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Now, this is just a quick thing, bc I can't write lately. Shortest story yet! *Shrug*

Ship: Equius X Karkat X Tavros (Ashen)
Chapter 13: The Leg Debate
(Notes: Splinter timeline, all the trolls and kis on the metoer.)
{Categories: Humor, ashen.}
[Blurb: Feed up with Equius and Tavros, Karkat steps in and once again helps some of the strangest members of the group.]

"This isn't debatable, lowblood."
"I, um, kinda think it is, sir."
"It is not."
"They're my legs."
"I built them."
"And then, uh, put them on my body. They're part of me now."
"Do not speak back to me, low blood."

"I will fix your legs how I feel they must be fixed, and you will not complain."
"Is that, uh, an order?"
"Yes."
Tavros stared at Equius, trying to decide if he could escape. He watched as the blue blood picked out a hammer, and a wrench. He closed his eyes and breathed out. Back in. Back out. Back in and-
"These are my legs, and I don't want more than two legs. Just two, no more. I will not let you give me four legs. I'm not a hoofbeast." He said, carefully and slowly. Equius turned around. He walked towards Tavros who stood his ground for all of three steps, before walking backwards.
"Uhhh," He said. He stumbled back, and fell. Equius towered over him.
"That is unfortunate for you." He said. Tavros swallowed.
"What is going ON in here?!" A voice screeched. The trolls craned their necks to behold the smallest troll, bright red and glaring at them. "I asked a question, you idiotic, cowering, freaks!"
"I do not believe you should be calling me a freak." Equius said. Karkat grew redder, and stormed towards the huge, STRONGEST troll. Equius didn't flinch when Karkat grabbed his shirt.
"What did you just call me you wriggling, vomit-inducing, sweat-dripping-"
Equius was smart enough to pull instead of push, but even that was enough to shove Karkat off blance. He fell of Tavros, who gasped.
"This does not concern you, mutant." He said, scowling at Karkat. Karkat jumped up.
"That makes me very concerned." Karkat snapped. Equius nodded.
"Very well. I am fixing the bronze-blood's legs." He said.
"Then what in the ever-living name of the horror-terrors is the yelling and banging for?!"
"You are the only one yelling."
"Uh, can I say something?" Tavros asked, still on his back. Karkat scowled and motioned for him to get up. Tavros obeyed. "I don't want my legs fixed."
"That is unfortunate for you, because I have decided they will be."
"But, uh, you can't decide that."
"I can. I made them, and I am a higher blood color."
"The hemospectrum….Isn't really a thing anymore…You know, since, uh everybody died, sort of…"
"All the more reason for those of us who are left to honor it."
"And you gave these to me…So, you don't really have any right to-"
"Be silent."
Tavros frowned and looked down. Equius moved towards him, hammer and wrench in hand.
"O.K. thank you, that's enough, sweat and strength. If Tavros doesn't want your freaky and disgusting robotics then you leave him alone." Karkat snapped, getting in between them. Equius clenched his fists, frowning deeper.
"You cannot commend me in this, mutant." He said, sweat dripping off of him. Karkat made a face and took a step back. He made a gagging noise and looked at Tavros.
"Why don't you just walk away, Pupa?" He growled. Tavros looked away.
"He keeps messing with my legs." Tavros muttered. Karkat spun back around.
"You WHAT?!" He screeched. Equius dapped away some sweat with a towel, and nodded. Karkat groaned. "Why are you both so messed up?!"
Tavros backed up a little. He listened to Karakt's screams of rage, and continued to back up a little bit at a time, until he was out of the room. He quickly made his way away from there, and sought safety with Kanaya.

"This has to stop. I cannot take this regurgitated one-sided hate feast for one pea-picking minute longer. I will stick your own intestine down your sweat stained throat." Karkat was babbling , getting more and more off topic. From what Kanaya could see , Equius had long since tuned out the angry, word-flaunt troll. Karkat was following him around screaming his head off. She smiled as the sceen un-folded in front of her.
She and everybody else knew of his ability to talk down anyone, from rust to fuchsia. She had seen him manage to talk down a sober Gamzee and a magic infused Eridan. It was no surprise that Equius was tolerating him.
A thought startled her. And she raised an eyebrow. She raised a brow, and watched. A soft smile graced her face, and she left the room. She did not believe that she was needed here.

"But, Kanaya-"
"No buts, Tavros. I am right in this."
"I, uh, think this is a bad idea."
"I note your opinion." Tavros gave her a frustrated look, and Kanaya sighed. "Besides, I believe I am already taken as far as the ashen quadrant. You remember two trolls by the names of Vriska and Eridan? Now, trust me and go back try to talk to Karkat and Equius."
Tavros scowled and looked down. Kanaya pushed him towards the door a little and he obeyed, walking off. Kanaya dusted off her hands, figuratively. Just because she already had that quadrant filled didn't mean that she couldn't help other people with that quadrant.

"-like some sort of moronic tumor not unlike the one that Dave and Rose flung into the green sun." Tavros shared a look with Equius. Hearing Karkat yelling for so long was enough to make him regret not just letting Equius have his way. He sighed and moved over to the work bench, and managed to boost himself up on the bench. Karkat stopped mid-sentence and glared over at him. "Are you seriously going to let him mess with your legs after all this moronic running around like some wriggler with its head crushed underneath a meowbeast ginormous paw, probably Nepeta's lusus, if we're being completely honest with ourselves?"
"Are you going to cease to disobey me, low blood?" Equius asked Tavros. He sighed and nodded. "Excellent."
"No! No, you are not turning him into a hoof beast!" Karkat snapped. Equius looked over at him. He seemed to think for a few moments, then sighed.
"Why not?" He asked. Karkat sighed.
"Because, sweat for brains, you can't turn a troll into a hoofbeast. It's just wrong. Especially if they don't want to be a hoofbeast." Karkat explained. Equius snorted. "Don't snort at me, you-"
"Do not tell me what to do." Equius commanded. Karkat scowled and came back with one of his more colorful insults. Tavros sat on the bench, waiting. Sometime later, Equius shot up, glaring at Karkat. Karkat didn't flinch or back down. He glared back.
"If you are that adamant, then I will cease my attempts for the time." He snapped, his voice raised. Tavros shrank a little. Karkat nodded, stilling meeting his glare.
"Well that a flipping miracle. Someone call the clown, we have a real miracle!" karkat started yelling for Gamzee while Equius gritted his teeth and glanced at Tavros. Tavros shrugged.
A vent popped open and Gamzee fell out. He glared at them before growling at Tavros and Equius, hoping in his vent, and leaving. There was a thin silence, before Karkat burst into a flurry of curses.
Tavros stifled some laughter, and Equius snapped up a tool, breaking it.

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