By the time Undyne realised that Alices had fallen asleep, she was halfway there, herself. She grabbed Alices's phone (which was flashing quite urgently), ignored all of Mettaton's texts save one, opened that one, and replied, without reading it, "Chill out, Diva, we're fine. We're just working and about to go to bed. Alices is fine; she's protecting me just fine :D. U.” She then tossed it on the coffee table, got up, and stretched. As she did, she noticed that night had indeed fallen, and if she looked out of the window around the curtains, she saw the entire city lit up, but only a few cars on the road, and no people on the sidewalks. It was a strange sight, and it reminded her of that walk to New Home. On that thought, Undyne went back to the couch and grabbed her own phone, typing

