Names? I had no name. Besides the rude nicknames I would hear before rocks were thrown at my head, or stolen gun powder was lit and cracked, just to frighten me away. No, I had no name to call my own. I was never given one; my parents were murdered before I ever had that chance. I was too young to remember that accident, with only a missing eye and gradually infecting cut across my face to remind everyone else why I was an orphan.
Wait, hang on, I forgot to explain. Hundreds of years ago, Humans and Monsters were at war, after years of fighting, the Humans were victorious and forced the Monsters underground into Mt. Ebott. The monsters lived there for years, ruled by their loving King. But one day a human child fell into the Underground, he acted with Mercy towards the Monsters, letting his Determination stand strong, and together with his new friends, they were able to break the Barrier, the very thing that had been trapping them all Underground. And they all lived happily ever after; or at least, that's what I'd like to say, but not all of the humans took well to the monsters coming back, Frisk managed to get a small group of humans to agree with coping with the monsters, and so the Underground was transformed into colonies, some monsters decided to stay in New Ebott, along with humans that were curious. Frisk was the ambassador to the monsters; until the killings started. Humans who hated monsters had snuck into the colonies and were dusting monsters all over the districts. Frisk took action, maybe not for the better, but he started a gang of his favorite monsters to help take care of the dusters, and soon after, the former King and Queen became head Crime Bosses of the Underground and Frisk became second under them.
But anyways, back to me. Ten years, to the day, after Frisk broke the barrier, was when I was born, and was when the hospital got bombed, everyone who made it out of the rubble were either snipped or took a knife to the back; which was such for my parents. A crazy human from another gang murdered my parents at knife point for being close friends with monsters. Luckily, Frisk's gang showed up in nick of time before I too, was about to be murdered. The killer managed to cut my face, gouging out my eye, before a magnificent blast of blue light seemed to evaporate him. Since I was just a few hours old, still wrinkly and partially wet from an after birth bath, I don't remember much, just a low, gruff voice telling me to stop crying, everything would be alright. But after that, I was placed in an orphanage, in which I ran away from at the age of ten, because the others were picking on me as usual, and managed to re-open my eye scar. And so, I have carefully lived the last seven years on the streets. I was never able to pick-pocket enough cash for suitable medicine, so I had to make due with a wash cloth and a piece of string to keep it tied to my head, and sometimes band aids, if I was lucky enough. But the infection was slowly getting worse; I'd sometimes passed out from the headaches that the cut would create. So here I am, just another normal day for me, scrounging for left over trash can M.T.T. Burgers, I was lucky and found a fairly fresh Spider Donut instead, since M.T.T., or, Mettaton was so famous in the underground, everyone ate M.T.T. Burgers frequently. I'd almost thought that Muffet had gone out of business, so finding one of her Spider Donuts was like heaven to me, it was especially double lucky today though, today happened to be my seventeenth birthday. But little did I know, my small, dark world, was about to be flipped completely up-side-down.
I'd found me a nice spot in the park, next to a patch of Echo Flowers, this was one of my favorite areas in New Ebott, some of the monsters said that this place used to be part of a town called Waterfall, but now, it's a park where couples come and sit within the flowers, whispering sweet things and letting the flowers echo them back. I loved sitting there quietly, gently touching the pretty cyan petals, putting my ear close, and listening to the things people would say around the flowers. This time, I sat down and started eating my spider donut, gently tracing my finger around a petal, the flower let out a soft sound, like someone singing, but it was loud enough where the next flower could hear it as well, soon enough, all the flowers in my small circle where singing the low note, I laid back, listening to the song the flowers were singing, I closed my eyes, and soon fell asleep.
I wasn't asleep for very long before I heard loud voiced, yelling and squealing, questions being yelled, and one name being screamed, I sat up, rubbing the sleep from my eye, the Echo flowers were screaming everything back at me. I looked around, a swarm of people were chasing after a grey and pink robot like a pack of hungry dogs. Wait, robot? Grey and pink? There was only one robot like that, come to think of it; there was only one robot in New Ebott. I quickly jumped up to see if I was right, and sure enough, racing past my small circle, trying to escape a pack of fans begging for pictures and questions, was the most fabulous set of legs I'd even seen, they almost tripped over me, I attempted to move out of the way, unfortunately my hand got stepped on and I squeaked "Oh, I'm so sorry darling, I didn't mean to step on you!" The owner of the legs said quickly, and suddenly there was arms helping me stand up, checking my hand for broken bones, then patting my head. "Forgive me, but I must dash." And Mettaton, the person whose burgers I'd grown to hate, ran away from me. I blinked in confusion before hearing more screams, turning around to see the mob running towards me, I jumped and quickly tried running away, unfortunately, I got swept up in the crowd, somehow running with them. This was starting to upset me, I just wanted a nice quiet day without being stepped on by robot guys in fancy dresses and feathered boas, or being swept up by the paparazzi. But I was already in the middle of it, and couldn't escape. The fans followed Mettaton every turn he made, until we came to a fork in the alley, I was panting heavily and managed to hide behind a dumpster. Down the right was a loud banging noise, and everyone ran that way. All but one dog monster, which stopped, grinned at me, and then started walking the opposite way from the other fans. I didn't like the look of his grin, so I quietly followed him, it was a stupid idea and I knew it as soon as I did it. I followed him down the alley way, to a dead-end. And there, trying to jump over the wall, and failing due to the dress he was wearing, was Mettaton. I hid behind some garbage bags and just watched. The dog monster chuckled and with a gruff voice said, "Finally... I've got you cornered you stupid hunk of scrap metal." And I saw him pull a magic gun from out of his belt. "You'll make quick cash on The Market." He laughed, Mettaton whipped around, never had I seen anyone look more cornered. I didn't have a clear head in situations like this, so I grabbed the first thing closest to me, two bricks. I crept out from behind my garbage bags, and threw one of the bricks, unfortunately, it only hit the dog monster's foot, which quickly turned around, enraged, "YOU LITTLE B$%#*!" I didn't have time to duck behind anything before I heard a loud bang and searing pain went to my side, I cried out, but I knew I had to finish my job, I ran forward to get a better angle, two more bangs, two more pains, one in my left leg, the other on my collarbone. I was finally close enough, I slammed the brick down on the dogs head, and right as another magic bullet went straight through my stomach. The dog fell over, dead or just brutally injured, I wasn't sure, all I saw was blood, mine or his, I didn't know that either. I felt light headed, swaying on my feet. I heard a distant voice, yelling for me, but my world went black, and I fell forward.
When I woke up, I was staring up at a… dinosaur? A little yellow dinosaur was staring down at me, pointing a pair of scissors at my face, what other reaction would I have but to scream? And scream I did, which caused the little dinosaur to fall back on the floor and start stuttering, "I-I'm sorry! I... I w-was just… trying to st-stitch you up!" She scrambled up, as I was trying to scramble away, but my head was too groggy and I didn't even make it off the hospital bed that I was on, I groaned, putting a hand to my head, the dinosaur came back over to me, "P-please, you have string h-hanging from your face.." I moved my hand down, feeling over my old scar, it felt… stitched up..? And sure enough, there was a piece of stitching thread hanging from my face. I sighed and laid back down, letting the dinosaur snip off the thread, then run off and get a glass of water, bringing it back to me. "S-sorry for scaring you like that... I'm Alphys." I drank the entire glass of water down and sighed contently, I hadn't even noticed how dry my throat was. "Uh… thanks, Alphys? What happened..?" I then remembered and sat up quickly, flinching when my head started pounding, putting my hand to it. "Where's Mettaton..?" Alphys put one of her hands on my shoulder to steady me. "H-he... Um, brought you in a week ago, you were almost completely b-bled out... He t-told me what happened… Th-that was brave… human..." I glanced over at her, "It wasn't brave, it was stupid, I just did what my brain told me to do. No one deserves to be sold on The Market, even Mettaton." Alphys giggled at that. "W-well, maybe you're right… Um… Perhaps, you should get some more rest... Even though you've been out for a few days... I-it wasn't real s-sleep…" I smiled at her, "Thanks Alphys, but I'm not tired, to be honest, I'm hungry." Right on cue, as if trying to prove my point, my stomach growled murderously, both me and the small yellow dinosaur in a lab coat started laughing. "I have some r-ramen, if... You'd like s-some of that?" My eyes lit up, "Really? I haven't had ramen in years! I'd love some!" Alphys smiled and rushed off, I couldn't do much, but I decided to try to stand up, I swung my legs over the side of the hospital bed, taking a deep breath and slowly slid off the bed. I held onto the side of the bed for support before shifting my legs a bit, then hesitantly took a step, slowly letting go of the bed. I smiled, "I got this." I said confidently, slowly taking another few steps forward, I grinned proudly and went to move a little faster, instantly regretting it, my legs turned to jelly and I started to fall forwards, I closed my eyes, ready for impact, but it didn't happen. I slowly opened my eye; I was hovering right over the hard floor, and there was a blue magic around my body, it was strangely warm. "Whoa there kiddo, better take it slow." There was a gruff voice somewhere to my left, but I couldn't look, my body seemed stiff, and yet, comfortable, I started floating back to the hospital bed and was sat back down, as soon as I was, the magic dissipated and I blinked my eye, glancing towards the voice. And standing there, wasn't anything I was prepared for, there was a short, fat skeleton, one of his eyes was glowing blue for a moment before it disappeared, which made me wonder if I'd actually seen it, replacing it was small white pinpoints in each of his black eye sockets. He was wearing a dark blue fedora and a dark blue suit to match, and on his face was a wide grin that would reach to each of his ears, if he had any that is. Strangely enough, I found myself staring, which I normally don't do. It seemed as if he grinned even more, if that was possible, "Yo, kid. Where's Alphys at?" I blinked and stared down at the floor, "She's... uh… cooking noodles... And, thanks for... whatever you did…" He chuckled, "Don't worry, it seemed as if you weren't about to have a nice trip." I blinked, then looked back up at it, taking a moment to register that, "Err... yeah, I guess I was about to have an early fall..?" He stopped walking and turned towards me, I smiled sheepishly and he snorted and laughed, "Good one buddy." I giggled a bit and looked away again, a light blush on my face. "Thanks..." He paused, he was about to go find Alphys, but he seemed to change his mind and came over to me, he had his hands in his pockets. "What's your name kid?" I hesitated, my smile dropping, "I… um… don't have a name… my parents were killed in The Bombing before I got the chance…" He tilted his head slightly, "Hmm, so I see, tibia honest kid, you looked familiar to me, and that's why I asked." I giggled again, "The kids at the orphanage just would call me Squeaker… because whenever I get scared I make a high pitched squeak..." He chuckled once again, "Squeaker huh? Interesting…" Just then Alphys came back, holding a bowl of ramen and handed it to me, along with some chopsticks; I gratefully took it and started slurping it down. "H-hello there, Sans, come to f-flirt with my new guest?" He seemed to smirk, "Nah, I'm not doing that." He then sighed, "I gotta talk to ya about something. It's about… well, Little Boss." He lowered his voice, Alphys gasped, "O-oh! Human, I'll be r-right back!" I wasn't paying much attention and just mumbled an 'okay', then the two of them quickly went into the next room as I sat there slurping down my noodles, when I was done I licked my lips, setting the bowl and the unused chopsticks to the side. I then yawned and stretched, suddenly starting to get tired again. I slowly lay back down, staring up at the ceiling. What an eventful day. Then it clicked in my brain, Alphys said I'd been here a week, wow, I'd lost a lot of chances of finding trash-can Spider Donuts. I then yawned, coving my mouth weakly. I had just barely closed my eyes when a door burst open, "OH DARLING!" I was suddenly engulfed by metallic arms, squeezing me half to death. "I ran over as quickly as Alphys called me! I can't thank you enough! You saved my life darling!" I groaned in slight pain, looking up to see who was crushing me, of course it was Mettaton, but he wasn't dressed in a dress this time, he was dressed almost like Sans was, only without the fedora, and small pink jewels glittered his outfit, he was also wearing a very flashy belt that showed off his pink soul. "Uh…air…?" I gasped, trying to tap his arm; he quickly set me back down, "I'm so sorry! I'm just happy that you're alright! Just think of how many ratings I'll get when the press hears about this!" He stood straight up, holding up an invisible microphone, "Breaking news, the /FABULOUSLY/ popular star was nearly killed in a dark and stinky alley way until a brave and noble human stepped out and saved him!" I sat there awkwardly but couldn't help but giggle, "Aw... I'm not that special, I just saw something in that Dog Monster that didn't look so good, so I followed him..." "And it's a good thing you did sweetie! If it wasn't for you, I might be sold as some sort of robot slave to the surface, or worse! Sold and put in a scrap yard with a bunch of rusty things!" I smiled a little bit more, "I guess I was just in the right place at the right time." Mettaton leaned down, placing a kiss on my head, "I'm truly thankful for you little sweetie, what do they call you?" I bite my bottom lip and thought for a moment, "Um…" and that's when Sans and Alphys came back in, Sans interrupting me, "Squeaker, she's called Squeaker." He 'winked' at me and grinned widely. Mettaton's smile dropped, "Oh great, who invited the smiley trash-bag." Sans shrugged, "Frisk sent me here on business with Al, not that you could understand that type of importance though, seeing as you're just a computer on legs." Mettaton gasped again, "You-!" I started to burst out giggling, trying to hide my mouth behind my hand; Mettaton paused, looked at me and smiled at my giggling. "Well, darling, as much as I'd love to stay and chat more, I have a previous engagement with a tall, handsome skeleton." He smirked at Sans, whose eyes went completely black and his grin turned into a slight frown. "Ta-ta Darlings~" He then turned on his heels and strutted out of the room like a proud peacock, leaving me with a startling skeleton dude who couldn't stop smiling and a stuttering dinosaur who liked to point scissors in people's faces while they slept. I was having a WONDERFUL day.