The Air Patroler hovered overseas, speeding to a new location. A new life. The waves collided against the water over and over, the occasional animal leaped from their liquid paradise to enter the realm of the calm breeze.
Sans let out a content sigh, he did it. He freed all of his friends, his own brother from a life's worth of torture. And now they speed towards a new life, one that awaited them with open arms. He glanced at his friends who sat with PAW Patrol, he could feel the excitement radiate of them.
They were all laughing, enjoying warm and cold drinks. Living like royalty, and he helped make that a reality. He gaze turned to his brother, who was listening in awe at the stories Marshall and Chase were telling him, ones about being a brave firefighter and police officer.
Sans smiled, he knew without a doubt his bro would try join the PAW Patrol, Papyrus always wants to help others, always looks out for others. The PAW Patrol would be the perfect job for him, and Sans would join him too.
Why? Well, he need's to look after his lil bro. The light of his life, the one person who would never fail to bring a smile to his face, to anyone's face.
He glanced at his friends, he had good idea about what they wanted to do. Toriel and Muffet were thinking of helping Mr. Porter out with his restaurant, after they learn the basics of baking. He was confident they'd be good at it, they had such a fondness of good food. The amount of passion they'd be willing to put in might surprise others, including him. But as long as they were happy, he didn't care.
Then their was Asgore, it was pretty obvious what he wanted to do. Gardening, his favorite hobby and passion. They way he talked about plants, and wanting to be the one that can grow plants and ensure they live in the best environment. Sans knew he'd do good.
Then there was Alphys and Undyne, He knew Alphys wanted to learn more about math and science, he could tell she was interested from the short lessons he occasionally gave her. She'd be a great scientist, he was sure of it.
Undyne would most likely try to join the PAW Patrol as well, her sense of justice could even overwhelm him at times. No doubt she'd want to bring criminals to justice.
Frisk might try school, she'd always been interested in it. She too, enjoyed the mini lessons. Or she may try helping Tori and Muffet, either one.
And for Asriel...well he was more than sure of the fact they'd continue their quantum-physics and quantum mechanics research. There was no denying that.
He let out a yawn and slumped down on his seat. Dang it...he was tired already? Didn't he sleep like four hours ago? His eyes grew heavier and heavier, he rapidly blinked to stay awake. "You're tired again? Sans, didn't you sleep, like four hours ago?" He turned to stare at the cyan glowing specter of girl around his age, looking back at him with concern.
He glanced to the corner, and the other specters were visible. The poor kids who were test subjects before he and his friends, only he, Asriel, and a certain golden flower could see them. They went by the name of the trait they had, using their real name hurts to much for them. The only one of them that wishes to be called by her real name was the red specter, Chara.
"I'm fine Patience, don't worry about it." He replied telepathically, she frowned at his response.
"You don't look fine." Kindness said, looking at him with a concern drenched expression. He started blinking off again, he absently stared into the distance. The specters watched on in worry.
"Brother! Why don't you come join us!?" Papyrus called snapping him out his stupor, he glanced at him.
"Nah, I'm okay with being here." Papyrus frowned at his answer. Something a lot of people tend to do apparently.
"Don't be like that brother! This is a truly great moment! And the great Papyrus can't cherish it without his brother!" A small smile lit up on his face, yup. That's his bro, the one guy that can always make you feel special.
"Okay, okay. You win! I'm coming over!" He stood up, shrugging off any fatigue he had. From the corner of his eyes he saw Toriel looking at him with concern, looks like big sister bear was about to come out and play.
He sat down next to Papyrus, who offered him a hot chocolate. "Thanks Pap!" Papyrus gave proud nod, he glanced from the corner of his eye and saw Chara dripping black liquid from her eyes, which were pitch black, the other specters were sitting as far away as possible.
He smirked, he knew there was one thing going through her mind. Chocolate. Stifling a giggle, he drank the warm chocolaty liquid, the sweet taste covering his tongue entirely. He let out a content sigh when he finished.
He noticed Toriel scooting closer to him, he knew what she was about to ask. "Sans, are you alright? You seem pretty tired." He rolled his eyes. Guessed it.
"Yeah..I'm a little sleepy," as if to punctuate his point he let out a long yawn. Papyrus frowned.
"Sleepy? But brother, you only woke up about four hours ago!" Sans shrugged, yawning again.
"My exhaustion's been getting worse..." He trialed off when he saw the disapproving glare firmly embedded on Toriel's face.
"And you didn't tell me earlier because…?" Sans winced, he had a feeling she'd react like that. He sighed and lowered his head.
"I'm sorry Tori, it's been...a long week." Toriel sighed and shot him a worried glance.
"Well not to worry, Sans is in the great Papyrus's care! He will make a speedy recovery in no time!" His brother struck a pose, eliciting giggles from the pups. He smiled fondly...yup that's his bro. The great Papyrus!
Braking came from the Air Patroler's driver, Robo-Dog. Ryder stood up, "I'll go see what it is." Sans looked out the window and noticed the plane flying lower, closer to the ground.
"Guy's were almost there!" Sans smiled, won't be long now. It's just a matter of a couple hours, then this nightmare could be put to rest, forever.
Sans approached a window, where he could see a landing pad with the PAW Patrol logo imprinted on it. The plane made a smooth landing, and the hatch opened, revealing a grassy hill, his friends jogged down and marveled at their surroundings, Sans slowly exited the plan.
The first thing he witnessed harsh light of the sun forcing it's down upon the world with heat, he took out a pair of sunglasses and placed them on his eyes and walked down. The hill they were on looked over the entire city, like a guardian.
Sans smiled. How fitting. There had to be some importance to this hill, there were more sensible places to put it, like in the center of the town. And yet they chose the towns' edge.
"Brother! Were going to our new home!" Sans smiled at Papyrus.
"Coming Pap."
XX
Here it stood, their new home. It was pretty close to the center of the town, that design detail was placed incase they needed help with something.
A four story house stood in front of them, with all the requirements they could ever ask for. Everybody else stood there marveling at the house. "Well, what are you waiting for? Open it!" Rubble suggested.
When they entered, they were greeted by a modern kitchen and living room, the others hurried and made their way in, Sans however, took a bit of detour.
In a blink of an eye he was on top of the house, he concentrated, and his left glowed a bright cyan before switching to a piercing yellow in less then a millisecond, and then loop returned to cyan and then back to yellow. His vision turned blue and various cyan dots popped up on the town. Shortcuts.
He grinned, this would make things a lot easier. His eyes reverted back to their normal black with white pupils, and in a blink of a second he was in the living room of their new home. He collapsed on the couch.
"Brother! Where are you!?" Sans rolled his eyes, he was gone for like a minute and his absence was already noticed.
"Down here Paps!" He called out, about a second later the said skeleton appeared. Papyrus sighed and shook his head.
"Come on Brother! Stop being so lazy! Now everyone's already chosen there rooms and there is only one left! (It's also on the top floor which is convenient because it's right next to mine.)" Sans rolled his eyes and chuckled.
"I'm fine with anything bro, anyway, show me where my room is." They head upstairs to the fourth floor, where two rooms resided, his room and Paps room. "This is your room!" He said pointing to the left.
He nodded and entered the room. It was pretty big and quite spacious, it was configured to his liking...yet. But he had better things to do. He grabbed his wallet and took out some money, a generous donation from people who pitied them and the PAW Patrol, they had up to 23,000 dollars, so they were stacked.
Sans sighed, that amount of money wouldn't last forever, they needed jobs. But that could be dealt with later, for now, food is what's most important.
In a blink he arrived at Mr. Porters, a small restaurant in the middle of town, it was also classed the best, despite only being run by one person. Speaking of said person. "Oh hello Sans! You're here quite quickly, I thought it'd take longer for you to adjust."
"Eh, we needed something to eat." He shrugged, Mr. Porter nodded in understanding, before getting him a menu.
"So, what would you like?" Sans scanned the paper throughly for things he and his friends may enjoy, and he found them.
"Can I have one pasta, a butterscotch and a cinnamon pie, some rice with curry, one plate of noddles and a hotdog with fries." Mr. Porter wrote his order down.
"I assume this is for all of your friends?" A quick nod confirmed his suspicions, Mr. Porter smiled at the boy.
"Y'know, you're one special kid, looking out for others." Sans chuckled.
"Hey, someone's gotta get stuff done while everyone else is taking a town tour." He shrugged, Mr Porter, chuckled and left to start cooking. He got out his phone and texted Paps "gone out to get some goods, see ya at lunch." When he looked up he was greeted with the face of Chara, who was leaking the black liquid again.
"Why didn't you order chocolate?" She asked in bone chilling voice, Sans shrugged, but before he could answer, Kindness popped up.
"Are you crazy!? You know how unhealthy chocolate is!?" Chara turned to look with at her with a creepy smile.
"But it tastes delicious!" She said in a playful whine, Sans could guess the others were here, just hiding. He was surprised Kindness was the one that retorted against Chara, and not Bravery...well she was a former chef, so that could explain the rage.
Their argument continued for sometime, and all that time Sans wondered if Kindness knew that giving up was the only logical thing to do. Especially since Chara's soul trait was determination. He sat there for awhile, playing games on his phone, until Mr. Porter came back.
"Here ya go!" He said handing him the food, he got out his wallet to pay, before Mr. Porter stopped him.
"Kid, consider this a 'Welcome to Adventure Bay special' and as such, it's for free." Sans immediately tried to protest.
"B-but-!"
"No buts, I'm not negotiating on this." Sans sighed in defeat.
"Thanks Mr. Porter." The chef smiled.
"Don't mention it." Sans got out his phone and texted the others to come to Mr. Porters. About a minute later, they came.
"Hey Sans, you doing okay?" Toriel asked, Sans rolled his eyes, such a Tori thing to say.
"I'm good Tori, even though the idea of sleep sounds inter-resting, I think it's best I stay awake." Toriel and Alphys giggled at the pun while everyone else groaned.
"Uggggghhhhhhhhh! Brother! Why must you ruin the occasion with one of your puns!?" Sans shrugged.
"Dunno Paps, the idea of sleep was to inter-resting to pass up. I mean, sleeping come's naturally to me, I could do it with my eyes closed." Toriel and Alphys burst into a giggling fit while everyone else groaned.
"So, you ordered this for us?" Asgore asked, quickly changing the subject. Sans let out a quick nod.
"Awww~! That's so nice of you!" Frisk commented. Sans shrugged.
"Someone's gotta make sure we eat." He commented, the sat down and began dinning. Papyrus took the pasta, Toriel and Muffet dinned on the exquisite pies and Asgore and Undyne had fun with the rice and curry, he was pretty sure it was nearly done in ten minutes. Alphys had been enjoying her noodles and Frisk instantly took the bowl of french fries, much to everyone's (except Sans's) dismay.
"Frisk! You can't just keep eating french fires! They are not good for you!" Papyrus chided, a disapproving look on his face, the same look that was on everybody else's face. (except Sans)
Frisk pouted, "no fair! Sans ordered them for me." And just like that, all eyes were on the young boy, who simply shrugged.
"As long as she's eating something it's nothing to fry her eating habits for." Toriel giggles again, despite the tense situation, meanwhile everybody else groaned.
"Sans! Do not attempt to defuse this serious matter with one of your terrible jokes!" Papyrus chided, Asgore sighed and intervened.
"Papyrus, don't add more fuel to the wild fire." Sans did a headcount and noticed a certain someone missing.
"Where's Asriel?"
Toriel frowned and sighed. "He insisted on setting up his room instead of coming to eat." Sans lightly frowned, feeling a pang of guilt hit his chest.
One of these days, they're going to learn. Learn everything that he and Asriel kept from them, and when that day comes, would they still accept him? He was so deep in thought he didn't notice Papyrus lightly prodding his shoulders.
"Sans!" Said person let out a startled yelp. He jolted and looked at his bro, who was visibly concerned. He forced a smile.
"Yep, I'm good." He finished his hotdog, and got up. "I'm gonna go check up on Azzy! Be right back." He walked onto the street before appearing in the living room of the house.
"Asriel?" He called out. Moments later, the boy showed himself.
"Hi Sans, how was lunch at Porters?" He shrugged.
"Pretty good." He replied. He noticed a very certain golden flower, In a flower pot, grumpily staring at the window. He giggled a little.
"F-Flowey?!" He said in between his giggling fit. The Flower sighed grumpily.
"Laugh all you want trash bag! Just rub in the pain of my existence in, why don't ya!" The golden flower hissed. That pushed Sans to the edge.
He burst out laughing, much to the annoyance of Flowey. After he calmed down, Asriel said. "As funny as it is, it is necessary, we wouldn't want Flowey running rampant across the city, plus this way, it would be easier to keep up the disguise of a normal flower," when the term, disguise was mentioned, Sans' mood soured.
"Hey Azzy, can I ask you question?"
"Sure."
"Is hiding all of this from the others, really the right thing to do? I mean, we've lied to them about a lot, and eventually, the truth is going to come out one day. How do you think they're going to react?" Asriel sighed, guessing what Sans was trying to imply.
"You're worried about rejection from the others, aren't you?" A quiet nod conformed his suspicions. He sighed again. "Sans, when they do find out, they are going to be mad, but I doubt they'd hate us. I mean could you imagine Papyrus hating you? It's an absurd idea!"
"Asriel, Papyrus is an easy example, he'd give anybody a chance, no matter what they did! But what about the others…?" Asriel stayed quiet for a moment.
"Sans, after everything we've been through together, do you really think a bunch of secrets is going to be the end our friendships. It would take a lot more than that to break us up, so just chill okay. No point on getting worked up on a future event."
"I guess your right..." Uncertainty showed in Sans voice. Asriel put a hand on his shoulder.
"Why don't you go take some rest? You look pretty tired." He had a point, sleep had been constantly nagging at him, perhaps he actually needed it. He teleported into his room and changed in to his pajamas, and slumped down on the bed.
Thoughts constantly nagged at him, like jobs for money. His and Asriel's research, the tons of unfinished business that he had behind him...he buried his head deeper in his pillow.
Eventually, sleep won out. His eyes became too heavy to keep open, he closed them and fell into a dreamless slumber...