FORGOTTEN
GAMZEE: HALF THE TRUTH


"FUCK you" You tell 'john' the old as hell, hornless troll.
"WHAT did YOU do TO karkat" He sighs.
"i'm not going to tell you." he barely gets the words out before your fist is in his face. He falls to the floor and you kick him in the stomach. Hard. He coughs up a little bit of crimson blood. Rustblooded bastard screwed with Karbro and he's gonna pay damnit.
"STOP!" a voice shouts from the pile. You turn to snarl at whoever it was, but you're stunned into silence. A short, angry troll with wavy straight hair and big silver eyes is stomping toward you.
"k-kar- " she slaps you. Hard. Your head is angle to the right toward her feet from the force of it.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING TO JOHN?!" she snarls at you. You stare at her in bewilderment. She's glaring up at you, her hands on her hips, leaning slightly forward.
"a beauty, isn't she?" laughed the old man, sitting up slowly with help from the blue blood and teal blood who'd been in the room too.
"closest i got to Him through cloning." he said, admiring the spunky troll in front if you.
"of course, she's not him.." she looked sad, as if mourning or regretting something.
"..but she's close." then he started grinning.
"wanna see something?" he tittered, shuffling over to dome boxes by the big screen. You take this as an opportunity to sit down. The Karsis keeps an eye on you. The old man rummages through the boxes looking for something, murmuring to himself.
"where's he hiding now?" he grumbled to himself. You stare at the Karsis. She looked a lot like Karbro, but more.. masculine. Which was weird. You'd always thought the females were more nimble and thin.. feminine. But.. Karbro was way more girly than this chick. He was softer around the eyes and had thinner ears, like a lady, and a smaller waistline. She may be thicker set, more solid, but she and Karbro have a lot in common. Like their hair, even though hers goes to her waist and Karbro's only shagged to his collar, and their eyes, that beautiful silver-grey that was various degrees of shaded throughout the clones but pure in hers, like Karbro's, and their high cheek bones. Every similarity and difference you notice pisses you of more.
"why ARE you DOING this?" you growl at 'john'.
"I got permission!" he said smugly, like a little pupa whose lusus told him he could eat sugars.
"FROM who?" you struggle to keep your voice steady, due to the death glare you got from Karsis earlier.
"mother, of course!" looking at you with a twinkle in his eye. He flounces over to where you're sitting, kneels down a bit away, the sets something down and scoots back, putting his head close to the ground and his butt high in the air. You look to what he set down.
"this is my highest achievement." Karsis flinches but you focus on what John's set down. It's a grub, but it's an unusual shade. It's jet black and has huge black eyes. Judging From its external shell ridges it should have developed more, but its eyes haven't changed color, its horns haven't fully set in, and its grubial legs haven't started molting off yet. You could tell from the shape of the premolting horns that its Karbro, but even the hair is premature. It's a dark grey fading toward black, but not the dark-light color you remember.
"this one isn't a clone. I've literally taken his very soul and shoved it into an ectobiologic copy of his existence's core!" he said gleefully, getting louder as he explained. You leap at him, grabbing his collar and shoving him against the far wall. Karsis fell down, knocked over by your force, and Kargrub screeches in surprise behind you.
"TURN HIM BACK!" you shout in his face.
"y-you don't understand!" he stutters. You lift him up and bang him back against the wall with most of your strength. You hear something crack and snap and he screams out.
"TURN HIM back." you snarl. You finally see fear in his eyes.
KILL HIM. KILL HIM NOW.
stop. he has to fix karbro first
SHUT UP
HE RUINED KARBRO
no! we can still save him
"SHUT UP!" John flinches.
"okay, okay, i'll fix him, i'll fix him!" he shouts panicked. You drop him on the floor. He crawls over to the board under the big screen and types something in.
"NO!" Karsis yells, lime colored blood dripping from her hairline into her face, her arm outstretched to the wizened man. He presses one button with a lot of force and the blue blood and teal blood hugging each other in front over in the corner collapse in each others arms. At the same moment Karsis collapses, lime blood trickling from her mouth, her eyes glazed over. You snarl, your head snapping toward John.
"th-there. see?" he says shaking. You bash him over the head, his cranium caving in. How dare he betray you. A motion catches your eye. Three of the screen's corners went out (( three if the four screens went out )), showing static and emitting a shrill noise. But in the lower right corner one scene still plays. A huddled and shaking Karbro ceases to be so. He straitens up, confused. He turns away from the wall, toward the room he's in. His mouth moves then stops. His eyes widen and he shouts just before he's sprayed with bright violet blood.