Gamzee and Aradia strolled back to their respiteblock, confident that they had swayed Equius to their wishes. Gamzee was dancing and honking all the way back, laughing and elbowing Aradia at the same time. Aradia tried to muster a small smile in gratitude, but it instantly turned back into a gloomy frown. No matter what they had done right, there wasn't much she could do anymore. All she could do was sit and wait now.

Gamzee looked back down at Aradia, walked in front of her, and blocked her path.

"sIs, YoU gOtTa LeArN hOw To EnJoY yOuRsElF iN bAd TiMeS."

"i kn0w…"

Gamzee sighed. "i'M aLl Up AnD wOrRiEd BoUt HiM tOo, BuT hE wOuLdN't WaNt YoU mOpInG sO mUcH. gO wItH tHe FlOw, YoU kNoW?"

"n0, n0t really."

"yOu CaN dO iT, sIs!"

"please, i d0n't really want t0 talk ab0ut it…" Aradia looked down at her feet.

Gamzee looked away for a second. "eVeRyBoDy ElSe WaNtEd To AlL kEeP tHe SuBjEcT mOtHeRfUcKiNg ShUsHeD."

"they're just being nice, i think."

"bUt ReAlLy, If YoU kEeP yOuR fEeLiNgS aLl BoTtLeD uP, tHeY'rE gOnNa BuRsT sOmEtImE sOoN."

Aradia looked Gamzee straight in the eyes. "gamzee, really. i d0n't want t0 talk ab0ut it."

"…aLrIgHt. It'S jUsT tHaT i DiDn'T wAnT yOu To Be AlL tEnSe FoR nOtHiNg. I kNoW i DoN't LiKe To Be AlL mOtHeRfUcKiNg LiEd To."

"…they're lying t0 me?"

"kEePiNg QuIeT iS aLmOsT aS BaD aS lYiNg, SiS."

Gamzee just stared blankly at Aradia for a few moments, waiting for an answer.

"hOnK."

Aradia sneered. "c'm0n. let's g0."

Gamzee didn't act as cheery for the rest of the way there, as if infected by Aradia's melancholy.

When they arrived at the respiteblock, they were greeted by a confusing scene. The room had overturned recoopracoons and chairs, and there were Fiduspawn cards and personal belongings all over the floor. Terezi and Vriska were engaged in a bloody battle, screaming at each other the whole time. Nepeta was hastily drawing something on the wall behind her recoopracoon, and at the same time attempting to hide it. Karkat was screaming some profanities at Nepeta, and Tavros had fallen down from his four wheeled device onto the floor. Gamzee and Aradia simply stared at this scene in awe and confusion, wondering what must have happened while they were gone. Nepeta turned, and spotted Gamzee and Aradia at the door.

"oh no, this was the worst pawsible time fur you two to come in!"

"what happened?"

"VR1SK4 W4S B31NG 4 HUG3 B1TCH, 1T W4SN'T MY F4ULT!"

"You're the one that slapped me in the first place!"

"WOULD THE TWO OF YOU STOP HATEFLIRTING FOR JUST FIVE MINUTES?"

"Karkat, it's not like that at all!"

"you say that, but you two would make the purrfect blackrom couple!"

"nOT TO INTERRUPT ON PURPOSE, bUT, i AM STILL ON THE FLOOR,,,"

Gamzee walked over to Tavros, and lifted his chair up to the correct position. Nepeta turned back to her newly created shipping wall, and Terezi and Vriska ceased fighting for the time being. The others tried to return the room to a more normal state, working in complete silence. Suddenly, Sollux's computer was made the familiar dinging noise Trollian produced when somebody was being trolled. Karkat tentatively stepped over to the husktop, and read the trolltag that was attempting to connect to them. To his surprise, there was no trolltag, just a block of unreadable text and numbers across the screen.

- kle/00110011/d?## [BR] began trolling twinArmegeddons [TA] -

- ... .. .. ..- / .. .. ..- / ..- - .-.. .-.. ..- -..- -..- / ... . .-.. .-. .-.-.-

TA: OKAY, DIPSHIT, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO TROLL SOLLUX HE ISN'T HERE RIGHT NOW. GO AWAY, ASSHOLE.

..- ... .. .. -

-.- -.- / .. .. - .-. ..- / - .

TA: FUCK OFF.

.- ..- ..- - / -.. - -. .-. - / -... .-.. - -.-. -.- / - . -..- / .. .. / -.-. .- -. / ..-. .. .. -. ..- .-. . / - ... .. .. ..- / - ..- -

Karkat blocked the strange messenger.

"wh0 was it?"

"IF I HAD A FUCKING CLUE, I WOULD TELL YOU."

"c0uld it have been kanaya playing a prank?"

"I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE TROLLTAG."

Another beep from the computer. Another message.

- cuttelfishCuller [CC] began trolling twinArmegeddons [TA] -

CC: Sollux, did you and everybody else get on the s)(ip alright?

TA: SOLLUX ISN'T HERE.

CC: O)(, )(i Karkat!

CC: W)(ere is Sollux? I tried speaking wit)( everybody else on your s)(ip, but nobody answered!

TA: WHY HAVEN'T YOU BEEN TALKING TO ANYBODY BUT ERIDAN AND GAMZEE? THAT'S AN EVEN BETTER QUESTION.

CC: Uh.

CC: Sorry, wait, I can't talk rig)(t now!

TA: FEFERI, WAIT A MINUTE.

- cuttelfishCuller [CC] ceased trolling twinArmegeddons [TA] -

A third beep from the husktop. It was the same morse code writing troll from the first conversation.

Karkat just closed the husktop.

It couldn't have been that important.

-EDIT-

Okay, I've noticed some problems with the morse code, and how it's impossible to read. The problem, I found, lies within the programming of . Whenever I typed two dashes, they would change it to a single dash. In a perfect world, I would have been able to figure out how to keep this mysterious and whatever and have every reader go to the translator theirselves, but I couldn't find a way to keep the morse code correct and ready to be copy/pasted into the translator. Believe me, I tried. So, for everyone's viewing pleasure, here is the translated scene between Karkat and the morse code. Everything between the brackets is the translated morse code.

- kle/00110011/d?## [BR] began trolling twinArmegeddons [TA] -

[THII2 II2 2OLLUX, HELP.]

TA: OKAY, DIPSHIT, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO TROLL SOLLUX HE ISN'T HERE RIGHT NOW. GO AWAY, ASSHOLE.

[2HIIT, GOTTA TRY AGAIIN.

MAYBE A DIIFFERENT COMBINATION.]

TA: FUCK OFF.

[KK, JU2T DON'T BLOCK ME. II'LL GET IIT FIIGURED OUT.]