Here we go! last one!
Papyrus and the others watched in horror.
"He's so tired…" Alphys whimpered. "He can't stand much more of this…"
"He's gonna have to!" Undyne yelled, slamming her hand on the desk. "Come on, Sans! Kick that thing's ass!" she too, had been appalled by how much power the lazy monster possessed. No wonder the little guy ever bothered to train. He could annihilate anyone who messed with him, though; he was a pacifist by nature.
"COME ON, BROTHER!" Papyrus yelled, as if Sans could hear him. "I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!"
They brought up the menu to RESET, QUIT, or LOAD, and their hand hovered above the last option. Sans took this opportunity to execute his plan, and a hidden, well-aimed gaster blaster shattered the whole panel with an explosion of light. The human screamed in shock, tumbling back, and watching in horror as their option was taken from them.
"You think I'd let you keep up with this?" he asked, stepping forward, his magic blazing inside of him. "Let you ruin everyone's lives… let you tear me and my family apart?"
The human sloppily tried to throw frantic attacks as a last minute defense against the smaller skeleton as he drew closer and closer. Sans narrowed his eye sockets.
"I'm sick and tired of you." He stated angrily. "I'm done waking up to it all being a good dream, or a terrible nightmare. You can't hurt my friends anymore. You won't" The human jumped up, and began to run, but they screamed as they were raised in the air, and twisted with Sans's magic. He sighed heavily.
They struggled and yelled in rage, and his grip got tighter as he sent them slamming into the pillars, each hit draining more and more HP.
"I didn't want to have to do this, kid. I didn't want to break my promise. You know that I didn't. You were cool. Real cool. You made Pap happier than I've ever seen him. You made Undyne smile…. But I guess you're like all the others…" the human locked eyes with him. "Too good to be true."
With a decisive final blow, Sans summoned all of his might, and drew bones in from all sides. They screamed in agony as their HP began dropping, quick. When they had less than one point left, Sans slammed them down to the ground, and he approached them slowly. They looked up at him with hatred, and defeat.
"After this, you won't be able to come back…. But just know that you did this to yourself, bucko… you had your chance… hope this doesn't bore you into another RESET…"
All of a sudden, sans plunged his hand inside the human's body, and took a hold of their soul by force. They gasped and cried out, and as a shattering sound was heard, Sans destroyed the pieces completely with a surge of blue magic in his hands. There would be nothing left of them that could LOAD or RESET. They were destroyed, as well as their save file. The human collapsed, and their body lay motionless on the floor of the hall.
Sans gazed down at it with disbelief, waiting for it to get up, to disappear, or to RESET again, but it didn't. It was over. Finally, at long last, over. He suddenly felt his exhaustion catch up to him, and the way he over exerted himself caused his vision to start swimming. He fell to his knees, and his pupils went dark as he slumped to the ground. If he hadn't died in this fight, he had come pretty close, and as he felt his consciousness slipping away, he couldn't believe he had done it.
"P-please, Papyrus… I-I'm trying everything I c-can… we have to b-be patient…. The human did a n-number on him…" Sans felt like he was underwater. His head was pounding, his vision was black, and he felt his whole world spinning. He was aware of many different voices at once, the most prominent one sporting a stutter… stutter… Alphys… He tried to pick out the others. Anger, shouting… Undyne. A voice that could cause deaf monsters to suffer further hearing loss… his little brother… Papyrus.
He let out a soft groan, trying to get his eyes working again. He realized he was laying down on something, and that he was alone in a small room. The voices were coming from beyond the door. He forced himself, with effort, to sit up, and he breathed a sigh of relief. The events of the battle came rushing back. He'd done it. He'd won. The nightmare was finally over, but his memories seemed a little fuzzy, along with the rest of him. How long had he been out?
"THERE MUST BE MORE YOU CAN ATTEMPT!" Papyrus yelled. "WHY HASN'T HE AWOKEN YET? PERHAPS THE GREAT PAPYRUS NEEDS TO REMIND HIM HE HAS VERY WORRIED FRIENDS?"
"Papyrus, shaking him isn't gonna solve anything. Don't be so impatient." Undyne scolded, but Sans winced as she screamed at the door. "Hurry up and get out of bed!"
"OH, SO UNDYNE IS ALLOWED TO SHOUT, BUT I CANNOT SHAKE HIM?"
Sans laughed to himself and rolled his eyes. Despite his current condition, he was feeling better than he had in a long time. With some effort, he made his way towards the door, and threw it open with a smirk.
"Man, I take a nap for only a few minutes, and you guys lose your minds?"
There was a collective gasp of shock and relief in the room as the others caught sight of him. Asgore looked a lot older than usual. Undyne smiled, and Alphys heaved a relieved sigh, knowing the pressure was finally off of her.
A random monster piped up from the crowd.
"Way to go, Sans!"
At once, there was an explosion of cheers.
Sans let a tired, but genuine grin slip across his face, and stuffed his hands in his pockets. A face near the others took sight of the smaller skeleton, and lit up like a Christmas tree.
"SANS!" Papyrus closed the distance between himself and his brother in seconds, and scooped the smaller skeleton up into a bear hug, his eye sockets filling up once more. "BROTHER, I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE ALRIGHT…."
Sans closed his eyes and smiled as Papyrus rested his skull against his. He returned the hold as best he could, not caring that it was kind of hard to move.
"Told ya there was nothing to worry about, bro." he answered simply, and Papyrus sniffled a little.
"NEXT TIME, LISTEN TO ME. YOU COULD HAVE DIED. I MUCH RATHER PREFER A LAZY BONES!" Undyne smiled at them, and Alphys smiled up at her.
"Whatever you say, Paps." Sans replied, so happy that it was finally over. Papyrus held him for a few more minutes, trying to stop his crying, before he gave him one last squeeze and gently put him down, keeping a gloved hand on his shoulder. Asgore stepped forward.
"On behalf of the kingdom, Sans… we thank you." He smiled at the smaller monster. "You've saved us all."
"OF COURSE HE HAS!" Papyrus shouted. "HE'S MY BROTHER! GREATNESS RUNS IN THE FAMILY!"
Undyne rolled her eyes, and Alphys and Torriel began to escort the citizens of the underground back to the surface slowly, helping them to safely re-settle back into their homes.
Later on that day, when Sans had finally finished being thanked by everyone, and congratulated by the king, he made it home. Once Papyrus had stopped fussing over him, he read his brother a bed time story, and made sure he was asleep in his race car bed before teleporting to the roof of their house. His favorite spot to relax, and be alone. It had been the longest day of his life, and knowing his past, that was saying a lot. He wasn't alone for long however, as he soon heard a familiar nervous monster skittering toward their front door.
"U-uh… their lights are o-out… wh-what if they're asleep? I-I'll just go home…"
"Looking for me?" Sans answered with a smirk, and Alphys jumped ten feet in surprise.
"S-Sans! What are you doing up there!?" she squawked, and Sans shrugged.
"Dunno, honestly. Helps me relax. What's goin on?"
Alphys hesitated for a moment.
"C-could I join you? I wanted to talk."
Sans nodded, and patted the spot next to him before using his magic to gently lift her into the air. She squeaked in surprise, but once she was safely put down, she seemed to relax a little.
"Lay it on me." He began, inviting her to speak.
"Why did you do it? How?" Alphys dove right in, not bothering to soften her words.
"I had to."
"Y-you fought like you knew that thing inside and out…."
"Maybe I did."
"But-"
"You wouldn't understand. No one would."
Alphys paused, twitching in the awkward silence.
"I t-trust your judgment, Sans…"
"Tell me why you're really out here."
She summoned her courage.
"You had it! You had the chance, S-Sans… the last human soul we needed… we could have e-escaped… seen the sun… the s-stars… we could have been f-free….. but you destroyed it… v-vaporized it, even… now there's no going back… I just… d-don't get it…"
Sans felt the light in his pupils darken as he gazed down at the snow below them.
"The surface isn't the kind of place we want to be. Not with creatures like that inhabiting it. Alphys gazed at him helplessly.
"B-but we wouldn't have known unless we t-took the chance! S-some monsters would have given anything j-just to risk it… anything b-but this…"
"I've watched my brother die more times than I can even count. I've watched you and Undyne get slaughtered. I would rather spend eternity down here with my own kind, everyone safe, and protected, than run the risk of losing it all, and not being able to RESET…"
Alphys's eyes went wide. She had helped Sans with his research, before. She knew what he was talking about, and at once, she knew why he had collapsed after that battle.
"I-I…. I don't…"
"Let sleeping monsters lie, Alphys… it's taken care of… and I don't ever, ever want to go back to it."
Alphys nodded solemnly. She didn't ask him anymore questions.
"T-thank you, Sans…" she hesitated. "You've filled everyone with hope…"
Sans chuckled bitterly.
"And then I took it away, huh?"
She looked in his direction.
"For what it's worth…. If a-all humans were l-like F-Frisk… I-I'm not sure I w-want to see the s-surface anymore, e-either…"
Sans sat quietly until she spoke again.
"G-get some r-rest… I want you back at t-the lab tomorrow afternoon for a checkup… j-just to be safe…"
She was engulfed in his blue magic, and lowered back to the ground below. She plopped down gently, and spun around to wave goodbye, but he was already gone.
Sans stood in his lab below, scribbling everything that had happened down into his notebook. He paused, feeling a chill creep up his spine. All was quiet, Papyrus was in his bed and snoring above, and Sans had a really, really bad feeling about this…
Oh no…
The end? Im totally gonna keep going with this ;) more chapters to come!