Like Undertale itself, I have mixed feelings for Papyrus. On one hand, his personality can be funny sometimes and even though he's childish, he's smarter then people give him credit for. He also has a better sense of self-control then literally every monster in the Underground as he's the only one that doesn't kill you, whether on purpose or on accident. But on the other hand, he's pretty selfish cause he's trying to beat up and capture a little kid just so he can be popular and get his dream job. He also NEVER feels guilty about hurting Frisk, only feels bad about not getting into the royal guard and calls Frisk weak... Jerk. And then instead of helping us befriend Undyne aka the tempermental woman that loses her reasoning and sanity whenever a human is involved and has tried to kill us and still wants to attack us (even though we helped her and saved the life of Monster Kid), he jumps out of the window and leaves Frisk by themself. SERIOUSLY?!

Not gonna sugarcoat it, Frisk is super lucky to be alive after hanging out with Undyne... I'll rant about her a bit more in the next chapter.

Everyone in the courtroom silently watched the video.

It showed Frisk silent and shivering in the snow, slowly walking down the path. Suddenly, there was static and the static disappeared to reveal footage from a different camera. It showed Frisk looking at a bridge and Sans slowly walking up from behind them. He told Frisk to shake his hand in a scary voice. When they did, a fart noise was heard. Then the skeleton laughed and dropped his spooky facade to introduce himself and talk about his brother, Papyrus' human hunting obsession. Sans hears Papyrus coming and tells Frisk to him follow through the bridge.

There was static again and this time it showed Sans and Frisk at a sentry post. Sans told Frisk to hide behind a lamp as Papyrus ran towards his brother to complain about his laziness. Throughout the exchange, Sans occasionally told Papyrus to check out the lamp where Frisk is.

Sans could feel Papyrus and Toriel silently staring at him.

In the video, Papyrus refused to look at the lamp. Sans told some puns and Papyrus scolded Sans before making a pun of his own and walking away laughing. Frisk came out from their hiding place and Sans asked them if Frisk could play along with Papyrus' plans, insisting that the taller skeleton isn't dangerous. Sans then walked into the woods while Frisk walked to where Papyrus was going.

Static, then it shows Frisk getting attacked by monsters and getting hit by their magic.

A few humans in the courtroom gasped in horror at this

Sans could sense the heat slowly forming in Toriel's glare now.

Static, then it shows Papyrus seeing Frisk and eagerly telling Sans how popular he's gonna become after capturing the human.

Papyrus flinched at his past self's words.

Static, then it shows Frisk encountering Doggo and his swords.

Static, Frisk is now about to do the invisible electric maze puzzle while the skeletons watch and Papyrus making a pun about it being 'shocking'.

Papyrus guiltily sinks into seat as he watches this. Was he really that ignorant and self-centered in the Underground?

Static, then Frisk is being attacked by Dogamy and Dogeressa.

Static, then Papyrus is seen explaining the multicolor tile puzzle to Frisk. Wait a minute, did he say the yellow tiles cause shocks? What's with this skeleton and shocking people?!

Static, now Frisk is being attacked by Lesser Dog.

Static, now it's Greater Dog that's attacking Frisk.

Static, then Frisk is seen on another, longer bridge with 'The Gauntlet of Deadly Terror' hanging over them.

There were even more gasp then with the electric maze and one human cried out, "That poor puppy!"

At this point Papyrus covered his face, even though he knew his past self decided not to activate the device, he didn't want to see the rest of the video.

Static and then the fight between Frisk and Papyrus was shown.

Papyrus summoned bones and threw them at Frisk.

Frisk managed to dodge most of the bones, but a few of them hit Frisk, leaving bruises.

Then Papyrus started using his blue magic, turning Frisk completely blue and increased their gravity.

Frisk dodged all the other attacks, including the gigantic bone that looks like it belongs to a dinosaur.

Papyrus decides to stop the battle.

He lamented how he'll never be popular and have friends if couldn't capture some as weak as Frisk.

Frisk says they don't have to be enemies.

Which leads Papyrus to believe that was Frisk's way of saying they want to be friends and he shouts how they should hang out sometime.

The skeleton leaped over Frisk and ran back to Snowdin Town.

The video ends.

Judge Joy cleared her throat. "Papyrus the skeleton, would you please go to the stand?"

Papyrus went over to the stand as silent and slow as he could. Nobody has ever seen Papyrus so sad and quiet before.

"Papyrus." The judge began. "What was your opinion on humans when lived in the Underground? You were eager to hurt and capture Frisk, yet you were quick into wanting to befriend them. So what changed? What stopped you from hating humans?"

Papyrus jolted upright at the accusation. "With all due respect your honor, I never really hated humans and I would never kill one, even though the royal guard tells me that supposed to for what they did… In fact, I was quite content with my old life… But…"

"But?"

"...It does get kinda lonely. I have my brother Sans and although he does do non-sock related favors sometimes, he'd rather spend time in his room or at Grillby's then with me… and then there's Undyne. She's amazing!… But when she isn't training me, she's usually fighting criminals or patrolling for humans… I just wanted a best friend so badly… One that would always have time for me...So I thought that if I gave a human to the royal guard, they would make me one of them and I would have so many new friends that I wouldn't feel lonely anymore!… But seeing that movie of how I used to be, made me realize how unfair I was treating Frisk…"

"Too bad you didn't realize that while you were working on that 'Gauntlet of Terror' thing." Peter commented.

Papyrus whimpered and tears began to shed from his sockets.

That's when Undyne decided she was done being quiet.

She slammed her cuffed hands on the table, drawing everyone's attention.

"Hey! There's no need to make Papyrus feel worse then he already does! He was only doing the job I gave him!" the fish woman shouted.

She dropped back into her seat. "You know, Frisk was able to see the good in all of us despite how much we mess up, but all of you monster haters won't even give us a chance."

Judge Joy raised an eyebrow at this. "So… it's racist for us to properly punish attempted murderers for their crimes, but it's not racist to try and kill an innocent, defenseless child. Is this what you're telling us, Undyne?"

Undyne's mouth opened and closed a few times, before she regained her words. "W-We weren't just attacking Frisk for fun! We were trying to go to the surface! And the only way to do that is by stealing their soul!"

Undyne slapped her hand over her mouth at the words she foolishly slipped through her teeth.

Every human in the room was horrified and outraged at what they heard.

Judge Joy slammed her gavel down to quiet down the chaos.

She then raised an eyebrow at the nervous fish.

"Their soul?"