Alienation

by SilentConventionalWeapon

AUno SBURB. Karkat's ship crash lands on Earth and is found by Dave, who decides to help the alien communicate with the rest of his fleet so he can return home. But it takes a long time, too fucking long, and at this point, Karkat is thinking he might not want to go back to Alternia. (Dave/Jade, Dave/Karkat, Karkat/Terezi, Karkat/Jade, Dirk/Jake) (also taking suggestions for plot!)

1. Karkat Initiate Crash Landing

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The obnoxious noise echoes in his ears, bouncing around in his head like a nonstop alarm, trying to shake him awake from the inside. He tries to examine the damage, but is met with only a sheer coating of his own brightly colored mutant blood, trickling over the film of his eyes. It stings, he swears. A string of hisses and clicks from the back of his throat- fuck fuck shit, how could I fuck this up so badly?!

Blindly, he searches the dashboard of the small ship and flicks a switch, shutting off the main power and shifting up the thrusters. Whatever sorry excuse for a planet he was about to crash on had a strong enough force of gravity that it would leave his ship—and likely his body—in pieces if he didn't do something to slow the emergency landing.

His communicator was still blaring through his headset, Sollux's voice yelping in his left ear, though the static-masked syllables didn't make any sense in his mind. And that's not even including the fucker's speech impediment- fuck!

Karkat's eyes were stinging still, acidic blood leaking through the folds of protective film and leaving him helpless. He clicks the side of his headset and barks a string of profanities at his yellow-blooded captain.

"I can't fucking understand you, this piece of shit is going down- I was fucking hit by who the fuck knows what and crash landing- fuck!" The last word stretches out into a screech of pain as the ship enters the atmosphere, being sucked in by the planet below.

"I don't know where the fuck I am, just track my location and send a rescue once I land!" Karkat is blindly searching around the dashboard for the one piece of personal property he brought with him. The slick slip of photo paper finds its way between the pads of his fingers, and he clutches it tightly as his head smacks against the seat.

Turbulence rocks his body around the small cabin, even with the straps of the seat belt secured across his body. His brain is bouncing around in his skull- he can fucking feel it- and he's sure his organs are being hammered against his exoskeleton.

I can't die, I can't fucking die yet, not yet, not yet, not y-

Everything goes dark as his head hits the dash, the beeping and static and sound of scraping metal filling his ears as his last thoughts echo through his mind. He slips into unconsciousness as he finally crash lands on this unknown, foreign planet.