Undertale: Frisk's Journal - Day 5

After a night’s sleep, I head back to Hotland. I decided to head towards a big building with the word “Lab” on it. I get the feeling a scientist resides here. As I came in, I noticed the screen is focused on me. Whoever owns this place seemed to have been stalking me. Besides that, the entire room was dark so I couldn’t see anything. Despite all reasoning saying to run away, I decided to head more inward. That’s when a lizard lady stepped out of a room and turned on the lights.

The moment she saw me she panicked. After she calmed down, she introduced herself as Alphys: the Royal Scientist for the Underground. She admits to basically stalking me but seems to want to help me. The advantage of being the focus of someone’s surveillance. It's just a shame she made an unstoppable robot bent on destroying me and she can’t stop it. And like if it was all set up for its appearance, that robot named Mettaton showed up.

Mettaton smashed through the wall and lived up to being an entertaining Robot like Alphys said he was before. Because as soon as he did I was suddenly in a game show! Luckily Alphys was there to tell me the answers. I am impressed that she can make an A and B with her hands. She even saw through trick questions I would have never figured out. Then the guy asked if I would smooch a ghost and she gave me this look. Considering all the answers were basically yes, I’m starting to feel like this was a set up.

But that was thrown out the window when Alphys basically blurted out the answer to some question about Mew Mew Kissy Cutie. She was found out helping me and to humiliate her asked me who she liked. Of course I don’t know and Mettaton used it to say that Alphys believes there’s someone out there who likes her and he basically said the person doesn’t exist. He then leaves promising more drama and more bloodshed. Before I left, she wanted me to get her phone number so she could help but noticed my phone.

She thinks it's old and decided to give it an upgrade. She also signed me up to my first social media account and it got me thinking “how did no one found out about this place if they’re online?” She then panics again and goes to the bathroom. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind if I took a few of her Instant Noodles. After all, it should make up for making a killer robot made to destroy me. And as soon as I left her Laboratory, I started to receive updates about her current status. Like every minute about what she’s thinking. This is why I didn’t sign up for Twitter. That and not having a phone.

She called, but then hung up. She really doesn’t like using the phone. At least use the phone for talking. She gets better at it, knowing about upcoming traps I had to deal with. Considering she has a camera following me it's no surprise she was well aware of the traps I was heading for. Luckily the puzzles were easy to figure out. But after entering yet another dark room, Alphys turned on the lights and I am now suddenly on a cooking show. Knowing Mettaton is capable of smashing through a wall which means my body would be easier to break, I played along.

Sadly the secret ingredient was my soul. But Alphys somehow convince Mettaton that a Vegan option would be better (though I’m pretty sure Eggs aren’t Vegan). All I had to do was get some can on a counter far away. Then the counter became the size of a building and I have one minute to get it before they go for the non-vegan option. Somehow Alphys saw this coming and upgraded the phone to be a jetpack! How on Earth did she make a Jetpack out of an old flip phone?

I manage to make it despite Mettaton trying to slow me down and decide to leave after that. Despite having a chainsaw that could have easily cut me this seems too easy. As I continue going further, I meet Sans again. First Snowdin, then Waterfall, and now Hotland? He surprisingly gets around a lot. Continuing further, I am definitely thinking there’s something fishy going on. Her status update makes it seem like there’s nothing sinister going on but I am going to keep my guard up more.

It's a good thing I did too because after she went to the bathroom, I took a look into the light and saw I will be confronted by two Royal Guards. The best way to get past them is something I enjoyed to do: make them realize they like each other. Following that vision, I got them to admit their feelings and they went off to get some ice cream. When she came back from using the bathroom to look online, I found myself in another dark room that turned out to be another show Mettaton is trying to do.

Now it's a news show. He asked me to find something to report and I decided to pick the dog. It really didn’t matter because whatever was there to report were all bombs. Now I have two minutes to defuse multiple bombs. And again, Alphys gave me a bomb defusing program into the phone as well. With Alphys stopping the last one from flying all over the place, I managed to stop it. Mettaton was going to detonate the big bomb anyway but it didn’t. Alphys apparently hacked into the bomb to prevent it from going off.

Considering she was stuttering, I suspect this is all an act. She seems really desperate to find a friend but I don’t want to bring it up. She is helping despite these distractions. I continued on and saw this spider lady holding a bake sale. She’s trying to raise money for the Spiders in the ruins. I saw them and even still got one of their Spider Donuts. I didn’t eat it because it's made of spiders. I wanted to help still, but the prices here were just too high. Like it would cost 3 times the amount of gold I have to buy one.

As I continued, I saw another light. Touching it let me see what’s coming ahead: the Spider Lady at the Bake Sale is up ahead with a trap. Apparently someone spread rumors about me hating spiders. The best way to avoid it was to buy something but since I can’t, my only other choice was to avoid her attacks long enough for the Ruins Spiders to send a letter to her. Considering what is in front of me, I decided to go back to one of the puzzle rooms and take a nap. Might as well be well rested before having to deal with an army of spiders.