"Go ahead, John, you were the one to defeat Lord English and Jack. I think you should open the final gateway." Rose said. She was smiling and holding Kanaya's hand.
"Are you sure, I wasn't the sole one to bring down English." John said whilst rubbing the beck of his neck.
"Go ahead, dork, you played an important part in bringing him down, and you're the one who got us into this mess in the first place." Dave replied.
Jane walked up to John and put her head on his shoulder and wrapped her arms around him in a hug, "Go ahead, Poppop, you deserve it."
"I like this door better than our's, why couldn't we have had a red house?" Terezi said.
John reached for the door, he could hear Karkat grabbing and tugging on Kanaya's sleeve anxiously and whimpering. He knew they had had a bad ending to their session when Jack had swooped out of the sky and attacked them.
He took a deep breath as he took a good grip on the handle. He twisted it and pulled the door out. He did it slowly to make sure nothing bad would happen. Everyone seemed to stop breathing at this point.
He let the door swing the rest of they way open, inside was a swirling void of pink, purple, and blue. It gave off an erie feel, although everyone was used to that kind of feeling after their sessions.
"Are we ready?" John had turned to ask everyone, he was joking of course since he knew the horrors they had gone through.
"Fuck yes, get me out of here." Karkat said pushing past the rest of the group. He half stepped half leaped into the portal.
"Wonk, I'll go next." Roxy said while she was winking at the others and walking toward the portal.
After those two had gone, everyone else went in with John being last. He stopped before walking through.
"Goodbye, you hideous and wonderful game." he whispered while taking a final look around. He then stepped into the portal and his vision went black.
Karkat stumbled out of the portal first, "Gah, damn it that hurt." he had landed on his butt and began to rub it to try and alleviate the pain.
"Here's Roxy!" Roxy yelled as she popped out of the portal. She landed on Karkat's lap making him scream in agony.
"Ahhh, as if I wasn't in enough pain already!" he yelled at her.
"Gee, I'm sorry, just please don't yell at me." she responded.
"Whatever, just get off already." he said. He pushed her off of himself and onto the ground.
As they began to get up, everyone else tumbled out of the void hole and into a pile on the floor.
"I give the fuck up." Karkat mumbled from under the pile of bodies.
Everyone wiggled and tried to get free.
"Stop poking me with your horns!"
"I'm not trying to."
"Everyone, just please move."
They had all finally gotten off of each other and were all sitting and laying on the ground.
They began to examine their surroundings. It was empty, literally. They were sitting on a clear plane in the vacuum of space.
"Where are we?" John said looking around.
"You're in you new your new creation." responded a gentle voice. It resounded in the vacuum with power, but at the same time was the sweetest thing that any of them had heard in a while.
Two figures materialized before them. One was in chains and looked scrawny and defeated; his robes were tattered and almost destroyed. The other was beautiful, she wore luxurious robes and scarves and the most beautiful of dresses.
Jade gasped, "Calliope, I'm so glad to see you!" she clapped her hands together and ran to hug her. She began to wrap her arms around her, but fell through her.
"I'm sorry Jade, I'm not actually here," Calliope sighed, "Instead, I'm just a hologram sent by Sburb to tell you about your reward."
"Why is he here?" Dave said while pointing to the other figure, it was Caliborn. Dave tried to make his sword appear, but to no avail. They were no longer in Sburb, therefore the rules of physics and not the rules of Sburb applied to them.
"He is needed for your wish that the game has granted to you." Calliope explained.
"What is this request that the game shall give us?" Kanaya asked.
"You shall live in any time period you want to live in on the planet Earth." she informed.
"We can basically pick, anywhere and anytime to live in?" Jane asked.
"That is correct." Calliope responded.
"I vote for good ol' Texas, but in the future so there's robots." Dirk said.
"No way, my friend, I vote for England." Jake said.
"Is there no votes for Alternia?" Karkat said.
"Yeah, I want to go home." Terezi said, "There's so much red on that planet."
"There's plenty of red on Earth too, Terezi." Dave said, "I like bro's idea, except, I think we should live in the time that we did before the game."
"I will be fine living wherever Rose would like to live." Kanaya voted, she leaned into Rose and they played with each others hands and giggled.
"I think we should live where there's lots of people, I hated living isolated on my island. Although me and Bec had some great memories." Jade remarked.
"I think that we should all live together, in a world that is in a future time from our own. We could live in the city of Chicago. It is warm in summer for the Sriders, cold in winter for me, and there is an enormous amount of people like what Jade wants." Rose informed.
"That, and it's the windy city. It's perfect for me too." John said, he then laughed nervously.
"Woah, woah, woah, and we're supposed to be fine with this?" Karkat asked, "I want to go home to Alternia."
"Karkat, I wish I could send you and your friends back, but unfortunately, there is no gateway left to that universe. Even if there were to go back, it would be completely obliterated." Calliope told him.
Karkat, Kanaya, and Terezi fell silent when they had heard the news about their planet.
Rose hugged Kanaya and said, "I am so sorry to hear about this."
Kanaya gently pushed her away, "I will be fine, life will go on." She choked out the words trying not to cry.
Terezi looked down then responded, "Well that sucks."
"I am really sorry to have told you that, but it had to be done." Calliope said, "Moving on though, you have the space you want to live in, do you have any idea of a time?"
"Well, we said future, right?" John asked.
"Yeah, how about something like 2030?" Dave suggested.
Everyone half nodded in agreement, they really didn't care at this point. All that they really wanted was to get out of Sburb once and for all.
"Ok, the space and time are set for your arrival." Calliope said. "One more thing," everyone groaned, "The game will grant you one wish, not individually, but as a whole. What shall it be?"
"A lifetime supply of drinks would be amazing!" Roxy said.
"I think we should wish for Rainbow Dash to be real." Dirk said.
Jake fiddled with his fingers as of trying to think, "I honestly have no clue what we should wish for."
"Well, I would say Betty Crocker baking stuff, but after the Condence I think I don't like those cakes anymore." Jane said.
"I know," John whispered, surprisingly everyone heard him and was now listening, "I wish for the game of Sburb to never exist except for our copies, so no one will find it unless we will them to."
The other nodded in agreement.
Calliope nodded and smiled, "Excellent wish, it is granted."
She held up her arm and her hand began to glow, a spark of white energy fired from it off into space, "The space you will live in has been completely set. Caliborn, you are allowed to move."
Caliborn looked around at the kids and trolls, he reluctantly did the same as Calliope. A spark of red energy flew into space. He gave them all one final glare, and disappeared.
"When you are ready, you may all enter the portal that you came from. Enjoy your new lives, please." she said, she looked like she was going to cry.
"Wait, will I ever be able to see you again?" Jade asked, her dog ears had flopped down like a dog's do when they're sad.
"Yeah, Imma miss ya Callie." Roxy said.
Calliope sniffed and looked down, she paused for a few moments before responding, "I'm afraid I will never see you again." she began to cry, "Only if the game allows me to."
Jade and Roxy wrapped their arms around her, they too began to let tears run down their cheeks. They remembered that she was just a hologram and instead hugged each other right over where she seemed to be.
"Please go, I will get to you some how." Calliope sniffed, she talked through sobs.
They were frozen in time for a few seconds more, then released their grips on each other.
They walked back over to the group. The trolls had already gone through the portal. The others began to go, leaving Jade and Roxy behind. Both of them took a final look at Calliope. She had looked up and was smiling at them, although, tears still hung in her eyes threatening to begin rolling once again.
Roxy and Jade smiled at her one last time then walked through the portal into the new world