Shadows Of Remorse (CreepyPasta x Undertale)

Chapter 29 - The Resets

"A reset." Sans sighed, feeling the void continue to drip from his eye socket, "It's called a reset."

"We're finally talking about the resets," Flowey laughed.

"I feel like I'm watching some opera or some sh*t, like this explanation is taking twists and turns," Jeff said, looking over at Sally when she handed him the potato Sans had given her from Laughing Jack. "So what's a reset now?"

"Now I have to explain determination before I can get into that," Sans groaned, "There's just so much backstory and science in this, it's really complicated. Okay, so I explained earlier basically that humans don't have magic while monsters do, yeah?"

"Yup!" Sally said.

"Here," Jeff said, handing the potato to Ben.

"Basically, because humans don't have magic in their souls, they have something else that makes their souls more powerful than monsters." Sans tried to think of how he would go about explaining this. "Humans have this magical power called determination, which makes their souls more 'determined' to live and so humans can kill monsters easier than monsters can kill humans. The more determined they are to kill us, the more damage they do, and the more likely we're to do. Intent is really important to monsters, especially in healing and hurting. I have to intend to heal you or my magic won't heal you because I wouldn't want it to. Which is why it's better to get a monster to heal another monster, because if you really want to heal them, it'll work better."

"If I intend to make you happy all of the time, will it when I poke you?" Sally asked Sans.

"It would work even if I wasn't a monster!" Sans laughed, booping her nose. "But it just deals with healing and damage. Monsters don't have much determination, we barely have any. We can't even have too much, if people try to inject determination into us, we start to melt because our magical bodies can't handle it. So we aren't really 'determined' enough to kill a human compared to them. They would be more determined, and would have more intent to kill, and would kill us faster. But humans don't have the ability to use magic, so normal medical procedures don't really work on monsters. Our bodies are made of magic, they need magic to heal. It's why when I got hit by a rock before I had met Jeff, I couldn't go to a human doctor to get it healed. I had to heal it myself."

"Okay, so that means if you ever get hurt, we won't be able to heal you?" Ben asked, handing the potato to Jane. "I don't like the sounds of that."

"I shouldn't get hurt, I'm pretty strong," Sans said.

"But you just said that humans are stronger than monsters, so doesn't that mean you'd be weak to normal humans?" Tim asked.

"He caught my knife." Jane handed the potato to Eyeless Jack. "I mean, he has quick reflexes."

"And he's connected to the void, which means he can harness the void as well," Slender said, looking at the masked man. "Have you even been paying attention?"

"I z-zoned out like, awhile a-ago," Toby admitted, "Can we go s-start again?"

"No," Sans said, "But I can harness the void, so I don't have to listen to the rules of this world, per say. I have a lot of magic and I can dodge really well, not to mention my reflexes are really good. I also have fire magic, which skeletons aren't supposed to have, but I do anyway, so yeah. And the experiments the Doctor did on me weren't just on the void, but he also did experiments of determination on me."

"You said monsters melted if they got determination!" Jeff said.

"The Doc found a way to bypass that, a way I'm not going to be sharing because I've already concluded I would die with that knowledge," Sans said, "But basically he found a way to get determination into me without me melting. And so I'm the only monster in existence that has enough determination to fight them and actually win multiple times without melting and surviving afterwards. I've seen a monster manage to bypass death and get determination, but then she started to melt after too long and dusted soon after. She did manage to kill a couple of humans a few times, but it was too much for her to handle. Myself, on the other hand, can handle determination. So that means I can inject more into me without melting, and I'm way more powerful."