Alter-Native

Chapter eight

Jensen woke to find himself dragged into a large room that had a black chair and behind the desk, he saw Anti sitting there. Now fully aware of the situation he tried to free himself so he could attack his enemy but two hands were holding him tightly. To his right, he saw Dan; to his left, he saw Dark.

"Let me go so I can finish you off!" Jensen exclaimed. Anti rolled his eyes and asked when Jensen would say the classic line of you'll never get away with this. "I'd rather rip you to shreds." Jensen said.

"Good use all that pent up anger," Anti responded. "It will come in handy later, but I'm sure you already knew that," Jensen said nothing as he didn't want to let his guard down again and let Anti get to him. "Very well be that way, gentleman if you will restrain him so that the two of us can talk." Jensen struggled against their iron grips as he was forced onto a metal chair, the cool feeling of metal handcuffs pierced Jensen skin, as they restrained his ankles with other metal cuffs. A brief glance down at Dan, Jensen noticed a bead of sweat falling from Dan's forehead.

"Dan you don't need to do this, if he's trying to force you to do something, don't listen to him." Jensen reassured the young youtuber but Dan ignored him and stepped away. A malicious smile appeared on Anti's face.

"Leave us! And be ready." Anti ordered. Dark ushered Dan out of the room who glanced back with sorrowful eyes leaving Anti alone with a pissed off Jensen.

"So how do you recruit others to do your dirty work for you?" Jensen asked.

"Whatever do you mean?" Anti asked. He locked eyes with Jensen wanting him to explode in anger. "Oh you must mean my system, well let me make it simple as you sit there like a lump on a log," he continued. "Everyone has an alter ego, I just need to give them the right push and I can take it." Jensen scoffed, all he could hear from Anti was nothing more than inaudible sounds not to mention the annoying glitching in and out.

"How about you stick it where the sun doesn't shine," Jensen said. "And give up like a man or are you just going to hide in your computer software all over the world? You're only doing this because of what Danneel and I did to you all those years ago, I still think you would have done nicely trapped in a safe and inside a small ass bottle." Anti clenched his teeth but forced himself to remain calm, as he wanted to wear Jensen down. So he snapped his fingers and caused Jensen's nose to start bleeding, his hope being that Jensen would crack right there.

"Come now Jensen, don't you remember what happens to people who piss me off?" Anti asked. Jensen moved his head and wiped off the blood on his darkened shirt like it was nothing and still had a hardened expression. No matter what Anti tried to do, he wasn't going to let the monster control him to a point where he caved in.

"Nose bleeds are nothing you dick." Jensen said. "Next time you try to torture me, you better come up with something more than that." Anti growled in frustration and considered using Jared instead as he didn't like to wait, he had been waiting for years to achieve his dream. But a smirk quickly replaced his frown when an idea popped into his head.

"Fine but know this, you caused what I'm about to do." Anti said firmly. Jensen braced himself for what was to come, sudden pain hit him like a rock and he struggled to find his bearings.

Jensen found himself in a room similar to the one he was currently trapped in, the only difference was that he hadn't been alone, Dark stood in the room with them, guards dragged three familiar figures into the same room. Jensen couldn't believe his eyes and wished that all of it were a dream. Chained together, his best friend and his family were in the line of fire. Dark had a gun in his hand, maybe a .22 Caliber weapon. He tried to move but his feet were planted on the floor. It was like an invisible force was keeping him trapped in place, he couldn't even scream as even his mouth was frozen. So he was forced to watch as Dark killed them all, and even though he couldn't scream, his heart broke into a thousand pieces.

Even when the image vanished from his head Jensen was distraught heavy tears ran down his face, and Anti smirked at the scene. He forced himself to think that Anti only used that to exert his dominance, but that started to wane on him. Jensen wanted to hold on but Anti walked close to his space bubble and leaned forward.

"Everyone has a weakness Jensen, everyone," Anti said. "I just needed to find yours, if you don't do exactly as I say, then they will be next and their families after them, I will continue to attack and kill all of them until you have no one left to love. After all, that's how I got through to Chase." Jensen glared but suddenly there was a blinding light and the next thing he knew he was engulfed in darkness yet again.

***

Anti had successfully jumped into Jensen; it didn't take long until he finally took control and looked up. Dark stood in place wondering if it worked but the minute he saw Jensen's eyes flash green everything was successful.

"You did it boss, I didn't expect this to go on smoothly," He said with an evil smirk. "Does he have the coordinates, sir?" Anti searched Jensen's mind for the location of the staff but it was nowhere in sight, Anti growled as he looked again while Dark asked what the problem was as there was never a human he couldn't break.

"It's not there," Anti responded clenching his teeth, Anti broke free from the bonds that held Jensen and stood.

"What how could it not be?" Dark asked but the two got their answer when the power to the room was cut and Anti knew that Jared was nearby, he could see through Jensen's memories that the two had known each other since childhood, and had been raised like brothers.

"Dark fix the lights, we can't let Jared foil my plans," Anti ordered.

"You mean our plans?" Dark asked and Anti clenched his teeth again. The day he had been waiting for ever since he convinced the world to elect him as their leader, was finally in reach and about to be ruined if Jared managed to outsmart him.

"Yes whatever, just do as I say," Anti said and he turned around trying to figure out how Jensen couldn't have the location of the staff when he helped hide it, with his back turned he missed the unpleasant gesture Dark gave him before he left the room.

***

Dark searched for what caused the power outage, a million thoughts ran through his head, but only one answer came back which seemed to be the most obvious.

"That's it," he said to himself. "If Jensen doesn't know where it is that means Jared does, and if he knows, well I guess I should take advantage of that." Dark walked down the hall with his flashlight, some of the lights in the hallway had flickered, pushing his thoughts away he made his way to the breadbox where he saw that the large light switch had been turned off. Grumbling to himself, he walked over to the break box and flipped the handle up instantly. The lights came on and it had stopped. "That's better."

"Dark. Glad you could come down here in time." a voice said from behind him. He cursed under his breath and turned to face his surprise visitor. Standing not too far from him was none other than Jared Padalecki himself.