A lot of people seem to be confused about the dream bubble sequence. It was just an Aradia from a doomed timeline going through her memories. It was as much foreshadowing as John getting mauled by his denizen and Jade getting killed before entering the Medium while Dave grinds on imps for a month.
I fucking new Tick Tock was important.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005500
AA: an incomplete fragment consisting of four symbols
AA: comprising the first word of a binary refrain
AA: a pair of sounds emerging from the belly of a fabled tyrants menace
AA: but you authored only one sound of the pair
AA: i would write the other
AA: in the soot of my ruined hive i scrawled my part of the code
AA: completing the phrase of legend
AA: the persisting sounds said to accompany the ultimate demise of the tyrant less an arm and an eye
AA: but even these eight characters
AA: the scrawlings of charge
AA: were still but half the code
Not gonna bother coloring that. The real question is who's ultimate demise is it? I think Jack matches the description of a Tyrant more, especially now that Vriska has her arm and eye back. And there's always the possibility that this particular ticking clock isn't the one of legend, but I don't believe that.
So the entire doomed timeline Aradia's perusing matches the description of events that doc scratch described in his let's play, including Gamzee's madness and hints that Aradia (in god tier, as master of time) is going to fix the situation, somehow.
The implied offshoot to doom is an explosion caused by a computer virus, and the code is scrawled in what looks like a ~ATH book.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003902The implication is:
Sollux's virus caused the new alpha timeline itself to be doomed. Also, the very first line bifurcates one universe into two, the trolls' (red) and the kids' (blue) as well as mentioning a negation of the kids' universe (
!U ). If the wiki is right, the negation of the kids' universe will occur when it doesn't exist... or... the Scratch that reboots the whole thing. When that happens, the bifurcation ends and Sollux's virus is complete.
Red and blue universes cease to be separate (read as; John's "See you soon!" comment previously seen in the future).
Unfortunately, the gray universal code is seen in the unhackable segment here at the bottom of
~ATH, which implies that Lord English is already present in both halves of the bifurcated universe, and the summoning/destruction will occur at the end of the rejoined universe that is created post-Scratch(/Event?).
Possible implications: The doomed future Aradia dictates in dream-bubbles is the one we've been witnessing from the start (can anyone find in-story where it's explicitly stated that the doomed Gamzee slaughter timeline occurred before the completion of Sgrub?), and it's all been a lead-in to the rejoined universe that is about to be created with the Event.
Becquerel is a less-aware mirror of Doc Scratch, as per universe bifurcation.