Undyne stared up at the glowing crystals of Waterfall. It was the only thing she really felt like doing at the moment. Only thing she felt like doing because there was nothing else to do.

No cooking lesson with Papyrus.

No human history lessons with Alphys.

No tea or training with Asgore.

She didn't even have any traps she had to check on.

It was just Undyne, her armor, and the glowing rocks of the Underground's cavernous ceiling. The same unchanging glowing rocks that were always there. Blinking against one another, dotting the rocky outcrops that always threatened to fall, doing absolutely nothing else.

Kind of exactly what Undyne was doing.

Still it could be worse… somehow. At least there wasn't any reason to actually start worrying about anything. Asgore always did say that a boring day was a safe one. He said that whenever he said they were going to have tea instead of training, or when she wished for humans to show up, or Papyrus followed her to meet him, or anything actually. Boring may have been safe but boring was boring!

"Ugh," a drawl noise came from her lips, slipping past her razor teeth. "Ya know it only gets bad when you start talking to yourself. Wait… dang it!" She let her armored fist rise and fall to the stone outcrop she was sitting on. The stone splintered, cracked, and fell apart beneath the blow.

A hiss fell past her razor sharp teeth, currently turned into a sneer. She lifted her hand from the rubble that was once a rock. She lifted it to her head, massaging her temples. What was it about boredom that gave you a headache? Were you just so bored that your mind literally started to hurt itself just for something to do? Alphys would know, too bad she was too busy to talk.

Undyne shook her head as she sat up, pinching the bridge of her nose. The only thing that really kept her from thinking she was losing her mind was the constant and continuous fall of water. Be kinda weird to be in Waterfall without hearing that. Not that it did a lot of good for her boredom.

"Could we worse," she started to say. "Could be sitting through Sans stand-up comedy again. Or one of the more boring anime shows Alphys found like why am I still talking?" She shook her head with the words, as if hoping to knock out whatever was possessing her to speak. All it did was make her dizzy. Great.

Another harsh grunt left her mouth before she started to stalk off. Her good eye scanned the rocks and crystals, looking for anything that might have been out of place. Even if it was, she probably wouldn't have recognized it, but she checked anyways. It was something to do and doing nothing was the worst. It was way too much to ask for something interesting to happen. Most that would get was some new trash down at the dump.

Wait… that was an idea. May not have been the best thing to do, but if there was nothing else to do then the dump it was! No better place to pick up chicks! The Captain of the Guard trekked the familiar ground to her home, leaping past the entrance to jump into knee deep water. Oh, she knew something was going to be there now.

The rumble of the water falls reached her ears even through her metal helm. The familiar hum and roar of the water always did give a matched sense of awesomeness. That was totally a word. It came up a lot when the humans were getting ready to dive into some vast portal. Going to the dump felt just like that.

And when she got there, it was exactly the same as she remembered it.

The same few humps of useless trash, the same wooden platforms tethered to the bottom of the water, the same pit just beyond the dump, and the same magic glass hovering just faintly in the air. Dang that magic glass. If that hadn't changed, what chance was there of anything else changing.

"Hey, c'mon, there might be something," Undyne spoke through her helm. "Not like everything you find has to be big enough to stick out of the water. You did find that wicked sword underneath the I AM DONE TALKING TO MYSELF!"

If there was anyone around the dump, they would have jumped at her voice. At least they usually did. No response meant no one was there. Doesn't mean they weren't going to come.

That just meant she had to get digging while the digging was good. Her armor was great for looking intimidating, but it was even better at digging through piles and piles of trash! Didn't want to have those shards of metal surprising her again, not unless they were attached to giant spears or drills.

Eh, one wish at a time. One did not count the scrap sheet of metal she found. If she could pick it up, it was scrap. Didn't matter that it was taller than Asgore. Down the pit it went.

Really, Undyne just wanted something new. She'd be ready for anything she found. A new historical show for and Alphys to watch, some flower seeds Asgore could help her grow. Heck, she'd settle for a blanket she could throw over Sans when he was sleeping.

Not like she wouldn't have a chance to do it. That monster kid would probably appreciate anything she found.

Wow, she really was bored, searching the dump for gifts for monsters she hardly ever saw.

At this rate she'd be the next Santa Claus, right after Asgore of course. Kinda hard to beat the king on that front though. She didn't have the white fur the guy was supposed to be made of. She let out chuckle as she threw a fridge over her head. It was one of those cold fridges. She preferred the warm ones.

Maybe there was something in the water instead. A few kicks with her metallic boots only served to splash the water around. A few dozen feet into the air, sure, but it didn't really show anything new. The same damp and murky paper that fell to the bottom of the water pool, broken and crunched up material that not even Alphys could make useful again. Junk in a junkyard. What a surprise.

Her excitement fell back to boredom when Undyne found there really was nothing new. Just the same as it ever was. What a rip off. Here she was, the Captain of the Royal Guard, ready for anything and willing to take on anything. She had trained her whole life for being able to take down the giant robots the humans had made, using magic in ways the main chick in Kissy 2 couldn't.

But boredom? She didn't know how to stave that off.

Dejected, Undyne turned to leave the junkyard, marking it up as a wasted trip. Whatever, those were bound to happen once in a while. No scales off of her hide when that happened. Just meant there would be better chances next time.

It was right about that train of thought that Undyne felt something fall on her. It wasn't heavy, whatever it was. Kinda felt like being hit with a pillow at a sleepy over. A pillow being thrown by Asgore when he wanted to show why he was the king of the monsters.

Again, it didn't hurt, especially through the armor, but it did knock Undyne off her feet. She'd swear later that it didn't. But later seemed pretty far away when she was having trouble getting back up.

"Huh?" she spoke aloud, pushing her hands against the bottom of the water pool. She didn't feel the familiar crunchy and water logged material. She felt… nothing? That didn't make sense. Was her boredom that bad?

"The heck's going on?"

She arched her back in her armor, attempting to look over the water surface to see if she could spy whatever was messing with her. Maybe Sans was pulling one of his pranks again. She'd have to pulverize him if that was the case. But she just saw nothing still.

Undyne began to sink into the water.

"The crap is going on!?" Her voice let out as she started to slowly sink into the water. It would have been beyond embarrassing if she weren't seriously wondering what was happening.

Was she… was she getting pulled into the void? No way she'd let that happen!

Her spears came to life, shooting out of the water and hanging above her. She reached for one, grabbing it with all her might. She did a pull-up, easy to do as lifting her leg. What she expected was to rise out of the water. Instead, the spear came closer to her. Her groan was perfectly melted with annoyance.

"C'mon! This ain't funny!" She didn't know if she was talking to herself. She didn't care. She needed an out. She needed to get out of the dump. But she couldn't see a way out. "Hey! Anyone out there! Could really use a hand over here! Papyrus! Alphys! Anyone!"

She screamed as she pulled on more of her spears, every new construct weaker than the next. She was going nowhere, she was being dragged into nowhere. This wasn't cool, this was all sorts of uncool and horrible. Was this seriously how she was supposed to go out?

No! She had too much to do! She had to live on! She had to make everyone's dreams come true! She couldn't do that if she wasn't there! The Underground needed her!

"Help!"

Undyne finally yelled out, pride disappearing with her legs.

"I could really use some HELP!" She yelled louder than before, sure that her voice would carry over the waterfall, past the caves, and straight into Snowdin. She knew it would reach, it had to…

But nobody came.

Nobody saw Undyne disappear into the void.


Author's Note: Why am I writing something like this? Because Undyne needs love dammit and I can't think of a better way then putting her in a magic anime world!

But, to be fair, I kind of considered Asgore for this first, but decided against it because he'd be too similar to Saito in the end run (overly peaceful powerful warrior). Undyne at least allows for some pretty crazy acts. Can you imagine her intimidating someone by suplexing a boulder? I can and it sounds awesome!

So by the rule of cool and law of Undyne, I'm making her the next big thing, hopefully…

All props for the cover go to G0966. Check out the link!