Canterlot Castle, Medical Wing
Celestia spun around quickly. "You're awake!?" she asked excitedly. Finally, it was time for her to get some answers.
The skeleton's eyes were glowing dimly, its ever-showing teeth seemed to form a shallow grin. "seems like it, pony," it said weakly, "I'm awake for once, alive as ever, and kinda confused as to why."
Celestia walked up to the edge of the bedside and sat down on one of the few chairs in the room. "To be honest,” she said, “we are just as confused as you. You simply appeared out of nowhere in the middle of our garden in a critical state. We have tried to patch you up as best we can, Mr...?"
The skeleton attempted to move one of its arms, but stopped when a stab of pain went through it. It let its arm fall back down and said, "name's sans, sans the skeleton. i'd like to deliver on my previous offer-" he glanced down at the giant slash in his chest- "but tibia little bit honest I don't think I'm up to the task."
Celestia giggled a bit at the skeleton's pun. She was worried at first, but he seemed to be likeable enough. "I am Princess Celestia, co-ruler of the land of Equestria. It is a pleasure to meet you Sans."
Sans eyes widened at this revelation. "a princess, huh? if I knew i was going to be in the presence of royalty after that fight I might have worn some better clothes. right now they're just the barebones of my wardrobe. i don’t suppose you’re as easygoing as asgore?” Celestia looked confused. “hmm, that look on your face… you have no idea who i’m talking about, do you? guessin’ you don’t know anybody else, either, like undyne or papy-" Sans jumped in panic and began to look around frantically, "oh, shoot! where is it, where is it, where is it?!"
Celestia stood up and looked at the skeleton curiously. "Where is what? Are you missing something?"
Sans looked back up at Alicorn speaking rapidly, attempting to push himself into a higher position as to see better. "a red scarf. Was there a red scarf with me when I was in your garden?” His voice took on a more serious tone, somehow, and his eyes darkened. “I NEED that scarf."
Celestia was slightly taken aback by this. Why would the skeleton need a scarf? He was clutching it whenever he was found, but she wouldn't think that a skeleton would get cold and need a scarf. Getting cold isn’t really something bones do. Then again, bones aren’t normally made out of raw magic, either. Shoving those thoughts to the back of her mind, she placed her two forehooves on the worried skeleton's shoulders, gently pushing him back to a lying down position. "Sans, please stay resting. You’re still wounded. Yes there was a scarf in your hand when we found you. We have it in the forensics lab now. We initially thought you had been killed and your body had been placed in our garden I can have it retrieved it if you would like. May I ask why you would need a scarf though? Are you cold right now?"
Sans cringed in pain as he gently set himself back down. "no, i'm not cold, and yes, please. i would like you to retrieve papy- I mean the scarf."
Celestia looked at the skeleton for a little bit, whose mood had been significantly reduced from his previously happy state. She then turned, walked out to the hall and spoke to one of the guards by the door. "Corporal, I need you to go retrieve the red scarf from the forensics lab and bring it to me."
The guard saluted. "It will be done, your majesty." He then galloped off towards the lab in all haste.
Celestia walked back into the room, "Sans, I have a question for you. You had said you were fighting someone before you were brought here, I can only assume that they were the ones to do this-" she gestured to the massive gash- "to you. I would like to know why you were fighting them. From the very, very limited view of you that I have seen so far, you don't seem like the type of person that would try to fight somepony. Why were you doing it? ...Does it have anything to do with the ‘Papy’ you keep mentioning?"
Sans haltingly sat up, his right suddenly going dark and his left eye glowing with an eerie blue light glaring down at his legs. Celestia took a step back; the amount of rage on his face was immense. His voice was perhaps the most serious she had heard from him, or in general. "That kid, that DEMON child, it took EVERYTHING from us." His voice began to quaver. "It took Mettaton, it took Undyne, it took the voice from the door... it didn’t even think to spare anything in its path, and it even went out of its way to try and kill every last creature before moving on. My brother, Papyrus, tried to talk to it..." Sans eye was now a burning a color of blue beyond what Celestia had ever seen. Even from there, she could sense the fury and magic emanating from him. "It sliced his head from his body without a second thought." Tears were now running from Sans eye sockets. "He only wanted to be friends! AND IT KILLED HIM! IT KILLED HIM! WHY?" Sans began openly sobbing.
Celestia stepped back towards Sans, lifted him up in her magic and slid him over so she could sit alongside him. She wrapped her wing around him and began to gently rock him back and forth. "Shhh, it's alright, I'm here." Truth be told, Celestia did not have very much experience with situations like this, but she knew what Sans needed most right now was a shoulder to cry on.
Sans continued to sob, tears of brilliant blue magic flowing openly. "I would have been dead too, if I hadn't been pulled here. May God have mercy on the souls of the rest of the monsters in the underground. Even if they are hiding, they will eventually run out of food. They don’t deserve to die in that way, no one does."
Just then the guard ran in with the scarf, only to see the skeleton crying and his leader hugging it. "Umm, I'll just leave this here," he mouthed to Celestia. He set the scarf on a table in the room, then rapidly backpedaled out.
Celestia lifted up the scarf in her magic and brought it to Sans, wrapping it loosely around his neck. Sans continued to cry softly, clutching the scarf as if it was his only lifeline while being wrapped in Celestia’s comforting wing.
After about an hour of slowly rocking back and forth and quiet sobbing, Sans finally fell asleep. Celestia slowly lowered him down so he could rest. At that moment Luna walked in.
"Tia, what are you doing here? We need to lower the sun and raise the moon."
Celestia gripped Luna's muzzle tightly with her magic and pointed to the sleeping skeleton. She then gestured for Luna to follow her out of the room.
When they were out of the room Luna immediately began to question Celestia."Tia, what was that all about? Did the skeleton awaken after I went to sleep?"
"Yes Luna, the skeleton did awaken,” Celestia responded. “I was able to have a short chat with him and find out a few things about him. First off, his name is Sans. He says he knows no more about how he got here than we do."
“Secondly, I would like for you to specifically look into his dreams and make sure that no nightmares happen to him. From what he has told me, he has gone through some serious hardships."
Luna looked confused, "Hardships? Of what sort?"
Celestia sighed, "He told me how his entire society was being slaughtered by a ’demon.’ What exactly this entails I do not know. He claimed to have watched his brother be decapitated by the monster after attempting to make friends with it. He also says that many of his friends were killed by it too, and those that are left hiding in his community are trapped with no way out. They are being starved to death without any support.” The princess shook her head sadly. “The amount of trauma that Sans has gone through has not been seen by the ponies of our land since the unification days. I would like to be able to get a psychiatrist in here to be able to talk to him about what happened. That and find out what kind of a threat the creature that he spoke of is to us. If that demon were to be able to get here as well..."
“Well,” Luna said, “chances are the skeleton’s arrival- Sans, was it?- is due to the taller skeleton that, er, died earlier. Without him, there should be no way for this ‘demon’ to come to our world. We should be safe from it.”
Underground, Judgement Hall
Chara was confused. Why wasn't she at LV 20 yet? It made no sense. She had finally hit the annoying comedian. She had seen him hobble off to die. It wasn’t that the comedian didn’t give enough EXP. Chara’d already checked, not a single extra point had even been gained. Something was different from the rest of the timelines... For one thing, the comedian didn’t give any EXP. For another, the underground lost its power a few moments after she hit him and saved. What was going on?
She walked back towards the core and was shocked to see the core itself was torn open. She backed up slightly, gripping the real knife tightly. "This, this is not normal," she muttered to herself, before grinning. "Finally, something new! This should be fun.."
Reading the newest chapter fills you with DETERMINATION!
7671562 :3
CHARA NO BAD CHARA!
7671568 Did you really think they were gone?
7671586 ......maybe
7671591 Don't worry chara would need an insane amount of power to get to Sans. Not like it's just lying around anywhere. Right?
oh, villain chara, i'm surprised, shocked, stunned,
(still, good story so far)
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Erase Do Not
7671614 you son of a *beep*
7671623 love you too :P
7671620 *boops chara on the nose (or where thier nose would be) and eats both buttons*
Well, I prefer Chara redemption stories, but this timeline is about to get interesting. Poor Frisk, though.
This is bad. If Chara does to Equestria...
7671682 In this version of undertale frisk was tricked by chara into doing the Geno run. At which point frisk was overpowered by chara right before the toriel fight. Since frisk is in the backseat and watching all the friends she made be slaughtered her conscious basically shut down. The only thing really left is her soul. Which chara has been using for saves and resets.
7671703 So Sans can still save her? Well, if he can get over Chara...
7671684 then Sans, who is literally the very embodiment of that last spark of hope that fights to the bitter end, backed up by the Elements of Harmony, artifacts that take that shred of hope and multiply it many many times over, and the power and strategy of not one but two millenia old rulers will absolutely curb stomp chara into the dust so hard that they return to the pit from which they came to never return
7671742 Frisk's soul is there. That would be a correct statement. The problem is Frisk's MIND is basically shut down. She really has no will of her own. The only reason chara is as powerful as she is is because of how they control Frisk's soul. That and now she has 19 LV.
7671756 she might be curb stomped on the first attempt. After all, who actually beat Sans their first try? But if you can keep going back and keep trying, well... Infinity is a long time.
7671762 I can still hope. Honestly, I can't help but think of the "Judgement Hall" comic. At least if they truly die, Frisk can have peace.
7671773 I'll be completely honest here, I've gotten a fair number of ideas from just reading on the internet from when undertale was first beginning. This is basically an amalgamation of all those ideas I liked and putting my own twist to then.
7671779 That would certainly explain why I'm enjoying this story.
7671791 I hope to continue to provide that enjoyment!
I like where this is going!
7671767 true but thats only in the underground where the barrier's magic has literally created a massive rip in the fabric of time and space creating an infinite time loop, allowing for Chara's saves and all the possible endings to pan out. the second that chara leaves the underground, however, the time loop is shattered for them and their ability to "save", their greatest power, comes to an end. they can from the moment of death do only one of two things, either accept death, which chara won't do, or reset and start a brand new loop, where the current sans and equestra remain safely out of their evil clutches. oh, and Sans remembers EVERYTHING that happens in all previous loops and senarios so he would be able to warn equestra far sooner if chara attempted another genocide run and even save his friends by evacuating them to equestria. meaning that every subsequent attempt that chara makes to destroy the underground and equestria, the stronger the opposition against chara becomes in equestria (they arent affected by the memory wipe of the time loop so would remember all of chara's tricks)
7671839 That is an interesting theory about how determination works. However, for this world the requirements are different, if there is enough magic AND ones soul is strong enough determination can work anywhere. The surface world in undertale has relatively little magic compared to the underground. As all magic in that world is being used to fuel the barrier (At least for my world it is) the underground has no such thing taking its magic. So therefore saving and resets are capable there because of magic. Equestria has PLENTY of magic, so a save and reload there would be possible. Chara would just have to find the universe sans is in and find a way to get there first.
7671864 hmm that is an interesting prospect. and because the multiverse theory that comes into play with a story like this states that all possible endings for an event occur and create a new multiverse, there are literally Quintillions times ten to the tenth times the 99th power possibilities of where sans could have dissapeared to (thats not even taking a half of all the possible universes into account), its gonna take Chara a LOOOONG time and LOTS of reloads to even figure out where the hell sans is let alone find a way to get there. besides, if Chara's determination power is dependant upon BOTH magic AND willpower, wouldn't a magic supressor (they exist in equestria) be bound to Chara, thus preventing them from using their Determination abilities?
7671888 the determination is what allows for chara to access the save points if you could find a way to disconnect chara from Frisk's determination then she couldn't access the save points. Imagine save points as if they were everywhere, they just need magic from the outside environment and determination to activate them. Save points in this world are fixed points. They are sort of like computers where magic from the surrounding area acts like a battery and determination is the password to get access to those points. If you don't have enough determination then you don't have enough of the password to get into the computer.
7671888 another thing is if you where to disconnect the determination then chara could no longer go back unless they got determination again. The SECOND determination is gone so is the access to save points. And as to how many universes there are for chara to go though. If the barrier between dimensions were broken both sides would have to have the exact same break. If someone was to find a way to trace the break then it's easy it find.
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Chara only need an insane amount of power to get to sans so there is no way for the little demon to get to equestria, right?!
Oh wait...
They're level 19...
If they get to 20, they can erase the world...
Probably also travel through multiverse because of how strong they are...
And the Core is opened now...
Sh*t.
I don;t think Sans would be the type of person to cry, maybe manly tears but not like what he did here. Fucking Chara, just let discord murder her or something.
7672395 the core has been torn open for a very specific reason. NOT just so chara can get energy.
7672413 he watched his brother being decapitated in front of him, all his friends and family being slaughtered (repeatedly). what else would you expect him to do?
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You're the author, you know your reasons why the Core is now opened, but whatever the reason is, now that sans is out of the underground no one can stop Chara from doing anything. If they want to take more energy from the core, they will take energy from the core. Unless something strange happens, suprise me author.
7672444 let me put it to you this way. If you saw your phone torn open from the inside would your immediate thought be, "I could get power from that" no it would be, "well that is now broken" and you'd be correct.
7671960 I get what you're saying about tracing the crack in reality between the universes, the thing is the exact same one can lead to thousands of potential universes based around going to the same place, so it would still be possible for chara to trace the exact same path that sans took step for step and still end up in another world or version of equestria that doesnt have sans. also blocking chara from using frisk's determination and preventing them from using outside magic is what i was hoping could be done with the magical blockers or drainers. would it also be possible for Celestia and Luna to separate Chara's soul from frisk's body and banish it or put it in a weaker constructed body? like you said the second Chara gets removed from the ability to use Frisk's DETERMINATION, they can no longer access save points, go back or anything else allowing them to be beaten permanently. That may not be where you want to go with the story, I just thought that was an interesting idea
Wow, I really like this so far! It's awesome, and I can't wait till he meets the main six. Actually that brings me to a question. When Celestia and Luna were talking of the elements of harmony, they spoke of the elements themselves and not the main six directly. Now, I know that this is before Twilight was an alicorn (since they mentioned Discord is still in a stone prison) but is this also taking place before even Luna's banishment? When the royal sisters were still the bearers of the elements?
7673668 This is after the banishment of NMM and the return of Luna. So yes, this is in the mane six time period.
7672437 well... you don't see him crying when he dies but ok. Different type of universes have different type of Sans.
Time for heavy weapons.
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Ooooohhhh... okay, thanks for the clarification
N....no...NO!!! Chara you stay away from these nice Ponies!! I... I hope there is a chance to where Chara can be turned to good but I am not holding my breath on it.
"Heh, not bad kid...This version of me looks like he's going through some rough times...check out my story and see what you think...
7712258 SOMEONE GOT THE REFERENCE!!!! YASSSS!!!
You my good sir get a cookie.
Pwez no Chara? I just want a calm story for once.... Pwez? With a pair of Mettatons high heels on top?
..................................................................... Can you please update? With a sad Fluttershy on top?
7896758 I'm trying, its just I have a lot of things going on right now. Life is getting kind chaotic for me. I will be working on this though.
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When Can we possibly expect an update?
7897449 not one hundred percent sure on that. Maybe within the next month.
To be honest I don't think it always needs chara to have a good Villain for Sans and I hope you don't rush the story with Chara appearing every second or third chapter.
firstly, frisk/chara did not kill everyone, just everyone in their way, which was about 100 monsters, there was an entire city below the castle