Sans groaned as he realised that the couch had once again moved, it was somehow, on the ceiling. The ceiling. Where's the logic in that?

A few timelines ago, after coming back to life from an unexpected reset. Blue strings started to appear.

At first, all it did was prank the kiddo a few times. Soon the pranks became lethal, murderous traps that one hit killed the child.

There were many times Papyrus would observe the traps 'that just appeared from nowhere' to study it and figure out how it worked.

After a few timelines, not only where there even more death traps for the kid but the strings started to prank everyone! Sometimes they would move stuff making others look for it before putting it back confusing everyone, other times they would trip monsters or even help monsters!

The strangest thing was that monsters could remember the strings after resets. Usually after a reset, everyone would forget but no.

Everyone could remember bits of the string.

Some said that they remember strings delivering food to their hiding spot after a genocide route, even papyrus remembered that the strings distracted the kiddo giving him enough time to learn their patterns!!

It confused Sans so much!

Once, Sans had walked in on Papyrus creating blueprints for a trap, and guess what? The strings were assisting him, they pointed at what could make the trap better and it even drew examples!

The most surprising thing about these strings were that they were overprotective of papyrus.

More overprotective then Sans was of his brother.

There were time when monsters were dusted because they were mean to Papyrus.

It's just so overboard!

Speaking of Papyrus.

Sans walked out of the house to look for his brother who seemed to be missing, his post? No, the house? Already checked, what about Waterfalls?

Sans quickly teleported towards the water filled land as he looked around, he slowly walked towards another corridor only to find his brother humming with a plate of his inedible spaghetti and a little note.

"um... Bro? What are you doing?"

Papyrus looked towards his brother as he grinned his million dollar grin.

" WELL BROTHER! I'M OFFERING THE STRINGS OF MERCY MY FAMOUS SPAGHETTI! "

Huh, and Sans though the mystery couldn't get worse.

"the strings of mercy? what do you mean? "

" I MEAN THAT THE STRINGS HAVE HELPED US MORE THAN WE THINK! THE STRINGS WRAPPED AROUND MY SOUL-"

Sans's eye lights went out. What could these mysterious strings be doing now?

" AND FORCED ME TO DODGE USING A DIFFERENT PATTERN! I WAS EVEN ABLE TO DEFEAT THE HUMAN A FEW TIMES! "

what? This is new.

Sans's eye lights lit up as he looked at his brother, huh. Maybe the strings really were strings of mercy.

"wow papyrus, wow... "

"I KNOW RIGHT?!"

Papyrus left the spaghetti and note in the snow before happily skipping off

Sans looked at the rubbish worth plate of food before starting to scream internally. How was he gong to explain to his brother when he comes to check on the gifts expecting them to be gone only to find them still there?

He was going to be so disappointed!

Sans gulped as he considered taking the gifts himself, besides, his curiosity was clawing at him to see what the note says.

Suddenly, a strange aura washed over him causing his eye light to change, one off one on.

It was strangely quiet he realised as his pin picks darted around looking for the cause of such aura.

Sans heard the sound of a plate moving as he looked over at the spaghetti to find...

The blue strings pulling the plate and note into midair before they both vanished into literally no where.

If it wasn't for the fact that San's jaw was magically attached to him it would of dropped onto the floor.

The strings actually came.

They took the spaghetti which meant... whoever is behind the strings... was like anyone else. They had the need to eat.

Now sans was even more curious.

Who or what could be behind those powerful string? Why did they only just appear?

...

Why did it feel like the strings were part of something much bigger than he thought?

... with Error...

Whats this? Error picked up the plate of yellow strings and red liquid. It even had red spheres made of something squishy.

He looked at the note before picking it up and reading it.

The words along the small white piece of paper were written neatly and with respect, it honestly made Error feel wierd.

' HELLO STRINGS OF MERCY!

IT IS I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS!

I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME AND THE OTHER MONSTERS.

IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU, I'M SURE A LOT MORE OF US WOULD OF SUFFERED THROUGH ALL THE GENOCIDE ROUTES!

AS A GIFT OF GRATITUDE, I MADE YOU MY FAMOUS SPAGHETTI!!

PLEASE ENJOY THIS FINE DISH AS THIS IS A OFFERING FROM THE GREAT PAPYRUS!

NYEH HEH HEH!!!

-FROM THE GREAT PAPYRUS! '

Error only frowned, Strings of Mercy? Gift? Offering? What even are these?

And a dish? Never heard of that before.

He looked at the stringy thing before deciding that it was properly what spaghetti was.

For some reason, it was somehow... Fimiliar.

What was he suppose to do with it?

He stated at it for a few minutes before shrugging and tossing it onto the pile of gifts he had received from the other monsters, the note however...

He couldn't bring himself to chuck it into that unorganised pile, something inside him couldn't do that.

This note, it was like... It had something to do with his forgotten past. The last before he woke up in this white void. Before he cried so much his blue tears stained his skull.

Before he forgot.

"SANS!"

" hey bro"

" GUESS WHAT! I FOUND A HUMAN!"

"... what? "

"THEY LOOKED VERY NICE BUT THEY WERE COVERED IN DUST!"

"ALSO, HAVE YOU SEEN THE DOGS? THIER MISSING!"

"... bro... i think you should stay away from the kid"

"WHY?"

" I don't know... just stay away from them."

" BROTHER, I'LL BE FINE!"

"... ok bro, whatever you say"

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"HUMAN?..."

" bro? Papyrus!!!...

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why? "

But it was probably not important.

Still he stringed up the note and hid it in the mess of strings ubove him, it just felt important.

Too important.

"you're gonna have a bad time kid"

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"SANS! WHY ARE YOU UP AT 3 AM?"

"heh.... Sorry Paps, I had a nightmare... "