Eyelights: Right Dark Khaki Oval, Left Bronze Oval
Bones: White
Distinguishing Marks: Crack Over His Left Eyesocket, Three Cracks On His Left Cheekbone, Claws, Sharp Teeth
Outfit: Red Shirt With A Logo Made From Two Triangles (Cerulean Frost, Satin Sheen Gold) And An Arylide Yellow Circle, Rose Ebony Coat With Bone Fur, Black Pants, Rose Ebony Boots
San is laying on his couch, watching one of his favorite TV series, but he can't really focus on it.
There was the signiture loud crackle of Sci's portal opening up followed by a knock at San's door not long after.
San got up and opened the door for Sci, "Hey . . ."
"Hey! Woah, you ok there bud? you're lookin a little rough tibia honest." Sci half heartedly chuckles, looking more concerned than anything.
"Yeah, yeah . . . Just didn't really sleep right . . ."
Sci frowned. "What's up?"
"Just feel nervous I guess . . . Overthinking some things a bit . . ."
"You wanna talk about it? ... And do you mind if i come in"
"yeah . . . Uh come in . . ." San let him inside. Sci nods gratefully and steps in. San closed the door behind him and sat down on the couch. Sci joined San on the couch and faced his friend, worry etched into his features.
"So what's eating you?"
"I'm just nervous that I'll see him again . . . I literally avoid going to my brother because he lives near there . . . Like he could be anywhere and i don't want to see him, it's honestly destroying me . . . Like this constant fear and stress . . . It doesn't let me sleep sometimes . . ." San sighed "Nothing here brings me happiness anymore, only our little meetings . . ."
"Oh geeze... I'm sorry... I didn't know you were having such a hard time." Sci reached out to pat San but quickly retracted his hand. He wanted to comfort him but didn't wish to trigger his sensitivities with being touched.
"it's okay i guess . . . Just have to get over this . . ."
Sci sat in silence with his hand folded in his lap.
"Honestly i wish i could just leave . . . Just for a while, take a break from this life . . ." San wrapped his arms around himself.
"I mean... you could? If you wanted you could come stay with me for a little while." Sci started sounding a little excited as he spoke. "I really wouldn't mind, and I could show you my lab." He twiddled his thumbs in his lap, looking at San with a very faint blush on his face.
"r-really? I could?" San' tone of voice is a bit excited too, he seems happy at this proposition.
"Well yeah! ...I mean, but there are some risks involved...." Sci tugged on his shirt collar.
"Like if this universe was to RESET you could get erased from the code... or there is a very small potential when traveling to get stuck in the anti-void between universes. I haven't had that happen yet... but some of the spiders that volunteered for the time that went wrong... when i managed to bring them back they'd... changed... I'm not trying to spook you though! I'm sorry, I just figure you ought to know what you're potentially getting into." Sci chuckled nervously.
San nodded slightly, he thinks for a moment, before looking at Sci, "I want to do it"
Sci's face broke into a big grin. "Oh hell yeah!" Sci looked jittery with excitement. "I haven't brought anyone back with me before! This is going to be so fun! and oh... the data I could collect from this!"
San is smiling at him, he seems happier now.
"Ok um... So! When do you wanna leave? I assume you'll wanna grab some things before we go..."
"y-yeah, uh . . . I should take some clothes, right?"
Sci chuckled, "That would definitely be a good idea. Think anything you'd take on a vacation. Here, I can even help you pack!" Sci jumped up from the couch and held a hand out to San to help him stand.
San hesitantly grabbed his hand and stood up, "you can help me if you really want"
Between the two, packing went by quickly and they both were standing outside of San's house within half an hour. San with bags in hand and Sci fiddling with his portal device, hands shaking lightly in excitement.
"You ready?" He flashes a wide grin at San.
"yeah!"
"Perhaps you would like to do the honors then?" Sci held out the device and made a grand gesture to the button that needed pushing.
San looked at Sci then pushed the button.
There was a whir and a crackle of a portal trying to start but it quickly fizzled out, leaving the two looking on in dead silence.
"Heh... T-This doesn't usually happen i swear." Sci chuckled nervously. He smacked the side of the device a couple times and pressed the button again, a portal springing to life solidly before them.
"so see you on the other side?" San is still looking at Sci.
"Hold up." Sci holds out a hand as if to stop San and kicks a rock through the portal, watching it with narrowed sockets for a second.
"Ahhhh ok yeah we're good let's go." He picks up some of San's belongings, smiles at him, and confidently walks through the portal.
San picks up the rest of his things and goes after Sci through the portal.
On the other side of the portal Sci's setting San's things on a table in a large brightly lit laboratory.
It's cluttered but organized, everything separated in respective groups. And the air was filled with the sound of machinery whirring.
Some of them were plain and boxy with flashing and blinking lights and some of tem were foreboding and alien looking and along one wall several were printing out a nonstop stream of information on paper that was neatly folding itself into piles.
"wow . . ." San is looking around, clearly amazed by what he's seeing.
Sci turns around and looks at San. "Heh yeah there's alot going on huh? Sorry it's kinda a mess right now though... I wasn't expecting company." Sci rubs the back of his skull bashfully.
"it's . . . it's amazing! this is your lab? Like seriously it's amazing" San is excited.
"Yeah, I-I mean, yeah! Thanks!" Sci chuckled, a light blush dusting his cheeks. "It is pretty cool isn't it? Want me to show you around?"
"yeah!"
"Sweet! You can just set your stuff over there... or wherever here lemme show you the most dangerous one first!!!" Sci's grin took on a slight manic edge to it in his excitement.
San put down his things and came closer to Sci.
Sci's standing by a large dark looking piece of machinery with a nozzle pointed directly into a dusty looking glass case He flicks a few switches and it whirs to life, making a loud grinding noise.
"This is a disintegrator ray! Watch this." Sci pulls out a heavy thick board and places it in the glass case with an apple and shuts the door. He looks to San to watch for his reaction and pushes the button.
The surface of the apple bubbles for a split second before imploding violently and leaving a dusty scorched indent in the board.
"No matter, physical or magical can withstand it's force!" Sci flicks it's switch off, halting the grinding noise emanating from it.
"This could kill everyone in this multiverse if it were to explode!" He said excitedly.
"wow . . ." San is clearly impressed.
"Heh yeah, right? Pretty sweet." Sci chuckled. "Let me know if you wanna try putting anything in there."
"okay" San is smiling slightly, He's clearly happy.
"And this one?" Sci bounds over to a plain looking yellow metal box with a simple red button on top. "I got super wasted one night and made it for shits and giggles. All it does is turn anything you put inside it blue for 48 hours. Probably the least dangerous thing here." Sci smiles at it fondly. "It's so dumb and pointless. I love it."
San chuckled, "sounds like fun"
Sci did this for a while, leading San around the lab, showing off different machinery, telling him all about what everything did until he got to the machinery along the back wall printing nonstop. "And these monitor the au's I've visited!"
"Oh, what do they monitor exactly?"
"The timelines, resets, fun value, number of souls in an au... how many people are takin a shit at any given moment." Sci chuckles. "Nah I'm just messin with you on that last one. It's mostly just basic stats and statistics."
San chuckled, "seems interesting"
"Heh well I think it is at least." Sci watches the machine pumping out information for a moment before turning back to San. "But, yeah... this is my lab."
"it's really amazing, how you thought of so many things, how you built them and they actually work" San is still amazed by everything he saw, He's smiling softly.
Sci blushed. "Thanks... ya really think so?"
"yeah! It's just so cool!"
Sci's face lights up even further at the complement. "Heheh thanks. I suppose you wouldn't mind helping me in here a little bit later then?"
"I wouldn't, honestly I would be glad to help you" San is blushing slightly.
"Well we-" Sci starts to walk towards the table of San's belongings and stumbled, tripping over his own feet.
San caught Sci, "are you okay?" His voice sounds worried.
Sci looked up at San eyes wide and his cheekbones lighting up brightly. "Ye-yeah. Heheh... I'm just falling for you." His mouth clacked shut as soon as soon as he realized he said the flirtatious pun out loud.
"I-I mean-" Sci stammered nervously.
San blushed too, an orange blush dusting his cheekbones, "I . . . i-it's okay, g-great that you're n-not hurt"
"Thanks." Sci's soul pounded in his chest... This was probably the closest he'd been to San ever... What with his haphephobia... His haphephobia!
"Oh! I'm sorry I can stand!" Sci scrambled to stand and rather clumsily got to his feet, brushing the wrinkles from his lab coat.
San nodded slightly, watching Sci to make sure that everything is okay.
"Well as I was saying we could go get you settled in for your stay." Sci continued to nervously adjust his lab coat.
San is sitting at his sentry post, reading a comic book, mostly because nothing interesting is happening.
Suddenly a crackle fills the air and a portal materializes a few feet away, it just sits there whirling.
San looks up from his comic book and looks at the portal, "What the fuck?"
With another crackle and a woosh a jar of spiders on a string flew through the portal and slowly was dragged back through.
San is looking at the portal, he's trying to figure out what's happening.
A tentative skeletal hand peaked out of the portal before retracting back through. A couple seconds pass by and a skeleton in a lab coat and red rimmed glasses steps through. He looks around in excitement and spots San and jumps, startled.
"oh! um... hello?" The skeleton adjusts his glasses.
"Hey?" San is looking at him, slightly confused.
Sci smiles and takes a step forward holding out his hand in greeting. "pleased to meet you! the name's Sci... you are?"
"San" He didn't shake Sci' hand, feeling uncomfortable to do so.
Sci retracts his hand awkwardly after a moment.
"ah well... san you say? intresting... perhaps... hmm..." His eyelights brighten and looks San up and down and pulls out a notepad and begins jotting down his observations. "do you have any siblings?"
"Yes?" San is slightly weirded out, since his brother and his relationship with him is really well known in the Underground, because of Gal' status as the king.
Sci looks up from his notes at San's expression.
"oh sorry! i should explain, i am from another universe! i've been working for the past year to create a machine that can generate portals with the abilty to let you travel to other alternate universes, and i've finally succeeded!" Sci grins at San.
"Wait wait wait wait" San is looking at him, "Alternate universes?"
"yes!" Sci responds enthusiastically. "i've been studying quantum realities for quite some time and- oh my stars, i have so many theories that i'm gonna prove right with this!"
San slightly smiled and mumbled to himself "I knew I was right . . ."
Sci adjusted his glasses excitedly. "you were right?! have you also been...?"
"I'm not a scientist if you meant that, I've just been theorizing about this, mostly due to the shows I watch" San looks at the science-fiction comic book he was reading.
"ah!" Sci smiles "i also enjoy science fiction... even when they're mostly inaccurate." He chuckles "do you mind if i ask you some questions then?"
"I don't mind, it's been getting pretty boring here, so those questions could be entertaining"
"perfect!" Sci scribbles down some notes. "back to the siblings then, can you tell me about them?"
"Well his name is Gal, he has two boyfriends and he's the King of the Underground" San slightly smiled.
"gal??? king? your brother?" Sci's eyebrows raise and he does a nervous half bow. "my apologies your highness, i didn't relize you were royalty."
"No no, uh . . . we pick a king by this kinda election, so I'm not royalty, my brother was just lucky enough to win . . ." San looks nervous.
"an elected king, ok..." Sci looks at San curiously. "what about you?"
"I'm just a simple guard, nothing special about me, I have a boyfriend, Ralz, He's one of a kind really . . ." San slightly smiled at the mention of his boyfriend.
Sci gave San a warm smile "you have a boyfriend? tell me about him."
"Well he's half skeleton half human, he's nice, currently works at the Lab" San scratched himself near a scar on his jaw.
"h-half human half skeleton? what? how?!"
San shrugs, "His mom was a human"
"i didn't know that was possible." Sci scribbles in his notes furiously. "are there humans down here then? is the barrier broken? was there a barrier!?"
"No, no and yes" San is watching him "The last human here was Ralz' mother, but she's dead now . . . Someone murdered her"
Sci looked up in shock. "murdered?!"
"Yeah . . . Ralz was devastated"
"i'm so sorry." Sci says sympathetically.
San slightly shrugs, "It happened, you can't turn back time"
"well, maybe not exactly..."
"Hm?" San raised his eyebrow.
Sci waves a hand dismissively. "it's nothing, just a half baked theory."
"Okay . . . So maybe now you talk about yourself?"
"me?! oh! well of course, what would you like to know?"
"Hmm. . . Any interests besides science?" San rested his skull on his hand.
Sci looks thoughtful "i like comedy... heheh and i can play the trombone."
Sci adjusts his glasses "i also like astronomy but that's also science..." He mumbles the last line and holds his notes to his chest blushing lightly.
"Sounds nice" San slightly smiled at him.
Sci smiles "i like to think it is!"
"Do you have any siblings?"
"yeah! i have my baby bro papyrus." Sci grins. "he's the coolest little dude, just barely out of stripes."
"He does sound pretty cool" San looked at the time.
"somewhere you gotta be?" Sci asked, tilting his head to the side.
"Nah, just checking time for the end of the shift"
Sci nodded. "what are your plans for after work?"
"Just relax and wait for my boyfriend"
"you look like you really love that guy" Sci smiles at San.
"Yeah, He's great, the greatest guy I know, yeah sure he can be pretty lazy, but he Has many great qualities about himself" San is smiling as he talks about his boyfriend.
"aww how sweet! if i manage to open the portal here again you'll have to let me meet him."
"Yeah, Hope ya do, it's nice talking to ya"
"yeah it's nice talking to you too." Sci smiles looking off to the side. "well i'm gonna head out! see if i can't find more dimensions to explore and gather data... it was nice meeting ya!"
"Nice meeting ya too" San gave him a slight smile.
Sci gave San a little wave and backed out through the portal shooting finger guns. "heheh catch ya on the flip side."
A couple seconds after he disappeared the portal fizzled out with a pop.
Eyelights: Right Dark Khaki Oval, Left Bronze Oval
Bones: White
Distinguishing Marks: Crack Over His Left Eyesocket, Three Cracks On His Left Cheekbone, Claws, Sharp Teeth
Outfit: Red Shirt With A Logo Made From Two Triangles (Cerulean Frost, Satin Sheen Gold) And An Arylide Yellow Circle, Rose Ebony Coat With Bone Fur, Black Pants, Rose Ebony Boots
