Snowdin Town. A play on words. Snowed in Town to Snowdin Town. If you're tired, stay at the hotel. If you're hungry, drop by Grillby's. If you want to read or learn, go to the library. Sorry. I mean the 'librarby'. The sign is misspelled. Then, if you get bored, you get to watch the wacky skeletons do their thing. Two of them. A tall one and a short one. They appeared out of nowhere a few years ago. None of us know quite from where. However, there are rumors...

"Hey Shadz, what do you think of that shop rabbit who told us all of that stuff earlier? That rabbit was a little weird. The rabbit's sister was pretty nice, though," Sonic said to Shadow.

Shadow thought for a moment. They had spent the entire day exploring Snowdin. He noticed that people were acting... strange around them. He didn't know why. Sans said that he would explain earlier that day. Although, the day ended before they could really talk. Papyrus gave them his room. He'd sleep in the living room. They found it hilarious that Lily actually slept in the dog house. She said that sleeping there was like being left on a pile of bricks for eight hours before simply getting up again. He thought so fast about everything that had happened that he forgot that Sonic even asked him a question.

"Dude, don't pretend that you're asleep. I can tell that you're awake. I can see that your eyes are WIDE open!" Sonic snapped.

"I didn't really give the person that much thought. Let me sleep," Shadow replied.

"Alright, what are you thinking?" asked Sonic.

Shadow paused. What should he say? He felt like someone was listening. The air might have ears. The walls might be their enemy. The ceiling could bring their doom at any second. He knew that was highly unlikely to happen, but it was likely enough. He thought before giving Sonic an answer. Sonic interrupted before he could speak.

"I was never able to get you, Shadow. Your motives, your personality, your... your perspective mostly. What do you see that I don't? What do you think about things? How do you judge situations? What's your logic? I've never been able to figure it out. That's kinda why I wanna know what you're thinking all the time. Just this once, tell me what's on your mind," Sonic said to Shadow.

There was a long silence. Shadow heaved a sigh.

"You wanna know? Well, I've been noticing things. I've been noticing that people have been looking at us like they've never seen anything greater! Like their hopes and dreams are just an arm length away. I feel like... Sans knows something about it. He was looking at me specifically. However, rather than hope, he looked like he was asking me something," Shadow answered.

"Like what?"

"I don't quite have an answer to that. I think there's more to him than meets the eye."

Sonic thought. "I didn't see him staring like that at me. I think he was perfectly normal. Is this something that's only with you? You are kinda... dark...," Sonic said.

"Why must my past actions make everyone not normal around me?! It's... just... wrong..."

"I wasn't saying that was it! I just said that could be it... I honestly think that you've improved quite a bit. You may mess up from time to time, like when you mistrusted Toriel, but you're a lot nicer than how you started... I think that the Underground is kinda giving you a chance to get better at being a good person. I mean, interacting with nice monsters, dealing with situations, and making friends."

Shadow smiled slightly. "You're always the one who gives me the lecture aren't you? Last night, you were doing this too back at Toriel's. Now, we're with these bro skeletons and you're doing it again. Heh. I suppose I need it."

"Have you learned anything about the chaos emeralds?"

"I haven't felt their power since we fell into the hole with them. We'll just have to keep searching. We can't do it if we stay up chatting all night, though," Shadow replied.

"Yeah. You're right. Well, good night, Shadz!"

But... This doesn't... Hm...

Shadow felt the presence disappear as he drifted away to Dreamland. He was curious to figure out what the presence was about. He was just too tired to want to look into it. It was all he remembered before being pulled away from consciousness.

It doesn't add up to what I saw...

When the sun began to fly through the window again, Papyrus kicked open the door to his room causing the two hedgehogs to wake up in a flash. Sonic fell out of the bed and landed on Shadow who nearly got a broken nose from Sonic's elbow crushing Shadow's nose.

"Rise and shine! Another day ahead of us! C'mon! Don't just sit around and do nothing all day! What would you like for breakfast? Spaghetti or spaghetti?" asked Papyrus.

Shadow rubbed his eyes. He then hopped to his feet in terror. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?! THAT'S NOT A BREAKFAST FOOD! THAT'S COMING FROM A MASTER CHEF TOO!! I'LL MAKE SOMETHING YOU WON'T FORGET!!!"

Sonic was now wide awake and was staring at Shadow like he was mad. "You cook?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

"Because it's one of my hidden secrets... THAT'S RIGHT! I COOK BETTER THAN ANY HEDGEHOG ON THE PLANET!!" Shadow yelled running downstairs.

Lily burst into the house wearing her scarf. She looked annoyed. "What's up with all the racket?! It's eight in the morning and I like to sleep in around the holidays!" she snapped.

Papyrus, Sans, and Sonic were all looking into the kitchen with wonderment. They had never seen anything like what they were witnessing right at that second.

"What are you staring at?! It can't be that impress- What the heck is happening to your kitchen?!" she demanded.

"Papyrus, what did you do...?" asked Sans.

"I don't know! I just mentioned breakfast and he went crazy!" Papyrus yelled.

"Normally, I'd have a pun ready for any situation, but a hedgehog destroying our kitchen because he was mad about breakfast isn't really something I've ever had to think about...," Sans replied still unable to believe what he was seeing.

"He's using up all of my baking soda! I don't use it, but I'm still mad!" yelled Papyrus.

"He just thinks it's soda-licious!" Lily replied with a wink.

"Wait! How come you came up with a pun, but I didn't?!" demanded Sans.

"He left the water running!" yelled Papyrus.

Sans knew this was the time to redeem himself. "Water you standing around for? You'd better go catch it!"

"The water is hot too! He's really raising the water bill! It's all evaporating all over the place!" Papyrus yelled.

"Well, the water won't be mist! Sorry, but I'm going to have to drop the condensation. As for the bill, you'd better leave it with the duck. Don't want it to start feeling down!" Sans continued.

Sonic was trying really hard not to laugh and Lily had already given in to the laughs. Papyrus wasn't taking it as well... "WHY MUST YOU TORTURE MY LIFE WITH YOUR PUNS?!?!?!?!?!?" he demanded as he began to shred a piece of paper.

"Just thought you deserved some TEARable puns to start off your day!" Sans said in reply.

"SANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I'm finished!" Shadow yelled from the kitchen and he stepped out with a plate loaded with pancakes that were stacked up to the ceiling. Everyone's mouth watered as they stared at the plate.

"Papyrus hasn't made anything edible since before I started living here...," Lily commented.

"I have no idea why, but I had to chase out three dogs who were chewing on a bunch of bones underneath the oversized kitchen sink!" Shadow stated as he looked around for a place to put the pancakes.

"My tongue is clinging to the ruff of my mouth... You can just put those on the maple-er- table!" Sans answered.

Papyrus had enough of the puns, and well... "SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANSSSSSSS!!"

"Welp, it sounds like someone's funny bone is broken...," Sans stated.

"I've heard quite enough from you Sans..."

"You got an EARful huh? Is it getting under your SKIN?!" demanded Sans nudging his brother playfully.

"Sans?"

"Uh, yeah?"

"One more pun and you'll have a really bad time."

"I'll get a really bad 'thyme' alright! Besides, that's MY line!"

"GRRRRRRRRRRRR..."

"Um... S-Sorry... I didn't..."

One really bad thyme later! ^-^;

"Well, now! Who's ready for pancakes?" asked Papyrus as he he finally cooled off from all of the puns.

Sans was nowhere to be found and the house was destroyed. The pancakes had fallen off the table and were now squished all over the floor. Shadow was on his knees and weeping over his pancakes.

"I guess, instead of flapjacks, they're FLATjacks!" Sonic said with a grin.

Papyrus glared over at Sonic. "Don't tell me that I'll have to PUNish you too!"

Everybody bursts out laughing. Even Papyrus! As they cleaned up the house, they finally found Sans crushed under the stairs. He laughed weakly. "Guess the stairs were UP to something after all..." Sans helped to fix the rest of the house and the three hedgehogs burst out of the house and began to frolic through the streets and talk to people.

Shadow looked over to Sonic. "Do you get the sneaky suspicion that someone is following us?"

Sonic thought for a moment. "Now that I think about it, yeah! What do you suppose it's all about?"

"Turn around and you should know."

"AH!" yelled Sonic and Shadow in sync. They sighed with relief when they saw it was just Sans.

"You scared me out of my fur!!!" yelled Sonic.

"Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do when you meet a skeleton on the street? Seriously though, we have to talk about somethin'. Lily too. How 'bout you join me at Grillby's for brunch?" asked Sans.

Sonic and Shadow looked at each other. Sans said that he'd explain everything the day before. Was this when he was going to explain? They nodded and found Lily. Once she got what was going on, they followed Sans to Grillby's and went inside. Everyone greeted Sans with happy smiles and he told them a couple of jokes. Once they reached the counter, he went serious.

"So, what is it that you want? I hate to have a serious conversation on an empty stomach," Sans told them.

"I'll have a bagel!" Lily said. She paused. "Two bagels."

"I'll have a chili dog!" Sonic answered.

"Eh. A burger," Shadow told him with a shrug.

Sans eyed Shadow suspiciously and then turned to Grillby to tell him what they wanted. Sonic hardly noticed that Grillby was a flaming guy with glasses. He had saw the way Sans looked at Shadow. Shadz was right. There was something odd going on between them. It felt like an invisible form of tension. He still couldn't quite put his finger on it. Grillby returned with their food and a bottle of ketchup. Sans picked up the bottle of ketchup and popped it open. He began to actually drink out of the ketchup bottle. Sonic and Shadow had never seen someone chug a condiment before. Sans slammed the ketchup bottle back down on the table and his eyes went dark.

"So, I'm sure you can see that I'm back to square one right? We were free with the humans for a couple of years before they sent us away to this world where Shadow sealed us away... Don't think I don't remember. I saw this coming when we left Mt. Ebbot. It'll be exactly the same this time too if I see correctly. It's likely I'll be lucky, but I still see many timelines where you...," Sans stopped as he looked to Shadow and Lily.

"You remember?! How can you remember? The chaos emeralds erased the memories of all of the monsters in the Underground! Toriel told us that!" Sonic exclaimed.

"She's magic and royalty. I guess that it makes sense that she'd remember. However, I'm a little more than magic. I have these powers that I can't really stop. Papyrus doesn't know anything about my power. I can see all the timelines. Anything that can happen, I can see what will come out of it. I can remember everything after every reset. Those chaos emeralds you spoke of caused the reset. That's why nobody other than a select few can remember," Sans explained.

Lily was confused. "How come you never told me?! I knew nothing about any of this! This happened all before only with a human? How did these chaos emeralds cause a reset? What is a reset?! What's going on?!"

Sans sighed. "Nobody else other than Toriel and I can even remember Frisk. Frisk turned out to be my best friend... My best enemy too in some timelines... I never told anyone because I knew that the monsters in the Underground would try to take advantage of my powers. I didn't want anyone to try to take me from my brother again to be part of some dumb science experiment again! I know what it's like to be in that situation all too well... I just want to be a normal guy like everybody else, but because of these powers, I can't! That's why I don't tell anybody about it."

What do you mean by being taken away from your brother and being part of a science experiment again?" asked Lily.

Sans didn't answer. His eyes finally returned to normal and he heaved a heavy sigh. He looked to Shadow. "There is a happy ending down the road for all of us, but there is one person standing in our way. You, Shadow."

Shadow sat up straight and flattened his ears. "Why me?! I haven't tried to kill anyone! Why would I be the one to stand between us and our happy ending?!"

"She got to you. Once she gets to you, it's hard to fight her. Before you know it... I... I was listening in on your conversation with Sonic last night. It made no sense to me. In more than one timeline, you become a relentless killer. I end up facing you and I'm forced to kill you over and over. That's why it didn't makes sense. You specifically said that you're trying to be a good person, but I still don't see that future going away. She's already taken an interest in you."

"Who's she?" all three of them asked.

"I can't say her name. You'd best watch it. I'll never be that far behind you. We can become the best of friends or the greatest of enemies. The reset is only going to be necessary if you kill something or someone. I'm not going to wait in the Underground for some savior to get us out of here. Lily, she's going to try to get at you too. However, I think you can fight her off. You're tough. There's only one more thing to be discussed. The talking flower."

Sonic and Shadow froze. Flowey? Sans remembered it too? "F-Flowey?"

"So you two have heard about the talking yellow flower? You must know how dangerous it is. It hides among the echo flowers and sometimes my bro comes back saying how he was talking to a flower who gave him encouragement, friendliness, predictions. I've seen what that thing can do and it's not pleasant. When you go to the Waterfall, I warn you. Don't trust the echo flowers," Sans warned.

The three hedgehogs trembled. They didn't know that Sans could be so intense. He stood to his feet and seemed to be back to his normal self. Nobody else in the building even knew what they had said. Sans simply grinned as usual and told Grillby to put the bill for everyone on his tab. He turned back to the three hedgehogs. "Listen, don't take me too seriously. I don't want you to view me any different than the way you did this morning. I just want you three to be careful. By the way, when you try to leave, Papyrus will challenge you to a fight. Don't worry. Lily has the answer to battling him. HURT HIM AT ALL AND I'LL KILL YOU. Welp, I'll be seeing ya. Bone voyage!"

Sonic looked to Shadow who looked to Lily who looked to Sonic. They all wondered in their minds the same question. "Were they really strong enough to face everything Sans had told them about? Did they really have the strength? What if they didn't? Then, there was Shadow. He had never really felt terror. However, the thought of being possessed to only think about killing reminded him of something. His past thirst for human blood because of how they had killed his friend Maria. Will that thirst come back? Was HE strong enough?