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MEENAH: step one we gut scale and filet this sea cow

ROXY: !!!!

JAKE: Shucks and shit, people, not sure whats left to try.

JAKE: I mean look at her.

MEENAH: tsk cmon kingfish what is this amateur hour?

MEENAH: you blow all your gumption out when you were stalkin the battlefield like a human lens flare?

MEENAH: clearly we gotta give this dirty girl a bubble bath

JAKE: Er, id rather not.

JAKE: Ive been twenty thousand leagues under that particular sea more times than a fellow might care to remember.

MEENAH: oh yuck

MEENAH: im talkin bout dippin her in acid

JAKE: Oooooooh! That should work!

JAKE: Or if it doesnt we could give her the ole mummy treatment.

JAKE: Jade did a bang-up job with dave...

JADE: aww thank you!

JOHN: or we could just smash her with a hammer.

JANE: Mmf?????

VRISKA: Hey, so-

KARKAT: LOOK, AS MUCH AS I'D LOVE TO SPEND THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON TESTING OUT VARIOUS CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS ON JANE'S HEAD UNTIL SOMETHING STICKS, THERE'S AN ANNOYINGLY VAST ARRAY OF VITAL INTEL WE NEED FROM HER FIRST.

ROXY: wow okay can we pause for a second

JOHN: yeah, what kind of intel?

ROXY: not what i meant!!

KARKAT: DO YOU KNOW WHERE JANE'S HEAD KEEPS HER POLITICAL PRISONERS?

KARKAT: DO YOU KNOW WHICH SECRETARIES ARE FULLY LOYAL TO HER AND WHICH OF THEM ARE GOING TO WANT TO WORK WITH THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT WE SET UP?

KARKAT: OR HOW WE'RE GOING TO MANAGE THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION? THE ECONOMY? HAVE YOU THOUGHT, AT ALL, ABOUT THE FUCKING ECONOMY?

KARKAT: DO YOU KNOW ANY OF HER PASSWORDS, FOR THAT MATTER?

JOHN: i guess not.

SOLLUX: i do.

KARKAT: YOU DO?

SOLLUX: yeah.

SOLLUX: the passw0rds, anyway.

SOLLUX: problem sleuth with a zer0.

SOLLUX: honk undersc0re enjoyer sixty six.

SOLLUX: imwithher.

SOLLUX: id0whatiwant<3

JOHN: this guy again.

JOHN: why are you even here?

SOLLUX: i fucking live here.

SOLLUX: lived, i guess.

SOLLUX: its all rocks and rubble n0w.

SOLLUX: thanks again for that.

KARKAT: DUDE, WHERE WERE THESE PASSWORDS WHEN WE WERE AT WAR???

KARKAT: ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS SHIT?

SOLLUX: maybe if y0u ever stopped by id have had an 0pportunity t0 fucking tell them to y0u.

SOLLUX: called at least.

SOLLUX: not even 0n my wriggling day...

KARKAT: I WAS LITERALLY THE MOST WANTED MAN ON THE PLANET.

KARKAT: IT WASN'T EXACTLY AN OPTION TO POP DOWN TO A VERY CONSPICUOUS PUBLIC MONUMENT WHENEVER I PLEASE.

KARKAT: BESIDES, IT'S NOT AS IF YOU ACTUALLY EVEN CARE.

KARKAT: YOU'RE JUST GUILTING ME FOR KICKS.

SOLLUX: maybe i do care...

KARKAT: ... REALLY?

SOLLUX: n0.

KARKAT: *FUCK YOU!!!!*

SOLLUX: blo0d on my slippers... whatever, man.

SOLLUX: n0ne of this matters f0r shit.

SOLLUX: and not even in a relaxing way, anym0re.

SOLLUX: my fo0d is ice fucking cold.

KARKAT: FUUUUCK, GUYS!

KARKAT: HAS ANYONE STOPPED TO CONSIDER THE REAL COST OF THIS WAR???

KARKAT: MAN, I FEEL SO CHASTENED RIGHT NOW.

KARKAT: HERE I WAS, NARROW-MINDEDLY PURSUING JUSTICE FOR MY PEOPLE AND FOOLISHLY TRYING TO PURGE THE INSIDIOUS INFLUENCE OF A DANGEROUS CRYPTOFASCIST FROM OUR STUNTED UTOPIA WHEN RIGHT UNDER MY CARTILAGE NUB OUR BRAVEST WARRIOR, SOLLUX, WAS BEING FORCED TO ENDURE A SUBOPTIMAL SANDWICH.

SOLLUX: it was pizza.

JANE: BZZT!

JANE: Mrrnghhh!!!

ROXY: stop shocking her!

SOLLUX: wasnt me this time.

VRISKA: Wow, gr8 8anter, really missed you guys and your shenanigans, 8ut seriously-

KARKAT: THE POINT FUCKING BEING!!!!

KARKAT: WE HAVE AN INDUSTRIAL-SIZED TUBE OF CRUCIAL LOGISTICAL TRUTHPASTE WE NEED TO SQUEEZE OUT OF JANE'S HEAD.

KARKAT: AND THEN OBVIOUSLY AFTER THAT WE CAN GO AHEAD AND KILL HER.

ROXY: okay FUCK!!!

ROXY: time out!!!

ROXY: slow tf down!!!

ROXY: janes heads not gonna get like...

ROXY: a trial or smth??

ROXY: jade, help me out here!!!

JADE: ...

ROXY: jake???

JAKE: ...

ROXY: callie???

CALLIOPE: well i sUppose they are all entitled to their opinion. u_u

KANAYA: Did You Hear That Karkat

KANAYA: The Dithering Centrist Wants Us All To Slow Down

KANAYA: An Inconceivable Development

KARKAT: YEAH, WOW.

KARKAT: MAYBE WE SHOULD HEAR JANE'S HEAD'S SIDE OF THE STORY.

KARKAT: ALL SIDES MATTER, RIGHT?

KARKAT: LET'S JUST PULL A PROJECT PAPERCLIP, FULLY REHABILITATE HER!

JANE: BZZT!

KARKAT: DAMN RIGHT.

ROXY: oh for fucks sake!!!

ROXY: politics! politics! politics!

ROXY: jesus fucking christ, SHES A HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROXY: WHAT MORE CAN YOU TAKE FROM HER!!!!!!!!!

SOLLUX: yeah im 0ut of here.

KARKAT: AND WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING NOW?

SOLLUX: t0 wash the blo0d off my shirt.

ROXY: guys!! you don't even understand what just happened here!!

VRISKA: So, I've actually 8een trying to get to that!

VRISKA: In case anyone feels like listening!

TAVVY: (I've been trying,)