"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR!?" Chase yelled at the doctor and whipped his gun out, pointing it at him.

Henrik was very unbothered, "You von't shoot me"

"I've shot Anti twice already in the last forty-eight hours! Fucking try me, you sadistic son of a bitch!"

"Okay, whoa!" Marvin stepped in between them, "Jesus Christ, Chase . . " he gave Chase a little look of disapproval before turning back to the doctor, "Henrik, Anti is alright! He's on our side! We were helping him find the crystal so Dark doesn't get it"

"Vell how was I supposed to know zhat!? Zhe last thing I knew vas that he murdered several people and had gone fucking batshit!"

"Well I mean, he DID earlier again but we cleared that up kinda" Jackie explained, "Is he still breathing?"

"Of course, he is, you numbskull" Henrik rolled his eyes, "He's just unconscious. Here, you wanna try zhe zap zap, too?"

Jackie backed away from him, "No thanks"

Henrik stared behind them, "And who zhe hell gave Jameson a KNIFE?!"

Chase spoke up, "Anti did"

Henrik rolled his eyes at them all as if they were misbehaving children, "You're all like toddlers throwing around grenades following zhe leader!" he pointed at Anti's unconscious body, "And you, magician, allowed zhis all?"

"I'm allowing a LOT, recently" Marvin didn't explain any further.

Wilford giggled, taking out some bubbles and blowing them in the room nonchalantly, "Bad kitty"

Marvin squinted his eyes at him, a little weirded out.

Henrik, once again, looked completely unbothered by it.

"So . .. what then? Are we safe here?" Jackie asked, coming over to Anti to pick him up off floor, "Why do you need to study that thing anyway? We really should just hide it from Dark"

"I actually agree with Jackie on this" Marvin hummed, "We need to hide the crystal and leave and then maybe-"

Henrik shook his head, "Vill not vork. Based on my tests, I've concluded that zhe crystal acts like a sort of homing beacon. Based on Antisepticeye's response to it, I'm even more sure. He was called to it. Therefore, it is plausible zhat Dark is called to it as vell. He might be on our tails as I speak"

"Great" Jackie rolled his eyes and set Anti in a chair, "So I'll ask again. What do we do now?"

"Maybe we could just destroy it?" Marvin suggested.

Henrik shook his head again, "Good luck. Tis made of a very strong material. Otherworldly and unknown. Just by touching it vith bare hands, you are teleported to a random multiverse. Truly fascinating"

"Did. . . " Chase was curious, "Did you maybe try and smash it with a hammer?"

Henrik nodded to Wilford, "He tried to shoot it. Zhe bullet bounced right off of it like it had a shield around it"

"Dammit. . ." Jackie cursed.

"Very bouncy" Wilford muttered to himself, "Just like Celine's beautiful b- Oh hey, the glitchy boy's awake!"

"Mmmm" they all looked over to see Anti was waking back up, "What. . .what happened?"

"Anti?" Chase walked up to him, putting his gun away, "Hey man, you okay?"

Suddenly, a barrage of emotions and images flashed through Anti's head. He flinched away from Chase and further into the chair.

Chase looked worried, "A. . . Anti?"

"I  . . . I . . . " Anti knew something felt strange. Something was off.

He knew . . something wasn't right with him.

He was hyperventilating and panicking.

He started to cry, worrying everyone.

Chase immediately came closer and hugged him, "Hey, hey, it's okay. Why are you crying? Everything's okay now. You're safe" he hugged him tight.

It seemed to work, sort of, and Anti gripped onto Chase, bringing him closer. He NEEDED this contact. He didn't understand any of these feelings yet.

He could feel Chase running his hand through his hair. It felt nice.

"Shhh. It's okay"

He could tell other eyes were on him but he didn't care right now.

"Anti?" Jackie and Marvin were very worried, too, "What's wrong?"

Henrik actually looked as though he felt bad, thinking Anti was frightened after he tased him.

Jameson was next to Anti with a hand on his back.

That was strange, too, though. . . . . .

"I can't . . . I can't hear you"

Chase pulled away gently, "What? You can't hear me?"

"I. . ." Anti swallowed, holding onto Chase's forearms, "I can hear you but. . . I can't. . . hear your thoughts"

Jackie sighed, "Oh, thank god"

Marvin slapped his arm.

"Hey!"

Henrik looked interested if anything, "You could hear our thoughts before? I guess I forgot about zhat . ."

"Yeah" Jackie told him, "It was super creepy but that was how he and Jameson communicated mostly"

"Hey, it's okay" Chase rubbed his head soothingly, "Maybe that just means you're becoming more human. Just like you wanted! Right? It could be a good thing"

"But something else is wrong, too" Anti shook his head, "I just. . I don't understand what"

"Whatever the case" Marvin tilted his head, observing him, "It seems as though you've become a lot more expressive. I'd say that Chase is actually right on this"

"Very interesting" Henrik wanted to study him SO bad. It was killing him.

"Who am I?" Anti asked. It sounded more as though he was asking himself, though.

"Who . . who are you?" Jackie was getting worried now, too, "You're Anti. Are you forgetting things now?"

"No, it's just. . . . . ."

Jameson signed, 'You had forgotten who or what you were before Dark had trapped you. Perhaps you just had amnesia? The more human you become . . the more memory you get?'

Henrik stared at Jameson, "Vhat did he say?"

"Oh right" Marvin cast a spell on Henrik so he'd be able to understand Jameson.

Henrik stared at Marvin now, "Vhat did you just do!?"

Marvin nodded to Jameson and he repeated what he had said.

Henrik looked both amazed and freaked out, "But. . . But I do not know sign language! Vhat is-"

"It's magic, Hen." Marvin stopped him.

"But you couldn't do zhis before?!"

Marvin weighed out his hands in a shrug, "Yeah well . .  I may have rebelled against the magic council and am no longer following their rules. It's a long story. You'll fit in the pieces, I'm sure"

"HOW MUCH DID I MISS!?"

"When Anti consumes the internet, he changes personalities into a murderer. Dark wants the crystal to destroy all the universes except for one. We broke into Iris and Anti killed a lot of your guys and destroyed all of your robots. We raided your fridge and ate all your caviar" Jackie blurted, "But back to Anti-"

"YOU DID VHAT?! WAIT . . .  WHAT!?"

Anti stared off at the crystal. He was in a trance again in a way.

"I. . . ..I was somebody . . . I used to be somebody. I just. . .don't know who . . .or what. Who am I? What am I?  . . . . And what about Dark? Does it have something to do with the forest?" he gently pushed Chase away and stood up albeit wobbly.

"Hey, easy now." Chase tried to stop him, "What are you doing?"

"I think . . . " Anti stared at the crystal, "I think I need to touch the crystal"

"Not a good idea" Henrik stood between the crystal and him again, "If you touch it, it vill most likely either wipe your memories again or teleport you to a random location in zhe multiverse just like it did to me. And who knows? You could have touched it before and it did THIS to you!"

Anti whined a little, "But. . . . but it's calling me"

"Zhat doesn't mean you have to fucking answer!" Henrik pointed out. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Okay, look . . . If Dark plans on destroying universes with this thing, zhen it's a LOT more powerful than I previously thought. That must be why he took me because I might be able to figure out how to use it as such"

"Did you?" Jackie asked him.

"Not so much. Sort of hard to analyze if you cannot touch or take it apart."

Wilford was laying in the middle of the floor now, "Oooooohhhh . . . . ." he looked over at Marvin, "Aren't you a wizard?" he popped up rapidly and right into Marvin's face, flipping off his mask.

"Hey!"

Wilford laughed, "I'd love to interview you but we're all out of time! Do your magic on the rock, little furry!"

"HOW DARE YOU! I'M NOT A FURRY!"

"You're wearing a cat mask"

"SO!?" Marvin was just APPALLED.

Jackie and Chase were silently trying their best not to laugh at the situation.

Since everyone was so focused on that, Anti was suddenly now in front of the crystal, staring at it in its container. 

It was vibrating and pulsating the air around it as if calling him.

As if it NEEDED him.

He went to try and take it out of the container only for Marvin to appear next to him and slap his hand, "NO!"

Anti snapped out of it and backed away, rubbing his hand, "Ow"

"Go stand by Chase. Even if Wilford seems nuts, he's not wrong. Maybe with my magic, I can figure out how this thing works"

Anti was reluctant and felt like a child but he moped back over to Chase who then grabbed his hand to make sure he wouldn't sneak up to it again.

Henrik was picking up some papers on the floor. It was a mess in the room and he wanted to clear everything up to make everything more presentable. He wasn't expecting 'guests', after all, to interrupt his work.

Jackie rolled his eyes and even though he and the doctor didn't get along, he bent down and started helping him. Henrik didn't say a word, of course, but Jackie realized he was okay with that.

Jameson took hold of Anti's other hand.  He tried to speak to him in his head but it appeared that Anti was right.

He could no longer hear Jameson or any of the other's thoughts.

He found that he felt a little sad at that, missing that part of their bond.

Wilford sat back in the recliner in the room with a leg over his other leg, watching intently as the magician focused.

Marvin delved into the crystal with his mind's eye. His eyes glowed white as he concentrated and kept his guard up.

"It's . . . . this is  . . . wow."

Jackie gave Henrik the rest of the papers off the floor, "What is it?"

Marvin was trying to go in deeper, "It's. . . . it's massive. Like a universe all its own condensed down into a little crystal. It.  . . It has an objective, though. I feel it. . . but it's hidden. Henrik was right. It's like a homing beacon. I feel it calling out for Anti AND Dark. Like. . . . it wants to right a wrong? I don't understand"

"Right.  ..  a wrong?" Anti wondered out loud.

Marvin's hands started to glow as he pressed on, ". . . .. . It asks for consent.  . . . . . . It follows   .  . . . . It's like a key. It opens the doors to the other universes. The wormholes. Something happened. . . . wrong. I can't. . . I can't see it."

Everyone was engrossed now, waiting to hear more.

Suddenly the crystal glowed a bright blue.

Marvin backed away, startled and his hands and eyes stopped glowing, "Uh-oh . . .."

"Uh-oh?" Henrik repeated, "Vhat do you mean uh-oh?!"

"Yeah, what he said" Jackie asked.

Anti gripped onto Chase and Jameson's hands tight, nervous.

"I think I might have activated something in it!" Marvin grit his teeth, "Its core! I unlocked something I didn't mean to!"

Suddenly, a shadow broke into the room.

No one expected it.

No one had felt it.

Dark had found them.

He appeared and grinned, grabbed the container with the crystal inside, "Well, well, well . . .. looks like I stole the wrong one, hm?" 

He glanced over at Anti, "And shame on you, Anti. I thought we'd be friends. Oh well"

Dark clutched onto the container, seeping something that looked like his essence into it and over the crystal.

"NO, WAIT!" Marvin yelled at him, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!"

"Dark, no!" Henrik shouted as well, "Zhe crystal only makes other universes VISIBLE, it doesn't MAKE them! You can't destroy zhe other universes!"

Dark just chuckled, " . . . you think I care? Just watch me."

With one last glance at Anti, he smirked and disappeared.

Marvin yelled, "NO!"

It was too late.

He was gone.

Twenty Four hours left.