Only a few hours after they had fallen asleep, Jack1's cellphone started to ring. He kept his cellphone in his hoodie pocket because he refuses to acknowledge the lights that North sends out to get them all there for a meeting, scheduled or not. Jack2 just groans at the sound.
"What the hell does North want now?" Jack1 asks out loud as he makes his was over to where his hoodie was laying on the floor. "If it's ANOTHER surprise meeting, I'm going to turn him into an oversized ice cycle," he grumbles before he answers his phone. The second he has it up to his ear he says, "What is it this time, North? And, is it something that the rest of you guys can deal with without me?!"
"It's an emergency!" North almost shouts on the other end of the line.
"I guess that means that I have to be there ASAP. Doesn't it?" Jack states with more than a little frustration in his voice.
"Yes," North replies.
"Fine." As he starts to put his clothes back on, Jack1 senses a portal opening behind him.
"Yo Jack. We've got to get to North's place," Danny says then looks around. "Am I interrupting something?"
"No, but North decided to call and wake us up," Jack1 says, obviously pissed off, standing shirtless looking at his fellow guardian, Danny Phantom/Fenton, the guardian of individuality.
"Don't shoot the messenger!" he shouts. "And, what the fuck did you do?"
"Do you really want to know?" Jack says while putting on his black tank top. He shoots Danny a look that tells him not to wander into that territory.
"YOU DID NOT!" the halfa says after a few seconds of putting the pieces together.
"DON'T say a word to the rest of the guardians! ESPECIALLY NOT Bunny!" Jack1 says, face now redder than it was when he was getting banged by Jack2, as he gets closer to Danny trying to intimidate him.
"YOU'RE GAY?!" Danny shouts in surprise. "HOW LONG HAS THAT BEEN?!"
Jack1 feels his face getting redder and turns his back to Danny. Jack2 puts on his jeans, which were on the floor next to the bed. He gets up and grabs Jack1's hoodie while walking over to him.
"Why do you want to know?" he asks Danny while he hands Jack1 his hoodie.
"He's my teammate! I think it would be something that your team should know."
"It's NOT something that I remembered until last night!" Jack1 shouts when he turns around, his hoodie tied around his waist. "Danny, if I knew, I WOULD have told you. But you HAVE to remember that I don't remember everything that I was before the accident!"
"No. You GOT your memories BACK! You TOLD me, dumbass!" Danny shouts, now as angry as Jack1 was.
"I didn't get ALL of my memories back! Just the ones from the week leading up to the accident," Jack1 quietly says in a hurt voice. He runs through the portal crying, because he sees the Guardian of Complexity, his mother, on the other side.
He runs straight to her. When he reaches where she is, he wraps his arms around her and just cries with his face buried in her shoulder. She wraps her arms around him, knowing exactly what happened. She and all of the other guardians saw and heard what happened. Jack2 and Danny had followed him and the portal closed behind them.
Marina, Jack's mother scowls at Danny. Rapunzel punches him in the face for making Jack1 cry. Jeena and Twyla, Jack1's little sisters, use their powers of nature and darkness to hold Danny still so that Rapunzel can punch him.
"Leitha ho!" Marina shouts at the two girls in Elvish. It means "Release him".
"Nan' mankoi?" they say, also in Elvish. It means "But why".
"Because I said so," Marina replies in a stern tone. They did as they were told, and she turned her attention to her weeping son. "You okay?"
He shakes his head and asks, "Who is Danny to tell me what memories I got back when he wasn't even there? Why does he even care? It's none of his business. Right?'
"Utinu en' haba," she says sympathetically in Elvish, meaning "Son of mine", while rubbing soothing circles on his back. "He's just being his usual antagonistic self. Don't let him get in your head. He just wants to make you mad. You shouldn't let him get to you. Okay?"
"Okay," Jack1 says while he wipes tears from his face after taking a step back from his mother.
She places her hand on the side of his face, smiles, and says "It's a bad habit to allow people who want to hurt you or upset you get to you. Believe me. I've been down that road and it's not pleasant. If he bothers you, let me know. I'll straighten him out in a heartbeat. No one hurts my kid without at least getting scolded."
Bunny walks over and says, "So, you're gay." After he says that he laughs.
Jack1 hears that, starts to cry again, and flies out of the building.
"Jack!" She shout when he flies away. She turn to Bunny and shout, "You just HAD to mess with him, DIDN'T you?! He was CALMING DOWN! And YOU came over and upset him ALL OVER AGAIN! ¡Tú estas un DIABLO!"
"How was I supposed to know he would fly off?!" Bunny asked.
"HE'S A TEENAGER! Connect the dots," she says. She pulls out her cellphone and calls Pitch, Jack1's father.
"Hello," Pitch says on the other end of the line.
"Hey, Pitch. Jack ran off. Bunny was being Bunny and went too far," she said.
Pitch hangs up the phone. "Do you think he might try again?" Pitch asks, now standing right in front of her.
"That's what I'm afraid of."
"Please don't tell me that there's actually a chance of that happening again," Jack2 pleads.
"What are you guys talking about?!" Tooth asks, now frustrated and confused.
"Last time something this emotionally intense happened to him, Jack tried to commit suicide. He tried to slit his wrists. Last time Jeena and Jack stopped him, but that was before he knew he had powers. Then he was sitting in a tree with one of my daggers, now he could be anywhere." Marina is close to tears just recalling that memory. Telling the others as well is enough to make her cry.
"We'll find him. We will," Pitch reassures her as he wraps his arms around her shoulders.
She just nods and wipes the tears off her face. Within a few minutes, they were all scattered across the globe looking for Jack1. Everyone is searching in every different direction. Marina is keeping a telepathic link between all of them open, so that if someone finds him they can tell the rest of them.
After a few hours, Pitch finds Jack in Antarctica, where they fought before. He calls everyone there. Right as he does that he gets closer to Jack1 and sees red on and around his hands, wrists, and a knife.
"Jack?" he calls but receives no answer. "Jack!" he shouts and runs over to him.
"Pitch?" Jack weakly asks. "Why are you here?"
"I'm here because I don't want to see you die," Pitch replies tears flowing down his face. He's holding Jack in his arms now, keeping him as close as he can.
Jack weakly laughs and says, "You hate me. You wouldn't care if I died."
"No, Jack. That's not true. You're my son. I would never hate you. I love you. I don't want you to die."
"Why didn't you tell me that before?"
"I didn't think it was important at the time. I just thought it was important to keep you away from being a guardian. Now I see that that was the worst idea of my life. You are an amazing guardian, just like your mother. Please, don't die."
"I don't think I have a choice now. Really wish I did though," he says as his eyes close.
"Shit. Not again!" Marina shouted when she got over to them. "What happened?!"
"He slit his wrists again." Pitch says, still crying. Please tell me you can do something."
"I sure as hell can do something," she says as she reaches for the knife. "Battlefield blood transfusion. Good thing I'm his mom." With that said, she tears a long strip of cloth off her already boarder-line slutty skirt, tears that long strip in half, and slits her own wrist.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Tooth screeches as she and the other guardians arrived.
"Saving my son's life," Marina immediately shoots back. "It's called a battlefield blood transfusion. It's basically a blood transfusion using a method from before there was super advanced technology."
"Are you sure that's safe?" Merida questions. "Have you done this before?"
"Have I done it before? That's like asking a human if they need air to breath. This is how I kept my twin alive when we were separated from our group in hostile territory and he had been lithely injured."
She pressed the wrist with the deepest incision to her own bleeding wrist. Using her free hand, she wrapped one of the strips of cloth around their wrists to hold them together. She took off her necklace and placed the large amulet to the inside of Jack1's elbow. She tied the other strip of cloth tightly around the amulet and his arm, cutting off the circulation to his bleeding wrist. This immediately slows the bleeding substantially.
"He'll be fine as long as we get him somewhere…" Marina starts to say, but is cut off by a bright flash of an icy blue light.
