Distance is irrelevant; chapter 2: Reckoning day

WARNING: you know why.

Disclaimer: still don't own Homestuck, never will.

I watched helpless as Gamzee beats my mother's body to a pulp, there is nothing I can do, we had almost won the game too, but just like always that psychotic clown showed up and robbed us of our chance at peace. I look up at him as he towers over me, watch as his arm raises his jade splattered club over my head, and when he swings down everything goes black.

I wake up screaming, my mother rushes in in a panic, thinking I'm in danger. She walks over and hugs me, trying to calm me down. After a few minutes of crying, I say "sorry, just a bad dream.", "It's Okay Sweetie, Everyone Gets Those.". I stay quiet for a few moments, reflecting on the last five sweeps, five sweeps of peace and quiet, nothing bothers us out here on the coast. It's given me an opportunity to perfect my use of swords, bows, and unarmed combat, I just hope I'll never have to use it. "Dear, Breakfast Is Ready." My mother says, rousing me from my thoughts, "i'll be down in a moment, mom." I say, giving her the biggest smile I can manage. After we finish breakfast I move on to practicing with each of my strife-specibi, never hurts to get better I always say. I train for several hours before a familiar and haunting sound catches my attention, thankfully it sounds pretty far off, for now anyways. I rush back to the house and prepare for his arrival, that bastard is not catching us off guard this time. When my mom asks me what I'm doing, I tell her I heard honks in the woods, she of course understands exactly what this means and rushes off to retrieve something. When she return's she asks "Where's Your Husktop?", "on the counter, why?" I reply, "Because I've Been Saving Something As A Last Resort If He Ever Found Us Again." she says as she tosses an envelope to me, the outside of it reads: SGRUB. "what is this?" I ask, "Our Opportunity Too Finally Have Peace." she says, "Quick, Run The Program." "okay" I reply, it may not make sense to me now, but I trust my mom. While the game is booting up my mother explains that she found it in some ruins a while back, and that she tweaked the program as the game was originally meant to run with clients and servers, but she made it so that we were our own server, allowing us to set up quickly, and enter the game with no time to spare. Gamzee was within our sight right as we entered the game, he was gone when the blinding white light disappeared, I think my mom was relieved, but I got this foreboding sense of dread, like it was worse that we can't see him anymore. I really hope I'm wrong about it though.