At the request of some readers, I have split the long first chapter into two smaller chapters. I hope you enjoy!

[Sans]

Sans woke up on a cold metal floor, in an eerie darkness that seemed to watch him. He sat up, dizzy, and tried to recount where he was.

"Sans! Sans, where are you?" he heard from the distance. Sans sprung up and tried to look around, but it was all darkness. Suddenly, he got pushed over by another figure.

"geez kiddo, its just me. don't go too crazy." Sans pushed the kid off him and stood up. "its kinda dark in here. let me put some light in here." Sans summoned a tiny Gaster Blaster and he took a lightbulb out from his pocket. He screwed it into the mouth of the Gaster Blaster and shook it a few times. Sure enough, it turned on. One of the easy tricks someone can do with a Gaster Blaster and some random junk.

"How did you do that?" asked the kid. Sans just shook his head at him.

"bryan, there's a lot of things you don't know about me." Sans' eye glowed as he directed the blaster light throughout the room. "but if you want, i can 'shed a light' on some things!" Sans laughed to himself. "it looks like we're in some sort of…giant metal dome." Sans continued to inspect the structure, noticing that it was creaking and screeching every time he took a step.

"This thing is in bad condition," said Bryan. Sans nodded at him in agreement. He kept inspected the dome until he came across a huge door. He directed the light up and down the circular shaft. It must be at least twenty feet tall.

"Uh, Sans? I think you should see this." Sans walked over to Bryan, who was staring out a window in shock. Sans took a glimpse outside too.

"Uhhhhhh…we're in space," Bryan muttered. "Are we in Outertale or something?" Sans shook his head.

"this is not outertale. this is not even an undertale universe." Sans went back over to the door. "i don't even know if this universe corresponds to any game or creation at all. it may be something completely different." Sans noticed a control panel in the light of the Gaster Blaster. It was all dusty. Sans wiped the dust off and looked at the screen. It was blank of course. The power must be out.

"hey kid." Bryan turned around to face Sans. "there's gotta be some sort of power control room in this clunker. there's some tech here that must certainly use electricity. i think the power got cut awhile ago. that's why everything here is in such bad condition. here; take the gaster flasher. i have my own lighting system." Sans tossed the Gaster Flasher to Bryan and turned back to look at the door. With minimal concentration, he activated his glowing eye. That would be enough light for now. Sans heard grunts and grinding as Bryan opened a closed hatch and went through the halls.

Sans turned away from the door and went to the other side of the dome. He came across another locked hatch, but this one seemed to also serve as an airlock. It could be a docking station for a ship. Sans looked above the door, and saw a dusty and faded sign attached to the wall. Sans blew off the dust, but could only still make out a few letters. "_o_c_d I," Sans muttered to himself. He tugged at the sliding doors, but they wouldn't budge. The door was stuck until the power was back on.

There was nothing else in the room, so Sans went down the hall Bryan went. There were rectangular windows about a foot wide and 6 inches tall that spanned the right side of the hall the whole way down, showing the blank void of space that laid outside of the structure. Sans checked the various signs above the many doors he found, but most of them were faded to the point that he couldn't make out anything. He heard more grunting and grinding of metal further down; Bryan must have reached something else.

Sans followed down the empty metal corridor until he ran into another door. He brought his eye closer to the door, and noticed that there was a small crack between the sliding doors. He looked up at the sign: it said "Laboratory."

"maybe this room will have some answers," thought Sans. Sans grunted as he pushed the doors apart, until finally he had enough room to go through. Most of the stuff inside were the normal things you would see inside a laboratory, but Sans came across a few machines that interested him.

"bullet infuser? essence mixer? artifact modifier?" Sans finally came across some goggles that were set on a stand, with a tag. Sans brushed off the tag. "power glasses. hm. i wonder what they do." Sans dusted off the glasses and put them on his head. Instantly, a HUD appeared in the bottom right corner. It was just a tiny circle with a white dot in the middle. Around the dot there was a box, connected to a round tube with other boxes nearby. A navigation display. Too bad there weren't lights on it.

Right when he thought it, small lights popped out of the side of the rims and turned on. Now he could see without the glowing eye. With a sigh, Sans turned off the glowing eye. Keeping it on for that long is very tiring. Sans noticed something else on the table: a small ball on a stand. Sans' eyes widened when he realized it looked very similar to another object he had. He unslung the backpack from his shoulders and put it on the tabletop next to the stand. He shuffled through the bag until he found what he wanted: the small case from earlier. He opened it up, and sure enough, the small crystal ball he already had was the exact the size and shined the exact same way as the ball on the stand. They just shimmered different colors and instead of there being a shape of a spear in the middle of the ball, there was an assault rifle. He had to be a coincidence. He checked all the little symbols on the bottoms of the holes inside the little case, and one of them matched, just like how the spear matched when Toriel first gave it to him to hold on to. He took the small ball from the stand and placed it in the corresponding spot. He was zipping up his backpack when he heard a shout from down the hall.

"Sans! I think I found the control room!" Within a few seconds, he heard a clang and the lights flickered on. Sans took the glasses off and put them on his forehead, and he slung the backpack back on his shoulders. As he walked out the lab, he saw Bryan running down the hall.

"nice job kiddo!" Sans shouted as Bryan came to meet him. "now let's go check the main room again." With the lights on, the space station looked completely different. Everything was white, and there were various flashing lights on panels that he didn't notice before. On the roof of the main room, there were several giant fans operating that he was sure weren't there before. All of the control panels were glowing with a blue color.

"This still seems weird though," said Bryan. "I wonder why this place was abandoned in the first place…" Suddenly, a hole opened in the floor below them and a robot popped out. Stunned, Bryan pulled his sword and Sans' eye glowed and he readied a bone attack.

"Calm down guys, I'm just here to help," said the robot. "My name is KRT-304, but you can just call me Kurt. It's been awhile since I've had anyone aboard the Shooting Star." Sans and Bryan looked at each other confusedly.

"The Shooting Star?" they asked at the same time. Kurt shook his head.

"It's been many years. I'm not surprised not many people know about this old place anymore." The robot kneeled down and looked at Sans.

"Hm. A Classic Sans. But you don't seem like the usual Sans. It's almost as if something traumatic happened to you recently, changing your personality. Knowing that your choices can make a difference. Knowing that there's nobody who will make your efforts futile." Sans eyes widened at the robot's remark. That was exactly how he felt inside. The robot turned to Bryan.

"You look awfully familiar," said Kurt. "Do I know you from somewhere?"

"I don't think we've ever met," said Bryan, the sword still glowing in his hand. Kurt looked at the sword and glanced back at Bryan.

"Same hair, same concerned expression, even the same sword," muttered Kurt. "You look so much like Master Jay…"

"Who is Jay?" Bryan asked. Kurt just stared back at him in silence for a few seconds.

"No one of your concern," said Kurt, "come on, I guess I will have to show you guys how this place works." Sans watched as the robot shuffled off, with Bryan following right behind. Bryan gestured him to follow, and Sans quickly caught up.

"The Shooting Star was one of the main defense points in the multiverse during the Manifest Wars," Kurt explained while walking down the hallways. "This was the headquarters, so most of the Guardians operated from this base, along with their Manifest comrades."

"kurt, excuse me for saying this, but half of this makes no sense to me," Sans muttered. Kurt just turned around again and shook his head.

"If you keep quiet, you will learn everything." Sans stayed quiet after that. As Kurt took them through the various rooms of the Shooting Star, Sans noticed that the hallway they were in looped around in a circle through the whole base. It was a giant onion ring. However, Kurt didn't bring them through one room: the the one with the giant door.

"Now, before I go, I highly advise preparing and becoming familiar with your surroundings here on the Shooting Star before you go back to the Underverse. If you went now you guys would be toast." Kurt gestured to the control panel next to the door.

"This is the housing unit. The Guardians and Manifests who reside here live within their own cabins, where they live along with other people from their universe. If you place your hand on the panel, a hologram will pop up listing the rooms you are able to access based off your restrictions." Sans went ahead and pressed his hand on the control panel, and sure enough, a small hologram appeared. There were only two options listed: Undertale and Portal Room. Sans' hand hovered above the Undertale icon.

"Go ahead, select it!" Sans selected Undertale and the entire room began to vibrate. Kurt shook his head again in remorse.

"It's so rusty right now. Plus, it also has to generate another room. We've never had any Undertale Manifests on board the Shooting Star." After a few minutes, the vibrating stopped, and the giant doors slid open.

"Go ahead and explore," said Kurt, "I have to show this kid a few more things before he can get his room." Sans stepped into the giant room and the doors slid closed behind him. That robot seemed a bit suspicious to him; he would keep an eye on it. When he turned around, the lights turned on, and Sans looked around. He was in the middle of a giant common area, surrounded by chairs, tables, lights, and random glowing lights that flickered constantly. There were sliding doors at regular intervals along the walls, each with a name tag above them. Sans slid his hand along the wall as he passed each door.

"hmm…they are all blank…" Sans muttered. After a few minutes, he came across a door with his name on it. He placed his hand on the scanner, and within several seconds the doors slid open. Inside was his old bedroom, an almost perfect duplicate, with a new closet in one of the walls. Sans sighed with relief and walked inside, tossing the backpack onto his dresser. He laid down on the mattress and stared at the ceiling. What a day already. He started his day inside his room on the Surface, and now he was in a nearly exact copy aboard the Shooting Star. He had to promise to help this random kid, Bryan, he just met a few hours ago. How ridiculous.

"eh, might as well check the new room," Sans muttered to himself. Sans got up from his bed and walked over to the closet. In the left side of the closet was a pair of black shorts, a dark blue hoodie pullover, a white t-shirt with the words "The 'Sans'ational Sans" on it, fuzzy pink slippers, and fingerless gloves. Not the normal set he wore. On the back wall was a bookcase filled with various quantum physics and joke books, as well as a few oddly titled ones here and there. On the right side was a lever, unlabeled and likely dangerous. Sans went ahead and changed into the other set of clothes, and threw his other ones into the tornado, where they suddenly vanished. Sans shrugged; that happened a lot. Having nothing to do, Sans pulled out two books that said "Manifestation Battle Mechanics" and "Sans: Learnable Attacks". They were definitely not quantum physics or joke books. He threw them into his backpack and teleported into the lobby.

Glancing around, Sans knew that this was made for more than just one person. Maybe this was bigger than what he thought it was.

"Sans to the control room, please," a voice sounded from above. Sans got up from a chair and pulled out Papyrus' red scarf from his backpack. He put it on underneath the pullover, and teleported away from the Undertale housing unit.

When he arrived in the control room, he was met with sheer nothingness, with the exception of a small table with control panels and a glass orb in the middle. Sans walked over to Kurt and Bryan.

"Nice of you to arrive," Kurt mumbled, only turning around for a short period of time. "I see you have changed." Sans grimaced. Obviously the robot didn't like him.

"The situation is getting out of hand," said Bryan.

"situation? what situation?" Sans watched Bryan type a few commands, and suddenly the room dimmed and bunch of holographic images appeared throughout the room. Some were diagrams and charts, while some were videos and pictures.

"wooaah." Sans gawked, "what is this?"

"This is the control room," Kurt explained, "every operation and plan was created and organized here. This is also the place where the heroes could monitor the conditions of every Manifest under their influence as well as control the movements of the base." Sans turned around again. He had never seen such tech before in his life. Sans pointed at one of the frames and closed his hand into a fist. The hologram flew over and shrunk into the size of a sugar cube. Sans opened his hand and the cube expanded back into the frame.

"cool."

Bryan pulled out a small purple cube from his pocket and pressed a button on one of the sides. The cube suddenly transformed into a tablet. He then pointed up and spun his hand in a circle, attracting all of the holograms to his arm. Bryan brought his arm across his body, throwing the holograms out of the simulation. He then tapped the tablet a few times and swiped his hand up the screen, throwing one video clip into the field. There were houses destroyed and forests on fire, yet there was no screaming or movement.

"is this live feed of the surface?" asked Sans. Bryan nodded.

"Zoom it in," said Kurt. Bryan brought the feed in closer to one of the ruined houses. In front of the ruined doorway a dark figure paced, eagerly waiting for news. Sans saw him turn around, and easily recognized the evil smile and glitchy messages.

"error," sneered Sans, "so he's the one behind all of this." Suddenly, one of the Void soldiers ran into camera range and kneeled to Error.

"Sir, we have some uh…good news and bad news." Error raised his eyebrows at the remark.

"The good news; we have the last stragglers here."

"And the bad news?" asked Error.

"Sans escaped sir. And he also has the hu-." In an instant, Error had the soldier wrapped up in blue wires and up against the wall.

"You mean you let BOTH of them escape?! Those two are the ones who could cause the most trouble for the Void!" The soldier struggled to escape. Error chuckled and clutched his fist, smashing the soldier's Soul to bits.

"That's okay. With the help of the Void King, I can finally complete my quest; destroying every AU out there. He said after he had control of all of the multiverses, he would leave me the Underverse all to myself, but in the meantime I couldn't kill anyone." Error rolled up his left sleeve, causing a bunch of mini ERROR messages to pop up.

"It's not normally my style to follow orders, but if that means being the puppet master rather than the puppet, I will gladly oblige." From his left hoodie pocket Error pulled out a pouch made of glitch-proof silver fabric and wrapped in his blue wires. Stitched into the bag was "Soul Pouch".

"what the hell is that?" sneered Sans. Error flew a few wires into the pouch, and pulled out a monster Soul, dimmed yet intact, wrapped in his blue wires and covered with black glitches. Error whipped the Soul in front of him, and instantly the Soul became enveloped in light. The form turned into Papyrus, his eyes covered in void black glitches. He turned to Error, apparently waiting for orders.

"Find Classic and the kid. Bring them to me." Papyrus nodded and ran off.

"If Classic really thinks he can defeat me, I would like to see him try." For a moment, Sans thought he saw Error look at the camera, almost as if he knew it was there. The feed cut off there and went to static.

"Similar things have happened across the Underverse," Bryan explained. "Underswap, Storyshift, Altertale, Underfell…all of the AUs. They have been attacked and subdued by Error and the Void. Honestly, I don't think we stand a chance against them." Sans suddenly slammed his hands onto the control panel, startling Bryan.

"we? there is no we here, kiddo. i only promised to protect you, not assist you on your quest. you are on your own here, kid." Sans started to walk out of the room.

"Sans. Without your help, there's no way that I can stand any chance against the Void. I'm not even trained in combat." Sans stopped walking and turned slowly.

"look, kid. i don't like making promises, or keeping promises. so…i have a deal for you. i will always be loyal to you, but only if you promise me something."

"And what is that Sans?"

"…never lie to me. ever." Bryan shuffled nervously.

"Deal." Sans chuckled and clutched his hand in a fist.

"good. i can't wait to get started."

Kurt nodded in approval. "I may just be a robot, but I know a good team when I see one. So, what's your team name?" Sans turned to him confused.

"team name? we're not in kindergarten."

"Well, you want people to know who you are, right?" Sans thought for a moment.

"The Manifest Defense Force!" Bryan shouted.

"a bit cheesy, but i guess it will work," said Sans. Sans turned back to the door.

"so, when do we start?" Nobody responded. Instead, Bryan walked up to Sans.

"This is odd. I would have expected you to make several puns at this point. Is there something wrong here?"

Sans' white eyes disappeared for a moment. He looked down underneath his hoodie, and saw Papyrus' scarf. Sans had to hold back the tears. Sans put up a normal face and turned around.

"nah, kiddo. im just being serious at the moment. ya know, with the error issue," lied Sans. "i think we should call it a day, and start tomorrow." Bryan turned and looked at Kurt, who shrugged back.

"Yea, it's been a long day. Get a good night's sleep Sans. We're gonna need it." Bryan turned back to talk to Kurt, and Sans teleported back to his room.

[Ink]

Ink sat floating in the Creative Realm, watching the destruction unfold within the Underverse. He managed to seal himself off from the Void and Error, but as a result he was unable to assist anyone in fighting them off. Over the past few weeks, the Underverse had gone from normal to chaotic. Many of the doors had turned purple and black, and were locked off from the Creative Realm. If Ink tried to touch it, the door would begin to absorb his ink and ultimately render him useless.

Ink heard a very subtle step behind him, and wound around and tackled the entity.

"Relax Ink, it's just me!" Dream squealed as he was being choked by Ink. Ink got up and helped him stand.

"Ah, sorry Dream. You know how on edge I've been recently," Ink sighed. "All of these AUs; they are being destroyed and I can't do anything about it." Ink paced around some more.

"Did you get Blueberry and Frisk?"

"I couldn't find either of them. Sorry Ink. But don't worry! I'm sure they will show up somewhere!"

Ink stood there with a blank stare, both of his eyes in the shape of teardrops.

"Well, there's not much else we can do at this moment. We have to wait for Sans and the kid to reach us," said Ink. Dream and Ink sat down and stared into the sky.

"Let's just hope Sans finds us before THEY do."

[Bryan]

Bryan was sleeping in his new room aboard the Shooting Star when the morning alarm he didn't ask for woke him up.

"UP AND AT THEM BRYAN! IT'S A NEW DAY AND YOU HAVE TO BE READY!" Kurt shouted over the speakers. Bryan sat upright and almost jumped out of his bed.

"Gaaah! Kurt! Don't scare me like that!" Bryan moaned. He slid out of bed and got dressed into his new blue t-shirt and brown travel pants. He also put on his old sneakers and socks, and slipped on the fingerless glove Sans gave to him last night. He slung his new black backpack and put on the white scarf Kurt gave him. Apparently it belonged to his dad, or something. It had the words "MDF: Manifest Defense Force" on it. He also clipped on his new badge Kurt gave him. It allowed the user and anything else the user wished to bring back with them to jump back instantly to the Shooting Star, since the portals to the multiverses only went one way until a base was set up. Unfortunately, they had a cooldown. Looking in the mirror, he thought he looked like some sort of Papyrus forest ranger, but honestly he didn't care. If this was his new uniform, he would wear it with pride.

On the way out, Bryan grabbed his purple shrink tablet from the sync station. By the time he reached the mess hall, Sans was already there chugging a ketchup bottle and Kurt was hanging from the wall.

"Nice of you to show up on time," Kurt muttered. "Your breakfast is ready." The bacon and eggs were so good it almost reminded him of his mom's cooking. Sans glanced up from his ketchup bottle. He was wearing his new outfit as well, but Bryan noticed something different. He was wearing Papyrus' scarf.

"Oh, Sans, I have something for you!" Bryan reached into his back pocket and pulled out a badge shaped like a shield as well as a small blue cube similar to his purple one. Sans grabbed the badge and looked at it. Bryan knew it had a nametag that said UT!Sans as well as a little Undertale Heart charm hanging at the bottom. Sans put the cube in his hoodie pocket.

"wow…thanks kiddo." Sans clipped the badge onto his new hoodie.

"Now, before you guys are briefed, let me show you some of your…new upgrades," said Kurt. The robot pulled out a pistol from behind him and pointed it directly at Bryan.

"Hey man, what the hell are you doin-" Kurt fire the pistol directly at Bryan, but the bullet just bounced off his shirt.

"What the flip is this?" Bryan asked looking at his t-shirt.

"Nano-kevlar," explained Kurt, "over 50 times more durable than Kevlar but small enough to be made as fabric." Kurt also shot at Sans, who happened to be drinking his ketchup bottle at the time, making him unable to dodge. The bullet bounced right off his hoodie.

"Your badges can also protect you for a small amount of time from damage, in case your nano-kevlar runs out of durability." Kurt gestured towards the door. "Now, it's time for briefing. Come you two, we have a lot to discuss." Bryan followed Kurt towards the door, while Sans just teleported off. Suddenly, Kurt grabbed Bryan by the shoulders.

"You can't tell Sans this Bryan," Kurt whispered, "but you need to know this. When you two fight Papyrus, you will have to…kill him to bring him back from the Void." Bryan's eyes widened.

"What…why?"

"It's the only way to get rid of the Void. But don't worry! He'll just be back to normal. It's not like he'll turn into dust." Bryan exhaled.

"Phew."

"But if Sans learns this, he won't help us. He won't kill his brother, or his friends. It's not his style. You can't tell him this Bryan."

"But I promised him-"

"Sometimes promises need to be broken to protect others, Bryan. You should know that." Kurt grabbed Bryan by the ear and dragged him out of the mess hall.

"Now come on! If you want to save the world, you can't just dawdle everywhere!" Bryan internally screamed as Kurt dragged him all the way to the control room, which was on the other side of the base. When Kurt dropped him, Bryan rubbed his ear for a good five minutes.

"Can you not do that again please?"

"No promises made, Bryan." Bryan snorted and Sans chuckled.

"So, you two, whenever you go on a quest, your shrink tablets automatically gather data to be used at a later time. However, I can't use them in the database if you don't sync them." Kurt moved his robotic hands around the control panel at lightning speed, and brought up two windows.

"You guys have two options as of right now, concerning fighting the Void. You guys can either confront Papyrus in Undertale, as to bring him back, or you can head to the Creative Realm and retrieve Ink and Dream."

"im assuming ink has some sort of idea how to bring back characters from the void, right?" Sans asked.

"Yea, I'm pretty sure he does," Bryan replied.

"Your opportunity to retrieve Papyrus may be limited, but finding Ink and Dream could help you later in the future," Kurt explained. Bryan glanced over at Sans, who still looked like he was spacing out, clutching Papyrus' scarf. He glanced at Kurt, who seemed to think that retrieving Ink and Dream could lead to more open improvements in the future. Both of these were one-time opportunities that would likely disappear, as Papyrus would be called back by Error after failing to find them, and Ink and Dream would likely be overrun by the Void by the end of the day.

"so kiddo," said Sans, "you're the boss here. what's the plan?"

I hope you enjoyed the second chapter of Manifesttale!

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