SOSburb

by Sporkaganza

Summary:

What if the world was different?

What if the SOS Brigade didn't exist? What if Haruhi and her friends, stranded in their houses, only knew each other online? What if they played a game of a bit more consequence than Day of Sagittarius III?

Would they be able to make it to the finish line? Would Haruhi hold the universe in the palm of her hand?

Notes:

First of all, I'd like to thank Gelzo from the TV Tropes Fora for being, in part, the inspiration for this fic! I know you came up with the idea first, so sorry for jacking it, but I just had to go for it!

With that out of the way, a note on the fandoms:

You don't necessarily have to know something about both works to get started, but it's highly recommended to have read Homestuck all the way through and to have experienced as much Haruhi as you can before jumping in.

That said, there's a bigger hurdle for people who are only fans of Haruhi Suzumiya as opposed to those who are only fans of Homestuck. There are a lot of complicated concepts from Homestuck that got imported here that I don't want to have to explain; meanwhile, there are pretty much no big concepts imported from the Haruhi series, only characters (although a few fandom injokes might be lost on you). However, a firm grasp on the animes, while not required, certainly isn't going to hurt.

Chapter 1: IT'S called SOSBURB moron!!!

-- ultraDirector [UD] began pestering ordinaryHuman [OH] --

UD: HEY there KYON! :D
OH: hey haruhi, i guess it's tuesday, huh?
UD: WHAT are YOU talking ABOUT now?
OH: alternating caps and no caps for words... you do that on tuesdays
UD: SO you ARE observant FOR once!
UD: MAYBE eventually YOU'LL start SEEING things MY way AND stop BEING such A dumbass!
OH: yeah, whatever... it's just another one of those weird things you do, it's kind of hard not to notice that stuff...
UD: OH yeah RIGHT, you're JUST obsessed WITH me AND you KNOW it KYON!
UD: SO, you READY to PLAY this GAME then?? :DD
OH: you say it like i've already agreed...
OH: sigh
OH: there's no way i'm going to be able to say no to you, same as always.
OH: fine, we'll play... salisbury or whatever it's called
UD: IT'S called SOSBURB moron!!!
OH: sauceburb?
UD: no, STUPID! ess OH ess BURB!
OH: yeah yeah, that thing. so is it today then?
UD: YOU'D better BELIEVE it's TODAY, you DUNCE!
UD: HONESTLY, how THICK can YOU be?
UD: SO, i JUST called YOU here TO let YOU know that WE'RE starting!
UD: YOU know HOW the GAME works, RIGHT?
OH: it's the ring of server players thing, right?
OH: lemme guess... i'm gonna be your server player?
UD: OBVIOUSLY!
UD: DO you THINK i'd TRUST anyone ELSE with THIS much WORK?
UD: ER, i MEAN this MUCH responsibility?
OH: sigh
OH: yeah yeah, fine.
OH: you want me to go tell the rest we're starting this?
UD: ACTUALLY, i ALREADY told THEM all!
UD: SO anyway, I'M going TO go HAVE some BREAKFAST and TAKE a SHOWER,
UD: AND then LATER we CAN get STARTED!
OH: hey wait
UD: CYA!

-- ultraDirector [UD] ceased pestering ordinaryHuman [OH] --

OH: damn. she's always too fast for me.

Notes:

Well, I finally am getting my fan fiction off of the MSPA forums and onto AO3! A million billion thanks to SkaianRedeemer for helping me out with my CSS problems and getting my fic as nice and pretty as it should be looking. If you haven't read A Hand In Holding Hands, screw this silly fic! Go read that first instead, then come back here.