The last few pages had been a flashback. Well technically this entire act is a flashback. Prior to it a doomsday device was triggered when Equius got angry and smashed one of his bots into it. The result was that both his and Virsika’s Lusus had been killed. Well nearly...

Equius’s Lusus Aurthor the milk providing centaur is very dead. We see Equius crouched over it with a sprite nearby waiting to be prototyped.

Virsika’s giant spider Lusus survived, but was fatally injured. She had to use her dice to put it down. Fortunately it was a good roll of her dice. This summoned a giant guillotine to finish the job. Though it also caused the canyon to cave in further causing Equius’s hive to fall. However, it is taken to the medium before it can crash into the canyon floor and into Vriska.

It seems this was the work of Aradia. She was the player hosting for Equius. This last minute save made Vriska.. Angry? She rushes back to her PC to complain to Aradia. This early entry into the game messed up her plan. Equius will no longer be able to deliver the AradiaBot to her. Though he was planning to not do that anyway.

Vriska freaks out that her plan was to give Aradia so they could be friends again, but Aradia probably knew all this was going to happen and didn't care. Aradia emotionlessly states this is true, she is dead and it doesn't matter. If they had been friends, she can't actually remember.

Aradia tells Vriska that she isn’t a co-leader and isn't even on the blue team, she needs to be on the red team, after she “wakes up”. Vriska believes this is revenge for the whole murder thing, but Aradia doesn't actually care about that. She just knows that Vriska needs to be on the red team and that the teams don't even matter. Vriska is of course in full rage mode over these developments.

Equius had just arrived in the Land of Caves And Silence. Author is back in sprite form, no utter or hooves, just a jacked chest and manly mustache. Good for him!. Equius confidently tells Aradia that he is now the leader of the blue team. He has no idea how this game works, so Aradia tells him, sure, he’s “leader” now, why not. He is flustered by this obedience from her. She tells him that she is his “server” which flusters him even further. Though once she explains what “server” means in the context of the game he realizes she is the one in control. This puts him at peak flustered.

Aradia helps him calm down by smashing a bathtub through his wall. He loves this and demands she do it again. With this feeling of subordination filling him, Equius pledges to get to the second gate as fast as possible to give Aradia her new robot body. He also asks that she be the leader of the Blue team. He really likes being her subordinate. His feelings for her are pretty obvious, but she doesn't really give a damn as she is dead and also now half frog.

With now building necessary Equius just jumps like 100 feet into the air over his hive and into the first gate. He then finds the second gate without any issues punching massive underlings to death as he goes. Within what seemed like probably a few minutes he delivers Aradiabot.

Entering the bot Aradia freaks out. Equius had implanted a chip in the bot's heart to give her romantic feelings for him. She promptly rips the heart out of the bot, destroys it then savagely beats the living crap out of Equius… then they make out?? Well that’s fucked up.

Hosting Aradia is Nepeta, meaning she is seeing all of this go down in utter confusion. It seems Nepeta has a whole wall of her cave dedicated to tracking relationships between the trolls. She calls this the Shipping Wall.