Note: I still don't own Undertale. This is still a Sans/Adult Frisk story. This is still an AU named "Preset to Reset". Please enjoy and tell me your thoughts

Frisk breathed, her hands in front of her face as she tried to stop screaming, cowering in the snow as she touched her head. She didn't feel any blood, yet it did little to calm her as her arms went around herself.

Breathe…

Just breathe…

She held herself tighter while in the snow, feeling and felt something wet, and slowly opened her eyes to a dog nose and then one looking at the other in confusion.

"A weird puppy? I think we smelled wrong, Dogaressa." Frisk didn't dare move as the other dog came closer, its nose in her hair.

"Oh no, Dogamy. Is the puppy okay?" She whimpered, whined as her nose brushed up against Frisk's hair, she trembled as she timidly touched Dogaressa's fur and she leaped back in surprise. "The puppy pet me!"

"Dogs can pet dogs?" Dogamy looked confused, moving to nuzzle Dogaressa before petting her. "How's this?"

"Ooh, let me pet you next" Dogaressa moved a paw to pet him back, and Frisk stared, her hands shaking as she forced herself to stand and move from that spot. Her heart was still racing, and she kept her face low, looking only at the ground as she went through the motions.

"Bye weird puppy and thanks!" Dogamy yelled, and Frisk only nodded, continuing to move.

"HUMAN! YOU GOT PAST MY TRAP...DOES THIS MEAN YOU LIKED MY SPAGHETTI! WAIT...YO-YOU DID EAT IT... RIGHT, HUMAN?"

Frisk stared at the skeleton, hearing the childlike tone and looked at Papyrus. She just nodded as Papyrus laughed. "WOWIE! THANK YOU, HUMAN! I KNEW YOU WOULD, FOR I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM AN EXCELLENT CHEF!"

Frisk nodded again, seeing holes in the ground before Papyrus then looking back to see a puzzle, that she didn't even remember doing.

"THOUGH NOW THIS MEANS I NEED ANOTHER WAY TO CAPTURE YOU! NO MATTER, I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, NEVER GIVE UP! NYEH HEH HEH! Papyrus's laughter was light, but Frisk couldn't get herself to respond even as the skeleton walked away and she knocked into him.

"HUMAN, ARE YOU ALRIGHT? HAS MY GREATNESS BLINDED YOU THAT MUCH? FOR THAT I APOLOGIZE! BUT IT SEEMS WE HAVE A PROBLEM, HUMAN. UMMM... THE SNOW HAS DONE A VIOLENCE TO THE PUZZLE, AND NOW THE SOLUTION HAS CHANGED. AND OF COURSE, MY LAZY BROTHER IS NOWHERE TO HELP, SO I WILL GET US BOTH OUT OF THIS!" Papyrus's gloved finger stroked a bony cheek as risk looked at the puzzle in front of them.

Frisk just moved, she tried to get her mind to focus as she took one path and then another, not even feeling sure what she did as she heard Papyrus's loud laugh and a congrats. She felt stuck in place as she looked at her hands again, barely noticing the taller skeleton's receding footsteps.

"good job on solving it so quick" Frisk blinked and stared to see Sans, trying to next comprehend when he even got there. "you didn't even need me, which is cool because i love doing nothing. "Sans didn't make any movement as he watched her.

She didn't need him, that meant she was always okay. She didn't die. He would have stopped it if it went to that. He said he'd protect her. He meant it. She let out deep breaths, breathing slow and staying near him.

He didn't judge her or say anything, even as she looked at him to say something about what happened back there.

She was okay…

He was lazy, but he would have done something if she needed him.

She let out another deep breath, she could do this. And she would do this. She felt her determination fill her as she stood up tall, or as tall as she could be considering she was even shorter than Sans by a few inches.

Pushing herself forward, she felt refreshed from her own determination as she continued then stopped at the sight of both brothers again. She looked back behind her then forward with a careful eye on Sans, missing most of Papyrus's speech about the next puzzle.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND, HUMAN?"

She looked at the trap, a floor of blinking lights and barely remembering which ones were dangerous and which ones made her smell like some fruit. She tried to remember if she got that part wrong, yet looked at Sans, his grin hadn't faltered in the slightest, and she found herself nodding her head.

"EXCELLENT HUMAN! I HOPE YOU DO WELL! THE MACHINE WILL NOW MAKE THE PUZZLE, AND EVEN I WON'T KNOW THE ANSWER!"

She watched Papyrus go to the machine, and pull the level, colors flashed along the floor until becoming a pink path outlined with red. She looked at it and then at Papyrus unsure what to do next, and blinked as Papyrus mouth gaped open, and he practically spun away with Sans stepping out the way.

She stared at the sight, taking her time to move forward and hearing San's soft chuckle.

"you all good?"

She nodded, and he looked at her with his usual permanent grin. "did you really try that spaghetti earlier by the way? it really wasn't too bad, considering paps usual cooking, this one was actually almost edible. maybe in another year of cooking lessons i guess…" Sans looked thoughtful, and Frisk looked back, suddenly glad she did not eat the spaghetti.

Her stomach growled as she started walking again, and she found herself wondering about how skeletons worked and paused to look at a dog down her path. It reminded her of the dog with the growing neck from before, and she looked to see a cow woman. Her head tilted, not used to seeing hoofed monsters in such a way.

In books and stories, they look more human…

Are these a different kind of monster?

Frisk next looked at the star here. It's magic, still having a familiar feel to it yet she knew it wasn't hers. She wondered if it might be another monster, she knew they had their own magic.

"Now, what's this one?" She watched her mother hold up a card, and Frisk sighed, bored as she looked up.

"Mermaid. Mama, I already know all this stuff." Frisk looked, towards where the mountain lay. "Are there monsters there too?"

"You always want to know what lays beyond that barrier at the mountain." Her mom laughed and moved behind her. "A world of pure magic is what they say lies underground." Her mom's head lay on top of hers. "Where even the monsters themselves there are magic itself."

"It sounds beautiful." Frisk smiles.

"Lots of things do….at first."

Frisk sighed, her teeth chattering as she stood back up and started walking again, one path took her by surprise as she saw a snow statue of Papyrus and next to it a large lump of snow. She laughed at the image of the two making snowmen only for Sans to take the lazy route, coming closer she went to the side of Sans's lump and pictured a snowman of her own beside the brothers until her teeth chattered again.

She tried to move quickly and back upwards, not letting herself stop as she came upon the puzzle of X's that she was sure was by Papyrus, she couldn't imagine Sans putting this much work into it. She slid across the ice, trying to steady herself as the X's became O's and she stumbled over a panel, sliding further down a path that ended with snow on top of her.

She was starting to lose the sense of feeling in her hands as she shook and trembled, trying hard to steady herself as she dusted the snow off herself. Thinking back to Papyrus's 'body armor' she wondered how he wasn't freezing.

"Down ...right?" She could see her breath as she talked, going down first and seeing Sans leaned against a wall and poked him gently as she watched his penlight pupils move to look at her.

"what's up" his grin widened at her, and he shifted with his eye socket closing. She stared and didn't know what to make of skeletons at all at this point. She reached forward with her hand, before stopping herself, feeling embarrassed at trying to touch the guy's closed eye sockets and started moving forward again then stopped at a deer type monster with fangs.

It charged at her, with her narrowly avoiding it. "Shh...lo-look...I'm not going to hurt you" She talked softly, finding it hard to as she came closer, she frowned at objects thrown on it like a decoration. "Let me help you...okay?" she tried to keep her voice at that gentle tone, reaching forward to take the decorations off it, its head tilted at her. "See all better?" She tried to smile, but the creature only backed off and ran.

She frowned at its reaction, hoping she didn't scare the poor thing.

"lost?"

Frisk turned around quickly, seeing Sans looking at her. "What?" She was sure he was not there a moment ago.

"are you lost?" he repeated with a light chuckle, Frisk looked around feeling more eyes on her, yet she wasn't sure from where, and her face surprisingly started to heat up. Sans head tilted, watching her as she quickly shook her head. She didn't want to ask more of Sans than what he was doing, she was determined to find her own way as she looked past him and to a cave.

Something about it felt, made her pause yet she found herself turning around and going back the way she came. It only seemed to get colder as she passed by the many snowballs, that she found out were snow puffs. Her energy felt gone as she looked up at another dog guard at the end of her path and she wondered just how many were there.

She could barely get the energy to pet it, or even handle how hyper the thing was. Her eyes starting to close at points where it would lay on her, only to start its energetic leaps and bounds again while holding its weapon. She rubbed at her eyes, trying to force them open as she petted him and played with him more until it left.

It was such a small thing, it shouldn't be serious yet she was starting to wonder would this be a habit of her putting all her energy in, and then them leaving. She hung her head, not having it in her to even think about it as she trudged forward and saw the long bridge in front of her with both skeleton brothers at the end.

She tried to get a smile, and stand tall before Papyrus would see her, once she started her way across the bridge. The thought of disappointing the taller skeleton was not something she wanted to do.

"HUMAN! WELCOME TO YOUR FINAL PUZZLE!" Papyrus looked excited, and Frisk tried her back to grin back at him. "I CALL IT THE GAUNTLET OF DEADLY TERROR! DUN DUN DUN!" Papyrus opened his arms, and Frisk's eyes widened at what she was seeing.

It all looked like the nightmare from a dungeon, and this was from Papyrus? She was fully awake now, even spotting a dog on a rope, and her hands grasped at the braided rope of the bridge.

"NOW! I SHALL ACTIVATE THE PUZZLE! THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE HUMAN, CHANCES OF SURVIVAL ARE MINIMAL! ARE YOU READY?"

The words were caught in Frisk's throat, and her body was shaking.

"THIS IS IT! I'M ABOUT TO DO IT!"

"so…?" Sans looked at his brother, his voice catching Frisk's attention. "something wrong bro?"

Sans?

"NO! OF COURSE NOT! I'M ACTIVATING IT NOW!" Papyrus shifted from one foot to the other and San's head tilted.

"doesn't look very...activated."

"WELL...UM...BECAUSE THIS SEEMS TOO EASY! AND I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, HAVE STANDARDS! THERE'S NO CLASS IN THIS!" Papyrus took out a remote and pressed a button, as Frisk watched it all disappear, and she could hear a relieved sigh from the tall skeleton. "SANS, STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT! THIS WAS MY OWN VICTORY! SO...SO THERE!" Papyrus arms folded, looking at his brother as though daring him to say a word, but Sans only smiled as Papyrus took off in a huff.

Frisk stayed there on the bridge, scared to move until taking deep breaths, feeling determined to cross over and felt relieved for the ground beneath her feet once she got over.

"yo…"

"Yes?" Frisk looked over at Sans, expecting to hear him laugh or make a joke at her being scared. With all that in her face, it was hard to remember the skeleton was looking out for her.

"i uh…welp, here's the thing…" Frisk's looked surprised to hear Sans sound serious. " i'm not sure what my brother is planning now or even what he's about to do, tibia honest. patella truth i really hope you understand blue attacks because you're gonna need it."

Frisk thought over the words and nodded, watching Sans look thoughtful and wondered if he was trying to figure out Papyrus's next move himself, but instead, she felt his eyes on her. Watching her closely, his grin no longer wide...

"Sans?"

He had his usual grin suddenly, "it's nothing. " He chuckled, and Frisk nodded, taking another look at him before going, the large banner of "Welcome to Snowdin" in the distance.