Authors note: time heals all wounds…...
Frisk was easier to patch up, she just needed some rest, monster food, and bandages, and when she wakes…..well, Alphys figured that bridge would be crossed when she got to it, her main concern however was Sans. He was in critical condition, nearly every bone had a fracture, or crack, Gaster was holding him together with magic while Alphys got to work. She gathered several medical creams and potions ment for skeletons, Papyrus had always been careful to keep a full stock, from a chipped tooth to, well….situations like this that called for just about everything. Getting his spine corrected was tricky, She had to consult both Gaster and Papyrus on accurate placement down to the millimeter, thank god for technology, after his spine, she worked on the ribs, which had been broken and cracked all over, these were taking up most of Gaster's magic to keep together, Alphys used a calcium based glue to help the ribs stick and mend together, then came the wrapping as to protect the ribs and keep them all stationary.
The cracks on Sans's skull was the next most troubling thing, if they spread, the damage could get too severe, and if anything got into those cracks…"It's a good thing Papyrus is diligent with his cleaning" Alphys muttered as she applied various salves and patches to the cracks. She worked her way to the rest of the vertebrae, some seemed chipped but otherwise intact, after dealing with these, Alphys went to the shoulders, cracked from the strain of forced movement, She worked down to the arm, the left arm was fractured, long cracks went along the arm, towards a partial break, "Figures his main hand would have the worst of it." Alphys again muttered, Gaster was watching her work on his son, the care she took was remarkable, tending to every individual bone fragment, he was able to remove his magic that was holding him together, the body settled as Alphys moved to his legs.
Sans's legs had several stress fractures running along them, His knee joints and foot joints were nearly shattered, since his spine and arms were also affected, Sans wasn't going to be able to move for quite some time. She tended to the serious fractures and cracks and moved on to the pockmarks and scrapes, then applied splints and casts to his limbs. Alphys moved Sans to another room for recovery, behind a few curtains from Frisk.
Toriel nearly ran into the room when Alphys and Gaster gave the all clear, she spent an hour beside both of them, Frisk began to stir, the stirring became shaking, and the shaking became screaming. Toriel rushed to her daughter's side, gripping her hand tightly "Its okay my child! You are safe, nothing is here to hurt you anymore." "AH! No stop!" Frisk sat up with a gasp, her eyes scanning the room frantically, stopping when they spotted Toriel. She instantly reached forward to wrap her mother in a hug "M-mom….is dad okay?" Toriel rubbed Frisk's back and spoke softly "Sans is a few curtains away, Alphys had everything set and patched up, but recovery is going to take some time, though he may wake up soon, though I fear for the condition his mind will be in." Frisk nodded and moved out of her bed, stepping carefully to make sure she still had balance, she saw him laying there, nearly covered in cause, casts and medicine "Oh god dad…..what did they do to you." Papyrus was nearby, still in his true hero form as Undyne called it, staring at his brother. Days passed and eventually Sans found himself waking up "where am i? where's flowey? whats going on?" He tried to move with his eyes closed but found that he couldn't move anything, he opened his eyes and all he saw were vines, a maniacal laugh echoing through his head, he began to scream. Toriel and Frisk heard this and ran in, seeing Sans's eyes moving fast, they could see him shaking trying to move his body " no nononono get out ! get the hell out!"
Sans thought he was talking to Flowey as a gaster blaster materialized, only to be interrupted by Toriel's face "Sans! Sans dear it's only a flashback, you are safe! You are in Alphys's lab. She had most of your wounds fixed and mending dear, Frisk is right beside you!." " t-tori?" Sans blinked, suddenly he was indeed in Alphys's medical wing, wrapped in cause and casts, and right next to him was Frisk…..oh god Frisk! " frisk! Kiddo oh god are you alright?! Oh god kid….." Frisk quickly wrapped Sans in a hug,"I-its okay dad….we're all here" "papyrus…..where's papyrus?" "RIGHT HERE BROTHER, THOUGH YOU MAY NOT RECOGNIZE ME." Sure enough Sans looked over where Papyrus's voice came from, and he remembered vividly how he got that form "papyrus….im sorry….everyone…..oh god what did that thing to?!" The next few days were filled with intensive care of Sans's wounds, they focused healing the spine first, and then the skull fractures, followed by the joints and ribs, eventually Frisk got some alone time with her father.
"I guess now i know what it was like in your shoes kiddo, heh." Frisk shook her head "Dad..speaking of that….in order to stop them…..i had to….to…..Im at 7 lv now." Sans's eyes widened full fo concern, sure enough her lv increased, the expression on her face told him she killed that demon plant combo and she was conflicted on feeling ok with it. " kiddo i gotta tell you somethin, that amount of lv ain't nothin, that damn thing was going to kill everyone, and you stopped the hell out of it. some things are worth fighting for." Frisk's eyes watered "A-are you still getting nightmares too?" Sans nodded "seems like they are only gettin worse, its been hard to have a solid hour, much less my usual 15." Frisk nodded "Mine have gotten bad too, Everything came back, Omega flowey, the first and now second fight with you,...piled on top of what SHE did….what the hell did we do to deserve so much crap?" "Im not sure kiddo, im not sure….say hows your bio parents souls?" Sans decided to change the subject, and Frisk was more than willing "Well their determination is running low, staying physical like that takes alot out of them, I tried talking to them about everything, but…..nothing has worked." Frisk began to sniffle "Dad….everything that could go wrong so far has…" Sans pulled Frisk into a tight hug " i know kiddo, i know."
Toriel watched this exchange, and decided that something must be done about it, she remembered a small detail that Frisk missed when showing her memories, when chara had to load, there was a third option that said true reset, so as days passed with her thinking of this plan she asked Gaster what that could have been "Well, From what I could gather in the void, where a regular reset leaves traces of memory as deja'vu, a true reset actually fully wipes all memories except for the actual user, and anything locked in Sans's laboratory cabinets, why do you ask?" "Gaster I think I have a plan that may just save those two from their trauma….but doing so would temporarily throw us all back into the underground, but first we need to find out why Sans's lab compartments are impervious to resets." Gaster gives Toriel a look "Are you possibly planning on discovering the material to replicate it so others can remember this timeline?" Toriel nodded " Full memory for everyone except Frisk and Sans, Sans can keep his journal to know what happened, but in a certain way so that he does not get reminded." Gaster's eyes lit up "Therefore their trip through the underground would go much faster, with everyone's memories intact and enough discretion to fool flowey, we could get the barrier broken, Asriel saved, and stop Chara before she even gets to Frisk! Then you come along and prevent the action that caused their only willing reset!" Toriel nodded again "Indeed, I have already informed everyone but Sans and Frisk we have preparations to make."
With that plans went under way, it took days to weeks for Alphys to gather enough souls to be sure it would work, Toriel informed Frisk and Sans of her plan to absorb enough donated souls for a true reset, and erase their trauma completely, but not before replicating Sans's time proof cabinets so that everyone would retain their memories to help things along "it aint just the cabinets, it's the whole room, thing is though that while the memory and information may stay the same, the person would be moved to where ever they would normally be at that time, so you would be in the ruins, and dad would be in the void, though if i write down how to get him out, along with a few other things, it should be a piece of cake." Toriel grinned "Excellent, I would recommend writing important things in your journal, since we want to minimize what Frisk has to go through." Sans nodded, The two separated to do their tasks, Toriel was gathering the donated souls in his lab, along with everyone else, he began to look into his journal and began to write.
" turns out toriel is gathering souls for a true reset to clear us both os some bad things that happened to frisk and yourself, so buddy listen up because this is important
Number one, talk to Papyrus, he knows about everything now, you can talk to him, number two, go downstairs and turn on the machine, it should be fixed and ready to go. Number 3 you wound up not protecting the human as much as you could have due to the resets, know that they feel pain every time they die and have to load, so howzabout some space time shenannigans to give them food and extra help without being seen, so you can judge her for yourself. Asgore, Undyne, Alphys and Papyrus all know about what we have gone through, the resets, everything, so if you are feeling down because of that...talk to them, i promise that they will know, oh and that flower is actually asriel dreemurr, with the 6 souls and souls of the underground he will eventually absorb he will get his form back and his emotions after the human saves him, try to get them to save the soul of kindness so it will stay with him and he can return home, everyone else knows what to do ."
Sans left it at that, closed his journal, and teleported to his lab "Alright everyone some ground rules for you all, First off, is that machine up and running?" Papyrus beaned "ABSOLUTELY BROTHER!" Sans grinned "great, now everyone, i know that when things reset, you will all want to help frisk on her journey, but remember this is their first time going through the underground, while tori will teach them how to solve situations without violence to prevent her first mistake, the rest of her journey must be on her own for that version of me to correctly pass judgement, so maintain contact like we did in this run, calls, occasional shenanigans, hell mix it up as long as frisk is showing her kindness on her own, rather than being hand held. Alphys frisk wants to ask you to please make sure the tile puzzle in snowden works properly and makes an actual puzzle, she wants that version of her to have as much fun with paps as possible." Alphys grinned "A-Alright! Oh and im going to spread the truth about the amalgamates right away, though maybe after F-Frisk meets me, w-wouldn't want to scare her." Sans nodded "tori im going to go hang with frisk, and hey, maybe we would be able to get a jumpstart on our date this go around, i love ya tori, and i will then too."
With a final kiss and several goodbyes, Sans walked into his surface home, and plopped down on the couch beside Frisk "they're getting ready, so kiddo, enjoy your new trip" Frisk grinned "Wait how am I going to know how to fight Asriel?" " don't worry kiddo, i've got that part figured out, my journal is in the lab, along with everyone else, and we will be able to leave this bull shit behind us" Frisk began to laugh "Oh yeah thats right the worlds gonna reset so i can curse!" " curse away" "God dammit Flowey you piece of shit, fuck you and fuck you Chara you goddamn piece of ass! Fuck this traumatic bull shit." " better?" "Better."
Toriel absorbed 9 human souls, she read the timelines like a book, starting from where they were currently and following them back to Frisks first fall, in her hands was a determination extractor, she knew the first thing she was going to do. Her paw hit the point in time like a screen, the world soon faded into black, and everyone woke up with their memories intact in their various underground locations, However Frisk and Sans had truly lost all memory.
Authors note :This aint the end though! I am going to write the travels and such too, though the end is near, at first i was conflicted, i mean a reset would mean all of this was pointless, and yet would it really be? I mean if Toriel knew a way to rid her loved ones of seriously messed up circumstances, im pretty sure she would do it, plus her son gets brought back? Hell yeah, though to make things a good bit different EVERYONE keeps their memories, Asgore, Undyne, Alphys, Papyrus, Gaster will by default, but thats it, so get ready peoples, the final chapter (s)? Are on the way! Please do review, would love to hear what yall think.
