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Chapter 18 - Close To An Answer

The Hybrid Shiro was currently somberly staring out her window only accompanied by the embrace of a small boy who had fallen asleep by her.. that car ride which was not that long ago seemed far more distant than it was. Shiro was alone within this room besides the sleeping fellow, there was no one there, but just a silence that reverberated throughout the room and only fueled her thoughts, not of loneliness, but of self loathing. The way she was, she couldn't even be trusted to go out and do anything at all. Everyone had already left out to go on and follow those clues that they'd received, but she was just there. No matter what she had thought or wanted she wasn't allowed to go and would only get in the way. Shiro would turn her head backwards only to see Undyne who was standing in the room checking in on Shiro at the moment who would sigh and turn back around. Undyne had been told to make sure that Shiro did not do anything rash or get herself hurt, but Shiro still wanted to go out there and help. Although she could not think of how she would do that, but then an idea would have come into her head, Ms. Alphys could help her! Although she would have waited until Undyne left the room momentarily. "Alright punk, gonna do something, better not act up." Undyne would say and left the room, but kept the door open. Shiro would have laid down where she was on her side and slipped her phone under her head so it wasn't visible and dialed up Alphys.

Back in the lab Alphys would have been meticulously working on her recent project of the seemingly living technology, she was just putting in her finishing touches.. And then she heard a ring as she was suddenly surprised and fell back in her chair. She got up and rubbed her head then looking back at her work she would be relieved it wasn't messed up. Her head would have turned towards her phone then as she picked it up seeing Shiro? This was weird. She never usually got a call from the kid.. Maybe she was in trouble! "Oh- oh gosh" She would quickly pick up the phone with a bit of seriousness to her. "Shiro what is it, are you alright?"

Shiro would have been relieved when Alphys had picked up "Ms. Alphys, I need your help please immediately. It's urgent, teleport me to your lab now." Shiro would say with a quickness and hurried tone which would incite Alphys to quickly do so due to her genuine concern without asking a question. Locking onto Shiro's signature she would then transmit that to a teleporter she had within the lab a previous making of hers with collaboration from some others. Alphys would activate it and transported Shiro there, but Alphys looked confused seeing that someone else was along, it was that boy Sora. Alphys wouldn't question it too much as she cleared her throat and asked a question. "What happened, is everyone alright?" Well Sora wouldn't respond as he was still asleep, but now dangling over the shoulder of Shiro as she advanced closer towards the yellow dinosaur and would then respond. "Well Undyne's alright don't know about everyone else, but I want to know. I wanted to get away from Undyne and be able to go myself Alphys please help me out!" Alphys would have gone silent for a while and had a wary look on her face. "I know your parent's and everyone don't want you to go, and neither do I Shiro. Going now would be even more dangerous I can't let yo-" Alphys would have been suddenly interrupted by some music that could be heard in the close vicinity, it sounded quite familiar and was getting louder now as if it was playing from someone who was progressively getting closer and closer the more time went on. "I wonder what that is." And her question would soon be answered as her door suddenly burst open with a kick, as some quite magnificent legs could be seen through the doorway with the owner of them coming out of the door not long after. It was a metallic robot who began to show off some moves and interesting poses as if they were at a concert with a massive audience. "Ohhh yeah! Welcome darlings! Guess who's backkk." They would both look surprised at the appearance of this robot. Especially Alphys who would question. "M-mettaton? When did you get here I thought you were still going to be out on tour for a while!" Mettaton the glamorous robot would have had a smug smile and then placed a hand on his chest as he would expel more words. "Well Alphys, I am your friend aren't I? What kind of friend would continue on a tour while their friend is in peril no no no, without you all of this wouldn't have been possible. I still thank you to this day. Well then Alphys, I heard news of an attack that happened some time ago, and potentially something else. How are you all holding up?" Mettaton would say, but before Alphys could answer Mettaton would speedily come infront of Shiro with dazzles in his eyes as he pinched her cheeks and would look at her with a smile. "Ooh darling aren't you just the cutest. I remember seeing you last when you were just a tiny baby, time sure does fly. Who might this boy be?" "Oh this is my friend! He's uh pretty cool. It's nice to see you Mettaton. I watch your stuff all the time" Shiro would seem to change to being happy instead. Mettaton seemed pleased with this and would speak again. "Fantastic darling." Shiro would have turned over to Alphys again with something sparking in her mind. "Alphys, would you let me go if Mettaton were to come with me." Alphys would have pondered this. "Well it is better than you guys going alone, but I also have a sneaking suspicion you would find another way to go, so very well then." Mettaton would stand there a bit perplexed "H-huh? What is it." Alphys gave an answer. "Well currently, our friends are looking for the base of those really uh- well not nice guys that attacked us. We found a lead so they are looking into it." Mettaton would have placed a hand onto his chin in thought and then revealed a dazzling smile. "Well then, the great star must help out a friend. Besides with this my popularity will skyrocket and the numbers will be through the roof!" And thus it was settled. Alphys would have given Mettaton all the details for how to find it. "Alright bye darling let's go." Mettaton would have grasped onto Shiro and then instructed them to hold on tight as they left the lab and boosted off with installed rocket propulsion. And with just a bit of time passing after Undyne had suddenly appeared inside of the lab and looked at Alphys with a bit of a serious face. "Alphys, where are they?" Alphys would have been surprised, but then remembered Undyne's great sensing abilities, it was a miracle she had not come sooner. "They- uh uh.. Well they went off, but I made sure Mettaton went with them they'll be fine." Undyne would have grumbled a bit, since Mettaton was with them she would not be fully upset with her. Undyne walked over to Alphys and placed a hand on her head with a small pat and took it away. "Don't do something like this again Al, don't want trouble with the king and queen yknow. Anyways, i'm gonna have to go after them. Stay safe Al." She would leave her off with a little kiss as Alphys would blush and stammer slightly. "Yeah you too."

Elsewhere now back with Mettaton and the kids they had been flying around for some time as Mettaton had his radars going off to try and detect the similar soul signatures around until they found them, but of course they would have gone a bit low so they would not be detected and stayed behind. Making sure to use this other tech Alphys had slipped him to conceal their presences from everyone else even with their great senses. Sora had woken up now confused, but Shrio just whispered the situation over to him and he nodded. Now they were all listening in and slowly following behind everyone else, and trying to hear what they were saying. "I have a feeling we're getting close." "Just make sure they aren't sneaking up on us! It may be a trap." "Better to be safe than sorry." It was not quite clear who was saying what, but after they stopped talking they would suddenly look everywhere which forced the three to stay out of their sight for some time. "Looks like we are all good! Sorry for pulling your guy's legs a little haha." In the distance it could be seen Chara was slightly punched on the shoulder by Frisk, of course she was the one to say that. Anyways they would begin to walk once more and look around. The three continue to follow. After some time of walking in the forestry area they were closed off from any space making it rather hard to travel to which is why it seemed all the more likely for it to actually be the place of operations. They would come upon a sign that simply said entrance and pointed somewhere. "Really? That's it. This seems awfully suspicious." "I agree." "Haha I have an idea.. They totally wouldn't put it.." After that was said Asriel had moved to an odd looking tree it was probably him who spoke last. He would then touch a spot on the tree. "Here!" Although after he did that nothing happened and silence was heard for some time. After that Toriel would have inspected the sign, and it seemed she had found something on it as she touched it on the back and the ground suddenly fell? And then they heard them scream as they didn't know if this was good or bad but they would soon find out. Just as they were going to advance forward themselves suddenly they heard a whoosh in the air with a sudden turn towards it. Mettaton pointed a hand in the direction seemingly ready to launch some sort of attack, but it would have turned out that it was none but the hero of justice Undyne who would have crashed into the ground in front of them. Undyne now stood fully up as her hair blew slightly in the wind; it would add onto her slightly stern expression aimed at the three mostly at Shiro. "You are in big trouble princess." "Ah- i'm sorry Undyne please we don't have time for this." Mettaton would cut in. "Ah it's nice to see you captain, but the kid has a point. Come on then." Undyne would give a slight nod and would agree. "Well where are they?" Mettaton would have wandered over towards the sign that they would have seen earlier and Undyne would look a tad bit confused at what he was doing. Although the confusion would end as there was then surprise as there was a sudden drop of the floor with them moving downwards underground, just what was this? To all of them they could see nothing as the descending space was nothing but pitch blackness. It would cause anyone to be in distress or on edge from the eerie feeling they would get from such a thing, but then some calm music came from somewhere in the darkness. This being the kind of music you would hear on an elevator.. A really long elevator coming directly from Mettaton. And so the three, well now four would have sat on the ground Shiro and Sora would hum now towards the music that was playing. The descending ground would have come towards a stop as a metal door would have begun to open as the metal began sliding up and down. Now they would finally see light that came out, the building seemed like some private secret villain base you would see out of a movie. There were metal corridors reinforced by strong materials to make sure they would not be broken easily. Although as soon as they stepped a bit in they would realize that was not too effective. Shiro would point towards the ceiling and everyone would look. There were several people that had been sneakily put against the now disheveled and slightly destroyed ceiling. And in unison they would have just gone. "Oh." Although it would seem that there was no sort of alarm that had gone off or people that were running rampantly around so the others must have been silent with their approach which would have certainly made this easier for them. With a bit of a stretch they would take their first steps into the bunker.