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Sans awoke the next morning at one o'clock PM. He took off his pajamas and put on his hoodie, shorts, and undershirt. He teleported out of his room. "papyrus," he asked, "are you here?" Papyrus was nowhere to be found. Maybe, Sans thought, he was recalibrating his puzzles. So Sans teleported around Snowdin. He wasn't there, either. Then Sans teleported to Undynes' to see if his brother was training there.

"Sans, what's up?" Undyne asked as she opened the door for him.

"it's pap. i can't find him anywhere. he's not in snowdin or in here. i doubt he's in his bedroom. he's ALWAYS up at this time," Sans responded.

"Well, the human is visiting me right now, and after this I have to train. I can't help you at this moment," Undyne said.

"Maybe I could help," sounded a shrill voice from the inside of Undyne's fish house. Frisk's head popped out from behind the door. "I can look for Papyrus with you." So Frisk joined Sans on the hunt for Papyrus. Sans would check the obvious spots, and Frisk would peek in every nook and cranny to see if Papyrus was there.

They never found him.

Sans and Frisk had give up entirely. The only place left to look was in Papyrus' bedroom, and Frisk went to check there.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Frisk screamed as they bolted out the door. "Papyrus! He's-"

"Nyeh-heeehhhh..." A white, dripping figure crawled out from the bedroom slowly. The figure resembled Papyrus. "Nyehhhhhhhhh... Sannnnssss..." Papyrus said in an eerie tone. "Iamm... determin...ed...heh...NYEH!"

"Don't get close to him, he'll melt on you!" Frisk shouted at Sans.

"how do you know he's so dangerous?" Sans asked.

"Let's just say I've been in Alphys' lab."

Then it hit Sans. The melting, the syringe... It was his fault that Papyrus was like this. It was his fault. He had created a monster. And he needed to stop it. "frisk, come on. we're going to alphys' lab." And with a crack, Sans and Frisk teleported away to the lab.

"Oh, my g-god," Alphys stuttered as Sans and Frisk walked through the door. "Are y-you coming here to talk about P-Papyrus?"

"yes," Sans said, "he's melting because of your determination serum! what do we do?"

"U-um..." Alphys stuttered, tears welling in her eyes. "I d-dont know. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, i've made a huge mistake..."
"LISTEN." Sans said, his laid-back tone falling away to a more serious voice. "We are going to fix Papyrus even if it takes a million years." Sans said, and marched up to Alphys and accidentally stepped on the remote for the TV.

"Welcome to MTT News, beauties!" said a cheery Mettaton through the television. "Today we're going to interview some people on their opinions... on ME!" Sans was about to turn off the television when he noticed that Mettaton was in Snowdin. "Hello, beautiful, what's your name?" Mettaton asked a townsfolk rabbit

"My name i-"

Then Papyrus jumped onto the screen. The news camera fell over and the last sight of the news channel was three melting figures- all three saying in unison, "threats... all.. threats..."

Sans and Alphys glanced at each other. They both knew that the worst was coming, and they had to prepare for it.