Act I. Scene 1. Snowdin
This time it was different. He could tell, not because his brother didn't wake him up this morning, and not because he Grillby didn't hound him for paying his debt when he went to visit today. But there was one thing, there was a boy he saw in his dreams - only delivering the cryptic message...
"She's had her fun...now it's MY turn."
He could only assume “she” referred to that dirty little killer he encountered so many times beforehand. How and why this timeline had caused this boy to “wake up” or appear now was a question he didn’t have an answer to. So instead of lazing around today, he did some investigative research, he started at the Library, or Librarby, and decided to start all over. From the War of Humans and Monsters to the death of the prince, to see if anything he didn’t know was added.
It was all the same...
Either that kid wasn’t human or monster, or this was something entirely different. One other unsolved question remained as well, why now did he decided to interfere with the timelines, why now appear? Was it the numerous genocide runs, or the resets in general? There were far too many runs to count, but he knew that along one of those times, the boy had awakened - and watched the rest of the runs up to this point. He leaned his head into his arms, with his "eyes" shut and pretending to sleep until he heard his brother approach.
"SANS! WAKE UP YOU LAZYBONES!~" Sans sighed, he tilted his head over so one eye socket was facing out. "heya bro..." He groaned.
"DON'T 'HEYA BRO' ME, SANS! I TOLD YOU TIME AND TIME AGAIN NOT TO SLEEP ON THE JOB, AND NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'RE DOING - YET. AGAIN." His brother screamed unnecessarily loud, but that didn't bother him. In fact, by this point he was used to the way his sibling talked. "sorry paps...I'm just 'bone'-tired today." He softly snickered, much to the disapproving grunt of his sole audience.
"HONESTLY BROTHER, YOU'RE PUNS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE TERRIBLE EACH DAY." The other skeleton replied. "dont'cha mean...'tear'-ible?" Sans replied, earning another disapproving grunt.
"JUST...PUT SOME MORE, BACKBONE, INTO IT - WILL YOU?" The skeleton sighed. "sure thing papyrus." Sans remarked, Papyrus nodded and trudged away from his brothers stand, not long - he stopped.
"SANS..." Papyrus started, Sans looked over at Papyrus, "SANS...I FEEL LIKE...SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS COMING THIS WAY." He answered, this caught Sans' attention. "IT MAY BE NOTHING." He quickly dismissed, "BUT..."
"but what?" Sans asked, "LAST NIGHT...I HAD A DREAM." Papyrus said, "THE WHOLE UNDERGROUND...SNOWDIN...IT WAS ALL IN FLAMES." He explained, "THERE WAS DUST EVERYWHERE...SO MUCH OF IT...IT STAINED THE SNOW, AT LEAST...I THINK IT WAS SNOW...AND ALL THERE WAS, WAS...A STRANGE INDIVIDUAL" Papyrus said.
"a strange individual?" Sans asked more to himself, Frisk? Chara? This definitely never happened before in any other reset. Just what was going on? "HE...OR IT...LOOKED AT ME, WITH GLOWING GREEN EYES - AND I JUST HAD THESE HORRIBLE VISIONS...OF TWO OTHER ONES ABOUT THEIR SIZE, AND THE MONSTERS, THEN THE MONSTERS TURNING INTO DUST - AND SOME VISIONS HAD ME CONFRONTING ONE OF THESE HUMANS, I BELIEVE, BEFORE I FELT THIS UNBEARABLE PAIN AND JUST...WENT TO SLEEP?" The taller skeleton continued explaining.
All of what Papyrus was saying was impossible, there's no way he should remember the resets - even if it was in a dream. He would have blamed Chara, but what would she have to gain by just giving Papyrus memories of the past runs? Heck, what would Frisk have to gain; if he even had any trace of empathy left to show. "i'm...sure it was just a nightmare, bro." Sans tried to reassure him. "BUT IT ALL FELT SO REAL." Papyrus remarked, "I'M...I'M KIND OF SCARED - SANS." He added, "IS ANY OF IT...REAL? IS ALL THAT, GOING TO HAPPEN?" He added. Sans gritted his teeth together, one of his pinprick-like pupils flashed into a blue color. He took a deep breath, calming down as the pupil reverted back to normal.
"it's just a dream, pal. maybe you ate too much of your famous spaghetti." Sans suggested. Papyrus paused for a moment, before speaking. "NYEH HEH HEH, OF COURSE. IT'S ALL JUST THE SPAGHETTI." Papyrus said, back in his naïve and carefree self. This brought up a weird thought in his head, if Papyrus had these dreams...then surely Alphys...Undyne...Mettaton...Toriel and Asgore would have also seen these dreams, right? It couldn't have just been Papyrus, why would it just be Papyrus?
Someone was trying to tell them all something, whether it was a threat...warning...or something else in particular - it wasn't really welcoming.
"A-a-a st-strange dream?" The yellow lizard asked, with her blue-scaled fish lady crush sitting beside her at the table in her home at Waterfall. "What are you getting at, Sans?" The fish lady asked. "it's probably nothing...i hope, but I just want to make sure." Sans remarked. The lizard and fish lady remained in silence, staring at each other, before the latter spoke up. "Yeah...We've...had a strange dream." She said. "did it have something to do with a boy?" Sans asked, intrigued. The lizard spoke up this time, "Y-Yeah...h-how did you know?" She asked. "me and Papyrus had the same dream." Sans said. "Now that you mention it...didn't Mettaton tell you he had the same dream too?" The fish lady asked her friend, "Yeah...f-from what you t-told me...the k-k-king had the same dream too, right?" She asked, to which her crush nodded.
