"Oh my gosh... I think I'm gonna hurl..."

"Motion sickness?" asked Sonic to Shadow.

Shadow nodded and tried to keep himself together. After calling Undyne and hearing her talk about throwing up on the conveyor belts made him want to throw up. It was still better than being taken over at least by some outside force of some sort. "I never knew how horrible it was until now..."

They were running around doing puzzles like crazy. One way, puzzle. Another way, puzzle. Up way, down way, sideways, anyways, they were soon getting sick of it. They would have gotten bored if it weren't for...

Lily looked ahead. Everything was black which made her uncomfortable. When Sonic and Shadow caught up with her after dying by lava and timing the jumps across the lava several times, they also didn't find the dark area very welcoming. Alphys called them.

"H-Hey! W-What's the holdup? Is s-something the matter?" she asked them.

"Yeah. There's this really dark room that we're not liking...," Sonic explained as he inched closer into the room with his two friends behind him. They slowly walked into the darkness.

"Th-That's strange... I don't see this on my map... D-Don't worry! Y-You should be fine!" Alphys told them assuringly. Shadow wasn't so sure.

Click!

The lights came flashing on and they were all standing behind a counter next to Mettaton in what looked like a kitchen with a camera pointed at them. It looked like they were on a cooking show...

"Oh-no...," Alphys said.

"OH YES!! Welcome to the Underground's premier cooking show! Cooking with a Killer Robot!" Mettaton announced as the words appeared in front of them before fading away again. Mettaton then turned to the three hedgehogs. "For today's show, we have three guests! Everybody give these three a huge hand!" There was then lots of clapping and lots of confetti. Shadow knew he wouldn't get all the paper confetti out of his mouth for weeks.

"I wish Mettaton would ask before he started filming us!" Sonic snapped.

"Oh, where would be the fun in that, darling? On today's show, we'll be baking... a cake! My lovely assistants will be gathering the ingredients! Now, we need milk, eggs, and flour. Each of you go get one of each!" Mettaton commanded as he pointed to the milk, eggs, and flour.

Sonic shrugged and got the eggs, Lily found the flour, and Shadow got the milk. They each brought back the stuff and put it onto the counter. Mettaton applauded them.

"Marvelous, darlings! It seems as if we almost have all of the ingredients we need!" Mettaton announced as he looked at the milk, eggs, and flour.

"Almost?" asked Sonic as he tilted his head to the side.

"That's right! There's still one more thing we need! And that is... THREE HEDGEHOG SOULS!" Mettaton yelled as he held up a huge chainsaw and got it going. Sonic yelled in terror.

"Ch-Chainsaw!!!!!" Sonic yelled as he sprang out of the way and jumped into the refrigerator in terror. Mettaton stopped and looked at Sonic for a moment. Shadow rolled his eyes.

"Dude, you've seen worse. You're seriously scared over a chainsaw!" Shadow snapped. Mettaton nodded in agreement with Shadow's quote.

"I have to admit that it is sad. Ten people in the Underground just watched you just into a freezer in terror," Mettaton stated.

Sonic huffed and hopped out of the fridge. He spun into a spin attack and knocked over Mettaton with the spin attack. It didn't do anything.

Suddenly, the phone rang again. This time, it was Mettaton's phone. He sighed and answered the phone. "What is it?! I'm in the middle of a show here!"

Alphys quickly answered. "U-Um... C-Couldn't you make a... a substitution? For people who a-are... Vegan...?" asked Alphys.

Mettaton stopped and looked around. Alphys was stuck in the awkward silence. Sonic was still alarming over the chainsaw. Mettaton then started applauding the idea! "That's a wonderful idea! I actually have a can of human-ish-soul-extract for baking over there on that counter that's separated from everything for some reason! Shadow, would you please go get it for us?" asked Mettaton.

Shadow walked over to the counter. He was grumbling to himself about how he knew it was a trap and wasn't surprised when the counter sprang to life and shot up, up, up, up to the sky above before stopping abruptly. The tower trembled and shivered and shook, but somehow, it didn't fall. Shadow turned around looking really annoyed. "Hey Mettaton, how are we supposed to have any dramatic tension if I can't get to the whatever at the top of this counter?"

If Mettaton had a face, it would have been downright evil. "Well, you're going to climb that thing of course! However, we have an extremely strict schedule! If you don't get that can in TWO MINUTES then... we'll go back to the original plan!!" Mettaton said with glee. He grabbed onto his chainsaw and a basket and flew away. Lily and Sonic saw Shadow stand there frozen for a second and then begin the climb up the counter.

Alphys suddenly called. Shadow got out his phone and hung up. He kept climbing. Mettaton was watching in amazement at his determination. He was his own hero. Alphys called again. Shadow hung up again. With one minute remaining, Shadow made it halfway to the top. Lily's jaw was dropped and Sonic was shaking his head thinking about what a show-off Shadow was.

"My, my, my! It appears as if someone is quite determined to not die! Also, the fact that you won't answer your phone is actually quite amusing... However, can you dodge these?!" demanded Mettaton as he began to throw dough at Shadow and flour. Shadow easily dodged and his pace wasn't even slowed one bit. Mettaton began to panic a little when Shadow reached the three-fourths mark. He dumped out all of the cooking materials and utensils just above Shadow's head. Shadow looked up with surprise and saw a bunch of sharp kitchen utensils falling first to kill him. However, his mind was faster. He snatched the knife from midair and slashed all of the utensils and food out of his way with extreme precision. Mettaton, Lily, and Sonic were freaking out at how awesome he was.

Shadow looked down at the knife. Why did it feel so natural to him? He shoved aside the thought when only twenty seconds remained. He sprang to the top and grabbed the substitution. He glowered down on everything and then smirked. Sonic wondered what had gotten into him. Shadow then shook his head. He seemed to snap out of whatever phase he was in and he turned to Mettaton.

"Well, well, welly, well, well, welly... It appears as if you've defeated me... Besides, haven't you ever seen a cooking show before? I've already made the cake!" Mettaton announced.

Shadow looked over to the ground and saw Lily and Sonic eating the cake. Shadow flattened his ears. All of that work for nothing. "Gee, thanks a lot... Mettaton, I promise that you'll regret all of this one day...

Once the three of them were able to continue, they ran into a familiar face. Sans! Shadow hung back and tried to ignore Sans' suspicious gaze. Sonic and Lily ran to greet him immediately.

"Hi Sans!" Lily said.

"Hey, so you finally come around. How's Hotland?" Sans asked casually.

Lily sighed and looked around. "It's very hot..., I'm starving..., and I don't have any money...," she replied.

Sonic shook his head. He got out a wallet from somewhere and turned it over. Gold tumbled out and scattered across the ground. "I've got that covered. I lied to those Temmies about being broke! We're actually freakishly rich!"

Everyone was staring at the puddle of money on the ground. Sans finally spoke. "Well, if you're starving, you're in luck. I'm selling hot dogs for free. Would ya like some?" asked Sans.

Lily's belly grumbled and she nodded. Sans smiled and then handed her a hot dog...? Lily stared at it awkwardly and then started eating it. She stopped and looked at it. She read a short description.

It appears to be made from a familiar plant which is also known as... a water sausage.

"Oh my gosh!" Shadow yelled from the other end of the clearing at Sans. The comical skeleton had to laugh.

"Gimme one!" Sonic said.

"Huh. You guys must really like hot animals... However, I've run out of hot dogs. You can just have a hot cat instead." Sans handed Sonic a hot cat. Sonic stared at the hot cat and it looked up at him. It looked like an actual cat made from a hot dog.

"Meow!" it said.

"Th-That's adorable and disturbing at the same time...," Sonic commented.

"Oh my gosh!!" Shadow yelled again at Sans from across the clearing.

"I think he'll also want one," Lily said pointing to Shadow. Before she knew it, she had a 'dog in her hand. It was just another hot dog...? Lily was confused. Sans gave her another. An apostrophe- 'dog is what it was Sans said... What was even going on anymore? Lily ran out of room in her hands, so Sans started stacking the hot dogs on her head. Shadow looked over to Sans again. You know what he said.

"OH MY GOSH!!!!!"

Sans continued stacking. He finally stopped at twenty-nine hot dogs. He stared at his tower with satisfaction. "There. On the house. Well, actually, it's on you."

Lily stood trembling under all of the hot dogs. What would happen if she were to move...? Sonic walked up to her and pulled her out from all the hot dogs. They all went crashing to the ground!!!! All twenty-nine hot dogs bounced and splattered all over the ground. Sans got out an umbrella. Sonic and Lily were unable to dodge all of the raining hot dogs. They were doing a face plant in the ground soon after. Shadow glared at Sans.

"OH. MY. GOSH!!!!!!!"

Sans put a final hot dog on the fainted Lily's head. "Have fun!" XD

Lily finally got revived and Sonic was eventually okay. They continued and found themselves in another odd room with a bunch of random objects scattered everywhere. Undertale (the actual game), a dog, an Undertale script (with Mettaton!!), a basketball, a glass of water, and many other things. Sonic looked at the strange dog that has been stalking them all throughout their entire journey. It barked. As they continued, they saw Mettaton and the exits were blocked off by blue electrical beams. Mettaton flew before them with a camera on his face.

"OH YES!!! Good evening beauties and gentlebeauties! This is Mettaton reporting live from MTT News! An interesting situation has arisen in eastern Hotland! Thankfully, our brave correspondents are out there now to investigate! Brave correspondents! Please find something newsworthy to report!" Mettaton yelled at the three hedgehogs.

Sonic ran over to the cute dog and pointed to it. Lily nodded and Shadow shrugged. Mettaton turned to the viewing audience. What an amazing opportunity story! I can see the headline now! A dog exists somewhere. You want to report this to the viewers?" asked Mettaton. When they all nodded, he continued.

"I just hope that this plan doesn't explode in our faces...," Shadow stated as he sat down onto the ground to pet the dog.

"Attention viewers! Our correspondents have found... a dog! (Cue audience awws). That's right folks! It's the feel-good story of the year! Look at its little ears, tiny paws, fluffy tail...," Mettaton cooed. However, then he stopped and looked alarmed. "WAIT A SEC! That's not a tail!! That's... a fuse!"

Shadow then jumped away from the dog when the tail fuse lit itself. Sonic and Lily backed away slowly from the dog and Shadow held a chaos spear to defend them as well as himself. The dog... was a bomb!

Mettaton cackled in front of the three hedgehogs. "That's right... That dog's a bomb! However, no need to panic! You haven't even seen the rest of the room yet!" Mettaton announced with a snap of his fingers. The other random objects then turned into bombs!! The basketball, the water, the script, the present, the game, and... EVERYTHING!

"Oh my goodness... This is hardly fair!!" Lily yelled at Mettaton.

"Sorry. Bad guys don't play by the rules. That present's a bomb! That basketball's a bomb! Even my words are bombs!!" yelled Mettaton as his words came flying out of the dialogue box and exploded everywhere on the ground. Sonic yelled and jumped back.

Alphys called them on the phone. Sonic answered it this time. Lily came closer to here what Alphys had to say. A bomb defusing app was on their phone? Wow. They hardly knew. Maybe that was why their phone screamed when Alphys upgraded it...

Shadow paid no attention to the call. He grinned and readied himself. He saw something out of the corner of his eye. It gave him an idea.

"Brave correspondents! If you don't defuse these bombs in two minutes, then this big bomb will blow up in your faces!" Mettaton announced.

"I told you that this would blow up in our faces!" Shadow yelled to Sonic.

"I should listen to you more often!" Sonic yelled back.

"Would you please pay attention?!?! The big bomb will explode in two minutes! Blah, blah, blah, blah! Go for it! Timer begins... NOW!" Mettaton yelled as he started the timer.

Sonic jumped and, with Lily, began racing around to find the bombs. Shadow, however, went directly to the big bomb. He looked at it for a moment and then kicked it! The bomb fell down a cliff and to the lava below. Shadow ran towards Sonic and Lily and got them down as fast as he could. Because...

KER-POW!!!!!!!

Was it a big bomb? It was a BIG BOMB. When the bomb hit the lava, it burst. Mettaton was fine. Shadow, Sonic, and Lily were a little singed, but they were fine. Sonic exhaled a ring of smoke and had a coughing fit. Lily started coughing a little before chewing out Shadow. However, Shadow was laughing. He laughed so hard at what he did. He nearly destroyed everything.

"W-Well... Lovely viewers! I do hope that you enjoyed this amazing light show that was created by Shadow the Hedgehog! That'll be all for MTT News for now! Goodbye!" Mettaton yelled as he flew away.

Awkward pause...

"Well, that was one bomb experience that I could've lived without... Shadow, what's wrong with you?!" demanded Lily as she smacked him in the face.

"Ow. I have no idea...," Shadow replied.

Sonic shook his head and then sprang to his feet. The blue electrical beams had vanished. Undyne suddenly called. Shadow picked up the phone and Undyne's voice nearly made him go deaf.

"SHADOW, YOU ARE AWESOME!! That was the best explosion ever! I saw it all on TV! WHY DIDN'T YOU INVITE ME OVER TO DESTROY STUFF?!?!" she yelled.

Shadow grinned a competitive grin and started acting like Undyne herself. They really were besties now... "Oh my gosh! I should've invited you! That would've made this party even BETTER! Next time I plan to destroy something, I'll let you know. You'd better come running!"

"YOU BET!!" Undyne yelled back.

With that, the phone called ended. Sonic looked to Lily with concern. The next time he destroyed something... Oh boy...

After going up an elevator and continuing, they ran into a spider lady who was selling spider pastries. Sonic has a mild phobia of spiders, though...

"SPIDER!!! AHHHHH!!!!" Sonic cried as he sprang away and began to run away. Lily went to go get him and Shadow stayed.

"Sorry about him. He's afraid of spiders...," Shadow explained to the spider lady.

The spider lady nodded and shrugged with a sweet grin. "Oh! It's fine~ We meet people like that all the time! We just need some money to save the spiders who are trapped in the ruins! They got stuck in there and can't get out. If they were to leave, they'd freeze to death... Also, my name's Muffet!" she explained.

Shadow actually liked spiders, so he had to sympathize with her. "How much for a donut?!" he demanded as he got out his wallet.

Muffet looked pleasantly surprised. She smiled again. "Why~ It's only a small fee of 9,999 gold! What do you think?" she asked.

Shadow's eyes stretched wide when he heard the price. However, he was determined... He turned over his wallet and screamed at the top of his lungs. An endless waterfall of money poured out of it. Muffet gasped in delight as she stared at all of the money. The money stopped at 9,999 gold. Shadow huffed and puffed. He then held out his hand.

"Donut?"

Shadow caught up with Sonic and Lily. They did more puzzles and he got more motion sickness from springing around everywhere. After puzzles, they came across a room with spider webs hanging off of the walls. Spiders were giggling a whispering to each other. Sonic tried to ignore everything and not scream. Lily was complaining about never being able to get the webs out of her shoes. Shadow was looking around hoping to find his new friend Muffet.

Suddenly, a bunch of spiders came in from out of nowhere and wrapped up Sonic in a giant web! Sonic jumped out of his fur, terrorized. The spiders looked to Shadow. They smiled and waved. They turned to Lily and didn't really care. They looked at Sonic and bared their spider fangs at him. As Sonic kicked and screamed, he realized that his soul was turned purple. The spider lady appeared from the dark and ominous shadows of the room. She laughed at Sonic's attempts to escape.

"Oh no you're not!" Lily snapped at Muffet as she spun into a spin attack and rocketed towards her. Shadow blocked Lily's way and he got hit hard in the face. Muffet hissed at Lily for hurting Shadow and pointed to Lily. Just as the spiders got distracted with Lily, Sonic was able to thrash his way out of the webs. He raced to rescue Lily, but didn't there fast enough to keep her from having even more webs in her hair.

"Are you okay?!" demanded Sonic as he ran with Lily scooped up in his hands.

"NO!! They're trying to kill us! Why aren't they attacking Shadow?!" Lily demanded. Sonic shrugged and noticed something weird. HIS WALLET WAS GONE...

Sonic looked over at Shadow who was making a peace treaty with the spiders. The spiders listened to him 100 percent and agreed not to give them anymore trouble. However, as Sonic looked closer at Shadow's oversized fist, he saw his wallet within it. It was EMPTY.

"Okay, so, no more fighting?" asked Shadow as he stuck his hand out for a handshake. Muffet accepted his hand and nodded.

"No more fighting. After given us all of that gold, I couldn't possibly say no to such an easy and free request! Huhuhuhuhu~" Muffet answered Shadow.

Directly after they left the room, Sonic turned to Shadow with an evil grin. Shadow paused and looked into the faker's eyes without flinching. "Yeah?"

"You. Stole. My. Wallet. You. Shall. Die. Here," Sonic replied.

Lily jumped between Sonic and Shadow. She smacked both of them in the face. Shadow for being an idiot and Sonic for losing his temper. Sonic rubbed his cheek and glared at Shadow. Shadow rubbed his cheek, but Shadow said nothing. He actually almost grinned. Who knew pain was so hilarious? Oh wait. It's not.

"I have no idea what's gotten into the minds of you two, but I want this crazy attitudes from both of you to stop! I know I sound like our goat mom, but it's true! You two have been crazy since the quiz show! You especially Shadow! What's wrong with you?!?!?!" she demanded.

"I just want to live life to the fullest and see other people live and love...," Shadow said with a mysterious tone of voice.

Sonic was scared for Shadow now. He wasn't Shadow anymore. He was... different... It seemed like he was more arrogant and didn't care as much about the feelings others might have because of his actions. Was his eyes a darker red all of the sudden...?

I was suspicious of your eyes because of something that Sans told me. He said that even the greatest liars can't get rid of the truth. They just put the truth in a storage shed. That storage shed is known as the eyes. You can always see what another is feeling from their eyes. The reason I don't trust your eyes is because I can't read your feelings. It's... almost intimidating...

Before they could really think about that anymore, they got trapped in another electrical beam. Sonic sighed. Shadow sighed as well. This had better be the last trap before a save point... The background was beautiful and they all looked up to see Mettaton. Mettaton was peering out of a window in a gown.

"Could it be...? My one true love...?" asked Mettaton as he went down the stone stairs as music began to play. He then began to sing.

Oh my love...

Please run away...

Monster king

Forbids your stay...

Shadow flattened his ears. He found the location of the music and brought his arm back for a chaos spear. Mettaton spotted Shadow and used his long mechanical arms to pluck Shadow from the ground and force the helpless hedgehog to dance with him. Sonic and Lily giggled as Shadow was struggling to get out of the grasp of the robot. He couldn't quite get out of the robot's grasp...

Hedgehogs must...

Live far apart...

Even if...

It breaks my heart...

Shadow struggled. He kicked. He was muffled, so he couldn't scream. Sonic was clapping to the music with Lily. Mettaton looked like he was enjoying this a little bit too much.

They'll throw you...

In the dungeon!!!!!

It'll suuuuuuck!

And then you'll die a lot!

Really sad...

You're gonna die!!!!!

Cry, cry, cry...

So sad it's happening...

When the music faded out, Shadow had little spirals of despair replacing his actual eyes. Mettaton faked a sniffle.

"So sad... To bad you have to be thrown into the dungeon... Oh well! Toodles!" Mettaton yelled as he threw Shadow down a trap door and left Lily and Sonic where they were without trapping them. They looked in alarm at where they disappeared. They were unable to do anything...

"Welcome to the dungeon, Shadow! This is your punishment for doing what you've been doing to my shows! You deserve everything that you get down here! Guess what? Alphys deleted your phone number! Because you'd never answer it, she got fed up with calling you and deleted the number! So now, there's just you and me... I don't even care if you die or not anymore! Let's see how you deal with this!" Mettaton yelled as he pushed a button. A bunch of colored tiles lit up! Mettaton pretended to look alarmed.

"A flashy dance floor? That's it?" asked Shadow as he crossed his arms and smirked at the tiles.

"This isn't a dance floor! This is the dreaded color tile maze! The rules are simple! If you stand on a green tile, you'll have to fight a monster, if you step on a yellow- HEY! WHERE'D YOU GO?!?!" demanded Mettaton as he looked around for Shadow. With a hop, skip, and a jump, Shadow was gone. Mettaton stared at the TV camera with a fire burning in his circuits.

"He'll pay for this... Final episode... REVENGE..."