"A 100 push ups" said Fell. Him and Blue stood in the middle of the Underfell home living room.

"Only a 100?" teased Blue. "I do more than that to warm up"

"500 then" growled Fell, rubbing his temple. So far, he had spent 4 hours, 37 minutes with Blue. Exactly 4 hours and 36 minutes too long. However, if Blue insisted on becoming his *~brother~* he wasn't going to make it easy. So far he had him clean the entire house, repair the sink. Write a 100 page essay on the awesomeness of being his brother (he didn't read it but secretly stash it away for later). So far this slightly, perhaps younger?, version of his brother had been pretty… diligent.

Huh.

"Sigh. Fine. If you insist on going easy on me" said Blue with a shrug. He kneeled down and placed his hands in front of him.

"One handed" added Fell, annoyed. He crossed his arms.

"Oh, ho, ho, now it's getting interesting" Blue smiled and put his left hand behind his back and extended his legs behind him. "One!" he counted.

They both counted each repetition out loud. At the beginning Fell was only mildly interested, but he started getting more invested the higher the number of repetitions went. By the 200 mark he could barely hide that he was at least a little bit impressed.

By the 300 mark Blue was regretting his big mouth. His arm shook with exertion and it was getting a lot harder to complete a full push up. Still, he refused to give up. He stopped counting alongside Fell and just concentrated on not thinking on how many repetitions were left.

Fell smirked. He circled the small skeleton as he struggled more and more on the challenge. He WAS impressed but he would be dammed if he admitted it to Blue. Sans could barely do a 100 on a good day. Maybe he had been too lenient on his brother.

At the 336 mark Blue lingered on the low part of the push up a little too long. He grunted and sweat stained the floor under him.

Fell sighed and pushed him over with his foot. Blue yelped and scrambled back into a sitting position.

"Hey!" he complained, although his eyes betrayed his relief to have an excuse to not continue the challenge "I … I was almost done"

"The Great Papyrus doesn't have time for your silliness" said Fell walking away.

"My silliness!?" Blue got up rubbing his right arm "You're the one that …."

Fell waved a bored dismissal and went into the kitchen. It was getting close to dinner time and he needed to get ready for his night sentry shift "Sans!" He called out.

"Yes?" asked Blue politely, although he was not entirely sure why he needed to yell. He was right behind him.

"No!, … not you. Sans ... My brother Sans" clarified Fell exasperated. "You … you are just a blue ... thing"

"Aha!" exclaimed Blue with stars in his eyes "So you do think of him as your BROTHER!"

Fell stopped in the middle of taking a drink of water. "Well, of course he is my brother" If he was a less dignified monster, he would have added a "duh" at the end.

"So …. So…. I don't get it" said Blue. "Why do you have him call you "Boss""?

Fell looked at the water left over in his glass and swished it around. "You are a nosy one, aren't you?" He said.

Blue blushed. "Um … well … it just doesn't make ANY SENSE. I don't see why he HAS TO earn the right to call you brother! I mean you two ARE BROTHERS. You two LOVE EACH OTHER, right?"

Fell dropped the glass into the sink where it shattered.

"Get out of my house" he growled. "I have wasted enough time on YOU"

Blue jerked back a little bit, startled by the change in mood, but he recuperated and stood his ground.

"Fine. But first admit that you just like being a BULLY!" he said "Red is just too nice to tell you that!"

"Who the fuck is Red? Is that what you call Sans?" Fell looked annoyed at the nickname given to his brother but, at least he looked a little less intimidating than just a moment before.

"Uh … yeah … that's what Paps nicknamed him, because … you know we both have the same name and all …."

"Paps" repeated Fell under his breath. He hadn't heard that nickname since Sans was very young . "What are you, FIVE? You should be calling your brother by his proper name"

"Papyrus likes it when I call him "Paps"" argued Blue "He loves it!"

- Laughter -

Blue could see Fell answering him but there was no sound.

He remembered Fell saying something about love making you "weak" and them getting into another argument. … Right?

- Maybe. Maybe not -

The scene froze. Blue realized that he had been looking at a monitor screen. Or a TV. Or a projection. He really couldn't tell in the darkness that he was in.

"Oh"

- We can watch something else-

"No. That's OK. I … How …. did I get here?"

- Silly. We're always inside our heads -

"Uh…" Blue rubbed his left eye.

- Does it hurt?-

"Yeah. Kinda."

A hand reached out and touched the left side of his face. The touch send sparks through Blue's entire body. His mind reeled and rebelled against it. This was wrong. A dream. A lie.

He looked up and saw a child like form smiling at him. They wore a white mask that was both happy and sad.

- Good -

Blue wanted to slap their hand away but he was frozen in place. "Who are you?"

- I'm. Everyone. - ## # - I'm nobody - Laughter -

Blue forced his trembling right hand to move and carefully put it on their hand stroking his face. "Let's. .. let's try this again. I'm Blue… uh...Sans…"

- I know -

The creature thankfully stopped stroking the left side of his face. Blue sighed.

"What is your name?"

- - $$$ - I'm everyone -

"Surely you have a name"

- I have had many -

They recited a list of names in quick succession. Visions of other monsters and human children flashed around the creature. They ended their list with

"Gaster"

They tilted their heads.

- Maybe I'll be "Blue" too? -

They touched their mask and it changed from a generic face to one that resembled Blue's. They hummed to themselves happily.

Blue stared at them in disbelief. "Why are you…"

Voices. One of them was Fell. The other one was female. It sounded familiar…

"Undyne?" he asked confused. Her voice started getting louder and louder.

- Mmhhh, what a shame, reality -

Blue cracked his eyes open. Through his blurry vision he could hear Undyne talking about Fell being a masochist?

With wakefulness came instant awareness of his body's poor condition. He really didn't want to move, so he concentrated on what was being said instead.

…."After all, you let your 'recruit' 'run around' so much that you two end up in the river" ….

… …. ….

- What a bitch -

"Language" thought Blue but he really didn't disagree.

….. "Where is your DEAD brother, Papyrus?"...

Blue's eyes flew open. He tilted his head to get a better look at the situation. Fell stood in front of him while Undyne stood very close to him. She carried on talking about Red in a horrible way. He felt that the anger he had felt before at the River swell up in his chest again.

- She deserves pain -

Blue blinked and saw the child with their mask back to "normal" They held their right hand next to the mouth of the laughing part of the mask. They giggled. Then they brought up their left hand to the sad side of their mask and mimed wiping tears from their eyes.

"Broke his neck right?" "Did you cry?"

- Poor, poor, Fell -

"Pfff, It's not like he wasn't a weakling. Nothing more than a pet to you, amirite?" continued Undyne. She enjoyed seeing Fell squirm under her taunts. "What was his name again? ….'Nothing'?"

- He used to be fun -

Blue hated that monster. How dare she? He looked at Fell. There was red aura surrounding him. It looked to have a life of its own. It wiggled and contorted around him. However, it looked like it was fading at the edges.

"Sans…"

"Yes?" said Blue quietly.

- He wants you to kill her - %%%

- It would be soooo easy -

The child did a pirouette.

"I …. I … Can't" said Blue

- There were seven of me - once - they were all killed - it's surprisingly easy to die.

"I can't"

"He was so weak that he couldn't even take advantage of the one chance I gave him to become strong" taunted Undyne holding a DT vial in front of Fell.

The child walked over and coaxed Blue up.

- It's easy-

They kneeled next to Blue. The small skeleton was trembling. Her voice was grating. His soul felt like it was breaking apart.

"But noooooo….YOU just had to steal it!" she continued. Fell stood there …. Just frozen.

"No…."

They made a gun shape with the fingers of their right hand.

Blue raised his hand. Purple energy crackled at his finger tips.

- You just have to point -

"At least nothing went to waste, when he had the courtesy to off himself!"

- And shoot -

"SHUT UP!"

It was so easy to die.

Too easy.

Underswap Undyne looked at Papyrus hold the box with the dust of his friend inside it. She felt that they should probably wait to do the ceremony, but the skeleton wouldn't have it. He couldn't stand the thought of having Red being trapped in that empty, soulless house.

They were all wearing long dark robes and hoods to hide them from prying eyes and found a secluded place in the forest behind the Underfell brother's house close to the river. Papyrus had remembered Red mentioning that he liked to nap in a place like that. He really didn't know where Red's favorite place was but at least he could get him close.

Alphys recited the traditional words of farewell. It talked about hopes and dreams being fleeting, like monster's bodies and dust. About monster's souls living beyond the Barrier, remembered forever in the hearts of those who loved them.

Papyrus looked at the open box. He was tired of crying and feeling helpless. He still didn't know how his friend died … or why … but he deserved so much better than this. He reached inside his pocket and brought out a small red glove he had found in Red's room. He opened it and put a small handful of the dust inside it.

"Paps?" asked Undyne.

"I …. I think he would want some of him to come back with me …" he said tucking the glove inside his robe and carefully placing it in his hoodie's front pocket.

"Papyrus…" started Alphys "You're not … well…. Family"

Papyrus glared his friend, but his features softened right away. "I'm … sorry" he croaked.

"It's ok… I..." she said.

"I'm sorry" he repeated more clearly. "But I am more of a family than that brother of his ever was"

"I see" she said. She knew her friend was grieving. It was not traditional but then again, they were in an alternate world. Alphys looked over to Undyne. She shrugged her shoulders equally unable at a loss on what to say or do. She sighed and decided to let it go. She finished reciting the words of farewell and then nodded to Papyrus.

"Let him be free"

Papyrus nodded and tossed the dust into the wind. It shimmered and swirled around them.

"Goodbye Red" whispered Papyrus. "I'm sorry I was such a shitty friend"

He swore he heard someone snort and laugh.

"Swap … of course you're shitty, you're too nice."

"I'm sorry. I can't help it, I guess" thought Papyrus.

"S'okay. Let's go fishing again, next time, ok?"

"Sure"

"Laters"

Papyrus ran the back of his left hand over his eyes. Alphys walked over and put a heavy hand on his shoulder.

"You gonna be ok?" she asked.

"Yes" he said and took a deep breath. "Let's go get my brother"