Chapter 3, POV FP Sans.
Man. This sentry station really does get boring sometimes. No portal has appeared, no timerip portal, no weird creature..but I hear something nearby. Sounds like an explosion of some kinds.
Chapter 3.2, POV FP Papyrus.
WOWIE! I can't believe how much fun it is to lose! I just can't get over the fact that Alphys is so good at this game, but she never even played it before! It just baffles me how it also feels like something's really different but I can't make it out….maybe it's a new clothing style she has? I don't know, it just seems different. BUT ANYWAY! Today is clearly the day that it's made to be for: HAPPINESS! And Sans says I'm nothing but that, awesomeness, and a really cool brother, so I'm practically ⅓ Christmas! No wonder I got such amazing gifts from Santa! And Sans gave me a really cool book about these skeletons that go on adventures! Too bad it was written in a really goofy font by some CS. G. Skelebro, he sounds weird. But I can't judge people because they're weird! After all, I like hanging out with Alphys, and she can be pretty weird sometimes. AHAA! I just noticed the difference!
"Alphys! You're quieter than normal! That's what's different, isn't it?"
"Y-yeah, o-of course that's it!" She always stammers things out nervously. She told me it's because she has a huge crush on this guy at the MTT but she doesn't know how to say it. I'm trying to figure out who "that really cute guy at the MTT" is, but I have no clues. YET!
"A-HA! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM A MASTER OF FIGURING THINGS OUT!"
Alphys seems really nervous all of a sudden, and out of nowhere darts up and runs out the house. Well! My master detective skills were clearly too much for her, which is understandable. Now that you mention detective skills, I'm seeing things, because I think I see a teenage Asgore at the door! Without a beard! OH MY GOSH, ASGORE CAN TIME TRAVEL! He's wearing a cloak, one of those cool things that Sith Lords wear, and has weird paint on his face, and has strange bumps on his chest and lower back. Maybe he has bites from Detitos! I can't just let those bites get infected, so I, The Great and Generous Papyrus, will help him!
Chapter 3.5, POV FP Sans.
Probably Undyne. I lay my head down to try and drift off to sleep, and this works. Sparky and Vulcan are asleep by my side, while I feel Helio snoozing adorably on my head. They kinda remind me of me: that sleeping time is the best time. Certainly better than the bad time. I'm almost asleep, I can see my dream of the ketchup bottle super-sizing almost accompanying me to sleep, and I start to close my eyes, until I hear the door open. Great, the human. Maybe this one will die faster. I warp to behind them, a few feet or so away, and start to sneak up on them….except I find myself not next to a human. I find myself looking at a lot of purple, and now I'm hearing a lot of crying from up above me. I don't move though. I certainly would NOT want to disturb whatever creature this is. Distress plus big creature equals bad, it's just simple math. Reading any book with emotional and dragon in the same sentence taught me that. I think I could probably warp, and have the thing not notice me, and then it drops to its knees. It seems to have white fur, and ears that definitely aren't a human's, and I see that the purple I saw was some kind of dress. From how the voice sounds, this thing seems to be female. I feel the edges of my mouth droop into a frown of sympathy and reach out to put a hand on it's shoulder, but gee, why do nice things for people? Guess a timeline portal wanted to clock-block me, and literally appeared right in front of my hand, so I get to go no matter what.
Chapter 3.7, POV TP, Snowdin.
Asriel was not at all expecting a grinning skeleton with some strange armor to open the door. She had expected Alphys, and wanted to personally thank the scientist for managing to bring Asriel back to life. However, she then realized that Alphys probably didn't want a hug from a possibly fatal being that can steal souls and had a personal vendetta against everyone as a flower. Typical monsters: afraid of the unknown. Papyrus had no idea how Asgore seemingly cloned himself and failed to make a perfect duplicate, because this was no perfect copy: he had a feminine face, more delicate fur, and a body that Papyrus once saw in the thing Alphys called "anime". Papyrus once asked what those big orbs on girls were, to which he responded with "ask them.". So of course, the naive younger brother asked Undyne, while she was baking. So of course he never got an answer, but rather, got a cooking lesson. And Asriel certainly had an anime figure: putting it bluntly, excuse my blunt narration language (yeah I'm not hiding my laziness there, this is narration.), she had quite extreme curves, with a large figure 8, each 'orb' on both parts of the 8 around the size of a fully inflated basketball, all only held back by the cloak. It's the only thing she had at the time, she didn't have much choice. But now that she was here, she felt something inside of her. Something she's literally never felt before. It raged inside of her now, and by it, I mean I'll stop playing the pronoun game. and say hormones. She never had a real interest in skeletons, or guys, but...she certainly felt a strange attraction to this one.
Chapter 3.9, POV FP Sans.
WOAH. I dunno what just happened, but I'm wearing something that isn't my hoodie. I look down at myself and see that I'm wearing a really fancy suit, the kind you wear at weddings or funerals or graduation ceremonies. I also notice my mouth seems to not be smiling but curved so it looks like a sideways oval. So this universe allows the same facial movement freedom as the last one? Cool. I gotta see which one this one is.
"Sparky! Ya around here?"
I appear to be at home. Sparky comes by, looking at me in a funny way. The way your female friend looks when your crush talks to you and she totally knows you're gonna blow it, that kind of sly look.
"What's so funny? Do I look silly? Or do I look like Sans?" She nods her head no and displays the timeline for me, no questions asked.
….Isn't 13A7 the one I was just in?
"Spark, come on, I know that's the one I just left." She shakes her head yes and something else appears on her eye display instead: +3 years.
"What? Are you saying I went into the future? Oh. Guess doing that was my own funeral, huh?" She looks at me with the look of someone who's just said something really stupid.
"Yeah, I wouldn't be wearing this if I was dead. So why am I wearing a suit exactly…?"
I get an answer when I hear a siren go off, which sounds less like a siren when it gets closer and more like my brother screaming really loud.
"...ssssAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNSSSSS! WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE FOR THE WEDDING IN CASE YOU DON'T MOVE YOUR LAZY BONES!"
"Huh. Congrats bro."
"Why thank you! I, The Great Papyrus, am not only the Best Bro, but now the Best Man! Nyeh heh heh! Wait….STOP PROCRASTINATING!''
"Alright, we can take a shortcut. So is the King getting married again? I forgot why we're going."
"...sometimes, brother, I wonder how someone like me has a brother as clueless as you. I mean, you forgot that you were getting married...THE DAY YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED!"
I'm sorry, my smile didn't catch that right. Cause I just stare at Papyrus with my signature smile, dumbfounded by what he just said, but deciding to go with it.
"Right. Must've not slept enough. Too excited for it. Let's head, there, right now."
I teleport without him, to the hall for the control panel. Gotta get to the Judgement Hall. I make it there, and right as I pull the CR switch, I hear a really nice...and soft...and light..call my name. I don't see who does it as I transport back, in time not timelines I guess, and I realize it's frozen. My hand still reaches out for her shoulder, she still seems to be crying. Yet, nothing moves, the snow frozen in the air. I don't move at all either, as I wait. And wait. I guess it's a few minutes, but after a long time, it starts going again. She cries louder, I can tell it's a she because her voice is high pitched and light. Sounds kinda like the voice in that future thing. My hand shakes a bit, and I almost think I alert her from bones rattling, until I finally just softly put my hand on her shoulder. I then put something together. This must be the lady behind the door! No way it couldn't be otherwise, they sounded pretty similar, and this was all predates by the door opening and closing, so..I'll let the obvious let the elephant out of the room, it's her. She gasps slightly and stops crying, at least she stops audibly crying.
"Are you ok, miss?"
I don't really get an audible answer, not really, aside from more crying and darkness. Although, I feel like I'm being held very tight to some kind of fabric by furry arms, in between big circular pillows...oh. Not hard to tell what happened to me here.
"A-a-are you the one behind the door? S-sans?"
So it WAS the lady behind the door. I don't think it'd be appropriate to respond while in between someone's chest, especially not a woman's [I have a crack on my ribs from where Undyne didn't like the pun I made in a similar situation.], so I don't respond. Or move. From what I've seen in those really adult anime shows Alphys tries to hide but I find anyway, it's a particularly sensitive place in the middle of the chest, really ticklish for many people and for others highly stimulating. Tickling doesn't seem appropriate in this kind of mood, and I don't think stimulation is what I'd like to think about, so I do and say nothing. This is a wrong decision, as she hugs me tighter and yells loudly,
"ANSWER ME!" She's sobbing loudly with her chin on my head, so I then remember, like an idiot, my mouth doesn't move when I talk.
"It's me, I'm Sans, calm down. What happened and who are you?"
Right now I'm an idiot sandwich, but I save that immature joke for a later time, because she can't seem to answer correctly through her volume of crying. After what seems like an hour of near-suffocation, she finally calms down enough to answer.
"I-I am Toriel, the ex-queen, keeper of the Ruins, and..m-mu…" She breaks out into crying again. Man, she must really be sensitive. Gotta remind myself that when and if I get out of this hug, not to make any jokes or do anything stupid. Keep your Joker's syndrome under control, Sans.
"Hey, ya don't have to tell me if it bothers you."
"I-I can't believe...after being alone so long, I just...m-murdered a child…"
Well. That explains why she's crying, and why the little gremlin hasn't crashed the parade of sadness yet. I can't explain that that kid is a gremlin, she clearly must've liked it, so I stay silent. So I wait for her to finish calming down..it literally takes hours, because she's finished by the time it's dark. Papyrus must think I've captured a human and took it to Undyne's house, because he hasn't shown up yet. After it gets dark, around 10 minutes later afterwards, her breathing steadies and becomes calm. I'm still almost about to go to sleep, 'cause it's really comfy in here, and it's getting late. Might as well-
"Sans...you...do you think bad of me for my actions…?"
"No way, things happen that you can't control or can't be helped. I'm sure whatever happened, it wasn't meant to be on purpose."
She seems a bit calmer after that. I realize her heart's been audible to me, and only now do I really hear it, going back to a normal rate.
"I hope you wouldn't mind me asking, but...could you...stay with me until I feel better? I know that's asking too much of you, but...I apologize for posing such a question.."
"Nah, it's ok. I can. Just let me call Papyrus and tell him I won't be home tonight, ok?"
(Next time. More ship. Such AU characters. Much difference. See ya.)