09-12-2017, 07:58 AM
The sight of Princess Guu sweating with effort caught Undyne offguard: was this witch-tree really that powerful, so much that even the Princess was pushed to her limits with just protecting them from the mental intrusion?! Then this meant that they were indeed facing not just a powerful but trivial arc villain, but a genuinely dangerous antagonist! And if anime had taught her anything it was that these battles always went the sane way: first, their plan to have Ice Bear chop the tree down would fail at the last moment, maybe the tree had even foreseen it all and was luring them to break their spirits, and Sans, Ice Bear and she would get knocked down and struggle to keep their consciousness. Then Guu would have her Berserk Button pushed when the tree threatened to kill her love interest in some horribly slow and painful way - and out of their group, said love interest was most likely to be Ice Bear, unless Guu had a secret crush on Sans. She would activate her secret superpowers and go one-on-one against the tree after single-handedly crushing the mook timberwolves, thus prompting the three of them to push themselves back to their feet and unleash a group attack with the remainder of their strength, allowing Princess Guu to strike the decisive blow. And then Ice Bear would carry them all under his arms and run out as the tree collapsed and/or exploded.
Certain of their eventual victory she bared her rows of pointed teeth for her broadest grin, one that was reserved for two occasions: one being when she saw Alphys, especially if it was after a while of them being separated, and the other being when a battle was brewing that she'd get to be in. Twin spears, crackling with excess magic, materialized into her hands and she tilted her head to the left and right until it cracked. "Ahh... that warmup's got my blood rushing! Now come at me so I can cut you apart!" Of course she would ultimately be defeated by the tree but it would make Princess Guu's job easier if the mooks had their numbers thinned out a bit before that happened. And she couldn't let her have all the fun, right?
She was about to charge in when a flat-tipped bone bursted out of the ground next to her and shoved her to the side. Caught by surprise, she stumbled a few more steps before catching her balance. The next moment a giant timberwolf crashed into the spot she had been standing at two seconds ago and shattered the bone before sliding forward, pulled by its own momentum. "Wha..."
"you're welcome", said Sans as he put his hand back in his pocket and showed her his big smile.
"... thank you. I didn't know we had more enemies behind us." She turned and checked, but the enormous timberwolf was the only enemy that had been behind them, and now that side was clear. Facing back forward, she bared her teeth again. It was not for a grin, but for an angry grimace. "I'll get you for this." She thrusted her spear forward, summoning numerous blue spots at the feet of the incoming timbermen. The simple-minded constructs did not even take notice and ran straight into the dotted area, then found themselves shredded by the spears that shot out of the ground and stabbed them from their unprotected bottom side. While the surprise attack took down eight of them, there were dozens more men and wolves to take their place, and the big timberwolf had also recovered and was turning to face and attack them.
She looked around as she threw one of her spears into the mass and waited not to see if it hit, but summoned a new one. Ice Bear had taken the chance of the initial chaos to hide... probably going for the witch tree while her efforts were focused on the two of them. Guu was still focused on maintaining the mental barrier, and Sans was waving his hand around like a dirigent - a lazy dirigent who used only one hand and kept the other in his pocket. He summoned more bone spears that slid along the ground towards the robotically advancing tree-monsters. Good... their work was to draw their attention and keep them busy. She stabbed the closest wolf through the head and prepared to block an incoming hit, only to have the forces run past her. They were beelining towards Princess Guu!
"Sans! Protect the Princess!" she yelled as she prepared another area attack of Steel Rain, this time with spears raining from above. This was not according to plan! Unlike with their previous battle Guu was too busy to guard herself from attacks this time around, and the numbers were overwhelming. It was a good thing that she wasn't alone. Sans and her took Guu's left and right facing outwards and Undyne exchanged her spears for her sword Taitan, which gave her the necessary reach to keep the timbermen at bay, while also putting her helmet on. Single attacks came through every so often but the hardened wood couldn't pierce her heavy armor, allowing her to take most hits and only getting staggered for it.
Then out of the corner of her limited field of view she saw a white glow just like the one from earlier. She finished the swing of her blade and pulled her helmet off with a quick motion of her hand as she spun to face Sans. "Ha! This time you can't deny it!" she yelled. Indeed, the skeleton had summoned a... what the hell was that?! She was so stunned by the sight of the huge floating skeletal head that she nearly forgot to swing Taitan again. But there was no mistaking it, this huge thing had fired the white laser beam that she had seen.
Sans turned to look at her and she could see the glow in his right eye while the skull fired another beam from its maw, blasting two wolves. "you saw it this time?" he asked.
Undyne grabbed him by the collar and lifted him off the ground. "Don't you act so casual about it! That skull is the exact same-"
She saw the shock in Sans's eyes and his mouth opening but by the time that she realized that his shock wasn't because of her outburst it was too late. Sans was knocked out of her hands when the giant timberwolf pulled the same trick on her as before, and this time it worked. Its claws dug into her armor and pierced her skin like soft butter while its fangs bit into her shoulder. Everything became a blur but from the corner of her eye she could catch a brief glance of Guu and Sans moving away from her - or rather, she was being pulled away from them! She opened her mouth to scream but then the ground knocked against her back and the brutal impact knocked the air out of her lungs before the wolf crushed her, its sheer weight bending her chestpiece and pressing it against her chest. "Y-you... damnit...!" She materialized a large spear into both hands and stabbed the wolf through its lower jaw with it, but the beast showed itself unimpressed. It shifted its weight onto its hindlegs... and dragged its claws downwards along her chest, leaving three cuts along each side from the sides of her chest to her stomach.
When it backed away chunks of shredded armor were pulled off of Undyne's chest. The entire chestpiece had been torn apart like a tin can in a meat grinder. It had been thick enough that the claws hadn't cut deeper than that, but that wasn't necessary. The giant timberwolf didn't need to destroy her vital organs to kill her... it was enough if it broke her SOUL. And with the certainty characteristic to a predator it knew that it had mortally injured her.
She heard a voice yelling her name but she could not make out whose it was. The wolf above her became blurry too, she could see it back away to let her succumb to her injuries and to go for her friends. Killed not even by the Big Bad, but by one of its lackeys? Was this thing even conscious? What a joke... she looked up. The sun was shining down on her from a clear blue sky as if it was oblivious to it all. Her SOUL was cracking through the middle, before long it would fall apart like a piece of glass dropped on the floor. "Sorry, Princess, I... failed you..." she whispered
... no.
She could not allow herself to die... not now...
The wolf, it would attack Sans, it would destroy him as it had killed her... and Guu would not have the three of them to back her up... their mission would fail and the tree... the witch-tree would spread its powers far and wide, it would take everything over. The trees, maybe the entire forest, everything would be withered away by its powers. She could not allow that to happen. She could not allow herself to die.
She knew not where this power deep within her came from, a feeling that she vaguely remembered from her battle against Flowey, but right now she could not care less. Like sticky putty it enveloped her cracked SOUL, prevented it from shattering, held it together, returned her strength. New power pumped through her limbs. She reached out to grab Taitan and pulled her eyepatch off with her other hand. "I can't let you hurt my friends..." she said as her torn armor reformed over her chest, now pitch black with a huge red heart in its center. "Not with this much at stake." There was that grin again, that grin when she sensed a good battle. She registered it with her rapidly fading consciousness. "Come face me, big wolf. I, Undyne, will destroy you!" Her last two conscient thoughts were that she would have to leave the witch tree in the capable hands of her three friends. And the other one was for the last words that she spoke in that battle.
More effort is required. "Motto doryoku ga hitsuyodesu."
Certain of their eventual victory she bared her rows of pointed teeth for her broadest grin, one that was reserved for two occasions: one being when she saw Alphys, especially if it was after a while of them being separated, and the other being when a battle was brewing that she'd get to be in. Twin spears, crackling with excess magic, materialized into her hands and she tilted her head to the left and right until it cracked. "Ahh... that warmup's got my blood rushing! Now come at me so I can cut you apart!" Of course she would ultimately be defeated by the tree but it would make Princess Guu's job easier if the mooks had their numbers thinned out a bit before that happened. And she couldn't let her have all the fun, right?
She was about to charge in when a flat-tipped bone bursted out of the ground next to her and shoved her to the side. Caught by surprise, she stumbled a few more steps before catching her balance. The next moment a giant timberwolf crashed into the spot she had been standing at two seconds ago and shattered the bone before sliding forward, pulled by its own momentum. "Wha..."
"you're welcome", said Sans as he put his hand back in his pocket and showed her his big smile.
"... thank you. I didn't know we had more enemies behind us." She turned and checked, but the enormous timberwolf was the only enemy that had been behind them, and now that side was clear. Facing back forward, she bared her teeth again. It was not for a grin, but for an angry grimace. "I'll get you for this." She thrusted her spear forward, summoning numerous blue spots at the feet of the incoming timbermen. The simple-minded constructs did not even take notice and ran straight into the dotted area, then found themselves shredded by the spears that shot out of the ground and stabbed them from their unprotected bottom side. While the surprise attack took down eight of them, there were dozens more men and wolves to take their place, and the big timberwolf had also recovered and was turning to face and attack them.
She looked around as she threw one of her spears into the mass and waited not to see if it hit, but summoned a new one. Ice Bear had taken the chance of the initial chaos to hide... probably going for the witch tree while her efforts were focused on the two of them. Guu was still focused on maintaining the mental barrier, and Sans was waving his hand around like a dirigent - a lazy dirigent who used only one hand and kept the other in his pocket. He summoned more bone spears that slid along the ground towards the robotically advancing tree-monsters. Good... their work was to draw their attention and keep them busy. She stabbed the closest wolf through the head and prepared to block an incoming hit, only to have the forces run past her. They were beelining towards Princess Guu!
"Sans! Protect the Princess!" she yelled as she prepared another area attack of Steel Rain, this time with spears raining from above. This was not according to plan! Unlike with their previous battle Guu was too busy to guard herself from attacks this time around, and the numbers were overwhelming. It was a good thing that she wasn't alone. Sans and her took Guu's left and right facing outwards and Undyne exchanged her spears for her sword Taitan, which gave her the necessary reach to keep the timbermen at bay, while also putting her helmet on. Single attacks came through every so often but the hardened wood couldn't pierce her heavy armor, allowing her to take most hits and only getting staggered for it.
Then out of the corner of her limited field of view she saw a white glow just like the one from earlier. She finished the swing of her blade and pulled her helmet off with a quick motion of her hand as she spun to face Sans. "Ha! This time you can't deny it!" she yelled. Indeed, the skeleton had summoned a... what the hell was that?! She was so stunned by the sight of the huge floating skeletal head that she nearly forgot to swing Taitan again. But there was no mistaking it, this huge thing had fired the white laser beam that she had seen.
Sans turned to look at her and she could see the glow in his right eye while the skull fired another beam from its maw, blasting two wolves. "you saw it this time?" he asked.
Undyne grabbed him by the collar and lifted him off the ground. "Don't you act so casual about it! That skull is the exact same-"
She saw the shock in Sans's eyes and his mouth opening but by the time that she realized that his shock wasn't because of her outburst it was too late. Sans was knocked out of her hands when the giant timberwolf pulled the same trick on her as before, and this time it worked. Its claws dug into her armor and pierced her skin like soft butter while its fangs bit into her shoulder. Everything became a blur but from the corner of her eye she could catch a brief glance of Guu and Sans moving away from her - or rather, she was being pulled away from them! She opened her mouth to scream but then the ground knocked against her back and the brutal impact knocked the air out of her lungs before the wolf crushed her, its sheer weight bending her chestpiece and pressing it against her chest. "Y-you... damnit...!" She materialized a large spear into both hands and stabbed the wolf through its lower jaw with it, but the beast showed itself unimpressed. It shifted its weight onto its hindlegs... and dragged its claws downwards along her chest, leaving three cuts along each side from the sides of her chest to her stomach.
When it backed away chunks of shredded armor were pulled off of Undyne's chest. The entire chestpiece had been torn apart like a tin can in a meat grinder. It had been thick enough that the claws hadn't cut deeper than that, but that wasn't necessary. The giant timberwolf didn't need to destroy her vital organs to kill her... it was enough if it broke her SOUL. And with the certainty characteristic to a predator it knew that it had mortally injured her.
She heard a voice yelling her name but she could not make out whose it was. The wolf above her became blurry too, she could see it back away to let her succumb to her injuries and to go for her friends. Killed not even by the Big Bad, but by one of its lackeys? Was this thing even conscious? What a joke... she looked up. The sun was shining down on her from a clear blue sky as if it was oblivious to it all. Her SOUL was cracking through the middle, before long it would fall apart like a piece of glass dropped on the floor. "Sorry, Princess, I... failed you..." she whispered
... no.
She could not allow herself to die... not now...
The wolf, it would attack Sans, it would destroy him as it had killed her... and Guu would not have the three of them to back her up... their mission would fail and the tree... the witch-tree would spread its powers far and wide, it would take everything over. The trees, maybe the entire forest, everything would be withered away by its powers. She could not allow that to happen. She could not allow herself to die.
She knew not where this power deep within her came from, a feeling that she vaguely remembered from her battle against Flowey, but right now she could not care less. Like sticky putty it enveloped her cracked SOUL, prevented it from shattering, held it together, returned her strength. New power pumped through her limbs. She reached out to grab Taitan and pulled her eyepatch off with her other hand. "I can't let you hurt my friends..." she said as her torn armor reformed over her chest, now pitch black with a huge red heart in its center. "Not with this much at stake." There was that grin again, that grin when she sensed a good battle. She registered it with her rapidly fading consciousness. "Come face me, big wolf. I, Undyne, will destroy you!" Her last two conscient thoughts were that she would have to leave the witch tree in the capable hands of her three friends. And the other one was for the last words that she spoke in that battle.
More effort is required. "Motto doryoku ga hitsuyodesu."
Quote:Undyne has transformed into Undyne the Undying (SP: 3/4) and will remain in this form for the remainder of the battle!
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