A/N: This is sort of like, a mixture of canon stuff and a bit of what I think could inevitably happen. Most likely, the chapters won't make sense in the chapter because I'm writing it before AH makes the latest updates. Most likely, I'd be getting a lot of this stuff wrong. But it's never not-fun to have some imagination and share it! :D Hopefully I didn't get it too far than from what's in the Homestuck timeline… that thing is just fucking complicated but not so complicated that it's not interesting.


If Time Allows Us…

Recap


April wasn't such a great month for the kids.

It was where they learned truth behind their pasts. It was the month when they faced death several times. It was the month of being trolled and eventually making friends with said trolls. It was when their dream selves woke up. It was that very April that brought on the end of the world, and that created four other planets for them to explore.

On John Egbert's thirteenth birthday, he received the beta for a new computer game called Sburb. And after spending a while trying to find a person to play the game with, John's gift was the answer to his dear friend Rose Lalonde's desperate pleas. Becoming his "server player", she learned that she could manipulate the world around her friend.

After accidentally opening the Cruxtruder device deployed next to his front door, a rather ominous countdown began. While the time went by, Rose decided to prototype a Kernelsprite that was released from the Cruxtruder with a Harlequin doll in his living room. John used a carved cruxite dowel to create a cruxite apple, his artifact. Not too long after, he took a bite of the apple while the sprite shook in angst.

At 0:00, a meteor struck John's house. And at 0:00, John and his house were transported within the Inciphisphere.

Defeating imps and earning grist, John and Rose built up to his first gate—creating new items to help him on his quest along the way. After passing through aforementioned gate, John was then transported to a land beneath his house. "To ascend, you must first descend!" To the Land of Wind and Shade he was whisked off to (but perhaps he was there all along?).

With time, Rose and two other friends—renowned cool kid of the group Dave Strider and enthusiastic (and somewhat psychic) narcoleptic Jade Harley—were sent into the game. Once becoming the "server client", the remaining three entered the Land of Light and Rain, the Land of Heat and Clockwork, and the Land of Frost and Frogs, respectively.

In between the chaos of defeating imps, creating cool new things with the Alchemiter, sleeping and waking up on dream planets Prospit and Derse respectively, hearing the voices of exiles and heeding their words, and discovering the secrets of the game they were all taking part of, a species referred to as trolls from an alternate universe and planet cleverly named Alternia began helping (and hopelessly trolling) the kids on their quest. The few trolls that bothered to mess with the four have eventually developed what was known as "the human emotion/the troll disease called friendship". The other trolls that have not formally introduced themselves to the Earthlings either built up or destroyed their own relationships within their own kind. Of course, that should not be brought into detail, as troll romance was quite complicated.

Eventually, the children learned of their roles as Heir of Breath, Seer of Light, Knight of Time, and Witch of Space. They undertook personal journeys and came to terms with their relationships with their guardians. They traveled through memories after Prospit and Derse were destroyed.

And in time, they hoped, they would all reach Skaia, destroy the nefarious archagent known as Jack Noir, and work to create the Scratch that would reset their entire game session.

That is, if time would allow them.


another nice A/N: Okay, I'll probably edit this later on and I think I got some info wrong, but this is just a recap of like, the basic stuff. So please help me if you find something wrong and you'd like to see it corrected!