Chapter 1
The Crash
It started out as a semi-normal day for the trolls, whom had originally come from Alternia. After seeking refuge on a meteor things had gotten a little more than hectic. But then again, that was normal for them. "Has anyone seen Terezi," Karkat asked, the ever present angry tone seeming angrier and louder. Suddenly, the previously mentioned blind troll tackle-hugged Karkat from behind. A slur of curses and cusses came from the smaller troll and Terezi shouted to be heard. "Karkles! Karkles! Guess what I smelled!"
"Would you mind getting off of me first," Karkat shouted, practically shoving the cackling troll off. "Now what were you ba" "Follow me," she interrupted, then grabbed Karkat's hand and pulled him to the transportalizer. They made their way up to her respiteblock and began climbing the long winding staircase. "Why does a blind troll has such an elaborate respiteblock," he asked, mainly to himself. After stepping onto another transportalizer they came to a dead end hallway. "Just be quiet and help me move these," Terezi said as she began pushing one of the four large vats containing carpacians across the floor and onto a different colored tile in the center.
Karkat watched her a moment before copying her actions with the last two. When the staircase revealed itself, he launched himself back into Terezi who giggled and said, "I didn't know you to be the jumpy type, Karkles." He growled in response then followed her up the staircase and through a hallway before transportalizing again up to the surface of the meteor. Terezi made her way over to her smelloscope and took a sniff before pointing up to a group of streaking lights across the sky. "I brought you up here because of that," she said as Karkat stepped forward slightly, staring at the lights.
"Are they… are they getting closer," he asked, stepping backward slightly. His eyes widened as it was confirmed so he tackled Terezi to the ground as the lights, or now random unknown objects, went blasting through the air where their heads previously were. Karkat raised his head, breathing heavily, just in time to see thirteen explosions in the distance on the meteor. Each one shook the whole meteor violently. "We need to go find out what that was. Come on, Pyrope," he said as he stood up, pulling the surprised troll to her feet.
Soon, the twelve trolls were searching all over the area where Karkat had seen the objects crash. After a while, Sollux's voice could be heard. "Hey guyth! I think you're going to want to thee thith." The others gathered quickly in the large storage room Sollux had found and checked. They all stood in awe at the sight before them; all of them except for Terezi that is, who continuously asked what was going on. Thirteen pods lay on the ground, faint glowing lights came from the frosted over windows on the shut doors.
The twelve shut doors. The thirteenth's was wide open; its interior displayed to the eleven trolls. Slowly and carefully, they made their way in and inspected each of the mysterious pods. Soon, a chorus of the sound of the realization of the fact that each of the twelve closed pods corresponded to one troll and one troll only. Aradia walked up to the open pod and shut the door. "This one's different, it's blank," she announced, attracting the attention of 10 of the other trolls.
Terezi stayed near her pod and as the others gathered around Aradia, she took a seat on the pod matching her. A loud hiss was heard then quickly followed by a startled Terezi's scream. They all turned around to see Terezi's head pop up behind the now open door. Karkat, Kanaya and Eridan began to walk forward with Eridan in lead as a red gloved hand shot up and quickly pressed itself against the inside of the door.
The sudden movement set all trolls back a step, a few pulling out their strife specibi. Soon after the first, another hand appeared and wrapped around the edge of the pod. A female human with shoulder length dark brown hair and a pair of glasses that matched Eridan's rose up. Her outfit consisted of a black skin-tight top that reached halfway up her neck and halfway down her arms which then became her candy red gloves. She wore a red poncho-like top with a teal Libra sign much like Terezi's. Her legs were a teal color, a red cloth similar to the one Redglare wore was around her waist.
Her light brown eyes opened and skimmed around the room, eventually coming to see the end of Eridan's rifle. "Ah, Ahab's Crosshairs. Well, it's nice to meet you Mr. Ampora. I take it we've reached out desination," she asked, looking around the room again. "Who… who are you," Eridan demanded, "how-w do you know-w about the crosshairs?!" He shoved the extremely powerful rifle's tip closer to her face.
She looked at him and met his eyes before calmly saying, "well, my friend, that is quite the tale.
