A Small Glitch

Stain-Glass Wings

"Aw, isn't that just a shame?" Rus said, clicking his tongue and shaking his head.

"Daddy....daddy wake up." Annalise cried, holding Anti's hand while Dark was still hugging him against his chest. "Papa crying. Please wake up." She cried more when she didn't feel the light spark she was used to when holding Anti's hand. "Daddy...please...daddy."

"Get her. We have work to do." Rus turned around to walk away but stopped when something bright flashed past him. He faced the direction it came from and saw that Marvin was pointing his wand towards him. The magician's eyes were red and tears could be seen dripping off of his jaw. "Looks like the little kitten's upset." Rus chuckled.

"Don't. Call. Him. That." Chase was slowly rising as he spoke, hand to his chest and crying himself.

"Just take your corpse and leave. I don't have time to deal with you."

"You fucked with the Septiceyes." Dr. Schneepelstein pulled out several scalpels.

"You fucked with the Ipliers." Dr. Iplier added, taking out his own scalpels.

"You fucked up," Bim said, voice a little stuffy.

"Get ready to fight." Jackieboy's voice was hoarse but strong.

"End them." Rus stated before the, now smaller in number, virus' attacked. The standing egos all yelled as they began another round of fighting.

"Hello." Bing's voice was robotic as his body rebooted. "Holy shit." He sat up and shook his head. "Dark...oh no." Bing put a hand over his mouth when he saw that Anti was being held and a large puddle of blood was beneath him. He turned his head and saw that the other egos were still fighting. "Goog. Goog, buddy get up." Bing crawled over to Google and pressed an ear to his chest after rolling him over. "Alright. I got this. I can do this." Bing slid up Google's shirt before sitting on his lap. "It's...here?" Bing pressed his fingers into the bottom of Google's ribs and a moment later it beeped and a panel popped up. "Yes!" Bing pumped a fist before opening the panel all the way. "You just need a jumpstart." Bing put his hands inside and resisted the urge to throw-up as he lightly gripped several wires. "One...two...three-" Bing sent an electric shock through his hands and he fell back. "Did it work?" Bing sat back up and looked in. "Come on, come on." He closed the panel and squeezed his eyes shut. "Wait...um...okay, Google." There was a loud chime and Google suddenly jerked upright, finding himself staring face-to-face with Bing sitting on him.

"What?"

"Okay, good, you're up! Bing scrambled to his feet. "We gotta help, Anti's dead and-"

"Anti's what!?"

"We have to help the others!" Bing pointed and Google followed his finger.

"There seems to be thirty of them left," Google stated, eyes glowing as he thought. "Let's go." Google grabbed Bing's hand and took off. Bing popped up on his Heelys and braced himself before he was thrown forward into a group of the virus'.

"Strike!" Bing cheered when they all fell over.

"I do have the best aim." Google chuckled as he reached Bing and the two began knocking out the virus' properly.

"My...head..." Wilford groaned, rolling to his knees. "Where..." After several blinks, he remembered where he was. The virus number had shrunk and some of the egos had injuries, but that didn't seem to be stopping them. "No..." Wilford saw Dark. "Shit." Wilford ran over to the man and knelt with him.

"Daddy won't wake up," Annalise said.

"Dark...Dark, pal." Wilford found pieces of what looked like red and blue glass around them. "Dark, I need you to snap out of it," Dark said nothing and just continued to hold Anti. "The others need you. We can't stop Rus without you. I didn't see it, but I know that it's his fault that Anti is gone. You are the only one that can avenge him. He will come back. They always come back but it takes time. I waited ten hours for you. I'm sure you can wait for Anti." Wilford placed something on the ground before he stood back up. "You're strong. Don't let Rus win. You can do this." Wilford tried one more time before taking off, knowing that the other egos needed him.

Dark was frozen. He didn't want to move. He didn't want to breathe. He didn't want this to be real. This had to be a sick joke. Some messed up nightmare to test his sanity.

"Papa...papa..." Dark finally opened one of his eyes and saw that Annalise was looking at him, her face a bright red. "Help."

Annalise. Annalise was still here. His little girl. His little girl needed him.

"If you can't kill them, I'll do it myself!"

Rus

Dark slowly lowered Anti's body, blood soaking both of their bodies. He pressed a kiss against Anti's lips, he waited for something, anything, but got nothing.

"I love you," Dark said, more tears forming in his eyes. "I will always love you. I-" Dark tensed up and started to shake, the tears freely falling and landing on Anti's body. The shards of Dark's aura started to slowly slide across the ground. They pooled at Dark's feet as they became a liquid. The shards started to climb up Dark's legs, growing the higher up they went. Eventually, they became two, shifting balls on his back. Dark kept his eyes on Anti as he rose to his feet. He clenched his hands while the balls started to shift even more as if something was inside and was trying to escape. With one sharp crack of his neck, the balls exploded. Dark's red and blue aura returned as wings stretched out, free from their confinement. They looked to be made of a stain-glass window, red and blue swirling around each other in a beautiful pattern.

"Get him, papa," Annalise said, placing her hands on Anti's chest, a soft orange hue beginning to glow out of her palms.

Dark only smiled at his child before turning around, the smile quickly becoming a scowl when he saw Rus, who was fighting with Wilford. Dark let out a yell that caught everyone's attention.

"What the fuck!?" Rus shouted in shock. Dark started running and with one harsh flap of his wings, he was in the air and diving towards the virus. Rus didn't have time to glitch before Dark caught him and lifted him into the air with him. Dark flipped himself and threw Rus to the ground, Rus ended up cracking the ground a little and the ground shattered when Dark landed on him, going for a punch and hitting the concrete instead of Rus' face.

"Get him! Get him!" Rus yelled. The remaining virus' all began to pile on top of Dark.

"Dark!" Wilford and the other egos were about to help get the virus' off but stopped when the pile started to shake. The virus' all screamed as a burst of energy sent them flying. Dark was now standing and yelling at the top of his lungs. "Go get him, Dark!" Wilford cheered.

"This is absurd!" Rus glitched away when Dark lunged for him. Dark crouched on the ground for only a brief moment before being able to launch himself and tackle Rus.

"You killed him! You killed him!" Dark screamed, slamming Rus against the ground several times before he was gone again.

"I thought you were the emotionless one! Get over it! You'll find another! They always do!" Rus called from across the room.

"There's only one Anti!" Dark flapped his wings and was now floating in the air.

"Look around you! There are more virus'! One of them can easily take over Anti's place and you would never know the difference!"

"You know nothing!" Dark swooped down and went towards Rus, easily dodging the blue spikes the virus threw at him. Rus waited until Dark grabbed him again before lashing out. He has spikes on his fingertips and he clawed them across Dark's face. Dark released him and moved back, wiping the blood off of his face and out of his eye.

"Anti was nothing more than a useless corruption! A mistake! He's just a glitch!" Rus froze when something gun flew by his face after a gunshot made the room silent.

"I'm not just a glitch." A voice said. "I'm the glitch-bitch."