Prince of Heart- oops a month and a half passed and I haven't uploaded anything, hope y'all aren't mad at me. Australia life is insane.

Eridan awoke from the darkest clutches of death moments later, jumping up out of shock so he sat up straight, tangled in his cape. Breathing heavily, he touched around his body to see if he was in a dream bubble, or whether he was still alive, but a quick grab of the woman beside him confirmed his suspicion. The woman had a grey set of cotton clothes on, looking exactly alike Aradia's get-up from the last time he met her, with her chubby face popping out the hood to stare down at Eridan. The woman's light, baby blue eyes lit up behind her round glasses, and her lips quickly formed a large, satisfied smile the moment she saw Eridan wake up.

"Oh goodness, you're awake!" The woman exclaimed in a surprisingly soft tone. "Or alive, rather! You took quite a beating up there," she pointed to the sky above, to a bridge broken through the middle, where Eridan had fallen from and died, "but I got you patched up, good as new! You know what they say: a broken spine and a snapped neck never… uh… fooled me twice? God that was a terrible analogy, I haven't a clue where I was going."

Eridan narrowed his eyes in confusion, leaning back to sit on his two forearms before replying with, "uh wwha- uh howw am… bwwuh?"

The woman chuckled nervously, before standing up and extending a hand. "Sorry! I must have confused you with all this death, huh? Jane Crocker, Maid of Life and literal saviour of the dead and all that nonsense, yada, yada." Eridan took her hand gratefully, helping himself up to the girl's level, though she was a couple inches taller than his five-foot six figure. "Golly, you pack a lot of troll alien muscle into that short frame, yeesh."

Eridan slightly beamed, a smile forming at the corners of his mouth before it disappeared when he realised the unintentional insult. "im not that short human ivve still got hundreds of swweeps to groww." He sighed and gave a little wave to the girl. "Eridan Ampora is the name dont get too excited."

"Well, I'm glad introductions are all squared away because I have dead homies I have to- homies? Why the heck did I say tha-" She shook her head to snap out of her awkward trance. "Anyway, I have to go! I'll see you around Eridan!"

And with a short wave, she walked a few steps backwards and fell into a fenestrated wall, teleporting her to gog knows where and leaving Eridan alone again. He placed his hands on his hips, looking up at the walkway above him where he had fallen from, and let out a small huff. He had no way up there in his state; he couldn't fly like his compatriots and fuck him if he knew where the hell a set of stairs up there would even be. So, he stood there for a good moment, pursing his lips, before he remembered the in-built chat feature in his glasses from the game so long ago, so he went about contacting one of the humans he had fought with.

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CA: human
CA: wwhere the fuck are you guys
CA: i wwanna kill that empress too cmon
CA: …
CA: …
CA: john?
CA: gog damn it

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Eridan sighed but persisted none-the-less with the next person.

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CA: davve human
CA: wwill you PLEASE tell me wwhats goin on
CA: …
CA: …
CA: are you guys still alivve?
CA: …
CA: please dont die

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The Prince tapped his fingers on the ground in frustration, the rhythm bringing him tiny comfort in all this calm and collected chaos. Would contacting Rose be worth it? What if they were all dead? Jegus that was a depressing thought to-.

Wait.

Footsteps sounded behind him, followed by a soft, soothing voice calling out to him, "Eridan? What Are You Doing Out Here?"

Eridan turned to face Kanaya, another friendly face in the air of loneliness around him, and gave her a quick wave. "kan? thank fuck i thought id nevver see someone friendly again. i wwas fightin her imperious condescension wwhen she broke the fuckin bridge and sent me dowwn here. im pretty sure i died but that fat-" Eridan stopped himself, before taking in a deep breath and exhaling, "large girl in grey revvivved me. but wwhatta you doin here i thought you wwere wwith kar fuckin up a denizen or somethin."

"We Were Talking To It Yes, But We Were Done With That So I Thought I Would Come To Help."

"wwheres kar then?" Eridan asked, scratching his head.

Kanaya chuckled nervously, "Oh Would You Look At The Time, It Says To Stop Asking Questions."

"wwhat howw does a clock sp-"

Eridan was stopped moments short of his sentence by a large form flying from above the two and crashing squarely a few feet away from them, kicking up a multitude of dust and rubble around it. When the smoke cleared, the form revealed to be the giant body of Her Imperious Condescension, bruised and beat up heavily by the fighting going on up there. John soon followed, though the blue-garbed boy floated down a lot more gracefully than the giantess indented in the ground, but still just as beaten up.

John stood still for a moment, inhaling and exhaling heavily, before swallowing down some fluid and greeting the two, "hey guys! so… uh… oh god this hurts… uh roxy and rose are out… but it's great to see you all good eridan!"

"wwhatta you mean theyre out?" Eridan demanded.

"well just a few… injuries but… they're going to live!"

The Empress rumbled for a moment, shocking the team, before using both her hands to push herself up in a flash. "ain't that easy sucka."

"oh come ON," John yelled out, holding the sides of his head in frustration.

Eridan pulled out his wand in a flash, exclaiming to John, "shes not dead yet?!"

"apparently not," John replied, struggling to lift his hammer in his state.

"naw whats the matter cant take a few hits?" The Empress asked, pulling out her trident from her strife deck and twirling it around, with only a minor jolt of pain at the end. John chuckled, obviously about to reply, before his eyes flickered closed and he thumped onto the ground, passing out instantly. The Empress smiled condescendingly, before turning to the two non-God Tier trolls and asking, "so you fools want a piece then?"

Kanaya stoically pulled out her lipstick before switching it to its attack mode, before muttering to Eridan over the revving of the chainsaw, "Do You Think We Can Do This?"

Eridan wiped a few sweat drops off his brow, the nervousness getting to him, but he replied, "ivve done it once i could probably do it again."

Kanaya raised an eyebrow. "You What?"

There was no time to answer, as the Empress lumbered forward at a surprising speed and brought her trident down at Kanaya, who dodged it gracefully and landed a to the Empresses side. The trident was then swung across in an attempt to hit Eridan, but he too managed to sloppily dodge under it, before bringing his wand up and firing a powerful blast into the Condescension. Her wounded nature started to show, as the beam grazed her left side as she moved away, singing her skin. The Empress growled, swinging her trident again and again, four times total, with Eridan dodging each time, and finally Kanaya joining back in. Her chainsaw roared as she brought it down towards the Empress's face, but she blocked the machine with her weapon, which stopped it in its tracks, and kicked the tall girl back into a wall.

Eridan winced as he felt her pain, but the Condescension quickly turned around and shot her multi-coloured beam of energy at him. In turn, the Prince fired his beam of Hope at her, just in time to stop her from completely vaporising him, though he was pushed back heavily; so much so that he ended up tripping over a rock beneath him, making his beam shoot up into the air briefly and the Empress's glide right over him. Another chainsaw rev signified Kanaya's quick return, and Eridan looked up just in time to see her narrowly cut through the Empress's arm. The giantess yelped out in pain as her limp flopped off and onto the cracked and broken ground, fuchsia blood seeping out of both the open wound. But again, the pain almost seemed to make her stronger, as she grabbed Kanaya by her throat and lifted the girl up with ease. Eridan didn't let the situation play out, as he quickly shot out another beam of hope that pierced through the empress's stomach, just inches below the previous hole he had made.

This shot seemed to finally visibly hinder her, as she soon released the Jade-blood and grasped at her open wound, heavily breathing. Kanaya gasped for air as well, falling to the ground and visibly shaken by her situation. The Empress quickly glared at Eridan, but with it, he knew exactly what she was about to do. So, he readied his wand in front on him and shot out another long beam, just a little earlier than the Empress managed to fire her eye lasers at him. The two collided in mid-air, but this time Eridan had superiority, as his beam pushed hers further and further back, and eventually, the two beams exploded in her face, a blast of white, red, and blue surrounding her as she fell onto her back, into the rubble of her own creation. Eridan took a few deep breaths, keeping his wand aimed at the giantess before he decided to make his way over to her wincing body.

He eventually stood over her, his shadow covering her bloodied face that now seemed almost cruel to still be alive, with both her eyes completely destroyed in the explosion. "so," he started, "any last wwords my empress?"

The lady chuckled weakly, "what exactly happens now douche? who do you think you are?"

"wwell it's easy from here if evveryone hasnt fucked up wwe just go throu-"

"nah," the empress interrupted, wiping her bloodied face with her remaining arm, "nah nah nah i meant who do you specifically think you are actin all hero like? do you honestly think any of this makes up for the six and a half sweeps of your life you went about tryna murder and insult these people."

"that wwas a long time ago."

"not in the grand scheme a things fool."

"howw the fuckety fuck do you knoww about any of that?" Eridan demanded to know, crouching down.

"lord english knows everything. like the fact that you shoulda died back on that rock but somehow you didnt. but that's probs a whole thing." She coughed spastically, spitting blood all around her. "but that aint the point. you aint the hero eridan. it aint yo fate or in your nature. youre a warmonger just like me. an evil for the real heros to overcome. the only problem was you lucked into all this. into survivin. but i know your nature. you a violent killer fool just like me. like your ancestor and your beforus version. that is you. always been you. always will be you."

Eridan lips quivered with anger for a moment, but eventually he pulled himself together, leaned into the Empress with his wand on her right breast, and told her, "but i nevver claimed to be anythin else. you think i dont knoww i wwas supposed to die? it haunted me evvery night i wwas on that meteor after that thinkin about howw i should of died wwith vvris that day and that i wwasnt deservvin. but evveryone around me they provved i could be better that i wwasnt alone and could be redeemed. they forgavve me evven wwhen i thought i couldnt be. i wish i could of changed things but thats not howw all this wworks so i just focused on formin friendships and reformin the ones i had before and im happier than evver. because bad guys dont HAVE to be bad guys they dont havve to be vvillains. they just have to make sure theyre giant bulges to the right people."

He stared the giantess in her blank eyes, before shooting a final beam into her chest. "so fuck off and die you colossal bitch."

The woman seemed to be gasping for air tightly for a moment, before the life slowly faded from her, and she fell limp after taking so much damage from the kids. Eridan dropped his wand next to him and proceeded to stand up, walking backwards a few steps before plopping himself down next to Kanaya, who seemed to have recovered from her precarious breathing.

She crossed her legs in a formal manner, switching her chainsaw back into her lipstick, and asked Eridan, "Is It Over?"

Eridan curled up one leg while letting the other stretch out, and replied, "yeah i think shes finally dead."

"Hmm. Strange After All The Sweeps Fearing Her, I Feel Like Something Has Been Lifted Off Me. Like Im Finally Free."

"yeah…" Eridan replied meekly, as he watched the Jane human teleport in from the fenestrated wall, give the two a quick wave, and go to work on John just feet away.

"Hey Eridan?" Kanaya softly said to catch his attention.

"yes kan?" The Prince replied.

"I Think You Are A Hero," she pondered.

Eridan seemed caught off guard, but eventually fixed himself up, and finally replied, "thanks kan," before looking off into the beautiful planet Skaia in the distance.