Save Me Before I Fall (rewriting owo)

NGAHHH!!

Thank alexpartridge00 for the idea for this chapter! 

I continue on.

The fires of Hotland fade at my back.

I don't think.

I only walk.

Back in the direction from whence we came.

Sometimes Phoenix takes over for a few moments, taking out a monster or two.

But he doesn't speak either.

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I blink and look around.

A garbage dump.

A lifeless dummy stands among piles of trash, of things long lost and forgotten.

There are urgent whispers.

Phoenix immediately takes control and brings me forward, peeking around a garbage pile.

Two monsters stand, startlingly different from each other. One, a small, young-ish (who could tell, with these monsters?) yellow dinosaur, with a white lab coat like Sans's and glasses perched on its nose. The other, a very tall... fish lady? A humanoid monster with blue, scaly skin and red eyes.

They talk to each other, not paying attention.

Phoenix readies the gun and aims it at the dinosaur's back but I stay his hand, dissolving the pistol. The bright yellow would only alert them.

So we wait and listen.

"...ust go U-Undyne, please...."

The dinosaur's voice is shaking and nervous... and... embarrassed?

"Alphys. You know I can't just leave everyone! How could I call myself a future royal guardsman then?" The confident fish lady bares sharp triangular teeth. "And besides. A human will be no match for me!

"N-No! Undyne, I-I... I won't let you go!"

Undyne leaned close. "What?"

Alphys shrunk away a little. "I-I-"

"Alphys..." Her voice was softer now. "I have to protect everyone."

She started to walk away.

Phoenix was getting annoyed. What's the holdup? Just let me-

"B-but who will protect you?"

My heart stopped.

Undyne stopped, too, for a moment. She started to turn back... then her face filled with pain and she kept walking.

Alphys's back slouched.

I started to run.

What?! What are you doing?!

I didn't care if anyone heard me.

I just ran.

Phoenix kept yelling at me. Telling me to go back. To let him in control. To go finish the job.

But I ran.