Little authors note here, I'll try to write more often, im planning on writing a bunch of chapters and posting them all at once, leave a review telling me if you would like that!
Reminder, i do not own Undertale or any of Toby Fox's work, so uh dont sue me or anything like that ok?
Alphys Lab - Middle of the night
No matter much she tossed and turn in her bed, she couldn't sleep.
it was either too uncomfortable, too hot or too cold.
and when she did dream in those rare moments of comfort.
The nightmares began,
it began with a tall mysterious skeletal man who would taunt and manipulate her
day after day in what looked to be a far older version of her lab, and every day in that miserable lab. she would try to find escape, whether it would be anime, nerdy type of things etc. Being in that lab...you could say it was hell, she had no other choice, she was an assistant and could be fired over any little thing, and the job DID pay well...
The whole team suffered from that monster mystery man day after day, even monsters have their limits of love.
and who could blame someone for being pushed so far as to attempt murder.
In the dream, a hazy figure working with ? while working on their greatest project ever known to monster-kind, ? was busy yelling at other assistants for doing a miniscule mistake that wouldn't matter in the long or short run.
the figure took his chance, ? while distracted...was pushed into their greatest project ever.
THE CORE, thats how the dream ended each and every time.
...
Alphys woke up, struggling to remember the dream. like grains of sand in her claws it would fall apart in a matter of seconds.
but the harsh feelings it brought was still the same, she brought her claws up to her knees and just sat there in a cradle position for a good while, shaking.
A few hours passed then and she calmed down to try and catch a few more winks of sleep,
...still didn't work
The time stated it was still early in the morning, welp, she tried getting sleep, didn't work out so well.
She set out to do her daily morning routine before sans came back to visit once again.
SENTRY STATION - SNOWDIN (EARLY MORNING)
Sans...did not really like his job, of course any monster who was given this job thought the same as well, exception being Papyrus.
First of all, you were not allowed to leave your post...at all, for anything.
Second, you were suppose to keep watch for humans, but they came by so rarely, they might as well never existed.
Third, there was nothing to do here at all, maybe other then catch up on sleep.
Sans didn't like his job that much, but it also was not enforced, there was only one royal guard to check up on you once in a while, and that was rare.
So sans would do what any other monster would do when doing his "job"
slack off, he would take naps, take "breaks" at grillby's and pratice his humerous puns.
But lately while sleeping on his job...he was having the dreams again.
The ones with ?
Only he could remember it after all, he did the "deed" and the monsters were somewhat thankful for it, until they forgot.
At first he couldn't figure out why .
And then he remembered, the specific place where he did it...? was working on a special time-travel device to travel before the barrier was made,
the device was said to work by using gravity and time waves? Sans didn't really understand it that much, he was smart but he wasn't smart like ?
Welp, frisk was at home probably watching the MTV re-runs that came on every so often, Papyrus was busy making and preparing puzzles. he could kill a few hours before his shift ended.
He remembered about Alphys with her strange magic conundrum and how he would come back tomorrow, heh. he could crack a couple of puns at her, they would have to catch up one day.
*CLICK*
He "took a shortcut" to the front of Alphys lab, gotta remember to not teleport in front of her.
didn't wanna give her a heart attack after all.
He walked into the lab.
"H-Hello sans!' Alphys greeted sans as he walked in
Forgot she had cameras all over in this place.
"Heya...so uh howzabout we go start figuring out that magic fluctuation?" Sans would have said a corny lizard pun, but uh he only practiced skeleton puns tibia honest.
Alphys cringed "Er..yeah!" She would have expected sans to beat around the bush a little, create a friendly conversation before. She liked to think they were friends, not just an old business partner.
After all, she really did have no-one in her endless guilt and shame...
She led sans up to her workbench again, readings still the same as always.
She didn't do any work since attempting to sleep last night.
"Alright, lets do a couple of more tests before we try replicating the main thing again"
"Try to use any form of magic in that burnt arm, but hook up before you do" Sans instructed Alphys, turning to his old scientist self for this.
Alphys nodded and hooked up the arm, she then attempted to make an electric bullet.
Things were going normal, without any complications.
She checked the readings. 100% NORMAL MAGIC LEVELS
"Hmm, so its not regular magic thats causing the abnormality, we can check that off" Alphys said in deep thought, she put her claw on her head as if to write something off on an invisible checklist.
Sans looked pleased at this, nothing was wrong with her...yet, He knew something was strange over here.
"Phew, glad thats normal, ok i think i have everything i need to know now. lets try this again"
Sans stated, "Try once again to feel what you were feeling at that moment and to feel the magic, remember the passion"
Alphys looked nervous as all hell, she didn't want to embarass herself in front of sans of all people.
"Alphs, calm down. im not going to make fun of you." Sans tried to comfort her.
And it worked a little, Alphys felt a little better. Time for work
She closed her eyes and tried her best to remember her passion and feelings during that moment.
It was like time stopped for everyone but her, the world went dark but was lit up by something...
a powerful magic of some sort, she opened her eyes and looked down.
a Lightning Bolt was beginning to form in the palm of her claws, electricity magic traveling from her body to her arms to her palms.
She watched it for what felt like forever, forgetting that sans was there, forgetting that she was in this world.
Feeling the power that flowed through her, felt like drinking the nectar of the gods.
...all was good.
"Hey, uhhh...Alphs you ok there!?" Sans waved in front of her face, trying to get her attention.
No good, sans was considering using his magic to forcefully get her attention, when he noticed something about her eyes.
It was crackling with electricity, cracking with unlimited power and potential.
The lightning bolt in her hand was growing bigger by the second, and then..
Things got out of control, the bigger the Bolt grew, the less she had power over.
It was starting to strike out and hit things, Tables and Monitors, The floor, and then it hit Alphys herself.
ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP
-10 HP.
Alphys fell unconcious, and started falling to the floor, luckily a skeleton was there to catch her.
The whole lab had seen some better days, but sans wasn't worried about that.
He cared about Alphys, surprisingly more then he would admit.
He carried Alphys almost bridal style to her bed, and teleported to grillbys for some healing items. He was going to make sure she wakes up no matter what.