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GA: I Have Spotted A Very Suspicious Character Visiting My Neighbor
GA: Permission To Investigate?
AA: granted.
AA: d0 n0t all0w him t0 interrupt y0ur search. i warn y0u, he may try.
GA: Thank You
GA: And Good Luck In Your Hunt
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CC: )(I Sollux!
TA: hii feferii
TA: have you found iit yet?
CC: Yea)(!
CC: I'm coming over to your )(ive, k?
CC: Don't try and tell me you can't tell me w)(ere it is. I know -EVERYTHING.
TA: ff dont come
TA: ii have…gue2t2.
CC: Well poopie for t)(em because I don't care.
TA: 2eriiou2ly dont
TA: ii mean iit
TA: 2end me the iinfo through trolliian iif you have two. dont come two my hiive.
CC: NY-E)(.
CC: See you at your place!
TA: ff dont…
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TA: fuck
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"Guyth, we're going two have company," Sollux called to the others in his respite-block. Gamzee only honked in response, turning back towards the sopor pie that Nepeta was trying to confiscate from him. Sollux rolled his eyes behind his glasses.
"What do you mean, we're going to have company?" Nepeta asked.
"FF got thome thtuff for me and she wantth two drop it off right now. I athked her not two but she didn't care."
"Well, shoot," Nepeta muttered. "Sollux, could mew stop her at the door?"
"I doubt it. FF hath really thtrong psthionicth, remember?"
"So do mew."
"She'll jutht blatht through a wall."
"I meant, could you get the things from her at the door and just not let her in?"
"Oh. Well, maybe, but she'll probably want two come in…"
"Tell her no," Nepeta insisted, "it'd be so mewch easier!"
"It'th not that eathy." But the two's argument was interrupted by Gamzee's honk of delight as he finished off his sopor pie.
"Gamzee, no! I thought you were going sober!" Nepeta snatched the pie tin out of Gamzee's hands and threw it out Sollux's already broken window.
"Hey, eathy on the property," he protested pointlessly.
"Gamzee, no more drugs. Drugs are bad."
"Honk."
"And this is why you don't get sopor at headquarters," Nepeta sighed. "Come on, Gamzee. And stay away from Sollux's recuperacoon!"
"Motherfuckin' miracles, sis," he mumbled. "All them motherfuckin miracles all up in my vision…" Nepeta earned the achievement: Facepalm 2x Combo. Just then, the doorbell rang.
"Sollux? Sollux, I know you're in there," someone called.
"Hang on, FF, I'm coming," Sollux shouted at the door. He swept the papers he and Nepeta had been working on into a folder labeled 'Photographs of Bees,' and ushered the two rebels into a hidden space behind the silicombs.
"I'm coming in," Feferi warned, and Nepeta heard the door click open, illuminated in red and blue light as Feferi entered Sollux's respite-block.
"FF, thith really ithn't the betht time," Sollux protested, but Feferi pushed past him to deposit a thick folder full of papers on Sollux's already messy desk.
"Listen, I don't trust Trollian, you know that. Now, we're going to talk about these right now and I don't want to hear any objections."
"But FF—"
"That's an objection." Feferi opened the folder and set out an array of papers so that Sollux could see them. "Now, you're the better cryptologist here, so I trust you to go over my work, but I found these in the…place that we discussed." Nepeta couldn't help but listen in. She probably wasn't supposed to hear them, but she was extremely curious.
"FF, can we pleathe do thith another time?"
"No."
"You're tho bothy."
"I don't want to hear one more lisping sentence out of you until I'm finished speaking," Feferi commanded, using her psionics to shove Sollux backwards. He crossed his arms and frowned. Feferi pointed at something on one of the pages. "I think this is where it starts, see? The alphabet reads left to right instead of right to left, though, so we might have a little trouble there. I analyzed the script, and I'm pretty sure these five," Feferi pointed out more things that Nepeta couldn't see, "are vowels or vowel-equivalents."
"FF, I can decrypt them on my own. Pleathe, jutht leave. I'm buthy doing other thingth right now…" Feferi groaned.
"I don't get why you're so insistent upon…" Just then, Gamzee decided to sample the mind honey. He burst out of concealment and started going crazy over whatever Sollux and Feferi were looking at, spouting what sounded to Nepeta like gibberish. Sollux was facepalming, and Feferi looked shocked. When she realized what was happening, she lit up with psionic light and peeled Gamzee away from their project. Sollux groaned.
"FF, thee, thith ith why I didn't want two do thith now…"
"Hey. I think I've seen this face," Feferi muttered. "Yeah, I have, it was that one time…"
"FF? What are you talking about?" Sollux demanded, turning towards the yellow-blood. Feferi was still focused on Gamzee, who continued to talk quietly to himself.
"You've been working with rebels," Feferi declared.
"Oh, fuck," Sollux groaned. "If you tell anyone, Feferi, even a thingle one of your thtupid neighborth, I will dethtroy you."
"Don't worry, I won't tell," laughed Feferi, flicking a loose strand of hair out of her face. "But…"
"But what?"
"You have to let me in on it," she whispered, still grinning. She noticed Gamzee, who seemed to have recovered from the effects of the mind honey, spacing out and staring towards Sollux's recuperacoon. She gently lifted him away from Sollux's belongings.
Just then, Nepeta sneezed. Unable to remain concealed any longer, she stood up, releasing the blades of her claw gloves. Her knees and hands were covered in mind honey, which she wiped off on Sollux's torn curtains.
"And you'll be another rebel!" Feferi bubbled, grinning. "Nice to meet you!"
"Um…" Nepeta decided to worry about the mysterious psionic later. For now, she walked over to Gamzee and prevented him from taste-testing Sollux's blue sopor slime.
"Nepeta…" Sollux groaned, sinking into a chair.
"What catpunned to Gamzee?" Nepeta asked, turning to Sollux. "Was that suppurrsed to catpun?"
"Nothing wath thuppothed two happen. Gamthee wath thuppothed two thtay away from the mind honey. It'th an intelligenthe boothter, he wath temporarily very thmart," Sollux groaned.
"So you're the mystery leader," Feferi mused, staring intently at Nepeta's greyed-out symbol. "I should've figured!" Nepeta took a step back in alarm, nearly falling into Sollux's beehives.
"No!" she bluffed. "I'm nobody!"
"You're wearing a greyed-out symbol, and you're hanging around with this guy, whose picture I've seen on wanted posters for treason. And you're consulting Sollux about something, and I know that his 'Photographs of Bees' folder contains anything but," Feferi deduced. "Yeah, you're a rebel."
"But…" Nepeta feebly protested.
"Don't worry, I have no intentions of reporting you," Feferi continued. "You heard me—I want to be involved in this. I can help you with things that you probably can't do yourself. I'm a master hacker, as good as Sollux. I'm almost certain that the government's on his trail, from what I've heard lately on Trollian and such, but they don't know anything about me besides the location of my house and the fact that I own a husktop."
"I don't trust you," Nepeta declared. "You may be this master hacker, but how do we know you're not really working for the Empurress?" Feferi shrugged and grinned.
"Well, I could tell you just to ask Sollux, but I think I'll make it simple. You get to choose to trust me! And I don't really care if you do or you don't, but I'm on your side regardless," she answered. Nepeta continued to watch distrustfully.
"I don't believe mew." Feferi grinned.
"Just know this—I'm not working for the Empress. The only person I work for is myself—and the only thing I want is the end of the world as we know it."
Name: FEFERI CAPTOR
Age: 8 SWEEPS
Blood Color: YELLOW
Name: SOLLUX MEGIDO
Age: 8 SWEEPS
Blood Color: MAROON
A/N: I'm SO SORRY about how long it took me to get this up. Just a warning, the updates will be pretty slow for this fic. I have a ridiculously crowded summer schedule and I'll be unable to access internet for most of it, unfortunately. I'm leaving tomorrow for something else and I won't even have my computer for two weeks, so it might be as much as a month before you see your next chapter. I really wish I could promise to post a new section as soon as I get back, but the fact is, I probably won't be able to. :(
We're officially halfway finished introducing the characters! Next chapter, I will officially introduce Karkat and Kanaya-I know everyone's *dying* to know their colors (not). If only this site had color text, then you'd already know Kanaya's, but since we don't I'll just keep her a secret because it's fun to keep secrets. Chapter five will be Eridan and Terezi, and after them will come Vriska and Tavros. Then, finally, the plot will surface. Hehehehehe...
And as always, constructive criticism is more than welcome. I'm still not too experienced with handling other people's characters, and I'm worried that I've taken them a little TOO out of canon character. Also, I'm terrible at cat puns.
If this author note drags on any longer I might have to steal my friend's idea and start calling it an author rant. Thanks for reading! XD