Anti's mind was reeling.

He was starting to feel more and more strange.

His emotions were everywhere.

He was seeing flashes in his head but he didn't know what any of it meant.

Flashes of Dark.

Cameras.

Lights all around him.

People screaming.

He hated it. He was afraid.

And it was starting to show.

Chase was watching Anti and immediately recognized the panic attack incoming.

Admittedly, he wasn't feeling any better. Just a few weeks ago, he was trying to kill himself. 

Just a couple of days ago, he was going to again.

All he could picture in his mind was his dead wife and son in that car. . . .

But instead of dwelling, Chase chose to focus on Anti, instead. It felt better than focusing on himself.

"Hey" Chase took Anti's shaking hand in his own, "It's gonna be okay, kid. Alright?"

Anti swallowed, focusing on Chase's voice. Anything was better than thinking about the fresh hell they were in currently.

Jackie had his arms crossed, thinking but he seemed just as worried as did Marvin.

Jameson was just happy to be there. . . . Anti's knife still in his hand from before.

Henrik had his hands on his hips, staring down at the unconscious Wilford on the floor and back up at the Engineer.

"Did he happen to mention at all vhere he was going?"

Jackie snorted, "Yeah, as if he'd actually be that dumb to voice his next move to this guy-"

"He did, actually"

Marvin blinked, "Really?"

Jackie sighed, "That's disappointing. Usually a good villain wouldn't do that"

Henrik rolled his eyes.

Mark shrugged nervously and swallowed, "Y-yeah, well . . . He said something about going home for a party?"

Everyone looked at him like he was crazy.

"What?"

No one noticed Wilford no longer on the ground.

"I KNOW WHERE THAT IS!"

They all jumped except for Henrik.

"How zhe hell vould you know? You know vhere he lives? I thought you hadn't left your home in a long while?"

Wilford grinned, "What gave ya that idea?"

"Nevermind"

"Cool" Jackie clapped his hands, "So what are we waiting for? Let's go and kick his ass!"

Anti shook his head, "I don't think  . . .I don't think I can do it"

"That's alright" Chase chimed in before the others could and checked his gun, "You don't have to fight Dark. We can keep him busy so you can grab the crystal"

"Or" Jackie cut in, "Let's think about this. We survey the area, find out where the crystal and warp core is. Lure Dark away from it without giving us away and grab it?"

Henrik hummed, "Actually. . . zhat's a better idea"

Jackie fist pumped, biting his lip, "YES! I knew you'd go for it!"

"Although, a lot of your ideas haven't worked"

Jackie's shoulders sagged, "Aw man, really? You had to ruin the moment?"

Henrik fixed his glasses, "I didn't say we still shouldn't try it first."

Marvin nodded, "I'm in, too"

They all seemed to agree . . . except for Wilford. He seemed sort of irritated.

"Aw but .. . . . " he gasped excitedly, nearly making his pink mustache fall off, "I KNOW! I'LL LURE HIM AWAY FER YA!"

Marvin laughed nervously but looked kinda scared, "AHAHAH! Is that really a good idea?"

Chase raised a brow, "Why not? He seems up for it"

"I mean. . ." Marvin looked like he was weighing the options, "Well . ..  he spoke like he's KNOWN Dark for a while.  What if he turns against us?"

"He won't" Henrik was sure of it, "Right, William?"

"Huh?" Wilford grinned, "Well hi there Dave! It's been a bit! How're the kids!?"

Henrik looked back at the others as if that explained his point, "See? His memory is like a fish. We vill be fine. Let's just go and-"

"OKAY!"

Just like that, they were teleported in front of a mansion.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" 

Jackie grabbed the Engineer, covering his mouth, "Will you shut up!? I know it was sudden but cool it, man!"

Anti could feel it immediately, the pull of the crystal, "It's here."

Jackie finally let the Engineer go after he calmed down, "I'm sorry" the poor guy started to cry, "I'm just not. . . This isn't my day. I'm so confused. Why am I here? What's going on? Can I just leave?"

"No" Marvin stated, "But you don't need to go in with us. You stay out here and wait. We'll come back for you"

The Engineer sniffled, "Really?"

Chase rolled his eyes, "Let's go. Wilford, you ready?"

"For what?"

"Oh my god" Jackie groaned, "I hope this works. Wilford, why don't you go ring on the doorbell over there and keep Dark occupied? Remember not to talk about us"

"Okay" Wilford nodded, " . . . What if he asks about ya? What do I tell him? That you're busy?"

"Tell him you left us" Marvin thought quickly.

"But I didn't. You're here" he grinned like it was so obvious.

Even Jameson looked like he wanted to drown himself.

Anti blinked, "Okay, I'm going. Good luck, guys"

Chase grabbed him, "We're coming WITH you, remember?"

"Then hurry up! It's getting LOUDER! We need to go NOW!"

Wilford suddenly had a pink afro wig on, "Where we going?"

Henrik stopped this nonsense, "William, please go knock on zhe door, yes?"

"Okay"

Once again, he was gone and they could see him at the door.

"Alright now let's go!" Jackie urged them, "Now's our chance. Anti, can you teleport us inside the house, at least?"

He nodded.

Just as Wilford rung the doorbell repeatedly and knocked on the door simultaneously, Anti glitched them in the house.

Dark opened the door, looking rather pissed, "Dammit, William, what are you doing here!?"

"DAVE!. . . No wait. . . . DAMIEN! It's you, buddy! How ya been since the divorce!?"

Dark blinked at him oddly, "I've never been married"

"HA!" Wilford laughed, "Well you dodged a bullet, let me tell ya! Marriage is a prison! That's why I slept with Mark's wife, Celine! You know . . . your sister!"

Dark still didn't look impressed or amused, " . . . I don't have a sister, either. Look, why don't you go back to your little friends? I'll see you again when the world ends"

He went to shut the door in his face but Wilford stopped him, "Why so angry, Damien!? It's been so long since I've last seen ya! Put on a smile why don't ya, for your old pal!"

Dark's mood was souring more and more by the second, "William, we met once several months ago by accident and I left immediately."

"Ah but I learned so much! I see everything in that little brain of yours, Darky-poo!"

"Don't call me that"

Wilford poked Dark's chest, "Boop, boop! Hey, I got a surprise for ya!"

Dark looked a little more interested, "Oh really?"

Wilford blinked, "What were we talking about?"

Dark sighed, realizing this was fruitless, "Alright, I'm gonna go now. Good-bye, William"

He tried shutting the door again but Wilford popped inside, switching their places, "Well hi there, Damien! What brings you here!?"

Dark growled, "William! I was amused by your antics for a moment but now you're just irritating me! Leave me alone and go the fuck away! I don't want you here!"

"Then why you at my house?"

"WILLIAM!!"

Meanwhile, Anti and the others were in the mansion right where they needed to be.

They were in what looked to be a basement wine cellar.

Right in front of them was the warp core.

All sound seemed to fade away in Anti's ears.

All he could hear was the pulsing of the crystal in his head.

Calling him.

Begging him to come closer. 

To just touch it and then everything would be better.

Nothing else mattered.

Henrik cursed, "Fuck! He's already started it!"

There was a sort of force field around the warp core that was barely visible.

Jackie groaned, "Dammit, what now? Marvin? Can you break down the force field?"

Marvin's eyes were already glowing and he was mumbling a spell of some sort. But his hands were shaking and he stopped, "Damn. . . . It's like Dark corrupted it or something. I can't get through to it anymore with my mind's eye"

"You can't?" Anti was confused, "But I can still hear it"

Henrik got an idea, "What if you were able to teleport INSIDE zhe force field?"

"Uhhh . . . I guess I could try" Anti wasn't too sure, though

'Please try?' Jameson signed to him, 'I believe in you'

Anti nodded and steadied himself, getting ready.

Jackie bit his lip, ready to barrel into the thing if he needed to.

Anti glitched but it was as if the warp core predicted he could and shoved him back out.

Anti looked just as surprised as the rest of them, "Uh. . . . wh. . . what happened?"

"Shit!" Chase took out his gun and started to shoot the warp core in hopes to break it but it didn't seem to do anything.

Jackie lunged towards it to try and use brute force but it just launched him back just like Anti.

Marvin was trying to rip apart the force field but that wasn't working, either.

Dark froze, hearing the disturbance and slammed the door in front of Wilford without another word.

Not that it stopped him. Wilford was already in the house again, "Darky! Where you going!? I thought we were having a great conversation! Have ya ever met my friend Abe?! You two would LOVE each other! You're both so broody!"

Dark just ignored him and teleported into the wine cellar.

Locking eyes with Anti the rest of the them.

"Well, well . . . Really thought you could outsmart me, huh? Well, you're too late"

Jackie stood in front of Henrik to protect him. He wasn't there before when Dark went after him but he was there now.

"We're too late when we're dead!" Marvin shot back at him and attacked him with a spell.

Dark slapped it away, looking just moderately bothered, "Please. . . . I'm out of your league. You're not as powerful as I am. You could never hope to take back the crystal, you pitiful little insects"

Anti suddenly got an idea, 'Not as powerful'

He looked back over at the crystal inside the warp core, 'But it only calls for either of us . . . . '

That's when Anti realized what he had to do, 'It pushed me away because IT wasn't prepared. Marvin said it was like a being itself. . .'

Anti walked up to it.

Dark's grin fell, "Anti . .  get away from the warp core! You're too fucking late! The process has already begun and there's nothing any of you can do to stop it!"

Anti looked back at him, "I can try"

"NO!"

Dark lunged towards him but Jackie was faster and grabbed him, "Hey there. . . ready for a rematch, motherfucker?"

Dark snarled, "Hardly" he ghosted past him in his shadows but Marvin was just as fast and stopped him, too.

"I DON'T THINK SO!"

"GET OUT OF MY WAY!"

Anti came face to face with the force field and touched it softly with the palm of his hand. It was almost. . .gelatinous. Softly, he pushed against it and ever so slowly, it started to give way, letting him in.

"NOOO!" Dark was suddenly desperate and went to teleport to him.

Only for Wilford to reappear and grab him.

"Now, now, Damien. . . .. Global domination doesn't suit ya" in a blink of an eye, they were both gone who knows where.

Chase started to smile, excited, "YES! ANTI, YOU GOT THIS! GET THE CRYSTAL!"

"YOU CAN DO IT!" Jackie cheered him on.

But in the midst of the celebration, the warp core started to do something strange.

Just before Anti could get any closer, it projected something HUGE from it, like a force of light that streamed throughout the room and even outside of it, presumably for miles.

Marvin looked down at the ground below him, "Uh oh . . . . ANTI, HURRY UP!"

Suddenly, the ground underneath them started to disappear!

The world was beginning to dissolve just as Dark had set it up to do!

Chase's heart raced as the ground under him faded and he started to fall into a black void.

'No  .. .  wait. . .. not like this. It wasn't supposed to end like this!'

"ANTI!"

One by one, they all started to fall into the void.

Anti clung onto the warp core.

It was within reach now.

It SCREAMED in his head so loud.

He saw the flashes again.

'Please. . .. whatever you're calling me for. . .. help me be able to fix all of this and save them'

Anti reached his hand out and grabbed the crystal.

It shook in his hand and he gasped for air.

He was  . .. free. 

Everything made sense now.

Anti opened his eyes and suddenly everything was so much more clear.

He saw Dark's face and he remembered it.

He remembered everything.

Little by little, it all came back to him.

The forest.

His fear of the internet and the hatred it wrought within it.

But also. . . . the love.

He had forgotten all about that part.

So many people loved him.

The lights. . . there were so many lights.

And the screams.

It all transformed around him into a crowd of people he had never met before. 

He was on a stage and they all held out green lights cheering him on.

He remembered that feeling and the way he felt.

Tears fell down his cheeks.

How could he have forgotten? This feeling he swore he'd never lose?

Faces of his friends and family went through his head.

His brothers and sisters. His parents. All of his friends.

His girlfriend, Evelien and their cat.

And one of his best friends, Dark. 

No. . . His name was Mark.

And HIS name.

His name was never Anti.

His name was Sean.

And he knew exactly what he needed to do now.

So. . . how'd everyone like THAT twist? :D Had that one brewing since the very beginning! What'd you guys think!?