Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals

by Great Pikmin Fan

Part of the "SBIG" series. It's a stupid, deliberatley badly written thing I made in a spinoff to another also deliberatley badly written fan fic I wrote before. Main plot's about the kids and trolls fighting the Felt, but the majority of the fan fic involves a bunch of sidequests with the citizens. Completed.

23. Prom

Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals

Chapter 23: Prom

Beginning AN:

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

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Saturday. June 11th, 2011.

The Crew was currently actually having some fun on the beach. Or actually Lake Michigan, or that large body of water by Illinois. John ran back in his feminine-body form with an angry look as he threw gloves down.

"Why do we even have to clean up the lake? Yesterday we were fighting off giant space invaders!" He asked, before shifting his form back. "And now we're changing form to get some... 'appeal' or something, and trying to clean up a mess in the lake! It's not even the mess Bororo induced on us, that wasn't even our fault and we had to clean that up too!"

"It's all about heroism." Shrugged Dian. "We do it because heroes also work on the smaller stuff too."

John sighed, then noticed Jane. "Oh, Jane. We need to talk a little."

Jane blushed. "Is this... is this about the Prom coming up tomorrow?"

"No... it's... well, I think we might need to re-think out relationship."

"Are you going to ask me to... marry you? I mean, it's been about, let me count... half of February, March, April, May, and half of June... about four months by now, and I've been your longest date! So... at this point I should be asking you, will you marry me?"

"A girl proposing to a guy? Oh jeez... anyway, I was going to say that I wanted to..." He took the prom tickets out of his swimsuit thing, and looked at them. "Re-evaluate our relationship. But we can still go to prom together!"

Jane gasped. And so did Roxy, watching it onward as with the rest of the Crew.

PS you know, this arc (season six, and yes for all you archive readers this is still season six I didn't forget to put the end of season whatever or anything) is the Weird Romance Shit Arc. Or Weird Romance Shit Season, I don't know. Anyway this hasn't actually been focusing on romance that much so for this final chapter it might a little more than usual to live up to its name.

CHAPTER XXIII

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"Really?" Asked Jane. "I-I-I-we. We! We came so far and did so much! And why on Earth did you tell me this right before prom?"

"Well... I'm not that good with relationships. Before you, all of them didn't even last a week! And my first date, well I was the good guy there but he was the one who held me out as a sheild against a bear!"

"Hey." Said Nepeta, "I thought you were involved in a weird polygamy thing with almost all of us second-gen members."

"Oh, I don't even think of you as dates. Just stress release when I need someone to kiss."

Roxy shook her head.

Speaking of Nepeta, she blasted some stuff into the lake and it changed color. Then she nodded.

"Okay, that was a top-notch bacteria I found about in my book. It adapts to the larger life of the setting, what kind of plankton they like to eat, you know, and then it detects whatever is harmful to the life and not helpful, and removes that while keeping everything good. And it also converts itself into appropriate plants so there's little chance of them mutating into something bad. We're done, and can leave."

"We're done when I, Dirk, Dian, or to a lesser extent Ross or Karkta say we're done." Said Rose. She looked over. "Nah, nevermind. Congradulations Nepeta, you just made that list. I mean, holy shit. You're promoted."

And they started making out. And Roxy looked over at Jane and frowned.

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(Treehouse)

They were having a group shower.

"So um... John," Said Roxy, "About you and Jane..."

"It's really none of your business." John laughed, "But you and I are part of our business!"

"But-"

"Normally I would let you talk and everything, but you're kind of a creepy pervert who might do something creepy about our relationship. I mean between me and Jane, but also between me and you, and hell, you and Jane."

Roxy frowned.

"Okay," Said Rose, "Plans."

"Prom's tomorrow!" Shouted Dave, "Maybe we can take another little break from heroism and... work with that! You know, I do love prom."

"I am not a fan of it, but hey, you can all take a floating holiday there." Said Rose. "In fact, I will too. I am using my vacation day on Prom."

"You don't have to." Said Dirk, "It's falling on a weekend. And we do try to have weekends off unless there's an emergency. Like today..."

"So, let's talk about dates." Ross said. "Who are you bringing?"

"I'm not going!" Karkat cried, "You fuckin' saps and your sappy romance! I'm just gonna do some extra work on that day! Just to prove you wrong on how much you should prioritize your wierd romance shit over heroism!"

"Heroism doesn't take breaks!" Said Karkta.

"STOP AGREEING WITH ME!" Karkat raged, "It's CREEPY."

"Okay..."

Karkat sighed. You see, he actually thought his counterpart was someone he can argue with, like his memoes in canon.

"I want to take Jane!" John cried, "I mean, we're still shakey, but at least I want our relationship to end on a high note."

"You're breaking up with me AT PROM?" Jane asked.

"N-no! I-"

"Of all the things to..."

And then she went on a ramble while Roxy sighed. And then a piece of paper floated by, somehow cutting past the showers. It read: "Meet me at Creep Elementary at 5 AM tonight. Or tomorrow, since that technically is the next day, falling after midnight and everything. - RVW."

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(That Night (Er, Morning?))

And that was it for the naked scene, as you could see here Roxy had on her regular, pre-Rainbow Crew outfit clothes since this was off mission for once, and she wondered past the creepy empty playground. She saw another paper that had a light azure arrow on it and nothing else, that also appeared to be stuck to the walls. Roxy looked at the paper she had, and it seemingly started moving on its own, and then flew out of her fingers and turned to blood to merge with the other paper with an arrow. Then both papers started turning into a small trickle-line (of blood again) that moved horizeontally across the walls. Roxy followed it. And it was getting faster.

Down the halls and by the lab, she noticed that there were several curves of salt in front of all the doors to the science labs. When the blood thing got near it, it quickly bounced off and fell on the floor. And started growing. And expanding. And soon it was a giant, forboding column that became... RIP! Of course, what else could RVW stand for?

"You again. You're back." Roxy said.

"Did I ever leave?" Rip laughed, "Kidding, I left you alone until that paper. So," she clapped, "It's been a few months since we last spoke!"

"Yeah, and in another country too!"

"I was talking about the first time we formally met, not the second. I do believe I never fully addressed you in particular that day. And trust me, I have a very good memory. Too good. Toooooooo gooooooood..."

As she said those last words, her entirety changed appearances so she looked like a big screen that showed several events from throughout both HUC and HHC.

"What'ja call me over for?" Roxy asked.

"I want to make another deal with you. Well, 'you' meaning the Rainbow Crew as a whole. This is the first time I will be making a deal with you specifically, Roxy."

"What is the deal?"

Rip held her hand out, and in a puff of smoke, a bottle thing appeared. It was heart-shaped, looked like a perfume bottle, and was seemingly full of red liquid. "I couldn't help but overhear that you were feeling a little... blue over some relationship issues."

"Huh?"

"John and Jane. They were having a little falling out, am I correct?"

"Yeah- was that racist? Eh, N. V. M. I was gonna try to talk them out of breaking up or seeing how to fix up their relationship. I don't really need a... what is that, a love potion?"

"A love potion would help out in a time like this."

"Yeah, no. I don't just ignore problems like that."

"Ignoring it would be to stand there, letting your voice be ignored. Ever heard of the term actions speak louder than words?"

"Then why is the pen mightier than the sword?"

"That one is the false saying. When has simply talking or, even worse, writing convinced anyone anything? If I had been empty-handed up to this point, would you even still be here? No, I showed you this, and now you have a gleam of curiosity."

"You're talking now aren't you."

"My deal is a limited offer. Take it or leave it."

"Okay okay okay. Maybe it won't be selfish if I use the love potion because it makes them happy, and not just because I think John and Jane would be a cuter couple together? But... Rip, can you help me? Is this moral or not?"

"Tick tock, Roxy Drunkie."

"Um... WAIT! What do I have to do in return?"

Rip laughed. "Oh, yes, for something so important I almost forgot. Same deal as Rose. All I want is a glass. It can be given to me at any time before you actually use my own offer." She then looked into the chemistry lab room thing. I know elementary schools usually don't have entirely seperate science rooms, but... this is a special case.

"Oh. And you can't cross the salt? Uh... sure! Deal!"

"Let's shake on it." Rip took off her glove again, and her bare hand glew with azure flames. Then they shook. Roxy snatched the bottle and started walking off.

"Now I'm just gonna get to Wal-Mart and buy a glass to give you!" She shouted, which left Rip shocked-looking. "HA! Roxy wins again because she is awesome and flawless and always right."

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(Daylight Proper)

Most of this could easily be skipped over or something. It was just the Rainbow Crew doing normal things until later in the day, where they were getting dressed in fancy clothes and stuff. Rose wore a long dress that was embroidered with- fuck this, I'm not going to describe all of their outfits. Just that, for once, it was fancy and not revealing. They finally looked like normal people you'd see in real life public again. How long has it been since that happened? Aside from Roxy?

Speaking of Roxy, "You look like shit." Said Itchy. "What happened?"

"I had some trouble sleeping." Roxy said with a yawn, "But don't worry, the prom will re-ignite my energy."

Should I make a list of who isn't going? Okay, maybe I should. The first generation and the leprechauns are a given, but also others like Karkat, and... hm, this is the list aside from those groups: Karkat, nah on second thought let's just say who IS going out of that second gen group. John, Jade, Jane, and Jake are givens. As with, I guess, Rose, Dave, Roxy, and Dirk. Hm, Aradia, Tavros, Sollux, Terezi, Eridan, and Feferi could use more development. Nepeta and Meulin don't really need any but they're major characters so them. And Rufioh, Mituna, and Latula are romantics. And let's toss in some counterparts for good measure: Virkso, Jean, Jude, Joan, Jaky, Dove, Dian, Rory, Ross, Netimp, Yeulin, Mitchl, Domoni, and Haerus. There, that sounds good enough for something that the majority of these people would probably want to go to. Ha, not! But I'm sticking to that!

Anyway at night with a nice cloudy sky, prom was starting, and everyone from the above list (except the people I said wouldn't be in) was already inside except for John, Jade, and Jane, but those three were walking to the school. Jade and Jane looked down and sighed.

"What's wrong, Jade?" John asked, "And you're the only one of us that is single. Why did you come here?"

"I just feel nervous. You know... that this could be your chance to look into me. And how I'm not even sure if I really like the real you. And how you and Jane look like you're about to break up so suddenly, yet less suddenly than with Dave, Dirk, or Damara..."

"Oh, this again." John rolled his eyes. "I completely forgot that you even liked me. That felt like, almost three years ago."

"Well," Jane shrugged, "No reason to dwell on the past. Let's get in there and enjoy some prom dancing, talking out our feelings, and ignoring the creep that is Jade Harley!"

"Agreed!" Cheered John, "Seriously, you are a creep."

So they walked in. Now, I wanted a thing where Roxy peeks at them from behind something. But I am an honest writer, and it would be dishonest to say that they were all inside except for three and then go on and have a fourth person mentioned who wasn't inside, so instead Roxy looked at them from an upper-story window, with a smile on her face and the bottle in her hand.

"Well..." She told herself, "Looks like you won't have to worry about Jade getting between you guys... heh heh heh!"

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(Main Hall)

Instantly after walking through the main hall, they went past some unimportant students. And yeah, some were humans and others were trolls, but I guess there could be other alien races or something like that. Dang, and back in Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals I had it so that aliens were rare and exotic and Carl was one of a kind. But now he isn't. How sad.

But there was one student not part of the Rainbow Crew who was important. Well, maybe in other spinoffs others will get a chance, but I'm talking about the guy they are facing with right now. He looked really buff and his shirt did not have a picture but instead a golden "62" on it. Everything else is up to interpretation - wait! His skin color and eye color are the same as Jean's, a very bright yellow. This works better in AUs without a Jean of any sort, so that there's a light-yellow having color whose text is a complete pain on the eyes.

"Hey, in case you Rainbow Losers got so much into your little adventures and forgot me, I'm Rick." He said. "Rick Abs."

John, Jade, and Jane all froze up. "Oh no..." Said Jane.

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(Flashback so you'll know what an asshole this guy is)

"We have a very special guest for you tonight..." Said some announcer at a pep rally. Um, this took place sometime after the whole John humiliated himself to Jade after being proven wrong over a very stupid plot point that I'd like to pretend didn't happen. "I'd like to introduce, Rick Abs!"

He did a sliding heymaker (look up Bowser's Inside Story) through the doors, and flew his way on the stands. Him breaking the doors showed how little of a shite he gave about others, foreshadowing his personality.

"Hello, hello!" He said, "As you all know, I am the top golfer and surfer."

Nepeta, who despite her gang being in the Grand Canyon (their headquarters though), attended this, and rolled her eyes. "And golf is such serious business in Chicago..." She told herself. Meulin was there too but Nepeta didn't think anything unusual of it at the time.

"Well I'm happy to be here for another year, and things look pretty great! I mean, this is my last year, after that I've got my life figured out ahead of me. And lemme see, lemme see..."

He scanned around the benches for a bit. Then he saw Jade.

"Ooh... hey there, I didn't notice you. Up there. Sitting by that dork in the shades."

"Hey man," Dave said, "She's like the latest person in our friend group, so I think that means that any insult to me is also an insult to her."

"I wasn't talking to you." Rick said sternly. "I was talking to her."

"Me?" Jade pointed to herself and asked.

"Yeah. You. Anyway, I'm gonna... uh, use you. As an example! Of... my skills! Would you like to help me by... um, setting the tee? If you would."

"I don't want to be your assistant. I also like watching golf, but... I'm not your servant. Do you think I just exist to make other people happy?"

"Due to my amazing golfing and surfing skills, I'm fucking loaded. I'll give you ten bucks if you set the golfing tee up."

"Oh that changes everything."

So she got up while John yawned. "I don't really understand all of those surfing fans. It's mostly about balance. Football needs way more strategy to it."

And Jade was making her way down the stair case while he yawned and said that, which Roxy took a note to. "Sounds like someone might be jeaaaaalous of him."

"I have an aircraft carrier full of kiss-buddies and I frequently cheat on them." The fact that he doesn't in the present (this takes place... let's just say, December of 2010, the same school year) shows how much he grew. "I don't really care about Jade. Like, at all. Though the people I cheat on do find out, which is why we don't really date at all."

"Sh!" Nepeta cried, "Whoever you are, I think golf is a little overrated but I like this guy."

"Hey!" John cried. Jade was just really slow, "I'm a pro football player!"

"Oh, I like football, the- wait. American football?"

"Yes."

"Then shh!"

John crossed his arms and gave a mean look to her. I'll remember this. When I see you again... He thought.

So Jade put the thing down, and Rick did a good hit which went out the window and flew past and went really far, then bounced off of Lake Michigan and skipped across it before sinking. Dave leaned in Rose's ear and whispered, "I have a strange golf talent... but I'm afraid of being disected by the government for being too good."

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(Tomorrow, but still within the flashback)

Jade slammed the locker and looked over at John.

"I heard you insulting Rick. I have sensitive hearing."

John sighed, then looked over at Nepeta.

"Who are you?" He asked. "I think I told myself that when I see you again... FEH. Next time. Next time I'll punch you or something."

"You know who is great at punching? Rick." She said. Jade snickered a little. "Rick is a nicer person than you think, he- uh..."

Jade then commented, "He's like the Zapp Brannigan of the entire school." Everyone in the group laughed and hi-fived Jade.

"Who?"

Then John, Jade, Rose, Jake, and Roxy glared at her. Dave, Jane, and Dirk were nicer, so they just tilted their heads in confusion because they didn't know what a not-Futurama fan was.

"Leave." John said, "Now. Don't come back until you caught up on all episodes of Futurama, oh and... you kind of have to watch them in order? Because there's this story arc, and you see, it makes sense if you watch the story arc in order."

"Woah woah woah," Said Dave, "No need to be so harsh. I mean, chances are she's in some really popular thing that we know nothing about. Also, the Comedy Central episodes." He stuck his thumb down and gave a rasperry noise.

"Hey, at least they tried." Shrugged Rose.

"Remember the second one? What Leela did to Brannigan at the end? That was not funny."

"Now that I've changed a little, I found out that that was pretty disgusting." Said Cronus. Everyone turned and looked at him. "Sorry, I heard Futurama and wanted to butt in. I'm leaving."

"Me too." Said Nepeta, and they started walking off together. "These guys are crazy." She told him.

"Sure, I can believe that." Cronus added. "If you're uh... open for... a little date?"

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(Okay, Now We're Back in the Present)

John was still staring at Nepeta. "...YOU!" He said.

"What?"

"You were the Futurama hater, and I said I was going to punch you... meh that was the old John. He's dead now. Like the old Fry in Futurama."

"Hey, I got that!"

"And he literally died too! In the war."

"Aradia, Tavros, Equius, Vriska, Gamzee, Eridan, Feferi, and I think Kanaya, Porrim, Peyhid, and Phixtn have all died twice."

"...Grim. So I was thinking about Rick and-"

"I'm still here." Rick said, grinning. "So Jade... about that time you set up a nice swing for me. That was a pretty nice, hydro-dynamic swing, wasn't it?"

Nepeta had hearts in her eyes. John sighed and said, "Oh please, I know what this guy needs, one big I am an asshole sign."

Rick glared at him. Since Rick was fucking huge, John shuddered.

"Ya' think... are you the guy that keeps getting between me and Jade?"

"What? No, she's entirely into me on her own!"

"We'll just see about that... meet me after the prom itself!"

And then he stomped out. Again, stomped because he's huge and sorta has these Bowser-like moves or something. John sighed in relief.

"That was... creepy."

And then they all went over to the prom, and music was playing and it was nice. Terezi was smiling over and beckoning at Tavros, "DANCE WITH ME! PICK ME, PICK ME! IT'LL BE LIKE THE OLD TIMES, WHEN WE FIRST MET THE HOUSESTUCKS!"

Tavros nodded, then slowly made his way over to her. Terezi tilted her head.

"WHAT'S WRONG SWEETIE? NORMALLY YOU FIND ME HOT AND VERY DANCE-ABLE." She asked.

"I HAVE... WORRIES... ABOUT other people..." He tried to begin.

"Yo," Said Virkso, "Is this about my original 'cuz if it is, I hereby hold no responsabilities towards her and, like. But I am a little miffed because they won't let me play my song."

"If your taste in music is anything like Vriska's," Said Eridan, "Then you are talking about redneck music. Which really isn't romantic."

"So what if I like the old country hits?" Virkso shrugged. "At least I'm not... I dunno, harming anybody or... even really doing anything. Speaking of which I just came here to play a song but now I realize that I need to find a dance."

"...I'll dance with you. Since I'm a little too scared to try anything with Feferi one-on-one." Eridan shrugged.

"You? Scared of me?" Feferi asked, "If anything it would make more sense if it's the other way around! And that's saying a lot, because I don't get scared easily!"

"Your counterpart." Eridan said, which made Feferi get peeved.

So I guess Sollux could take either her or Aradia. Except not because I'd rather go out on a curveball: He's dancing with Mituna. Oh, and Rufioh was with Latula. Of these four, who should I start the focus on?

Just so that the counterparts didn't feel completely isolated from everybody else, Dirk tagged on with Domoni and danced with him, to the music. Dave just crossed his arms and huffed.

"I thought this was gonna be a real party! With a dance competition and everything! But this is just boring slow-dancing to music! And the music isn't even the cool smooth jazz beats I have stored up in this casette."

Rose sighed, "Yes. Prom is overrated."

"Come on guys!" Jane cheered, "Have some spirit! I'm sure that John will break up with me during prom, he was unsubtle about it in any way whatsoever, but I can still find a way to enjoy myself!"

"Yeah, masturbation." Rose said. Then suddenly she blinked. "Shit. Saying creepy shit like that was Roxy's job. Where the hell is she?"

Then Roxy ran up to Jane and said, "And where's John, anyway?"

John walked out with a suit, looked at the ground shyly, and said, "Hey Jane, wanna... dance?"

And he and Jane did. But then Jane said, "If you are going to leave me hanging for so long before our breakup, let me get it out of the way. I will break up with you."

"Huh? When."

"Um... now?"

Roxy snickered, "That's what you think now..."

She took the top off (of the potion bottle you perverts), then not really knowing how to work it, she just poured it all into the palm of her hand - it was thicker than she expected, weird - and then blew it. It went like red dust towards John and Jane's faces, and they both inhaled it in. Then their irises turned red.

"A breakup?" John shook his head, "I don't know why, I was going to break up with you, but something about that... urgh! I really hate that! Wh-whatever it is. Maybe I should just say I want to break up with you and be more CLEAR about it!"

"FINE YOU POLYGAMOUS PIG!" Jane snapped, which made John jump back. "WHO IS IT THAT YOU SEE ABOVE ME, ANYWAY? WHY IS THAT SLUTBAG DAMARA CONSIDERED A HIGHER PRIORITY THAN ME?"

"Huh? No, she's still a m-m-maiden. Or something. You can be a maiden too (or was the term concubine), just not my girlfriend." Then he turned to Jade. "YOU THOUGH." He shouted, yet still shivered, "IF IT WASN'T FOR JANE SCARING ME, I WOULD HAVE A LOT OF NEGATIVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT YOU!"

"What?" Roxy said. "No no no no, this wasn't part of the plan!"

Nepeta instantly tackled her and ran them both outside of the dancing area, out into the school halls. She had a doctor mask on, took out the journal again, scrubbed the palm of the hand Roxy put the stuff on with the water fountain, and gave Roxy a stern look.

"You did that?" She asked.

"Yeah... I did what? I outsmarted Rip and avoided helping her out with a 'glass' or something, and got this love potion in return so that John and Jane would love eachother! I think I used it wrong."

"Unfortunately, I think you used it right. John and Jane showed signs of being infected with a hate virus. Not even a potion! A virus! Normally I would wait, but this is an airborn pathogen that makes people really mad."

"You omitted so much in the description that it might as well be a lie!" Rip's voice was heard around the school.

"WHERE ARE YOU RIP?" Nepeta shouted, "SHOW YOURSELF!"

Then shadows came from the walls, forming a vague outline shape of Rip. Who was grinning at them.

"Vampires are normally immune to it, which falls on my favor as your little war took away those powers." Said Rip. See now it's finally plot-relevant instead of an excuse to avoid turning this into another Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals where the vampire characters did everything while the non-vampires just died. Since everyone is a non-vampire, I'm less tempted to kill them off. "Send this message to everyone, and be thankful of Nepeta. I would not have explained this to a group where all is ignorant of it: That vial secretly contained the virus in question, a weapon that draws out the utmost primal and inevidable urges within a person. In layman's terms, it brings out your true self. Not the cuddly if disliked by you 'counterparts' as Hank claims, but the vile, disgusting, filterless beasts that we all are deep down inside."

"Dammit Rip! Why would you do this?"

She grinned as the shadows that composed her image began fading away. "I have my reasons... reasons that you will only get to find out if you survive!"

Nepeta burst the doors back open when Rip left, and shouted out to the crowd: "EVERYONE! THERE IS A VIRUS ALONG THE SCHOOL THAT-"

It was too late. Everyone was attacking eachother, and the entire present Rainbow Crew other than Nepeta and Roxy were already infected (well not really see the end of this paragraph). The humans present had eyes irises as well, and the trolls had the orange parts of their eyes turn red. As for the other species... well, use your imagination. Oh Netimp was missing. This is important.

"It's okay!" Said Roxy, whipping out a Hank token and putting lawn shavings on the ground. "I had some mild doubt that this plan would work, and getting this while also buying the glass was tots a good idea! DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN! STAMPEDE! GO YOU DALLAS COWBOYS, GO!"

I just wanted Hank to also make a cameo for this chapter, so he warped in. "Hello there."

"Hey. Um, I made a deal with Rip and now it turned out to be a bad deal she tricked me soooo you gonna fix it?"

"What? A deal with Rip? Sorry, nuh-uh. I do not even try to put out the fires Rip caused. I won't even help you with an unrelated deal right now! Until this is completely solved, whether by yourself or through other forces, you are on your own." Then he teleported away.

AND THEN WONDER-JAWS BROKE IN! AND THE AUTO-RESPONDERS BOTH WERE CONSTANTLY STRENGTHENING HIM IN DEFENSE FROM IT!

"NO!" Shouted Nepeta, "NO, NO NO! We do NOT need you here TOO! Ugh, thank God Equius finally hit you with some light magic."

"hey do you know what a fuckin villain is?" Jaws asked. I mean, Wonder-Jaws. "A villain convenient for the heroes is a terrible villain."

"Go away!"

"Naw ma'es! I'm 'ere ta' finish what I started! Now where's Aradia..."

"Infected with a terrible virus-" Nepeta began.

"Up! No! This new mask o' mine helped me spot 'er!"

He charged over to Aradia just to get instantly levitated up. But! He activated his powers with the mask and then that re-flipped Aradia.

"LET ME GO YOU HORRID PIECE OF SHIT THAT NEVER LEAVE ME!" Aradia cried, "I CAN END YOU! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!"

"Oh, fuck off bugger." He said, tossing Aradia to the wall. Which broke it open, and for some reason the infected crowd all stormed out there and towards around the rest of the school.

"Well." Said Roxy. "We're fucked."

"Roxy." Said Nepeta.

"What?"

"I want you to stop talking. Like, forever."

"Bu-"

"Netimp!" Nepeta cried, "DID YOU CALL FOR BACKUP!"

"Of fucking course I called the rest of the team for backup. I'm good at catching the symptoms, but you should know that." Netimp said, casually walking in as though there wasn't a rage-zombie apocalypse.

"Hey," Said Roxy, "It wasn't my fault! Rip tricked me! I thought it was a love potion! I would tinker with John and Jane's emotions a bit... outside of their concent... with them planning to never know about it... and... fuck. I'll stop talking."

Both Nepetas (or is it both Netimps? CUE TWILIGHT ZONE THEME!) ignored her. "Any smooth jazz lying around?" Netimp asked.

"Dave said something about practicing smooth jazz..." Nepeta gasped and snapped her fingers, "Knowing him it's probably in his locker!"

"Let's go!" They both ran out, Roxy trailing behind them.

"Hey, guys, why do you need smooth jazz?" She asked.

When they got to Dave's locker, Nepeta withdrew one of those stephascope things and tried to listen in to it.

"What are you doing?" Asked Netimp.

"Hacking into his locker."

Netimp grabbed a fire extinguisher and bust the entire locker open, then turned it around and shot the extinguish shit at Sollux to push him back. Oh, uh... Sollux's blue eye is now maybe purpleish, and his red eye is... redder. And the Castors have different eye colors because they're not related in this AU. Hrm. Maybe the counterparts of each of them should too? And because it was this way in SJAHJ maybe even he should have blue and yellow instead. "That's how you hack into a locker. Now let's listen to this."

She grabbed a tape recorder and held it out to Sollux, and we heard Dave's voice with royalty-free jazz music in the background.

"Aw yeah baby... it's smooth jazz time... WHEN THE MOON IS FULL AND THE SHIP'S GOT A HULL, LET'S HAAAAAVE SEEEEEX!"

Sollux grabbed his head and looked a bit dazzed. His eyes started returning back to normal, and immediately Nepeta ran behind him and grabbed his shoulders.

"Are you okay? Sh... you just had a virus-induced rage."

Netimp sighed and held out the recorder in front of him. "It can be cured with something along the lines of smooth jazz. The virus hates any great feelings of positivity, which can oddly be accurately estimated by smooth jazz or something like this. We can also try cuddling up to and being cute to them, but that's very risky. We could either catch the virus or get killed by them. So the jazz is our best weapon."

Nepeta finished, "We have to access the school's PA system!"

Sollux held a hand out. "Wait!" He put the hand to his forehead. "Nnnnn... I sense them. Oh boy, that's a strong virus. Anyway, there's a lot more of us by the school entrance, and um... Dave, is out there, and he just coughed out the front doors."

"Shit!" Cried Nepeta. "The backup! How did they all get here so fast?"

They ran to the doors and Netimp grabbed Dave by the back collar of his suit and dragged him back in.

"you know what pisses me off more than anything..." Said Dave before shouting. "THIS FUCKING SUIT. NEPETA, I LIKE YOUR NAKEDNESS, WHY CAN'T I HAVE THAT NOW, ALL BECAUSE OF GODDAMN PROM! IN FACT, I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE JEALOUS OF YOU AND YOUR COUNTERPART! I'LL KILL YOU!"

Oh yeah, Netimp had on a mask too. Obviously. He held out the recorder.

"AND WHEN I INVITE MY BROS AND ALSO TAVROS THAT'S TAAAAAV SEEEEEX! Thanks to my friend Tavros Nitram who was okay with me wording the line in those exact words to help the line get through."

Nepeta shut the school's lockdown security system as Dave went back to normal. Because Chicago is often subjected to a lot of fucked up shit, the school's defenses were strong, and suddenly steel boarded in everyone who first went to the prom. Speaking of which, the others were standing outside.

"Why the barradification?" Kanaya asked. "And Dave is acting strangely..."

"You didn't get, like, the backup message sis?" Asked Porsiv. "Because like, there's this hate virus going around... and I think we just got infected... oh boy..."

"Now that you mention it," Said Kanaya, "I do feel an awful lot like attacking some fuckers, so you do have a point. Maybe we are infected."

---

(Back Inside (Also, we need a break because damn that's long))

"Okay, so now finding the school's PA turned from our ultimate goal to our first goal." Said Nepeta. "Dave, you got a hate virus and your smooth jazz is all that can cure it."

"Wait." Netimp said, then shaking the player. "That line I just played. What's more pathetic: The fact that you thought of it, or that Tavros was okay with it?"

"Can't I just sing more smooth jazz?" Dave asked.

"Too risky. We need a long-distance spot." Nepeta said.

So they made their way up stairs, as the PA was on the third floor and this was a three-story school. Luckily, they made it up the first stair case just fine (oddly enough as almost everyone infected there was by the first floor, in the prom area) and were already on the second floor. But then they saw a huge cluster - only four were members of the Crew - fighting eachother in a pile. Nepeta quickly put her mask back on.

"Oh boy. We might have to re-work our plans." She said.

Then Rick walked by. He shrugged, and punched his way through the crowd in another sliding haymaker or whatever it's called, also sliding up the staircase to the third floor. The Crew members and such fell down, dazed. Upon closer inspection, Rick did not seem to have the red eye.

"Wait is he also infected? The big guy, I mean." Said Dave. "I forgot his name 'cuz he wasn't really that important to my life."

"People can be immune..." Netimp looked over at the direction we went into, "He was acting pretty rational."

"This is like that guy on Futurama... um, Fry." Dave said, "He was dumb yet also immune to the brains that made people dumber than him. It's like that but with hate."

"Let's keep going." Said Sollux.

"Um, no." Netimp held out the recorder again. "As much as I hate doing this, there's a lot of regular people and some parts of our Crew. The more, the better, especially since the party's only at four right now."

"Um, what?" Roxy laughed, "There's me, you, Nepeta, Dave, and Sollux! That's five!"

"A GOOD NIGHT, WOULD-A NIGHT BE-A NIGHT SHOULD-NIGHT HOOOOOW DOES LOVE WORK?"

The members in question were Latula, Jaky, Virkso, and Tavros. Everybody else was just some generic students that didn't matter.

"Blah blah blah get to the PA system then the town hall or something, I'll explain later." Netimp said, running up the stairs.

"I could explain now." Nepeta shrugged.

"Knock yourself out! But I have a PA system to reach!" Netimp cried from up the stairs.

"Wait..." Said Tavros, "Obviously we don't lose memory of what we did while enraged, that would just be dumb. But, I do know that I have a bit of history with Rick. Well... it's a small history, he was just kind of a past bully of mind. So I must find this fucker and triumphantly slay him! Or just kick his ass if he's not a killer or anything."

"But first, one thing to know about the virus..." Said Nepeta as a crowd started getting closer. "For some reason, they prefer infecting others or fighting the uninfected over fighting those who are already infected. A survival instinct, the virus itself overlapping with the pissed person. So, I hate to say this, but when push comes to shove..."

She pushed Roxy down the flight of stairs, and like in the zombie movies they all grabbed her. Nepeta smirked.

"Hey!" Shouted Latula.

"Dude, what the fuck?" Asked Virkso.

"You'll thank me for that when I tell you that she's the reason why we're in this big mess!" Nepeta explained.

Then, above, they heard Netimp laughing. "Nepeta..." he said nervously.

"What?" Nepeta asked.

"...I dun goofed."

They ran up stairs to see Netimp coughing out while holding the tape, which was busted. Mituna and Mitchl were both grabbing his shoulders, but he still managed to throw it to Dave. "Here! Catch! Fix this!"

Nepeta sighed, rolling up her sleeves and ripping off her dress (which kind of made rolling up her sleeves redundant). "I fought against living clothes monsters, survived against earthquakes, and with you guys I fended all sorts of monstrocities that only tell a small fraction of my tale."

"What." Said Sollux.

"But now... I'm gonna face off against the most dangerous beast I know about... myself."

She opened another subspace thing and handed her journal to Dave.

"Here, in case I go missing. You be my hands and feet. Take good care of it. Don't let Roxy come near it. You'll figure everything out about this, I know of it."

Dave nodded. "Don't you mean if you die."

Nepeta sighed. "I thought John told you this. But neither me nor Netimp can die by any normal circumstances. Disciple can't either. All you have to do is find the alternate staircase to the third floor, and stay as far away from our fight as possible."

Netimp shoved off the Castors. "Yep! I'm infected all right! And I think it's time for a long overdue counterpart showdown! Flawed original versus the perfection! Who will win?"

Nepeta put the mask back on and lowered her head, setting the dress down. "Go on, you know the layout of this school."

Tavros was talking to Latula, meanwhile. "HEY... from what I learned in trying to get with Latula way back in the part of our adventure, with the Waterwraith, for the first time, I mean, is that I need to take some initiative. Latula and I are... going foreward."

Then Latula whipped out a skateboard and jumped up to the lockers, grinding on them. Tavros grabbed on back and was flailing around behind. "YEAH!" She cried, "RAAAAAAAAAD!"

They did, at least, get past and over Netimp. Who looked over, shrugged, then got extremely mad and charged over at Nepeta, and they both used their claw attacks to deflect eachother.

"Did the Ballad of Duality also clone what was in the pocket dimensions?" Nepeta asked.

Netimp got out a chainsaw from it. Nepeta tried the same, and succeeded.

"So there's two journals now..." Nepeta said, "Interesting."

---

(The Dancefloor)

The main focuses here were Dirk and Aradia, who were both, indeed, under the control of the rage virus and both were trying to fight against Wonder-Jaws, to no avail.

"DAMMIT WHY WON'T YOU DIE?" Asked Dirk.

"I AM NOT OKAY WITH YOUR SHEER TOUGH SKIN!" Aradia foamed at the mouth, "AND THIS IS AFTER WE DISABLED YOUR RESURRECTION, TOO!"

Jaws snickered. "Dirk, this is all your fault. Aradia, you too. 'ust be why you're fight'an me! Aradia, for your clumsy spell book, and Dirk, for your computer shades. Both of you'se saw this and that o'l virus my new super hearing picked up on let me know about what you're facing... the anger... the extra hate... A'AINST ME!"

With one fin jab, he nearly stabbed Aradia but she just barely avoided it in time, but was instead knocked into the wall. Wonder-Jaws laughed when Dirk started flash-stepping but he dodged it.

"I HAVE THE PERFECT SYNCHONIZATION WIT'IN ME! THE USE OF 'EESE AUTO RESPONDERS, YOUR'S AND YOUR OL' COUNTERPARTS, BOTH OF 'EM WORKIN' TOGETHER TO DOUBLE THE POWER!"

And with a tail smack, Dirk was sent into the ground with a crator. He got up, ready to charge again despite his bad bruising, but-

Then there was a crack in the ceiling. Dian dropped down. And she and Dirk looked at eachother.

"...You." Dian said.

"...Me." Said Dirk.

Both of their eyes started to go back to their older colors, which got Jaws to tilt his head in confusion. Then they both smirked at the shark.

"Looks like seeing almost-myself like this is a cure, in a way." Said Dian.

Dirk got into a ready stance. As did Dian, but she didn't say what Dirk does here: "You say you're synchonized? You're not. You're just a bigger thing working off of two smaller things put together."

"As a counterpart, I know that the Ballad of Duality does not quite effect electronics. There is no real base-personality split for you, despite the whole delta brain wave thing." She shrugged.

So then they coordinated attacks. Dian did some flip-jumps above him and took out the sword and started slashing with it, but Dirk snuck around and also fought there. The ARs went into overtime giving Jaws the directions and comprehending the speed of it to use his now-sharp fins to defend against being hit from two people, one behind and one above. Worse seeing the super flash-speed that both of them had.

"ARGH!" Shouted Jaws.

To not have this drag on too long (it's no Garnet vs Jasper, I admit that) jet's just say that the Dirks were right and Jaws ended up slipping his counter-attacking, then got tripped down and pinned to the floor by the swords. Dirk got a flash drive from his pocket.

"This should de-activate you and finally free the entire Crew from our Troll Empress bullshit."

Jaws growled, then suddenly rocket jets flew up from the mask thing and propelled them all to the air. Aradia finally got out of the hole, grimanced at them, and followed after them via flight. Dirk and Dian were both screaming as they went up and held on for deer life.

"THANKS FOR CURING ME SOMEHOW!" Cried Dirk.

"SAME HERE THAT WAS REALLY COOL AND WE WORKED VERY WELL!" Cried Dian.

Then they crawled up and around Jaws and made out. Hey, I had John fucking his mom two chapters ago what do you expect?

Anyway they went up to the higher floor, where Latula and Tavros were still grinding away on the ramp. Tavros had gotten on the board and she then kissed him.

"Thank you." Said Tavros.

"No, thank you for giving me a li'l more confidence in my true self."

"Huh?"

"I mean, a little more."

"I still don't get it..."

Jaws knocked both of them off the board and onto his back, and they were also clinging for mercy when they saw Dirk and Dian riding a lot more calmly now.

"WHERE... IS HE GOING?" Asked Tavros.

"NO CLUE!" Dian had to shout to get everyone to hear her over the roaring engines, "BUT WE'RE GONNA TRY TO PUT A STOP TO THIS!"

"OH, WE'D LOVE TO HELP, BUT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH RICK RIGHT NOW! WELL, WE WANT TO! TAVROS APPARANTLY HAS SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH HIM THAT HE NEVER TOLD ME!" Latula shouted.

Dirk, meanwhile, just snickered. "DIAN! I LOVE YOU!"

---

(Third Floor)

"I HATE YOU!" Netimp shouted, "And this isn't even mostly the virus talking. If you were infected and not me, I might say the same thing!"

Both of them kept getting stuff out and in the pocket dimension. In fact, that's how this started, with both of them drawing out as much as they could. Soon they were throwing bombs around at eachother and having to dodge the blasts, as well as all kinds of poison gases and the like. All the while, all the infected people just started backing away slowly.

"DEAL. WITH. IT." Nepeta said, and not like the meme either. She was genuinely pissed. "If you think you can win like this, you're wrong. Or that being wreckless and rage-induced is how to solve all your problems. These are BIG CONSPIRACIES, bro."

"Hrm... well sis, you can look at this as the way of fighting. My way, versus your way. Your way, and we can keep coddling the Rainbow Crew and telling them that they all have useful potential. My way, and we admit to them that we're the only members with any real merit and they're all just our pawns!"

"They're not pawns! They might be if they were in your world, but here they're just teammates! Or... friends! Yeah, that's right! We are a team!"

"Admit it. You're not nearly as idealist as you think you are. Just join my side already and see our 'team' for who they really are!"

"Meulin!" Nepeta cried. "If it wasn't for Meulin and Yeulin, we would all be dead!"

---

(Below, on second floor)

"Wow!" Said Dave, thumbing through the pages. "This has a lot of cool stuff! Ray guns that switch souls, ray guns that can change the size of something so much that you can juggle planets, ray guns that make planet-drilling tornados... huh. A lot of these are ray guns."

Sollux was using his psychic powers to pretty much trivilalize many enemies. "You know, focusing more on the actual conflict at-hand should be your higher priority. But... no, I want you to find out how to make those pocket dimension things. Those should be incredibly useful."

Then they encountered Jade and Jane, who both had John pinned over to the locker.

"YOU FUCKER WHO BROKE UP WITH ME!" Jane yelled, "JADE, I DON'T REALLY WANT TO WORK WITH YOU EITHER, BUT I THINK WE CAN AGREE TO BOTH GUT HIM TOGETHER! WHAT DO YOU SAY?"

"AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'LL TRY TO KILL EACHOTHER! DEAL!" Jade nodded.

"Hey! More members of our Crew! Dave, is that tape finished?" Asked Sollux.

"...Aw fuck," Dave looked at the recorder, which still had that tape stuff everywhere. "I knew I forgot something!"

"Why were you even picked by Nepeta to do this? Is this some kind of incomprehencible plan of her's or is she finally going crazy from all the shit we deal with on an erratic basis?"

"Hey, um, what about my music?" Asked Virkso.

"That shit might make things worse." Sollux replied. "Your redneck country music pisses off anyone who isn't Hank Hill enough when they're not infected. Or Vriska herself of course."

"Hey." Dave said to the group of three... I don't know, in this AU they have nothing in common Prospit doesn't exist and none of them are related. "I'm gonna wait here while this gets finished. Um, maybe I can try a last-minute desperation thing and sing to you myself." He shrugged. "Hey, it's not like this can get any worse. And this virus doesn't seem to be that airborne since Roxy wasn't infected at first and we're all still going along just fine."

He cleared his throat, then Sollux cleared his.

"If you're desperate, I can keep them lifted above my psychicly or something. But we shouldn't split anymore. We're already down to only four people, and with Virkso being one of them this might as well be three."

"Hey, hey hey... hey." Virkso said, frowning.

Jaky shuddered. "Yes... you should probably count me as the useless extra first..." She said.

"No, you are cool. But Virkso. After finding out that Mindfang's entire story is a lie, all of the Serkets just come off as dumb to me now. Fuckin' lieing idiots. I bet they somehow lie about their proportions too. Even though now-a-days all three of them are mostly going around naked thanks to Kanaya redesigning Mindfang's outfit."

"Is there any service I can be of?"

"Can you help Dave fix the tape? He clearly seems to be bad at it-"

Sollux stopped himself when he noticed that John, Jade, and Jane were staring at the party angrily.

"Uninfecteds..." Said Jade, "Let's infect them first! Then we can work out our differences!"

"As long as I'm not being targetted anymore..." John frowned. "You're mean."

"Can someone tickle my nose? I think sneezing is the best way to spread this sort of thing..." said Jane.

"Beating the shit out of someone just blatantly works as well." John shrugged.

"LET US NOT FIGHT, BUT INSTEAD MAKE PEACE." Dave said, holding up his arms defensively. "I'll play a song for you just when-"

Jaky snatched the record out of his hands and quickly patched everything up, then handed it back to him. "I don't see why that had to be so difficult." She shrugged.

So since it was fixed he had to start it all over from the beginning. I mean, he didn't have to, but the song started from the beginning and only played the shit we already heard: "Aw yeah baby... it's smooth jazz time... WHEN THE MOON IS FULL AND THE SHIP'S GOT A HULL, LET'S HAAAAAVE SEEEEEX! AND WHEN I INVITE MY BROS AND ALSO TAVROS THAT'S TAAAAAV SEEEEEX! Thanks to my friend Tavros Nitram who was okay with me wording the line in those exact words to help the line get through. A GOOD NIGHT, WOULD-A NIGHT BE-A NIGHT SHOULD-NIGHT HOOOOOW DOES LOVE WORK?"

And then they were cured. And looked at eachother.

"Wha... what happened?" Jane asked.

"roxy." Said Dave.

"That actually explains a lot more than it should." Said John. He laughed. "And to think I was going to burn both you and Jane."

"Be honest." Jade smiled, "I would have frozen you first."

Sollux looked at Dave, Jaky, and Virkso. "If any of you sing or even mention Let it Go, I'm throwing you back on the infected people pile."

All three of them got offended. Virkso just went "Hey!"

Jaky shook her head.

Dave said, "I'm not gonna stoop to that level!"

---

(Higher)

So then Jaws tore through the top part of the school and was almost outside, and then Latula said "Oh. Tavros sweetie, this is our stop." And lightly nudged him to get off. So they both dropped down and then Latula got out another skateboard and they grinded among the fan to break their fall, landing right there on the roof itself.

"WHY?" Tavros asked. Latula simply pointed ahead.

Rick was standing there.

"You said you hate me or something?" he asked.

"Yes... we date back... you... YOU RUINED MY CHANCES WITH THE LANCING COMPETITION LAST YEAR!"

"Oh." Latula said. "He's the one who rigged your competition, kept you from getting a million dollars, and was overall the stereotypical jock bully in your life?"

"Well, there was also Vriska... but yeah, Rick was somehow even worse."

Latula shrugged. "Whatever. We've kicked lots of monster ass before, this thing should be no different."

"Hey!" Shouted Rick. "Thing? I can hear you, ya' know!"

"Yeah, and you don't even look like any known sentient species! You're just so... uncannily buff and huge!"

"Hey don't stoop to that level," Said Tavros, "There are boundries."

"I don't really mind too much despite my crazy li'l HEY," Rick himself said, "But uh if you insist, I can challenge you to a fight."

So Latula quickly got on the board again and held it out to charged to him, while Tavros just ran after with a lance. Rick yawned and then effortlessly flicked both of them backwards. Uh, let's say into wall-like things. Aradia herself landed by them, having apparantly stopped following Wonder-Jaws.

"TAVROS! What the fuck is this?" Aradia asked. "You can't possibly fall to a generic asshole like that-"

And then Rick flicked her into a wall, too.

"Look." He said. "I'm only interested in Jade. In fact, I just came here to wade off some of these infected idiots and come up with a plan to charge through them. Lance-guy, I have no idea who you are, I knew and was a bully to a lot of people, you mean nothing to me. But hey I'm batshit so I guess I'll kill you later."

So he did another sliding punch back into the door. Latula and Tavros looked at Aradia, then eachother.

"We should find a way to cure her..." Said Tavros. "After all... she's outside and can fly. And we have a lot of psychoes outside already."

As he said that, Damara flew far overhead, which caused both of the cured members to freak out a little and hope she doesn't see that there's an opening to the school.

"Creepy." Said Latula. "But we don't have the song."

"Well, no offense to Dave... but he was the singer... and he didn't even have curing in mind... how hard can curing someone infected be?"

---

(Below)

"Aha!" Shouted Rick. "Jade! Good to see you're immune too!"

"No... Nepeta has a cure system around." Said Jade. "She cured us. I don't think any of us are immune."

"Well then. That's a pretty nice, if apocalyptic, way for us to bond together and meet! Don't you think?"

"Meet?" Asked Jade. Sollux sighed.

"Well, yeah? You know, I never asked you this, but for... a date?"

"Sorry, but I kind of already have a crush on someone. In fact... I was a bit worried that he might end up with you!"

"...Who." He suddenly got more creepy.

"Um, John."

Then Rick stared directly at John. "Fine Jade. What if I... kill him?"

"What?"

"Well, this is obviously one of those love triangle cases."

From the floor above (I think), Nepeta was heard laughing. As was Netimp. In fact I'm just gonna come out and say it: Both of them briefly stopped their fight when they heard that.

"Our issues are in way more than a triangle, mister." Jane said. "They have been that way since a long time ago."

Dave was flipping through some journal pages. "Uh, actually, this page right here talks about some one-eyed triangle monster that Nepeta was interested in making a deal with. Maybe we might have triangle issues later on."

"I don't like the way you're talking about killing John..." Jade said, "If this isn't some kind of unfunny joke, I'm afraid I'm going to have to try to stop you."

He started throwing a punch to John, but quickly got his arm frozen by Jade's ice magic. Then, John threw a fireball at him. Because why not?

"Okay, fine! But did you know that I am a master of the dark arts?"

Then, clouds of dark magic started appearing! And then they formed these floating circular saw blades, which charged after them, which Sollux kept held in place.

"Hey I think I have an idea." Said Virkso. "Um, try sending them back to him."

"That's what I'm trying you idiot, but he's pushing them back. What the hell is this thing, anyway?"

"Just a guy... heh heh, who has these dark magic tablets." He got out a case with three ball-looking things, one green, one yellow, and one red. "I even have packs of them. But I can only really process them under extreme adrenalline, kinda like right now hoe I'm frozen and stuff and there's this guy with burning magic... HA HA HA!"

He used telekinesis to float the green one to his mouth and ate it just as John threw a fireball at him. But, instead of the fireball killing him, it was deflected with a shot attack! Rick had turned Grimdark! But instead of talking in Cthulhu, he oddly could still speak since he knows how to control it (also as an AU Grimdarkness works differently) and had a huge grin and tantacles began growing out of his head two from each side. Which then whipped the entire team and sent them down, then he grabbed Jade with one of them.

"A-HA HA HA!" Rick cried, "NOW I CAN ASK JADE OUT TO THE PROM DANCE, AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME!"

"You can ask all you want, but I'll still just say no." Said Jade. "And there's nothing you can do about it, after all you wouldn't hurt a hair on me. ...Is that how obsessed crushes like you go?"

"Um, yeah sure, I'll just try to keep you captured yet safe from the virus. JOHN, ON THE OTHER HAND, MUST DIE!"

"NO!" Shouted John, "Jade, I'll save you!"

He lept over to Rick and... just got captured by him anticlimactically. Rick lept down.

"Gr..." Dave growled, "HERE JAKY HOLD THE JOURNAL I HAVE TO GO AFTER THEM!"

"WAIT!" Shouted Jaky, "NO! IT'S TOO DANGEROUS! WE STILL NEED TO FIND THE PA SYSTEM!" Oh, and by the way, Jaky still kept a hold on the recorder.

But it was too late. A floor below, thanks to a big hole Rick blew, Meulin bit him on the shoulder and that also counted for the infection (infected people don't act like zombies that's just a Meulin thing she's fucking crazy when she's pissed). Jaky instantly pushed them back.

"Step aside!" She cried, "I knew from a long time ago when Dave got this weird anger once... he's very dangerous!"

"Well, Nepeta fended him off just fine and cured him." Said Sollux.

"Nepeta is a bloody expert somehow! I think that's how she survived!"

Then Dave's eye twitched. And he looked a bit... odd. He instantly flicked Meulin off of him and he fell in a scary-looking stoic expression. Uh... in other words, how he actually looks in canon. Dave started coldly walking off, different from how he usually coolly walks.

"Something about that tells me that I should say the word 'SHIT!' in one sentence and that's the only reaction, but that doesn't really carry any levels of oomph." Said Virkso.

"I don't think you have to." Sollux said. "In fact, here, Jaky, just give me the fucking tape recorder, I'll try to cure him myself."

"No, no, no, we should focus on the PA system!" Jaky exclaimed, "Now come on, across this hole! The office is really really close!"

---

(I Know we JUST focused on John and Jade but tough shit, pal. Deal with it.)

"So are you going to stick us in a cage?" John asked. "Because I think that happened on another mission before. Or am I getting this confused with something I saw on TV once..."

"I'm gonna stick Jade in a cage, and um... let's see here..." Rick was thinking. "Oh, yeah! I'm gonna rip you in half!"

"):"

"Painfully!"

"D:"

Jade sighed. "This is pretty stupid. John, do the powers again."

"Hey! You don't have to remind me! This isn't like Last Airbender with the Earth People and the camp on Earth. I was just waiting until he wasn't King Konging us around to heat up his hand. And then you'd freeze up his hand. By making fire or ice around us." Yeah he flipped them from his tentacles to his hand.

"Oh... you have a point."

So then Rick took them both back to the dancing area and then went over to the gym, where there was a cage. Like that flooding episode of King of the Hill. He apparantly wasn't listening to them because he was shocked when Jade began generating ice magic around her and John fire magic, and that heated up and froze up his hands respectively.

"AH! THIS ONE IS TOO HOT! AND THAT'S TOO COLD!" He dropped both of them, and they ran away. John and Jade, not Rick's hands. It would be disturbing if he did that to his hands and they ran away. "HEY! GET BACK HERE! YOU DO KNOW I'M FAST, RIGHT? HOW DO YOU THINK I CATCH UP WITH ALL THOSE GOLF SWINGS?"

John and Jade actually both laughed with eachother as they escaped Rick's grasp. It was a fun feeling even though all around them, others were trying to kill eachother and using powerful moves.

"So, now what?" John asked.

"I don't know." Jade shrugged, "We should wait for... we can try to get to the PA room or reunite with our team again! Wait... did you really break up with Jane yet? Or were you infected by the potion?"

"Um... based on my moods I think she broke up with me. So, it's over? Between just me and her. I don't know what we are now."

"You should have asked her-"

"I should have asked her." He repeated while nodding like something out of How I Met Your Mother. "Oh hey look, it's Dave!"

They saw him oddly hunched up by his locker, and everyone was too scared to go anywhere near him. Yes, meaning the infected people. He had his back turned to them so they couldn't see his eyes, but even if they could, he still had on the fucking shades in the middle of night prom so wait why. Well then again Dirk and Dian did too until recently, so who cares. Anyway, John and Jade started approaching him.

"Hello?" John asked, "Dave? We escaped from Rick's hand-thing! Why are you down here?"

Dave remained silent. Then he turned around and looked enraged. Again, the shades, which kept them from noticing that he was infected, but he was normally a pretty nice and chill person so that's a bad sign.

"YOU SHITFUCKERS ALWAYS TAKE ROSE'S SIDE AND JADE YOU USED TO DON'T YOU REMEMBER OUR TRIP TO THE GRAND CANYON?"

John's eye twitched, not because he was getting re-infected too but because he hated that he kept going back there. He backed up along with Jade, who was covering up her mouth. "Um... which one?" Jade said in attempt to defuse this.

"The one with the jury mission..." suddenly Dave was a lot more quiet and monotonous, and taking slow steps to them. "You never had to feel as betrayed as I did... and let's talk about the first one! When I held you in front of a bear... THAT WAS THE DEEP SEATED RAGE FROM WITHIN AGAINST YOU! I WANTED YOU TO DIE DEEP DOWN, BUT WAS HIDING IT, AND YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED THEN, BECAUSE OF YOU SUPPORTING THAT EMOTIONALLY-DAMAGING ASSHOLE ROSE!"

"Wow thank you for reminding me why we broke up, I was starting to forget because it was months ago yet felt like years!" John cried, "Also you seemed legit scared and stuff back then, but now you say it's because you wanted to kill me? And... do you still want to kill me? Because you sound like..." he gulped. "A killer."

"John, I think he got re-infected again." Jade whispered.

"Ugh, and that's hard to tell with him having naturally red eyes. There's just a small different shade of red and that's... BLEH!"

Dave took some step backs and whipped out a bazooka from his locker. "DIE YOU PILES OF SHIT! YOU WILL ALL ROT HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE DEATHS!"

He fired, and John and Jade ducked out of the way as it blew through several other walls and doorways, and most importantly it broke the secure shell. Although since people who can fly are semi-natural to the population (lowblood trolls), this doesn't make much sense as a defense system since there's still an opening from the roof. Um... I would say a laser turret, but then I'd have to explain why the members aren't dead yet. It's because they're trying to infect the rest of Chicago instead.

"WHERE DID HE GET A BAZOOKA FROM?" Jade asked.

"He had it in his locker the entire time!" John answered, "He said it was in case zombies attacked from underneath the school!" Jade gave him a funny look, and John paused. "He told me this during the brief time we were dating. I believed him."

"Well, you should have, because it's true."

Then Dave started charging to them with a creepy battle cry, he also threw off his shades and combed over his hair a bit while charging after them! And Rick came from the other side! He did the saw blade thing again, only this time since he was in Grimdark there were more of them created at once!

"STAY OUT OF THIS, RICK! You're immune... useless to spreading the infection... SO I'LL TEAR YOU DOWN FIRST!"

He used his sword to pole-vault over John and Jade, and started targetting Rick himself right there immediately. Dave sliced around a lot and managed to knock Rick to the floor, which got John and Jade to look uncertain.

"Oh wow. That was an effortless defeat." Said John.

"Yeah... and Rick already scares me..." Said Jade, "Maybe infected Dave is scary. Let's run and hide."

"Agreed." And they both took off running, while Dave prepared to plunge the sword into Rick. But Rick just laughed and got out the yellow and red balls again, this time eating the yellow one.

"Near death experiences like this are how I power up!" He cried as another transformation began taking place. This one, and his skin was now pitch-black instead of gray, and his hair turned purple and got really long on him. Like an emo, since it only went off one side. Also his tentacles got bigger, which is the opposite of steroids.

"This is Grimdark Stage Two! Eat this!" Rick cried. Thankfully for John and Jade, they went into hiding in... the teacher lounge, or whatever that room is called. But unthankfully for Dave (after all there is still an uninfected him deep down in there), Rick sent out another attack wave, a strong one by making another group of razors, saw blades which once again went after Dave. You see, I did the thing where the new guy shows how powerful they are by beating another powerful character, and then I did it backwards.

While hiding, John and Jade shut the door behind them and were both panting heavily as it was closed.

---

(Yeah Let's Go to Someone Else Now)

Jaky was successfully using her guns to kick ass. Thankfully, as a school night, her guns were full of non-lethal Nerf darts that simply pushed them back. Which was useful since they were not necessarly evil. Well they may be when not infected with the virus anyway, Rick pretty much is. But that's for Jesus to decide, not Jaky even if their names start with the same letter.

"There it is!" She cried, "The PA system!" Yeah let's say they're close to the office at this point, this is dragging long enough as-is.

So they broke the door down, even though they were enemyless, ran over to the announcement, and...

"HA!" Rick cried, bursting through the floor/ceiling below and still in his Grimdark Stage 2 form or whatever it's called. "You think you can- oh, wait. You're not Jade. Or that John guy. Or even those Tavros and Latula idiots. Where are they, again?"

"By the... football stadium?" Jaky lied.

"Okay, but if that's a lie, I'll come right back here and kill you. Because I don't have time for this shit."

So then he jumped away, and Jaky quickly put in the recorder. And, I guess because Dave screwed it up it restarded I don't know, I'll just put the full song here (except the beginning stuff I guess since it's not a curing part of the song):

"WHEN THE MOON IS FULL AND THE SHIP'S GOT A HULL, LET'S HAAAAAVE SEEEEEX!"

We saw Tavros and Latula trying to keep Aradia down, and both of them had their prom outfits over their mouths and noses to prevent from inhaling the disease. Then they stopped as Aradia calmed down.

"AND WHEN I INVITE MY BROS AND ALSO TAVROS THAT'S TAAAAAV SEEEEEX! Thanks to my friend Tavros Nitram who was okay with me wording the line in those exact words to help the line get through."

Then was Netimp coughing into Nepeta's mouth, saying "Yes... feel the need to rebell against our useless Rainbow Crew..." before they were both cured, and Nepeta fell to the floor with Netimp looking ashamed and embarassed. (The stuff about thanks to Tavros wasn't a curing part either but it's in order and also makes copypasta easier.)

"A GOOD NIGHT, WOULD-A NIGHT BE-A NIGHT SHOULD-NIGHT HOOOOOW DOES LOVE WORK?"

Then the back of the faculty office lounge thing, and all we saw was Jade's hand slaming against the door itself, then gripping, then opening into a palm as it went back down offscreen.

"WHERE THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT, THAT'S TEEEEEXAS!"

Wonder-Jaws knocked both Dirk and Dian into a pile, but they still smiled at eachother. Dirk even laughed a little, and Dian blushed.

"THE STATE I'M FROM, IT'S NO ROM-COM JUST TEEEEEXAS! Also King of the Hill is kind of accurate but not completely."

Then we saw the other people getting cured. Um, for those who need a recap: Jake, Rose, Roxy, Terezi, Eridan, Feferi, Mituna, Rufioh, Meulin, Jean, Jude, Dove, Rory, Ross, Domoni, Mitchl, Yeulin, and Haerus weren't mentioned in the above lines but they were also involved with this. For the sake of convenience let's all group them together in a big pile-up and say that they were cured too.

"A GREAT STATE, LET'S FIGHT FATE, LOVE LOVE LOVE LOOOOOVVVVE! Sorry, that's all I have but if this gets a full song, you'll have to pay if you buy the tape. Just not now, okay? We don't know if I can copyright that yet."

Dave was lying on his back as well, feeling ashamed for the stuff he did while infected, and smiling. "That was my own song. Cool!" He said, then was greeted by Meulin. And of course everyone I mentioned before was also with her.

"OMG OMG OMG LET'S FIND THE OTHERS WE'RE NOW NO LONGER SUPER ANGRY ANYMORE WHAT EVEN WAS UP WITH THAT?" She asked.

"I KNOW!" Dave said. "But um... you might want to get Roxy somewhere really really far from you guys. In case you hold grudges like how I used to."

"What about me?" asked Rory.

"Um, I think you might be blameless. But I don't know this counterpart stuff. Anyway, let's get other survivors."

They saw the faculty lounge door and opened it. And what they saw was shocking:

A blanket on the floor, and lying under it was John and Jade, naked. Normally these two get naked a lot in the story, but here's the twist: It was only them, and they were hugging suggestively and also under covers like this. The other Crew knew what this meant instantly.

"HOLY SHIT JOHN REALLY?" Dave asked. "YOU TOINKED JADE?"

Roxy, who was walking away, looked back with an "Aw man! If only I didn't give them the rage virus, then I wouldn't have to go into hiding-"

"WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT A RAGE VIRUS?" Terezi asked. Roxy froze and then decided to walk back to them.

"But wait." Said Dave. "If you did toink eachother..."

"We did." John put his hands behind his head and proudly breathed in. "I have nothing to hide."

"...And that must have been around the time Rick fought me... wow, that was fast."

"That's what I told Jade!" John said, while Jade blushed and held up closer to him. "No offense Jade, but it's kind of a given, since you're a virgin, and I'm not."

"Well at least my past experience wasn't with a biological relative!" Jade said. "Also, I've been waiting eightteen years for this. So that might be why I'm a little... fast."

"Wait." Said Jake, "You waited eighteen years? You wanted to, as Dave would put it, 'toink' someone since you were a newborn? And that person was someone you didn't know until after later into your life?"

And everyone just laughed at him, because he's not quite the dumbass of the team but close enough. But this doesn't mean I forgot about his cool motivational skills it's just that originally Virkso said this but I remembered he wasn't part of the team.(A)

"That's our Jake!" Cried Dave.

"But..." Said Roxy. "What happened to that's our Roxy?"

"We'll see about that, Ms. Rage Virus. Actually wait That's Our Roxy was never a thing in the first place, stop trying to put in false memories or as psychoanalytics call them falsies. Now, we still have that helmet from the Strip Truth or Dare game. Put it on, and tell us all about what you did that made us so uncontrollably angry." Rose said.

"Why did you bring that with you?"

"Hey, we can have everyone question my policies another day. For now, your the one on the table."

"AND SO WERE ME AND JADE!" John cried, before he looked down. "It was funny because we started doing it on the table, then fell off."

"Sorry again..." Jade said, but John just responded by ruffling around her hair, because he already figured out that she liked that.

---

(Football Stadium)

"...Liers." Said Rick, looking around at the empty stadium. "John and Jade aren't here. Then they must be... SOMEWHERE ELSE!"

So then he jumped back.

---

(Nepetas)

Nepeta and Netimp were each taking jet packs across the night Chicago sky. Netimp sighed.

"Nepeta, I'm sorry I let myself get caught-"

"You tried."

"No, seriously, I-"

"YOU TRIED!"

"Yes ma'am." Netimp sheepishly cowered.

Anyway they found a radio station, and Nepeta checked her watch. Then, because of that, she looked at her elaborate prom dress. It was white and elaborate and had a lot of flowing little curl things to it, with several glittering patches of color made from all the crystaline stuff from her cave that was cut up into tiny bits that refracted light around and glittered with all sorts of colors. Then Netimp looked at his tux and said, "Why the fuck am I still wearing this when you took off your's?" and tore it off, but put it back in the pocket dimension for possible further use. Mainly, involving the crystals that were also on it. Nepeta also put her dress in the dimension.

"Hi. You don't know this, but a hate virus has been unleashed." Nepeta said. "Um, there's two ways of solving this, either I can try it myself or hopefully I have a small team full of just the type of people I need for this."

"Hey man you're part of the Rainbow Crew!" Said the radio host. "COOL!"

"Yep! Aw, thanks for recognizing me... but having my name and face everywhere... it makes me feel so naked!"

"Maybe because you two are naked? Anyway we don't actually like you. Yeah, see, this channel's just for sports. And you're not atheletes. You're just... heroes."

"Heroism counts as a type of athelite though." Nepeta shrugged. "In fact, if trucks are your thing I once drove a tank through the snowy mountains without grinding a single gear or scratching it. And it wasn't even my own tank! I stole it!"

"Oh hey, that's pretty cool then! Say, where is that tank?"

Nepeta finally looked at Netimp, who just looked into the air. "...I have no idea! I think it got flipped over by a train and then... somewhere in... was it Montana? Or did we even cross into Montana..."

---

(Back on the Roof)

As Sollux, Jaky, Jane, and Virkso all flew over to the radio place (Nepeta phoned them), Tavros and Latula looked at Aradia.

"You know... this incident... it made me re-decide life a little." Aradia said. "I'm not going to pointlessly put my life on the line and be out in danger when I could just sit back and be happy that I'm alive."

"Um, no." Said Latula. "That's kind of a selfish way of living. Not a real heroism. You can do that if you want but I think that's basically quitting the Rainbow Crew, since we opperate as heroes."

Then suddenly, something flew up from behind them. It was the tank!

"I DO NOT QUITE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED..." It was Karkat's voice. "BUT I DO HAVE A FUCKING TANK CARTMAN PHONED AND GAVE BACK TO ME OR SOMETHING. PLEASE JUST SIT THERE WHILE I INFECT YOU!"

"NEVER!" Shoued Tavros. "WE'LL STAND OUR GROUND, EXCEPT MAYBE ARADIA BECAUSE SHE MIGHT BE QUITTING THE RAINBOW CREW-"

"I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID! I WANT TO KEEP FIGHTING WITH YOU GUYS!" Aradia interrupted to say.

"WELL THEN FINE! I WAS TOO PISSED OFF TO REALLY THINK THIS PLAN THROUGH ANYWAY! SO FIRST I WILL KNOCK YOU OVER WITH A SHELL, AND THEN-"

Suddenly Rick jumped up and punched Karkat (from within the tank) and then the tank flew over towards the city and richocheted off the skyscrapers. Thankfully though Karkat was completely unharmed. Anyway Rick landed on the roof.

"I can't find that group that lied to me, but you'd make for a pretty nice substitute. Let's get this show on the road."

"WAIT!" Cried Dirk, it turns out! He and Dian both burst up on the roof!

"Let's also get in. Leaders as well." Dirk said. Dian just nodded.

"Wait." Said Aradia. "...Weren't you looking for Jaws?"

"Oh Jaws is probably out... someplace, we lost track of him." Dian said, she and Dirk blushing. To distinguish them a bit Dirk blushed a little more.

"SHIT, I still kind of call dibs on him if you don't mind." Said Aradia, running out the exit area.

"Oy!" Cried Jaws, which got Aradia to just turn right back around in embarassment and see both threats right there. "Weird surfin' golf kid! Why don't I also team up with you?"

"Go away. I have no interest in... in... what the hell are you, again?"

---

(Radio Place)

"Ugh," Shouted Virkso as Sollux finally stopped his telekinesis to carry him, Jaky, and Jane, "How many times do I have to tell you that I hate being picked up psychicly?"

"That would have worked a lot better if you didn't tell me the first time right afterI lifted you in the skies, and wouldn't have been so bad if you didn't tell me forty more times on the trip here." Sollux frowned. "Seriously Serket, my sympathy for you is just gone."

Then he turned to the Nepetas. "So we got your phone call. And you want me to hack into this so that it broadcasts on all phones, TVs, radios, and power boxes?"

"Yeah."

"Pssh. Gimme a hard hacking related task."

"Hey wait a minute... why can't I just manipulate them all to fall asleep?" Virkso asked.

"Because the virus can feed on psychic powers, and will intercept them or send them back or clone themselves or something, which also infects the psychic." Nepeta explained. "So it's a good thing that you didn't try to control any trolls or knock out any humans or... whatever happens to the other races."

So then Sollux typed on the computer thing (that's what the "this" he was asking about hacking into was) and a bunch of green letters and number and characters and stuff started appearing. Then, suddenly, it turned into a display. A simple, 8-bit game that showed an 8-bit Sollux getting into a car and driving around an overworld map of Chicago, which drove to other buildings and lit them up.

"Jesus, those are outdated graphics." Said Jaky.

"Hey." Said the radio host, "Whatja expect? This is a radio computer!"

Anyway with all of the stations hit it said "NEW HIGH SCORE! 616000! ENTER INITIALS!" and Sollux put in "AAA" because he didn't have time for this shit. Unfortunately all that did was call triple A or not because I can't find any plot-related thing to put this in. And then, all around the city...

OR NOT! The words "SYSTEM ERROR" flashed, and then 8-bit Wonder-Jaws appeared, laughing among a red and lime-stripped background.

"I 'acked into this via the Auto Responders ma'es!" He laughed. The 8-bit thing, the real Jaws was obviously still over by the school. "You'll have to beat them before this virus is cured!"

"What would you benefit from the virus?" Nepeta asked.

"Well, you're so busy with 'at and so many of your Crew members are infected... makes it easier for me to take my revenge for wipin' out my army!"

Nepeta sighed. "I was afraid of this. Sollux, stay by the computer in case he somehow reverts your hacking. Jaky, stand by outside protecting the room. Jane, go around nearby and try to manually cure people with the tape. And Virkso..."

Virkso smiled a little.

"Could you take out the little crystaline bits in our prom outfits please?" Nepeta said, retreating both the dress and the tux from the little pocket dimension. "Thanks. I'll get you a new MP3 player in return. It can store more songs. It'll be out of my own pocket money, and just think of it as a little gift in return."

Virkso stared at the outfits with kinda lowered eyebrows. Then back at the Leijons. "Okay, cool."

"What do I do?" Asked Netimp.

"You're coming with me to fight against Jaws."

"Oh, right. Damn."

---

(Back in School (Er... Prom))

So the team that found John and Jade was currently making their way towards the roof. Because Dirk called them and said they needed backup.

"We came as fast as we could!" Shouted Dave as he bust the door open.

"AND APPARANTLY SO DID JADE-" Terezi began.

"Hey." Said John, "Those jokes have gotten old by now. You keep making ones like them for the whole day. What, are you trying to replace Roxy or something?"

Roxy herself was currently tied to a pole with rope and have duct tape over her mouth. Her counterpart was carrying the pole, and throughout the whole climb Rose looked at him.

"What?" Rory asked.

"You're highest priority on my radar, counter-Drunkie." Rose said. "Guilt by associated. If you were born from fragments of Roxy's head, there is no saying that you will not be as terrible as she is. If not worse, with a potential lower amount of control."

"Hey, I think I have more control than my counterpart!" Mitchl shrugged.

"GUYS." Dirk said. "Now's not the time. He's adapted to Dian and my strategy from before."

Yeah he and Dian were still doing the thing where they attacked Jaws from different erections and Jaws was blocking. Neither of them could penetrate him.

Dave was the first to the rescue! He ran over and whipped out a series of guns, blasting them all in Jaw's direction and forcing him to change his angle. Jaws instead jumped up on one sword and used the other to cut all the bullets and bomb shells mid-air, then spinning the sword he was balancing on to try to deflect both Dirk and Dian.

"Mate, 'is battle's gonna get tougher." Jaws spoke to the ARs. "You gonna prepare yourself?"

"Indeed." Said the ARs.

Anyway Jaws then started warming up because the machines went into a super hot mode, then went really crazy and did a huge sword combo which sliced up everything the other members of the Rainbow Crew threw at him, then ducked in the floor below and wires stuck out of the back of the CENTINEL Suit (like costume), plugging a water tank to it. And Jaws stopped glowing red since this meant that he was cooled down again. Kinda like in Futurama when Bender was overclocked. Then they also saw a vending machine, and more wires stuck that to Jaw's back, and a straw-like wire came from the suit and went into it.

"And I don't have to pay for 'is?" Jaws asked.

Instead of responding, the ARs just did a massive HACKING into it and suddenly all sorts of coins dropped out.

"Nice!"

Above, the Crew was looking down into the hole.

"Well..." Said Dirk, "I'm not really sure what to do with him."

"THEN PLAN ABOUT ME!" Cried Rick, as he jumped back there.

---

(Nepetas)

Nepeta snapped her fingers. "Wait! There's an alternate cure!"

"Oh yeah," Said Netimp, "We can get someone who has the virus and... well, craft a harmless anti-body to fight it off! That should be simple enough, how come we didn't do that when we were using it?"

"We had no need to." Shrugged Nepeta, "And we kinda really need a sample to work with it. You know, understand the inner DNA and everything."

"But where can we get it from? Everyone whose infected is... well, an asshole!"

They looked at the wreckage, with a lot of fire and broken buildings, looking a lot like riots on TV. And then they saw Karkta, who was glaring down a fly, then frowned. Her eyes were red and indicated that she was also infected.

"Oh..." Said Karkta. "I don't feel like I can do it..."

Netimp and Nepeta looked at eachother.

"I'll hand the bubble and get her, you inflate it." Said Netimp he reached into the pocket storage hold and got out one of those protection bubbles. Nepeta started pumping air into it, from a pump that was also handed from the little pocket dimension rift. Or however those work.

"Karkta..." Said Netimp, "Don't try to breathe on us, but we neeeeeeeeed youuuuuuuuu..."

"Oh hi! I really feel mad right now for some reason, but I don't want to hurt anything! What do I do?"

"Just get in the bubble so you don't infect us or anyone who got cured..." Netimp said, quickly getting a grip on Karkta and then tossing her into the now-inflated bubble. They then put Karkta on the back, because this was actually a pickup that the Leijons were driving from (and, back then, to) the school.

"Okay, I'll set up the lab..." Said Netimp. "You just... drive. I won't be a critic anymore. You know, teamwork. Unlike when- oh, forget it. Let's drive."

"Actually I'd rather set up the lab. Driving during a rage-virus outbreak sucks."

---

(School Roof)

"IT'S TIME TO GET ME MY JADE BACK! GOOD TO SEE THAT YOU'VE JOINED US TOO!" Rick cried at seeing Jade.

"I slept with her!" John shouted.

"THEN I'M GONNA KILL YOU FIRST!"

The entire present Crew opened fire at him, but he deflected it via his darkness magic stuff.

"How is he able to talk, anyway?" Asked Rose. "If he's grimdark and channelling some kind of eldritch power."

"I mastered the art of grimdarkness." Rick explained. Then sighed especially since when he went to stage 1 I already explained it but he had no way of knowing this. "With enough mastery, you can talk while under the influence. But I'm not really sure if that's legal or not."

"Fair enough." Ross shrugged. "Rose, I'll take that explanation. You should too."

Rose ignored this, and so then Rick made a huge cloud of those saw-blades and launched them at the entire Rainbow Crew (that was present there, anyway). Sollux, Aradia, Mituna, were all trying to fling them back, but to no avail. The rest of them were trying to dodge around.

"This guy is almost unbeatable!" Cried Dirk, "Jesus, and I thought that Wonder-Jaws nutcase was bad!"

"We need to keep track of him! Don't forget that!" Terezi shouted.

Dirk looked down and unfortunately saw that Jaws was bursting through the roof. He flew above them, and even Rick stared along with the Rainbow Crew. But Rick continued with his douchebag smirk.

"I don't really care about you. First priority, John for stealing Jade's virginity from me. Uh, I think that's how the term is used. Second priority, that odd group of misfits who lied to me. The third... I don't know, but just because of your annoying insistantness I'm putting you on the bottom of the list!"

"Eh... I'd put 'ou on top if you 'ate allying 'ith me. Just to 'et you out of the way so I can have the Rainbow Crew for myself."

Then Wonder-Jaws unleashed a huge series of missiles from the suit! But, this could be considered as part of the plan, as then Rick ate the red and final pill, and started undergoing ANOTHER transformation! Like with the last two, he grew even bigger and more muscular, but this time his hair actually went longer and down like an emo, and half of his face melted to a skull! Which was dark gray! And its eyehole had a red glowing light that was basically an eldritch eye! This was the final form, Grimdark Level 3! Also his tentacles got even bigger.

"RUAGH, HA HA HA!" Rick laughed, "NOW I AM INVINCIBLE!"

"Strategy suggested is to retreat." Said the ARs. "And re-plan for this new enemy's stats. If you request, I shall take us both, or rather all three of us, off and analyse his definitive strengths and weaknesses via our robotic computing. Then come up with a counter-attack. Also, more fluids to prevent overheating, since you are still overclocked. Well, We are."

"'Aight. At least I can make this into a show. And becides, maybe Aradia's counterpart is somewhere a'ound here."

So Jaws flew off, while Rick sent out an extremely powerful wave of dark magic that sent the entire Crew (again, out of those that were present) flying off the roof and knocked into a building, and they then flumped to the ground, using Aradia's psychic powers to soften their fall. A lot of them were woosy from getting tossed across a city.

"Okay..." Said John, "First one to regain conciousness... callls Nepeta..." And then he passed out. As Rick jumped over to them.

"IT'S TIME TO FINISH THIS!" Cried Rick, who didn't fuck around and instead instantly threw a bunch of magiced-up saw blades at them. Again he had even more than before.

But they were blocked by the roof of a recently-side-turned car. It was Netimp, who just pulled a badass manuver foreshadowed by Nepeta's tank-driving skills back in chapter 12. The door... which was now facing up, was pushed out by Nepeta, and she dragged out the bubble-riding Karkta with her.

"Ah fuck, a limeblood? Fuck this shit, I'm also doing what Jaws does but without less... you know, nerdshit. Planning. Like a true golf player would." And he jumped away.

"Why is Karkta in a bubble." Asked Dave. "And for future reference, this has nothing to do with you guys having bubble butts does it?"

"No, it's quarantine. She's been infected, but she's still too nice to really attack anyone." Nepeta said. "Even when her full-on rage is brought out."

"It's... kinda stuffy in here!" Said Karkta, "Actually- no no, I'll be quiet, I shouldn't complain. I am infected with a rage virus, after all."

"But!" Cried Netimp, "We may have gotten a cure for this. Of course, spending some past time using this virus as a weapon helped speed up the research. We're pretty familiar with it."

"NETIMP! SHHH!" Shouted Nepeta. "What happened to how you screwed up and I just kept shouting 'YOU TRIED' at you? Did that... did either of us learn anything from that?"

"Oh, come on, they know that we're shadier than we look."

"You make a point." Nepeta took out a little needle. "Now, we have plenty of the stuff, but only one needle. We don't want to use it on Karkta since she's good enough of an ally as-is. But any other infected person, on the other hand... maybe Pounce De Leon, our mother..."

"But she's just a stupid cat thing!" John cried, "What about Disciple, your real mother?"

"I'm sorry, but I just don't see Aurink that way! She never raised me, she wasn't really there for any of my big events, she didn't even really know me for a long time except for when we went to the past, and... I didn't even know she was real until a few months ago!"

"But, still she's kind of your mom."

"Um..."

"Oh look, a lesson about treating your 'mothers' from the guy who fucked his." Netimp said. "It's our cure, our decision. We'll give it to Pounce if she's infected. If she isn't, we got a list, but Aurink is far down there. Strategy first. Everyone else will be cured eventually, either wait and shut up or do something to help us and shut up. Preferably the latter. And becides... she's kind of... well..."

"Autistic?" Asked Karkta. "N-not in an offending way, but in a... factual way? Sorry for speaking out of term like that."

"There is no term." Said Nepeta. "And no, I don't think that's the word Netimp's looking for-"

"Becides, your entire Crew is pretty much autistic. Every single last one of you."

I would give up a steady buildup to that being what Rick said, except that the bolded quote marks and that he's neither showting like Kurloz or the Water Wraith or the Plasm Wraith, or everything's in all lower case like Kursis, would have given this away. Anyway, yeah, Rick came back.

"Let's finish this shit!" Rick yelled, "I'm beating Jaws to this punch!"

Back over closer to the school (the enhanced computer-vision allowed Jaws and the ARs to see) Jaws was watching this.

"OY!" He cried, "'E'S OUT THERE NOW! CAN I JUMP IN AND JOIN IN ON THE FUN?"

"No." The ARs replied. "I still have some calculations to do. Rick just jumped in because he is an idiot. There is an eighty percent chance he'll eventually get killed by the Rainbow Crew, a nineteen percent chance that you'll end up killing him-"

"But I don't want to."

"-By accident. And a one percent chance that he'll annihalate the entire Rainbow Crew, even the members not in the fight." Dun dun dun this was to add suspense and make you think that I would actually kill off some of the characters that matter!

Back in the city, most of the present Crew was trying to reflect the huge onslaught of saw blades and dark fire bolts he shot at them, taking cover from the tilted car over to the nearest skyscraper and realizing that some of the blades were able to eventually break through the back wall, they didn't have much time.

Much time at all, for next up, Rick did a shoulder-charge dash through the entire building and it started crumbling behind him. He laughed.

"I GOT IT!" Suddenly, Nepeta cried that.

"Got what? A way to kill him?" John asked.

"No, better, backup! This will cure the whole virus around the entire city!"

Oh yeah, they were trying to keep opening fire on Rick. And the military came as well, having figured out how the virus worked, they were armed with masks to avoid catching it. But to no avail. Rick also didn't even really target any of the soldiers or cops, just the Rainbow Crew. So this way, Nepeta could keep expositing.

"Huh?" John asked.

The thing Nepeta was talking about looked like some time cyllender of the green cure liquid, with a propeller on top. "This contains highly consentrated cure. Because of the cloudy weather, this has a little catylist for making something rain. Thanks to Sollux for coming up with it. That will make it rain and because of the tiny layout by the bottom, the cure will be spread out along the rain, and automatically cure anyone nearby."

"What if an infected troll flew away with psychic powers?"

"I tracked the cloud coverage and it has to be far enough. Even an enraged yellowblood flying as fast as they can without excerting but without breaks, which doesn't make sense since they would try to fight anyone in the way, would take an hour to leave the cloud's mark."

"But... faster than light-"

"Without exerting themselves. Anyway..."

Nepeta pulled a string on the bottom and it flew up to the air, but suddenly Tavros charged up from the pile and managed to stab Rick by the side a little with a giant bayonetta. Rick grunted, then Latula leaped up with a pair of triple-barrel (I think that's how these work?) cannons and shot at him, aiming for the eyes yet he kept dodging them up. But was still being blasted a little.

"This isn't hurting THAT much, but-"

Then it started to rain. Just as Rick shrugged them off with a powerful dark magic hit.

"Oh shit this isn't drugs like tobacco is it?" Asked Dave. "Because, you know, the virus is cured by something 'relaxing' and well... I promised my Bro I wouldn't do marajuana even though it's what all the cool rappers are doing, because I don't give into peer pressure."

"No." Said Nepeta, "It's another form of bacteria that specifically enters your bloodstream and kills the rage virus from there. It works a little like the stuff that killed all the trash in Lake Michigan."

"Ok good."

But there was a smacking sound over by one of the militants. Kiriki! She punched out the soldier and stole his mask (while already trying to hold her sweater over her face, which exposed her bits), but still she pulled it back down when the mask was on and floated above the team with an open yellow umbrella in her hand.

"It's time to start the true limeblood rebellion." She said. "Karkta. You disgust me."

Then she teleported Karkta over and away (out of the bubble, which prevented the cure from reaching her), and she landed far outside the influence of the cloud coverage. But she was still, thankfully, within the hacking-Sollux thing influence.

Jake simply shot a non-lethal bullet on her and she flew out into the rain and got cured.

"Well." Said Kiriki. "That was pretty shitty of me. Need assistance?"

"Yes." Said John, "Though with Jaws. I kind of feel like it's my honor to go over and kill Rick?"

"NO..." Said Tavros, "It should be mine! And maybe... Latula's?"

But then Rick jumped back and gave a sneak-attack strike to Kiriki, sending her down and almost knocking her out. He was about to attack the rest of the Crew but soon got overwhelmed when all the members came back, all cured and everything, and started all using their attacks, the greater numbers quickly being able to push him back.

"YES, TEAMWORK!" Nan cried, "WE TOOK DOWN CTHULHU WITH THIS!"

"No! I won't let any of you get the finishing move in!" Tavros cried, starting to rush over.

"I'll beat you and Latula to it first!" John cried, also running closer to him as if playing chicken.

But then there was a gun shot, and everyone else looked up to see Jade having used some kind of modified gun. The shock of the blast sent Rick going far back, and he ended up in Jaw's teeth. Fatally stabbed by them.

"Well." Said the ARs. "Smaller percent chances than 19 have happened and came true."

"Oy I just came back here wi' a kickass strategy..." Jaws said flatly after spitting Rick out. "No idea how 'at happened..."

"Your contest about being destined to kill him is pretty stupid." Jade said. "Dead is dead, no matter who does it."

Rick coughed.

"Well done... Tavros..." he said, "You stood up to your old past bully... I have to admit... you're a lot stronger than me..."

Tavros just looked confused. "WAIT... WHAT DOES THAT, MEAN? There was someone who picked on you?"

But Rick was dead so he couldn't answer.

Jaws cocked his gun while Netimp got on the phone and Nepeta started rubbing Kiriki's forehead. "Oy mates!" Said the former. "Let's finish 'is up!"

"Karkta was teleported to the countryside then she teleported herself to the school shortly after the rain there finished." Said Netimp. "Uh, Nepeta, if you want another limeblood we can just be teleported back there after Kiriki is nursed to health. Karkta also keeps saying that she's sorry she spread the virus further without intention, and I want to let the entire Crew know that this rainstorm is coming to an end."

And yeah the rest of the rain was gone. But Jaws looked pissed since everyone was looking at the Nepetas and not at him. Also, yes, in addition to those who weren't originally part of prom, there was also the ancestors, guardians, and ex-Felt leprechauns there too. And even a lot of the Pikmin interns! And, while they aren't technically part of the Crew, the lusii were there. Because why the fuck not?

"A'ght mates, 'tis it." Jaws said calmly. "The 'inal battle with me. Based on my calculations of your group, you're only missin' four members. Sollux. Jane. Jaky. And Virkso. Oh, five, Karkta. I saw her 'fore so... anyway, it's most of ya'. I ain't got no more lives. I ain't got no more assistants or distractions. I ain't got no reason to run. Just a final assault against the shark that's been pesterin' ya for months, and the last remains of the empress whose rule's also been pesterin' ya a bit longer."

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(The Final Battle (Of Season Six) (This Starts out in the same location I'm just doing this to signify a big change, and also picture this acting a bit like the flashes in canon))

On one side of the conflict... Jaws, who evilly glared down the Rainbow Crew. On the other side, almost all of the Rainbow Crew, staring Jaws down in turn.

The entire Crew charged to Jaws at once, BUT THEN instantly Kiriki took Jaws off guard by teleporting all of them (even herself) over to the school roof, where Nepeta quickly injected the needle-cure into Karkta.

Everyone should be okay... EXCEPT THE VIRUS SPREAD A LOT DURING THE TIME KARKTA WAS TELEPORTED TO THE OUTLAND COUNTRYSIDE OR WHEREVER IT WAS! Suddenly, Naruto teleported there and ambushed them with an army of clones!

"I hope you don't mind this, but... at some point, I also messaged some of your friends from before to leap right at the spot Karkta was teleported to, so they would get infected. The ARs hacked into Dirk's account. Made it look urgent. Told me... to tell them."

"Well," Said the ARs, "It's not really account hacking if you basically know all of their info from the get-go. Dirk, you flat-out told us your account information. That's why we were even made. It's as easy as logging in normally. Because that's what it is."

"UGH!" Dirk shouted, he and Dian coordinating another double-attack at Jaws. This time, they finally brought in the guns.

But this didn't do much as Jaws quickly focused, then suddenly all the bullets turned light azure and began zig-zagging around! But then Karkat luckily had the Hemoshield with him, and just as the bullets were re-directed up (Jaws wasn't good at controlling large amounts at once like this) he flew high in the air with the rustblood and then used the same nightmare-vein stuff from the purpleblood to generate a huge purple dome around the whole school, which also kept the sheild up in the air as Karkat himself gripped on to it and held for dear life. Meanwhile, Rose directed to switch to knives and swords and stuff, and not guns, and they did, but Jaws was once again doing all kinds of super-fast blocking moves until he back-hopped over to the swimming pool (for surfing) and gripped it and rose it up in the air with his fins. Then stuck more metal wiring into it, then got some kind of pump-system so that THIS can cool him down as the water thing and the vending machine were both running out.

Meanwhile Sollux just yawned and stretched out.

"No." He said, "I can't wait anymore. I'm coming over there. And you guys can come too."

So Jaky and Virkso agreed, and Jane likewise came back in and then sorta also talked it out with Sollux, and then they quickly flew their way back. It was not just Naruto at this point, a lot of the Crew and backup was being hit with other allies from the past, enraged. Um... just the ones that have good reason to get there if they were across the world, like the Eds (Edd invented a teleporter), Samus (She had a good ship), and Naruto's excuse was his teleport jutsu. Becides, we'll have more people from the past return. Anyway there was other gags before the Crew started getting re-re-infected member by member, and all of them used their weapons. At some point all six of the yellowbloods (keep in mind Sollux, Jaky, and Virkso made themselves apparant but not Jane this is important) opened their dual-vision fire at Jaws but he still deflected it back with his own trump card: The shades had their own dual-color eye beam thing. Fitting with the AR shade thing, one was red, and the other was bright green, and they alternated. BUT! It looked like it was not only pushing away the yellowblood powers, but also a huge ray of death that was about to fry the Crew.

"I CAN'T HOLD ON MUCH LONGER!" Karkat cried. Karkta and Kiriki jumped up to save them, but bullets slipped past the defense and flew past them, making them get caught off guard long enough for Jaws to also use his computer-calculated plan to throw a rock over at Rose, steal the portal gun from her (again), blast a system of portals, then throw the gun at the limebloods, sending both of them flying through a portal and the gun bounced off back into Jaw's fin and then Jaws closed the portals and now Karkta and Kiriki were just outside the school but mystic purpleblood barriers from Karkat's shield hindered limeblood teleportation.

"IT'S ALL O'ER FO' YOU!" Jaws cried. Karkat thought about letting go but then the bullets would just kill everyone. "THIS PLAN HAS A 100% CHANCE OF WORKING! THESE BEAMS WILL HAVE A 100% CHANCE OF KILLIN' YAS, AND I HAVE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU ACCOUNTED FOR! EXCEPT JANE, BUT I THINK SHE HAS A ZERO PERCENT CHANCE OF AN ATTACK STRONG ENOUGH TO PENETRATE MY-"

"YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY STRENGTH, JAWS!" Jane cried, leaping into the air with a grand and powerful blade. This blade cleaved off the swimming pool and the water, which was 3/4ths full, just flooded out and got on the floor. Then it hit Jaws on the back just as his beams were about to fry at least the yellowbloods, and that stabbed through him and made him cry in pain. He broke the beams, tossed off the waterless concrete, and whipped out his swords again, getting ready to fight with calculation.

"Urk! No..." he cried, "Must... fine... 'ater! Over'eating...! Plan would work if not for how the 'ainbow Crew 'as..."

He was deflecting the humans pretty well and getting knocked back to the football field (yeah they have a thing for all sports). But then the trolls kept jumping on, from Nepeta to Kanaya to Mituna to Rufioh to Horuss to of course the counterparts and ancestors (not both that would just be stupid overkill... right?) like Mindfang and Gamsis and Ardion and Dualscar and Mannah and Sk8oarder and-

"ARGH! TOO MAANY TROLLS1" Wonder-Jaws screamed, as the ARs overheated and made his head explode. Because the computing strategy just made it all overheat way too much. The computers themselves didn't explode. Yet. Then Dirk jumped up to them, and Dian flash-stepped over there because duality. Dirk yanked off the mask from what remained of Wonder-Jaws and jammed a flash drive in it.

"I SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS A LONG TIME AGO!" Dirk cried.

"Jesus Christ original, calm the fuck down." Said Dian.

"Shutting down. Loading two final messages." There was a lot of static sounds from the ARs and the voices were started to desynch it's a cool, odd glitch-like effect to show that they were dying/malfunctioning. "One: Initiating self-destruct sequence."

"Of course..." Said Dirk, breaking the mask in half and jamming it into Jaw's already mangled (both from Jane's attack and from the explosion) back. "You always have to have the last laugh in..." Neither of them was infected with the virus but he's just pissed at the Responders.

"Two... shine a blacklight... on Nepeta's journal..."

Dirk and Dian both jumped away (and got everyone else to back off) as Dirk's AR-part of the two exploded first, into red, then shortly after Dian's exploded into green. Both explosions drove the shark-corpse and the machine bits further into a newly-made explosion hole on the football field (um, the hole came from the first explosion of the ARs, not when the ARs overheated and blew up Jaws), though the second explosion also blew up the corpse completely so I know what I'm trying to say I just don't know how to say it. Then with them gone, the hold-on Sollux's hack stopped and the music played and I'm not putting it there again and everyone who was infected was cured. So then they stepped in and looked into the hole and saw something glittering and rectangular at the bottom.

"Oh." Said Nepeta. "Ohhhhhhhhh... I almost forgot about this. Well, I didn't want to dig up the football field but... it sure was convenient that... no wait, I specifically tried to push Jaws over there..."

"Whmm immph iph?" Asked Roxy.

"I think what other-me is trying to say is, what is it?" Said/Asked Rory.

"Well, for one thing..." Said Rose, "Roxy, Before Nepeta probably explains her weird shit, you're fired. Nepeta, you and Netimp seriously need the details of your promotion more elaborated upon. Specifically, you're going from door-knockers and cash washers to... um, I don't know, just above Karkat and Karkta's rank."

"YOU CAN'T PROMOTE PEOPLE ABOVE YOUR OWN RANK!" Roxy cried.

"No, but I can." Dirk said. "Congradulations, you went from shortly above janitors like Vriska and Virkso, and a bit more above the Pikmin Interns, to becoming the direct co-members."

"Aw... thanks..." Nepeta said, clearly trying to hide disappointment. Netimp wasn't hiding it at all.

"Dammit, our whole gimmick is to stay low... oh well." Said Netimp.

Roxy struggled around a lot.

"Let her down and untie her." Said Rose. "Becides, that was just for the mission so she wouldn't annoy us. As someone who is explicitely fired, she's gonna be banned for a month anyway."

So then Rory let her down and ripped the tape off her mouth.

"WAIT!" Cried Roxy. "I promise I'll be a changed woman. I'll work harder, study, and be better overall. No attempts to drug people. Nepeta, new high-ranking assistant or whatever, what do you think?"

"Go fuck a crockodile in the mouth." Nepeta said.

Dirk shrugged. "Sorry, but I still call the shots above you Nepeta. Roxy, you're re-hired to the Crew. Although Rose's firing was still official. So you'll have to sign the paper work to re-apply to the organization and re-do an interview."

"YES!" Vriska cried, "FINALLY! SOMETHING RESEMBLING KARMIC JUSTICE! No longer are you just allowing people in because they said please!"

"Anyway," Said John, "The ARs blew a big hole in the football field... which kind of fucks with the planned game next week, but oh well, the school cares more about surfing and golf. Uh, especially since their star player just kinda got killed by an evil sentient shark. There's something in there. Let's check it out, then do the blacklight thing on Nepeta's journal."

"NO!" Nepeta cried, "That would destroy the ink!"

Netimp sighed. "We put our super-secret information in invisible ink that needs a blacklight. That wouldn't destroy anything. Nepeta, I'm sorry, but... they would't fall for it."

Nepeta looked at the ground, frowning, before looking up with a smile. "No, you're right. You guys are a lot more smart and competant than I thought. I think you can all handle the truth of the world. You know, as a team, not a group of puppets as... I was thinking. You're a step up above my other friend groups... may their souls rest in peace."

Everyone gulped.

"Let's check it out! I already know the answer, but I wanna see you figure it out yourselves!"

So then the Crew started jumping in. Dave, however, took note on Dirk and Dian's shade things, and took off his own shades, staring at them. Then Dove looked at him and shook her head slowly. Dave nodded.

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(The Pit)

The thing at the bottom was an opaque little coffin-looking thing. The base was green and there was a chrystal-like opaque casing over it.

"John..." Said Jade as they neared the bottom.

"Yes?"

"Would you... marry me?"

"What?" John asked.

"Well... we've been through a lot together, and again you did break up with Jane right?"

"I still don't really think it was that official since at some point we had hate virus in us? But yeah, Jane, we're breaking up."

"Okay." Jane shrugged. "You were kind of a secret manipulator trying to toy around with us anyway."

"So do you want to get married?" Jade asked.

"Uh... well, in my religion sex before marriage is a sin. And I already have one strike against me from Nan... I wonder if this would be fast enough to erase a strike."

Jade got up from the ring-holding (Did I mention she was doing that?) and they kissed. And the crystal part of the thing glew and faded away. Jade smirked.

"Yep! I knew about this by paying close attention in school. I knew all along what this was, and the whole proposal stuff was just to try to get a flashy way to get it to activate! This is a Curse Sargophagus that only opens via a kiss of true love."

The person inside was green and... oh hell, you know this character even though nobody in the given scene does. It was Calliope! She was lying on her back, looked woozy, and sat up rubbing her head.

"Am I..." She said, "Am I really awake again? Or is this just another dream?"

END OF SEASON SIX.

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Footnotes:

A: This part is also true. Isn't it amazing how much art imitates life?

Closing AN:

Well, if you didn't see it on Tumblr, I would apologize for rushing the ending (everything under the "final battle" part, which was all originally written in a day), except you'd probably want this damn thing to end and you're probably reading this more under some kind of bet from yourself and your friends or for part of a review thing instead for your own entertainment. Eh, I might as well repeat this anyway, since I'm not even sure if most of you would be aware that I even have a Tumblr. (Probably not though. Since I might have mentioned the Great Typo Cleanup in another AN and it would probably encourage looking through my profile and the link for the Tumblr was right there.) I, of course, wanted this chapter to end.

Well, that's it for season six. Finally. After over a year of hiatus... a lot, if not all, might consider that a good thing. But oh well. I'm still getting this out and done, like it or not.

But I did like this chapter, and I also really kinda enjoyed looking through the second half and stuff. Partly because I finally actually put Roxy through some hell that the other characters don't share with her because it's the result of the enemy attacking everyone at once. In case no point in the preceeding 22 chapters clued you in, I find Roxy a little, teeny tiny bit overrated. But mostly because, call this me being full of myself, but I also liked it as a little chapter on its own.

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.