For a solid week, Sans had been working most, if not all of his after school hours and nights were spent at the bar. Grillby was able to hire three people and two waiters and one chef. With the amount of customers in such a short time, Grillby would be able to buy the deed for the building from the Kirishima mothers by the start of the summer. Sans was able to stay on top of his school work and homework with the help of Shota and Ichika.

It was difficult, but there was no way in the cosmos he was going to choose between helping Grillby and his new education. With three new employees and Undyne helping out at the bar, Grillby's was functioning smoothly without the high school-aged manager to help the owner.

The day Sans had looked forward to all year had finally arrived. First Year Final Exams. He had Japanese History literally beaten into his skull and Japanese tutoring from his beloved Katsuki nearly deafened him. He was the only one in his to have advanced, college level questions mixed in his written exam, courtesy of a certain principal, with the Japanese and Japanese History portions at normal highschool levels.

The day after the written exams was time for the physical exams. There was speculation that they would be fighting the same robots from the sports fest and Entrance Exam and different theories that they would be fighting the teachers. Sans didn't believe any of it. They already fought villains so the robots wouldn't pose any challenge whatsoever and they wouldn't make them fight the teachers. That would prove too challenging for first years.

Nezu - "Hello Class 1-A! For your Physical Exams, you will be fighting your teachers."

Sans had been known to have been wrong from time to time. He wasn't happy about it, but there was no point in making a fuss.

Nezu - "Not to worry however! There will be handicaps so you all have a chance to succeed in your mock missions. Against your assigned teacher, you will either have to "capture" them in these handcuffs or escape the designated battle zone. And for Gaster, you are prohibited from taking one of your shortcuts to the finish line."

Sans - "Not a problem. Haven't been there, so it's not plausible."

Sans stopped listening in favor of nuzzling into Katsuki's hair from his place on his back. He hasn't used a shortcut in a good while. Something was stirring in the Void and Sans was not too keen on finding out when he was underprepared. Especially since he was practically a glowstick there.

Nezu - "I have already decided on which of your classmates will be your partner and what teacher you all will be fighting. The mock battles are written on the board behind you, in the order you will all go in."

Nezu finally left the room and everyone scrambled to get to the board.

<Kirishima Eijirou & Sato Rikido VS Cementoss>

<Sans Gaster & Koda Koji VS Ectoplasm>

<Ojiro Mashirao & Iida VS Power Loader>

<Todoroki Shoto & Yaoyorozu Momo VS Eraser Head>

<Aoyama Yuga & Uraraka Ochako VS Thirteen>

<Kaminari Denki & Ashido Mina VS Nezu>

<Jiro Kyoka & Tokoyami Fumikage VS Present Mic>

<Shoji Mezo VS Hagakure Toru VS Snipe>

<Sero Hanta & Tsuyu Asui VS Midnight>

<Midoriya Izuku & Bakugo Katsuki VS All Might>

Sans's eyes bugged out of his head as he was slowly transferred to Eijirou's back. He could see the existential dread and cold sweats all over Midoriya and the fury in Katsuki slowly rising.

Katsuki - "WHY THE HELL AM I TEAMED UP WITH FUCKING DEKU?! I DEMAND TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE!"

Sans still didn't understand why Katsuki hated their broccoli headed classmate. Ever since the beginning of the year, Katsuki had some kind of personal grudge against Midoriya, and he was getting sick of it. Eijirou had to put him down so he and Sato could get ready to go out to Ground Beta. He walked up to Katsuki, who was screaming in Midoriya's face with smoking palms, and yanked each boy by the ear to his level.

Sans - "That is enough out of your face hole. We will be having a conversation about this later. So for right now, shut up, deal with Midoriya as your partner, get ready for your fight, and I swear to Toby Fox himself, if you put your pride ahead of your fight, and I will be watching, there will be consequences. Am I clear?"

Katsuki - "Tch."

Sans - "That is a yes or no question Katsuki."

Katsuki - "Yes fine whatever!"

Katsuki was released from Sans's ear grip and stormed off to the locker room. Sans let go of Midoriya who retreated to his little group of friends. Sans was ahead of his classmates and was dressed in his costume way before them.

The only problem is, his support items still weren't ready. Sans really wanted to know what his items would be, but Majima was tightlipped and refused to spill any beans about the process. Even Nezu prevented him from hacking into Majima's online files with firewalls, passwords, and out-hacking him at every turn.

Before he knew it, Eijirou and Sato returned covered in dust and scratches.

Sans - "You good Eiji?"

Eijirou - "I failed, but I'm nothing's broken."

Sans - "I guess it's mine and Koda's turn."

The quietest and laziest members of the class, paired up together. What could go wrong? Apparently a lot. From the second the two set foot on the field, the battle had already started. Ectoplasm was ahead of them by several feet and had fifteen clones rushing them from all sides. Sans's smile and eyes narrowed. A circle of blasters surrounded him and Koda. Sans didn't expect to be attacked immediately, but it only added to the thrill.

Sans hadn't had to strategize this much in a fight ever and he was getting excited. From the surroundings Sans had to come up with on the spot a plan. He summoned a new blaster and practically shoved Koda in its mouth.

Sans - "Hang tight Koda!"

Sans jumped on top of the blaster's head. The blaster shot toward the top of the closest building, out of Ectoplasm's clone's reach. Sans quickly let Koda out of the Blaster's mouth but just as quickly shoved him back in. All the clones on the ground seemed to merge into one, ginormous clone. Sans felt cold sweat seeping through the back of his shirt. He summoned a massive blaster to ram into the clone's chest and make it move back.

Sans held onto his own blaster and plummeted for the ground. A subway tunnel caught his attention and so Sans directed his blaster accordingly. The giant Ectoplasm clone melted down into several normal sized ones. Sans summoned a blaster for each clone to distract them so they could hide in the subway.

Sans's brain was working into overdrive. His smile was strained and his forehead was drenched in sweat.

"G-Gaster?"

Sans whipped his head around to look at Koda. The blaster they arrived in dissipated into magic energy and Koda shook in...fear? Anxiety? Pick any word you want, but Sans couldn't think of it.

"Are you okay? Y-you're head is lit-literally smoking."

Ah. That would explain the sweat. Sans ruffled his hair to hopefully try and calm himself down.

"If we could find Ectoplam's real body, I could finish this no problem, but there's too many clones to try and shift through to find his Soul."

"I-I have an idea."

<~>

"Where did those two go?"

Ectoplasm glared at a fleeing bird who decided to crap on his shoulder. Insect also wouldn't stop bothering him. There were only so many butterflies and mosquitoes he could shoo away before his irritation got the better of him. Then he couldn't move. All of his clones melted to nothing. Sans and Koda made themselves known.

Sans - "Justice and Composure. Suits ya teach. Koda, please tie him up."

Koda - "Okay Sans."

Ectoplasm couldn't wait to watch the recording later. This was the desired outcome of this exam. As soon as Koda finished wrapping Their teacher in their capture tape and Nezu's echoing voice say they passed sounded off, Sans fell backwards. Ectoplasm quickly broke free from the tape.

Nezu - "Ectoplasm, is Gaster alright?"

Ectoplasm - "He's running a slight fever."

Nezu - "Alright, please take him to Chiyo. He might be dehydrated and need fluids."

Sans was then banished into the building and straight to Recovery Girl's office.

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