In a alternate Sgrub/Sbrub session everyone is still alive and the kids have joined the trolls in hiding within the veil. Somethings an't the same . . . and the game isn't what they think it is . . . not everyone is accepting of Karkat's blood, and Gamzee could never be more dangerous. . .

AN/edit/: omg i totally missed that! D: thank you for pointing that out anon!

Warnings:T for violenceand swearing, slight AU, OOC(varying decrees of *out of character-ness) and sober Gamzee should be his own warning. Main pairings Gamzee/Karkat/Terezi, Terezi/Dave, Rose/Kanaya etc. (M/M, F/F, F/M)

Disclaimer:Homestuck and all Homestuck characters belong to the one and only Andrew Hussie. I own nothing but the plot in this fanfic. Thats fan-fiction for you, made by fans.

Lets end the world

He spoke with low words drawing them with a dazed expression. Spewing words and letters from his mouth that meant little. With each truth he weaved a lie. Every few minutes he would turn his attention away, changing the subject abruptly. Never stay on one topic for more then a minute. Never lose the lazy smile. Always look dazed, and as he drag his feet behind him, the clown muttered '...don't walk in a straight line.' And most importantly of all, never ever let them see his true self.

This act had been perfected long ago, and a motherfucker must never fix perfection. It wasn't always this easy though. There had once been a time when this act had been jackshit hard. Before motherfucker out there had thought his behavior strange, figuring out too quickly it was all an act. He couldn't say those fucker were around anymore. Over many a sweep the act had finally become second nature to him.

Weaving a motherfuckers way into a group took time after all. Time for trust to build and friendship to bloom, all according to schedule.

With a lazy grin stretched across his face the clown reached up from his position laying across the rust bloods lap, planting a sloppy kiss on his Tavbro's cheek. He toned out most of which these motherfuckers said, none of their words mattered any. Tavros sputtered and flushed, blinking in surprise he pull himself together. Finally finding his words again he pulled away; ignoring the sniggering of his friends he tried to scold the capricorn.

"G-Gamzee that's not okay!"

"Well, glub~"

"phfff, you thould have seen your thace-"

"Well done Gamzee, well done!~"

"Vriska, don't encourage him!"

Jade giggled, boy was she glad to have something light hearted to talk about. Everyone was so serious lately, it was kinda of really putting her down. Moment like this were rare. Despite everyone pairing up times were anything but happy.

"Jade, have you seen Karkat today?" Of course these happy moment never seemed to last very long, and again she was reminded of the grim atmosphere the metro seemed to carry.

Frowning her ears folded back. Now that John mentioned it, Karkat hadn't been spending much with them lately. It seemed to her that the nubby-horned troll was picked on a lot more then was normal for a group of friends. Gosh she was so worried about him. "Sorry John, I haven't seen him."

Gamzee flopped down on his back, finally getting off torus lap. Tavbro's words went in one ear and out the other. Those words were only important in the sense that it was apart of the routine. And besides, his think-pan had some wicked planing to do.

Shaking her head the blond sighed. "The schedule will have to change. These sleeping arrangements wouldn't work for the long run-"

"What would the point of that be anyway we're sorta just stuck here."

Deciding it would be best to intervene Kanaya spoke up."Perhaps it would be in our best interests if we moved the base into a smaller location? Or at least move to rooms more clustered together, it would make conversing easier-"

"Ugh! This is so stupid. And what if Jack comes- he will kill us all in one fail safe swoop!" The virgo frowned at these words, preparing to defend her matesprit if need be.

Rose sighed. "John, your not making this any easier."

"Dude. Chill the fuck out."

Their words blurred together, meaningless noise slurring in his think-pan as the time passed. The capricorn drowned out the chaos, thinking about when the next step of his plan needed to be re-enacted, what strings needed to be pulled, when the puppet master will need his puppet.

Silence.

Total silence. Almost everyone was fully asleep by this point with the exception of Kanaya and Rose both of whom had taken up the night watch duty. Though the watch schedule versed between them, the lab was empty save for offline husktops and so was every other room that didn't house a pile of sort or a recupercoon.

Ever since the humans arrival the group had taken up sleeping in threes and twos.

Dave and Terezi had taken the small room next to the library. The one they had chosen earlier for their drawing base. Covered from ceiling to floor in a disarray of colors and stick figures it came complete with a storyline that had more plot holes then swiss cheese. Overseeing it all was the His Honorable Grand Tyranny, doodled sloppy by one Terezi Pyrope. Off to the right corner surround by all this chaos was a pile of sorts built with pillows, tissues, scalemates, and red chalk

Just one hallway away was the room in which Nepeta had chosen to furnish her shipping wall. Equius had moved in shortly after building a rather strongly uncomfortable pile (really, how the motherfuck do they sleep in/on that thing?) and Aradia? Well, her sleeping arrangements vary between sleeping there and with Sollux. Depending where Eridan sleeps that night.

Sollux on the other hand had two rooms he slept in, due to the fact that he never confirms which room he will be in that night, Eridan will randomly choose one to stay in. Hence the reason Aradia sleeps with Nepeta and Equius. And Feferi for obvious reasons always keeps her sleeping arrangements 'secret'. (-its not like a motherfucker can't guess where she sleeps . . .)

Vriska, Tavros and John have claimed the remains of Jade's battleship as their own, and didn't plan on moving anywhere anytime soon. The ship itself crashed in the main hall crushing the largest building the meteor had to offer. Surprisingly once she found out John was uncomfortable with piles, Vriska dugout a mattress in compromise. She then built a wall around it out of stolen scalemates and pillows. Terezi wasn't very happy about that, however she hasn't taken any action against them, yet.

It was no secret the library was always Rose's favorite place, and so Kanaya moved in with her. Their piles is notorious for its comfort. Woven together with yarn and stray pieces of fabric, ink over cloth then stuffed with a shit ton of fluff, it was the motherfucking best pile ever. So soft in-fact Gamzee found himself watching as every other motherfucker tried to steal some of that shit, so far Karkat is the only one who has ever gotten away with it. Man, don't mess with a bitch who has a fuck'n chainsaw.

The green eyed 'human' Jade, sleeps nowhere in particular. Sometimes he would see her in the computer room, other times she would be in the main control center the place everyone is at when awake. She moves her pile around with her, she will never sleep in the same spot twice. Then She will wait, and wait, once she is done waiting she will pretend to be asleep. Sometimes Karkat will join her.

The cancer hardly sleeps anymore, he will find him in the lab sometimes, one of the lest visited rooms on the meteor, most of the time he will sleep there, curled up in a ball hidden behind a shit ton of biologist equipment. He randomly finds shit to add, his pile is always small, tiny really, hardly enough room to sleep on. Truly un-befitting. He should be someplace more comfortable, a place decorated with only the brightest and most beautiful of colors . . .

Pushing his thoughts aside for the moment he continued to stalk down the dark hallway not making a sound. He poked his head in each room, in each hallway he past. Rose and Kanaya have been on his watch list for a while now, those two are the smartest of the group and the most likely to figure out the shit doing down. Karkat had been right to threaten him, glow'n sis wasn't to be messed with. Seers were always trouble, they always seemed to foresee the wrong events at just the wrong moment. He had already been forced to back track a few plans because of her. He didn't need any more complications.

Motherfucking bullshit.

Shivering from the cold Karkat pushed the grate, kicking it a few dozen times before the damn thing fell. The cancer pushed himself out of the vent.

Landing on the floor with alight click he watched the shadows of the hall warily, still no movement. He waited. Listening for the sound that would never come. The foot steps could never be heard, there was no-one there. Grinding his teeth together, he chanted those words over and over again. There is no-one there. No one.

That- that wasn't a noise he just heard.

No.

No!

He heard nothing-

-there was only deafening silence.

Everyone is asleep, Karkat kept telling himself. Gamzee isn't here. Rose is in the library, John is on the battleship, Terezi is with strider. No-one is after him. He isn't going to die tonight. Gulping the cancer tip toed down the hall. Biting his lip, Karkat stopped just in front of the door. He reached forward, then flinched as his hand made contact with the cold metal. Rattling the door handle he jerked back.

Was it locked?

Why wasn't it opening?

God damn it!

With one last thud the cancer rammed against. The door swung opened. He stumble in and then fell to floor. Groaning in pain Karkat pushed himself up. Sitting up quickly he spun around slamming the door shut behind him.

Panting the cancer slumped to the floor biting his lip he buried his face in his hands.

Along while past, still no sign of anyone. His optimism was already low to begin with however the idea that Jade might come by this way had prevailed. Along with that fear again. He knew he was over reacting but there wasn't shit he could do to prevent it.

The paranoia was growing and festering with him. It was like somewhere deep in his thinkpan he knew something bad was going to happen. However that was impossible wast it? He was a mutant, he had no nature powers to begin with. There was no way any of the feelings of doom he felt were true. The res sure his sensitive horns were feeling was just the dark atmosphere that the vail carried, mere echoes of the horror living in the void.

The cancer frowned, what was that tugging? He shifted away form the annoying pull. The tugging grew growing stronger. Now almost a wild current. He muffed a yelp as a wave of it enclosed around him, barricading him in.

The cancer jolted awake as the dream finally ended. However he wasn't alone anymore. Arms wrapped around the cancer waist the pulling the smaller troll closer felt earlier was the clown cuddling him. Upon hearing the growling Karkat stiffened. He opened and closed his mouth the words he tried to form failed him. He then shivered as he felt the capricorn breath ghost against the back of his neck.

"What the fuck do you want from me." He whispered. Forging all the energy he could muster to make his voice sound even and not fucking terrified.

A short pause followed.

"An't it clear?" The capricorn's ruff voice sounded next to his ear.

"No, no its not fucking clear!" Snarling the cancer twisted around to face the jugglo. The capricorn stared back at him coolly, hardly showing anything more emotion then simple un-interest.

"Why can't you just tell me?! Do you want to paint with my blood, do you want me dead? Or do you just want to fuck me over-" Karkat clench his mouth shut, god did actually just say that? Gamzee simple watched him, there was a small change in the clown expression however he could not identify it. Biting his lip the cancer glared, balling his hands into fist as he waited.

" . . . join me."

The nubby-horned troll blinked.

" … What?"

The capricorn growled. "I'm hardly gonna keep repeating that shit, you motherfucking heard me. I want you to join me . . ."

" . . . I don't understand-"

"This session is ending, this timeline an't beta. I don't all up and think you want to be here when it implodes."

The cancer frowned in confusion, what the hell was this guy talking about? Their game session was already over wasn't it? Because of the Demon both the humans and his former team lost their chance to win. They succeeded in doing everything else, but that wasn't enough for the game.

"This is a was already a doomed timeline, what the hell are you-" Wait, what was that the clown was saying earlier 'I don't all up and think you want to be here when it implodes.' What was the idiot implying? It wasn't like there was anyway to escape the game. . . or . . . "W-wait, you found a way to escape!?"

Bright orbs of indigo stared back at him sparking with . . . was that . . . was that pride? "When an exist doesn't exist you fucking make one. It an't completely stable and this bitch will only work once. I want you to come with me."

"What about the others? We have to tell everyone, if a way to escape exists then-"

Snarling Gamzee shoot up right. "DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME!? . . . I want only you, those motherfuckers can't come."

The nubby-horned troll flinched back, gulping he waited for the clown to calm down. He tensed not out of fear but in shock. No. Of course it wont be that simple, why would Gamzee tell only him of this. Grinding his teeth, he watched as the capricious clown slowly lay back down. If there was a way to escape he had to tell his friends. There was no way in hell he was going to leave them behind. This game was truly torture a fate worst then death and no-one deserved that.

Taking a deep breath he quickly blurted out those words, not daring to look the jugglo in the eye as he finished. His whole body tensed as he closed his eyes in anticipation for the screaming and pain that sure to follow those bold words. He had just declined a offer given to him by a very dangerous and easily angered troll. How else would the capricious highblood react?

A small yelp escaped him as the nubby-horned troll was suddenly pulled forward. He had no time to react as the indigo blood strong arms wrapped around his shoulders and waist effective pinning him in a tight embrace against the jugglo chest.

"... too motherfucking bad." The clown growled in his ear. "I said before this plan will only work once. IT AN'T STABLE! It won't work if all us motherfucker left at the same time, FOR THIS SHIT TO WORK RIGHT WE'LL HAVE TO LEAVE SOMEONE BEHIND! And that an't gonna be you, weather you like or not, you're coming with me."

". . . how the fuck can you expect me to say yes to something like that?! I can't just leave them behind! They're our friends-"

Once again the capricorn snarled. ". . . I don't get motherfucking get it."

The embrace tightened. "After all they have done to you, why the motherfuck are you so loyal to them. THEY DON'T DESEVER IT!"

". . . they were my friends once, and I still fucking care about them . . ." Karkat whispered. Biting back his anger and fear he waited for the clown reply.

" . . ."

" . . . fine." He finally heard the capricorn growl.

" . . . How about this, you and I will leave little clues about and if those motherfucker find them and connect the dots in time then they will have a chance to escape. Is that fair enough for you? " Gamzee stared at him intently, he wasn't going to let the cancer stay here. And Karkat knew it from the start, but now at least his beloved flush-crush had a chance to live a life outside of this hell.

Glass shattered,

The players enter.

Snow falls as four kids slept, as a watchful dog barks

With each act the play ends,

Reset,

Restart,

The frog was swallowed whole by the abyss,

Undefined in the indefinite night.

The play continues.

With each color at its command the grub awaits fate,

The amphibian eats it with out a second thought.

Lost their lives,

And it all fell apart.

Falling with the bravest of heart.

Snapping its jaws the grub devourers the frog from the inside out.

Their universe fell

So they built it back up, so meany pieces apart.

From their blood to their bones.

Chirps go unanswered, but not unheard.

They built it from scratch,

from that very glitched that brought them their doom.

Souls get caught,

The worm becomes omnipotent.

The game starts over only it crashes instead,

Restart,

Reset,

413 dimensions wait.

The play stops.

Through the oblivion time dies.

Space glitched, eating all and nothing at once.

GAME OVER

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