I had finally gotten the game!

After giving in my ten dollar bill and spending it, I had gotten that game.. The game that got everyone talking, the one that everyone plays, and that one that has inspired so many things…

But I had looked away from all of it, for now. I didn't need any spoilers. In fact, I didn't even know any characters, plot, or gameplay. All I knew was that it was unique, and that everyone else played it. And if everyone else did, I would too.

I started up the game on my computer and an introductory story to the game was shown. There were pictures to go along with the story, and the background was a faded yellow, like old paper. The story was;

Long ago, two races ruled over the Earth: HUMANS AND MONSTERS.

One day, war broke out between the two races.

After a long battle, the humans were victorious.

They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell.

Many years later…

Mt. Ebott 201X

Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return.

There was suddenly a picture of a small girl. Would I be playing as that character? The girl was going into a cave. In the next picture, she was standing at the top of the mountain, and there was a large hole in front of her. But then… the next picture showed her tripping on a root.

And she fell in the hole. And at the bottom, she was lying facedown on the ground. Then the screen moved up, and I could tell it was emphasizing just how hard it'd be to climb back up. Actually not just hard… it would be impossible. That poor girl… how was she ever going to get out?

And then, the Undertale screen showed. I noticed how all the words were capped, like UNDERTALE, and that the R had a red heart in it. I pressed enter to continue. Then the screen was replaced with a different screen that asked me to name the "fallen child".

Uh… did it mean the little girl? I had to name her? So I was playing as her. I thought about it for a while before just deciding on Frisk. She seemed pretty lively, so why not? After typing it in and submitting it, the screen displayed, "Is this Name Correct?" Uh… yes.

Then the screen faded, and I was left with an image of a small girl with short, brown hair on a bed of yellow flowers. Probably daisies. Was the game starting? Shrugging, I tried using my arrow keys to move her, Frisk.

But… it didn't work. Was I doing this correctly? I pressed the keys again, but no avail. Was my computer broken, or did the game crash? No, it didn't crash. But my computer was fine as well. So what was wrong? For a moment, I thought about searching this up on the Undertale wiki, but then I thought better of it. I would not be a cheater!

Suddenly, the screen became fizzy. So the game was malfunctioning! But soon, it wasn't just the game. In fact, now the entire screen of my computer was buzzing and glitching. What was wrong? Did I have a virus?!

I felt drawn to the computer, it seemed to be pulling me in. I didn't know why, and I tried to resist. But I just stared at the screen and moved in closer and closer… until my nose bumped the computer itself.

Suddenly my body started to burn. I felt myself leaning forward and going through the computer! Only problem? The other side was not my desk, it was pure blackness. Before I could pull myself out, the computer seemed to suck me in by itself. And soon my entire body had fallen into the computer. I was no longer in my room, that much was for sure.

In fact, I was falling. I kept falling and falling, and I wondered if I was going to die when hitting the bottom… if the bottom ever came. And then it did. I fell right into a bright patch of yellow daisies. I sat up to realize that I had made a crater of crushed flowers where I had landed. I had no idea how I had survived the fall, or how the flowers could've possibly helped in my survival, but I had other more important questions.

Like, where was I? Inside my computer, or in the game… or both? I looked around to see long cavern walls stretching up to the sky. They were so high that… I couldn't see the top. Wherever I had fallen from would now be impossible to get back to.

I shook my head and look around more to see that it looked a lot like… the game I was just playing. Was I in Undertale? And… was I Frisk? I examined myself to see that I was wearing the same things that my Frisk had been wearing. A blue sweatshirt with purple stripes, blue jeans, and brown boots. And to my horror, even my hair had been cut short to an ugly brown!

As much as these things bothered me, I knew I had to get back home somehow. Maybe find my computer and… what? Get sucked back into it again? What was I thinking? I shook my head, convinced myself it was just a dream, and decided to go on with it. Might as well figure out where this was gonna to take me.

I focused on a corner in the cavern and saw an opening for me to exit. I looked back up where I fell, trying to figure out if I should leave. Maybe by exiting this cavern, I could be getting even farther away from home. But I really had no other choice…

After taking a deep breath, I stepped out of the large patch of yellow flowers, walked on a small part of grass, and was soon tapping my shoes on stone. I headed to the cavern exit, but before leaving, I looked back one last time. Those yellow flowers waved invitingly to me, telling me to come back and find some other way to get out. But I knew that wouldn't work, so I finally exited the cavern.

I walked for about 10 seconds before approaching a ruin doorway. It was grey and dull, and pretty uninviting. The door was open, but I couldn't see anything inside. The shadows were eerie, and the columns were crumbly and dusty, they must've been ancient. But I had already decided to find a different way to leave this place, and if this was the only way, I was going to go this way. I gulped nervously before entering.

And upon entering, the doorway disappeared behind me, and I was met upon a spotlight. I had no idea where the light was coming from. The spotlight was shining on a small patch of grass, where a single smiling flower stared at me. It was rather large and yellow, like the ones I had crushed in my fall. That was a disturbing thought. I had never seen a smiling flower before, but it looked harmless, so I stepped forward to approach it.

When almost getting close enough to enter the spotlight, the flower suddenly started to talk.

"Howdy! I'm FLOWEY. FLOWEY the FLOWER!" I jumped at the sound of its voice. It seemed a bit too enthusiastic, and its tone of voice was very… childish? But either way, the flower seemed to be the kind of helpful person every character would meet in the beginning of a game. So I might as well listen to see what it has to say.

"Hmmm…" It continued to say, "You're new to the UNDERGROUND, aren'tcha? Golly, you must be so confused." So it understands how I feel! It looks like someone down here can relate with me.

"Someone ought to teach you how things work around here!" I nodded my head in agreement. "I guess little old me will have to do. Ready? Here we go!"

Suddenly, the most unexpected thing happened. My body started to glow a light red as something started to emerge from my chest. Was it… a heart? When it left my body, I realized that the heart was the one glowing, not my body. I didn't know I had a glowing heart in me!

A screen popped up beside my head. I examined at it curiously. It read LV 1. HP 20/20. Whatever that meant.

"See that heart?" Flowey started to explain, "That is your soul, the very culmination of your being!" Oh, so that weird red thing is my soul? Super weird.

"Your soul starts off weak," Flowey continued cheerily, "But can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV." On cue, I looked to the screen floating next to my head. "What's LV stand for? Why, LOVE, of course! You want some LOVE, don't you?" I wasn't sure.

"Don't worry, I'll share some with you." The flower stuck out its tongue at me before a small star popped out of his head. He was acting like Kirby… but did flowers even have tongues?

Suddenly, five white pellet-shaped items flew up from Flowey. "Down here, LOVE is shared through…" Flowey scrunched his face up for some reason. His expression was unreadable. "Little white… 'friendliness pellets.'"

He seemed fishy. "Are you ready?" The 'friendliness pellets' started to fly towards my soul. I guess my soul was supposed to absorb those? "Move around! Get as many as you can!" I was still wary and willed my soul to accidentally (or was it instinctively?) dodge the first three pellets. Then I remembered how Flowey was helping me, and I urged my soul to go for the last two.

Upon contact, my body rocked and I felt a panic rise in me. I noticed red in the corner of my eye, and saw my… health bar. That's right, it was my health bar. And it read LV 1. HP 01/20. I looked back at Flowey with shock on my face.

The nice friendly little smiling flower was no longer there. In fact, he was replaced with a menacing terrifying flower with big angry teeth. The evil look it gave me made me yelp, and it grinned back with pleasure.

"You idiot. In this world, it's kill or BE killed. Why would anyone pass up an opportunity like this!?" Wait. Was Flowey tricking me the whole time?

By now, it was too late, I had realized this. Flowey's face turned into an expression of pure evil pleasure as more pellets came out of nowhere and made a large circle around my soul. They spun around teasingly, foreboding my death.

"Die." The flower said with finality before letting out a menacing laugh. Flowey's eyes were dark and those sharp teeth were not helping. The circle of pellets surrounding my soul began to turn smaller and smaller, slowly closing in on my small exposed soul. It took me a moment to realize, I was going to die! The circle came in faster, became smaller, kept coming in… it was now almost too small to fit my soul…

I was going to die!