The air was cold and quiet as it always was on days like this, Jeff was on his way back to the mansion from the store where he had bought some more "human make up" as he called it, it was just to get rid of his scares and contacts to make him look less insane. He saw a flash of red and that ever familiar, bone chilling, laugh "Zalgo." He laughed again "COME OUT YOU UGLY BASTARD!" he stepped out of the tree line "you know I've finally figured it out Jeff." Jeff ran at him knife out but Zalgo dodged. "I finally found Slender's weak point." Jeff fell to the ground hard after Zalgo smacked him out of the air. "Oh yeah?" Jeff asked gripping his side in pain "and what's that?" he smiled a giant toothy grin "you." Jeff's eyes widened. "I'm rather annoyed that I didn't notice till now. So let's get you out of the way shall we?" Jeff laughed "you'll never be able to kill me; I'm Slender's brand new proxy." Zalgo kicked Jeff and placed a foot onto his neck pushing down. "Oh Jeff I know. I just plan to send you away." Jeff coughed "I'll escape and you know it." He pushed down harder "not from here you won't I'll be sending you somewhere slender doesn't even know who you are." Jeff smirked, hearing Masky, Hoodie and Toby in the distance coming to rescue him "you don't have time travel capabilities." He shook his head. "No but I do have interdimensional powers." Jeff's eyes widened and he froze. Wondering if he was telling the truth. "JEFF, CALL OUT!" Toby called, Jeff tried but the presser on Jeff's neck was too much "no I don't think you will." The three proxies finally made it to them. "Zalgo release him!" Masky called. Zalgo laughed, "No I don't think I will, you better scram or you'll suffer the same fate." The Toby ran at him axes drawn and up while Masky and Hoodie shot at him. Zalgo used his long grotesque arms to smack them down. He then turned back to Jeff who was struggling under his foot he had only now noticed Jeff had plunged a knife into his leg, he pulled it out. "Oh Jeff you're going to need this where you're going." He slid the knife into Jeff's pocket. Before cackling a loud and horrifying laugh. "Time to go Jeff." He reached down and touched Jeff and in a single touch, he was gone. Zalgo's foot hit the ground and Masky looked up "Jeff?"

Jeff's P.O.V.

I awoke on hot cement with the sun shining in my face. I quickly sit up as to keep from blinding myself. After my eyes adjusted to the light, I looked around. I was in the suburbs, everything looked oddly familiar. "Where am I?" my question was soon answered when I heard a voice behind me "come on Liu were gonna be late!" my whole body froze, that was my voice, my pre-killer voice. I threw up my head and stood. I was laying on a neighbor's yard thankfully, they were not home. I looked over to myself and Liu "I'm coming wait up." Liu ran after me or the other me, and I soon noticed they were headed for the bus stop this must be the first day of school. Maybe things could be different, I could make them different. I could kill the bullies before the other me could attack, before the bullies could attack. "RANDY HOLD THE BUS!" what? I ran after them staying out of sight as best I could I had forgotten how slow I was back then as I had made it to the bus stop before the other me did. I saw them Randy, Keith and Troy the ones who made me who I am today, they looked just like they did that day, beside Troy he was much skinnier than I remember. Randy turned and spit his cigarette on the ground stamping it out as Liu and the other me, arrived out of breath. "Dude the bus isn't even here yet" Keith said pointing to the bus, which was just barley in sight. "Well I figured we'd be slower." Liu said walking over to sit on the bench. The other me and troy bumped fists. This is weird, how are we friends? The bus pulled up and they got on and drove away. I broke into the nearest house to steal a suit. I'm much older than other me and I looked it to so I figured I'd go in as a teacher. One of the other me's- a fuck it, he's Jeffrey I'm Jeff that's how it'll, be got it? Anyway, one of Jeffrey's teachers could have an unfortunate "accident." After grabbing the suit and changing shoving my stuff into a book bag, I caught the next bus to the school. It's always weird acting like a normal human when I look at the people near me I don't see fear, I see boredom, passiveness. I shook the feeling as the bus pulled up close to the school great class was in session. I headed to the office to say I was the substitute because I knew the school and this school never checked they just handed the badge to who ever asked for one. Hope that hasn't changed. I walked along minding my own business when I feel someone run into me "sorry sir I didn't see you there." shit shit shit. I turn to see Jeffrey "oh it's not a problem. Where are you going in such a rush?" I heard the laugh of a girl and look next to me it was a girl dressed in all black with long black hair she looked familiar "to class of course." The second she spoke, I knew who she was. Jane, are they friends too? "I guess I should have known that, can you tell me where the office is?" she nodded "just go that way and then look for the signs if you get to the gym you've gone too far."

"Thanks." They nodded and ran off stopping at the end of the sidewalk and then- oh fuck no, they kissed and ran in different directions. "He's friends with bullies and dating a killer whose hell bent on killing me greaaaaat. I'm also straight here lots has changed." I spoke to myself on the way to the office. "Annoys you doesn't it?" I heard Zalgo's voice and turned ready to defend myself but I just find a box on the ground there was a note attacked I picked up the box and read the note "Didn't think it be that easy did ya?" I narrowed my eyes. No, guess not. I opened the box to see a phone, nametag, badge, and a room number along with another note "here's everything you'll need. You're teaching art, don't fuck it up." I was taking help from my mortal enemy "the art teacher won't be coming back anytime soon. Have fun –Z" anytime soon being never? I walked to the class and stepped in. so that why he chose his class Jeffrey is in it. "Hello class sorry for my lateness. Had a bit of trouble checking in." there was folder on the desk I opened and looked at it "now it says here that you're working on your projects and that there in the back of the class so get to work." The students began to file back to get their things but as fate would have it Jeffrey came up to me "hey aren't you the guy I ran into this morning?"

"Yeah I think so"

"Yeah, I'm no teacher but I think you're supposed to take attendance."

"Shit! Uh you didn't hear that, go do your work." He laughed, "Sure whatever you say." He turned to walk away but turned back. "Um what do I call you?" Craaap, I have to come up with a name, don't I? "Uh, Mr. Slender." I'm a fucking idiot "cool name I'm Jeffrey." He held out a hand and I shook it. I pulled out the piece of paper with the student names on it. "Ok attendance time say here when you hear your name." I began to call out names and wrote down the missing names "ok I need a volunteer." I heard a random student "I VOLENTERR AS TRIBUTE." I narrowed my eyes at him "Just because you did that I'm not going to pick you…anyone else?" no student raised their hand "Jeffrey?" he looked up "oh sure." he said stepping out of his chair. "Just take this down to the office." He nodded and left. I sat down and looked over what I was supposed to do for the next few days, geez I have it easy as long as I can stay out of trouble who knows how long a can keep this up. Later Jeffrey came back. "Um Mr. Slender?" I looked up at him. "Yes."

"I need some paint from the back."

"Ok, go ahead." I said looking back down waving my hand limply. "Were not supposed to go back there without a teacher." He follows the rule to a T, what a wimp. "Oh ok." I stood and followed him to the back room. "What color do you need?"

"Crimson." I laughed "though it's my favorite color why do you need the color of blood?"

"Blood red roses." Oh my god he painting fucking flowers. "It's a gift for my girlfriend."

"So you're getting assignment done and getting in good with your girl. Killer plan." He laughed "nah I finished that project a while ago, so I got permission to work on this." I nodded grabbing the paint and handed it to him. "Don't spill that on yourself I don't want your other teachers thinking you killed someone." Actually, I would, that'd be less weird. "You like murder jokes don't you?"

"Yup." He laughed and headed out of the room "Thanks teach." Teach? Riiiight lets go do all that stuff that teachers get to do. I walked out of the small room and into the class and stepped behind a student on his phone aka my first victim. I cleared my throat. He looked up at me "Come on lets us be on our phone during class." I snorted "Ok 1 I highly doubt that and 2 I doubt he allows you to be looking up pictures of Nikki Manaj's ass. Now hand it over." He sighed before handing it over. "Man this sucks."

"You know what sucks? I'll be here for a while aka I'll be grading your projects it would suck if you failed." He handed me his phone, sighed, and picked up his pencil beginning to work. I moved on "yes if I see your phone I take it." There was a general groan as I saw several students shove their phones into their pockets. I walked over to Jeffrey to look at what he was working on. Holy shit he's good. "Wow Jeffrey that's really good." He smiled "thanks." He was painting a picture of Jane in a long black dress surrounded by crimson roses holding a single black rose. "Did you use a picture to get her face right?" he shook his head. "No this is all from memory, well she never posed like this but she makes this face every time she talks about me. She really loves me and I love her." How sweet. I walked on checking out other works the project was to paint an animal though they did not have to be realistic thought some were others where cartoons.

I walked back over to my desk and sat down. I'm basically just chaperon, there's nothing I have to do, nothing I need to say I just sit and watch. I heard a ding not from a student's phone but from the phone Zalgo had given me. I looked down at the text and read it "here's your address and a bank account number it don't worry I used the name you pick of course you'd pick his name." I rolled my eyes "still not sure about taking ANYTHING from you." I shove the phone into my pocket and, noticed an adult walking over to my desk. "Are you the substitute?" I nodded "can you come with me for a moment?" shit I've been made. "sure." I stood and followed him out of the room. "I'm sorry to pull you out of class like this but something went wrong in the system and we lost your name…" he handed me a sheet of paper "does everything else on here look right?" no "yes everything looks fine besides the fact that I have no name." he laughed yes so I can take over while you go sort this out alright?" I nodded "thanks."

Slender's P.O.V.

I stood at the door awaiting my proxies rather pissed they had just run out in the middle of a briefing. Masky stepped back in with Hoodie and Toby following behind "What the hell was that! You are not allowed to just leave when I'm talking to you!" Masky leaned against the wall and slid to the ground "We just couldn't get there in time."

"What do you mean?" Toby sighed helping Hoodie inside. Hoodie was gripping his side in pain and limping. "What happened out there?" Hoodie yelped in pain as Toby lifted his shirt to assess the damage revealing a large black bruise. "HOODIE!" I looked at Masky he was holding the back of his head resting it on his knees. "We felt another proxy was in danger."

"Jeff?" Masky nodded "He was coming back from the store and…"

"And what Masky?"

"And Zalgo had followed him and he got to him before we could and he just…disappeared and then Zalgo did, but he left this." Masky handed me a small red envelope. I ripped it open and read it aloud "For my dearest enemy, I've finally figured out your weakness and now you've got nothing to lose because you lost him. Good luck finding him I used my new powers to send him somewhere you'll never find him." Masky looked up "We figured out his new powers a while ago but who knows how long it will take to find him." I nodded "rest, heal and get back to work I'll deal with this."

"Master you can't deal with this all on your own."

"I'll be fine Toby."

"Master yo-!"

"Quiet Toby! Do as you master instructs." I walked away before they could say anything else. I don't know how long I spent trying to figure out where he sent him I had narrowed it down but the list was still too long. I didn't know what to do.