TRY BEING ROXY AGAIN.
Roxy's head slammed against the back of her seat. She let out a frustrated sigh.
"Loooooook, Feferi, that's your name, right? I understand how you might be just a teeny, tiny, bit stressed right now, but do you think that we could, I dunno, stop driving through the forest like a drunk bear?"
"No."
Rubbing her head, Roxy slumped back in her seat. After John had passed out, she just didn't feel right leaving him and his friends defenseless in Derse, so she transported the four of them through the void. Unfortunately for her, lugging around two rather tall and muscled fifteen year old boys turned out to be fairly exhausting, and she had to beg Feferi for a lift home. She was tentative at first, but the alarms were blaring, and Dersites were hot on their tails, so Roxy just hopped in the van and said she wasn't moving.
Thankfully, Feferi hadn't forked her with a trident on the spot, and just put the pedal to the glubbing metal.
Somewhat bored, Roxy looked out the window, watching the scenery fly by and the occasional woodland creature nearly hit the car.
"So, where are we even going?" she asked Feferi.
Her fingers drumming the steering wheel, Feferi let out a noise of frustration at the fourth bird to hit the window.
"Whale, Roxy, since you did save our lives, I think it's ocray for you to come with us. Sea, we won't be going back to my base, we'll just be going to John's house. I'll drop you off there."
Alrighty then, Roxy thought. She pulled out her phone.
TG: yo
TG: yo dirky
TG: diiirky
TG: diiiiiiiiiiirshfyuhpewru
TG: shit we hit another bird
TT: Another bird? Roxy, where the hell are you?
TG: this nice chick called fefri or smth picked me and is drivin me through this dank ass forest
TT: Roxy. Have you never listened to you mother about getting into cars with strangers?
TG: i don't really have a mom and you know that
TT: Touché.
TG: anyway its cause i totally did some mother fucking conflict resolution up in this bitch with a guy called john and like
TG: twenty eight dersite guards
TT: Oh my god. What did you do?
TG: nothin!
TG: well okay
TG: i may have slammed into this real sweaty lookin kid in the void
TG: idfk how he got there
TG: and we fell over and i lost my concentration and popped out
TG: so did he, but he got knocked out
TG: then the guards were like "yo wtf u doing here" and tried to kill us
TG: but i was a cool cat and talked to one of the older guards
TG: u know james
TG: but then he got shot :(
TG: and they kept trying to kill/capture us till the john kid did this windy thing
TG: boy lemme tell ya
TG: there was wind EVERYWHERE
TG: he was tornadoin up a storm! we are talking major windy shit here
TG: but he was all crying and sad! so i calmed his down and gave him a hug
TG: and now im in this car with a girl who won't stop making fish puns
TG: so yeah come pick me up dirk
TT: I can't exactly do that until you tell me where you are, Roxy.
TG: k hold on
Roxy put down her phone.
"Yo Feferi! What's John's address?" she said.
"Can't tell you! Safety reasons."
TG: dang sorry can't tell ya
TG: feferi said dems the rules
TG: kinda stupid rules considering she literally driving me to his house
TG: but can't give me the damn address :(
TT: Well, then, it look's like you're just going to have to wait.
TT: Also, was that an angry frowny emote?
TG: ye :)
Roxy put down her phone, frustrated.
It was going to be a long day.
JADE HARLEY: TRAIN.
"Argh!"
The pile of books crashed to the floor.
Jade ran her hands through her hair, trying to to kick over anything with frustration.
"Aradia, why is doing this so gosh darn hard! I thought you said this would be instinctual!" Jade cried.
"I understand why you might be frustrated, Jade," Aradia comforted, "The source of your psychokinesis is completely different than mine! Everyone just has to keep working hard to get a handle on your powers."
Soft pillows surrounded Jade as she flopped over on the Egbert's sofa.
"I know, Aradia, I know. It's just! Bluh! I feel like I won't ever be able to le-"
Pop!
Dave Strider materialized over Jade, tumbling onto her in a messy heap.
"Eleven minutes, elven seconds off, Dave." Aradia sighed.
"Dammit." He swore.
"Uh, hey, Dave!" Jade said, greeting the awkwardly positioned Dave.
"Hey," he said with a grin.
The ungainly position of intimacy she was in made Jade blush. Trying to sit up, she moved Dave off with a friendly shove.
"Dork." She said.
"Nerd."
"Hey!" Karkat snapped. "I never thought I would say this, but now is not the time for wacky rom-com shenanigans! Jade, until you can get a handle on your powers, there is absolutely no goofing off allowed!"
"Fine, Mr. Grumpy Kar CRAB! " Jade huffed.
She pushed her glasses up on the bridge of her nose and concentrated hard on the stack of books. Earlier, she tried visualizing them lifting off the ground. What if she tried a different method this time?
Jade closed her eyes. Instead of thinking, she tried feeling. Her arm rose forward, Jade knowing she was moving it, without seeing it. She tried to apply the same principal to to the books. They could go up, it was just a matter of time. So to speak.
With all her intent focused, Jade thrust her arm to the sky. God dammit, those books were going to defy gravity, or her name wasn't Jade Harley!
Biting her lip, she cracked open her eyes to see the results.
"Holy shit, Jade," Dave said in awe.
Jade looked up. Technically, she did manage to levitate the books. In fact, she managed to levitate the entire living room. Including herself.
"Wow, Jade! Sure wish I could see whatever you're doing right now! Whatever it is, boy, does it smell sour appley!" Terezi said, everyone knowing full well that she could "see" what was going on.
"See, Jade! I knew you could do it!" Aradia cheered.
"Wh-What in the name of everything good and fucking holy?" Karkat stammered. "Kanaya. Kanaya! Get your soggy lesbian ass over here and cut the sloppy makeouts! I need you to take a look at this!"
"Karkat, I'm sure whatever it is-" Kanaya said, leading Rose by the hand from the upstairs area. She looked at the scene before her, and her jaw dropped.
"Oh."
"Yeah. Fucking 'Oh, shit', is what."
Dave let out a burst of laughter. "Nah, this is so fucking cool, is what! I mean, damn, we're just a couple of teenagers who dug through a crusty old man's pile of science junk, and John Fucking Egbert, of all people, is right about us becoming 'awesome heroes' who 'go on an epic quest of friendship and self discovery!' And look at Jade! She is fucking OP, man!"
Jade blushed, twirling a book around in the air. "Aw, thank you, Dave!"
"I-I do have to admit," Kanaya said, "This is certainly beyond the likes of anything I've seen before. My abilities, well, they pale in comparison to the raw power Jade has displayed."
"Okay, okay, sure," Karkat grumbled, poking at a floating wizard figurine. "But can we at the very goddamn least take this outside, and avoid trashing the eyesore Rose calls a living room?"
"Hey now, the wizard statues are apparently 'ironic'," Rose protested.
"Come, on, Karkat!" Jade giggled. "Join the fun!"
Lifting her other hand, she rose Karkat up into the air, where her squirmed around like a little baby puppy.
"Hey! HEY! JADE, PUT ME THE FUCK DOWN BEFORE I PULL OUT MY BEST PAIR OF SICKLES AND DICE YOUR ASS INTO GOURMET SUSHI!"
"Well, Karkat," Jade said with a grin, "You did say I could goof off once I learned how to use my powers!"
"Yo, Jade, can I get in on this sick zero-G orgy you've got going on?" Dave joked, wiggling his eyebrows.
"Sure thing, Dave!" Jade laughed. With a flick her wrist, Dave rose up into the air, where he swam over to Karkat, and started making fake sexy poses.
"mmmmaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA!" Karkat screamed in frustration.
Jade beamed. This was the happiest her friends had been since the accident! Everybody was having a good laugh, when-
DING-DONG!
"Eeep!" Jade shrieked in surprise. Everything came crashing to the floor with a thud.
"Oh, Dave! Karkat! I'm so sorry! I'm just new to this whole thing, and maybe I overestimated my abilities, and then the doorbell rang, and-"
"Hey," Karkat said with a sigh, "It's fine."
"Yeah, it's totally cool! We're all new to this crazy superhero shit." Dave reassured her.
"I'll get it, then," Rose said, rolling her eyes.
Careful to step over Dave, Jade, and Karkat's now "one-G orgy pile", Rose opened the front door.
"Can I help- Oh!" She said.
In front of her stood a short, chubby, girl, about fifteen or sixteen, with jet black hair that seemed to fly in every direction, kind of like John's. Her freckled face was somewhat red from exertion, and there was no car around her to be seen. The most striking thing about her, however, was her cyan blue eyes.
God, Rose hated to use that word to describe eyes, but, well, her eyes were cyan. There was simply no other way around it.
"Hello, my name's Jane Crocker," The girl said. "I believe my father was a dear friend of yours, funnily enough. What a small world, isn't it! Unfortunately, he… he's been kidnapped! May I stay at your house for a while, Roxy?"
"Roxy?" Rose said in confusion. "Roxy is my mo-"
She was cut short but the sound a a van screeching into the rather large driveway.
"For fuck's sake, we're in the middle of a forest!" Karkat cried exasperatedly. "How many unannounced house guests could possible we have?"
A skinny blonde girl in navy clothes kicked the van door open.
She loudly announced, "Hey, hey! It's ya homegirl Roxy here, master of conflict resolution, back from the front lines of Derse with the windy kid himself, the heir of breath, the one, the only, Joooooooooooooohn Egbert!"
With a flourish, she stepped aside, revealing a bashful John, Feferi and Equius. He started walking up the front steps to Rose's house, with Roxy at his side.
"Hehe, well the mission didn't really go as planned but I did-"
He stopped short, staring at Jane.
"Nana?"
"Roxy?"
"Janey?!"
"Mom?"
" Mom!"