Napstablook lied on the floor once again with sad music on. They felt like a complete piece of trash. Mettaton didn't show up since their last meeting, what's been quite long ago, as if he wouldn't want to see Napstablook at all. If Napstablook could physically commit suicide, they probably would do so by now.
...
-So, Mettaton, what do you think of it?-
Alphys asked.
-It's amazing, Alphys, darling! I'm going to get Blooky!-
Mettaton ran out of the lab, but this time remembered a better way to get to Waterfall. He didn't want to transform into the box, it was uncomfortable as hell, so he decided to use river person's service. As he came to Waterfall, he stormed into his cousin's house, nearly breaking the door.
-Blooky! Come with me! Quickly!-
He wanted to grab Napstablook, but his hands passed through them. Napsblook blinked at him in surprise.
-What? Come where?-
-To Hotland!-
Saying no more, he rushed out of the house, followed by his ghost cousin. This time he once again forgot about the river person and ended up breaking his heels… Again. Now in such enthusiasm, he actually broke the door of the lab.
-And… Why did you tell me to come here?-
Napstablook asked in confusion. Mettaton made them a signal to wait and leaped to Alphys's room.
-Is your cousin ready?-
Alphys asked. Mettaton nodded, a wide smile on his face. Getting back to the first floor in a very weird, dramatic pose, he did a theatrical gesture towards the supposed-to-be bathroom door. Alphys rolled a robot from there that resembled Mettaton a bit, but instead of black and pink it was gray, bluish and white, and the less fabulous legs had no heels, thus the robot looked shorter than Mettaton. The chest of the robot was bluish and had a speaker on it, small buttons, and was connected to a thin cable that went up to what appeared to be the left ear of the robot, which was shaped as a headphone, while the right one was hidden behind the hair. The hair, if it could be called so, was the same length as Mettaton's, but was white with grayish-bluish glow and didn't cover the robot's eye as much as Mettaton's. The robot's thin waist had a transparent container that would contain its soul. The robot's eyes were turned off.
Napstablook looked at the metallic body, blinking perplexedly.
-What is it?-
They eventually asked.
-It's a body for you to control!-
Mettaton finally stood up from the weird pose he was standing in and stared at his cousin. Napstablook flew around it at least three times, and after that started coming closer.
-C'mon Blooky, try it!-
Napstablook flew into the body quickly, because they were sure that Mettaton will explode now from excitement. The robot's eyes turned bright blue the moment they got in. Moving the limbs of the body, Napstablook understood why Mettaton loved the legs of his own body so much; As ghosts, they never had legs, and those legs were long and strong. Napstablook tried to press on a button on their new metallic chest, and suddenly their ears-headphones had radio speaking.
-Will I… Be able to download music into it?-
They asked.
-Yes. There's no less than 15 TB in it.-
Alphys answered. Napstablook could download all their favorite songs to this one, and even more! Spinning the headphone, they changed the volume, and pressing two buttons on the chest, changed the channel. Napstablook started walking around. It felt weird, since they never had legs before.
-Do you like it, Blooky? I designed it!-
Mettaton was so emotional at the moment that his emotions would be enough for all of his dramatic shows. From habit he was making theatrical gestures and poses while waiting for his cousin to answer.
-Uhm, yes, I like it.-
First time in many months, Napstablook smiled. Finally, they aren't different from their cousins anymore, they finally have a body, and they are not just a gloom ghost anymore with only one trick of making hat of tears. Finally, they will be able to touch and hug people. Since everybody had bodies, they were the only one who couldn't hug anyone or be hugged by someone. And they finally understood why did Mettaton need such fabulous legs.
-Just one thing missing…-
Mettaton brought a white hat, a copy of Napstablook's one, just not made of tears, and put it on Napstablook's head.
-Now you look gorgeous, Blooky!-
He said, widest smile on his face.
-Thank you, Metta. You too Alphys. For this… Body.-
-So, Blooky, do you still want to be referred to as "they"?-
-Well... I think I will go for "he" now.-
Napstablook said, their ghostly voice became more robotic and solid. He adjusted to the body quite quickly. His and Mettaton's cousin, who left to live as a training dummy, couldn't get corporeal with their new body for a very long time.
-So, Blooky, would you like to be my DJ on tour?-
Mettaton asked, hanging on Napstablook's shoulder.
-Sure. I just have one question: Why did Alphys roll the body from the bathroom?-
Awkward silence filled the room for a moment. Mettaton also didn't know why and thus he and Napstablook together stared at Alphys. After some awkward silent moments, Napstablook bursted laughing, Mettaton with him, and they both fell onto the floor from laughter. Mettaton automatically tried to do a dramatic-comedic pose, but ended up doing something unexplainable. Alphys, thinking of how weird rolling the robot from the bathroom must have looked from aside, and also because of the view of Mettaton laughing in such a weird pose, started laughing as well.
