Papyrus woke slowly, blinking sleep out of his eyesockets and sitting up on the bed. He turned his head to where his action figures usually sat, only to find Sans' shelf full of joke books.
"SANS!" Papyrus shouted. "ARE YOU PRANKING ME ACROSS TIME AND SPACE AGAIN?" No response. Sans must have still been asleep.
Papyrus settled deeper into the cushiony surface of the bed to wait.
.(^u~*).
"on days like this, kids like you... should be burning in hell," the familiar beginning to a terrible nightmare snapped Sans awake. Usually when he awoke from one of those nightmares, his magic would be acting up, sending a blue glow through his semi-dark room. That wasn't happening. The room was bright, though a burnt orange glow touched the things nearest him. He sighed, leaning back against the pillow and rolling onto his side.
A table filled with action figures filled his vision. Sans shot upright with a strangled noise. He stumbled his way out of the race car shaped bed.
'seriously, what the hell is going on,' he thought as he walked out of the room towards his own room. He knocked nervously.
"papyrus?" Sans called his brother. The door flung open with a bang.
"SANS, FINALLY! WHAT'S GOING ON? WHY WAS I IN YOUR ROOM!?" Papyrus spouted out. Sans glanced down at his brother.
'wait a second...!' Sans yelped, catching his brother's attention.
"SANS?" Papyrus finally managed to flick the light on, flooding the shadowed hall with brilliant light.
.(^u~*).
"OH MY GOD SANS THERE'S A DOPPELGANGER HELP!" Papyrus yelled, stumbling backwards.
"what are you talking 'bout bro?" The clone asked him. Papyrus simply swung his arm to point at the other him who stood brazenly in his home.
The doppelganger froze, looking at the accusing finger, then trailing up the arm that held it.
"uh, bro, hate to burst your bubble, but you may want to look at the entire situation..." Papyrus simply stared hard at this invading copy before looking down at his own arm.
A bare bone. Further up, the end of a short, white shirt sleeve. No glove, no scarf tail. A confused 'NYEH' slipped out. He looked back at the copy.
"SANS?" Papyrus murmured. The other skeleton nodded.
.(^u~*).
Cliffhanger. I do have ideas to finish this. Dragging Alphys in for one!