Lady sleepily yawned and stretched her arms, trying to feel the air near her for her alarm so she could turn it off. Then she remembered, she was in the ruins, and she didn't have an alarm. So then where was that high pitched noise coming from? Wait a minute! she was in the underground! everything was it's own kind of special danger here, and what if the noise was some sort of threat? it could be anything! Evil ghosts attacking! wicked sorceresses looking for vengeance! Monsters out for her soul (again)! Lady opened her eyes wide and prepared to Ecto-blast the source of the noise into oblivion, only to discover... that it was an Adorable Black Kitten? Lady relaxed and let her Ecto-ray power down. The Kitten blinked it's adorable yellow eyes at her and let out another high-pitched mew, seeming to expect Lady to do something. Lady reached down to pick up the kitten and to her surprise and somewhat her delight, it didn't seem to protest as she scooped it up. "Well hello there, what are you doing here?" Lady asked, unsure if the kitten would actually answer her. She had seen stranger things in the underground, so why not? The kitten however, remained silent, and Lady concluded that either it wouldn't or couldn't talk, at least in any language she spoke. Lady examined the Kitten's neck for a collar, and possibly a tag with it's name, but she only found a faded red ribbon someone had tied around it's neck. "No Name-tag huh? that's inconvenient, how am I supposed to know what to call you?" Lady pondered aloud.
the kitten looked up at her and twitched an ear as if to say "And why do you need to know my name anyway? I'm here now, and isn't that what matters?"
Lady shrugged. "Fair enough. I wonder how you got down here though. Aside from a mouse and a white dog, I haven't seen any other animals down here before you. Well, any normal animals at least." Lady told the Kitten. Some people may have thought Lady was a bit crazy because she talked to cats, but she found that it helped her think things through. They were good listeners after all. "Hmm, speaking of mice, I haven't seen the one that's been after my cheese around this place in a while. You wouldn't know anything about that would you?" Lady asked and the kitten widened it's eyes innocently, and gave Lady the half-smile that wasn't quite a smile that only cats seem to know how to express.
Lady rolled her eyes. "Oh fine, be that way. " Lady said, and continued "I don't suppose you'd be interested in some breakfast? If you're not already full that is."
The kitten widened it's eyes in mock indignation, but dropped it's act when it's stomach let out a low growl.
Lady let out a low chuckle. "Alright, come on then. I usually have breakfast with Tori, and I wouldn't want to miss my last one here." Lady said with a note of sadness in her voice. Not wanting to seem depressing, Lady quickly flashed a smile. "I think you'll like today's breakfast though. I'm making berry pancakes!" the Ghost girl said, and she and the Kitten walked into Toriel's house.
Toriel was in the kitchen frying up some eggs, and looked up when she heard Lady and the Kitten enter. "Oh, you've brought a guest." Toriel said calmly, and returned to focusing on her eggs.
"Yeah, the little thing just showed up this morning, I hope you don't ind me inviting them over for breakfast. " Lady said with a small sheepish smile.
"Not at all, The more the merrier I suppose." Toriel said civilly, still looking at the eggs.
Lady got out the ingredients for pancakes and began to mix the batter. "So where's Frisk? is he still asleep?" Lady asked, whisking away at the batter furiously.
"Yes, he is a growing child and I figured that I'd allow him to rest up before he departs the ruins." Toriel said, and pressed her spatula against the eggs. Hard. The Eggs sizzled and began to make a squealing noise.
Lady finished up whisking the batter and got out a frying pan, and poured some batter in it, using the heat from her Ecto-energy to cook the pancakes. "You know what Tori? I can't do this anymore. I-" Lady began, but a sinister voice cut her off.
"I'm Baaaaack! Ooh, did you cook me some breakfast? Don't mind if I do!" Flowy said in a singsong-ey voice, and reached out a vine towards the frying pan and gobbled up Lady's pancakes. "Mmm. that's good stuff! though it's missing something. I think it needs a little more... carnage!"
Lady turned pale as a sheet. "No! Not again! you can't be back here! Go away!" She screamed.
"Tsk, now is that any way to great you favorite little guy? Such rudeness! Ah well, you could never seem to contain your spirit or your sharp tongue. Of course, I'll be happy to help you change that." Flowey said, and entangled Lady and Toriel in his vines.
Toriel stood speechless, she couldn't shake the feeling that she knew the flower from somewhere, and she had a strange instinct that told her that it'd be wrong to attack him, despite the peril she and her friends were in. She couldn't explain it, but her mother's intuition told her that somewhere deep inside of the flower, there was... goodness? "Now calm down my child, if you'll put us down, I'm sure that we can work this out without resorting to violence." Toriel said softly.
For a moment, Flowey's expression became less hard, almost sweet and innocent. "Do you... remember me?" He asked quietly.
Toriel face became puzzled for a moment. "I-I think so? I think I saw you briefly when I was rescuing Frisk from you... that was you wasn't it?" She asked, still a bit confused.
"But I thought..." Flowey began, and then his expression turned hard and enraged. "No! of course you don't remember! the world's not like that, and softheartedness never wins! it's always kill or be killed! But you know, I like your heart, even if it makes you dumb. I THINK I'LL KEEP IT!" Flowey yelled and ripped Toriel's heart from out of her. For a moment Toriel froze, and then she went limp and was no more.
"MONSTER! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" Lady screamed and prepared an Ice attack.
"Oh I wouldn't do that if I were you. wouldn't want our friend here to turn into a Popsicle." Flowey said, and pulled in one of his vines from the other room. Lady saw that the vine held and gagged a squirming frisk, and quickly contained her attack.
"That's better. Now I wonder how I should kill Our mutual friend? I've never had a chance to kill the protagonist before!" Flowey exclaimed, pondering his options.
"W-why are you doing this? what do you want?" Lady whispered angrily, unable to hold back her tears of rage she began to sob.
"Oh please, stop the waterworks already, 'hero'. It's bad enough that you're naturally pathetic, crying just makes you look worse. Now as to why I'm doing this? Well, I suppose I'm getting revenge for a recent humiliating experience I was forced to endure. I can't get back at her, but you're her favorite, and making you suffer is the next best thing. But there's another reason." Flowey said, wrapping his tendrils tighter around Frisk.
"Why? what possible depraved reason do you think could justify what you've done?" Lady asked, her voice was almost inaudible.
"Justice. See that's the problem with you hero types, it's always about justice and responsibility and all that fake stuff. People like you make me sick. You heroes are all such fakes! the world is a horrible annoying white dog eat annoying white dog place, but you heroes have your heads in the clouds and you all preach your moral high ground to anyone who will listen. pathetic. there's no such thing as right or wrong, and all you do is give people false hope! except you''re not even that much of a hero are you? you couldn't save them last time, you couldn't save her this time, and now you're gonna watch me kill the Protagonist." Flowey said with a crazed smile on his face, and he began to slowly pull at frisk's head, almost snapping his neck.
"No, we're not. PAUSE." The adorable black kitten said, and time itself froze. The Kitten looked up at Lady. "A shame I never got to taste breakfast. those pancakes smelled good, even if you used slugs in them. Oh well, there's always next time. " The Kitten said. Lady remained as frozen as everyone else in the room. the Kitten sighed in annoyance, and pulled up the menu, and selected the "return to last save point" option, and patiently waited for the screen to load.