Opposedtale (Undertale AU) Chapter 1 - The Ruined Mother
Have you ever heard of many wonderful stories of a human befriending many monsters? If it is a yes, then you must have known the lovable characters and one bad person very well. There are a lot of alternate universes of this world as well, whether they are similar or different. And no, I'm not telling you to look up for all of these 'alternate universes'. I'm just telling you so that you know many people had many ideas to create something new for this game.
In this alternate universe, however, is a bit more tragic than the rest of them. Maybe, or maybe not. But this world had a tragic human named Frisk, and this kid happened to be abused by their psychopathic parents. Wait, did I say 'their'? Well, of course! Frisk have no gender, so it's up to you to decide whether this little child is a boy or a girl. Wait a minute, this gender is ambitious. Okay then, I think of Frisk as a little girl if that makes some of you happy.
Just like other worlds, this story had a backstory of a war in between humans and monsters. The humans actually had a good reason to trap the monsters underground via the barrier that needed seven human souls to break through. And that is the king and the queen. They had very bad intentions on harming humanity, because of the fact that humans are stronger than monsters with their determination. Monsters cannot have determination with their magical state as much as humans with their physical state because if they used too much determination, magic cannot handle them and therefore, monsters can melt to death. When monsters die, unlike humans, their body immediately turn into dust and their soul may sweep away to nowhere. That is why the king and the queen wanted to take over the world, but luckily, the situation is solved by trapping them underground.
Back to the topic. Frisk is a very depressed girl due to her horrible history with such bad parents that she had. Because of this, she attempted suicide by falling down the big hole located in MT. Ebott. Unfortunately, her plan failed. She landed on an area of golden flowers, which avoided death for some reasons.
The dirty girl with a grey no-sleeved T-shirt, torn black shorts and black shoes found herself on the flowers, wondering how she survived. "What am I doing here?" she thought as she stood up and walked somewhere in a strange place she doesn't know. As she walked through the purple door, she saw a yellow flower with a face in front of her. The flower happened to looked physically abused as well.
"I hate Mommy and Daddy," the flower mumbled. "I had been their slave for ten years, and I used to have a good friend that got sick and died because of them. Now look at me, I'm just a flower with no soul."
"Hey, you're the not only one hating your parents," Frisk told him, walking towards him.
The flower felt a familiarity from the human. "Chara, is that you?"
"No, my name is Frisk," she introduced herself. "I fell down here after all the abuses I had from family."
"Oh, wow!" the flower exclaimed in surprise. "We both shared the same history. You're very similar to Chara when I first saw you here."
Frisk didn't feel anything weird from a talking flower, as she watched cartoons before. She thought talking flowers were real anyway. "So what is your name, little flower?"
"My real name is Asriel," he said truthfully, "but being in this form, I called myself 'Flowey' instead."
"I'll call you Flowey then," said Frisk with a smile, although there was still signs of sadness in her eyes. Well, most of the times, she had her eyes closed.
Flowey never felt a compassion from a stranger before. Before this time, he couldn't feel any emotions at all due to having no soul. The only thing he had was determination injected from someone, but he didn't know who did it. He felt some remaining happiness with his compassion, so he decided to be her friend.
Before he could even say something to his new friend, out of the blue, a loud stomp came out. "Oh no!" Flowey became terrified upon hearing that. Turning to face his back, a tall, messed-up looking goat woman with short horns, left horn being cut off, and one-quarter of long-sleeved white dress ripped with the outside sleeveless blank purple dress, appeared right at the door with a menacing look, red sore eyes and sharp fangs. The child was confused at first until the angry goat ran to both of them like a bull.
"WHO DARES TO COME INTO MY RUINS!?" her voice boomed, making poor Flowey and Frisk shook like jelly.
The human reluctantly raised her right hand and ended up having the palms whipped very hard by the beast. She yelped in pain with tears released from her eyes that just got eyelids opened.
"Don't hurt her!" Flowey begged the woman. "She got abused by her parents! She didn't do anything bad!"
"Hmph, so what?" The woman sneered at the flower shorter than her. "I did the same with you as well, so that makes no difference, Asriel my son. But the worst part is, she's part of the humanity, so she deserved what she had from me!"
"Flowey, that's your mother!?" cried Frisk.
Flowey looked saddened with her reaction. "I'm sorry you have to hear that."
"Now you two naughty children stay where you are while I prepare some little things to make the human stay at the room," the woman reminded them and walked off to the door as nothing happened.
"Who is she, anyway?" the girl asked.
"Toriel, the queen of all monsters," Flowey explained. "She, along with her husband, had a wicked plan of separating each other to capture a human easily. She wants me to follow up the plan of the destruction of humanity, but when I met Chara, I knew it in my heart that not all humans are bad. But my parents refused to listen to me, so from then on, they kept hurting me and my best friend with a lot of dangerous weapons."
Frisk carried Flowey to have him wrapped around her untidy hair so he can still see around. As they walked to the door and ruins, they saw a lot of monsters feeling pity for the flower. Their conversation continues. "So what happened to you after turning into a flower?"
"When I was dead, the dust of my remaining body went onto a flower and I got injected with determination, meaning I got the ability to SAVE and RESET. But sadly, I don't want to use that, as that is cruelty. When you use that ability, it feels like you are playing god, like controlling this 'game' you are playing. Even without emotions, I stayed true to myself and never use that power at all. For the sakes of all good people in this underground and outside the underground."
Frisk understood what Flowey meant about his determination. That was only because she read science fiction of time-travelling. Then she asked him one important question.
"How can I escape from these ruins that have that crazy Toriel?"
Flowey tried to think of a plan that would make it work. "We need to be quiet and go downstairs to the door that leads us to Snowdin. But we need to be quick before she caught us into the locked room."
Just as he said that, all the monsters that pity him became horrified. Froggit hopped to the human and told Flowey that it would be impossible since Toriel already prepared her trap on the human.
"Oh god!" Frisk panicked. "What are we going to do now?"
"I have no idea now….." Flowey whispered.
Just as another stomp was heard, everybody in the ruins screamed in terror, knowing Toriel was going to torture Frisk. Flowey tried to look around for a hiding spot and there were only leaves.
"Quick, hide under those red leaves," Flowey ordered Frisk.
They hid under the red leaves, making them look like a big pile of leaves. Just as Toriel arrived, everybody became quiet.
Toriel looked around in suspicion. "Why were you idiots screaming? And where's that little slob and my dumb flower!?"
The monsters tried their best to not looked scared, but shook a little as their fear was uncontrollable.
Toriel examined the faces of the innocent animals around her. As she saw one of the monsters shaking, she came to him as the speed of sound.
"Are you hiding something, eyeball creep?" She asked with her deadly scare on his eyeball body that had his pupils shrink as a sign of fear.
"I'm not hiding anything!" Loox lied, trying to keep a secret from Frisk and Flowey hiding under the leaves.
As Flowey was hearing Toriel's grunts outside the pile of leaves, he noticed Frisk's shivering. "Howdy, girl. Are you okay?" he asked.
"I'm not feeling good," Frisk said honestly. "What if she find us under these leaves?"
"Don't worry, Frisk," Flowey cheered her up, "we have to stay under these leaves so she won't find us. I promise."
But Frisk didn't feel delighted as she kept hearing Toriel yelling at the other monster.
"Bad dog!" She told the tiny dog that just took her cell phone. She moved her sleeves from waist to shoulder, revealing muscles. "If you chew that thing, I'll have no other choice!"
Monsters nagged the annoying dog to give the cell back to the queen, but he refused and chew it like a bone anyway.
Toriel summons huge fires on both hands. "Alright, YOU ASKED FOR IT!"
She charged a big fire blast at the white dog, burning his fur black and cellphone melted from his mouth, making him unable to bark. Finally, he turned into dust that got swept by the howling wind. Monsters quickly ran away from the real Monster to avoid more deaths upcoming.
"I will get you another time round, human!" She expressed with anger as she walked away again.
As she finally went back to her house, Flowey and Frisk got out of the pile with some leaves stuck on the rough hair. "You need a shower, Frisk," Flowey noted on the way her hair looks.
"Family issues, once again….." Frisk responded with irritation. "By the way, let's escape the ruins."
As Frisk ran into Toriel's home, she commented on how dark and haunting the house looked. It seemed to had been decorated with weapons and knifes. Knowing that this fits the nature of Toriel send chills down her spine. Flowey told her to focus on the plan and she agreed.
She slowly opened the door to not get the attention from the murderous goat. There were the same decorations, only with more disturbing picture frames of screaming children on each of the seven photos. Looking at all these images, Frisk ran outside to the dead black tree to puke on it because she couldn't handle all these gorey things in the house. Flowey, of course, knew she didn't like them, considering her age and family history.
She still had her confidence anyway. She went inside the house again and ignored the creepy view of the house. She saw what Flowey told her; the stairs to the basement. She quietly tiptoed to the stairs so Toriel won't notice them. Just as she reached the final step of the stairs, she ran to the door as fast as possible.
"I can make it! I can run away from her!"
As she reached the door, all of a sudden, the same insane beast happened to already be at the exit door with keys. Frisk backed off herself from being near the queen and she was upset on her plan being unsuccessful.
"Running away from your new mother, eh?" Toriel questioned Frisk's intention with a grin on her face. "I see that you and Asriel were hiding under those leaves just so you could escape me? Hearing Asriel's voice, I went on playing your game so I could catch you two losers to teach you a lesson about 'secret society'."
"I am NOT your daughter, beast of the beast!" Frisk shouted at her with confidence.
"That doesn't matter," Toriel snapped. "What matters is that I have you now. Go to your room, or else I burn you two into little pieces. Two choices only, so think NOW!"
Frisk couldn't believe her ears. The plan was going well until it went downhill from the woman's intelligence. She was given only two choices and she didn't want to die with her newfound friend. She instantly gave up and chose the decision of going to her 'room'.
Time goes by when Frisk was locked inside her room that got scratches on the walls that were rather colourful. Flowey felt bad about his mother ruining his plan to escape. He then looked at Frisk leaning against the wall at the corner, playing with the toys found in the box for a while.
"I'm sorry that the plan failed," Flowey apologised while being concerned about Frisk's state. "Maybe I can come up with a better pla-"
"What's so good about your plan?" Frisk interrupted him with a sigh of dismay. "We're trapped here. There's no way we would get out of here."
But Flowey smiled idealistic. "I already have a great idea! I can absorb myself into the ground so I can dig to somewhere else in this house!"
"Toriel will see you and cut you off like a real plant," Frisk declined his new plan.
"Trust me, Frisk," Flowey winked. "I can sneak around to get the keys."
"Fine," Frisk agreed unwillingly. "Do what you must do."
Flowey inserted himself to the ground to transport somewhere. First, he checked Toriel's room to search for her keys. He opened all the cupboards with his beanstalk vines, only to find nothing but weapons and knifes. He then checked what was in the book and they were written in nonsensical words. Second, he checked the room next door and checked everything he could. There were no furnitures at all. Third, he checked the kitchen. He smelled smoke around him, which he tried to prevent himself from suffocation by transporting to the living room.
He dug himself up near the couch Toriel sat on reading magazines… about weapons. Flowey avoided looking at the gruesome magazine as he was finding the keys. Somehow, the keys were under the couch, but the couch was squeezed by her weight. Flowey tried to get the keys out of the couch with his vine, but it requires more strength, much to his frustration. He kept doing it many times until Toriel got up to put her magazine away.
"Let's see how that little brat is doing," the murderer said by self as she walked to the hallway.
"Golly," Flowey expressed in panic, "she's going to check into Frisk's room. If she hurt her, I'm dead!"
Flowey quickly took her keys and transport back into the room to warn Frisk about Toriel.
"Quick, hide the keys somewhere," Frisk told him, which he did so by hiding it inside the toys box with growing vines. But before he could even get his vine out of the box, Toriel already unlocked the door with the other key to check on the children.
"You two are having fun with little toys, huh?" Toriel asked, glaring at a shocked Flowey staying stiff with vine on the toy box. "I bet you do, because in my first session with you, I will enjoy hearing pain and torture from the human instead. Good day, Asriel and see you in hell, dirt!"
As she locked the door again, Frisk and Flowey sighed in relief. "Okay, Flowey," whispered Frisk, "this is your chance of releasing both of us to Snowdin."
"I'll unlock the door at this side," Flowey whispered back. "This time, we need to be real quiet on sneaking to the door."
Flowey got his vine out the box still holding the key and unlocked the door. He slowly opened the door with Frisk following his lead. Flowey told Frisk that he would transport himself to the door while Frisk sneak to the door alone.
Things had been going on very well. Frisk sneaked down the stairs and walked faster to the door without making any noise. Seeing Frisk's arrival made Flowey glad that she didn't get caught by an insane goat this time round.
"Thank goodness you are safe," Flowey said gleefully. "Now let's bust this door open and we're out."
"Not so FAST!"
"Oh, for the love of god, WHY!?" Frisk groaned in boredom.
Toriel came back again, this time with flames on her hands that were stronger than her previous times. "You will get this as a thank you for disobeying my rules, young jerk," Toriel said in sarcasm. "Now die."
Flowey looked back at his mother in rage. "You made a big mistake, mom! If you want to get Frisk like my old friend, then I have no choice."
Flowey's face turned more demonic with sharp teeth that was used to bite a person. Flowey stretched himself as a vine to bite Toriel's waist that caused her to deactivate her attack.
"Arrgh!" Toriel shouted in agony. "How could you do this to me, my son!?"
As Flowey looked up to his monsterous mother, his face transformed into another face. His face was now a goat face who was supposedly Asriel in his past time as a regular child.
"You did all the wrong thing with Father in the first place!" Asriel scolded her for her wrongdoings. "You're not supposed to kill innocent people like Chara, the six children and Frisk. Now that Chara is gone and I'm a flower, I shall seek revenge on my own family by giving you a taste of your OWN medicine!"
Toriel still had a big grin on her face, as if she never believe him. "You will regret this, my own son! My husband, Asgore, is stronger than me, so there's no way that foolish fool would escape out of the barrier since she's the seventh and last human fallen down to have her soul used to break it in the underground!"
Flowey's face shifted into his original face as he looked back at Frisk. "Go on without me, Frisk," he ordered her. "I don't have a soul, so I can still come back for you. See you soon, dear friend!"
As one of his vines closed the door, Frisk had her ear against the wall to listen to the other side of the door. All she heard was a lot of screaming coming from Toriel as she was squeezed with the vines. "Farewell, Flowey. See you soon," Frisk waved at the door. As she was done with the door, she ran towards the long hallway that grew lighter as she went on.
As she reached the end of the hallway, she approached a tall, large door coloured violet in front of her. As she opened to door to Snowdin, light shines through the door and everything went white.
End of Chapter 1.
Undertale by Toby Fox