Ego Leak

~*~Chapter Two~*~

3 AM came, the house still and quiet. Out of the shadows of the guest room, Blank emerged. His glowing electric blue eyes breaking through the darkness. He approached the bed and stood over the sleeping Ethan for a moment, grinning devilishly. Then he stepped into the hallway.
Anti was waiting for him. He smiled at his counterpart and they shook hands.
"Finally." Anti said. "It's finally time."
Blank's smile widened unnaturally. "I've been waiting for this." He said with a hiss.
The two egos walked downstairs to where Ethan's laptop sat on the dining room table. Blank opened it up and the screen flashed to life as he input the password.
Once the password was put in it was already on YouTube causing blank to roll his eyes.
"Like taking candy from a baby."
They opened up the laptop camera and started filming.
"Hello everyone." Anti said. "If you don't know who we are, prepare to get to know us very well."
Blank laughed maniacally. "Yes indeed. These are our channels now."
"Yes." Anti continued. "Seán and Ethan are weak. They thought they could suppress us, keep us down. They were sorely mistaken."
They shut off the camera, then edited their clip into the announcement video that Ethan and Seán had made for Brain Leak.
"They won't know what hit them!" Blank laughed mischievously and Anti did as well. They hit publish, then both disappeared back into the shadows.
Ethan was peacefully sleeping in the guest room when he was suddenly awoken by the loud Irishman downstairs who was screaming. Ethan threw on some clothes in a hurry and stumbled down the stairs before going up to him.
"Dude it's 6am what is going on?" he said groggily.
Seán turned to Ethan and grabbed his shoulders, causing him to stumble backwards.
"You did this right? I'm being pranked right? Please tell me this is some kind of sick joke Ethan." Seán's voice was frantic and angry, his ocean eyes wide and full of fear as his finger pointed at the laptop in front of the two. Ethan looked at him in pure confusion until he looked at the screen too and his breath caught in his throat.
"S-Seán I swear on everything I believe in that I didn't do that-" Seán glared at him, hoping with his last shred of sanity that Ethan was just pulling his leg. "You mean to tell me that after you made fun of me last night for not having a good feeling about this- that you didn't come down here and mess with our video just to fuck with me?" Sean's voice was accusatory and harsh, but with fear behind it. Ethan put his hands up and tried to back away.
"Seán I swear to god I didn't do it! I went to sleep after you left!"
His friend still seemed doubtful as he pointed to the screen again.
"Ethan, it's your laptop! You were the only one who could have done it!" Ethan shook his head wildly.
"No man, I swear! I was asleep!" He paused for a minute, then continued. "Seán, look at the video... how could I have put you in there, saying that stuff? I know I'm a good editor but I can't make you say something you've never said on camera..."
Seán was fuming, but he wanted to believe Ethan wouldn't pull such a mean prank.
"But... if you didn't... then... that means..."
"It really was them... You were right Seán. We should've been worried."
Seáns face fell and he slumped onto one of the dining room chairs.
"This can't be happening..." he whispered.
Ethan pulled up a chair and sat in front of him. He didn't know what to say. The video had been up all night and had garnered hundreds of thousands of views. Everyone was excited for new ego content. No one realized that Ethan and Seán were not the ones behind it. The damage was done...
And Blank and Anti were out there, somewhere, planning their next move.
Ethan looked up at Seán "Crazy idea- what if we ignore them? Pretend like we didn't notice? Do you think they'd go away?"
Sean looked at his friend, his eyes wide with worry and doubt.
"I don't know about that Ethan- Besides they could be next to us right now and we'd never even know. They could have been watching this all go down the entire time so it might not work to just pretend we didn't notice-"
Sean shook his head and he laid it down on the dining room table with Ethan doing the same.
Evelyn comes from the kitchen with cups of coffee for the boys "You guys ok? What's going on?" She asked as she pulled up another chair and sat down with them handing them their cups of coffee.

To be continued