Dark turned and set his red eyes ahead of him.

On Mark.

Immediately, everyone could feel the change in him but didn't know how to react. No one really knew what to do in this situation.

Dark had always been the calm and collected one. The most sane out of ALL of them besides Eric!

Even Dark Chica was now growling at him . . .

"D-dark?" Mark tried to reach him again, "Dark, what's going on? You need to calm down. You need to-"

But Dark was through with being told what to do. He belted out a wave of the black aura surrounding him, causing a pitch darkness to surround the backyard. It was like they were all in . . .a void.

Through with messing around, Dark lunged towards Mark, ignoring Amy beside him but before he could attack, he felt something wrap around his middle.

Dark slipped out of whatever it was, seeing it was a whip.

Illinois tried to get through to him, "Dark, please! You need to-"

Dark grabbed the whip and tugged the adventurer forwards, "Gah!"

He was about to punch him when Magnum pulled his friend back.

Dark once again tried to go for Mark but Yandere and Yancy got in his way. The Iplier merely waved his hands, though, causing them to fly backwards out of his way.

"You" Dark was so angry. He couldn't even put his thoughts together right. Nothing made sense except to make Mark HURT.

Mark knew he was in trouble if he didn't do something. There wasn't anything else he could do, "Okay Google! Bing!"

Google's eyes turned red, ready for orders and Bing's turned a bright yellow.

Mark regretted what he was about to do but there wasn't any other choice, "Take Dark down!"

Having their orders, the two androids raced towards Dark. Google grabbing around his neck and Bing holding his arms down around his waist. They were strong and Dark actually buckled under their force.

But they weren't a match for his power.

"RrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaahhh!!" his aura blasted them both back, putting them down for the count.

Ethan, Bob, Wade and Tyler kept their distance but they were just as worried as everyone else. What could they do against Dark, though but watch?

With no one to stop him now, Dark ran towards Mark once again, ignoring Amy's calls for him to stop.

Mark ended up shoving her away so she wouldn't get hurt.

So many people were screaming for him to stop but he was deaf to them all.

He only had one goal in mind.

And all Mark could think of . . .. 

'Amy and Chica will be okay. He's only after me. I should have talked to him more. I should have told him the truth! I shouldn't have kept him out of everything! He never deserved it! I'm sorry, Dark! I'm sorry! I fucked up! I fucked everything up and I'm so fucking sorry!'

"I'm sorry, Dark" he whispered.

Dark had his cane in hand, ready to bash his head in.

"NO YA DON'T!"

And suddenly just like that, he was gone.

And so was . . ..Wilford?

Mark let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Dark struggled against Wilford's grasp, violently trying to pull himself free. The pink mustached man held him tight, though, making sure he couldn't return with a violent vengeance.

"Easy there now Darky! Easy! Ol' Willy can't hold ya forever now!"

Dark just growled, trying to forced him off with his black aura but Wilford seemed to be able to take it for some reason. Dark tried and tried, relentlessly struggling. It was so primal and beast-like, completely unlike him. It was like he was a completely different person!

"Darky! Calm down now, ya hear!? Stop it! Knock it off!" he couldn't even reach for his gun to try and put him down-

'Dark, please!' he finally got into his head, 'This isn't you, my friend! You have to remember who YOU really are!'

Dark seethed but gurgled out in a hiss, "GET . . .OFF . . .OF ME!"

'I don't know what's gotten into you but this isn't you! This is someone else and I don't like him!'

Wilford gripped him around the waist harder almost like he was about to give him the Heimlich.

"GET OUT OF MY FRIEND, YOU FIEND!"

And suddenly, it was like Dark's mind cleared. . . .

Like a cloud had been lifted off of him. His vision coming back to normal. Why had it been so fuzzy before?

"What . . . ." he didn't understand.

One moment he was prying Google off of Bing and the next . . . he was in a very strange place.

It was so  . . warped and strange. He felt heavy. It was a little hard to breathe but he felt better than before.

He was scared.

He felt a pressure on his waist being taken away and he then finally realized they were arms. He bolted away from them before turning  to face his  . . .  captor?

"W-wil?"

"Hi, buddy! You're back!"

"Wh. . .what?"

Wilford laughed outright, his hands on his hips, "You were gone for a bit there but don't ya worry! I got you out, pal!"

Dark didn't know what the hell was happening, "Where. . . am I?"

Wilford swayed around on the balls of his feet with a wide grin, "I don't know! I just like to come here every so often! Here and there . .  everywhere"

Dark looked around at the warped world. Everything was indeed everywhere. It was an infinite space but he couldn't even tell where from. It was like this place didn't even really exist. Or was it . ..  quantum? Whatever the case . . .

"What happened to me?"

" . . . I have no idea!" Wilford popped in front of him and felt his forehead, "Ya aren't sick, are ya? You looked pretty messed up back there! Almost killed Mark in the process and you looked to beat up a bunch of the ego, too in the process!"

"I DID WHAT?! FUCK!" Dark fell onto the ground, his head on his knees, "fuck. . .  I'm so fucked"

"Not yet, ya aren't! I'm sure everyone'll understand if ya explain it, Darky-boy!" Wilford hovered over him.

"But that's just the thing, Wil . . .. I don't understand it, myself"

"Ya don't? Well that's a doozy, innit?! Looked to me like you were being controlled by your own anger! Markimoo not giving you answers, your nightmares driving ya up a wall, Actor constantly in your head driving ya crazy-"

"Hold on!" Dark stood back up, pointing at Wilford, "What . ..  did you just say?"

Wilford played with his mustache, deep in thought, ". . . .Your anger! It's been getting to ya a lot lately, hasn't it, buddy?"

"Not that! William! About Actor! What'd you say about Actor!?" he needed to know. What did Wilford mean when he said that?!

"Oh yeah! I've been hearing Actor around a lot lately talk'in 'bout revenge and villains and Anti and all that. I didn't know what it meant at all, though!" he laughed.

Dark felt like he'd have an aneurism.

He wanted to yell and scream but he held onto his anger as best he could as to not have a repeat of a little bit ago.

"Hooooo . . ." Dark took a breathe and swallowed down all the screams he wanted to unleash, "William . . . This is serious. I knew Actor was involved. But not to THAT extent! We have to tell Mark! Dammit, I should have told him sooner about everything"

"About what?"

"Let's go back, Wil."

"Ya better?"

Dark didn't know how to answer that but just nodded. He didn't trust himself to answer truthfully at the moment.

"Okie Dokie!" Wilford was just fine with that and grabbed his arm and in the next instant they were back.

Anti took a long breathe when Dark and Wilford disappeared. It was stressful for him to have watched everything go down but not for the reason anyone else would be.

He felt so itchy. He wanted to join Dark in his little rampage.

And yet . . . also . . .

He knew Actor would be angry. 

He could feel it in the air.

This was supposed to be his moment, wasn't it? And Wilford stole it from him. Who's to say now if Actor would EVER get his time if Mark were to get rid of him entirely.

Not only did Dark terrify them all today but he also managed to injure a lot of the Iplier egos like Google, Bing, Yancy, Yandere, Illinois and Magnum. 

'But then again, Dark DID save Tyler from Wilford AND Bing from Google earlier. Speaking of Wilford . . . . how in the hell was he able to intervene with Dark when he had been so badly hurt by him?'

Anti would never understand how Wilford worked. That's why he was so scared of him, really. He was a huge mystery and Anti hated not knowing things.

'Let's just hope my cover won't be blown just yet.' he thought to himself, 'Otherwise Actor will have something ELSE to be angry about'

When Dark and Wilford returned, Dark fell immediately to his hands in knees submissively.

Everyone backed away from him, still a little afraid and Wilford's smile was never exactly reassuring.

"It was silent for a few moments but Host used his ability to try and bring peace to everyone for a change. Darkiplier was no longer violent, Wilford having snapped him out of his unspeakable rage. The man born from the void laid himself submissively for Mark to judge him, apologizing for his actions on this day"

Dark took to Host's words, "I'm sorry" he lifted his head slightly but couldn't look Mark in the eye, "I'm so sorry"

"Dark?" Amy's voice broke Dark's heart. He could have hurt her, too. But she didn't sound afraid, really of him, "Are you okay? Are you better now?"

He didn't know how to answer that, "I don't know. But I . . .  I should have told everyone sooner . . ..  I haven't been well . . . I'm so . . . I'm so sorry, everyone! Because of my negligence, I could have killed someone today! I don't deserve anyone's forgiveness!"

For once, Wilford took note of Dark's words and decided to speak up, know he was in turmoil at the moment and afraid, "Actor has been trying to control him! And you, too, for that matter, sonny"

Everyone stilled.

Mark looked like he had seen a ghost but Dark hadn't yet even looked him in the eyes yet.

"Dark . . . why didn't you tell anyone?"

" . . . . . I don't know . . . .I'm sorry"

"Look at me, Dark"

He almost felt like a bad dog being scolded but before he could get angry at that, he looked up at Mark.

He was. . . . crying.

His creator came forward and fell to his knees in front of Dark.

" .. . . .I'M sorry. This is all my fault. . . ."

"Wh-what?" he didn't understand. Did it have something to do with what he kept refusing to tell him?

"I'm always so concerned for my own safety. About my own feelings . . . . I always forget to put your guys' thoughts into consideration, too. Mostly you, Dark . . . ."

Mark reached carefully to hold Dark's shoulder, "No more secrets, though . . . If Actor's involved in whatever's happening to you . . . . Then it's time you learned the truth"

The truth. . . .

'What the hell does that even mean?' he thought to himself.

Whatever the case, it didn't matter.

He'd finally get the answers he's been yearning for.

About Damien and Celine. His past. About Actor and his past and Wilford's . . . .Why Mark hid the real story away from him for so long . . .

It was finally time.

Alrighty then! Now's the time for the theories! What's everyone think is about to happen? I'm really curious to read your guy's thoughts!