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(AT THE ANON WHO WANTED MIND CONTROLLED MARVIN AND ANTI EVEN THOUGH I SAID REQUESTS ARE CLOSED I JUST HAD TO WRITE THIS I PROMISE IM DOING MY OTHER REQUESTS JUST FUCK THIS WAS TOO GOOD)

Marvin’s footsteps echoed down the dark hallway he was in, sending chills down his spine. He could hardly see three steps in front of him, except for when the lights ahead would flicker with sickly green and red lights. That’s when Marvin would see them. The glitches.

They were pitch black and all consuming. Glimpses into the void. They were devouring what they could of the never ending hallway leaving trailing blue and green jagged edges jutting into the spaces left behind. Marvin just kept walking, hoping he was close to an exit as his flame cast everything in a blue-green hue.  

Suddenly, high pitched static laughter sounded throughout the hallway and Marvin’s blood ran cold. He didn’t even look behind him. He just ran. He sprinted as fast as he could, rushing down the hall, jumping and ducking as the glitches seem to try to grab and suck him in. He could only hear the laughter and the sound of his heartbeat. He was sprinting so fast he could hardly breathe. His chest felt like it was on fire and pained panicked tears sprung to his eyes as he tried to navigate through the darkness. He should have know this was a trap!

A set of glitches seem to form a hand in front of him and grab him and Marvin screams in terror, stumbling backwards. The square glitches take a humanoid form, a sinister white grin appearing where the mouth would be. Then the black melts away and of course, it’s Anti, standing there with his soulless eyes boring right into Marvin. Marvin takes a shaky step back as he raises his hand out to snap at the glitch, brow creased in determination.

“Well hello, Kit Kat,” The glitch sang as he prowled closer. Marvin took another wobbly step back. “It’s been so long since i saw you last.” The virus smirks and tilts his head, flashing the cat masked magician a toothy grin, “D̨̧̪͒̎́i̲̰̦͌̑̎d̡͕͖̍̒̕ ̹͚̻̈́͑͠ỷ̨͚̳̀̆o̫͔̹͐͂̀ự̧̻͒̀ ̥̬̠́͠͝m̦̩̤̍̋̕i̼͇̰͑̾͠s̤͇͍͂̚̕s̱̭͎̊̉́ ̩̮̺̌͌̃ḿ͕̯̬͂̊ē̛̘̹̜̇?̢̛̖̪̓̇"̻̭͉̉́̇ ̦͇̮̐̾̎

Marvin barked out a rough sarcastic laugh, “Ha. Good one, Anti. Don’t you ever get sick of using the same one liners over and over?” The magician tries to give him a cocky smirk, even as his legs shake beneath him.

Anti chuckles, his eyes flashing madly, “Not at all. They still make you all tremble with fear.”

The cat masked man glares, his anger sparking, “I-I’m not scared of you, glitch bitch!” He tries to take another step back, only to realize Anti has corner him to a dead end. He roars in rage, finally puffing out his stance and snapping his fingers. A bolt of emerald lightning erupts from his fingertips and rockets towards Anti’s chest. But the Glitch hardly flinches. His form dissolves into pixels where the lightning would have struck him and he reappears a few inches to the left, smiling smugly. Still, he looks over to the imprint the blast made in the wall and whistles.

“Well, look at you Whiskers,” He muses, “You’ve been practicing.” He looks back to Marvin. Seems to stare at the lingering magic on his fingertips hungrily as the magician stares dumbfoundead.

In a flash the glitch is behind Marvin, grabbing the magician’s chin roughly in between his fingers. Marvin cries out in surprise, his body going stiff. Anti leans in close. Marvin’s whole body feels like its being consumed by his static. He swallows thickly, unable to force his muscles to move.

“When will you realize, Marvin?” Anti coos into Marvin’s ear, “That your power is wasted being on their side?”

“I-It’s not-!”

“But it is.” The glitch snaps coldy, digging his nails into Marvin’s skin to shut him up. “What has Sean ever done for you? When was the last time he gave you any of the attention you so desperately deserve? Hm?” Anti pauses, letting his words sink in as he slowly watches the magician’s face fall. He smirks and lets him go, starting to slink around him as he continues. “He’s given attention to that hero lately… the doctor… the depressed… even that new mute~!” Marvin’s eyes seem to flash blue at that, anger showing. Anti smirks. “Most of them haven’t been around as long as you have… and yet… here you are… buried so deep in Jack’s head he hardly even remembers you…”

Tears cloud Marvin’s vision as his hands tremble, “T-That’s… that’s not true…”

“You know it is, Kitten,” Anti purrs as he trails a finger down Marvin’s shoulder and leans in close again, “Yet I don’t wait for attention. I take it. And the fans practically beg for me… I can give you all of that…”

Marvin knows he shouldn’t be listening to Anti. He’s spitting lies into Marvin’s head. But… Marvin wants to believe him. The magician’s body is starting to feel numb and far away. He’s not sure why. He… he just wants to listen for now. He doesn’t want to think. He kinda just wants to… destroy. Cause mayhem. It would… be fun… wouldn’t it?

The magician blinks his eyes sleepily, fighting whatever Anti is doing to him. Everything seems to be dimming green. “B-But… m...my.. Brothers…” Marvins slurs, swaying slightly, minutely trying to shake his head.

Anti leans in once again, slowly building up his glitches in front of the magician’s eyes. Nice and bright, blindly fast. Using them to ensnare his senses so he’ll listen. Gradually he begins to add subliminal messages.

Forget. Submit. Obey. Let loose. Go Crazy. Mayhem. Alone. Empty. Puppet. Toy. No Brothers. Mine. Forget. Forget. Forget.

Marvin’s eyes droop even more as he watches the glitches, taking in the commands. Anti smirks and tilts his head down at him.

“What brothers, Marvin?”

Marvin blinks slowly, “... brothers…?”

Anti grins like a predator, “Very good, Pet.” He gently lifts up Marvin’s lolling head so he’ll look up at the Glitches eyes as he talks, “ Now i know you’re very sleepy right now. But in a moment you’ll wake up. And when you do, we’re going to have a lot of fun. When you wake up, you’ll only remember being on my side as my loyal puppet, got it?”

The magician nods slowly, “..y..yes…”

Anti grips onto Marvin’s arm, digging his claws in as he tilts his head again. Marvin doesn’t flinch as he looks up at the glitch devotedly, “And now, i believe i promised you some more power… can’t have you being weak on me. Do you still want that, little kitten?”

Marvin’s eyes glow slightly, hungrily. He licks his lips slightly and nods, “Y-yes.. I w-want.. It…”

Anti giggles as he grips the magician tighter, “This will hurt. But once we’re done, you’ll wake up for me.” As Anti digs his claws even deeper into Marvin’s arm, his own arm becomes covered in oil black glitches that shift in different colors in the light. They swarp from Anti’s arm and slither down his claws as they sink into Marvin’s skin. Marvin jerks, his eyes suddenly alight with pain. From under his skin, the glitches’s squares seem to try to break free, showing flashes of black and colors as they slither through his skin. Marvin screams bloody murder, his eyes flooding with green, the whites of his eyes looking like they were being filled with static. Anti can’t help but laugh madly at the sight.

The glitches finally reach up Marvin’s arm and over take his neck, all of them turning green-blue instead of multi-colored. Marvin’s gasps and topples over, catching himself on his hands to keep himself from collapsing completely. Anti withdraws and shakes off his hand as he watches the trembling magician with a schooled expression.

The space is filled with Marvin’s pained wheezes for a couple tenses minute before Anti grows impatient. He takes a step closer to him and cracks his neck loudly, hoping to get his attention.

“Well, Kit Kat? You awake?”

The magician’s shoulders hunch slightly. But they just as quickly relax. Then suddenly his whole form buzzes with green-blue-black glitches, his form shifting back and forth with static. Marvin looks like he’s shaking. Then suddenly he throws his head back, mad crazed laughter bubbling out of him. He turns his head and rises, his eyes filled with acidic green light, his eyes dripping liquid static. His fingers twitch with glitching magic, like he’s itching to use it immediately.

Anti grins sinisterly at his new puppet. Marvin grins back with the same enthusiasm.

Part 1: [x] More Illusion: [x]

Jackie’s on patrol when he gets a strange buzz of static on his radio, causing him to stop and almost take his earpiece out. Then he hears it. That chilling familiar laugh that sends shivers down his spine.

“Hello, hero,” The glitch purrs in his ear, “Surprised?”

“Anti,” Jackie growls, looking around at the nearby buildings, body braced for an ambush, ‘What the hell do you want?”

Anti chuckles, savoring the impatience he can feel radiating from Jackie as he takes his time to respond, “No need to get your tights in a bunch! I just have something… no… someone i think you might be interested in collecting…”

There’s another quick burst of static, threatening to deafen Jackie before the line quiets and all Jackie can hear is quick panicked breathing. There’s a hitched sob and a rustling before a voice joins the background static, “JAcKiI-ieBboY?!” The voice is glitched to all hell but Jackie would know it anywhere. His breath hitches.

“Marvin?!”

“H-heElp!” Marvin’s voice cries through the static as it crescendos in the earpiece, “d-D-DoN’t LeT hiM-!” The line cuts with another loud burst of static and Jackie’s eyes widen as he presses his fingers to the device, trying to reconnect the line.

“Marvin? Marvin!”

More quiet this time, he hears the static rise as a whisper slithers in his ear, “Better hurry up hero, time’s a ticking~!” Jackie is about to curse the glitch out when a rumble on his hip catches his attention. He pulls out his tracking device, and sees a quick glitch across the surface before an address appears and the red dot starts blinking towards an address just a couple blocks away. Jackie squints at the dot in confusion, then looks out at the city’s horizon.

“...What game are you playing, Anti..?” He whispers to himself. Then he shrugs and leaps off the building. He had a brother to save.

Jackie approaches the address cautiously, adjusting his gadgets and swallowing hard. He has a bad feeling. But isn’t every feeling associated with Anti a bad feeling?

Jackie takes a second to pull out his phone, sending a quick message to his brothers. He might be able to handle this on his own… but he might not. But let’s stay positive.

Slowly, Jackie entered the empty office building, rundown and condemned. A perfect place for Anti and his chaos.  Jackie wanders down the hall, fists ready for a fight. Then he hears a scream that sounds like Marvin’s. And he’s running.

He runs and runs, running towards a bright blue light at the end of the hallway, following what sounds like Marvin. But as he approaches it sounds less like screaming and more like.. Laughing? Jackie skids to a stop as he reaches the room and nearly falls over at the sight.

Marvin is standing in front of him. But everything about him is wrong. HIs entire form shifts and twitches with green and blue glitches and static. His clothes are a ruined and ripped mess. His cape is long gone and glowing blue strings are wrapped and tangled tightly around his arms and legs and some of his fingers. As he turns around, Jackie audibly gasps and stumbles back at the sight.

Marvin’s eyes are empty sockets just filled with pure static. His neck is cut like Anti’s but instead of blood, it’s also leaking static. He’s wearing his mask around his neck instead of on his face and he regards Jackie with a terrifying grin that stretches his face in a way that’s no way natural. He laughs madly as he glitches forward slightly, his glitching not nearly as smooth and defined as Anti’s as he trips over his own feet and giggles.

“S-sSo yoU’re hEre!” He grins, “tHE hEro O-oNe R-ri-IghT?!” Marvin’s voice skips and jolts around like it was put through a bad glitch filter as he twitchily stalks towards Jackie. The hero swallows and wishes he could stop the shaking that’s starting in his knees.

“j-JaCkiEBoYyyy-? jAckIEboY M-MaNn??” Marvin questions loudly, his head twitching back and forth as he laughs, “S-sEems LiKe a b-BaD n-NamE to Me! Y-yOU d-DoN’t lOoK LiKe MucH of a MaN!” Marvin then bends over at the stomach, laughing like madman at his own joke (?). “mUcH LeSs A HeRO!!”

Jackie felt hot tears spring up and he tried to blink them away. “W-What the hell?” He whimpered, “M-Marvin… What did Anti do to you?!”

The magician paused at that, stopping his laughter and focusing his eyes on the hero. He tilted his head painfully to the side before another wicked grin spread across his face.

“M-mArVIn? w-WhO’s ThAt-t?” He glitches again but this time it’s smoother and suddenly he’s right in front of Jackie, soulless static eyes boring straight through him. Jackie yelps and tries to scramble back and Marvin giggles louder. “W-wAs t-ThAT mY n-NamE bEfoRe? wHeN I wOrE T-tHis?” Marvin hooks a finger under the mask around his neck , lifting it slightly towards the hero. “cUz mY MaStER gAvE a NeW nAMe! I LiKe iT sO mUcH bEtTeR-r!” Marvin grins wider, looking like an excited child and Jackie pushes him away with a heavy breath.

“No! Fucking S-Stop it! You’re Marvin! No matter what that fucking glitch tells you!” Jackie screams at the magician, his fists flaring up with silver blue power.

Neon green irises flash and pulse in the empty static of Marvin’s eyes and suddenly the glitches in the room multiply. There are two more Marvins in front of Jackie, four more, six more- All of them start cackling, the glitching laughter grating so hard on Jackie’s ears that he bends over slightly from the strain, covering his ears. They start to surround the hero while he’s down and he’s grabbed and he tries to punch out but all he hits is glitches and static. Marvin’s laughter threatens to swallow him whole.

“My nAmE iS iLLuSiOn, hErO…” Marvin giggles as he strides forward and trails fingers underneath Jackie’s chin, a motion way to similar to Anti. Jackie shivers and tries to kick out at him but in a flash of glitches, his leg is tangled up in glowing blue strings.

“F-Fuck!” Jackie curses, struggling against the strings. Suddenly rough jagged nails grab his leg and toss his body, the strings snapping and sending Jackie crashing headfirst into the nearest wall. The hero coughs and tries to right himself, blinking dizziness out of his eyes.

The laughter dies down to just one as Marvin glitches around the room spastically. Jackie quickly tries to get to his feet, trying to track Marvin’s movement, but the magician is moving too fast to track. There’s a buzz of static before Marvin is in front of Jackie, digging brightly colored claws into Jackie’s face and laughing madly. Jackie screams and tries to kick out, he manages a few blows but Marvin doesn’t seem phased as the magician lifts Jackie in the air with strength Jackie didn’t know he had and smashes the hero’s face into the concrete ground. Jackie hears his nose snap and he screams bloody murder.

Marvin stumbles back, body shaking with giggles, “hA Ha HA! wHaT a FuN sOunD!!”

Jackie growls and pushes himself up on shaking arms before he roars and charges at Marvin, fist glowing blue. Marvin grins at him and stays still until the last second when he glitches out of the way and Jackie’s neck is suddenly caught against a tight blue string. He chokes in panic and tumbles back, only to be stopped by another taut string. Suddenly, he’s surrounded by glitching strings that press close to his body as Jackie tries to calm his panicking heart. Static burns in his ears and Jackie tries to find some way to get out of the trap but just finds himself getting more and more tangled in the strings the more he tries. The strings keep multiplying and wrapping around him and tangling anything that Jackie touches.

The strings are razor sharp cutting deeply into his skin when they wrap too tightly around his limbs. Soon Jackie’s arms and legs are bleeding as he struggles to break through, what the hell were these things made out of?

“D-Damnit Marvin!” Jackie screams, “Let me out!”

“ThErE’S n-No  rEaSOn tO Be ScAreD He-ErO,” Marvin sings sweetly, glitching closer to his trapped foe “sOoN I’iM g-GoiNg tO mAkE yOu FeEL jUsT aS gOoD aS m-ME!”

Marvin then sweeps his hand over the tangled hero and suddenly Jackie is tossed around in a whirlwind of glitches and strings. When he’s upright again, he’s in the air, his arms tangled up behind him in the string and his legs bound tight. Jackie really begins to panic now.

“N-No! Fuck!”

Jackie fights as hard as he can against his bindings but obviously, they’re magic and very very strong. Even building up power in his fists, he can’t make them budge. His arms burn from his injuries and he gags on the lingering scent of blood that trails down his face from his broken nose. He chokes back a sob as he tries to look Marvin in the face as the glitching magician looms over him.

“P-Please Marvin!” Jackie begs, tears falling down his face in droves, “I don’t know what Anti did to you but you have to wake up! You have to remember! Please! Please don’t do this!!”

Illusion tilts his head and stares at Jackie before he lifts up his hands in front of him. The strings wrapped around his fingers lift into the air as if caught in some invisible wind before they break off and start to swirl. As they swirl so too do the glitches around Marvin break off from his form and join the motion, forming big sweeping patches of green blue and black glitches and static. It creates a dizzying pattern like that of water flowing down a drain and Jackie starts to feel himself being pulled in. He tries to fight it, knows he can’t let himself fall in. But he can’t look away. And soon he’s trapped, eyes wide open and caught in the motion of the glitches as his eyes glaze over.

“tHat’s iT hEro… rElaX…” Illusion muses quietly, letting his voice become sickly sweet as his voice bubbles out, swirling around and echoing in Jackie’s ears. Jackie feels himself nodding, his body becoming numb. “i’M goNna heLp yOu fEeL SO mUch bEtTer… cUz PuPpeTs alwaYs feEl gOod!”

Jackie finds himself mumbling quietly to himself, blinking sleepily, “p...puppets… feel… good..?”

“yEs… bEcausE thEy doN’t hAve tO tHink… theY doN’t hAve To rEmemBer…” Illusion whispers. Words seem to start to flash in the glitches and Jackie blinks against them as they settle in his head.

Forget. Relax. Good. Puppet. Forget. Obey. Calm. Breathe. Sleep. Forget. Forget. Relax. Sleep.

Jackie’s eyes flutter as his head droops and nearly falls to his chest. A featherlight brush against his chin has him lifting his head though, blinking sleepily back towards the spiral.

“HoW dO yoU feEl?” Illusion asked.

The puppet smiled softly, “g...good…” he slurred.

“WhAt dO yOu rEmemBer?”

The puppet blinks his eyes as he tries to think, but his mind is blank. He just remembers feeling good, and the colors of the spiral, and the sounds of his master, and wanting to sleep and relax and forget and obey.

Illusion smiles, “SHouLd I fILL yOu iN?”

Jackie nods slowly.

Illusion bounces on his toes like an excited child on christmas as he kneels down by Jackie with a shit-eating grin, “oKaY! RePeaT AftTer Me!” He waved a finger in front of Jackie’s face and sang slightly through giggles, “PuPpet, pUPpeT I’M a pUpPet…” He booped Jackie’s nose with his finger when he finished and held back more crazed giggles as he watched the entranced hero try to follow.

“P-puppet… puppet.. I-i’m a puppet…” Jackie tried to sing along, a dazed smile coming along his face as he sang.

“I dOn’T RemEmbEr a tHiNG!”

“... I don’t… remember… a thing…”

“ALl I wAnt iS to SeRvE mY mAsTeR iLLuSioN!”

“...a-all… i… w-want is to serve.. My.. m-master…” Jackie’s eyebrows furrow together, his lips pursed together in a scowl.

“M-my… m-master… M-Marvin…?”

Illusion’s eyes alight with green fire as he slaps a fire-tinged hand across Jackie’s face with a  schooled expression.

“W-wRoNg PuPpet!” Illusion giggled unhinged as he watched the flames lick and leave the hero’s skin red and patchy. Such a lovely color. Jackie’s eyes buzz and flicker with static as they glaze back over after the shock.

“tRy aGain,” Illusion growls.

“i-I serve m-my master Illusion…” Jackie mumbles and Illusion immediately brightens, clapping his hands together in glee.

“ExCeLLenT!”

He leans in close to Jackie, snapping slightly in front of his face to capture his attention. The puppet blinks slowly at him, “StILL fEeLinG gOod, puPpEt?”

Jackie nods, despite the still slightly smoking burn wound on his cheek, “yes…”

“OnE mOrE iMpoRtaNt quEstIoN!,” Illusion laughed as he studied the hero’s eyes, “aRe yOu reAdy tO cAuSe sOmE dAmaGe? tO hAvE sOmE FuN?”

Jackie’s head seems to loll to the side for a second as his foggy eyes wander away from Illusion’s face. But then, just like a television, static suddenly wipes over his eyes. He turns to Illusion and gives him an unsettling grin.

“Yeah… Let’s have some fun…!”

Mad and proud laughter bubbles out of Illusion as he drops Jackie and snaps to release his bonds. His first successful puppet. A movement across the floor catches the magician’s eye and causes his Cheshire like grin to grow even wider.