You can find the link to how I perceive Sans and Papyrus in this story on my profile page. The move sets depicted are not the same move sets that will be utilized in this story.

For the title picture, I drew the middle section, the other two sections do not belong to me and credit for them belongs to the original owners.

Now let's do it!

Sans woke up after what seemed to be an eternity in the dark with his hands tied behind his back and his legs tied together, his head spinning from who knows what. When he tried to remember how he got there and why he was there, he only pulled a blank. All he knew was that his name was Sans, he had a brother named Papyrus, and he REALLY WANTED TO GET OUT OF THIS ROPE. He knew he and his brother got along well, but most of the minute details were missing, basically his entire past except for basic recollections of his bro.

"S-SANS? ARE YOU THERE?" echoed a voice to his left. Sans nudged his head so it faced left, his head seemingly out of proportion to what felt comfortable. Now that he thought about it, that same thought could also be applied to rest of his body.

"p…papyrus?" he shouted towards the source of the voice.

"SANS! YOU ARE THERE!" Sans smiled. At least his brother was okay.

"hey paps, are you tied up too?" He heard the rustling of limbs to his left. "sounds like it."

"S-SANS…I'M SCARED…"

"it's okay paps, we'll be alright-."

"Would you two can it in there?" echoed a voice from afar, "I'm trying to get some sleep?"

"i would'tin' say that if i were you," muttered Sans. He heard more rustling to his left.

"SAAAAANS NO!" They both froze as they heard the movement of stones up ahead.

"That's it, I'm coming in." Sans heard Papyrus gulp to his left as he watched light appear from behind a corner. Around it was a weird giant ball of rock with a face, arms, and legs. It held a torch up to illuminate it's way in the cave.

"wow, you really 'rocked' your entrance, hehehehhehe-"

"SANS, STOP IT PLEASE!" The thing did not look amused by Sans' pun.

"I don't like puns, so if you don't want your FACE smashed, I'd shut it."

"hehe…."

"EXCUSE ME GOOD SIR, BUT WHAT ARE YOU?" The thing looked down at itself, back at where Sans thought Papyrus was, and tilted its…everything.

"You have to be kidding me. I'm a Graveler…?"

"the heck is that?" The Graveler was even more confused.

"The others said they found a Cubone and a Marowak passed out in the woods, and I didn't believe them until they brought you two in. I didn't think you guys would be this much of a handful." Sans blinked. Cubone? Marowak? What the-.

"um you're confusing me, what's a cubone, what's a marowak?"

"I'll whack you on the head if you don't shut up."

"hehe, nice one."

"DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!" The Graveler brought the torch closer to Sans' face, causing him to lean back slightly.

"You two don't know what Pokémon you are?"

"pokémon? what's a pokémon?" The Graveler let out a huge bellow.

"If you aren't a Cubone, then what are you?"

"i'm a….a…." Sans realized he didn't remember who he was, or who he once was.

"S-S-SANS…YOU LOOK A BIT ODD…" Sans began to turn his head towards Papyrus' voice.

"whaddaya mean paaaa…-" Sans froze when he saw Papyrus, who was looking at him with wide eyes and a shocked expression. His entire face was covered by a skull, but it didn't seem like the skull was actually his, like he expected. His body was different shades of brown, his arms and legs thicker than normal, and there was a tall bone leaning on the wall next to him. He had a…tail? With a SPIKE? The familiar red scarf still covered the top of his torso and his neck.

"uhhhhhh…." The Graveler looked annoyed and amused at the same time.

"S-SANS, AM I SEEING THINGS?" The Graveler pulled a mirror from somewhere. That somewhere Sans did not want to know.

"Look at yerselfs." The Graveler held the mirror up in front of Sans and Papyrus, and slowly tilted up until it showed both of their faces.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAaaaaaAAAAA!" they both screamed. Sans and Papyrus both started thrashing crazily, causing small rocks to drop off the top of the cave. The Graveler looked around nervously and put the mirror away.

"Would you two calm down?!" Sans looked down at himself. His body was similar to that of Papyrus', his hands, arms, feet, and legs all covered in flesh. His stomach was tinted light brown compared to the dark brown color that defined the rest of his body. He felt something on top of his head, perhaps a skull like Papyrus had? He also still had his comfortable dark blue hoodie jacket on.

After a few minutes of thrashing, he and Papyrus finally calmed down.

"Now listen here-" The Graveler was interrupted by what seemed to be red and yellow striped prairie dog, who had run all the way to where Papyrus and Sans were being held.

"What is it Watchog?" Graveler said, turning around to face the Watchog, whose teeth kept trembling.

"S-sir, the Union sent out an exploration team to find these two."

"And?"

"They're here." The Graveler mumbled something to himself before picking up the torch and turning back to Sans and Papyrus.

"You two, don't move, don't make a sound, or I'll have one of my Geodudes beat the pulp out of you.

"whatever you say dude." The Graveler ran out of the cavern with the torch, leaving Sans and Papyrus alone again.

"SANS, WHAT DO WE DO?" Sans figuratively itched his head inside his mind, since his hands were tied up. He tried to remember anything, something, what could he possibly do to escape?

Suddenly, he lifted his head up, having an idea. He could still move his fingers behind the rope; perhaps it would work. He squeezed his fingers into fists, focusing as much as he could into manifesting a…

When Sans opened his eyes, he saw a floating bone. The light bathed the two brothers in aqua light.

"SANS, HOW DID YOU…" Sans winked with his left eye then squeezed his fists again. The bone flew above him and slid behind his back, breaking the rope that held his hands together. Sans brought his arms in front of him, able to see his hands. He had small, brown fingers, enough to grab stuff but still different from what he was used to. He grabbed the bone next to him and broke the rope tying his feet together with it. He went to one knee then stood up, using the bone to help him. This body was not very forgiving to him.

"SANS?"

"i gotcha paps." Sans summoned another bone and used it to break Papyrus' bonds. Papyrus stood up and grabbed his longer bone and walked up to him.

"SANS, NOW WHAT?" Sans looked around nervously then turned back to Papyrus.

"follow, but stay silent." Sans ruffled his hoodie jacket then tip-toed up the cave. His new feet were well suited to this cave environment. Papyrus followed quietly behind him.

Sans put his back flat against the cave walls right up next to the corner, adjusting his new skull mask so it didn't accidentally fall off. Papyrus was right next to him.

"SANS, WHAT DO YOU SEE?" Sans nervously poked his head around the corner, making sure his skull mask didn't chip any rocks off the cave. He saw a torch light somewhere off in the distance, but it was coming from around a corner; they were in a labyrinth of tunnels.

"dammit." Sans turned to Papyrus with nervousness in his eyes.

"WHAT IS IT SANS?"

"i can see a light, but i'm not sure where it's coming from nor if it's the union or our captors." Sans suddenly heard footsteps coming from one of the left tunnels and pushed Papyrus back behind the corner. He held his breath as the steps came closer.

"This way!" shouted a feminine voice. The footsteps continued to reverb through the tunnel and eventually trailed off.

"SANS, DO YOU THINK THOSE WERE THE RESCUERS?"

"lets go paps." Sans grabbed Papyrus' hand and ran down the now empty tunnel, trying to listen for any further commotion. He heard someone cry out and the crack of thunder down one of the pathways. However, the exit was not far; he could feel it. He looked back and forth between the end of the tunnel and the noise, nervous.

"SANS, ARE YOU OKAY?" Sans was silent for a bit.

"hey paps, can you use that bone?" Papyrus lifted up the long bone he was holding and looked at Sans.

"SANS, WHAT IS YOUR PLAN?"

"come on paps. if we're to find anything out about our little predicament, we have to follow where these…pokemon go." Sans turned around and ran down the hallway the voice went, Papyrus right on his tail. He saw a yellow flash come from around a corner and the cries became louder.

Sans turned around the corner just in time for a rock to nearly hit him in the head. Before he could do anything to move away from it, some yellow mouse knocked it out of the way. Sans was wide eyed as the thing looked at him.

"You! Get out of here! It's not safe here!" she shouted. It was the same voice that he heard earlier. The yellow mouse jumped out of the way of the red and yellow prairie dog, who tried to bite the mouse. The yellow mouse charged with electricity and unleashed a thunderbolt towards the prairie dog, but it got up and dodged it.

"what?"

"SANS, LOOK OUT!" Sans was too distracted by the yellow mouse to notice that the prairie dog had jumped towards him. Papyrus threw his giant bone and it whacked the prairie dog in the head, who sprawled to the ground with swirls on their eyes.

"nice one paps." Sans surveyed the situation. It seemed like there were three "Union" Pokemon: that yellow mouse, some sort of light blue penguin, and a weird tan and orange fox thing. There were a few captors, including the Graveler and the Watchog Papyrus had just knocked out. Sans grabbed his bone like a sword and readied himself.

"SANS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW?"

"fighting." Sans rushed into the fight, causing most of the Pokemon to freeze momentarily and look at him.

"What are you doing?" shouted the yellow mouse. A brown and black furred dog took down the yellow mouse while she was distracted.

Sans teleported himself in front of the fox thing and blocked a karate chop from a blue humanoid with a karate belt. He pushed the humanoid back and whacked it with his bone causing them to stumble back holding their face. Sans felt something trembling in his fingers.

"jump," he shouted to the fox. Sans slammed his bone into the ground, causing the ground around him to shake violently. The red humanoid was thrown around and hit the side of the wall, collapsing with swirled eyes.

"Uh, thanks?" Said the fox, her voice filled with concern. Sans jumped up and ran towards the dog, who had bitten the yellow mouse.

"Don't let that Pikachu escape!" shouted the Graveler, burying the blue penguin in a pile of rocks. Sans' blue eye glowed as he lifted the dog away from the Pikachu, grinning as he did it.

"paps, join in."

"I THINK I'M GOOD SANS." The Pikachu dropped to the ground as Sans threw the dog to the ground and came down upon it with his bone, smashing it in the head with it. The dog's eyes turned into swirls. Why did he feel so good doing this? And why did these attacks feel so natural to him?

"H-Hey, I told you to get out of here." The Pikachu limped towards Sans, clutching a bleeding puncture wound in on her shoulder.

"you guys looked like you need some help." Sans' blue eye glowed as he lifted up the Graveler.

"What kind of magic is this?"

"Who taught you to use Psychic?" asked the fire fox, trotting over towards Sans.

"psychic? what do you mean psychic?" The light blue aura faded and Graveler fell onto the ground, rolling up into a ball in the process.

"Have a nice trip! HEHEHEHEHEH!" He began to speed right towards Sans, who was not ready for the attack. His little arms tensed up as he waited death.

Just before he would have been hit, he was pushed out of the way by the Pikachu, who took the damage instead. She sprawled to the right, blasting by the Marowak Papyrus and escaping the cavern. The Graveler unrolled and pointed at Sans.

"I'll let you escape this time, but mark my words, it won't be so easy in the future!" The Graveler rolled off as Papyrus attempted to throw a Bonearang at him. Sans and the fire fox ran over to the motionless Pikachu, whose eyes were also swirls just like the rest and the blood from her arm pooling on the floor. She had a green scarf and a green bow attached to her right ear, and she had a heart shape at the end of her tail. She wasn't responding to any stimuli.

"Oh god, this looks really bad," muttered the fire fox. "We have to get Faith back to the Union, stat. The fire fox poked at a badge pinned to a green bandanna she wore around her neck, but it fizzed out.

"Hey Fennekin, any help here?" The Fennekin rolled her eyes as she looked at the rumbling rock pile. At this point Papyrus had rejoined Sans at the fallen Pikachu.

"I have a name you know, Cameron. I could just call you Piplup." The Piplup pushed it's way out of the giant pile of rocks the Graveler had dropped on it and waddled over to the Fennekin.

"Please don't Amber. I don't need any of your sass right now…" Cameron got a glimpse of the fallen Pikachu. Sans could see he also had a green bandanna around his neck just like Amber the Fennekin.

"Faith doesn't look good...did you try your badge?" Amber poked the badge again, but it just fizzed a second time.

"It's broken Cameron. You'll have to do it-"

"excuse me., sorry for interrupting, but where are we? what is this place? why are you here?"

Both Cameron and Amber turned towards Sans, unamused. He leaned on his bone and winked.

"sorry...?" The two turned back towards each other.

"I don't know Amber; Faith's condition seems almost too unstable to just warp back-."

"You're just scared of badge warping." She smirked at him and light red blushes covered his face. He covered it up with his flippers.

"N-no I'm not…"

"Well too bad. You warp Faith back with you. I'll take our targets back with us on foot. It's not that far." Cameron placed one of his flipper's on Faith's limp body and tapped the badge with the other flipper. A beam of light instantly enveloped the two and they disappeared from the cave. Amber turned towards Sans and Papyrus.

"You two, Marowak and Cubone, follow me. We have to go back to home base by foot, and it's too late and send you back home." Sans and Papyrus looked at each other curiously; what was home?

"THANK YOU LITTLE FOX!" exclaimed Papyrus, his red scarf limp against his body. Amber nodded.

"Don't mention it. It's what we do." Sans tilted his head, confused. He swung his bone around like a flag bearer on a color guard as he followed the trotting Amber down the pathway. She occasionally puffed out a small flame that illuminated the cave for a moment before disappearing as smoke.

"what do you mean? this is your job?" Amber froze again and turned to look at him, her face implying that she thought he was dumb.

"Yes, this is our job. We're part of the Exploration Union, a group of Pokémon who help explore the world and save monsters from harm. You haven't heard of the Union? It's one of the biggest things around here."

Sans turned to look at Papyrus, who had an expression just as confused as his was. He shrugged so Sans continued on.

"yea…i heard of you guys. i just…uh…wanted to make sure you were truly part of the exploration union."

Amber led them to the edge of the tunnel system, the dark night sky hovering over the green forests below. Amber's ears twitched a little as she began to hop down the mountain, directly towards the forest. Both Sans and Papyrus stopped at the opening, reluctant to continue.

After hopping down a couple rocks, Amber turned around and looked up at the two brothers.

"Well…are you guys coming?"

Sans and Papyrus looked at each others. Sans wasn't sure if going with this Pokémon was a great idea, but neither of them really knew much about how they got there, who they were, or where to go. Maybe this Fennekin/Amber could help fill them in.

Sans turned back to Amber.

"sorry, we were just talking." Amber's ears dropped down, annoyed.

"Well, come on then! We're going to be out here all night at this rate!"

"SANS, ARE YOU SURE?"

"yea paps, lets go." Sans and Papyrus began jumping down the mountain with their stubby little brown legs, following the Fennekin into the dark forest towards an unknown fate.

I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Down to the Bone!

If you ever have any ideas or constructive criticism for my story, please let me know.

See ya next time!

-Blox