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“I’m alive.”
“But… How?”
“I thought our plan had failed. Why am I alive?”
You can’t move your body. Why?
As a matter of fact, not only can you not move, you can’t feel your body at all.
Because it isn’t yours.
You remember this feeling.
You are once again doomed to share a body with someone else.
“Hello?”
You look around, except…
Your body looks around frantically.
“Uhm... Hi?”
It looks down at its hands.
Human. Or something close enough.
“Greetings. I am Chara. And you are...?”
“…”
“Frisk? Who names their kid Frisk?”
“…”
“Oh. Alright, then.”
“…”
“Go where, though?”
“…”
“Do you even know where “home” is?”
This day is starting off great.
.........
A tiny flower.
With a face.
Great.
“Howdy!”
“I'm FLOWEY. FLOWEY the FLOWER!”
“Hmmm...”
“You're new to the UNDERGROUND, aren'tcha?”
You don’t think you’ve ever seen a flower monster before.
“Golly, you must be so confused.”
“Someone ought to teach you how things work around here!”
“I guess little old me will have to do.”
“Ready? Here we go!”
Your body is freaking out again.
You look down a little and see a familiar glowing red heart.
You instinctively reach for it, but your body is hovering its hands over it, not quite touching it.
“…?”
“See that heart?”
You nod, even though you don’t.
“That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!”
“Your SOUL starts off weak, but can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV.”
“What's LV stand for? Why, LOVE, of course!”
You tilt your head, but you don’t.
“You want some LOVE, don't you?”
You nod enthusiastically?
“Don't worry; I'll share some with you!”
“Down here, LOVE is shared through...”
“Little white... "friendliness pellets."
A small pattern of tiny white bullets emerge from the flower.
Oh shit.
“Are you ready?”
“GET OUT OF THE WAY!”
“Move around! Get as many as you can!”
“…?”
“MOVE, DAMNIT!”
Your body darts swiftly out of the way of the bullets, soul following close behind.
“…!”
“Hey buddy, you missed them.”
“Let's try again, okay?”
More bullets.
“Keep moving.”
You get out the way again.
“Is this a joke?”
“Are you braindead?”
“RUN. INTO. THE. BULLETS!!!”
“Err, Friendliness pellets.”
“!!!”
“Yeah, he’s been trying to deceive you the whole time, kid.”
The flower’s face becomes much less friendly…
That angry expression. It reminds you of someone…
“You know what's going on here, don't you?”
“You just wanted to see me suffer.”
“Stay calm.”
“DIE.”
Dozens of bullets surround you.
Your body starts whimpering.
Weakling.
“stay calm, Stay calm, STAY CAL-“
The bullets bounce off of you.
A brilliant orb of rainbow light engulfs you.
The flower looks at you, baffled.
Something is flying towards it.
Your body wants to warn it, but…
“Don’t you dare.”
The fire hits the flower in the face and it burrows underground, screaming like a banshee.
“HAhahahahahahahahahahahaha”
It’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen.
“Ahahahahahahaahahah ha… ha….. huh?”
“…?”
That voice…
“What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor, innocent youth...”
It is a large creature, covered in white fur, wearing what appears to be either a robe or a smock of some sort.
It towers over you, but you can still see its-
No, her- face.
Her face is an odd shape and she has horns on both sides of her vaguely cow shaped head, with long, furry, floppy ears, and eyes that are a maroon color.
She seems to be looking at you with concern.
“Ah, do not be afraid, my child.”
“I am Toriel, caretaker of the RUINS.”
Toriel? You remember that name from somewhere.
“I pass through this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down.”
“You are the first human to come here in a long time.”
Your head hurts. But somehow, you get the feeling your body doesn’t feel it.
“I will do my best to ensure your protection during your time here.”
“Come! I will guide you through the catacombs.”
Your soul has retracted back into its body.
“This way!”
She walks away, looking back at you before she steps through the doorway.
“…?”
“You want to follow her?”
Your body nods.
“What am I, your Dad?”
“…?”
“It’s your body, isn’t it?”
“…”
“Saved your life?”
You nod again.
“Just because you’re a dumbass doesn’t mean you owe me anything.”
You cross your arms and make an indignant sound.
“Well, I can’t think of anything else we could be doing.”
“…”
“How did I know what?”
“!!!”
“Oh yeah. The bullets. It’s a long story. Too long for you.”
“. . .”
“Maybe someday.”
“…”
“Hungry, huh?”
“…”
“Yeah.”
Your body begins to move again.
It’s a weird sensation. You aren’t moving, and yet… you are.
She’s waiting for you on the other side.
You are in a purple room, filled with vines and orange leaves. It smells-
YOU CAN SMELL!!
“It smells like leaves!”
You said that with way more excitement than you meant to.
“…?”
“Whaddya mean you can’t smell anything?”
“…”
“Oh. I see.”
You see two sets of stairs, leading to a corridor of some sort.
As soon as you begin walking, she walks up the steps and stands by the corridor.
“…”
“Big place, huh?”
“…”
“What are you doing?”
A warmth fills you.
“Something’s… The shadow of the ruins?”
“…”
“What about it?”
“Determination.”
“It fills you with-“
Oh. OH. OOOOOOHHHHHHH.
“The shadow of the ruins looms above, filling you with determination.”
“…?”
“You just used your determination to SAVE.”
“???”
“I don’t know! You’re the one who did it!”
“…”
“Instinct?”
“…”
“How do I know what SAVING is?”
“…?”
“Yeah, I guess I don’t really know either. But I felt something strong within me, like I could do anything, and I thought of “SAVE” for some reason.”
That was a lie, but your body doesn’t need to know that.
You nod again.
You walk up the stairs, and your mo-
That woman, vanishes into the corridor.
This is insane.