AN: Thank you to all who reviewed, favorited, and followed. To the guest who commented about the dream bubbles and dead ones, I will explain that later in the story...and no I'm not just saying that, I actually have a plan for it but much latter. Anyways, chapter two.
Karkat was the first to pop out of the portal again, and, once again, he landed on his butt.
"Ow, it feels worse than the first time that happened." he said, he tried to alleviate the pain by rubbing the bruise in the same fashion as the first time.
"Ironically, it is I that pops out second instead of Roxy." Dave exclaimed. He came launching out of the portal laying on his side in the 'draw me like one of your French girls' pose.
Like the first time, he landed right on top of Karkat, "Oh gog, get off of me!" he yelled trying to push the blond off.
"No way dude, this is too ironic and funny." Dave said, he began to laugh as Karkat struggled under him.
"It's not ironic and is very annoying, now move it." Karkat pushed him off.
"Dude, do you not remember what happened the first time?" Dave asked him, he had lowered his shades so Karkat could see his eyes.
"Sweet lord baby Jegus, not this again." Karkat said looking horrified at the portal.
Everyone popped out and floated in mid-air for a split second, then came crashing down onto Karkat who was struggling to get out of the way.
"Fuck it," Karkat mumbled from under the pile. Dave, who was smart and had moved, was laughing his head off at the situation.
Everyone clambered off of each other like they did earlier. One by one, they stood up and looked around.
It was a nice room, smooth and warm brown hardwood floors. The walls were painted in a light cream color. Warm evening light shown through the windows. There was brand new furniture with chocolate brown coverings on the chairs and the same color for the coffee and end tables. Even though the furniture was lovely, everyone's favorite feature was the large plasma screen TV.
"My goodness, this is a lovely place." Jake said, "I do wonder who it belongs to."
"Do you think it's ours?" Jane asked.
"Who knows and cares," Terezi said. She walked over to one of the walls and took out a piece of red chalk and began to draw. The others couldn't see what she was drawing in a whole, but they could see little bits and pieces. When she was finished, she stepped away and let everyone see. "It's our place now."
Everyone began to examine the drawing. It was an extremely crudely drawn picture, it depicted everyone in their god tier garbs with their strife specibi attempting to take down Lord English.
"Hmmm, interesting picture, I think it needs a pony and some robots though." Dirk said, he scratched his chin as he looked at the drawing.
"Whatever, I think it's amazing for my art work." Terezi said with a flamboyant tone.
The group took one last look at the picture then began to walk through the rest of their new apartment.
The kitchens had marble tops with sparkling new appliances. There were five bedrooms for the kids and trolls to sleep in. Each had two beds, except for what everyone assumed to be the trolls' rooms, which had three.
"This place is pretty sweet." Dave said.
"It is a very nice dwelling spot, I suppose." Kanaya said, her voice had a longing tone in it.
"You still miss your home, don't you?" Rose whispered to her. Kanaya nodded and looked down.
"Well of fucking course we miss our home. According to that skeleton faced freak it was destroyed." Karkat stormed.
"Dude, calm down, we get it." Dave said trying to calm down the raging troll.
"I will not calm down!" Karkat yelled.
"Y'all need to come check out this here view." Dirk interrupted from the window. He and Roxy were looking out the window with the curtains draped on them to keep them out of their view.
Jane skipped over with Jake behind her. He opened one of the curtains, "My goodness, this view is spectacular." he exclaimed.
The others began to wander over to the window that everyone was now crowded around. Outside was a beautiful view. The sun shown brightly onto the world below. The city down on the street bustled, it looked like there were hundreds of people down there. They looked out across the landscape to see the bay, it was foggy so they couldn't see too far.
They continued looking at the landscape, until Jake said something, "I may not be an expert on this location being that I lived in the Pacific and in the future, but wasn't there a building called the Willis Tower in this city?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." John trailed off. "I wonder where it is." He began to look around for its mark on the skyline.
"Um, I might have accidentally made the frog with a different genetic code, so we live in a different universe than our own. I might have accidentally left it out somehow." Jade said sheepishly. She giggled, "Opps! There might be a whole lot of differences in this world than ours."
"It could happen, I suppose." Rose said. She laughed, "Wow, I wonder how much is different in this universe."
"Apparently a whole hella lot." Dave said, he was on the computer in the corner of the room scrolling through web page after web page. His eyes and fingers moved at lightning speed as he kept typing in Google searches.
"How are you going so fast through that, little bro?" Dirk asked Dave. "It's like completely different technology than what we had."
Dave paused for a second. He looked confused at the computer and then at Dirk, "I honestly have no clue. It was like the computer told me what to do and search, like it took me over."
Dirk looked down at him, "Someone watched too many cyber movies as a kid."
"Shut up, you let me." Dave retorted.
"That technically wasn't me if my understanding of that whole situation is correct." Dirk responded. "It was an alternate me."
"Whatever," Dave went back to the computer, but was typing much slower now. "My spontaneous Google searches led me to information about this building we're in. It's the tallest one in the city."
"Does it have a roof?" Dirk asked.
"Well duh," Dave responded.
"You know what that means?" Dirk held up his sword that came from who knows where.
Dave reached for his own sword and picked it up, "Let's go."
The two brothers ran out the door and down the hallway. Their feet made loud thumping noises as they ran down the hallway trying to beat the other to the roof.
"I hope he doesn't hurt himself." Rose muttered, she put her forehead in the fingers of her right hand.
"Nah, they'll be fine." Roxy said waving her hand.
Unlike the Striders, the others were just standing around. Most eventually sat down, but Karkat paced anxiously.
"I've been so fuck deep in Sburb shit that I can't relax now that I'm out." he said. He grabbed his head and pulled on his hair.
"Just sit, you'll calm down eventually." Kanaya said, she was sitting on the couch and watching the television.
"How about we go exploring our new world? It's so neat looking out there." Jane suggested.
"I think that we should just stay put until tomorrow. We need our rest after our long adventures." Rose said, she didn't take her eyes off the television the whole time.
"That's a good idea, although it's extremely boring!" Jane rolled her head back as she spoke.
As the final few who hadn't sat down did, the Strider brothers walked in the door. They both had a few scrapes. No one thought anything of it until they noticed Dave's bloodied shirt. It was hard to see due to his god tier shirt being bright red. The stain was right above his heart.
"Oh my goodness, what happened, Dave?" Jade exclaimed, she put her hands over her mouth after she finished talking. Her mind flashed back to the game when Dave had been shot.
"Well, I might have accidentally slipped and fallen on my sword." he began, "Apparently, our god tier immortality still works here."
"Dave, that's terrible, you two really need to be careful." Jade scolded.
"I guess I've grown rusty since it's been a long time since we've strifed." he explained.
Jade sighed and her ears flopped, "I don't want to loose you after the game. We survived this long and I don't want you to die from a silly accident."
"I know, Jade. I won't, I'm immortal remember?" Dave responded.
"Ugh, what kind of shit is this on the TV?" Karkat yelled. He stared at the television with disgust. A reality show was on, it was like a new form of the Real Housewives except much more dramatic as hard as that is to believe. Jade didn't let Karkat finish his rant before escorting Dave to his room so she could tend to his wounds.
"It's called reality TV, Karkat. Rose told me about it on the meteor, but I did not believe that it would be this ridiculous." Kanaya replied.
"Let's watch news instead." Jane said, she grabbed the remote and switched it to one of the local channels. She flopped down on the last part of the couch not covered by anyone.
They had turned it just in time to see their new apartment building on the news. "Investigators will continue to search for the source of this extreme power surge." he concluded his story. "In other news," No one cared about what he said after that point.
"Do you think we could have caused that?" John asked. "Seriously, it had to take a lot of energy to take us from the game to here."
"I hope not, they might discover our species." Kanaya said nervously.
"I don't think anything is going to happen. We survived Sburb, we shouldn't have anything happen here." Dirk said.
"Everyone needs to calm down some and come eat dinner." Roxy said, she had poked her head around the corner. "Me and Jake made some awesome stuff."
"You guys should've come to me, I could've made some dessert." Jane said as she bounced over to the kitchen that could also be used as a dinning room.
Jake and Roxy had managed to make a full meal and materialize a table that can fit eleven people, or trolls and people for their situation. On top of the table sat a meal fit for kings. There were ham, macaroni and cheese, salads, fruit, and many other items.
"Where did all of this come from?" John asked amazed at the quantity of food.
"Well, there may or may not be pigs in this world so I was able to make some using my voidy powers." Roxy responded.
"You killed a pig in our kitchen?" Jane asked shocked.
"Of course not, we just made some cold ham and warmed it up." Roxy said, "Then we guessed at which fruits might have gone extinct, apparently this new world doesn't have star fruit, or at least not anymore. We Googled it, they're extinct."
"I don't really care about all that, all I know is I'm starving. Move peasants, your god is hungry." Karkat said pushing past everyone and taking a seat at the table.
Everyone followed suit and sat at the table and began to enjoy their meal. Dave and Jade walked in and joined. Dave had no shirt on and bandages covered his chest. He explained that in this world god tiers make you immortal, but leave behind wounds. At least, that's what the two had hypothesized.
As people finished eating, they would file out of the dining room and would go do their own thing in other areas of the house. Some went to bed and others watched TV. Well, everyone except Terezi, she kept expanding her drawing until it covered almost the whole wall.
Everyone was enjoying their new lives, despite the slight boredom that would come with that. They had no idea of the events to come that would take that all away.
The day had faded and night had come. A man of about the age of eighteen walked the streets of the darkened city. It was night and the stars shown bright in the sky. They twinkled above the night lights of the city. The man looked up and smiled evilly at the sky. He knew that tonight's business was going to be good.
He looked down and petted the salamander that stood at his side. It was bright yellow and was about as tall as his waist. It was constantly glubbing out a bubble. He wasn't doing it as fast as he was earlier, it meant that he could sense danger near by.
"I know boy, I can sense it too." the man said, he reached down and patted the salamander's head. His voice was raspy and his fingers stiff.
He suddenly jerked his head to look down the alley then lunged behind the nearest dumpster at the sound of another man walking leaving the salamander alone. It just stood there glubbing extremely fast to try and scare off the enemy.
A man walked over to the salamander with his gun pointed at it, "Stupid ass salamander, you'll give me away."
He clicked and was ready to shoot, but was stopped before he could shoot the innocent salamander. His arms were restricted by the man that had hidden behind the dumpster.
"I wouldn't do that if I was you, brother." he whispered in his ear.
"No, please, don't hurt me!" the man pleaded. He was frantically twitching in the firm grip. The other man grabbed his shoulders and his head and twisted firmly. The man with the gun fell to the ground dead.
The first man looked down at the dead body and bended over to pick it up. He slung it over his shoulder and walked over to the dumpster. He opened the lid and threw the body in. Then closed it and pretended to dust his hands off. He felt a liquid run out of his nose. He rubbed it and pulled his hand away to look at it. It was dyed purple, the same color as his blood.
"Dammit, that bastard hurt me." he grunted.
He then picked up the salamander in his arms, "We did it, Casey. We're gonna eat good tonight at headquarters."
He then puled out his phone and reported the situation.
"Well done, Terminally Capricious. You may return to headquarters." the man on the other end of the line informed.
He then put his phone away and walked down the alley. Casey began to follow about a yard behind.
"Honk, honk. Honk, honk. HONK!" he laughed as he walked off into the night.