"SANS! GET UP YOU LAZYBONES!" Papyrus called up from the stairway at his brother's room.
"ugh... it's too early for this papyrus..." Sans grumbled as he threw one arm over his closed eye sockets.
Suddenly the door to Sans' room burst open, gaining a huff from the tired skeleton as he put an extra pillow over his skull to drown out what was to come.
"GET UP SANS! I CAN FEEL IT! TODAY WILL BE THE DAY THAT I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL CATCH A HUMAN!" Papyrus announced while striking a pose before suddenly dropping his posture and narrowing his eyes disapprovingly around the room. "BROTHER, YOU REALLY DO NEED TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF," Papyrus sighed.
"mmm-hrm... wait what!?" Sans exclaimed as he shot up into a sitting position, throwing the extra pillow onto the ground with the other many various trash that was strewn about.
The taller skeleton blink several times confusingly as he stared down at his smaller brother before he quickly struck a pose once more.
"UM... I SAID THAT TODAY WILL BE A GREAT DAY! THE DAY THAT I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS! WILL FINALLY CATCH A HUMAN!.. NOW GET DRESSED YOU LAZY BONES! BEFORE WE ARE LATE TO OUR STATIONS!" Papyrus said loudly before turning abruptly and taking his leave, leaving Sans in a bewildered state.
"no it can't be," Sans whispered as he got out of bed and stared out the window.
What the smaller skeleton dreaded had indeed come true, the world had reset. Just when every single monster were getting settled in with their new lives. Mettaton went on a business trip to Japan, inviting along Alphys, Undyne, and Napstablook. Toriel and Asgore after a long while had just finally gotten back together and were maintaining their school. Both Papyrus and he had bought a small house just on the outskirts of town and were enjoying their peaceful life. But why? Why did everything suddenly reset?
Sans' was deeply confused, no, more than confused. He was tired and angry, allowing his left eye to suddenly flare up with light blue magic. Again, why did this all happen? Did the kid do this? Were they not satisfied with what they had? Were they not happy living with both the king and queen? But then that brings up another question... The kid had informed him that they could no longer reset and prove that they couldn't they showed him the grayed out RESET and CONTINUE floating energy boxes.
"SANS! ARE YOU READY YET!" Papyrus called out from the first floor.
Heaving quietly, Sans calmed himself and slowly reached up, placing a shaky hand onto his head.
"ye-yeah pap... just... just give me a second," Sans responded, tears threatening to break free from the socket of his eye holes and flow down his cheekbones.
Slowly wiping away at his face, Sans glared back outside, at Snowdin. Taking a deep breath, he turned around and slowly found his clothing and put them on. Something was up, something not right and he was going to find out what it was.
With a gasp, Frisk shot up into a sitting position and clutched tightly at the area right over where their heart should be. After catching their breath, Frisk looked down at themselves and found that they were sitting in a bed of golden flowers. Standing up slowly, Frisk looked down at the stick within their hand before reaching up to touch the bandage that was placed over their cheek.
What had happened? They remembered that they were enjoying playing on the ground of their new home. Along with them, sat both Asgore and Toriel whom were each reading their own books while their free hands intertwined with each others. Frisk then let out a small gasp as everything suddenly came rushing back to them.
They had remembered playing, being in the company of both the queen and king of monsters within their cozy home. As they were playing though their toys started to dissipate before them. Shocked they looked up and noticed that everything around them began to fade away. Turning their attention to both Asgore and Toriel, they could see both of the monster's panic looks. Frisk had then got up and quickly ran towards their parents. Before they could reach into Toriel's and Asgore's open arms, both of the monsters vanished before their very eyes. Falling down hard onto the ground, Frisk looked up as the world spiraled out around them and then was engulfed in pitch black darkness. Before they had lost consciousness though, they had heard a familiar maniacal laugh, accompanied by another whom they had never heard before. Then Frisks' mind blanked out.
Now here stood Frisk as they came back to their senses. Confused, Frisk hesitantly reached out with one of their hands and was shocked to see the RESET and CONTINUE option boxes pop up in front of them. They had thought that they had lost this power, this cruel ability to reset the time line, especially after they had achieved their happy ending... Well as happy as it could get. But now here it was, back within their possession and actively working as if it hadn't stopped in the first place. Lowering their hand, Frisk watched as the options faded away. Somebody or someone has done a TRUE RESET and Frisk was going to find out who and why.
While in the middle of their thought, they heard sniffing behind them and Frisk quickly turned around, freezing up at what they saw. Instead of them just being alone like last time, now sat another child whom was making small sniffling noises as they buried their face into a stuffed teddy bear. Looking to their right and left, Frisk saw nothing else out of the ordinary before they cautiously made their way on over towards the other child.
"He-hello?" Frisk said aloud softly, hoping to not scare the other child.
The other child let out a small gasp and quickly looked up at Frisk. From what Frisk could see, they could make out that the other child was wearing a gray vest, complimented with black shorts lined with white stripes down the sides and to top it off, literally, a gray colored over sized beanie covered most of their head. After getting a good look at the other child, Frisk watched as the child buried their face back into their stuffed teddy bear and let out another series of sobs.
"Ah... It's... It's okay," Frisk spoke out quickly in a soothing voice as they approached the other child and sat down next to them.
Frisk knew that they child was definitely scared but decided to wait and let them calm down first. Everything must be so new and scary for the child as it were for them as well the first time they had woken up deep within the underground ruins. It took a moment but the other child finally calmed down and stared back up at with their closed eyes. Frisk smiled warmly back at the other child hoping to ease the situation that they were both in.
"Hello, my name is Frisk, what is your name?" Frisk greeted the other child.
The other child however made an "ah" sound before shaking their head side to side slowly. Frisk on the other hand merely tilted their head to the side in confusion. The other child then pointed at their neck and sadly shook their head. With understanding, Frisk nodded back slowly. Frisk had seen this before, sometimes some children lack the ability to speak and this child that they were with must have been one of those.
However the child slowly reached into one of the pockets within their vest and pulled out a marker pen. Frisk then noticed that the child was looking around hesitantly, as if looking for something to write on. Frisk too looked around and found that there was nothing for the other child to write on. Then a thought entered Frisks' mind and they offered the stick to the other child.
"You can write on this," Frisk said quietly to the child.
The child looked up at Frisk before a small smile spread upon their features and they carefully wrote upon the stick. Taking the stick back from the other child, Frisk stared down at the word written down onto the object before looking back up at the child once more.
"Is this your name?" Frisk ask with the child grunting in a happy nod.
With a smile spread upon Frisks' face, they stood up and offered their hand towards the child holding onto the marker and teddy bear.
"Hello _, my name is Frisk," Frisk greeted once more.
"Ah..." the other child responded in kind before they put away the marker and took a hold of Frisks' hand and shook it.
The moment Frisks' hand connected with the other child's they could help but see a flicker of a shadow. This shadow looked almost like the child except it had a black beanie, a vest that was black on one side, white on the other and finally white shorts with black stripes down the sides. The most distinct thing about that shadow were it's piercing cyan colored eyes. With a blink the shadowy figure was gone and Frisk slowly released the other child's hand.
The other child on another note, while they had taken a hold of Frisks' hand they had noticed a menacing shadowy figure that looked almost identical to Frisk, standing next to them. This other Frisk, had a green shirt with a single horizontal yellow stripe, brown shorts and seemed to be glaring at them with red burning eyes. Closing their eyes quickly the child opened up their eyes again only to see Frisk whom seem to be staring at them for a bit longer before they released their hand.
In that awkward silence, Frisk decided to give the other child a warm smile and presented their hand out towards them.
"Lets go," Frisk offered, figuring that it was about time they leave.
"Ah..." the child responded as they held their teddy bear closer towards their body and with their free hand, took a hold of Frisks'.
Once Frisk felt the other child's hand closing around their own, they turned around and lead the both of them away from the bed of golden flowers, knowing of what was going to be in store for them. However upon meeting this new child and knowing that they will do whatever they can to get their happy ending once more, fills them with Determination.
The child on the other hand, snuggled into their teddy bear for comfort couldn't help but let a small smile etched onto their face as they were being lead away by Frisk. At first they were so scared by waking up all alone in a unfamiliar place. However that soon died down when Frisk had approached them and befriended them. Now here they were, being lead by the hand of a new found friend whom they could trust and rely on and by knowing this, fills them with Hope.