Shadow: I'm back! I've been dealing with college, but now I can present CHAPTER 2!

Chapter 2

You open your eyes, disoriented. When you couldn't see anything, you remembered the void and your heart started racing. You were still stuck here, weren't you? Any hope you might've had completely dissipated. You scolded yourself for being such a fool to believe that Chara would really offer you any second chances. But before you could berate yourself any further, you realized that you were able to move. So this wasn't the void, then. Even after you had established this, it still took a while for you to fully calm down. Once you did, you noticed that you were lying face down on the floor, which explained your lack of vision. Well, at least the floor was made of something soft and comfortable. You slowly got up and examined your surroundings. The area looked like some sort of deep cavern. Nothing much to see around the walls except for rocks. Sunlight was streaming down from way up above you, and you found that the surprisingly soft floor was that way because of the group of lovely flowers that had grown in a patch at the very center of the room. This was all looking vaguely familiar. You were getting some major deja vu up in here, but you could swear on your life that you've never been here before. Why would Chara drop you in this place? Why did they drop you anywhere, in fact? They must have some ulterior motive for getting you out of that void. You knew they wouldn't just do all this out of the kindness of their heart. They had already achieved their goal –you winced at the thought– what more did they want? You decide to think about all this later and for now, try to find out where exactly you were. There was only one path out of this area that you could see, unless you wanted to try and climb that seemingly endless opening up above you. You ended up choosing the less vertical of the two paths.

At the end of the path was an impressive purple archway, with columns and everything. This was just getting more and more strangely familiar. Through the darkness, you could see a beam of light illuminating a small spot of grass. A small flower popped out of the patch, and when you saw its smiling face your heart plummeted.

Of course. Of course this was where Chara decided to drop you. Where else would they?

No, focus, you told yourself. You need to think of a way to deal with the little flower shit, and fast. You knew Toriel was supposed to come and save you, but you weren't sure if you could count on everything being the same as the game. Maybe in real life, Flowey could actually kill you. Maybe Toriel wouldn't find you in time. You doubted save points were a thing in reality, but you definitely didn't want to test that theory.

It took you a while to notice just how confused Flowey looked, like he didn't know what to make of your existence. After a beat of (rather awkward) silence, he cocked his head to the side and said, "You're not supposed to be here, are you?"

Out of all of the saves and resets and reloads that Flowey had ever seen, your current presence was an entirely new factor. He was a little disappointed, to say the least. The face that should've been greeting him here was nowhere to be found, and he was so looking forward to finishing what the two of them started. He normally wouldn't have given a new face all that much thought, since humans do have a nasty habit of just falling down here, but one thing struck Flowey as odd. You and your soul were just...wrong. Out of place. It was like seeing a fish flopping about helplessly in the middle of a desert. Almost funny in a weird sort of way, but incredibly disturbing. But there was absolutely no reason that Flowey could figure out for this, since your soul looked just like any other normal human soul.

"I... uh…" You struggled to find an answer. You weren't, in fact, supposed to be here, but was he expecting some sort of explanation? What could you possibly say to him? 'Oh, your dead demon pal just randomly decided to dropkick me over here so that I could get out of the shattered remains of the universe they destroyed using my body as some sort of vessel.' If you could barely understand the situation yourself, how would you ever manage to explain it all to a soulless flower?

Upon seeing your confusion, Flowey's entire demeanor changed, and soon he was all smiles with a cheerful voice.

"Well, since you seem to have fallen down here anyway, somebody should teach you how things work around here!"

Oh shit, he was going to do the whole 'friendliness pellets' deal now if you didn't think fast.

"It's kill or be killed, right? I've already gotten the memo."

Flowey's fake smile faltered at that. This was definitely a turn from the usual. He had never met you in any other reset, so there was no possible way for you to know what his little trick would lead up to. You had even used his exact wording! You were certainly an intriguing human. While he tried to figure you out, he could work you into his plan. Everything could still fall into place! He shook off his confusion and put a smile back on, albeit a less friendly, more disturbing one.

"So you know the truth of this world, then? Maybe you aren't as dumb as you look…Watching you play my game should be fun. I'll be seeing you around, little pawn." He gave his signature evil laugh and disappeared into the ground.

Once your heart stopped racing, you started laughing, almost sobbing, you were so relieved. You had come so close to certain death! It seemed like only Flowey's curiosity had kept you alive.

"Damn it, Flowey is even scarier than I thought he would be." You look around noticing that is is suddenly becoming much darker. "I guess that now I have to find Toriel now, or wait until she finds me."

You stop to think. "She wasn't here to stop Flowey, so I doubt what happened in the game will happen here as well, so it looked like I have to get through the Ruins by myself. I don't think that would be too difficult. After all, most of the puzzles here were quite simple, and were never harmful if you failed."

But even as you say that you worry about was all the random encounters. How could you get past those without dying? You shook your head. You would worry about that when you actually got to it. For now, you just continued marching forward to enter the Ruins.

You had to stop for a moment just to admire your surroundings. The pixel art really didn't do it justice. You could recognize the staircase and arrangements of leaves from the game, but now you could see the impressive structures of the Ruins. It simply took your breath away.

You turned around and walked backwards, so you could what was behind you. However, you fail to notice a hole. You fail to catch yourself and plummet downwards, hitting your head. You lose consciousness.

You sit up, wincing from the pain where your skull hit the unyielding earth. You stop moving upon hearing a strange voice.

["Hello, Fallen One, my name is W.D Gaster. How did you get here?"]

Shadow: CLIFFHANGER! XD Yah I'm evil. Get use to it. And yes, I did do this on purpose.