Last Chance

Chapters

Chapter 1: One More Chance
Chapter 2: First Day at Canterlot High
Chapter 3: A 'SANS'-ational Tour
Chapter 4: Getting To Know Each Other
Chapter 5: Dark Past Unveiled (Part 1)
Chapter 6: Dark Past Unveiled (Part 2)
Chapter 7: Elucidation
Chapter 8: A Nightmare and an Offer
Chapter 9: Weekend Shenanigans and Mishaps
Chapter 10: Dodgeball Mayhem (Part 1)

Chapter 1: One More Chance

"So... g-guess that's i-it, huh?"

"Just... d-don't say I didn't w-warned you."

"Welp. I'm going to g-grillby's."

Sans finally met his match. He knew he was not the victor of this fight. He was just stalling them until they would turn ALL of this around. After everything the child has done, they showed no remorse for the monsters of the Underground. Sans was just waiting patiently until he would give the ultimate judgment upon them. He sensed that this thing was something otherworldly, like it was created to ravage everything. Killing everything to satisfy themselves. Only the essence of ruin and despair only gave meaning to its existence. A demon child, which ironically, descended from above. Now, the time has come. Sans will now receive the pain the child has caused to everyone... especially to his brother, Papyrus. He's just happy it's all over. He'll finally get to see and be with his brother again.

"Don't worry, Pap. i'm coming home."

Sans said as he felt his time was running out. He looked back and saw the child with a smile on their face, telling it that their DETERMINATION served them well. Few moments later, he collapsed on his knees and tears ran down through his hollow, black eyes telling him that it should've been him all along. He now feels the wind and the dust that the child gladly returned where it belongs.

"And i'm sorry that I wasn't there for you. I'm.... so..... sorry, Pap."

Those were the last words he said after he returned to dust with the others.... or did he?

A light flashed before him for a split second and after that, surrounding him was darkness. Pure blackness like he hasn't seen before. For some reason, a light is illuminating from above where he was floating. He was supposed to be dead, and better yet, to be with his brother. His left eyed glowed with a bright blue color with a yellow tint to it. Then, he heard a voice from somewhere but couldn't tell where it was, but this...voice seems very familiar with him.

"Hello, Sans. Long time no see."

Sans turned around and he saw...him. He had a face which seems to have a black trace from each of his eyes, and wearing a black coat with a gray turtleneck, black pants and shoes that were formal.

"...... G? H-How?

"Remember Sans, you are a part of me. As long you are around, I can converse with you anytime. But that is not why I'm here."

"Soo..... uhhh why are you here exactly?"

"I'm here to give you another chance at redemption, but are you willing to accept my offer?"

Sans is speechless on what he just heard. "Another chance? At what? I don't need to prove myself anymore. The kid's too DETERMINED to be even be stopped. Even if I stop them, they'll just keep coming back and back until I'm dead. What's the point? No one can stop it, no one." Endless thoughts came rushing to Sans' mind as to why he should stay dead and just accept what's been given to him.

"I know that nothing can stop this demon child. Nobody can. You're right Sans. You should stay dead..... BUT here's where you're wrong," his tone changed to a deeper voice.

"I will give you another chance to stop this child of abomination because this time, you won't be fighting them in the Judgment Hall."

Sans looked confused. "What? Where then?"

"You will fight them in the place where I will send you ---- the Human World."

Sans asked, "Why? It's not like it's gonna make a difference. The kid will just keep coming back and back, right?"

"I will explain everything later. I won't be here when I resurrect you. Sorry Sans.
Right now, you have a class to attend next week. Here's a quick rundown of your information when you enter the Human World:

You are Sans Aster, aged 16 and a new student at Canterlot High School (CHS).

I have prepared a place for you to stay so you won't have a hard time finding a place to crash because I know how much of a lazybones you are. Just follow address that I placed in your pocket."

"Uhmm... thanks. but seriously g, school? can't i just be at home, slacking off as Papyrus would say? Or lend me a 'hand'?" Sans asked.

"You've been lazy enough Sans. You should work out that skull of yours once in a while, you know. Plus..."
there was a long pause then he spoke again:

"I won't be here in your head talking when I resurrect you. I will be gone as I have given you all of my being to bring you back to life. I'm truly sorry Sans."

Sans suddenly felt uneasy as he processed the words that his father said to him. After a few moments, he began to speak slowly, as he couldn't believe that Gaster won't be there to help him. He will be all alone again.

"What......are........y-you.........s-saying, G?"

"You heard what I said Sans. I can't help you physically or mentally once you're alive again, but I have left some notes in your house so that you know what to do next when I'm gone."

"Fine." Sans said plainly.

"That's a good skeleton."

After the lengthy conversation, Gaster touched Sans' head and was sent to this new world that he had prepared for him. When he opened his eyesockets, he found himself lying on his back behind a huge building. He tried to stand up and looked around. To his left, he saw an empty soccer field. He looked at himself and he was still the same: short, big-boned and comical skeleton. He doesn't know where he is yet so he tried to observe his surroundings. Everything was quiet since classes have not yet started so Sans took a little stroll around the school. The sun was out, shining beautifully, then, nostalgia hit him. He remembered:

"it's a beautiful day outside.
birds are singing... flowers are blooming...
on days like these, kids like you...

SHOULD BE BURNING IN HELL.

He remembered that his job was not yet done. He can't wait for the kid to come here and give them the final judgment once more.

"There was something that "G" said about this world, about how there could be an advantage for me here. Well, whatever it is, I can't wait to get home and read all the notes he wrote, which reminds me...", Sans said to himself.

He reached down to the left pocket of his trousers and felt a wrapped paper in his hand and brought it out. It was his address, although, he wasn't really sure how "g" got a house for him. Maybe because of him being omnipresent everywhere... he doesn't really know how he does it. After reading it, he saw something at the bottom of the paper, which says, "It's a small house which is only a fifteen minute walk from the school you're in if you don't get all of this." Then, a few words followed:

"Don't forget, Sans. You have a job to finish."

Gaster

Sans shrugged at this, for he knew he was ready anytime. As of now, he will try to get a good glimpse of where he is. He finally saw the entrance of the school after circling the outside premises of the building. A horse-like statue was placed on the outside which puzzled him for a moment, then he saw the name of the building in BIG letters...

=CANTERLOT HIGH SCHOOL=

Sans now knows where he is. The school where 'G' wanted him to go to so badly. 'G' knew he can't be lazy forever. Sans might learn a few things about this but he was still lazy as ever. He thought of skipping classes, but he would be expelled just for a stupid excuse like being lazy. He finally decided to go to his new house which relieved him because he knew he hates taking long walks. He just uses his so-called "shortcuts".

Sans looked up at the sky with that grin on his face and said to himself:

"Don't worry kid, I'll be waiting."

Then he walks off to his new home.

On the way, he was met by green trees and flowers which were vibrant and rich in color. The light breeze was giving him time think about all this new life. He has never been to the surface before and now he has seen it. Everything was so calm and peaceful until he found the place where he was supposed to stay.

"Well, it wasn't that long of a walk. Heh.... thanks G for the place."

It wasn't as big and christmassy as to his old home where he and Papyrus would spend time together. It wasn't the same, now that his brother is gone and he felt guilty about not saving him when he had the chance. He just couldn't bear it anymore, all of them DEAD because of him. He just watched them die in the hands of the demon. Sans knew if he jumped in, it wouldn't make a difference. They will just keep coming back until all of them reduced to dust. He just waited because he wanted to make sure if the child really went on with the genocide path. The path where doom and ruin were present, where mercy was NOT an option.

He now felt his sins crawling on his back.

"Heh. Looks like I got a taste of my own medicine." Sans said uneasily.

He entered his new home and it was just right for the small, pudgy skeleton. No too big nor too small, it was just right. The first thing Sans did was too look for the notes that his dad left. Few minutes of searching, he finally found it on a rectangular table in front of the television. He read the first note as they were all labeled with numbers marked on the top left corner of the paper. He began to read it slowly:

NOTE #1

"Welcome to your new home Sans. Hope you don't find it too confining. Anyways, I'm here to tell you what to do next when school starts. You will head to the Principal's office inside. I'm pretty sure you can find it by yourself. You will be greeted by two principals, namely, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna. They will surely be shocked when they see that you are a monster, so wear your hoodie when you enter the school. Only remove it when you are in the Principal's office. Last thing you want is someone screaming that a monster is lurking around the premises. I don't want you to be in that situation if it comes to that. Explain to the principal's that your father, Gaster, sent you here. You will be an official Canterlot High student then, so try to open up yourself with others. I know they will judge you just by looking at you but at least try. I don't want you to be alone there Sans. For now, that is all I could say. Feel free to read the others if you want. Also don't forget about THEM.

Sans read it all and he couldn't understand why Gaster didn't turn him into a human just like everyone else so that he could blend in with the peers. Maybe he couldn't or he can't really. Sans put down the first note and saw the others but he figured that could be read at another time. Next thing he does is to find the fridge and hopefully there would be ketchup because that was his favorite nonetheless. He found it easily and the refrigerator reflected a silver color and Sans could see a reflection of him. He opened and to his surprise he saw bottles of ketchup, lined up perfectly on the side. Looked at the middle, burgers in plastic were there to greet him. It was like heaven to him already. He grabbed a bottle of ketchup and gulped it all.

"G, you're the best."

After a few bottles, Sans felt satisfied and after a few minutes, he began to feel sleepy and he found stairs leading up. He dragged himself upstairs and there were two doors on both sides. He opened the door to his right and saw the bathroom. It had a shower and a sink, along with a mirror that was placed on the wall over the sink. Sans looked at himself and his face had ketchup, dripping down his smile. He washed it off and dried it with a towel that was hanging to his left, near the light switch. After, he opened the other door and to his luck, it was the bedroom. In order to make it feel like home, he replicated the room like his in Snowdin. Sans opened the closet using his psychokinesis and it offered some socks and he threw a few into a corner. Taking a few pieces of paper, he wrapped them into a ball and threw them in one pile. He created a self-sustaining tornado which picked the wrapped papers and began to spin by itself.

"Just like home..." Sans said. He found the bed and the skeleton faceplanted into the soft bed and began to drift away into his sleep.

Author's Note

This is my first crossover story so any constructive criticism towards it will be much appreciated.

Anyways, about this chapter, I know that it focuses more on Sans and not on the Main 7 but trust me on this one. This is just the prologue on how Sans came to the world of humans. I'll focus on the perspective of the Main 7 in the next few chapters.

Let me know what you think about this. I might edit a few parts but other than that, any comments will do.

See you guys in the next chapter. Ta Ta!

Chapter 2: First Day at Canterlot High

Author's Note

Chapter 2 is here. That was fast wasn't it?

I just can't help myself, I love making stories especially crossovers.

Constructive criticism is much appreciated.

Be sure to FAV and FOLLOW for more stories!
Also I made a few changes here ;)

Ta-Ta :)

Chapter 2: First Day at Canterlot High

Beams of sunlight shone through the windows of the skeleton's new home. Sans opened his eyes and saw the sun shine through the window. He then sat up and thought about what he dreamed last night. Only screams of agony and bloodshed were the only things that he ever dreamed about. He couldn't have normal and vivid dreams like normal people because of what he's gone through. It was rare to have sweet dreams like having a happy ending for once but instead, it was replaced by bleeding faces and screams of pain. Sans tried to forget the nightmares because those are the dreams he will be having until he gets rid of the kid.

It was a new day but this was the day that school has started. A week passed and Sans did nothing but just stay home and eat ketchup and burgers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He couldn't get his mind off of the things he's been dreaming lately but since today is a school day, he tried to shake it off his mind. He ate his usual meal, cleaned himself up and started to get ready for the day ahead of him. Since he knew Canterlot High's location, Sans just snapped his fingers and he ended up in a small forest which was near the school. He didn't like the idea of appearing near a crowd of students since he doesn't want to attract any unwanted attention to himself. Walking out of the trees, Sans made his way to the entrance of the school with his hoodie on. There he saw Canterlot High, where students were outside talking to their peers. Not to mention they were having a lively conversation with each other. Sans hid behind the horse statue in front of the school.

"here goes nothing", Sans said to himself as he walked carefully towards the entrance, head down, and tried to avoid eye contact with the students.

Some students began to murmur among themselves as to whom is the new student walking past them. As usual, he tried to avoid eye contact as much as possible to avoid any misunderstanding. He also noticed that all of them have colored skin. Some are cyan blue, purple, pink, creamy white and a LOT of others. They wore their preferred attire and Sans was relieved to see this because it means they don't have a specific school uniform to wear and they could wear anything they want. If they had a school uniform, Sans would have to do his laundry and he must iron his clothes. One of his weaknesses are WORKING so he wouldn't like it either.

Sans finally made his way up the stairs and just as he was about to push the door, someone from the opposite side pushed it first, causing him to recoil fast enough to avoid himself being slammed into the face. The person before him was shocked to see a short and pudgy figure that she almost slammed with. The girl had red and yellow strips on her hair, with lime eyes. She wore a red-violet shirt with an artistic sun design on it, an orange skirt and black boots.

"Oh. I'm very sorry. I didn't see you there. Are you hurt?", the girl said worryingly as she examined the being before him.

"i-i'm fine," Sans said softly, unsure what to do next since he can't look at the girl's eyes. If he looks at her, she might scream and the students might run and call the authorities to handle the situation. Sans can't have something like that. He remembered what Gaster told him:

Only remove it (the hoodie) when you are in the Principal's office.

"s-sorry. gotta go," Sans said as he ran away from the girl that was concerned about him. She just stood there in thought of what she just witnessed. She then heard a voice outside calling her name:

"SUNSEEEEETTTT!!! Over here!!"

"I'm coming, Pinkie."

Sans was now inside the school. He was lucky the girl didn't check his face. One look, everyone runs away. I guess that was normal for him due to the fact that he IS a monster physically but deep inside, he is just a skeleton who loves doing nothing and a master of puns. Sans now examined the hall where he was in. There were students walking around also so he kept his hoodie on and tried to avoid eye contact with anyone. Green lockers lined up the walls of the school. To Sans, it was like a maze. Endless hall of lockers in each corner he turns. While observing, Sans memorized each hall as to help him navigate more easily. There were also doors between the lockers which he guess that it leads to a room where everyone is supposed to go to class. Sans needed to find the Principal's office because he needed someone who would be willing to show him around the school, if possible, someone doesn't run away just by looking at a monster. In his mind, he thought: "What if the Principals don't accept me here? Well I would love the idea, as I love doing absolutely nothing." After minutes of wandering around, he found the Principal's office. It was different from all the doors he passed by. It was labeled "PRINCIPALS OFFICE".

"well that was easy. i just had to find it. i'm so proud of myself," Sans gave himself a pat on the shoulder. He turned the knob slowly and entered cautiously as he doesn't want to cause any trouble. The walls were filled with intricate patterns that make the room interesting to look at. There were bookshelves with organized books, a glass that provided cover for the trophies behind it and a small desk. His attention was suddenly turned to the woman behind the desk. The principal had cream-colored skin and purplish-red eyes with hair colors of both light blue and green and a color of pink. She had a document in front of her which she was reading and she began to speak as soon Sans entered the room.

"Hello. How may I help you?", the principal asked as she still continued to read the document, not diverting her attention to the skeleton who was standing before her. Sans removed his hoodie and spoke.

"uhmm, heya lady. the name's sans, sans the skeleton. i'm new here so i was wondering if you could show me the ropes around this place?"

"What was your name ag-......?", as soon as the principal put the document down and looked at 'him', she froze in her place and examined this short skeleton. She was short, in fact, he was around the height of 4'. The two just stared at each other for a few moments and Sans spoke again, reiterating what he just said.

"the name's sans. sans the skeleton. put it right here,' Sans answered as he pulled out his left hand and offered it to the principal. "don't you know how to greet a new pal? just shake my hand, lady. i won't bite," Sans said to the principal who was shocked in place. The principal then spoke:

"It's nice to meet y-," As the principal shook the seemingly-friendly skeleton's hand, a fart noise emerged from the skeleton's hand and the skeleton chuckled at this.

"heheh. the old whoopee cushion in the hand trick. works every time."

The principal was surprised to see that this someone managed to pull a prank on her like that. In all her life as a principal, she never experienced that kind of greeting before. Maybe it was the skeleton's way of meeting a new person whom they just met. The principal found this amusing and started to laugh silently.

Sans saw this and said, "well at least someone has a sense of humor. thanks, lady." After that, the principal started to converse with him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch your name, Mr. ----?"

"the name's sans, sans the skeleton but you can call me sans."

"My name is Principal Celestia. As you may know already, I am the school principal here and I do not work alone. Vice Principal Luna, who is my younger sister, also helps me by being there for me. Whenever there are problems I can't handle, she will be there by my side to assist me. Right now she is in her own office."

"heh. can't wait to meet her," Sans said with a smile.

"So Sans, what brings you here to CHS?

"dad-ster enrolled me here. he said that this place was the best school for me so he kinda went for it." Sans explained.
"anyways, you don't mind me being around here, do you? you know, 'cause i'm a monster and all?"

The school never had a monster student before. It was all just normal students until Twilight Sparkle and her friends transformed into ponified versions of themselves during the Fall Formal. Nothing was the same ever again since that event. Now there is a skeleton monster enrolled at CHS for some reason.

"Your father enrolled you here? Well, he certainly made the best choice yet. I'm sure you will have a great time here but first let me check if you're on the list of new students."

The principal went back to reading her document before and searched for the list of "New Students". After searching a list of names, she found the name "Sans" and his educational fees were fully paid by a strange name.

"I see that you are fully paid by uhhhmm.... Gaster? Is he your father Sans?", the principal asked.

"uhhh... yeah. he was," Sans remembered that Gaster was no longer with him. No one to help or talk with him. Gaster was gone for good.

"I'm..... sorry Sans. Whatever happened to your father, you have my condolences," Principal Celestia said as she tried to comfort the sad skeleton as he began to be awfully quiet the moment she said his father's name.

"thanks. but you don't have to be sorry. it's my problem to deal with, not yours."

"As a principal, it is my sole duty to care for my students here at CHS. Sans, since you're new here, I will call someone to give you a tour of this school so you will be able to navigate your way around easily. Does that sound good to you Sans?", the principal offered her assistance to him as she would like to help him because of his loss. She would at least try to help this poor skeleton who has come here to--- maybe find new friends? Rest assured, he came to the right place and Celestia knows a few known students who can help him start a new chapter of friendship.

"I'm also taking 'no' for an answer Sans.", the principal said in a stern tone.

"ok, ok. geez. i guess i don't have a choice, do i?"

"Very well. I will now call her to give you the tour of the school. Thank you for your cooperation, Sans." Principal Celestia said with beaming smile.

Sans returned a grin. He knew that he needed help and now he has someone who can trust. He hated humans, especially the kid, by backstabbing him and killed everyone he deeply cared. Now, he sees that not all humans are traitors. The lady behind the desk showed sympathy and care for him after everything he's been through. Whatever is waiting for him next, he is prepared because he had someone he can count on.

"Are you going to be alright Sans? I mean here, in this school. I want to make sure that your first day will be enjoyable. I don't want anything bad to occur," the principal said worryingly.

Sans replied with that grin on his face, "don't worry. i'm going TIBIA okay."

Principal Celestia giggled at the skeleton's pun. She has never heard a joke in a while. A good laugh could always cheer her up.

"Ohhhh Sans." Celestia sighed.

"heheheh. i know my jokes are bad. they aren't that 'humerus'. Sans with another pun and gave a wink at Celestia.

Celestia laughed like it was the best joke she's ever heard in a while. She knew that things will be much more interesting now there's a comical skeleton in school. She could tell that Sans was a very BONEY joke teller.

=OUTSIDE OF CANTERLOT HIGH=

Sunset Shimmer, please come to the principal's office.

"Called to the office again? For what reason?"

"Don't worry, Sugarcube. Ah' reckon that it ain't somethin' bad. At least ah hope not."

"Ohhh... I hope you're not in trouble Sunset."

"I'll be fine girls. Maybe Celestia needed me for something important and besides, I didn't do anything wrong recently. "Well, see you girls later."

"Alright, Celestia. What do you want with me now?"

Chapter 3: A 'SANS'-ational Tour

Sunset made her way to the principal's office as to what Celestia would need her. Few minutes later, she arrived at the door and heard someone... laugh behind it. Sunset recognized this voice as Celestia's voice, who is laughing uncontrollably. She thought, "What is making her laugh? What could poss-?", she then heard an unfamiliar voice saying:

"... that's why he built a skullpture of him."

Sunset heard a high-pitched laugh from Celestia, who sounds as if her mentor's counterpart had been reduced of air. She never heard Principal Celestia laugh so hard before. Someone must be really good at starting up a conversation, especially when that someone likes making bad puns. Sunset held the door knob and turned it slowly and entered. There, she saw Principal Celestia laughing and snorting at the unfamiliar person before her desk. Sunset began to speak up:

"Principal Celestia, is there anything you need from me?" Sunset asked.

Principal Celestia saw Sunset and started to calm down from laughing so hard. There were a few tears in her eyes so she wiped them off. After settling down at last, Celestia spoke.

"Oh, Sunset. You made it. I guess you know why I called you here."

Sunset diverted her attention to the small and pudgy skeleton before Celestia's desk. It wore a blue jacket and black shorts with white strips on it. In addition, it wore pink and fluffy slippers and it seems that a big smile was on the skeleton's face. Sunset was weirded out at first and she just stood in place. While Sunset was still trying to process what was before her, the skeleton walked to her and held out his hand.

"heya bud. i guess we haven't been properly introduced, but since you're here, you can make it up to me by shaking my hand."

The skeleton then winked at Celestia for some reason, causing Sunset to wonder what made him do that.

"Hi. My name is Sunse--," she was stopped at mid-sentence as a fart sound emerge from the room causing both the skeleton and Principal Celestia to laugh.

"another one has fell for it. got ya' pal. heheh..," the skeleton chuckled and at the same time, the principal snickered.

"We apologize for the prank, Sunset. I just needed a good laugh every once in a while. By the way, meet Sans, Sans the skeleton." Celestia said with a happy tone in her voice.

Sans looked at the principal, shocked at what she just said. "Hey, come on lady. That's my line."

"Sorry Sans, but this time let me be the first to introduce our first monster student here at Canterlot High."

Sunset tried to remember what Celestia just said. "A monster student, here at CHS?" She was shocked and Sans could tell just by looking at her.

"Uhhh.... it's fine if you don't want to show me around. i can find go by myself."

Sunset traced back to her own senses and spoke to Sans. "What? I didn't say that. I was just... surprised. That's all."

"you sure pal?", Sans asked.

"I'm very sure, Sans and besides, I'll be happy to show you around. Since it's your first time here, I might consider avoiding drawing too much attention to yourself. I mean try not to be too friendly as it could lead to you know...a misunderstanding."
Sunset said.

"don't worry sunny. as a matter of fact, i prefer to be 'bonely'.

Sunset ignored what Sans just nicknamed her and after thinking carefully, an idea popped into her mind.

"Say Sans, if I give you the chance to meet my friends here, would it bother you?" Sunset asked.

Sans wondered why she would ask such a question. He doesn't really know what to say about this. A monster among humans. The first thing that pops in Sans' head was that the minute he makes a first impression, everyone would just run away. That's how humans work: one good look at a monster and they would either run nor fight, but not all of them. This lady she just met just asked him if he wanted to be friends with her. Sans thought of this carefully, as he would only place his trust to someone who doesn't break a promise. After seconds of thinking, Sans spoke again.

"i guess it wouldn't hurt.."

"Great. We'll meet them after the tour is over." Sunset looked at the clock placed just above the door. It was 11:00 am. One hour left until lunchtime, she thought.

"Thank you Sunset for being here. Not everyone here at CHS is willing to accept this task. I hope that you will take care of everything for him and make sure that he will have a great time here," Celestia said with eyes full of hope.

Sunset looked at Celestia with reassurance in her eyes. She is to make sure that Sans needed to be feel welcomed as an individual monster studying at Canterlot High.

"No worries, Celestia. I am always happy to help especially when it comes from a principal," Sunset said with a smile.

"I'm very grateful that you're here Sunset. Now, go along," Celestia replied with glee.

As Sunset and Sans walked out of the principal's office, Sans looked at the bacon-haired girl and spoke:

"your principal sure is nice and not to mention, quite the looker," Sans said with a big smile.

"Yeah, she is... and don't try anything flirty with the ~~Princes~~- I mean Celestia," Sunset replied with hesitation.

"huh, what did you just say?"

"Nothing, nothing. Shall we begin the tour?"

Sans knew something is up with Sunset. The fact that she nearly said 'Princess' made her hesitate and changed it. Indeed, there is something odd with the bacon-haired girl. Sans decided not to bring it up. "Maybe later," Sans thought.

"yeah, sure. lead the way, Sunny and don't worry" the skeleton replied with a smile.

"Great. Let's go," Sunset said in a jolly tone and she started the tour with Sans following behind her.

LIBRARY

Sunset and Sans entered the library. Shelves that are properly organized with a wide range of books in many fields of study, internet access for students. It has big tables for discussion groups and for self use too. It provides very good environment for full concentration in readings and research.

"Here is the library where you know, get books and study. Computers for research and a good place to sleep..."

Sans, with eyes wide open, was pleased to hear this. "this school's not half bad. i already like it here," said the comical skeleton in thought.

"... But don't sleep here when class hours are on-going. The librarian will kick you out and you will get detention for skipping classes," Sunset continued.

"okay. i'll make sure to keep that in mind." 'So much for being the best place to pass time,' Sans shrugged.

The two explored the two-floored library, the ups' and down's. Nothing too much to look at. Just books lined up in shelves which were organized into categories in different subjects which impressed Sans who was just amazed at the sight of clean and organized books.

"man, i wish my room's clean like this. but too lazy." Sans said to himself.

"So Sans, you like reading books?" Sunset questioned the small, pudgy skeleton.

"well, before I read books about quantum physics. after quite some time, i gave up reading 'cause i'm too lazy," Sans said.

"Oh, I see. I guess you have some knowledge about science. Well, that's quite impressive Sans if I do say so myself," Sunset replied with a surprised look on her face.

"thanks. i read a book about anti-gravity once.... it was impossible to put down," Sans chuckled..

Sunset giggled and smiled at the small skeleton's pun. She was relieved to have someone who was good at making puns.
"I guess Pinkie needs to step up her game now," Sunset said in thought.

"Nice one, Sans. Since we're done here, I guess we should book it huh?" Sunset joked as Sans looked at her and chuckled again.

"you are good. i guess you're right. let's go pal." Sans said as they both exited the library still laughing at each other's jokes.

HALLWAYS

The red-yellow haired girl and the small, pudgy skeleton roamed the hallways of CHS, with Sunset showing Sans the green lockers placed on the walls and classrooms between the lockers. Other students are just staring at the two especially the one beside Sunset. They find it odd as to why a monster is here and the students began to murmur among themselves.
Sans and Sunset saw this and ignored them. Sunset showed the classrooms to Sans.

"So, this is the classroom. This is where you will spend your whole day during class hours."

"Ughh.... class. sorry, sunset but i have a medical condition...," Sans said reluctantly.

"What?", Sunset replied with her right eyebrow raised.

"old laziness. it ruins my character."

Sunset chortled at Sans, knowing that he just made up his own sickness. But it was true. Classes can be really boring when it comes to lecturing. Students just stare at the teacher pretending to know they know the subject. They're like an eager beaver. You just smile while knowing that you have no idea what the teacher is talking about. Students prefer looking at the clock just to pass the time.

"That's not even a real disease, Sans," Sunset replied.

"i prefer sleeping, but i better watch out. the teacher might find me a person of into-rest."

Sunset giggled and told him: "Okay Sans. That's enough."

"what? i could do it with my eyes closed," Sans still continued with a wink.

Sunset still laughing. "Please Sans, s-stop. Hahahaha...."

"hahhhh. i never get tired of it sunny," Sans said refusing to stop.

"Okay Sans. Please stop. You're gonna embarrass me by making me laugh so hard," Sunset said as she wiped a tear from her eye and still laughing.

"okay. i'll stop."

"Th-Thanks Sans. It's nice to finally have someone who has a sense of humor and knows how to give a laugh," Sunset said with thanks.

"oh it's nothing. it's what i do best sunset. so, shall we continue?"

"Of course. Let's go."

GYMNASIUM

Sunset showed Sans the gymnasium. A large hall where the school holds its gym classes and school functions. It features a stage, at least two double-door entrances, large windows similar to the ones in the Canterlot Castle ballroom, a large floor suitable for playing sports, and a supply closet for storing sports equipment and cleaning supplies.

"wow this place is huge. what do you do here?"

"Well, we use it for the physical education subject and we use it as a party place whenever there is a special occasion like the Canterlot Ball."

"what's that?", Sans asked.

"Well, it's an event where students wear formal attire and they would have to dance with their chosen partner," Sunset replied to him.

"i'll pass."

"What? Why? You don't know how to dance?", Sunset asked as if she were challenging the skeleton.

"it's not that. and no, i don't dance. it's just not my thing. also, if you haven't noticed already, i'm a monster remember? i prefer to take things easy," Sans replied with a shrug.

"If that is what you want Sans. Also this where all the students gather if Celestia announced something important. We also do our gym classes here. Sports like basketball, dodgeball, and others sporty stuff," Sunset said as she explained the gymnasium.

"dodgeball? hmmm... from the sound of it, it's really sporty isn't it?"

"You have no idea. Some students get hit by the ball easily and there are others who last much longer, but there is one who really turns the tables."

"and who that might be?", Sans questioned.

"Rainbow Dash. She is one my friends and needless to say, she really puts up a competition. She is fast enough to dodge incoming dodgeballs that were thrown hard on her. She can last up for a good 10 minutes until she tires out. Not only that, she also excels in other sports."

Sans was impressed by this. "she sure is something, huh? can't wait to meet her," the skeleton said.

"Don't worry Sans. We'll be meeting her very soon. She can be full of herself sometimes, but I assure you, she'll be there when you need her. That's what makes her a loyal friend."

"loyal, huh? well, good to hear," Sans replied while remembering the kid back in the Underground. They still might be looking for a way to find him as to why Gaster told him that they didn't went to level 20. Sans also remembered that there is an advantage here but he still doesn't know what it is. He just has to wait and see and hope that it will pay off in the final face off.

"Uhhhh..... Sans? You okay? You suddenly went quiet. Is there something wrong?", Sunset replied with worry.

Sans reclaimed his senses and spoke to Sunset again. "oh, sorry. i was just thinking of other....... things. are we ready to move on?"

"Okay let's go," Sunset replied.

BAND ROOM

Sunset and Sans made their way to the band room and entered. The walls are decorated with music symbols such as treble clefs and staffs with notes on them. It contains some shelves with sheet music on it, a drum kit in the center of the room, an electric keyboard plugged into a wall, and shelves holding various musical instruments, including a saxophone, some percussion instruments such as a tambourine and a pair of maracas, as well as an acoustic guitar handing from a wall hanger and a triangle hanging from the ceiling, in addition to some instruments on the floor such as a conga drum and a xylophone.

"So this is the band room. Basically, it's where we play instruments," Sunset explained.

"What instrument do you play, Sans?"

"welp, i play the trom-BONE. it's my favorite," Sans joked as Sunset giggled.

"so, what do you play sunny?"

"I play the electric guitar."

"nice," Sans replied with an impressed look.

Sunset had a question in her head that popped up. She forgot to ask him where did he come from. It was really odd that a monster would just show up one day and appear in school. "Maybe from Equestria? No, I don't think so. Plus he's a skeleton. If he were from Equestria, the portal should've turned him into a human like me," Sunset thought and decided to ask Sans about his appearance here at CHS.

"So Sans, I've been meaning to ask you something ever since you came here."

"huh, what is it sunny?", Sans asked in confusion.

"Where did you exactly come from?", Sunset finally asked.

As soon as Sans heard this, his eyes were as black as the void. His pupils disappeared as he began to look at Sunset, dead serious. Sunset took a step back with fear in her eyes. Sans took a few steps toward Sunset and stopped.

"you really wanna know why i'm here? you're not gonna like it pal, unless you wanna risk it. it could disturb you," Sans said in a deeper tone of voice.

Sunset was afraid to speak up, knowing that Sans was serious about this. "I shouldn't have asked that question. What were you thinking Sunset?", Sunset regretted herself in thought.

"Well, if you don't wanna talk about, I-Its fine," Sunset still shivering at Sans' dark, empty eyes.

Sans blinked at there was his two white pupils again. He returned to his normal self after that question which disturbed him.

"sorry bud. i guess i took it too far. well, if you wanna know the whole story, swing by my house later after school. if you want, you can bring your friends too," Sans said in his normal voice.

Sunset still trying to assess the situation on what just happened. She is still shivering at the way Sans just acted to her. He sure is scary as hell when he gets serious. Sunset was very sure not to get on his serious side ever again. Sans then wrote his address on a piece of paper and gave it to Sunset.

"Uhhh.... thanks, Sans. I'm sorry for bringing that question up, and note.... you sure are terrifying when your eyes are empty," Sunset replied still shivering a bit.

"eh sorry. i just do it when i'm really serious."

As the conversation ended, the school bell rang. It was finally lunchtime. After all the puns and touring, it was finally over. Sunset had a good time with the comical skeleton. She gave her laughs and it certainly made the tour more fun and interesting at the same time. Sunset was still unsure what is the origin of Sans and why is he here. She will find out soon.

"So Sans, did you enjoy the tour?", Sunset asked with a smile.

"sure did. i got the gist of everything. thanks for showing me around sunset. at least you're willing to help a skeleton like me. you don't get see this everyday in your life, do you? i guess not. welp, since its lunchtime, i guess it's time to grab some grub," Sans said as he walked to the door and opened it.

"you comin' sunny?"

"Coming."

Sunset knew that this school year is going to be very interesting.

Chapter 4: Getting To Know Each Other

Underground Judgment Hall

The radiant hall where the megalomaniac stood was empty. The fight took longer than it expected but it was finally done. Chara finally snapped a bone. After endless retries of combat: bones piercing, blasters disintegrating and knives slashing, their determination served them well...

But there was something wrong.

"Hmmm.. that should've done the job. Why am I still at Level 19? I reduced that comedian to dust. I should have leveled up," said the irritated demon child Chara.

Of course, Chara was not alone. Before she came into the picture, an innocent child who wouldn't even hurt a fly was named Frisk. Hence her name, it means to search or inspect. That is what she is good at. Her abilities include not only being able to come back after dying, but also checking monster stats. The ability also applies to humans so in short, it is a HUGE advantage for both Frisk and Chara because they can see what they're made of and how strong they are. The power of DETERMINATION can be lethal if it's in the wrong hands, which, it is. It's in the hands of a megalomaniac which its sole purpose is to take lives of the innocent just for entertainment.

"Whatever happened to Sans, I hope he's alright. Please Chara, stop. I don't want this anymore," pleaded Frisk.

"Have you forgotten already? You chose this path. You awakened me. Are you really that naive, Frisk? It was your choice, not mine. I was just encouraging you to go on so that the path you chose wouldn't go to waste. That would just take out all the FUN you're having.

Those screams... ohhhh. Music to my ears. You don't know how much I've been waiting for this day. Souls crying out in agony and in pain. I could never had such an audience like that ever again.... and don't bother being your innocent self again. I CONTROL you now."

Frisk was right. She started this path but she hoped to turn back soon until she awakened Chara who was on a relentless search for blood. After killing Toriel, Frisk felt something or someone trying to take control. It was time for Chara to resurface, to redeem herself, to cause havoc and pain to everyone who stands in her way. A demon who ironically, descended from above. Frisk could no longer have her own self again. She was possessed. She regretted every single thing she did because she was only curious and she didn't mean it to go that far. Now it's too late turn back. Hopelessness and regret was weighing down on Frisk's shoulders as she tried to stay DETERMINED, but she can't.

"So... to find this comedian. How about you Frisk? You have any idea where he is?, Chara asked.

"Umm... I don't really know. We saw him bleed then he went to go to Grillby's and after that... poof. He was gone."

"Well, my guess is that he's not dead... yet. We are supposed to be at Level 20 by now but it seems the skeleton wants more... FUN, don'tcha think Frisk?, Chara asked with a chuckle.

"Absolutely not, Chara! I will not let Sans experience another demise coming from the likes you," Frisk said with a vexed look.

"Did you forget? SINCE WHEN WERE YOU THE ONE IN CONTROL?," Chara gave Frisk a smile with dark liquid dripping from her mouth, empty eyes filled with dread and horror.

"I control this body now, Frisk. Nothing can keep us apart. We are in one vessel.
Now to find that weak skeleton who you called friend," Chara said.

Frisk has no other choice but to follow... for now. She will do everything to make things right again, even if it means costing her own life. She just hopes that Sans is okay wherever he is right now.

"I hope you're ready again for Chara, Sans," Frisk said in thought of herself.

CAFETERIA

The sound of students chattering and the smell of food being served was really getting to the short skeleton. Sunset told him that he would wait in line while she would join her friends at the table near the windows. The moment Sans walked into the cafeteria, some students looked at him at complete shock. Sans tried not to make a first impression as if it might cause some serious scream treatment. He just went on like it was a normal day for him and started to get in line.

In between the line, students in the front and back made a 5-feet distance from him. Guess he couldn't really blame them. Sans couldn't help but feel a little awkward with the food placed on his tray. It had a slice of meat, a flat one with a red slice of tomato, a green piece of lettuce on it and a slice of cheese, which the students called "sandwich". Next to his 'sandwich' was a carton filled orange drink and three ketchup packets which he asked for. He was glad that ketchup was still relevant to this new world; basically, because it was his personal favorite. After he got out of line, he couldn't see where bacon hair went off to, due to the fact that the students were surprisingly taller than him. They were as the same height of his brother, Papyrus, but not much taller than Toriel. He decided to find an empty table of his own, if there is any. To his surprise, there was one table that was a few steps right next him. He sat down and began to inspect this so called 'sandwich'.

"interesting," Sans thought as he took a bite and chewed slowly, hoping it was not as worse as Pap's spaghetti.
"heh. sorry, pap".

As he finished the chewing process, he find it that it was okay. Not as great as Pap's pasta, but it had a flavor that he never tasted before. After settling down his sandwich, he took the carton filled drink and gulped it. It tasted a little sour but most of the flavor is dominated by sweetness.

"not bad," Sans said as he finished the whole carton and went to his favorite part of the meal: KETCHUP

He began to tear open the first packet and begins to gulp down the red substance and then took another one and the last one. The sound of his gulping made some students cast weird eyes to him but Sans shrugged and began to eat his sandwich again. While he was minding his own business, what he doesn't know is that a group of girls including Sunset was watching him, with eyes raised.

BEFORE SANS ENTERED THE CAFETERIA

Sunset entered the cafeteria first to join her friends. She left Sans to himself because he needed to take a 5 minute stroll around the school again. He wanted to check the place on his own now so he would stop questions about where is this and that. It was okay with Sunset and she reminded him of.... first impression. Sunset went ahead of him and decided to join the girls. She sat right next to her friends.

Next to her was a light-pink haired girl who wore a white tank top and a lime green skirt with printed butterfly designs on it. Boots also colored in light green with teal colored eyes. In her pink hair, she had a butterfly shaped hair clip on one side. The girl's name is Fluttershy.

Beside her sits a rainbow haired girl with magenta colored eyes. Her shirt seems to be having a colorful lightning bolt design on it with her blue jacket overlaying it. She also wears a light magenta and white skirt, black shorts, rainbow-patterned socks and blue boots. She is known as Rainbow Dash.

On the edge of the seat was a pink haired girl with poofy hair and with sky-blue eyes. Wears a white shirt with short blue sleeves and a pink heart embedded on the white shirt. Light pink skirt with balloons printed on it, which were colored with blue and yellow patterns. Also wearing blue boots with pink bow ties on each of them. Pinkie Pie is her name.

On the other side of the table, there were three girls including Sunset. The one at the edge was an elegant girl who had flowing purple hair with a diamond shaped hair clip on one side of her hair. Her makeup is.... well, how do you describe it? Let's just say... it is fashionable. Her face, which consisted of delicate eyelashes, a little bit of light blue eyeshadow. Eyes that will make you gaze at her for a long time, dark blue eyes that is like the ocean. She wears a light violet skirt with diamonds printed on it and with dark violet boots with a diamond on each one. Her name is Rarity.

Sitting next to her was another girl. She had blonde hair with a brown Stetson hat on top. Green eyes with a few freckles on her face. Wears a green and white polo with sleeves rolled back, a blue skirt with pockets and an apple design on her belt, brown boots with apple designs on it. She goes by the name of Applejack.

Second to the last was a girl who has long purple hair with a pink streak flowing down her hair, with moderate violet eyes covered by a pair of eyeglasses. Her attire consists of a cyan shirt with a red-violet bow tie, skirt also colored in violet with a star symbol on it, cyan colored socks, and shoes with also a star symbol on it. This girl's name is Twilight Sparkle.

And finally, Sunset Shimmer.

After Sunset came back from touring Sans, she sat down with her friends. As soon as she sat down, the pink, poofy haired girl was the first to speak:

"Sunset-what-happened? why-were-you-called-by-Principal-Celestia? did-you-get-in-trouble? if-so-then-what? there-are-so-many-thi-," Pinkie was finally stopped by Applejack by placing her hand onto the energetic Pinkie Pie's mouth.

"Sugarcube, let Sunset here talk, alright?", Applejack suggested.

"Okie dokie," Pinkie replied.

Sunset gathered all her thoughts and she spoke.

"Thanks, Applejack... and no Pinkie, I didn't get into trouble. I was actually called to give someone a tour of the place."

"Another new student? Here? Well, I'll be. It's been ah' while since we had someone new here at CHS? What did he or she look like?", Applejack asked.

"Actually, you won't believe that I, possibly, had the most interesting tour in my whole life. It was surprising at first but later it went actually well and not to mention, it was 'SANS-ational'," Sunset joked.

The girls just exchanged looks with each other, confused at Sunset.

"Uhhh.... what?", Rainbow Dash asked with her left eyebrow raised.

"Sorry girls. It was a fun tour with Sans. He really kno-", Sunset was cut off by Applejack.

"Hold on just a minute, Sunset. So the new student's name is... Sans?" Twilight asked as it is a strange name.

"Yup," Sunset replied with a smile.

"Sans? What kind of name is that?," Rainbow Dash snorted.

"Darling, don't be rude. If his name is like that, then don't be disrespectful. We are all given certain names for a reason, even if it is the strangest of ones," Rarity told Rainbow Dash.

"Well, sorry," Rainbow said.

"Ahem. As I was saying, Sans really knows how to make someone laugh. I guess Pinkie needs to step up her game now. He even made Principal Celestia laugh until she cried laughing."

"REALLY?," the girls shouted in unison.

"Yup. Along the tour, he was cracking up jokes and I couldn't help but laugh," Sunset giggled.

"This Sans must be really funny, huh?", Fluttershy said in a low voice.

"Yeah. I can't wait to meet him. So, where is he?", Pinkie asked with excitement in her voice.

Just then, a door squeaked from the entrance of the cafeteria.

"Well, I guess you're about to find out girls," Sunset said.

There, they saw him. The girls, with eyes wide open and jaws dropped, couldn't believe what they are seeing right now. Rarity slowly spoke to Sunset about what in Equestria were they looking at.

"Sunset..... What.... is.... that?," Rarity asked with each pause in every word she said.

"That's Sans." Sunset said plainly.

"WHAT?", the girls said all at once.

"B-but wh-why is he l-like th-that?", Fluttershy said stuttering.

"Oh, I forgot to mention. He's a skeleton. That's why I was surprised at first glance, but he's nice once you get to know him."

"Does he have a skin condition, Sunset? Cause I'm sure as heck I've seen nothing like that before," Rainbow said as she was freaking out.

"Actually, he's.... what you call a monster I presume? But please girls, don't judge him by how he looks. Just give him a chance by being normal around him. We are supposed to be a friendly school, remember? We have a reputation to uphold," Sunset explained to the girls.

"Ah guess..... you're right sugarcube. We'll give this a shot," Applejack nodded.

"Well... if he's nice, I guess we should try at least," Fluttershy suggested.

"Great. I'm proud of you girls. Now Pin-,"

Sunset stopped mid-sentence as she just noticed that Pinkie just disappeared from their presence. The girls were also shocked.

"Ummm... where's Pinkie?" Rainbow asked.

Sans was enjoying his sandwich which he almost finished until a pink figure appeared next to her. Sans looked at her with a grin and settled the sandwich down.

"you really know how to make a first impression here, don't you pal?"

The pink haired girl, fueled with energy like no other, spoke to Sans with a joyful tone in her voice.

"You must be the new student here, right? My name is Pinkie Pie, party planner of the school."

Sans held out his hand and offered it to the energetic girl.
"the name's sans. sans the skeleton."

"Pleased to me-," Pinkie Pie was cut off by a fart sound that yet again, emerged from Sans' left hand. She heard this and started to giggle, with Sans chuckling.

"Hahahaha.... good one. It's nice to have someone who has a sense of humor around here. I like you already Sans," Pinkie said with a smile.

Sans was surprised that a pink, poofy haired girl just walked up to her, introduced herself, shook his hand, laughed and she already likes him. 'heh. so much for making a first impression," Sans thought.

"i like you too bud, and thanks for being... you.

"Huh? What do you mean 'being you?", Pinkie asked in confusion.

"no kid. not me.. you," Sans replied.

"But you said 'you' and you're saying that you is me. I don't get it," Pinkie said with a grin on her face.

"kid. i don't know what to think anymore," Sans said as he is ready to give up.

Suddenly, Pinkie laughed. Sans sat there in confusion, bewildered as to why she would just laugh out of no reason.

"I was just messing with you Sans. I know what you meant by being 'me'. Sunset told me and the others that since you're the first monster student here, she suggested that we give you a chance at being treated like a normal student. Normally, other people aren't comfortable into talking skeletons, but you seem like a nice guy." Pinkie had an idea that popped in her head.

"Hey, you wanna come over to our table? Sunset's there with us," Pinkie insisted.

"oh, sure pal. i would like to meet your friends too. i would like to know more about you and the others you say," Sans replied with a big smile.

"Great. Now come on!," Pinkie exclaimed and grabbed Sans' right hand with force.

"woah, woah kid. slow down. i can walk, you know." Sans said as he brought the tray with him.

As the girls saw Pinkie dragging the figure, they settled themselves down and they prepared what was about to come to them. As soon as Pinkie and the skeleton arrive, Pinkie sat next to Sans. Before Sans even knew it, he was beside an exuberant girl and a rainbow colored hair girl. Sunset was the first to speak up.

"Hey Sans," Sunset said with her beamed smile.

"hey sunset," Sans replied with a grin.

"So, I guess you already know Pinkie Pie here. She can really be open to others, such as you."

"so I've assumed."

"Mah name's Applejack. It's ah pleasure to meet ya," Applejack said as she lowered her hat.

"Hi. I'm Twilight Sparkle."

"The name's Rainbow Dash."

"Pleasure to meet you. My name's Rarity."

"M-My n-name is Flu-Fluttershy," a barely audible voice can be heard from Fluttershy.

"i'm taking she's the shy one here?" Sans asked.

"Yup, but try to be a little careful when approaching her. She's sensitive," Sunset said.

"i'll keep that in mind."

"Since we've introduced ourselves, tell us a little more about you Sans," Rarity suggested.

"well. as you can already see, i'm a skeleton. i'm supposed to be dead but not me. i just wanna thank all of you for giving me a chance to be treated like a normal student like you all."

"No worries, darling. We are a friendly institution and we, CHS students, want to make every school year memorable for us. And it seems to me that this will be a very interesting year for us, don't you agree girls?", Rarity asked.

The girls nodded in response.

"yeah. interesting indeed." Sans said in thought as he kept remembering the job that he's supposed to finish.

As soon as they finish conversing with each other, the school bell rang. It is time to go back to classes and Sans was the first to volunteer in leaving first because he needs some time to think about what move will he make next.

"welp, that's my cue. since it's my first time here, i'm gonna go ask celly for a schedule of my classes. see ya' later," Sans said as he walked out of the cafeteria along with the other students. The six girls were the only ones left.

"What did he just call Principal Celestia?", Rainbow and Twilight snickered.

"He is a bit rude for a skeleton," Rarity added.

"It's his first time here, Rarity. I'm sure he was just joking around," Rainbow said as he gave Rarity a light elbow nudge.

"Hmmm... I suppose."

"I guess we should go now. I don't want to be late for classes," Fluttershy said in her normal voice again since no one was around.

As they were about to depart, Sunset remembered what Sans gave to her in the band room. His address. Everything will be explained. If she wants, she could take her friends to know why Sans is really here. Sunset felt that something bad was about to happen very soon as to why Sans acted so serious then. He didn't want to talk about it but since he insisted, it's her choice to whether know the truth or just leave it be. She caught with the girls and explained it to them.

"You want us to come with you to his house? Well, count me in. I want to know where he lives," Rainbow said in her hyped voice.

"I suggest that we should all go. We need to at least know more about Sans if he is going to be our friend," Rarity said.

"Okay, it's settled. We all go. Let's meet at the courtyard after school is over," Sunset finally settled the decision. Although, some part of her knew that they're not going to like what they're gonna hear from Sans. She just hopes that it does not require some saving-the-world type of thing. They could use a little break from everything they've been through: Battle of the Bands, Friendship Games, Camp Everfree. They've been through a lot, from saving everyone from being hypnotized to saving the camp from Gaia Everfree. It was hard days work. As the school being a magical place, she thought that things will never be the same again since Sans came. There is something coming, no doubt. Something that will be much more of a threat than all of the events they faced.

Soon, the truth will be revealed.

Chapter 5: Dark Past Unveiled (Part 1)

Sans made his way to Celestia for a list of his class schedule. Thoughts run through his head as he tries to think straight, not letting his fears of everyone dying overtake him. As he was clearly not paying attention to the direction he's walking, he bumped into someone, causing him to snap from his senses and look at the person he just walked into. The person before her had both moderate sapphire hair with grayish persian blue flowing through her hair. She had light bluish gray skin, moderate opal eyes with a light grayish magenta eyeshadow. Her attire consists of a light violet shirt, dark purple pants and
violet and white shoes. She began to speak with authority:

"Doth not know where thy going?," said the light blue skinned figure before her.

Sans just stood there in confusion as he didn't understand the dialect she just spoke. Maybe she used the English language before, the language used to show formality. The lady before her laid fingers under her chin and spoke again:

"Hmmm... perhaps Modern English? Yes?"

"yup. with all respect lady, i didn't understand the language you just said," Sans replied with an eyebrow raised.

"It is fine, young one. May I know who am I speaking to?", the woman asked.

"the name's sans. sans the skeleton, but you can call me sans. pleased to meet 'ya," Sans said as he once again offered his left hand for another prank.

"Pleased to-," the woman stopped at her sentence as the sound of a fart can be heard from shaking the skeleton's hand.

"heh heh heh. that never fails," Sans said as he chuckled.

The woman, who stood there with eyes wide open, was surprised and she just went along with it by giggling.

"welp, thanks lady," Sans replied with a grin.

"Your greeting is quite amusing, I must say. No one has ever done something like that before. Anyways, my name is Luna, Vice Principal Luna."

Sans, with eyesockets wide open, was surprised to finally meet the Principal's little sis. He must say, she's also quite the looker same with Celestia.

"you're the one celly told me about. well, hey again," Sans said.

"Yes. I heard that my big sister had someone new here at CHS. Never thought it'd be you, young one. She said something about you being different from the others. Well, that I could see now....," replied Luna.

"And please, address her as Principal Celestia or Celestia to show your formality. I am the only allowed to nickname her as we are sisters," continued Luna

"sorry......and you're not at all scared by this?", Sans said as he was pertaining to his figure.

"Why should I, Sans? You seem like an innocent youth to me. Plus, my sister said that you would be the funny type. You made her laugh, right? Well, personally, I would like to see how well you would execute your witticism to us," Luna replied with a smile.

"heh. no problem. i'm like the walking joke book, if i do say so myself," Sans said as he tapped his chest with his hand.

Luna snickered at this and she will soon find out how much this skeleton will prove his pride in executing his profession at being comical. She observed that there is more to this skeleton than meets the eye. Sure, he may be funny and friendly on the outside, but deep inside, there is something bothering him. Just as she find it odd that a monster would just randomly appear out of nowhere to enroll. Such curiosity was in the vice principal's mind.

"anyways, i'm just on my way to get a list of my classes to attend," Sans said.

"Oh, right. My sister wanted me to give you this personally, so that I could see you for myself," Luna said as she gave Sans a sheet of paper which was the list that Sans was supposed to get from Celestia.

"woah. thanks uhh.. vice principal luna was it?"

"Correct, but you can call me Luna as of now," Luna replied with a glee in her smile.

"thanks, luna. it was nice talking with 'ya. now i need to get to..... history class. ughhh...", Sans grunted.

"Well, better hurry Sans. You don't want to be late for class, do you?"

"well, i'd rather stay here and crack up some jokes at you but i guess that's a no, huh?", Sans asked.

"Perhaps, but everyone needs to work. Now go along," Luna said.

"yeah. i'll make sure i'm a 'BONE-afied' skeleton," Sans chuckled.

Luna giggled as Sans went on to his first class. They waved at each other and continued on to their doing.
'What a humerus, skeleton.... Luna placed her hand on her mouth, knowing that she just made a pun and laughed a bit.

Sans examined his schedule for the school year ahead of him. He also noticed a small piece of paper stapled at the top left corner of his schedule. A few words were written:

"Here's the combination and your locker number is 375, Sans. Have a nice day."
-Celestia

"heh. thanks lady," Sans chuckled.

Sans made his way to the locker and entered the combination given to him. He opened and saw a bunch of books, piled on top the other on the floor of the locker. He grabbed the history book and headed to his first class. On the way, he saw students enter to their required class one by one. As he passes each classroom, students quickly entered into their room, as if they don't want to be stay any longer with that roaming around. Sans doesn't really care about this because who is he to blame them? If he were they, wouldn't he feel the same way towards monsters?

He finally found the History class, which was only a few walks from his locker. He sighed heavily, preparing as to what is behind the door. Turning the doorknob and opened it, he was greeted by glances of students. Some were weirded out, uncomfortable looks and he could tell that some are having fear in their eyes. His facial reading skills still works and he walked in. In front, there was a figure which had grayish harlequin eyes, hair colored in moderate and light cerise and her skin coated in pale, light greyish cerise. Her attire is made up of a white shirt with a collar and a moderate green shirt overlaying, dark and light green skirt with sunflowers printed on it, light green socks and brown boots with green laces. She walked up to Sans and spoke:

"Hi there! Welcome to History Class, my name is Miss Cheerilee and I'll be the subject teacher for the class. And you are?", Cheerilee asked as she held out her hand.

"oh man. this is gonna be good," Sans thought.

"the name's sans. sans the skeleton," Sans greeted as he too offered his hand to Cheerilee. As their hands made contact, a fart sounded which was loud enough for the class to hear and they began to laugh. Sans chuckled and Cheerilee was just surprised.

"You seem to be quite the comedian, aren't you? Well, we could use some laughs around here," Cherilee said with a smile.

"eh. no problem. i could live up to the name as "most funny" award, don'tcha think?", Sans replied with a wink.

"We shall see," Cheerilee giggled.

"Now go find a seat somewhere. We're about to start."

Sans did what Cheerilee told him to do and as he passed by the students, they just looked at him with a smile. Sans smiled back and he found his seat. He sat down and began to prepare for the lecturing which he really he doesn't pay attention to. The class went on for an hour and Sans was just trying to stay awake the whole time but he gave up and ended up sleeping anyways after 10 minutes into the lesson. He'd rather listen to science class than this backstory of humans going into war. Sans already knew this before, he just doesn't want to bring it up again. After an hour, the school bell rang and it was time for everyone to go home. As Sans left the room and walk to his locker, he was now thinking how is he going to tell the girls about the whole demon child problem. He doesn't want to panic the girls into thinking that they're all gonna die, which is a big possibility in Sans' book. They might blame him for existing in the first place, if he didn't come here, then they would live a happy and normal life. Sans is now balancing the pro's and cons of the situation, figuring out the possible outcome of this life and death situation. Only time will tell when the real fight is about to begin.

"should i really tell them or leave them and let me handle this problem? i guess they deserve the truth. i don't want them to be unprepared of what is coming. they don't deserve to die like my friends," Sans said in thought.

He made it to his locker, placed the book inside and went outside to meet the girls, still bothered about the whole everyone-will-die problem.

"Where is this skeleton? We've been waiting for like hours," Rainbow argued.

"Don't worry, Rainbow. Ah'm sure he'll be here any time now," Applejack said.

"And besides, he's new here. Don't pressure him," Sunset added.

"Fine," Rainbow replied.

"So, Sunset. What do you think about the Sans?", Twilight asked.

"Well, he seems to be a nice guy. Not to mention, funny," Sunset giggled.

"Mhmmm. Me and Sans might be the perfect comical duo," Pinkie said with a huge smile.

"That you're right, Pinkie," Rarity replied.

All the girls laughed and they conversed with each other once again. After a few minutes, Sans went outside and saw the girls, which were busy talking with each other. He walked up to them and they saw him.

"so, you girls ready?"

"Uhhh... yeah we are!", Rainbow exclaimed.

"ok. let's go then," Sans said as he and the girls started to head for his new home. He was ahead of them and they were conversing like normal people would do, but Sans just kept going. Not trying to start a conversation until they're all at his place. He just kept wondering how is he going to stop the kid and how the girls are gonna take the news. He was just silent, not minding anyone's business. Minutes later, they arrived at his place. They all went inside and looked at the place. It was just right for everyone to move around, not too cramp or not too wide.

"make yourselves at home," Sans insisted.

"Don't mind if we do," Rainbow smiled.

Sunset, Fluttershy, Twilight and Rarity sat down on the couch while AppleJack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were examining the place which was pretty decent for a skeleton.

"Nice place you got here, Sans. You bought it?," Applejack asked.

"nope. got it from my dad," Sans replied as he took out a bottle of ketchup from the fridge and sat down in one of those tall chairs in the dining room.

"WHAT?! You're father gave you this place? Much generosity, if I do say so myself," Rarity said in shock..

"You're dad must be pretty successful," Twilight added.

"yeah...", there was a long pause by Sans and after taking a small gulp from the ketchup, he finally said:
"he was."

The girls were horrified at what Sans just said. They looked at him with sympathy, compassion and care, as if the skeleton had been gone through a lot and he did. Sans looked at them also for a few seconds, placed the ketchup away and laid his head on his side on his right arm.

"I'm.... sorry.... Sans. If there's any-," Twilight was soon stopped as Sans interrupted her.

"save your breath, kid. it's my problem, not yours," Sans replied.

"Look Sans, we just want to help. We all know you're having a tough time here, having lost a father and being... alone. We don't know what you've been through lately but we are here Sans. If you need help, just approach us," Sunset said as the other girls nodded.

Sans sighed heavily at what Sunset just said and he showed off a small grin. The girls also gave him a smile.

"well, you can start helping me by telling me who you really are," Sans said as he sat down on a chair facing the rectangular table where the notes from Gaster are.

The girls exchanged looks with one another in confusion, but Sans knew something was different and they couldn't fool him. He knew something was odd with the girls when he met them. He can see it in their faces.

"come on. it's not like i'm gonna bite or anything," Sans chuckled.

"Well.... shoot, where to start," Applejack said pondering.

"i suggest... starting from the beginning. it could help you remember everything."

"Well, I guess he deserves the truth. Everyone at CHS knows and he's the only who doesn't," Twilight said as she fixed her eyeglasses.

"We've been through a lot too and we've come a long way, huh girls?" Sunset said as she glanced to other girls and they all nodded.

"this'll be interesting. so, if you're ready, you can start," Sans said with a grin.

Sunset breathed in and out and began to tell everything that has happened.
"Okay. So let's start where Twilight first came to this world."

The whole story went on for hours as Sunset and the girls didn't want to leave any details. They all shared their stories, from defeating Sunset Shimmer at the Fall Formal, to defeating the Sirens at the Battle of the Bands, to meeting the human Twilight at the Friendship Games and finally, to defeating Gaia Everfree from trapping everyone. It was the first time that Sans didn't fell asleep in a conversation. He listened to every story, every adventure these girls had. It sure was a lot to take in but he got everything. Sunset also told Sans about the geodes they got from the camp. It gave them powers which was the part where Sans was interested the most. He got every detail about the pendants they wore and their abilities. After that lengthy story, Sans processed all the information in his head and sighed.

"okay. so, you got these um... geodes from camp?"

"Yeah," Dash explained, "And whenever we wear them we got these awesome powers and outfits."

"Ah, those garments," Rarity cut in, "Those were simply marvelous and stunning."

"but some of you aren't wearing the pendant things..."

"Don't worry Sans. We can still access our powers still the same. The geodes weren't necessarily needed to be wore. After a years of wearing them, they became a part of us. It became a permanent thing," Sunset explained.

"hmmm.. it got used to its host. interesting, but where did the geodes come from?", Sans with a brow raised.

"Who cares? It gave us these awesome superpowers," Rainbow said with her arms crossed and a smile formed in her face.

The other girls shook their heads. "We still have no idea where these things came from," Sunset answered.

"maybe from another world, where this pony twilight came from," Sans in thought.

"Since our story's been told, how about you Sans? Tell us your side of the story," Twilight asked as the girls also were prepared to listen.

"since you're all eager to listen, i guess there's no point in holding back anymore," Sans shrugged.

The girls looked at each other in confusion as Sans used his psychokinesis to open the fridge and grab seven burgs so they could eat. Eyes wide open, they were appalled at the floating burgs on the air, and it made their way to the microwave near the sink.

"while that's heating up, i guess it's story time."

They looked back at Sans, amazed as to what he just did.

"How....did....you....do....that?" Sunset asked in awe.

"you do know you could say that in one complete sentence. the answer is psychokinesis by the way and that's not the only thing i can do."

"Are there any more?"

"i can summon bones. normal ones and blue ones. blue ones are... let's say, stop signs. if you get hit by this type of bone, don't move it won't hurt. move and it'll hurt you," Sans explained and after, the microwave gave a small beep, telling Sans it was time to chow down. He opened the microwave and distributed the burgers to the girls.

"chow down. time to eat."

"Um...Aren't you going to eat, Sans?" Fluttershy asked.

"nah. i could get some myself anytime. besides, not hungry cause i'm all bones here," Sans said with a wink.

"Oh, ok," Fluttershy replied with a soft giggle.

"so where were we? oh, blue bones right. just imagine them as blue stop signs," Sans said.

As the girls took a bite out of their burgers, they continued to ask questions to the small skeleton.

"Are bones and psychokinesis your only abilities?", asked Twilight.

"nope. actually, i use my other two when things get really serious," Sans explained.

"Can you show us?", Sunset asked.

Sans put his hands together behind his back and folded his right leg on the left one and laid back on the seat. He snapped his fingers and out comes a small shaped-like monster skull which was the size of his head.

"OH! What a cutie!", Fluttershy squeed.

"heh. i call this a 'gasterblaster'. hence the name, it came from my dad's. he created this because it was one of his greatest creations ever. i can summon many more just like this, each with their sheer and massive size."

Sans snapped his fingers again, this time a normal sized gasterblaster appeared in front of them. Luckily, it was fitting enough inside the house and Sans was relieved as he didn't plan it out this way.

"not to mention, they can pack a punch. meaning, get hit by one, and you'll see yourself lying in a hospital bed," Sans said.

The girls stopped at what they're doing and gave Sans a petrified look, especially Fluttershy. She whimpered quietly in her seat and she covered her face with her light-pink, silky hair. Sans saw this and he felt ashamed for saying that his blasters were a killing machine, not caring about their size, big or small. He snapped his fingers and summoned a small Gasterblaster and it snuggled Fluttershy to make her feel comfortable. The shy girl cuddled the small blaster and she felt normal and happy again.

"so. back to what i was saying. i could summon large quantities of these but it can take a toll on my magic usage. too much use can quickly drain me."

The girls were very interested, yet at the same time frightened at what this small, comical skeleton can do. Size doesn't matter at all as long they have something up their sleeve.

"So, what's your last ability?", Rainbow asked.

"first, i need a volunteer."

No one raised their hand because they were too scared of what Sans can do except Sunset. She was eager to find out what this unknown ability that Sans can do. As so, Sunset raised her hand.

"I'll do it", Sunset answered.

The others were in complete shock, as she was the only brave one to do this. They gave her worried looks but Sunset glared at them with eyes of reassurance, knowing that Sans will have no intention of hurting her or anyone.

"okay then. your SOUL might feel a little heavy when I pick you up," Sans said.

"Wait, what do you mean?", Sunset asked.

"watch."

Sans closed his eyes and opened them, revealing a glowing light blue and yellow eye on his left. The room began to feel dimmed but the girls could still see each other. The room was like a cinema. Sans held out his hand and out of Sunset's chest came a glowing yellow heart. "that's your SOUL, the culmination of your being. justice huh.. never really saw any more of them. protect it at all costs because everyone needs their SOULs alive right? now i'm gonna turn it blue so i could demonstrate by ability well. you might feel heavier, but that's the point. now, i'm going to slowly lift you up." Sans raised his hand slowly and up goes Sunset Shimmer. She was floating in mid-air as the girls were in complete amazement and shock.

"i call this SOUL manipulation. basically, it turns the host's SOUL blue and i can move it whenever i want. meaning, i control their SOUL until i want stop. this tires me out much faster so i gonna use it when its necessary," Sans explained.

"okay, i'm gonna put you down now."

Sunset felt uneasy at first, but she was normal again. "Well, I do feel heavy when you lifted me. I've never seen that kind of magic before. Must have come from your dad, right?"

"yeah."

"i also have this ability called karmic retribution. it turns your sins against you. when you hurt others, your karma increases which allows my attacks to hurt even more. it doesn't kill the enemy completely but it brings them down to only 1 HP left. so, if you're a pacifist kind of person, my attacks would have less of an effect of hurting the opponent," Sans explained.

"So in short, don't hurt anyone," Pinkie added.

"not saying that i'm trying to prevent you from hurting others. of course, you need to defend yourselves right? if it's of good intention, then it's fine."

"Ohhhh..... okay," Pinkie said with a smile.

"So.....ah guess we're not the only ones now with crazy magical powers," Applejack chuckled.

"i guess not. i can also do 'shortcuts'."

"You can do what now?", Twilight asked in puzzlement.

"watch."

He observed his surroundings and saw Pinkie Pie near the refrigerator. "hey, pinkie. who's that behind you?"

The pink haired girl tilted her head, confused with a raised eyebrow and when she turned around, to her surprise, Sans was there behind her. Pinkie, including the others had their jaws dropped with a look of bewilderment.

"Whaa.... H-how d-did you?", Twilight stuttered.

"heheh. guess."

"You can teleport? That...is.....AWESOME!", Rainbow squeed.

"yup, you guessed it. teleportation. well you know how it works, you get from point a to point b. to be blunt, it's not easy. you have to memorize the map values or coordinates of your desired location. once you have this ability, you'll start seeing numbers which indicates the specific coordinates of where you are. it took me ages to map the whole Underground so in short, useful but a pain."

"Underground? Is that where you came from?," Sunset asked.

"yeah. it's where all the other monsters including me live, well..... it was until....," Sans with a hesitant voice as he goes back to his seat. "i'll get to that later on."

All the girls gave him worried faces, something dreadful happened and talking him out of it won't help one bit, but they have to try.

"Sans, like I said before, we're here to help. Just tell us what's bothering you and we can handle it from there," Sunset with a caring tone in her voice.

"Yeah! We're here to help you Sansy, all the way!", Pinkie said cheerfully while Sans snickered a little.

"Darling, don't be afraid to tell us. Someone like you must be taken care of, especially your feelings," Rarity added.

"you don't understand. if i tell you, you would be in mortal danger than you have ever been in your life. i don't want you girls to be involved in this, especially when considering the risk," Sans replied with a worried face.

"What risk? Whatever it is, we-," Rainbow said as she was cut in by this statement.

"the risk of all of you dying," Sans replied with his eyes blackened and a deeper tone in his voice.

All of them, including Pinkie which was always the happy one, looked at Sans in horror. They never seen him like this, except for Sunset. Those empty black eyes of his made sure that he was very serious. The tone, the gesture, it was a nightmare. Rainbow was taken back by this, knowing that Sans didn't joke about them being dead.

"P-Pardon me, Sans, but to what you just said, we don't understand com-," Rarity tried to form the words but was interjected by that look Sans gave her.

Sans sighed and felt bad about himself. He saw that everyone had fearful eyes of him, not to mention, the custard skinned girl (Fluttershy) was quietly sobbing behind her light-pink hair. Twilight and Rarity tried to comfort the sensitive girl and she slowly began to calm down. Sans showed his two white pupils again to avoid scaring the hell out of the girls, especially the sensitive one.

"sorry about that. i didn't mean for that to happen. i just lost count how many of my friends died. i can't let that happen to anyone, especially to you girls. i-i c-can't," Sans said as he to started freak out and began to slowly hyperventilate with his hands on each side of his head, thinking of the outcome of the fight that is about start soon.

"i've seen too much. felt too much. too many screams to count. gone, one after the other. how could i've been so stupid to let them die like that. i wi-wish i c-could take it all back," Sans said as every breath that escaped from him, he began to breath heavily. Other than that, his left eye began to glow again. This time, it was just there illuminating, not trying to conjure anything, but it was just there showing its flashing light of blue and yellow.

Sunset ran to him, "Sans, tell us what's wrong," she said with a worried tone in her voice. Sans laid down his right arm on the ledge of the seat while the other is still on the side of his head, still freaking out with his eyes closed. Sunset saw his hand that was there, open and she figured that this was her chance to see what was really bothering him. She reached for his hand and before she could held it, a hand from behind was placed on her shoulder. It was Twilight, followed by the others.

"If you're going to do it, let us see it too," Twilight said with a determined expression.

"Yeah. We gotta help him. Something's really bothering him... and I got a weird feeling that we're not gonna like what we're gonna see," Rainbow added.

"And whatever it is, we can face it together." Applejack said with a reassured smile and the others smiled but a weak one was formed.

"Well, here goes nothing," Sunset took a deep breath as the others held hands together so they could see what Sunset sees. Sunset held his hand and Sans' left eye glowed brightly while Sunset and her friends glowed with white eyes, delving into the skeleton's memories.

Chapter 6: Dark Past Unveiled (Part 2)

Cold. The air, environment.... the feeling was chilly. Sunset, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie laid on the frosty, soft ground unconscious while breathing cold air. Sunset was the first to awaken and she inspected her surroundings. Trees lined up from right to left with small gaps enough for her to see through it. She woke up the other girls so they could find out where they ended up in Sans' memories. They stood up and they felt a cold feeling. It wasn't too cold like the South Pole, it was just right while they still breathed out frosty air. Pinkie was the first to speak up:

"Huhhh. Never knew Sans' memories were this bone-chilling," Pinkie giggled.

"This isn't the time for jokes, Pinkie," Rainbow said, her hands rubbing both her forearms.

"Rainbow's right. We have to find what's bothering Sans here, but it seems I don't find anything suspicious yet," Twilight replied, wiping the snowy particles from her eyeglasses.

"Well, this is a first. Never really knew that you can enter inside someone's memory. Come on. We gotta find-," Sunset said but was interrupted by a creaking sound to their right, which they saw a door and out came a child wearing a striped pink-purple and blue sweater, blue shorts and brown shoes.

"A human? Here? Well, slap mah' head and call me silly. Never thought someone could be here in Sans' memory," Applejack said in shock.

"Applejack, darling. You're gonna blow our cover. I suggest using a conversational voice as to not attract any unwanted attention," Rarity with her index finger out, correcting Applejack.

"Sorry, Rares."

The girls just observed the small child, hidden behind the tall trees, which seemed to tower high above. The child began to walk through the icy path with her face covered with brown hair and behind it, a smile formed but it wasn't just any smile. Sunset could notice something sinister about this child, to which she found quite disturbing. The girls slowly began to follow child, but a few feet away, they see a very familiar figure wearing a blue jacket, which was also hiding behind the trees hidden from sight. The girls gasped as they saw Sans observing the figure walking past him. They quietly approached Sans to ask him what was going on.

"Sans, we're here. Umm... hello?," Rainbow said as she waved her hand in front of Sans' face, but he seems to ignore it.

"Sunset, this is just a memory. We cannot interact anyone here. We can only see them and even if we make a sound, it doesn't matter as they won't hear or see us in someone's head," Sunset explained.

As they turned around, Sans was gone and they heard something split into pieces, which made Fluttershy fidget. To their surprise, it was just a stick which was strangely broken to pieces by something, considering the child was already a few feet past it

"What was that?", Fluttershy asked as she shivered.

"It was just a stick, darling. Nothing to be afraid of," Rarity replied, comforting the timid girl.

Sunset now sees Sans following the child, still hidden from their plain sight. Sunset and the others followed him but when they reach him, he seems to disappear.

"Where did he go now?", Rainbow asked.

They soon heard something or someone walk from the path the child was on. It was a silhouette which walked fast, towards the small child but then disappeared after a few seconds. The girls were in shock, which made them freeze in their place. Before they even knew it, they heard Sans' footsteps following the seemingly disturbing child. The girls followed Sans and yet again, Sans disappeared.

"Ughh... That little bonehead is always gone when we get to him," Rainbow said annoyingly.

"Hey, there he is," Applejack pointed at the familiar silhouette walking towards the child who was frozen in place.

Sans was approaching the child behind and then stopped, only for the child to turn around and he held out his hand. The child shook the skeleton's hand and yet again, a fart sound was heard and Pinkie seemed to giggle a bit. However, the child didn't smirk or giggled at all. Instead, it was still forming that disturbing, yet sinister smile, implying that it wasn't amused at the prank. That smile had something else behind it, something with malicious intent.

"that's your uhh... cue to laugh. or, uh, to emote at all....?", Sans asked with an eyebrow raised. After a few awkward seconds, he shrugged. "ok, that's fine. everyone's got their sense of humor. the name's sans. sans the skeleton...."

The girls stood there, motionless and speechless, as they saw the child didn't really care about conversing with Sans. It's like the child knows already what he's talking about, or the child already heard it before. The two just continued to talk to each other until a gigantic hole formed under the girls' feet. They shrieked as they fell into the depths of the dark hole. As they descended, they could hear screams of every monster being reduced to ashes. Bloody faces everywhere, symphonic screams, sinister laughs. It's like a never ending nightmare and they saw the child with black liquid dripping from its eyes and mouth. The child that brought ruin and destruction which seemed to please itself by playing with its toys. The girls couldn't bear everything they just witnessed. After that, they landed on a soft puddle of snow and got up after a few seconds.

"That.... that was dreadful!," Rarity exclaimed.

"You could say that again. Ah've never seen anything like that before," Applejack said with a troubled expression.

"We gotta find Sans. We have to-," Sunset was cut short as the girls saw a tall skeleton with arms wide open in front of them and it began to spoke.

"ARE YOU OFFERING A HUG OF ACCEPTANCE? I, PAPYRUS, WELCOME YOU WITH OPEN ARMS," said the seemingly tall skeleton. The girls were confused, but yet still terrified.

"This must be Sans' brother," Twilight observed.

"How did you know that?", Rainbow asked.

"He's a skeleton, just like him."

"Well, maybe. I just hope we don't go through that scary hole again," Rainbow said as she shivered from the thought. They all stood up and Sunset spoke:

"Who is he talk-," a figure, or the child swooped in and slit its knife into the friendly skeleton's chest and despite its chest being exposed, it still had a smile. Few moments later, the skeleton's head came off and landed on the soft snow while its body dispersed into dust.

"W-WELL, THAT'S NOT WHAT I EXPECTED...
BUT....
ST.....STILL! I BELIEVE IN YOU!
YOU CAN DO A LITTLE BETTER.... EVEN IF YOU DON'T THINK SO!
I..... I PROMISE...."

The head also joined the body in dust. The girls gasped in horror as they covered their mouths with their hands while the child in front of them stood there seeing the dust in the air.

"HEY, YOU! You can't just-," Rainbow shouted but a light flashed and the child disappeared. They were still in the same place as before.

"We have to stop that kid. That thing is remorseless to anything."

"Yeah, no kidding," Sunset made an obvious statement.

"Uhmmm.... girls?", Fluttershy asked in a shaky voice.

"What is it, sugarcube?", Applejack asked. Fluttershy pointed at someone behind them and they saw Sans looking down at the scarf which was left behind by that poor skeleton they just met. Sans knelt down and picked up the scarf and started to mourn with words barely audible.

"pap... i'm sorry....i'm....sorry.....i'm sorry.....why, why kid.....why....why...."

Tears ran down his eyes while feeling the scarf he held. That scarf was his brother's. The girls don't know how much it meant to him, how dear that thing was in Sans' heart. He never wanted to let go of the scarf, for it seems that it was the only lifeline. Sans kept grieving about it and the girls were just there standing, not knowing what to say. They stood there, with eyes shocked and all of them had tears dripping from their eyes. Their hearts broke as they saw the brother of Sans get murdered in front of them.

"I'm.....so......so.....sorry...... Sans," Fluttershy said as she fell to her knees and started weeping too.

After a few moments, Sans began to stood up still holding the scarf in his hands. His eyes grew black again, with his signature grin on his face.

"that kid....is gonna......have...one.... bad....TIME!!," Sans angrily said with his left eye flashing uncontrollably, showing how pissed off he was.

The girls took a step back to give the enraged skeleton some space and when they turned around, they saw themselves on a wooden bridge. In front of them, they saw the ruthless child and facing it, was another figure who has a body of a fish. It seems to wear an armor which had a heart shape on the center with white gloves, accompanied by boots with pointed toes. Its pupils were white and her sclera turns black. Its left eye emits a flashing light in the shape of a spear, hair spikes at the ends and its fins become more rigid and pointy.

"You're gonna have to try a little harder than that," the fish said with a DETERMINED tone in its voice. It's voice sounded like of a tomboyish girl's voice just like Rainbow Dash's.

The child raised her knife to attack but the fish figure snapped her fingers and spears came up from the ground with unexpectedly. Then a voice was heard behind the girls' backs.

"You can do it, Undyne. I know you can."

The girls turned around to see a small, monster kid which has a resemblance of a dinosaur. It had no arms and it wore a yellow shirt with brown stripes. It kept cheering for this-Undyne person which led to think that she is a good guy trying to fight for the good. The demon child's heart appeared and it broke into pieces, leading to the conclusion that the fight was over, but if only it were that easy.

"That Undyne sure knows how to kick some serious butt," Rainbow said impressed.

"I'm glad that's ov-," Twilight sighed but was interrupted by a figure passing through them. Right now, the girls were just ghosts in Sans' memory. No one will be able to see or hear them. To the girls surprise, it was, yet again, the child. They gasped in shock as it charges again at Undyne.

"H-How d-did it come b-back? We saw it die, didn't we? It isn't possible!", Sunset said in shocked and bafflement.

"This thing is not human. Sans will have some explaining to do," Twilight observed.

The girls were in awe and amazement and also in fear as the child seems to come back, unwilling to give up. Undyne kept fighting and fighting with all her might but with every comeback, the child seems to know every move she makes now. After blood and sweat was spent on the battlefield, Undyne has finally met her match. Not long, she began to shiver and began to melt.

"Damn it... Heheheh... If you...If you think I'm gonna give up hope, you're wrong.
'Cause I've... got my friends behind me.
Alphys told me that she would watch me fight you...
And if anything went wrong... she would... evacuate everyone.
By now she's called ASGORE and told him to absorb the 6 human SOULs.
And with that power...
This world will live on...!", exclaimed the Undyne who know dispersed into dust particles.

With contracted pupils and with hands on their mouth, they saw that the child seemed to be the victor of this fight. Then, the child turned around and the girls froze in their place.

"You're next, my little EXP," said the demon child as she lunged forward towards the innocent monster child in front of them and a scream was heard. The girls also shouted in fear, and turned around to run away from that thing. The only problem is when they turn around, they were surrounded by every monster, with their faces bleeding, throats slit and chests exposed. The girls were just wailing with tears forming in their eyes shouting out for help, but nobody came.

As the nightmares began to close in, a light shone on them and the nightmares disappeared. A few moments, it flashed at the girls, only to find themselves in a long, yet bright hall, with huge pillars. The hall had a yellow light, emitting from the windows which had an interesting pattern embedded on them. Beams of light shone through the extensive hall, peacefulness of matter, birds are singing. It was a beautiful day outside.

"Umm... where are we?", Fluttershy asked.

"I'm not quite sure darling, but that sight earlier.... that was horrendous!", Rarity exclaimed.

"Being in somebody's head with this kind of memory, it gives me the creeps. I may not be able to sleep tonight, or maybe, NEVER!", Rainbow argued, folding her arms.

"I kind of want to get out now," Pinkie said, her voice somewhat faltering.

"Yeah... All of us need to get the heck outta here," Applejack replied.

"Agreed," Rarity added.

"It seems that we are in a hall of some sort, with no one in it," Twilight said, looking around the corridor.

"Yeah, that's good. I don't want to see anymore of those faces with blood ever again. Sunset, just get us out of Sans' head," Rainbow suggested while the word 'blood' made Fluttershy shiver at the thought, as Rarity and Sunset comforted her.

"Alright. Here I g—," Sunset stopped as she and the other girls heard a very familiar voice from somewhere. They went to see him and there he was, talking to the child, whom in its wake left a trail of dust behind it.

"so, i've got a question for ya. do you even think the worst person can change...? that everybody can be a good person, if they just try?"

The child stepped forward, only making Sans chuckle.

"heh heh heh heh... all right. well here's a better question...," Sans' eyes were hollow and black, glaring at the child who took everything away from him. "do you wanna have a bad time? 'cause if you take another step forward... you are really not going to like what happens next."

The child seemingly ignored the warning and took a step forward.

"welp. sorry, old lady. this is why i never make promises."

The room grew dark and Sans and the child had a black and white color to them. The girls also noticed this to themselves and they were astonished.

"Wow. We're like in a '90s show," Pinkie said.

"Pinkie! Be quiet," Rainbow scolded the pink haired girl.

The girls heard Sans spoke with his eyes closed:

"it's a beautiful day outside.
birds are singing, flowers are blooming...
on days like these, kids like you...

Sans opened, only revealing his dark and empty eyes.

"Should be burning in hell."

As his left eye glowed furiously, Sans smashed the child to the tiled floor and bones came up, injuring the demon child greatly, as blood came out of its mouth and through its whole body. Then it was lifted up and with great force, Sans pushed the child to the back of the hall, with bones waiting at the back. Bones lined up on the wall as it pierced the child's chest with blood splat out on the floor. It fell to its knees and, coughing out massive amounts of blood. Huge animal-shaped like blasters were summoned in front of it, with blue energy balls in their mouths ready to release that massive energy onto the demon. It wasn't long until the child got a good glimpse of the massive skulls in front of them and waves of energy was released upon the target. The red heart split into two, and broke into pieces. The girls stood their place, shivering at the bloody scene.

After a few moments, images flashed showing the battle Sans and the demon child were having. Bones piercing, Gasterblasters firing, it was an endless battle of surviving, especially for Sans. With every cut dodged, he began to feel weary due to amount of magic he had used. With every return of the child, it seemed to be familiarized with the patterns and attacks of Sans. Afterwards, a scene was shown where Sans was talking to the child about remembering who were they before and laying down their weapon to make Sans' job a lot easier. Something made the child stop, pondering to what the skeleton said. Not long after, the child began to sob with the knife slowly slipping from its hand. Sans saw this and was relieved.

The child chose to SPARE.

"you're sparing me?
finally.
buddy. pal.
i know how hard it must be... to make that choice.
to go back on everything you've worked up to.
i want you to know... i won't let it go to waste...
c'mere, pal."

Sans walked up to the weeping child and touched their shoulder and in return, they embraced him in a hug, a hug asking for forgiveness. He also hugged the child back only to know that everything's forgiven. The girls smiled, with tears of joy in their eyes knowing that anyone can be forgiven, even though they seem to nearly lose their path.....

But something wasn't right.

The room grew dark once again, interrupting the girls' weeping moment.

"What's going on?", Twilight said, shivered at the sudden dark presence in the hall.

At this moment, the child is still sobbing on Sans' shoulder. A few tears later, a blue aura appeared below Sans and the child's feet. It began to surround them with wind circling around them. Not a few moments later, the child felt a sudden force penetrate their own chest, impaling it to stay in place. It was a.....bone, extending at a long length through the child's chest cavity with blood on the end. Traumatized, the girls froze in their place shivering, with eyes of horror at Sans' action. Their hands shaking, with a cold feeling up their spine as mixed emotions run through their head. Sympathy, fear, anxiety, anger, etc. but mostly empathy. The girls soon hear a few words from Sans with the child impaled and blood dripping from their mouth.

"get....dunked on.
if we're really friends...you won't come back."

Sans released himself from the hug and the child went down to the tiled floor with their red heart broken into two and a MERCY option above it. Sans looked down at the corpse and he felt guilt crawl up his spine as to his action to the repentance of the child was merely a deception only to save himself from continuing the fight. With distressed eyes, he believed that his action was justified. He truly lives up to his name being the 'joker' of the Underground. This time it was a literal joke of accepting MERCY from 'them'. After a few moments, the child return, but something's different about them now. It now wore a green and yellow sweater with brown shorts and shoes, its pupils were crimson red with an ominous smile formed into their face. A smile that was similar to Sans', only this time....it has something dark behind it. Something or someone took over Frisk's body and the smile alone said it all.

"What's with the kid?", Rainbow asked.

"Hmmm...they looked different. The clothes are not like earlier," Pinkie observed.

Memories started to flash as the girls gathered together and watch the battle repeat over and over again. Each flashing image shows the child dodging efficiently against Sans' attacks. The attacks being conjured by Sans were rendered useless each fight. Sans was beginning to tire out as he dodges every cut, sweat dripping from his head. There was one where he went all out with his 'special attack'. Patterns are now being formed in Sans' attacks and the space in the bright hall was seemed to be enlarged, making it look a hall without end. Bones coming out of the walls and floors closing in. Each frame of attack was a slight blink with Sans moving from one spot to another. The final attack was a bunch of gasterblasters surrounding the child with a deadly energy wave. The last image that flashed that the girls saw was....truly horrifying.

"so... g-guess that's i-it, huh?"

"just... d-don't say I didn't w-warned you."

"welp. i'm going to g-grillby's."

Sans said as the knife made a mark on his chest, blood dripping with his left hand on it. His mouth coughing out blood with his smile which seems to never disappear no matter what he feels. Either he feels sad or pain, his grin will never change. It was permanent. He fell to his knees as he lost the fight which seems to go on forever. As he didn't want to die in front of the demon child, he got up and decided to go to grillby's. He walked past the kid while breathing heavily and blood dripping to the floor. He felt uneasy and began to feel lightheaded as his vision began to blur. The girls were in front of him, horrified as Flutershy, Rarity, Twilight and Sunset covered their mouths as they watched the skeleton bled to death. They wanted to help, but everything they see is just a memory. Even if they were in the scenario, it wouldn't make a difference. He would still die inevitably from bleeding. After a few moments, Sans fell, yet again, at his knees and the last thing the girls heard made their veins run cold.

"papyrus, do you want anything?"

After these words, they saw him turn to dust. The hall was now empty, only the child remains as 'they' proceeded. As the sight of the demon vanished, the girls didn't say a word as the experience of Sans going through this nightmare was truly hard for him. In the end, everyone's fate is sealed. Nothing or no one can stop it now. A light flashed and they were surrounded by darkness with light illuminating from above as they float in the black void of darkness.

"Where are we?", Twilight asked as she looked around the empty space around the girls.

Their attention was suddenly drawn to the two figures before them. They seem to be having a conversation. The girls saw Sans again floating in the empty space and he was talking to....someone whose face seems to be melted and it wore a black long coat with a turtleneck. It spoke to Sans but its voice was static like radio.

"You have a job finish Sans. You're not done yet," The figure said as it touched Sans' head and a light flashed.

Next thing the girls know is that they came back to their senses. Their eyes lost the white light and they returned with their normal eyes. They released their hands from each other's grip and tried to process everything. Fluttershy shivered in her place and began to weep. The others comforted her as they too wept quietly. Sans also came back to his normal white pupils. He was dazed after that as the whole being someone in his mind thing and to be honest with him, he is not a fan of it. Being able to see what he's been through can cause someone to have the same nightmares as his. It was dreadful and unfortunate for someone, especially these girls, to see all of it. They crossed the line and Sans was very distressed to see what they saw. He should be the one to tell them; seeing those memories only made the situation worse. They saw everything and there's no denying that these girls are going to put in a situation where there is no return. Sans scratched the back of his head and groaned.

"ughhh.... what did you do?", Sans asked with an angered expression. Sunset and the others gave him a fearful expression and a worried one.

"wait. don't tell me you-?"

"We saw it all, Sans," Sunset said plainly.

Sans looked at the ground, unknowing what to say. He sighed heavily as the truth has been unveiled, secrets spilled. He was silent for a moment with fingers folded together and got up.

"excuse me for a minute," Sans said as he made his way to his room upstairs, leaving the girls in the living room. They looked at each other and just exchanged looks. The experience really traumatized them as they were quiet, words cannot express.

"I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry girls," Sunset said with gritted teeth and clenched fists.

"Darling, you don't have to be sorry. Well, to be honest, I think we all regret doing that. Those images were just....ghastly," Rarity shook her head.

"Yeah. We just need to give Sans some space for now. When he comes back, I have a few questions I would like to ask," Twilight said.

"We all do, sugarcube," Applejack added.

"For now, let's just give the guy some space," Rainbow as she folded her arms.
"Also I'm thinking...do you remember that we were in a.... ummm... black space with all of us floating?"

"Yeah?" Sunset replied with a raised eyebrow.

"What did that static voice dude mean about...Sans' job?"

"I don't know...but I think it has something to do with that kid we saw," Sunset held her chin with her right hand.

"Yeah. I guess so. Anyways, do we still have time to ask Sans when he gets down here?", Twilight asked.

"It's only 2:30PM. We got some time to kill," Rainbow said as she observed the clock. The girls shivered at the last word she said.

"Rainbow, darling. Please do avoid using that last word. I've seen enough of it," Rarity replied.

"Ohh... sorry."

"Let's just wait here. I hope Sans doesn't mind if I grab some burgers for us," Sunset said as she got up to get burgers from the fridge and heat them up in the microwave. While she was heating the burgers, she walked back to her seat in thought:

"I hope we can stop this thing."

Chapter 7: Elucidation

Sans walked up into his room and laid on his bed facing the ceiling above him. He needs some space after that experience which gave him a migraine. The feeling of someone running around his head really did irritated him a bit. His head is the definition of pure nightmare. The fact that he couldn't sleep well with it being his dream mostly. In some cases, he would dream of the child freeing every monster and Sans could see himself on top of Mt. Ebott, feeling the radiant sun and the fresh breeze that went through him....but all that was suddenly replaced with him back in the Underground back at his station, seeing the child with a knife on their right hand with a menacing smile. The feeling that everything you've ever hoped for will be crushed and destroyed after a few moments. It was pointless to dream for a happy ending now and here he is, alive and well, for the moment. Sans was thinking what to do next and the only obvious option was to tell the girls what he's up against. If he wouldn't tell them, all of them would be doomed to die due to the fact that he will soon die, leaving that thing running around seeking its next victim to kill. Sans sighed at his thought.

"i should just tell them. No point in hiding it now that they've seen my memories. I hate it when someone does that reading-the-mind magic, but who am i to blame? I knew it had to come out soon. Welp, better get down there." Sans thought as he got up, fixed himself and started to go downstairs slowly.

As the girls chowed down on their burgers, they had a few conversations of themselves about their future plans after this explanation that Sans will say when gets down.

"So, Applejack, what are your plans after this?", Sunset said as she wiped bits of burger on her mouth.

"Ah could hit the hay after this... And ah need some space after all of that earlier, if 'ya know what I mean", Applejack replied.

"I could use some shut eye too. That exploit was very unpleasant", Rarity added.

Not long after, the girls heard footsteps from upstairs. Came down was Sans with his usual hands in his jacket's pockets. He offered them a weak smile as to the truth that he was about explain. Sans made his way to his chair before where his head was rudely interrupted by Sunset's memory check ability. He sat down and folded his fingers together and looked at the girls.

"You know, what you did earlier, isn't nice." Sans said as he eyed Sunset, still holding the burger in her hands.

"S-Sorry, Sans. We just want to help. You were freaking out and we thou-," Sunset replied as she was cut in by Sans.

"Well you thought wrong, pal. Now you saw what i've been through and they're coming." Sans sighed heavily as he felt disappointed at Sunset, who clearly doesn't know how to respect someone's privacy, especially if that someone really had a dark past.

"Welp, can't change the past now. So tell me.... What did you see in there?", Sans said as she eyed all of the girls. No one was able to speak up as that horrifying experience sent chills down their spine. Appalled, they kept quiet until Sans spoke up:

"By the looks on your faces, i guess you already know the answer. So, you saw someone in my head... A human i suppose?"

The girls nodded slowly.

"Hmmm.... And i guess you saw what it did to us, huh?" Sans not taking an eye off the girls as Rainbow finally spoke.

"Yeah. Who was that?" Rainbow asked.

"An old friend... Well, i guess the term 'friend' doesn't really fit into their personality." Sans said as Twilight spoke next.

"I'm just curious, Sans. Why do you refer the child as 'they'?"

"Glad you asked. Lemme ask you a question: did you see anything suspicious when me and the kid fought?"

Sunset observed that the child's clothes were different during Sans' fight.

"Yeah. The kid's clothes were different. The first time we saw that they wore a striped pink/purple and blue shirt with brown pants and shoes then after you...”, Sunset cleared her throat and continued.

"killed them, it wore something different. It wore a striped green and yellow shirt and had that creepy smile." Sunset said as she shook her head.

"Mhmm. There are two sides to them. We refer humans as 'they' 'cause they can be neither good nor evil inside. Their true intentions resides in their actions. I'm not gonna lie, girls. They once saved us from a prison that we thought we could never leave ever again."

"Us? There are others just like you, Sans?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah. Monster kind like me got saved by that kid. I thought i finally got our happy ending until they... You know. Decided to go back on their word and kill everyone." Sans shrugged. "That's why i never liked humans. They fake their intentions to fool others but deep down inside, being a goody-two-shoes isn't enough for them. Their curiosity always intrigued me... How they want to try new things. But the curiosity of the kid went too far. I gotta say, for the first time, i felt chills run up my spine," Sans chuckled but it was a weak laugh.

"Well, some humans right?", Pinkie replied with a soft tone in her voice.

"Yeah, some of 'em. I don't mean you girls. You girls are nice and all, and i hope you stay that way," Sans said with a hopeful grin.

"Don't worry, Sans. We will certainly NOT act as grotesque and horrifying like that malicious child," Rarity said with a determined tone with arms crossed.

"You can count on us, Sansy," Pinkie said as she gave the skeleton a thumbs-up and a beaming smile.

"Yeah! And are you kidding me? We saved our school from crazy magic beings and.." Rainbow turned to Sunset and Twilight and she regretted, "uhhh... No offense guys." she said as she scratched the back of her head.

Sunset and Twilight sighed, "None taken," the two said in unison, making the girls giggle including Sans.

"Heh heh. Thanks girls."

"No problem, Sans," Sunset said as she punched him lightly.

"So uhhhh....hate to interrupt. If this kid is still out there, then we gotta stop them now," Rainbow as she punched her other palm.

"Honestly, i don't know when are they gonna come. All we can do is wait."

"What?! You mean we're just gonna have to wait for the news to say there's a kid rampaging through town?", Rainbow argued while Sans lets out a heavy sigh.

"Buddy, i know you want to go out there and be a hero... But what you're asking for is a fight where no one wins. And i mean no one." Sans said as his eyes grew black again.

Silence entered without a single word that came out of the girls' mouth. Not knowing what to say, they kept quiet as Sans gave them a seemingly death stare. Sans continued to speak.

"You saw that they keep coming back, right? Even though you think you won, you don't win, you CAN'T win even if you tried really hard. It took them 73 tries just to land a hit on me. I guess i'm pretty good at my job, huh?", Sans chuckled for a moment. "Anyways, what i'm trying to say is...no one can stop them. Believe me, my friends did but their efforts were a waste. I should be dead right now, not having this conversation with you girls."

"Don't say that! We're glad that you're here. If you weren't here, we wouldn't know about this problem you're having and chances are, we would be dead too." Sunset said as she touched Sans' shoulder. The skeleton fixed his eyes on her lime green eyes and Sans averted his eyes.

"That's why he brought you back, Sans. We also saw that you're talking to someone in that memory of yours. I don't know who that is but...is he your father?" As Sunset said this, Sans looked back with a shocked expression.

"So... you saw him too, huh? Yeah, he's my dad. Well, technically I'm just a part of him; me and my bro." The girls glared at him and were quite shocked.

"You're a part...of your dad? How is that possible?" Twilight asked as she scratched her head. Sans just shrugged and explained further more.

"Long story short, he fell into his own creation. Accidents do happen, I guess. We just popped into existence and there we are at Snowdin."

"Ah'm sorry, Sans. Really...we all are." Applejack told him and the girls nodded.

"Don't sweat it, bud. So....going back on topic," Sans said.

"Ohhh...Okay. We'll find another way, Sans. We always do." Twilight added.

"How? I mean, you clearly saw that kid is nothing but a merciless soul without feeling any remorse? How could you plan to stop such an abomination? If your answer is to fight like me, well i won't stop 'ya. Indeed, we all have to fight, but the end is inevitable...we all die." Sans explained leaving Twilight and the girls speechless.

Twilight cupped her chin and tried to think of another solution but every time she thinks of one, it had a back door because the major predicament is that the child keeps coming back. It keeps returning until its opponent is done for. Too DETERMINED to stop, but one thought came to her.

"What if...we befriended them? Or more specific, try to change their ways." Twilight suggested leaving Sans demented.

"Uhhhhhh....what? Did you hit your head on something or are you really serious?"

"I am serious, Sans."

"Didn't you hear me before bud? They are MURDERERS for crying out loud. They killed my family....my brother...without even feeling any remorse or sorry or MERCY. You think your so-called 'friendship' will save the day? My brother believed that they are still good, that they can be better, but what did he get in return? UNDESERVED DEATH. If you even try that, you will meet my brother soon enough and i can't allow that to happen. Not anymore. I've seen to many of my friends die. I just....can't bear it anymore." Sans said as he wept in tears, still with his eyes blackened at his grin permanently on his face. Sunset held Sans' hand and comforted him.

"Sans, I know you think this is not gonna work, but hear what we're going to say. Please."

The weeping skeleton began to calm down as the feeling of Sunset's smooth skin holding his hand made him comfortable. For a long time, he hasn't held something soft... until now.

"Okay. I'll listen."

Twilight breathed in heavily and exhaled, preparing for her side of explanation.

"Okay. Here's what I have in mind. You referred the child as 'they' correct? That means that there are two sides of them and one is trapped in the possession of the other. The reason I said that we should try to change her ways is because--do you remember what we told you about what happened at the Friendship Games? I was Midnight Sparkle then, but Sunset reached out to me, to help me realize that I shouldn't let others control who I am. And in Camp Everfree? I was scared that my power might lose control, but because of my friends that are by my side, they helped me overcome my fears. I think that someone inside is trying to take control again, but isn't strong enough. That's where friendship comes in. We need to strategize on how we can get close enough to help them. Sans, you have that technique where you summon blue bones to put the enemy in place, right?" Twilight asked as Sans just stared into her eyes. She really planned this while Sans didn't really thought of this.

"Uhhh...earth to skeleton? I need an answer."

"Oh. Yeah, I do." Sans as he snapped his fingers and a blue bone appeared.

"Hmmm....okay. So, we just need that technique of yours to mobilize them, then we can move in and help" Twilight told him as she fixed her glasses.

"Wow. You really are a nerd, aren't 'ya?" Sans chuckled as Twilight blushed a little.

"Thanks."

"Wow, Twilight. You just planned this now and we're just here listening to your genius-ness." Sunset added as she scratched the back of her head.

"Ah. It was nothing, really. It was quite easy. It's like a situation where someone has an identity crisis. The only difference is that this time we have to be very careful as it is said by Sans... this thing is a rampaging demon child." Twilight explained.

Sans and the girls were amazed at her explanation. The skeleton was completely dumbfounded as he had no idea what kind of magic or sorcery this 'friendship' they have. After every story that Sans heard, he was confused at their friendship and all. He might be a friendly monster, but he hasn't seen this kind of magical friendship before. Each trait is in a certain person, just like the humans that fell down and were eventually killed by Asgore. The traits have certain kind of abilities like Rarity for instance. She can conjure diamond shaped objects out of her hands. Fluttershy has the ability to communicate animals. No wonder she is kind.

Seven girls. Seven souls just like the ones in the Underground, but no one had the DETERMINATION trait. It was very rare to see those kind of souls...until they came.

"Okay. Let me just...process everything you just said. Wow...." Sans said as he rubbed his temples slowly in a circular motion.

"So...my turn now. All I can say is I'm.... just bamboozled by all of this," Sans chuckled. "Well, I never tried that before, due to the fact that you girls weren't there and I just kept... throwing my attacks on them. It could...work, but I'm not sure yet. To do this, you all are going to face a life and death situation. I'm just worried that you might get hurt or even worse...killed in the process. It's not easy to convert someone from bad to good instantly. I'm gonna have to make sure that won't happen to any one of us. Are you girls up for this? I'm just saying this is a huge risk that you might regret on doing." Sans explained with a worried tone in his deep, yet calm voice.

The girls weren't sure what to say because indeed, there's a possibility that it will backfire. They exchanged looks with each other and slightly nodded. Fluttershy was very worried but Sunset sat next to her and comforted her that it will work...

It has to...

After a few moments, Sunset breathed in and out and turned to Sans.

"What other choice is there? I mean, this is the only possible way to end this. Even if we tried doing your way, they'll keep coming back, right? We just have to hope."

Sans was taken back by her bold move. She was definitely right. Repeating the cycle of death isn't really the best solution since their opponent won't back down easily or they might not ever. Sans pondered on this and sighed heavily.

"I guess you're right. The best thing to do is...hope, I guess." Sans replied.

"B-But...all those innocent people will get killed. Y-You s-said you aren't sure when are," Fluttershy gulped, "they going to come."

"I know, kid. Truth is we can't save everyone, can we? I'm truly sorry but I can't tell when their arrival will take place. We just have to wait." Sans made a good point. Some sacrifices have to be made just to save everyone.

"Fluttershy, darling, he's right. We must accept the truth. Whatever happens, we'll be there together to stop..," Rarity cleared her throat, "them." The shy girl nodded slowly at her and Rarity, in exchange, gave her a hug of reassurance. Sans stood up from his chair and walked over to Fluttershy and kneeled in front of her.

"Kid, a guy like me hates making promises. But, I assure you. We'll make this work because failure isn't an option to take. I PROMISE you, we'll see through this." Sans said with his deep and soothing voice that made Fluttershy jump from her seat and hugged Sans tightly, never wanting to let go. Sans was shocked but it was fine for him. He knew she needed someone to hug with, especially when someone like her is very sensitive. Sans returned the favor as he also gave her a hug.

"You promise, ok? For all of us?" Fluttershy whispered to Sans.

"I promise, kid." Sans said with DETERMINATION.

Moments later, Fluttershy was still hugging Sans and he was feeling a little embarrassed. "Heh. 'Kay kid. Hug's over," Sans chuckled. Fluttershy laughed softly also as she slowly ended the hug while still holding his shoulders. She suddenly hugged him again and returned to her seat with her blushing a bit and the same goes for the skeleton. Sans smiled at her and she gave him a sweet smile too, knowing his promise will hold and not break. He stood up and went back to his seat, with a slight blush on his cheeks. He sat down and looked at the clock above the entrance to his house. To his surprise, it was already past 3PM in the afternoon.

"Huh. Time really flies that fast. Well, I guess it's time for you girls to go if you have any plans that needs to be finished." The girls were also surprised as they didn't notice the time they have consumed.

"Does anyone have any plans after this?", Sunset asked.

"I need to take a breather after all of this, darling. It was just very disturbing and this will ruin my beauty sleep for sure," Rarity said with a worried tone.

"Yeah, no kidding. I felt chills while listening and I might not ever sleep peacefully again after everything we've seen," Rainbow added.

Sans glared at Sunset with a brow raised," I wonder who's fault is that." Sunset felt ashamed as she regretted seeing everything Sans has been through.

"Sorry girls. I guess I shouldn't have done that earlier," Sunset rubbed her arm.

"Ya think?" Applejack replied as she had her hands on her hips with an eyebrow raised.

"It's our fault girls. We were too curious to see what was in Sans' head. We should be the ones who are ashamed," Twilight said as Sunset smiled a little.

"Yeah, I guess you’re right on that one." Rainbow nodded.

"Well, see you tomorrow Sans. I hope you have a good day," Rarity told him.

"Yeah, you too, bud. I'm only worried about how are you going to sleep tonight."

"Don't worry Sans. What I fear most is if we fail to save everyone. This is something we've never faced before," Rarity as she grabbed her backpack and Sans nodded. The other girls also grabbed their bags and readied themselves. Sans observed that the pink haired, energetic girl grew quiet the whole time. He was worried so he walked up to her, hoping she wasn't traumatized after the long talk.

"Hey, Pinkie. You all right? You seem to be quiet when we were talking," Sans asked. Pinkie nodded slowly and spoke.

"I'm...fine. I'm just don't know what to say about this. You must have been through a lot, huh?" the pink haired girl said softly.

"Yeah, I guess so. But don't let this whole what-if-we-fail-to-save-everyone ruin your day. The Pinkie I know is the most energetic girl I've seen in my whole life. She's always optimistic and she is also the friendliest," Sans gave her a reassuring smile as Pinkie slowly beamed a smile at the small skeleton, not forgetting who she is. This made Pinkie hug Sans tightly to thank him.

"Thanks Sansy. I'll try to not let it ruin my day. Besides, I have my friends beside me when the time comes, right?" Pinkie winked at him.

"That is very true, my friend," Sans chuckled. "...And you can stop hugging me now, You're killing my spine." Pinkie giggled at his joke and let her grip loosened.

"Oh, Sans. What would I do without you? I'm glad that you're here. You're the funniest guy I've met so far." Pinkie gave him a beamed smile as Sans grinned at her.

"Yeah. It's finally nice to have someone who has a sense of humor around here. They find my jokes 'humerus'." Man I gotta come up with more original content. Sans thought. As the other girls went out of the door, with leaving Pinkie, Sans and Fluttershy wearing her green boots near the door.

"Well, I better 'ketchup' with my friends. See 'ya tomorrow Sansy." Pinkie and Sans snickered. "Heh,heh. Good one." Sans replied. As Pinkie went outside, Fluttershy was the only one left inside with the small skeleton. As she finished wearing her boots, she turned to Sans who was 5 feet away from her. All Sans did was give her a big smile and nod. Fluttershy smiled too as she went outside without a word.

Sans was now left alone in his home, still on his feet. He remembered someone way back who was similar to Fluttershy.

"She's just like Tori. Who knew?" Sans smiled as he sat on the couch and using his psychokinesis, he grabbed a bottle of ketchup once more to ease himself. "I hope this friendship of yours work, girls. There's no guarantee that this'll actually work."

*OUTSIDE

The girls were standing outside of Sans' place waiting for Fluttershy and out she came.

"You okay, Flutters?" asked Rainbow as Fluttershy nodded.

"Well, that was an unpleasant experience. I hope to never see that again," Rarity shook her head.

"A-greed." Pinkie exclaimed.

"So, ah guess ah'll see you 'round. Ah'm going home and ah think you all need to," Applejack as she fixed her Stenson hat.

The girls separated, each going to their own homes, leaving only Sunset and Twilight outside.

"Hey, Twilight. Thanks for your help back there. I guess you really learned a lot from us, huh?", Sunset said as she nudged Twilight lightly.

"I learned from the best," Twilight smiled as Sunset touched the lavender girl's shoulder with a beaming smile.

"Well, I guess I better go. See you later, Sunset." Twilight told her.

"Oh yeah. I should too, Bye, Twilight," the two girls hugged each other and waved as Twilight set off. Sunset smiled at her from a distance and pondered of what happened earlier.

"Another saving-the-world stuff. Only this time, it's a demon child. Hmm...that works," Sunset thought as she proceeded to her place which was fairly close to Sans. An apartment she used to stay for a quite a while now. Considering that it was just a 15-minute walk from her place to CHS, she knew it was fairly easy to walk to Sans' place. Sunset walks off into the distance, back to her home as usual but she still had that eerie feeling of discomfort from hearing all that unpleasant news from their skeleton friend. Another threat to mankind to be dealt with. This time, only one will prevail.

*Meanwhile....

"How are we even going to find Sans? He could be anywhere," Frisk asked Chara as they finished the job with Asgore.

"That's the problem. We are not even sure where that comedian is," Chara and Frisk pondered at their predicament since everyone is now reduced to dust and they are the only ones left with no idea where Sans is...or are they? Chara remembered something and it formed a smile on her face.

"Any ideas, Chara?", asked Frisk. At this moment, Chara summoned an option which confused Frisk and frightened her because the option that was before her was:

"TRUE RESET"

"Chara, what are you doing?"

"What does it look like? Performing a True Reset. You have a problem with that?" Chara said in an irritated tone.

"No, not at all." Frisk held her hands up in defense and she knew what Chara was doing was a complete mistake. All of this progress wasted at last. She can finally undo the murders she had done with the help of her, but Chara still holds a menacing smile on her face. She had a plan which Frisk was unaware of because she was in possession. She will still be in control in the end, even if Frisk did the Pacifist Route. Chara will be awakened in the end whenever Frisk chooses to stay with Toriel and the others or she has places to go. No matter what choice, the demon child will still be the victor in the end of any route taken.

Before Chara was about to perform the action, she thought to herself while smiling:

"Don't worry about being in control again, kid. You paid the debt, remember?" Chara laughed maniacally as she did the action leaving Frisk terrified a bit. Before they knew, they were back from square one. Frisk found herself lying on golden buttercup flowers as she observed around here. No mistake, the action was really done. Chara really did it, but there is a backdoor to this as Frisk was blinded by it. Frisk can do things her way...for now.

Chapter 8: A Nightmare and an Offer

Opening his eyes once again, Sans was standing amidst the bodies that piled up above. Blood covered the corpses and their eyes were filled with emptiness, looking straight at him. Sans began fidget in place as he began to reminiscence the horrors of the past. In front of him, he noticed a trail of blood that led to his position. He looked downwards and saw a body that sent a instant shock to his bones. Judging from her complexion, she had lavender skin and her whole body covered in cuts, bruises and huge slash marks from different parts. Torn clothes that were ripped apart into shreds. She looked like a total mess and Sans remembered that girl he met before, the one with glasses and who was a total nerd. Sans slowly knelt down and took a good look at her, hearing her faint breath beginning to grow weaker and weaker. He knelt down to lean in to her pale face and suddenly, her hand held Sans' jacket tightly and pulled him closer as she looked at him with dying eyes and blood dripping from her mouth. Sans was caught off guard by this as a few words muttered from the dying girl's mouth.

"You...could've...saved...us....", The girl murmured, as her grip loosened off of Sans' jacket and lets out her last breath, giving him those empty purple eyes of death. Petrified, Sans stood up slowly as he shivered in fear. He turned his attention to his right and saw a corpse and from the looks of it, she had light pink streaks of hair and yellow cream skin. Sans could only gasp in horror as the laid body stared at him with lifeless eyes. He remembered something. Something so important that he mustn't break, for he swore in all his life. Sans approached her with quick action as he knelt down and raised the back of her head with his hand and his other held with her right hand. He looked at her with guilt and despair, remembering the promise he swore to keep, but it was all like that Genocide timeline. He failed once again and this time, nothing can be undone. Still fixing his eyes to hers, a faint voice spoke to him, barely audible but can be still heard.

"Y-You...pr-promised. H-How could y-you?", Fluttershy said with her last breath. Sans did nothing but kept silent as tears ran down his cheeks and dripped onto the shy girl's face. He set her head down gently and noticed a trail of blood which seemed to circle around him. Standing up, he saw other bodies laid down revolving around him. No mistake, Sans knew their faces well. The cowgirl, athlete, fashionista and the party girl.

"No...no....no!", Sans exclaimed. He could feel something crawling up his back. It felt familiar, as it slowly began to envelop him. A cold feeling climbed up his spine as he trembled at the bodies. A voice emitted behind him and hearing its voice was well enough to remind him who it was.

"You're next, comedian." It whispered in a deathly tone, as Sans slowly turned around to see the figure and saw a knife rush upon his chest. The last thing he saw was an ominous grin and crimson eyes that glowed of terror. Sans closed his eyes as the knife met his chest with great force.

"HAHHH!", Sans screamed as he jerked out of bed with his gray shirt and trousers. His sudden exertion caused his left eye to glow brightly from the nightmare. He started to breath heavily and sweat dripped from the side of his head. Sans groaned in discomfort. He laid back on his pillow facing the ceiling as he thought about the dream. Was it foreshadowing? No, he couldn’t. He made a promise to protect them. Sans swore with all his life to keep an eyesocket out for them and he never wanted them to get involved under any circumstance.

He got up and fixed himself to try and forget what he just witnessed in that cursed terror. Wearing a white plain shirt and his striped shorts, he grabbed his phone and headed downstairs to grab a bite. He sat down at the dining table and placed his phone next to him. Sans ate his ketchup filled burger, leaving some red sauce to stain across his mouth. Rubbing it with the back of his hand, his phone suddenly began to rang a loud noise which dazed him a bit.

“geez. forgot to turn that down.” Inhaling deeply, Sans spoke in a deep yet calm voice. “h-hello?”

“Hi, Sans. Good morning. It’s me, Sunset,” came the voice from the phone.

“oh, hey sunny. what’s up?”, Sans asked as he stretched his bones.

“Oh, nothing. Just woke up and eating breakfast as of now. Cooked the regular sunny-side ups to start the morning, I guess,” Sunset replied.

“heh. you want some bacon to go with that?” There was a short pause before Sunset’s voice emitted from the opposite phone line.

“Very funny, Sans. Just because my hair looks like bacon doesn’t mean you have to make such an obvious statement of that,” a small hint of irritation can be heard from Sunset’s voice as Sans chuckled to himself and spoke again.

“hey, its not my fault your hair looks like food. but, i’m sorry. for realsies.”

“I know, I know. So anyways, I was talking with the girls earlier and we had plans to go to the mall today.”

“hold on.” Sans looked at the clock above the door’s entrance. “damn. it’s only 6:45 in the morning. you’re already up then?”

“Yeah. In fact, all the girls were already up and I saw they were online. I talked to them and they said that they couldn’t really sleep well from, you know, yesterday.” Sunset replied. Sans remembered clearly and he rubbed his eyes with two of his fingers and groaned.

“welp, you girls are not alone. same goes here for me. next time, try to keep your hands to yourself, ok? for precautionary measures. sometimes you’re not gonna like what you’re gonna see.”

“I’m very, very sorry Sans. I just want to help. You were freaking out. I di-didn’t want y-you-”, Sunset stutters on the other line.

“hey, hey, hey sunny. calm down. it’s all in the past and I forgive you. it’s okies,” Sans smiled.

“T-Thank you Sans,” Sunset said as Sans heard some noises of her weeping. He decided to change the subject.

“so, you said you were going out with the girls. that’s cool.”

“Oh, ummmm...yeah. But we were hoping t-that uhhh...” Sunset seems to can’t vocalize the words she needs to say.

“hoping to what?” Sans asked confusingly.

“How am I going to say this?”, Sunset said nervously.

*Earlier

Sunset was wide awake for hours now. She couldn’t have a decent sleep and she only got a few hours nap due to the experience from yesterday. Every time she drifts to sleep, there was always this voice calling out to her from somewhere. No doubt, it was all in her head and this voice sounded baleful. It was always cackling a laugh, like it was mocking her. Sunset shook her head to forget that eerie feeling and decided to open her phone up. On her MyStable account, she saw her friends online. Sunset looked at the time on her phone and it read 6:15AM.

“At a time like this, you girls are already up? Hmmm...”, Curious, she messaged Twilight.

“Hey, Twi. You’re up early. Something’s up?” Sunset messaged. There was no immediate response, until a line of purple text appeared.

“I could say the same thing for you, Sunset. Couldn’t sleep well?”

“Yeah, how’d you know?”

“It figures. I can’t even let myself drift to sleep for one minute. If I do, this small figure appears and starts smiling at me, like it wants to play.”

“Sounds creepy.”

“It is and if this goes on, it would throw the whole baseline off from my studies.”

“I know. And I just want to say I’m sorry for what happened yesterday. If I didn’t held his hand, you wouldn’t have this kind of dillema.”

“Don’t be. At least we know who we’re up against. Once this is all over, I can finally have some peace of mind.”

“Right. So, how are the others? They awake?”

“Yeah. I guess they have the same problem too, like us.”

“Bummers. Let’s go talk to them. We’re going out right?”

“OH YEAH! I forgot about that. This whole nightmare has kept me from remembering. I think if we go out and enjoy ourselves, maybe we could at least take our mind off it. Sounds great? 😁”

“YEAH! You’re right. Hahaha...” Sunset messaged Twilight with a grin on her face. Then she had a thought on something.

“Oh, Twilight. You don’t mind if we bring Sans along, do you? He could also need some air since he’s been gone through a lot.”

“I, personally, don’t mind at all. We ALL need some air, Sunset. Yeah, he can come, but there’s just one problem...”

“Huh. What’s that?”

“He’s a skeleton. Do you think people will not dramatically freak out from him? 🤔”

“It’s fine Twi. No one’s really going to notice him. He’s so short and he has a hoodie to pu-” a message intervened before Sunset finished her message.

“You’re glad he’s not here. 😂”

“I know, right. Don’t tell him about this. 😆”

“Hmmm...I don’t know. I think I will tell him at some point. 😝”

“Hey. Size doesn’t matter, right? LOL”

“I suppose so. But still, I’m gonna tell him :P”

“Whatever. Hahahaha...
Anyways, I think we should talk to the others now, if bringing Sans is a good idea.”

Of course, it is. You suggested it in the first place, so I think they’ll agree too :D”

“I think so, too. I just don’t want him to be left out with all his burden weighing down on him. I feel sorry for Sans. 😥”

“Me too. Whatever Sans will go through, we’ll be there to help him.”

“Right you are, Twi. Let’s go talk to the others.”

“Yeah.”

“wait, you want me to go with you girls?”, Sans asked with a brow raised.

“Yeah, if you like. All the others agreed and we thought that you could spend some time with us since you’re the only...” There was a pause and Sans heard this and he knew exactly what she meant.

“monster left? yeah, thanks for reminding me, bud” Sans groaned in irritation.

“Yeah, and you could really use some outing with us. We don’t want you to be left out there. Come on, Sans. It’s gonna be fun,” Sunset offered.

“geez, talk about desperate, kid.” Sans thought and since he doesn’t want to disappoint the lady, he decided to tag along.

“alright, sunny. i come along ‘cause it looks like i seriously need some leg workout, although i have no muscles,” Sans joked. He can hear Sunset on the other line sighing heavily.

“Oh, Sans. You and your unbelievable army of puns. Bonehead,” Sunset called him as she giggled.

“heh. i guess we’re even now.”

“Okay, does 9:00 sound good? We had a ton planned for today, so its best if we’re out early.”

“uhhh...yeah. i’ve still got time to spare, so where do we meet? do i come over there or the other way around?”

“I’ll swing by your house. Just remember to get ready when I pick you up, ok Sans?” Sunset said but he heard Sans groaning loudly on the phone.

“ughhhh...really sunset!? did you really just asked that kind of question? are you for real or for what?”, Sans argued, much to Sunset’s confusion.

“What do you mean, Sans? Did I say something wrong or-?”

“sunset.” Sans cuts her off and sighed, as calm as he can be. “you don’t need to pick me up. i can walk, you know. fyi, i’m not a kid.” As soon as Sunset heard this, she twitched an eye and hung up on the phone. She decided to message him instead because she couldn’t take it anymore.

Sans heard a continuous ring from his phone as a message popped up from the screen:

“JUST. GET. READY.” Sans shrugged as he messaged back.
“you’re the boss, sunny, heh heh”

Chapter 9: Weekend Shenanigans and Mishaps

As the clock neared the 9:00 mark, Sans was already on the couch twirling his fingers around, playing with the magic that was emitting from his glowing luminescent eye. Waiting for the arrival of his bacon-haired friend, Sans made sure he prepared himself for the outing his new friends offered. Even though his appearance doesn’t really define the word ‘normal’, he couldn’t turn down a proposition from a girl who just asked him to hang out with her friends. He could use a breather once in a while, and this was the perfect opportunity to do so.

“okay sans. you’re going out with a bunch of multicolored girls for an outing. i don’t know why their skins are like that, but maybe the director wanted it that way. anyways, try to take your mind off the kid...for now,” Sans said to no one in particular. A few minutes of recollection have passed, and boredom struck Sans. He closed his eyes as he waited for just that sound, specifically a knock on his door, but it didn’t come yet. Suddenly, a wooshing sound emitted near him. Sans opened up his eyes begrudgingly and slowly glanced to his right.

“feeling a bit bored too, eh?”, he asked the Gasterblaster that was summoned next to him, looking at him blankly. It growled lightly and nodded in confirmation. Sans shrugged at his deadly weapon and returned his gaze to the ceiling.

“she’ll be here any second now. i can just feel it in my bones,” he chuckled and winked at the blaster. It groaned in irritation as it nudged Sans lightly on the side. “heh, heh.”

*KNOCK, KNOCK!

Sans and his blaster looked at each other, how coincidental that happened.

“speak of the eggs and bacon, she’s here. ‘bout time too cause i’m getting bonetired of waiting,” Sans got up from the couch, fixed his jacket, grabbed the keys, and proceeded to the door.

“welp, here goes nothing.” Sans took in a deep breath, turned the metal knob and opened the door. There before her stood Sunset, dressed in the same clothes that he saw on that day.

“Ready to hang out with me and the girls?” Sunset asked, forming a small smile on her lips.

“you betcha. can’t wait for what you and the others planned,” Sans replied.

“Great! Now come on, the others are wai—”

Sans raised a brow at his friend’s sudden pause, as he observed that her attention is elsewhere, which was inside his house. He turned around, only to see his floating skull blaster in the air eyeing both of them.

“you’re still here? well, you can go now. you’re freaking Sunny out here,” Sans said as the animal-shaped skull disappeared.

“sorry ‘bout that. anyways, you were saying earlier?”, the small skeleton returned his gaze back at Sunset, who had a surprised expression, still locking her eyes on the living room where the giant skull with razor sharp teeth and circular blue eyes vanished.

“uhhh...paging sunset shimmer. please proceed to answer the skeleton down here.” Sans raised his hand and snapped his fingers repeatedly in front of his appalled friend. A few clicking sounds have passed as Sunset snaps out from her daydream.

“Oh...uhhh...Sorry. Seeing that thing of yours always scares me.” Sunset shivered lightly in place.

“i hope that didn’t spooked you to the bone that much,” Sans replied as he closed the door and locked it with one the keys. “trust me. they ain’t hurting no one while i’m around—.”

“While you are a round, walking, talking skeleton?”, Sunset smirked.

“okay. i think that’s enough horsing around. we got a whole day ahead of us, so i suggest that we get going before the sun-sets don’tcha think?”, Sans suggested as a smug appeared on his face.

It took a few seconds for Sunset to process what her skeleton friend just said, but as it did she smacked her forehead with the palm of her hand. “Did you really just said that, Sans? Seriously?”

"hey, it's not my fault you came from a world where horses have art on the side of their butts."

"Let's just go." Sunset groaned in exasperation. "And FYI, those are called cutie marks."

"whatever, sunshine.” Sans shrugged as Sunset playfully nudged him.

“Come on, we better hurry. The girls are waiting,” Sunset said as she started walking to a vehicle next to the curb.

“wait. we’re not walking?”

“Nope.” Sunset picked up her helmet and looked back at the skeleton, who seems to have a perplexed look across his face. “What? Did you ever think that I had to travel here on foot? Like seriously, we have technology that allows us to have transportation of our own.”

“huh. well, i guess you’re as lazy as i am.” Sans snorted.

“Yeah, I suppose.” Sunset giggled as she slipped on her helmet and took a seat on the bike. Taking out the keys out of her pocket, she started the engines, beaming a smile as the bike whirred to life. “Hop in.”

Sans got on the bike behind Sunset as he wore the extra helmet she gave to him. As he slipped it on, his fiery haired friend revved the engine.

“Ready?” Sunset turned the handles, making the vehicle roar with engine power.

"you don't need to ask twice. also, one favor from 'ya."

"Hmm? What's that?"

"try not to slow down. just gun it." Sans slid the face-shield of the helmet.

"With pleasure.” Sliding the face-shield down, Sunset revved the engines once again and took off to the city, with her skeleton friend right behind her.

Sans, as usual, had his hands deep in the pockets of his jacket and he was somewhat...admiring the world around him. Even though his memory is wiped out by the RESETS, he could only remember so little. Once again, he felt the breeze up his bones and the sunlight beaming its warm light on him, for another day has passed without ever waking up at his sentry post down in Snowdin. After the pacifist route, it only took a day for him to realize that salvation and freedom are only just part of every monster’s imagination. No matter how hard they hope, salvation seems to be out of their reach. It was all just an endless cycle of lies, where innocent minds are fooled only to believe in fantasies such as freedom.

Few minutes have passed as they arrive at Canterlot City. The roads are busied with cars, buses and other vehicles, which is less expected on a weekend. Fortunately, there were no traffic issues on the way, so the travel went smooth for Sunset and Sans. A faint memory occurred to Sans as he closed his eyes, reminiscing the time when his brother was getting irritated, due to the fact that Sans was overtaking him just by riding a tricycle on the highway. He remembered those specific words before the memory faded into nothingness.

“I, the Great Papyrus, will not be overtaken by a three-wheeled vehicleridden by the baddest pun maker.”

“Sans...”

“SANS!”

A voice snapped him back to reality, as he looked over Sunset’s shoulder.

“uhhh...sorry. you need something?”

“Yeah, I was just about to say that we’re here,” Sunset replied as the bike slowed down to a halt, parking the vehicle next to the curb. She got off the bike and removed her helmet, letting her hair fall down past her shoulders. Sans proceeded to do the same thing. Sunset opened up the seat of the bike, which opened up a small compartment under it and placed the two helmets inside.

"Come on, Sans. The day only lasts for so long." Sunset beckoned Sans to follow her, as the two headed off.

"so where we heading?"

"Canterlot Mall. Don't worry, it's close to where we're at."

"sheesh, does every place 'round here is named after canterlot? seriously, your school is named after the word and the words 'high school' are followed." Sans looked at Sunset with a baffled expression. "don't tell me there's a canterlot dumpster 'round here, is there?

"I don't suppose where you lived have a much better name than ours?" Sunset tilted her head and raised a brow.

Sans was about say something to counter that question, but he suddenly remembered something.

"touche."

"I guess all the places in your Underground are named after the climate or something?"

"you're not wrong on that one. the King named one place hotland because--get this--it is hot since down below there's lava." Sans shrugged.

"Wait, how can anyone survive in that place? More importantly, how can YOU be able to walk around there without any form of protection from the immense heat?", Sunset asked shockingly.

"i'm a skeleton, remember? no skin to feel anything, whether something's cold or hot." Sans shrugged again. "and don't worry, there's a built-in cooling system in hotland so monsters won't have to di-...", Sans trailed off in his words, as he looked down and stood silently in place. He contemplated for a few moments with an angered look, somewhat reminiscing of what has happened recently to him. Once again, the remnants of the past started haunting him..until a hand was placed on his shoulder, forcing him to look at the person and that person is none other than Sunset Shimmer herself, wearing an expression of concern for him.

"Sans...Whatever you're thinking right now, don't worry about it. We can deal it later and we're always here for you but for now, try to have a good time ok?"

The downcast skeleton nodded, making Sunset smile a bit. She held his hand, just to pacify the situation. Tightening her grip, she also felt something rigid tensing in her fingers. It was Sans, and he looked at her with a weak smile, to give her a sense of relief that he was feeling a bit better.

"Now, come on. Our friends are waiting." Sunset gestured Sans to follow along, as she and the rest of her friends are DETERMINED to make this weekend an enjoyable one for them, and for Sans.

"Ughhh...where are those two?", Rainbow crossed her arms, feeling a bit irritated.

"Now now, Rainbow. Let's not act hasty. Sunset invited Sans to come with us to relieve himself, including us, from that horrible trip down memory lane," Rarity replied, shivering from just remembering about it.

"I'm sure they'll be here any time now." Fluttershy softly spoke.

"Yeah! We got super-duper tons of fun planned out for today," Pinkie happily exclaimed. “...And Sansy will have the bestest time of his life!”

"Was that a pun, I heard Pinkie?" Rainbow laughed under her breath.

Pinkie opened her mouth to say something next, but she pondered for a few seconds, with an index finger below her chin, of what her rainbow-haired friend just meant. By the time she completely figured it out, she lets out an 'ohhhhhhhhhhhh' and laughed a bit.

"Ahm' just hoping he doesn't draw too much attention. The last thing ah' want is to hear someone freaking out 'cause of a walking skeleton that isn't supposed to be, y'know...walking." Applejack said, waving her hands in the air.

"Don't worry. If anything happens, we'll take care of it." Twilight replied, as the others nodded in agreement.

"Girls!" An undoubtedly familiar voice called their attention. Turning around, they saw two of their friends that approached them with a wave from Sunset, and a salute from Sans.

"I hope you girls didn't wait long," Sunset said.

"Oh, don't worry darling. The important thing is you got here safe and sound," Rarity replied.

"so, what do you girls have in mind today?", Sans asked them.

"ONLY TONS AND TONS OF FUN!" Pinkie answered him, as she jumped up and down with the biggest smile Sans has ever seen.

"well, someone's eager to start. if you say so, we can't just be bone-idling around now, can we?" Sans winked at the ebullient girl who can't seem to contain the excitement within her. Pinkie and Fluttershy giggled, while the others shook their heads.

"So, who's ready for some fun?" Sunset asked.

The girls cheered, especially Pinkie being the most energetic out of all her friends. Sans could only chuckle at such enthusiasm, as they proceeded to their weekend bliss at the mall.

As Sans and the Main 7 strolled through the mall, unbeknownst to them, some people had disturbing looks across their faces as they shockingly observe that there is something walking amidst the group that isn't even suppose to be walking or wearing clothes for that matter. Nearly everyone focused their attention to the group, while Sans either ignored them or smiled at them just to humor himself.

"looks like people here ain't taking there eyes off of me", Sans chuckled lightly.

"Well, I suppose everyday you don't get to see a skeleton wearing clothes like a normal human being, do you?" Sunset asked. Sans nonchalantly shrugged.

"eh. so, where's out first stop?"

"Ooh, ooh!" Pinkie grabbed her skeleton friend's hand suddenly, making Sans recoil a bit. "Let's go over there!" Pinkie pointed at the direction of a small shop, as she motioned towards it, with her dragging Sans' along. The rest of the group giggled and followed, as Rarity spoke up regarding the duo in front of them.

"Just look at those two," Rarity started, as she leaned her head on the side and sighed admirably. "I believe that Pinkie has found her kindred spirit, don't you agree?"

"Sweet Pinkie Pie and Sans...Ah' think the fun has just been doubled y'all." Applejack said, earning a nod of agreement from the others.

"I think this year is going to be both sans-sational and pink-tastic." Sunset chimed in, as a sound of giggles from her friends were heard.

Once inside, the group explored what the store has to offer; from itch powder, to stink bombs, to fake rubber snakes, and the old-fashioned electric hand shaker buzzer, which Sans was very familiar of. He was looking at all the other joke products, until Pinkie popped in front of him.

"How are you liking the place so far, Sansy?", Pinkie asked enthusiastically.

"well, it's a prankster's paradise, that's for sure." Sans chuckled, making Pinkie laugh also.

"I'm glad you're enjoying it." Pinkie held out her hand, gesturing Sans to shake it. "Put it right here."

Sans knew very well where she's getting at, and this reminded him of that time in Snowdin forest when he approached them and did the same thing. Since he doesn't want to expose the obvious, he decided to play along just for the sake of her own amusement. Upon contact of Pinkie's palm, Sans felt a vibration that shocked him. "Joy buzzer. Gets them every time", she snickered.

"heh, heh. i guess we're even now." Sans replied.

The group moved on to a book store, on which Twilight is eager to get to. She wanted to check out the latest volume on quantum physics, much to Rainbow's misfortune. Sans, on the other hand, was interested at first but that soon dissipated because he moved on from science nerd to hot dog vendor and pun master. Twilight was scrutinizing through the shelves searching for all kinds of literature, Rarity was on the magazine rack reading some of the latest fashion trends, Applejack was busy flipping through a cook book with apple related recipes, Fluttershy was going over the animal magazines, Sunset was looking through some metal rock, Rainbow was glancing over the Daring Do books if there were any new editions added despite her objection of books.

Pinkie and Sans were both exchanging laughs from the some of the joke books they read. Sans was reading a joke book that contained skeleton jokes, which most of it he already knew.

"Okay, okay." Pinkie wiped a tear from her eye from laughing too much. "Why did the balloon go near the needle?"

"i don't know. why?"

"He wanted to be a pop star!" Pinkie joked, as both of them snorted in hilaritily.

Sans slides a mischievous grin on his face, as he had thought of something he hasn't made a joke about for a long time now.

"what do you call a lonely skeleton?"

"What?"

Before Sans could even finish, a voice called out to them, specifically Rainbow Dash.

"LET'S GET GOING, YOU GUYS!"

"tell me later if you got it figured out." Sans winked at the bubbly girl, as Pinkie hummed happily and the two joined with the others and continued on to their next destination.

Soon, the Main 7 including Sans arrived at a local pet store that Fluttershy suggested to go to. Inside, Fluttershy was adoring every pet and critter that seem to be attracted to her, Rainbow was checking out the turtles, Rarity was cuddling the little kittens, Applejack and Twilight were petting the dogs, Pinkie peered on a fish tank making silly fish faces, Sunset was looking at the different species of birds. However, Sans was playing with dogs coated in white fur which reminded him of those that reside in Snowdin. One of the dogs bit his bony finger in attempt to play with it, so Sans went inside the pen and suddenly he was crowded with all the white dogs. Some climbed up to his head, others went inside his jacket and he could feel all the licks that were tickling him.

"heh, heh. easy now, pups. there's a lot to go for every one of 'ya." Sans said, as he petted the other dogs.

Fluttershy took notice of this, and walked over to the dog pen. "Looks like you're having a...ruff day there." she giggled in delight of her own pun, while nuzzling a bunny in her hands.

"never thought you'd be somewhat funny, but that's okay i guess." the comical skeleton grinned as he shook his head.

"Well, I try to be sometimes," Fluttershy replied, returning the bunny back to its cage. They saw that the others are ready to move out and continue to their next stop.

"welp." Sans got up and while no one was paying attention, he conjured a bone mid-air and flicked it to the side, catching the dogs' attention. Fluttershy raised her hand to cover her gaping mouth, mildly shocked. "i guess we better hop to our next place. whaddya say?" he said as he stepped out of the enclosure and stood by with the shy girl, who was staring at him awkwardly.

"lady, as much as i'd like doing a staring contest with 'ya, the others aren't gonna wait for us forever." Sans suggested, as Fluttershy regained herself.

"Oh...okay. I guess you're right."

"it's s'okies."

As Sans and Fluttershy rejoined with the rest of the group and were about to leave the store, a certain bark caught Sans' attention. Looking back at the dog pen, in which he was in just before, he recognized a very familiar dog that was standing out among the rest. It seemed like it had a white pixelated appearance with a black outline and it's legs were moving up and down, with it's tail is wagging in excitement for some reason. It barked twice in a high-pitched tone.

"what the-?"

"SANS! You coming or what?"

Sans looked to see Pinkie, who was calling and waving at him. He looked back at the dog pen, but it disappeared without a trace. After a few seconds of deliberation, Sans shrugged and catched up with the group.

"What took 'ya so long, pardner?" Applejack asked.

"let's just say i saw something that reminded me back at snowdin...under our sink."

Afterwards, they stopped at an arcade. Rainbow Dash, Sunset Shimmer, Pinkie Pie who invited Sans along with her decided to have some fun, while the others wandered through the gaming facility. Sunset was playing a rock guitar game, Rainbow and Sunset teamed up to play on an alien-shooting game, while Pinkie was busy trying to get a high score on skee ball.

"Come on Sans! Try this game," Pinkie pleaded, striking another ball on the 50 point hole. She grabbed another ball and offered it to Sans.

"i guess it won't hurt. i'm not much of a player; i'm more of a sleeper, to be honest." Sans held the ball, and rolled it on the inclined lane. Once the ball made it to the end, it fell on the 20 point hole. "not bad, sans." he said, patting his own shoulder priding himself.

Later on, the group moved to a dressing shop, courtesy of Rarity, as the others checked out the different clothes that piqued their interest. Sans was checking the "Jackets" section and looked at the different jackets that caught his attention, with Sunset with him.

"Hey, Sans." the bacon-haired girl spoke up. "What do you think of this?"

"yeah, what's bakin'?" Sans turned around to see Sunset wearing a black hooded outwear that certainly made her look punkish.

"hmmm, not bad. it suits you." the pudgy skeleton commended her outfit.

"Thanks. Your's not half bad."

After making the purchases that the others bought for their own, a rumbling sound was heard, as the group turned to Pinkie who had her hand on her tummy. "I'm hungry."

"yeah, i'm so hungry i could eat a horse." Sans tapped his stomach (which he didn't have), and looked at Sunset, whose eye twitched in aggravation.

"It's about lunch time too." Twilight checked the time.

"Let's go grab a bite then." Sunset suggested, as everyone agreed.

*20 minutes later

Sans and the Main 7 arrived at the food court, and as expected, a myriad of people crowded the entire area, much to the group's inconvenience. What's more troublesome is that a few tables were only available, and fortunately for them, Rainbow Dash sped through the crowd in order to find one, and she did. As the group settled down, they glanced around only to see countless people lining on each food stall.

"How are we gonna order food with lots of people around here? Like, seriously." the rainbow-haired girl groused.

"The only logical thing to do is wait." Twilight insisted. "We don't want to create a scene by just accidentally bumping into someone with a food tray in our hands."

"I guess you're right." Rainbow reluctantly answered, as everyone agreed.

Minutes have passed, as the numbers decreased bit by bit. Much later, the food court was half empty allowing the girls, including Sans to order their food easily without any problems. They returned to their own table with their own preferred food, with the exception of Rarity.

"Where's purple hair?" Sans asked, noticing that the fashionista is missing.

"Still indecisive on whether she should pick club sandwiches or a fancy meal." Applejack chuckled, so did the group.

A little while later...

"How does your digestive system even function without a stomach?" Twilight asked incredulously to Sans, who was munching on a burger, as the others curiously leaned in to the conversation.

"monster magic." Sans replied plainly. "it doesn't work the same way your magic does."

"Care to elucidate further?" the purple-skinned teenager inquired. Sans turned to face her with a furrowed brow, as Twilight blushed. "Sorry. I am just so engrossed about the anatomy of your species and how they defy certain capabilities that a normal human being can't do."

Sans placed his unfinished food on the plate, and turned to the girls who were quite eager to hear what the skeleton would have to say. "okay. since you're on the edge of your seats wanting to know, i guess i could shed some info."

Sans wiped his grin with a paper towel to remove any left-overs in his face. "like i said before, monster magic doesn't work the same yours does. our magic is manifested in our SOULs, meaning the body of a monster is made of magic itself. each monster is unique to their own, and some can conjure magic depending on the species they represent. us, skeletons, like me and my bro can summon bones, which you already know. on the side note, our eating habits are still the same. any food we eat still makes us feel full...but our system contradicts that of a normal human."

"I swear, Sans. You sound just like Twilight when she keeps ranting about books." Rainbow grumbled.

"heh, heh. i guess you can blame dad-ster on that one. anyways, our digestion..." Sans considered a moment to pause and ponder about it. "huh. now that i think about it, i don't really have any clue on how it works really. we just tend to ignore it since we haven't encountered any problems when it comes eating whatsoever."

"So, I guess asking that if you ever used the restroom is out of the question?" Sunset asked.

"to be honest with 'ya, we don't even have a restroom or a bathroom back at home." Sans replied casually.

"WHAT!?" The girls exclaimed in unison, as they looked at Sans in incredulity.

"Y-You don't even...use t-the...y-you k-know" Twilight stammers in response, trying her best to vocalize the words.

"toilet? yeah, no. they're only useful to those who have internal organs...like you."

"Sorry for the delay, girls." Rarity arrived with a couple of club sandwiches on her tray.

"Took 'ya long enough." Applejack said, observing the food her friend chose. "See, what'd I tell 'ya? Sandwiches ain't hard to pick."

The fashionista huffed, as she gracefully sat down on a chair next to Sans who grinned at her and returned to eating his burger. "I was taking my time on choosing my preferred course of food, thank you."

"Yeah, yeah. We all know how 'yer time is bein' spent." Applejack shook her head. Rarity rolled her eyes ignorance as she proceeded to take out a silver fork and a knife.

As Sans finished the burger he ordered, he felt something shined on his eyes. He glanced at the purple-haired girl next to her, who was using a certain silverware that haunted him again and again. His eyes widened in fear, as he flinched in place, causing the girls to gasp.

"Sans! What's wrong!?" Sunset asked, the others with concerned looks on their faces, especially Rarity who was completely oblivious of what just happened.

Clutching his chest, Sans's eye started glowing a hue of blue and yellow, as if something had penetrated through him. An intangible force that hit him like a freight train at full speed. The girls were utterly unsettled and tried to think of something that could help pacify the skeleton's state. With only one thing in mind, they gripped their hands onto Sans's other hand. Sunset, however, decided not to, as she precisely remembered what he said to her and the consequences that will bring to her and her friends. They've already seen too much to comprehend and clearly they don't want see it again either.

"Sans! Sans! SANS!" the group simultaneously called out his name repeatedly, just to break the reverie that he was in, and it was slowly working. The skeleton calmed down for good, until those white pupils reappeared in his eyes.

"There there, Sansy. We're here for you." Pinkie comforted him.

"th-thanks. i needed that." the skeleton grinned at the pink girl weakly.

"Did I do something wrong darling!?" Rarity asked worryingly.

"I didn't see you do anything that might've freaked him or any of us out. You were just slicing your sandwiches and Sans just flinched for no reason." Rainbow explained.

"that's just it."

"Whatever do you mean, dear?"

"that thing you're holding lady. brings back some slashing memories."

Sans gestured a hand to the sharp silverware that rested in Rarity's right hand. She carefully inspected it to see if something's wrong, but her eyes shrank in horror as she soon realized what the skeleton meant. The object that bore the blood of innocent monsters; that was used as a play toy for their own amusement. Rarity somewhat felt a wave of guilt, as if she was the one who was responsible for doing such a dreadful act. Her grip on the knife loosened, clattering on the plate.

"I'm terribly sorry...I d-didn't know...Oh, forgive me." Tears flowed down the fashionista's cheeks, as Sans motioned beside her with his hand on hers.

"hey, now. it isn't your fault." With his deep voice, Sans tried to calm her. "you didn't know and sorry for freaking out earlier. if i hadn't, you wouldn't be like this. come on, lighten up."

Rarity peered her teary eyes at Sans, who smiled soothingly. Her composure begins to regain slowly, as she pulled out a tissue and wiped her eyes.

"There goes my makeup, I suppose. It's now all chaotic."

"heh, you should see my room." Sans chuckled, as Rarity giggled lightly.

"maybe we should head back now. the day's nearly finished anyways, and i want rares here to be taken care of. can you do that, girls?"

"Of course we will! We'll take care of her...in fashion." Pinkie assured.

"Yeah! Since when did we ever fail at something like that?" Rainbow added.

"good to know."

As the group finished their food, they decided to call it a day. They went out of the mall as night enveloped the sky once again. Street lights lit up the city, and vehicles with headlights turned on. The group departed to their own homes, each saying their goodbyes, with Pinkie, Sunset and Sans left.

"So, Sans." Sunset hopped on her motor bike and slid the face shield of the helmet. "You sure you don't want a ride home?"

"i'm good. it's s'okies."

"Fine. See 'ya tomorrow, or whenever."

Sans waved at his bacon-friend, as the blur faded into the distance. Just as he is about to leave, a whisper stopped him.

"Boner."

"say what now?" Sans glanced to his right, only to see Pinkie squatted down near his ear.

"A boner. That's the answer, isn't it?"

"yup. surprised?"

"Sometimes, you're too naughty for things like these, Sansy."

"sorry. at first, i was totally considering the whole adult humor, since the readers that are reading this right now might you know, feel uncomfortable." Sans shrugged.

"Eh. At least the author warned them about it, and they know too much already." Pinkie and Sans laughed.

"i guess so."

"Well, I'll see you later. Bye Sans!" Pinkie gleefully hopped with each step, waving at Sans as he is left with only one thing to do.

"what a night. i guess i better turn in too." Sans clicked his thumb and middle finger together, as he disappeared on the spot.

Chapter 10: Dodgeball Mayhem (Part 1)

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