A/N: So far, I will be finishing this one up before I continue the others, so there will about 2 chapters left here. !
"Tav, you find Jacks room yet?"
"Uhh, no I'm, uh, working on it."
Dave sighed. "Hurry it up. We'll go ahead and enter. Jake, you set?"
After a second, "All set up here."
"Vriska, Sollux you guys inside?"
"Affirmative" Sollux replied. "You know it." Vriska replied.
Dave nodded. " 10 minutes after we enter, Gamzees group goes in. Got it?"
"Got it bro." Gamzee replied.
Dave let go of the speak button. "Well shit. We only gotta take Jack out, right?" Karkat asked.
"If only it was that simple.." Dave sighed, "Jack is our main target. But, from what I got from Sollux, some of us may have to take on some creature."
Karkat sighed. "That's what I was afraid of."
Dave nodded. "Also, I thought you were with Gamzee?" Karkat said. "Yeah, but it's benificial if I go in first."
"When are we going in?" Equius asked.
Dave spoke into the pager. "Sollux, estimates?"
"There are quite a few. At leatht three-hundred thirty-two, and I'm thure there are more that aren't in sight." Sollux replied.
"That's it? Ha!" Dirk said.
"Don't underethtimate them. Thothe nearetht to the top are hand-picked by Jack." Sollux replied.
"Very well. Vriska, where are you?"
"I'm near the room. Tav got the directions right. You fuckers might wanna head in."
"Got it. We're heading in. Gamzee, you guys enter in about five minutes."
Dave put an in a wireless earphone connected to his pager. "Lets go."
"Fuuuuckkkk." Karkat sighed.
Dave, Karkat and Equius walked inside the front door. "Halt." a guard said.
"Fuck, already." Karkat whispered under his breath.
"Wassap?" Dave said nonchalantly
"Haven't seen you before. Who are you?"
Dave's eyes were nervous behind his cool exterior. And his sunglasses. "Fuckasses are with me. Here to make a couple business deals, ya know the whole shitty rigamarole." Karkat said.
The guard eyed him over. "Ah, Mr. Vantas. Of course. May you tell me who these guys are, then?"
"I'm Earl Zahhak." Equius said.
"Drake Strider." Dave said.
The guard nodded. "Very well, carry on." he said, walking away.
The trio continued on. "Thought you thought of everything, Strider?" Karkat jeered.
Dave shook his head. "Sooorrryyyy. Not. I didn't expect this early on, so my mind went blank."
"You're quite the remarkable tactician, but you're still young." Equius added.
"We're the same age. Shaddap." Dave replied.
Karkat snickered. The three continued on, walking up several flights of stairs. "Why the fuck didn't we take the elevator?" Karkat asked.
"Give Gam's group time to get in and up, and also to get a confirmation from Vriska." Dave replied.
A rumbling sound came in Dave's ear. "Uhh, the fuck." he muttered, shaking it off as nothing.
Karkat looked at Dave then dismissed the noise too. "Karkat.." Equius said.
"What?" Karkat looked at him.
"The noise. It was Julie."
Karkat stopped in his tracks and stared at him. "WHAT?!"
Equius nodded, the noise sounding again. "How the fuck do you know?!"
"It was an experiment the higher ups were conducting."
"Were?" Dave said, raising an eyebrow.
Equius nodded. "It's a weapon made to use to calm the rebels. So they said. But I believe it's to exterminate. I did a little snooping."
"And I always thought you were a follower of rules." Karkat said.
Equius started sweating. "Wait. I forgot. You get some sick satisfaction from breaking rules." Karkat said.
"Vriska, Sollux, check in." Dave said into his pager.
"Here, what the hell was that noise? And also I've found the room. I'm on standby." Vriska said.
A couple minutes later no answer from Sollux. "Sollux you fuckass answer." Karkat said into his pager.
No answer. "Uhmm. Shit?" Karkat said.
The rumbling sound came again. "Wait. Tavros, where's Sollux?" Dave said.
Keyboard typing could be heard. "He, uhh, seems to be at the lowest floor of the, uhh, building complex." Tavros replied.
Everyone was silent. "I thought he was surveying the upper levels?" Jake said, "I can't seem to find him."
Karkat's mind process clicked. "FUCK!" he shouted, flying down the stairs.
"Huh?" Dave said, looking back.
"I know where he is! He's with that fucking creation!" Karkat said, going as fast as he could.
"Karkat, wait!" Dave shouted.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck.." Dave said, chewing on his thumb.
"Hey, I'm near ground level, I'll accompany Karkat, if anything get there before him." Dirk said from the pager.
"Got it, make sure Karkat doesn't get killed and confirm if Sollux is still with us." Dave replied.
"Got it. Over and out."
"Let's keep going." Dave told Equius, then they continued on
...
Sollux sat up fast. "Owww.." he muttered, rubbing his head.
He was having a dream, and he kept hearing rumbling in the distance. Where the hell am I? He thought. He layed back down. He sat back up as he remembered everything. He reached for his pager. He didn't find it. "Gog damnit.." he muttered standing up and looking around. He walked a couple feet, seeing nothing but the bland dark gray walls. This place was familiar to him. He didn't know why. He kept walking, seeing a doorway then entered it.
The rumbling noise started. The thought clicked. "FUCK!" Sollux yelled, remembering the last time he was down here was with the creature, 'Julie'. A huge arm crashed into the wall right next to his head. He quickly stepped away, pulling out a handgun, pointing it in the direction where the arm came from. He saw nothing. He was grabbed by the back of the leg and tossed into a wall a few feet away. He struggled up, his forhead bleeding slightly. He finally saw the figure. A tall one at the least. Lumpy all over, one arm gigantic the other miniscule. The mouth was slanted, one eye clearly higher than the other, half a nose drooping, the other half sticking out. The grotesque face stared at him. It did not have two legs, but eight. Mangled and randomly placed, but they were there. Sollux's sight was slightly blurred, by the pain and blood. He held up his pistol and pointed it at the creature. It simply stared at him. Sollux stared back. What he noticed.. It was frightened. He lowered his pistol. Julie flinched. Sollux sighed and put the pistol away. "Hey?" he called out.
Julie stared at him. Sollux smiled, and walked towards it. He got right in front of it. "I'm Thollux." he said, wiping his forehead.
The frightened expression left. A worried one came. It reached up with the smaller arm and touched his forehead. Sollux chuckled. "It'th okay, it'll heal."
It left its hand on Sollux's forehead, closing its eyes. "Uhhh.." Sollux started. He stopped as he felt a tingling in his forehead.
He couldn't help but stand there. After half a minute, its arm seemed to shrink even more, Sollux noticed as it pulled away. Confused, he felt his forehead. Not cut. He looked at it. "Did you.. Heal me?" Sollux said aloud.
Julie nodded. "Y..Yesss.." it said in a deep voice.
Sollux raised an eyebrow. "Tho.. You're not intenthionally violent. You jutht get terrified, and your creatorth gave you all thith rage?" It nodded. "And when you healed my forehead.. Your arm got thmalled. What exactly..?"
It shook its head. "Not able to talk much, ey?" Sollux sighed, "It's alright. I need to get back to my friends. Wait here for me? I'll be back and I promise I'll help you." Sollux patted Julie on the shoulder.
It stared into Sol's eyes. Sollux smiled and walked around Julie, walking down the room towards the doorway. "This is the way out, ri-" he started, stopping as he felt a pressure in his back and abdomen. He looked down and saw blood. He stared. Is it.. My blood?
He fell to his hands and knees. He coughed, sputtering up blood, then fell on his side. His sight was fading. He tried sitting up. He looked up to see.. "Sollux, Sollux, Sollux. C'mon now, you need to be more cautious. Then again, I could have killed you at any time, right?"
His sight faded. Everything went blank. Damnit! Everyone.. Don't.. hurt Julie.. He thought as he fell into the blackness.
...
"GOGDAMNIT!" Karkat said, flying down steps. Almost there, damnit Sollux you better be there when I get down! He thought. He kept running. "Karkat, the fuck are you doing?" Dirk said from the earpiece.
"Fuck off Strider." he replied, shutting off his pager.
...
A bellow yelled out. Sollux was able to open a blurry eye. Next to him was Julie, and it seemed to be.. crying. "J..Julie?.." Sollux mumbled.
The creature looked at him with sad eyes. "S...So...Sol..lux?" it tried speaking.
Sollux smiled. "Yes.. I'm here.. Are you.. Saving me?" He looked at Julies arm. It wasn't there.
He sat up slightly, wincing at the pain. "That's.. enough, don't give any more of yourthelf.. I'll be fine.. My friendth.. They'll find me. I'll get medical attenthion.." he smiled, laying back down, breathing as slow as he could.
A sword stabbed both of Sollux's shoulders, and cut his abdomen and chest. Sollux writhed in pain, trying to stay conscious, though in all reality he shouldn't be alive. "I see you won't stay dead. Julie, STOP!" a loud voice echoed in the room. It was the same person as before. "I'm sorry, Sol, my boy, you'll be left to your death." Sol's vision started retreating again.
Julie reached out with its last arm, slightly smaller than last time, and touched Sol's head. A sword cut at the hand. Julie retreated back, startled, the hand dangling by a thread of skin, though no blood came out. "Get the fuck away from Sollux!" Dirk said, stepping in front of Sollux.
Julie groaned, its hand reattaching back to its arm. Dirk stared. It had six legs, and the sixth one got shorter as the hand reattached. He stood there, his blade still up.
Julie lashed out with its long arm. Dirk ducked, stepped forward and cut off one of its legs. It screeched and flailed with a tail like appendage, knocking Dirk against a wall. He sliced at it, cutting deep. It retracted and a fist met his face, breaking his sunglasses, and the wall. Dirk spat out blood, tossed his sunglasses aside, and hopped around the creature, slicing at its legs and body, creating several cuts. At the same time, he was dodging appendages that seemed to shoot out from all over his body. Several shot out at once, Dirk back handspringed then backflipped to dodge. Holding up his sword and panting, he looked over to Sollux. His head was facing away, and he was covered in blood. He was smacked to the side and hit the wall. He layed there, the side of his head was bleeding. He stood up, and rubbed his head.
The creature shrieked, writhing in pain. Dirk saw Karkat on its back, sickles digging into it. He pulled one out, stabbed it into the creatures head, then pulled the other one out and hopped off of it. It writhed about, groaning, then finally collapsed to the ground near Sollux. Karkat went over to help Dirk up. As he did, Julie reached over to Sollux and out a hand on him. Several of his legs started disintegrating at once. Karkat ran over and kicked it in the face, knocking it out. "Damn thing doesn't wanna die.." he muttered.
Sollux awoke, looking at Julie, a sickle sticking out of its head. "Julie?!" he said as loud as he could. Karkat looked down at Sol. "Huh?!"
Sollux sat up, and put a hand on Julies head. It opened an eye and looked up at Sollux. "You are.. the only one who's shown.. compassion.. for a being such as myself.. I'm sorry I could not.. fully heal you.."
Sollux was surprised Julie was speaking. "It'th fine.. Don't blame yourthelf.. I'll be fine.." he pulled the sickle out.
"Thank you.. Sollux.. Captor.." Julie said, the life slowly draining out of its eyes.
Tears were brought to Sol's eyes. "The fuck?" Karkat said, looking at the emotion in Sollux's face.
"He wath trying to heal me.. I had been stabbed several timeth.. He ithn't a monthter.. It ithn't hith fault he wath made thith way.. He only turnth violent when he'th dithtraught or frightened.." Sollux said, stroking its head.
Dirk walked up to them and kneeled next to Julie. "Hey.. I'm sorry.. I.. Didn't know.."
Julie looked up, almost blinded. "It is.. ok.. I do not.. blame you.. Sollux.. was dieing.. I was.. so scared.. But.. He will.. Be ok?.."
Dirk looked at him sadly, seeing the truth in its eyes, his own eyes tearing up. "Yes.. Sollux will be just fine thanks to you."
Julie looked at Karkat. Karkat looked back at it. "Vantas.. You.. Need to hurry.. Get to the room of the one named Jack.."
Karkat stared at it. "What the fuck are you talking about?"
"Your.. destiny.." it mumbled, sinking into the mirthful darkness.
The three sat there in silence. "Help me up.." Sollux said.
Dirk put Sol's arm around his shoulders and helped him stand up. "Dave.. Sollux is fine.." Dirk spoke into his pager.
The three started walking out. "KK.. Go on ahead, Dirkth got me. You might wanna heed what Julie thaid.. Bethideth, GZ may be waiting for you."
Karkat nodded. "I swear to god, do not let anything else happen to him, got it asswipe?" he said to Dave.
"Yes ma'am." he replied.
Karkat shook his head then ran up the stairs.
A couple minutes he walked onto the elevator. "Fuck the stairs." he muttered to himself.
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A/N: I am debating whether to end this in the next 2-3 chapters, or to have it continue on a different path. I have ideas, and it may go well with the name. But yeah. Les go