Happily reunited

[Undyne]

"Fourteen to fifteen... months? C'mon Alphys, quit pulling my leg", Undyne said with a nervous smile. They had only been together a short while ago, a couple of days at the most! That was when she had been dragged here, and she'd seen Alphys with her all that time until then.

"I-I'm serious!" Alphys exclaimed. Undyne's disbelief made her stutter again.

"But we only reached the surface a few days ago! I was with you the entire time! When I first... was alone, I was already here, and then I..." She sputtered out but seeing Alphys's look knew that she was being honest.

"Hey, do you... remember that one cartoon, Star Trip? That one episode where they bring the Starboat Company to near light-speed and..."

"... it causes time dilation for everyone in the spaceship. Of course I remember, that episode was awesome."

"Something like that happens here in the Omniverse too. We might've been pulled at the same time, or maybe Omni is able to travel through time to pick you at any point in time that he likes. The thing is, what may have felt like a few days to you felt like months to me."

"So that means that, if we talk about how we perceived that time you... were around for over a year, versus a couple of days from me?" Undyne asked. Alphys's silence told her enough and she pushed herself out of the water to wrap her into another hug, and never mind what she was supposed to do to heal up. "I missed you every minute that I didn't see you, and you endured that feeling for over an entire year..." That was one thing that Alphys didn't quite realize about herself. She was stronger inside than she thought she was.

Finally she said: "It doesn't matter now. I'll never allow for us to be separated again." And she underlined that statement by giving her another squeeze.

"I-I'd really... like that", Alphys replied with that cute blush across her cheeks again.

"So then... that means that Sans, Frisk and Queen Toriel are around... and Flowey said that Chara, Prince Asriel's sister, is also here, not to mention that Betty girl looked like she knew me too... Papyrus must be around as well, right?"

"I'm not sure", admitted Alphys. "There's been rumors going around but I never got confirmation on anything."

"What about King Asgore or Prince Asriel?"

"No idea. I never heard anything about either of them."

"Damnit... then it's back to my original plan", muttered Undyne. She lowered herself back into the healing waters. By now only one injury remained that needed patching up, outside of a few scratches that could heal on their own. They could leave very soon. "I'm going to speak to the Princess of Ambrosia... I think the people here call her Guu? This place looks perfect for us, the monsters of the underground, to live in. My priority is of course to serve the royal family, but since none of them are around I will offer my servitude as a knight to the Ambrosian Princess. At least until I find Asgore or Asriel... or until Toriel takes the throne back. And maybe even beyond that."

"A-as a knight?" asked Alphys. "You mean royal guard?"

"No, they seem to have that covered already. I mean as a knight. That is if she lets me go back with you, otherwise I'll just have to find work elsewhere."

"They'll probably have work for you! They're usually looking."

"Hmm. Speaking of traveling... I was in Coruscant until a while ago."

"O-oh?"

"That was how I got injured like this. Do you remember that yellow flower that restrained us all when we were in Asgore's throne room and tried to kill Frisk? I went after him cause he was killing humans."

"The yellow flower?" Alphys asked. Undyne, unaware that Alphys was trying to gather her thoughts to explain to her that she knew about Flowey, nodded and explained:

"Name's Flowey, yeah... that was a pretty brutal fight. I was here with Sans and his friend, some girl called Desco, when we saw him on a news report..."