It's a bit awkward, waiting on the Jacks to come.

The Strider jam session is well and done with by now, so now you just have to wait until-

JADE: hi guys!

Oh, she's awake, now.

JADE: are you nepeta?

NEPETA: :33< yeah? hello!

JADE: its really cool to meet you

JADE: i met you a bit earlier as davepetasprite but you were dead

JADE: so its nice to see you alive

What???

TEREZI: OH Y34H, WH3N 1 M4D3 3GB3RT GO ON H1S R3TCON JOURN3Y 1 MADE H1M K33P VR1SK4

TEREZI: BUT TH3N H3 *SOM3HOW* D1D SOM3TH1NG TH4T K3PT YOU AL1V3 4S W3LL

TEREZI: BUT W3 ST1LL N33D D4V3P3T4, SO TH4TS WHY 1 Y3LL3D 4T H1M 34RL13R TO GR4B YOUR H34D FROM TH3 OLD T1M3L1N3

Oh, yeah. You remember her yelling about something, but you didn't care.

You'd probably have cared if you knew about what she was on about!

JADE: oh thats...

JADE: thats really sad! :(

NEPETA: :33< yeah it is!!

NEPETA: >:((< what the fuck terezi >:((

TEREZI: SORRY >:P

She isn't sorry, and everyone here knows it!

JADE: well anyways

JADE: ive got a mission now so ill see you guys after ive caught some dogs!

JADE: also dave?

DAVE: yeah?

JADE: you and nepeta were both very good kissers!

DAVE: WHAT

NEPETA: :OO< WHAT

She's gone in a flash of light, and you're a little out of it until the Jack's start charging your way, and Dave pressing his back to yours as he bears his sword grounds you enough to unsheath your claws, and get to fighing.

NEPETA: >:33< lets do this!!!

You and Terezi start off against the crazy Jack with the rainbow eyes, and the two of you start to make quick work of him.

You get in a good swab at his freaky eyes before suddenly the robo Jack is on you, and you can see crazy Jack shooting beams at Dave and Dirk.

You run to get a raincheck on that situation, and the maneuver over back to robo Jack and fuck up the gears in his shoulders.

It's all just body on body, and the feeling of swiping against the two, and feeling the blood get drawn.

Suddenly, Dirk's getting shot at, but a quick fraymotif from Dave and Terezi helps stop that from being an issue, and you decide to help with a double Heart-bound fraymotif, where you basically just take out crazy eye Jack's soul and shove it over to Dirk so that he can blow it up.

Robo Jack's on the two of you now, and crazy eye Jack's shooting beams at you, but he's gotten weak, and you can both tell, so after another Dave-Terezi save, you pounce and feel the satisfaction of the blood against your claws. Is it wrong to say that you've missed being able to just go and kill? Probably, but right now you're too focused on making it hurt, so you don't care to focus on the self introspection.

Fraymotifs are flying everywhere, and you and Terezi get a good one where you use your Rogue powers to give some of robo Jack's fighting skills to her, and Terezi uses her Seer power to figure out what she should do with them. It's awesome, you're awesome, go team.

Then, during a Dirk and Dave fraymotif, crazy eye Jack starts shooting beams like he's a fucking suicide bomber!

Quicker than you can realise, a green guy- Felt? Vriska mentioned the Felt- and Arquius hop in, and then out, leaving you splayed out on the floor,

Dimly, you see a firefly buzz around Dave, and as you swipe at the robo Jack, you wonder how the fuck it didn't die from all the lasers and stuff.

You think you're seeing double, because all these Jacks are starting to confuse you something terrible.

You just lunge at this point, too hyped up on the thrill of the hunt to actually be precise. Back on Alternia all the game went down in one swipe, so this is brand new territory for you. You love it.

You save Terezi from a couple blows, and you turn around just in time to see Dirk in a chokehold from crazy eye Jack, who's currently being choked by robo Jack, and you're just about to laugh at the sight before-

SHING!!!

Dirk's head- along with both Jack's- is chopped off, and before you can react, Dave is zipping around and using his time powers like crazy.

By the time you can catch your breath, Jane's already healing Dirk, and everyone's celebrating. It's over.

NEPETA: :33< FINALLY!!!!

You tacklepounce Kanaya and Karkat in relief, and you can feel the two of them return the gesture.

NEPETA: :33< were fr33 from the game now!

NEPETA: :33< GOG, im never playing an rpg again!!

Dave is pointing at something, so you follow his direction to a scene of John and his...lusus? You think? What was it- PARENT! Yeah his that, hugging and being all sweet and shit.

Then, a lightshow. You look up- and it's the frog.

This is it. It's weird to say, and weirder to think, but this is the end of it all. Of Sgrub, of Sburb, of whatever else it wants to be called.

You're scared.

Rose grips onto your shoulder and smiles. You smile back, and you hope your tears don't smudge your shades.

John opens up the door, and you leave through it.