Prince of Heart- Octopimp plays the best Eridan, I swear. Too bad he totally abandoned Homestuck.

"so thats howw it is is it?" Eridan questioned, the scowl ever creeping down his face. The room was filled with hatred by this point, as Eridan glared his attention between his two aggressors. The Witch of Life he once loved, and the Mage of Doom scum that now called himself her matesprit. Sollux returned his scowl, though it suited the bee much less than the Prince of Hope himself, and Feferi gave a hesitant frown to her former friend, while the Knight of Blood stood in the background. Surprisingly, Karkat was the least angry of the four, more worried for the safety of what friends still remained in the room. Eridan could sense another behind as well, the Sylph of Space keeping her promise of waiting for Eridan to go activate the matriorb.

"2he'2 riight, man," Sollux started, narrowing his red and blue eyes at the Prince. "can't beliieve thiis, ii wa2 lookiing two a nap two." Sollux jumped off the horn pile, a loud honk filling the room as he did, and landed in front of Eridan. "ii 2hould have kiilled you on lobaf when ii had the chance." Feferi followed him off the horn pile, placing herself at her matesprits' side. "oh well, gue22 iit'2 only fiitiing ii'd take you down iin ROUND TWO!" He began shaking, red and blue sparks flying off of him. "you ready, prince?"

Eridan equipped his wand from his strife deck, and shouted, "bring it mage!"

The two got into battle stances, Eridan whipping his cape off in one fluid movement with his free hand. The room around them almost seemed to freeze, anyone that wasn't the Witch, Mage, or Prince watching them intently and with bated breath. The two made a move against each other almost instantaneously, Eridan shooting a ball of white science that collided with a similar ball of Sollux's powers. They were blown back by the collision, Eridan skidding to a halt a few feet away.

After recovering, he noticed Feferi come between the two and scold them, but was unable to hear her over his seething anger. She stopped dead when the Mage behind her began shaking again, a red and blue aura covering him as he slowly rose into the air. Feferi backed away, Eridan's anger only growing, and he secretly hoped for himself to do the same. And then... he did. He had no idea how he started levitating, but he was too furious to think over it, only to begin acting on his impulses. He rose even further than Sollux, towering over him in all his scientific glory.

And then he shot a beam, a long and thin white line, which collided with the red and blue electricity coming from Sollux's eyes. His beam only grew larger to accommodate Sollux, and for a second, just a second, it seemed like Sollux's attempt at murder might succeed. But suddenly, Eridan thought for a second. He thought about Feferi, how much he'd loved her, and the chance he'd given to help her. Then his mind wandered to the Mage, and how he'd stolen her from him. He was tired of being the butt of their jokes, being constantly abandoned and tossed around from person to person. He was just so damn tired. So his beam grew larger, and larger, and with one final push, he blew Sollux back and knocked him into the wall behind him, instantly knocking him out. The Mage slid down the wall, a blood streak following him as he fell into one of the many computers around the room.

Eridan slowly lowered to the ground, landing on the ground softly. The room seemed to fall silent, to Eridan at least, save for the soft hum from his wand. He looked ahead at a shocked Feferi, whom transitioned straight into anger and began to sprint at him with her trident ready to stab him. Eridan was still for a second, no sound still entering his ears, but as she got closer, without any thought, he raised his wand, and shot another beam through her stomach. She fell back, the trident flying from her hands, and fell into the pile of horns, which emitted a loud honk as she did. His arm lowered, but he heard shuffling from behind him, and he whipped around to face his new aggressor, to reveal a very furious Sylph. She growled at him, bearing her teeth, as she pulled her lipstick from her Strife deck. The two stared at each other for a second, before Kanaya's eyes switched over to the matriorb that still sat on the ground in worry. Eridan noticed this, and in an unthinking instant, he blew the spikey ball up with one, hardy wand blast. Kanaya looked on helplessly, then glared at Eridan with murder-hungry eyes.

Eridan didn't know why he did it. Maybe there was a reason he destroyed it, destroying any hope that the troll race might succeed them. Perhaps it was because he thought they didn't deserve to raise the new troll race, with all their teen drama and murderous tendencies. Maybe it was just out of spite to the Jade blood, for not taking his side in this whole situation. Just maybe, there was no reason. All he knew was that he was angry, nay, seething. And as she ran at him with her chainsaw raised, he raised his wand, and blasted an innocent Jade blood straight through her stomach. Just as she fell to the ground, he looked over at Karkat, whom had his mouth wide open at the site. Eridan was about to treat him the same as the three others, but he found himself unable to for some reason. He was too tired to kill anymore, way too tired. So he simply paced over to the transportaliser, and teleported to elsewhere on the meteor.

Fifteen minutes later, he found himself on the roof of the meteor, and he got a sense of de je vu, but his tiredness overwhelmed him to the point where he didn't care. As he entered the bland, grey roof, he watched the meteors around him tumble and collide, moving along the unknowable space. His gaze fell downward, where he saw a familiar Cerulean blood hunched over a computer in her orange God Tier outfit.

"vvris?" Eridan called deeply, just loud enough for her to hear.

The girl perked her head up, and turned it to face Eridan. "Eridan?"

Eridan took a couple steps forward. "wwhat are you doin up here?"

"I could ask you the same question."

Another couple of steps forward. "you knoww wwhat? i dont care wwhat youre doin here. just movve."

Vriska slowly stood up from her position, bringing her whole body to face the boy. "8ut where are you going, Ampora? You wouldn't come up here without reason, would you?"

"i said movve," Eridan commanded in a much lower tone.

"Not until you tell me where the hell you're going. Why with all the secrets, Prince?" This earned a glare from Eridan. "Well, maybe coming up here was a good thing. 8n't gonna 8e a8le to take on Jack 8y myself!"

"take on?" Eridan questioned. "youre gonna fight him?"

"Well, of course! What else could we do?"

Eridan felt his wand begin to hum again. "i cant let you do that vvris."

"Oh? And why not?" No response came from him. "Fine. You want to fight? You got one, you douche!"

Vriska pulled her dice from her strife deck, each occupying a free space between every finger, and gloated them in front of the Prince. Eridan bore his teeth at the girl, readying himself for a battle he… swore he had before. He got a lingering sense of de je vu, just as before, but it had festered and grown until it got to an undeniable level. He looked around the space, before he heard a honk come from another side of the roof, and suddenly he realised what was happening.

"oh god damn it!" He cried. "this is a fuckin dream again, isnt it?"