AN- Me: Oh they're nice OCs. I kind of like them. Maybe they'll come back once or twice!

Muse Kitty: Meow

Me: Wait. What do mean more than once or twice?

Muse Kitty: ...meow

Me: This was about Frisk, and giving them a happy family?! When do they become the focus?

Muse Kitty: Meow.

Me: MAYBE chapter 5?!

Muse Kitty: Meow!

Me: Well, yeah world building is important, and so is laying down the plot, but Frisk!

Muse Kitty: Meow

Me: *Sigh*

Disclaimer- I don't own Undertale

All the Possibilities, No Limits Just Epiphanies

Frisk ducked behind their father, and the skeleton monster that you had yet to learn the name of glared at you. You tried your best not to shuffle in place under the intensity of the glare, shifting a little bit closer to your partner. He glanced at you and sighed, reaching out to push your sunglasses back up on your face to straighten your tie.

You blushed as he turned back to the trio standing in front of you. "We're not here to arrest anyone. We just want a few questions answered. Even if the child was in trouble, the agency allows all children around their age the benefit of doubt and issue a verbal and written warning first."

You blinked, leaning to ask quietly in his ear, "We do?"
He pinched the bridge of his nose. "Yes we do. It was in the handbook you were issued after training-" You gave him a weak smile. "-which you didn't read. Did you at least read the debrief for this mission?"

"There was a debrief?" You tried to shrink in on yourself. You had been so excited when you had finally been assigned a senior partner AND your first mission that all of your Time Academy training had flown out the window. You had impressed your new partner, Agent Seven-Green, with how fast you had gotten ready. Apparently, by forgetting to read everything important.

"What's with the new recruits these days?" Seven-Green muttered to himself as you shuffled your feet before remembering you were supposed to look professional. He turned his attention back to the people in front of you, who had relaxed, so you supposed your mistakes had been good for something. The ambassador's smile hadn't wavered though the whole exchange, and you were a little creeped out by how constant it seemed.

"Sorry about that sir," Agent Green said gruffly.

"It's no problem," Ambassador Nutter said cheerfully. "New employees have to have the chance to learn after all."

He glanced at you as he said that, and you shivered. Nothing about his tone had changed, yet you still felt like it had been a threat. This idea was only reinforce as you thought the man's grin grew. Your mouth felt dry in terror that you couldn't understand. Ambassador Nutter was only that an ambassador and nothing more.

"As much as we'd like to help," Nutter continued, "At this rate we'll be late for the doctors appointment and Amelia would be upset with that. She's been on edge lately."

Again, the statement and tone were innocent enough, but your partner flinched at the name. The ambassador held his hand out, and Frisk took it, grinning up at him as they did. The two of them strode confidently past you and into the office. Green sighed and you glanced back at the skeleton, only to jump at the fact that he was gone.

You tugged on Agent Green's sleeve, pointing at the spot the skeleton had been. Beneath his sunglasses, Green gave a slow blink before saying, "Come on kid. Procedure won't let us leave them alone until we get some answers."

"But- but- but-" you protested.

"Magic," Green said sarcastically, waving his fingers at you before turning to head into the office as well. You tried not to pout, following after him, and jumped again when you caught sight of the skeleton walking along side the father and child. The skeleton turned his head to glance back at you two and winked.

You looked at your partner, only to see that he was smirking slightly, and really did pout. Frustration built as you wondered what had happened, but you pushed it aside, reminding yourself that you had a serious mission to perform, and that there was no reasonable way for you to know what sort of magic the monster was using. You had studied time streams, time lines, and the effects of Determination, not esoteric monster magic and its uses.

A frown tugged at your lips. Maybe your Academy teachers were right and you weren't cut out for field work.

Green nudged you, and you blinked up at him. His eyes were focused on the Nutter family, but the spot that he had touched was warm, and you grinned. Even if you weren't meant for this at least you had the best partner for it.

Agent Green remained silent as the Nutter family checked in for their appointment, the secretary apologizing about the doctor being out for a little while. The ambassador simply smiled (seriously what was with him?!) and led his child to the waiting room. Your partner followed doggedly, a confidence that you didn't feel in every one of his steps.

"Sir," Green insisted. "We just want to ask Frisk a couple of questions. No legal action will be taken but their answers could be critical for future missions."

"why?" the skeleton asked, "running out of time?"

The kid snickered, while Green pursed his lips.

"I see you think this situation is a joke-"

The skeleton winked, cutting him off with a "the tension just goes right through me."

Agent Seven's teeth ground but he continued as if he hadn't been cut off. "You may think that you can joke about this, but the situation is serious. There are repercussions on the world from careless time travel, and I can't expect you to understand that, but your cooperation would be greatly appreciated."

Frisk tugged on the skeleton's sleeve and their hands flashed through several signs.

"the kid wants to know what you mean," the skeleton translated, slumping down into one of the chairs.

You perked up, "Oh! I can explain!"

You were too excited to notice the way everyone turned to stare at you, instead crouching down so you were at Frisk's level. The child was oddly serious but no one had cut you off or told you no, so you assumed you were free to talk. Your tone slipped into one similar to the lecturing tone your sister had used when she had patiently explained it to you when you were younger without you noticing.

"See the timeline is a lot a rope, alright? It's the linear progression of time, always moving forward as a whole. There are a lot of time lines, nearby but not affecting each other, and new ones being created for every choice we make. But that's more of a space than time discussion. Now, time streams on the other hand.

"Imagine time streams are the personal strings of each and every person that make up the timeline. Altogether, they make up the rope, right?" You waited for Frisk to nod before continuing. "Time streams are fluid, able to loop back on itself, or even, with enough power, jump to an entirely different timeline. However time streams can only be manipulated with large enough amounts of Determination, meaning monsters can't do it.

"This gives them the super important job of acting as anchors for the time problems that crop up, since they always move forward, and only forward.

"Time problems come from time travelers, and while the timeline works to correct itself from the worst of it, if we're not careful the whole rope could just snap! Now the details of each time traveler's abilities are a little bit different, but we know that they always have two baseline powers. 'Bookmarking' and 'Rewinding'.

"Bookmarking doesn't put a lot of strain on the timeline. It's almost impossible for it to, since each traveler can only have one at a time and humans with enough Determination to travel are rare. It's a lot like tying a knot in your time stream, one that can move forward, and can go back to, but you can't go past it backwards. The only way this would cause problems would be if every time traveler in the world bookmarked at the exact same time. We'd get one huge knot in the timeline, and the whole thing would just...stop as it tried to sort itself out.

"Rewinding is taking your thread, and doubling it back, starting again at a specific point, a major point in a traveler's life. One or two rewinds aren't bad, but as they pile up, and combine with bookmarking, and all the other manipulations of other travelers, knotting into a huge mess. As the time line gnarls even more, it puts more of a strain on it until it just can't take it anymore.

"Until it basically just self destructs, snapping if you will, taking everyone living in it with it."

Frisk stared at you with wide eyes, and when you looked up, so was the skeleton.

"If you're done scaring the civilians," your partner muttered, and you cringed, standing up. "If you can't talk to us right now, we would at least like to know the nearest possible time you and your child would be available to answer our questions. Our machines record Frisk as have had a highly unusual amount of traveling done recently, but we're not sure if it was just them. All we need to know is the possibility of another unknown travel that we need to track down."

Ambassador Nutter hummed to himself, before saying, "I'd have to talk it over with Amelia-" and Frisk's head shot up at that, looking alarmed, "-but I'd say two days from now, all of our schedules are open. You could stop by the house then."

Green nodded, and caught your eye. You couldn't help but wave at the still alarmed child that was trying to get their father's attention, and they waved distractedly back at you. The skeleton stop staring at the ambassador to turn and stare at you as you walked out with Green.

Your senior partner reached out and ruffled your hair as soon as the two of you were out of sight. He slung his arm around your shoulders, tugging along towards your car. "C'mon kid. You've got a handbook to read through. Then you and I are going to go over it until you don't have any questions. Then the next part of your training starts. Then we'll go talk to the scariest family alive"

"You said then twice," you pointed out, "And they seemed nice from what I saw."

He sighed, flicking you lightly in the face. "And apparently we're going to have to pull out the files on the Nutters as well."

You flushed, but he flicked you again. "You've got potential kid. We've just got to give you some experience. You and me, kid. Let's go."