We now go to a certain Prince once again. If you were hoping Jeremy might get some attention, then you were fucking wrong, we'll get to him later.
You have just welcomed two assholes into your home. By which I mean Brandon and Mark are here.
"Hey, where's your second gate?" Brandon asks without even acknowledging that he is in your home, which is infested with imps. As if the imps were not something you need to get rid of.
"Dude, it's up the stairs. Now can you help me kill these fucking imps?" You respond
"Nope, got places to be, you can join us if you want."
"Where are you going?"
"We're going to Jon's planet" replies Mark, another who isn't gonna help with the imp issue.
"Why would I need to go to Jon's planet?" You respond.
"Shit's going down," Brandon says, "and from what we have gathered, he's gonna go fight a big fucking monster. You in?"
"Big monster fight, or killing hundreds of imps?" You ponder your situation, "Yeah, let's go."
With that you three head up to your second gate. You emerge in Jon's house and head up the stairs that clearly don't belong there until you reach the second gate. You hop in.
You our three all approach the walled city that Jon was in last chapter. Oh...my...God...his planet, it's...it's...ENCREDIBLY DANK! His consorts are elephant shrews, fucking elephant shrews. This is a clear challenge to your own planet's dankness by the great lord of dank in the sky. You will prove to them that when the going gets dank, the dank increases.
As you three walk through the dank land of candy and flight you see Jon being led by sharply dressed elephant shrew, sharp AND dank, a deadly combination! You promptly all run up to him. While the other two seem occupied trying to convince the shrew to let you help on the mission, you are questioning Jon on how he could find something so dank and not inform you of it. After several minutes of arguing the others have gotten you all a free trip on their favorite rocket ship, and you realize that Jon simply had no idea the dank levels of his planet. So with the situation under control you all head to the launch site.
"Whoa!" Brandon exclaims, "That's pretty well done for a bunch of elephant shrews!"
"Don't insult the ingenuity of my consorts, Brandon!" Jon says, glaring at Brandon for the insult to his people.
"I don't understand how they got the necessary stuff to build a rocket!" Mark observes
"Well," the sharp shrew explains, "we trade for supplies with LORAC. With the trade we get fuel and metals to keep the place running."
"How did you trade with them in the first place?" You ask.
"Back then the people of LOTAS were much kinder and more open to the world around them," sharp shrew says sadly, "they were much more advanced than us at the time and had metal and fuel galore. Sadly times have not been kind to them."
"Yeah, I noticed," Brandon replies, "they have trouble growing crops, and outside contact is forbidden by royal decree. If they could trade fuel for food, it would be a win-win, but that's not happening any time soon."
"What the fuck are you talking about?" You respond to this long-winded talk.
"It's just history lessons," Brandon replies, "I'm talking about the current government of my planet."
"How could you possibly know that much about your planet?" You sense the bullshit.
"My people transfer knowledge in a strange way," he explains terribly, "because snakes don't have hands, they learned to use telepathy and telekinesis to survive as a civilization. If you want knowledge from them, they can just put it in your brain."
"That actually sounds pretty cool" Mark chimes in.
"I hate to interrupt," a shrew working the computers says, "but we're ready for launch, you four should get on the shuttle."
"Let's go nerds!" You say.
"Alright, let's go kill a monster in space!" Jon adds.
You all walk along a long elevated catwalk into the rocket. As you cross Brandon clings very tightly to the rail and refuses to look down, afraid of heights you guess. While entering the shuttle you see a tall man, about the age of twenty, crossing the bridge. He boards the shuttle with you. Who is he?
"Hey, Duncan." Brandon says.
"Who's he?" Jon asks.
"He's my older brother." Brandon replies simply.
"Yeah, the snake people told me to come here and help," Duncan adds, "they said it was my 'knightly duty'."
"What 'knightly duty'? You aren't a Knight!" Mark says
"Actually, I am," Duncan retorts, "I am the Knight of Heart, and you can shut the fuck up!"
The countdown starts. "Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Launch!" An extatic shrew chants into a microphone. You feel the ground shake and hear a great rumble. As you shoot up into the sky you can feel the force of gravity pulling against you in an ill-fated attempt to pull you back to the ground. You finally break free of the atmosphere and look out of the small circular window. You look out to the black void that is the Medium, the only light being the glow of cities on planets and the thousands of tiny stars that orbit Brandon's planet.
The station is fairly large. You begin to get closer in preparation for docking. As you dock Duncan looks over the four of you and says, "Alright, listen, because it's an incredibly stupid idea to let four kids handle this by themselves, I'm here. You four idiots are going to stick with me. Any deviation from this plan will be met with an ass-kicking. Any arguments?"
None of you have any verbal arguments, due to the fact that when he said he would kick your ass, he looks like he could pull off kicking all your asses at once. You should not cross this man if you value your unkicked ass.
"So," you direct your question at Duncan, "what's your Strife Specibus?"
"Fist-Kind" he answers. This motherfucker actually has fist-kind Specibus, the only person in the web-comic to pull off that Specibus was Equius, and Equius had the strength of the Hulk in a teenager's body. What is this guy, and how strong is he really with that Specibus, you would ask Brandon, but he seemed to grow pale when Duncan said the words "fist-kind" a clear sign that he is quite powerful and Brandon has been the target of that force before.
You dock on the station and you begin to hear the alarm blaring through the station. Among the alarm you hear a femal voice saying "Remain calm. Retreat to the station's safe room. Remain calm." Then you hear the hiss of the air-lock as it opens and you enter the station.
END OF CHAPTER 10
Hey, dad. Cherry said that I should give you the benefit of the doubt when we find you. Sadly, I'm not my sister, when we find you, if you don't have a good reason for killing them. I will end you. Whether you are my father or not, your crimes are unforgivable, and you WILL be punished. Cherry may hate me for it, but that's just something I'm willing to live with. Goodbye, father...