What...? Happened...?
Sans turned on the machine expecting it to blow up, but it worked? Well... For the most part it seemed to have worked... He woke up in his bed in snowdin. But his room was a lot neater then what he remembered... He could hear Papyrus and... Gaster? But that's impossible... Gaster was gone, erased right? Then why..? Why when he came down stairs did he see his brother and father casually talking at the dinner table? Why was the house slightly bigger? And why did Papyrus have a scar on his right eye? "AH! GOOD MORNING SANS! DID YOU SLEEP WELL?" His brother asked cheerful as ever "Sans... Are you alright? You have a strange look on your face..." Gaster said worriedly. "I... I'm fine... I just... What happened?" He asked shakily, this wasn't right... Papyrus should have woken him up calling him lazy for sleeping in... Gaster should be in the void... So why did this feel... Familiar? "YOU PASSED OUT LATE LAST NIGHT. SO DAD CARRIED YOU TO BED... YOU REALLY SHOULD GET MORE SLEEP YOU LOOK TIRED..." Papyrus said as if this was normal. He tried thinking back on it... He hadn't done that had he? A faint false memory or was it the memory of this strange timeline's sans. Either way it told him he did stay up late and that it was normal, that Gaster was supposed to be here and that Papyrus was late for... Something? "I... Think I'll take a walk..." He said before quickly leaving the house.
He walked to where the sentry station by the ruin's door should be, but it wasn't there... "Why would it be? We've never had one before. I just like how the door looks." These false memories told him again... He knocked on the door, "Hello?" Asked a voice back, it wasn't Toriel's... "It's Asriel silly!" Laughed the memories. "Ah um... Hey?" Sans said not sure what to say to the prince who should be dead and a flower now... "Oh! Sans was it? Did you come here to tell another dumb joke Toriel told you? Or did Asgore send you?" The price asked, Sans waited a second for the memories to tell him what he was missing here "The souls were never hunted down, you need human's with magic... None of them had that. Also we found a loophole. The queen and I are friends and like practicing jokes on eachother, the king asks me to check in on his son sometimes." The voice of the memories that sounded childlike yet also mature said "I told my therapist that I met for the first time I believed I was goat, he said interesting took some notes and asked how long have you felt that way, I said ever since I was a kid." He said making a joke "Phf Ugh... That was so lamb why did I laugh..." The prince said snickering "I guess I got your goat with that baaad joke?" "Stop it! I'm gonna pass out!" "Okay okay... So anything new?" Sans asked calmly "Hm? Well... A human fell in today... They seemed scared so I guided them back to my house... They're asleep right now... The weird thing is I almost felt like I've met them before, along with the fact they had a sword and a cloak... If they leave the ruins can you keep an eye out for them? You don't have to, I just think it would be safer for everyone if someone looked after them... You know?" Asriel said sounding serious. ".... Yah kid I can do that." Sans said slightly wondering why the human had a sword and cloak, the voice didn't say anything so he was on his own for that one...
He continued to share jokes with Asriel who soon joined in telling his own which were really lame but sans laughed anyways. Soon he got a phone call from the queen "Sans where are you? You're late again! Did you forget about the meeting again? You can't keep doing this! I get you have a lot of jobs but when it comes to this you have to be here on time..." Toriel said sighing "Ah sorry guess I got a lot on my mind... Um... Could you remind me what the meeting is about and where?" Sans asked shakily, Toriel sounded so much more serious and menacing... "It WAS about the barrier and how you and your brother could maybe be a key part of it, but we can't do it now because Gaster has something to show me and Asgore in a few minutes. Be at the castle ON TIME tomorrow." She said before hanging up. Asriel asked if he was okay before going to check on the human he had taken in.
Sans soon headed back home to find his brother was waiting "Sans? Are you... Feeling okay? You didn't come in to any of your jobs... Dad was worried..." His brother said not yelling for once. "Oh no I'm in trouble..." The voice said now sounding like it would cry, Sans couldn't help but cry himself slightly "I'm fine... I guess all those sleepless nights have just caught up?" He said trying to hold back the tears "Oh, well I'll let dad know you probably need some time off from most of your jobs... The king and queen expect us to the castle around 10, so try not to stay up to late?" Papyrus was being very supportive of his brother. "Aw but I love the graveyard shifts..." The voice whined. Sans nodded and headed up to his room. He would have to question the memories and voice in private...
"What is Gaster's job?" He asked first "Royal scientist and loving father." The voice answered, it went like this for a while he asked it answered. "What about Papyrus?" "Hm... He's third in command of the Royal guards, his level headedness and serious attitude proved useful to keep peace." "Level headed? Serious?" "Oh your brother is childish... This Papyrus is more mature and only yells early in the day to force me to wake up." "Toriel and Asgore's relationship?" "They are still married, seeing as the king has never killed a human but looked for a way to help them out of the underground without any deaths, they never had a reason to split... But they are still rocky at times." "Chara?" "Who?" "Chara the first human?" "Oh right her! She didn't like humans much and when Asgore found out about her plan he told her it wouldn't work seeing as Gaster realized something about the barrier. She grew up here but humans live shorter then monsters... We were friends! Man I haven't heard her name in so long I almost forgot about her." He decided to ask more about Chara and papyrus later. "Asriel?" "He decided he wanted to stay close to where he found Chara in case anyone else fell in. The king and queen appointed me as a kind of babysitter for him..." "The human?" "How would I know anything about them?" "Okay... Does a sword and cloak hold any meaning?" "The red soul was called two things, the Red Mage with their hooded cloak, and the red warrior with their fierce blade. Maybe They have returned?" Sans sighed this only gave him more questions then answers... "What about me? Or you?" "Us? We're both Sans... I'm older then Papyrus, but get scared easily, can't always control my magic and cry a lot? Other then that we're pretty similar..." Sans rolled his little white dots and decided to go to bed because this was getting him no where.