(I Was) Stronger Than You

Sans now cautiously approached the hooded figure who had taken a seat on a log with numerous layers of moss and fungi growing upon it and was patting the spot next to him.

"How do you know who I am?" Sans asked as he hopped on the log.

"Too long to explain fully, but the short version is I met someone looking for you, he might be pleased to meet you." The man said with a chuckle.

"You know it isn't nice to tease pe-"

"Why would I lie about the man who speaks in hands?" This stopped Sans' dead.

"G-Gaster?!"

"Indeed, as I traveled the void looking for a friend I ran into a masked man who looked like he had been through hell and was on the lookout for someone who matched your description to a T."

"How'd he get there?"

"Probably same way I did, we were both mistakes."

"Mistakes?"

"Things never meant to be, but for some reason were."

"Never meant to be? Whaddya mean?"

"Something he did or was going to do caused him to be thrown into the void, and unlike me he traveled on his own will, even with my granted abilities he rivals me, if I run into him again I will try to send him here."

"S-Seriously?" Sans was now speechless at the news he was hearing.

"Don't be too happy, the void is out of time, one second there could be a minute or a decade here, I can only be the messenger and hope he gets here before somethi8ng happens." At this, he slumped a bit, as the man peered down Sans looked back up with a toothy grin.

"Thanks, pal, so in the meantime, I should just hideout?"

"No, they will think you are hiding something, better to just do a show and tell, but knowing Bookhorse she might think you are related to necromancy, I think while I'm here I will monitor this and make sure you are okay. He would kill me if I found you only to let you die."

"Whaddya mean?"

"They think you're a zombie summoned by an evil pony here, you have to convince them you aren't, even if it is the truth it won't seem like it to them and- Shit, here she comes. Get up Sans, it's showtime!"

"Wait, now?!"

"Hey, I thought you liked the spotlight mister comedian?" The man said as he faded into the brush of the forest, Sans losing all trace of him while hearing the approach of hoofsteps in rapid succession.