A/N: This is something I'm writing just for fun. The general idea keeps coming to me, and this is a good way to get it out of my head. There is no outline for this story, just winging it. No clue if I'll complete this in a typical sense. And I'm writing the OC human from the first perspective. If any of these things don't bother you, I hope you enjoy it.

Falling.

That's what I was doing wasn't it? I remembered… peering into a large hole… then my foot caught something, and I was tumbling over the edge and down into the inky abyss before me. So I should have been falling.

Instead, it felt a bit more like I was floating, or maybe sinking. Yeah, sinking fit better.

I tried to think back more on what I'd been doing before, why I was where I was and looking at a big hole in the ground. Didn't seem to smart to be honest. Yet something told me I was there for a reason… something had drawn me towards that place, whatever place it had been.

As I continued to sink, my mind had more and more trouble remembering anything before I fell… and everything else felt like it was fading away, starting from my feet and moving up my legs. I was being swallowed up, consumed by the void around me!

With fear gripping my heart, I tried to reach out, not just with my mind but also my body, hoping that somehow I could cling to something, anything to hang onto and remain myself, to not be lost to this seemingly infinite darkness...

All I managed to cling to was… a name…

Espero.

I'm not sure how long it took for feeling to return to my body… or if it was my original body. I couldn't remember much of anything. Including how I'd wound up where I was.

Speaking of which… where was I? Should probably open my eyes up and find out.

Doing so allowed me to see that I appeared to be laying face first on the ground, some grass tickling my nose. There were stems with petals and leaves all around me, and looking around a bit more revealed that I was in the middle of a bed of golden flowers… in a small cavern of some kind. A shaft of light from high above was what provided light for the room.

Said light was high, high above my head, coming from a hole in the cavern roof that seemed impossibly beyond reach. How the light was able to shine so brightly down here when it had to reach down so deep was beyond me…

Did I fall from there? I asked myself, trying to remember… but unable to recall anything. In fact, trying to recall much of anything proved an exercise in futility. All I could remember was a name… was it mine? There wasn't anyone else around to claim it… and well, when I thought about it there wasn't any faces that went with it. Must be mine then.

Slowly, I tried moving the rest of my body. Arms, legs, fingers and toes. They all seemed to be working fine. So was my head, so that was good. Standing up revealed that, other than some dirt and petals clinging to my white t-shirt. The green pair of shorts I was wearing were a bit ruffled but otherwise fine. I seemed to have lost my shoes though… or had I been wearing any?

Ugh… trying to remember things made my head hurt.

There wasn't much else of note right now… just a path leading away from this landing with a dark bit to the sides of it. The path lead off to what looked like an archway leading deeper into these caverns.

I had no way of knowing what lay ahead. No idea if I should just stay where I was or head further in. The lack of memory made it hard to make any kind of decision.

At least, at first.

It took a moment for me to notice, as the light bathing the flower bed provided some warmth. But I soon felt my skin shivering a bit… it felt like it was getting colder all of a sudden. And there was a sudden feeling, like I was being watched, or was no longer alone.

I looked about again, and this time, I spotted something. The outline of a figure in the darkness. I could see a glint of red where eyes should be, peering out at me.

"H-Hello?" I called out, which seemed to surprise whatever was there, for it seemed to retreat further into the shadows. After a moment, I couldn't even tell if I'd actually seen anything.

Probably a good idea to get away from here… I thought to myself, unable to shake the uneasy feeling even as I felt the warmth slowly returning. With that thought in mind, I began to take hesitant, careful steps towards the archway.

Every so often I stepped on a rock and had to wince in pain, really wishing I had even some socks.

When I reached the arch and passed under it, I saw another cavern, this one vaguely circular in shape. Across the room was yet another arch heading further down, though there seemed to be some light there… but what caught my attention was instead what sat in the middle of the room.

Another shaft of light bathed the center, where a small patch of grass rested. Sitting in it was a single golden flower, just like the ones I'd been laying amongst, only it was bigger and had a smile and black, beady eyes. A face.

A flower with a face would have been startling enough, but that wasn't what took my breath away as it lifted it's head towards me. Instead, it was the spectre that seemed to float just behind it, or above it perhaps. It was barely there… just like that thing I'd seen in the previous chamber. But this one didn't vanish or melt into the darkness.

No, it lingered, with a tiny speck of brilliant white sitting near it's chest. And the spectre's face, one that reminded me a bit of a goats, seemed sad, and distant. A feeling of loneliness pervaded it's entire being, and it made me want to reach out to it, tell it it'd be okay.

That feeling… it's… familiar to me. Why? I thought to myself, ignoring it as it said,

"Howdy! I'm Flowey, Flowey the Flower!"

Flowey had felt it when another human fell down into the Underground. He'd been getting better at picking it up… though it helped that he was much more familiar now with losing the power to SAVE, to LOAD, and RESET.

The human who had fallen through was different than the ones from before, which at least brought a certain measure of… pleasure to him. When one's existence was as it was, difference was something to savor and enjoy for as long as it was there.

This human was about four feet tall, so the tallest of those who'd fallen. He looked like a boy, though his sandy, dusty blonde hair seemed a bit longer from what he recalled from the other three boys who'd come down. It clashed a bit with his tan, almost amber hued skin.

The most interesting thing was his strange, silver hued eyes. All the other humans had had blue, hazel, or brown eyes. Another interesting difference.

"Your new to the Underground, aren'tcha?" Flowey asked the human who seemed to be… staring at him. Well no… not quite. He was… staring above him, or behind him. Which was weird… he didn't sense anyone behind them, and Toriel was still a few minutes away from her usual pass through.

"Mh, well, anyways, now that you're down here, you're going to need to learn how things work down here. That's what I'm here for! Your good friend Flowey will help teach you the way this world works!"

The human took a few steps forward, but didn't respond. Even when the FIGHT lines appeared and he saw the human's soul become visible. It was colored the same as his eyes, and seemed to shimmer a bit when the light from the crack in the ceiling shone over it.

"Hey uh, human? Hello? Talking Flower trying to teach ya something." Flowey called out, but still the human didn't say anything. His gaze remained fixed… just above where he sat in the ground.

He looked up. Nothing was there. He glanced to the human, noting the intensity of his gaze. Something… something weird was going on.

"Yo Human! Child, thing, person… uh…" Flowey checked the human and saw the name 'Espero' form. "Espero! You deaf or something? I'm talking to you! Don't you know it's rude to ignore people?"

This Espero took a few more steps closer, stopping right in front of Flowey. He was three feet taller, and this close, was a bit imposing. But there was no malice on his face… he didn't even give any feeling of danger to the Flower.

So why did Flowey suddenly feel… afraid?

The human raised his hand up, and finally glanced down to Flowey. His words made Flowey freeze in place.

"What happened to your spirit? Why is it so… small?"

The human then reached out into the air above him… and for a brief moment, a single second, a millionth of an instant in time… Flowey…

Felt.

And in that same instant, many things flashed through his mind. Memories, images, sounds. Cries of pain. Motes of dust… looks of confusion and pain and…

Flowey shrieked, and without a second thought, ran away from the strange human.