"So you're telling me that you saw a dream that had bits of the future about us getting into deep shit and you didn't fucking tell us?"
"Karkat don't blame her, I probably had a dream similar to it but the thing is I didn't think it would come true," Terezi attempted to calm him down, "But I don't know why I saw that."
"Fuck, you should've at least told someone! We could have avoided the whole prison bit and got us the fuck out of there earlier!"
"Would you have believed us if we suddenly told you that The Condesce was going to throw you into prison out of the blue? You would think that she wouldn't have a reason to because she didn't know who you were at the time. It would have been an unthinkable plot which is exactly why I didn't tell you. Premonitions are not always seen to warn others, it is just to show what is to come. No matter what I would have told you, the outcomes would have been the same," Rose explained calmly.
Karkat cursed under his breath, "Then what's with the apology?"
"I thought it would make you feel better."
"No it doesn't cause we're still up to our necks in hoofbeast shit."
"I assume that John has already told you what I am capable of."
"Seeing shit that doesn't help us one fucking bit."
"So you do not wish to see what certain people are doing right now?"
"You can do that?" Feferi suddenly exclaimed, "Like you can see how Eridan is doing right now?"
"Yes, I can," Rose put some white orb on the table and to Karkat she did look like one of those phony 'fortune teller' people John loved to drag him to sometimes, especially with how she put her hands around the orb.
The ball began to glow and an image began to appear. Feferi sucked in a breath when she saw Eridan. Dave looked like he was glaring at the orb and his hands were clenched, The Psiionic had a similar glare. When Karkat glanced over to Sollux the Gemini was just looking at the image of Eridan impassively. Concentrating back on the image, Karkat saw Eridan was standing by a body of water of some sort and in front of him was his seahorse lusus. Eridan was just staring out at the body of water his eyes looking dead.
"He appears to be doing alright," Aradia commented. She held no malice for him, she knew he was just protecting his dad. He appeared to be doing okay, it looked like he had less bandages than before so that meant Dualscar didn't use him as a piñata after they escaped from Zylpha's hive.
"Can you see what The Condesce is up to? So we can see if she's planning anything and prepare?" Vriska asked.
Rose shook her head, "I have tried before but all I got was darkness. I couldn't see anything when it came to her, like something was interfering with my powers."
"Great this totally helps us so fucking much." Karkat grumbled.
"Hey this ability can help us a lot you know. She can figure out where people are and that can be advantageous to us!" Jade defended Rose.
"Because it's been so fucking helpful to us before."
"Karkat that's enough," The Dolorosa frowned at him. Karkat crossed his arms and looked away.
"So what are we going to do now?" John asked.
"We're going to plan a counter attack. Although we're still waiting for The Signless and Disciple to show up, we should plan now," Redglare took over.
Karkat was worried, his parents still hadn't shown up at such a crucial moment. What if they had run into trouble on their way here?
"How can we counter? The Condesce, has so many guards and uh stuff. We're greatly, outnumbered," Tavros made a very good point.
"Actually we have a secret weapon. What the hell do you think we've been doing for the past sweep? Creating a secret rebel army of course," Mindfang said proudly.
"That's right, Signless' Bitch Upheaval Rebellion Brigade ready for action. We just gotta find out the perfect place to attack and the Condesce is going down," The Summoner exclaimed.
"We already told you we are not going with that dumbass name!" Mindfang's proud smile turned into a frown.
"It's fucking awesome and you know it."
"Ugh not this fight again you two," Redglare put her head in her hands.
"I may have to agree with Marquise for once on this. That is the most terrible name for our group."
"What? D, you seriously going to take her side on this? Wow that's a shocker, Dolorosa and Mindfang agreeing on the same thing," The Summoner blinked ahead in shock.
"Only because that really is a terrible name," Vriska added.
"Alright then how about a vote, raise your hand if it's terrible," The Summoner looked disappointed when everyone put their hands up, "Tavros!?"
"Uh sorry dad, but I don't think, The Signless would like a name ,like that for his uh, righteous group."
"Righteous hm, how about Signless' Guardian's Righteous Uprising Brigade?" John suggested.
"Oh that sounds much better!" Feferi clapped.
"Ugh fine god," The Summoner sat back and grumbled to himself.
"Stupid names aside, do you know where to attack yet?" Karkat moved the conversation on.
"No, that's kind of why we decided to wait for your father. Going straight to her palace would be suicide. We must find a way to pull her out somewhere, somehow," The Handmaid explained.
"Um what do you mean by attack? How will fighting solve any of this?" Feferi asked with worry. She was the daughter of the prey and like the loving daughter she was, she didn't want anyone to get hurt. Including her mother.
"Well, there will be a battle of some sort that has to take place before any kind of negotiation can be made. It cannot be avoided considering who we're up against."
"Right sorry," Feferi glanced at the orb again. The image of Eridan had been gone for a while now, but she was still feeling uncertain about the whole ordeal.
"We're the ones that should be apologizing since you're bring dragged into this terrible mess," Jade patted Feferi's hand.
"No it's alright, I understand. What has to be done has to be done right?"
"You know you could alwayth hide thomewhere and wait until all of thith ith over," Sollux suggested.
"No I will stay and see this through to the end. It just wouldn't be right for me to hide and do nothing and suddenly take over when she steps down. I have to be there to let them know that I want her to step down along with all of you. I know she's crazy but I don't think she would go so far as to disown me. I know she still cares about me."
Everyone went silent. No one knew what to say, it would not have been right to scoff or make some crude comment about not believing that statement. Everyone was sure to think that The Condesce was a cruel and heartless monster but of course Feferi did not. Sometimes that was her weakness, being too kind.
"So this means we can't do anything until my parents get here," Karkat changed subjects somewhat.
"Unfortunately yes," Redglare sighed, "But we haven't heard from them yet so we don't know when they'll be here."
"But they will come right?" Nepeta finally spoke up.
"Yes, they said they would meet us here for sure," Redglare smiled at Nepeta. Now that Karkat thought about it, everyone got to see their parents except for him and Nepeta. The little Leo must have been missing them a lot after seeing everyone with their own parents around her.
"Karkat do you wish to see where they are?" Rose asked and put her hands around the orb readily.
" . . . No, we know they're coming. We'll see them when they arrive," it felt a little wrong to just see an image of his parents after all these years. It would just make him miss them more from just seeing them and not being there with them. It would've been better if they just waited and saw them again in person.
"Do not worry young one. That father of yours is one that will not die easily. Even on death's door he manages to elude the reaper and lives on to spread his words. Even though I fired an arrow near his heart he did not die."
"Father!" Equius gave Darkleer a wtf look. His face practically screamed 'omg dad you do not let everyone know that you almost killed my girlfriend's dad.' Darkleer soon realized his mistake when Nepeta gave him a terrified and shocked face.
"No I didn't mean," Darkleer began to sweat.
"Ahem I think it's a good time to say meeting adjourned," The Dolorosa clapped her hands, "Now Darkleer I would like to have a word with you."
A dark aura was emitted from The Dolorosa as she got up. Her intense look made Darkleer sweat some more and the two quietly exited the room.
"Wow I did not think he was that stupid," Mindfang scoffed.
"D-do not heed the words of my father. He was just merely stating that."
"It's okay Equius, he's on our side now. There's nothing to worry about. I'm fine really and Zylpha did mention Dad getting hurt with an arrow in her story but that was a long time ago. My dad is okay and your dad won't be doing again so it's alright."
Equius was silent before pulling Nepeta into a gentle hug, "I apologize for my father's rude actions."
"Hehe I said it's okay," Nepeta giggled and hugged him back.
"Get a room," Dave called.
"Dave don't be an ath," Sollux would have smacked him if he could have lifted his arm.
Karkat just sighed and got up as the rest began to chat among themselves. He left with John following him.
"Hey did you know Zylpha has been trying to build this place up all by herself for the past 5 years? All by herself!" John exclaimed.
"So what about it."
"We should all come back and help her finish it once this is all over. I mean she's helping us by letting us hide out here after all. And it'd be pretty awesome to have a friend owning a hotel. We could stay here in the summer and bring all of our family! It'd be an awesome vacation."
"John."
"What?"
"You should go home and take the other humans with you."
"Um what?"
"This is too dangerous and it doesn't concern you. I already told you not to interfere. You even promised so what the fuck are you doing here."
"We're here to help that's what! You said not to interfere if anything went bad and yeah we didn't when you were first taken away. Things settled down and you were sent to the prison so we busted you out. I didn't break our promise. We know the danger and we wouldn't have come if we didn't have these powers alright. I know we were weak compared to you guys but not anymore. We can help."
"This is none of your business and you being here will just get yourself and the other three hurt. I don't fucking care if you all have some weird ass powers. Go home."
"No. We're here to help and you can't make us."
"John why are you so fucking stupid? It's not just the danger you four will be in but your families too. Heck even your fucking race! If the fucking Condesce find out that humans were involved then she can wage war against them and then everything my dad had been working for would be for nothing! Just go home John please."
"Karkat why are you so bent on working alone? You've always been like this. Can't you just accept help when it comes to you?"
"No because when I do the people around me get hurt alright! Don't make me say it again John. There's no point in arguing and all the other trolls will agree with me so leave. I don't want to see your fucking annoying face around here anymore. You and the other three had better be gone by tomorrow morning or we will force you."
"Force us how? I said we're staying and there's nothing you can do about it. We made our decision and we're sticking with it. What happened to being friendleaders and sticking together?"
"That was a fucking joke. I didn't realize things would come to this. All that is irrelevant now."
"All of it? Are you saying our fucking friendship is irrelevant!?" John began to scream.
Karkat looked away, "Yes."
"What the hell man!? You're just going to drop our friendship when it's convenient for you?"
"A real friend would know when they should butt out and stay out of personal business."
"If it weren't for us you wouldn't have gotten out of that prison or gotten here a day early!"
"I never asked for your help! The adults already had a plan to help us escape!" Karkat began to feel a headache coming on.
"That plan was risky! It might not have even worked and you could be dead by now along with everyone else!"
"I would have been able to at least get everyone else gone before that could have happened. The fucking Condesce only wants me after all."
"So you'd just die over getting help from us!?"
"I'D RATHER DIE THEN LET MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY GET HURT BECAUSE OF ME. EVERYTHING SO FAR HAS BEEN FUCKING HELL ALRIGHT. LOOK AT SOLLUX. HE CAN'T EVEN MOVE FOR FUCKS SAKE. FEFERI IS TORN BETWEEN US AND HER MOTHER. ERIDAN LOOKS LIKE HE'S FUCKING DEAD. THE PSIIONIC WAS USED AS A WEAPON. MY SISTERS HAVE BEEN DRAGGED INTO THIS EVEN THOUGH THEY SHOULDN'T BE. TEREZI HAS A DEEP CUT ON HER BACK. ZYLPHA'S RIBS ARE BROKEN AND WE'RE BEING CHASED TO THE END OF THE EARTH. NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME FOR US AGAIN!"
Karkat stopped and took a breath. John was just looked at him surprised and hurt, "Just go home. You never should have been friends with us in the first place. I shouldn't have made any friends in the first place. Then none of you would be dragged into this mess."
"Karkat I-"
"Here you guys are!" Zlypha approached them. It looked like she had been looking for them for a while now.
"John go home, now," Karkat demanded before turning to Zylpha, "What is it?"
She gave the two an odd look before answering. Karkat looked extremely annoyed and John was looking away, fuming, "Um in the lobby- did you two just fight or something?"
"None of your fucking business. Get to the point."
Zylpha scratched her head, "Ampora's in the lobby."