Chained Puppet

Another Ego?

As soon as Anti went through the outlet, he felt sick and dizzy but kept going. He felt . . . .  in pieces. As if he just wasn't one whole person anymore. And the noise around him! So buzzy and loud! He felt himself connect to something large and thought it must have been the power lines.

He traveled through trying to feel out for anything that reminded him of home. But he was sort of lost.

He needed to launch himself out somewhere so he could find out where he was or just how close he was to home.

Launching out, he snapped out of an outlet.

Looking around, he saw a face he didn't recognize, though. A bald man with a serious face. He looked to be in a detective's office and the man shouted at him, "Hey what the hell!? Get out of here, you son of a bitch!"

Scared, Anti saw his phone and zapped through it to try something different. The set up of going through the phone was different but not harder. He sensed a connection that seemed familiar so he bolted through it.

Only to land somewhere ELSE he didn't recognize. He was in another office.

He twirled around, still glitching to see a man looking just as surprised dressed formally.

"Anti?"

But not one to trust anyone else but the Septics right now, Anti spied the man's laptop and glitched into it to travel again.

The computer was a lot easier to go through and finally after a few moments, he felt something stronger. Something he was sure would be one of the Septic's electronics. He blasted through the firewall and shot out.

He heard someone shout in surprise and Anti laid on the floor shaking himself off. When he looked around, the area was surely a bit more familiar but it still wasn't right. Anti looked up and at first he thought he wound up back where he started but this man was. . . .  different.

He looked scared of him.

"A-anti? The hell are YOU doing here!?"

The glitch shook and shot back from the man against the wall, "St-stay away from me!"

"Anti?" now the man just looked concerned, "The hell happened to you?"

"I don't know how you know who I am but you won't fool me! I want to go home!" Anti had enough. He just wanted to go back to his family, "I just want to go home!"

"Hey, hey" the man leaned down but stayed back as if trying to figure out himself what was happening, "It's okay."

Anti took a chance to look around to see he was in a small office lit up with red and blue lights. The man had been sitting in an office chair in front of a few computers when Anti got shot out of them. Beside the man in a different chair was a woman with a cat in her arms.

"I know Jackie's been looking fer ya for years. Bet he won't be happy to-"

"Where are they? I want to go back! Who are you?" then it hit him . . .. , "A-are you Sean?"

The man seemed genuinely worried about him, "Y-yes? . . . you don't remember?"

Anti swallowed and shook his head, "I hit my head a week ago. Henrik helped fix me up. I've been living with them all week. Where are they? Where am I?"

"Do you still have their number, Sean?" the woman asked.

"Uh . . . I don't know. I think they keep blocking me. Maybe you should stay here for a bit? I want to make sure you're not lying"

"I'm not lying! Stay away!" Anti stood and stayed away as far as possible, glitching in retaliation, "I don't know you and if they don't trust you then neither will I!"