(timeskip: about an hour later)

"...W-What...happened?"

"Shane!" Winston wrapped his arms around the shorter Squip who had just appeared in front of him. Jeremy was watching in both surprise and confusion as to how he managed to pull this off.

"Winston? Why are we in Jeremy's head? Is Jeremy asleep right now? I'm confused. Also where are the others?"

"Well...we fought an antivirus, Jeremy wanted to help, and it sorta destroyed the others...and...Eric sacrificed himself to stop it." Winston began tearing up at Eric's name. He'd been probably the biggest asshole to Eric...and now he was dead because they couldn't stop a single antivirus by themselves.

"Wait, Eric's gone? He's dead?" Shane asked through a shaky voice and both Jeremy and Winston nodded. That led Shane to crying. Jeremy let him lay on his chest for comfort, and Winston worked on saving Sal and Keira.

"Shhhh, it'll be okay Shane. W-Winston's gonna save everybody...I promise...he saved you..." Jeremy was stroking the tiny Squip's hair, trying to calm him down.

In the process, he'd noticed Shane's clothes were different. No longer was he in his weird suit, cape hybrid thing, now he was in an indigo t-shirt, a light fabric, long sleeve sweater underneath. Must've had something to do with his coding.

"I-I hope you're right Jeremy...I r-really do..." He whimpered and Jeremy continued helping him try to calm down.

"Winston, how much longer until you can bring the others back?"

"They may take a bit longer than Shane did to unscramble. Considering they died together so their code is sorta jumbled. Lucky for us their coding isn't identical so I'm sure I can unjumble it enough to unscramble it properly."

"What about Eric?" Shane was whining like a puppy and Winston couldn't look him in the eye. "Can you bring him back too?"

"Maybe. It's gonna take more than me though...but we'll wait to the others are here so we can find a way to bring him back properly. As the original Squip in Jeremy's head, this entire mindscape must be lurking with his coding from when he activated."

"O-Okay..."

***

"So Jeremy's Squip came back, multiplied into five, became good, and was attacked by an antivirus?" Christine ran through what Michael had explained to her and he nodded. "And they helped him hook up with us?"

"I assume so. He seems to be a lot more free than last time however...I assume that's because he got some major control over how much they can hurt him...I don't really know how it works. All I know is that he's inside his head with them right now." He muttered and she nodded, looking over at Nick and smiling at how red he was.

"My cousin is so freaking in love this is so cute." She took a picture and Nick his his face in Dustin's Leatherman jacket. "Aww. Michael it's like Jeremy with us."

"It is."

"Chrissy if you don't stop I swear I'll tell your parents that you're teasing me."

"Nick we live in the same house."

"Yeah but they're my aunt and uncle. I'm spoiled."

"Yeah."

***
(Nother time skip. Round thirty minutes.)

"And...there." Winston pressed a button on his holographic screen and they all watched as the twins remanifested in less than three seconds.

"Holy shit what the hell happened?" Keira asked and she turned to see Sal and immediately tackled him.

"The fuck Keira??"

"You're okay. I thought you were dead...I thought I was dead...wait, where's Eric? And how is Shane here? He died too didn't he?" It seemed Keira had retained her memory, and Jeremy's head was starting to feel not as empty...but there was still the exception of Eric.

"Well I got all your coding from Eric, this includes Shane's coding, and I made you all new bodies. Eric...is still just code. Luckily, he's scattered through out Jeremy's head because he was the first Squip here. But he exerted a lot of energy and his power source killing the antivirus. He'd need almost a complete reactivation to be brought back." Winston was running through Eric's coding and finding matching strands of code in Jeremy's head, reeling them into Eric's pre-planned body on the holographic screen.

"So...I just have to drink some Mountain Dew? Right?" Jeremy asked and Winston shook his head. "Dammit."

"Not regular Mountain Dew anyways. What you should have to do is take in a dose of Mountain Dew Voltage. As Eric was killed through exerting electricity via volts, drinking enough should enable me the power to jolt life into his body." Winston was drawing a little model to explain his plan and the three other Squips all looked at him, then Jeremy, realizing they had to wake him up.

"Okay...I gotta wake up. I need you guys to shock me awake."

"On it." Keira smirked, snapping and Jeremy felt his mental self fade out.

***

"Ah...ow that hurt." Jeremy shot up in his bed and everybody smiled upon seeing him.

"Jere! Did you stop it?" Michael asked and Jeremy sighed.

"Eric did...he killed himself...but Winston said we could theoretically bring him back via Mountain Dew Voltage. But I d-don't have any."

"I can jog to the store and buy some." Christine suggested and Michael stood up and put a hand on her shoulder.

"I'll go too. I have a backpack that can hold multiple bottles of the stuff. You can't exert your arms on carrying it. However you do have money so it makes sense you go. I can skate behind you. Nick, Dustin, you can watch Jeremy." Michael grabbed his gray backpack and ran downstairs, Christine following behind him.

Jeremy turned on his bed to see Shane manifested next to him.

'Shane? What are you doin' here?'

"I..I got lonely. The others are tryna figure out how to save Eric, so I decided I'd come back here and talk to you...I...I didn't think Eric would be that upset. I didn't know he thought of me like a brother."

'I didn't know either. He really seemed to care about you...He really wasn't as bad as Winston thought...he was just... stubborn. I think you helped him through that. I mean you did show him kindness before the rest of us.'

"Yeah. But that's cause everybody deserves kindness. And forgiveness...even somebody like Eric. He didn't know he was being cruel, he was trying to stick with his programming, and he finally realized he was different and didn't need to do that anymore. He really did care about you Jeremy. And me. And Winston, Sal, Keira, all of us. He's just difficult with emotions...at least he didn't get those removed."

'Yeah. He'll be okay Shane. Winston will bring him back. I know he will...'