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~*).
Papyrus looked like he had been slapped with a fish. He completely collapsed backwards with a strangled cry. Sans sighed.
"hey, bro, doesn't undyne have alphys' number?" Sans asked.
"YES," Papyrus said questioningly.
"i figure alphys might know what happened to us. let's go see undyne!" Sans cried. Papyrus leapt up from his spot on the floor.
"YEAH!" He shouted, charging towards the front door. Sans followed his brother, who knew the regular way better than he did. For once, Sans couldn't see any of his shortcuts. He supposed it had something to do with the switch.
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Getting to the middle of Waterfall from Snowdin took longer than Sans remembered. Then again he usually took his shortcuts, so he didn't take long to get there usually.
Papyrus knocked decisively. The door creaked open, and Undyne poked her head out, looking half asleep.
"Hi Sans, Papyrus, what're you two doing here this early?" Undyne muttered.
"well, undyne," Sans said. "we don't have alphys' number, and we need her help today."
"Oh, that's an odd request Papyrus. Well, I guess I can call her for you. She should be here pretty quick, especially since the River Person usually parks near her place." Undyne said with her easy grin. She disappeared back into the house.
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Alphys came running as fast as her claws could carry her. While she normally wouldn't go out of her way for something like this, Undyne, her not-so-secret crush, had been the one who called.
"U-u-undyne, I, uh, I came as s-soon as I could. W-what seems to be the problem?" Alphys stuttered out.
"Well, I, um, don't exactly know," murmured Undyne. "I called you because Sans and Papyrus came banging on my door and they both seemed pretty freaked out. That's what tipped me off that they needed some help. Sans is usually pretty unflappable, but he seemed the more freaked out of the two. The other thing is that Papyrus was a little quieter than usual." Undyne glanced back at her house. "Well, anyway, they're inside having some tea to calm down. Go on in."
Alphys nodded, skirting Undyne to go inside. The sight she saw was pretty unusual for the normally relaxed skeletons. Papyrus was worrying at the Rubik's cube she knew Sans kept to calm his nerves, while Sans was filling in a crossword with surprising speed, especially since the smaller brother usually handed them to Papyrus. Papyrus glanced up first.
"oh, hey alphys." Papyrus said*, making Sans look up from the crossword.
"THANK YOU FOR COMING SO QUICKLY ALPHYS!" Sans gushed, running up to her. Alphys flinched back.
"I-it was no problem S-sans. It's not like I had a-anything better to do anyway. S-so, what made you t-two call me?"
"well," Papyrus began. "for one thing, he's not sans. i am."
Alphys looked between the two brothers incredulously, and began to laugh uncontrollably.
"Y-you guys," she said, still giggling. "I know I've been m-more antisocial lately, but a prank isn't the way to get me out of my lab."
"ah, c'mon alphys. maybe you should give us a chance. we weren't trying to patella you to be more social, and it wasn't meant to be humerus." Papyrus said with a grin.
"OH MY GOD SANS NO!" Yelled... Sans?
Alphys was confused.
.(^u~*)
Hi, so, yeah. More of this. Honestly, I wasn't going to drag Undyne into their problems, but she kicked down my imagination's door and threatened it. My imagination is understandably terrified of someone who suplexes boulders for funsies.
*This scene was from Alphys' POV, so she thinks it's Pap when it's Sans!