Hello! This is my first fanfic so please be nice. I know right now what is happening in the story has so little to do with the actuall story plot but bear with me. It will all come together eventually. By the way this is a story about characters i created so if that's not your thing they don't really become relevant untill chapter four. Untill then it's all about how the trolls start over.

The Paradox Children

Prologue part 1

You are now Karkat Vantas and you are pissed beyond belief. The humans will be here any second. And what did you do when you found out? You stormed off like the fucking turd you are, just cause you and your fragile self esteem can't handle the idea that fucking Strider is coming. Ever since we all got word that they were coming you had been flipping out, and if Terezi wasn't going to go be a matesprite with him before, she certainly will now, you useless ass. And now you're lost.

You stare around you, and let out a decent what the fuck. Next time you will remember where you will have a fucking idea of where you're going instead of walking around for an hour and a half. Now you believe that you are stuck in one of those stupid dream bubbles, but you are definitely awake. Everything is all rainbow-e and you swear that whatever you are walking on it is made out of fucking squiddles. Ever since fucking blind sollux had his brilliant idea of latching the meteor onto the farthest reaches of paradox space to make it more difficult for Bec Noir to find you, it's been impossible to take a simple fucking walk without ending up lost. You guess you must have wondered off a bit too far, and the thought of never being able to say good bye to Terezi crosses your mind before you remember that she would probably be over you and your dumb ass by the time she heard the news that your starved body had been found in fucking rainbow squiddle land.

Tired of walking you sit down on the soft and bouncy ground. You bring your knees to your chest and set your forehead against your knees as you prepare for a wave of self loathing and hindsight. You shouldn't have been so agitated, you shouldn't have been such a douche to Terezi and everybody else for that matter, you definitely shouldn't have stormed off, you shouldn't have not told anyone you were going for a walk . . . The list went on and on as you riled off the things you shouldn't have done, and then began to move onto the things you should have. That feeling in your chest, of pieces of your heart being chipped away, it started to take over and you wished you could cry, but for some reason you used all of your will power not to.

"Hey." You jump a bit and looked to where the voice was coming from and dropped maybe the biggest what the fuck in your whole life time. "Whatcha beating yourself up for?" A troll girl was floating twenty feet above the ground, hugging her knees and rolling through the air like she had been launched into space while doing some kind of fucked up acrobatics and just continued to float like you do in space. Her horns looked just like Vriska's, one was a barb thing and the other was that stupid fucking crescent that you assume is almost impossible for someone who might not be as gifted as others maybe at drawing, and would inevitably drive them shithive maggots. Her skin was gray like other trolls, but her eyes were red with a black pupil, and her long, white hair was braided with lots of small blue and purple braids inside it. As she rolled you noticed that she was wearing a costume similar to Terezi's flarping costume. It was the same color as jades dress, didn't have sleeves, and only had a slit on one side of the dress; from what you can see it also looks like she was wearing boots that had really long skinny heals. Just as she was turning you caught the slightest glimpse of a large, gold, heart shaped locket. When faced with a conundrum like this, you take the most logical course of.

"Fuck off." And with that you decided to ignore the weird floating troll.

"You must be Karkat." She said her air twirling turned her so that Karkat could no longer see her face but could very clearly see what weapons she was carrying. Attached on either side of her waist there were two slightly green whips and matching pistols. You thought that if she turned out to be some kind of enemy you would have a hard time defending yourself, your cycles are suited for short range attacks, and her whips were probably medium to long distance. That would put her at an advantage. Putting the slight paranoia to the back of your mind, you are flipping the fuck out right now because you are lost with a strange troll that mysteriously knows your name.

"Who the fuck are you?" Karkat scowled.

"You didn't answer my question." She said continuing to float. That did not stop being a thing that was true or anything.

"I'm not fucking beating myself up, now leave me alone." Like a very mature troll you put your head back on your knees and ignore her. She doesn't say anything for a while.

"I would tell you my name, but he said not to?" You look up and the troll girl looks sincerely sorry. Finally you say something you probably won't regret looking back on as future Karkat.

"Who's he? Bec, or that ultimate demon guy?" A smile cracked across her lips.

"Neither. We're actually here to stop them. Well, not Bec persay, apparently confronting him in battle would get us killed. And not really the ultimate deamon guy either but sortof. " The weird troll girl looked around the bubble.

"Yeah, no shit. Bec is crazy strong." Stupid troll girl.

"I could probably take him, but his green sun energy would kill me. You see I'm sort of . . . Allergic, if allergy attack consisted of gaining awesome powers. But like an allergy attack if it's too sever I die. But enough about that, I've told you too much already. Answer my fucking question"

"Where did you come from, Alternia was fucking destroyed by meteors?" You ignore her demand and continue asking questions.

"Answer the question fuck tard." The strange troll girl was not fooled.

"There's another troll, sort of. Well it's mostly a human not a troll." You try to be as vegue as physically possible. Talking about your feeling is not something you do, but you are beyond curious to know if Alternia survived the reckoning. Could you possibly go back home?

"I'm from the future. Names and relation." By the look in her eye you could tell she already knew the names and relation (which proved to freak you out more), but she wanted you to say it.

"We are not playing the fucking question game." You are the leader; you decided when the fucking question game gets played.

"We're not playing the fucking question game, we're playing the regular question game, jegus." You face palm combo x2 . Begrudgingly accept this.

"Fine. Dave- mr. fucking cool, Terezi – she's . . ." You trail off, not sure if you want this strange troll to know your feelings for her, especially if you get back and fucking Strider stole her away. She doesn't say anything and looks you straight in the eyes waiting for you to finish. You look down at the rainbow ground and silently refuse to.

"your matesprite." She finishes your sentence.

"I don't know anymore." As the words leave your lips you feel the urge to cry again. She lets you cool down for a second. "Where are you from?"

"The future." She quickly flips open her locket and checks whatever is inside it. "Why not?"

"Because. . . Fuck I shouldn't have to fucking tell you this shit! Fuck off!" You flip your shit and turn you back to the weird troll. After a few seconds of silence, you turn around to see if she left. As expected the weird troll chick is still floating, it's still a thing.

"I can't leave. He told me not to move until he came to get me." Alright, you're interested again. Damn troll girl and her cryptic ways.

"How long have you been floating like that?"You decide to ask to more casual question first in an attempt to end the question game.

"I will not tell you again. Answer the fucking question." Wonderful. Fucking wonderful.

"I've been a complete ass to her. She's really close friends with this human named Dave, and I think that she's flushed for him. The only thing I've done is act like a first class ass wipe, and I think that she may not want to put up with me anymore."She doesn't respond. "Nothing to say on my fucking confession?" She smiles devilishly.

"I had to wait for a question again."

"Help yourself to a heaping pile of fuck you, straight out of go to Hell's oven and seasoned with all of that bullshit you just tried to shove down my fucking air hole."

"Not my fault you fucking suck at the question game. As a matter of fact, I do have something to say to your confession Mr. Vantas. I know Terezi, and if she's one thing, it's loyal. What are you so afraid of?"

"Me, I guess. It doesn't matter how faithful she is, I'm the biggest ass hole in all of paradox space. She deserves better than me, but it hurts so much to have to let her go. I don't know what to do." You put your head in your hands and hold back your tears. It's beginning to give you a headache.

"I can't tell you his name. Names aren't allowed remember. I can tell you that I've been sitting like this for 13 hours."

"What the fuck, he told you to wait for him and not move and inch, by the way he probably didn't mean that literally you fuck tard, and you do it. You have got to be the stupidest mother fucker in all of fucking paradox space."

"I know it wasn't literal. He said I have to wait here, in the Land of Lost Children's dreams. I'm not moving because there was a monster attacking me, and the only way to destroy it is by not reacting. It can't physically hurt me, but it plays mind tricks. If it can't get me to kill myself, than it dies. I don't know how long it takes though. "Fuck, it just occurred to me that you could be her. Fucking huge bitch shape shifts, she turned into the guy I mentioned earlier and tied to trick me into thinking he had come back. Tell me something only Karkat Vantas would know."

"What the fuck." You sit thinking over something only you know when it occurs to you. "Nice try, I almost bought your huge stinking pile of horse shit, but I'm not falling for it. You are not getting anymore fucking secrets out of me till I fucking get more answers." The girl sighed.

"For a second there I was flipping the fuck out. The huge bitch would have said something smoother."

"Fuck you, you huge waste of fucking troll DNA. Whoever provided your genetic material should be fucking sentenced to eternal suffering for creating suck a fucking bitch. You have disgraced the whole fucking troll race with how huge of a shit you are." She laughed. Of course she fucking laughed, you spit out something so vile it could melt the whole asteroid, and the chick fucking laughs.

"Alright, let's just get all of my information I can tell you out of the way so we can go back to your problems. I'm from the future, I don't know you personally but I know Terezi really well. I'm not from the Alternia you're talking about, but I am from what is now the trollian home planet. My strife spectibus is bad ass kind, hits the fire whips that shoot paradox bullets and time bends around me and my friends. We're all here to defeat an evil thing, which I'm not supposed to tell you, but you probably figured it out. Finally as of now, nothing is set in stone. Whatever happens in your future is no longer relevant, as I can change that as well as my own past, which are kind of the same thing. I don't understand how it works, so don't ask. Oh, and this locket was given to me by the troll who told me to wait. It measures the amount we're changing our own history and by the looks of it we are now almost at a class two paradox shift. Shit. I swear I can't tell you anymore without possibly rewriting all of the history of my planet, or erasing it." You take a few seconds to register all of this and decide to believe her. You can't muster the energy to try and disagree.

"So does that mean we're back to my problems now?" With none too enthusiastic response from you. She however, seems delighted to get back to your problems.

"Yes. Now your matesprite is being taken away by a human?" She more stated than asked.

"Yeah, you probably don't know what a human is, do you?

"No I know. There are lots of humans, but they live far away so I've never seen one. I pester a few though. Now have you asked her about her feelings for Dave, and or told her you were afraid she is going to leave you for someone you perceive to be better than yourself?"

"No."

"Then how are you to know what she may or may not be feeling for this human?"

"Well I've seen her trolling him all the time and she's always happy and he's all flirty with her. And when a doomed Dave died, she ran from the room crying."

"Are you saying that you've never cried for dead friend?" Damn weird troll, got you there. You don't recall there ever being a dead friend you didn't cry for, except for maybe the whole robo-splode thing. That was just stupid; she's probably not even dead. If an explosion was all it took to kill Aradia, than she would have been buried in the ground long before they began playing that game.

"Well they're flirting all the time and she's always so happy when she talks to him."

"Hey, Karkat. Why don't I let you in on a little secret about most human boys?" Your interest is piqued. "The only way they know how to talk to a girl is through flirting and or making fun of them. 90% of human teenage boys don't know how to just make friends with a girl without any romantic devices. Flirting doesn't mean you like someone in the majority of their minds. Trust me; a friend once explained all of this to me. And is she not happy when she talks to you?"

"I don't know. We've been fighting a lot lately, since I've been so paranoid about fucking Strider."

"See the first thing to making things better is to stop fucking calling him fucking Strider. That's probably the first thing you're doing wrong by her." You grunt. "Next, when was the last time you ever told her how you really felt about her. Let her know that she's really special to you, that she's your matesprite."

"I let her know all the time when we're together."

"I don't think you get it. When was the last time you explicitly stated that you were flushed for her and that she is your matesprite? Those exact words." You rack your brain for a time when you said those exact words, and can't seem to come up with a specific instance.

"Well, I uh. . . "Oh fuck you sound like Tavros. Great job Karkat, really convincing. She groans.

"Never mind about the whole 'fucking Strider' sting, that's your first problem."

"It was always sort of implied."

"Whether or not it's implied, a girl still likes to hear it out loud before she'll really believe it. In fact everybody does. Would we be sitting here if Terezi had told you she was your matesprite and no one was ever going to change that?" You take a few seconds to think about it. Fuck, what do you know? You pretend to be everybody's romantic advisor, but what the fucking hell do you know?

"Alright what should I do?"

"What do you think you should fucking do? Go tell her you're flushed for her dumb ass!"

"What if she rejects me?" The words slip out of your mouth before you can stop them. Your fear all along, that she had already decided you weren't worth the trouble and was waiting there to break up with you.

"If you really feel as strong as you claim to do, than can't you be content just knowing you make her happy in whatever regards. That you can be whatever she needs you to be, to fill whatever quadrant she needs filled. Stop thinking about you, and think about her, and what she needs." That was not the answer you were expecting to hear, but maybe, just maybe, it was the right one.

"Alright," you stand up and look around the rainboy-e land "I'm going to go take your advice, weird floating troll girl. As soon as get the fuck out of this place." Suddenly everything looking like miles of rainbow and squiddle trail.

"If you see me again, call me Pyralspite. It's my flarping name. Walk off the beaten path; it will get you where you need to be." She said. Great, more flarping.

"I don't have time for this shit, which path do fucking I take?"

"I was serious. Walk in any direction away from the path and you'll get back to where you entered this world from. The path is for advancing to the next land, the Land of Derse."

"What the fuck."

"Yeah, it's a good system if you're lost though. And the Land of Derse is made up of tons of Derse fragments stitched together. There's also a land of Prospit right next to it, but not touching the Land of Lost Children's dreams." Fuck, you'll take her word for it. Right now you have more important things to do than put effort into understanding her. You run a few feet away from the squiddles, but then you turn your back to say one last thing to Pyralspite.

"You should do the same thing for him. It he's worth waiting for, he's probably worth telling. And I'm guessing that he was the one who gave you that locked. That's got to mean something. And thank you." She blushed a little bit and looked him in the eyes.

"No problem, and if you ever need a favor in the future, like maybe something that you're about to do is going to end badly and want some kind of advice about how to stop your whole fucking family from being destroyed. Yah know, anything."

"What should I know." With a nervous glance at her locket she began to speak.

"This is going to fuck up the universe so I'll only tell you once. Bec, he's working for that ultimate demon, Lord English. Self preservation and all. He's not our target, but you are his. To defeat Lord English the strongest must be sacrificed in order for him to die. We don't know why, that's just how it is. Bec's not a very patient dog/man thing; he won't wait to figure out who's the strongest if he tries to take a sacrifice at all." She looked at her locket again and looked startled. "Shit. Don't you have more important things to attend to than staring at me?" Okay, you guess that she just fucked up the universe so it's time for you to go. You turn back around and bolt towards a strangely large strip of cherry red, and hope Terezi is on the other side.