At the end of the corridor was a dark open door, the group all went through and ended up in a room with a single golden flower that had a face.
"Howdy! I'm Flowey. Flowey the flower! Hmm…this is new…" Flowey trailed off skeptically as he took in the new group behind the small child. But he perked right back up as he continued. "I mean, you're all new to the Underground, aren'tchya? Golly, you all must be so confused. Someone ought to teach you how things work around here! I guess little old me will have to do. Ready? Here we go!"
With that, the entire area of perspective changed for them. Donald and Jiminy instantly didn't trust this flower, so Jiminy hid under Donald's hat for the time being. Well at least the cricket was relating to the duck's gut instincts. In any case, it got darker in the eyes of the group, but for some reason things only affected Frisk and Sora, as their hearts floated out and into this dark box with white walls surrounding them. Frisk and Sora's hearts were both red and moving freely in the box. Though Sora's heart was bigger by a few inches and had orange curly-cues inside and at the top of it. Donald and Goofy both thought it was a little weird that they were somehow left out of the whole thing, but both silently thought that it was just a human thing to deal with, seeing as both Frisk and Sora were humans.
"See those hearts? Those are your respective Souls, the very culmination of your beings! Your Soul starts off weak, but can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV." Flowey explained cheerfully, briefly glancing down and nervously noticed that Sora's LV was already capped off at twenty, to Frisk's one. The Flower knew he shouldn't be all that surprised given that the older boy was probably from another world since he's never seen him and his friends in any of the timelines, and thankfully the teenager didn't know what he was doing. However, the younger one did most likely, he could tell just by that look of determination on their face, ready to show their new friend the ropes of the Underground at a moment's notice. Still, Flowey continued without skipping a beat in order to keep up his façade for now. "Wanna know what LV stands for? Why, LOVE, of course! You want some LOVE, don't you? Don't worry I'll share some with you!" Flowey winked, and magically produced a few seeds, floating them above his head for now to keep the 'trust' flowing. "Down here LOVE is shared through…little white…'friendliness pellets'." Flowey couldn't help but over emphasize the phrase 'friendliness pellets' in his sickly sweet tone. Donald caught onto it in an instant but found himself unable to say anything for some reason. "Are you ready? Move around! Get as many as you can!" The flower then slowly let the pellets drift towards the hearts, to still keep the trust going.
However, he was right to assume the small child remembered everything from a past timeline as the small heart pushed the bigger heart out of the way of all the pellets. Sora wanted to call out on his new friend but found he couldn't talk at the moment either, and immediately thought this perspective of fighting sure was weird.
"Hey, buddies. You missed all of them. Let's try again okay?" Flowey deadpanned, though he still kept up appearances for the time being by keeping this stupid smile plastered on his face, regardless that his eyes were giving him away. Thus, he slowly threw another round of pellets at the two hearts. Again Frisk pushed Sora's heart out of the way, regardless of seeing their friend's heightened LV and knowing Sora could take the hit. He didn't seem like a bad person after all, no reason to judge just yet anyway.
"Is this a joke?" Flowey spat, breaking the cheerful and friendly character. "Are you braindead? RUN. INTO. THE. -BULLETS!- Friendliness pellets." How he managed to autocorrect himself in the middle of speaking no one will ever know, but at this point Donald was screaming in quacks for the two to get out of there, run for it anything, but in vain as he still wasn't heard. Flowey threw another round of pellets at the two hearts, and this time Sora had finally caught on that something wasn't right with this flower and followed Frisk's lead, avoiding the pellets as freely as Frisk did. Frisk moved their heart up and down a little to show how proud they were of their older friend.
Meanwhile, Flowey relented to showing his true colors, morphing his face to look exceptionally creepy with little fangs poking out, and even his voice sounded creepy when he spoke. "You know what's going on here don't you? You just wanted to see me suffer." With that, Flowey surrounded the two hearts with a circle barrage of pellets. "DIE!" Flowey shouted even more furiously before laughing evilly and creepily, slowly closing the circle of pellets in on the two hearts. Frisk knew nothing would happen when the pellets hit them, but with the arrival of their new friends, nothing was going to happen like usual. Thus, the pellets didn't even get very close before Flowey's magic was disrupted by being hit earlier than usual, but not by a fireball. Instead a dark claw swiped Flowey away very easily, and things suddenly fell back into normal perspective again.
Sora gasped upon realizing what it was that knocked Flowey away like a small bag of potatoes, it was a simple Shadow Heartless, but there were four more quickly approaching. "Frisk! Go hide somewhere safe, Donald, Goofy and I can handle this!" Sora called out to his new little friend, as he instinctively summoned his Keyblade, the Metal Chocobo was his favorite at the moment. Thankfully, Frisk obeyed, mostly because they didn't recognize these creatures, nor the weapon in Sora's hand, but ran back into the previous room they were all in, not wanting to face a certain motherly goat monster just yet, not without their new friends anyway. Still, Frisk watched the trio fight the dark creatures from the doorway, in awe. Sora and the others defeated the Heartless easily, and even laughed at their banter as they fought the dark creatures.
"That was really creepy!" Donald shouted as he blasted a Fira at a Shadow that was too close for comfort. "Now I'm never gonna trust talking flowers ever again, and probably have nightmares about it too!"
"He sure seemed nice at first!" Goofy piped up bashing a nearby heartless with his shield. "But I guess he was somewhat of an actor to hide all that darkness inside 'im."
"No kidding, I didn't think it was possible to go from nice to mean that quickly!" Sora added as he finished off the last remaining three heartless without much effort.
"It just goes ta show, that not everybody can be trusted right away. Best to keep your guard up most of the time and see what they do, then let your guard down if everything checks out okay." Jiminy finished, poking out of Donald's hat as soon as the Duck stopped moving from fighting.
Frisk came running back into the room and hugged Sora's legs. Surprised by the gesture, Sora dissolved the Keyblade in his hand, and slowly knelt down to return the hug.
"Hey, buddy. Sorry if we worried you, but we're okay. Right guys?" Sora said gently, then looked up to his friends for support.
"Yeah!" The trio of anthropomorphics replied cheerfully in unison. Donald was the one to continue the sentence quite simply with a shrug. "We're used to this sort of thing."
Frisk smiled at all of them, but then gasped upon remembering the original turn of events that should've happened. They looked to the door to the next room, not the one they all came from, and looked at it worriedly. She should've been here by now…If there were more of those things, those heartless monsters that Frisk had noticed didn't have souls, then there was a chance that she was in danger. Thinking quickly, Frisk turned to Jiminy, who was still atop Donald's head, and started signing, trying to keep it slow for the cricket to understand, though they really wanted to get the message across quicker.
"Oh, dear…" Jiminy muttered worriedly.
"What's Frisk saying Jiminy?" Goofy asked.
"Frisk says there's someone who should've been here by now and might be in trouble if there are more Heartless around." Jiminy replied solemly.
"Oh my!" Came a feminine voice from the door that Frisk was looking forlornly at. The whole group whipped their heads around in the direction of the voice and found a tall goat lady standing there taking in the sight of them. Frisk let out a huge sigh of relief, wiping their forehead for emphasis and the four older friends silently came to the conclusion that this was the someone Frisk was worried about, and was further confirmed when Frisk signed, "Nevermind."
"Ah, do not be frightened my children. I am Toriel, caretaker of the Ruins. I pass through this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down." She explained in a gentle voice. Then she addressed Frisk and Sora directly for her next sentence. "You two are the first humans to come here in a long time." Then she directed her attention to the others and verbally realized that she didn't know their names.
"I'm Sora, and this is Frisk."
"My name's Goofy!"
"I'm Donald Duck, Ma'm."
"Jiminy Cricket at your service!"
"Oh, it's so lovely to meet you all!" Toriel replied giddily. "Come! I will guide you through the catacombs! This way!" She said as she promptly headed toward the door that was ahead.
The group of five hung back a bit, as Donald had one last thing to ask the youngest among them. "Hey, Frisk, we can trust her, right? I don't want a repeat of that creepy flower incident." Donald asked and explained his reason behind the question.
Frisk nodded with a smile and they gave two thumbs up for emphasis that Toriel was safe to trust wholeheartedly. The others sighed in relief and promptly followed Toriel through the door up ahead.