Sans was scared. Sitting in his own little cubby, he shivered and coughed and whined and cried. Flowey and Chara had... left. He had heard them say to him that they were going to the surface, before they would come back to get him.

But they lied, and now he was slowly dying alone, with nothing on but a ragged artifact that used to be his shirt and his shorts that painfully cut into his puffed out waist. He didn't like it, to be honest. And what gave away that he didn't like it? Well, his blubbering and sobbing of course. He had pushed himself in the corner of the small space, covering his face with his one skeletal arm and tried to ignore the icy hotness of disease that spiked painfully in his chest and body. He wanted anyone to come. He didn't care if it was the people who hate him. He just wanted somebody to come so he could be reassured that he wasn't alone anymore!

Sniffling, Sans thought about his old bed and comfy it must be. Even if it was old and he didn't have a blanket, he wanted it back. He wanted to wrap his arm around the ball of sheets like he usually did and sleep for days on end. Maybe eat too. He hadn't eaten in a long time and he was hungry. The skeleton was a lot of things right now. A whole lot.

So, thinking about a lot of things that all traced to his slow death, Sans waited for the tiredness to take over his body so he could pass out and let the pain go away. At least for just a few hours.

- switch of POV -

It was finally done.

Sitting in front of the now done machine, Alphys sweated. She curled and uncurled her claws in nervousness, setting down tools and other things on the counter beside her and taking off her lab coat as it was making the sweating worse. Ooooh, she hoped it was going to work. She hoped to God. Because, to be honest, she wanted to go alone. She made sure that she would finish the thing when the others were asleep, so she could nab Sans easier. She didn't want Papyrus to scream so the captors would be attracted to them. Alphys liked the taller bone brother, but she knew that he would be a small distraction to a otherwise smooth rescue mission.

Oh, and Undyne. Undyne would try to fight the captors head on. Yet again, a bad idea. This was a stealth thing they had to do. Alph knew that she wasn't the most stealthy, but she knew when to keep quiet and how to most likely heal the best out of the rest. She had thought about bringing Toriel, but she didn't know the boss monster enough to trust her. The scientist really did want to trust her, but her brain made her not go to fetch Tori.

She thought about all of this as she packed up on the stuff she needed. She didn't bring so much that it would be hard to carry, but just some first aid things and a few water bottles in case she had to search for a long period of time. Alphys knew what to bring and all that. She had read up on stuff like this. She knew that in the back of her mind she wouldn't be that good if she only read on the art of stealth, but, she had to try at least!

Sighing, she paused, before she turned around and made her way back to the machine. There it was, sitting there all nice and cool. If only it would stay that way. Even though she had finished it, she had finished it on such a short notice that Alphys was surprised it didn't break down on the spot. The main reason she had finished so fast was that the others were looking so desperate and scared, and the lizard couldn't help but hurry up just so they wont give her those looks anymore.

Ugh, she hated herself for that!

Looking in her bag that was now around her body to make sure she had all the stuff, she paused. Alphys was quite scared. In one hand, she wanted to go so badly that it almost made her body shake. But in the other hand, she was terrified that the machine would backfire and she would be killed as it exploded. Ugh, so many things that made her stop and want to go at the same time. She was sick of it. She stood there one final time, looking behind her uncertainly until she slapped herself in the face, told her to be more courageous, and without hesitation ran into the machine and shut the door; switching the lever to start it up and pressing the buttons that would take her to the right timeline. The timeline right behind this current one.

As the machine roared into life, Alphys let out a shaky breath. If she was going to go...

In a flurry of sudden realization, the lizard brought out a pen and paper and scribbled down a note, and mere seconds before the machine jumped timelines she opened the door and threw the paper out onto the floor. Alphys shut the door, muttering "In case I'm gone..." before she sat on the floor of the thing and shut her eyes.

The machine disappeared.