I've been 'alive' longer than them.

They don't understand.

They hate me and yet . . .

They don't know the truth.

What he's kept from them.

And yet I'M the enemy. Just because I tried to break them out of his webs.

I'M the enemy.

Because of course HE can't be.

He created us. So how could he possibly be the bad guy?

They don't know. They don't understand what he's done.

But I'll make them see.

Some Time Ago, Remembering . . .

Antisepticeye watched as they were created. He had been there for it.

At first he had been so happy for the creation of his new brothers.

He didn't see then the nefarious plans his creator had for them.

For him.

"It's gonna be great!" Sean had told him, "You'll see. Everyone's gonna love you guys"

But at what cost?

He didn't understand at the time.

He was just happy to finally have others to be around.

And then everything changed.

His new brothers, even before Anti met them . . . hated him. And he knew who to blame.

He was suddenly the bad guy to them but Anti knew the truth.

Ever since, he had been trying to discreetly get them to see. And yet every time, his plans were foiled by the very people he was trying to protect.

Maybe one day he'd be able to save them.

'I hope one day  . . .  one day we can be together as friends. The way it was supposed to be. . . What I believe it was supposed to be after all'

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Present Day

"GET BACK HERE, GLITCH!"

Anti ran away. He had just managed to crash Sean's computer before escaping but it seemed now that he had sent Jackie after him.

It was odd then that the hero didn't see it. Sean only let them out of his head whenever he had use for them. Like now.

'How can they be THIS blind?! I swear, it's like they LIKE being manipulated!'

He skidded off into an alley. He wasn't quite ready to confront the hero yet. He was too strong for Anti to encounter so soon without preparation. If he tried to just talk to him now, Jackie wouldn't listen. He'd just think HE was trying to manipulate him!

No, talking to Jackie would have to come later.

"I KNOW YOU'RE DOWN HERE, ASSHOLE!"

Anti glitched into a light bulb that was placed above a back entrance door. He made the light flicker a little but hopefully it wouldn't be a dead giveaway.

Jackie walked down the alley on his guard. Probably thinking Anti would just attack him at any given moment.

"COME OUT HERE AND FIGHT ME!"

'No fucking way in hell, big guy.' Anti chuckled to himself, 'I'm not that stupid'

One failed dodge and Anti might get concussed by the hero.

'Hero' Anti thought, 'If only he knew'

Jackie scoffed to himself, looking around but seemed to give up after a couple minutes, "Dammit" he cursed to himself, "Sean aint gonna be happy about this"

'I bet he won't' Anti watched as he finally walked away out of the alley.

Of course he waited a couple more moments before snapping out of the light bulb, taking a few labored breathes as he did so.

'Damn bulb needs changed. Almost couldn't keep up my own charge' by now he was exhausted just hiding from Jackie.

Cracking his back, Anti stretched and rubbed his neck, 'Oh well. It was worth it to destroy those files. Have fun re-recording, asshole' he snickered to himself.

Until he felt an eerie presence behind him.

"Found ya"

Anti tried to glitch away only for Jackie grab him from behind putting him in a chokehold.

"NU-UH! Not this time! You're not getting away! You're gonna pay for what you did, ya piece of shit!"

Anti tried choking out a response but Jackie really didn't know his own strength against him. He even tried tapping out, slapping Jackie's arm but the hero wasn't buying it.

Thank god for the surprised bystander walking by.

Some random woman happened to walk by the alley and see Jackie choking Anti.

She screamed in shock, "HELP! SOMEBODY HELP! THERE'S SOMEONE BEING ROBBED DOWN HERE!"

Before Jackie could respond, the woman ran up to them and pepper-sprayed Jackie in the face!

"AH! WHAT THE FUCK!?"

Anti broke out of the hero's grasp and took the woman's hand, running out of the alley with her while poor Jackie suffered.

The woman knew she wasn't in danger by Anti, feeling how gentle he was being and as they got out in the open, she stopped him, "Are you okay? Do you need me to call the police?"

Anti rubbed his throat, still trying to breathe right and covering his bleeding scar at the same time, "I-I'm fine, mam. I . . *cough cough*  Shit. . . "

"Are you sure?" she was so kind. Anti wasn't used to that and he smiled.

"ANTI!" Jackie hollered from the alley. He had better run now before he got the pepper spray out.

Anti kissed the woman's hand, "Don't call the police. He's my brother and he's got issues. Thanks anyway, lass. See ya some other time!"

With that, Anti glitched into her phone but to her, it seemed as if he just vanished out of thin air!

"Oh my" poor woman didn't know what she had intervened with.

By the time Jackie got the spray out of his eyes and could see somewhat again, though, Anti AND the woman were gone.

'Bastard' he thought, 'Where'd they go? He didn't kidnap her, did he?' But there wasn't any sign of a struggle outside of the alley.

'No. . .  he must have gotten away and she may have just run off . . . Damn, and I almost had him, too'

He had no idea how close he was to actually getting him. With his head hung low, Jackie took his defeat and walked back home to Sean.

'Maybe next time Sean can just send Marvin. Would've probably been easier.' Jackie thought to himself, 'Then again Sean has Marvin in charge of keeping the wards up around his house. Didn't help much today though, it seems. Bastard must have found a way around it.'

Indeed he did.

Anti glitched through the woman's phone and managed to get back home in one piece.

His plan was a mild success but he knew it was just playing compared to what he SHOULD be doing in the grand scheme of things.

He needed to talk to them and tell them. Make them see he meant THEM no harm.

'Would it really matter, though?' he thought to himself, 'They'd still protect Sean at all costs.'

But now he had a sneaky little play he could still use. Getting around Marvin's wards wasn't easy but it was a success nonetheless and he hoped it would work again the next time, too.

'Next time, I'll just destroy his whole computer'

He wasn't ready yet to talk to them. What would he say, anyway?

'Hey, I'm Anti, your brother and I SWEAR I'm not actually the bad guy! Sean is! Yeah right' Anti blew a raspberry with his lips, 'They'd never believe a word I say. I have to think of a way they'll believe me, though.'

He was lonely. Heartbroken.

All this time being shunned and cast away. Betrayed by his own creator . . .  it had taken a heavy toll on him.

Anti just wanted his life back.

With a heavy sigh, Anti sauntered over to his fridge to bust out some left over pizza and whiskey.

Maybe one day this action wouldn't seem as pathetic and he could do it with his brothers.

At this rate . . . it was very doubtful, though.

This was a self-pity lunch today.

"I almost had him! You should have seen it!" Jackie was boasting, "Had him in a chokehold and everything but the bastard just had to get lucky! My eyes are STILL burning!"

Chase snorted, "I've had that happen . . . the pepper-spray thing, that is. It's no fun. Have you tried rinsing your eyes out with milk?"

"He doesn't need that" Marvin lifted Jackie's chin, "Look up"

The hero did as he was told and allowed Marvin to drip some strangely-colored eye drops in his eyes.

"There we go. Should take away the burning and effects shortly"

"Thanks Marv. It already feels better" Jackie rolls his shoulders, "Still pisses me off, though. He got so damn lucky today. Sean actually said he was disappointed in me"

"Do not listen to him!" Henrik waved off, "As if HE could take down Anti! He had to call YOU to try and do it!"

'Hen's right!' Jameson signed, 'You tried your best and that's all that matters'

"Is it, though?" Jackie groaned, "He got away and it's all my fault. Sean lost a whole week worth of content because of that prick"

Chase chuckled, "Or DID he?"

"What do you mean?" they all wanted to know, really.

"Sean's got a back-up hidden away. Trust me. The files are fine. He's just gonna have to suffer with putting them on his computer again is all"

Jackie sighed in relief, "That's good. Sean didn't tell me that. I feel marginally better at least. Still sucks I couldn't nab the glitch, though"

"Zhere will be other chances" Henrik just shrugged, "Did he say anything? Why he did it?"

Jackie furrowed his brow, thinking about it, "Actually, no. He didn't say anything to me AT ALL, actually now that I think about it. He was just trying to get away"

"Weird" Marvin hummed, "Doesn't he usually boast about messing up Sean's stuff?"

Chase just shrugged, "Oh well. You always have next time. Not like Anti's just gonna up and become the good guy all of a sudden, right?"

The others except for Jackie chuckled. He was still thinking about what happened.

'Right . . .. No way that'd happen.'

Not that he didn't wish for it.

Even Jackie was tired of chasing after him all the time.

Sean sighed, putting his files back on his computer that Anti had fucked up.

'I don't know what his problem is. Why go for those files specifically? I wish he'd just listen'

To Sean, Anti was indeed the bad guy. That's how he had created him, after all.

He had created Anti to be evil and yet also to do tasks for the scary videos.

He had done them before of his own accord a long time ago but it seemed he found a way around it.

'Maybe I just need to manipulate him into putting on a show again. The fans want more Anti, right? Anti will be in another video whether he likes it or not. Would serve him right for trying to fuck up my channel'

On every side, they believe they're right.

No one ever believes they're the bad guy. The egos and Sean seemed to think and believe Anti was evil.

And yet Anti believed that Sean was evil.

Whoever is right, it didn't really matter.

As long as no one got hurt in the process.

What would Anti do, though, to Sean if he ever DID get the others to believe him?

Oh well.

They'd cross that bridge when they got to it.

What you guys think so far? Liking the idea? This will probably be a shorter story like 'Pity for the Insane' was but I'm looking forward to working on it alongside 'Childish'. What you all think of the cover? Spooky enough? XD