01-23-2017, 08:39 AM
Jeremy slash Burgerpants had taken a seat on one of the rocks scattered around the fake Mt. Ebott entrance and smoked again, while watching Undyne, who in turn was focusing. A method of transport, something swift and big enough for two... she remembered the anime that she had seen and the books that Alphys had shown her. There was one thing that was very consistent across technology-advanced series... these things that they called "cars". Motorized vehicles that were operated through a series of levers and a wheel... actually, come to think of it she remembered that Papyrus had a bed in the shape of a car. She'd seen it during her stay with them, after her house had burnt down. They could use one of these.
She had no idea how long she had been focusing when she opened her eyes again, but she grinned when she saw the results of her labor: a two-seater convertible with a dark blue paintjob and a zig-zag shape in white resembling a row of teeth. Jeremy flicked his cigarette aside and stepped closer, then tapped the car with a paw as if to test that it was real. It was. "You have to see it to believe it", he said with wide eyes. Conjuring matter out of nowhere was something that not even magic could accomplish, after all. "There was all this, what did you call it, Omnilium floating around, shining like a rainbow, and formed into this car. What'd you do, Undyne?"
"I focused. How much time has passed?"
"I went through half a dozen cigarettes while watching, so 'bout half an hour. For a while you were just sitting there with nothing happening though."
"That was the time where I was remembering the things I needed to. Let's see how this thing works." She opened the door as she remembered the humans in the anime to do, by pulling on that handle, and climbed into the car while Jeremy did the same on the other side. To Undyne and him the inside looked normal, however a human mechanic for modern cars would have been tearing their hair out at the sight: the surfaces were bland and empty where there should be buttons and wheels, owed to that no artist would draw a car's insides in their full detail and thus Undyne had never learned better, and what was under the hood was mostly an amalgamation of fancy pipes and electric cables that led nowhere. All that was important down there was a small motor extracting and synthesizing magic energy from its surroundings and transmitting it to the wheels for propulsion. Everything felt oddly familiar to the touch but Undyne dismissed the thought, grapsed the leathery steering wheel and tapped the gas pedal. The car sprung to life and Undyne laughed as they began to pick up speed.
It was a good thing that the Nexus was a vast emptiness without people to dodge and roads to follow, because otherwise there would have been carnage before Undyne was sufficiently familiar with the car to drive properly. Yet she found that she could just... not get comfortable with this thing. The controls were unfamiliar and clunky. After nearly an hour of driving and with Jeremy looking a little green in the face she stopped, shaking her head. "This won't do."
"A-agreed..." The feline climbed out and nearly collapsed on the ground, falling onto his knees and taking deep breaths to recover.
"Oh, come on. I didn't ride THAT fast!" She climbed out as well, unable to hold back a grin as she saw what she percieved as him overreacting. "Fine. We'll get something else. Just let me focus.
"If it isn't too much to ask, could you also make me a few more cigarettes? I'm going to run out soon." He handed her his packet and Undyne gave it a disgusted look. Even more than soda, these things rotted your body and mind... but it was his decision whether or not to smoke.
"Yeah, sure. Let's see here..." She held her hands out, holding the packet in one hand and trying to visualize it before her mental eye as best as she could. Ten minutes later she handed back two packs, both full. "Here. But I recommend that you cut your intake, or you'll ruin your health completely."
"Undyne, my health is already near ruined by my previous job. A few smokes aren't going to push me over the edge." As if to underline his statement he started smoking and ignored Undyne's glare.
"The surface is full with humans, BURGERPANTS. Need I remind you who it was that got us stuck underground in the first place?"
"What's your point?"
"Humans are more powerful than any of us, and believe me, I witnessed that first hand. Their strength, endurance, everything, we monsters don't compare to. But if you ruin your health you're making yourself easy prey for them."
"Aren't we already", Burgerpants replied resignedly, and Undyne groaned.
"I'll beat that sarcasm out of you yet... whatever. I must focus."
Being wasteful right now was not the best course of action. She had no idea how much Omnilium she had left... so, the best course of action was to take the car and remodel it, but what to? Something where Jeremy wouldn't get ill, yes, but what... wait. Why had SHE not felt sick after driving? Because it was her who was in control? She remembered the old ferryman in Waterfall telling her that the driver of the boat never felt nearly as ill as the passengers, because they knew where the boat was being steered. So in other words, Jeremy was ill because he hadn't been the one to drive, and she wasn't the most comfortable around vehicles either if she wasn't the one driving (she had learned this the hard way when moving to live with Sans and Papyrus and having her stuff transported by the ferryman), so that meant that they each needed their own vehicle. But two cars was too much... what if she could change this Omnilium to something else?
An anime series came back to her mind where a man was brought to the future with a time machine, but because he could not get acquainted to the technology he kept using modern tech modeled after ancient concepts, such as body armor in the shape of a toga and... robot vehicles in the shape of horses. She even remembered that anime quite well, it was one of Alphys's favorites because the guy was quite good-looking. She herself had watched it mainly because he wielded a sword twice the size of his body and with various cool additions, but still she had picked up on many other concepts. Now if she could remember what those horses had looked like...
Before her mental eyes the car melted into a lump of liquid metal, before reshaping and solidifying into two robotic horses. Completely made of metal, powered by magic just like the car, with wheels on the bottom of their hooves, red glowing eyes and black markings for effect and saddles with plenty of space for their needs. When she opened her eyes back up the car was gone and in its place the two horses stood there, motionlessly and awaiting their activation. Perfect.
"Jeremy! I'm done here."
"I noticed. What did you make this time?"
"Eh, I believe they are called Tetsuma. Robot metal horses to serve as our mounts. C'mon, climb on yours!" She felt rather excited out of a sudden, seeing the powerful frame before her. Just like in the anime she had watched... and Frisk had told her it wasn't real? Hah! If only she knew! In an instant she was in the saddle and grabbed the horse's reins, a metal chain attached to their neck, and the machine whirred to life. Unlike the clunky controls for the car this felt completely natural to Undyne and she raised a fist to the sky with an enthusiastic "YEEHAW!" before blasting off at maximum speed. The feeling was surreal, the world on her sides became a bunch of blurs and distances that had previously looked enormous were now covered in a span of minutes. Jeremy was left far behind in an instant.
She let her Tetsuma take a wide arc around the fake Mt. Ebott then circle back around it and stop near Jeremy, who was still getting comfortable in the saddle. With him being shorter than Undyne it was of no surprise that he wasn't comfortable, but Undyne dismounted, adjusted the saddle as she had seen in one of the anime series and climbed back into her own. "Okay, I'm ready to get going."
"Ehm, Undyne? Where ARE we going anyway?"
"..."
"..."
"Let's just head... ehhh, that way! Yeah, that way looks good, maybe we'll find someone! Maybe even a few other people from the Underground! We can't be the only ones who made it here, right?" Without awaiting his reply she spurred her horse on and started to head straight in the first direction that she could think of, with Jeremy setting after her. Between the distance and the air currents that resulted from going this fast Undyne did not hear what the former fast food server muttered under his breath:
"I certainly hope that Mettaton isn't around."
She had no idea how long she had been focusing when she opened her eyes again, but she grinned when she saw the results of her labor: a two-seater convertible with a dark blue paintjob and a zig-zag shape in white resembling a row of teeth. Jeremy flicked his cigarette aside and stepped closer, then tapped the car with a paw as if to test that it was real. It was. "You have to see it to believe it", he said with wide eyes. Conjuring matter out of nowhere was something that not even magic could accomplish, after all. "There was all this, what did you call it, Omnilium floating around, shining like a rainbow, and formed into this car. What'd you do, Undyne?"
"I focused. How much time has passed?"
"I went through half a dozen cigarettes while watching, so 'bout half an hour. For a while you were just sitting there with nothing happening though."
"That was the time where I was remembering the things I needed to. Let's see how this thing works." She opened the door as she remembered the humans in the anime to do, by pulling on that handle, and climbed into the car while Jeremy did the same on the other side. To Undyne and him the inside looked normal, however a human mechanic for modern cars would have been tearing their hair out at the sight: the surfaces were bland and empty where there should be buttons and wheels, owed to that no artist would draw a car's insides in their full detail and thus Undyne had never learned better, and what was under the hood was mostly an amalgamation of fancy pipes and electric cables that led nowhere. All that was important down there was a small motor extracting and synthesizing magic energy from its surroundings and transmitting it to the wheels for propulsion. Everything felt oddly familiar to the touch but Undyne dismissed the thought, grapsed the leathery steering wheel and tapped the gas pedal. The car sprung to life and Undyne laughed as they began to pick up speed.
It was a good thing that the Nexus was a vast emptiness without people to dodge and roads to follow, because otherwise there would have been carnage before Undyne was sufficiently familiar with the car to drive properly. Yet she found that she could just... not get comfortable with this thing. The controls were unfamiliar and clunky. After nearly an hour of driving and with Jeremy looking a little green in the face she stopped, shaking her head. "This won't do."
"A-agreed..." The feline climbed out and nearly collapsed on the ground, falling onto his knees and taking deep breaths to recover.
"Oh, come on. I didn't ride THAT fast!" She climbed out as well, unable to hold back a grin as she saw what she percieved as him overreacting. "Fine. We'll get something else. Just let me focus.
"If it isn't too much to ask, could you also make me a few more cigarettes? I'm going to run out soon." He handed her his packet and Undyne gave it a disgusted look. Even more than soda, these things rotted your body and mind... but it was his decision whether or not to smoke.
"Yeah, sure. Let's see here..." She held her hands out, holding the packet in one hand and trying to visualize it before her mental eye as best as she could. Ten minutes later she handed back two packs, both full. "Here. But I recommend that you cut your intake, or you'll ruin your health completely."
"Undyne, my health is already near ruined by my previous job. A few smokes aren't going to push me over the edge." As if to underline his statement he started smoking and ignored Undyne's glare.
"The surface is full with humans, BURGERPANTS. Need I remind you who it was that got us stuck underground in the first place?"
"What's your point?"
"Humans are more powerful than any of us, and believe me, I witnessed that first hand. Their strength, endurance, everything, we monsters don't compare to. But if you ruin your health you're making yourself easy prey for them."
"Aren't we already", Burgerpants replied resignedly, and Undyne groaned.
"I'll beat that sarcasm out of you yet... whatever. I must focus."
Being wasteful right now was not the best course of action. She had no idea how much Omnilium she had left... so, the best course of action was to take the car and remodel it, but what to? Something where Jeremy wouldn't get ill, yes, but what... wait. Why had SHE not felt sick after driving? Because it was her who was in control? She remembered the old ferryman in Waterfall telling her that the driver of the boat never felt nearly as ill as the passengers, because they knew where the boat was being steered. So in other words, Jeremy was ill because he hadn't been the one to drive, and she wasn't the most comfortable around vehicles either if she wasn't the one driving (she had learned this the hard way when moving to live with Sans and Papyrus and having her stuff transported by the ferryman), so that meant that they each needed their own vehicle. But two cars was too much... what if she could change this Omnilium to something else?
An anime series came back to her mind where a man was brought to the future with a time machine, but because he could not get acquainted to the technology he kept using modern tech modeled after ancient concepts, such as body armor in the shape of a toga and... robot vehicles in the shape of horses. She even remembered that anime quite well, it was one of Alphys's favorites because the guy was quite good-looking. She herself had watched it mainly because he wielded a sword twice the size of his body and with various cool additions, but still she had picked up on many other concepts. Now if she could remember what those horses had looked like...
Before her mental eyes the car melted into a lump of liquid metal, before reshaping and solidifying into two robotic horses. Completely made of metal, powered by magic just like the car, with wheels on the bottom of their hooves, red glowing eyes and black markings for effect and saddles with plenty of space for their needs. When she opened her eyes back up the car was gone and in its place the two horses stood there, motionlessly and awaiting their activation. Perfect.
"Jeremy! I'm done here."
"I noticed. What did you make this time?"
"Eh, I believe they are called Tetsuma. Robot metal horses to serve as our mounts. C'mon, climb on yours!" She felt rather excited out of a sudden, seeing the powerful frame before her. Just like in the anime she had watched... and Frisk had told her it wasn't real? Hah! If only she knew! In an instant she was in the saddle and grabbed the horse's reins, a metal chain attached to their neck, and the machine whirred to life. Unlike the clunky controls for the car this felt completely natural to Undyne and she raised a fist to the sky with an enthusiastic "YEEHAW!" before blasting off at maximum speed. The feeling was surreal, the world on her sides became a bunch of blurs and distances that had previously looked enormous were now covered in a span of minutes. Jeremy was left far behind in an instant.
She let her Tetsuma take a wide arc around the fake Mt. Ebott then circle back around it and stop near Jeremy, who was still getting comfortable in the saddle. With him being shorter than Undyne it was of no surprise that he wasn't comfortable, but Undyne dismounted, adjusted the saddle as she had seen in one of the anime series and climbed back into her own. "Okay, I'm ready to get going."
"Ehm, Undyne? Where ARE we going anyway?"
"..."
"..."
"Let's just head... ehhh, that way! Yeah, that way looks good, maybe we'll find someone! Maybe even a few other people from the Underground! We can't be the only ones who made it here, right?" Without awaiting his reply she spurred her horse on and started to head straight in the first direction that she could think of, with Jeremy setting after her. Between the distance and the air currents that resulted from going this fast Undyne did not hear what the former fast food server muttered under his breath:
"I certainly hope that Mettaton isn't around."
"(Note to self: insert quote & picture once I find stuff)"
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