Prince of Heart- Jesus, I might actually finish this thing. If we're lucky and I dont procrastinate with vidya games and musical numbers I'll be done in half a year.
Eridan slid his hand across the smooth, marble wall, as he ascended the steps to the top of the Derse prison once again, this time with a goal in mind. No more feeling sorry for himself, no more thinking about what could've been, or what he could do wrong in the future, and he now instead looked to focus his energies into something much more productive, something that could redeem him again in the eyes of his friends and whatever higher force there was. Did he have any clue what he was looking for? Not in a God damned million years, but he wasn't going to stop his search for something to help the mess the survivors were in. As he entered the hallway where he remembered the humans being, he found himself almost stomping in anticipation, his furious footsteps signifying his newfound and sudden determination to help everything and everyone. They echoed down the hallway until he came upon the door to the cell everyone was in, when he came to a halt. He heard voices inside, three it seemed? No matter to him, just another person he'd have to impress. The Prince took a deep breath, before brushing the metal door aside and storming into the room to greet the humans. Damn, if only he had his cape.
"listen humans and listen…" He began, but stopped himself shortly as he noticed the third figure being John, the blue eyed male human from the dream bubble with Vriska. John looked towards him, taking with him the attention of the other two humans Jake and Roxy, and widely grinned towards him.
"oh hi eridan!" The Heir said, waving to him, "i was wondering where the heck you even were! roxy told me that you were still alive in between her grumbles of hatred, and not very nice words, towards you."
Eridan looked beside him to the slim girl, her nose turned up and eyes squinting angrily at him, with Jake just beside her nervously waving at him. "oh she did? wwell no god damn matter human cause things are turnin around mark my wwords. this isnt the end for eridan and friends. all cause of fuckin eridan ampora the most terrifying pirate to sail the seas of alternia and wwinner of promiscuous ladies hearts!"
"oh, you've got a plan too?" John asked through his buck tooth grin.
"of course ivve got a plan you perilo- wwait. wwhat do you mean too?"
John perked up, his superior height to the rest of them giving him the advantage of attention in the small room of four people and a troll corpse. "yeah! terezi gave me a plan to act out before she came here, and apparently it was supposed to change the timeline or something like that to make things better. but heck if i know how it works, i just spray painted some stuff and punched a girl in the face." He rubbed the back of his head. "don't ask!"
"i… huh. i just kinda thought id be the one to savve you idiots."
"oh, sorry! but you know the world doesn't wait for you man! i had to act!" John proclaimed.
Eridan stared down at the ground for a moment, before looking back up at John and asking, "uh that girl you punched… that uh wwouldnt happen to be vvris wwould it?"
"wris? oh, vriska! yeah it was! how'd you know?"
"long story. itd be hard to explain. i can barely understand it as wwell. but maybe another time. so wwhat exactly wwas yours and ters plan gonna result in?"
"well, wed get to go back in time to when all our friends were alive and have another go! this time with a better chance as well. the only real problem was like, really heavy. like, REALLY heavy. we'd have to have ourselves from that timeline killed as well so we could take their place so no weird timey stuff would go wrong."
"Wait mr crocker and slash or egbert," Jake piped up, slowly standing up to join the other three, "does that mean we have to kill ourselves in the new universe? Because i dont think i could do that to myself!"
"oh, uh, i don't think so! i do remember terezi telling me that the universe would sort itself out or something."
"Do we have to see our bodies?! Because bloody hell man i couldnt take that in my life right now!"
"what? i don't know! c'mon mr harley slash english get your mind together dude i'm trying to save our lives as best as i can! and i don't even know if i'm doing it right! i just got to trust the word of a troll girl who got me killed once, not to mention she's dead as well, that everything will turn out hunky dory because she told me after flying directly into me from outta no-where!"
Roxy tilted her head a little, a concerned look on her face. "cmon man you KNOW we got it made in the shade rn." She gave the boy a smile, untensing him a fair amount. "just roll with it cause itll be a helluva lot better than sitting around here to die or something lame like that."
John slumped his shoulders with the grip of Roxy's delicate hand on it, and let out a deep sigh, "okay sorry. this is just kind of the most stressful thing ever and i just want to get out of here."
"so wwhats next then? howw do wwe evven get outta this hellhole."
"oh! well i forgot to mention that i sort of gained control of these windy time travel powers?" John laughed nervously, rubbing the back of his caramel neck. "so i guess we just all hold hands and go?"
"thats fuckin it?" Eridan exclaimed, "no flare of anythin?"
"i'm pretty sure there's a bright light afterwards! but we won't get to see it so i guess that doesn't count?"
"oh wwhatevver i just wwanna fix things already." Eridan stomped forward, grabbing the hands of John and Jake in quick succession.
"hol up," Roxy said, "what about everyone else alive? we cant leave them can we?"
"grandma fad- sorry jane- faded away into the glitch and i can't pull her out," the Heir explained, "and that dirk guy just… did not want to come! i think he was just too sad or something."
"i feel bad leaving him here but… hes a stubborn ass with extra sides of sass. the guy aint movin."
"wwell i guess that just settles it lets fuckin go."
John nodded, grabbing the hand of Roxy as well all of a sudden, before she settled into the groove of his hand and gripped tighter into it. Eridan felt his body quiver, almost as if it was jumping all over the place with no sense or rhyme or reason, and the last thing he thought to himself before he followed the trio through time and space was that of his time spent with his denizen that led to all this…