A/N: Chapter 2!
I managed to figure out a quicker way to transfer this from paper so here's chapter 2. Sorry if I've been posting a lot, but I've sort of figured out a schedule!
I'll post one chapter of Sans' Secret and The Timeline Battle/War a day, maybe every other day once I finish posting what I already have done. I can also update Pokémon: Vinoa Region every other day because I don't have as much pre-written for that. And finally, I'll post as much as I have written for these mini fics/stories(whatever these are)each day because why not?
Thanks to InkSans9542nd for your review! I'll definitely put Ink in when it comes to that part. It'll be a couple chapters though.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN UNDERTALE OR ANY CHARACTERS! I DO NOT OWN ANY AU'S OR CHARACTERS! I only own the storyline and and OC's.
NOTE: Frisk =non-binary; Chara = virus/demon/idk. Don't like it then either deal with it or leave (PLEASE READ/REVIEW FIRST!)
Enjoy!
Voices drifted past him in his dreams. "Sans! Where are you?" Toriel cried out.
"Sans?!" Frisk.
"Sans, please! Where'd you go?!" Undyne.
Even Flowey. "Smiley! Where the heck are you?!"
The one that tore him up he most was Papyrus' shouts. "BROTHER?! PLEASE, COME HOME! WE MISS YOU! I-I miss you..." Papyrus trailed off, and the sounds of sobs woke Sans.
He opened his eyes and touched a hand to his cheek. Tears. He had been crying.
Sans stood, still wobbly. He was taller as a human than he was as a skeleton, and his limbs were longer as well. He wasn't used to this; he hasn't been a human in years.
Sans sighed and looked around at his lab. The blueprints caught his eye and he managed to get closer to look.
The machine that would have destroyed the virus. The virus known as Chara, the first Fallen Human. The machine that would have saved his home Timeline and made sure that Chara would never make it to any other timeline. The machine that had failed and destroyed his timeline instead with him as the only survivor. The machine that sent him to the only other timeline who already didn't have a version of Sans because that was the change in the timeline. The machine that brought him from HumanTale to Undertale.
The machine known as the Timeheart.
_flashbacks_
The plan consisted of Sans using the Timeheart to capture seven human souls from another Timeline to allow one of the HumanTalers to become a god and destroy Chara the virus. But the virus had struck too soon and Sans barely fled with his life, running away from the virus as it corrupted his home and friends.
He woke up in a snowy forest with the remains of the machine beside him. It was still intact, but the screen was shattered and the words 'Undertale' flashing on the remainder of it. He was cold, so very cold.
He hid the machine and stumbled to a door at the edge of the forest. Seconds later, a human peeked out, no older then eight, with wide bluebell eyes and black hair.
Sans had take the humans' soul for a moment and used some of their INTEGRITY to transform himself into a monster; a skeleton. He returned the soul and left the human girl there in the snow.
Seconds later something glowed behind him and as he hid again in the trees, he saw the girl create a shining star; a SAVE point. She pressed SAVE, then CONTINUE.
His form was permanent. Sans would make sure of it.
As time passed, he got used to the new timeline, and even saved a young skeleton child from the attacks of the second human to pass through, the GREEN soul. He named the child Papyrus and raised him, claiming to be Papyrus' older brother.
Then Gaster appeared, moving to Snowdin to continue his studies, and became their father figure, hiding from humans and training Sans and Papyrus. Gaster was the Royal Scientist for King Asgore, studying DETERMINATION and the human souls.
Until one day when Sans woke to find Gaster was no longer the Royal Scientist. He was to train an apprentice, Alphys, a young dragon-like monster who showed huge amounts of interest in the studies of DETERMINATION. Sans was always different from the other monsters; sure he joked a lot and pulled pranks, but he was lonely. Papyrus didn't know about Sans' past, nor didn't the younger skeleton know that Sans wasn't his true brother.
Then Frisk fell, and the resets began. No other child could RESET, only SAVE. And the only other creature he knew could RESET...
And then the genocide began. Frisk was different the moment they walked out of the Ruins, flipping a knife in their hand and with red eyes and pink cheeks. They wore a green and yellow sweater that was... that was coated in a thin layer of dust.
Sans fled his post, hiding the Timeheart and teleporting to the castle. He only made it to the judgement hall, where the child caught up to them.
"Hello, Sans," the child sweetly said. "Remember me?"
Sans just attacked; having once been a human and still having a sort of human soul, he was powerful, the hardest type of boss monster in Undertale to beat.
The child stared at him until their smile and eyes began to almost melt. "DO YOU REMEMBER MY NAME?"
Sans attacked. The child dodged and smiled evilly. "DO YOU REMEMBER HOW I CORRUPTED YOUR FRIENDS? HOW I DESTROYED YOUR TIMELINE?" They slashed with their knife and Sans dodged it. "I'M THE ONE WHO KILLED THEM, SANS. I'M CHARA!"
And when Chara finally killed him, he whispered, "I'm sorry, Frisk."
And turned to dust.
What felt like moments later, he was awake, sitting up on the same sentry post he woke up at when Frisk reset.
Sans prayed every reset that Frisk would exit the Ruins, not Chara, the virus that somehow made it to Undertale. And when Frisk peeked out, his legs would give way and he would slide to the ground in relief, then rush after Frisk to confront them the same way every single reset.
But this time, the Pacifist child didn't reset.
This time, they had shattered the reset button.
And Sans was a human again. Thanks to that GOD DAMNED GASTER!
_present_time_
Sans stood and stared at the blueprints for the Timeheart. He glanced back at the covered machine, then sighed.
He laid his jacket on the counter and yanked the sheet off the Timeheart. It was the same. But he needed it to be different, just this once.
Sans crawled under the machine and started working.
_time_skip_
Papyrus looked at his and Sans' house. He didn't want to go back there, not without his brother. The tall skeleton sighed and trudged around to the back of the house of his shed that he'd once used as a human trap but was now filled with his favorite things; spaghetti, pictures of himself and Sans, bones and various other items.
But when he looked up, he realized he had gone the wrong way. The other side of the house was Sans's shed, and Papyrus respected Sans' privacy.
Papyrus had never bothered to check whether there was an actual shed there or not. Because there was only the corner of his, poking out around the side of the house.
There was a door though. Papyrus opened it and heard a bang and a grunt from down a flight of stairs.
Quietly, Papyrus closed the doors and snuck down the stairs. It opened into a lab of sorts, with-
Oh, god. Sans was examining a blue poster tacked on the wall, then somehow managed to clamber underneath the machine. There was a bang and a screech of metal. Then a loud thump and a crooked pipe came flying out from under the machine.
"S-Sans? What- What's all this?" Papyrus asked.
Sans evidently dropped something and Papyrus heard it his something. "FUCK!" Sans yelled. With a tiny *pop*, Sans appeared in front of Papyrus, rubbing his elbow. His frosty hair was disheveled and his white t-shirt was stained with grease and god knows what. His slippers were cast against the wall, so he was barefoot and his jacket was on the side counter. "P-papyrus? How-"
Papyrus pulled his brother into a hug. "Sans, did you not hear us calling? We were all so worried!"
Sans glanced back at the machine once Papyrus let him go. "Uh, yeah... sorry about that, bro." The kid turned and rummaged in a drawer, mumbling something about a time difribulator.
Papyrus squinted at the blue poster. "You can read this, Sans?"
Sans pushed past him and climbed back under the machine. "Yeah," his voice echoed from under there.
Papyrus looked at the machine. "It looks... interesting," he said slowly.
Sans teleported back out, startling Papyrus. "Ah, I don't care if it doesn't look good. I just need it to do its job right." Then he frowned, cheeks flushing slightly. "Hey, Papyrus?"
"Yes, brother?"
Sans swallowed. "C-could you make sure everyone knows I'm okay? Don't tell them where I am though! And... maybe could you bring some... some food?"
Papyrus blinked. Then he smiled broadly. "Of course, Sans! I will always help you out!"
Sans grinned. "Thanks, Pap." Then the now-human teen dove back under the strange machine, tinkering with something.
Papyrus left Sans' lab thing and reentered the house. Everyone looked up at him expectantly.
He cleared his throat and resumed his overly cheerful personality. "I HAVE FOUND SANS!" Papyrus declared.
The group of monsters and Frisk swarmed him. "Where?!" Asgore asked.
"Is he okay?!" Toriel begged.
"Does he have enough food?" Frisk asked.
Papyrus raised his hands. "Sans asked me to tell you all that he is okay, just that he is currently occupied. He just wanted some food and then I'm taking that to him. I might keep him company for a bit."
Toriel ran for the kitchen. "I have a pie he might like!"
"And I can make him tea!" Asgore put in.
"He likes burgers," Frisk said. "Get him Grilbys' and some of Toriel's pie and he'd be happy. And since he's... well, get him some tea or something so he's not just drinking ketchup."
Papyrus went and gathered a few extra t-shorts, shorts, a blanket and a pillow for Sans, stuffing them in one of Sans' many unused bags. Then he gathered his own pillow and blanket. Collecting Toriel's pie and Asgore's tea, Papyrus managed to make it to Sans' lab.
"Sans! I brought you a pillow and a blanket, and some more clothes. I also have some of Asgore's tea and Toriel's pie." He set the food on the counter. "I also can get you a burger from Grilbys' if you want."
Sans teleported out from under the machine. "Wow, Papyrus. Th-thanks."
Papyrus grinned. "You're weaker as a human! I have to take even better care of you!" He waved, and began walking to Grilbys', leaving Sans to do whatever in that lab of his.
He entered the building. Grilby looked up and stopped wiping down his counter as Papyrus walked up to him. "HELLO, GRILBY!" Papyrus grinned.
"Hello, Papyrus. You haven't been here in a very long time! What can I get for you?"
"MAY I PLEASE HAVE A BURGER WITH A NORMAL AMOUNT OF KETCHUP AND FRIES?"
"Certainly, Papyrus." Grilby handed him the meal after a moment. "Now, who's this for? I haven't seen your brother in here for a while. Is he okay?"
Papyrus continued smiling, but it was a bit more forced now. "OH SANS IS PERFECTLY FINE! I'M JUST GETTING A BURGER AND FRIES BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD ONE IN A WHILE. HAVE A NICE DAY, GRILBY!" Papyrus quickly scooped up the food, paid Grilby, and made it to Sans' lab in record time.
Sans was still working, but now he was poking the shattered screen. "Hey, Papyrus!" He greeted.
Papyrus handed Sans his food. "How'd you know it's me?"
Sans took a huge bite of burger. "Because you're the only one who knows this place is here," he said after swallowing.
Papyrus took a nap while Sans ate. His brother had an even larger appetite now that he was human, although he seems to realize that too much ketchup was actually a thing.
_time_skip_
Sans finished his burger and put all the wrappers into the paper bag. Papyrus snored softly beside him, clutching his pillow and blanket as he slept.
Smiling, Sans then stood and looked towards the Timeheart. He moved to the machine and began working.
Ending A/N: So I'm probably going to add one or two more chapters tonight. It only takes me a while when I have to type it in from my fanfic notebook. Editing doesn't take very long for me.
Chapter 2! I'm going to have to research more AU's later which already include classic Sans, Ink, and a couple pre-chosen ones already. If you want any AU's in for later, please let me know!