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Summary: Time to get some understanding on what Sans is going through, wit R'S help of course.

Last Time:

"Even the children…" Toriel said, emotions in her voice utterly closed off, "Regardless, I now that most of us agreed what we would be no longer having any breaks. However, I would like to request one, as Asgore, Sans, Frisk, and I have some important things that we need to talk about."

Her tone of voice wasn't very indicative for a request however; it seemed a lot more like it was a demand.

Everyone just nodded along, Sans and Asgore quicker than all the others. They knew how snappy Toriel could sometimes get if she wasn't listened to right away. With that decided, the four left the room and the screen went black, giving them a small break.

Chapter Six:

Toriel, Sans, Asgore, and Frisk all made their way into another 'room' following Toriel's lead. They didn't really know what this was about, but it was certain to be important, considering the way that Toriel separated them from the main group. It didn't take them that long to get to their new destination, at which point Toriel turned toward the three following her, a somber expression painted onto her face.

"Come here my child." Toriel said, holding her arms out, intending for Frisk to enter a hug with her.

Frisk practically ran into their mothers arms, snuggling close.

"I have noticed some trends that are troubling in your behavior my child… I am worried. This is something that needs to be addressed and fixed… For your own safety." Toriel softly murmured, running her hand through Frisk's hair, comforting them as the 'intervention' continued on.

"You've been hurting yourself." Toriel stated, feeling Frisk tense up at the words.

Frisk knew that it wasn't good for them to do something like that, but there wasn't any other way for them to get the emotions out. They couldn't really talk them out, expressions weren't enough…. and it just festered inside otherwise… That was the best way to take care of it, or so Frisk thought.

Sans himself looked more than mildly horrified at the prospect of Frisk doing something like that to themselves. Frisk didn't deserve to feel the kind of emotion that would drive someone to do that to themselves, and honestly Sans wished he could just take those feelings away from the little innocent human. Sans could count the timelines on one hand, but he knew that there were times when he was the parent of Frisk, and not just the Dunkle. The idea that his kid, his kid, was harming themselves….

Plus the guilt.

How had Sans not noticed that Frisk was doing something like that in the first place?

There was someone else feeling more guilt than Sans however, and that was Asgore. Despite the fact that him and Tori were going through a rough patch, Frisk was still their child. Asgore couldn't think of a reason behind Frisk harming themselves, other than what they had gone through because of Asgore's own actions. Technically, as far as Asgore could figure, it was his own fault that his child was harming their own body. The giant man took a step back, horrified at his own thoughts and realizations.

Frisk noticed their reaction, but didn't know how to reassure their guardians, 'Please, this is the right way. It is… This is the way that I have to deal with it. I put pain onto others, now I put it on myself to make up for it. That's the right way, the equal way, right?' Frisk signed, confused at the reaction, 'Plus, I need to get my emotions out somehow….'

Sans frantically shook his head back and forth, but didn't know any words to say.

Toriel seemed just as speechless, hugging Frisk closer to herself. It suddenly dawned on her just how dangerous thoughts like those could be. Sure, she'd only seen their child committing minor offenses of self harm, but Toriel could actually lose her child again if something like this continued on.

Asgore was shockingly, the one that found something to say, "Child… Who do you think that you've done harm too?"

As far as anyone other than Sans knew, Frisk hadn't actually hurt a single being.

Even Sans knew that what Frisk had done, was nothing! It had all been Chara. Maybe there were some times where Frisk was manipulated into doing bad things, but those manipulations where caused by Chara, so really Frisk should be guiltless in this whole situation.

It was Sans responsibility to have made that clear to them, and he never did. Now he had two other horrified parents that would have to deal with the outcome of something that he didn't properly take care of in the first place like he should have. It also came to another point that Sans didn't want to have to face, if he was going to clear this up with Frisk, then Toriel and Asgore would know.

Sans didn't want ANYONE to know.

Such things were no longer an option, as he now had to fix his own screw up.

'It's all my fault.' Frisk started to sign, before Sans grabbed their hands and made them stop for a second, touching Frisk's head softly.

"Let me just explain a few things okay Frisk. Then we can listen to what you have to say. I just want everything to be perfectly clear." Sans said, any laziness long since evaporated from his tone.

"What we are watching on screen right now, it's all something that has actually happened. A hard pill to swallow I'm sure, but seeing as how I'm the only one that actually remembers it completely, well, I guess you can say you don't have any right to refute the facts. Regardless, I'm sure that Frisk is allowing blame to fall on them because they are feeling guilty, but they need to remember that it wasn't them that is doing these things, it's all Chara. Frisk…. Please accept this as fact. I'm sorry I haven't made this clear before, mostly because I don't like talking about what happened…. Nor do I like the idea of anyone knowing… but Frisk…. Kid… You have to listen to me. It's not your fault. It was never your fault. It will NEVER be your fault. Even if everyone discovered that what is happening on the screen is real, not a single one of them would blame you, because they all know that it isn't you doing those things. Okay Frisk?" Sans finished his speech, trying to make the largest impact possible.

Toriel and Asgore were shocked at the sort of things that were coming from Sans mouth. The things that were being shown on screen where real? At this point, most of them just thought that they were seeing an alternate universe or something like that, but instead they were seeing something that actually happened. The idea that both Frisk and Sans had been in that kind of situation, and no one could remember it, that they had forgotten it…

Just how many emotional blows could they take, before everyone completely broke?

Both Asgore and Toriel chocked down their own thoughts though, and instead just gave a wan smile toward their child, "Frisk, we understand so much better now. Sans is right, it definitely isn't your fault at all. I wish we had known sooner… So that we could have comforted you correctly… But truly we all know that nothing is your fault. You are just a child; it's us, the adults to blame when something like this goes wrong."

Toriel, Asgore, and Frisk came together in a hug, Frisk leaking helpless tears at the reassurance that they were getting from their family. Sans just watched the moment with a smile, hiding the fact he wanted to be there with them, but at this moment, he certainly didn't deserve it. Instead, the family deserved to deal with their problems without his toxic involvement any farther. If it hadn't been for Sans in the first place, Frisk would NEVER have hurt themselves.

"I'm going to go see my brother now. I hope that you learn that it isn't your fault Frisk, we all know that you are pure hearted, Kid. I hope that you don't tell anyone… I don't want anyone to know that I can remember. It's not important anyways…" Sans said slowly, carefully, before leaving the family to comfort each other.

Walking away toward the others, leaving his true wants behind.

Sitting down next to his brother a moment later, Sans announced, "well, we should give them a bit more time, but they should be done soon. then we can hopefully finish up here and get home…"

About ten minutes later, they did come down, red eyes burning from all the crying, and Neither Toriel or Asgore so much as looked at Sans.

Sans forced down so many emotions before they could over boil, he could practically feel himself becoming physically sick at the lack of reaction that some of the people he cared most for in the world especially rejecting him.

They didn't tell his secret though.

Everyone else looked at Sans, Asgore, Toriel, and Frisk with curiosity on the tip of their tongue, but they could feel it. There was a shift in the air, something big had happened. No one wanted to tip the balance any farther.

The screen started up.

Chara was making their way through the Underground still, going into the Core, and killing any soul unfortunate enough to have not evacuated. Still, their LOVE wasn't growing fast enough for their tastes. Nothing for it though, the next big EXP grab would probably be that Calculatour, who they would eventually bump into.

A few hours later, Chara was actively searching for the Calculatour, wondering where the damn thing was.

He hadn't been at the cooking station, nor at the bomb station, he had not been at his own resort either. It was seriously tiring to look for the damn thing; Chara was wondering if they should just forget about it and move on. Was the Calculatour actually worth it?

Still, the fact that they would be able to taunt the guy about killing his family member… It made the opportunity just too sweet for them to actually pass up.

Finally.

"MY, MY. SO YOU'VE FINALLY ARRIVED." Mettaton sneered toward the human, "AFTER OUR FIRST MEETING, I REALIZED SOMETHING GHASTLY. YOU'RE NOT JUST A THREAT TO MONSTERS, BUT TO HUMANITY AS WELL, NORMALLY I WOULD FIND THAT TO BE THE BIGGEST ISSUE, AS YOU CAN'T BE A STAR WITHOUT AN AUDIENCE. Then I realized."

"That's disgusting." Undyne said, a glare pointed toward the Mettaton that was in the room with them. The idea what he would stand up to the human for such a petty reason…? It wasn't something that Undyne could comprehend.

Mettaton himself was rightfully offended at the accusation, "Well Captain, perhaps you should wait a moment to see what I have to say before you jump to conclusions like that. Now shut up." Mettaton sassed toward the fishmale.

Undyne looked offended right back, no one talked to her like that. Most everyone gave her respect, thought her opinions were worthwhile, and usually thought she was right. It hadn't occurred to her that she could be wrong, but the more that she thought about it…

Undyne had known Mettaton, and had seen the way that he treated Alphys in general. It wasn't respectful, it could actually be done right mean. Undyne didn't like the Calculation because of that, but was it really her place to jump in? Undyne resolved to keep her mouth shut from now on, when it came to matters concerning the Calculatour, clearly she was too biased.

Mettaton's voice stopped atoning dramatically, and dropped at least three octaves, "I really don't care about humanity; I don't even care about monsters… What I really care about, is my family. Most of my family is in a state that you can't reach them in, there would never be anything a human such as yourself could do to touch them."

"But you got around that."

"You found my cousin in the only state that they were venerable, at the time that my cousin was happy for the first time in their life… And you destroyed that." Mettaton practically snarled at Chara, who was passively listening with a smile on their face.

"I'm going to destroy you…" Mettaton finished, glaring darkly, "You won't even see it coming."

"METTATON, WHAT POWERFUL WORDS! THIS IS WHY I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM SUCH A FAN OF YOURS." Papyrus said, practically leaping in the air in a show of enthusiasm.

"wow bro, you're so cool. i can see why you always liked him, you're deductions on the guy were spot on." Sans mentioned, his eyes lightening up just the smallest bit, only to dim when he realized that neither Toriel or Asgore had so much as glanced at him the whole time, even as he spoke, not a glace was spared his way.

Had he permanently damaged any chance of ANY relationship with the two? He'd thought that they were friends… Didn't friends forgive one another? Sans didn't really know anymore, but was shocked that he cared as much as he did. Usually the only thing that mattered was his brother, and here he was worried about someone else's feelings towards him.

He'd just have to find some way to cut those from him, after all, Sans knew his first priority should be his brother.

Chara didn't, because Mettaton started the battle, and quickly finished it.

Taking

The

First

Turn

Everyone else was in shock as well, ESPECIALLY Sans and Asgore.

The rules were only just explained to them, but the impact that the rules made was completely pounded into them when they saw the battle between Chara and Muffet. Yet Mettaton of all monsters broke the rule and attacked first. Why? Because he was a robot?

Sans and Asgore were the most shocked by this.

Both of them knew the rules in their full length, and knew that it wasn't easy to break a rule like that. The conviction you had to have, the emotions you had to feel, the magical power that you had to possess, and everything had to be in the perfect storm to break a rule. This was especially true if you didn't know what the rules were in the first place. The fact that Mettaton had broken one, that was beyond comprehension.

Mettaton himself was proud that he'd been able to do something like that.

"METTATON TRULY IS A STRONG PERSON, SEE CAPTAIN UNDYNE?" Papyrus announced, as if he knew such a thing was going to happen the whole time.

Undyne just nodded, somewhat in shock herself. Not to mention insanely jealous. Why hadn't she been able to break the rules? If she had, then maybe she could have stopped the little demon, it didn't make sense to her. What did Mettaton have that Undyne didn't?

Mettaton just looked at Papyrus was literally hearts in his eyes, before remembering the seriousness of the situation, and fixing his eyes back on the screen.

Chara was shocked, so shocked that they couldn't move, just stood at their last save point with shock on their face. They had never seen anything like that before, hadn't known it was possible even. Not a single monster had EVER taken the first turn, there were some that did weird things, like Asgore had the ability to take away the Mercy button, but this was the first time something like this had ever happened.

Chara smirked.

Now that was something interesting enough to get their full attention.

Now that they knew it was coming, it was time to start with a counter attack, and Chara walked forward, listening to Mettaton repeating the same dialogue, before dodging his attack as quickly as possible. It wasn't as easy as Chara would have thought; they lost almost all of their life. Mettaton himself looked shocked and angry that the human had the audacity to survive.

Chara attacked.

Mettaton himself lost almost as his life as well, just one hit, and thousands of HoPe points were gone. Mettaton knew then, that he couldn't allow Chara to get another hit on him.

Chara died again, a frown on their face, but they went back into the fight.

Mettaton attacked first, Chara lost only 30 percent of their life.

Mettaton was nearly down for the count after Chara attacked him, but Chara ended up surviving his second attack.

Mettaton was hit again, and done for, "Heh… what a demon. I couldn't even avenge my family… So pathetic."

Silence prevailed, but ultimately everyone was impressed. That was almost sickening, that such a feeling came from a battle where they were watching one of their friends die. Had they really become so numb to it all?

Yet the way that Mettaton stood up to Chara, it was amazing considering he wasn't anywhere near someone like Undyne's level.

"That was impressive." Sans said, his tone matter of fact.

Many nodded along, other than Toriel and Asgore, who ignored the fact that Sans even spoke.

Sans could practically feel his soul breaking, but his outward appearance didn't change. He did however, press his body as close to Papyrus as possible, his brother wouldn't mind, and Sans needed to feel near someone right now.

Sans needed to remember, needed to keep in mind the fact that he was the only one to remember, Toriel and Asgore didn't have the same memories as him, didn't know how much the actions that they were taking could hurt him.

All they knew was that they were protecting Frisk.

That would just have to be enough.

With that, Mettaton became dust as well, joining all the rest.

Chara was wearing a frown though. It was the first time that a monster had even broken the rules to such an extent, it was worrying for them. Considering most other monsters were dead though, they had to put down for the fact that it wouldn't end up being a problem again.

Chara's LOVE had increased.

Perfect.

The feeling of their increasing power made them forget all about meeting the first rule breaker.

For now.

"I thought that no one could break the rules." Undyne spoke, confusion rip in her voice, as the screen stopped showing picture for a moment.

Asgore answered her, "That is true, the rules can be broken though, and it's not easy. It's not something that everyone can do either. Honestly I don't really understand how the, 'rule breaking' thing works. It does have some sort of cost though, something different to anyone that does it. Something that never goes away, even in death. That's really all I know about it."

Sans now had a theory.

Sans knew why he remembered.

Chapter End:

Authour Note: Sorry about how late the chapter is this week, but there is some reasoning behind it! From now on the story will be updating on Sundays at about 18:00 this will make it easier for me to write the updates. Sorry about how late it seemed this week though!

Honestly this was my least favourite chapter to write, but I really like making Mettaton something other than a total self absorbed jerk. This way he will be much better of a match for Papyrus, he deserves someone amazing. Good news for everyone though, Judgement will come up next week or sometime VERY soon. Commenters rejoice! You are finally getting your deepest desire. I'd like to point out though, that this story is not ENDING when we get to Judgement, it is lasting MUCH longer than that.

Leave me a comment on your thoughts. R&R