“Smile Dog!”

“Dad!”

“Seedy!”

They hadn’t found Sans or their siblings, but they found some others.

Jeff and Smile Dog had met in an embrace, tail thumping against Jeff’s arms with excitement. BoBo and Splendor, too, had hugged, but they showed no signs of letting go of one another anytime soon. SeedEater had tackled Eyeless Jack, wasting no time in hugging him either.

“Who’s a good boy, oh who’s a good boy!” Jeff spoke quickly, petting Smile.

“Even though we’ve been separated for so long, must you degrade me like this?” Smile Dog questioned, but leaned into his hands.

“Duh,” Jeff chuckled.

“Look at my sweet little boy! Oh my gosh I missed him so much! He’s so cute and he’s grown up so much! I missed you so much Bo!” Splendor ranted.

“Aahhh Dad I missed you so much! I missed you and your awesome gayness and I have so many pins to give you! Do you want a sparkly sticker?” BoBo ranted back, hugging him.

“There is nothing more in the world I want than to have a sparkly sticker,” Splendor said.

“Tondra actually warned us you guys would be probably coming down here,” SeedEater said, “Have you seen her? Or Hewey or Sans?”

“No, we just go here,” Blood Painter answered.

“6%,” Leonie wheezed quietly.

“Have you guys seen them recently?” Masky asked, “As in, when was the last time you saw any of them.”

“We saw Tondra just over an hour ago, we actually just left to go search for her,” Smile Dog answered, “Hewey and Sans, though, we haven’t seen in a few days. Something happened to them. Tondra told us that Sans is being held in a room, and Hewey was on the run.”

“Do you know what room?” Papyrus asked. 

“No, but she does,” Smile Dog said.

“But that doesn’t matter, we have worse problems,” SeedEater said, climbing off of Eyeless Jack. “Tondra told us that Zalgo is doing something bad. She doesn’t know what, but she said she was going to go find out. It could destroy everything.”

“No, not the bunnies!” BoBo gasped.

“Not before I get to them,” Bean giggled, holding up a blowtorch. 

“No,” Silky said, taking the blowtorch from her sister.

“As if that’s my only one,” Bean muttered, grinning.

Wayne adjusted his hold on the camera, head turning towards the elevator. Papyrus noticed his sudden shift, looking at him with confusion. Was everything alright?

“I think I, uh, um… the elevator, it uh…” Wayne muttered.

“It’s moving, someone’s coming to this floor,” Leonie finished for him. 

She was right.The light above it was flashing lightly with distant dings, signifying that the elevator was coming to their own floor. Hewey must have been good at hearing if he heard that, Papyrus hadn’t even really noticed.

“Hey, Ben, do you think you can… Ben?”

Cole was staring down at his phone, Sally standing on her toes as she peaked over as well. He looked up at everyone and shook his head, face filled with concern.

Ben wasn’t in the phone. He wasn’t responding.

The elevator continued to ding, growing closer and closer to their floor.

“Knives out, get ready guys,” Silky said, “And whatever you were thinking of Bean, no. Don’t do it.”

“That’s probably a good call,” Bean snorted, “There’d be too many casualties anyway.”

That settled it for Papyrus. Bean was actually, mentally insane. No doubt about it. In her own special way, of course, but she was definitely crazy.

They all tensed when the elevator stopped dinging and the door started to peel open. If there was some demons in there, they could all be in trouble. They could probably take them, sure, but they might alert the other demons here that they were in hell as well. For all they knew, Sans could have been transported somewhere more secure to make sure they couldn’t save him.

Oh, oh. What was Sans even going to say when he saw Papyrus? His brother still hated him, and after everything Papyrus has done, he should. Saving Sans wouldn’t bring him to forgiveness, what if Sans was still pent up about everything that happened before? What if he blamed Papyrus for this and for Tondra’s death and tried to kill him?

But it was his fault. Papyrus hadn’t checked for allergies in the children. He didn’t anticipate needing to ask for allergies when it came to organs, or anything like that. Tondra had died because he didn’t get her to the emergency room fast enough. 

Papyrus wasn’t here for forgiveness, though. He had been a terrible brother and person overall, he didn’t deserve it He was here to reunite a family, the family he never was to his brother. To save his nieces and nephews, to get them all out of hell and let them go back to their home to live there once more.

“Wait!”

Silky had stuck out her hand when she caught sight of who wasin the elevator, all of the people who had prepared to attack lowering their own weapons.

“T-Tondi…?” BoBo asked quietly.

“The funny thing about me riding elevators,” Tondra said, grinning at them, "Is that I make puns bad on so many different levels.”