Karkat was already out when the time vortex happened, across town from the West Coast Trailblazers' base, and his weapons. He is pretty sure he could give a few of these scalebeasts a run for their Earth money if he had his sickles on him, but without them he's pretty much useless.

Fortunately he is also pretty OK at running and hiding, and right now that's what he's doing – keeping his head down as he scuttles sideways from car to car. Any pretence of stealth mode is sort of ruined by the fact that he keeps on muttering "Fuck, fuck, fuck," under his breath.