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So, to summarize very quickly:

Sans and Gaster were two human friends who traveled together from their world in the Silver Key machine, then found themselves trapped in the Barrier and unable to leave, likely breaking the machine while trying.

They befriended Papyrus, a local monster, who joined their team and helped legitimize Sans and Gaster’s claims that they were also undead monsters themselves, so they could hide their true nature as humans from monster society.

Gaster used his amazing scientific creativity to boost the technology of the monsters beyond that of the human world to gain King Asgore’s favor. And with that favor, Gaster designed and constructed The Core, a Mad Scientist’s dream lair with a time/space portal in it, and paranoid automated security.

Then one night, once the Core was complete and everything was in place, Gaster planned to launch his Darkest Experiment. He assembled all three members of The Font Brigade so that Sans and Papyrus were with him in the lab. And once he described the project, he asked them what they thought about it.

There must have been an argument of some type, because afterwards Sans and Papyrus, packing Gaster Blasters, traveled backwards through time to enter the timeline that Frisk wakes up in at the beginning of Undertale. Something happened that broke up The Font Brigade, because not only did Gaster not travel back with them, but in the new timeline Gaster died much earlier, getting a memorial fountain at a point in time before Chara even arrived in the Underground. The Silver Key machine was still broken, and neither Sans or his friend Alphys seemed able to fix it. Gaster had built this device, and only Gaster’s genius could repair it again.

While Frisk woke up innocent, and without his memory, Sans held a dark secret in his heart. And although Sans did his best to it up with silly jokes and a childish sense of human, there was a darkness inside him that would peek out now and then, a darkness very unbecoming for a monster. Sans was no longer innocent, and actually had a very high Level of Violence, and it took all of Papyrus’ innocence and friendship to keep Sans grounded and positive.

Meanwhile, the ghostly shade of what had once been his friend Gaster haunted Frisk doggedly for reasons of his own, trying many times to kill or manipulate Frisk. He wanted Frisk’s soul, and was willing to pay Muffet to get it, but when waking up to find Frisk in his room he quickly retreated by fading away, not wanting to actually fight Frisk himself.

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Something very bad happened on the Night of Gaster’s Darkest Experiment. Something that broke The Font Brigade and turned a long-lived friend into an undead enemy. An event that changed the world of Undertale forever.

The following is a dramatic reenactment of that night, told in a little screenplay I’ve put together. Keep in mind that it’s a work in progress, and I’m open to suggestions about how to improve the dialog. I hope to get some voice actors to really bring this scene to life in the finished video.

Chapter 8: “The Night of Gaster’s Darkest Experiment” ---

(to be continued)