I awoke with a start. 'SANS YOU LAZYBONES! GET UP NOW! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU?' Papyrus shouted from the stairs.
'yeah. i'm coming pap,' I yawned. 'i guess i'm just BONE-tired right now.' I chuckled as I heard Pap shouting at my pun. I teleported into the kitchen, right behind him, waiting for him to turn around.
'OH MY GOD SANS! WHEN DID YOU EVEN COME HERE? YOU SCARED ME-' Papyrus was interrupted.
'half to death?' I suggested, much to his annoyance.
'AAARRRGGGHH! STOP IT SANS JUST STOP IT!' Papyrus raged.
After choking down a plate of Pap's spaghetti, I headed out to my "job" of watching for humans. About 30 minutes into doing absolutely nothing, I headed off to Grillby's for my second breakfast of the day.
'hiya grillbz, i'll have two bottles of ketchup and one bottle of mustard,' I said. While I waited my phone rang. I picked it up and heard Alphys, stuttering more than usual, on the other side.
'H-h-hi Sans, I-I was just wondering i-if you could maybe possibly c-come meet me at m-my lab? I need s-some help on my um, experiment,' she stammered. 'I'm r-r-really sorry about the short notice.'
'k but why do you need me though? why not ask undyne or pap? i'm sure they would gladly help.' I questioned.
'Y-yeah, I'm s-sure they would, b-but you know way m-more about s-science than they do a-and I need someone who knows w-what they're d-doing in the lab... B-but if you're really busy, I g-guess that I could ask s-someone else. S-sorry for bothering y-you,' she replied.
'nah, i'm not busy, just curious. welp, i'll be there in a bit, seeya,' I answered. As I walked out the door, I turned and shouted to Grillbz, 'welp, i better get going. alphys wants me to help her with something. can you just put my food on the tab? i'll ketchup with ya later.' My pun earned some chuckles from the patrons, while others just groaned in response. I headed over to Undyne's house, where Pap was probably having his cooking lessons right now. That was confirmed a few moments later when I heard a loud clang. I walked up to the door and knocked somewhat loudly, 'pap, are you in there?'
Undyne answered the door, 'Sans? What are you doing here? Yeah Papyrus is just over there… AND YOU'RE INTERRUPTING HIS CONCENTRATION!'
'SANS! LAZYBONES! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING FOR HUMANS,' Papyrus exclaimed.
'yeah, but i got a call from alphys. she wants me to help her with an experiment. i just came here to oFISHally tell you that. i don't want pap's anger to BOIL over in case he TROUT I was LOAFing around again,' I explained, earning a glare from Undyne.
'SANS! NO!' Papyrus cried.
'sorry, just didn't want to miss that oppurTUNAty even though some of those puns were deFINitely HALF-BAKED. welp, i should probably CHOP-CHOP now, seeya,' I walked out of the room and took a shortcut before either of them could say anything else.
'H-hey Sans! Y-you're finally here! What t-took you s-so long?' Alphys wondered as I walked in.
'sorry i was a littleTARDIGRADE. i had to deal with some MATTERs before I came. i'm guessing this research has something to do with time and space? or am i going in a completely different TANGENT?' I questioned.
'N-no! I mean y-yeah! I m-mean… Nevermind! What I m-meant to say is y-yes I'm currently researching the relationship between determination and time because I recently discovered that beings with determination actually have the power to alter time which is really cool and also I have a theory that if we inject determination into a very strong being such as a boss monster there is a potential to create a soul that rivals a humans' in strength which could potentially be used to destroy the barrier so we wouldn't have to harvest any more human souls and since you know so much about time and space I thought maybe you could help speed up my research by showing me-' I interrupted her rant abruptly.
'Wait,' I lowered my voice as my eyes retreated into my sockets, my grin shrinking. 'What do you mean by "show you" and do you know about my shortcuts?'
'W-well y-y-yeah! I h-have cameras installed everywhere s-so that I might see a human approaching. I-I just want t-to s-see them, I-I'm not stalking you Sans! H-honest,' she stammered. 'I was j-just bored one d-day so I decided to s-see what a-all of you w-were up to… I-I'm s-so s-s-sorry!'
Alphys started to cry and I tried to comfort her, 'welp, it's not that bad. at least you were the first one to find out, it could be worse. hey, we're not dead, yet. well one of isn't anyways, but there's no time to be SKULLing. so what, exactly, should i do?'
'Y-you'l still h-help? Great,' Alphys exclaimed happily.
First, she asked me to show her my powers and, since she already knew about some of them, I agreed. She used some machines to record data as I used attack after attack, shortcut after shortcut. It took about a month to gather all the necessary data, but finally, we were ready. I brought in some of the parts from the broken machine in my lab and Alphys scavenged some parts from elsewhere. The machine was essentially complete. As Alphys was running some tests, I clumsily tripped over her tail and fell straight into the path of the beam of concentrated determination. I heard Alphys gasp right before the beam hit me. Then everything faded to black.
