A Final Boss Awakens!

[Schwi Dola]

Desco was back in Tokyo with all of her friends and Big Sis! They were finally on the true path that Desco was created for.. taking over Earth! Desco was excited and happy that she could share this with everyone. Mr. Valzy especially, who is still giving Desco tips on being a final boss in this crucial time. They surveyed the area around them and started to consider just beaming down this city and going on to another. A final boss needs to make a good entrance and destroying a captial would get world-wide attention. They had almost come to a decision on the matter when a group of heroes appeared! They made a dramatic entrance filled with poses in sync with eachother and flashy effects. They called themselves the Prism Rangers, this could be very bad for Desco! Rangers are a weakness for final bosses!

"Hey," said Guu. Desco turned but the time she did everything shifted to an earlier time and place. She was watching herself in third person which should be weird but wasn't. Because hey, if you haven't figured it out by now this is a dream sequence! Desco was struggling with a huge moral dilemma, one bigger than any she had faced before. Mr. Valzy gave her the only two options, support Big Sis or trap her in Hades for eternity. Does Desco force Big Sis to say with Desco or does she let Big Sis reincarnate? Despite Desco's objections, Fuka was firm in her decision to seek reincarnation by paying for her sins as Prinnies are supposed to. Desco felt her mind split in two as her body refused to cooperate with the feelings inside her, her body performing super cell division. The clone it created did not have the constraints that she had and was free to act upon them.

Things zipped forward to the next day with Big Sis Loveland where this other, Torn Desco had taken over the entire Overlord as President and created a paradise where Big Sis would choose to stay. A world of sweets, hunky guys, and the latest fashion trends, it was designed to stop Fuka from reincarnating. She had also changed the Prinny Law to prevent Big Sis from reincarnating! The group sought to stop Torn Desco's plans and fought Torn Desco. Desco sorted out her decision, that her selfish desires would stop Big Sis and she couldn't do that, it would not make Big Sis happy. This was true purpose of Desco's existence underneath taking over the world!

Then the scene shifted again and she was with Big Sis in a very weird place with Nagi, Mr. Valzy, and Artina. Somehow they were in the past with Tyrant Mr. Valzy and human Artina! However, Artina had just got back from doing her duties at the clinic without letting the others know. In the middle of this war, the emergency clinc hosting soldiers from both sides was considered the same as the enemy. Desco and Big Sis were mad because Artina had made them worry so much. They did not want her to die! Even if this was the way it was supposed to go in history, they could not standby just because that was the fate cast in history.

Desco's eyes oepned and the dream vanished. The old/new memories were still fresh in her mind like they had just happened moments ago to Desco. Which was overwhelming for a moment as her mind reorganized the information into the proper folders for review and processing. Daddy had tried to help Desco with her memory in the lab, had his efforts which seemed for naught finally paid off? Desco called out, "Hey Guu guess whaat?" Nobody Answered Desco. Guu was not still sleeping next to Desco either. Did she get up early to work? Leading a city and being a princess must be a lot of work! Maybe Guu was still around here somewhere though having breakfast. The sunlight through the windows felt like it was still morning. It filled Desco with determination! She checked her dataverse device quick first, it was indeed morning, though late morning.

Desco pulled off the covers and slid off of hte bed. She stretched and yawned, then quickly re-made the bed. It was the little things like being need and tidy that she picked up on from Big Sis's teaching. Big Sis told her much about being a girl and needing to be girly even as a final boss. Still, she tended to make a mess and not clean it up most of the time. She could make Prinnies do it too! That counts right? Desco wandered about Guu's room, checking to see if Guu was eating here or perhaps down the hall in the grand dining room of the palance. But Desco only found staff working here, so she sat down in the dining room and used Omnilium to summon herself a bowl of cereal and milk. She could summon anything, but this is all Desco wanted. It felt lonely sitting in the big room alone.

[Schwi Dola]

Desco finished her breakfast but with no Guu in sight. She had expected Guu to show up by now. She had the power to sense other people including Desco so even when she was busy she would have sensed Desco wouldn't she? And she would probably have stopped in for a moment. That must mean that whatever Guu was doing she wasn't very close by. Maybe she had to leave to do some work in the city! In any case Desco wanted to tell her something so she used her dataverse device. Desco had her email address so she opened up her own email and typed up a quick message to Guu. With that finished, what was a Final Boss going to do in Ambrosia all by herself?

[Schwi Dola]

Desco made her way outside of the palace. Along the way she was greeted with great courtesy and politeness as she left. The young final boss took to this respect like a lava snail to lava. It felt natural for people to show her respect due to her power. Though these days that was not really all that immense. With Yogsothoth desummoned she stepped out of the palace and into the city. She looked wide eyed at the bustling city full of contradictory structures. One would be some martian alien looking sky scraper and another was a wood log hut tied together. The anachronisms were rampant as the mix of people from different periods of time and cultures mixed in this haven for outcasts. Not like the Empire or Camelot that sought to convert their citizens to their cultures.

Before Desco could get anywhere her communicator buzzed. She pulled it out with just a message to turn around. So Desco did and there was her father! "Daddy!" Desco jumped at Genjuro and hugged him. While the precautions were unnecessary she naturally held back from using her full strength in her excitement. It was a holdover from her own world as she could have easily crushed a normal human with her strength. She was programmed with this for both her father and Big Sis though as an Unprinny that has unlocked her true potential Desco could probably squeeze tight and not hurt Fuka too much.

Wary of the little pink haired girl, Genjuro greeted his daughter. "Hello Desco, you are well I take it? I understand there was quite the commotion in the Nexus." It was not much of his concern except that it had involved Desco. He couldn't care less about the politics between rival nation-states, there were others in the Empire whose job it was to care. Desco responded, "Yes! Desco fought some people that didn't like Guu. They were easy especially with all of Guu's friends coming to help." "That's good. But I don't have a lot of time I just came here to give you this Desco."

Genjuro pulled out a seemingly empty plastic capsule and opened it, shaking out what appeared to be nothing but air. Desco looked at it curiously. "What is it? Desco doesn't see anything is it invisible?" Genjuro shook his head. "Not literally but they are just very small. These are nanobots designed to play music." "Music?" "Yes and not just any sort of music these will play battle music for your enemies when you enter battle! So that you always know when heroes challenge you to battle." "That sounds awesome! Thanks Daddy!" Genjuro didn't add that these bots would also watch Desco and record events that occur outside of his normal purview when she gets whisked away like she was in this 'Graveyardverse' thing. He couldn't have gaps of information. She wouldn't have minded but she didn't need to know the details.

Genjuro nodded again and scratched his chin. According to his sources Guu was not in the city at the moment but it was best not to leave things to chance. She did not like him and Genjuro did not want to risk interaction with the princess of the city. If nothing else it could strain Desco's relationship with her and he wanted to see the natural progression of that. Too much interference could muddle his data. Not that it was particularly scientific to have any interference and no control experiment but there were limits to a controlled environment. The data could form truely scientific experiments in the future. "Alright now I need to run off Desco. Do have fun while you are here." Genjuro activated his recall device to go back to base. "Bye daddy!" Desco waved and watched as Genjuro teleported away. It took an oddly long amount of time but that was Omniphysics for you.

[Schwi Dola]

With her father gone, Desco had a city to explore! First she decided to summon some company. It would be more exciting with someone to talk to. As if in response to her pondering, her communicator vibrated. Desco pulled out out to see that Guu emailed her back! She was hanging out with some ninjas so she was busy right now. Maybe she was hanging out with that one ninja they had met the first time they were here when they were ambushed. Desco would have to find someone else to hang out with. She could create them with her Omnilium. But she didn't want to trap her friends in the Omniverse. Especially Big Sis, no matter how badly Desco wanted to see Big Sis Desco knew that this place would not be good. Not as a secondary where she wouldn't have resurrection immortality. The default of course were Prinnies. They were funny and always did what they were told. Criminal human souls stuffed into penguin shaped bodies sentenced to serve angels or demons, they had to do what they were told to pay off their sins. Desco liked playing with them.

She held up a hand to her chest, drawing out the mystical shimmering rainbow omnilium. It felt completely ordinary, she didn't think about how it was done but the how to what she wanted to bring here came by instinct. Desco held it out and the stuff got to work. She decided to bring two Prinnies and the Omnilium formed their outlines. Inside those outlines two wisp-like souls appeared, quickly being surrounded by the Prinny Hide. The stitches holding the hide together appeared as their eyes and beaks did. Finally their toolbelts around their mid-body and twin daggers for each. The process took a few minutes and seemed unreal at first until the textures started to fill out the surfaces.

They both looked a little disoriented. The left Prinny spoke first, "How did I get here Dood?" Both started to look around. The other Prinny just shrugged and responded. "Last I remember we were in the cafeteria Dood." They both looked at Desco.

She promptly responded with excitement and waved, "Hi Prinnies!" Her eyes sparkled as she looked at them. Desco was still thinking about what they were do in the city. She already ate breakfast so food was out, except that they could get candy or soda. There had to be a lot of interesting things to see wandering the street. This wasn't Hades so she couldn't just visit Emizel or Valzy. There had to be interesting people here.

Then they looked back at eachother again. "I think that explained that Dood." "So Desco, what are we doing here?" Naturally these two knew who Desco was, they were in Hades since she moved in. A relatively recent experience, but while she was nice to Prinnies sometimes they also keenly remember her testing new attacks on them. She could be dangerous and it was painful to get stuffed back into penguin bags over and over again.


Desco threw her hands up in the area. "Welcome to the Omniverse Prinnies! We are going to explore the city!" Desco brought her hands back down and continued, "Ambrosia is run by Desco's friend Guu. So Desco wants to take a look around." Desco pointed in a random direction. "Let's go that way!"

One of the Prinnies shrugged. "Whatever Dood. I don't see what you need us for, I want a drink." "Yea Dood, how did we get here anyway. You didn't have that kind of magic the last time we saw you." "Dood, shut up. What if she learned something else."

The final boss just shrugged and started stepping along with the Prinnies following behind her. "Desco used omnilium. It can do lots of stuff."

[Sans]

As much as Desco did not care much for the state of her Prinnies, even she was aware of the necessity for the mental well-being/ satisfaction. Sure, they were nothing more than just a batch of souls she can pull out for whatever purpose she needed them for, but they were still souls of the deceased. Souls of the damned. Besides, they got annoying when they were whiny.

That’s when she got an idea. She was already considering the prospect of trying out the various soda and candy products in Ambrosia! Why not go on a bit of candy raid? Her Prinnies reacted positively to her suggestion, and the decision was made without any further discussion. And she knew just where to go to start it off.

Enter “Chikorita’s Candy & Soda Emporium,” Ambrosia’s self-proclaimed finest manufacturer of delicious, colorful candy and bubbly, fizzy soda. Indeed, this was not an easy notion to challenge, for who else in the Omniverse sold such food and drink at such high quality? Their products were a bit of a household name within the bounds of Ambrosia; and if not for the products themselves, then the building, and what it housed, certainly held fame.

From an outsider’s perspective, both to those new to the city and to those literally outside the building, the Emporium was something to behold. A massive piece of architecture, it held up a huge sign on its rooftop; the sign itself posed a large Chikorita pokemon, albeit one wrapped in bright, pink hula feather necklaces with the large, tacky, neon pink words, “Chikorita’s Candy & Soda Emporium! Only Sweeties Allowed!” Right below the sign, in the middle of building, was a large staircase with a red carpet right down the middle, as if to give the feeling of stardom to all who walked inside. While the windows of the building were darkened, one could clearly make out the brief flashing of neon lights inside; those of pink and purple were most prevalent.

“Doooood! Look at that!” one of her Prinnies said, his eyes sparkling in delight, “Dood, let’s go in there! Please? Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleas-”

“Okay, okay! Desco says we go in there!” Desco said, advancing towards the door into the Emporium.

“Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!”

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“Would you care for another ketchup-flavored soda, mister?” said the waitress, twirling her large, blue flower in her hand as she grabbed her patron’s emptied glass with the other. The patron, a stout skeleton, nodded towards her, not entirely bothering to speak up. Her smile faded for a moment as he looked down towards the ground.

“Are you okay, mister?” she asked, leaning forward to take a closer look at him.

He chuckled, raising his head up. He was grinning from ear to ear.

“ah, i’m fine. just thinking is all. more ketchup pop, please.” he said.

His response was more than enough for the Floette, whom curtsied for a brief moment before running off to fetch his drink.

Sans leaned back against his chair, bringing his bony legs up on top of the table. The room was incredibly dark, with the only sources of light being the pink and purple strobes that lit up the building each passing second. All around him, creatures of various shapes and sizes were getting their groove on, bouncing to the beat of some form of techno song. It sounded awfully familiar to him, for reasons he couldn’t quite pinpoint. The song was almost successful in drowning out the noises of rapidly-manufactured candy, which was being stored in massive tubes that spanned the walls and the rooftop; hell, they were glowing too, as if to complete the experience.

He chuckled, the lights in his sockets gazing at the people, the pipes, the soda, the everything around him. He had to admit, Ambrosia was a strange place. A strange place for strange folk, indeed. He had wanted to leave to continue searching for his bro, but…

His bro might have liked the place…

He sighed. He wanted to keep looking for him. To know he was okay. It was just… something kept him from just getting up and leaving. Something kept him from just going and doing it. It was like being inside a vat of quicksand; you kick, you scream, but no matter what you do, you can’t pull yourself out. The only thing you can do is let yourself sink.

Maybe that was why he decided to head back into the city after letting Alice go. Everywhere was just quicksand, and trying to do anything was just going to drag him deeper and deeper into the unknown. There was no sense in doing anything, if all it was going to do was speed up the process.

So, he sat there, as still as a statue, as he thanked his waitress for his drink. He downed his soda; he told pun jokes; he tried to forget. Despite his attempts to keep up appearances, it was clear to anyone who bothered that he was not fully enjoying himself. Something Desco and his Prinnies noticed immediately upon entering the Emporium, the sunlight rapturing from the outside briefly illuminating the skeleton before everything was shrouded in the world of neon and darkness.

[Schwi Dola]

Desco had never been in a place like this before. Were this Earth, this certainly wouldn't be a place a young child could venture into. But it was the kind of thing the Prinnies were familiar with. They just wanted to relax and have some fun. The flashing lights and dancing were exciting and energetic, but amongst all of this stood out the skeleton sitting alone. He seemed like he wanted to look like he was enjoying himself but he was practically emanating the exact opposite as others shied away from that corner. Desco looked curiously, but a waitress came up to their group. "A group of four? Right this way please!"

She led them through the darkened room to a table fairly close to the doom and gloom skeleton. Even with the neon lights and pulsing music, he sat eerily still. Desco wondered why he was here and what Guu would think of this place. "Please, someone will be here shortly to take your order and enjoy your time at Chikorita’s Candy & Soda Emporium!" 

While the waitress wandered back to the front to deal with more customers, The prinnies talked among themselves and Desco looked back at the skeleton again. There was something.. demonic about someone like him in a place like this. Desco floated off her seat to the floor and walked over to the Skeleton. "Hello, would you like to be Desco's minion?"

[Sans]

The skeleton steadily leaned his head back further and further as he suck down every last drop of his beverage. He imitated a “smacking-lips” motion with his jaws. He let out an approving moan, relishing the taste.

*a little spicy…*

Spicy was putting it lightly, however; in fact, one could have been forgiven to believing they had accidentally ordered a “hot-sauce soda” of some description from how hot it was on the taste buds. It was enough to give him a short buzz, though, so at least he wasn’t going to go to sleep and then get kicked out for filling up customer slots.

He set the now empty bottle back on the table, glancing up towards some deer monster as he shuffled himself and his partner away from his general vicinity. He sighed, seeing no one else was even remotely close by. Seemed he was being a real party-pooper just sitting there, getting more and more drunk off the ketchup-flavored drinks and the tiny little mints that they served. Most every other patron of the Emporium had taken care to keep a fair distance away from him, preferring the tables closer to the doors or even heading onto the dance floor itself where they could not be bothered by him and his glowing eyes glazing over everything. He probably looked like a creep, which would have been funny if he just… didn’t feel like going to bed or anything.

He was just about to get up and go pay his rapidly increasing tab when something entirely new caught his attention. The doors near the front opened, briefly blinding him from the onslaught of light before revealing a quartet of individuals. He found himself staring as a waitress slowly marched them over to a table close by to him. He tried to remain discreet about it by flopping himself onto the counter, slightly burying his skull into his arms while leaving just big enough of a crack to peek through.

The leader of the group was probably the most odd-looking fellow he had ever seen, and this was in the same world that had people like Raal Deathwind as well some of the monster creatures or whatever they were he had seen in Ambrosia. She was young, not looking much older than around nine or ten, and at a glance, she looked human. The stout comedian, however, could tell even with the distracting neon flashes of light and the enveloping darkness that she was farther from human than even a skeleton like himself. Poking through bangs of purple hair that just barely melded with the lighter shades of florescence sparkling around them were sets of small, red horns. The horns in particular were an odd feature; not even King Asgore Dreemurr had red horns; hell, he hadn’t seen ANYTHING with red-colored horns in the history of anything. He merely shrugged at the thought.

Perhaps what was most striking, and what slowly made the monster all the more uncomfortable observing her, were the seemingly dozens of yellow eyes all over her body and purplish-dress. While it did not seem, to him, that she was watching him back, he still kept his eyes trained on her, participating in the fake staring contest he was imagining taking place in his head.

Eventually, she made a move. She turned back, looking directly at him. He immediately feigned tiredness, looking down into the hole he had created with his arms. He looked like a passed-out drunk in the need of removal, though this did not fool Desco for a second. He merely pretended to sleep, even letting out small snores to dissuade anyone else from coming near.

"Hello, would you like to be Desco's minion?"

Well, it almost worked.

He didn’t flinch; he kinda suspected it wasn’t going to work at all. Instead, he lifted his head up from the table, looking up towards the floating monster/whatever the thing was. That was what was so confusing about the creature. At least people like Raal and Alice held enough familiarity to be placed in particular categories. Raal was a skeleton like himself, so he could be a monster, and Alice held enough traces of humanity to be called human. Hell, even the inhabitants of Ambrosia, as varied and strange as they were, could blend in well with his fellow monsters back in the Underground. But this person? What the hell even WAS it? Best he could tell, it was an amalgamation of human and monster. A twisted combination of alien features that just didn’t belong anywhere. It was like something straight out of a science fiction novel!

A light-bulb ticked in his cranium. That… actually sounded pretty damn awesome.

He kept his smile on his face as he worked out the best way to respond to her question. It was rather direct and, like herself, incredibly strange, but he wasn’t going to pass judgment. It was probably just contrasting cultures and the shock that comes with it.

“oh, sorry, I was just… restin’ my head here. had a little too much to drink, hehe,” he said, burping as if to accentuate his point. He placed a cupped hand to his mouth. “but, uh, I have to give you a no-go on the minion stuff there, miss… what’s your name……? that just ain’t how I roll, ya know? Sorry if I was botherin’ ya or anythin’.”

[Schwi Dola]

The Prinnies sat around their table chattering amongst themselves. They talked about the usual things, how they've been treated and whats happening. They mostly waited until a waitress approached them. It was a busy place this club so it took a few minutes, while Desco was chatting up with the skeleton in the corner. One approached, a tall creature compared to the Prinnies or Desco but otherwise on the short side. She, if she was a she, had some crazy 8 disc shaped hair coming off of her head, four on each side, and a ribbon in the back. She also had a dress with ribbons going down the front. But there was something about her black and white body around the purple hands and face that made it seem very likely that her 'clothing' was her body, much as how Desco's clothing was a part of her. It was nothing unusual to see for the Prinnies.

"Hello I'm Gothitelle and I'll be your waitress for this evening, what would you like?"

As she spoke she placed menus in front of the Prinnies and an extra one as she had seen Desco was with their party though she was not sitting here. More noticable, was how she talked. her lips did not move, it was almost as though she was putting thoughts into the heads of the Prinnies directly. A natural telepath would be the easy assumption.  The Prinnies looked over the menus and placed their orders.

Desco looked a little cross as the skeleton turned down her offer. Maybe she hadn't made it enticing enough. "Desco's name is Desco and she is a Final Boss! She doesn't have any bosses under yet so the positions are open! Midboss isn't such a bad position under a Final Boss!" For the strongest demons, calling another Mid-Boss was considered an insult in Hades. But not so much among lesser demons, they knew their place. "Desco has big plans in the future. She might go and open a black hole to damage time and space around Earth to threaten mankind, and all kinds of other fun things! Big Sis also wants to go take over Hades and Celestia which will be a lot of fun!"

[Sans]

For a few select moments, the blue-coated comedian’s placed his attention entirely upon the black and white, crazy 8 disco-haired, anthropomorphic mammal that served as the waitress of the ‘Desco’s’ little group. He didn’t quite understand why he was drawn to her over the strange alien creature conversing with him. The waitress did not possess any more unique physical features compared to the other Pokemon within the Emporium (well, aside from the ridiculous hair, which made her look like one of Mettaton’s background dancers during his Sunday evening rave parties on MTT.) Heck, she was practically camouflaged within the abyss of black and purple. Yet despite that, he still felt the need to look at her. To take in every detail of her, to lean back in his chair and just watch what she did. She looked like a normal waitress, but the skeleton was more than aware of life and its tricks. Appearances were never honest; no one was truly who they let others see themselves as.

Perhaps that was why he felt the urge to stare. The wish to reveal the secrets within was far too tantalizing even for a monster of many secrets.

Sans made the wise decision, however, and rotated his glowing eyes back to Desco. The violet extra-terrestrial’s eyebrows creased, the yellow pupils all over her body all turning to glare up at him. She pursed her lips and pulled out a chair from under the table to plop herself down in front of him. She leaned herself onto the table and placed her head on her hands, her bent elbows on the pristine glass surface. She rolled her head around in an uncanny manner even as she replaced her frown with a peppy smirk.

"Desco's name is Desco and she is a Final Boss! She doesn't have any bosses under yet so the positions are open! Midboss isn't such a bad position under a Final Boss!"

Something began to gnaw at the back of the monster’s cranium. Her voice was relatively high-pitched and remarkably childish, and her words resembled that of a child quite nicely. At least, it FELT like children speak. The gibberish about “midbosses” and “final bosses” were the only bits of her sentences he could properly discern. Her babbling did, however, have some light laughter emerge from the depths of the comedian’s chest that was waiting to burst. The zaniness of her words almost made him not think 'what in the world IS this thing?'

With this new information in the light, though, he began to ponder something else: how old was this “Desco?” Her mannerisms seemed to match her child-like demeanor, yet for all he knew, the “Desco” was hundreds of millions years old and she just happened to be really, REALLY young for whatever kind of species she was. It would have to be something eldritch in nature, he reasoned, because he just couldn’t see it as anything else. Perhaps she wasn’t even a natural creation? It was totally possible too. He had studied a bit of robotics while binge-reading science fiction books, and from what he could tell, they could theoretically live as long as they were properly taken care of.

He was just about to ask her age when she promptly stopped him dead in his tracks.

"Desco has big plans in the future. She might go and open a black hole to damage time and space around Earth to threaten mankind, and all kinds of other fun things! Big Sis also wants to go take over Hades and Celestia which will be a lot of fun!"

Oh…

Whatever this “Desco” was, it was clear that she held a side of her that sent a cold chill down his spine. He chuckled at what he hoped was a joke despite the one-hundred percent deadly seriousness of her tone. space and time, what a load o’ crap. hehe. she’s just a little kid spouting big kid words…

That’s what he thought to himself. His words sounded so convincing in his head, if he said them out loud, he was certain he could trick the eldritch organism into believing it too. But he wasn’t stupid. He had gone through far too much at this point to be able to lie to himself like that.

This “Desco” had essentially admitted to wanting to commit genocide by completely fracturing time and space, a continuum that no one should fuck with. He himself was well aware of the consequences of time-space mumbo jumbo fuckery; seeing some random creature from another dimension talk about screwing with it in such an innocent, playful tone, as if they couldn’t understand what exactly was wrong, was enough to cause a brief flash of pain to shoot through the scar on his collarbone. He grit his teeth and rubbed the mark on him as discreetly as he could while he tried to maintain his composure.

“well, uh…” he said, pausing to think over his next few words. He still wasn’t sure if she quite understood what she was saying, “i wouldn’t, ya know, go around and, you know, DO that kind of stuff. the timey-space stuff is, um… a really delicate thing. it’s not a toy… well, to most people it isn’t a toy, but it shouldn’t be a toy in the first place. it’s too easy to break, if you follow me, yeah?”

[Schwi Dola]

Desco looked puzzled for a moment as she processed Sans's warning. He didn't seem to like the idea of using a black hole to warp spacetime. It certainly could be dangerous, that was half the point. The other half was to bring out heroes to stop her reign of terror. Desco didn't really want to destroy Earth, she wanted to lure heroes to her domain to fight in a final battle. "That was just an example, Desco and Big Sis control Earth already so she doesn't need to try to destroy it yet. Desco will do anything to make heroes come out to fight her, as a Final Boss!"

The recruitment wasn't working. Before Desco could consider further, a voice slid into her mind. "I'm Gothitelle, your waitress today. What would you like to start?" Desco looked back at the prinnies to see a pokemon looking at her. Not that Desco really knew what Pokemon were or recognized this one as a Pokemon, her experience was limited to the ones being experimented on in her father's secret laboratory.  Right, the reason they came to this laser filled beat driven club was candy. "Desco wants a big candy bar and gummi bears!" "What flavors would you like?" "Oh, um... milk chocolate! And a mix of flavors for the gummi bears!" "Coming right up, please enjoy your stay." As a courtesy to Sans talking to Desco before being interrupted, he also heard the psychic's voice.

Desco turned back to Sans. "Well, would you like to just be Desco's friend instead? It will be more fun than sitting alone here all by yourself." Desco continued on, running on her wandering train of thought. "Desco is exploring Ambrosia right now. This is her first time here. She is surprised that Guu created this place soo quickly while Desco was away from her. Did Desco mention Guu before? Guu is Desco's best friend! Desco met Guu when she arrived at the Nexus."

[Sans]

The comedian felt a light stab of pain in his cranium. He brought a bony hand to his temple and applied pressure to it in a vain attempt to somehow push out the throbbing. He reached for another bottle on his table among the piles of empty ones, only stopping once he processed that he didn’t have one to drink. He winced. Perhaps he really DID have too much to drink…

Thankfully, Desco spoke up again, giving his mind something to focus on that had nothing to do with the headache he had.

"That was just an example, Desco and Big Sis control Earth already so she doesn't need to try to destroy it yet. Desco will do anything to make heroes come out to fight her, as a Final Boss!"

He didn’t know if it was the ache in his head impairing his judgment or if Desco caught on to his reaction when she mentioned sucking up time and space into a black hole, but he could’ve sworn that, back home, nothing non-human could even be seen on the surface. And Desco was by far the furthest thing from a human being he had ever seen.

Hell, now that he gave it some thought, NOTHING seemed to come from his world. The colorful creatures all around him might have; they looked like they could fit in in the Underground. But then there was Raal, and Alice, and those two guards with the pink armor, and now Desco.

He knew Frisk would fuck everything up if she won, but he didn’t predict something like THIS would end up happening. God, he needed something to drink. He didn’t want to start thinking about his brief chat with Frisk. He had gone into this place exactly because of that.

“final boss, huh?” he said, leaning back into his chair. The room seemed to go topsy-turvey for a few seconds. “guess you could say you’re uh… boss monster?”

He couldn’t stop himself from chuckling. He was gonna have to save that one for use later on.

Sadly, any reaction Desco could have given him was halted by a voice in their heads.

"I'm Gothitelle, your waitress today. What would you like to start?"

His eyes widened for a very brief moment as he looked around, trying to find the source of the noise. Eventually, he remembered the crazy-hairdo animal Pokemon that served as Desco’s group’s waitress. The fact that that thing could speak into his head like that made him keep quiet, only observing the exchange between her and the Desco. He could at least strike one thing off the list: these… Pokemon(?) were definitely not from the Underground.

So where WERE they from?

Before the waitress left, however, his mind snapped back to his empty bottles.

“uh, excuse me, miss? another ketchup-flavored soda please,” he said, tapping the Gothitelle by her side as she walked past him. She simply nodded before moving away from them both.

"Well, would you like to just be Desco's friend instead? It will be more fun than sitting alone here all by yourself."

friend…

He remembered how he had tried to handle Frisk for the briefest time in which they had listened to him back in Snowdin. He acted friendly, offering jokes, bad puns, and word search puzzles. He had hoped that doing so would stop them. That maybe, just maybe, that Papyrus might have been right. They were just scared and were trying to stay alive, or they were angry and needed something to lash out at, or maybe they just didn’t know what else to do in their situation.

The result? His little brother, a pile of dust to the wind. The whole world, destroyed thanks to his inability to defend it. And now here he was, sitting in some silly candy club, drinking his sorrows away while among a crowd of unfamiliar faces in an even more unfamiliar land. Honestly, what difference would it make if he refused her friendship? Not like he had anything left to lose…

"Desco is exploring Ambrosia right now. This is her first time here. She is surprised that Guu created this place soo quickly while Desco was away from her. Did Desco mention Guu before? Guu is Desco's best friend! Desco met Guu when she arrived at the Nexus."

wait. Did she say Guu?

Princess Guu. The ruler of Ambrosia. The one who could know where Papyrus was. If she knew where he was…

“you know Guu?” he said, barely keeping his excitement in check. Desco noticed his posture had straightened, and he was far more attentive than before. “i’ve, uh… i’ve been looking for her, actually. i need to ask her something really urgently.”

He had another thought. “oh, uh, and that’s a ‘yes’ on the friend thing, just to let ya know. A boneafide friendo here-o.”

[Schwi Dola]

Guu smiled and her tail slid out, growing large and noticeable out from under her skirt as she jumped back, landing on her tail while her arms and legs stretched out into the air in her expression of joy. The tail shared the same coloring as her clothes, and Yogsothoth though Desco had not summoned Yog here. Desco wasn't fighting or trying to fly around. She exclaimed, "Yes! Desco was created to be a boss monster for Big Sis! Yea we can have lots of fun!" Desco righted herself, her tail still holding her up which added a couple feet to her height until she leaned down and forward on it. Sans needed to talk to Guu, that was something Desco could help with. "You need to ask Guu something? Desco can e-mail Guu right now. What do you want to ask her?" Desco had her cell phone out, something Sans should be familiar with. There was no guarantee when Guu would reply though, not only might she be busy but time dilation could get the text to her at any time, from two weeks in the future to two days in the past.

Shortly, the waitress brought back the orders for everyone. She had everything balanced in the air levitating as if it had never heard of gravity. Chocolate and gummi bears floated over to Desco while the Prinnies got some very unusual things. Sardine shakes for all of them, gum, rock candy, and a few other things sardine flavored. For whatever reason, Prinny bodies loved the taste of fish. It didn't matter what they liked in a past life, with a new body came new taste buds. Desco quickly started to devour her chocolate bar.

[Sans]

Guu smiled and her tail slid out, growing large and noticeable out from under her skirt as she jumped back, landing on her tail while her arms and legs stretched out into the air in her expression of joy. The tail shared the same coloring as her clothes, and Yogsothoth though Desco had not summoned Yog here. Desco wasn't fighting or trying to fly around. She exclaimed, "Yes! Desco was created to be a boss monster for Big Sis! Yea we can have lots of fun!" Desco righted herself, her tail still holding her up which added a couple feet to her height until she leaned down and forward on it. Sans needed to talk to Guu, that was something Desco could help with. "You need to ask Guu something? Desco can e-mail Guu right now. What do you want to ask her?" Desco had her cell phone out, something Sans should be familiar with. There was no guarantee when Guu would reply though, not only might she be busy but time dilation could get the text to her at any time, from two weeks in the future to two days in the past.

Shortly, the waitress brought back the orders for everyone. She had everything balanced in the air levitating as if it had never heard of gravity. Chocolate and gummi bears floated over to Desco while the Prinnies got some very unusual things. Sardine shakes for all of them, gum, rock candy, and a few other things sardine flavored. For whatever reason, Prinny bodies loved the taste of fish. It didn't matter what they liked in a past life, with a new body came new taste buds. Desco quickly started to devour her chocolate bar.

He hopped back in his seat a bit as long, purple, ginormous tail slid out from underneath the Desco. He watched as she jumped back and landed on her tail, arms and legs stretched out into the air. She looked like she was hopping like a kangaroo, as if she was happy with the outcome. He sighed. At least her being happy was better than her wanting to destroy the whole world.

"Yes! Desco was created to be a boss monster for Big Sis! Yea we can have lots of fun!"

His eyes widened ever so slightly as she spoke. He hadn't given it much thought before, but now that he noticed, this 'Desco' person -or thing. It was getting harder to judge just what exactly Desco even was with each moment that passed- mentioned her 'Big Sis' a lot. Whoever she was, she clearly had something to do with Desco and was even kind of.... malevolent, if she wasn't trying to fuck with him with her statement about space and time getting fractured and taking over Earth.

But perhaps what astounded him most was her calling herself a "Boss Monster." That simply wasn't right. There were only two Boss Monsters he could name -they were Asgore Dreemurr and his wife, Toriel Dreemurr. They separated after a long while in the underground for reasons he wasn't sure of- and we was more than certain that Desco was not one of them. After a bit of quick thought about it, though, it suddenly seemed more and more plausible. She looked alien enough to be a monster; a really weird one that wouldn't have looked more out of place if she dressed up in green neon japanese skirts and danced to the tune of Sailor Moon, but a monster nonetheless. And, given her mannerisms, it was impossible for him to tell if she was young or old. By the definition, she might not have been kidding with her self-proclaimed title.

So not only was he dealing with an organism of unknown origins, but this very same organism could very well be part of his own species and could ALSO be a Boss Monster that had clearly never aged for... well, who KNEW how long it had been since Desco had aged. Something was telling him she hadn't aged at all.

He leaned back a bit more in his chair when Desco moved towards him. That tail of hers added a good few feet to her height, and honestly, it was freaking him out. He didn't need any more revelations.

"You need to ask Guu something? Desco can e-mail Guu right now. What do you want to ask her?"

He saw her phone was in her hand. It was clearly a celly, and she was already typing away at it. His eyes flashed with excitement and anticipation before he took a deep breath. He spoke slowly, if only to make sure he didn't betray any sense of nervousness or happiness from his goofy voice.

"uh... just tell her i need to ask her a question," he said, "i'm looking for someone, and i want to know if that someone entered city. his name's papyrus."

Just the fact that the world decided to, for once, throw the old skeleton a bone was almost enough to break his mask of a smile entirely. He didn't what this was; it might have been fate, destiny; perhaps he had made the right choice to be a lazy bastard after all; maybe dumb luck was on his side this time. Regardless, he felt something inside himself he hadn't felt in forever: a warm feeling. He almost melted onto the table from it. Finally...

He was going to see him again...

[Schwi Dola]

Desco tapped away a quick message on her phone and sent it. She said, "Okay Desco sent it! Guu might take some time to respond though." Desco waved her hand through the air, like the fact she was about to say was common knowledge. Which it was, the effects were noticable when you've been in the Omniverse long enough and communicated with people from far away. 

"Since time moves differently in different places here, she might not get it for a couple weeks! Or Guu could be busy. That's probably how Guu made Ambrosia so quickly while Desco was away! Time is really weird here. Wierder than that one time Desco and Big Sis were summoned to the past by Nagi. We met scary Mr. Valzy." Desco shuddered at the thought. Tyrant Valvatorez was extremely powerful and at first was not at all happy to have met Big Sis or Desco. He could have killed them without trying, but they still tried to help save Artina. "We tried to save Artina in the past but she died again anyway."

Desco moved from one topic to the other, her young mind always on the go. "So do you want to go check out other places in Ambrosia? They probably have all kinds of food here!"

[Sans]

For a brief moment in time, he let his mask slip just the tiniest amount. His smile barely changed, yet it seemed to widen one hundred inches. As he laid back against his chair, his shoulders visibly drooped, as if a large weight had been lifted off of his back. He let out a large, albeit quiet sigh, allowing himself to relax for just a moment. 

Finally, a lead! Someone who might knew where his little brother was! If Guu knew where he was...

His heart began to sink, however, as Desco kept talking.

"Since time moves differently in different places here, she might not get it for a couple weeks! Or Guu could be busy. That's probably how Guu made Ambrosia so quickly while Desco was away! Time is really weird here.

oooooffff course... he thought to himself. Seemed like the world still didn't want to make him completely happy yet. He should have expected there would be a catch; after all, why wouldn't there be? A transportation into a completely unfamiliar world such as this one couldn't bother giving him some kind of a positive.

He distracted himself from his disappointment with pondering what Desco meant by "time is really weird here." From what he could gather from her odd ramblings, he could at least confirm that this.... world -it was getting harder and harder to tell whether or not he was in a world or something else entirely the more and more he learned about it- held more than just the world of white and the world of rain-forests and candy palaces. It seemed to be a reasonable thought; it just didn't make any sense for there to be JUST two places like the white world and the forest world with THIS many colorful characters in it. But, according to the purple monster demon whatever, time was more than a little wonky in each world. So, from that, day could be night back at the white world, if night and day was even a thing over there at all. He couldn't imagine just how clunky it must have made travel and messaging and whatnot. Messages from one person to another could take days, maybe even years to reach the other.

He was getting back into his "science" mindset again. He did that on occasion, or at least when he was presented with something that piqued his interest enough to warrant it. He couldn't remember when he first got it; he just always had it, as far as he could tell.

He forced himself out of his thoughts to try to pay attention to what Desco was saying. He very quickly decided to just blank her out and sip from his ketchup soda bottle instead. It took more than a few minutes for her to stop talking and suggest going somewhere else, and by that time, the skeleton was already lightly slapping himself in the face to keep from falling asleep right on her.

He shrugged. "sure, why not? i got nothing else to do anyway."

He set down his half-empty ketchup soda bottle, waving for their Gothitelle waitress to come pick up his litter of drinks. She seemed to stick out her tongue at him as she came over to clean his mess up. He would've tried to annoy her with repeated attempts at jokes and flirts if he wasn't more focused on staying awake and on sliding out of his chair to walk out of the Emporium with Desco.

[Schwi Dola]

Desco smiled as Sans agreed to come with her. They were going to have lots of fun! She looked back at the Prinnies and called out to them. Servants as such they were, they wouldn't directly disobey a command from their master. "Prinnies, come on let's go!" She also left some money on the table Sans was at. She didn't know how much it was but she just left a handful of the gold coins emblazoned with old demons Desco could not name.  Probably old Corrupterment Presidents were randomly on the coins of all denominations. The same coin could have a half dozen different faces, a fight of political power over the years. The Prinnies collectively groaned or sighed and slowly shuffled out of their seats and towards Desco to follow.

Outside Desco looked at the street signs trying to determine where to go next when her cellphone vibrated. Surprised for a moment, it was so fast, she pulled it out again to show a short text. But it wasn't from Guu. This came from Guu's advisor? Secretary? Desco didn't know who Sylvia was but she trusted the email. Why would anyone send her something that wasn't true? "Guu is busy right now but Sylvia at the palace can help us find Papyrus! So who is he? Did he steal your stuff? Or is he your friend?"  The Prinnies chattered as they followed behind the two. "Dood, like you are going to find anyone here in a big place like this." "Yea Dood, this place is more complex than Hades was." "I bet he was never here to begin with Dood, can't we just go drink at a bar?" Desco paid no real attention to what the Prinnies said but their despondence was starting to be irritating. Desco wanted to help her new friend.

[Sans]

Out of plain curiosity, his white, glowing eyes had slid down towards the golden coins as they clattered against the glass table. Immediately, sweat began to form on the tip of his forehead and one that he quickly covered with a rub of his bony hand. The faces that were on the coins had sent a massive chill through his body that was almost as bad as the one he got when he fought the human back home. It was just the way their eyes were emboldened on the metal currency, as if piercing into your very being with a hateful, maniacal gaze unmatched by any other living being in existence.

However, after some additional thought, he noticed that there was no other insignia anywhere on the surface of the coin. He did not make any real movements to indicate how he felt; instead, he stared at the coin, eyeing it very closely as if he was inspecting it under a microscope. In the Underground, all gold coins had one of two things on it: a picture of King Asgore Dreemur, young and powerful and kind fully displayed in a metallic portrait, or a simple big-letter "G" written in sharpie. It did not take very long for him to notice that none of the coins held neither feature (though there was a goat-looking person on one coin, the way he looked with his malevolent glare and cocky sneer was all he needed for him to ditch the idea that it was Asgore.)

His hands began to tremble a bit; he stuffed them into the pockets of his jacket. It was official, Desco could not be a Boss Monster. In hindsight, he didn't know why he hadn't gotten to that conclusion sooner. After all, the evidence was plain as day. No Monster in existence looked ANYTHING like the purple tentacle monster that talked like a child and yet held the knowledge of things only adults could know about.

So he was back to square one with the walking enigma that was the Desco. A wave of dread filled his metaphorical stomach.

He squinted as they exited the Emporium, the sun shining in his face. He tried to block the rays with his hand, only for the light to pass right through them. Sometimes he wished he had skin.

The city was relatively crowded now that he took the time to observe. 'Pokemon' of various different colors, sizes and genders were all walking along the glittery, pink-colored cobblestone road. Carriages full of unusually colored fruits and vegetables tumbled through the streets, small, child-like creatures rushing out to pick up any fallen food as the carts bumped up against potholes in the ground. Massive, wooden stands with multi-colored and stringy ribbons plastered upon signs; their peddlers shouted among the cacophony of the crowd, trying to sell their wares: YumYum Fruit, Gummis, Scrumpilicious Fudge-Mellow Chocolate, etc. It was a massive far-cry from the emptiness of the Underground; in fact, he couldn't help but stand there and blankly stare at the world around him, his senses trying to catch up to his brain to process all that was going on around him.

Thankfully, Desco was able to knock him out of his temporary trance with just one word: Papyrus.

"oh, he's not a bad guy, no. he's..."

He didn't want to say it. if desco kills him...

"he's a good friend of mine. i need to find him," he said, glancing towards the ginormous pink palace that towered over the rest of the city, "you said someone named sybil at the palace can help us find him?"

Then he heard the Prinnies. They weren't on his radar up until that moment and, like Desco, now that he knew they were there, he wished he could forget them. It was more just the way they sounded when they talked that grated against his bones, and not in the 'so-annoying-it's-funny' kind of way. More accurately, it was a 'so-annoying-you-want-to-kill-them" kind of way.

He turned his head to face one of the Prinnies, expression unchanging. He then brought his hands out of his pockets, placed the sides of his hands against his head before slowly bending his arms forward to make him look like a man at an airport directing an airplane to land with the glowing baton thingies' it was like that, only much more robotic and in a way that expressed his feelings perfectly. He normally would have just let them be, but the absolute LAST thing he wanted at that point was to have a bunch of surfer-dude sounding penguins try to convince Desco to keep him from just running off towards the palace while they were having fun. No, that wasn't happening this time.

"bruh," is what he said after a few seconds with his eyes closed. He slowly reopened them, "bruh. dude, uncool."

[Schwi Dola]

Desco looked at Sans, so he was looking for a friend. Maybe Desco and Papyrus could be friends too, and Papyrus could be Desco's minion! If she could convince him, whoever he is, that would help with trying to turn Sans into one of her minions. Just like Harry Dresden. They would probably have to join Ambrosia too, like Desco. Although it that was never particularly official, Desco assumed she was a part of Ambrosia as Guu was. "So is he a skeleton like you? Or is he another kind of Demon?"

The Prinnies chirped up at this point. "Dood, I've never actually seen a skeleton before." "Well Dood, what about Skeleton Dragons?" "Besides those Dood, of course. Never a human skeleton, all we have in Hades are Zombies." "Maybe he was a Zombie that dried up and lost all of his goo-y zombie flesh Dood?" "That could be a sensitive topic if it were true Dood."

Sans replied with that same big grin and eyes, "Yea, kinda like me, but taller. A whole skele-'ton' taller."

Desco giggled and kept moving. She knew about where they were going. "The Palace should be this way, Desco just came from the palace. That's where she slept last night." It towered a little above the other buildings but the city was still a maze of dead ends. Desco had followed the main streets to get here anyway.

[Sans]

He let out another chuckle. That unfamiliar rush was one that he hadn't experienced for a while (unless he could count when Desco emailed Guu and he felt all the strain and pressure and tension within his bones immediately relax and allowing him to slump against his chair out of the sheer fact that he was just so tired.) Each time he did, though, it was never enough. He wished he could live his life with that feeling forever in his gut. It was a fantastic fantasy, alright.

He did not let this show, though. Instead, he kept his shoulders slumped, his hands in his pockets, and his smile firmly plastered on his face as the group proceeded to the Palace. As they got closer, his smile began to widen. Anyone who was looking at him could tell that, somehow, his smile had changed despite it only increasing in size. He looked happier all of a sudden, a fact that was only exacerbated as the pink palace grew bigger and bigger in size as they drew closer and closer to it.

Meanwhile, though, he was using up the time they had left by striking up small-talk with Desco.

"so, desco," he said, "you said you're pals with guu, right? must have been quite an interesting encounter."

perhaps it would be smart to talk about stuff she's interested in, he thought to himself.

[Schwi Dola]

Desco held out her arms wide. "Yes it was! Desco first met Guu right when she was brought to the Omniverse by Omni! Desco was very sad when she was brought here. You see, Desco wasn't always this weak. In Hades and on Earth Desco was 'really' a Final Boss. Mr. Valzy helped Desco realize her power. Desco and Big Sis killed the defenders of Earth and conquered it, and we were about to return to Hades to dethrone Axel and move on to Celestia but Desco was here instead. She met some strange people first, Nyeseth talked to Desco but Desco ran away..."

Desco looked away, she was embarrassed by her actions back then and it brought a little red to her face. "But Guu helped Desco get her confidence back! Ever since then Desco and Guu have been bestest friends." "I don't know Dood, that Guu is kinda creepy. Have you see how she has that same expressionless face all the time?" "Yea Dood, you can't know what she is thinking when she looks like that all time." "Dood, you shouldn't say..."

The Final Boss looked sharply at the Prinnies. "Don't talk about Guu like that Prinnies!" She shouted at them. Things suddenly happened very fast. Desco's tail slithered out and pushed her little body up into the air while something shifted in the air behind her and faded into view. The many tentacled Yogsothoth appeared behind her with its purple and red colors in jagged patterns. The yellow eyes all over Desco had been content before but now all the ones that could turned slightly to focus on the Prinnies, though the ones that couldn't still stared off into space.

One of Yogsothoth's tentacles shot out and wrapped around the first Prinny that had spoken. "Doood!" She easily lifted him with the tentacle and tossed him into the air against a nearby building. He promptly exploded on impact, creating a sizable crater of bricks and mortar where the Prinny was. Desco looked crossly at the other two, but the example was set for the others. But then changed expressions back to content talking to Sans. "So that's how Desco met Guu! So, how did you meet Papyrus?"