Don't own Homestuck... and I'm kinda glad Hussie does.

Bold text is the Alternian language.

Here is the edited version of the chapter. Thank you to TimelessMystery for being my beta and kicking me into high-gear.

~MoC~

"Martina, it's time to get up! You have to go to class! And don't forget you have to work in the cafe tonight!" a female voice called, the sound traveling up the stairs, to a bedroom at the end of the hall.

In that bedroom, was a lump of covers that started to move, upon hearing the voice. When the blankets finally lifted, a girl was revealed. This girl, Martina, as the voice had called her, sat up in the bed and swung her feet to the floor. The Hispanic girl stretched, lifting up her arms with a yawn.

"Ugh. Those dreams, again. I really hope none of them come true," Martina mumbled, looking out the window, at the clear blue sky. A smile crept onto Martina's face at the peaceful sight.

Despite the fact that many people gave her a hard time about her clothing choices, Martina enjoyed herwardrobe. Which usually consisted of simple jeans, a pair of mismatched red and blue shoes, and a black shirt with red and blue accents. She enjoyed wearing her favorite colors whenever she could. Red and blue for the win!

After checking her clock for the time, Martina dressed quickly and dashed out the door, bagel in mouth and bag in hand; breaking into a run across town to keep from being late. Luckily, she skidded into her coding class just in time, with two seconds to spare.

She had breezed through all of the university's easiest coding classes, in addition to those directed toward humans. Thus, she was in one of the Troll classes, or T-Class for short. Therefore, she had to learn Alternian,which was far easier for her than she had initially expected. Martina had soaked up the language and now could speak it like a native. Even then, all she really used it for was coding and this class.

Many of the trolls on Altearthia had picked up the human languages, some even leaving behind their , not many humans took the time to learn Alternian. As a result, Alternian coding was much stronger than Earth coding, mostly because it was far less used.

"Hey! What's up?" she asked her lab partner. He was a troll about 3 years younger (he had once told her that he was about 7.5 sweeps old) than she was, who also loved those red and blue colors. So much so that, he proudly displayed them on his glasses.

"You know, you're thtill weird for learning Alternian, right?" the troll replied.

"Aw, c'mon Sollux! I just want to know how my favorite troll is." the girl replied, grinning.

"Ugh. Alright, I'm doing jutht fine." Sollux replied, shaking his head, a faint smile on his face. He had always seemed to be a bit mopey, but if she could ever cheer him up… well, that was exactly what she was going to do. She had practically made it a hobby at this point.

~MoC~

"You coming to the cafe today?" Martina asked Sollux, as the class ended.

"Thorry, I can't make it. Today I'm going over to my help my brother'th matethprit. He'th been miththing for a while and thhe hathn't gotten over it." Sollux replied, flashing an apologetic smile. Martina's eyes softened as a smile crept onto her face.

"It's fine, Sollux. I'm sorry about your brother. I hope you find him. You should bring his matesprit around to the cafe sometime. She sounds like she could use a friend, and I'm always willing to listen." After clapping her hand on his shoulder, Martina turned and waved as she strode out the door, oblivious to the thankful expression on Sollux's face.

~MoC~

"I'm home!" Martina called out, walking in the back door of her parents' house.

"Good, we need you in the cafe! One of the Trolls only knows Alternian." Her mother called from the connecting point of the cafe and house. She often got called up to the cafe for this as no one else in her family had bothered to learn Alternian.

"Got it!" Martina replied.

Two minutes later, she was greeted with the sight of a troll about her age, 9 sweeps maybe, with cropped hair and two long braids down her back. The girl's glasses were pink which, along with her seadweller ears, gave Martina a good guess at just how important this girl was for Trolls and their hemospectrum, which Sollux had taught her.

"Hello, my name is Martina Capello, and I'll be helping you today. May I take your order?" The other girl's head shot up at the Alternian, and she smirked when she saw Martina.

"Shore, but you've gotta talk ta me whale I'm here."

"I can do that. What would you like?" Martina smiled at the girl.

"Coffee and seafood? I don't know, just give me whateva. What I reely want is some good conversation." the girl replied, slouching in the booth.

"I can do that. Though, I must ask; what is your name?"

"Meenah, Meenah Peixes."