Hey look, I'm actually on time this time!

Anyways, here's chapter five. Enjoy!

P.S I apologize for any mistakes I make in advance.

Erza strode into the room, and aura of deadliness coming off her. Her face was set into a frown and she had a look of anger on her face.

Daku wasn't undaunted at all. Instead, he kept his smirk on his face and radiated confidence and smugness.

The two stared at each other for a few moments, sizing each other up.

Erza spoke in a low, dangerous tone. "I have many questions for you. And you will answer them all or else you may never see the light of the land again."

Daku smirk only widened. "Hey, I guess we really are going to play twenty questions."

Erza continued talking as if Daku had never interrupted. "You are to answer my questions truthfully or else you will face the consequences."

"What consequences?" Daku shot back.

Erza glared darkly at him. "You know which ones." She summoned one of her swords.

Daku laughed out loud. "Whatever you do, it can't be worse than what I've been through."

Erza arched an eyebrow. "Is that a challenge?"

"If you have the guts to take it."

"Very well then."

Then, Erza took her sword and put the point of it under Daku's chin. The pressure she put on his jugular was enough to draw blood. "Now, answer my questions. First, what do you want with Sans's machine?"

"Nothing."

Erza took her sword and jabbed it into Daku's left arm. He didn't make a sound. He just looked at the sword as if it was common for him to get stabbed. Erza nearly let her surprise show on her face. Impressive…not many could hold back their screams from that pain.

Daku grinned. "Well, guess you weren't up to the challenge."

"Many people would've screamed from the sheer amount of pain, but yet you haven't. I'm rather impressed."

Daku scoffed. "This? This is nothing compared to what I've been through. My guild mater isn't as kind as you are. One misstep and you will face the consequences."

Erza pulled her sword out of Daku's arm. Daku still didn't make a sound.

"Sounds like your guild master is a tough person."

"Or maybe you aren't as tough as you think you are."

Erza then summoned another sword and lodged it through in leg. Still, nothing happened.

Daku couldn't help himself. "Not so threatening now are you Titania?"

Erza sighed. "Then I guess I have no choice but to use my ultimate weapon."

Then, suddenly, a bone appeared in her hand. It was about the size of her forearm and it had a sharp tip at the end.

Daku couldn't help himself. He laughed out loud. "A bone? Are you gonna treat me like a dog? If I answer your question, do I get a treat?"

Erza smirked. "Oh no. It's much worse than that."

Then, without any warning, Erza raised the bone high into the air and stabbed it in Daku's arm. He gasped. This wasn't like any kind of pain he felt before. Instead of the sharp pain he usually felt when getting tortured, it was a long drawn out one. It was like his life was being drained away. He hissed out in pain. As much as he hated to admit it, this hurt. It hurt a lot.

"Wha-what is this?!"

"oh this? it's a little something i like to call, karma."

Daku's head shot up in surprise. Instead of his original interrogator, in her place stood the white-haired scientist. The very one that landed him here in the first place. His grin was as wide as ever and his expression just as smug. Daku growled at him. "Karma?"

The scientist shrugged. "you know, like 'whatever bad you do comes back to bite you'? ring a bell?"

Daku's only response was his groan of pain.

"ya know, i've got plenty more of those. so, unless ya don't start talking, you're gonna have a bad time." The air around Sans chilled. Daku could've sworn he saw a skeleton in place of the scientist when he said those words. But when he blinked, it was just the scientist. Daku cursed to himself. The pain must've been getting to his head sooner than he would've liked.

"now, what do you want with my machine?"

Daku took a few breathes of air before answering. "I don't want anything to do with your machine-"

Sans stared disbelievingly at the wizard. He raised his bone high into the air. Suddenly, Daku continued talking.

"However, my guild master does."

Sans lowered the bone. "k, what does your guild master need it for then?"

Daku hissed out in pain, "I don't know."

Sans looked at the wizard. His expression said that he was telling the truth.

"who's your guild master then?"

"I don't know that either."

Sans gazed disbelievingly at the wizard. If Sans wasn't so good at reading people's faces, he would've thought Daku was lying. However, his expression told him that he was telling the truth.

"how do you not know? aren't they your guild master?"

"It's not our original one, so no one knows who they are. They refuse to let anyone know their identity. No one in the entire guild knows who they are."

Sans decided to ask another question. "then, what do they want with me?"

Daku sighed before looking straight into Sans's eyes. "Look, I don't know anything about what our guild master wants. The only reason they're our guild master is because they promised us something."

"continue."

"They promised that they could take us back in time."

Sans's smile tensed. Time was too messy to be playing around with. The only people he knew could control time without any consequences were the flower and the human. However, both weren't here. And thanks to his limited knowledge about the universe he was in, he knew that it was impossible to travel through time without any grave consequences. But, he could tell Daku wasn't lying. Or at least he thought he was telling the truth. Sans decided to voice his thoughts.

"time is a dangerous thing bud. it's also impossible to travel through without something getting messed up. your guild master's lying to you."

"No, but they could travel through time without any consequences. They showed us they could."

Unpleasant memories of resets and genocide runs went through Sans's head. He forced those memories away and instead, concentrated on Daku's expression.

He wasn't lying.

Sans reminded himself that Daku could be telling what he thought was the truth. But, Sans himself knew that, no matter how much he wanted to deny it, there was someone out there that could control time. Daku was telling the truth, a truth that Sans never wanted to hear or experience again.

Sans forced himself to calm down and continue talking. "what did they show you then?"

Daku smirked. Sans knew the pain was going away; he was getting his cocky personality back. "Now, that's something for me only. But, I can tell you believe me. You would've used that bone in your hand if you didn't."

Unfortunately, Daku was right. Sans believed every word he said. And even worse, Sans could tell he wasn't lying.

Sans stared at the wizard in front of him. Another time manipulator that wanted something to do with him? Sans knew that if- no, when- their paths crossed, something bad was bound to happen.

Something very bad.

"Time travel?! How do you know he's not lying?!" exclaimed Lucy.

"heh, let's just say i'm really good at reading expressions."

"Let's say he's not lying then. If there really is a person out there that can mess with time like that, then we're all in danger." said Gray.

"What about your machine then? Why would they want that if they can time travel?" asked Erza.

Sans cursed quietly to himself. He had forgotten about that. With all the time travel discussions that had been going on, Sans had forgotten the very reason they interrogated Daku in the first place. Sans cleared his head and thought about Erza's question. What did they want with machine anyways? Maybe it was to have total control with space-time related stuff.

Then, Sans realized the whole room was silent and was waiting to hear his answer. "well, i'm not exactly sure. i'm guessing they want to have control over time and space."

Lucy had a thoughtful look on her face. "You could be right…if they could travel to other universes and time travel, they'd be unstoppable."

"Wait, there's something I don't get. Don't they already have the machine and can time travel? If those are the two things they need, then why aren't they doing anything with them? It doesn't make any sense." asked Natsu.

Everyone paused their train of thought to stare at Natsu. After a few moments of staring, the silence was broken by Sans who simply said, "huh, you're right."

Lucy was impressed. Though Natsu wasn't exactly known for using his brain, he was smarter than most people gave him credit for. She wasn't the only one impressed by Natsu's brain. She could've sworn she hear Gray mutter, "Huh, that idiot does have a brain after all."

Erza had a thoughtful look on her face. "There must be some other goal they need to achieve then. But, I can't think of anything else they would need…"

The room went silent for a moment while everyone tried to think of what other goal Midnight Barrem had.

"Well, we could just ask Daku again…" said Gray.

Sans shook his head. "that won't work. he's made it clear that he doesn't know anything about his guild master's true goal."

"We also can't ignore the fact that they want you for some reason." added Erza. "The only reason I can think of is that they need you to run the machine. That would fit with the reason of why they haven't done anything yet."

Sans scratched his skull with his head. "hmm, that could be the reason…" Sans trailed off. He had a feeling that it was more complicated than that.

Apparently, Gray also agreed with him. "I don't know Erza. I have a feeling there's something more to what you just said. It's Midnight Barrem we're talking about. Remember how they nearly defeated the Magic Council twenty-five years ago?"

Erza put her hands on her hips in annoyance. "So that puts us back to square one."

Then suddenly, a gasp was heard from Lucy. "That's it!"

Everyone turned to look at her. "What is it Lucy?" asked Happy.

"We've been thinking about this all wrong. Their goal isn't world domination or anything, it's Sans!"

"heh, i know that i'm a pretty popular guy but, i can't imagine what midnight barrem would want with a skeleton like me. i mean, they're a pretty dark guild, and i'm the polar opposite of that as you can tell by my humerus puns."

Lucy groaned out loud. "Not now Sans!"

Sans just shrugged and winked at her in return. "anytime is a good time for puns. especially when-"

Lucy cut Sans off by shooting him a glare. "Look, Daku came here wanting two things. Sans's machine and Sans himself. If their goal was world domination, they would just need Sans's machine and not Sans. So why would they need Sans? The answer is that Sans is their real goal. The machine is probably just bait."

"Huh, that's pretty smart Luce!" exclaimed Natsu.

Lucy's previously angry mood changed as she blushed and smiled at Natsu. "Thanks."

"You lllllllike him." said Happy.

"Shut up you stupid cat!" exclaimed Lucy while giving Happy one of her infamous "Lucy Kicks". Happy muttered something about "Scary Lucy."

While all this was going on, Sans thought about Lucy's theory. It made sense and fit with all the facts they had so far. But, he still had some unanswered questions like, how did the guild master of Midnight Barrem find out about his machine? What did they want with him? Who was the guild master anyways? And finally, the one question he kept coming back to: how could they time travel without consequences or the use of DT?

After Sans had gotten over the fact that someone in this universe could time travel, he immediately tried to think of ways they had managed to accomplish that feat. The first one that popped up in his head was DT but, he immediately threw that one out of the window. The reason being that DT, or determination, had allowed the human to reset and save anytime they wanted back in the underground. When Sans had first arrived in this universe, he met plenty of people that had a soul with the trait of determination. In fact, one of the Fairy Tail wizards he was with had one. Because of that, he was afraid that the universe he arrived in had someone that could control and twist the timeline however they pleased. But, Sans soon found out that no one could control the timeline. He theorized that DT didn't work the same way in this universe.

That got Sans into thinking about how they could time travel. His conclusion? There was no possible way known in this universe to time travel.

Sans sighed as he remembered back in the underground, he would of left all of these problems to Tomorrow-Sans and let the Today-Sans laze around. But, times were changing. The rules he used to play by back in the underground didn't apply anymore. There were a whole new set of rules that he had to learn; he couldn't just sit around and be lazy anymore.

So, Sans kept thinking. But, as he put more thought into this, he realized the questions he had all had something in common; they all led back to one thing, or rather, one person.

The Midnight Barrem guild master.

Whoever they were, they were responsible for everything that had happened so far. From stealing his machine to bringing back bad memories of time travel, they all in some way connected to the guild master. In fact, as Sans pieced together some of the things that Daku had said, it was like the guild master was using their guild to try and achieve their own personal goal that involved himself somehow.

Sans turned towards the Fairy Tail wizards to tell them about his suspicions. But before he could say anything, the ground below him started to rumble. Everyone stumbled, trying to keep their footing.

Lucy yelped out loud. "What is that?!"

However, no one got a chance to respond as the floor beneath them exploded.

Author's Note:

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or Undertale

Huh, I wonder who that guild master is. The author totally hasn't been dropping hints on who it is so far...

Anyways, I found out something new. Interrogation scenes aren't my thing. Sorry if it isn't the best you've seen.

Okay, I know this chapter was sort of...boring. But, you guys did get some info that's important to the storyline. And, the next chapter is going to be an action-packed one, I guarantee it.

Till next time!