Sean had changed in appearance since Jackie and Henrik last saw him. His beard was more prominent and his hair was longer. It'd been a few years but the biggest change was that he looked happier.

Well . .. except for right now seeing all these people in his front yard.

"The HELL is going on here!? Who ARE all of you!?" Sean had his hands in his head, "Where'd you all COME from!?"

That's when Sean finally noticed the blood on some people, "Okay, if someone doesn't fucking talk RIGHT now, I'm calling the police!"

Jackie, with Bella still in his arms, made his way up to Sean.

"Sean, please! Don't! You don't understand"

Sean took a step back, looking at him, "Do I . . . do I KNOW you?" he looked closer, "Why do you . . kinda look like ME?"

Sean started to panic, "What the fuck is going on here?"

"Sean" Jackie tried again, "Look at me. . . we know each other. I know you don't remember but we do. It was a few years back now. Mar. . . .Marvin erased your memories for you so you'd forget but there's gotta be SOME part of you that remembers something"

Sean looked defensive. Jackie WAS bigger than him but looking down at the whimpering baby in his arms, he felt . . . like he recognized something. This protectiveness.

Sean blinked and looked back up at Jackie. He looked over at Henrik who ALSO sort of looked like him.

Realization kicked in, "No way"

Jackie was hopeful, "You . . so you . . . remember something?"

"Holy shit . . . no, it can't be real. . . it was all just a big fucked up dream. . . wasn't it?"

Jackie shook his head, "Sean. . . you KNOW it wasn't"

"Holy fuck" Sean's voice rose an octave, "Uh . . .. You're Jackie"

Jackie couldn't help himself. The relief was unreal. He grabbed Sean and hugged him, being careful not to squish the baby in his arm, too.

Jackie held him like a brother, "Sean . . . .. You have no idea how happy I am to see you"

Sean hugged him back. He was still confused but excitement was welling up, "I made a comic book out of you!"

Jackie snorted and pulled back, "So you DID remember us?"

"Y. . .. yeah! I . . . I remember . . . I remembered bits and pieces before . . . things you all had told me, your stories. . . I thought it was a dream so I just . . .made content out of it. Hope you're not mad"

Jackie shook his head, "It's fine. But listen, Sean-"

"Wait, where are the others? I see Henrik over there. Where's Marvin, Anti, Chase and Jameson? And who are all these OTHER egos that look like Mark?"

Mark heard that, feeling a little offended for some reason. He could tell Sean was talking about someone else. But who? There was only ONE of HIM!

Jackie's throat burned, "Uh I . . . listen. . Sean. . .. Something happened. Something bad. Can we come inside? We didn't have anywhere else to go. I'll explain everything . .just . .. some of us need to rest and process"

Sean nodded. He knew now he could trust him, "Of course. Come on in."

"Sean? What's going on out there?"

Evelien popped her head out only to immediately feel overwhelmed.

And then she locked onto a girl that looked JUST like her.

"What the fuck?!"

Sam slammed his fist into Anthony's stomach.

Yes, Anthony lit off a blast like a bomb that destroyed a few miles of land but apparently that wasn't enough.

Sam was keeping Anti's body in tip top condition barely kicking but still strong. He didn't care if he died when it was all over.

"Fucking useless waste!" Sam jammed his thumb into Anthony's empty eye socket.

"AAAAHHH!!"

Sam laughed, "LOOK AT YOU! So fucking pathetic! Anti was ALWAYS stronger than you! He just let his STUPID fucking humanity get in the fucking way!"

He suddenly broke Anthony's arm and tossed him away a few feet, ignoring his groans of pain.

Sam shook his head, "He was ALWAYS stronger than you. You just HAD to play games and CHEAT with that fucking magician's aura! Whatever you call that stupid fucking 'Pheno' energy. Anti never needed all of that. ALL he fucking needed was to be RUTHLESS!"

Sam kicked Anthony in the stomach, "MERCILESS!"

He kicked him again, "And all you had to do was FINISH YOUR FUCKING JOB AND EXPLOIT ON HIS EMOTIONS!!"

He pulled out the knife, yanked Anthony to his feet and stabbed him in the side and then again right in the stomach.

Anthony couldn't even scream anymore. Blood drooled out of his mouth and he uttered little whimpers.

"A. . . Anti . . .."

"If YOU had that 'Pheno' power now, you might stand a chance against him. Hell if you had the warp core energy, you could KILL him and me" Sam taunted him, throwing him on the ground again, "But we both know you don't want to kill Anti in the process. . . . you're still holding out hope like a child"

Sam tilted his head to the side, "Speaking of children. . . . . after I kill you, I'm going to find your little whore, kill her and then rip out that fetus and crush it in my hand. How's that . . .make you ~feel~ . . . 'Anthony'?"

Anthony stood up, snarling at him. He was broken and battered but NO ONE threatened Gab.

"You touch her . . . . I'll fucking come back from dead and rip your head off your shoulders" he hissed.

Sam snorted, "Big talk coming from a second-rate clone. . . you know . . . actually. . . maybe I WON'T kill her immediately. . . no. I wonder, 'ANTHONY'" he used finger quotes to make fun of the name he gave himself, ". . . . If I take your clothes, rip out this one eye and act like you . . . do you think she could tell the difference in who is FUCKING her?"

Anthony lunged at him but Sam caught him by the throat, "This was fun. I see now why you liked to play games but the fun is over now. Bye-bye"

Anthony closed his eyes.

Sam raised the knife to stab Anthony in the heart.

Anthony hated himself that he was ready to die. He hated himself that he couldn't beat Anti how he was right now.

He hated himself that he'd never see his family again.

But something was wrong.

Anthony could hear a strained sound coming from him.

Cracking open his eyes, he saw the green eye on Anti's body was fading.

He had stopped himself from killing Anthony.

Anti was was snarling, straining and fighting.

He cried.

"Anti" Anthony cried, "Anti. . .please"

"I won't . . . .. " Anti struggled, sparks flying off of him in his protest, "I won't fucking let you DO ANY OF THAT!"

He threw the knife across the ground a ways and bolted away from Anthony, clutching his own head.

Anti growled and drooled like an animal, "Get back there! Stay away! GET BACK! FUCK OFF!" he was talking to Sam.

Anthony shuddered, watching the spectacle.

Something was different this time though. Anti would have done ANYTHING to stop himself from killing the others.

What changed?

Evan stood in the circle surrounded by the council.

"We have targeting him" one of the them, "We don't have long until the creature wins back control. Go warn your friends that now's the time"

Evan nodded.

'Don't you worry, Marv . . . I'll avenge you, my love'

"Thank you."

"The initial hold is permanently detached" another told him, "But that doesn't mean the strings keeping it there aren't still strong. You know what you're going to have to do, correct? There's no removing it"

Evan swallowed but nodded, "I understand."

With that, he teleported, locking onto Dark's energy to find them all again.

They all moved on in to Sean's house.

It got crowded very quickly but there wasn't any chaos. All of the Ipliers were pretty shaken up from what happened earlier.

Especially Dark.

He sat by the window looking . . . detached.

Mark was standing not so far away from him, watching him.

He didn't know what to think. Mark never thought himself as a bad guy. He always envisioned himself as the hero and Dark as his villain especially again after the events a year ago.

But lately. . . .

He was starting to see the other side of things.

Everyone's pain. How hard Dark worked and tried every day for the egos to make their lives better.

Mark growled at himself, watching how pathetic Dark looked right now, like he was giving up.

Sean, meanwhile, was listening to everything Jackie and Henrik told him. Jackie had given the baby to Eva to look after for now.

Henrik told Sean the whole story since they had last seen him. Emotions flooded his head like wildfire.

"So . . . . Wait, so AntiSEPTICEYE, the guy we tried so hard to kill, was never actually DEAD? Anti sent him off somewhere else without his powers? But now he's good? And NOW Anti is the one that's the bad guy?"

"Anti is being possessed by a demon" Henrik clarified, "He himself is not evil. He's being controlled"

"Like a puppet" Sean mumbled, "And all these Iplier egos . . . were created by that Mark over there?"

He pointed over at Mark who was still glaring at Dark.

Jackie nodded, "Pretty much. He's still pretty much a bad guy but doesn't have his powers anymore."

"It's just like from Mark's. . . my friend from THIS universe. . . his videos. He made all these YouTube videos just like how you described. All of it, even how Darkiplier was created"

"Interesting" Henrik nodded, "There seems to be a multiverse uniformity that has happened. Just as Sam said"

"Wait. . . Sam? Who's Sam?" Sean asked.

"The demon possessing Anti" Jackie and Henrik said at the same time.

"You mean . . . Septiceye. .. Sam? . . . I thought THAT was just a dream a long time ago, too. . . back in the cabin .. . something I made up"

"Apparently not" Henrik shook his head, "This Sam, as he has named himself, had possessed an original Sean but he said something along the lines that he failed and was spread out across the multiverse into atoms . . . Makes sense"

Jackie raised a brow at him, "It does?"

Henrik nodded, "It does. . . ..I've had this theory for a long time that if there were already so many versions and multitudes of us six Septics . .. and Anti had said before that ve are like a chain going from strongest to weakest. Remember a few years ago? Anthony had to kill all of us first before he could kill Sean or else he'd be trapped and couldn't move on to the next set. Sean . . .you . . . are a part of the original and hold more power inside of you than any of us all. Must be dormant . . . .. or something. Not sure yet."

Jackie blinked.

"And as for the Ipliers. . . . and Gab and her alters. . . it's possible the ORIGINAL Sean could have accidentally spread the demon to your Mark and . . .Evelien? Is zhat her name?"

Sean nodded, "Yeah . . . yeah I mean . .. I think I get what you're saying. . . . but does any of it really matter? The point is, Anti is possessed by this monster. . . he killed a lot of your friends and family . . . Antisepticeye . . or . . Anthony is off alone still fighting him. You have no idea how to fight back. What's your plan?"

Jackie shook his head, "Don't really . .. have one. . . . stay alive . .. that's pretty much it"

Sean took a deep breathe in, sighing.

This was all WAY too much for him all at once to handle.

Evelien was sipping on some tea sitting on the couch with Gab next to her.

Evelien was VERY panicked at the moment but was handling all of this a lot better than Sean did the first time he met his alters.

"So . . . . you're like . . . me?"

Gab nodded a little awkwardly, "Yeah . . kind of. More like . . . Anti or Anthony, though"

"So. . . you kind of have your own Sean?"

Gab looked over at Sean, thinking about it and nodded, "Yeah . .. yeah, kind of. Anthony is very different. . . but I love him" she held her stomach gently, thinking about Anthony and hoping he was okay.

Evelien noticed her movement, "Are you okay? Are you hurt? I noticed a lot of people were injured when they arrived. . ." she looked around.

Gab shook her head, "I'm fine. Besides, everyone is healed now courtesy of Marvin's healing potions.. . . Anthony and I grabbed a shit load before . . . . " she couldn't continue that sentence, "Anyway. . . no I'm . . .. . I'm pregnant"

"Whoa! Really?" Evelien gave a big smile, "Congratulations!"

"Thanks. . . . "

Evelien grew even more curious, "So you said you have powers? Like what?"

Gab thought about it, "Well, do you know about the Japanese Goddess Amaterasu? I sort of have powers like that with light and gravity and I'm pretty good with a sword"

"Oh my god, that's awesome! I LOVE Japanese culture! I took the language in college! I'm very fluent. . . . or used to be. I used to live in Japan, too. I have a lot of tattoos sort of pertaining to Japanese culture and video games, see?" she showed off some of her tattoos.

"That's really cool!. . .. and so weird" Gab chuckled, "I mean YOU'RE not weird. . . it's just . . we oddly have a lot in common.. . . considering. . .. nevermind"

Evelien wanted to ask her what she was going to say but let it go.

BB hopped up on the couch with them and settled on Gab's lap.

Evelien smiled, "Aw! I think he likes you!"

BB nuzzled her stomach.

Gab smiled and pet him, "And he can sense the baby . . . . isn't that right, sweety?"

BB just purred and continued to nuzzle Gab.

Gab wanted to tell Evelien what she was going to say. . . but she couldn't.

She couldn't tell her that SHE was the one alter she decided to stop at. The one that she decided not to kill the day she stopped listening to her 'programming'.

It was still odd to Gab, too, though. By what Sean and the others were talking about. . . the demon's atoms spread throughout the multiverse. . . did his particles accidentally create her, too? As well as make that deal with Mark? It was a lot to ponder on.

Suddenly, there was a noise of someone teleporting and everyone stiffened, readying themselves for a fight again.

Or at least, the best they could.

Dark was on his feet and unconsciously grabbed hold of Mark's shoulder, putting him behind him.

Mark was mad about him touching him but didn't protest.

But they didn't have to worry just yet.

It was Evan!

Evan looked around at them all but was unprepared for Jackie to come running at him with a hug.

Evan of course hugged back, "Jackie . .. . there's less people here than before. . . ."

Jackie started to cry again, faltering a little, "He killed them . . . Chase, Jack, Stacey. . . . Sammie, Chad. . . . Jameson and Emily . . .they're gone, Evan" he whimpered in his shoulder, "They're all gone"

Henrik came up to them and pat Jackie on the back as he finally let go of Evan.

"We're happy to see you're alright" Henrik told the magician, "What happened?"

Evan bit his lip, "It worked for now. But we have to be quick. The council has severed the permanent hold the demon has on Anti but he can still take back control. It's a fight between Anti and the demon right now."

"Then let's go!" Jackie ushered him, "We could still save Anti and Anthony! I'm not losing any more brothers today!"

Evan nodded.

He couldn't tell him yet.

"I'm coming, too!" Dark stepped up to them, "Just try and stop me. I'm not giving up on Anti. Sean, can I trust my brothers in your care for now?"

"Uh" Sean glanced over at Wilford, "He's not gonna kill anyone, right?"

Dark waved it off, "Oh no. William is actually pretty sane now lately. He'll be fine"

Wilford popped over right next to him with his arms crossed, "Now see here, boy! I'm coming WITH you, Damien"

"No, you're not" Dark shook his head.

Mark shrugged, "Why not? You're gonna need his quick draw AND my conniving prowess-"

Dark glared at him, "No, you are DEFINETLY not coming! You're staying HERE! Why the hell do YOU want to come anyway!?"

"And why shouldn't we go!?" Wilford argued back at him.

Dark wanted to rip out his own hair, "BECAUSE I can't lose anyone else today! I failed too many times already today, I can't do it AGAIN!!"

He shook.

Dark practically gnawed on his own lip, "I. . . I just got you back, William . . . and Mark . . . we're finally all back together and I KNOW you hate me but I'm not willing to lose it all again."

Mark wrinkled his nose at him but didn't say anything.

William pat Dark shoulder, "I'm still coming with ya, Damien. . . . I wasn't there for you in the manor . . . . . I wasn't able to be there for you after that with all the erratic teleporting and time travel . . . . but I'm here now. . . . and I'm sticking by your side." he smiled.

Dark sighed. He knew there was no telling Wilford otherwise when he had his heart set on something.

Henrik stood next to Jackie, "I'm coming, too. You all vill need a doctor"

"No" Jackie was firm, "I'm not losing another brother. I've already lost three. . . No. . Four brothers today. I can't lose you, too. Your'e staying here in case anyone needs you. We'll take extra healing potions just in case. . .. stay with your family, Hen. . . . your wife and daughters NEED you"

Henrik wanted to argue but really. . . . Jackie's statement was pretty obvious. He was right.

The doctor didn't like it but he nodded, "Fine. . . you're right. . . . just stay safe. Keep on your guard like Anti said to. . . . come back alive"

Jackie nodded, "I'll try" he pat Henrik's shoulder and hugged him.

Benny ran up to Jackie and hugged him, "Uncle Jackie, no! Please don't go! Don't leave!" he sobbed in his leg.

Jackie leaned down next to him, "Hey, Benny . . .it's gonna be okay. But I'm the hero, remember? I gotta go save Uncle Anthony and Uncle Anti. Uncle Anti isn't himself right now with that demon controlling him. You stay with Uncle Hen, okay? Can you do that for me?"

Benny cried but tried to rub away his tears, "I . . . I . .. . I think so"

"Good boy" Jackie hugged him again, "Protect your cousins, okay? I'm counting on you"

Benny hugged him again but finally let him go.

It was time to go and help Anthony.

Jackie came over to Gab, "I hope you realize you're staying here. Someone needs to stay just in case Anti finds you guys. Your the last line of defense, really."

Gab sniffled but nodded, "I figured. . . ." she gave them all some of the potions she still had on her, "Go help my man. I really don't want to raise this baby alone. And . . . I know you'll do your best to try and save Anti"

Jackie nodded. He couldn't say anything else. He couldn't make any promises.

Evan took the potions and put them in his cloak but gave Dark, Wilford and Jackie each one to have on them, "Alright. . . let's go"

Just as they teleported off, Mark yeeted himself onto Dark, going with them.

Bing cleared his throat, catching it, "Uh . . .we all saw that, right? Should we worry?"

"The Host crossed his arms and shrugged his shoulders, simply saying, shouldn't we all worry about everything at the moment? We could all die at any second by any circumstance, really, at this point"

King just came out of Sean's kitchen, "Uh . . . Sean? You're out of peanut butter."

Stan slapped his trusty fanny pack, "Whelp! Anyone need any water?"

Eric's nerves finally got the best of him and he threw up on the carpet, Yandere patting his back.

Sean stared across the room at all the Iplier egos and then looked up at the ceiling as if pleading to a god, "Sweet jesus. . . . I'm calling Mark"