Chapter 1 Flowey and the ruins
Iffy awaken with her face on something very soft and warm. She pushes herself up eyes closed as she hisses in pain. "Compa, are you ok?"
"Owie!" Compa cried as she regained consciousness. She opens her eyes to see Iffy might have landed on her chest. She immediately blushes bright red at this, "I..Iffy!?"
Iffy opens her eyes and realizes she landed on Compa's breast when they fell. Iffy could not help but stutter, "Uhhh"
Compa asks while red as a tomato, "Iffy, could you get off of me, please?"
Iffy snaps out of it and responds, "Oh, sorry Compa." She proceeds to get up off Iffy and looks away from Compa, feeling ashamed of herself. She looks around her surroundings, "Where are we?"
Compa sit up and winces in pain as she grips her chest, "Iffy, I think you broke a rib by falling on me."
Iffy raised an eyebrow pouting at Compa, "I am not that hard-headed, am I?"
"I am not kidding, Iffy! It really hurts! Can you help me up?" Compa pleaded.
Iffy pulls Compa up to her feet, "There you go, Compa."
Compa Smiles at her while still blushing like a ripped tomato, "Thanks Iffy" She looks up from where they fell, and her smile fades. Her teeth still clinching in pain from her chest injury, "Iffy, I think we fell a very long way down, and I don't think we can climb back up."
Iffy sighs and shrugs, "Well, we know that much is obvious, guess we have to try to find another way out of here." She begins surveying the area.
Compa sighs and stares down noticing they landed on a patch of sunflowers. She giggles, "Hey Iffy! We landed on a patch of sunflowers! Isn't that just so romantic!"
"Sweet! I think I found a way out of here for us!" Iffy yelled excitedly completely missing what Compa had just said to her.
Compa groans slightly and says to herself, "Always just so focused isn't she" Then she yells, "Coming!"
Compa was running to catch up to Iffy until she saw Iffy suddenly stand completely still. Curious about why Iffy abruptly stopped, Compa was about to say something until Iffy spoke aloud to herself, "A gate in a cavern? Is this like a lost expedition or something?" Iffy approaches the gate
Compa follows, feeling a bit creeped out by this gate, "This is really scary and weird!"
Iffy replies, "You're telling me."
As soon as the girls went past the gate, they were greeted by a flower that popped out of the ground and he said with a sharp high-pitched friendly tone, "Howdy!"
Iffy jumps back in surprise, "Whoa! what! Compa is it just me, or is that flower talking?"
Compa just stood there wide-eyed "It… it is a talking flower!"
The flower chuckles and sways playfully back and forth, "Well now, guess little old me spooked ya, huh? Well, I am Flowey, Flowey the flower! Golly, you are new to the underground, and you must be so confused aren't ya!?"
Iffy stared at Flowey, totally flabbergasted, "You can say that again! It is not every day we meet a talking flower!"
Compa blinks then scoff lightly, "It is just a silly, cute little talking flower."
Flowey does a happy-like sway, "Yeah, chipper and cute, that is me, Flowey! Someone oughta show ya how things work around here. I guess little old me will have to do! Ready!?"
Iffy has begun to relax, "Well, I guess we can accept the help."
"Yessy!" Compa spoke with enthusiasm
"Here we go!" Flowey said, and suddenly Compa was glowing green, and Iffy was glowing red. Iffy could see her red heart in the middle of her chest, as well as see a green heart in the middle of Compa's chest
"I am glowing?" Compa looked at herself, confused.
Iffy blinked, "What the hell? I see a green, glowing heart with you, and mine is red for some reason."
Flowey smiled, "Good now, you see souls, and that heart with you is your soul, the very combination of your being…"
Iffy cuts Flowey off, "Wait, you're saying my soul is evil because I have a red soul?"
Flowey squints while keeping his smile, "No, silly, and your soul is red because you have the Determination trait."
Iffy nods and Compa starts laughing, "Iffy, you are not evil."
Flowey interrupts, "Moving on from that, your soul starts off weak, but can get stronger through LV."
Iffy rolls her eyes. "great. another RPG game where you have to level up"
"What is LV" Compa asked. which causes Iffy to shake her head at the question.
"Why love of course!" Flowey said as if it was a fact
Iffy squints at Flowey and starts getting suspicious of him. "What?"
Compa simply giggles, "Aw, How cute!"
Flowey pulls out white magic-looking pellets from the ground, "Down here, love is shared with little white "friendliness" pellets" He quickly shoots them at Compa, and before Iffy notices it was a trap, Compa got struck in the shoulder, and Flowey smiles went to a sadistic grin, "You idiot!"
Compa fell back, crying in pain. She was gripping her shoulder when she was struck, "Owie! That is not very friendly at all!"
Iffy quickly draws her claw blade and ran towards Flowey, "FLOWEY! I AM GOING TO SEND YOU TO HELL FOR THAT!"
Flowey smugly shot several pellets at Iffy badly injuring her side causing her to collapse to the ground yet still alive. Flowey laughed as the two girls were bleeding on the ground, and clinging to their lives, "In this world, it is kill or be killed! No way I am going to pass up an opportunity like this! DIE!" Flowey laughs maniacally, as he swarms the area with thousands of magical pellets closing them in for his kill.
Compa cries in absolute terror, "Oh No! Too many unfriendliness pellets!"
Iffy can only look on in absolute terror in her weakened state, "I was stupid, I let myself get caught off-guard, and now…. We are going to die because I am not strong enough to take down a stupid freaking flower!" Iffy closes her eyes, tears streaming down her eyes, preparing to die, "I wish Neptune is here…. I wish anyone would be here! I don't want us to die."
Flowey laughs maniacally until a large wave of fire incinerates all the magical bullets. Flowey looked around in confusion before he was blasted away by a fireball. A large, fluffy goat-like monster with reddish eyes and wearing a purple gown approaches the girls, "What a terrible creature harming such innocent youth" She kneels in front of Compa, using magic to heal her wound.
Iffy then attempts to stand and opens her eyes clutching her side, "No… we are not going to die here! I will stop you! I will kill all you wretched monsters who try to hurt us!" Iffy steps forward and falls to the ground on her hands and knees.
Compa realizing Iffy is badly hurt, tries to go over to her, "Iffy!"
The goat monster catches Compa, "Child, let me handle her. She looks to be in very bad shape, so let me try to heal her." She approaches Iffy, who is on the verge of passing out, so the goat quickly closes her wound before Iffy became out-cold and uses some strange magic to keep Iffy stable.
Compa in tears, asks, "Ms monster is Iffy going to be ok?"
The monster nods, "Iffy is her name? That is a very odd name, anyways she will be ok, but I may have to carry her for a bit. Can you walk girl?"
"That mean flower tricked us and made us think he was nice until he tried to hurt us. You won't hurt us, will you miss monster?" Compa asked a little frightened from earlier.
The goat monster smiled softly, "No, I won't, and I saw that flower tried to hurt you, and I had to step in to help you. He is a very mean flower that likes hurting people."
Compa looks down. She is still on edge, "What is your name, Miss monster?"
The monster smiled, "I am Toriel, caretaker of the ruins."
"Toria… Tolio… Taleil… Torare" Compa struggled to properly say the name Toriel.
Toriel nervously laughs, "Oh, poor dear, you are having such a hard time saying my name. Call me Tori if it makes it easier for you."
Compa giggled, "Okie Dokie, Miss Tori! My name is Compa, and you already met my friend Iffy."
Toriel raised her eyebrow, "Her name is actually Iffy? That is quite a strange name."
Compa darts her eyes around, "Well, her name is IF, but I call her Iffy. Miss Tori, why are you here?"
Toriel let out a smile, but Compa could see a slight emotional pain behind her eyes, "I pass through this place to see if anyone has fallen down here. You two are the first to come within a decade."
"I guess to save them from that super evil meanie flower." Compa assumed.
Toriel chuckles while picking up Iffy, careful not to open the wound, "Indeed, that flower is an evil flower, yet even I don't know where he came from, but he sure did do a number on your friend. I am sure she will wake up in about an hour or two. My healing magic has gotten a lot better over the years. Come this way, I will guide you through the catacombs." Compa nods as she follows Toriel to a room that has brick on its walls and red leaves on what looks like a memorial of some kind.
Compa looked around in awe, "What is this place? This is nothing like the cave from above." Toriel's response was only a sad chuckle, as she continues to carry Iffy up some stairs and to a room with several buttons on the floor, "Umm… Miss Tori, what do those buttons on the floor do?"
Toriel smiled as she sets Iffy on the floor, who seemed to be getting slightly better thanks to Toriel's magic, "Welcome to your new home girls. Allow me to show you the operation of the ruins."
"Okay!" Compa agrees.
Toriel casually did the floor puzzle stepping on some of the buttons within a sequence, walking over to a lever, and pulling it down to open a door, "The ruins are full of puzzles. Ancient fusions between diversion and door keys. One must solve them to proceed to the next room, therefore this will be a common sight" Toriel walks over and picks up Iffy.
Iffy, talking in her sleep, says "Neptune… what are you doing again."
Toriel walks to the next with Compa following. "Who is Neptune?"
Compa smiles, "Oh, she is one of our friends."
Toriel blinked as she led Compa to a strange spike barrier, "Compa, could you do me a favor since I am carrying your friend? You are going to flip the switches for us to pass, do not worry though, I have them labeled."
"Yessy!" Compa agreed with a smile. She walked over to the switch and proceeded to pull the lever down, "Like this?" She asked, making sure she was doing it right.
Toriel let out a proud smile, "Splendid, I am proud of you, Compa!"
"Yay!" Compa cheered.
"Glad you are so cheery, let us head to the next room." Toriel guides Compa to a room with a training dummy. She sets down Iffy who begins showing signs of regaining consciousness.
Compa takes note "Hey, Iffy is about to wake up! Wow, you sure do have powerful magic, Miss Tori."
"It seems so." Toriel noticed as well. She turns to Compa and says, "As a human living in the underground monster may attack you. Compa, you need to be prepared much like Iffy when she wakes up. Worry not, however, the process is very simple."
"We beat them upy!" Compa pumps her fist in the air
Toriel shakes her head "No dear, you strike up a friendly conversation to stall for time, and I will come to resolve the conflict."
"Oh… So not all monsters here are bad." Compa says as she bows her head in shame.
Toriel chuckles, "I assume the monster that you might be used to is not that friendly, rest assured, many monsters are friendly. Now then, practice talking to the dummy."
Compa replies with a smile, "Yessy!" She walks up to the dummy and starts a long conversation about Neptune and Iffy. In fact, the conversation was so long that Iffy began to wake up.
Iffy groans to see Toriel in front of her, "Ummm Compa, is it just me, or did your stuff goat come to life?" Toriel chuckles hearing this and Iffy looks at Compa, who is having a full-blown conversation with a training, "Compa, why are you talking to a training dummy?"
Compa hears Iffy and goes to hug her, "Iffy!"
"Am I dreaming? Weren't we in a cave? What the hell happened? Did we die? Is this hell?" Iffy looked around, utterly concerned and confused.
"We are very, much alive Iffy. Thanks to Miss Tori, and she carried you here." Compa said with a bright smile seeing Iffy conscious again.
Toriel looked at Iffy, "You are finally awake! The magic worked! Oh, how rude of me. I am Toriel, the caretaker of the ruins. You were in pretty bad shape when I got to you, so I cast a powerful healing spell to help keep you alive. Can you stand, young one?"
"Hey, thanks… I think I can stand" Iffy braces herself on the wall and slowly stands up with Compa and Toriel helping her. Iffy smiled weakly at Toriel "I have met a lot of monsters, and well I am going, to be honest, you're the nicest one I have met. Now, if I run into that damn flower." Iffy hisses in pain.
Toriel stops her from straining herself, having Iffy fully lean on her, "Iffy, do not strain yourself."
Compa smiled happily to see Iffy is now awake, "Miss Tori is really nice!"
Toriel helps them through a puzzle full of spikes, "This is a dangerous puzzle, and you are in no shape to do it by yourself, so I must guide you through this one."
Iffy comments, "What kind of crazy wacko makes a maze made out of spikes?"
Toriel sighs as she enters the long hallway, "Now there is something I am going to have to ask you to do despite it being a difficult request. I would like you two to walk to the end of this room by yourself" Toriel rushes off ahead of them, which angered Iffy.
Iffy curses at Toriel, "This is why I hate you damn monsters! Bunch of selfish jerks!"
Compa frantically shakes Iffy, "Iffy calm down, your going to hurt yourself again."
A frog monster enters their view and blocks their way "Ribbit! Ribbit!" Iffy just glares at the frog even though it did not understand what Iffy was doing. It was scared of her anyways and let out a panicked "Meow!"
Iffy blinks as Compa helps guide her across the long hallway, "Did… Did that frog just meow, as in meowed like a cat?"
Compa makes a confused smile, "That was totally weird!"
After taking over ten minutes to make it to the end of the hallway at a slow pace. Toriel walks out from behind a pillar, "Greetings, young ladies, you did not have to worry. I did not leave you."
"Sure," Iffy said sarcastically
Compa is dumbfounded, "You didn't?"
Toriel let out a warm smile, "I was merely behind that pillar the whole time. Thank you, girls, for trusting me."
Iffy grunts "a little warning would be nice! Also, Compa could you help me down I need to rest for a bit."
"Okay, Iffy." Compa helps her to a wall and gets her to sit down with her back toward the wall.
Toriel interrupts them, "There was an important reason for this exercise, and that is to test your independence."
Iffy scoffs and smirks, "Hate to break it to you lady, but we kind of are independent ourselves, Though I have to say, thank you for saving us."
"Yes, we can take care of ourselves." Compa agrees.
Toriel clasps her hands together, and says, "That is very fortunate because I must attend to some business, and you will be alone for a while. Please remain here. It's dangerous to explore by yourself," Toriel rummages through her pockets and pulls out a phone, "I got something for you girls a cell phone, so if you ever need anything, just call" She proceeds to give Compa a phone.
"Yessy! Oh, and Iffy already has a phone so I can just give her your number." Compa replied
Iffy sighs, "Compa, you should ask me before randomly giving people my number, anyways looks like I am not going anywhere for a bit because of my injuries, So I may as well take a nap."
Toriel nods, "Be good, alright" Toriel then leaves the room.
Compa giggles, "She is so nice! Right Iffy?" Compa turns to see her companion to be fast asleep "Heh, guess you should rest, guess it is my turn to keep watch. Sweet dreams Iffy."
Meanwhile, in Gamindustri, there was purple haired girl, wearing a short, short-sleeved white jacket with a purple dress underneath, long stripped blue and white socks, and shoes and her name was Neptune. Neptune walks around whistling a tune to herself, even dancing around in the streets of Planeptune just having a grand old time. Suddenly Neptune actually remembers something. She quickly goes through her pockets, grabs her phone, and calls her sister, "Hey Nepgear, I am calling to…"
"Say that you forgot to come by Compa place to get ready, for a picnic we had planned?" Nepgear interrupts.
Neptune lets out a very nervous laugh, "Yeah you know me better than anyone."
Nepgear sighs over the phone, "Not like it matters they have not shown up, they were supposed to be back 2 hours ago. I hope they are alright, they went hiking today at a new mountain that was discovered."
Neptune chuckles "Ya know, they probably found something really cool and may want to take a looksies!"
"Sis, what were you doing that got you so caught up today?" Nepgear responded
Neptune began walking again towards the direction of Compa place "Just slaying a dragon, no big deal"
Nepgear laughed a little "You make slaying a mighty dragon sound normal to you. Before we get off topic, I need to ask you to head by their place and wait for them, ok? I kind of want to know if they got back safe."
"Oh, you worry too much sissy! I was going to head there anyways, because I feel like having some delicious pudding" Neptune hears a beeping noise in her phone so she looks at it, "Ohhh darn looks like I forgot to charge my phone, well I will call you back later. Talk to ya later sis!" Before Nepgear responds, Neptune's phone dies and she pulls it away from her ear and laughs "Well that happened."
After a while, the purple-haired girl ranged Compa's doorbell, and then knocked at the door for it to open at the knock. "Ohhh silly Compa you forgot to lock your door" She shrugs and walks in "Compa! Ohhh Compa! Here girl!" Neptune goes through each room and then finally the bedroom all the while calling for Compa "Guess she is not home yet; well I am tired anyways. Slaying dragons and being a total badass slaying lots of monsters can tire one o Neptune out. I hope Compa would not mind if I sleep here." Neptune looked goes into Compa's bedroom and just plops on the bed and quickly fell asleep
Authors Notes: These Chapters are going to take a long time, Also I figured to just introduce more context of what going to be happening outside of Mt Ebbot. It is mainly going to be running gags, and hijinks for Gamindustri, while Compa and Iffy traverse through the underground. The setting going to be mostly in the underground for at least a good bit of the story but as Compa and Iffy stay longer in the underground people will start to get worried. Guess we will find out later what happens, but as of now, the Underground going to be the main focus for a while.
