Chapter 3

***\*4 Years Before Reset. . .***

The three children of the lab sit around a table within the lab garden, chatting and playing cards games.

"No fair! You always win!" Neo threw it cards down, pouting.

"Its just natural talent Neo, talent, something you don't have." Akuji grinned, legs up on the table, leaning back on their sit.

"There is a possibly you may be cheating, Akuji." Arius stared at the cards on the table.

"Come on! This again? You always save that when I win!" Arius took the deck and scanned through the cards, then instantly pulled out one.

"What did you find?" Neo leaned forward, trying to look at the card.

"This one is... double layered." They take off their card and touch the corners, making the front card fall off, revealing another.

". . . Dang it." Akuji snatched the card away, must be an uh, error with the deck or something, haha."

"Just admit you cheated Ku!"

"I did not!"

"Yes you did!" The two kept arguing with one another, as Arius put their gloves back on, standing up and walking off through the garden, back into the lab.

Arius arrived at the library. The sign was misspelt by accident, but kept that way due to the scientists thinking it was funny and thus making it a landmark in the lab. They walked down a few rows, to their favourite section: Mythology. They took a book out, then started scanning through it. Arius had something special the other siblings didn't have. They had amazing memory, and vision. They could tell if something was off by just a tiny bit, or if something had been taken. Reading was also a breeze for them, about a few thousand words under a minute. As fast as they picked it up, they placed it back in the shelf, moving on to another. After a few books, they walked out of the library, bumping into another of their siblings. Black hair with a unique grey stripe, the shortest of the four, Rue. The little child held a book, which seemingly looked like a diary. They peered up at their brother with their miscolored eyes, their face rendered expressionless.

"Going to see father again, Rue?" The child nodded, then walked past towards the office, while their brother continued towards the lab, off to observe the scientists at work.

The scientists as usual, were doing normal experiments, researching and inventing new projects for the underground to use. Arius gazed upon all the documents they could see as they walked by, memorising everything in an instant. They walked more, then went back to the garden, back to the other two.

Rue walked up to the gold-plated door once again and knocked. As usual, the voice told them to come in, and so, they did. G, as always, was at their desk researching something. Though they never knew what they were researching on, they knew deep down it was for something good. They walked over, then hopped onto the man's lap, looking down at the paper in front of them. The man smiled, and pat the child.

"I'm working on something very important, Rue. It's going to be a lifechanging moment. Wish your father luck will you?" The child closed their eyes, enjoying the pats, nodding. The two sat there quietly, G writing documents, Rue just enjoying the comfort of their presence.

There was knocking to be heard.

"Come in." G didn't look up. The door opened as R walked in.

"It s almost done sir, we should get ready." G looked at R for a while, the smiled.

"I see." They put Rue down, the stood up, filing their documents, then standing up.

"See you tomorrow my little Rue." They walk off with R, and off to the deeper part of the labs.

*. . .*

. . .

*\*In another plain of existence. . .*

A hooded figure stood in a snowy area, their phantom friend beside them.

"It's almost time for our meeting Papyrus." They smiled at them, before turning back, snapping. A portal appeared, its unmistakable white glitching figures shining in front of them in all its glory.

"Let us say hello to the scientist." And with that, they step through the portal.