Hoo boy. This is some scary shit right here…
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John: Be the leader.
Your name is John motherfucking Egbert and these idiots are fucking impossible.
First and foremost, someone went on a murderous rampage on the trolls' ship. Karkat said he didn't know who did it and the other five trolls wouldn't say anything. Then again, you couldn't expect anything better of naïve Karkat.
Rose and Dave had somehow gone god tier (something you thought was impossible due to Rose being such a cry baby and Dave being so damn selfless and getting himself killed in over thirty thousand timelines (you kept count)) and met with Aradia and poor Sollux. Jade was with you on the ship, though you barely spoke to each other. She was always lurking around, doing her experiments.
You shiver. You can still hear screams from the basement.
Davesprite makes it a little more bearable with his mothering, though sometimes his care smothers you and you have to get away.
You mentally go through the list of the dead. Kindly Vriska had unfortunately died when rebellious Terezi stabbed her before she could scout out for Bec Noir. Tavros fell from a tall height after Vriska warned him not to go that particular direction or "you'll be hurt and I don't want that!" You wrinkle your nose. Vriska was one of those people who were too nice.
Equius and Nepeta had been killed by the mystery killer after Nepeta used him as bait and Equius, loyal to the end, died for her. Feferi had wrestled shy Eridan's wand away from him and killed him in a fit of blind rage before she was killed by Sollux, who decided to avenge his best friend. Karkat was eerily cheerful when relating these deaths, an innocent smile on his face.
You swear that you could see the lightest hint of olive green on his hands as he made a heart, blowing a kiss to you over video chat.
And now you were bored.
Well wasn't this fan-fucking-tastic.
You steered clear of Davesprite, knowing he would shower you in care the moment you were in his line of sight. It was okay at first, but became too much when he would check you for injuries whenever he saw you walking past Jade.
Speak of the devil; the bitch is passing by you now. She brushes past you and you can't help but see the red staining her white aspect symbol and definitely can't help but see the head in her hands. She suddenly stops and you stiffen right up.
"John, are you going to stand there or be useful for once?" Jade turns to you, a blank look on her face as always, "I can find use for you in my experiments if you wish. I need an extra hand or two."
By the way she looks at your hands, you have a feeling that she doesn't mean that figuratively.
"No, I'm thinking of leaderly shit. Something you wouldn't fucking understand." You answer in your typical fashion, a scowl on your face.
"Very well. Enjoy your stupor." She heads on her way and let out a shaky breath. That was fucking scary.
Maybe you should pay a visit to Davesprite after all.
Suddenly your laptop pings. Opening it, you find that Dave wants to video chat. You open it up.
"Hey John, what's up?" He greets you with a wave and a smile, pushing the shades you got him for his birthday up onto his hair before they can fall into his eyes. You swear, he treats his eyes like something special and, while you don't particularly care, most of the humans that are now dead considered him a freak. Even so, he wouldn't lift a hand to stop them, often getting himself beaten up.
The facts that he was still so optimistic when the idiots called him a demon was a little unnerving and plain sad to you, but what can you do? All of those bozos are dead anyway.
"John? Yoo-hoo, Earth to Egbert!" Dave waves his arm s in front of the camera, "Heh, you're spacing out!"
"I was thinking, dipshit." You scowl at him.
Dave just rolls his eyes dramatically, "You always think! Why don't you have some fun every once in a while?"
"Oh, I don't know," You say sarcastically, "Other than the fact that I'm stuck on a fucking gold battleship with a deranged lunatic, a fucking mother hen and a cranky old woman? Yeah, so much fun."
"Hey, Davesprite's cool! Don't say that around him, or he might get…" Dave pulls down his shades over those eyes, pointing the double pistol fingers at you, "… his feathers ruffled."
"Dave, no." Your eye twitches, "That was lamer than usual."
"You know you love me. Don't deny~" He pushes his shades back into his hair and does this ridiculous double pistol wink. "Well, gotta go! Karkitty said he wanted to play some sort of game…"
"Dave, don't go with him alone-!" But Dave's already off of video chat.
You bite your lip and keep from flinching as another scream rips from somewhere on the ship and unconsciously keep Casey close to you.
Next chapter features innocent Rose!
