with your friend?” “I guess she doesn’t like fire or fire related monsters.” After looking over her shoulder, Pinkie answered with this statement after seeing Muffet cowering away from the fire monster. “Eh it’s alright, I can understand that I’m a hot guy and all that. So don’t worry about it.” Heats tone normalized and he didn’t seem upset that Muffet was staying well away from him. “Okay then, see you later Heats!” Pinkie went back toward Muffet and gave her a comforting hug which she gracefully accepted. “Why do spiders live in the hot lands, if you don’t like fire monsters?” “While we don’t like fire monster, we can’t stand survive being cold and the hot lands are a warm place for us to stay.” Muffet followed Pinkie up the stairs towards Mettaton’s Hotel. “The limo probably drove off a ledge from higher up; it explains the momentum it had with breaking the webs we covered the entrance to the hive with after you came in.” “Speaking of… who hired you to steal my soul and said that I didn’t like spiders? I befriended all the ones in the ruins and even sold cupcakes to Vegetoids; do you realize hard that is to do with those guys being health conscious? It’s a good thing I deal with guys like that when I was working at Sugar Cube Corner back home.” At this thought Pinkie came to a halt. “Gee, I hope they don’t fire me from the bakery as soon as I get back. I technically have a good excuse for being late to work by getting stuck in the Underworld.” “Yeah, about that darling, the nasty rumors came from this strange talking flower. That and King Asgore wants to capture a powerful soul so the barrier could be broken. Both of them would have paid well for it.” Muffet came to a stop and saw Pinkie looking up at something at the top of the stairs; she came to a stop as well when she saw MTT hotels sign. “Well gee, that’s not gaudy at all what with the two gold winged statues of Mettaton and his initials on the sign.” “I guess Flowey still doesn’t like me very much, but I will see to him eventually… even though I haven’t seen him since I gave him cooties. How does one cure cooties anyway?” Tilting her head while looking around in thought Pinkie noticed a note on the ground. “Huh, what’s this? Come to the dark alley on the right for good deals.” “Oh come on, who would be that silly as to follow… oh never mind then.” Muffet had crossed her four upper arms and her lower right arm pointed after Pinkie entering the alleyway. “I better not let my mistress get into any trouble then.” Walking into the alleyway after Pinkie, Muffet saw there was a shop being run by two humanoid monsters. She stayed back a bit to watch as the pony approached them. - Pinkie walked up to the two who looked to be selling stuff, she curiously looked at the two who were looking back at her. They both scrutinized her a bit before speaking up. “Oh my goodness, do you think she is…” The tall green humanoid crocodile monster started off, she had short blonde hair that ended in curls and was wearing a shawl with blue and yellow stripe over a blue undershirt and some pants. She also had a dab of lipstick at the end of her snout. She reminded Pinkie of Gummy back home, only female. This led Pinkie to being completely at ease around this crocodilian monster almost immediately, she liked her looks too. “I think she is, because we’ve recently seen her on his show… like a lot.” The corpulent purple furred cat monster said drawing Pinkie’s attention away from the crocodile monster. She had black hair that had colorful blue streaks in it and she was also wearing blue overalls with tufts of yellow hair coming out from under it. The overalls didn’t cover her arms or go past her knees; the only other small notable thing about her was the earring in her left ear. “It’s got to be Pinkie Pie!” Both of them said at the same time looking rather excited. “Hello there. Like I’m Bratty and this is my best friend Catty.” The crocodile now known as Bratty introduced herself. “Hello there. I’m Catty, like this is my friend Bratty.” The cat that called herself Catty introduced herself almost at the same time as her best friend and the two of them started laughing together. “Aren’t you two being stereotypically bad puns?” It was seemingly out of the blue that Pinkie asked this. “Like, how so and what do you mean?” Bratty place a hand over the other while sitting up and taking an interest in the conversation. “Well you’re both in an alley. So, you’re an alley-gator and she’s an alley-cat!” There was a silence for a moment as the two looked at each and then started laughing about what Pinkie had just pointed out. “Like, oh my, I didn’t know we were being funny like that...” Bratty started off looking suddenly amused at the thought. “Like it was completely unintentional, but it is so awesome to have it pointed out to us!” Catty followed up. “Welcome to our shop by the way, do you need anything. We have this packaged junk food stuff from the surface that should still be good. We can never hold on to the barbecue flavor because Bratty keeps eating them all.” “I so like the taste of the barbecue flavored ones, so sue me… no wait you wouldn’t.” They both began laughing again at Bratty’s words. “So did you need anything?” “Yeah, can you two give me details about this area? Or maybe tell me something about Mettaton like where he is at the moment? Otherwise I’ve already Met-a-ton of monsters.” Pinkie smiled as the laughter restarted anew and she bowed to the two. “Yeah, like we can totally set you up with that information.” Bratty answered to be eventually followed up by Catty. “We know all about Mettaton and we’re like his biggest fans.” Catty looked particularly like her namesake with her paws under her chin. “So, like, Dr. Alphys built Mettaton right?” Bratty started up. “That’s like, what they tell you.” Catty followed. “But like… Mettaton always acts like…” Bratty spoke up again. “Being built was his idea somehow.” Catty held a paw up to her mouth. “I know about that already, tell me something I might not know.” As Pinkie asked this Muffet walked up to stand right next to her. “Alphys is like an old friend of his… she used to be our friend too before she became busy doing all that science stuff for King Asgore.” Bratty actually offered information that was remotely new to Pinkie. “We used to go looking for good garbage at the dump.” “Yeah we went to Waterfall all the time when we were young to scrounge around the garbage dump; we were such good friends before she became so busy being a royal scientist and all that.” Catty followed up with her own bits of information. “But they’re like… not friends anymore. You could say Mettaton went crazy, we still love his show though and you’re like really cool for being able to be on it with him.” Bratty smiled at Pinkie and pulled her into a tight hug. “Isn’t she just the cutest thing Catty? She’s so cuddly.” “Yeah, Mettaton has become a bit of a mean guy, but we’re still diehard fans of his! Unlike him and Alphys, Bratty and I are like best friend forever!” Catty seemed to be a rather energetic about being friends with the other girl. “Alphys used to be like a big sister to us.” “She used to live on our street. I mean, like, if your big sister…” Bratty turned her reptilian red eyes upwards thinking a bit while sticking out her tongue. “Sister takes you on trips to the dump with her!” Catty held her paws up to her face and looked ecstatic at the memories. “She showed us the coolest places.” Bratty looked a little bit melancholy as she said this, she must really miss her lizard friend and the pony picked up on it. “We haven’t heard from her in a long time.” “Do you want to talk to her? I can get her on the phone… I think she’s even watching us right now.” Pinkie’s suggestion was met with gleeful enthusiastic nods from the two. - “I guess it’s been a while since I put myself down here with the amalgamate monsters…” Alphys looked unsure as to whether or not she would pick up when Pinkie called, she felt Undyne prod her back with a spear held in her good arm. “Okay, okay, I’ll get back together with those two soon and I’ll spend some time with them!” “That’s better… stop being so cooped up in here and hang out more, at least with someone other than me for a change!” An angry Undyne said while keep her eye narrowed at Alphys. “Those old friends of yours seem pretty cool, why haven’t you ever introduced them to me?” It was clear that Undyne wore the pants in the relationship and she was actually socially adept despite her highly aggressive and destructive tendencies.