They all followed Dark up the stairs.

Poor Anti just followed with no recollection of anything at this point. He was so confused but maybe if he followed along with these strange people in this weird house, he'd get some answers. 

Like what his name was for example.

Anti stopped suddenly.

The others were alerted of this and turned around. Dark felt the Septics had stopped following him and halted, as well, turning around.

Anti just had a dream-like look in his eyes, "I have to pee" Without missing a beat, he started to pull his pants down.

Henrik was the first to rush over to him, "Anti! Anti, no. You can't just pull your pants down like that in public! Let's get you to a restroom, alright?"

Anti just raised a brow at him, "Do I know you? Are you my friend?"

Henrik helped him pull his pants back up quickly, "Yes, I am. Dark, where's the nearest bathroom?"

Dark was still so stunned but shook himself out of it and nodded, "Uh . . . yes, it's just down that hall and to the . . . to the right. We'll wait here. One of you should probably go in with him"

"How come?" Jackie asked, "Looked like he knew what he was about to do there for a moment" he tried to crack a joke but felt just as worried and concerned. He was trying to cover it up with humor but it wasn't working for him.

"Don't want him to get lost again or try and leave or accidentally hurt himself in this state" Henrik clarified for him, "I'll go with him. Come along, Anti. Let's get you to the bathroom, alright?"

"Why? Do I have to go?"

"Well you just tried to piss on zhe floor so I'd say yes"

"Oh. . . okay"

Henrik took his hand and led him to the bathroom.

Dark groaned in his hands, "Oh fuck, this is worse than I thought"

"Dark, while we're waiting, do you think you could kinda fill us in a bit?" Marvin asked, "By how you were talking earlier, it sounds like you were there for all of it. What did Host do?"

Dark pulled at his tie, loosening it a little, "It might have been . . . a spell of sorts"

Marvin's eyes widened, "Host was trying to use MAGIC?! What the fuck-WHY?!"

"He said he's done it before! He said it would work!" Dark bit his lower lip a little, feeling sorry over this whole thing, "I . . . I shouldn't have taken Anti to him in the first place. It's just . . .he looked so fucking pitiful and sad"

Jackie blinked, "Wait, what? Anti? Sad? Why the hell would he be sad? He's the one that attacked US before or did he not mention that?"

Jameson elbowed Jackie's side, 'Take it easy. Maybe if you let him talk, he'll give us answers' he sassed in sign language.

Jackie huffed but waited for Dark to continue.

"I uh .  . .  Anti came immediately to my office after he was shot. I had Dr. Iplier come up and patch him up. I was trying to talk some sense into him. That if he just TALKED to you all, then maybe you'd give him more of a chance. I TOLD him he was stupid for attacking you if he really wanted to be a part of the family but he's always been too prideful. He could never just talk about his feelings before but I saw right through him. That and he was crying a little"

Chase laughed humorlessly, "HA! Hhehehe. . . wait, what?" he shook his head, "Anti . . . wanted to be a part  . . .of the family? But he kept ATTACKING us! He kept trying to HURT us! He tried to KILL us!"

Dark shook his head, "He's never actually tried to kill you. You'd be dead already a long time ago if that were the case. He's just so . . . bottled up. So I offered him a deal. Or rather. . . a deal with Host. I really did think Host could help. He said he could restart him. I didn't know what it meant and neither did Anti but Host seemed so confident"

Marvin paled, "He didn't . . . ..  RESET!? Are you RETARDED!?"

"Marvin!" Chase swat him, "You can't say that word!"

"Shut up!" Marvin swat him back and addressed Dark again, "RESET!?" He grabbed Dark by his strong shoulders and shook him, "YOU REALLY ARE JUST A BEAUTIFUL FUCKING IDIOT, AREN'T YOU!?!"

Dark was both appalled and direly confused but waited to say anything until Marvin let him go, "What? Host seemed so-"

"CONFIDENT?!" Marvin laughed, "And has Host ever DONE this spell before!?"

"He said he had!" Dark tried to cover his ass, "On . . . a character of his"

Marvin looked ready to burst. If he were a cartoon, steam would be coming out of his ears.

"Marv" Jackie tried to calm him down, "What does the spell mean? Can you just tell us?"

Marvin swallowed, "It means as soon as Henrik gets back with Anti, we need to hurry the fuck up and RUN to Host's room, not walk. At the progression this is going on Anti, he could lose all functionality of himself and his body and go virtually brain-dead"

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"Uh-oh"

"HELP!!!!" they suddenly all heard a shout, "HELP ME!!"

Henrik led Anti into the bathroom and shut the door behind them, "Alright now you can pull your pants down and go to the bathroom. I'll turn away while you do so"

Anti was staring at himself in the mirror instead, "Wow, is this YOU? You're in two places at once!"

"Anti, no, that's a mirror. It's you in the reflection."

"Why am I over there?!"

"Anti, please just go to the bathroom. Do you need help?"

"Who are you?"

"I'm a doctor. I'm here to help."

"Huh. . . . I need to pee"

Henrik sighed, "So then go"

". . .. okay" he still didn't pull his pants down and Henrik got worried.

"Anti, you have to pull your pants DOWN to go to the bathroom!"

"Why are you yelling at me?" Anti started to tear up and sniffled. He was so confused and Henrik's shout was starting to make him panic.

"It's okay, it's okay." Henrik tried to soothe him before things got out of hand, "Just. . . please unzip your pants and go to the bathroom?"

Anti nodded, "I DO have to pee. Turn around!"

Henrik nodded and turned around. He heard Anti unzip his pants but he got worried again and peeked to see Anti peeing in the bath tub instead.

'Oh well . . . at least it's not on the floor'

Henrik let him finish, "Alright, are you done?"

"Done with what?"

"Pull your pants back up and we can get out of here" Henrik blocked his eyes from Anti's lower half.

Thankfully there weren't anymore issues with that and he pulled up his pants successfully. Henrik led him out of the bathroom.

But something must of set Anti off because just as they were about to turn a corner, Anti halted and struggled to get away from Henrik.

"Let me go! Who are you?! Where am I? Why the FUCK am I here?!"

"Anti!" Henrik gripped his hand tight, "It's okay! It's just me, Henny! I'm a doctor. I'm taking you to some friends"

But apparently that was the wrong thing to say this time and Anti tried to yank himself away even harder.

"GET AWAY FROM ME! HELP!!!! HELP ME!!" Anti cried out for help and started to cry.

Henrik didn't know what to do but he couldn't just let him run off in his condition!

Luckily, he didn't have to and the others had heard Anti's shouting.

Chase ran like a bat out of hell, understanding the situation, "Hey! Anti! Are you alright, dude!?"

Anti was just sobbing his heart out, trying desperately to still get away, "I don't know you! I don't know any of you! Let me go! I wanna go! I need to go home!"

The Septic egos all tried to calm him down but it wasn't working.

"Anti, it's alright" Jackie actually tried to hug him but Anti just screamed loudly.

Marvin tried to look for a potion that would calm him but apparently he was fresh out.

Jameson started to cry, not knowing what else to do. Everything was going to hell and they couldn't help poor Anti. It was all too much for Jameson. He just wanted to help but he couldn't do a damn thing!

But apparently. . . . that was the answer.

Anti was reduced to sniffling. Henrik had let him go by this point and the glitch was pressed up against a wall.

He was confused as all hell but he noticed Jameson crying, too.

'Why is HE crying? Is he okay? What's happening?'

And just like a button was pressed, Anti was suddenly hugging Jameson.

"Are you okay? Why are you crying?" he asked.

Jameson just hugged him back, unable to answer. It wasn't as if he'd understand him anyway.

Dark breathed out a deep sigh, "Fuuuuuck. . . . Come on. We can't waste anymore time."

Anti glanced at Dark, "Who are you?"

"Hey Anti" Dark just smiled at him, trying to seem as unthreatening as possible, "Do you wanna come with me? I'd like to introduce you to someone really special! I think you'd like him! You'd be great friends!" he decided to go the child-talk route.

Apparently that was the correct move and Anti smiled and nodded, "Okay, that sounds nice"

Finally back on track, Dark gently took Anti's hand and led him the rest of the way to Host's room.

Dark cleared his throat when they got there, "Now Anti. The room is going to be very messy but that's always how it is, okay? Host, my friend, is VERY messy and very sleepy. He'll be confused but that's alright. You'll be his friend, right?"

Anti nodded with a big smile, "Yeah! Of course!"

Dark was proud of himself for the lie and opened the door.

When they walked in, it was just as Dark had described it.

Books and furniture everywhere on the floor and broken. It looked as if a fight had happened.

Jackie blinked at the man on the floor, "Uh . . . .Dark? Why is Host on the floor in the middle of all this chaos?"

Dark tried to keep up the illusion for Anti, "Oh he's just sleepy. He's fine. He loves sleeping on the floor like that"

But the other Septics knew better. 

Did Dark really beat the shit out of Host?

Dark clambered over the mess to get to Host, "I gotta wake him up. It'll just take a moment."

He picked Host up off the floor and flung him into the only standing chair before slapping him hard on the face.

Host coughed and flinched, waking up.

"Uh  . .. . . oh uh . .. Host woke up in a daze . . . . after Dark had-"

"After Dark did NOTHING" Dark finished for him, "Host, Anti is back along with all the other Septic egos. Your spell is getting WORSE!" he dropped the act towards the end of the sentence.

Host took a moment for himself, "The Host recognized the Septic's presence and greeted them."

"Hi! I'm. . . . ." Anti tried to introduce himself, "What's happening again? Mmmm . . ..  There's too many people here. . . . I don't like it. I wanna go home. . . . I'm tired. Who are you?"

"The Host saw what Darkiplier meant and was equally as concerned. Perhaps his spell really didn't go quite as planned."

"YOU THINK!?" Dark shouted at him.

Anti flinched and saw the door. He tried to go up to it but once again, he forgot how to open it and just ended up staring at a wall, keeping as far away from them all as he could.

"The Host apologizes. He didn't think this through. The Host only wanted to help. He could feel Anti's anguish and pain and only wanted to make things right for him for once"

"And that's great Host" Marvin sighed, "But now we need to figure out how to reverse the spell to get Anti back to normal. Can you tell me where you got it from?"

"The Host scratched at his head sheepishly, hoping Marvin realized that Host couldn't actually see so he didn't know what the book was called and it was many years ago since he last had it. Host presumed it was lost but he had memorized the spell for his character long ago so he was SURE it would have worked on Anti but the Host was wrong and he apologized."

Marvin looked terrified.

Chase stared at Anti who was now sitting on the floor staring blankly at a wall like it was the tv, "So . . .  what's gonna happen now, then?"

"Host could only speculate but he assumed the spell would just run its coarse. What that was, he was uncertain. He wasn't prepared for this outcome at all"

Henrik picked up a random book and threw it at Host.

"The Host deserved that"

Jackie growled, "You deserve a lot worse. Now tell us, what exactly WAS the spell? What does resetting mean for Anti?"

"If he's losing his memory, will he slowly just become a vegetable?" Dark wondered, "How are we going to reverse this? Magician, certainly you have some sort of counter spell of some sort?"

"I'd need the book to know exactly what the spell was and its properties." Marvin clarified, "The wrong counter spell could kill him."

Anti was looking at his hands now but something was off.

Something was REALLY off if Anti was noticing it.

"Where are my hands going?" he asked out loud.

Standing up, Anti looked down on himself to notice it was more than just his hands.

Dark couldn't feel worse, "Oh god . . . this is all my fault"

They all stared in horror as Anti's body was slowly becoming see-through!

But what panicked and confused them the most was Anti's next words.

"This doesn't look right" Anti started to panic again and cry with little hiccups, "I want my dad. . . . where's Sean?"