The sun rose over the horizon as the clouds began to clear. The traffic of the city and the noise of the inhabitants created an overwhelming ruckus. The tall grey buildings stretch high into the dark blue sky. The stars are slowly disappearing to the west, the eastern sunrise raising higher and higher to brighten up the city. The pink colors radiate from the blinding sun to expand over the heads of the people. It is now 6 o'clock am, morning rush hour begins.

Roxy hits the snooze button on her alarm clock for the second time. "Juss fif, five more minutz…" She rolls over in her bed and covers her head with the bed sheets. She lays still and just as she is about to drift off a familiar touch comes across her face. "Jaspers! I wanna sleeeeep!" Jaspers puts his tail on Roxy's tired face. Roxy sighs and pushes him away. "Meow?" "Pulease lemme sleep." She put her arms back under her blanket and closed her eyes again. Roxy could hear Jaspers giving a quick hiss, then she felt his feet padding across the bed back to her, then he leaned forward and bit Roxy's nose.

Nepeta and her troll friends were on a meteor. They were travelling through space at an alarming rate. Sollux had told everyone that he suspected the trolls were also flying through different universes. The meteor was growing in velocity. Karkat was running around trying to tell everyone what to do and how, but everyone was only in a panic. Nepeta was sitting in a corner, her arms wrapped around her legs. Equius was next to her. "It, it'll be ok Nepeta." Nepeta knew Equius had no idea what was going to happen, but she also kept up her hope.

After Roxy had yelled at Jaspers and gave him an evil eye, she didn't feel like going back to sleep. She sighed at sat up, rubbing her eyes. She had had a few too many glasses of wine last night. "OH SHIT I'M GONNA BE LATE!" She threw the covers off and felt the cool air against her body. "Damn that's cold!" She threw her legs over the bed and stood up, a bit wobbly. She had to go to work in 5 minutes. "God dammnit." She quickly got dressed in her lab uniform and took a cup of coffee on her way out. She shouted a quick farewell to her feline friend as she dashed through the door to her car.

Nepeta and Equius sat in their corner for a long time. With Sollux's grave predictions, Karkats's bantering, and everyone's chaotic attitude made Nepeta not feeling well. She along with all her friends were awaiting their doom. Soon Aradia simply pointed out the nearest window. Everyone rushed to see what it was, Nepeta being the first in line with her quick reflexes. "A planet." It was true; a relatively small blue and green planet was growing ever larger in front of them. "EVERYONE BRACE FOR A CRASH LANDING!" Karkat continued yelling over everyone, his voice being the loudest. Nepeta and Equius sat back in their corner, leaning on each other. "5…4…3…2…" and with that the entire meteor came to an abrupt halt and everyone was sent flying.

Roxy had an unreasonably short trip to work, her foot pressing a bit harder on the pedal in frustration. She turned out to be only 10 minutes late, her fellow lab workers just setting up for the meeting. Roxy fastened the last button on her lab coat and walked through the door to where the meeting was about to start. "Sleeping in again Ms. Lalonde?" Roxy stared at the slightly irksome employee as she took her seat at the head of the long table. "I'm just fashionably late, English." Everyone at the meeting gave a small smirk. "Now let's begin our meeting with a new topic I've been looking into recently, extra-terrestrials coming into contact with Earth."

Nepeta's eyes opened after she gave a heaving sigh. Her entire body was in pain, most specifically near the end of her fluffy tail. She cast away her pain as she stared at the wreckage, trying to find her friends. Nepeta pushed her hands down and attempted to stand up. Half-way through, her sides collapsed and she fell back down onto the broken pieces of asteroid and grass. "Equ… Equius!" Nepeta pricked her ears up and managed to sit up despite her aching back. "EQUIUS!" "…pe, peta? Nepeta?" Nepeta relaxed her tensed up body. "Are you ok meowrail?" "I am perfectly fine, how about you? Are you hurt Nepeta?" "I, I am. A bit, actually." Nepeta could barely keep in the sitting position when she heard the rumbling of rocks from her right. Suddenly she felt two strong hands being placed on her shoulders. "What hurts? I can see you're bleeding a lot, let's get you to some softer grass." Nepeta was carefully scooped up in Equius's arms and moved several feet to a warm patch of grass. Equius laid her down, placing her head carefully on the soil and moving her tail to the side. "But, Equius… where are the others?"

Roxy and her fellow employees had a long discussion on the matter of alien life. Where were they? What were they like? The meeting went until lunch, when everyone promptly stood up and left. All except Roxy, who was still going over the documents in her hands. She scanned an article that was focused on how to "meet and greet" the extra-terrestrials. "Always be in control, never let them think they are above you. They will sense weakness and you need to be dominant. What a laugh, are they aliens or dogs?" Roxy gave the dreadful article a scowl and tossed it aside. "Hey Ms. Lalonde, want to eat lunch at some point? We have to get back to work in 10 minutes!" Roxy looked up, a hint of laughter in her voice. "Maybe you do, English but I control this end of the lab and I take breaks whenever I damn well please." The peeved employee left the room in a rush. Roxy took another piece of paper in her hands and only read a word before deciding that she did in fact need to eat something.

Equius had done the best he could to Nepeta's wounds. She had been damaged badly. "Please, Equius, what about-" "Shhhh… we need to just make sure you're ok first." Nepeta frowned and let out olive tears of pain, both in mental and physical form. "I'm sorry Nep, but I'll need some material to make a sling and bandage some wounds. Can I possibly tear a bit from your jacket?" "Yes, I don't think I need a cold blood stained jacket bottom anyway." Equius teared away at the olive fabric of her jacket, and within only minutes Nepeta's wounds were crudely bandaged. "Now purlease, let's find our friends!" "I will go in search of our fellow comrades, you must stay put and try not to move, your wounds are bad. I'll be back soon Nepeta." Nepeta looked up into Equius's broken glasses, and with a quick nod she lay her head down on the grass. "Good. Yell if you need help." And with that Equius stomped away, sweating buckets.