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Karkat stood carefully at the mirror, eyes wide. A hand reached towards the mirror. A human’s hand. John’s. Kanaya’s hand moved swiftly to reach and grab John’s then Karkat’s. Nepeta’s hand (wait, when did she get here?) grabbed his other. He looked at her then at the mirror. Aradia put a hand on his shoulder and the other trolls grabbed hands. They were all there. Alive. Breathing, with working limbs and eyes. Even if they had sustained those injuries before the game, they were healed now. The humans grabbed hands and pulled, yanking them through the mirror. It shattered. Kanaya flew into Rose’s arms, Karkat into John and the grumpy troll male managed to catch the female cat troll. Dave caught Sollux and the sea-dwellers as the Witch Of Space caught Gamzee and Equius. Tavros was caught by Rose and Kanaya and Terezi and Vriska crashed into John and Karkat. Aradia crashed into Rose and the kids were sent twirling. The mirror crackled and a rip appeared. It sucked and pulled and there was a shriek. Multiple shrieks. Then cries as the four humans stumbled and clumsily clung to the trolls. John tried to keep the wind blowing away from them but it was too strong. Even Jade couldn’t teleport them away from the rip in space. The males pushed the females back and tried to keep them away from the sucking rip but it just grew stronger. John screamed loudly and forced them all together. Jade cried out and clung to anyone she could get her God-tier hands on. The God-tiers pushed away from the rip until a hand, green in color, knocked them out. With no powers left to keep them from spinning in, that was it. Shrieks and screams. Blood curdling in power. Growls, clicks, whimpers, and other arrays of sounds were heard as the rip swallowed them whole. That was it. There was no trace of the 16 kids and trolls. The mirror fixed itself and the green body disappeared, his part enacted. The screams started to hurt. Badly. They fell silent slowly as they were hurled through time and space. John woke up after some time. They had no means to measure time here, if time still existed in this place. He stopped their spinning and finally, they were dumped onto a planet. Directly into a dense overgrowth of trees and vines. It had 3 suns, small ones at that so it wasn‘t that hot. And later they would come to find it had 4 moons. But not at the moment, for it was only about noon. Only John and Aradia were awake when they landed. They had all landed in the shade and were scared. This place was not like Alternia in all essence nor was it like Earth the same way. The grass was thick so they dragged the unconscious members of their team to the dense parts. They put them in a comfortable position on the ground and waited, scanning the area and watching. Aradia told John who each of the trolls were, by name and blood color. It wasn’t hard to keep up and John introduced the humans to Aradia. They kept a keen eye on the other fourteen and never let anything get to them. By the time the first was to awake, the suns were starting to set. Jade was the first awake. She was told who all the humans and trolls were before she set off to scout the area, keeping a gun at hand. She offered one to John and he quickly declined it. As she was scanning the area, the others awoke. Rose, then Dave sat up and looked around as the trolls sleeping beside them managed to open their orange eyes. “What-what the fuck happened?” Karkat spoke in a hoarse and abused voice. Just like John had expected. Vriska slowly and sluggishly stood and stretched out, glancing at John. In moments she was hugging him, despite being tired and groggy. “I don’t know,” John whispered softly. He repeated it louder and shuddered slightly. Vriska had a cold temperature to her skin, almost like ice. She frowned and stepped back as Nepeta mewed. The spider was on her tail. “Well, this is NOT Alternia,” Eridan said standing roughly. He stretched out for just a moment before he jumped to action at Feferi’s side. He helped her up and worriedly watched her as she stretched out. Feferi batted him away and Sollux went to replace the sea-dweller. The prince glared as Vriska stepped off Nepeta’s tail. Kanaya hugged Rose and Terezi stuck to Karkat’s side. Equius pulled his moirail into a soft embrace and inhaled sharply. “This isn’t Earth either. It’s like some crazy cross between them, like a fucking mule,” Dave said standing. Terezi was clinging to him the moment he spoke and Gamzee took her place by Karkat. Tavros slowly stood and stretched out his legs. Non robotic legs! He was so excited and happy. “Please Dave, keep the puns and such to a minimum please. We don’t need them here. We have to find out where we are and what we’re doing here,” Rose declared as Jade appeared. Tavros walked over and looked down. “Hey, uh, I’m, er, sorry I, uh, killed your grand, uh, father and, um, all that,” he said softly. She patted his head and smiled softly. “It’s ok Tavros,” she said stumbling slightly with his name, making his chuckle softly. After she got it out she looked at the others. “I know you didn’t mean it…” “God damn Rose, can’t a chill mother fucker spit some chill fuck ass puns in this mother fucking place?” Gamzee said, his voice wavering in tones. Rose rolled her eyes and Jade stepped forward. “Guys? I checked the area out.” Her voice was child like and sweet. Just as Rose had been expecting. “And?” Eridan said staring at the dark haired human girl. “We’re all alone here. This planet, it’s all ours!”