Homestuck

Rose has escaped the flames or destruction. Meteors from the sky have brought the end times around. The flames have burned a shrinking perimeter around her home. But Rose needs power and access to the internet. A video game caused these issues and she needs to get into that same game if she is going to escape this place. Currently Rose is in a mysterious lab door next to her mansion home. She's surrounded by glowing green boxes. And there is a device on the floor in front of her.

These boxes seem to have outlets on them so she tries to plug her laptop into one. She stores items using a tree modus which was automatically sorted. By grabbing her laptop she’s dumped out the rest of her inventory accidentally. This tosses her dead, and taxidermied cat onto the transportalizer in-front of her. Rose, having never seen such a thing, assumed her cat was vaporised. She turns off the auto sort feature on her modus.

She grabs the box that the kiosk had labelled as unlocked, box SN_LAB0413. She has no idea what it is but it seems to be a portable power source that can charge her laptop. It is also an unsecured source of internet access. Rose notices the lab has a countdown on the wall. It had 14 digits but it's down to the last 3:14 (not 4:13?) It also has the logo Skaianet. Skaia being the name of the central planet in the game.

Years in the future the Peregrine Mendicant is now inside the metal fruit. It also has a countdown that has hit 0. The screen displaying this is much like the one in a can shaped bunker a Wayward Vagabond had found. And the effect of this countdown seems to be the same, the fruit is now flying west. Some details in the scene, is that one of the mail boxes contains a letter. Also of the 4 metal worms protruding from the fruit one is missing its head. This shows that Peregrine Mendicant has decapitated the one. They where mad because it ate one of his mailboxes.

Meanwhile in the present times. Dave is still getting served by a puppet. He attempts to abscond (escape). He's punished by Big Bro directly for this. The strife continues. Dave and Big Bro fight it out, but not surprisingly Dave's beaten down hard. Big Bro eventually uses Lil’ Cal to again kick Dave. He's down the stairs of the highrise, this being the very punchline of a Sweet Bro Hella Jeff comic. The irony is strong here.

Rose has now discovered the primary session terminal for SBURB. The signs were obvious that this place she is in is actually the control centre for all sessions of the game. Before her is a massive array of screens. These are somewhat like the ones we’ve seen WV and PM find in the future, only this one is much bigger. The main monitor is a map showing all the meteor impacts around Vermont. There is a large concentration of them near Roses location. There is also another map of the game's planets but this one has 8 of them surrounding Skaia instead of just 4. Also, there's an out of place pink tea set nearby.

Rose notes there is a massive meteor heading that looks like it could wipe out everything. It's located in the middle of the pacific and still seems to be a ways out. The observant will notice this is actually Jades island. For now she decides to login and connect with John.

We left John in a tough battle between him and 2 giant crude ogres. Unlike other fights John was in pretty real danger here. He nearly died before NanaSprite stepped in with some healing. Rose finds John still in this fight. He seems to have developed a spinning hammer jump that seems very powerful. NanaSprite is still helping out using her eye lasers. Rose also helps but her usual trick of dropping a heavy fridge on the enemy isn't so effective. The ogre grabs the fridge and beams John with it. Eventually though all 3 manage to defeat the Ogres. The loot drop is huge.

Rose mentions she no longer thinks that the Cruxtruder is what summons the meteors. Having seen that there is one heading for her location the timers must only be a warning system.

John levels up to Boy-skylark. This also being the title of a pretty nice jam. He also collects a huge stack of Boondollars which he still has no idea what to do with. He also gets some new materials including tar and mercury. Nanasprite hands John his copy of Colonel Sassacre mentioning it is his birth right. Though only moments ago he was being pummeled with it.

Meanwhile John's father is in the kingdom of darkness. He was brought there as a prisoner. This is not working out well for his imp captors as he is now defeating them with pies and shaving creams. Nearby in a sort of security room a familiar looking figure is watching this unfold from a monitor.