Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals

Chapter 17: Escaping

Beginning AN:

Disclaimer: The following fan fiction depicts stunts performed by several expert teenagers and one badass not-dog. Do not attempt any of these at home. Seriously, it could mess you up!

John then sent the mass of fires out above him. Well, sort of. He was not an expert on the fire arts yet (with a dragon shape), so the flames ended up getting flown at a sort of angle that did burn through most of the apartment (and with a fish shape), but it left a large chunk of the tower burned away. Half of several floors were gone, just the skeleton that started breaking. And when it broke, the highest floors remained, and that included one of the major, giant doors Scratch went into.

The Crew made their way up with great speed to the floor Scartch was at, for him to vanish into a doorway. There was no more dungeon obstacles at this point because Scratch thought this room would make for a badass battle entrance.

"Let's split. First generation, stay outside unless we call. Second, let's all go in. And PS, counterparts, you're part of the second generation. Don't even try to call yourselves the third."

The two-thirds of the Crew went into the door, and what they saw made the person in front, Nepeta, gasp horribly! There was a giant bridge that went over a big pool of... some strange, moving clear-and-browish liquid. At the end of the bridge was Doc Scratch, who was laughing as the Rainbow Crew walked over the bridge. In front of Scratch was a giant switch.

"HAVE FUN WITH MY DOG!" Scratch shouted, then jumping on the switch!

With one swift movement, the bridge broke into pieces, and the entire second-gen Rainbow Crew fell into the strange liquid, just for them to flash in orange and get teleported... SOMEPLACE ELSE!

CHAPTER XVII

(Someplace Else)

They landed on a giant, circular rock, a few inches to feet above the roock in the air, teleported there. John got up and looked around, then got frustrated!

"THIS IS THE GRAND CANYON AGAIN ARRRRGH!"

Then, something that was really big like about Can's height came down. It looked like a preying mantis's body type, except without those leaf-wings. And it was wood-brown, light wood color. It had giant, beady eyes, and a mouth that went practically across its entire round head.

"I AM STICKDAWG! Doc Scratch's pet dog!"

Stickdawg then opened his mouth, and out came an attack of fire attacks after the Rainbow Crew! Startled at the fire ball's speed, they moved out of the way with great resistance! Now things were getting real!

"KARKTA!" Karkat cried, "I NEED YOU TO DONATE SOME OF YOUR BLOOD TO FINISH THIS SHIELD!"

"What?"

"MY SHEILD, THAT WILL USE THE CHERUB BLOOD LINK GAVE ME, IS INCOMPLETE BECAUSE ORIGINALLY NONE OF MY FRIENDS HAD LIMEBLOOD TO FINISH EVERY 12 COLORS OF THE TROLL HEMOSPECTRUM AND THUS MAKE IT ITS MAXIMUM STRENGTH. WITH YOURS, I CAN FINISH IT!"

"Ok."

And then they made a fake-donor area, and Kakrat was asking Karkta questions to see if she was eligible.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Crew was having trouble dodging Stickdawg's incredible fire power! And that wasn't even counting when he used his arm-things (legs? Those things the praying mantii have) to bitch slap them, because that also hurt!

"HAHAHAHA! I CAN TELL THAT YOU WERE SENT BY SCRATCH TO FEED ME. YOU KNOW HE ONLY HAS A PORTAL LEADING HERE BECAUSE I LIVE HERE." Stickdawg laughed. Meanwhile, Equius and Equisa looked at eachother and nodded.

"My inner... alternate...ish self and sister," Equius said, "What plan do you have in experience to come up with?"

"Er..."

"Wrong answer. We both STRONG punch this weird guy. Together."

To show that they were also fighting Stickdawg, they then dodged one of his fire balls.

"Strength isn't the only strategy though!" Equisa said, nervously sweating. "Speed must be taken into account, too. This guy is FAST."

Equius gasped. "No. How dare you. You betray my own primary belief."

"I don't. N-not really, of course. I have a secondary belief, along with it."

"And are you one of those strategy types?"

"Not... quite."

"Well, the time for kncoking on how even I seem to disagree with me is at not, for we need to strike on Stickdawg and show the rest of the Rainbow Crew the honor of the Zahhak name!"

"Ok."

Both of them charged after Stickdawg, except they came from different directions! Equius decided to take on the front, but was originally swept away by his tail, but he grabbed on and was flying as Stickdawg spun around in circles!

Then, however, Equius turned the tables by dropping to the floor and digging his feet in the ground of that little circle arena they were on that was in the middle of the drop of the Grand Canyon, and thenm HE began spinning around! It was like Mario swinging around Bowser.

But then Equius got genre savvy, and realized that if he threw Stickdawg off, he would just jump back on and this would go on forever. That's where his counterpart came in. Equisa strongjumped into the air and Equius knew what to do and threw Stickdawg in her direction, and Stickdawg cried "AAAAAAHHH" but he was shut up by Equiusa punching him in the face, sending him flying to the back wall of the Grand Canyon.

"HAHAHA! You may have found my weakness, but can you do it three more timeS?"

"Oh Gosh, that sounds boring." Equius said.

"WELL NOW YOU'LL HAVE TO DO IT NINE TIMES!" Stickdawg laughed, taking out what looks like a bottle of pills. They thought he was going to use painkillers because being punched by a Zahhak or a Hazzak (or Makara or Makbro; really a lot of these characters) hurts like hell, but Jade used her sharpshooter vision to see that that was not painkills, as read on the persubscription it read... VITAMIN SCRATCH!

"The best part about this," Stickdawg said, "Scratch didn't even give these to me. In fact, he wouldn't let me have them, so keep this a secret ok? I found these lying around in a big, crashed dungeon that crashed in the middle of the canyon, in boxes that came in shitloads. I stole these from some idiot who stole them from Scratch not knowing that they were by my house, so I guess two wrongs make a right because now the owner of this was someone who works for Scratch again except someone Scratch doesn't want am I right?"

Then he popped one pill, and suddenly his eyes started flashing the same colors as billiards, and got auroaes of the same color as well, and he was floating.

"NEW SUPER SCRATCH PHYSKICK POWERS NOW!"

"THANKS A LOT, MEENAH, FOR STEALING THE VITAMIND SCRATCH." Damara yelled at her.

(Back in the Tower, a Little in the Past)

The inn-runner ran back. Actually, no. She made it back on Aurthouroback. Yeah. Kind of like horseback, but on those utter-men.

"Sorry I ran away. Anyway, what are you doing?"

"Well, right now we are trying to cross over this pit of teleporting stuff." Nan said, as Medicman and Karmagal both measured the walls. "According to Vocalist, he dabbled in the art of trying to make this to warp in one way or another. I can drop a GPS in here and find the location instantly! Watch!"

(Grand Canyon)

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Karkat asked when a GPF spawned in yellow light and just fell on the floor. John laughed. (This happened while Equius and Equisa were fighting Stickdawg.)

"Oh Mom..." he said.

(Tower)

"Ah! See, look, it's the Grand Canyon." Nan laughed. "Hoo boy, John hates that place. I'm sure he's having a bad time there."

"But he's like, with his friends." Mom chimed in. "That should make it-"

"NOPE." Both Nan and Sis said at almost the same time.

"Well, to pass the time, why not I recount what events each of us three groups took to meet you?" Nan continued.

"Actually, it's just two." Condesce chimed in. "Apart from how I kinda don't like Fuchsian, us two ancestor sets are now gettin' tighter."

Nan laughed. "Ha. We know about getting tighter, don't we?" She winked.

"Hey, um..." Mom chimed in, "Sorry, I'm no Violet, but how come when Roxy makes sex jokes it's creepy and stupid, but when Nan does it it's hilarious?"

"Because Roxy is a virgin and she's not inviting anyone." Nan licked a finger, put it on her hip, and did a sssss sound. But because of her inner Minecraft fangirlism it sounded more like a Creeper and Bro paniced a little. "I'm just telling the truth thanks to Harl getting it out there, while Roxy, and for that matter maybe Damara, Meulin etc, are just making things up.

"Anyway Daisy, I want to ask if you know anything about mummy curses. Because when we were called in to save our youngers, I found the most peculiar thing."

And yes her name was Daisy. The inn-runner.

(Flashback, which means this goes back in time twice?)

So Nan was minding around in the Egbert household when suddenly the sink water turned black.

"Ooh. That can't be good. Oh no." She said.

Then bandages started to form in from the black water, which also became mist and it all floated together in the main room. Nan got on the phone.

"...Well. Harl, Katherine, Dean." She said. Then laughed at something on the other line. "Oh yes, I picked you three and not the others because we will be doing that. We'll be doing the hell out of that. But before that, we should team up and defeat this."

"YOUR SON'S GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS? ARE A PART OF THE GROUP THAT UNLEASHED MY CURSE! OH, AND UM... FOUR OF YOUR FRIENDS WERE WITH THEM!"

"Why don't you go after them then? I seem like an odd target."

"...Because they're in a big group and I'm scared."

"Well. I am supposed to come and help that 'big group' in due time, but I think I can take a break from that and finish you off. Along with other people. After all, accorig to Rose, they are in 'no rush.'"

"BUT THERE IS A RUSH! I AM CURSE YOU!"

She laughed, then got her mallet out. "No you're not..."

The mummy tried to lash out darkness badages on Nan, but she reflected them away with her mallet. Then she flip-jumped into the air and flew over him, and whacked him in the back and sent him flying back to the sink. Nan turned off the water and remarked, "Don't want to run the bill up!"

Then an explosion happened behind the sink! It was Pop, tossing a stick of dynamite in one hand.

"Hi. Um, I'm here. I made it here by myself, too, but you kind of know that."

"GREAT!" The mummy said, "I REMEMBER YOU FROM THE SWAMP! YOU'RE THAT MICHAEL BAY GUY, RIGHT?"

Before Pop could answer (which is a good thing since his answer might be dumb), the mummy was interrupted by someone saying "And just who am I? Say my name." That was Ma!

"There are three things I like doing. Kicking ass, doing naughty stuff with ass, and spending time with Jake and/or his friends. Jake isn't around, so next on that list is actually kicking ass if there's an ass to kick. Or, it's always first on the list, so I can keep Jake safe?"

And finally Pa tried sniping him from afar past the hole in the wall Pop blew, barely missing Ma by intent. This caused the latter to giggle and blush at him.

"OM dean you're just too cute. Thanks for bragging like that."

"And PS," Nan said, flipping her hammer around, "We're the only ones who can come up with pet names for eachother like that. And Harl does not like being compared to Michael Bay."

"Well um... HA! You still cannot finish me off!"

Then there was a splash on his face. Holy water! It turned out to be a smirking Mom, who held it originally in a wine glass. She smirked and watched as the mummy melted, and so was Sis alongside her.

"Hey! I didn't invite you!" Nan said.

"I did." Pop answered. "I also invited these two:"

Dad just kind of flashed-stepped into the room, while Bro opened the window and climbed in.

"Do any of you even realize that the door was unlocked?" Pa said. "I mean, I needed a vantage point to snipe from. And Katherine, I fear where you came from."

Ma closed her eyes and gave a huge grin. "When you're an experienced hider, you can find just about any way into the house. Did you know that Dale drilled a hole into your house from underground? It was a failed attempt at a friendship tunnel. It worked baly so he didn't want to admit it, but it's still usable. IF risky. The kind of risks I like taking though."

"By the way, I researched the mummy ever since my first encounter with him," Sis added in, "While she was the one shameless enough to fill a glass and use it as a weapon." She moved her head slightly to Mom.

"LOL yeah I helped out!" Mom flipped around the glass.

"And what did these two do?" Nan asked Sis.

"Frankly, nothing."

"I watched." Was all Dad commented.

"And I um... made that tunnel long ago! Yes, but don't think of me as a guy who makes conspiracies! I solve them instead!"

"Right." Nan finished. "Anyway, I kind of have a bit of a session planned with Dean, Harl, and Katherine, so unless you want to join... um, you'll have to do something else before it's time to get to the Felt Tower."

They all nodded. Sis and Dad took off instantly, and Bro kind of blushed. It's not like they hated orgies or embarassed of less experience, they just weren't in the mood right now. Mom tried to go in too but then had a bit of a real headache and said "I should give up my drunkenness." And left away too.

(Back in the Tower)

"Thus ends the T-rated portion of my adventure," She finished.

"Okay. So, ancestors-"

(BUT WAIT WE SHOULD GET BACK TO THE SECOND GENERATION FIRST)

And then Stickdawg raised a hand, and suddenly rocks came flying at them with his new Vitamin Scratch psychic powers! But they flew off of the arenea and into the abyss. Suddenly Stickdawg's dog parts kicked in, and he started panting.

"Ooh fetch!" He cried, running down the arena and then jumping off the ledge to go after the rocks he just threw.

"Well," Rose laughed, "That did buy us some time."

It kind of did. She decided to play chess against her counterpart Ross, but this did not go well as he kept trying to overthink the moves of the game and not play it right. Then came with a troll move out of nowhere, and screwed Rose over.

Then Stickdawg jumped back, andn flipped over the chess game, shouting "CHECKMATE!" evilly and punningly, and looked at them. Ross laughed.

"Well, I was winning!"

"Grr shut up!" Rose said. "Rematch after this annoying guy dies."

Then Stickdawg charged a bigger fireball, and they knew it was going to be bigger because it was blue instead of red. It shot the fireball, just for it to be... BLOCKED! By Karkat!

He blocked it by holding up a giant shield to it, about half of Karkat's size. (Wait no that's not big by sheild standards some of them are the size of an ENTIRe person?) The very outer rim was gray metal, but the inside had a really cool design to it. There were twelve distinct stripes, each going a different color of the hemospectrum from maroon at the top to tyrian and the bottom, with the lines fading into eachother mildly. Over the sheild as a whole was a cancer sign, with the 6-looking part (the top one) having the lime cherub blood and the 9-looking part having the red cherub blood that was also the same color as Karkat's blood which he didn't use because it would be redundant. The sheild glowed with all of the colors of the troll hemospectrum.

"Thanks to the Cherub blood, I have not only made this sheild much harder to destroy," Karkat said, getting out his cycle. "BUT IT HAS TAPPED INTO THE HEMOSPECTRUM OF THE TROLLS THAT DONATED! Thanks Aradia, Tavros, Sollux, Karkta, Nepeta, Kanaya, Terezi, Vrsika, Equius, Gamzee, Eridan, and Feferi! Oh, and Link! And whoever the Cherub blood came from!"

"Oh." Aranea said flatly. "You got the blood from them. You should have gotten it from our group of trolls. We trained with it a lot more."

"So you can block stuff." John said. "Big deal."

Then the sheild glowed the color of Equius's blood, and its metal turned a similar color, and as did Karkat glowing and turning himself! He did a stongjump into the air, punching Stickdawg so hard it broke his jaw. Then he turned Gamzee color, got out his sickke (oh yeah and his sickle can also change colors), which shot out three dark indigo vine-looking things with thorns that wrapped around Stickdawg. The vines bounded him and his eyes turned purple as Karkat said,

"I command you to- WOW I HAD NO IDEA THIS SHEILD CAN DO ALL OF THIS! THIS IS ONE BADASS SHEILD! Um... can I get these vine things to give people nightmares?"

Then Stickdawg cried "NOOO SPIDERS!"

"Hmm I guess I can. Sweet."

Then Karkat fell down and decided to try the Feferi option and suddenly a bunch of blue energy stuff came out of Stickdawg's mouth and went into Karkat's after Karkat tried to move the sheild to attack.

"EW WE'RE MAKING OUT!" Karkat whined.

"I don't think you're making out!" Feferi cried, "I heard about this only in rumors! You're stealing his life force chakra and adding it to your own! You know, they say that having that bright red blood mutant means your lifespan is even shorter than marroon's, but if you can drain and extend lives like my ancestor was kind of good as, then you can practically be immortal!"

"Oh well in that case sweet. BUT HEY I DON'T KNOW WHERE HIS CHAKRA HAS BEEN!"

Then Karkat ended the lifesteal, made a plus sigh with his fingers, and shouted "KUSO BUSHKIN NO JUTUS!"

And then he made a ton of shadow clones after a puff of smoke! Oh and before this point he stopped glowing because that glow was only significant in his chakra/life force steal powers.

"Oh no not moore characters!" John bitched at all of the Karkat clones. There were more Karkats than there were of everyone else combined.

"THESE AREN'T MORE ALTERNATE SELVES STUPID THEYSE ARE EXACT CLONES I GUESS! NOW EVERYBODY! MAKE A RASENGANG! I SAW THIS ON MARIO AND LUGI DREAM TEAM."

He threw his rasengan at another Karkat, who bounced it up in addition to adding his own to it. They kept bouncing and adding like this for a while, the rasengan getting bigger as more clones did the throwing at once, when finally the first Karkat got out a sickle and looked at the still alive Stickdawg.

"I CALL THIS THE LUIGINARY FLAME- UH, I MEAN, THE KARKAT HURRICANE!"

Then He whacked it with his sickle, sending the colossal ball of rasengan wind heading straight to Stickdawg! but he only laughed in reply.

"Do you know how I am a billiard themed Felt member?"

Then he morphed himself Transformer-style, into a giant floating cue stick with his head at where the thicker end would be! He laughed, pushing on the rasengan like it was a cue ball. But then! Karkat smirked!

"Just as planned..." He said, holding out a copy of Death Note (the manga not the actual Death Note book) in case nobody got the reference (I was talking about the Rainbow Crew not the viewers but the fact that the Rainbow Crew is used as the viewers is a clever joke get it it's like I'm breaking the fourth wall but I'm not, the Simpsons does that all the time and that isn't overused?) because THE RASENGAN BALL WENT OVER AND KNOCKED A BOULDER LOOSE! The boulder was about the same size as the rasengang, so it started rolling over and it crushed all of Stickdawg except his head which flew off.

Then the rest of the rasengang flew backwards and picked up his head and took off into the skly flying it to who-knows-where.

"Remind me to never piss off Karkat again." Said Rose.

"DO THE HAREM JUTSU!" Roxy laughed.

"Ok but it will piss you off."

Then they transformed... into nude versions of Roxy's Sis! Roxy went "BLEH."

Then there was a giant explosion of smoke cleared and Karkat was by himself again and in his original looks.

(Felt Tower Again)

The lusii were also back, and thankfully they were told to carry wood along the way. Ma and Nan both stretched around, relaxing, and then resumed work on the fake bridge like everyone else.

On the other side, Doc Scratch ran down the staircase and peeked over the pool. "Yikes. They're doing too good..."

He saw Nan looking like she was going to throw her hammer at him, then ran up the staircase back to his apartment portion. She turned it back with a smirk. "Like I would toss this treasure away from me. Daisy, did you know I was going to pass this on to John?"

"Yeah." Pa added. "And I had my own heirloom that I wanted to pass to a son. Then I had a daughter. Then... well... I started getting it on with people who mutually had enough child raising. And I didn't want another kid. Too much for what is technically a single parent, you know? So I passed it to Jade instead."

"Aw. What is it?" Daisy asked.

"A treasured hunting rifle. But she refuses to use it to hunt. Tears my heart up. Kind of like when... no, that's supposed to be a big secret between the thirty-two of us."

"Oh." Daisy looked at the ancestors hammering together nails. "That reminds me. What's your story for getting here?"

Signless was starin at her creepily.

"Sorry about that," Chimed in Nan, "His son- sorry, 'descendant,' really seems to take after him."

Her eyes looked around, especially after Signless didn't seem to be i earshot. "To be honest, that Karkat creeps the hell out of me."

Nan shrugged. "I've seen worse. Now, which of you ancestors wants to lay the storytime on her? I am far more enthusiastic about getting this done."

"Ooh! Ooh!" Disciple was excitedly raising her hand, "I'm an expurrt at stories! Let me Go! I'm Aurink, by the way."

(Next Flashback)

So Disciple, now given the real name Aurink as seen above, was going around with Signless with her, talking with an agent about future modeling.

"Hey Silini," she told Signless, "We should help Rose. You were on the phone with her too, were you?"

"Yeah that was cool."

"Come on! This sounds like a fun journey!"

"Remeber the lasst time though. That was the snow fortress. And it sucked."

"Well, also in the snow fortress we learned to be a bit more badass with ourselves! And we can get the other ancestors, you know, the ancestors of those... what did they call themselves? The Sigmas?"

"Okay..."

"Let's go on a cool and cute road trip!"

Then they got on a motorcycle in a cool kind of way, and drove off. Disciple was in the front while Signless rode on the bitch seat (hey that's what they called it in King of the Hill, remember Hank's a character in this now so it's a callback) and their first stop wasn't that far away. It was a picket-fence house a few blocks over. By the way they weren't in Chicago, they were in Alternia.

"Hello? Phixdn? Are you there?"

Dualscar answered.

"Oh. Hi Ruscet. I wanted to talk to your wife, Phixdn. And you. But also your adorable couple-wife!"

He was holding a cup of coffie. "Um, yeah. Phixdn!"

Dolorosa came down the stares, but nearly tripped over her giant outfit.

"I CAN TELL THIS." Signless said, "YOU SEE, BEFORE WE CAN GO WITH ROSE'S PLAN AND CHARGE UP SCRATCH'S, WE SHOULD GATHER ALL THE ANCESTORS, HAVE THEM IN ONE PLACE. THEN, TO PASS THE LONG BOAT-RIDE FROM ALTERINA TO THE STATES, WE MAKE A PLAN."

He took in a lot of breaths because he wasn't used to that. Dualscar shrugged and agreed, while Disciple and Signless got back on their bike while Dualscar and Dolorosa hopped into their ordinary suburbs car.

Their next stop was considerably less close. It was the beach. Disciple looked at Signless.

"...Huh?" He asked.

"If I go in there, my outfit will melt off. And because Alternians are prudes-"

"They are and I want to rebell that." Signless said.

"Well, that would count as indecent axposure. That's also why I can't really bring sweet Nepeta along here. You, or you, or you have to go in there. I can, but when I come out I'm legally not able to not get arrested."

Signless looked at Dualscar. "Well, you're the sea-dweller."

"Hm? Oh, right. I'll do it."

He held his nose before remembering he can breathe under water, then plunged in. After a bit of waiting, he came out with the Condesce.

"Man your underwater house is small and unimpressive. And I have a generic suburbs house!" He exclaimed to Condesce.

"Yeah, yeah. So Rusket, what'ja call me for?"

"For making a plan, Kemine." Yeah that name was kind of forced in there just to finally name everyone becides their titels.

Suddenly, a pirate ship came by! Everyone got into fighting position, and...

Mindfang peered over the top! So they dropped their guards. But Mindfang was thrown off the ship completely, and as revealed was wrapped in rope.

"Dammit! I at least wanted to fight some pirates! Even if I couldn't be one!"

The pirates threw the phone back at her. The one she was using to communicate to Rose.

"Hey Bezedu," Signless said. "Aurink thinks we should stay together first before going to the States, then coming up with a plan."

Condesce then took offf her outfit and used the points to cut up the rope, revealing that Mindfang was in fact switched to Kanaya's proposal and only had on some spider-webs fitted into lingere. This reveal would have been made back in chapter 15 when she was revealed if this was visual because visual, but it can be done in this more epic fashion here because literary.

So they continued going off, and their next stop was a courthouse, where Redgalre, Darkleer, and Highblood were um. I should have tackled them one at a time. Okay, the first of them was trying to hold a trial, the second was part of the audience tinkering with robotics, and the third of them was awaiting the sentence. But he was also part of the audience, as he wasn't really a killer or something here.

"Psst. Glavzi. Glavzi!" Signless called. Darkleer turned his head around. "We're banding up to come up with a plan for taking down the barricate at Scratch's place."

Darkleer flexed his arms out. "Okay."

"When will Magkon be done?"

"Actually," redglare had super-senses so she could hear them, "I wasn't really doing a trial. I was just showing off, and giving most of these people a demonstration. Glavzi and Itsdra were here for support!" Darkleer and Highblood both waved at her. "So um, this is kinda urgent since our biological sons or daughters are locked up and stuck in a big tower, and since we're now leaving Alternia in one big group and... well, Bezedu is part of this group and she's really fucking impatient, sure. I have to leave early."

"You realize this is getting docked from your pay, right?" Said her boss. Um, some random Gamee-blood guy.

"Yeah, sure."

And finally, they were at the farm, Handmaid and Summoner were working on the fields while, inside the latter's house, Ψiioniic was setting up something he was paid to do.

"And we're almost halfway there!" Disciple cheered. "Now, hello guys! You said Kumush was here too?"

"Yes." Answered Handmaid, who looked down at her outfit because she was also considering switching it up a little since the cat was out of the bag and she wasn't holding a double-life with Scratch. "He's hooking up Pavlig's new computer right now."

Disciple nodded and was about to go in, but then I realized that if she did that the following conversation would be one she couldn't have possibly heard, so Condesce went in instead.

"Maiden," Mindfang finished up with the names for now, "We're gonna go over to those Theta-troll's ancestors next."

"Theta?" Handmaid replied.

"I think. I can't remember what they called themselves. Maybe the ancestors of them know."

Ψiioniic floated out, and was trying to carry Condesce with him. Sadly, lack of power practice meant that he wasn't as good at it as Sollux or especially Mituna was, and they both fell in the dirt below. PS I should mention that after freeing Mindfang Condesce did in fact put her outfit back on. Re-glued it and everything.

"Alright. I'm joining you. Let me just- no, those attatchments can wait." Ψiioniic said.

"But... is it an important new feature?" Asked Summoner.

"The recycle bin. But don't worry, you won't be using that thing anyway. Let's go."

Disciple pumped a fist into the air. "YEAH! Half of us are together now!"

So they went to the meeting spot, and strangely most of them were gathered there. Said meeting spot in question was a golden fancy flying airship manned by Fuchsian, because she's kind of rich. Instead of a stupid underwater fort. Whoeven opts for an underwater fort? Isn't that, like, Skeletor-shit or something? Condesce is Skeletor?

And it was actual gold, the pretty kind, not the default web color gold. Because that looks ugly.

So inside they expected a big disco party, but instead they were all fighting off against Waterwraith.

"YOU ALL SUCK ASS!" Waterwraith yelled, "THIS IS FOR RUINING MY AMAZING PLAN!" And he was swinging his rollers around like crazy.

Inside, Huntress turned to Disciple. "Do you know why he's trying to kill us?"

"Well Evinte, I think the 'second generation' hired some Pikmin he was trying to brainwash as interns, then the Pikmin got Mad at the things Rose did because this guy told them to, then the got Calm when it turns out he wasn't really the threat. Anyway, I think you can take it down with your awesomeness."

"ALREADY ON IT!" Shouted Karmagal. "You ready Aptrin?"

"Got it Leutis!" Sk8oardr replied.

Sk8oardr drove up towards Karmagal, who painted some purple stuff on the former's board and then hopped on it. They both flew off and Sk8oardr went through the Wraith, except Karmagal jumped off and the Wraith was solidifying, so then Karmagal struck him and to the shock of others, it actually hurt.

"Kuddle!" Karlmagal cried.

Scalper put a hand over his own forehead and channeled some powers into the Waterwraith. Waterwraith tried fighting back but failed, and backed down and cowered. Inflamed and Succubus lifted him up, because as it turned out this son of a bitch was heavy.

"It is done." Scalper siad. "Just throw him out the fucking airlock, Limort and Minour. Oh, and Minour?"

"Yes my... um, yes?" Inflamed asked.

"Go to Peyhid for the results when you're done."

(Succubus was Limort in case you couldn't figure that out.)

They tossed him out, Succubus shouting a "GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE," and then he just got caught by Electric, who was clinging onto the walls for dear life but he looked more concerned with how he was shaking his head.

So Inflamed ran over to Medicman. "And the diagnosis?"

"Well, he's an phantom-like object."

"A ghost? Then how come you can see him?"

"Because phantoms and wraiths are different things from eachother and ghosts. Anyway, I recommend that we don't simply let him fall from large heights, but instead... I don't know, this toxin should kill him?"

"Can I use light magic?" Unithorn asked. He was holding a rose in between his teeth and glittering with rose-like glitter to try to convince a yes.

"Mmm... it's kind of hard to conjure in this type of situation, and he saps it away, so no. Good idea though Potale." Then Medicman turned to Fuchsian. "Adenya! How is it going?"

"Pretty great!" She answered. "Starting to land right now!"

"Hey, uh..." Signless pushed his fingers together. "Can we join your next cool battle."

"Sorry, but it's kind of over!" Fuchsian repliced with a smile.

Electric climbed back in, which got some moans from almost every Alpha's ancestor but Medicman. (And Electric himself.) Medicman, by the way, put her hands to her hips and gave the others some scowling looks.

"Oh boy," said Karmagal. "It's Kutrii. Here to ruin our fun."

"I'm only here because you don't seem to know how Wraiths work. Throwing this guy out of the ship isn't gonna solve the problems."

"Yeah." Added Medicman.

Vocalist ran into the room with Gearbone.

"GUYS!" He shouted, using a megaphone. This actually was necessary since they were far away.

"What is it, Bokeah?" Asked Fucshain.

"FERRUM AND I JUST FOUND THAT THE WRAITH POSSESSED THIS SOMEHOW! IT'S NOT SAFE TO FLY AROUND IN!"

"Get into my new invention that can block out this... thing." Gearbone said, tossing down a plane with twelve seats. Then he noticed the other ancestors. "Oh. Didn't see you there. Well, this is akwards."

But there was no time for this as the airship suddenly lost control! Everyone crammed into the same seat as their likebloods (using racial segregation to decide, yes dumb and backwards, but this is a crisis and in a crisis people do stupid things) and flew out. Meanwhile, the airship fell on the waters of the ocean just outside Alternia island, and began to transform... into something... very sinister.

IT WAS THE PLASM WRAITH! Thank goodness I can go back and edit past chapters like this, otherwise this plot twist wouldn't be used here even if this entire story stuff wasn't added. Anyway speaking of story, since Disciple wasn't there to see this, she had no idea it happened and it wasn't part of the story.

(Tower)

"Also cool!" Shouted Daisy.

"Yeah. That's when we met up." Disciple finished.

"So what about the lusii?"

"They walked." Said Mindfang.

(Grand Canyon)

"So... now what?" Terezi asked. "How can we get back home?"

"Well, the same way Dave, Rose, and I did before in a similar situation!" Horuss cheered. "I can summon the horse mecha!"

Then the Plasm Wraith crushed down on them!

"WTF is that?" Roxy asked.

"Whatever it is, my mecha-omitor says that it means something bad for giant mechas." Horuss said, taking out a remote control. "This can track down our locations. And it's bad enough that Troll Empress and Scratch can do that, and go to your personal homes. ...You know, we could really use some alter-egoes."

Gamzee snapped his fingers. "This thing is that same creature we fought here a few days ago. Thatt, um... Waterwraith. They're giving off the exact same sort of energy."

"CORRECT!" shouted the Waterwraith, now the Plasm Wraith (I don't know why but the latter is two words while the former is one). "AND I HAVE COME FOR REVENGE. I AM ALSO STRONG ENOUGH TO DISRUPT THE ONIONS!"

They all flinchedd, but Ross laughed.

"Rose, let's make a deal."

"Huh? Really?"

"Yes, and you there."

"PLASM WRATIH."

"I want to make a deal too. You can split in two, right?"

"SURE. I CAN SPLIT INTO INFINITY! UH, NOT REALLY, BUT IT MIGHT FEEL LIKE IT."

"Well, you split in two. We'll see whose the better fighter after the game of Strip Truth or Dare game showed off what us counterparts are like. Anyway, only counterparts take on one PW, while only originals take on the other."

So he did. Both halves looked about the same size, which was disconcerning. But real heroes like the RC don't need to be too worried!

"Okay, let's do this." Ross smirked. "And remember, we completely failed at harming this guy in the slightest back when he was in a weaker form."

"WHAT?" Jude cried, "DON'T REMIND ME..." and he started crying up again.

Joan sighed. "If it were up to me, I would forfiet and consider the originals the winner. Just because of that whiny little mess."

"But don't give up!" Jean cried in, "We can all do this! Right guys?"

Jaky gave a fist-up and a small "Yeah...?"

Dian nodded. "Um, sorry. I actually don't prefer working alone." She akwardly leaned against Dirk. Who looked a bit disturbed.

"Uh, I'd like to sit this one out. Can both of us do that? After all, you all fooling around."

Rose shook her head. "Okay but if things go shitty and we need to not hold back, you both get your asses in here. Now."

Then Rory made the first attack. He tried running up to the counter's Plasm Wraith, but then got jabbed towards several times by the tentacle move and only barely dodged them. He really tripped up. I guess that's what saved his life?

Now let's finish off the human counterparts with this: Dove only said "Meh" with a shrug, while Dave was slashing the hell out of the PW and a lot of it was getting chunked off. Is that a real phrase? It means that there were globs of the Plasm Wraith's Plasm landing on him and keeping him from fighting that good.

They were all shouting really, let me just summarize this since the chapter is already kinda long (not as long as 16 or especially 15 though?), so here's a brief run-down covered in pseudo-script format. First to paint a picture, they were all jumping on it in a big pile in both cases, and it was splashing the Plasm Wraith Plasm back and maybe some elements like fire, water, crystal, and elecricity. Maybe new ones too: The gameplay might not show all of the powers, since the thing does appear to be very tough. (PS this would look MUCH better in comic form. Barely though.)

John was all: "Bleh this stuff is drowning me." Jade: "Boy, no! We didn't go through that Stickdawg battle just to die to you!" Rose: "While I may have fought worse- actually. Wait. I haven't. Though that Drew Pickles guy came close." Dave: "YO I WAS NOT SIGNED UP FOR THIS! ALSO WHERE ARE SOME OF THESE TENTACLES COMING FROM I HOPE THEY'RE NOT THIS CREATURE'S WAY OF SHITTING THEM OUT." Jane: "Hoo boy! Everyone, hold on to your keisters! Especially if they are always exposed, like mine!" Jake: "AAAAAAAHHHH!" (He was getting flung around like an idiot thanks to the Wraith) Roxy: "Hey why are the tentacley parts AVOIDING me? Anti-wonk." (Get it it's a hentai joke) Dirk: Actually I rembered Dirk sat out of this. Aradia: "THIS STOPPED BEING FUN NOW, DAMMIT! I THOUGHT I WOULD BE OKAY WITH FIGHTING THIS GUY BUT I'M NOT!" Damara: "I STILL THINK THIS THING IS FUN ;)" Tavros: "ALRIGHT... JUST GET... THIS GUN..." Rufioh: "Oh no, I hope I didn't mess something up here..." Sollux: "My blasts aren't working. God dammit." Mituna: "MINE ARE :P" Karkat: "FUCK." Kankri: "I do believe that you are working your magic in the wrong way. Here, letme try to help. Mostly by telling you who to attack." Nepeta: "Ha ha, this is kind of easy." Meulin: "AND FUN! All of us in the slime together..." Kanaya: "Yes, it's rather... filthificating." Porrim: "An observation, it hurts and doesn't tickle." Terezi: "I'M BOUNCING IN THIS JELLO SHIT!" Latula: "Look at me grind through this thing!" Vriska: "FUCK I'M DROWNING! ...No wait. I'm fine." Aranea: "I should have just joined Dirk." Equius: "This fool does not realize that I keep dousing his fire with his water." Horuss: "OH JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY!" Gamzee: "Honk HHHORRRK no!" Kurloz: "WE USED TO BE BUDDIES :o(" Eridan: "Hold still, jackass. That's all I care about." Cronus: "I'm just glad we're all kinda close together. Just that though. That's all." Feferi: "I don't see why everybody else is complaining. I think I'm doing good. He's shrinking! 38)" Meenah: "Urgh, this is a... a punk!"

And the counterparts. Jean: "Heh, woo! Come on, originals! Show a little more spirit! So many of you are downers!" Jude: "BOO HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO!" Ross: "I do not regret making this bet at all. Although I do regret the fact that I put nothing at stake." Dove said nothing, thinking that the 'Meh' back then was already enough. Joan: "ARRGH! I WISH I COULD RAGE QUIT THIS! THAT DID NOT MEAN TO COME OFF SOUNDING AS LAZY AS IT DID!" Jaky: "Woah! I do have a bit of an adventure feel from this!" Rory: "CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS, I'M ON THE PLAMS TRAIN NOW!" Dian: Still sat out of this. Ardion: "The golden waves of power that form from this monsterous ciclops-like beast (not clop like pony porn) are consuming my ever-so being!" Domoni: "Yeah no I think I should just quit again." Tavass: "WOAH... TOO EXTREME FOR ME... THANKFULLY I KNOW I CAN HELP MYSELF WITH THIS." Rufiye: "Boy am I going to lose." Sliiou: "Bleh. Is this over with yet?" Mitchl: "Good to see you're not being pervy about this, other-me!" Karkta: "Ow! This isn't fun! Stupid glass." Kiriki: "Actually it's crystal. Glass is usually used by snooty blue-bloods I think. Sorry to be racist and stereotype." Netimp: "Well, Nepeta's right again. This shit is easy. You're all wimps." Yeulin: "I THINK I might know this guy's weakness..." Kanayo: "You should savor the fact that this battle is becoming rather sweet. :)" Porsiv: "Sis, are these colors me tripping? I thought Gamzee and Gamsis were the druggers..." Tezlom: "Yeulin talk louder. But not too loud so that the originals hear us." Latlin: "Holy shit is this definitely strategically possible. Trust me. I know my counterpart- or are we using original, acts like a dumbass, but... well, her loss." Virkso: "Just'a good ol' boys. Never meanin' no harm..." Aramin: "Messy messy messy messy messy messy messy... oh, messsy. There. that's eight. Also, this is just... EW GROSS!" Equisa: "YOU'RE TOO SLOW!" Haerus: "More humiliation on my part. *Sgihs.*" Gamsis: "...This jello tastes terrible." Kursis: "only can silence bring the proper victory." Erdini: "I would help more, but my guns aren't doing anything!" Cromie: "I wonder if I'll get a matesprite out of this. Probably not though. That's okay. :)" Fefian: "HELP ME I'M ACTING HELPLESS! ;)" Mannah: "You're on your own Fefian, and Plasy, FEAR THE WRATCH OF THE PIEXEZ CLAN!"

Most of those quotes were going on at the same time but some were reaction pics to others. I'm sure you can tell which is which.

Anyway to cut this short since I gotta take a shit, Cronus somehow teamed up with Sollux (this isn't the somehow part the hacking is) and hacked into their Plasm Wraith to turn him into a car. Which was actually driven normally and not quite crashed, but it did eventually fall off of the plateu. Meanwhile, Yeulin, Tezlom, Netimp, and secretly Fefian all worked up together and used their respective knowledges and stuff to destroy their Plasm Wraith completely.

"Looks like we won?" Asked Jean.

"Well," Karkta said, "The originals got their Plasm Wraith off the cliff. So they won technically! Because they got rid of him!"

"Um, no, you generally don't win if you're all dead." Netimp said, looking over the cliff.

"Not true. What about a basketball game, and the person gets a heartattack but their team is still points ahead" Asked Tavass.

"Good question. Remind me to give you a cookie."

But thankfully, the Plasm Wraith by the originals floated back into the air! Remember, it can fly. It was also under the cliff thing while Netimp was looking off, that's why he didn't see them.

Then the Plasm Wraith laughed. "I CALLED FOR HELP! YOU'RE GONNA BE SCREWED SOON ANYWAY, REGARDLESS OF THIS COMPETITION!"

They all flew out, then the Plasm Wraith was suddenly bombed by an explosion. He, and the Waterwraith, are now dead.

Then some new character guy floated down in rocket jets. "Hello there," He said, "Just call me..." he sniffed, "The Rocket Blaster. I know, kickass name, huh?"

"IS IT A GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY REFERENCE?" Mituna asked. Then R.B. blasted dangerously close to him and he frowned. "I GUESS NOT."

R.B. flew around in the air and just kept launching at them, but with enough- eh screw it I'm cutting this fight short. Season five is long enough and I'm very enthusiastic about season six, I have high hopes for it. So let's just say Collux got on a phone and hacked into his rocket jets and made them fly off course, crashing into the wall. He somehow survived, but on his backup jets, and shouted "I'LL RETURN" and jetted away before Sollux could do the same thing again. "AND THAT TIME, I'LL POSE MORE OF A THREAT!"

Also after he left, we saw tiny drops of the Plasm Wraith moving away. He's not dead either...

"Now let me call my horsey friend again." Horuss said, before whistling.

(Scratch's Tower)

"I WISH I MADE A PANIC ROOM!" Scratch cried, on the roof and staring at the elevador that led here.

For those that didn't know, Scratch was watching the cameras and reacted finely at first because everything was coming up good for him, but then he couldn't help but notice that they were actually getting somewhere. And then they finished the bridge. And then they were crossing. And they were in the apartment room. And just found the elevator and got in, and yeah they could fit in. Scratch paniced once they finally came running out, and they grabbed him and started all kicking his ass.

"NOOOO IS THIS ISN'T THE END?" He shouted.

Suddenly, the ground shook! This made Scratch able to break free from the grasp of the guardians and stood up and looked around while the rest of them were knocked on their asses. He saw that giant horse thing that Rainbow Crew had! It was running pretty fast, but Scratch had good timing, so he jumped off of the roof and landed on the back of the horse, flipping off the guardians and ancestors.

"HAHAHA I GOT AWAY WITH IT!"

Then he saw Stickdawg's head fly past in the rasengan, just as the Felt Tower was fading from his sight. The Rasengan exploded, and Stickdawg's head fell on the horse, which Scratch picked up and morned.

"NO STICKDAWG'S DEAD! I better step up my A-game next time!"

Meanwhile, on the top of the Felt Tower, the guardians and ancestors were talking to eachother.

"So... now what?" Nan said.

"Let's blow this tower up!" was Pop's suggestion, prompting a smirk from Nan.

"I like the way you think." She brushed his arm lovingly.

"BUT FIRST!" Bro said, "We should have an actual orgy here to piss him off!"

The ancestors all jumped back.

"Fine, you can stay out if you want. Troll wussies."

(On the Horse Ride)

Scratch kept flipping off in the direction of his tower, even if later on he wasn't so sure as to where it is. Speaking of not sure of locations, he also did not know at the time where this would take him. So he sat by and enjoyed the scenery of the United States as he flew past by on a giant mechanical horse. He thought about having a beer with and playing poker with the Felt but then he remembered that he was all alone and got sad. And he remembered that he was bad at poker and got sadder. He sat on the horse's back with his head down and in his hands as he thought about being lonely.

Then suddenly, a hologram appeared behind him! Speaking of Naruto, it works like those holograms where it was a dark shadow and you only can see his eyes clearly.

"Oh my! Grand oversupervisor of the Hitler Revival Groups!" Scratch said, standing up and happily holding up his arms. "Perfect! I was looking for some company, now that I am the last surviving member of my team."

"shoovve a can in it, scra." He said. "i joost wwanta let yoo knooww that i wwill noot be avvaoolable toonight, eh."

"You're never available. In fact, unlike some of the HRGs, we haven't called for personal help from you in years."

"not in thoo mood for braggoong. fyi, this moossage wwill goo to ALL hitloor revvivval groops. OS DON'T THINK YOU'ER SPOOCIAL!"

Scratch's head lowered. "Yes sir. Sorry, sir overseer sir."

"i'll be in the oonited kingdooms of loondoon, cuz oone of my groups, the millennium, wwas failing a lot but they had the chance to redoom themselvves by killoong this guy i hate. since a spell that wwoos kooping them outof london is gone, they had a wweek to do it, and succooded in like, three days. so i'm cooming over to congraduallte them for not booing as retoorded as i thought. althoo they did manage to die ooff, like, everybdoy except four of them, and one of them's a traitoor."

They then arrived at the Crand Ganyon's desert side, and down the canyon a bit, and Scratch hopped off with the Overseer's hologram following too. Horuss looked puzled.

"I thought you only summoned the horse, not him." Rose said while Kanaya glared at the hologram. "You know, because that portal here was only one way."

"Th-that was the intention, just the horse so we can get back to Chicago!" Horuss cried.

"That glare you're giving is familiar." Kanaya said to the Overseer, "Are you related to Alucard Badguy?"

"Ah, my friends..." Scratch said, "Good to... uh... see you again... by accident. This is my superior, just call him the Overseer."

"We killed your dog." Rose said.

"IT WAS YOU? NOW I DON'T CARE THAT YOUR BIOLOTICAL PARENTS BEAT ME TO A PULP! I'LL STILL TRY TO KICK YOUR ASS!"

But it was the other way around. The Crew kicked his ass like with their relatives. All the while, the Overseer just watched.

Oh, I can do a canon now! He stood there. And watched.

Eventually Equius told them, "Clear the way, I want to make a finisher." And got out a bow and arrow and charged the bow with light.

Everyone moved out of the way and Scratch was in a daze, however before Scratch could get up and run away EQUIUS'S BOW BROKE AGAIN!

"Oh shoot."

Then Scratch got up and ran away, running over to the capsule of Vitamin Scratch that Stickdawg had had and crushing up all of the pills and infusing them with Horuss's giant mecha horse. The horse began to glow in billiards colors as Scratch jumped out it.

"NOW THAT I HAVE COMMAND OVER THIS AND HAVE TAKEN OVER YOUR RIDE, I CAN GET BACK HOME!"

They all watched as Scratch effectively went Grand Theft Auto on them, except he didn't rob a bank. All of them were silent, including the Oversser until Overseer said,

"pathootic."

Kanaya took this oppertunity to jump towards Oversseer in a dash-like attack, but because he wasn't really there and only projection a hologram, she went right through him.

"i wwoos toolking aboot booth scra and you, eh. scratch is oonly a basic-level wwuss vvilloon and he's givving you trouble. i don't evvoon wwant to knooww wwhat you are capable of killing."

"We're heroes though!" Jean cried, "We'll always find a way to save the day!"

"you may be, but you're bad oot it. troost me, you're noot evven at the tip oof the iceboorg yet. based on wwhoot scra says aboout you, you're stooll stuck on the emotoonal issues, confoosed about the most basic things. the real hooroes, are the hecksoongs, teh guys agoonst me right now pooting oop a good fight. even your ancestoors can't stoop me, even if yoo toom up wwith them. this wwill all bookfire hooribly on you, like a giant mecha on stooroid oil. hell, doon't you havve school?"

Kanaya could only glare at him as he vanished.

"How will we get back?" Porrim asked.

Then, it was a miracle! Link from Zelda made his first return in like forever by jumping down on his horse, coming from the portal!

"Hey guys!" He said, "I went to try to storm the Felt Tower! Your parents... and siblings in some of the cases, told me that you went down this strange portal and haven't called them! Disciple said she was the only one who saw you going down the portal, because she peeking up a little! Don't worry though, I'll phone them all to know that you're safe."

Speaking of nudes (the harem jutsu) I'd like to point out that they were still naked the entire time. Still kinda are. They had been the whole chapter.

(?)

Static cut into view, then showing the Troll Empress on a beach. it was Santa Monica, and you can tell because that Oil Rig from before was visible.

"Men, we are at a time of crysis!" She announced. In case you couldn't tell, this was an add for the army. An explosion could be seen in the background, from the Oil Rig. "Just right now we got a mysterious attack from a mysterious shark. So I kindly ask the brave and powerful men of this nation to step forth, get your asses over here if you want that dat freedom! Sign up, or I might as well get the greater Government to take away your human rights! Because that's the same thing as if we lose this war! Or hell, I'll draft you myself! It may just be one Oil Rig, but would you really want to give up one piece of your country? You say it's not a big loss? Would you still think it's not a big loss if that peice was your house? I'd think not! And if you're drafted, you better come over to Santa Monica, or I will personally send my Drone to break your legs and drag you over myself!

"And I say men because I know that you're the strong ones. You're the ones who hit harder, and take harder hits. Women, you already have the agonizingness of periods to worry about, you don't deserve the war to harm your weak little selves. Kay thanks, bye!"

END OF SEASON FIVE.

Closing AN:

And this wraps up season five!

Anyway, season six, that is where I really want things to get big. (Well, it was season four but I kind of half-assed it later in its production. Season five I just never really had high care for in the first place. Again though, rewrites are always a thing.) It's what I would consider as HHC's "identity," as in the established settup for it is, like, HHC's "status quo" or something. Oh, mild spoilers: The shark that ate Wiggim? Gonna have a big villain role. The Troll Empress? Also a big villain role, sort of and mostly limited to the first half. It's going to be very odd half-filler, half-permanent character development.

Yeah, what with Scratch talking about the end of something, thinking about this it's easy to think that this could serve as the final or penultimate chapter of the story, with an epilogue that wraps up the loose ends and lightly mentioned characters together. Unlike HUC, however, we will not be glazing over some of the adventures of the side characters. And it would be such a wasted oppertunity! Welp, stay tuned for the Weird Romance Shit Arc! The second to last and longest season, the latter applying for both chapter numbers and likely the length of each individual chapter! Oh, and for some more little trivia about the upcoming events, you know how pretty much no season takes place over more than two days? Depending on how you count the very beginning in the night focused on Kanaya and Edward? Well, season six is also going to change that. As it will take place after the events of chapters 10-12 of Hecksing and thus pretty much the entire main story, Housestuck is no longer chronologically bound to Hecksing and thus I'm a little bit freer with how I can structure the plots. And, going back to the point about length, this would also make season six the longest season chronologically too, taking place over more days than the others. (Aside from... likely season seven, if only due to the epilogue.)

HANDLES:

GCAT People (Originals): GG is Jade, GC is Terezi, GA is Kanaya, GT is John. CG is Karkat, CC is Feferi, CA is Eridan, CT is Equius. AG is Vriska, AC is Nepeta, AA is Aradia, AT is Tavros. TG is Dave, TC is Gamzee, TA is Sollux, and TT is Rose. So, the usual.

EDIB People (Act 6-Newcomers): EE is Jake, ED is Latula, EI is Porrim, EB is Jane. DE is Kankri, DD is Meenah, DI is Cronus, DB is Horuss. IE is Aranea, ID is Meulin, II is Damara, IB is Rufioh. BE is Dirk, BD is Kurloz, BI is Mituna, and BB is Roxy.