The Same Coin

Chapter One -- Karkat

AN: This is my first time writing fan fiction, so don't hate on me! Story deviation. This takes place during the three years on the meteor. Thanks for reading!

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Your name is Karkat Vantas, and you have never been so bored in your life. Nearly a year and a half on this wretched meteor, and there is nothing to do. No more enemies to destroy, no more hiding places to discover. Why did whoever designed the interior of this fucking asteroid have to make it as boring as possible!? Not even the dream bubbles you pass through relieve the tedium.

Besides all that you're up to your neck in budding matespritship. All of your friends have paired up, and nobody has any time for you. Well, there is Gamzee, but your moiraillegiance with him kinda fell apart after year one. He's just so creepy, kissing your friends' corpses in jars and shit. Eugh.

As usual, you are sitting in your respit block, alone, doing nothing. In the dark. Gog your life sucks. Why can't you get a hobby, or something?

You are contemplating which is more pathetic, deigning to work on Can Town or maybe just jumping off the meteor, when Terezi's voice projects from the intercom.

"4TT3NT1ON, 3V3RYON3. TH3R3 1S 4 B1T OF 4 S1TU4T1ON W1TH 1NCOM1NG OBJ3CTS. PL34S3 R3M41N C4LM, 4ND HURRY TO TH3 D3CK."

You wonder what could possibly be going on. Whatever it is, your day just got that much more exciting.

••••••••••

Two minutes later, you arrive on the upper deck. That's what you all call it, anyway. It's really more of a sort of porch, you guess? Whatever it doesn't matter. What matters is the situation that's happening and also how much excitement can be squeezed from it before it's over.

Dave, Terezi, and Kanaya are waiting on the deck, but Rose is mysteriously absent. You make a mental note to ask about her whereabouts, later. The others are already discussing the 'situation'.

TEREZI: WH4T COULD 1T B3?

DAVE: i dunno, like, horrorterror related shit?

DAVE: like, monster god sperm

DAVE: i figured it out, were gonna hit a clod of octopus jizz

KARKAT: WHAT

DAVE: and then

DAVE: well all give birth to mutant squid people

TEREZI: >:o

KARKAT: WHAT

DAVE: yep

DAVE: half horrorterror, half human freaks

DAVE: or half troll, whatever

DAVE: theyll be unbeatable

KARKAT: WHAT IN THE NAME OF FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!

KANAYA: We Are Talking About That

Kanaya gestures out toward the darkness. Beyond the meteor lies the infinite void of the Furthest Ring, home to its dark gods, the horrorterrors, and to the souls of deceased players, who reside in the dream bubbles. In fact, it is toward one of these dream bubbles that Kanaya points. It appears that you will intersect with it soon.

Ordinarily this would be no problem. You pass through the bubbles often on your journey. It gives you the opportunity to visit with old dead friends, and relive past experiences. But there's something different this time.

KARKAT: WHATS THAT BIG DARK SHAPE?

KANAYA: That Is What We Are Trying To Figure Out.

KANAYA: I Think That We Will Put The Horrorterror Genetic Material Idea On The Back Burner For Now.

DAVE: aww

KANAYA: Do You Have Any Ideas Karkat?

KARKAT: HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW!?

KARKAT: WHERES ROSE, SHOULDNT SHE BE HERE SOLVING THIS MYSTERY WITH HER SEER BULLSHIT?

KANAYA: Rose Is In The Library

KANAYA: She Is Doing So In There, I Believe.

TEREZI: SH3 M1GHT NOT H4V3 TO

KANAYA: Why Do You Say That?

TEREZI: B3C4US3 1TS G3TT1NG CLOS3R

TEREZI: OR B1GG3R, 1 C4NT T3LL >:[

Terezi's right. The dark spot in front of the dream bubble's glow was growing. And you have a feeling it really is closer. This could end badly.

"EVERYBODY, HIDE!" You shout. Everyone ducks for cover, just as Rose comes onto the deck.

Karkat: Be someone else.