Man trolls were weird. They fought each other half the time and had GC just licked Karkat's face?! Oh yeah, that was how she saw wasn't it. Still weird. John headed for the door to see what was outside. He opened the door to look out and what he saw made him want to cry. Right there, in front of what ever building he and the trolls were in, Cameron Poe was reuniting with his beloved wife and child. It was so touching. And there was the rabbit.

Then it all went horribly horribly wrong. Zombies, which John hadn't noticed before because of the touching reunion happening in front of him, overwhelmed Cameron. His little girl screamed as her daddy was taken away from her again and the wife tried to shield the girl from the horde that was bearing down on them. John didn't even pause to think. He grabbed his hammer and strifed a path the the two beloved family members.

And then there was another touching reunion. His beloved wife and child were there. Except John didn't have the bunny. However the one that the girl had dropped in fright would do. He picked it up and gave it to the girl with tears in his eyes from the sheer emotion. Then he turned around and started fighting the zombies off, unaware that his beloved wife and child were fleeing while his back was turned.

Kealey and Shin had invited Fade to go to this Haunted Park place. Sure, when she was younger, Fade enjoyed dressing up and running from house to house to pick up free candy, but she never had any parents to return the candy back to so they could 'test' their favorite candies. The whole 'haunted' stuff never really made her too comfortable. Now, she could handle a mission, that was all fine and dandy, but any attempt at attending a haunted party of some sort, she'd spend most of her time blinking in and out of visibility every time she jumped in fear. Since she was not too fond of people dressing up with grotesque facial wounds and zombi-fied, she decided to take a different sort of costume.

She was dressed in a strapless, sparkly, red dress with a long line running up her leg up to her thigh. She wore red high heels, that were killing her, but she would just take them off and walk barefoot if it bothered her too much. Pulled over her arms were two long, blue gloves, nearly reaching her shoulders and she wore a giant fake wedding ring. Her red hair was straight but volumous and it draped over her face, covering her left eye. Her makeup was a bit heavier than usual, with blue directly above her dark eye-liner and matching red lip stick with gold earrings. It was a bit more than she expected but it was better than dressing up with blood all over her back.

She entered the Cavern and looked around, spotting the two she was looking for. They were accompanied by someone she did not recognize, but she made her way over to the well dressed couple. When she had nearly reached the table, she stopped, a twisting feeling creeping up her spine and to the back of her head. Everything disappeared for a moment, and when she opened her eyes, she saw all sorts of creatures and characters, all reacting in their usual manner.

Living in Toon Town had made Jessica quite familiar with the crazy actions of fellow toons, but these guys were like foreign toons in different bodies. Who where all these people? Jessica Rabbit peered out with both eyes and covered her left eye again with her bright red hair. "ROGER?! ROGER MY DARLING, WHERE ARE YOU?" she shouted, searching the crowd for her rabbit husband. When there was no sign of him, she ran outside, looking around for any sign of him.

Then she caught it, a sight of two beautiful bunny ears in between the fingers of a man. For a moment, she caught a glimpse of the man, but then he disappeared. She ran after him, her hands out, palms facing the floor while her body seemed to wiggle while she ran, the shoes were quite hard to run in but they were her most comfortable set. Finally, she caught up to him, her fury running wild and her nostrils flared. "Where is he? Where did you put my funny bunny? Where is Roger Rabbit?" she asked, yelling after him while she tried to catch up and address him to his face. "Why am I not a toon and why isn't Roger a toon? What's happening? Where's toon town? Did Judge Doom come back?"

Karkat blushed, candy red beneath a mask of gray. He glanced away from Terezi for a moment. A low growl escaped him.

So. Much. Fury. She made him so mad sometimes, it was just-- his eyes widened. Something clicked. He eyed her.

It was a good thing Human Egbert was gone. He'd never live this one down if anyone heard about it. What good was a leader with a soft spot? He had to make this quick.

Karkat stepped in front of Terezi, looking her in the eye. "I HATE YOU SO MUCH." He sneered. His troll-lips pressed into hers as he tipped her chin up. One quick kiss, that was all it'd take to prove to him how much he hated her, how she couldn't possibly hate him as much in return. One quick kiss, and he'd break the contact.

... Any time now.

The kiss broke. It wasn't quick at all. Karkat glowered at her. "REMEMBER ALL THAT STUFF YOU SAID ABOUT TAKING ME PLACES ON PROSPIT TO SEE ALL SORTS OF WONDERFUL THINGS." He grabbed her hand and tugged her out the door, kicking a zombie back as it staggered towards him the moment he stepped out the entrance. He pointed Terezi's chin towards the wonders outside the Cavern on the Spleen. "YEAH. I PRETTY MUCH FIGURED THIS PLACE WOULD EITHER BE GARBAGE, OR IT'D BE EQUIVALENT TO THAT. LET'S KNOCK OURSELVES--"

A voice from somewhere beyond them made his gray skin turn a paler shade.

":33 Karcat? Is that you?"

"It d0esn't matter," a dull voice intoned blankly.

A girl in glasses smirked at them both with razor sharp false teeth. "Well, this is gr8. Hey, is th8 John I see over there?"

"OH GOD." Karkat groaned.

Somehow, Terezi could tell that Karkat was furious with her, no irate, no mmmmmm. She could smell the feelings coming from him, tell what they were. She wondered if she could get away with another lick. Just a small one.

Karkat stopped in front of her. Terezi almost ran into him. This close, she could see him clearly just by breathing. Was he going to rub it in that her senses seemed to be so off? He tipped her chin up. He said he hated her. Terezi knew better, and was going to say so. Then. He kissed her.

It lasted longer than she would have expected, and Terezi refused to be an inactive participant.

The kiss broke, and Terezi had to resist the urge to plot her hands on her hips. That wasn’t something she did. ”S33 YOU H4V3 SOM3 3XC3LL3NT L34D3R QU4L1T13S” she said with a grin. ”4ND YOU R34LLY DO SM3LL L1K3 C4NDY.”

He had been paying attention when she’d brought up Prospit.

”1 R3M3MB3R.” she said. Then they were out the door. Karkat quickly disposed of one of this planet’s sprites as he pointed out that they could see things on this planet…if it wasn’t rubbish.

It would be no Prospit…Terezi knew that. Still. ”K4RK4T 1 N3V3R KN3W YOU W3R3 SO ROM4NT1C.”

Then she heard it. The one voice that was always guaranteed to ruin her day. Vriska.

”WH4T 4R3 YOU DOI1NG H3R3? 4ND JOHN 1S W1TH US. 1’M S3ND1NG H1M ON 4 TR1P. BY TH3 W4Y, H4V3 YOU S33N D4V3? 1 DR3W H1M 4 P1CTURR3.” …at least she thought she had. Vriska sneered and crossed her arms, tossing her hair. It almost made Terezi furious, her grip tightened on Karkat’s arm.

“ uH … i dONT tHINK tHAT hUMAN iS hERE.”
Terezi peeked around Karkat, taking a deep breath.

”H3LLO T4VROS. YOUR L3GS 4R3 WORK1NG W3LL.”

She smiled at the others, especially Nepeta. ”HOW D1D YOU GUYS 3ND UP 1N TH1S WORLD. 1 THOUGHT 1T W4S JUST M3, JOHN, 4ND K4RK4T.”

There were a lot of zombies here. Possibly all the zombies. John kept attacking and they kept coming. He couldn't let up. The safety of his beloved wife and child counted on him! John looked over his shoulder to check that they were safe only to see that they had fled. John was glad they would be safe. He continued to fight off the zombies with his hammer even when the form of Jessica Rabbit appeared from the crowd of zombies.

She was under the notion that he had her husband and was all kinds of confused as to what was going on. John was just as confused. He didn't have much time to talk to her immediately. There were too many zombies. Once there was a lull in the hordes John looked at Jessica.

"uh, i never had your husband and i don't know what's happening either. lol"

The trolls were just now getting outside it looked like but John couldn't really tell much through the crowds of zombies between the him and the door to the building they'd been in.

He said something strange after he spoke, a couple of letters squished together to make one word. What exactly did he mean by that? Since Jessica was used to laughter, loud noises, and anything that could be further elaborated posting up in big letters with an explosive background behind it plastered in front of the action, like a giant HAHA!, BANG!, or POW!, she only understood words to describe humor as HAHA, HEHE, or HARDY HAR. She ignored the last part, thinking it was some made up language like some of the other toons had or maybe it was some harsh accent, like Donald Duck had.

She could gather that he was just as confused as she was. Still, she thought she had seen her Roger in plush form. "My husband, Roger Rabbit! You haven't handled a Rabbit tonight? I thought I saw him looking all cute and fluffy!" she said, feeling upset that she had lost her funny bunny. The more she looked around, the more she found this man to be the least sinestre character. Everyone else seemed like they would eat a poor toon woman and she would rather not leave his side. It's tough to protect yourself in heels.

"Perhaps I was mistaken. I'm Jessica Rabbit," she said. "Looks tough out here, I wonder what happened. Did you used to be a toon?" she asked, buckling down her frantic behavior to focus on how to find her Roger as quickly as possible. What if he was safe and still in Toon Town and it was a plot to steal Jessica from her darling husband.

Karkat glowered at Vriska as Terezi spoke with the others. Vriska glowered right back with one eye. Neither of them blinked.

"Why are you glaring?" Vriska flicked her hair.

Bluh bluh, huge witch... Karkat thought. He said "NO REASON. WHY DON'T YOU ALL GET THE HECK OUT OF HERE AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?"

"Are you... blushing?" Vriska beamed maliciously. "Don't tell me we interrupted a sw8 moment between you and..."

Aradia troll sighed, activating her mutant power. A glow surrounded each of the members of their party, holding them in place. Time passed while they stood still, unthinking. This entire thing was so pointless. She might as well skip to the end.

The effects of her power ended with a lurching-stomach feeling. Karkat fell forward to his knees just as that same blinding flash lit the area, pulsing out in reverse. Shin blinked. He stared down at gray hands, suddenly wondering where he was and what he'd been doing. He remembered vague snippets, and... "Uh..."

Aradia-troll cosplay girl slumped forward with a grumble. "Ugh, my head."

Vriska ran a hand through her hair and looked around, annoyed. "Well? What the hell are you all standing around me for!? Huh!? And why is that Karkat kid acting like that? What the hell?"

"That's a nice costume you have there, Terezi-person~!" Nepeta cosplayer ignored the others, pouncing Kealey-troll with an in-character grin. She glanced over her shoulder at the other trolls who were eying her with some disdain. "What? It's convention-crazy. It's perfectly natural for a girl to get her glomp on whenever she wants to. There isn't nothing that's gonna stop her! Right, Terezi-person?" She turned back to Kealey, dumb beam on her face.

Terezi wasn’t happy to see Vriska, not at all. Especially after she started making snide comments to Karkat. That was the last thing she needed. The troll was so emotionally dense, and she was just starting to make progress! No way was she going to let her former scourge sister step in and mess things up. Terezi could almost smell the menace. This wouldn’t do, this wouldn’t do at all.

Terezi readied her cane for a vindictive bop, but before she was able to commence…Karkat stepped in and started ordering everyone around. Terezi thought about saying something…but he was the leader. Besides, he was so very adorable when he was being authoritative.

Aradia did something then, and Terezi lost a few moments simply standing and staring, unthinking, at the group in front of her. The psychic whammy ended with a tumbling stomach and Terezi almost lost her footing. Karkat did. She moved forward to help him, just as a flash of light burst through the area and everything went blank for another moment.

Kealey stared around her, wondering exactly how they’d gotten outside. Hadn’t they been getting ready to eat dessert first? Weren’t there supposed to be drinks coming? She turned her head to see Shin on the ground. How had they gotten outside? Snippets of memory started to come back, and Kealey raised a hand to her head.

They’d found some other Homestuck players, and Kealey definitely wasn’t ready for how fast their Nepeta recovered from whatever had just happened. She was pounced and stumbled, head still spinning a little bit as the other girl complimented her costume.

”Uh…thanks…yours is great to…” she managed to stammer, her words were true though. The construction on the Nepeta costume was every bit as good as her own. It was hard to see through the sunglasses though, especially now that it was dark. Kealey took them off and stowed them in a pocket of her dark jeans.

Making her way to where Shin was still on the ground, Kealey bent and took his arm gently. ”Are you alright? Where’s Andrew? I wonder what just happened…do you remember anything?”

"i'm john. i don't think i've ever been a toon before."

John was confused. That was a pretty normal state of affairs for him. Nothing made any kind of sense anymore and he was pretty ok with that. The zombies had backed off for now so John was safe and could talk to Jessica Rabbit.

"i don't know what's going on. lol"

Maybe Karkat would know. John would have to ask him if he knew what was happening. He always did seem to know. Suddenly John stumbled as something happened. He looked around him. What had happened and why were there so many people laying on the ground? Andrew's head hurt and he was having a hard time remembering what had happened in the past little while. Moreover he was standing beside someone he didn't know.

"Where's Kealey and Shin?" he wondered aloud and staggered toward the restaurant where he last remembered seeing them. Once Andrew caught sight of them he waved and walked over.

"Hey guys."

This had been one weird party.

It was odd. The man claimed he had never been a toon but then he used 'lol' as a term in conversation. Now she had heard some pretty odd words used in Toon Town but never 'lol'. Was it a human word she was unfamiliar with? Even working at the bar as a singer, she still needed to learn a lot more human words. They called her Doll, which she was obviously a Toon, they called her Sweets, which she was not edible, they called her Toots, which she believed to either be slang for a Tootsie Roll or some sort of reference to her rear. No matter, human words were complicated and did not have an elaborate Toon action to let the audience know what it meant.

John continued on after introducing himself as such and Jessica followed, for only a second before she felt something pound her head with aweful force. She leaned back, grabbing her head, groaned and blinked. What happened? She looked down at herself, she was still in her Halloween costume and others were still in their's, so there was no way she had gotten drunk and blacked out. She didn't even drink that night, not yet, she didn't remember even getting to where she was going. Had she been drugged? Was this the doing of a mutant? Looking around, there were other people holding their heads, at least she did not appear to be the only victim in this odd case.

Someone near her asked where Kealey and Shin were and Fade's vision snapped in his direction. He knew Shin and Kealey? She wondered if they knew what was going on. Following the man she had never met before, she sure enough stumbled across her X-Friends. Happy to see the familiar faces, even if her head was still a bit tussled up, she smiled and greeted them. "Hey, Shin, Kealey, and um, friend of Shin and Kealey's." She was unsure of how to address him seeing as how she did not know his name yet. Then again, she had not said her's. "I'm Fade," she correctively directed to the new friend.

"Thanks~" Nepeta said, releasing the Terezi-person. She bounced back to her group. "I don't really know what's going on, guys, but I think we should leave~ I don't really like scary stuff, and this place is covered in it."

"Uh." The Tavros cosplayer said, glancing around at all the zombies on the ground. "Yeah... this is a bit crazy. I can't remember anything."

"I can," The Aradia cosplayer looked at them all seriously. "But I am skipping the retelling. Let's go." Without another word, she took off. It was probably a very wise decision. If she'd told everyone, they'd have to ask questions, and then her mutation would obviously come up. Nope. Not gonna happen.

One by one, the troll cosplayers vanished, till it was only Kealey, Andrew, Fade, and Shin.

Kealey helped Shin to his feet. He looked at her with a mix of shock and disbelief. "I think I thought I was Karkat... and..." He looked towards Fade and Andrew as they rejoined them. "I think everyone thought they were their costumes... but I was really out of character, because even as Karkat, I couldn't be ultra-crabby at Kealrezi."

Shin blinked.