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The Maid of Time hovered above a small speck of light, smaller than what most people could see with their bare eyes. She reached out, only slightly afraid, but knowing that letting the fear of this pixel showing on the outside would make her come off as weak, frail, and she certainly didn’t want that. She was the one who wanted the world to end the most.
You can’t be afraid of anything. Even if it’s coming fast to you full speed like death, and you’ve witnessed and felt it many times.
‘I w0nder what this is... is it... n0... it can’t be real. this game has destructi0n and d00med timelines inside 0f it, but an0ther realm...?’
“Hey Karkat! What’s this?” Aradia called down to her long time... somewhat friend, Karkat Vantas. The shortish boy, the Knight of Blood, flew up towards Aradia with his bright red wings, projecting his blood color to the entire session. After hiding it, he had finally hit god tier, thus granting him with wings of candy red.
“What is it?! Why did you interrupt- oh. Wait, what?” Karkat began to sputter. The small white pixel had grown, and he could see a white,faded hue of a world. Like an undiscovered world in the game. Had it always been here in the data? Both Karkat and Aradia were intrigued by it.
“What should we do about this?” Aradia asked, looking to the side slightly. A moment goes by without response, and she began to reach out, to touch the light. Karkat’s hand grabbed her wrist.
“Don’t.” He said strictly. “We don’t know what this is, so don’t touch it.” By now, the square of light had started to emanate a pale white glow. It began to resemble a tiny star.
“I’m going to go get Sollux.” Aradia said suddenly, turning and flying back to the meteor. Karkat just nodded, and looked in awe at the consistently glowing square of light. He had never seen anything like this in his life, and wasn’t sure how to handle it.
‘WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY TO THEM? THEY’LL EXPECT ME TO LEAD THEM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT CAN I? THIS IS JUST TOO FUCKING WEIRD.’
A few moments later, he heard his two friends approaching. “-pixel? What are you even talking about, AA?”
“I’m telling you, look!” Aradia convinced the Mage of Doom, Sollux Captor, to fly up to where Karkat was hesitantly staring into the small void. How Aradia found it was beyond both of them. It was even beyond Aradia. But they all watched as the small pixels began multiplying by the second.
“This... this isn’t good. Like, at all.” Sollux muttered in his thick lisp, multicolored eyes widening at the pixels. The small image of the world inside of the white area was becoming more clear.
Sollux reached out in awe. Karkat and Aradia’s eyes widened.
“SOLLUX, NO! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’LL DO!” Karkat shouted, ready to grab the hood of Sollux’s cape, but it was too late.
And it was way too late. Sollux moved forward, and the last thing the unsuspecting trolls saw was their bodies turning into pixels, almost resembling dust.