Hello! And welcome to chapter 2! Something I forgot to mention in chapter 1 was that, to keep the power scaling balanced, Undertale characters are going to be buffed. Specifically the main characters. One more thing, I want to thank whoever favorited my story within the first night of it being up! (I couldn't find how to see who favorite's my stories, sorry.) it feels nice to already have someone who is interested in my works. Anyway, that's enough from me, enjoy the chapter!
"Big brother! Wake up! Come on! It may have been a long fall, but you're an S-class hero! This shouldn't be anything for you!"
Zenko had been yelling at, and occasionally kicking, the unconscious form of Metal Bat for a while now.
She had been the first to wake up. As the duo were falling, Badd had wrapped her in his own embrace, significantly lessoning the impact for her. Finally, he started to twitch.
"H-wah..., oh, morning Zenko." Badd muttered as he started to sit up, before stopping in his tracks, as the memories of the day before came flooding back.
"Oh my god! Zenko are you alright?! Does anything hurt? Here, let me check." Badd frantically questioned Zenko.
"I'm Fine, Badd, no need to baby me! If anything, I should be the one worried about you! you've been asleep an hour longer than I have!"
"Wait really? How long were we out?" Badd checked his phone, showing it to be 8:30 in the morning.
"Wait, crap! I have that meeting to get to today!" Badd panicked, before starting to search for a way out. "Well, there's no way we're getting out this way, the walls are too steep and slick. Guess we just have to find another way out. Come on Zenko, let's get out of here."
Badd started for the only way forward, Zenko trailing close behind him.
The cave narrowed out, almost like a hallway. Eventually, they came upon a sight that put both of them on edge.
"Huh?" Zenko said staring at the sight with slight trepidation.
"This arch is obviously man made, but what would anyone be doing living down here?"
Badd was even more wary of the pathway.
"Stick close to me Zenko, whoever, or whatever made this might still be living here, and they're probably not too friendly."
The siblings started to make their way past the archway, with Badd keeping one hand close to his bat, and his other firmly grasped in Zenko's own.
While Zenko was not exactly scared, she lived in a society where there were constant monster attacks, so of course she was slightly cautious, and having her big brother close to her put her mind at ease. She may not like violence, but she knew that Badd would no doubt protect her from any threat to her safety.
The pair eventually came across another room, this one holding a single flower rooted in a patch of grass.
The hell is up with the flowers down here? It's creepin me out. Badd thought to himself as he and Zenko started to move through the room. They didn't make it five feet before an unknown voice cut through the silence.
"Well howdy there!" A chipper, sickly sweet voice called out, making Badd immediately grab his bat and swivel around in a 360, scanning the entire area, all the while holding Zenko in a protective embrace.
"Who's there?! Get out here you coward!" He shouted. Zenko rolled her eyes.
"Hey now pal, no need to overreact! Look down!" The voice spoke again. Badd did so, and then he realized something. The flower, the goddamn FLOWER, had a face, and that face was smiling up at him and his sister. Zenko looked down as well, and when she saw the flower, she squealed excitedly.
"Oh my gosh, you are so adorable! What's you're name little guy?" Zenko asked while kneeling down in front of him.
"Well, my name's Flowey! Flowey the flower. Nice to meet'cha!" The now named Flowey said with a wink.
"Say, you two are new to the underground arent'cha?"
It was at this moment that Badd decided to step in. The annoying flower hadn't done anything to Zenko yet, but that thing certaintaly wasn't normal.
"Zenko! Get away from that thing! What are you thinking talking casually to a monster like that!?"
"Aw, come on big bro! How could anything that adorable be a monster?"
Flowey, meanwhile, was lost in thought. Interesting, they know of monsters. I thought that thier existence had become a myth to humans.
Bringing himself back into the real world, Flowey came face to face with a suspicious glare from the male human.
"Look, flower, I don't know what your plan is, but if you do so much as lay one of your leafs on my sister, you'll wish you were dead." Badd snarled. He was not about to trust this flower just because it didn't act like a monster. It was an animate, breathing, TALKING flower. It wasn't normal, and Badd was wary of Flowey because of these thoughts.
"Hey buddy, no need to get so aggravated. I just realized that you're both new down here, and that someone ought to teach you how things work! I guess little old me will have to do. Ready? Here we go!" Flowey said in a sing-song voice.
"Wha...?!" Badd exclaimed, feeling a tugging sensation on his chest. Suddenly, a bright red glowing heart materialized in front of his chest. Hearing Zenko gasp, Badd looked over to his sister, only to find that she had a similar heart, only her's was green instaid of red.
"See those hearts? Those are your SOULS, the very culmination of your beings." Flowey started, only for Badd to cut him off.
"What the hell!? What do you mean by our souls!? Did you just rip them out of our bodies? Just what are you planning flower?" He questioned menacingly, only for Zenko to cut him off.
"Big brother! Stop being so mean to Flowey! Can't you see that he's trying to explain right now?" She gestured towards Flowey, who was nodding his head, looking rather annoyed.
Badd reluctantly stepped down, grumbling to himself about the 'bastard flower'.
"Thank you, now as I was saying, your SOUL starts off weak, but can grow stronger if you gain a lot of LV." Badd was about to retort that he thought Flowey was full of shit, but he cut him off.
"What's LV stand for, you may ask? Why, LOVE, of course!" Badd's eye started to twitch, while Zenko was bouncing up and down excitedly.
"You want some LOVE, don't you? Don't worry, I'll share some with you! Down here, LOVE is shared through, little white, 'friendliness pellets'."
It was then that Badd started to glare at Flowey. He had almost resigned himself to believing that the flower was not a monster, but just a freak of nature, but this blatant lie reaffirmed his suspicions tenfold.
"Are you ready? Go on, get as many as you can!"
Flowey sent them flying at Zenko and Badd, albeit slowly. As Zenko went out to touch one of the pellets, Badd called out.
"Wait Zenko don-!" But it was too late.
Badd could only watch in horror as the pellet collided with Zenko's hand, and she screamed out in pain, her soul wavering.
Running over as fast as he could, Badd scooped her up into his arms.
"Oh god Zenko! Please be okay!"
As she continued to whimper, maniac cackling filled the room.
Badd's murder filled eyes locked onto Flowey, immediately noticing the difference in him. His cartoony face had been replaced with a much more demonic looking one.
"You idiot! In this world, it's kill or be killed! Why would ANYONE pass up an opportunity like this!?"
Badd's eyes became bloodshot, and a darkly serious look overcame his face.
"You. I should've known. I SHOULD HAVE FUCKING KNOWN! You're dead, weed. Badd got up, grasping his bat firmly in his hands, but Flowey was unphazed. "Oh please. Your gonna die too, you know." Flowey said. Suddenly, an inescapable ring of 'friendliness pellets' surrounded Badd and Zenko. "Hah! I can't believe my luck! Getting not one, but two human souls at once!" Flowey gloated to himself.
"F-Flowey, why..." Zenko cried.
"Wait, you actually thought I was going to be your FRIEND? Hah! You're a bigger idiot than I gave you credit for!" Flowey smirked.
Badd meanwhile, fueled by rage and the desire to protect his sister, swung his bat with enough force to not only deflect the pellets, but impale them several feet deep into the walls of the cave.
"What!?" Flowey screeched. "You're not getting off that easy!"
Multiple vines sprouted up from the ground, each covered in thorns sharp enough to slice steel.
"Well, whatever, it just makes it more satisfying if you fight back!" Flowey laughed.
"I'm gonna turn you into fertilizer you piece of shit!" Badd yelled, and thus, a battle began.
Flowey the flower: threat level: low demon
"What the hell? I swear I just heard a voice in my head." Badd muttered.
Well, whatever all that matters right now is beating this weed into the ground.
Flowey's vines suddenly shot forth with surprising speed, aiming to wrap Badd up, however, Badd swung his bat and obliterated them.
What the hell!? Flowey thought. Just what is this guy made of? His swings of that bat have so much power behind them!
Flowey shook his head. Powerful or not, this human was going to fall in the end, he was sure of that.
He shot a barrage of pellets varying in speed at his opponent, hoping to throw him off. But still Badd deflected them with surprising speed and accuracy. This proved to only be a distraction though, multiple vines sprouting up and wrapping around his ankles. Flowey then yanked the vines, knocking Badd over, before sprouting another vine up and aiming it at his neck, going for the kill.
The vine millimeters from impaling him, Badd rolled out of the way. Getting back to his feet, he whacked the vines off his ankles, and spun around, only to be hit point blank with multiple pellets. I've got him, that should have been enough to at least weaken him, the rest should be a breeze. Flowey thought.
However, looking back, Badd only seemed stunned at best.
"What!?" Flowey yelled in frustration. And for the first time since meeting the human, he decided to check his stats.
What Flowey saw terrified him. This human was LV 23!
Not even he had ever achieved such feats of violence in all his resets. This human must have either basically committed genocide, or had to have fought some VERY strong opponents. Either way, it was clear that Flowey was outmatched.
Shit! I can't let such an opportunity go to waste! Especially since I can't SAVE anymore for some reason. Wait! The girl! The male human seems to be her big brother, so maybe I can use her to my advantage!
Flowey was suddenly pulled from his thoughts when he realized that Badd was almost on top of him.
Thinking quick he shot two vines up and pulled him to the other side of the room.
He then moved his focus onto the now unconscious form of Zenko, who had passed out from pain and fear before their fight began.
Wrapping his vines around her body quickly, he turned his attention back to Badd, who was getting up, dazed from being knocked into the wall.
"Don't move! One more step and she dies!" Flowey yelled, pointing a particularly sharp vine at Zenko's chest.
Badd, seeing what Flowey was doing, grit his teeth and shouted
"You bastard! Yer using my sister as a hostage!?"
"So what if I am? I want you to drop to your knees, NOW!" Flowey shouted plunging the vine forward, stopping inches from his target's chest.
"Wait! Fine! Just, please, don't hurt her!" Badd shouted out before dropping to the ground.
"Heh, good. Now hold still." Flowey cackled, shooting a vine directly at his soul. Just as the vine was about to connect, a fireball shot out of the darkness, stopping the vine in it's tracks and burning it to a crisp.
"What!?" Flowey shouted in disbelief, before another fireball struck him, forcing him to retreat underground to avoid being burned alive.
As Badd got back to his feet, still shaken, not by his near death experience, but the threat on his sister's life, he noticed his savior come into the light, and their appearance didn't make him feel any safer.
So, I didn't originally plan to put a little fight scene in this chapter, it just kind of happened. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it none the less! As always comments and criticism are greatly appreciated, and I'll see you in the next chapter!
Edited 3/13/20