The human child skips for most of their trip. They're quite happy with their little deed of murdering Sans in absolute cold blood. They know they'll get a neutral ending, but it was worth it to see the total shock on his little face! Their hopes are high that when they restart they'll get this glitch again so they can do a genocide run! Maybe then they can see how scared Sans would be right off the bat instead of wasting time going on that ridiculous date!
At a considerable distance, following the child, is Papyrus. He watches them prance around with a happy smile and wishes that he could kill them that exact second. But every time he gets ready, another monster would come up and foolishly befriend the human.
Shyren hums meekly, but the human hums with them and coaxes Shyren to hum and sing more openly until she's completely happy.
Papyrus expects the human to kill them outright… but they spare Shyren…
They spare every single monster they come across.
WHY? Why was it his brother? Why was his brother the only one to die?...
Alphys starts calling Papyrus' phone more often, noticing that Sans hasn't answered his phone or visited her home to pester her about training or ANYTHING! Papyrus finally answers his phone one of the times and knows that this is the point where he has to tell her…
"Alphys… I'm gonna need you to do me a favor. If you see some kid with a striped shirt walkin' around…. Kill them." His tone is dark. He leans against a wall in Waterfall and adjusts the cigarette in his mouth.
"Uh…. Papyrus? What the hell? That's really outta character for you! What's up, did they steal your smokes or something?" Alphys laughs loudly, but upon not hearing a laugh come from Papyrus, she quiets.
"Papyrus? Come on say something. And stop stalling and tell me why the hell Sans isn't answering his phone! Did… Did something happen Papyrus?" The skeleton is quiet. He can practically hear the tension rising in her breathing.
"Papyr—"
Papyrus hangs up. It's almost unbearable to hear anyone say his brothers name…
He looks back to the human walking away to get through the rest of waterfall. But at least now that he's told Alphys about the human, she'll probably understand what's happened…
It takes several hours of watching and observing this human until they come across Kid. It seems Kid is too naïve to see that the human is bad… They still believe that the human is nice. But FINALLY, the child shows their true colors. Kid is shocked and declares that they will stand in the humans way.
The child doesn't really make a move, but even if they were Alphys in full armor jumps down in between kid and the human and shakes the ground beneath her feet. The human finally seems doubly shocked at this. Since they didn't take time to look at ALL the differences, it seems that Alphys was not who was normally there for the human in whatever sick game they were playing…
"Hey you." She snarls through many sharp teeth. Her fingers have dust on them. She must have gone to the house and snuck in through Sans' balcony window…
"What the hell… do you think you're doing brat?!" A spear appears in her hand and she thrusts it towards the human. They dodge to the side, but still get a cut on their arm.
"Kid, get the hell outta here. I've got this alright? You were very brave, but now you have to get out!"
Monster looks up at Alphys and tears swell up in their eyes, terrified. If Alphys jumped in like that, she must have thought Kid was in real danger!... Was… Was the human really going to hurt Kid? The human betrayed him?
Kid runs off as fast he can with his little legs.
"So, you were the one I heard about… What the hell did you do…. to Sans? WHY did you do THAT TO SANS?!"
The human just grins.
And that settles it. It sets Alphys' blood on fire and she charges with an enraged scream. The fight begins. It's difficult for the human and they get hurt quite badly.
But somehow, even though Alphys throws numerous spears, swings and thrusts and turns the humans heart yellow, the child persists and strikes the final blow directly into a slit between her chest plate and spaulders.
The yellow monsters form begins to shake and melt.
"Even after all that… I still couldn't beat you?..."
The child is silent…
"H-Heh. Hehehe. Hahahaha! Human! Do you think that… just because you beat me means that I'm…. gonna give up hope?! No…Way!" Alphys' body slowly melts and begins to turn to dust and Papyrus watches in horror as even the great Undying Alphys starts to disappear.
"I'll NEV-NEVER! Give up hope! All of my… my friends are b-behind me! I … I bet Undyne is seeing RIGHT NOW that I've been beat… and she's evacuating everyone! You won't get to kill anyone else… So why don't you just…. Give up already?!"
The human watches and almost looks… sad? Papyrus can't believe what he's seeing. What did that brat think was going to happen?!
"Looks like… giving up ain't your thing! But… IT AIN'T MINE EITHER! Even though my soul will disappear… that doesn't mean my hopes and dreams will!" A pile of goop and dust is collecting at what was once Alphys' feet and she starts to disintegrate faster. But she's got a huge smile on her face, chin up. She mumbles something and finally falls, dust spreading on the ground and going through the gaps in the bridge they were standing on…
The human stands there and stares for a bit… then walks forward and around the pile of dust to carry on their merry way.
Papyrus comes out of hiding and stands in front of the dust, inwardly apologizing…
He walks past the pile, when he hears an echo flower speak. It's Alphys' voice. Papyrus leans closer.
"Wait up for me Sans…"
Papyrus makes his bony hands into fists… Normally he'd say something, but he didn't want Alphy's last words to be recorded over by a string of curses. So he simply walks off and teleports.
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Napstablook is defeated not long afterwards. The human toys with them even knowing they could easily one shot Blooky… It's a complete slaughter.
That is absolutely the last straw. Napstablook never hurt anyone… But even if they did, they didn't deserve this.
Papyrus waits ahead, in the Last Corridor…
In this situation he knows his precious brother would stand here and mince words with the human, maybe even monologuing, just to get everything he felt off his chest.
The human walks in through the entrance and walks down the corridor happily. They skip and jump and twirl their way down the hall, but immediately stop dead in their tracks upon seeing Papyrus.
What the hell is he doing here? Why was he in Sans' place? Normally this is where Sans stands to get revenge and all that, but this time… They thought for sure that by killing Sans that they could avoid a battle to get to Asgore's throne room. But now it's Papyrus standing in their way?
No matter. Beating him was always very easy.
But unlike every battle with Sans ever, Papyrus doesn't say a single word before attacking. The human gasps and hardly dodges the flying bones. They're in complete shock. Did Papyrus always have this in him?
Their eyes only get wider when they see his eye glowing a bright flaming orange. No way… No way! They thought only Sans had that ability! But Papyrus does too? So in their normal games…. Papyrus was completely holding back? This battle… They'll have to treat it like Sans' battles—
A single giant Blaster appears above Papyrus and opens its giant maw. A white beam charges up and the human can't find a single place to hide. The beam will completely take over the hall!
The blaster explodes with the white beam, and the human takes the full brunt of it.
HP 01/92
"WHAT?" Papyrus says with irritation when he sees the human on the ground slowly getting up.
"WHAT… WHAT /ARE/ YOU?..." His expression gets dark.
"NEVER MIND. I ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE. YOU'RE A FILTHY BROTHER KILLER, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE… HOW'D YOU DO IT HUH? YOU MADE NICE WITH HIM AND THEN WHAT? WHAT SWITCH FLIPPED IN YOUR STUPID HEAD THAT MADE YOU KILL MY ONLY LITTLE BROTHER?!" Papyrus can feel himself losing what composure he had, but it's all bubbling up so fast he simply can't control it… The human eats something and their HP goes up half way.
"It was just too easy. I already knew that that's what I was gonna do. The second I saw him." The human finally says.
"What's even better though… is that you had no idea that when I left Muffet's, I was on my way to kill Sans." They smile and can see Papyrus' eyes starting to somehow get even more terrifyingly angry.
"You're right. I led him on. I played his little sparing game. I even went on a date with him at your house. It was the same and it was also different. But this time I decided to change another thing. Just as he was tip tapping away, I grabbed him." Watching the Blaster charge up only made the human start to laugh as they explained what they'd done, right to Papyrus' face. They wonder what it'd be like to do this to Sans. To tell them just how they'd murdered their kind innocent brother. Watching the new outcome and feeling the drama all over again was intoxicating to them.
"Poor thing, he thought he'd upset me. More than anything I wish you could have seen his face. He went from smiling to crying almost instantly!" They shout over the sound of the charging blaster.
"And you know what? I slashed him open! And he still smiled at me! But the beeeeest part! The best part, was that even in the end, he was crying out for you! 'Papyrus help me!'" They shout in a mocking tone. Never before have they seen tears bubble up in Papyrus' eyes before. Watching him slowly break was so new and amazing. They think "It was all worth it to see him cry in anguish."
"SHUT YOUR… DAMN MOUTH!"
"Papyrus help! I'm scared!~ It hurts!~" They laugh, but not for more than two "ha's" before the blaster engages and blows the human to bits. Papyrus pants, mostly from trying to keep himself from sobbing outwardly. Sans was calling for him?... His brother was all alone… Papyrus wasn't there to save him when he needed him most. And he could have. If he'd known just before the kid left Muffet's right before his eyes…. His poor 1 HP brother… How could he? How could he leave him like that with the human?
*Papyrus seems distracted.
Thinking the human was finally dead, Papyrus slumps and lets out one sob. He'd done it. He'd gotten revenge for Sans, and for Alphys…
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A glint catches Papyrus' eye, but it's too late. The human with 0.001/92 HP rushes up to him and slashes him down the middle. The blow is intense and he can feel all of his HP disappear instantly.
He falls to his knees and stares up at the human with wide eyes. They look down at him with a disturbing sneer… Is that what DETERMINATION is?... Not dying even though your HP is gone?
Papyrus lowers his head and watches at his knees below him turn to dust. He can feel himself dematerializing.
But he looks up just in time to see something.
"HEY… SANS…I'M GONNA... HEAD OUT… DO YOU WANT TO… GET SOMETHING TO EAT AT M-MUFFETS?..."
He closes his eyes and falls forward. His dust plumes forward onto the floor out of his hoody.
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It's warm. He can feel arms around him. Someone is crying. Why? Who are they? What's going on right now?
"..p..us…..ap..ru…-s…" The darkness suddenly becomes just a little brighter, but not enough to see anything. The voice is warm and familiar. But they're so sad. Why are they sad?
". !. p..ase…ke…p! Pap..s!"
Sans?
Papyrus opens his eyes. He's in his room and on his bed. What? He looks down towards the sensation of shaking and the tiny precious marshmallow that is Sans is curled up to him, crying.
"Papyrus, PLEASE wake up pleeease!" The small skeleton begs into Pap's orange hoody.
Orange tears prick at his own sockets and with whatever strength he has, he hugs Sans tightly. The smaller skeleton gasps and hugs back instinctively. Sans looks up and Papyrus doesn't think he's seen anything so sad and beautiful at the same time in his whole life.
"PAPYRUS! You're awake, oh- thank god! Uwwaaahhh!" Sans sobs and hugs Papyrus tighter.
"I DUNNO… WHAT'S GOIN' ON BUT… I'M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU BRO."
"Papyrus, you and I w-were making snow men, remember?! We we-were playing and you suddenly fell over! You wouldn't wake up, I was so scared!" Making snow men? Wasn't that a long time ago?...
Oh…
Is this what… happens? Is this how he gets his visions? Something has reset and now he's back at the beginning of his week.
"WHAT DAY IS IT BRO?"
"Oh my god you don't even remember—It's Sunday! We were making… Oh Papyrus I'm so glad you're awake!"
Sunday. The day he spoke to the voice behind the doors about the human having fallen through. Did time resetting totally knock Papyrus out from the shock? Why could he remember everything that had happened?...
It doesn't matter. He had his brother back.
"A-are you okay Pap? Say something!"
"SORRY… I HAD A PRETTY BAD DREAM…. I'M REALLY GLAD YOU'RE OKAY SANS… HEY, DOES THIS MEAN WE CAN TAKE TOMORROW OFF?" He smiles down at his brother, but the blue skell just wails and nods.
So time has been reset. Were the visions Papyrus had before just different versions of time being reset over and over again?... He'd have to keep a journal or something on him to keep track of this crap…
But right now, Sans was all he needed.
All he wanted.
Papyrus vows quietly to himself to never EVER let Sans be alone with that creature ever again.
Even if it killed him. He'd protect his brother.