Jackie stared at Chase as if completely horrified, "CHASE?!"

Immediately, Chase slammed the door shut in his face.

Chase ran to Anti, "ANTI, WE GOTTA GO NOW!"

Anti sighed but sensed his panic, "Why? What is it this time?"

"It's that Jackie dude! That lame hero motherfucker!"

"Oh. I don't know why you hate him so much. I kind of like him"

"I don't care! Dude, if we don't run now, he'll take us back to that fucking facility!"

"No, I won't"

Chase practically jumped behind the couch that Anti was on.

Jackie had quickly gotten in by breaking the door knob and walking inside.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE!?"

Jackie snorted, giving him an amused smirk, "Technically it's not your house anymore since you're actually evicted but I'll give ya that."

Jackie stared at Anti, a little worried about what HE would do. Except he was just sitting there on the couch. . . .with a bandage on his leg?

"What happened to you?"

Anti looked down at his leg and then back up to Jackie, "Chase shot me in the leg"

Jackie looked back to Chase.

Chase suddenly felt the need to get defensive, "Hey! Don't look at me like that! In my defense, he was fucking crazy at the time and tried to kill me!"

"Wait, what?" Jackie nearly choked on his saliva, "Is that from what was all over the news last night? So it WAS you, Anti?"

Anti just nodded, not seeing any point in lying, "Chase gave me the internet to learn from and it overloaded me, making me . .. . not myself"

Jackie just looked even more confused, "Overloaded?" he shook his head, "Okay, look . . .  I'm not here to cause any problems, alright? I just wanna know what really happened last night. You killed a lot of people, Anti. You understand that's wrong, right?"

Anti suddenly looked guilty again, "I. . . . yes. Chase told me I needed to forget about it"

Jackie was now giving Chase a look again of disappointment.

Chase came out from behind the couch, "Okay, okay! You wanna know everything? Fine. Anti wants to become human and in order for that to happen, he needed to learn from certain things he could connect to. The TV for example. It was my fault that I suggested the internet and it overloaded him and freaked him out and he only learned from all the bad parts of the internet but we got it all sorted out now and we're taking things slow again"

Anti nodded, "And now we have to find a crystal in a forest that I dreamt about"

Jackie blinnked, flabbergasted and looked lost again, "What?"

Chase glared at Anti, "Do you really need to tell him EVERYTHING?"

Anti just shrugged, "You asked him if he wanted to know everything and you started telling him things. I thought it was my turn"

"For fucks sake, Anti"

Jackie couldn't explain it. He was still really confused but he sensed that Anti wasn't a threat anymore.

He took out the McDonalds bag and started eating a french fry. All this thinking was making him hungry.

"Okay, so I think I get some of what you were saying. So since Anti loaded in all that internet in him, he became even more human? Is that why he was able to get hurt like that?"

Chase stared at him, ". . . .Yeeeeah. . . . . is that my food?"

Jackie nodded, "Yeah."

"HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET MY MCDONALDS?!" He quickly snagged the bag from him.

"Excuse you, I'm your food delivery boy" Jackie rolled his eyes, "That's how I got here, anyway. I was just doing a run and got here by happenstance. . . .  rate me five stars, by the way"

"WHAT?! NO! YOU ATE SOME OF MY FRIES, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

"Regardless" Jackie waved it off, "I do need to call Marvin and Henrik and let them know I found you guys"

Chase had enough.

He took out his gun and pointed it at Jackie, "No, you're not"

"Chase, put the gun down" Anti tried to stop him, taking the bag of food out of his hands.

"NO! I'm not going back to that fucking prison! You can't fucking make me!"

Jackie held up his hands, "Hey, it's okay, man. . .no worries. We weren't gonna take you back there. We got bigger problems now. Remember that other entity from before?"

"Dark" Anti answered for him, opening the McDonalds bag to see what was inside, "He was here a while ago. He wants to destroy the universes"

Jackie swallowed, staring at him.

His face just grew more and more confused by the second.

"I. . . .. uh . . . . . huh?"

Anti ate a fry and suddenly his eyes lit up in delight.

Chase lowered his gun a LITTLE, "They won't force us back at that fucking facility?"

Jackie shook his head, "You don't have to worry. If it comes to that, I won't let them. You're safe with me"

Chase finally lowered the gun all the way, "What do you think, Anti? Should we . . .trust. . . him. . . DUDE, THAT FOOD WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR THE BOTH OF US!"

Anti had already devoured all of it, wiping grease off of his chin, " . . . . .sorry"

Jackie chuckled. He couldn't believe he was so afraid of Anti before.

Anti looked at him, "You should probably still be a little afraid of me. Even I don't know what could set me off. But I'll try my best not to hurt you or anyone else"

Jackie paled, "Oh. . . . I forgot you can read minds. . . great. Yeah, okay"

Anti licked his lips and looked back at Chase, "It's your decision but I think we should go with him. The landlord will be back eventually and the same trick won't work twice."

"You didn't hurt the landlord, did you?"

"No" Chase shook his head, "I told Anti not to. . . . ." he sighed, "Fine. As long as you can promise that I won't be thrown back in a tiny room again against my will and that Anti will be treated fine, then we'll come with you"

Jackie nodded, "Cool . . . okay!" he grinned, "Awesome! Yeah! This is so great! There's no way Henrik can be mad at me now! I can gloat about this for days!"

"What?"

"Don't worry about it" Jackie smirked, "But also . ..  Anti, you won't try and do anything to a Mr. Jameson Jackson, right? He's also with Henrik and Marvin right now"

Anti blinked, "Oh, the mute. No, he's fine. I had more of a bond with Chase than I did him. That's why I chose Chase"

Chase didn't know whether to feel touched at that or not.

"Alright" Jackie clapped his hands, "Let's go meet up with the doc and wizard and figure out how to take this Dark guy down!"

Anti nodded, "Dark DID say, I couldn't stay here anymore. Since I won't be here, he'll be more inclined to believe me on my word from earlier"

"Alright. Come on" Chase helped him up on his feet.

Jackie couldn't stand it. He wanted to help. That and it might take a while to get anywhere if they had to rely on Chase helping Anti to walk.

"Here, let me carry him. We'll get there faster that way"

"I don't know about that" Chase was wary about it.

"Okay" Anti didn't give a shit.

Anti let Jackie move closer and the poor hero looked sort of awkward but he DID offer. Jackie picked him up in his arms, his one arm hooked around his legs and the other under his back. Anti comfortably looped his arms around his neck.

Chase stared at the strange sight, "That just looks gay"

Jackie glared at him, "Hey, you got something against gay people, man?"

"What?! No!" Chase tried to save himself, "Not at all. . it's just-"

Jackie gulped, "I mean I'M not gay but . . . . there's nothing WRONG with it"

"No, no" Chase shook his head, "You're totally right. Nothing wrong with it. I apologize"

Anti just raised a brow at Jackie and Chase. After being on the internet, he of course learned about what that word meant but he failed to see how any sexual orientation was relevant at the moment.

"Can we just go now?"

"Uh-huh" They all left the house very quickly to save themselves any further embarrassment or awkwardness. 

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Marvin was now texting a friend of his in the circle. They were asking Marvin where he's been but he couldn't say anything just yet.

This was his own mission that he went on and he didn't want to get any of the others involved yet.

He could do this himself.

He had to prove himself and that all his hard work had finally paid off.

He could do this.

Henrik snapped his fingers in his face, "Hello? Earth to zhe wizard"

Marvin sent the message and glared at Henrik, "Yes? What can I do for you, doc?"

He pointed off at Jameson, "Have you tried getting ahold of Jackie again? I'm curious as to why he keeps looking in zhat pocket watch of his like zhat"

"Why don't YOU text him?" Marvin teased, "I gave you his number"

Henrik huffed, "There is NO way I'll fucking text him myself and you know that, Marv"

"I don't know why not" He shrugged with a laugh, "He's desperate for your approval anyway, you know"

"Oh whatever" Henrik rolled his eyes, "Only thing that delivery boy spiderman wannabe is desperate for is a smack to the head"

Marvin laughed at him, "Look, whatever the case, why don't you try asking Jameson yourself? Just because he likes Jackie the best doesn't mean we can't try and bond with him, too"

"He's refused to even look at me since I vas flirting too long with the directory woman before"

"I think it's funny"

"He doesn't like you, either!"

"Okay, I'm not as bothered by it like you are. Seems you're desperate for approval yourself, Hen"

Henrik grabbed his coffee and took a large gulp of it, "You better. . . vatch yourself"

"Uh-huh" Marvin wasn't worried in the slightest.

'Knock, knock!'

Henrik looked towards the door, "Hm. . . I vasn't expecting anyone"

"Want me to get it?" Marvin asked.

"Tis my house. I'll get it" Henrik made his way to the front door while Marvin and Jameson stayed in the kitchen.

Henrik half-assed hoped it was Jackie on the other side but also, he cringed at the thought of having to entertain him.

'He better have some useful information this time or else he can just go back to his stupid delivery day job'

Hernik opened the door.

His eyes widened.

"Y-You"

Dark smirked at him viciously, "Hello, Good doctor. May I borrow you for a moment?"

Without another second to waste, Dark gripped Henrik kby the throat before he could shout out and disappeared with him.

Marvin was still in the kitchen with Jameson, both of them completely unaware of what just happened.