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A cat fell down from the heavens, but she lands feet first. A metallic clang could be heard echoing through the hallway.
The machine spoke first.
"Okay Kit, looks like this is the place. Kinda cramped in here, huh."
The cat shrugs, taking out her toggleable night vision goggles while doing so. "Yeah, at least I get the UNDER part of the title now. Anyways, this is just a recon mission, remember? We go in, check the place out, then leave. Now let's go."
The two start walking, while the clanker keeps talking. "Yeah yeah, honestly this place is so far out there that I don't think even Syntax knows about it."
As they make their way to the ruined gates, something starts to feel... amiss. Vines, everywhere. From the floor to the ceiling.
Just a little further down she sees a flower in the middle of an open room, eyeing her with a deep frown on his face.
After muttering something to himself, he decided to adopt a go-lucky face.
"H-Howdy! I'm FLOWEY. FLOWEY the FLOWER!"
"Boy, you two have fallen a long way haven't ya?"
His smile widens, just a bit too much in fact. "But you ain't no human, I can tell that much."
Kit pinches her nose, then whispers to the robot. "Alright, we might have been found, but we can keep it casual."
The backpack gives her a look of sympathy. "Relax, Kit, he's got nothing on us. Just look at him, I can turn him into a salad in no time."
"SO! What brings you two down here?" The golden petalled practically shouts over in exasperation.
"We're here to-"
"And be quick, PLEASE! I'm on a thight schedule today." He cuts in while still retaining his polite smile.
The eyebot sends a slight glare towards the plant. "Alright, alright, name's Kaboodle." He points to the furry eared lady. "She's Kit. We're here to help out."
His honesty is rewarded with the flattest look he ever saw a flower make in existence.
From his disbelief he decided to quickly adopt a smug look. "Help? Well, guess those feelings can be mutual then, right? After all, you two ain't getting out of here without some sacrifices.">
The two suddenly look incredibly worried now, but the bigger one steels herself. "What do you mean by that?"
"The BARRIER you idiot! Let's you in, but not out without a MONSTER SOUL. Maybe your little friend could still make the slip if he's pure robot and all, but not you I'm afraid. It holds back the SOUL and all."
The talking metal was overheating. "I'm a very ALIVE person thank you very much!"
Meantime the feline turned thoughtful about their predicament. "That's gonna be a big problem. We... can't interfere with this world, not in any way."
"You can't?", He hurls a bullet towards Kaboodle. "OW! YOU STUPID WEED!" Making him fall over, resulting in Kit quickly giving him a healing item.
"But I can hurt you (wonderful), which means you're currently dependant on me." His glee was impalpable, so was their annoyance with him.
"Here's the deal. I'm in a... "difficult" situation and I need that help you're graciously offering. So how about you and I enter a mutual relationship? Hmmm?"
He tries to give his most innocent puppy dog eyes imaginable. Both of them look incredibly disturbed at the sight.
Especially Kit.
"It's gonna get little messy you know? Just a heads up." His fangs flash with his manic grin.
The more she's looking at him, the more it becomes clear what disturbs her so much.
His eyes.
Eyes that tell you they have lost all hope.
Eyes like hers.
A villain in the making.
"Alright we'll help out." She relents. Kaboodle turns around to say something, but-
"GREAT!" The Flower screams that one. "Now get behind me, I'm going to try to collapse this section."
"What for?" They both ask.
"For emergencies. Don't want any future unsuspecting fool to use this path for the time being."
"Dear old TORIEL will reconstruct this place anyways."
"Now shoo, get to the next room and lemme do my thing."
A moment, passes, but the robot tugs at the cat's coat, then the two leave.
Just in time for someone else to arrive.
For one second, he feels incredibly nervous, before deciding to omit that stupid emotion. "Remember what I told you, right? No killing anybody this time."
"But alas, I need you to be... delayed, just for a little while."
"I've got some BIG ideas. PLUS I met some interesting people today."
"So how about you sit this one out? You can do that for me, right?"
The buttercup lookalike shoots out vines and bullets into the walls and pillars. A great rumbling could be felt across the lands, until-
A giant boulder falls in front of the entrance gate.
"Toodles!" And so Flowey burrows himself into the ground.
He's gone.
You walk towards the big rock.
* Would you like to start the bolder pushing minigame?
* Yes
* ...Of course, this is what you wanted after all.