Determination (Charisk) [OUTDATED]

VI - TALE OF THE ANSWER

Tra la la, anything is fixable with time and DETERMINATION. Even the timeline.

(SANS POV)

"okay. so you know when we play chess? we move the pieces across the board. and some pieces can move differently. we move the pieces acoording to the rules when it's our turn, right?"
"THATS HOW CHESS WORKS."
"yeah. but what if you were the chess piece? your whole world would be the board. You only move around when someone else moves you around... and what if you, as the piece, couldn't see who's moving you around? what if you didn't even know anything was moving you around?"
       "SANS..."
       "hold on, hold on. what if someone cheated? or some thing else happened that would cause the game to end prematurely?"
        "ALL THE PIECES GO BACK... WHERE THEY STARTED."
        "exactly. like the game we were just playing didn't happen. you followin me, pap?"
         "UH HUH."
         "so... the machine in the back room started working." papyrus threw his hands up.
         "AND YOU DIDNT THINK TO TELL ME?!"
"i told you why before, and im telling you now. it started showing lines. timelines. the reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum. timelines jumping left and right... stopping and starting... and on the side screen, it showed a 'DT signature'. 'GF.No.016' LV 48."
"LV 48!? NOT EVEN EVERY MONSTER IN THE UNDERGROUND WOULD GIVE YOU THAT MUCH LOVE!!"
"i know. you'd have to kill every living monster more than 50 times over to even get close to that. but that's not all. you see, it showed a gradual increase in that LV throughout the equivalent of centuries. centuries this 'GF.No.016' has spent killing monsters, then turning it all back to zero."
"T-That's horrifying to think about."
"see? this is what i told you! its not something... but then it just ends. out of nowhere it ends, and there's a new signature. 'H.DT.FA.17'. LV 1. that's this timeline. something changed. this never happened in the last however many timelines. but... it was 15 timelines ago that he disappeared. that's what the machine said... then it stopped rendering."
"Sans.."
"how am i just supposed to accept that something else is using this world as it's chess board, and now it's being given to someone else!"
"Sans."
"what happens when 'H.DT.FA.17' gets a checkmate? is it just reset again? are we cast aside and left to die?"
"SANS."
"how am i supposed to give it my all when i know that its all going to be reset anyway?"
"SANS!!!"
"..."
"YOU SAID YOU WERE SCARED. WHAT WERE YOU SCARED OF?"
"... if we can't control anything, what's the point of doing anything? if we're not the ones living... if someone else is just living our lives for us, what the point of thinking or feeling? what's the point of being alive?" i turned away. i couldn't even look him in the eyesockets. i felt his hand on my shoulder.
"LOOK, I DONT KNOW WHAT BEING 'REAL' IS, THE WAY YOURE TALKING ABOUT IT. BUT I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU FEEL THESE THINGS. BUT IM GOING TO KEEP BEING ME. IM GOING TO BE COOL AND AWESOME AND GREAT AND CHARMING AND POWERFUL AND HANDSOME—"
"you said that already."
"SUPER HANDSOME! AND IM STILL GOING TO BE YOUR BROTHER. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS!!"
"but... doesn't it bother you? that nothing we do... means anything?" his hands glowed a soft green.
"ACCORDING TO WHO?"
"..."
"IM YOUR BROTHER, SANS. AND YOUR MY BROTHER. THATS REAL. THIS IS REAL. THIS MEANS SOMETHING." he pulled me into a deep hug.
"i hope so... god i hope so." i didnt have the heart to tell him he used the wrong you're.

. . .

"hey, you've been kinda quiet lately, wassup?"
"If... If a human ever comes through this door... could you please, please promise something?"
"listen, i-i don't really like makin promises."
"Watch over them, and protect them, will you not?"

"i... yeah, ok. i promise."

Tra la... your forgetfulness will precede you, and the medium is just right for the past to slip in.