A/N: This is back to Earth 2… Sorry for the suspense of Earth 1 Beca. I'll try to upload the next chapter a little later.
This is in Aubrey's POV.
I don't own pitch perfect.
-Earth 2, Day 3-
Beca, their Beca, was back.
That was what was important for now, because that meant that Chloe could breathe a little easier.
The not so good news?
Jesse escaped.
And so it was up to Aubrey to rally up the cavalry, meaning the Bellas, to catch the little devil.
She's had the Bellas on standby in case something like this would happen, and good thing she did.
The Bellas were quick to their feet to report to Aubrey and look out for Jesse, but not without any questions on what the hell was going on.
So Aubrey gave the abridged version of events.
Stacie's most special instruments can monitor the multiverse in some way or form. Jesse and Beca got sent to another earth, they tried to avert a crisis of collapsing the multiverse caused by some of Jesse's actions and while Aubrey can't exactly whip up a good proof at the moment she did promise a much more detailed explanation.
The Bellas stared at her in disbelief but figured that Aubrey wasn't the type to lie.
Especially at the risk of sounding insane.
So they bought Aubrey's reasons… at least for now… and were on the hunt for Jesse.
Aubrey knew for a fact that Jesse should be tired.
The multiverse travels should take a toll on the body and if Jesse was having a hard time to make his daring escape with an amnesiac Chloe when he was on Earth 1, then it's highly likely taking a toll on him at the moment.
That's why Aubrey believed that it stands to reason that he was still somewhere in Stacie's research facility.
Probably hiding somewhere near the medical and biolabs.
At least that's where Aubrey herself would go if she needed anything to help her escape in the same conditions Jesse should be in.
That and the fact that security was immediately alerted of his escape and no one has left the premises of research facility.
So yeah, Jesse was definitely still inside.
They decided to split up and comb the areas Aubrey suspected Jesse to be hiding at.
For the first two hours or so, they had no luck.
They switched over to other areas nearby before going back to the place where Aubrey's intuition has been screaming at her that Jesse was there.
And as if by luck they finally do find him.
Jessica and Ashley forced open an old storage cabinet whose door seemed to be stuck.
And Jesse came crashing out.
Jesse was quick to grab an old broom stick to defend himself from Jessica and Ashley while the two tried to pry the thing from his hands. But Jesse managed to push Ashley aside and Jessica quickly came to her rescue after hitting her head hard.
Allowing Jesse to escape.
But not by a great distance.
Jessica managed to alert her friends with her phone.
Emily and Flo manage to corner him but Jesse quickly evaded them by pushing Flo on Emily's path.
Jesse ran ad stumbled down a stairwell, making a mad dash towards a hallway that led to an exit on the medical labs when a fist suddenly connected to his nose, breaking it once more.
The punch coming from Cynthia Rose who was hiding behind one of the pillars from the main hall of the medical labs.
Jesse picked himself up and wobbled slightly before trying to return the favor when he was all of a suddenly tackled to the ground by Amy.
There was a bit of a scuffle, Jesse managed to very nearly slipped Amy's grasps as he tried to pick himself up before being punched right at the square of his jaw by Aubrey.
The punch almost knocked him out.
Amy biting his ankle causing him to go off balance also almost did the trick as he hit his head after slamming down the ground.
What did the trick was the sight of Lilly appearing from nowhere and some odd-looking objects I her hands.
It was the pain, the exhaustion, and mostly the fear of what was to be his fate that finally did the trick.
And Jesse passed out.
"You know things could have ended differently if you just gave up. You were supposed to be a good person in the other earths, why did you turn out to be so evil in this one." Jesse heard Aubrey say as he was coming to.
He was pretty much in a straight-jacket at that point and chained to a chair.
They were still in the medicals labs area of the research facility, in one of the unused rooms.
"Guess there's a universe where each one of us is bad." Jesse said weakly, eyes scanning the faces of the Bellas he knew and the new faces that Beca brought along with her.
His whole body was aching.
He definitely didn't want to know what Lilly had done to him while he was knocked out.
"I don't believe that." Aubrey replied.
"Maybe he's unconsciously a prick in all of those universes. Trying to force his own happy movie-like ending to the reality and messing up Beca and Chloe's story for as long as he could." Amy then suggested.
"Or maybe there is good in Johnny here." Emily said.
Cynthia Rose chuckled and leaned in closer to the younger girl. "He's name is Jesse Swanson."
Emily shrugged. "Jesse, Johnny, does it really make a difference? He was the obstacle. An unnecessary addition."
"He's like a tumor that needs to be surgically removed." Flo then added.
"You're not going to get away with this! Chloe's supposed to be mine!" Jesse replied.
"Wrong bozo, she's supposed to be with Beca. In any and every universe there is, I've been parts of too many experiments to know that that is the truth." Aubrey then replied. "Why don't you just accept that? You're never going to win this fight. Fate's already decided that."
"So what are we going to do with him?" Ashley said all while glaring at Jesse to stop him from speaking up.
Lilly said something that was just mad enough to work and Aubrey sighed.
"I guess that's decided then." Aubrey said. "We leave you in charge of him, Lilly."
Aubrey turned to leave, followed by the Bellas one by one. They were to rejoin Stacie, Beca, and Chloe, leaving Jesse to whatever fate awaits him.