A hint of moldy, wet, sock odor filled the air, as blue lights flickered over a blue-purple zig zag chevron carpet. In the center of the blue beams, a dark shadow was forming into colorful shapes. In a blink of an eye, the blue light disappeared, leaving three creatures, next to an old green couch leaning against a brown wall.
"Home sweet Home", Sans implied and dusted the snow off his blue winter jacket, before walking into the kitchen. It was not the best hiding place, from a murderous, human, child, on the loose, in Snowdin. Sadly, there was a limit to his shortcut. Teleportation was a cool magical ability, but taking two passengers, left a strain on his bones. All he needed was a little rest and some food to fuel his magic. Pink slippers slid across the orange-tan colored checkerboard flooring, while making his way to the fridge. A bony hand reached out and grasped the metal handle, pulling a squeaky fridge door, open. Inside, it was packed with containers labeled, "spaghetti". The side shelving was stocked with different flavors of ketchup. Within seconds, Sans' arms were filled with bottles and a container. Grabbing one last bottle, with his mouth, then used his foot to kick the fridge door, closed. A squirt of ketchup fell from the bottle within his teeth, and splat on the floor. Sans stared at it for a few seconds then convinced himself to come back later to clean it up. Then, headed back to the others.
In the living room, Papyrus was kneeling in front of the couch, placing the wounded girl onto the cushions. Blood was seeping out from her lacerations. The wounds need to be healed quickly or she was going to die, from blood loss. A boxing gloved hand, carefully took hold of her gloved hand, as an orange light illuminated in Papyrus' eye sockets. Desperately trying to summon a green healing magic to mend the wounds, but it was useless without his right hand. Next to the coach, a female, bony, right hand lay on the floor. If the girl could fuse his hand to her body, maybe he could do the same. Carefully placing the black-glove beside the girl before scooping up the bony hand. Purple magic, fought back, by pushing the orange glow, around his wrist. It was useless; even if the owner was knocked out cold, Ariel still had a stronghold, on her hand.
"If you need a hand, you could ask", Sans chuckled while placing a container of food and bottles of ketchup, next to his little brother. Sans leaned over Arial's body, and then lightly touched her forehead with the left bony hand. The green light, cast over her face before making its way down to the chest. "Flat as a board."
"SANS! That's rude….What are you doing?", Papyrus snapped, watching Sans tug on ripped pieces of fabric, hanging from the black dress.
"I need to make sure her ribs are not broken… "
"You're just like Daddy." Papyrus giggled seeing lights in Sans' eye, sparkle before opening the container of food.
"I'm not like him!" Sans snapped back while glowing fingers, lightly brushed against Arial's rib cage. They both loved science. The only problem was, deep down, he was scared of becoming like their father. Becoming a slave to his work and neglecting loved ones. It was probably why he refused to get a job in the science field. Sparks of light within the eye socket, could not lie. Sans' soul, burned blue with excitement. Wanting to learn more about the creature's body. "Papyrus, could you go grab the medical box and a long shirt?"
"Alright….You better not hurt her or go, mad scientist, on me."
Sans nods as he watches Papyrus leave the room. Once the younger brother was out of sight, the green light disappeared and was replaced with blue magic. In a quick flash, a bone appeared in his hand. The white in his eye socket flick as neon blue light sparked in the left shock. Black fabric went flying into the air as the sharp end of bone ripped what was left of the black dress. Before Sans was an almost completely naked girl. The only thing covering her was black panties and laced up knee high boots. The promise was not to hurt Arial, but nothing about examining the body. Most of the human flesh, covering the left side with burn scars decorated down the fleshy arm. Which hinted that the girl may have been telling the truth about being badly burned, as a child. Leaning over closer, Sans could see her eye socket, wasn't smooth but had tiny cracks and chipped a bit, around the edges. It appears that something had been forced into it, causing damage. Looking through the rib cage on the side was very interesting. Where you would expect organs to be exposed and dangling out, there was a flesh case around, keeping it all bound to the spinal cord. The bones coming out of the human part appeared to have a bit of flesh fused into the bone itself. Sans glared at the panties as his hand rattled, wondering if he should peek or not. The science part was dying to explore. Doing so, felt like he would betray Grillby. The poor fire monster hasn't seen Arial's face yet and here was the so-called best pal staring at her lovely rib cage.
"Sans, what are you doing?" Papyrus yelled in a demanding voice, seeing that Sans was too fixated on the girl, too notice that he had returned. He wasn't too pleased, seeing a nude girl in their living room. This was not how gentleman treated a lady. Sometimes, he wondered who taught Sans his manners. "Here" Papyrus groaned, sitting down next to his brother while using other arm pull off the boxing glove. It was kind of pointless now wear boxing glove when the match was long gone. If he did ever find the missing one, it would be best to keep this one clean, while using scraps fabric to clean some of the blood off the girl.
"Nothing bro…Just being bad to the bone, I guess." Sans spoke nervously as he took the first aid box and shirt. Sadly, some cuts were too deep for his healing magic to repair. Everything needed to treat the wounds was in the box they had at their disposable. Once Arial was cleaned and bandaged up, Papyrus stood up and carefully raise her torso off the coach as Sans slipped the shirt onto her then placed her back down "You know I could wake up sleeping beauty by pressing on her soul a bit?" Sans suggested while grabbing a ketchup bottle and twisting the cap off.
"Would it hurt?" Papyrus replied in a worried voice, using a bony finger to poke at cold noodles covered in tomato sauce in the box. It felt like hours have gone by and the girl was still unconscious. The only indication they had that she was not dead, was the slow movement from breathing. Afraid that the female hero had fallen into a deep coma, Papyrus was willing to do anything to wake her up. Even if it meant letting Sans cause a jolt of pain, to her soul.
"Like a bee sting"
"Alright….Go easy."
Sans nodded in reply before taking a sip of ketchup, pleased that Papyrus was not going to argue on the subject of using psychokinesis on Arial. Waiting for the girl to wake up, was wasting precious time and there were many questions that needed to be answered. The left bony hands dug into his jacket pocket, to pull out a cellphone. There was a little less than an hour left on the timer displayed on the phone screen. Once the number hit zero the monsters who made it to the Royal Laboratory, would be evicted to an unknown area. Which left the choice, should he quickly take Papyrus there, now that he had enough energy to teleport them both? Knowing that once there, his little brother would throw a fit like a little kid not wanting his brother to leave him alone and yell about leaving Arial behind. Which would only waste more time in the long run and he was sure Papyrus was also curious about their mystery friend's form too. Deeply sighing, Sans raised a magical hand out in front of him while a blue light started to glow from the sleeping girl's chest. Slowly and carefully pulled a glowing purple heart, out of the chest. Blue magic coiling around the heart lightly pressing on the soul. Nothing happened, the girl was still motionless. So Sans pressed a little harder on soul and harder, but nothing. What the fuck was wrong with the girl? Did she not want to wake up? No, she needs to wake up, he still had to ask her how she knew about Flowey and find out if she had any connection to the last timeline with the demon kid. Sans screamed in frustration as he jumped to his feet and took hold of the heart. Pressing the tips of his phalanges, deep into the purple soul until it didn't resemble a heart shape.
"Sans, Stop!" Papyrus pleaded, dropping his food container onto the floor before grabbing onto his brother's jacket, worried that force would break the purple soul. "SANS!"
The sound of pleading stopped as a piercing shrill of pain filled the air. The purple heart was released from captivity and disappeared as both the skeleton brother turned their attention to the couch. Arial was heavily breathing while clinging to her chest. The eyelid opened as a cloudy purple iris could only see shadow figures casting over her. In a rush of panic, purple bones surrounded, protecting her from harm.
"Good, you're finally awake... Don't worry, human…..monster…You're safe thanks to the cool skeleton brothers." Papyrus boasted forgetting that Sans almost killed the girl.
"Good morning sleeping beauty…For someone who was at Death's door, you still have a lot of juice to spare" Sans spoke as he poked a finger at the bone that was floating in front of his skull.
"Sorry….My name is Arial, Papyrus." She blushed as a blurred vision came into view, seeing the two skeletons looking at her through the bone barrier. The bones puffed away in a purple cloud as she looked around her surroundings. There was a table with a large flat screen television with a base stand too small that shouldn't have been able to support the weight. Next to it was a dirty sock with yellow sticky notes attached to it. None of this looked familiar to her. The last thing she remembered was collapsing in the snow after smashing into the guard station. After that, it was just a blurry mess. The missing memories didn't matter as long as her brothers were safe from danger, now. "Where am I?" weakly asking while slowly moving her body to sit upright.
"Welcome to our bachelor pad." Sans took a seat next to a pile of ketchup bottles, never taking an eye off the girl. Wanting to make sure not to miss any facial expression or body language that would hint if Arial was lying to them.
"WOWIE…Sans, I must be more popular than I think if a stranger knows my name…Now that I know her name too, I guess she's no stranger anymore…" Papyrus giggled forgetting this was not the first time Arial had called him by his name. Without warning, a handless arm was placed in front the girl's face. "I THE GREAT PAPYRUS would be honored if his savor would also be his friend."
"What do you expect Bro, you're the coolest dude I know." Sans hiccupped as red liquid started dripping down the side of his mouth. It was only six bottle of ketchup, so why was he becoming light headed. Quickly looking down and noticing the label of the bottle read "Bloody Mary". It was just one so it shouldn't make him deadly drunk, but it did give him a buzz to relax. He giggled to himself before taking another sip of alcohol.
"Alright Papyrus…I almost forgot…" Arial smiled almost forgetting that the younger brother skeleton was still missing his left hand. Reaching down with her right hand, she was about to push back the… The cute smile turned to horror as she grabbed not a black arm sleeve of robe but skeleton arm. Instead of wearing the usual black clothing to hide her abomination of a body, she was wearing a long white shirt, exposing most of her features. In a panic, she quickly pulled the back of the shirt over her head while knees were drawn up to the chest. Eye shut tight, hoping this was all a dream.
"O, No…Did I scare you, Ariel." Papyrus leaned in so he could peek through the neck hole. Inside the shirt, water was tearing up under the girl's eyelids. "It's alright…I know, how about I sing you a song Daddy use to sing to me when I was scared… Sans, you too"
"Nope…There's a frog in my throat."
"Fine be that way" Papyrus snapped before pulling Arial into a hug. "Nian zhi nian na xiang yu de yi shun jian…Wei ni ba shi kong chuan yue …."
Sans stayed quiet while listening to the mediocre singing of his younger brother. Sure their father was the one who taught Papyrus the song, but the song was really their mothers'. The memory of her was a bit fuzzy, seeing as she passed away when he was only a toddler. Every time Papyrus decides to sing, he swore he could hear their mother sweetly singing along. Right now, it seemed clear than normal. "What" Sans leaned in close to see Arial's eye was closed while the lips softly sang along with Papyrus.
"Nian de yuan de dou shuo ai shi zi ji de xin nian…Fan yun shou ju shui zhong yue"
"Where did you learn it?!" Sans snapped, a blue light sparked in his left eye socket while pulling down the shirt that covered Arial's head. No one in the Underground, except skeleton families, knew the lyrics to the song. How did the girl come by it? It was time to stop playing games. The skeleton took hold of Arial's fleshy arm while fingertips pressed hard into the skin. Something in his soul told him to back off or he was going to regret it. Looking up he could see deep orange lights glaring back at him. Overhead, an orange mist was trying to form magical bones. A murderous aura was surrounding Papyrus while he pulled Arial, closer into a protective hug. "Paps" fear of terror cracked in Sans' voice letting go of the girl's arm while backing away from the couch.
Sans' soul was beating like a madman, grasping onto the carpet tightly. Watching as a dark dangerous atmosphere disappeared and everything return back to normal. Papyrus' singing had started up again as if nothing had happened, a few seconds ago. Sans was not sure if it had been an illusion or real. Seeing the instinct to kill, in his younger brother's eyes, set chills down Sans' spine. What was going on?
"Sans, are you alright," Papyrus asked seeing the panic in the older brother's eyes.
"I'm…alright" Sans lied reaching for the blood Mary bottle he was drinking earlier. In the corner of his eye for a split second, he swore he could see two purple lights staring at him from under the shirt Arial was using as a hoodie. "Just bone tired I guess" chuckling before gulping down his drink trying to calm the soul down. Maybe the alcohol was making him see things.
"Lazybones….." Papyrus narrowed his eyes toward his brother. "Ariel, are you feeling better?" sweetly patting the girl softly on the head. There was a strange but strong focus, pulling on his orange soul, saying to protect the girl at all cost. Which he didn't mind obeying because that's what friends are for, to help each other out. A giggle slipped out when he noticed Arial uncovering her head. "You have an interesting cute face for a human….monster?"
"I'm Hybrid" Arial spoke in a soft voice before pressing her face into Papyrus' armor. The only other person to ever call her cute was Alphys. It was a mother's job to encourage their children and make them feel special. So it didn't count. Hearing Papyrus say it, made half her face turn red as a tomato.
"Wowie…..Wait, wasn't all humans that fell, children?...Is there a Pedophile in the underground?" Papyrus spoke in an alarming voice as he pulled Arial off the chest plate and held her out in front of him. The poor girl, if this were true, then as soon as they find Undye, they need to report this nasty monster.
"I know someone who fits the bill," Sans remarked coughed into his fisted hand. At least his brother was making a little progress find out the girl's true identity. It was all taking too long. The demon child had to be at least halfway done, going through Waterfall, murdering every monster in their path. The fear of a reset was just inches away from happening. He needed to learn as much as he could to be prepared for the next timeline.
"Sans, not now…That doesn't explain skeletons half" Papyrus glared at the older brother's hateful remark. Why couldn't Sans just accept it and be happy that his brother was in love? Could it be, maybe he was a bit jealous of his little brother for being the first one to find a lover? If that was the case, Papyrus would have to help find the perfect monster for Sans once harmony was restored to the Underground. Wait why not Arial? That thought left a sickly strange taste on his orange tongue. The soul was telling him there was a deeper connection between them, but not in a sexual way, more like in the family department.
"No….Ummmmm…..I really don't feel comfortable talking about this." Arial whispered as her body became heavy as it slouched down a bit. A skeleton hand started to pick at burn scars decorated down her flesh arms. She didn't know how to answer that question without them probing the name Gaster out of her. She badly wanted to run away and go home to Alphys. The brothers should have just left her in the snow and let her guilt, die with her. Sans and Papyrus were not those kinds of monsters, especially Papyrus, who cared about everyone's well-being.
"I'm sure if you let the cat out of the bag… it will work out purrfectly." Sans ended with a meow while reaching out to grab the hand picking at burn marks nervously. There was still a bit of distrust between them, but he couldn't stand someone harming themselves. Picking at wounds only makes it look worse. Like Papyrus said, she was cute in a strange way and there was that promise with Grillby to keep her safe. As long as she didn't appear to be threatening, he would let her live.
"I'm sorry, but the cat's got my tongue." Arial joked hoping that some puns would lighten the mood and stop the brothers from asking any more questions. Putting on a fake smile before sticking out her tongue at Sans.
"Not you too…SANS…. you're contagious." Papyrus groaned, looking at the mess of empty bottles and spaghetti spread across the floor as he released Arial and stood up. This was just pissing him off, puns and a mess to clean up. There were even red ketchup stains on carpet too. Some of it was his fault, but most of it was Sans' mess. Males were known to be messy creatures, but Sans treats things like his personal pigsty at times. They had a guest over, for crying out loud. He just hoped Arial would look past the mess and not think Papyrus was a slob too. Telling Sans to help clean up, would just lead to an argument of many puns about ketchup and cleaning. Heavily sighing as he leans over and started picking up the bottles.
"What can I say… I'm going, viral." Sans shrugged his shoulder while looking up at Arial hoping she would keep a pun party going. He couldn't help it; it was too much fun to aggravate Papyrus from time to time. Maybe a little laughter would make the girl open up more.
"First stop to the funny bone…Choo!" Arial giggled making a tugging motion in the air.
"BOTH OF YOU STOP IT!….Really I don't need TWO SANS." Papyrus snapped, stomping loudly while bottles dropping back onto the floor. "NEEEEEEEEEE ...Look what you made me do" staring angrily at both of the jokers.
"I'm sorry Papyrus….It was just too much fun… "Arial laughed as a tear ran down her cheek.
"Ariel don't cry again…Sans do something." Papyrus shouted mistaking her enjoy as sadness.
"Like what…Tell more Puns?" Sans chuckled, taking a seat next to Arial on the couch. Looking at her while places a bony finger over his wide grin.
"Anything, but that…..I know, the Great Papyrus will make you a bowl of his awesome spaghetti …HEEEEE!" Papyrus shouted in glee as he jogged to the kitchen almost tripping on a few bottles on the way.
"That would be so cool of you, Bro" Sans gave Papyrus thumbs up but never taking his eye off the girl. After hearing a loud sound of pots clanking in the kitchen, he leans in closer to Arial and wraps arms around her so there was no escaping. "Seems my bro has taken a liking to you. I promise not to dust you as long as you don't miss behave….I have a few questions I've been boning to ask...How are you part skel…."
"Go ahead, dust me" Arial snapped as her left eye became cloudy and little purple light was forming in the right eye socket.
"What?!" Sans was shocked, did this girl not care about her life? What was so importation that she willing to risk her own life?
"I'd rather die than tell you anything."
"Then I will try guessing it…Let's see…You have a connection to the royal scientist and there is a possibility that you're an experiment." Sans spoke in a low voice while cupping her chin and pulling Arial in closer. Quickly she pulled away to turn her head to the floor. The fear of getting closer to the truth sent her into panic causing her to pick at her skin again. "Looks like I hit the mark on that one… You said you work with Alphys and your mom loved anime…Paps is good friends with Undye, she's best pals with Alphys …In fact, she's a giant otaku….So that means ..." Grasping onto Arial's bony arm keeping her from nervously picking her flesh off.
"She's my adopted mother alright….so please leave her out of this." Arial snapped in a low voice while trying to break free from Sans. Not liking the fact, her mother was being brought into this discussion. "None of it is her fault."
"You're guilty about something…Does it have to do with the flower, then?" Sans yelled almost forgetting for second that Papyrus was just in the other room. Pausing a bit to listen and make sure he didn't overhear them. "So you do have a connection with that demon flower." whispering as a blue light covered most of his left skull.
"Not anymore …So please drop it." Pleading as Arial tried tugging the bony fingers off her arm. The grasp on her arm was becoming tighter the more she tries forcing Sans,off.
"Then tell me at least how you have skeleton's magic."
"Can't!"
"Why not!"
"Made a promise."
"Promises are meant to be broken."
"No, they're not….This is why I never wanted us to meet …Unlike Papyrus you never know when to give up"
"Giving up?...Little hard to do that when you have a little brother who needs your protection…"
"Ugg…You're just like him"
"Him?….Your creator? Would it happen to be a male, then?"
"Um, Ariel…Sans…Did I miss something?" Papyrus asked nervously, seeing magical bones covered in purple and blue lights, hanging over their heads while both of them were staring at each other. Slowly, he started walking towards them holding two very large bowls of spaghetti.
"We were just talking about puzzles….I hear you're a master at solving them." Arial lied through her teeth. The human eye came back into focus as the purple bones puffed out of existence. Smiling sweetly at Papyrus, she took a bowl of food from him. Feeling a bit excited to try spaghetti that didn't come from a can. She soon changes her mind when all she could taste was mushed noodles and ketchup. It was awful, there were no spices at all. Stomach starting to rumble as she started to miss frozen dinners. Looking over to the side, she could see Sans had no problem getting the food down.
"Then let's do the crossword puzzle together."
"Paps you know I hate those."
"Think of it as punishment for all the puns I had to endure today…I almost forgot Undye is on phone requesting Ariel's presents". Papyrus pulled a cellphone out of his blue briefs and held it out to Arial. She knew that skeletons didn't have genitals but it still felt uncomfortable taking something that may have touched his pubic bone.
"How about you put it on speaker, Paps? So we can all hear while we eat your speg-tacular spaghetti." Sans chuckled placing the empty bowl on the floor before leaning back into the couch. Pleased to hear that Undye was not dusted in this timeline. This call was just maybe what he needs to finish this little game of cat and mouse.
"That's a good idea, brother. That way Ariel doesn't have to repeat anything back to us, later."
"Yup."
Part of Arial wanted to leap from the couch and grab the phone, but she really didn't want to touch it. Seeing she was from both worlds, a skeleton monster's lower half was no different than a human male putting an object in their underpants. It felt so dirty…She was positive that Papyrus didn't wear any tighty whities either. So, nope she was not going to touch it even if it meant some of the truth coming out. She just had to be careful what she said and hope Undye didn't spill the beans about Gaster or them being her brothers. "Miss Undye... How did you know I was with Papyrus?"
"See Alphy…. I told you she was alright and Sans didn't kill her…She's a strong kid..."
"Um….You're both on speaker?" Arial gulped at the mention of her mother's name. She was screwed.
"What up?" Sans eyes light up in excitement seeing Arial was squirming in her seat. Little displeased that Undye thought he was going to kill the girl. Sure scared her a bit and messed with her head. It's all for the show to get some questions answered. Murdering others was not his cup of tea unless you count all those times he killed the demon child. The girl was behaving herself so no point in dusting her...yet
"Why would you think my brother would kill her?…She's our friend." Papyrus was puzzled at the statement Undye had made. Sans was too lazy to hurt a fly. Then again, many times he noticed Sans and Arial's eyes socket glowing tiny balls of magic. Where they tried to terminate each other for some reason?
"Um….Um….You boys…are being rude listening to a private call." Alphy's voice was shaking a bit, trying to scold the boys, over the phone.
"Are we not all pals here?" San chuckled placing his hand in his coat.
"Well..."
"Mom, where are you?"
"Don't…. worry…we are in a safe place…"
"For a sack of lazy bones, you did a super cool job, Sans…. Fighting off humans even at the cost of losing your life…It's like something out an anime…It was super awesome" Undye's voice boomed over the phone causing Papyrus to hold the phone further away from him. In the background, an unknown cheering could be heard.
"Is the human still alive?" Arial asked hoping the danger was over so she could go home. After today, she really needed a warm hug from her mother. She was happy to spend some time with Papyrus, but Sans on other hand was another story. Whatever he dished out she could take. If six years in a secret laboratory taught her anything, what didn't kill you, made you stronger. They were sibling after all and it didn't change how she felt about both of them.
"Yes…. In Hotland right now…Don't worry we were able to evacuate all regions in time, but..." Alphy's calm voice started to take on a saddened tone.
"The king wouldn't leave the throne room…I know, I'm the captain of the Royal Guard and it's my job to protect the King, but…" Undyne is usual powerful upbeat voice was replaced with disappointment and regret.
"Don't sweat it Undyne, you're right where you need to be." Sans tried reassuring her.
"You kids just hang in tight...I promise I will find a way get all of you here safely" Undye spoke trying to sound confident in her words
"Undye…Issss….Mettaton with you…I tried calling him, no answer." Papyrus clapping the phone in worry as his mind drifted off into space. While he was making dinner he had tried calling his sweetheart.
"Um…..they're are a lot of monsters here Papyrus…Once I find him, I will make sure he calls you." Undye voice cracked.
"Alright" Papyrus spoke in a weak defeated tone, taking a seat on the couch next to Sans. The human was in Hotland and the same place as MMT building, where his dear star, worked. Knowing Mettaton, he probably tried to show off his skill and capture the human. An orange tear rolled down Papyrus's cheek, as he pulled his knees closer to his chest.
"I'm sure he's fine, bro…He's really a ghost after all." Sans sigh while patting his younger brother on the skull. It was not alright, he could feel it in his gut. This was one of those timelines where every monster bumped into the demon kid and ended up dusted. They were lucky that lady luck was smiling on them back near the Ruins. Then again, destiny could be playing a cruel joke on Papyrus. Sans didn't like Mettaton at all, but he loved his little brother. With each timeline that went, their souls grew more in love with each. So there was no denying it now, they were soulmates. If Papyrus found out the truth that Menttaton, could lead him to du….Sans shivered at the horrible thought that turned his attention to Arial, who looked lost in her thoughts poking at the bowl of spaghetti on her lap. "You haven't seen a fire monster wearing glass and…."
"Grillbz?" Arial spoke in a weak voice looking over at Sans. With the battle and all crazy stuff that happened she almost forgot that Grillby was also caught up in the same mess as everyone else. In the back of her mind, a voice kept saying he was alright and don't worry, but after knowing it was possible that her mother's childhood friend, Mettaton could be dead. Her heart ached; wanting so badly to hear Grillby's voice to reinsure that he was alright.
"Hold on….Alphy is going to find your…Boy….Friend." Undye snickered.
"What…We are just friends." Arial shouted dropping her plate of food on the floor and leaping over Sans to get closer to the phone.
"Sure whatever you say kid….Here they come."
Sans laughed watching as Arial pulled her shirt over her head again. "I see London…I see France…I see Ariel's underpants" Sans chuckled in low voice leaning down a bit for the girl to hear him.
"Arial…Sans….Papyrus?" Grillby spoke in a calm pleasant voice.
"Hey, Grillbz." Sans snickered watching as Arial tried to figure out if she wanted to use the shirt to hide her head or underwear. Teenage girls were strange creatures. One min they are crying and then yelling and then shy as fuck.
"Hey, Sans….Arial…..Umm….."
"He thinks your battle with the flower monster, is super cool." Undye laughed while Grillby mumbled something that couldn't be made out of words.
"You were watching?….Ugh" Arial face planted right into Sans's lap, but quickly bounce back up realizing what she had done.
"All of us were watching…You were a bit scary at times" Grillby spoke in proud, but also timid voice.
"Did anyone see my face?" Arial asked in a panic, covering her face with her arms.
"No…c...cameras were too far away so…y..you're safe, sweetie," Alphys reassured in a motherly voice.
"Sans…what does she look like," Grillby asked with a hint of curiosity.
"Cute if you're into hybrid girls…Want me to take a photo for you?" Sans asked pulling out his cellphone and placing a hand on Arial's head, to keep her still.
"What?"
"SANS!" Arial cried while trying to knock the cell phone out of San's hand.
"Don't you want to send him a skele-fie." Sans chuckled while wrapping an arm around her waist pulling her close to him.
"No!" Arial snapped pushing against his chest with one hand while the other took hold of the cellphone. Next thing they knew they were both wrestling on the floor, trying to take ownership, of the phone.
"Don't be shy" Sans laughed, winning the battle while pinning her down with bone weight. A light flickered from the cellphone. "And send!"
"You both sound like sib...…." Grillby chuckled but was cut off by a sound of buzzing noise. Arial cries in defeat while planting her face into the carpet. In the background, a few monsters were screaming "Fire!" and Undyne was laughing hysterically.
"Never knew a fire monster could blush like that… interesting" Alphys voice was staring travel way.
"ALPHYS…Who's Ariel's father?" Sans blurted out, hoping that the dino's scientific curiosity has not gotten the better of her.
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmm"
"I'M" Undyne replied in an alarming, booming voice.
"Undynnnnnnnnnnnn."
"Well….I was hoping that…"
"It's my dad wasn't it" Sans sigh getting a little tired of everyone avoiding the question. Slowly getting off of Arial before plopping back onto the couch
"Yyyyyyyyyyy…Yes" Alphy spoke in weak apologetic, voice.
"Wait does that mean…Ariel is my sister?" Papyrus finally spoke after what felt like hours of telling himself that Mettaton was alright. Like Sans said, his lover is a ghost. If the robotic body did get damaged, Mettaton could just slip out of it and go through the walls to get away. Papyrus was one of the few, that knew what Mettaton's ghost form looked like, so of course, he was in the safe zone, undercover. Ghost had ectoplasm body, so carrying a cell phone would be too hard to do. So he had to believe everything was alright. Looking over at Sans, Papyrus could see him nodding his head to the question he asked. Quickly leaping off the couch, he scooped Arial into a big tight hug.
"Little sister." Arial muffled as she tried moving her body, but Papyrus was too strong and had her locked to his chest.
"Wowie….I'm a big brother, Sans." Papyrus jumps up and down in excitement before pulling her away to hold her out in front of him. He should have noticed it sooner. She was half skeleton, bad puns, and being super cool in battle. Only the Great Papyrus would have an awesome and interesting little sister.
"How… did… you figure it out" Alphys asked in a shaky voice.
"Only someone with our DNA can use our skeletons limbs…She also drops little clues that I put together…She's kind of bad at keeping secrets…" Sans leaned over to pick up the cellphone, Papyrus had dropped out of excitement. "Paps may be great at puzzles so I'm…I just need someone else to confront it…Thanks, Alphys" before pushing the end call, button. "Ariel….Soooo… what happened to our Dad?"
"I don't know…." Arial groaned while Papyrus carried her over to the couch and placed her between his legs. Her insides felt a little bit nauseous. Not sure if it was the food, having the truth come out, jumping or everything above. She leaned back into Papyrus and wondered what she was going to do next. She failed her creator's experiment, now she was failing to keep his dark secret. There was no place to run now that the cat was out of the bag "There may be clues in the secret laboratory, built under the Royal Laboratory."
"If I teleport us to the Royal Laboratory, you can take me there….Right?" Sans asked nicely, pat Arial on the head. "It's importation I find Dad or his work."
"No…I can't go back there!" Arial screamed remembering the giant metal cow shaped skull machine and beams of light focused on her…Skeleton hand covered the right eye socket while tears formed under her eyelid.
"Don't worry Sister….The Great Papyrus will protect you." Papyrus laughed brushing his skull against her flesh trying to comfort her and hoped he was doing it right. It was kind of hard not know what to do when sixteen years of your life, you thought you were the baby of the family, and only had an older brother to worry about. Arial's reaction to the secret laboratory seemed like an awful place to go. Just like Sans, he wanted to find their father too.
"Right, one happy skele-fam…" Sans stopped and noticed static, buzzing around his skull. Looking across from the couch, all colors were washed out only leaving black and white tones. He tries to reach out, but his body was stuck in place. Black spots appeared on the walls, couch, on Papyrus skull. It spread like a virus, swallowing everything in its path. Sans stopped struggling, there was nothing he could do. Time was reseting and like always everything was going to be erased. There were still questions that needed to be answered, but that just had to wait until next timeline. All He could do was stay calm and let the darkness take over….Out of nowhere an orange-blue glowed around his chest as movement returned to his bones. Looking up to see transparent glowing skeleton hand grasped his coat, holding on to him as everything around him disappeared into a bright light.