Frisk Pov
Everyone took a seat getting ready to hear a long story about Sans and Alphys' past. Honestly I was kinda intrigued. Sans was such a mystery. And by the looks of it, he was a mystery to the people he knew longer then me.
I still had some questions of my own. Who's Gaster? What happened to to Papyrus? What else is he hiding? How did the monsters escape from the underground? And who knew that someone as lazy as Sans was a scientist! I'm glad I got answers before we got on the bus, but there's still thing's I'd like to know.
"Alright." Sans started. "Before we even got the third human soul, Alphys and I were given a project. Asgore the king of monsters," He said to me to clarify. "Gave us a the job of finding a better way to break the barrier. He gave us the soul's he's collected, including his human daughters, and said to study everything we could find."
Alphys started to play with her hands. She's an awkward little bean. "S-so after tested t-them carefully and learned t-that there are more then one s-souls with special traits. Determination, who belonged t-to the f-first human, was the rarest and most p-p-powerful of them all!"
I held my hand to my chest. Powerful could mean two different things. One being powerful in good and could save the whole world, the other meaning destroying it. What could I do? Sans started again.
"So the rest of the crew decided to do more test. That's when the monsters started to fall down. One by one sick monsters started to come in a coma. I just wanted to do more research on Determination. But Alphys didn't listen to me." Alphys ducked down in shame. I could see the bullets of sweat starting to rain down on her head.
"Whats that suppose to mean." Undyne said as she gave Sans a death glare.
"Undyne please!" Alphys protested. "I-I should have listened. But I just wanted to help a-and I s-screwed it all up. I used the Determination forgetting about the b-barrier creating a serum that I thought would wake and c-cure the fallen down...b-but I was wrong." She looked down and covered her face with her hands. Sans just looked away and looked at the ground. Guess he knew he was right, but felt bad about it.
"So" Undyne said as she was patting Alphys on the back trying to comfort her. that's why those things were hiding in your lab back in the underground. Because of this project?" Alphys nodded.
"But there back at their families! It's okay now!" Alphys shook her head. "N-no it's not! If it wasn't f-for me we c-could have probably just c-continued our work and s-save the monsters from our prison. Instead I lied to everyone and kept people away from their families."
Undyne's ears fell, but immediately went back up when she beamed with excitement. "Well because of you, they were no longer fallen down. And were all out now. No big deal!"
Alphys looked up from her hands and sniffled. She smiled as she hugged her girlfriend.
"So I have a question." Not meaning to break their moment I spoke. "So if Alphys used the determination to create whatever it is you created, and Sans couldn't finish Sans work on the project because you were off doing whatever, then how did you guys figure what determination can do?"
Sans looked at me, then looked at Alphys. "I went to go work on...a different project. Alphys should know what Determination can do considering she continued to work with it. That's why I'm here. To ask for the files."
Alphys' nodded and got up from the couch and her girlfriends arms. "I'll be right b-back." She said as she left the room.
"So what did you study while Alphys was working on that project?" Undyne asked. Sans rolled the light's in his eyes. "It was a personal project on the quantum theory. Something I'd rather not explain."
Undyne seemed a little bummed not to hear anymore stories but didn't act on it. I didn't either. I think Sans is tired of me asking questions.
Alphys came back with a folder in her hand with a few papers inside. "H-here. This is a-all we c-could figure out."
Sans jumped up and grabbed the folder. Once he opened it he scanned it harshly. He sat down and took a few of the papers out giving them a nice scan as well. After he was finished, his sockets went big.
He wasn't speaking. "Sans? What is it?" I asked hoping to break the silence.
"Now it makes sense. " Sans exclaimed. "When I was studying the quantum theory, there was one thing that didn't make sense. How? This is how! Human's with Determination used to travel timelines, and bring people back, or reset to fix their mistakes. After a while the human's feared this power, and tried to kill all humans with the soul."
My eyes winded and my heart started to race. I am dangerous...
"Guess...some survived." Sans looked over to me probably reading my thoughts. He gave me a sorry look, and looked as he was gonna say something, but trailed off.
"That's why he wants Frisk..."
Undyne and Alphys looked at each other. "Who wants Frisk? And why?" Undyne asked looking at me. She said the last part a little disgusted. I feel slightly offended by her tone.
Sans must be talking about Gaster. But I knew he wasn't going to bring him up. He could barely bring it up for me. Sans looked back at Undyne stuffing his hands in his pockets. "Nothing your gills need to worry about."
"But Papyrus!" Undyne protested. "He's out there probably scared out of his mind and you won't bother to tell me what the hell is going on!?"
"I got it Undyne. As soon as I get Frisk to where she need's to go, then I can bring back Papyrus and everything will be back to normal.
Undyne started to make a fist. "What the hell Sans! Why do you need this human to save Papyrus?"
I started to speak up. I knew how they feel about secrets so I thought I could help.
"Because my soul is determination. And as soon as we get to Papyrus, we can bring him back."
Sans glared at me, and was probably gonna yell at me later for that. But Undyne seemed to calm down and seemed to have dropped it.
After that was settled, Sans and I left. The sun was just starting to fall down, and so we were now on a hunt for another motel. While on our little search I wanted to ask more questions. But not about Sans, about his past.
"Hey Sans" Sans kept his head straight. "If its about Gaster, Papyrus or anything like that can you wait till the motel? I'm tired."
I ran up next to Sans. "Actually it's about the past. Like the first fallen child you were talking about?" Sans looked at me with a furrowed look. "Alright, I guess it wouldn't hurt. What's up?"
"You were saying that Determination was wiped because everyone thought they were dangerous cause they were different from the others. Do you think that's why that child fell down? Or maybe she was thrown down there?"
Sans chuckled lightly. "You are one curious kid." Sans smiled at me. I was a little annoyed at the word kid. I'm a senior! I'm eighteen!
"Well that might have been the case. I saw the look you gave me back there. Your not dangerous you know. Resetting isn't the only thing they can do. They had a sword and shields and other gizmos."
I could feel my heat beating with excitement. "But I'm not teaching you how to do that. To dangerous." Then I felt my heat sink slightly.
"But since you bring up the subject, that's why Gaster and his men are after you. They want to bring him back."
I raised an eyebrow. "Bring him back?" I asked.
Sans started to stare off. But was soon brought back to reality. "Anyway...What else did you want to know?"
I decided to not to pressure about Gaster. Like he said I can bring it up after we get to a motel.
"What happen to her? You said she was just a child?"
Sans nodded his head. "Yup. She got really sick. And her brother, the prince Asreil, absorbed her soul so they could cross the barrier together. But he got attacked, and they both died. Making the king and queen lose two children in the same night."
I was a little shocked of the story. I knew the beginning.
Long ago two races ruled over the earth. One day war broke out between the two and the humans were victorious. So they sealed the monsters underground with a magical spell. They have a prophecy of an angel with the power of seven human souls would make the underground go empty.
But I never thought of two children dying in one night would be the end, And the beginning of a war.
We continued to walk, and I learned more of the monster history. The underground kinda sounded cool. the different places, the buildings, and this Mettaton guy sounded pretty cool too. He's the star of the underground apparently. Undyne was the head of the royal guard, Alphys the royal scientist after Gaster, and Sans was a sentry. but he was very lazy at his job.
It was nice to hear a little of others in Sans life. How it was and how he felt. Something bothered him about it though, but I decided to ignore it and payed attention to the good in the underground.
We finally found our way to a motel. It was like all the others. Had a pun name and looked like it was built long before I was born. But before we got in, Sans stopped me. "You wanna separate room kid?"
Before I would have killed to have my own room. But after the last time, I don't want Sans to have a nightmare again. And having someone in bed was really comforting.
"Do you want a room to yourself?" I asked.
"No. Just thought you might."
I shook my head and opened the door. "I'll be good. But thank you."
Sans smiled and continued to walk behind me.
