I do not own Homestuck or Maximum Ride. Pity, isn't it? Also, any variance in the characters is a result of their circumstances. They are closer to each other, and more protective of each other. And sadly, there is no kismesitude. It just doesn't fit in human society, y'know?
WARNING: Contains so much cursing, you'd need a soap factory to clean it all out.
MAXIMUM RIDE struggled against the eraser's stiff grip as he hauled her along the halls of the lab, more erasers following behind, carrying the other flock members. How had they been captured again? They had been doing so good evading them, and then, BOOM! Captured. Caught like a fly in a web. She tugged harder, not even fazing the hulking beast as he carried her to an unfamiliar room, filled with somewhere around fifteen or sixteen dog crates with shadowy figures barely moving inside. They appeared to be knocked out, and as soon as she entered the room, Max could tell why. The scent of a sleeping agent lingered in her nose as the eraser shoved her into one of the six unoccupied crates on one side of the room. She rammed her shoulder up against the bars as the doors shut and the sleeping agent once again filled the room.
When Karkat woke up, the first thing he noticed was his splitting headache. The damned sleeping gas had some annoying side effects.
The second thing he noticed was the extra six crates across the room. He was confused. Surely they hadn't been given any younger experiments to raise, had they?
The figure inside twitched, proving to him that, yes, the whitecoats were smarts enough to not try and have them raise a child.
As Karkat looked closer, he guessed that there were probably four girls and two guys((He thinks Iggy is a girl)) inside the crates.
The self proclaimed leader bumped into his cage door, finding it unlocked. "Oh, come on. Another f*cking roaming day?! God dammit, we're probably going to be half dead after our next testing session!" Because, y'know, we get time to roam, they get to torture us. Totally fair.
Karkat hesitantly stepped out, waiting for something to happen. When nothing did, he hurried across the room to a smaller cage with a cat tail hanging out of it. Careful not to step on the tail, Karkat opened the cage door and shook the girl inside.
"Nep, c'mon, wake up. We've got free time. Wake up, you don't want to miss it. C'mon, get up and wake Equius up!"
At the sound of her friend/crush's name, the Korean-American girl stirred, opening one eye to face her half-brother.
"Karkitty? What is it? How'd you get out of your cage? Wait, don't tell me! We have another free time, don't we Karkitty? Tell me!"
Karkat groaned and rubbed his forehead. "Geez Nep, I have a killer headache. And yes, we've got freetime. We also have freaky mutations and six new roommates."
Nepeta looked around, finally noticing the six new crates.
"Woah! When did they get here? Have you met them? Are they nice? Are any of them cute? Ooh! I bet they are! Maybe they're like us! I-"
Karkat held his head with one hand, the other covering the cat girl's mouth.
"Nep. Headache, remember?" Nepeta grinned sheepishly.
"Oops, sorry." The older male sighed.
"It's fine Nep. Anyways, we need to wake up the others."
The girl grinned. "Okey dokey Karkitty!" She bounded across the room to Equius' crate, where the older male was sound asleep, his horse tail occasionally twitching. She murmured something, gently shaking him. A small, tired smile graced Karkat's face before he headed to the crate set apart from the others, where his sleeping friend resided within.
As Karkat attempted to wake Gamzee up, Nepeta and Equius woke everyone except the six newcomers up, and everyone formed a semicircle around Karkat as he woke up Gamzee.
While everyone was distracted, Max and the flock got out of there crates, quietly looking around, taking everything in, when Gazzy accidentally tripped over a crate.
Karkat had just woken up Gamzee up when a crash sounded across the room. He stood up, the others clearing a path for him to see. Six people were standing stock still. A young girl was holding her older brother's hand from his spot on the floor. A mocha skinned girl was standing near them, an older boy standing behind her. A goth boy stood off to the side, seemingly indifferent. And next to him…
"You!" When he saw the last girl, Karkat pounced, hands aimed for the throat of Maximum Ride. He pinned her to the floor, choking her. "Do you know what happened since you managed to escape?! The f*cking security was f*cking upgraded, we were almost ready to f*cking escape when you f*cking broke out of this f*cking hell hole! We were almost FREE, but then that f*cking *sshole whitecoat decide to f*cking break you f*ckers out, and we were f*cking left behind, like we were f*cking garbage, worthless, useless! It got worse once their 'prize experiments' were f*cking broken out! Terezi lost her f*cking sight, Tavros is f*cking paralyzed from the waist down, Vriska f*cking lost a f*cking arm and a messed up her eye, and Aradia was almost f*cking killed by one of their f*cking tests, ALL BECAUSE YOU WERE F*CKING BROKEN OUT OF THIS F*CKING HELLHOLE!"
Before he could continue, Equius pulled Karkat off Max, who sat up, breathing heavily. And of course, Karkat most definitely did not want to be stopped.
"LET ME GO YOU F*CKING *SSHOLE! SHE NEEDS TO F*CKING PAY FOR WHAT SHE F*CKING CAUSED! LET ME F*CKING GO! SHE F*CKING HURT YOU GUYS AND SHE NEEDS TO F*CKING PAY FOR WHAT SHE F*CKING DID!" Gamzee ambled over to Equius and Karkat, laying a hand on the larger male's shoulder.
"Let me handle this mother f*cker." The taller male pulled the much smaller Karkat out of Equius' arms and into his lap as he sat on the floor. "Shoosh." He rubbed Karkat's back and patted him, shooshing him all the while. "Shoosh, it'll be okay Karbro, shoosh, it'll be fine, you don't need to avenge us, shoosh, we'll be fine. It's okay, it's okay. Shoosh."
When Karkat had finally stopped struggling, he was hugged by Gamzee. Burying his face in his friend's tattered purple shirt, he started quietly crying. Was he turning into a monster? No, he already was one, he just knew it. Why?! Why couldn't he be normal?! He roughly dried his eyes off and stood up, looking at the floor.
"Sorry for attacking you." Karkat looked up to see Max rubbing her neck, where he could see bruises forming.
"Eh, it's fine, I've had worse. Apology accepted." Karkat nodded, opening his mouth to say something, but he was cut off by several erasers coming in, grabbing Karkat and dragging him out of the room.
"Karkitty! No!" He smiled slightly.
"I'll be fine! Equius, take care of her!" The larger male nodded, placing a hand on Nepeta's shoulder as tears streamed down her face, leaning forward to try and grab him, but the doors slammed shut, leaving them trapped in the room.
"No! Karkitty… No…" Nepeta broke down sobbing, curling up in a ball as Equius tried to pat her on the back as gently as possible. "He can't go! He can't! He can't leave me behind…"
Max and the others watched awkwardly as Nepeta sobbed. Iggy jumped as someone snuck up behind him.
"Ooh… You smell interesting… Kinda light and fluffy, subdued." Iggy's face wrinkled in confusion.
"Smelled? Can't you see?" Terezi laughed.
"Ha! Nope! They burned my eyes, and now I can only see and taste colors." Iggy's eyebrows shot up his forehead.
"You're blind too?!"
"Yep! And I'm guessing you're blind too?" Iggy nodded absentmindedly. "That's awesome! Now I finally have someone who can relate to me!" The blind male grinned.
"I know! The flock keeps forgetting I'm blind and they're all like, 'Oops, sorry Iggy, I forgot that you can't see that we moved the couch in front of the stairs.'" He said in a poorly done imitation of Max's voice. Terezi laughed.
"That's funny. I just end up annoying Karkat with my 'color fetish' and the whole licking things to read and whatnot. It's hilarious when he turns red and starts fuming." Iggy snorted.
"I bet it is."
"Ooh! So you're one of the six who are part bird, right?" Iggy nodded.
"Yeah. Why do you want to know?"
"Ooh, just curious. We only have two bird kids here, and they hate taking out their wings for some reason. I mean, they only take their wings out to be clipped." Iggy tensed.
"They clip our wings?!" This was exclaimed to everyone in the room. The other flock members froze.
"Well, yeah… I mean maybe they won't clip you guy's, but they clipped John and Dave's. They didn't clip my wings, but-"
"Wait, you're a bird kid?!" Terezi raised an eyebrow.
"Don't jump to conclusions. I said that I had wings not that I had bird wings."
"Then what are you?" Iggy the gestured to the rest of the room. "And what are they?" Terezi grinned.
"Well, I happen to be part dragon-" She was cut off by Gazzy.
"That's AWESOME!"
"You bet it is. Anyways, Nepeta is part cat; Feferi is part fish; Aradia is part ram-or a sheep or something, I'm not sure; Rose is part- honestly, I don't what she is, some experimental DNA or something; Jade is part dog; Tavros is part bull; Sollux also has experimental DNA- a different one than Rose though, don't even try to suggest that they're related, they don't like it; Eridan is also part fish- seahorse I think, maybe some other fish, I really don't know; I am part dragon- though I have no clue where they got the DNA for it, since they don't have a dragon; John and Dave are part bird- I think Dave is part raven, even if his wings are orange; Vriska is part spider- and believe me, the effect is not pretty; Kanaya is part vampire bat, I believe- I just know she needs to drink blood, and we have to feed her most of the time; Equius is part horse- even if you can't tell, he mostly got recessive genes; and Gamzee is part goat, of all things. I honestly have no clue on how he's so damn blood thirsty with just goat and human genes." By the end of Terezi's speech, most of the flock was gaping, with the exception of Iggy, who tilted his head, confused.
"But what about Karkat? You never said what he was." A flash of a thought flitted across his face. "He isn't… normal is he?" Terezi snorted.
"Hell if I know! Karkels doesn't seem to be normal though, but he won't tell us what he is, soooo…" She shrugged. "There's no way to know." Iggy frowned.
"That's weird. He hasn't told anyone what he is?" Terezi nodded.
"Yeah. There's this faint scent lingering around him, but I can't tell what it is! Whenever the subject is brought up, he always seems a little nervous or scared. I've always thought that he might just be scared of either what he is, or the powers that come with it." The blind male shrugged.
"Sounds legit." The girl grinned and the two struck up another conversation about how stupid some of the others could be, and how much it sucked to be blind.
"How did you become blind?"
"They tried to enhance my night vision, and then BOOM! No vision at all. How about you?"
"Me? Um… They were testing my sight and stuff, and they forced me to too close to intense light and heat, and it burned my eyes." Iggy flinched.
"Ouch."
"That isn't even the beginning of it." Any further conversation was cut off by the doors opening, and a bleeding Karkat tossed in.
"Karkels!" "Karkitty!"
Terezi and Nepeta ran over to the unconscious male's side, hauling him to the middle of the room. His shirt was stained with blood, and clung to his gaunt figure, except where gashes in the material revealed cuts along his torso.
"Verdammt, they must of put him through the agility course again. Those look like the spinning blades' work," Vriska muttered, eyes wide.
"No time to worry about how this happened, we need to patch up his wounds pronto! He's already lost a lot of blood!" Terezi was panicked, even if this wasn't the first time it had happened.
"Fine. I'm guessing you need silk then?" Terezi nodded.
"Yeah. But first, we need to get this shirt off of him. Nep?" The younger girl nodded, taking a claw and carefully cutting the blood soaked shirt off of him while Vriska moved over to a shadowy corner to produce the silk needed for stitches.
Once Nepeta had cut his shirt off, the flock stifled a gasp. Karkat's torso was covered in scars and bruises, cuts and scrapes. It was also covered in blood, but that's beside the point. Currently, they were focusing on a few large gashes on his back and ribs.
Suddenly, Vriska came up from behind Terezi, causing her to jump. "Here's your silk. Who's gonna stitch him up?" The blind girl sighed, adjusting her red glasses.
"Can you do it? He just smells like red. I can't do anything. But so help me, if you hurt him…" She trailed off, letting the threat hang in the air. Vriska knelt, forcing Terezi to the side.
"I won't hurt him!" Surprising the flock, she unfolded eight spider legs from her back((Think of Doctor Octopus from spider man)), She threaded the bone needles, her extra appendages making quick work of the cuts on his chest and stomach. Flipping him over, the flock's attention was drawn to the two parallel scars on his shoulder blades. Max nudged Terezi.
"Where did those big scars come from?"
"Which ones? He has so many, probably because he takes our testing sessions whenever he can. He-"
"The two parallel scars on his back."
"Oh, those? Yeah, he used to have bat wings or something, but they were grafted on and not part of his DNA. He could move them, but he couldn't fly, so they got sawed off. We could hear his screams from all the way across the lab. We tend to not talk about it, even if he never seemed to really miss them." By the end of her mini speech, the flock looked horrified.
"They… cut off his wings?" Teresi nodded.
"Uh huh. Oh look! Vriska, he's starting to wake up!" The spider girl hurriedly finished sewing as Karkat stirred awake.
"What… What happened? I remember going into the agility course… Designed for CatNep… It was too small… For me to make it… And where's my shirt?" Karkat looked around, seeing a pile of blood soaked rags that Aradia was using to try and soak up the blood on the floor. "Oh… It was the spinning blades… Wasn't it?" Vriska shrugged.
"Probably." Terezi walked up.
"I'm sure this conversation is wonderful, but Karkat, you need to rest, you lost a ton of blood. C'mon you know you need to sleep." Said male opened his mouth to protest, but was cut off by the sleeping gas once again filling the room.
"Oh come on," Karkat groaned before blacking out.
Haha! New story! Even though I have, like, six stories in progress already, and I really don't need to start another story, I couldn't pass up on writing this idea.
If you haven't figured it out, the trolls' DNA is mostly based off their lusus', excluding Sollux, Karkat, and Feferi. Sollux and Feferi because… Well, their lusii weren't earth creatures, so… Feferi got fish DNA, because she's a seadweller, and Sollux got some unknown DNA because, like Rose, I didn't know what else to do. Karkat however, needed something to serve as his 'mutation' other than blood color. You'll find out what it is later.
As for John, Rose, and Dave(I think Jade is self explanatory), it goes as follows: John is part bird because of the whole heir of breath and the windy thing. Dave is part bird because of Davesprite. Rose… I couldn't figure anything else for her. Sorry.
I hope this story doesn't suck too much, because I actually have hope for it.