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(John appears in the midst of a glitching and broken universe. He moves closer to the destroyed planets which belonged to the eight human kids, noticing his and Roxy’s are the only ones left intact. Eventually he comes across Dirk staring at the ruined landscape, Dirk’s back turned.)
JOHN: hey there.
JOHN: are you dave’s bro?
JOHN: ...
JOHN: hey!
JOHN: did you hear me?
JOHN: where is everyone?
JOHN: i’m john by the way.
DIRK: John.
DIRK: Could you please just leave me alone.
JOHN: what?
JOHN: why?
JOHN: i don’t understand.
JOHN: do you know what happened here?
DIRK: Yeah.
(A close up of Dirk’s shades reflecting the scene pans across the screen.)
DIRK: I failed.
(Dirk is consumed by the corruption until he is barely recognizable.)
(In a clearer patch, John sees a far-off Roxy fly through space, holding another figure. The orange of the other figure’s dress shines like sunlight.)
(John follows Roxy to an intact planet. Roxy lays Rose down.)
JOHN: roxy?
(Roxy is alarmed by John’s appearance before turning her attention back onto the dying Rose.)
JOHN: what happened to rose?
ROXY: mom
ROXY: please
ROXY: wake up
ROXY: ...
ROXY: its me
ROXY: ur um
ROXY: daughter kinda
ROXY: ...
ROXY: please dont die
ROXY: ...
ROXY: ...
ROXY: ...
ROXY: rose
(Rose’s eyes slowly open.)
ROSE: W,
ROSE: What...
ROSE: Happened to me?
ROXY: the witch got u
ROXY: with her fork
ROXY: but youre gonna be ok
ROSE: Oh.
ROSE: That's nice.
ROSE: *Cough.*
ROXY: maybe you uh
ROXY: shouldnt try to talk now
ROSE: You saved me, didn't you?
ROXY: ...
ROSE: Thanks.
ROSE: But,
ROSE: She's gone, isn't she.
ROSE: For good, I mean.
ROXY: ?
ROSE: I saw her die.
ROSE: And.
ROSE: It's a shame how...
ROSE: *Cough.*
ROSE: A shame that I never even...
ROSE: Got to tell her...
ROSE: I loved her.
ROXY: who?
ROSE: Kanaya.
ROSE: But...
ROSE: You too, mom.
(Rose’s eyes slowly close.)
ROSE: You too.
(The insignia of a Heroic death appears above her, spelling her final fate. Roxy cannot stem her tears.)
JOHN: is she...
(Roxy hugs him in despair.)
JOHN: i’m sorry.
JOHN: i got here too late to do anything.
JOHN: because as far as i may think i've come...
JOHN: i still don't know what i'm doing.
JOHN: dave's bro in the funny pants was right.
JOHN: but not about himself.
JOHN: i was the one who let everybody down.
JOHN: i'm the failure.
JOHN: it's me.
ROXY: you saw dirk??
ROXY: where is he
JOHN: he was back there, floating near all the exploded planets.
JOHN: he told me to leave him alone, so i did.
JOHN: and now he's stuck somewhere inside all those shitty glitches, which just keep getting worse.
ROXY: do you think we can get him out
ROXY: he is like
ROXY: my only friend who isnt dead yet
JOHN: i don't know.
JOHN: i have been able to clean up some glitches here and there...
JOHN: but they're everywhere now.
JOHN: it's like the whole universe is corrupted.
JOHN: or, more than just the universe.
JOHN: you know what i mean.
JOHN: there's no way i can use my windy powers to blow it all away anymore.
JOHN: and even if i did... then what?
JOHN: everything has gotten so fucked up!
ROXY: no
ROXY: no we have to try please!!
(Roxy is floating in the air and looking at the glitches all over the place frantically.)
ROXY: where did u find dirk?
(John joins her in the air. He grabs her by the hand, and leads her to the worst of the corruption.)
(John and Roxy make it back to where Dirk was originally, however the corruption has gotten so bad he’s barely even a bunch of white and magenta pixels.)
(John uses his windy powers to blow the corruption away.)
(...Only to scatter the pixels even further apart.)
(John stops the windy thing.)
JOHN: i
JOHN: think i just made this worse.
(Roxy has her hands over her mouth, and she’s crying even harder.)
(John hugs her once more, and takes her back to her planet where Rose lays dead on the ground. They sit down next to a pyramid and a few seconds of silence permeates through dead air with neither having much to say.)
The rest you already know. Roxy truly lost everything she held dear. Terezi would interrupt their conversation and demand John fix everything. More on that later.
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