Author's Note: This is a forewarning that there will be spoilers everywhere in this fanfiction. So if you don't want to be spoiled, then catch up with steven universe, homestuck, and whatever else you care about, fandom-wise.
I entered my room, tired as all heck about the day. I had just gotten back from work, and was in my bedroom. My name is Christopher Rider. I enjoy chatting with friends, when they're online, and always hope that they could co-op with me in a good video game. I have my own channel on youtube, although it only has, like, 5 subscribers. I have a fondness for art, especially when they include my friends in the frames, and even though I'm not very good, I try my hardest to practice.
It was the 13th of April, and the final update for Homestuck was planned for today. I couldn't wait to see the thrilling conclusion to this amazing comic!
My room was more like a small dorm, with a bunk bed that had the bottom half redesigned to be a workspace with a deck and dresser fitted into it. There was a corner missing from my room, because it was taken up by a closet. To the left of the closet was my makeshift entertainment system. I had an old TV, with an xbox360, a VCR, and Kinect on a small desk with three drawers. It wasn't much compared to other people, but it served my needs. Finally, between my bunk bed and TV was a bookcase that I used mainly to hold movies and games.
I walked over to my workspace, and opened up my laptop. It wasn't a very good one, and I didn't even know if it would survive for very long without it plugged in, but it too served my needs without much trouble. When I turned it on, I was greeted by my desktop; a background of my favorite troll at the time, Vriska. As expected, there were little shimejis everywhere! Shimejis are like little people that walk around on your desktop. But they also have a tendency to multiply, so I always have to keep them in check.
The apps that I mostly use are Google Chrome, Skype, and a fanmade version of Pesterchum that I found out about. My chumhandle is xenyFlux, and I don't really use any quirks, unless I use a question mark or exclamation point, in which case I would emulate Vriska's quirk, and use eight of them. I went ahead and got rid of all but one of each of the shimejis. Better to not bog down my computer too much. Suddenly, my Skype was going off. Someone had messaged me.
It was one of my friends from across the world. Ymke had messaged me!
Y^,^: "ayooo!"
S_X: "hey Ymke. So how are you?"
Y^,^: "im good!"
S_X: "Awesome!"
Y^,^: "so that su bomb was great, wasnt it?"
S_X: "Yeah, it was! That blaster creature had no chance against Lapis!"
Y^,^: "i kno right!?"
S_X: "Just a couple of bored movement of her hand, and BOOM! The monster was down."
Y^,^: "yee!"
While waiting for any more messages, I decided to open Google Chrome, and check to see if there's an update yet at . Sure enough, there was. Actually, there were two updates. One seemed to be a flash file, but the other just had the name '?'. It was literally four question marks.
Chris, confused: "What the heck?!"
Trying my best to ignore it for now, I went over to the flash file, and opened it. However, all that showed up was an error message:
ErRoR: Be2t not two watch thii2 yet, Chrii2. 2orry.
Chris: "Okay, someone's messing with me, now!"
I tried to press the red 'x' on the top right corner of the error message, but as soon as I did that, my cursor started moving on its own, and not in the fidgety way like when you accidentally touch your touchpad while using a mouse. As I gazed at the screen, freaked out, the cursor hit the back button, and clicked on the 'questionable' update. When the page loaded, the cursor clicked on the picture that showed up, which was a split screen of the skaia symbol and the house symbol.
Afterwards, my computer began downloading something, and when I looked at the name of the file, I knew that we were all absolutely SCREWED! My computer was downloading Sburb! If this is so, then it means one of two things; either Hussie is playing a huge prank on anyone named Chris, or that was actually Sollux!
Whichever one of these two possibilities that it ended up being, would depend on whether this file were the real deal or not. Well, the only way to find out would be to install it. But if it is real, then I would have to convince the others to install it as well. Can't have everyone DEAD, after all.
As the files download, I reopen Skype to send out the update.
