Chapter Thirty-Six- Remaining True

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Anti knew WHY he'd been in the void while everyone else was out here.

He was hated... Abandoned... UNWANTED!

He was shunned while the others- Sean's PERFECT CREATIONS- were welcomed and loved!

It WAS all Sean's fault!

That s̸̰͌͗̾o̴͓̮͛͂̊n̸̺̊ͅ ̷̜͉̱̒o̸̪̻͙͌̉f̶̛̛̮̻̙ ̵͍͙̈a̷͕̾ ̵̳̲̥̈́̑̍b̴̩̓̂į̵̭̞̊͗͛t̴̘̙̎̈́̅č̷̟̹̀̕ḧ̷̫̩̗́̆!̸̰̄̽͒

He'd show them! He'd show them all! He doesn't NEED family!

Even so...

He couldn't bring himself to hate Sean... Or his 'perfect creations'.

But...

He still needed to teach Sean a little lesson about RESPONSIBILITY before leaving...

And he knew EXACTLY what he'd do!


He looked at the knife... Then back to Sean.

Sean and Jackie had seemed to notice that Anti wasn't listening to them anymore. They were just... Staring. As if waiting for him to snap out of it. 

"You... Don't WANT me... W̵͕͉̠̏Ë̸̱͉́̽͘L̵̞̐͑Ḻ̶̲͙̿̉,̸̛̮͔͉͑́ ̷̢̧̱͆͑̀Ṫ̷̲̗̄̽Ỏ̴̼͓͠Ơ̸̦̩̂ ̴̺͇̳͋̈̊B̷̡̀A̷͇͆D̸̘͔͊!̶̰͎͕̏̚ Hehehe- ChK-!" Anti choked a bit and his eyes watered, but he didn't let that faze him, He grinned maniacally. For once, he HOPED he looked scary as shit.

He snickered as Jackie seemed to run out of patience and try to hit him. He quickly dodged and made his final decision.

He would scare the lesson into the bastard. 

He lunged forward and went straight for his creator, knocking him to the ground and stabbing him in the arm.

After all the pain and suffering Sean had put Anti through, that's the LEAST he should get! This wouldn't kill him, and it wasn't in any vital place that Anti stabbed him...

But that's ALL he would get...

Anti pretended to snicker as Sean cried out in pain, ripping out the knife as if going in for the kill. But he wouldn't... And he would blame it on the hero running at him.

"Oh, well... Looks like my 'fun' is over~! See you in the next phase... B̴̛̞͋͐Ǎ̶̧̳͉̒H̶͍͚̻͛̓̄A̴͖̾H̷̬̮́Ä̸̮́H̸̲͆́̈́A̸̛̻͍͍͝H̶̲͌̀̍Å̶̯̰ͅH̸̨͎͙̎̈́A̴̭̝͋Ḧ̸̢́͒́~̶̡̢̃̍͠ͅ!̸̥̌"

Anti teleported off, and his smile fell.

He knew he wouldn't ACTUALLY be back... Maybe tease in a few of Sean's videos to keep them on their toes... But he would NEVER return...

And he would never be the same again...

So innocent, so trusting...

He really was a fool, wasn't he?

Never again...

He'd never let ANYONE hurt him like that again...

He could never truly trust again...

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He had first met Dark in the video where they fought, that much was true.

But Anti never HATED Dark... The glitch couldn't bring himself to hate anyone, really... 

But this was different.

He RESPECTED Dark...

Looked up to him, really.

Dark was everything he wanted to be...

Able to hide such a soft heart under such a hardened and 'manipulative' exterior...

Able to uphold justice- TRULY uphold justice, not the way that hero does it- without people thinking of him as WEAK or WRONG...

So respected and feared, but also loved and adored...

Anti had never seen a more perfect role model!

He was everything Anti EVER wanted to be and more!

Anti watched the videos. All of them. He knew EVERYTHING about ALL of the egos- ESPECIALLY Dark. 

And he fucking hated Actor, and he never hated ANYBODY, so that said something! Even if he never met the guy...


And then, one day, he did.


Actor came to HIM as he was playing around in one of Sean's spooky videos.


At first, Anti thought to kill him on sight... But he was smarter than that. Actor could EASILY beat him. So, he did the logical thing... He pretended. 

He snarled and went on defense, pretending to be off his rocker.


But then... Actor tried to get in his head.


He wasn't STUPID! He KNEW what Actor was doing all along... But to make it believable, he let it happen.


"Tell me, dear glitch... WHY do you hate Sean so much? What did he do to you...?" Actor was an actor for a reason, looking at Anti with 'pity'. Actor took a step forward and used a bit of power on Anti, thinking his mindset was frailer than it was... Actor thought he got in.

"He..." Anti acted like it worked, lowering his guard. He started to tear up as he thought about it... It truly was hard to say it without crying. "They didn't  w a n t  me . . . They hated me since I was born... Even after I went through all that trouble..." 

"Shh... It's alright... That's absolutely DREADFUL, what they did to you! Come now, what do you think about... Getting a little revenge? Hmm? Join me... Partner." Actor cooed gently, but his eyes shone with malice. He took a step towards the 'vulnerable' glitch, thinking he'd already won.

But Anti wasn't like that.

What Sean 'created him to be' and thought he was... That didn't define him.

They could THINK what they wanted... 

He was not a villain... Nor was he a hero.

He was Anti-fucking-Septiceye. And NO ONE told him what he could or couldn't be.

He would remain true to HIMSELF.

So, he 'accepted' Actor's deal, ideas already stirring in his mind.


And then, Plan A was made.


'A' for 'Ass-kicking', of course.

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