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You went to school hoping things would be fine. You sat in the gym, having a set routine by now, bathroom before you go to school. When someone who can teleport wants you having detention it is wise to not give them an extra reason. You wished it didn't take six detentions for loitering in the halls to realize that. So you made up a schedule, bathroom at home in the morning, bathroom while changing for gym, and bathroom after your after school detention. You knew Sans was pissed with you, and didn't know how that would go. He already said he'd kill you if he could, you wondered why he decided to break his promise yesterday when it was important before. He did think you controlled Frisk underground.
Just as you completed how rough today was going to be, you were called to the principal's office. You got up and took the long walk to the office wondering why you were being summoned there. When you entered, the principal had a handful of papers, "Sit down." You sat down across from the stern looking lady. "As you are aware, we had multiple reports of Sans bullying you." You kept silent. "Yesterday he disciplined you physically." Disciplined? You'd argue attacked is a better word. "When he isn't allowed to use corporal punishment on you. He was aware of this, I informed him myself." He had a note from your dad to not use corporal punishment on you. "Sans is being investigated again. He will not be teaching here until we figure out what is going on."
She moved her stack around and handed you a couple papers, which you recognized as the detention list. "Any detention Sans gave you are on hold for now." So you don't have any detentions. "When the investigation concludes I will let you know where these detentions stand. Dismissed."
You went back to the gym. During first period Mr. Mountoni pulled you aside, "I heard what happened yesterday." You stayed quiet. "It gets better, I had a teacher do the same thing to me. I had no one to advocate for me. That is the reason it won't go ignored."
When you went to science class, you had a substitute, you recognized him, Riverperson. He floated towards you, "I recognize you." That was odd. "Tra la la, be careful, the world isn't just a game."
You noticed that he was the second Undertale "character" to recognize you. One is a coincidence, two was odd. Did you really have a special life version? That was impossible, right?
You noticed Riverperson was walking towards your desk a lot. Okay, you weren't sitting at your assigned desk, Sans wasn't here and you were enjoying the freedom to be known as a decent student. When class was dismissed Riverperson spoke in his soft voice, "I know you were assigned the trouble desk." You turned around as your class hurried out the door. Silence filled the air, "Don't anger the man who manipulates space and time tra la la." You did not understand, "Sans is a strong enemy despite his description tra la la." You went to your next class confused.
The next day you had computer science, and sat where you should, if only because of the warning. You didn't continue to have a squeaky clean record, that wasn't you, but not getting in trouble everyday was nice.
When the final results of the investigation came to the conclusion Sans is not allowed to teach. Apparently 5hp is deadly to humans. That wasn't a bad outcome, all things considered, but protests over monsters sharing classes with humans were.
Eventually, the government gave in and humans and monsters were separated. That didn't strike you as right, but it seemed to get worse, monsters not allowed in shops. People refused to sell to them, and despite that being illegal, it went ignored.
The monster population had more homeless cases than anybody. You decided you had to try to do something about it, if only because you saw Papyrus cry when giving his students a goodbye.
The government took Toriel's school away from her, and it was for humans only now. Somehow you felt Sans' attacking you was used to make her feel bad.
When you got home from school, you loaded your old copy of undertale. You didn't know how this would work if Sans' words about you being the vessel were true. Would people forget the monsters existed? The chances of this plan working was slim anyways.
One thing on the menu was odd, why were there no monsters on the screen? Before you could process that Flowey was on the menu, "Y/N, I been watching you. You must wonder why is your game so special? Undertale is based on a real event. Don't look at me like that! It is real, wizards are real. Of course, Manuel showed you that.
If you reset, time will rewind in your world too." You took a breath and pressed reset. You felt a pull and found yourself on a flower bed in the ruins. You saw Flowey and started running before he pulled you into battle. "Let little old Flowey explain some things to you." You had no choice, Flowey wouldn't let you flee. "You are not a vessel anymore. You can get hurt, you can die. I have no idea if you can SAVE." Flowey burrowed underground while Toriel took you through the RUINS.
Something else was odd, time stopped every once in a while, and you were left waiting for it to continue before you could move on. After sparing Toriel, and now having burnt clothes and a couple burns, you went out into Snowdin. You could avoid Sans if you moved fast enough, you hoped.
Nothing happened when you were at the trees. The stick didn't even break. You were home free until you were at the bridge when Sans teleported in front of you. "Human, you reset." You weren't willing to give him the satisfaction of a word, "What's with that look on your face? Shock. I already told you I remembered resets." Sans looked towards his brother, "Why did ya reset?" You were trying to see if there was a way around Sans before giving up and answering, "It wasn't right, what happened to the monsters."
"Heh. One more thing." Sans' eye glowed blue, "Where's Frisk?" You tried explaining how you don't know where they are to Sans' obvious disbelief. "Still a liar, huh?" You just stayed quiet. "I'll give ya one chance. If Frisk is found after you do whatever anomalys do, I'll leave ya alone." Sans' eyes turned black, "If Frisk is somehow missing, you will never see daylight again." Sans moved aside and let you through.
As soon as you went through the gate, you were in front of the RUINS door, as if you never were that far in the first place. Apparently you weren't the only one to notice as Sans was instantly in front of you, "Explain." What? How do you explain that?
When it became clear you didn't have an answer, you felt Sans boney fingers dig into your burned arm, and let out a hiss of pain. What was weirder was you were pulled to his room. "Don't touch anything." Sans let go, before his eyes turned black, "What did you do?" You really didn't know what he was talking about? Even if you somehow did this, you don't know how. "I know you're not shy, kid." Sans sat on his bed. "Okay, do what ya want. You will anyways."
Next thing you knew, you were back in front of the RUINS with Sans beside you. "I will find out what's going on." His right eye was dark, but his left was glowing blue and yellow, "And if you shattered the timelines, you will have a PAINFUL TIME." Sans teleported away from you.
Flowey was now out in front of you, "I don't know what's happening. I did notice you have not seen any SAVE point. You can die. You won't come back." "What!?" You heard Sans' voice in the distance. You ignored that, and Flowey continued, "You have 1HP and no healing ITEMS. You need to be careful." "Why are you helping me?" Flowey propped himself on your shoulder, "Because you helped me when I needed it."
You continued and saw the box. You opened it, you had nothing to put in there, you realized there was no coming back when you die way earlier, and were attempting to flee Toriel before she got to bake the pie. You didn't even nap. She could accidently kill you, you seen that happen in a let's play before.
What was weird is there were fries in the box. "I would suggest eating those." You ate the fries, regaining full health. The feeling of food healing your body was odd. You continued and as Papyrus came towards you, you were grabbed from behind, mouth covered and pulled behind the cardboard sentry station. "Quiet." You heard in barely a whisper.
"Sans! Sans! Where are you!?" Papyrus was searching for his brother. Next thing you knew, you heard Sans' voice, and your hiding place felt less crowded. "Sup, bro?" "It's been eight days and you still haven't recalibrated your puzzles. What if a human comes through?" "That hasn't happened in forever." "That doesn't mean you get to sit here and bonedongle." "You're right, I'll go do my job." Papyrus grabbed Sans in what looked like a crushing hug, "Finally you see reason!" Sans was being dragged away from where you were.
You continued on, hearing Flowey's complaints about smiley trashbag leading Papyrus the wrong way. Not that the complaints were unjustified, as you did run into Papyrus at the first puzzle. "I'm not a fan of being shocked." Flowey burrowed to Papyrus, "This human is special? Special how?" Sans kept his expressionless face as Flowey whispered something to Papyrus. "Brother, what does he mean about timeline jumping?" "Ugh, Papyrus-" "You knew. Human, why did you feel the need to reset?"
If a skeleton could have pleading eyes, Sans did at that moment. "It's a long explanation." You were still debating on telling on Sans, and by his face, he knew it. You explained to Papyrus about thinking this was a video game at first and dealt with him being upset about the genocide, "Human, you killed us all!?" "It gets worse." You mumble. You then explain the space time erasure to Papyrus. "Sans, you knew about this-" "Yep." Before Papyrus could be too mad at Sans, you explained selling what you thought was selling a made up soul on the game.
Sans pulled you into battle. "Sans that is very rude!" "Checkin' something." There was a small bone attack, easy to step over. "That's their soul." Sans' eyes blackened, "You sold Frisk's soul." You continued, not bothering to wait for Sans to possibly spare you, Papyrus seemed kind of squeeched out at the thought of befriending someone who killed his brother, when you were talking about the soulless pacifist route. Not that the thought of him losing his soul wasn't disturbing him already.
Now it was time to explain how you knew something was up. Sans looked more tired than he ever was. You did him a small favor by omitting some details of his teaching style towards you, mentioning Sans recognized you and commented so. You said monsters and humans didn't get along after a monster was abusing their authority, and you reset and now you are here.
"That's entirely confusing." Papyrus exclaimed. Sans shrugged, "You get used to it." "I'm still mad at you!" Papyrus looked at the battle box, "And spare that human!" "K."
*Sans is sparing you.
You nervously pressed spare. You were out of battle, "You're fine, kiddo." Flowey burrowed in between them, "As much as I'd love to watch you and smiley trashbag fight, the human can't LOAD or SAVE. Also FRISK and CHARA, we need to hurry, because the timeline can't take-" Sans pushed his brother to the side as the top of Snowdin was about to fall on him. "I know." Sans mumbled, "You don't belong."
Papyrus situated himself, "So, what do we-" The timeline paused then continued, "Have to hurry!" Papyrus continued. Sans grabbed you and Papyrus mumbling, "Hold on." Before teleporting to the true lab.
You heard multiple phones blaring, "Emergency alerts." Sans frowned as much as a skeleton stuck with their mouth closed could. "So, any better ideas than me giving my soul to a homicidal flower?" You thought of something, "I'm a human, so what if I-" you gulped, "I temporarily sacrificed mine and gave it to a monster to absorb all souls and break the barrier." Papyrus looked around, "Come up with a better idea, Sans! Before the news gets out!" "It's a good idea." Sans winked at you, "Deadly though."
Papyrus pulled Sans aside, "This could kill them! They can't go back! They looked terrified too!" "Fine, but I'll never forgive you if they die." "I want to be the one to absorb the souls!" After they came back and you felt the air getting chilly, Flowey frowned, "Asgore guards the souls." Sans sighed, "Never speak of this. I can get the souls. Papyrus..." Sans took a breath, "This is highly illegal. If I get caught, I will face a death sentence. I need a distraction." Flowey looked at you, "I'll tell Asgore who I am." "Don't know what that's gonna do, but sure. Kid, you need to be with me and Papyrus. I'll have to keep you on the edge of life and death." You were going to throw up, you couldn't believe you were willingly letting Sans control whether you live or die. Sans patted your back to a flinch, "It's okay, kiddo. I promise." Somehow, that didn't make it better.
You were teleported to the souls with Papyrus while Flowey was with Asgore. Sans pulled you into battle, "Ready. This will hurt." Sans explained like you were an idiot again. "I'll take that as a yes." Sans threw a barrage of undodgeable bones. You now understand what teetering on life and death is, words mumbled together, you couldn't understand anything. Everything looked mushed together.
You did know when you were in Papyrus' body, as you could see and feel what he did. "This is odd." Sans was busy keeping the body intact, "Papyrus, break the barrier. Hurry, humans don't stay alive without a soul for long." Frisk did, didn't they? You would ask later, or run away, it depended on what kind of mood Sans was in after this.
Papyrus went through the barrier and you heard a loud bang and apparently others heard it too as there were screams of pain. "Humans, it's okay." Papyrus went back down to the monster side of the barrier, and placed the souls back, carefully putting yours back first. You instantly fell asleep.
You woke up to Sans being yelled at by Toriel, "You did what? Have you lost your mind!" "Kid was willing." That wasn't the most surprising thing as you were on grass, under the sun, Sans still kneeling over you, as Toriel continued to yell at him. "You awake, kiddo?" "Kind of..." You mumbled. You noticed Papyrus and Undyne were blocking monsters coming towards you, "Kind of a celebrity." Sans kept his hands on you, "Saved us all." Toriel calmed down enough to explain, "The underground was collapsing on itself when the barrier broke. Every one got out before we all were crushed." Then like she hasn't even stopped, Toriel continued yelling at Sans.
When she was done, and you went to get up to follow her, Sans gently pushed you down, "You still need some healing, kiddo. Get comfortable." You looked at him, "Umm can we keep this a secret between monsters?" You knew humans wouldn't like that news. "It is, kiddo. After last time, we know we would be killed if this is mentioned. No humans are here. Well besides you." You blinked, "Sans?" "What?" He answered, slightly irritated, "If humans don't survive without a soul for long, how did Frisk?" "I have a science background. And access to a little DETERMINATION and it works out." Sans was still keeping a watch on you, "Now where are they?"
As clockwork you heard Asgore, "Chara. My child." You went to look up, but Sans pushed you back down, "Stay still. You cannot go back." "This is the best day of my life." And now you knew what two boss monsters sounded like when they cried. Thanks to Papyrus' loud voice you heard, "You have nowhere to go, human! We'll take you in!" Sans' left eye turned a yellowish color, "Heh. Guess it works out." "Nothing makes sense." You complained. "I'm thinkin' a glitch in the timeline." You wanted to look, but Sans kept pushing your head down. "You have less than 1hp. Stay still."
The monsters were willing to hide you and the other humans while they explained their collective lie on how they got out of the Underground. Sans reminding you, you weren't completely healed yet, and to stay still. "Ow." You learned Sans doesn't always mumble. "How many shots do we need?" "A lot." By the sounds of it, whoever was giving Sans his shots weren't gentle.
You did get to go home before anybody wondered where you were. Sans telling you to be careful as you did nearly die, and he wasn't explaining your death to Toriel. You spent the summer a little nervous, schedules were already declared and repeating near a year with Sans didn't sound like fun.
When you went to the new school, you were greeted by Sans, "Sans the skeleton." You shook his left hand to hear a fart noise. You weren't laughing, "That's okay, Everyone has their own sense of humor. You quickly sat down.
When it came to science class Sans took roll and continued his lesson and passed the worksheet out. You remembered some of the answers. You quickly placed your stuff back before Sans asked for you to stay behind.
You nervously went to his desk. "Heya, I noticed you are a little on edge." Sans jumped back, "You look angry. That's okay, I'd be angry too. I just wanted to apologize." Sans placed his hand out. "Whata bout that truths?" "Just leave me alone, Sans." Sans withdrawed his hand, "I can do that. I hope one day we can ugh let bygones be bygones." "I got to get to class." Sans handed you a late note, "I never thought I'd say this, but thanks for going back." "You're welcome." You quickly left his class.
In computer science where Sans would assign seats, you noticed he sat you beside Moha and Saffi. For someone who remembered this group specifically hated him at one point, it was odd he placed you together.
The real test came when you got detention by Mr. Mountoni for cursing plus his soap punishment. You were annoyed it was during a play, you didn't know he was behind you. Sans had his legs propped up on his desk, "Take a seat, kiddo." You sat down, and Sans tossed you a granola bar. "No one knows." Sans winked before putting the play on his projector. "Think you deserve to see it." Sans saw your face as you gave him back the bar. "Guess you don't trust me." Sans started grading, "It helped your grades." You were still ignoring Sans, whatever he planned wasn't going to happen.
It took half the year before you realized Sans wasn't going to punish you, and that he seemed to be avoiding you. This made life easier as people would hang out with you when Sans was near. Moha and Saffi never cared in the past timeline, but they were the only two. Manuel didn't like you, and apparently was willing to be a well behaved student in this timeline.
When Manuel showed off a sign declaring the Patterson support of monsters on the surface, Sans looked sick. You wondered if Sans caused the hate last timeline. "I haven't met one bad monster! It isn't fair people want to send them back to their destroyed homes." Manuel declared loudly in that computer science class. Manuel even raised his hand for help when he had trouble with the subject unlike last timeline.
You were nervous about the tornado, apparently Sans noticed as he called you back from class. "Kid, it's okay." "No, it's not! I walk home!" Sans' eyes blackened, "You are not walking in that." "You let me walk in the aftermath!" "Different." "How?" "You won't be in one piece. The storm before is bad." Sans stood up, "You will by be walking home." Sans sighed, "I remember you taking the bus in the mornings, why did you decide to start walking. You even started walking to school. Both timelines." "I got used to it. It is my choice." "Fair enough. Oh, kiddo, detention for yelling at a teacher. You are not walking home." You turned around and slammed the door, for Sans to teleport in front of you, "May wanna late note, and kid. I'd rather you hate me than find you in sixty pieces."
When you left the room, and walked towards your third period class, you were stopped on second floor by Manuel, "Is it me or does Sans seem familiar?" "He is a videogame character." "Not that." Manuel leaned against the wall, hands behind his head, "It's like we done this before, except something's different. Everytime I see him I feel unjustifiable hate. Every move he makes, I think he's hiding something."
"I don't know." Manuel shifted positions, "You seem to avoid him. And when I see you, I get the feeling we met before the year started." Manuel now had a paper in his hand, "And that everyone knows who I am." Manuel slid down the wall, "I also get the feeling that he is worried about me. Undertale, you don't think there is really someone who can rewind time, do you." You shook your head, "Yeah, you're right. I must be paranoid. I just can't shake the feeling that Sans shouldn't be trusted."
You two went your separate ways to go to class. What you didn't expect was Manuel to be in detention when you went to the detention Sans assigned. He was sitting up front, and if he didn't mention it before, you wouldn't have noticed he never took his eye off Sans. "So is the anomaly real?" "I don't wanna talk about that game, kid."
You sat on the other side of the room. You knew Sans hated that game, and wanted to stay far away from that when it explodes. "I feel like we met before." Sans patted Manuel on the back to a flinch, "Geez kid, you have issues. I'll tell you the truth. I know you are a descendant of the wizards who locked us underground." Manuel looked kind of pale, "You never said anything?" Sans shrugged, "Don't need ya judged on another's actions. That may be what's on your mind.
Timeline jumping requires so much DETERMINATION that it is near impossible for a mortal to do. We didn't come above ground like in your game, right?" "No, sir." Sans sat on his desk, before winking, "So it isn't accurate. Some is, not all." Manuel visibly relaxed, "So me and Y/N never met before the year started." "Not that I know of."
Sans sat back down, "Just you two. I'm too lazy to think of something, so how well can ya keep a secret?" When Sans was met with confused silence he just went to "sleep". Manuel stared at you, "I hate when he does that." He stood up and started writing on the board, "I don't know why this seems like you need it."
You saw the science lesson you were taught earlier being related to magic. "You don't feel it?" You lied that you didn't feel it. "I swear Sans got on you for taking notes on this before." "Why'd I waste my time on that?" Manuel yelled, "I thought you were asleep!" Somehow getting his voice over the drums. "I'm always watchin', kiddo."
Manuel shrugged and continued, "You know I also get the feeling we got physical before. I swear there was a reset." "Get your mind off it." Sans' voice was a little louder than his soft voice. "Not healthy."
When the emergency alert blared, Sans grabbed you both and teleported to the basement. "Don't touch me!" Manuel yelled. "It's faster. Tornado, kiddos."
Mr. Mountoni looked up, "That's detention for yelling at a teacher Manuel." Manuel sat down, "Fine." Sans shrugged, "Kid was taken by surprise." "Let them get away with something, they get away with everything." "Not true." Apparently, Sans and Mr. Mountoni didn't get along in any timeline.
You called your parents, but Manuel claimed he already called his parents. After the three hours were over Sans rushed you out the door while whispering in Manuel's ear. "I can't do that! They'll think it's political!" You saw how dark it is, stuff on the ground. You were tapped on the shoulder, "Sans said you may need a ride. This isn't something a student should walk in." "What about the others?" You ask. "They have rides." You were driven home.
You felt a shiver as you laid down. You saw Flowey when you closed your eyes, "We have a mental link. I don't know why you got a life copy. That doesn't matter, please I'm begging you never reset again." You weren't going to, you didn't like what the attacks felt like. "I just wanted to let you know, I don't blame you for what happened." Flowey went wherever flowers with a mental link to your mind went.
Class was normal. You still were friends with Saffi and Moha, despite having to form it again. Moha still didn't like Sans. Saffi seemed to have a more intense hate for him. "He's an ass." You had no idea why Sans was on Saffi's shit list, as many teachers punished her for fighting at this point.
When your parent teacher conferences came Sans was willing to lay on the praise. "Pays attention. Well behaved. Struggles with the subject." It was a normal parent teacher conference. It took that to finally believe Sans wasn't going to pull a fast one on you.