A red and gray blur raced across Hotland, evading all of Alphys's cameras which, in itself alone, is a feat of great skill and intelligence. The creature slipped around the lab to a hole in the ground sloppily covered with rocks and metal. Alphys had just set the Amalgamates free to be with their families so the True Lab was vacant. Their original home was no longer occupied so it was a good place to hide out.

Alphys never went down there anymore so they didn't have to worry about sneaking around. That is what they had thought. They tore open a bag of dog food that was meant for the Amalgamates and started eating. The lights flicked on and the thousand year old reptilian monster met their eyes.

"Y-you - WAIT D-Don't G-G-Go!"

They bolted. Running down halls and ducking into an alcove. Alphys walked by but didn't pass them. Never doubt a reptile's vision.

"I-I'm not gonna hu-hurt you N-No-Nova."

Dark golden eyelights shrank.

"I-I know wh-what G-Gaster did to you. H-he's no lon-longer here. In-in the Und-Underground I mean."

"I know."

A hard, yet soft feminine voice escaped the slightly shaking figure.

"How do you know that name?"

"I-I found the exp-experiment logs."

"Heh. I always hated that damn journal. Scooch."

They moved out of the alcove, keeping a good distance from Alphys.

"Forgive me, I haven't had real monster on monster contact in...a long time. The last monster I actually had physical contact with was -"

"G-Gaster?"

"Not exactly. The last monster I spoke to was Gaster. The last Monster I had physical contact with was San's little brother, Papyrus."

"Wouldn't th-that make h-him your brother to-too?"

"003 is comprised 100% of Gaster's D.N.A. While I hold no grudge against him like I do Gaster, I hold no familial love for him. My only family is my baby brother Sans."

"O-okay. Let's ge-get you some fo-food."

Nova followed Alphys to the newer lab. She took off her heavy cloak to reveal a pair of tattered brown pants, a pair of muddy and scorched red boots, and a black shirt tore all the way around the stomach area. The bottom half of Nova's soul was on display much to Alphy's shock.

"U-um, would you l-like a ne-new shirt?"

"Are you uncomfortable with my appearance?"

"N-no! Not at-at all! B-but you s-soul is on dis-display. Aren't you wo-worried?"

"Oh yeah. No, I am more than capable of taking care of myself. You said before you had food?"

"Ye-yes!"

Alphys scurried around and made a bowl of instant noodles and microwaved a couple cat-dogs. Nova ate everything she was given and guzzled water until she sighed in contentment.

"Thank you Dr. Alphys."

"Y-you know who I a-am?"

"Of course I do. You are a good friend of my brother. Undyne, Grillby, Mettaton, Toriel, and Asgore, you are all good friends of my baby brother's so of course I would know about you."

"So , Sans's older sister spies on us?"

Nova jumped out of her seat and hunch over herself in the corner, growling at the intruder. Her skeletal ears were pressed against her skull and her teeth and fangs were bared. Her eyelights shrank to pinpricks.

Undyne watched the poor, mutated skeleton put up all her defenses. She was watching Undyne with unseeing eyelights. It was almost as if she wasn't in the lab with them, but somewhere else. Like she was back in the True Lab with Gaster. She was scratching at her neck and mouth trying to remove something that wasn't even there.

"No-Nova! You're safe! Th-the MRC and STM ar-aren't on you! Y-your hurting yo-yours-self! Un-Undyne!"

"Don't worry Ally!"

Undyne quickly yanked both of Nova's hands away from her face and neck. Alphys wrapped her in a weighted blue blanket.

"What the hell's wrong with her?"

"PTSD. Ga-Gaster performed horrific experime-ents on her and o-on Sa-Sans."

Nova calmed herself while Alphys explained her oh-so horrific history with Gaster.

"I always knew Gaster was a creep!"

"Yes yes. Hello to you too Captain Undyne. I am Experiment 001, Nova. Dr. Alphys, may I see Gaster's notes on the portal?"

"O-of course. Ri-right this w-way. H-his notes are a-all in WingD-Dings."

"I'm fluent, don't worry."

Undyne followed the two upstairs where Nova read through the portal's notes carefully.

"That damn smartass."

"Wh-what?"

"When Gaster first created the portal to track Sans's magic, the sly bastard purposefully engineered it to explode behind whoever went through. Flowey going through the first portal was not part of his plans but served as the perfect test subject. He wrote that he doubted Flowey survived the strain of the portal, with his physical body being nothing more than a flower. With these notes, I can recreate the portal and not have it explode, but I can't say it will continue to function after usage."

"Well what're you waiting for?! Lets build this sucker and bring the boys home!"

Nova and Alphys got to work almost immediately. Undyne helped them with most of the heavy lifting. Within a few days, the new portal was completed. Nova placed a concentrated ball of her magic into the locator slot with the intent to find her baby brother. The portal changed colors from dark gold, to an orange-red, to a sludge-y black, and finally stopping on baby blue.

"Before I go through the portal. Here."

Nova handed over a specially designed glass box containing a separate concentrated orb of her magic and papers in a manila envelope.

"I made adjustments to your cellular phone Dr. When I see Sans, I will contact you. The box contains my magic. I will create another portal on the other end and sync it to this one. Try not to lose that box or I won't have a point to lock onto from the otherside. Toby Fox forbid, if anything happens to the portal, the papers contain my notes and blueprints on how to reconstruct it. Good luck and may the star watch over us."

Nova walked through the portal after pulling her Snowdin cloak from her nowhere space.

(*Nowhere Space: A rip in the space time around Experiment 001 "NOVA" where she stores most of her personal belongings. Sans has his shortcuts Nova has her nowhere space. What does Papyrus have? WHO KNOWS!*)

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"Sans, do you want to go out today?"

Sans was cooped up in his and Eijirou's room for days. Grillby let up on the grounding, but Sans rarely left the room anyway. He was trying to use any Elemental Magic he might have with no success whatsoever. It really put a damper on his mood.

"And do what?"

"We can go to the arcade? Or even to the local pool or, heck, the library! Just get outta the house or I'll get Bakugo to call you and force you out."

"Low blow Eiji."

Katsuki and Sans were constantly texting since the blonde was away on a small trip with his mother. Sans reluctantly got out of his bed and threw on his pink low-top uggs. He was perp walked out of the house with a ketchup bottle in hand. True to Eijirou's word, they spent some time at the library where they coincidentally met up with Mina and Yaoyorozu. Sans's new appearance through the deputy class president for a loop, but she didn't outwardly ask or mention it.

Eijirou was quickly distracted by his girlfriend and friend, allowing Sans the perfect opportunity to sneak away. The sun felt nice, the wind was light a gentle, and the villain blowing up the convenience store was loud.

"Why's it always me?"

Sans ran to the store and summoned a small blaster for protection. It was a pair of villains. Both teenagers. A boy with black hair and a multitude of purplish scars and a girl with a too wide-too sharp grin.

Sans didn't have to fight them since Snipe was there within seconds after him. So he vanished the blaster and took a stroll through the park. A dark golden portal looking thing opened in front of him. He paused and looked at the cloaked human who walked through.

She had long, dark golden hair, a pair of matching eyes, skin as white as the snow in Snowdin, ripped brown pants, a homemade ripped crop top showing off the ribs and organ outlines in her stomach, and red boots that were caked with mud and seemed burned. She lifted the hood from her head to reveal two ears on the top of her head the color of her hair. Sans could even see a matching golden tail tucked between her legs. Her eyes were wide with fear and her stance was braced for the worst reaction.

"S...Sans?"

He recognized the voice and the magic signature almost immediately.

"Na-Na?"

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