OFFICIAL TRANSMISSION

[undeadingly]

[You wake up and all you see are bright lights. You're hooked up to a machine, your vital signs are going strong, that's good. Really good. But, there's something strange with your head. It's not itchy, but there's just something odd... Oh well, no time to ponder, there's a panel waiting for you across the hall! The real test is if you've managed

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[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

Very little really freaked Terezi out, though being stuck in a human medical facility with no clue how the fuck she got here came really close. Every surface she licked tasted like antiseptic, and she shuddered, relying mostly on smell from now on as she worked the panel and exited into the hallway.

Before she left, she captchalogued the water bottle, and ransacked the room for other things, captchaloguing the blanket, the pillow, and some miscellaneous medical supplies she found in the drawers of her hospital room. At least her captchalogue still had everything inside it. When she found an internet connection, she'd make sure to troll Karkat. He was probably flipping the fuck out right about now.

Tapping along with her cane as if she were completely blind - which she was - she adjusted her red sunglasses and shuffled down the hall, her nose testing the air for any signs of life - troll or otherwise - in this crazy alien place.

HI I HOPE THIS IS COOL

[mightbearedneck]

Haggard was a man who often didn't freak out much himself, even in the face of danger... okay, maybe SOMETIMES. But he liked the fighting, the explosions, the shooting, and the beef jerky. That was FUN. But being here? He had no idea what the fuck was going on either

H3LL Y3S

[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

Terezi had heard the man coming, of course, calling what sounded like names in a weird accent that made her want to bust out laughing. And she had smelled him coming - which made it officially the first time Terezi had ever smelled a human.

Weird.

When he came around the corner and hailed her, she paused in her tapping, shuffling progress down the hallway. She tilted her horned head up and up, until her blind eyes were directed roughly towards his big pink head, and she gave him a pointed-toothed grin that was just the wrong side of friendly.

"Hi! I'm just fine. I don't suppose you can tell me just how in Jegus name I got here, and where the fuck here is before I stop being quite so fine and get angry instead?" she greeted him.

HEY HOW YOU DOING

[mightbearedneck]

Haggard had opened his water bottle to take a drink and kinda stopped to. You know. Blink and her horns and general funny-looking-ness. Give him a second.

Logging onto AOL. Boop. Boop. Boop--alrighty. He had no problems with this.

"NOOO clue, missy, I was just about to ask you the same fuckin' thing. Any ideas?"

And after a pause--"Ain't it a lil' late for Halloween, whatever-ya-supposed-to-be?"

lmao just peachy keen

[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

Wow, this was a slow one. She smirked and rolled her eyes, tapping her way closer to the human until she touched his ankle with the cane and oops she might have hit him a little harder than necessary, but who can blame a kid only 6 sweeps old and blind as a winged mammal?

"I'm a troll, I don't know what Halloween is," she said, and wrinkled her nose. "And this place smells like a hospital. Are you sick?" She wasn't, but who knew with humans?

sweet

[mightbearedneck]

It took him a minute, until he realized--oh.

"Oh."

Oh.

"So you're one'a them blind-as-a-bat types--" He PLANNED on finishing that sentence until she whacked him in the ankle. He gave a quiet little hiss and jumped away slightly by instinct. Not too far, though, she could whack him in the ankle again if she wanted to. "--OW. God-damn!"

Haggard leaned down to rub his ankle briefly, but he got over it fast and straightened up. "Yer a what now? A troll? You don't look like any troll I ever seen?"

Which was never. He was thinking more like those Harry Potter trolls or something. But back to her question. He kept straight this time, looking down at keeping an eye on her.

"Far as I can tell, it's a hospital. Don't remember getting sick, though. Think I got shot. I dunno. Don't remember too well. Don't supposed you seen a guy with glasses--" Oh. Right. Tact. He didn't have any. "--Uh. HEARD a guy with glasses? New Jersey soundin', typical mallrat?"

[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

Well if he hadn't seen any other trolls, that wasn't all that helpful, either. If she'd been brought here from the meteor, then surely so had the other eleven trolls. They had to be in this facility somewhere.

"What the fuck does New Jersey sound like?" she replied, somewhat testily. "Look, pinky, I'm not from Earth. Which you should be able to see pretty plainly. And you're the first person I've encountered since I got here, so stop asking about your friends."

She tapped her cane on the floor a few more times in a thoughtful manner, then whacked him on the ankle again before whirling about and starting off back the way she'd come. "Come on! If you've explored that way, we might as well go this way. With some investigation, all of the evidence can be found, and we'll determine the culprits and make sure they see Justice."

Suddenly she doesn't seem to need the cane to walk.

[mightbearedneck]

"Like a 4x1 Olympic Whining Team, THAT'S what it sounds like." Haggard said with as much deadpan as his normally pretty jovial self would ever have.

He was about ignoring everything else she said in favor of the words 'not from earth', which he brightened the fuck up at. The fact she said "pinky" despite the fact she was bumping around on that cane roughly 2.3 seconds ago? Completely forgotten in favor of some HOLY GODDAMNS.

"Not from..." Tick. Tick. Tick. DING. "HO-LEEEEE mother of a cow! You're an ALIEN? No goddamn wonder you wouldn't know about m'squad! Ho-ho-ho-lee goddamn, I can't believe I'm talkin' to a genu-fuckin'-ine alien! Ohhh MAN, Sweets an' the Sarge ain't ever gonna believe this."

--Until she whapped him in the ankle again. Ow. Hey. He briefly rubbed his foot against his other foot, before flicking the back of her head with his thumb and index finger when she turned around.

He had a little alien buddy.

AWESOME.

"We-hell, yes ma'm-thing."

Yeah he. Got over it fast.

Oh my god you are cracking me the fuck up

[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

She threw her head back at all of that and guffawed, the laughter coming out bright and genuine and only the tiniest bit unhinged.

"Finally he gets it. I'm an alien, and if you came to my planet you'd be an alien there too, so in a way we're both aliens. We're going to have a motherfuckin' alien dance party once we figure out who's messing with us!"

She waves the cane in the air for emphasis, then goes back to tapping it against the ground in a perfunctory manner.

Then, as an afterthought, she added, "I'm Terezi, by the way. You don't happen to know a human kid named Dave Strider, do you?"

Really? FFF THANK YOU. I was worried I wouldn't be able to capture how ridiculous this guy is.

[mightbearedneck]

"A motherfuckin' alien dance party?" Haggard repeated, mulling it over for all of .5 seconds before flashing her a grin. "I like it!"

"George Haggard 'a Bad Company at yer service, Terezi. Juss' don't call me Gordon. And, uh, nope. If you ain't heard Sweetwater whinin' around here anywhere, I don't know any Daves."

He's hysterical hahaha

[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

"Guess I'll call you Haggard, since you are pretty rough around the edges," Terezi proclaimed, flashing a grin over her shoulder at him in return. "You smell like a sewer, full of human sweat."

She inhaled again. Ah, that red scent just under the skin was just like Karkat's. And that was another weird thing. But it was good, and relieved some of the rest of the stench.

GLAD I CAN OFFER SOME CHUCKLES

[mightbearedneck]

"That's me." Haggard answered with that grin still there. But it faded, briefly. "... I oughta smell like beef jerky, Texas, and gunpowder. Pro'lly cuz I got shot. Then I woke up here."

He was still trying to figure that one out.

[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

She paused and then turned towards him, a thoughtful look on her face. She walked back towards him and leaned close, inhaling as she smelled him. Then she gestured for him to lean down towards her.

"I don't know what Texas smells like," she said, stretching up on her tip-toes. "But I can definitely smell the gunpowder and the meat."

Then she licked his cheek and stepped back. "You taste like human," she pronounced firmly.

[mightbearedneck]

While still trying to figure it out, Haggard lifted the shoulder of that hospital gown-looking thing and got another gander at the scar of where a bullet had got him in the arm. Well, more like one bullet. Two bullets. Three.

"Y'don't know what Texas smells like?" That got his attention back again. "Cuz you're really missin' out--"

Wait, licking. What was up with the licking. What the fuck. He kinda stood there and. Stared.

[t4st3s_l1k3_r3d]

She grinned back at his dumbfounded look. "Like strawberry jello and cherry candy underneath!"

She leaned forward a little. "Oh, I didn't mention. I can taste colours, and smell shapes. So don't worry, I can get around juuuuuuust fine! You can chalk it up to me being a weird alien, if you want."

[mightbearedneck]

Give him a second to get over the dumbfoundedness.

"Uh."

Okay, more than a few seconds.

"That's pretty fuckin' weird, but long as you ain't probin' me in bad places'r nothin'..."