Cover Art: FairyFan94 from Deviant Art
A/N: I will try to update every week for real but I don't now which day so it will vary every week. Hope that will be okay. Also don't get used to A/N. I don't really like writing these into Chapters. So don't expect me to answer questions in them please I will only do so if people are confused about story stuff. Also this is not a Daddy-Sans-story, no protective Dad if any of you thought that. Actually... I wanted to put slight shipping into this in later chapters...
An explanation to last chapter:
Frisk didn't make it in a matter of time like many of you think. Sans searched through whole Snowdin and Waterfall, means he traveled from place to place and looked for her which also takes time and magic. Like mentioned in the story Sans passed Undyne and Papyrus on some point. So he basicly was just always at the wrong place and didn't notice Frisk moving on. Also Frisk did not meet the dummy nor Napstablock... yet...
Chapter 5 – Glitches in space and time
Sans appeared in front of Undynes house just in time to see the monster woman run out her door, Frisks head still in one hand, in the other a huge sword. Not even having the time to let out a frustrated sigh Sans tried to run after them only to once again realize that he maybe should train more as the monster woman was getting farther ahead of him.
"I… never… gonna complain… bout… training… again…" Sans huffed, he already stopped trying to keep up on feet. His right eye glowed in a dim blue light as tried to think about where Undyne was heading too. Where in the world did this woman keep her obstacle course?
Shaking his skull Sans knew he had to follow them. Who knows what could happen if Undyne tries to train little kid Frisk? Now that he thought about it. Didn't Toriel as well as Asgore forbid Frisk to train with Undyne until she was like 14 years old? Facepalming himself Sans cursed, good he needed to stop getting distracted by his thoughts and memories of the other timeline.
Going through a few short cuts Sans ended up next to Undyne who was grinning one of her huge smiles and cheering very loudly. Following the direction she was looking at Sans looked all at what reminded him of Papyrus puzzle he had put right before Snowdin for the human girl but never used… at least in this timeline. If it was possible, Sans bones were getting paler when he saw it though.
Cannons, flamethrower, iron spears, magic spears, axes, hammers, knifes, arrows, sawblades, lasers, a dummy… Sans lost count of all the different 'obstacles'. Also he was fairly sure he had seen the little annoying dog on a rope. Well that would explain how Papyrus had thought of his puzzle, but how in the world did Undyne hide or even build this in the middle of waterfall? And how did she expect a little human girl get through this with a huge sword that was at least 4 times her size?
"COME ON PUNK LIFT THE SWORD IT CAN'T BE THAT HEAVY!" Undyne yelled next to him and Sans flinched a little as he eyed her from the corner of his eye sockets. She still hadn't noticed him. "HUMANS CAN LIFT SWORDS THAT ARE 10 TIMES THEIR SIZE!"
'Where did she…' Sans started to think but stopped. 'Oh right anime.'
'Welp gotta help the kid anyway.' The short skeleton thought still unnoticed as he stepped through a short cut appearing behind one of the pillars in the shadows next to Frisk who by now had managed to move the sword at least 2 inches forward.
The skeleton started to grin mischievously . "This gonna be fun to watch. First, lets make this sword lighter." His right eye glowed a little brighter as he snapped the bone fingers of his left hand. Instantly the sword was getting a pale blue glow as its gravity affection changed.
Frisk nearly stumbled against a spear, eyes wide at the fact that the sword had suddenly lost a lot of weight. Undyne cheered loudly, saying something about that she knew the human was hiding their true power.
Holding the sword up in both her hand the little girl stared up at it before swinging it around a little. She didn't like holding a weapon, since it brought a bad feeling in the back of her mind but it was still fascinating to suddenly be able to lift it. Sans grinned as he watched Undyne, he didn't know how but that woman and the kid were becoming real friends, if he had to fool the leader of the royal guards a little then so be it.
The moment the huge sword stuck to the pillar he was hiding behind startled the skeleton enough to make him taking some steps back. Eye sockets wide he snapped his attention back onto the human who was now dashing past spears and ducking under cannonballs. Sans panicked for a moment before he hurried after her behind the pillars, he had a hard time keeping up with the kid even though he wasn't the one dodging obstacles.
Frisk jumped over a magic spear that crossed the pathway, right when one of her feet touched the ground she curled up to roll past an axe blade that swung into the way from the side. The short skeletons right eye glowed bright blue as he barely managed to slow the axe blade.
"Why would they leave the sword behind." He heard Undyne mutter loudly in the distance before the woman was grinning nearly manically. "Well then get ready for more spears."
Yep, Sans was sure they were giving him a workout instead of training the kid when Undyne made magic spears appear in a fast order and threw them. Breathing heavily the short skeleton managed to redirect a few spears, he cursed when some went past his attention. Lucky enough the kid managed to dodge them but still got little cuts. Sans eye-sockets went pitch black as he became more serious about helping the child. What was Undyne thinking? Was she trying to kill the kid after all?
Half way through the course Sans allowed himself to let out a sigh of relieve as his eye-sockets gained their light back. In the middle of Undynes obstacle course was a dummy placed. Leaning with one hand against the cave pillar next to him Sans eyed the human with a critical eye socket. Only a few scratches, her pj did have a little burned spot but it didn't seem like Frisk was really hurt or had a serious wound.
"YOU CAN DO IT HUMAN!" Taking his attention away from the human girl for a moment Sans looked over at his brother who had just arrived. Undyne was knocking him to the side, yelling not to distract the human at this critical part.
"COME ON PUNK BEAT THE DUMMY ALREADY!" Chuckling Sans watched how Papyrus was now telling Undyne that she was the one distracting the human and soon the two ended up arguing. Neither of the three noticed how Frisk had looked a while at the dummy before trying to walk past it.
"Pitiful. Pitiful! PITIFUL!"
Wool was flying through the air and Sans blinked confused when his skull snapped back to look at the human girl, soul floating in front of her and a mad looking dummy that… had eyes. The skeleton was about to help the child until he noticed that he didn't really need to.
Frisk giggled as she dodged the attacks of the dummy easily. Undyne crossed her arms before her chest as she frowned. "Punk don't you know how to attack? The point is to FIGHT and HIT the dummy."
"NYEH HEH HEH HEH! THE HUMAN DOES NOT FIGHT THAT WAY!" Papyrus commented taking a proud pose and puffing out his chest.
"Oh and you know that because?" Undyne asked rather bored, yet slightly annoyed, glancing at Papyrus.
"BECAUSE I AM THE HUMANS BESTIE!" The tall skeleton declared but was then tackled down by Undyne.
"Wrong! I AM her bestie!"
Sans ignored the two tousling as he kept his attention on the kid and the dummy. It looked like Frisk had everything under control as she dodged its magic attacks easily. But something was not right. He just didn't know what.
Frisk giggled as she sidestepped a single magic attack again. She was waving with her hands but the dummy got only madder. This kept on going for a while. The dummy attacking with his magic alone and the little human girl was waving with her hands.
Suddenly realization stuck Sans. Frisk wasn't waving. She was signing.
[It's a nice day today.]
[I like you. You are funny.]
[Your voice is funny.]
[Is magic hard to control?]
[Do you want to be friends?]
The short skeletons eye sockets went wide. He knew for a fact that Frisk did not know about sign language until they all had started living in Aboveground. After all he was the one who thought the child when they figured she was selectively mute. So how did she know about it when her memories were supposed to be erased through the reset HE did? Also was he imaging it or was his vision on the girl getting fuzzy? Something was seriously wrong here.
Appearing right before the kid Sans flicked his left bone hand to the side, sending the dummy flying thought the room and against a wall. Ending the fight the child was in when the dummy fell into the water with a splash. He turned to look at the child his the light in his eye-sockets turning into pin like dots, yet it was visible that he was worried.
Frisk head hung down, looking at the ground and not facing Sans at all. Her arms were at her side and her little hands were clutching the fabric of the pjs she was wearing. The skeleton looked down at the child for a while longer noting how the sight of her seemed to become slightly more and fuzzier if not static while their surroundings were still sharp. For a moment the static made it seem like she was wearing her striped shirt and not the pj.
"Kiddo?" Sans asked carefully slowly reaching out to put his left hand comfortingly on the child's shoulder but stopped inches away before actually touching. Eyes wide at seeing her image glitch. A shadow appeared behind her and Sans looked up to see a figure in white standing there.
Slowly the white figure seemed to reach out what was supposed to be, Sans guessed, its hand. Not knowing who or what that was Sans eye-sockets turned black as he narrowed them at it. "Don't you dare touch her."
Completely ignored the figure placed its hand on Frisk shoulder where Sans was going to place his. The short skeletons eye-sockets went wide when Frisk and the figure became static and disappeared right before him.
"FRISK?!" The skeleton shouted as he looked around panicked but his surroundings looked normal. Nothing besides the disappeared girl and white figure had a static look or was out of place. That was until he caught sight of Undyne and Papyrus. Both were suspended in the motion of Undyne giving the tall skeleton a noogie but they were… glitching.
Sans couldn't think of a better word to descript them. He was starting to sweat heavily as he hurried over to them by going through a short cut to avoid the rest of the obstacle course but right when he stepped out he had to blink at what he was seeing.
Frisk was standing between the two a few cuts and burns but fine. She was grinning up proudly at Undyne who patted the humans head before lifting her up to give her a noogie. "You did great punk! But next time take the sword with you through it!"
"PLEASE DON'T NOOGIE THE HUMAN!" Papyrus yelled trying to break the monster woman's hold on the child but failing miserable as Undyne let go and gave him a noogie instead causing Frisk to start giggling. "PLEASE DON'T NOOGIE THE SKELETON!"
Sans was very confused as he wiped the sweat from his skull. Didn't the kid just disappear in static? Kidnapped by some weird white creature? And weren't his brother and Undyne frozen in time just mere seconds ago?
"Hey kiddo?" The short skeleton addressed the child who looked now up at him with a smile. He felt uncertain about what he was going to do but he needed to know. "Do you know what this means?"
[It's a nice day today. And I am the legendary fartmaster.] Sans signed and watched how Frisk tilted her head confused. She looked up at him and shook her head. He could see that she was not lying. Having known the human child for what felt, for him at least, like years he knew when she was lying and when not by soul.
But that caused him to frown. How had the child used sign language earlier if they didn't know what about it? He had used one of the thing she had signed on purpose after all, plus their secret code word. It confused and worried him. Was something wrong with this timeline?
"SANS? ... SANS I AM TALKING TO YOU!" The short skeleton blinked as he looked up at his brother slightly confused. "Sorry Pap."
Papyrus let out a sigh as he looked at his brother worried. "SANS ARE YOU ALRIGHT? THE HUMAN SEEMED TO WORRY ABOUT YOU!"
"Nah, I am fine bro." Sans chuckled a little a try to cover up his confusion and worry. He looked past his brother to see that Frisk was now talking to Undyne or more like listening to the monster woman. His attention was drawn back as Papyrus eye-socked him skeptically. The taller skeleton lifted his hand in a lecturing manner but before he could say anything Undyne suddenly roared and the two skeletons looked over at the woman who was grinning maniacally once again.
"Now it's time for the cooking lesson punk!" And they were gone leaving the two skeletons alone. Papyrus looked back at Sans and the short skeleton could already see that his brother wanted to join them but was to worried to leave him alone.
"Go on bro." Sans grinned. "You don't wanna pas-ta cooking lesson right?"
Papyrus huffed in annoyance but didn't move from his spot. "SANS REALLY? THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO JOKE!"
"There is never a butter time." Sans answered innocently.
"I AM SERIOUS!" Papyrus yelled glaring at his brother now.
"Hi Serious. I am Sans." The short skeleton couldn't help but chuckle when his brother stomped his foot in frustration. He paused watching how his brother tried to think of something to say without getting one of his jokes as answer but Sans was faster to speak up.
"Snow worry, bro." He looked up at his brother grinning wide. "I girandole that everything is fine."
"YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE BROTHER!"
"You are smiling Pap."
"I KNOW AND I HATE IT!"
And gone he was. Sans watched how his brother was finally going or more like stomping his way to Undynes cooking lesson. The short skeleton waited a moment longer before he let his grin falter and his right eye started to glow blue.
Slowly he placed his right bone hand over his right eye and looked down at his left one. Something was not right with this timeline. He hadn't noticed but whenever he used his magic seriously or more strongly his right eye was glowing and not his left one if Papyrus hadn't said anything he might have never noticed.
Then there was what had happened earlier. Frisk had used sign language but after that it had look like she didn't know a thing about it. And who was that white figure that made the girl disappear in a static? Yet she didn't disappear. What was happening?
Knowing that a cooking lesson with Undyne was not as dangerous then the obstacle course, Sans took the nearest short cut back to Snowdin and right into his lab. He needed to get answers and if he had to torment a flower for them then so be it.