I'm not dead folks, and I've had the motivation to bring this back. As always comments on what you think I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Rose and Kanaya shot each other subtle glances and sly smiles.

"Seriously what's the deal with you two." They broke their eyes away from each other as Dave spoke.

"There's Nothing Strider. Would There Be?"

"Don't play games with me I can tell there's something going on between you two." He pointed at the girls. John giggled.

"C'mon Dave, if they wanna keep it private let them keep it private." Jade giggled, causing John to start giggling again.

"Have you forgotten that we're looking for our friends in a city that is completely foreign to us?"

"Yeah! Isn't that the best!"

"C'mon Rose, I'm sure they're fine, after all, we got through SBURB."

In the opposite direction Terezi was breaking through the crowds with her cane, the other trolls following in her wake. Aradia was babbling something about archaeology no one was listening to, but she seemed undeterred.

"Stop!" They're around here somewhere." Terezi wrinkled her nose and sniffed the air. Vriska looked away from Eridan and stopped dead. They had left the crowds some distance back, and were a quiet, unassuming street filled with near identical houses. The wind whistled through the streets, and the sun hung lazily in the clouds. Vriska stepped forward.

"J-John?" Her eyes began to well up; a figure appeared in the window, looking down at them. They raised an eyebrow quizzically; and turned away.

Vriska sank to her knees. The earth itself seemed to be playing music; a slow, sad funeral dirge. The wind's pitch changed, it was high and reedy. Vriska curled up on the floor; the others were unable to understand what was happening.

"Do you remember me?" She whispered softly to herself, in time with the music. Her face was covered in tears, her make up running in thick black lines from behind her glasses.

The door of the house in front of them opened, and a short figure with thick glasses stepped out, looked around the street and darted towards the trolls. Vriska looked up, her eyes still heavy with tears.

"John, you came back, John, don't ever leave me."

"Uh, Vvris, hate to break it to you. But that's a girl." She wiped away the tears and looked up. A human girl was smiling a goofy buck toothed smile at them. There was a blur and a crack and a jet of purple blood hit the sidewalk.

"Ah! You fucking bitch! How dare you-" He doubled over as a robotic fist slammed into his gut. Vriska smirked, her teeth glinting in the sunlight. She took two handfuls of his clothing and pulled him up to her face.

"If any of you tell anyone about this," Eridans head lolled backwards, blood still streaming down his face. "I'll kill you." She head butted him, shattering his glasses and sending him tumbling to the floor in a tangle of cape and scarf.

"So. Who are you guys? I've don't think I've ever seen your species around here."

"Our species? You meant there's more than just humans here? Wow! That's awesome!" The girl looked confused at the fascination in this strange horned creature, smiling at the mundane as if it were extraordinary.

"Well, yeah. I'm Jane by the way."

"Jane, I'm Terezi." She sniffed at the air. "Have you seen three guys who look like us come by?"

"Yes actually! They ran by so fast and then you stopped here so I was going to ask you what it meant."

"Wwhich direction did they go in?" Eridan had pulled himself up, and was wiping blood away with his hand.

"That way." Jane pointed down a road that was similarly empty.

"Thanks." Terezi began clacking her cane onto the roads surface and ran off, the others followed.

The huge muscular figure being ridden by a smaller tailed one did not attract much attention beyond a curious glance and an awkward turning away of eyes.

"Nepeta, how much further must I carry you?"

"Until we find Karkat silly." Clawed hands swatted at persistent insects.

"This was a stupid idea."

"C'mon Sollux, you were just as bored as the rest of us." Feferi took a sip of her drink and put it on the street underneath the bench, attempting to forget the taste.

"Yeah, but I wasn't expecting another different universe." He picked needlessly at his teeth.