[There's a split second delay before Papyrus reacts, a relieved and baffled sound.]
What? You're blue now...?
[He recognizes what has happened if not how - it's the move he'd wanted to make, the move he'd tried to make. But even if it's a good time for it, if the price of regaining more of his magic was losing some of his body, in the form of ribs and maybe his face... He's not sure he would have made that trade.
Still, he shakes off the surprise enough to take advantage of the opening, letting the broken bone fragment and fade before summoning another set of eight and crashing them down on the prone mannequin with more violent intent than he's maybe ever used in a fight. The head, each limb, and two in the torso for good measure. The bones start crumpling and dissolving with the impact, but the doppelganger's thoroughly damaged.]
the truth is out
What? You're blue now...?
[He recognizes what has happened if not how - it's the move he'd wanted to make, the move he'd tried to make. But even if it's a good time for it, if the price of regaining more of his magic was losing some of his body, in the form of ribs and maybe his face... He's not sure he would have made that trade.
Still, he shakes off the surprise enough to take advantage of the opening, letting the broken bone fragment and fade before summoning another set of eight and crashing them down on the prone mannequin with more violent intent than he's maybe ever used in a fight. The head, each limb, and two in the torso for good measure. The bones start crumpling and dissolving with the impact, but the doppelganger's thoroughly damaged.]