"it's a beautiful day outside. birds are singing, flowers are blooming... on days like these"
"Sans, stop." Frisk said.
"Kids like you."
"Sans!" Frisk shouted
Sans stopped and looked at them. The expression they wore...
"What is it kid, I was planning on making this quick." Sans said shortly.
"This will be the twentieth time I've killed you." Frisk said with a huge grin.
"That's it.." Sans left eye shone brightly.
Frisk was flung to the floor, still smiling. Bones flew and they dodged every one. Gasterblasters surrounded them and fired only to miss.
"huh. always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first" Sans shrugged.
"Sans I'm tired of this."
"You're tired?" Sans asked "We've just started."
More bones flew, and again, Frisk dodged every single one.
"You know what I mean Sans."
Sans didn't answer. He thought of Papyrus.
Teal bones flew out followed by smaller white ones. Frisk moved with expert precision. You could really tell they'd done this a lot.
"I mean the resets."
"our reports showed timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting... that's your fault isn't it?"
"Yes." Frisk said flatly.
Sans looked through them. "You have some kind of special power... Don't you think you have a responsibility to do the right thing?"
"Yes."
"Then why did you kill my brother? Why did you kill everyone?"
Frisk looked at the ground. "It's all... just a game... to them."
"What are you talking about? To who?"
"Sans if I keep resetting, even if i go without killing anyone... they'll just reset again... or destroy the world... Sans I can't stop them."
"Just reset. Don't kill anyone, and leave. Never come back."
"It doesn't work like that, Sans! I don't know why I can tell you this. Every other time... I just kill you, or you kill me... But this time is different. We have to stop them!"
Sans let out a deep sigh...
"How?"
"If I reset again.. they'll still be there... but if someone else resets..."
"then they won't?" Sans paused and thought "Will you be reset too?"
"Erm... Probably... Look there's a lab in the hotlands-"
"Ooh a lab, sounds fun. Have you seen my back shed?" Sans grin widened ever so slightly
"Yes. There's a machine there that can drain determination. You have to use it on me."
"You're kidding you want me to do it? You know I've tried something like this before... It didn't go very well."
"It's the only way! Think about it Sans, you're already handling determination. Think about how determined you were to kill me just a few moments ago.
I've fought you a lot lemme tell you, you flat out cheat. You twist reality and do things no other monster does. If anyone can do this, you can."
Sans couldn't argue, his thoughts turned to his previous experiments... and their results...
"I guess I don't have a choice. follow me" Sans said walking towards nowhere. "I know a shortcut."
Within moments they were deep within the true lab. Sans stared at the grotesque-looking machine in the middle of the room. Frisk was staring at it too, their expression filled with recognition and a deep sense of uneasiness.
"what's wrong with you?" Sans asked
"Nothing... it just reminds me of someone." Frisk said "Let's get on with it." Frisk pushed a button on a simple control panel and dashed infront of the machine.
The machine's jaws clamped around Frisk. They didn't react. the "eyes" on the machine began to glow a dark faded red. A substance began to pour out of frisks eyes into the machine. Then it stopped.
"Your turn."
It was Sans' turn to feel uneasy, although to him it felt a little too much like caring. Whether it works or not, this world is a dead end anyway he thought.
The jaws clamped. It wasn't uncomfortable. Sans stared deep into the dark eye holes of the machine as the began to glow a much mor vivid red than before. Suddenly they shone bright. There was a slight twinge in Sans' mind.
And a sudden shock of pain.
"You-" Sans stammered, red stuff began to pool out of his mouth. The jaws unclamped and Sans' turned to see a smiling frisk with a stained knife.
"This is the only way to see if it's worked. You can't give up now Sans. Stay determined!"
Sans vision began to fade, everything went black.
A pile of cold snow cascaded over Sans' head.
"WAKE UP YOU LAZY BONES!"
Sans found himself lying down by the side of his station in Snowdin
"P-Papyrus..."
"UNDYNE WILL BE MAD AT YOU IF SHE SEES YOU SLEEPING ON THE JOB AGAIN SANS! IT'S TIME FOR MY DAILY HUMAN HUNT. THIS TIME I'LL FIND ONE FOR SURE!"
"Yeah, Papyrus I'm sure you will."
"SANS MY AMAZING POWERS OF BROTHERLY EMPATHY TELL ME SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU! DO YOU WANT TO TALK?"
"Oh it's nothing." Sans thought to himself. "Actually... There's this woman in the ruins. She likes my jokes. I was just about to go see her. It sure must suck being stuck in those ruins."
with whatever else could be in there Sans added in his mind.
"YOU SHOULD GO SEE HER AT ONCE! DON'T WORRY BROTHER. I WILL COVER FOR YOU HERE! I'LL SEE YOU DOWN THERE LATER HUNTING FOR HUMANS"
"i better go. see ya Papyrus."
Sans took a shortcut. This was just before all this started... He'd gone to have a conversation with the woman at the ruins. She'd seemed incredibly anxious. She asked him if he remembered the promise he made. She said she wondered if he should keep it.
After that it had gone quiet, and shortly afterwards Sans had heard quite a commotion. The human emerged from the ruins not long afterwards.
He knocked on the ruins door.
"Who's there?" A voice called out. Not what happened last time.
"Are you okay? Did they hurt anyone?" Sans asked frantically.
"I- erm... No. How did you know?" The voice answered, taken aback.
"That doesn't matter." Sans said
"I don't have much time anyway. Please, they want to leave the ruins! If they do, please watch over them. Make sure no one hurts them. You remember your promise?"
Sans thought back to the corridor. Bones flew in his minds eye.
"Yeah... I do. Don't worry , I'll watch over them." Sans said firmly.
"I hear them coming now, I better go."
Sans stepped over to the trees. Everything was back how it was before, and no one was dying this time! For now anyway.
He tried to remember how he'd greeted Frisk before seeing them kill all of his friends.
His fist curled. As it did a small flower grew out of the ground next to him.
"they don't remember ANYTHING!"
"What?"
"you KNOW what I'm talking about! I heard you talking with Toriel, that's not how you usually act."
Sans stared at the flowers bright yellow petals.
"What's going on here, sunshine." He smirked.
"Something funny is going on here. It's never happened like this before".
The flower shot back into the ground. This must be the flower his brother's been talking to. No echo flower looks or sounds like that.
He didn't know what the flower wanted with him, or his brother... But he felt like he gained more from that meeting than the flower. It filled him with.
DETERMINATION.
The door to the ruins opened. A familiar figure exited. As they approached the bridge Sans crept up behind them.
"I don't think I'd usually tell someone this right away. If it wasn't for the woman you just met. You'd be dead where you stand." Sans whispered into Frisk's ear menacingly.
Frisk burst into tears. They ran past Sans and started hammering on the door the ruins calling out Toriel's name in tears.
"ah... I could have done that better..." Sans said to himself. His vision began to fade.
He found himself by the trees. A familiar figure emerged from the ruins.
Sans crept up behind them.
"Human..." Sans said calmly. "Don't you know how to greet a new pal?"
He paused and tried to remember.
"Turn around and shake my hand."
Frisk turned around slowly and held out a shakey arm.
Sans grasped it gently and shook... then blushed a deep blue.
I forgot the the whoopee cushion! he thought. He considered resetting.
"heheheh, sorry 'bout that. Meant to play a little joke on ya. Forgot my whoopee cushion."
"Oh.. Sorry." Frisk looked down.
"No don't apologise it's my fault kid, I forgot. heheheh sorry to make things awkward."
"It's okay!" Frisk smiled warmly. They looked completely different to before the reset. More naive, more innocent. Sans didn't believe this Frisk could hurt anybody.
"anyways. You're a human right? That's hilarious. I'm Sans. Sans the skeleton. I'm actually supposed to be on watch for humans right now, but y'know I don't really care about catching anybody." Sans said grinning back
"Now my brother, Papyrus, he's a human hunting FANATIC. He's just up here. Come hide behind this conveniently shaped lamp" Sans winked his right eye at Frisk.
Frisk happily rushed over to the lamp and stood behind it. This was different too. He remembered how eerie it had been last time. Papyrus arrived and broke Sans' train of thought.
Papyrus began to berate Sans. He smiled. He couldn't see Frisk right infront of him! Sans could barely stop himself from laughing.
Several skeleton related puns later, Papyrus was on his way. Sans breathed out heavily. It had felt like such a long time since he'd irritated his brother with bad skeleton puns. His brother was alive. So was everyone else. He could begin to put what happened in the other world behind him.
"Okay you can come out now" Sans called out to Frisk. "You better get going. He might come back. And if he does... You'll have to sit through more of my hilarious jokes."
Frisk walked on ahead. Sans sat grinning to himself. He couldn't believe it.
He took a shortcut to his bedroom in Snowdin. He was tired. Things seemed to be going fine. He needed a break from all this saving the world.
He pushed the bundle of covers into the corner and sat leaning against it staring at at the tornado of trash in the corner. A familiar sensation came over him. He wondered if it was just the idea of slacking off that was familiar to him, from an altogether different kind of work.
He smirked to himself. He'll always find the time for a break or two.
It filled him with
DETERMINATION.
Sans' door swung open and he woke up with a jolt.
"SANS! THE HUMAN GOT PAST ALL MY PUZZLES! WHERE WERE YOU?!" Papyrus shouted
"I had some very important stuff not to do."
"THEY'RE IN SNOWDIN RIGHT NOW!"
"Have they evacuated?"
"WHAT? NO! OF COURSE NOT!"
"then don't worry. Trust me on that."
"SANS I AM GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT THE HUMAN TO CAPTURE THEM!"
"What?!" Sans was astounded. Papyrus didn't want to fight Frisk when they were murdering monsters left right and centre, but will fight an innocent child? Sans didn't know what to think
"DO NOT WORRY BROTHER! I WON'T HURT THE HUMAN. I'LL CAPTURE THEM AND KEEP THEM IN OUR SHED!"
"Good, that's great. Hold on a minute... that important stuff came up."
Sans vision began to fade.
He was back on his bed several hours before. He took a shortcut just outside Snowdin.
Frisk was just arriving.
Sans strolled up to them.
"Tips for fighting my brother? Don't." He said before turning away. He quickly took a shortcut back to his room.
He walked up to his dresser and took out a silver key, and went into the secret room behind the house.
He stared at the broken machine in the corner. He struggled to remember.
This wasn't the first time he'd messed around with time. A ghost of a memory came to him. Lying in his bedroom. Time travelling for a break. He could swear he'd done that before.
The only thing he could remember was breaking the machine. That he could remember clearly. He was filled with rage for some reason, and a deep sense of loss. He pictured it.
"You gotta learn when to quit!"
Bones flew at the machine.
"And that day's today!"
The bones hit the machine with greater intensity.
Sans shook his head. Just like everything else, things were different this time. He didn't need a machine this time. though whether that made things better or worse remained to be seen.
Papyrus would probably arrive soon. Sans went back up to his bedroom.
He turned and sat on his bed facing the door. A moment later it opened and Papyrus rushed in.
"SANS! THE HUMAN GOT PAST ALL MY PUZZLES! WHERE WERE YOU?!" Papyrus shouted.
"Papyrus, listen to me. This may relate to the human and is very important. You mention you've been talking to a flower recently, right?"
"YES. WHY?"
"Is it a small flower with lovely bright sunshiney yellow petals?" Sans smirked.
"YES. WHY?"
"What did the flower tell you?"
"IT SAID "If the human gets to new home without killing anyone, and befriends you, undyne, and alphys, call everyone and get them to come to the barrier." I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS BUT THEY TOLD ME TO KEEP IT SECRET SO DON'T TELL ANYONE.
"well... don't tell them you told me."
"I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN BE DISHONEST WITH THEM SANS. THEY'RE SO FRIENDLY!" Papyrus beamed at Sans.
"you know what then... nevermind."
Sans vision began to fade.
He was back several hours before. He let out a deep sigh. might as well have another nap.
The door swung and Sans woke up with a jolt.
"SANS! THE HUMAN GOT PAST-"
"cool. Are you going to fight them then?" Sans said.
"YES! I'M GOING TO CAPTURE THEM AND KEEP THEM IN OUR SHED!"
"okay. You go do that." Sans said looking away. Resetting to play with his brother's memory had hurt him.
he took a shortcut up ahead out of Snowdin. Frisk had already arrived, Papyrus was posing. Sans smiled. Neither of them were taking the battle seriously.
Frisk expertly dodged swooping bones. Sans' insides tightened. He felt nauseated and began to sweat. He could see that corridor... that Frisk.
He clenched his fist, he thought of Toriel's request to watch over this new Frisk and forced himself to look up. She was running towards a field of bones flying at her
with a huge bone at the end, far too high to jump over. Sans' hand flung out, his left eye lit up. Raising his hand high Frisk rose higher and higher with it and until they cleared the bone.
Sans' let out a sigh of relief. Papyrus was shouting about sparing the human.
Everything was okay. He sat breathing deeply... Papyrus and Frisk had left.
"SANS!"
Or maybe not. Papyrus was right behind him.
"YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AT YOUR STATION AT THE WATERFALL!"
"Oh yeah I forgot about that."
"YOU'VE BEEN ACTING WEIRD RECENTLY SANS! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOU!"
Papyrus marched off in a huff. Sans took a shortcut to his station.
He thought back... to the last time. He'd been explicitly ordered not to go to his stations. A full scale evacuation of the entire area had been ordered. Only Gersen and a single Temmie refused.
Gersen didn't explain his reasoning, but it was said he knew how to look after himself. The Temmie had said she needed to raise funds for college. Although she had promised to try to rip the murderer off with an overpriced temmie flake.
At that time it seemed like they could be stopped. Undyne was preparing to hunt them down... everyone was united. Thinking about it filled Sans with
DETERMINATION.
Frisk arrived shortly afterwards.
"Hey..." Sans said. "I appreciate what you did back there."
"what? what did I do?"
"nevermind. Do you know anything about a flower? Leaves so yellow you've got to squint?" Sans smirked.
"Oh, you mean Flowey!" Frisk looked up smiling and then suddenly looked away.
"Flowey... What did he say to you."
"Well at first he was nice... but then he tried to hurt me, and Toriel stopped him. And I saw him again later... he was talking about saving and resets and i didn't understand.
He got angry with me. He was shouting 'You don't remember anything do you!'. He kept calling me... someone elses name."
"Did he say anything else?"
"He said... if I can't reset... then I'd better not hurt anyone, or the whole underground may turn against me. I don't want to hurt anyone... but I keep getting attacked. They say they've sent a warrior to kill me. What can I do?"
"Oh don't worry that's just Undyne." Sans said grinning
"I don't want to hurt her." Frisked looked down
"What makes you so certain you could?"
Frisk smiled and didn't reply.
"look I'll talk to her, okay?" Sans said tightly.
"You don't have to do that." Frisk was still smiling. they were clutching a ballerina shoe tightly.
"You'll be judged."
"She's trying to kill me!"
"You'll be killed."
"That's something else Flowey said! Flowey said... In this world, it's kill or be killed. He asked me what do I do if I'm faced with a true killer? What would you do?"
Sans stopped. His insides tightened again.
"I thought you were different to them" he said flatly.
"What?"
"They're still there aren't they? The other one I mean."
"But you don't remember anything do you? You still can't reset? Neither of you can."
"Sans... what are you talking about?"
"I can do this one better. Let's try again."
Sans vision began to fade.
Frisk arrived shortly afterwards.
"What, haven't you seen a guy with two jobs before?" Sans said smirking.
Frisk stared blankly.
"Fortunately, two jobs means twice as many legally required breaks." Sans said widening his grin. "I'm going to grillby's. Wanna come?"
A shortcut later they were there.
Sans tried his best to make small talk. Frisk ordered burgers and Sans grabbed a bottle of ketchup.
"So." Sans said. "What do you think of my brother? He's pretty cool right?"
"Yeah he's cool" Frisk said.
Sans smiled. "Of course he is."
He took a sip of ketchup. "He really wants to join the royal guard... but Undyne won't let him. It's a shame. It's really one of my brothers best qualities... why they won't let him in..." Sans said pensively.
"Why not?" Frisk asked
"She says he's too soft. But that's one thing that's so cool about him. He'll always find a way not to hurt anybody." Sans fought back tears. "You should go hang out with him before you meet undyne. don't worry. She won't catch you. There's a boatman up ahead."
"thanks! I will!" Frisk ran along happily.
What would i do if face with a true killer? Sans thought.
I have been faced with a true killer.
I tried to kill them.
I can't convince you not to fight undyne. But my brother can.
Sans thought of how cool his brother is. It filled him with
DETERMINATION.
Sans followed the sound of clunking armour, rounding a corner he saw a darkened figure holding a spear storming through the cave.
"Undyne!" Sans called out.
"What!? I'm busy hunting a human! You know how important this is Sans!" Undyne said impatiently without breaking stride.
"this is about the human. Don't go all out on them, okay? they're... they're alright."
"What do you mean they're alright!? This isn't about how nice they are Sans! Asgore needs SOULs."
"If you hurt the human... We'll all have a bad time" Sans said.
Undyne stopped and turned to Sans. "What do you mean."
"I don't know how much i should tell you. If you hurt the kid.. it could lead to all timelines stopping."
"Sans the old experiments are useless, Asgore has deemed Alphys' experiments top priority" Undyne snapped.
"None of us know if the old experiments were useless do we? Because none of us can remember, and there's no one who can tell us. It's like huge parts of my memory, of my life! Gone! Imagine that Undyne, except it's EVERYTHING. It's all gone. That's what could happen... if the human kills you."
"The human will not kill me, Sans." Undyne said proudly heightening her spear.
"That's what I'm counting on." Sans grinned. They turned another corner onto some large wooden platforms, shadows were cast over from higher platforms. Sans had to watch his step.
"The human will be here any second Sans, you better better be quick."
"I've got a feeling... if nobody dies, something good happens. Don't kill them." Sans said, winking his left eye.
"Okay... I'll go easy on them... at first... I'm trusting you." Undyne smiled.
Sans grinned.
He took a shortcut back to his room. He found himself with very little to do. He heard barking outside. He picked up his trombone. His hobby recently has been plaguing Papyrus with incidental music. Sans popped his head round the door and gave the trombone a few toots. Frisk had come round to visit Papyrus. Sans smiled. Everything was going well. He sat back and cracked open a bottle of ketchup. He thought of his schedule for that day... he'd been supposed to attend his stations in the hotlands round about now. There was time for a little break though. He took a sip.
A box of hotdogs meowed loudly from underneath his bed. He slid the box out and looked inside. A bunch of hot dogs and a single hotcat rolled around inside. He'd been meaning to find someone to try the hotcat, didn't quite trust it himself.
He bundled the box into his pocket.
He stood up slowly, time to go... sleep at his station in the hotlands.
Not long later he was being woken up by an angry Undyne
"Sans wake up! Don't sleep on the job! The human is humiliating me they keep running!" Undyne snapped at him.
"Well run after them then" Sans said and shut his eyes. Undyne couldn't go through the hotlands. Certainly not in that armour.
Undyne snarled, turned and ran. Sans opened an eye. Undyne collapsed. On the other side of the bridge he saw a small figure approach a water cooler, and then dump a glass of water over Undyne.
"that's nice" he remarked. Sans took his leave, he had no desire to be shouted at again. He had another station further in the hotlands Undyne rarely came past. She didn't like to use armour cooling mud. "Heroes should shine!" she'd say.
Sans thought to before... Undyne had been the only other person with a chance of stopping the murderer. She fought past the point of death and valiantly saved a child from being murdered. Her strength and her sacrifice had touched Sans, perhaps it was part of what shook him out of inaction.
Along with, y'know, along with all the timeline reports... He hadn't seen reports like that since after the previous experiments. Nothing back then had indicated and end to all timelines though... it was quite clear something had been lost.
Monsters all across the underground had lost parts of their memory. Even Sans was affected. No one could remember who the royal scientist was, or if there'd even been one. Asgore's response had been quick. Alphys was immediately named Royal Scientist and it was suggested never to speak of the incident. It was the usual method for dealing with problems in the underground.
A small figure approaching broke Sans' train of thought. His insides began to tighten again.
"hey kid. wanna buy a hotdog?" Sans said grinning.
Frisk looked up at Sans smiling happily. They reached into their pocket and pulled out 35G
Sans paused. He hadn't named a price yet.
"Heh heh." He laughed. "this one should be purr-fect for ya"
Sans flipped his box of hotdog open and handed the hot cat to Frisk. The hot cat began to meow quietly.
"Can I have another?" Frisk asked.
"I dunno if you could carry another" Sans said. "How about I just put it on your head?"
Sans shakily placed a hotdog on Frisks head.
"Another!" Frisk shouted
Sans grabbed another hotdog and placed it ontop of the first one, beginning a neat stack.
It continued for a while, till Sans saw the box was beginning to empty.
Frisk was stood balancing 29 hotdogs and a hotcat on their head.
"Another!" they called out.
Sans burst out laughing
"I can't even reach that high! 29 hotdogs is good enough for anyone." Sans said warmly.
This Frisk had subverted his expectations on every occasion. Sans allowed himself to hope. Maybe there's a happy ending after all.
Although... the reports...
"The reports!" Sans spat out. How could he have overlooked them? He hadn't checked them in this timeline. Maybe they were different.
"What?" Frisk said, looking confused.
Sans didn't hear. He wasn't there. He'd taken a shortcut.
Sans tore into the room behind his house. Behind the broken machine in a small cabinet, another machine quietly whirred in darkness. He pushed a button, a sheet of paper began to emerged from a slot on the machine.
"This doesn't make any sense..." he mumbled to himself.
There was only one timeline shown, and it only went up to moment sans had pushed the button on the machine.
The results suggested the anomaly was gone. But that can't be right, when he absorbed the determination, when he began resetting, he became the anomaly.
Or an anomaly, anyway.
He dug his phone out of his pocket.
Dialling Alphys.
No reply. Sans had expected that. He started writing a text.
"have some results u really need 2 see.
They don't make any sense to me.
tb soon"
Sans pressed the send button and froze. This was way out of his depth. His phone buzzed.
"1 new message, Alphys"
"Hey sorry I'm kinda busy right now!
bring them round later, I'll text you when ok?"
Sans sighed. At a loss, he practiced the long standing tradition of the underground.
He ignored the problem.
Some time later, Sans sat glumly in MTT Hotel restaurant. Frisk had been through and entered the core. Alphys still hadn't text.
He was waiting with everyone else for the elevators to get back up and running and had no desire to go into the core himself. The place creeped him out.
It wasn't long now until Frisk reached... that corridor. Sans had no idea what would happen at all after that. Although everything had been different this time. Sans phone vibrated.
"1 new message, Alphys."
"Hey i've changed my mind... don't come over.
I want to be on my own for a while and I've something to be working on anyway
don't worry everything is fine.
I'll text you some other time, okay?"
Well that's that... it's doubtful she'd have anything to say about it anyway. A clunk rung throughout the building and the elevators began to move. It was time.
Frisk walked through down the long brightly lit corridor. Intricate patterns decorated the windows, with the Delta Rune inscribed in the centre.
A beautiful orange light was streaming through the windows. Large ornate pillars lined the side of the corridor as Frisk stepped by each one.
They came to the end of the corridor. And stepped out the door at the other end.
"Heya" Sans said as Frisk exited.
Frisk jumped.
"So you finally made it." Sans said "It's been a long journey. Soon you will meet the king. But now... you will be judged.
"Sans" Frisk cut Sans off. Sweat began to form on Sans' forehead.
"What?" Sans said firmly.
"Thank you." Frisk said, and smiled warmly.
Sans was speechless. Frisk began to slowly walk away.
"By the way. Frisk. You didn't kill anyone." Sans called out.
"I know." Frisk called back.
Sans waited until he was out of sight and followed. He wanted to see how this ended.
As Frisk walked through the door to the barrier. Sans took a shortcut out sight. It didn't go well. Asgore had a friendly demeanor towards Frisk but ultimately forced combat. "You proud fool!" Sans thought.
And so, Frisk was forced to kill Asgore.
Then a flower came. And everything went black.
Sans woke up surrounded by darkness. Something was wrong. He tried to reset... nothing happened.
"Why... are YOU here?" A voiced called out.
A huge grotesque beast emerged from the shadows. Huge vines surrounded Sans locking behind him. An ugly bulky head with savage jaws lowered into view. It looked strangely familiar to Sans.
"Why are YOU here" the voice repeated.
"I have no idea. What the hell are you" Sans spoke up impatiently.
"This is why you acted differently... This is why they don't remember anything. They can't reset anymore can they? You've stolen it from them, and now i've stolen it from you!"
A hideous laugh echoed from all around Sans. A memory came to him. This was the flower that spoke to him outside the ruins. The one that'd been speaking to his brother.
"I like your new look, yellow is a bad colour on you." Sans quipped.
The beasts jaws opened. A huge beam burst from it's mouth. Sans screamed in the searing heat before burning into ashes.
Then he was back. Just fine, right back infront of beasts opening jaws. Sans gritted his teeth. A Gasterblaster swiveled out of nowhere blocking the beast's aim.
And fired. An eldritch screech echoed out. Five more gasterblasters appeared. Just before they fired they disappeared. Sans lurched. He was back infront of the beasts opening jaws.
A flurry of bones lodged themselves in the beasts mouth. Two more bones flew into the beast's eyes and another smashed the television screen above it's head.
Once again Sans found himself before the beast's opening jaws, and once again he defended himself before it had the chance to strike.
"YOU-" It called out in frustration. 7 hearts on the restored television screen and span until they flew right out of it.
"THE SOULS!" the ghastly voice called out. The world began to shimmer. Sans found himself back infront of the barrier infront of a yellow flower crumpled on the floor and a stunned looking Frisk.
The souls continued spinning overhead.
"Kill me..." The flower mumbled, it's face in the dirt.
Sans raised a foot high.
"No!" Frisk called out, flinging themselves between Sans and the flower. "You can't!"
"I'll kill you..." The flower whispered.
Sans lowered his foot.
The flower raised it's head and turned. "I'll kill EVERYONE."
Frisk looked sternly at Sans and Sans did nothing.
"Why? WHY?!" The flower screamed. It drew itself up. It seemed to have recovered from the battle.
Frisk and Sans did nothing.
The flower turned towards Sans looking him in the eyes. "Next time... they'll get a call from Undyne. Make sure they go.
"What?" Sans asked.
"You want a happy ending right?" The flower said smirking, before disappearing beneath the ground.
Frisk turned towards Sans.
"What does that mean?" they asked tugging at Sans' sleeve.
Sans didn't hear. His vision was beginning to fade.