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KenzieJack wrote: i’m confused, why did sans help frisk? i get why he changed it so that gaster no longer existed, but he interfered so many times for seemingly no reason.

Also, does anyone have a basic story for the other timelines? it’s a lil bit hard to keep up with Well, my script is about 120 pages, but I'll try to be as briefly as I can...

Sans helped Frisk because Sans actually is Frisk.

In the original Alpha Timeline Sans and Gaster traveled together from The Other World to investigate The Anomaly, which has been starting and stopping timelines, then destroying everything in the end.

When Sans and Gaster (humans adopting fake names and costumes to fit in with the natives) tried to leave after scouting The Underground, the Barrier preventing them from returning, breaking The Silver Key Machine they came in.

So in order to go home, Sans and Gaster has to first break the Barrier, finding themselves trapped along with all the monsters.

Gaster formed a plan, and quickly eared a name for himself in the Underground through feats of science.

The humans of Undertale's surface world were very much like our own world, and had normal modern levels of technology as seein in Deltarune. A world where Anime was just fantasy. And the monsters were in even worse shape, because all their tech was reverse-engineered from garbage that flowed down from the humans above.

Gaster, however, was a true mad scientist from a world where humans had amazing PSI powers, and Anime was real. And he wowed the monsters with demonstrations of seemingly magical technology. In a few short years, wonders like dimensionally-connected boxes, real sentient transforming robots, and jetpack cell phones suddenly became the new normal, and the rustic monster world developed advanced technology far beyond that of the humans above.

So it was only a matter of time before King Asgore learned of Gaster, and tapped him to become the realm's Royal Scientist. And gave Gaster the most important, most impossible mission of all: To at long last break the hated Barrier.

Gaster made attempts to bypass the Barrier by trying to find other dimensions where it didn't exist, but those attempts never succeeded. And so Gaster was forced to use the only known resource that could destroy the Barrier: SOUL power. Which could not be created artificially.

Gaster was the original pioneer of Determination Extraction, Alphys built her DE device using his blueprints she found while exploring the True Lab after Gaster's death. And like Alphys, he had a pariticular goal in mind: To inject monsters with Determination so that their SOULs wouldn't shatter instantly on death, and could be collected and amassed until there was enough stored Monster SOUL power to equal The Seventh Human SOUL. Then a vessel that was neither human nor monster (like a flower) could combine the power of the Six Human Souls and the collected monster souls, and finally destroy The Barrier.

But Asgore didn't know Gaster was a human, and Gaster had no intention of telling him. Gaster and his traveling companion Sans brought Papyrus, a real monster from the Underground, into their group to make their undead disguises seem more authentic.

And Gaster had a problem. If he broke the Barrier, he'd unleash an entire civilzation of vengeful monsters armed with magical Anime sujper-tech upon the unsuspecting human world above. It could mean the destruction of mankind in that world. And Gaster, as a secret human, didn't view this favorably.

So when Gaster designed The Core, his great mad science headquarters, he also put in a contingency plan that would ensure that when the Barrier came down.. the monsters wouldn't be a treat.

The Waterfall Glyphs say it would take almost all the monster SOULs in the Underground to equal the power of a single human SOUL. And Alphys planned to eventually fullfill this dream over generations, by collecting the SOULs of dying monsters.

But Gaster knew a way to break the Barrier overnight.

With one massive blast of power, like the one Flowey used in the True Pacifist Ending to absorb all the monsters except for the ghosts, Gaster would collect almost all the monster SOULs in the Underground.. by genociding almost all of Monsterkind.

This was Gaster's Darkest Experiment. The most evil and efficent way to break the Barrier.

But as seen in his secret Lab Entry 17.. when Gaster proposed this experiment, then turned to his friends Papyrus and Sans in the room with him, and asked them what they thought.. Sans couldn't agree to such a horrific plan.

Gaster and Sans fought.

And Gaster was thrown into a malfunctioning portal in the lab, getting shattered across time and space. Becoming a ghost in truth, rather than a human wearing a ghostly mask.

And for killing his best friend Gaster, Sans was rewarded with a boatload of Execution Points. A permanent stain on his SOUL that darkened him inside, sapping his optimism and turning him into the faded creature who hides behind a monster that we meet in Undertale.

Only someone innocent can get the True Pacifist Ending.

And after killing Gaster, Sans was no longer innocent.

And Gaster was the only one who could fix The Silver Key machine that would allow Sans to return home. As he said his home, and the surface world, were two different things.

But something Papyrus said while he was cheering Sans up give him an idea.

What if Sans and Papyrus traveld back in time to save the future? And help an earlier version of Sans who was still innocent have a chance at getting a better ending?

So the Skelebros, packing blaster technology with Gaster's name etched on the side, reset the time/space portal to travel to the past, and both appeared in Snowdin one day, and asserted themselves, as the shopkeeper recalls.

And by doing this, they created a new timeline, The Beta Timeline, where two versions of both Sans and Papyrus existed.

The Beta Timeline, the reality we know as Undertale, began to change the moment Alpha Sans and Alpha Papyrus invaded the Beta timeline from the future.

The two Entry 17's show that originally, Gaster stood where Alphys once stood, working on the same type of project she was. Gaster did not die in the Alpha timeline until Sans killed him.

But in the timeline of Frisk/Beta Sans, Gaster had died years earlier. The MTT fountain (not the statue, the fountain) had a plaque memorializing a death in the Royal Circles in 201X, before Chara had even arrived in New Home at the end of 2019. And since the royal family was immortal, and the subject of the fountain wasn't so famous that the public wouldn't allow Metaton to deface the fountain with his own water-puking statue, Gaster seems the only candidate for who this fountain was memorializing.

So whatever Alpha Sans did when he went back in time, it resulted in Beta Gaster's early death.

With Gaster and his Darkest Experiment out of the way, the earlier version of Sans in the Beta timeline, Frisk, would have a better shot at achieving the True Pacifist ending, and freeing everyone.

At least, if that's what Frisk decided to do.

After hitting his head with the fall down into the Ruins, Frisk had amnesia, wearing the same banadage that had already been used many times before.

So at the start of Undertale, Frisk knew as little as the Player did.

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