Game of Gods

Chapter 2: Karkat

On the otherside of town, a young man opens up his laptop to see a message pop up on his screen. The young man met his friend, if you can called him that, on a forum for other shitty programmers like himself. He may not be much but he’s a… an acquaintance. Karkat opened up Pesterchum to respond to John:

-ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering carcinoGeneticist [CG]-

EB: hey karkat.

CG: HELLO THERE IDIOT.

EB: so you know how you seem to know everything about the trolls and stuff.

CG: …. AND YOUR FUCKING POINT?

EB: well my sister was just saved by the iron knight. thought you would like to have known that.

CG: ONE. WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?! TWO. WHEN DID AN ASS SCRUBBER LIKE YOU GET A SISTER?

EB: jade has been around for awhile and it didnt really come up in conversation so i never said anything. and yeah, my sister jade was getting mugged or something (she hasnt given my friends or i any details and im not going to poke her for any) and the iron knight swoops down like batman and saves her.

CG: IS THAT ALL YOU KNOW?!?! THIS LIMITED STREAM OF DATA IS FUCKISHLY SHITTY AT BEST. DESPITE MY AMAZINGLY DEVELOPED BRAIN, THIS IS A HELL OF A SHOCK THAT A LICE-RIDDEN SLUG LIKE THE IRON KNIGHT CAME AND SAVED YOUR BUCKTOOTHED SISTER FROM SOME LAMEASS THUG.

EB: preaching to the choir karkat, my heads reeling from this crap. jade doesnt want us to tell dad or anybody… on that note dont tell her i told you.

CG: HOW WOULD I EVEN FUCKING TELL HER? I DO NOT POSSES HER PESTERCHUM HANDLE NOR HAVE I MET HER. SEEMS PRETTY IMPROBABLE THAT I COULD SUDDENLY OBTAIN HER INFORMATION AND THEN FOR GOD KNOWS WHY TELL HER THAT YOU TOLD ME.

EB: right. sorry, i feel like im talking to one of our friends like something.

CG: MAYBE I CAN SQUEEZE SOME STUFF OUT OF HER, I AM THE ONE AND ONLY OFFICIAL ON THE TROLLS. ALL OTHERS ARE JUST CLUSTERFUCKING THEMSELVES.

EB: well… ill talk to her about it. im not sure if she wants to talk to me about this and she definitely needs someone to talk to.

EB: here, im going to send you a message whenever i get an answer.

CG: IF ANYTHING I MIGHT BE ABLE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SHITBAG FROM AN EYEWITNESS. NOW SCRAM, I JUST GOT A WHOLE PILE OF SHIT DUMPED ON ME.

-carcinoGeneticist [CG] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB]-

Karkat leaned back in his chair, face towards the ceiling. He looked tranquil and deep in thought. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK. His sharp teeth gritted as he continued to scream fuck in his head for another two minutes. Afterwhich he reached under his desk and pulled out a soda from the dingy mini-fridge. Only around an hour ago he was patrolling the city and he just had to save the only normal person in his life’s sister. Karkat let out a deep sigh and stared at the screen, so her name is Jade. Pretty name.

He wasn’t even supposed to be talking to John, and now he saved his sister. All Karkat can hope for is that this will blow over, but that won’t happen. No one forgets getting saved by a “super hero”. He can’t lie to John for that long, guilt would kill him. John is one of the last normal things in his life. It may not seem like a good idea, but trying to talk to Jade isn’t all that bad.

She was different. Usually, people run away when they see a grey-skinned mutant even when he’s saving their lives. But Jade, she didn’t run. She thanked him, even hugged him… I never thought something like that would ever happen again. Karkat looked around in the large warehouse that he and the other Trolls took over. The lights were all out but he could still make out the outlines of their stuff. It wasn’t much but it was something, most had been fixed and cleaned up from stuff people threw away. He got up from his flimsy desk and plopped on the dingy grey mattress on the other side of his “room”. Maybe this is just a dream. Then again, I’ve thought that ever since this whole mess happened. His mind drifted as he tried to think of his life before all of this happened.

Karkat was woken up by a large amount of arguing coming from their makeshift kitchen. Your typical fucked up morning. He sat up and ruffled his hair around to try and make it look not entirely messed up. Over in the kitchen is two other Trolls arguing over something idiotic at best. Karkat didn’t want to get into arguing just yet, so he went over to his laptop and logged in. Much to his surprising pleasure he say John had messaged him a few hours before.

EB: so i talked jade and she will talk to you though she isnt very on board with the whole thing.

EB: also i talked to my dad and you can come over and hang out and talk. tell me if that works for ya.

Well John, looks like you pulled through with me. He looked down at the clock in the corner of the screen: 10:35 AM, that should be plenty of time. Karkat looked over at the two in the kitchen and shouted out, “HEY FUCK FACES! IS KANAYA HERE?!?!”