Here is Chapter two. Thanks to everyone who reviewed! It makes me really happy! Yeah I don't own anything only the plot and that stuff. Everything else goes to Andrew Hussie.
Around this time Dave was on the outskirts of town. The sun had sat long ago but he had to keep moving. The last thing he needed was his Bro to find him out here exhausted and half asleep. To keep himself awake he turned his MP3 player on full blast to one of his loudest songs. He set the playlist to play all the loud songs and replay the list after the last one. Many cars drove past him. He was actually surprised that no one asked him why he was all the way out here this late at night.
He was sick and tired of the dirt flying in his face as each car drove past so he stuck out his thumb and tried his hand at hitchhiking. After maybe the millionth car one drove over to the side of the road. Dave quickly ran over. The window rolled down on the passenger side to see a man who seemed to just finish high school, or dropped out.
"Where you going?" He asked. He was dressed up in a T-shirt and worn pair of blue jeans.
"How far will you take me?" Dave asked with his regular poker face.
"I'm on my way to Oregon."
"Sweet!" Dave let a smile slip. "I'm going to Washington." He opened the passenger side door and got in. He kept his bag at his feet as the back seat was full of boxes. "You moving?" Dave asked to break the awkward silence.
"Sort of." The man said. "I'm Tyler."
"Dave." Dave watched out the window. A whole bunch of nothing went past. He sighed and closed his eyes. He was really wiped out. "You don't mind if I sleep in here right?"
"It's cool dude." Tyler answered as he kept his eyes on the road. He almost instantly fell into a deep sleep. A weird feeling kept hitting him in the gut but he couldn't figure why.
*Homestuck*
Dave tried to open his eyes but it was still completely dark. He tried to sit up but hit head hit something hard and made a ping sound. He hissed in pain and laid back down, now with a headache. He tried to rub his eyes but not only he had no problem his shades were gone. He was mad now. His shades were really expensive and they were a gift from John.
"Hey! What did you do?" He yelled has he hit the cover of his prison.
"Shut up you punk!" His voice was muffled by the shell. "You'll see once we get there." It took Dave a moment to figure that he was in the trunk of his car. His legs were tied together but his arms were not. He quickly searched for the emergency thing that opens the trunk but it was sawed off. The car came to a quick stop making Dave hit his head again.
"Ow." He yelled.
"I said quiet!" The trunk was opened. The light blinded the blond as he shielded his eyes with his hand. The blinding was worse since he was so used to having his shades on all hours of the day. He was dragged out of the trunk and was dropped to the ground. Dave spat out the dirt and dead leaves the made way into his mouth.
"You asked if I was moving." He took Dave's sword out of his bag and pulled the sheath off of the blade. "I am but, you could call it fleeing." He pointed the tip at Dave's heart. Dave felt his blood run cold. He couldn't die right now could he? He slashed the ropes off of his legs. "I want you to run." Dave quickly got to his feet confused.
"Run?" Dave said the word like he didn't understand its meaning.
"Run, as in go away from me. I'm going to hunt you down and kill you. You have ten seconds." Dave quickly started to run. He couldn't tell where the footsteps were coming from. It could've been his own heart beat even. He slowed down to catch his breath. He still had that sleepy feeling that you get when you just woke up. He felt so off balanced to add to the mix. He saw his sword glitter in the light. He felt at an equal advantage to his attacker. He kept his hands up so if he had to hit him he could.
Tyler came from behind him, the sword above his head. Dave quickly turned around and dodged out of the way. He kept coming. Tyler was quicker then Dave thought. Dave fell once and Tyler took it to his advantage. He swung the sword at Dave. He only had time to block the strike with his foot. Sparks flew from the metal to metal contact. Tyler looked at the dulled edge of the blade.
"What was that!" He spat at Dave. He was thankful that his bro wielded a half inch thick sheet of metal to the bottom of his shoes. He got the idea from an anime they both watched a while ago.
"Irony." Dave smirked and quickly got to his feet. Dave was more confident now. With Tyler's sloppy moves he knew he never used a sword. Quickly Dave to a good shot and hit Tyler right in the jaw. The force was enough to send the taller and more heavy man flying as he crashed into a tree. Dave's knuckles hurt slightly. He never hit anything that hard before. He felt like Bro was there and hit him but used Dave's body to do it. Dave walked up to Tyler who was still shocked by the force. He pressed his foot against Tyler's wrist which had his Katana. "Are you regretting messing with Dave Strider yet?" He asked as a smirk played at his lips. Tyler winced as pain shot up his arm and throughout his back. Dave added more force making the man yelp in pain. He released the Katana. Dave quickly snatched the blade and held it against his throat. "Tell me a few things." He added some force making sure Tyler knew he meant business. "Where are we?"
"California." He answered. Tyler searched his pockets mentally. He had to have something to stop this mutated punk.
"Next question." Dave started as he looked into Tyler's green eyes. "Why did you pick me out of everyone else?"
"It was all just random. You were the first person I picked up." Bingo, Tyler had a hunting knife. He was more used to that them a long curved sword. All he had to do was keep this kid occupied with what he's saying. "Anything else you need to ask or are you going to kill me in cold blood."
"I'm not a monster like you." Dave spat. "But I do have another question, where are my shades?"
"In the car. On the dash." He had a good grip on the knife. He knew this kid was going to turn around some time to go back to the car. Dave took a step back and started back to the car. Silently Tyler got to his feet. He pulled the knife out of his pocket pulled it out of its cover. It was now or never, he was going to put an end to this brat. No one ever messes with Tyler. He took long silent steps after the blond, he held it over his head.
Tyler's legs were longer than Dave's he quickly caught up with the blond. His shadow covered the short blond and he turned around. He was frozen in fear. Tyler slashed straight down. The steel made contact with his shoulder. His blood turned the red of his shirt almost black. The steel bit in deeper making him yelp and fall to his knees. A blood thirsty smirk came to the man's lips. Dave quickly took the Katana and countered. More blood stained steel and the ground. Tyler fell to the ground. Dave cut him against the throat. Dave quickly started to run. He kept his one hand on his shoulder as he ran back to the car.
Dave quickly tried to open the doors. All of them were locked. He took a good kick to the window. It shattered and he was able to open the door. He found all of his stuff and quickly got out of the woods. He followed the faint tracks left by the tires. He kept following them for about ten minutes before he saw the stunning light that was at the clearing. With his body now high on adrenaline he ran faster his heart sped up until he saw a dirt road that lead to higher ground. He saw other cars race by on the road. His legs felt like wet noodles now but he couldn't let that stop him. He climbed up the dirt road and up to the street. Everything looked very different then what he was used to. Everything was more exotic with the pine trees and weird looking plants. A lot of the people were punks, they would drive by honking the car horn with the top down of their fancy and expensive cars and hoot at him and laugh at him. Dave thought he must've looked really dirty or something. Once he got to a point where he was starting to snap at the kids who were stupid enough to try to act tough with the Strider.
Of course this was not good. Sometimes the kids had adults that would act like their bodyguards. Then the adults would show off a sharp looking knife and threaten to kill the blond. Dave in response would show this sword wasn't for show. This would mostly make the group go away since he hadn't had the chance to properly clean the blade of the blood. The sun was starting to go down. Dave really didn't want to sleep in the street, he didn't know the risks and who he could trust. He was feeling really stressed and he really didn't like it. He looked at his IPhone and saw a text from John. Dave quickly opened the message.
Hey Dave! I know how worried you are but don't worry k? I can't wait to see you again. Like we haven't seen each other since we played Sburb and that was like months ago! Maybe we can set up a date where we can see each other?
EctoBiologist
Dave had to snicker slightly as he read the message. John had no idea that he was going to see him and so soon. He hit reply and wrote him back.
Yeah dude we should. But we should in an ironic way. I'm good for anytime, anywhere ect. When would you like dude?
TurntechGodhead
Dave pressed send and put his phone back in his pocket. Yep this is going to be the most ironic thing John has ever witness him do ever.
* Time skip! *
Finally Dave was in Washington. He was getting better at working with the bumpy terrain. Now all he had to do was find the boy's house and surprise him in a ironic way. He was lucky enough to sneak his friend's address from him in a talk they had back when he was in California, he was thinking about his bro wondering where he was and what he was doing.
He came to a nice neighborhood. He was thankful he had his address or he would have to up and down the street knocking on every door. Lucky for him John is the only person in the world with a Ghostbusters rocker thing in the back just in sight with a tire swing in the front of his house. He quickly ran up to the door. Before he knocked on the door he thought for a moment. This was not ironic enough. He found a few pebbles in the drive way and started to throw them in one of the windows in the second floor. He hoped this was John's room.
A shadow came to the window and pushed the blinds out of the way. The shadow belonged to John. He looked around his front yard before he looked at Dave. His face lightened up with the biggest smile ever. He quickly turned and ran. After a wait of less than thirty seconds the front door was thrown open.
"Dave! What are you doing here?" John asked as he ran up to the blond.
"I thought I would stop by. You know we did have this conversation a while ago." John couldn't stop smiling. His best friend was here and he could finally get to relax for some time.
"You said you would be here ironically and you did." John laughed as he wrapped his arms around Dave in a hug. "Thanks Dave." John whispered as he face had a light tint of red.
"Really it's no problem."
"Are you going to stay the night?" John asked almost too quickly as he spotted his bag. Dave chuckled.
"If your old man lets me." John released Dave and ran back into the house he came back only a few seconds later.
"He said you can!" John cheered as he pulled Dave's arm and lead him into the house. The whole place was filled with clowns. John's dad had corrected him and called them harlequins, they reminded him of a certain troll that nearly killed him once.
"Nice decorations." Dave said as he looked around the house. John chuckled," I didn't have anything to do with these things." He answered as he pulled Dave's arm and lead him up the stairs and to his room. Pictures and movie posters littered the walls, no way Dave could count all the posters in the small room.
"Wow Dave, this was so surprising, when did you get here anyways? Like did you take a plane? Did your bro drive you?" Oh great, John was bring up this question. Oh well, he could rewind time and make sure to keep the boy off the question.
"I got mad at Bro, and we had a huge argument, then I ran away." Dave answered as cool as he could. He was upset about leaving his bro like that, but what was he to do? He was a Strider after all, and being a Strider meant being the most thick headed person someone has ever met. Okay maybe Dave never had to learn how to be thick headed. John frowned at Dave. He looked from upset to being slightly mad.
"You did what?" John asked.
"I ran away." After he said that, Dave received a good punch to his face from John. Even though John was a derp he could hit hard. It sent Dave to the floor for sure. John wined a bit as he shook his hand.
"Ow!" John complained. "Dave, that hurt."
"What did I do?" Dave snapped at John. "You hit me!"
"And I should hit you again!" John yelled back. "I thought your Bro was trying to prank us when he called a day ago!"
"What do you mean!" It was a contest of who could yell the loudest. The two argued back and forth, their voices raised to overpower the other, soon it was just a screaming fight, they couldn't even understand each other. Soon they calmed down slightly from the fighting and screaming. "Okay," Dave began after they both cooled down, Dave's left side of his face swelled slightly as it was also red. "Why don't you tell me what my bro told you."
"He didn't tell me anything." John answered, he didn't look at Dave. John clearly went out of his way no to look at the blond. "How long have you been gone?" John asked this time.
"A few weeks I guess." Dave answered.
"How did you get from Texas to here?" John asked as he looked at Dave from the corner of his glasses. "In fact, how in the world did you live a few weeks on your own?"
"I really don't know." Dave admitted. "I guess you don't have to look homeless to get some food from a homeless shelter." John giggled slightly.
"Is this what you call ironic Dave?"
"Isn't everything I do ironic?"
"Yeah I guess."
"So back to my question, did you hear my bro say anything to your dad?" Dave asked. John shook his head.
"No, I only heard about it when dad asked when the last time I talked to you. Then he brought it up. I thought he was kidding around cause you know how big of a prankster he is and all." John looked at his feet. "Do you think you can make up with your bro? I know dad must've called your bro a while ago."
Dave cursed lightly under his breath.
"Great, he's gonna be here in the matter of hours." Dave groaned.
"And that's a bad thing?" John asked confused slightly.
"Yeah, he's going to want me to kiss up to him and all that because I put him in a boat load of trouble."
"Oh that isn't good."
"Sorry but I might have to high tail it out of here sooner than I thought." John frowned at Dave as he peeked out of his door.
"I think you might have to leave sooner than you think." John started as he closed the door and locked it. "Someone's here and it's not my dad." Dave slightly groaned. as he plopped himself down on the bed and rubbed his temples.
"Dude, you have to buy me some time." Dave started as he started to pace the room. John thought for a second.
"I know! Remember that Nic Cage movie where he was an assassin and he had this one guy do all his errands and stuff and then trained that guy to do all sorts of stuff he can do?" He jumped up and down in excitement.
"Yeah..." Dave lied he fell asleep while watching the movie with John.
"Well jump out the window and do something amazing!" John looked under the door. "I would hurry too, I think I see your bro's feet." Dave quickly opened the window. He smirked slightly at John and jumped out of the window. John slightly sighed. Just then his door was being knocked on.
"John, can I come in?" He heard his dad say.
"Yeah dad." John unlocked the door and opened it. He backed up far enough so he wouldn't get hit by the door. John was right, beside his dad was a larger man, by guessing with the shades and the blond hair, he must've been Dave's bro. Man he was big, like muscular, way more muscular than his dad. John backed up a bit more, he felt a bit uneasy thinking that he just let Dave get away and is now going to be under pressure to tell them what he doesn't know. "Dad, who is this?" John asked even though he knew the answer anyways.
"This is Mr. Strider." His dad answered. "He's here to pick up David."
"David?" John asked. "Oh you mean Dave!" Now this trickster had to think quick. "He went to adventure a bit around. You know, he's not used to the outdoors."
"I didn't hear him come down, or even leave the house for that matter." His dad responded.
"Well, you know Dave, he's like a snake."
"He's not that good at sneaking around, a headless chicken his more sneaky then him." Bro snickered as he looked at John.
"Oh uh you know he's better sneaking around here because... We're not used to his ironic ninja-ness?" John thought quick again but not quick enough. Quickly both knew what really happened.
"John, why is your window open?" His dad asked. John swallowed hard.
"It was hot...?"
"You told him didn't you?" His dad asked.
"Yeah." He looked down at the ground. Bro cursed lightly.
"Where is he now?" Bro asked trying to keep his temper.
"I don't know." John said lightly.
"We're going to have a long talk John." His dad said. John frowned.
"You two can do that, I'm going to go get my lil bro." Bro stated as he exited the house.
*Homestuck*
The trees seemed to whoosh past as he quickly climbed the rocky uneven landscape. His speed seemed to slowly decrease until he stopped gasping for breath. His shoulder started to sting and burn, along with his lungs and sides. He couldn't just stop out in the open like this. He would either get shot by a hunter by accident or get attacked by a wild animal or bro. Dave started on again, he slowly made his way around the trees and tall hills. Everything started looking the same. Too confusing for the blond. He wanted to stop for a breather but couldn't he started cursing as the waves of pain that shot through his body.
He used the sides of the more steeper hills as leverage to keep himself from falling over. As he walked he saw a tree that had fallen down against the hill, it was draped with leaf cover, a smirk came to the Strider's lips as he decided to stay here for a while.
Yeah, sorry about not uploading for a long time, just catching up on Homestuck and messing with Deviantart and Tumblr. I know I made Dave and John ooc but it will get better. It might not make much sense because I haven't touched this doc for months. Review with comments or questions, I'll answer them all!