Hey guys! I. AM. BACK! I am so sorry for leaving this in hiatus for so long! I really didn't have time! But I promise I will finish ASAP! Anyway, please enjoy this chapter written in the car, and then edited in my tiny phone! :D


Jack fought back the tears Sadness threatened to released and flew back to Burgess.

A yellow rabbit stepped back from the panel at the sight in the screen, a worried look on his face. The blue rabbit took place and pushed a bottom. The Guardian's face frowned sadly as he looked through the bushes at the kids.

"There are no eggs" A british kid mumbled, defeatedly.

"There's none anywhere. I give up"

"Come on, let's go"

"I don't understand"

Bunny gulped and looked at his basket with eggs, then back toward the kids.

"Maybe he just hid them really well this year"

Bunny quickly grabbed his basket and approached the group of kids.

"Kids! Oi!"

"I checked everywhere! There's nothing!"

"Yes there is! There is! I mean these aren't my best lookin' googies, but they'll do in a pinch!"

The bunnies stared helplessly at the screen, their main Island, Hope, wasn't shining as it usually did.

He handed a girl an egg.

"I can't believe it..."

Aster chuckled sheepishly. "I know..." Bunny's emotions looked up, a small smile forming in their faces.

"There's no such thing as the Easter Bunny..."

"No!" The yellow and blue rabbits whimpered.

" What? No! Wrong! Not, not true! I'm right in front of ya, mate!"

It was too late though. A kid walked through the Pooka as if he wasn't there.

" They don't see me..." He whispered. "They don't see me" The Guardian fell to his knees, staring blankly to the floor.

"Mates! The Island!" The purple bunny shrieked. The five of them crowded in the window, watching Hope Island turning off. Bunny's Joy shook his head. No...No...That was his Aster's center...

Jack arrived to the scene just to see how Bunny was walked through

"He deserves it" Disgust spat.

"Disgust!" Joy scolded.

"Its true though!" The red emotion snarled. "He has always been bad to us! He deserves to be in pain too!"

"No one deserves to be forgotten..." Sadness sniffed. Jack's grimace turned into a pout, lip trembling.

'I should have been here...I-I...It's my fault... '

Joy heard his boy's thoughts. "No...Jackie..." He glared to his partners.

Tooth flew to Bunny's side. Jack heard a rustle in the bushes behind him and saw North approaching. He had just come from battle apparently, both his swords drawn, and he looked just so...tired.

"Jack, where were you? The Nightmares attacked the tunnels. They smashed every egg, crushed every basket. Nothing made it to the surface"

"No... Nonono! How could we let this happen!" Fear shrieked pulling a lever, making the boy's heart beat faster. " Pitch is going to win...And it is our fault!"

Sadness started crying.

"Guys! Come on!" Joy forced a smile. "It wasn't our fault! We...We were going to come back! He tricked us! Please...Don't do this to Jack...Please..." He just looked helplessly as Sadness and Fear took control.

Jack gulped hardly and turned around when Tooth called him.

He frowned confused when she suddenly gasped.

"Where did you get that?!"

Joy's blue eyes widened as he noticed Jack had the Tooth box in his hand.

"I didn't notice..."

Jack looked down at it. " I was...it's... "

"Where's Baby Tooth?!...Oh Jack, what have you done?"

"What? No! No! Guys! We really didn't mean to! It wasn't our fault!" Joy cried desperately, trying to reach the panel as more blue and purple orbs rolled to the store.

"Oh my god...We are so disgusting...We are a horrible person..." Disgust bit his lip with a small frown.

"We didn't help them..." Sadness added. "That's why we don't deserve anything..."

Jack's eyes welled up with tears.

'I am so sorry...'

"That is why you weren't here?" North stepped forward to confront Jack, who just flinched at the huge man. "You were with Pitch!?"

"No! I...I! Listen, listen...I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen..."

Joy finally reached the panel. "We have to tell them!"

The boy opened his mouth to explain himself. He...He really was sorry...He didn't mean to! He was trying to help...But he got carried away...He thought he could get his memories...But Pitch...

" He has to go"

Joy, confused and hurt, made Jack turn to see Bunny. Jack felt his chest aching.

What?"

"We should never have trusted you!"

A red Bunny growled as he threw himself over the panel as the yellow one tried to stop him.

"Dont hurt the kid! Please, Anger! It wasn't his fault!" He pleaded.

The white and purple haired emotion gasped, and quickly reacted, making Jack move out of the way of the Guardian's angry fist.

Jack looked at the Pooka, total fear in his eyes. 'He was going to hit me...'

"We fucked up...No one will ever like us..." Disgust crossed his arms.

Jack looked at the guardian, a fearful look still in his blue eyes but apparently the other one didn't notice.

"Easter is new beginnings, new life. Easter is about hope... And now it's gone"

Bunny turned away and moved toward the park.

"No! No! Please! Let us... ex-explain..." Joy looked the screen from side to side, watching as the other guardians turned their backs too.

"Pitch said this would happen ..." Sadness wiped his tears.

"It's our fault! We are idiots!"

"We will never do anything fine!" Anger screamed, hiting a wall.

Joy looked down and from the corner of his eyes, he saw the blue emotion control the pannel. A blue orb rolled to the store.

Jack reached into his pocket, pulling out the tiny Russian nesting doll that North had given him.

"Get rid of that FUCKING thing!" Disgust screamed.

Jack dropped the doll to the ground, he wasn't a Guardian, he was just a nuisance. Feeling tears already streaming down his face, and before the Guardians could say anything else, he flew away.

The crying child flew to the only place where he felt safe. Antarctica.

The yellow emotion threw himself to a couch, glancing to the Islands. Family Island had been working so well this days...Jack was starting to warm up to them...

And now it was off again.

His partners were fighting over the panel, making many colorful orbs roll to the store. He hated how much control Disgust had over his boy... He knew a balance was important...Jack couldn't be happy all the time...But-But he didn't like how Disgust made Jack hate himself all these years.

Joy sighed, feeling his own tears forming in his eyes. He just wanted Jack to be happy...He was a perfect boy...He shouldn't think about himself like that...

Jack crashed to the snow the moment he reached the South Pole. He was an idiot...He was selfish, filthy, useless, unwanted...He was always thinking in himself...He didn't help the guardians, he let them alone in battle...They offered him to be a Guardian and he threw away his shot...He could have had a family! He could have had friends! But like always! He had to fuck everything up! And now they hated him!

All because this stupid box!

"Jack...Baby...Don't cry..." Joy covered his ears.

"I don't wanna see this shit again! We wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for this!" Anger screamed, the floor covered in ice by now and made the child stand.

Jack wiped his tears angrily, running to the edge of a floating iceberg, ready to throw his tooth box into the ocean.

Joy looked up at the screen just in time. "Anger, no!" He scrambled to the panel.

"These are our memories... We can't just throw them away!" Anger glared at him from his side of the panel.

Jack groaned angrily as he didn't have the courage to throw it and looked back at it. He truly was alone now...

"I thought this might happen"

Anger growled at the familiar but unwanted voice.

"Oh god...He came to kill us..." Fear shivered and, wanting to prevent another meltdown like the one before, Joy and Disgust tackled him to the floor, dragging him away from the controls.

" They never really believed in you..."

"Kill him, Anger!". Said emotion was growling, white hair sparkling blue as frost spread across the floor.

"I was just trying to show you that. But I understand..."

"You- I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"

Jack gave an angry scream and turned around. He shot a burst of ice at Pitch, but it was quickly deflected by the Nightmare sand.

"You don't understand anything!" Jack continues to attack, lashing out with his staff. He had never felt such an anger in his whole life, he felt his face heating up in his rage, something he never thought would feel...Being a Winter spirit and all...

Pitch blocked the attacks of ice and frost with ease.

Joy couldn't help but notice he had got considerably stronger.

" No?! I don't know what it's like to be cast out?!"

Pitch attacked back. Jack gasped and rolled on the snow. Jack jumped in the air.

Anger lashed out all the rage inside Jack and the child screamed, throwing ice at him, which quickly mixed up with Pitch's own attack.

They were shrouded in a blanket of snow, ice, and wind. As the wind and snow settled, Jack looked around stern and alert.

Anger was left gasping for air, but the tension in Headquarters was finally released.

When the wind finally settled, Pitch continued. "To not be believed in..."

Fearlings made a thinking face as they threw the blue sobbing, chained emotion away. They truly needed that kid and he didn't seem to be buying their lie. The man with blue-silver eyes, Kozmotis, glared at them through the bars. One of the dark creatures with blank white eyes smiled and opened the cage, dragging the general to the panel.

He was forced to put a hand over the panel and the shadows covering the panel retreated a bit.

"Tell the brat your most cherished wish, Kozmotis..." They hissed evilly. Unconciously, the man passed his emotions to the panel.

" To long for a family..."

Jack turned to look at the boogeyman. He sighed. That...That really sounded sincere...

Kozmotis watched with disgust as the poor boy bought the lie by the sincere look his body gave him...Because it was true...He longed for his family...And Pitch had always wanted one, thanks to the bit of humanity inside him that the Fearlings couldn't get rid off, but he didn't know why...And the Fearlings used that confusion to create anger and insecurities in the fallen hero.

"Pitch! Please! Please! Don't listen to them! Stop! Don't-!" Kozmotis quickly approached the microphone installed after the possession, speaking in a language long forgotten by humanity but not Pitch... Un fortunately for him, it was made of shadow and unless you get rid of it, Pitch will always barely hear him.

He was slapped hard in the face before he could finish "SILENCE!" They shouted. They quickly grabbed the microphone. "Speak!"

Pitch made a tiny pained expression for the scream but continued. "All those years in the shadows I thought, no one else knows what this feels like. But now I see I was wrong"

Kozmotis wasn't needed anymore and he was thrown back to his cage, hitting the floor with a thud. The Fearlings quickly slammed the bars shut and the General frowned.

He looked at his emotions with a sad smile. Joy tried to tell him something, but it was muffled by the gag.

"I'm ok..." He reassured him. He sat down, looking at the windows grimacing at the black sky outside Headquarters. The original islands were off, barely kept together, but luckily they didn't fall to the abyss. Meanwhile, long term memory was covered by shadows, Fearlings patrolling the area to avoid Pitch remembering anything from his past.

The fallen general sighed, taking his knees to his chest, as he hugged his silver locket close to his chest.

Jack and Pitch locked eyes for a moment. Believe it or not, the offer was real. Pitch did want a family, wanted an ally, and wanted the child to be that ally.

"We don't have to be alone, Jack. I believe in you. And I know children will too!"

"I-In me...?"

Joy was suddenly grabbed and forced to move a lever. Pitch laughed happily.

"Yes!"

Look at what we can do!"

Jack's and Kozmotis' emotions looked up at what Pitch was gesturing: a huge ice and nightmare sculpture they created during their battle.

" What goes together better than cold and dark?!"

Jack looked at the fractured reflections of themselves casted in the icy sculpture.

"He...He is kinda right..." Sadness mumbled. Joy turned to look at the other blue haired emotion with an unreadable expression, but Anger added.

"I agree with Sadness, Joy...He is our only hope not to be alone for the rest of eternity!"

"With Pitch Black?!" Joy laughed awkwardly, not believing his partners words. "You can't be serious!"

"Well, that dress is incredibly horrible but...Maybe we can get people to finally see us with his help!" Disgust said.

Joy gasped softly when Anger grabbed a lightbulb and connected it to the panel. It wasn't accepted inmediately, but it got attached.

Jack bit his inner cheek, considering the offer.

"We can make them believe! We'll give them a world where everything, everything is-!"

The lightbulb was expelled from the panel abruptly, smacking Fear in the face.

Joy smiled softly. ' That's my boy...'

Jack turned to face Pitch, deadpanning. "Pitch Black?"

'He was just going to use me...He doesn't care about me...Like everyone else...'

Pitch's eyes widened a bit.

The Fearlings winced as Kozmotis snorted, rolling his eyes.

"And Jack Frost, too. They'll believe in both of us"

Jack shook his head. He understood now... " No, they'll fear both of us. And that's not what I want...Now for the last time, leave me alone!"

Joy and Anger let go of the lever with a smile.

Pitch frowned confused and hurt, thanks to certain blue emotion touching a button. He...He didn't understand...Jack was as alone as he was...Why didn't he accept his offer?

The Fearlings growled angrily, using the glaring red emotion to touch the panel.

Pitch growled, his eyes flaming with anger. He made himself vulnerable, and the brat rejected him! No more negotiating now. A lightbulb was inserted in the panel, accepted inmediately.

"Very well...You want to be left alone? Done! But first... "

The boy gasped when he heard a familiar chirp.

Pitch reached into his coat to pull out a tiny fairy.

"OH GOD HE WILL CRUSH HER! IT'S OUR FAULT! NO! HE IS GOING TO HURT HER!" Fear panicked.

"Not while we can prevent it!" Anger hit the panel.

"Baby Tooth!"

Jack snarled and charged forward, pointing at the tall man with his staff.

"Nononono! He is clenching her even tighter! We gotta do something!"

"Calm down, Fear!" Disgust glared.

"The staff, Jack!"

The child's eyes widened.

"You have a bad habit of interfering. Now hand it over... And I'll let her go..." He singsonged

"He...He wants our staff..." Fear was biting his nails.

"No! Don't even think of it, Joy!" Disgust looked at him before the yellow emotion could even say anything.

"But we gotta save her!"

"It is our fault she is there in the same place..." Sadness added usefully, his eyes full of tears.

"It's our only possession, Joy! Literally! The only one!" Anger shouted.

"W-Wind won't be able to hear us without it..." Fear said.

Joy looked at the screen, where Baby Tooth was chirping and shaking her head. Then at his friends and then outside, where Kind Island was working.

Jack sighed in defeat and handed his staff. The frozen wood turned normal when Pitch grabbed it.

"Ok, dude. We made our part!" Anger hit a button.

"Alright, now let her go... "

Pitch smiled, looking at the staff in his hand.

Kozmotis glared at the Fearlings. "Let the fairy go, bastards...". The shadowy creatures just laughed.

"No...You said you wanted to be alone. So be alone!"

Baby Tooth chirped and squirmed until she pecked Pitch in the hand with her beak.

The man shrieked loudly and threw the tiny fairy to a crevasse.

"No!" Jack cried watching helplessly as the fairy fell down the crevasse.

Jack turned furious at Pitch who was lifting his staff.

Kozmotis perked up, shaking the bars. "No! No! Don't do it! No! Please!"

Before Anger had time to give Pitch a bit of his mind, the man lifted his staff to his knee and broke it in two.

A huge pain erupted from Jack's chest and the boy screamed, both in terror and pain.

Fear was screaming madly around Headquarters as Jack's whole body shook.

Million thoughts ran in the boy's mind at the same time. He wouldn't have powers anymore! He was powerless! Useless! Why did it hurt so much! All powered by Fear as Joy shouted at him.

Suddenly, Pitch sent a burst of Nightmare sand hitting Jack square in his chest.

The five emotions yelped when Jack hit his head against the iceberg wall behind him, the lights blinking furiously as their boy closed his eyes and fell into the crevasse.

The Fearlings mocked the crying soldier as Pitch looked down at the boy, chuckling. He threw the broken shards of Jack's staff down into the crevasse and walked away. He had more important things to do.

Joy nervously pulled the levers as the lights of Headquarters continued blinking because Jack didn't seem to be waking up.

"Jack will die!" Fear sobbed, making Sadness sob.

"Can you please shut up?!" Disgust spat. "He is waking up...I hope he doesn't have a bump there..."

Jack groaned as he slowly sat up, looking around with a hand on his throbbing head. It was then when he noticed Baby Tooth lying on the ground.

"Baby Tooth!"

Joy smiled. "She is fine!"

The boy crawled toward her and cradled her in his hands. "You alright?"

"Does she look alright to you, Joy?!"

Baby Tooth nodded but she sneezed.

Sadness cried even louder. "We are going to freeze her to death!" He threw himself over the panel and Jack hiccuped, barely holding back his tears.

"Sorry, all I can do is keep you cold..." Jack sat up and held the fairy in his hands. "Pitch was right... I make a mess of everything..." Jack gulped and blinked to clean his sight from tears.

Joy sighed tiredly as the blue orb rolled to the storage. His poor Jack...He was devastated. Most of the Islands were turning off as Jack lost hope. Winter Island was on ...And for the first time since forever, Fun Island was losing its glow.

The five emotions watched the screen sadly, all of them feeling their boy more lost than ever.

Baby Tooth frowned at the boy and with a face of determination, she wriggled in his hoodie pocket.

" Hey...". Jack didn't really care. He hoped it was warm enough for her in there...He leaned back and closed his eyes.

'Jack...

Joy looked at the screen. "The voice..." The other emotions imitated him.

Jack looked down, seeing a soft golden glow coming from his pocket.

He took it out and jumped back with a startled yell, seeing it glowing brightly.

"Jack..."

"I don't wanna see that thing" Disgust mumbled, crossing his arms. Joy ignored him in favor of looking at Baby Tooth.

She gave him a reassuring look, touching the box and then looking back at Jack.

"Let's do this...for Jack..." Joy whispered lovingly, slowly lowering a lever.

The other emotions looked at the screen as in a trance.

Jack ran a hand over the golden box and the top magically unfolded, revealing a set of tiny, white baby teeth.

Headquarters shook violently, the screen turning white.

A blinding white light came from the Memory Dump and the emotions gasped in absolute awe as millions of colorful orbs floated to the sky.


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