The morning alarm buzzed in the loose ear bud left in Mark's right ear. It felt like he had only just fallen asleep, as he groaned back to consciousness, his phone nearly out of battery. "Dammit," he muttered, forgetting to plug it in the night before. It was eight o'clock, so he quickly plugged it in and went into the hotel room's shower to prepare for the day's panel and events.

Meanwhile, Anthony took to waiting for his friend, Steven, in the lobby. Once he finally arrived, several worrisome minutes late, Anthony stepped over to him, jokingly scolded him for a moment, then attended a few panels with him. Most of them short, only a half hour long for each of them, then they shared a breakfast together, Anthony guilting Steven to pay, seeing as he was constantly late. All the while, Mark's panel remained in the back of Anthony's head, as he was more than willing to check it out, but just if Steven was alright with it.

Mark had managed to clean up and get dressed, before a knocking was heard on his hotel door. He opened it, seeing his close friend, Wade, on the other side.

"Hey, you almost ready? The panel starts in ten minutes," he said, checking his watch.

"Yeah, yeah, let's go," Mark replied hurriedly, grabbing his phone from the charging cord and stepping out of his hotel room, following Wade to a separate elevator from the previous night. He made sure it was different, that's for sure.

They made it to the convention hall without a problem, as Mark spoke to Wade about the experience he had last night.

"So, I met a friend of yours last night," he started, chuckling a bit at the memory. "Chilled's here."

"Oh! It's about time, I've never been able to hang out with both of you before," Wade said with a smile.

"Now, hang on, we just met in the elevator, it got stuck last night, and we talked for a while."

"Still, you two finally met, that's great!"

"Heh, well, don't expect too much, we might game in the future, but that's really it..." he finished, with an odd feeling of unsure at the end of his sentence. Why did Wade want them to meet so much? Probably just wanted to have more people to game with. That's what he thought at least.

They found their panel room, with a line of people already waiting. Most, upon seeing Mark and Wade enter, began to cheer, both in a fan moment of finally meeting the two of them, and in relief that they didn't have to wait any longer.

In the crowd, a tall Anthony had met with some mutual fans in line, occasionally making cute poses or quips with his Canadian friend in tow. As the line began moving, someone asked him one last question.

"You're a Markiplier fan, Chilled?"

"Well, sorta, I actually just met him yesterday, and I've wanted to check out more YouTubers' panels this year."

"I've met him a couple of times through Adam, or Seananners, we gamed now and then on his channel," Steven said as they stepped in. "He's a pretty cool guy, really good to his fans, too."

Anthony nodded, finding a seat towards the center of the panel room, Steven sitting next to him. The panel began shortly after everyone came in and found a seat, Wade sitting at the stage already, as Mark was waiting off stage.

"Well," Wade began, looking around with a rather goofy smile. "Welcome to Lordminion777's panel! Uh, I'm glad you all came, and I'll start taking questions now!"

An awkward silence fell over the audience, that alone causing them to laugh, including Anthony. He cupped his hands around his mouth and called out to him.

"We love ya, Wade!"

Wade looked to the direction of the call and smiled. "Hey...Hey!" he laughed and pointed to him. "ChilledChaos is here, everyone! And Ze!"

A few people clapped for them, as it suddenly grew louder upon the sight of Mark finally stepping out to confront Wade.

"...What the fuck are you doing, Wade?" he asked after a moment of the two of them staring at each other in rehearsed annoyance.

"I'm...getting the panel started, Mark."

"You mean, 'our' panel, not just yours."

"Well, didn't the agenda say, 'LordMinion777's Panel featuring Markiplier'?"

Mark grabbed a copy of the schedule from his back pocket and opened it, looking to it for a moment. The schedule did, in fact, say that, all for the sake of this joke.

"...Barry! Run the intro again!" he shouted, tossing the agenda over his head and sitting down. Several fans, including Anthony, laughed and applauded, as Mark and Wade chuckled to each other.

"That went a lot better than I thought it would," Wade said, adjusting the microphone on the desk in front of them.

"It really did, wow, that was hilarious," Mark chuckled, before looking around in the crowd. "Hey, guys!"

Applause from the audience echoed all the way through the hall outside. Mark began scanning up and down, before seeming to lean back and forth.

"Where is..." he started, looking over to Wade. "You said someone was here?"

"Yeah," Wade said, pointing over to Anthony with a smile. "Chilled and Ze showed up!"

Mark turned and smiled, waiving quickly to the two. "Hey, guys! Glad you could show up!"

"Glad we could make it!" Anthony called back with a grin.

Acknowledgement between the two was minimal after that, just the occasional joke Anthony tossed in here and there. Eventually, the hour long panel wound down, after Mark received several hugs and gifts from the fans, as well as Wade. As the crowd dispersed back into the hall, Mark and Wade left through the back entry. Anthony and Steven left with the crowd, but Anthony quickly noticed he had left his hat behind. Already having lost his trademark Mario hat shortly before the move from New York to Connecticut, even though he found it, he wasn't about to lose it again.

He hurried back in the grab it, finding it was on the seat next to him. "Dammit, Ze, could grab it for me..." he muttered, chuckling. "We are so over."

As he reached to grab it, another hand was just about to. He looked up to spot Mark reaching down to grab it as well, stopping only when he noticed Anthony.

"Oh, shit, that would have been bad..." Mark said with a laugh.

"Could we not be the cliché B RomCom please?" Anthony laughed as well, taking his hat and putting it on. "I thought you already left, though."

"Well, the Game Grumps panel starts here soon, I was gonna stick around and watch it."

"Huh, ok, well..." Anthony thought briefly, his Meet-and-Greet booth wasn't going to open or another few hours now, and Ze had already left to meet with The Creatures, so Anthony was completely free. Though, he wasn't much of a Game Grumps fan, at least not to the extent that Mark was, but hey, it was something to do, maybe have a few laughs with a new friend.

"Ok, is it alright if I chill with you?"

"Was that supposed to be a pun?" Mark asked, smirking and sitting down in the seat previously occupied by Ze.

"Not really, or was it?" Anthony responded, a devious look out of the corner of his eye. He soon laughed and sat down next to him, easily strumming up a conversation with Mark, then another and another. The panel started in a half hour, and Anthony found himself enjoying it quite a bit. The Game Grumps were amusing to watch, sure, but in between questions, Mark and he were exchanging jokes, referencing each other's videos, and just laughing together. And Anthony couldn't help but have a shared thought with Mark

Why hasn't Wade introduced us sooner?