You flopped onto your bed and buried your face into your pillow. Thank god you finally escaped from that. You rolled over to stop from suffocating yourself and clutched a second pillow to your stomach.

You'd finally convinced your parents of what was happening, and then convinced them to not call the police or government and let Dave, Dirk and Karkat stay, and finally taken the three amigos to the spare room so they could figure out sleeping arrangements. You told them you'd bring in however many mattresses to put on the floor later.

God, you still couldn't believe what was happening. It was just so amazing, wait until your friends found out!

Although you did wonder if any of the others were here too. You figured that maybe those who were present for the final showdown in the comic were also thrown here through a portal, since Dave and Dirk seemed to know each other fairly well and they had bro time just before the showdown.

It wouldn't be too unreasonable, I mean, they're here, you reasoned.

You heaved a sigh; you still needed to move all of Dave's shit from the living room.

Better get started.

You made your way to the spare room where you could hear the three boys talking amongst themselves behind the door. You gave a couple of knocks before entering to let them know you were coming in and stood in the doorway.

"Hey, Dave, wanna help me decide where to put all your stuff that's still in the living room?"

"Sure."

He tried to get up, but became tangled in his cape and fell onto the floor.

You tried really hard not to laugh, you really did, but a muffled chortle managed to make it past your lips. The other two were doing much the same however, so you didn't feel too bad. You turned away to let Dave keep some of his dignity.

"We should probably try to get you guys some other clothes too. Not that I don't like the cape or puff shorts guys, but you kinda stick out like a sore thumb. You're fine though, Karkat."

Karkat aimed a smug little grin at Dave and you could have sworn you saw something flash behind Dave's shades. Obviously you weren't in on this.

"I'll meet you in the living room, 'kay Dave?"

You left before he gave an answer.

Karkat, who was still smirking at Dave, said "I told you your cape was stupid."

Dave had been helping you sort though the pile of stuff, telling you what you could throw out and what to keep, for about fifteen minutes now. You'd been idly chatting as you did, answering all his questions, and asking him things here and there. He'd even done a quick rap for you at one point.

Eventually you dug his gear shaped turntables from the pile.

"Hey, Dave?"

He gave a hum to show you he was listening.

"Do you think you still have your god tier powers?"

He looked over at you.

"I mean, you can't use your syladex anymore obviously, but that was from your universe. Your god tier powers and stuff came from the game, and I was thinking, if the game can transport you here, can you still use the powers you got from it?"

Dave looked away. You couldn't tell exactly, but you thought he was thinking. Suddenly he stood up.

"Let's go outside. If we're gonna test this rad theory of yours, we should probably do it out there."

"I'll get the others, we can empty their syladexes too if they want" you volunteered. Dave nodded and you set off for the spare room.

You told the other two about your theory and told them to meet you outside if they wanted to join in.

They both followed you outside and you all stood under the covered area that looked onto your back yard.

"Alright, who's going first?"

All eyes swivelled to Dave.

Dirk' powers were pretty destructive, so you weren't sure if he was going to have a go. And of course, Karkat never went god tier, so that left Dave.

"Yeah, yeah, ok," he said then walked out onto the grass.

He had brought his turntables out with him, and he got them floating beside him.

"Here goes nothing," he muttered, and gave the disks a spin.

Dave disappeared in a flash then reappeared beside you.

"Did it work? Well, obviously it worked, but where or when did you go?" you asked.

"I tried to go back to when we were in the medium still, but I just landed somewhere here, I guess, I couldn't really tell. Then I tried forwards and that worked, although no one was in the house."

You nodded thoughtfully.

"Well that's your individual powers, and I'm gonna guess that Dirk's work too. But what about flight? You guys could fly before too right?"

Dirk nodded and stepped forward, well, more like floated forward, then hovered in front of you. Well that was that question answered.

"Well, ok. I don't think we want to test the whole immortal thing, but even though the evidence says you should still be immortal, you should be cautious. We don't know for sure."

"So were we going to empty our syladexes or not?" Karkat asked.

"Yeah, you can if you want. I'll help you go through them and we'll see what we can keep. You guys should have some spare sets of clothes in there somewhere if memory servers, so when you find them give them to me and I'll wash them for you."

You added that you'd help Dave finish first and walked back inside.

You were back in bed again after a long afternoon of work. Dave and Dirk had a few spare sets of clothes in the dryer after being washed, and you found some hand-me-downs that had yet to fit your younger brother for Karkat to use as spares.

The stuff you salvaged from the trio's syladexes was stored in the spare room which you planned on cleaning out properly for them so they could put their stuff in the wardrobe and drawers.

You were staring up at your ceiling through the dark as sleep refused to take over you. You turned your head to look at the glowing numbers of your alarm clock and groaned when you saw that it was past midnight. You were lucky you were on school break.

You rolled around for a bit before you heard shuffling outside your door. You froze, your senses kicking into overdrive as you tried to listen for any other noises.

Your door opened a crack and you quickly shut your eyes, pretending to be asleep.

You heard a quiet sigh and you recognised the person to be one of the guys. You'd told them that if they needed anything during the night to come and wake you up.

You opened your eyes and sat up slightly, trying to make out which one of them was at your door.

"Oh, you are awake."

You recognised the lowered voice as Karkat's.

"Yeah, I couldn't sleep."

"Neither. Nightmares."

You suddenly remembered that trolls slept in recuperacoons for a reason. The sopor helped chase away the nightmares that plagued them, and there wasn't any on earth.

You sat up further and shuffled over to sit on the edge of your bed. You patted the mattress beside you.

You could see Karkat hesitate, but he eventually came in, closing the door behind him and sat next to you.

"You want to talk about it?" you asked. Karkat shook his head.

You flopped over onto your back and returned to staring up at the dark ceiling. Eventually, Karkat also lay back.

"So what was it like on Alternia?" you asked quietly. You didn't want to wake anyone up.

"I don't know, different to here I guess," he replied as quietly as he could manage. You could feel him shrug next to you.

"Different how?"

"Well, for one I had a fucking recuperacoon."

You chuckled softly.

"What else, alien boy?"

"I was only really ever awake at night so it was always pretty dark, although I could see fine."

"Can you see in here?"

"Yeah, I can see pretty well."

"Seriously? I can't see shit."

It was Karkat's turn to chuckle now.

"Yeah, I can see your stupid face perfectly."

"Ha, well at least I don't have to see yours."

"Bitch."

"Ass."

You continued to playfully poke shit at each other for another hour or so, asking things like what kind of jobs were available on Alterina and if Karkat was cute as a wiggler. You got a light punch for that one.

You eventually fell asleep at some point, although you don't remember when, and when you woke up Karkat was gone.

You crept to the spare room to find him sound asleep on his mattress on the floor, much alike the Striders.

You closed the door quietly and let them sleep, deciding to make pancakes for breakfast.

Ahh another chapter up, and another one is already being written as you read this. I've had a bit of free time lately, so the next chapter shouldn't take too long. I've also started another fic which was sitting in my fanfic folder for a while. I found it again and was suddenly hit with inspiration, so I guess I'll see where it goes.

Thanks as always for the kind words of encouragement! Happy reading! :D