Standing in the last hall before the end, I twirled a bone in my finger debating my options. This couldn't be it could it, I thought. Blood and death for me or a dear friend. This can't be Frisk though. I remember when she made friends with everyone and even did all those get togethers. What was going on now? This couldn't be Frisk. So maybe I could stop this… Maybe because if I can't, this is going to be a bad time.

About that time, what could be Frisk walked in with bloody knife at hand. My gaze was simply disappointed as I stared at the kid, "That looks like the expression of someone whose died 8 times…" That's when I finally stopped. I saw the red in her eyes and sighed. Frisk didn't kill Papyrus or my friends. It was this entity. I'll save Frisk damn it. I will, I thought as my eye glowed blue. My voice was cold, "Whoever you are, you aren't Frisk. How about we see if this mess is salvageable…"

"You mean mercy?" she said with a cruel tinge to her voice, "Not a chance…"

I could only laugh at that reaction as I focused the power I had, "Alright… I'll have to try my other method. See if you can stop me from doing this." In seconds, I had focused on moving back to my garage. A good slash flew past me as I saw my garage in Snowdin. I quickly turned on the machine trying to set it just a little before the kid told me she fell in the other timeline.

With a whir of machine parts the machine cooked up enough to send me back as it smoked. I walked outside. I took a few slow steps forward and remembered what I knew before. I remembered the kid telling me she fell in a patch of flowers before Toriel's house.

So for once in my life, I stopped being lazy, if only for this single moment. Running for the ruins, I booked it past Papyrus and everyone. Of course, Papyrus would follow me having never seen me in a hurry. I had to ignore that though. If I remember the kid said someone tried to talk to her in the ruins before and she was scared of them. It could be my last chance to stop this mess going on in the other timeline. So I'm going to have to not worry about Papyrus right now.

Look at me, for once in my long life, I'm running to save this kid from something else. Maybe I am going soft for this kid. I will say this though, I'm not letting this kid fall again. I'm not going to see this kid crumble to that thing again. I remember the tears she shed, especially when I saw her wield the knife before me.

I heard Papyrus call my name but I couldn't say a thing. I was trying to get where I needed to be. Remembering everything Frisk told me was essential here. She said she was held here by Toriel at first. So I knocked lightly, "Knock Knock?"

"Who's there?" I heard the same light-hearted motherly tone.

"Someone who needs help quickly… I need to go through here to save someone," my voice shook as I knew time was growing closer to the fall.

Toriel could be heard debating her options until she opened the door, "Help who? No one is out here but me."

"No a kid is about to fall… I can't explain but I need to save that kid from-" I spoke up with a tone of urgency as Toriel stopped me with a soft smile.

She held an arm out as the door was left open, "Go… If you are willing to help this child than do it. Thank you for looking out for them. Glad to know I'm not the only one."

I nodded and bolted through the hallways and up the stairs. I was getting tired as I knew that this was new to run this much. So I bolted through her empty front door area and kept at that run until I saw the flower patch. Sliding to a stop I saw the kid fall into the flower patch with no wounds, "Dang kiddo… Tough one aren't y- Who are you?"

A ghost like figure stood nearby and saw me. It glared as I put a bone wall between Frisk and this thing. It tried breaking it but I sent a wave of bones at the ghost. It fell as I sighed relief and sunk back on the ground half out of breath from running here. I finally let go of my fear of getting here late and looked up at the hole above, "One tough kid…"

"Who are you?" Frisk had sat up looking around until her eyes found me confused.

Looking to Frisk as I stood up, I just smiled with a grin, "Names Sans, kid. It's nice to meet you again kid… Let's get out of this bonely place and get you somewhere nice okay?"

Frisk gave a small laugh to the joke and just nodded. She ran over to take my hand, "Alright, Sans. Where are we going?"

"A place where you can make friends. This place is filled with them. You just have to- What the… Kid get behind me!" I saw what couldn't have been Gaster as he aimed a malformed laser at Frisk. I pulled the kid behind me as I summoned my own dragon bone to blast a similar laser to block it. I heard Gaster sign out for me to run from the kid and this wasn't over. Then Gaster faded.

Frisk shook behind me holding my hand tightly. I turned to smile at her, "Hey… It's okay! I'm here to help you. I ran all the way here to help you after all. So let's work hard to make friends okay?"

Frisk just stared at me and hugged me, "As long as that thing doesn't come back…. You won't let it get me right?" Frisk was scared and understandably so. I just nodded and hugged her back with a softer grin thinking, 'Kid I won't let you fall to anyone, even something like that weird ghost thingy. Promise.' I still had a gnawing feeling Gaster wasn't done yet.

Toriel found us with a sigh of relief on her lips. She spoke softly, "Oh your both okay… I heard an explosion and the house shook…" She saw Frisk hiding behind me peeking her head out as Toriel smiled, "Its okay Child… My name is Toriel. I won't hurt you."

When I gave the kid a smile and a nudge, Frisk moved towards Toriel and hugged her suddenly. I was surprised with half a mind to levitate her away from Toriel, remembering the nightmares. Toriel just hugged back with a smile. I gave a chuckle of relief, "Told you I was protecting the kid. She's safe…"

Frisk smiled wide, making me almost note it being adorable, as she spoke happy, "He saved me from a mean man in black! Sans is awesome! He even stopped the other ghost! He's the best!"

Toriel gave a smile and looked up to me. Her smile was gentle as she looked a bit more stern afterwards, "Where do you intend to take her now?" She was serious now, something my nightmares made me remember all too well. So what do I say to that scary look?

"Town… Snowdin. Making friends so that she doe- So that she can become the light the underground desperately needs. Maybe even the light I need to finish to stop me from myself," I smiled as I looked to Toriel as I got a better idea, "You should come… The queen shouldn't be hiding anymore. Besides, I don't know much about taking care of a kid. And it's not much like a dog."

Frisk ran back to me and tugged my arm with a pout, "The name is Frisk! Not kid… Get it right, Sans!" Her pout became a smile as she took my hand, "Lets go! I wanna meet others like you. If they're nice like you, I wanna meet them. I want to make more friends like you and Toriel!" She was practically pulling me as she made me smile.

This was her, before the massacre made her a monster. The kid she could have been if she was given the chance. And now she is. It made me smile. I saw her run to Toriel and hug her once more. Her cries were trying to coax Toriel as well, "Let's go! We can go together. I don't want you to be here alone. Please!" I saw the plan Frisk had concocted with a grin. She was trying to get her to go with us, trying to help me to get her to go. Kid was smarter than I gave her credit for.

Toriel held Frisk as she stood up. Toriel used her free arm to mess up Frisk's hair. She smiled to her then to me, "I guess so. I've hidden long enough. If she has us both, we can make sure she can make all those new friends. Frisk let's- Sans watch out!" She threw a fireball past my skull as it hit something behind me.

With a quick turn, I saw him again. Gaster was here… Actually here somehow. I had to be imagining it all. So I found myself staring down a ghostly Gaster with fire licking at his black coat. He smiled to me, signing me to leave again. I shook my head no, "Toriel get behind me. I can fig- Ah!" A blaster took me off guard from the left as it used it's large jaw to pin me to the ground. It simply held me to the ground as Gaster signed again, 'I told you to leave'.

The blaster held me down as I tried to fight it's grip. I moved a hand up as something stepped on it. A black dress shoe. A shoe that led to black dress pants as far as I could see. It was him, I thought. The even yet studied tone made me shiver from the memories it brought up, "You should have run. I followed you through your jump back in time. It was very kind of you to open the door… I finally found out how to form here as well. Now, time to get that child before they become the murderer they became before…"

Awe filled my mind until I saw him stepping on my left hand. With a cry of pain, I felt the break. Break was the wrong word, I thought, as shatter came to mind . Somewhere in the middle of my cry of pain, Frisk cried out my name. His foot moved off my hand as he was moving toward Toriel now. The kid was in danger from him now… How did I save her by changing things?