Evan teleported to his and Marvin's home. He had to go to their room to get the books he needed to search for an answer.

But he found .. . 

That with every step he took in his own house, the deeper his pain felt.

He'd never see Marvin dancing while making his coffee again. . . 

He'd never see him practicing his spells and tricks .  . .

He'd never watch him spend hours trying to decide on an outfit to wear again. . .

And he'd never get to marry the man he fell in love with the very moment he saw him.

It was his first Marvin that he ran into at the bookstore but THIS Marvin told him the story of how they met. It was the same. Like they were just MEANT to be together in all realms of the multiverse just like Chase and Stacey and Jameson and Emily and Henrik and Eva. 

Evan and Marvin were MEANT to be TOGETHER. 

They were soulmates.

But now. . . .

Evan took in a deep sigh, opening the door in their bedroom.

Tears fell down his face.

It finally settled in.

He'd never see him again.

Never hear his voice.

Again.

This was the SECOND Marvin he's had to lose.

He's had to lose the love of his life twice. 

Once to Anthony . . . 

and now again to Anti.

Evan shakily fell into Marvin's old bean bag chair and covered his face, trying to wipe away the tears that wouldn't stop coming.

He knew he had to hurry.

But at the moment, he just couldn't focus, surrounded by all the things that reminded him of the love he lost twice.

Google stared at Anti.

Or glared. He wasn't completely a robot. He had feelings. He felt love, anger and confusion and right now, he was feeling all of it.

Him and Anti had become good friends in the last year since he started coming around Dark's place. Although Anti was very cautious around him, afraid of accidentally breaking him with his glitching or nervous sparks, Google liked how he treated him just the same as he would any of the other egos or alters. 

Dark always treated him kindly, too, as well as a few others but a lot of the egos tended to forget he was part human as well as robot and would wave him off as a machine, not realizing he had feelings and could feel pain.

That was how Mark had created him.

He always cherished his and Anti's friendship and how kind and gentle he was.

But now . . . . after seeing him slaughter so many people controlled by that demon . . . . he couldn't help that his view on Anti was a little tainted now.

He wasn't the only one thinking this.

There were many other Iplier egos that would just see Anti now as a man with blood on his hands that murdered his family. Even though several of the Iplier egos have killed, too . . . they never killed their OWN.

Anti's eyes flicked over to Google and his breath hitched and looked away from Anti.

Google stood next to Bing and the other browser android looked just as worried. If the demon got loose and killed all the Septics . . . would he start killing Iplier egos, too?

They were all getting uneasy and for good reason.

'Ding Dong!'

Everyone stared at the door, not sure what to do.

Sean popped his head out of the kitchen, "OH HEY! Pizza's here! I hope you guys don't mind, I felt bad so I ordered everyone a bunch of pizzas. You're probably all hungry by now, right? If not, you can eat later or whatever"

Sean went to the door, careful to shield the others from the delivery guy's view, paying him and grabbing the food.

Immediately, everyone flooded into the kitchen, ready to at least just get away from all the tension of being around Anti.

Not that he minded. He was marginally more relaxed when they had left the room.

But also, it left him with his thoughts.

Some people were still in the room to keep watch over him but not anywhere close to him.

He felt Sam digging in his head, trying to rebuild what was torn apart. It was like a parasite in his brain moving things around in his head. It gave him a headache.

Yancy stayed behind along with Jackie and Anthony to keep an eye on Anti.

"So . . . what happens is he goes all coo-coo again? Hm?" Yancy asked, "We all tried everything we could last time"

Jackie had his arms crossed and swallowed, watching Anti. Honestly he had no idea how to answer Yancy.

Anthony snorted, "It won't matter. Evan's spell is keeping him restrained. We're safe for now"

"But what about for later?" Yancy brought up.

He had a point.

Jackie looked like he wanted to say something but closed his mouth again.

Anthony could see the hero was struggling, "Let's not worry about that right now. Let's just focus on positives. Why don't you go get you some pizza before the others eat it all?"

Yancy squinted at him. He knew Anthony was just trying to end the conversation, "I isn't stupid. . . . you don't know WHAT to do. . . . . for all our sakes. . . I hope you're ready to end things properly before everyone's is dead"

With that, Yancy walked out of the room and towards the kitchen, bumping into Eric momentarily who was just leaving the kitchen with a plate of pizza in his hand.

He looked nerve-wracked.

Like he'd have a panic attack.

And then he walked straight up to Anti.

Anti glanced at Eric, "Go away"

Eric blinked. Seeing Anti so defeated now made him a feel a little better. This wasn't the monster.

He motioned to the pizza, "I . . . I f-figured you might be hungry? I got you some. . . . Do you want a-any?"

Anti swallowed but shook his head, "I don't deserve anything after what I've done, Eric. . ..  please go away"

Eric was startled, "B-but . . . it wasn't you. It was the demon. He's the one making you do things you don't wanna do."

His eye turned green.

"Walk away or the next bitch I kill will be YOU, cripple!"

Anti's eye went back to normal and he bit back Sam's words, "Please just walk away"

Eric narrowed down his eyes at Anti. To be honest, he actually looked a little pissed off, himself.

Eric picked up the pizza in his hand and put the slice to Anti's lips, "I'm not going to watch my friend starve himself because of a bully. Please. . . p-please just eat"

Anti could taste the food being pressed to his lips and immediately felt himself surrender. God, he loved food.

He sighed heavily before finally opening his mouth, letting Eric feed him.

Jackie and Anthony watched the scene go down and Jackie gave a small smirk, "Same old Anti right there"

Anthony hummed, "For right now. . . . ."

When the pizza was gone, Eric smiled at Anti and finally walked away back into the kitchen.

Mark watched the chaos in front of him.

All the Iplier egos were ravenous over the pizza like it was their last meal.

Well who know? Maybe it WAS their last meal.

But what had startled him the most was when Wilford pulled out a gun, pointing it to everyone.

"Hey now! Everyone just calm the heck down! There's kiddos here and kiddos eat FIRST! NOW BACK Up!"

Dark didn't intervene and cautiously, the Ipliers followed Wilford's command, backing off.

'Well, he WAS in the army for a while. He wasn't called the Colonel for no reason' Mark smirked, remembering how his friend USED to be.

There were still slivers of the old William in there.

Wilford got plates of pizza set up for Olivia, Iris and Benny, giving it to them.

"Okay, NOW you fiends can frenzy" Wilford smiled, "Bully to you!"

And just like that, the chaos continued.

Mark sighed, 'Looks like some things really don't change' he thought about Wilford and Damien and Celine   . . . ..  Dark.

He thought about the past a lot lately. How things used to be.

He was so angry then. Full of rage and insanity.

Mark focused everything on his revenge and anger. . . sometime along the way. . . . he lost everything about himself.

He wanted to be the hero so bad, he was willing to make ANYONE else the villain except for him.

As if that justified his actions.

Celine's cheating and leaving him. William sleeping with Celine. Damien just being RELATED to Celine and still being friends with William.

He created the Iplier egos to try and build the family he lost along the way but still made them look like him, capitalizing on his own vanity. And then he hurt them all, too.

Now that he thought about it all. . . . .

It sounded so foolish and stupid. 

Mark felt a cloud hover over him, darkening his mood.

He watched Dark attempt to break up whatever fights were about to escalate. He watched him force a smile even though he was depressed and crying on the inside. Hurting.

'Maybe Dark really wasn't the villain all the time. . . . . . more and more  now . . ..  I think I'm finally starting to realize that I was really the villain. . ..  .'

Sean tapped his shoulder and Mark flinched.

Sean chuckled, "Sorry! I just saw you haven't gotten you any pizza. You not hungry?" he held a plate to him with a slice on it, "Here, you want some?"

Mark glanced over to see that Dark noticed Sean go over to him. He forced a smile on him.

Mark growled. He didn't like that.

He took the pizza but kept his eyes locked on Dark, 'You can't fool me, Dark, so don't even try . . .. I know on the inside you're breaking down. You want to cry but you won't. . .  not in front of them all. Not again.'

Mark knew that Dark didn't want the Ipliers to ever see him like that again.

Sean was perturbed by Mark's angry silence but got the hint and walked away back to Evelien.

Finally, the pizza was gone so everyone had no choice but to flock back into the living room.

Where Anti was having an argument with himself. At least. . .that's what it looked like.

"You're pathetic"

"Shut up"

"I can't wait to kill everyone you ever cared about"

"I won't let you"

"Soon, you won't be able to stop me"

"One way or another if they can't kill you, I'll kill myself with you WITH me!"

"You couldn't do it earlier, you won't be able to again! I'll kill them all and make you watch as I bleed them all out like pigs for the slaughter!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

Dark came up to Anthony.

Anthony glanced to Dark, "He just started to argue with it . . . it seems like Anti's control might be waning. Should we get ahold of Evan?"

"He just left" Dark reminded him, "There hasn't been enough time yet for him to find anything if he even can. . . The rope should still hold him, though . . right?"

Anthony shrugged, "I mean, I HOPE"

"Eeh . . . eh . . AAaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Ehe AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Baby Bella started to cry.

She missed her mommy, daddy and older brother. She could tell something was wrong.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!" Eva tried to rock her. Currently, they just realized they didn't have any baby formula or diapers and Evan or Marvin wasn't around to just magically pop them out of thin air.

"It's okay, sweety. . . it's okay. Shhh. ..shhhhhhhh"

It wasn't working.

There was a deep growl hanging in the air.

Olivia cried, "Mommy?"

Benny hugged his little cousin Iris  who also hugged Eva around her middle.

They all looked over to see Anti glaring at the baby, his one eye green.

Sam was starting to force his way out again, "Shut that fucking baby up or I WILL"

Eva shuddered but went back to trying to calmly hush the baby.

Henrik and Jackie instinctively stepped in front of her, Olivia and Iris just in case. Henrik still had the Pheno gun in his hand and pointed it right at Anti. 

He wasn't going to hesitate this time. 

He loved Anti but he knew now he couldn't falter anymore and Anti was begging them to kill him anyway. He didn't WANT to . . .. but he would if he had to.

"I'll fucking break that baby's head off and crush its skull under my foot"

"NO YOU FUCKING WON'T!" Anti returned, shoving Sam back again, "YOU'LL LEAVE THAT BABY ALONE!"

"What you gonna do about it!? As soon as I gain back control and get out of these fucking restraints, EVERYONE will die!"

Anti shuddered almost like he was having a seizure.

The baby was still crying.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaahhaaa!!"

"I'll fucking. . . . rip out its vocal chords with its damn spine"

"SHUT UP!" Anti was really straining but with him using all his strength to try and keep Sam back . . . his strength was also weakening the rope.

Mark noticed it first, "Uh . . .  Dark?"

"What?"

"Get ready to fight your boyfriend again"

Sam overtook Anti and in that instant, there a deep and animalistic growl that carried throughout the room, frightening everyone.

And then the rope broke.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!" the baby cried.

Jackie rushed over to him to try and knock him out but he caught his hand.

Anti looked up at Jackie, revealing the green eye, "Anti's taking a little break"

Sam went to punch Jackie in the stomach but the hero was ready this time and used his other hand to punch him in the face.

Henrik had Anti's body targeted with the gun but he couldn't risk hurting Jackie with him.

Anthony grabbed Sam in a full nelson while Jackie punched him across the face again, hoping it'll put him to sleep.

But Sam just hiked his legs up, wrapping them around Jackie's throat as if trying to choke him.

Dark ran over to help as did Gab, Wilford, Google, Yancy, Magnum and Silver. They all tried to either held knock him unconscious or keep him restrained.

They forgot about one thing.

Sam blasted electricity from his body, sending shockwaves through them all.

Anthony still had a hold of him since it didn't affect him but Sam was quick at flinging him off regardless and knocking his elbow into his stomach.

Sam wasted no time and rushing towards Henrik but he was ready.

Henrik shot him with the Pheno gun but Sam just dodged.

And instead, the blast hit Magnum, Stan, Edgar, Bim and the Jims, killing them.

There was a stillness in the air.

Something in Mark hurt.

Dark stared in horror.

Sam rushed at Henrik again but before the doctor could shoot once more, Sam glitched in front of him, grabbed it from him and instead, shot him, Eva, Bella, Oliva, Iris and Benny.

They were gone in an instant and even their ashes were no more.

Sean had grabbed Evelien who had BB in her arms and forced them in a closet to hide. He cared about the egos but he wouldn't let Evelien get hurt.

Gab shook off Sam's electricity and tried to go after him again but Anthony threw her behind him.

Anthony attacked Sam, punching and screaming. Crying his heart out at every punch and kick and clawing.

Sam just laughed at him, "I TOLD YOU I'D KILL THAT FUCKING BABY!"

Suddenly it was like a switched was flipped and Anti was back and he sobbed, "Anthony, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Oh god, what have I done!?!"

Sam shoved him back, "GET THE FUCK BACK, BITCH! YOU BELONG TO ME!"

Sam still had the Pheno gun. He kicked Anthony back and into a wall before turning around quickly and shooting the gun at Bing, Silver, King and Dr. Iplier, killing them just like he did Henrik and the others.

Another wave of pain shot through Mark but he stood stock still out of Sam's sight.

"NO!!!!" Dark attacked Sam and wrapped him around his shadows and aura. 

It was an ability that required a lot of strength from him but in his fury of losing too many of his brothers, he didn't care.

His aura was striking, threatening to choke Sam and Anti's body to death. It wrapped around Anti's body like a wild pitch black bubble.

But Anti's body was stronger and Sam broke out, lightning slicing its way through, cutting it open like an egg.

"The Host breathed out in fear as Sam, the demon, waved his arm, striking down more of the ipliers. The bolt of power came straight for him and he hoped Dark knew that he knew he tried his best. Dark was always Host's good friend from the beginning and he knew he cared deeply for them a-"

Just like that, the wave of harsh and powerful lightning struck and killed Host, Google, Yancy, Illinois, Eric and Yandere.

Sam breathed out a nice sigh, "There we go. . . spring cleaning out of the way. All the useless alters are dead and gone."

He locked eyes with all who remained, a big smile on his face.

It seemed as though Anti was too broken to fight back anymore.

All who were left was Dark, Mark, Wilford, Anthony, Gab, Anthony and Jackie.

"Seven to go" Sam chuckled, "Not counting the two cockroaches in the closet . . . . How's it feel, hero?"

He addressed Jackie, "Knowing that you failed to BE the hero? All your family is dead. ALL of them. You're all that's left . . . 'Jackieboyman'" he taunted.

Jackie shuddered but shook his head, "No. . . I'm not all that's left. I still have Anthony and Gab. . . . and I still have Anti.. . . As long as Anti is still alive. . . . I still have family to fight for"

It seemed as though Sam had forgotten about Evan for now.

Sam rolled his eyes, "Pathetic. . . . he's a killer now  . . . . will never be the same. . . . can't be fixed, hero"

Jackie swallowed, tears trailing down his cheeks, "But it can be mended. . . in time. After you are rid of. . . I'll help Anti recover . . .and we'll be a family together. With Anthony . ..  and Gab. . . and their baby"

"Oh yeah" Sam thought out loud, "I still have another baby to kill, too, I guess"

"Fuck you" Anthony snapped, "You son of a bitch . . . I'll fucking-"

"Kill me?" he grinned, "No you won't. . . . we both know you won't.. . . you can't"

Sam tried to shoot the gun at them again but Wilford beat him to the punch and popped next to him, grabbing it from him. He slammed the gun into his face, knocking him to the ground.

Wilford looked serious and grabbed Sam, "Let's go somewhere less crowded, huh?"

Just like that, he was gone.

"FUCK!" Dark cursed, "Dammit, Wil, no!"

Anthony picked up on Wil, "He teleported back to Dark's universe. Let's go. Gab, you stay here"

"uH, no" Gab argued, "Did you not see what just happened!? HE KILLED EVERYONE! ALL OF THEM! WE'RE ALL THAT LEFT, ANTHONY!"

Anthony sniffled, trying to keep his emotions in check but it was hard, "I know . . . that's why I don't want you to go. . . I can't lose you, too"

"He'll find me, Anthony" Gab tried to reason with him, "I-"

Anthony grabbed her hands, "Go get Evan and tell him what happened. Regardless if he's found ANYTHING, we need his help NOW.. . . please. . .please, Gab, do this for me?"

"He has a point" Dark nodded but he was quickly losing all control over himself. So much  of his family was gone, too, "We'll go help Wil. Mark, you stay with Sean and Evelien"

Gab nodded, "Fine. It does make sense but when I tell him, I'm coming straight to you to help."

Mark didn't say anything, just raising a brow at Dark.

"Come on" Jackie ushered them, "We have a plan now let's act on it. Dark, Anthony. . . let's go help Wil"

Dark, Anthony and Jackie teleported.

And before Gab could even blink, she realized she was alone.

But she didn't have time to wonder.

'I have to go get Evan'

She teleported, leaving the living room empty.

Sean peeked out, looking around, "Uh . . . .. uh-oh . . . . it's like that fight years ago but SO much worse. . ."

Evelien came out of the closet with BB in her arms, "The magician could bring them all back to life. . . right? They can't all be dead. . . right?"

There a few bodies on the floor from when Sam kill them with that lightning. Host, Google, Yancy, Illinois, Eric and Yandere.

"Fuck, I hope no one calls the police if they heard all the noise" Sean prayed.

Dark looked over and rolled his eyes angrily, shaking his head but had nothing to say.

Mark had grabbed hold of him again but this time . .. with his cane in hand, "Dark . . . I think you KNOW what you have to do"

Dark shook his head.

Not yet.

It was easy to spot Wilford and Anti.

They were fighting not too far away and Wilford's old training was coming back to him, fighting like a champion boxer.

Anthony and Jackie stood side by side.

Jackie put a hand on Anthony's shoulder. He didn't say anything. Anthony knew what he was thinking.

Today, either Jackie was going to die. . . . . .or Anti was.

Either they were all going to die. . . . . . or Sam and Anti was.

Either way, it wasn't good odds.

Either way, more death was in the air.

It didn't look good.