The machine was something else. It didn’t even look like a machine, instead being a flat metal surface with different runes imbedded within the object. Demons had been practically filling the room, all of them working feverly as the large disc like object started to spin. Naturally, they were all armed, with large guns cocked towards the elevator when they had stepped out.

“Sally and Ben will be in front with BoBo,” Sans said, “Bean and Silky can go in from the back, the rest of us spread out. Stick together, though. And if you get a chance, try to deactivate the machine.”

“You guys are outnumbered, it’d be better if you stepped back and surrendered,” A demon said.

“Jokes on you,” Bean giggled, “I’m hungry for demon blood!”

When she threw herself at them, right into the middle of the crowd, the fight started. 

Bean was the most obvious when fighting, grabbing random demons near her and smashing them together. Sally just ran straight into the crowd with no problem, Ben shortly following. The two took bullets, but it tore through their bodies with no effect. Silky and BoBo had made sure to stand in front, taking a majority of the bullets as well. White tentacles seemed to emerge from Silky’s back, stretching out towards the ceiling as her skin started to shift on her body. It sounded terrifying, as if she was being skinned alive, but Papyrus knew better. They all did. 

“Papyrus.”

Okay, he knew Silky and he knew her well, but that was still terrifying.

Her voice was deep and scratchy now, and when she had turned, he saw why she never ate in front of them. She had a face, one that was hidden under her skin. It had been forcefully peeled back and ripped open to reveal a set of razor sharp teeth and glowing white eye lights, with a pitch black void hidden behind them.

“You and Undyne flank the left, she attacks and you defend with your bone attack,” Silky said, skin shifting to pull back further. “Keep Alphys in the back with Hewey.”

The three of them nodded, Alphys retreating further against the wall where Hewey was, the boy making a comment Papyrus couldn’t hear. She didn’t have much magic, she wasn’t a fighter. 

BoBo, on the other hand, was practically the opposite of Silky. While Silky rampaged through the demons, acting like a shield as she started to tear off limbs and heads, BoBo was busy distracting them. He wasn’t very much attacking, sure, but he was acting as a defense for the others when his siblings needed him. It helped that BoBo was tall, so he would pause to look around before rushing to the nearest person having some trouble, throwing flowers or poking their shoulders to create a diversion. BoBo was more defense than attacking, but the other killers filled that role. And since he was keeping an eye on them, and pulling them away from attacks, he was really helping.

Wayne was the same, in a way. While his siblings did upfront attacks, he didn’t outright attack anyone. Instead, he used his short body to his advantage and hugged the ground, bending his body to a hunch and using his skinny and frail body to twist and weave through the demon crowd to dodge bullets, causing demons to shoot other demons. However, as he moved, he would sometimes place his hands on their sides or backs, leaving behind a magically glowing red symbol of an ‘o’ with an ‘x’ going through it. It would sparkle with magic for a moment before bones would explode outwards from it, effectively impaling the demon it was left on. Wayne sometimes would weave through legs and knock people over, but he didn’t really directly attack anyone. He mostly just stuck out of sight and laid traps, activating the bone attack whenever he felt fit.

Addy and Sally were surprisingly working well together. They weren’t making as much progress, since they were young, but they were managing to take out one demon at a time. Mostly Sally would take up the front before Addy would attack from behind, leaping up onto their back and stabbing them with a scalpel before she dragged them down.

Then, there was Leonie. She was standing idly by Papyrus, not bothering to move. Papyrus had been using his bone attacks to defend Undyne, like Silky had suggested, but Leonie was just standing there. She was chewing on gum, looking down at her dead phone.

“Leonie? Aren’t you going to fight?” Papyrus asked her, taking a step back as he created a wall of bones to defend Undyne.

“Oh, yeah,” Leonie said boredly, “Just waiting.”

“Waiting?” Papyrus asked.

She clicked the gum in her mouth. “Yup.”

He soon found out why.

Papyrus could see that everyone was holding back, not wanting to spend too much magic or energy, as they didn’t see Zalgo nearby and they had to be prepared to fight him. Leonie was probably doing the same thing, not throwing herself into battle too much to reserve her magic. She was waiting for a good opening maybe, a solid hit perhaps.

But then he soon realized her true intentions. Leonie wasn’t looking for a solid hit.

She was looking for an opening to not hit any of her siblings.

The attack was out of nowhere. It had caught Papyrus off guard, making him fumble backwards from the sudden appearance of a large skull. What was that? Was this her attack?

It was large and slick, the jaw filled with sharp, pristine teeth. The head looked similar to a dog or dragon skull, with glowing dark blue eye lights. It tilted it’s head back, a beam of dark blue magic gathering within its mouth.

And when it shot, Papyrus swore he felt the room shake.

It was powerful, the beam of pure magic spitting out across the room within a mere second. Every demon in the path was utterly destroyed. They barely had a chance to run, they were utterly obliterated. The magic tore through everything in its path, landing against the wall with a deafening blast. 

“Oh,” Papyrus said.

“Waiting for that,” Leonie mumbled, gesturing to the row of demon bodies. “Took out a solid amount of them.”

She was right. After that attack, she had practically taken out a third of the remaining demons. The others looked caught off guard, fear flashing through their eyes. Yet they kept fighting, likely having orders to not back down. 

“I see,” Papyrus said.

“Hey Leonie,” Sans yelled from the other side of the room, dodging an attack before he killed another demon. “Tilt the skull down more, don’t keep it at a straight line. Some people like to try and drop to avoid the attack.”

“Okay Dad!” Leonie shouted back, giving him a thumbs up. 

“That’s my girl!” Bloody Painter giggled, waving to her.

They were inside the middle of a fight for life and death, yet their parents were still being parents, even to the very end.

What a good family.

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Okay so I forgot to upload their magic for the children into, so here it is folks.

The childrens magic:

Cole: has none

Addy: can go ‘demon mode’ (i.e black eye sockets, more liquid, sharp teeth, and claws), and Gaster blasters too but Addy can’t use them for very long

Bean: teleport, pull out random items, pull and stretch her body, bones, gaster blasters, super strength, just actually everything. She’s too powerful, there’s no stopping Bean.

Silky: teleporting, camera disruption, can tear back skin on head to show a face, teeth and claws, able to rip people apart, able to take bullets and knifes and magic, tentacles (not of the hentai variety)

BoBo: can produce an aura of happiness to affect people nearby, can produce random things out of nowhere but they can only be happy things and when he’s happy. Which is usually always

Hewey: he doesn’t have any magic

Wayne: can mark a proxy symbol on a location by touching it and he can make a bunch of bones emerge from that spot sorta like a trap or bomb by setting it off with his magic, he sets traps with symbols but can’t attack directly

Tondra: her own demon mode, but no magic, she can draw runes onto stuff and make random things happen

Leonie: bone attacks and blue soul attack, has a bunch of gaster blasters too, telekinesis, basically Sans’ magic