Ah... excuse me... I got something to say. About this story.

Pains me to make an entire chapter about it, but it got too long for an edit underneath.

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...After a long time of debating I decided to discontinue this story. I'm not not taking it down though.

I'm sorry if you got interested in the story so far and wanted to see how it continued further. I'm very honoured if you do and I really cheer on you to take that idea you had and write it down. You're free to continue the story how you like it to go - be it in your head or on paper, I'm fine with both. And I'm fine if you leave and forget about the story. It's perfectly fine for me either way.

I just wanted to say that this story did me no good. Or in a way it did.

First of all - I noticed it PAINS me to write depressing and sad and dark chapters. Having to force yourself to write so the story progresses is no good.

Second - my focus is again on drawing and not on writing. While writing helps me build up a story and its surroundings in a fairly quick time, I can never depict the characters and the expressions as clear as with pictures, as much as I'd love it. I'm no expert in writing and I'll never be. My passion lies in drawing.

And third - I don't really want to be one of the many artists that abandon stories after 5 chapters, leaving the reading hanging for eternity. I don't want to be that kind of person. So I'm going to leave this forever unfinished story as a reminder for myself here. FIRST write the whole story down, THEN upload it. Even if it takes me years to do so and everyone moved on to other things, I'll finish it when I'm ready and THEN publish it.

So... if you want, you can see here a short summary of things I intended to write in this story. If you want to continue it, feel free to do so and tell me! I'd love to see it. A

ALSO FEEL FREE TO CHANGE IT IN WHATEVER WAY YOU WANT IT!

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- Annoying Dog leads Papyrus to Sans' lab with a computer (its data isn't affected by resets)

- it plays an automatic video introducing timelines (Sans lets it run in case he forgets again after Gaster's disappearance & he didn't expect anyone to come down the lab)

- has many videos of different timelines (some where he tries to uncover why and how resets work (Flowey and Frisk do), some with events happening (usual canon routes, him going off routine like e.g. fighting alongside Undyne against the human, telling Asgore), some where he has to speak fast because he's dying and some older corrupted ones with Gaster in them as well)

- most recent one is Sans sending a voice mail over phone informing his future self that he's confronting the human off routine

- Sans has a folder only for happy videos & pictures about him and Papyrus to get his spirits back up

- Papyrus "unlocks" being able to remember timelines from now on (unsure how); tries to stop the human from killing everyone (scene where both Sans and Papyrus fight against the human in the Judgement hall)

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...I even got some small unfinished part of the next chapter I noticed!

So... a small kudo for anyone that read this far? And thank you for reading me rant a bit. I needed that. Thanks.

[Scene where Papyrus has discovered the computer in Sans' lab; the computer turned itself on]

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First the image was blurred and non-distinct black, until it lightened up and revealed to actually be a hand simply blocking the camera. "is this turned up now?" was heard through the shuffling. Then it cleared up to show the workshop Papyrus was in right now, though it appeared to be messier than currently, with sheets of paper scrawled all across the desk and drawers left open in the background.

However his gaze stuck solely on the person sitting on the desk facing the camera. Papyrus absently clenched his brother's jacket with his shaking hands. He recognized the person.

It was a recording of his big brother.

Oh, how Papyrus wanted nothing else than hug his brother, even though it was impossibe and he knew it… just was a video recorded long time ago.

"okay, well…" Sans adjusted the camera a little bit. He scratched his head and felt a bit weird for adressing the camera as if it was a responsive person. But it was necessary. Just in case.

"hello future me. considering you're watching this video, IT must have happened again, whatever caused it. i'm still in the progress of analyzing the last one. happened seventeen days ago."

He shuffled through his mess of notes and reports spreat on the desk while recollecting his thoughts.

"ah darn, where to start…?" he mumbled. "the most obvious thing is that you're in a lab right now - your lab. yes, you used to be a scientist until now, you just can't remember it at the moment, do you? No, you didn't research something ugly and shady, just accumulated magic radiancy like this guy" he pointed behind to the motionless Gasterblaster on the workbank "and space-time fluctuation." He crossed his arms and leaned closer towards the camera.

"…what i believe also caused my current issue. seventeen days ago i suddenly woke up in this lab with no memories on how i got here." Sans generously skipped the part that he had freaked out at that time in an environment he didn't recognize.

"took me some days to collect enough data to acess a rough idea on what the heck happened." He paused.

"i'm tempted to call it ERASE." A tab automatically opened on a part of the screen.

"now, as i was trying to find heads and tails on why i couldn't remember anything, i found these progress reports on this computer. it appears there was a co-worker with me in this lab. however if you watch any of them now, you'll see that every time this person is displayed on the screen, the image malfunctions. it took me some time, but i was at least able to reprogress the audio data to be able to put subtitles on them."

The person's heavy accent hadn't made it easier on Sans' task. Some tracks had to be rewinded way too often for his likes, but he couldn't afford to skip it - you don't know if some vital information was hidden in one of these reports.

"i believe this ERASE is the reason i can't remember anything about this lab. yours must be of similar reason then." Well, that was a wild guess. Sans hoped his future self will never have to watch this video for 'the first time'.

"regardless of my researches, this person's whereabouts were fruitless. it's a very likely theory that something must have somehow ERASED this person from our memories… it's a frightening thought that something is so powerful to obliterate an entire person from the time-space continuum…"

Sans sighed and heavily covered his face with the hands. "however…. throughout my research i realized that this topic has to be postponed for a much more urgent issue at hand… you see, while searching through the recorded files i came to notice a bug with the dates of the entries - some followed cronologically, while some were dated back to an earier time - although the automatic continuous pagination showed no inconsisty. i know, this could just be a program error or a manual edition, but nothing of the rest of the data seemed edited." He scratched his cheek bone lightly embarassed. "after all, i'm a lazy bum when it comes to it, like pap says."

Sans chuckled good natured, of course unaware of the wave of grief his words caused the current watcher of the video.

Papyrus pressed his face into his brother's dusty jacket. It smelled greasy. He hated the smell, but still loved it to his core. Everything in the video up to now made little sense, yet seeing his brother on the video filled him with sadness and a feeling of lost.

"anyway" he heard Sans' recorded voice muffled through the clothes "even if the videos are edited, it makes no sense since in these 'earlier' entries past-me or the other scientist refer back to events that happened in the 'future'. the only way for that to happen would be… with time travel. crazy, huh?"

Papyrus' head slowly inched up. His numb mind tried to focus back to the content of the video. Even if it was hard to understand with all the scientific stuff, he thought he got the jist of it. A memory erase and… time travel? Was this even possible? He tried to progress the thought, but it was hazy, like walking through a snowstorm. He barely missed his brother's next words.

"…or it could all be a elaborated spacy prank. who knows." Sans shrugged halfhearted and chuckled. This made Papyrus frown slightly. Take it up to his bro to lighten the mood no matter what.

"it's for you to judge. anyway, as you can see on the front page of the computer" a screenshot showed up in the video" i've sorted the reports so the most interesting ones are on the front page cathegorized in timeline rewinds, while the supplementary entries are filed in subfolders. material regarding the mysterious person" a red circle appeared around the bottom right corner "and the Blasters are there. i recommend you go take a look there as well. next time this video pops up, you can skip it by pressing any key on the keyboard." The image turned back to show Sans smiling. "on a last advice - if you ever feel down, view the folder 'Home'."

He winked at the camera. "Good luck recollecting your memories!"

And with that the video turned black.

Papyrus sat hunched in the chair, bleakly staring onto the black screen with the lonely white cursor and tried to progress the mass of information the video had thrown at him.

He couldn't comprehend.

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[Papyrus has a emotional breakdown]

[Papyrus clicks through the more important labelled data and gets the gist of what happens; has to postpone his research when Alpyhs calls him and tells him of Undyne's death & her request for helping the evacuation; gets him out and back into current events of the genocide run]