"THAT'S IT! OUT! I MEAN IT! GET OUT, YOU GNAT!"

Chase groaned, "AW, but Henny, I just wanted to show you my latest trick!"

"AND YOUR BLASTED TRICK HAS COST ME WEEKS WORTH OF VALUABLE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATIONS! OUT!"

Henrik was shoving him out of the lab when Jackie walked on by.

"What's going on?"

Chase snorted and rolled his eyes, "Doc doesn't know how to have fun. . . like always"

Henrik was seething, "Weeks worth of data! GONE!"

"Data of what?" Jackie asked him.

Henrik froze, looking between them, ". . . . . .none of your business"

Jackie sighed, "Hen. . . you're not still doing that illegal mutation experiment again, are you?"

"No, no, don't be silly" Henrik waved his hand at him and sighed, ". . .fine, I'll tell you. I've been-"

"WHAT'S UP, BITCHES!?" Marvin teleported between them all, "GUESS WHAT I JUST DID!?"

They all looked at him, sort of confused.

Jackie blinked, "Uh. . .. what?"

Marvin held up a jar, "Lookie!"

Henrik scoffed, "Oh for fucks sake, Marv! Look what ya did! Is that Jameson in there!?"

Jameson waved in the jar, looking happy as ever with his legs crossed.

Chase tapped on the jar, "James? How you so small, bro?"

Jackie glared at Marvin, "Marv. . . . fix it. Now"

"I will! I will!" Marvin huffed, "But isn't it neat!? This new book I got from the Ancient Library is awesome! So many new spells and tricks!"

Chase grinned, "Tricks?"

Henrik groaned, "Will you just turn him back to normal already? I doubt that's healthy"

"As if you'd know anything about magic" Marvin rolled his eyes, "But FINE, I guess. You ready to get big again, JJ?"

Jameson shrugged and nodded, not bothered at all.

Jackie blinked and turned away, "Right. I'm gonna go visit Dark again"

Marvin grimaced, "Ew. Why?"

"Why do you think?" Henrik chuckled, "He still thinks Dark can track Anti down"

Chase shuddered, "Hate that guy. Both of 'em. They're creepy"

"It's almost Halloween which means Anti's probably lurking around close by" Jackie muttered, "If anyone can find him, it's Dark. . . or one of his . . .associates, at least"

Henrik was still staring at small Jameson, "Certainly not for free, though, no?"

"He hasn't asked for anything in return yet"

"YET" Marvin pointed out, "But everything has a price, Jackie. Including magic. I mean look at Jameson here. When he's big again, he won't be able to leave the toilet for a week"

Jameson suddenly looked worried and you could barely hear him in the jar, "Wait. .what?"

Jackie sighed, "Right. I'm gonna go. I'll heed your little warning. Change him back. Chase, leave Henrik alone. I'll find Anti"

Chase raised a brow at him, "Aaaaand. . . what exactly are you gonna DO when you DO find him?"

Good question.

Jackie didn't want to think about that, though, "Don't worry about it. Don't you have a parent teacher conference to go to today?"

"Pft yeah. . .but not until like. . .4pm. That's in like. . ." he thought about it.

Henrik rolled his eyes, "Five hours"

"Right. Five hours" Chase coughed bashfully, "I got all the time in the world!"

Marvin smirked at him, "Wanna help me with the reverse spell?"

Chase looked excited, "Aw, hell yeah"

Chase ran after Marvin upstairs.

Jackie stared at Henrik, "Wait, what did you say you were experimenting with?"

Henrik smiled innocently, "It's nothing. I should go. You should go, too. Have a good day. See you later" he slammed the door to his lab in Jackie's face.

Jackie didn't believe a lick of it, "Right. Totally nothing"

But he couldn't worry about the mad scientist right now. He had bigger things on his mind.

Like Anti.

Every Halloween, Anti appeared and wreaked havoc on them like some sort of sick tradition or something.

They barely survived the last encounter just last year when Anti got into all their heads and tried to make them kill themselves. Chase had almost succeeded but thankfully Henrik revived him.

Jackie was going to make sure Anti never got the chance to hurt them ever again.

No matter what he had to do.

Meanwhile, Anti was literally out in plain sight not even bothering to hide himself.

He had planted a bug in Henrik's house a while back and enjoyed listening in on them like this own little podcast.

"The fuck you up to now, Doc?" he muttered to himself, adjusting the ear bud in his ear, "And Marvin, you just keep getting more fun, don't ya? Poor hero can't catch a break. Boo hoo"

Anti sighed. He was sucking on a sucker in his mouth. He just stole it from a child. In his defense, it was his favorite flavor.

Green apple.

'Of course hero would think Dark knows how to find me. As if all us 'villains' keep in touch or something'

He rolled his eyes and stared off at a fight breaking out between two guys by the bus stop. He leaned up against a building on the opposite side of the street and watched as things started to get heated. One guy pulled out a knife and a woman screamed.

'Yeah, come on and show me some blood'

But suddenly, another guy came out of nowhere and broke up the fight, scolding them as if they all knew each other.

Anti rolled his eyes and groaned, "For fucks sake, I can't have ANY fun"

But then an idea crossed his mind briefly.

'Jackie thinks I'm gonna make a move on Halloween night. . . I DO usually like to have fun with them then but really, I haven't had anything PLANNED'

Anti crunched on the sucker, chewing on the hard candy, 'Jackie's not at the house right now. The others are all by themselves'

His brain was hatching up an idea.

'Maybe I'll pay them an EARLY visit. Without Jackie, of course. He always ruins the mood' he snickered to himself and glitched off to the Septic house for a little fun.

"I already told you I don't know where he is" Dark drawled, "Feel free to leave now"

Jackie scoffed, "Come on, I know you know SOMETHING! Literally anything would help!"

Dark blinked, sitting back in his chair, "And what makes you think I'd WANT to help?"

"Dark, come on" Jackie tried to appeal to him, "If Anti does manage to kill us, who do you think is next when the 'Septic toys' aren't around anymore? He'd go after you and the other Iplier egos next, wouldn't he?"

Dark stayed emotionless and stoic but it appeared as though Jackie had gotten through to him a little.

"Fine. I suppose you have a point" Dark closed his eyes, searching the void for Anti's soul.

He opened his eyes again, "He's at the Septic house. Better hurry" he gave the tiniest little smirk.

Jackie paled, "Shit. . . no" he bolted out of the room.

Yancy walked in with some playing cards and a cigarette in his mouth, "Yo Dark. . . .don't you and Anti meet up every other Saturday for Poker or something? Why you sell him out like that?"

Dark shrugged, "He owes me money. . . . let that be a lesson to you"

Yancy wasn't sure he wanted to play with Dark now. . . 

Marvin was hovering over his cauldron, throwing a mix of things in and then stirring like a weirdo.

Chase raised a brow at him, "You're really not helping the stigma on witches, you know"

"Shut up" Marvin snorted, "It's how I work. Embrace the stigma. It's fun"

"If you say so" Chase was holding Jameson in the palm of his hands and the little man was kicking his feet back and forth just happy to be there.

"Hey" Marvin huffed with his hands on his hips, "If you love your job, are you really WORKING?"

Chase stared at him, ". . . ..  You're getting paid? By who?"

Marvin waved it off, "Eh, Doesn't matter. The black market is no place for someone like you"

"Black market?!" Chase looked down at Jameson, "Did you know about this?"

Jameson looked up at him, "Hm? Oh. . yes"

"Doing good so far" Marvin mumbled, "I need complete concentration for this next part, though, so shut the fuck up"

"Rude"

Marvin glared at Chase, "Shut the fuck up"

Chase wanted to say something again out of spite but held his tongue.

Marvin took out a vial of something on his desk and was about to gently pour it into the cauldron, "One too many drops and it could explode or something else unpredictable to happen"

Chase's eyes widened.

Everything was still and quiet and tense.

Marvin squinted and held his hand steady.

When suddenly, Henrik burst into the room, "You done yet!? I need Jameson to go to the store and get me more rubber gloves-"

"FUCKING HELL!" Marvin moved just steady enough to not pour anything into the cauldron, "HENRIK, I'M A LITTLE FUCKING BUSY HERE!'

Henrik didn't seem bothered at all, "Almost done?"

"Dude!"Chase was ready to piss himself, "You could have exploded us!"

"Explode?" Henrik scoffed, "Heavy exaggeration. As if Marvin would be so ignorant as to make something in the house that could-" he stopped himself, staring at Marvin, "Seriously?"

Marvin shrugged, "It's not a big deal so long as you don't just BURST INTO MY FUCKING ROOM UNANNOUNCED!"

"YOU FUCKING IGNORANT PONCE!" Henrik scolded him, "YOU THINK MONEY JUST GROWS ON TREES AROUND HERE!? I CAN'T REBUILD THE FUCKING HOUSE AGAIN!"

"THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME DECENCY TO KNOCK FIRST!"

"Maybe we should finish the potion?" Chase suggested.

"DO IT ELSEWHERE!" Henrik argued, "You shouldn't be doing such things in my house!"

Marvin rolled his eyes, "As if you're any better! You damn near poisoned everyone with mustard gas last week!"

"My ventilation system is flawless! How dare you!"

Jameson sighed, "Can I be big again?"

"AND ANOTHER THING!" Henrik continued to argue, "You're always laying your stupid herbs and book around anywhere and everywhere! Jackie accidentally opened a portal to hell just last month because of that book you just laid haphazardly on the coffee table!"

Marvin jabbed back, "Well he should have fucking known better if it was MY book! I don't go around scuffling through YOUR guy's stuff!"

Chase laughed, "You do that literally all the time"

"STAY OUT OF ZHIS, BRODY!" Henrik shouted at him.

Jackie burst into the room, "GUYS, ANTI'S IN THE HOUSE!"

They all whipped their heads around to him, "WHAT?!"

Suddenly, Anti, who had been watching and listening from on the ceiling, lost his footing at the abrupt and unexpected entry and fell down onto the floor.

"OW! FUCK!" His foot accidentally kicked Marvin's desk causing all of his vials and jars to wobble.

Jackie was mortified, "ANTI!?"

"NO!" Marvin abandoned the vial in his hand to steady the other ingredients.

Everyone watched in horror as that special vial fell into the cauldron instead.

All of it.

Marvin gasped, "Whoops"

There was no time to do anything and whatever was in the cauldron exploded into a thick gas that filled the room.

They started to cough and Marvin's voice shouted, "GET OUT OF THE ROOM!"

They all rushed for the door, letting the gas air out into the hallway and Henrik opened the windows, "Is everyone alright?"

"Ugh" Anti groaned, "Got a fucking headache now. Fucking lot of idiots"

Marvin looked around only to notice something strange immediately. 

He could see his own body, "Uuhhhhh. . . uh-oh. I don't have a good feeling about this"

Henrik stared with wild eyes at Marvin, "You're . . . I'm. . .. what did you do?"

"Guys?" Chase was very concerned, "Did the potion. . .shrink ME now? What happened?"

Jameson looked down at his own body in his . . .HIS. . .hands? That wasn't right, "I think I'm starting to have a panic attack"

"Okay, everyone calm down" Marvin took a deep breath, "I think . . I think the potion gas made us all switch bodies"

Anti stared at his hands, seeing that Marvin was right. 

Anti and Jackie had switched bodies. And it appeared that Chase and Jameson had switched and Henrik and Marvin had switched.

"Uuuuhhhhh" Anti didn't know what was happening but he knew he wasn't staying a minute longer. 

He quickly bolted and leaped out the window.

"SHIT!" Jackie in Anti's body ran to the window, "GET BACK HERE YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"

Marvin looked around at them all, mortified, "This isn't good"