So now they finally get past the dummy. All the SOUL ideas are mine, although they may be inspired by others. Also, this chapter is really late because a) I had to find which soul each hero fit, b) I accidentally lost the file with the soul info, and c) pure laziness. Sorry.

They traveled into the next room. There was a uselessly curvy path, snaking up and snaking down repeatedly. The group wandered along it, to find a corridor which also went up and down. 'Who designed this?' Winston asked. 'Why is it so uselessly curvy?'

Frisk responded. 'I don't know, ask someone else that actually knows this place.'

'Like?'

'I don't know!'

Frisk was about to retort when the world turned black and white again. 'Oh, crap. This battle.' Frisk suddenly said.

'What? Is it hard?'

'No, it's just really annoying in my opinion. It's really easy, it's just… normally it's much shorter, but because you guys are here' (Frisk was careful not to say because Toriel wasn't here) 'It becomes so damn long.'

'I see.'

'So, to spare this Froggit, we need to Compliment it. Well, Threatening it also works, but that's not very pacifist. We also need to press Spare.' D. Va explained. 'Quite simple and straightforward.'

Everyone pressed ACT then pressed Froggit. *press* Compliment

'Ok, the Froggit will attack, so move around to dodge.' Frisk said.

Tracer was Perseverance, so she could 'blink' around, but only on those 3 magenta lines of hers.

Winston was Patience, so he could 'teleport' around, controlling an 'illusion' of his SOUL, even though teleportation was Tracer's thing. She later lamented on why she didn't get Patience, although she didn't do anything else on the topic.

Mercy was Kindness (kinda obvious), and she could block attacks from 4 different directions, but only one at a time. She also had the Kindness item buff for some reason (She didn't carry a frying pan and a apron with food stains on it everywhere) but she could extend it to the others, which was useful.

D. Va was Bravery. Everything was reversed for her, except green and white projectiles. Green projectiles didn't heal for her though, which wasn't really a problem because she had the most experience, but it was an inconvenience at times.

Finally, Genji was Integrity. He was affected by gravity, but could jump. He complained later about his SOUL being the worst, but Mercy argued that she couldn't even move, she just had a shield. Genji didn't know how to respond, so he kept quiet.

The attack was the frog jumping attack, and it would have landed on Genji if Mercy hadn't been pointing her shield down while working out how to use it.

'Er…for most monsters, you can spare them using common sense. Like, just be nice. Sometimes threatening works too, but try not to.' Frisk was already getting tired of pointing out how to spare monsters, even though they'd only encountered and spared 1 which was the Dummy.

'Ah, I get it. So we compliment it?' Tracer asked.

'Exactly,' replied Frisk.

*It didn't understand what you said, but was flattered anyway.

'You see? Now you can spare it next turn.'

'How do you know?'

'Same reason that flower can kill me more than once. By the way, the flower is called Flowey.'

'Well, that's not very creative.'

'I know it's not.'

This time, the attack was a bunch of flies buzzing everywhere and generally being very annoying. Nobody really liked it. Fortunately for Genji, though, none of the flies flew down. After the attack, Frisk hit the Spare button and the world returned to color.

'Oh wait… next room is going to suck.' Frisk suddenly realized.

They walked into the next room, which was a field of spikes. However, that wasn't the strangest thing. A bipedal goat was standing at the end of the spikes, staring openmouthed at the group.

655 words, record high. This took way too long.