Prince of Heart- Local boy ruins everything, more at six.

Eridan stumbled across the outer side of Dave's planet, watching with glazed eyes as the debris around him floated through the atmosphere of both crashed planets with each of his small and short steps. He felt himself oddly at ease, even with all the actions he had taken to this point, like he could just die and leave the world happily, but something kept pushing him. Pushing him through the destroyed side of Dave's planet, chunks of land cracked off and various lavafalls dropping off into the endless vast of space. Pushing him onto the strange new planet, chipped and destroyed on this side, with what seemed like giant balloons floating off and up into the atmosphere to fulfil some purpose. The planet looked dead, even deader than if it had smashed into Dave's planet, with grey surfaces reaching as far as Eridan could see. Whose planet was this?

He finally spotted his one aim, the thing that he knew he had to see; the Derse moon, indented into the second planet that Eridan had no clue about. He climbed up onto a platform, giving him direct access to the moon, and his memory of his time on his own Derse moon came back to him. The tall purple skyscrapers that he had traced with his finger as he soared through the sky, now reduced to rubble and destroyed versions of themselves. The massive spires he had woken up in, questioning his location with the locals and demanding to see their Queen, not even standing tall and visible for all. He remembered the moment Karkat came to him with a plan to assassinate the Queen of the moon, a plan Eridan was all too eager to take part in, and his part drumming fear into the army, one which he completely nailed as soldiers ran when they saw him and his friends. Finally getting to sit on the throne of the Queen, after the group managed to banish her rather than kill, and looking over the city and then feeling… empty. He had no one to talk to on Derse, no one to hang out with. He didn't want to talk to Feferi after she abandoned him, Nepeta and Equius avoided him like the Hoof-beast plague, and Sollux and Aradia were where the fuck ever. Then he remembered the green blast, the loud static as a wave of green fire engulfed him, the searing hot product burning him and hurting him. He tried screaming for help, but no one came, no one cared, or maybe no one could. He had to lay there, all alone, as he screamed in pain and the green fire consumed him.

Eridan found himself heavily breathing and sweating suddenly, apparently spacing out again for a while. So many memories. None of them good. He continued through the streets, gazing around at the rubble and the dead around him, their dark, limp bodies covering the streets. He also noticed some in the windows and doors of the ruined buildings, using the debris as cover to hide from Eridan, even if it wasn't very effective. They must be scared, Eridan thought to himself, after seeing most of their friends die in moments. He eventually spotted a prison ahead of him, something he recognised from the event that happened hours ago. Seemed like a decade even now.

He pushed open the short door, the marble smooth on his hands, and entered the entry to the prison. A desk sat in front of him, no longer manned, with a clutter on top of it, a series of chairs sat neatly in a waiting room-esque way, and stairs leading upwards were just behind said chairs. He navigated around the chairs, some toppled over and scattered, and entered through the doorway to the stairs. He didn't look up to see how far he had to go, didn't particularly care really, and began to ascend to the top floor, checking each door and hallway for any signs of life. One after the other, nothing came out of it, before he heard two voices conversing down one of the hallways, one woman and one man, both distinctly familiar to him. He progressed down the hallway, the voices getting louder until he came upon a cell with the two familiar figures: the slender Roxy and the thin Jake. He held his hand in a fist for a moment, inches away from the wall beside him, before nervously knocking on the wall twice to get their attention.

They both quickly reacted, Roxy standing up with her fists raised and Jake staring startled at him, before Roxy exclaimed, "oh god damn what are you doing back here?"

Jake backed up out of fear, begging, "Golly no please don't kill me again! It hurt the first damned time man havent i suffered enough!"

Eridan held up his hands, before Roxy demanded, "give me one good reason why i shouldnt kick yo ass boy. i got karate moves like you wouldnt BELIEVE from fending off hungry chess people."

Eridan took a deep breath, before replying, "dont wworry rox im done wwith killin. too many fuckin deaths by my mits already."

"oh thats cool to know maybe ill make your beatin a lil less painful. but dont hold your breath. or on second thought do."

"no no i said that wwrong wwait. i only had to kill outta self defence!"

"and how should i know your tellin the damn truth hotboy?"

Eridan slowly stepped forward, hands still raised. "i need you to just take my wword. please. im so tired of fightin."

Roxy looked the boy in the eyes, his genuinely glazed and upset eyes pleading directly to her heart. She looked back at Jake, who lightened up and sat back up straight, no longer fearful, and then back at Eridan, before sighing, "fine. but watch your step lest mine footeth go… uh… uppeth your asseth monsieur."

Eridan gave a slight nod, lowering his hands at Roxy's allowance, and took up a position leaning against the wall beside him. Roxy took a look back at him, distrust in her eyes, but eventually went back and sat next to her British friend.

Jake gave a slight smile, trying to make the best of a bad situation. "Well butter my butt it sure is uh… nice to see you again old friend! Less murder happy I see."

Eridan avoided eye contact out of embarrassment. "yeah i made a pretty big fuckin mistake. killed a lot of people today that i liked and… noww i dunno wwhat to do."

"going away might help everyone," Roxy added in.

Jake gave Roxy a slight tap on the shoulder. "Do forgive ol rox here shes still a little pummelled out from all the fighting with the batterwitch. You should have seen it man she was like this bad ass ninja viking with her kicks and punches and shooting of her gun! Too bad none of it worked or shed be dead!"

"the wwhat?" Eridan asked.

"the condense," Roxy told him coldly.

"oh. yeah i already killed her."

"You what!? By jove! Oh how i wish i was there to view that batterbitches face when you took one from under her! Howd you kill her by chance?"

"i shot a magic beam from my wand through her to get to aranea."

"Oh right your girlfriend! Look ive gotta apologise for that whole miscombabble i didnt have time to realise what she was attempting before you burst right in! What happened to the talkative lass anyway?"

"shes dead."

"Oh. Oh man that must be a right bummer. but no matter there are plenty of fish in the sea plenty of ladies- OR MEN- to mack on until youre over her! Im sorry the batterwitch took her from you."

"i wwas the one that killed her."

Jake's smile faded, and he cleared his throat, "Oh my. I couldnt imagine how you feel now dude."

"it wwas necessary," Eridan said solemnly. "she wwouldve killed us all if id left her alivve. i did a lot of other bad things though."

"Oh cheer up buddy! I forgive you for what happened! I mean anyone wouldve shot a magic beam through me if they saw me macking on their lady friend."

"jake my dude you should not be so easy to forgive."

"Why not the mans suffered enough!"

"cause he killed my mom and your grandmom from another universe."

Jake was caught off guard, his mouth hanging open as he looked from Roxy to Eridan, who in turn, looked at him guiltily and sad. "Well… pooey. But im sure he had good reason! My grandma was evil wasnt she now? And your mom… maybe the batterwitch controlled her or something. Or she attacked him first! Im sure a million things couldve happened! I forgive my buddy pal for what he did!"

"id rather join my mom than forgive him," Roxy claimed. "in fact everything would be a whole lot better if he just joined her."

Eridan stared at the girl, seemingly seething with anger at him, but was stopped from saying anything when another raspy, feminine voice shouted out at them from the hallway.

"H3Y YOU GUYS, 1M ST1LL 4L1V3!"