Dark surged towards Actor with all he had.

But he was ready and went on the defense. He had been waiting for this moment for a very long time. Actor didn't care how others saw him so long as he thought himself as the hero, taking down the so called villain on HIS terms.

Dark and Actor locked fists, the power of the void rushing through the both of them.

The booming power everyone felt had them stunned but Mark seemed to be one of the first to shake out of it, "Amy! Sean! Help me get the others to a more safe location! We don't know what Actor will be willing to do to win"

"Got it" Amy nodded.

Sean was still on the ground with Anti, silently hoping it was just a joke. That the glitch would just open his eyes and wake back up. It was just a joke. Anti LOVED jokes . . . .

Mark tapped his shoulder, "Sean, come on. Jackie, can you carry Anti? We need to move out of here"

Jackie was almost just as blank as Sean but bit his lip to make himself move, "Y-yeah . . . got it"

Chase made sure the cap stayed on Anti's head as Jackie picked him up and Henrik helped him get Sean up and moving. Marvin wanted to stay just in case he could do something to help but in the back of his mind, he knew there was nothing he could do. This was Dark and Actor's fight.

Only Dark had a chance against him now.

Jameson steered him and Wilford away, following Mark and Amy a ways away towards the other side of the street and the Iplier egos helped each other move, too. Although they were worried for Dark, they knew their presence there would only distract him.

"YOU GOT THIS DARK! KICK HIS ASS!" Yandere shouted.

"Y-yeah!" Eric stuttered nervously.

"SHIV 'IM!" Yancy joined in.

"YEAH!" Cried Wilford, ". .. . .  What's going on, again?"

Jameson kept moving him along.

Dark's eyes went black, staring right into Actor's rotten soul.

Actor stared right back, "Look at you . . . . so eager to kill me now. You've really stepped into the villain role, haven't you?"

Dark shoved him off and the aura around him snapped and lashed, "Shut up. I can't FUCKING stand your voice!"

He laughed, "Oh sad for you! You think I care!? I'll cut you down just like I did Damien and Celine! And you . . . I'll rip you apart and their manipulation and evil will be gone forever!"

"You just don't get it, do you?" Dark held his hand out and his cane materialized in his hand, "You're NOT the hero"

Distracting him with his words, Dark slammed the jeweled end of the cane into Actor's arm. The man grunted but didn't seem to care, "YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING!"

"I'M not gonna make myself out as the hero, either!" Dark countered, "That's not who I am!" he used the cane as a sword, hitting Actor with it every chance he got.

"Augh!" Actor caught the cane in his hand, "You don't WHAT you are! That's why I'm here to tell you!"

"FUCK YOU!" Dark head butt him hard, knocking Actor down on his ass for a moment.

"Aaaaaggh! Fucker. . . MY FACE!" He noticed a little blood dripping down from his forehead and it angered him further, "How DARE you tarnish THIS!" He motioned to his whole face, "This was my money maker, you fiend!"

Dark suddenly gripped his throat, taking him by surprise yet again, "I hate you so much. You're so blind to yourself. You really don't get where you stand. At least I know who I really am now"

Actor lashed his aura, forcing Dark to let him go, "I know EXACTLY who you are! YOU'RE the one who doesn't get it! Just accept it already! What more do you want to know?! You were BORN to play this role! My vill-"

Dark punched him across the face, "I AM NOT A VILLAIN!" 

He kicked him in the stomach and punched him again, "I AM NOT THE BAD GUY!"

Dark gripped Actor's hair tight and gripped his face to force him to look at him, "I AM NOT A CHARACTER IN YOUR FUCKING IMAGINATION! I . . . .  AM . .. . NOT . . . . YOUR . . . ANYTHING!"

Dark let him go and punched him with his fist AND void aura, slamming him into the house debris.

"Shit" Mark stared stunned at the fight, "Why am I not filming this?"

"Because it's extremely disrespectful since there's a dead guy Actor killed a few feet from you?" Amy noted.

Mark bit his lip and whispered, "You right" 

"Pretty sure Anti vouldn't have minded" Henrik poked Anti's cheek just to make sure he was actually dead.

"Hen, stop that!" Jackie stomped on his foot.

Actor broke loose of the debris, steaming with anger, "I've had enough of you"

"We've all had enough of YOU, that's for sure" Dark countered.

"I'll make you see" Actor muttered to himself, "I'll make you ALL see! I will! I was DESTINED to be this! I am the HERO! Just as they said! JUST as they SAID!"

Dark didn't have the patience to ask who but Actor rattled on, "This is MY world! MY WORLD, Damien! I won't let you take it from me! You hear me!? Not again! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!"

"You're far too gone . . .. " Dark dropped his cane on the ground, "Although I do know what it's like to be manipulated. To have your whole being taken from you. To be told what you 'really' are."

"SHUT UP!" Actor let the power consume him, the aura of the void seeping out of his body like a small hurricane around him, "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"

"Now who's acting like the villain?" Dark quipped, "You've gone monologuing now"

Actor lost it and forced the power to lash out towards Dark full force.

Only . . .. 

It didn't seem to effect him.

Dark just stared out at Actor, knowing how this would end.

Actor stopped, taking a step back, "Wh-what? But no! It worked earlier! You should be on your knees! I-"

"You seem to have forgotten, Actor . . . ." Dark's own aura pulsed deeply, booming with newfound energy, "Who I am . . . ."

Actor tried projecting his power again but . . .

Nothing happened.

"What?" he was scared for a moment but contorted his face in anger, "WHAT DID YOU DO!?"

Dark's black eyes stared into his, "I am not the villain . . . . ."

A black photon like blast lashed towards Actor. The only thing he could do was try and shield himself.

"I am not the hero."

Another lashed out towards him but Actor blocked it, too, although just barely.

Dark snarled at him, "ANTI was the hero who sacrificed himself . . . . giving me the time to see . . to protect everyone from YOU. Because if Anti's taught me anything during all of this shit. . . ."

Actor gave one last attempt at throwing all he had at Dark and granted, a little of the power lashed out at Dark.

Dark stretched his hand out, though and practically soaked it all in himself. 

"It's that you are what you make of yourself . . .  And if he can do it . . ..  So can I."

Actor fell on his back, feeling completely drained.

"Wh-what? Wh-what have you d-done?!"

Dark stood over him, "You merely borrow this power but I AM the void. I am . . .Darkiplier." he glanced over to Mark, "An Iplier ego . . . . Mark's ego and friend.  . . . . A part of a family."

Actor didn't understand. How could he? This wasn't right!

This wasn't how it was supposed to be!

And here Dark thinks he won, absorbing all of the void's power back away from Actor.

Dark sighed suddenly and all the power he had at his control dissipated.

Having taken away all of Actor's weaponry, he was done. 

"But like I said. . I'm not the villain. . . NOR the hero. Just . .. it's over, Actor. I'm done"

Everyone else was certainly surprised but it wasn't uncharacteristic of Dark. In fact it was . .  respectable.

But Actor glanced over at the knife Anti had dropped. It was right next to him under some rubble.

He seethed in rage, gritting his teeth.

"I'm not done yet" he suddenly lunged to attack Dark.

Only for a jaw to come crushing down on his arm!

"Augh!" Actor fell back down again, stunned into submission by Dark Chica's teeth clenched down hard. She was pissed off and growling. 

"I think you are" Dark retorted, taking his cane back in his hands and watched with a cringe as Dark Chica lunged to a death strike, suddenly going after his jugular.

Killing him instantly.

Dark didn't want to celebrate this victory. It was too gruesome and somewhat sad. But he was still proud of his girl, "Good job, Dark Chica." he pet her head, noting how exhausted and hurt she still was.

"You did good, girl" 

She whimpered, licking his hand and panting.

Once everyone knew it was okay to come over again, Mark bolted for Dark to check on him, "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!"

"THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW!" Wilford jumped in, "You were all glowy! And fighting some bad guy! And things were all over the place and the WRECKAGE! And this guy died!" he pointed to Anti still dead in Jackie's arms.

"Whooo! Heheh . . . . I'm sure he'll wake up soon, though" Wilford hummed, looking back at the house and the debris.

Mark sighed, "Sorry Sean . . ." he whispered to him, "Do you . . . um . . . wanna-"

"I don't wanna talk about it right now" Sean stopped him, "First thing's first, we should-"

"I'll take him" Dark offered.

Everyone blinked at him strangely.

"Wha?" Jackie asked, "Explain?"

"Yeah" Chase scoffed, "He's fooking DEAD, man. Where you plan on TAKING him?"

"Look, this isn't the time for this conversation right now" Sean stopped them, "Can we just go in and sit for a bit? I still need to just think and catch up on what all just went down"

"What went down" Bing repeated, "Is that Anti was a fudging HERO, bros! He fucking RAILED Actor with all he had!"

The all slowly walked in the house, pushing past the debris and pieces of the house.

"And he got himself killed" Marvin muttered.

"He bought time" Mark clarified, "I think he knew Dark would come eventually"

Dark nodded, "He knew . . . . he counted on it. . . . probably sooner, though." he sighed deeply, "It's my fault he's gone now"

"Don't be so hard on yourself, Dark" Amy reassured him, "I may have arrived a little late to the fight but I know it wasn't your fault. Anti chose this. He knew  what he was doing."

They all went silent for a few moments, just staring at Anti as he started to grow colder.

"He . . . he never hurt anyone here did he?" Chase wasn't really asking a question but he was still surprised, "All the time and chances he got"

"He said Actor had him here to observe me" Dark spoke out.

"It sounded earlier as if you knew way ahead of everyone else who he really was. He could have hurt someone after anyone found out. Could have silenced someone. Threatened them . . ."

"I don't think it's what he really wanted." Dark chuckled, "No matter how many times he argued with me about it."

The Septics listened to Dark. They didn't know Anti as well as he seemed to now. They wanted to know more.

It was like . . a eulogy they couldn't give him themselves.

Dark sighed, staring down at Anti in Jackie's arms, "He tried to act so tough. Tell me I didn't know him at all. He could kill me or anyone else anytime he wanted. But I knew he didn't want that. He was. . . .  starting to like everyone else. I could see it. And really, I think he actually did like conversing with others. Even if he was acting as you, Chase. He didn't have to hang out with everyone so much as he did"

He gently flicked the cap Chase had put on Anti's head, "He said he didn't . . . but I think he genuinely did really like acting like you, Chase . . . . you were someone he thought he could never strive to be. And in the end-"

"In the end, he made us all proud" Sean finished.

"He was a real ass-kicker,  that's for sure" Jackie tried to soften the depression making everyone chuckle slightly. But it was all still so bittersweet.

They were all silent for a while, giving the peaceful moment it's time. 

"I'm gonna . . . go make some tea for everyone." Amy offered.

"You have coffee, too?" Henrik asked, following her.

Marvin grunted, looking over to see the holes in the walls and scorch marks everywhere, "I'll uh . . . I'll take care of this. Put everything back together"

Jackie gently set Anti's body on the couch, "I'll  . . . . I don't know what I'll do honestly"

"Yeah" Mark nodded, "I know what you mea-"

Suddenly just as Jackie stepped away from Anti, Dark reached out towards him.

"Don't worry" Dark smiled softly, "He'll be at peace where I'm taking him"

And they were gone.

". . .What? . . . .  ." Sean looked to Mark for answers, "Mark . . . where did Dark just take my dead ego?!"

"Uh .   . . ."

Cliffhanger! DA-DA-DAAAAA!! :D