Beaten but not Defeated
Jackieboy Man v. Anti drabble featuring Marvin the Magnificent
A/N: This started out as a Jackie whump but turned into an event that happens in my ego universe and I don’t even know if it even counts as a whump anymore??? Oh well, but here ya go @cyanacity
The city was still and with the people all gone, taken by Marvin to a safer location, it felt too empty for this moment to be real. At this time of day, people would still be out, kids and teenagers would probably start heading home for dinner. Who knew he would strike this early and so quickly after the last fight.... But one thing is for sure he’s highly unstable, and his radiation is off the charts.
Jackie walked the streets looking for any sign of stragglers or HIM. Nothing, thank the high heavens for that, he knew Marvin could handle his magic but teleporting so many groups of people, he doesn’t want Marvin to spread himself thin after what happened last time.
He continued to walk the empty streets, on high alert waiting for that glitch to strike at him. Jackie looked ahead and saw indents in the street. Upon closer inspection, they were footprints. He knew it was none other than the glitch, if his tracks are forever engraved into the ground he must be radiating again.
“These are even worse than last time.” he mumbled
He followed the prints further down the street until he found they had stopped completely. He quickly scanned the area searching for any other tracks… nothing.
A soft pitter patter echoed out, Jackie turned to the direction it came from, empty. They sounded out from behind him, he turned again to try and catch a glimpse of the figure, still nothing. Silence. ‘Where is he?’ Jackie squinted, looking around the area.
A faint laughter sounded out around him, the city was empty. Jackie was already uneasy to begin with; the laughter all around him wasn’t what made him feel more uneasy, it was the fact that the laughter was a distorted laugh track.
Not a good sign, Anti is drawing power from the abandoned TVs in the nearby apartment complexes. With all of that raw electricity he collects, at this rate he’ll melt the whole town with the amount of radiation he’ll produce.
“Ahhh, Jackie! Just the person I wanted to see!” a voice rang out.
Jackie looked to the source of the voice and saw the harbinger of chaos himself.
Jackie felt his blood boil, this asshole ruining the city for pleasure and power.
“Anti, you son of a bi-” he started, only to be drowned out by the sound of a weather alert. He glared at Anti, who was waving his index finger at him.
“Not so fast my lovely hero. You know how Chase hates why you swear around his kids.” he snickered, giving Jackie a pouty face before revealing the two kids hanging over the street in cages.
“Let them go.” Jackie asserted, getting ready in a stance.
“I would, but I want something in return.” Anti negotiated. Smirking at Jackie, he knows Jackie knew what he wanted… more like WHO he wanted.
Jackie was taken back, but shook it away. He wanted to stay on guard incase Anti wanted to try something.
“No, you can’t have him.” Jackie countered.
He can’t have Marvin. Even if he was here he knew Mavin wouldn’t join him anyway, so why even ask to have him when he knew that?
Anti looked at Jackie with a sad face and mimicked the voice of a disappointed teacher, “No? Well, I guess you’ll have to break the news to Chase that you were the one who let his kids die.”
Anti waved his hand, and the cages disappeared, leaving the kids dangling and screaming in the air. He held up his hand about to swing down when Jackie’s voice rang out
“Wait!”
Anti stopped, the kids stopped screaming but their wimpers still echoed out. Jackie looked at his summoner and sent a page for Marvin.
“You can have him… but let me keep his mask.” he sighed in defeat.
Anti’s eyes lightened up, his smile stretched further than any human was intended to. A chill ran up Jackie’s spine, he never liked how Anti was able to do inhuman things despite having a physical body.
“Alright! Give it up for the hero!” Anti cheered
The sound of a distorted crowd cheering surrounded the empty streets.
“Ya know, I thought you’d be smarter than this.” Anti mocked, looking down at the hero below him.
Jackie squinted in confusion, as Anti snapped his fingers and the kids turned into static shapes and faded away.
“You. Asshole.” Jackie growled. He balled his fists and felt his powers kick in.
Anti drifted down to the street and smirked “Why thank you. Now, I assume Marvin is already on his way. Meaning I don’t need you anymore.” he stated.
Jackie knew what he meant, and immediately put out his shield. Like clockwork, Anti charged a blast of knives at him.
“Come on Jackie, you have to cooperate with me here.” Anti’s voice sounded so gentle and sweet, it was sickening.
Jackie sprang back and sent a blast to Anti, who dodged it just in time.
“As if I’d let myself go down without a fight.” he responded, throwing up another shield, deflecting a static bomb.
Anti and Jackie continued to battle with their powers. Anti throwing knives and surges of static and electricity, dodging everything Jackie tossed at him. Jackie tried to keep up with everything Anti was throwing at him, so far he’s only had a few nicks on him. Just as Jackie was about to throw one of his energy blasts when Anti suddenly flashed to his side. Jackie quickly turned and tried to punch him but a pitch black hand stopped his arm. He tried to pull it back but the clawed hand held on to his arm tightly. Jackie’s eyes widened, as he realized Anti had him trapped. He looked at the demon and saw the second arm form out of his back.
“Looks like it’s game over for you.” Anti gibed.
Anti’s demon limbs took hold of Jackie. As he admired the fear in his eyes he leaned closer to the helpless hero and whispered “Tell Robbie is said ‘Hi’”
Jackie felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, he looked down and saw a knife in Anti’s hand and a dark red blotch spreading around the wound. He looked back up at Anti, ready to make a remark but he was shoved down to the ground.
Anti repeatedly bashed Jackie into the ground, taking him higher into the air with every bash. Before finishing him off Anti brought him up in the air to the height of one of the skyscrapers around him. Jackie was holding one to what little consciousness he had left, he watched as his blood drip to the shrinking street below him. His mask was gone, his suit was torn and shredded, the light on his chest was barely glowing. Anti hovered in the air and brought up his rival to his eye level and saw the hero horribly wounded. Jackie looked at Anti, hate filled him but as much he wanted to destroy this glitch he couldn’t. He couldn’t feel anything below his torso, he couldn’t move his arms, all he could do was blink.
Anti smirked at the sight of the defeated hero, he chuckled at himself.
“I never thought I’d see the day where you’d be out of my way forever.” he grinned.
Jackie let out a small sigh and closed his eyes. He was slowly drifting off, before he knew it he was falling. Anti watched as Jackie’s body fell towards the ground, once he was satisfied he dived down and grabbed his body, turning him faced down and holding his head down. Jackie watched as the street came closer and closer, ‘What would happen to Marvin?’ he thought.
With a sickening thud, and the sound of asphalt flying into pieces Jackie was down. As if on cue, Marvin emerged from the dust and surveyed the scene that lay before him. An awful heat surrounded him, he knew what that meant and saw Anti standing on top of Jackie who lay motionless underneath him. Anti looked up and smiled at the magician, “Well, well, well, look who decided to show up.” he spoke. A laugh track rang out as he approached the magician. Marvin tried to cast a spell but there was no effect, he looked in horror as Anti’s radiation melted everything around him. He tried to open a portal to get back but Anti was far too quick and put Marv in a static hold.
“You’re mine now… puppet.” he gloated.
Jackie felt himself come to, he could hear Anti cackling nearby. His body was broken, he just knew it but he felt something in him try and kickstart him. “You have to get up!” an unknown voice rang in his head.
“Come on get up!”
Jackie felt the pain jolt through him as he tried to move, he went limp again, giving up the hope he had. This is what it really felt like to lose. When he was about to drift off again the voice shouted again,
“Get up, damn you!”
Jackie’s eyes opened revealing they were glowing pure green light. He felt like he was fully healed but he can still see all his wounds still on him. He heard the static of the glitch and the growling of Marvin nearby, and felt more energy than he ever did before.
Anti heard the rubble behind him shift, he turned around and to his demise he saw the fallen hero standing up, eyes glowing. Anti bared his teeth and released the magician and charged towards the revived hero. Seeing Anti charge towards him Jackie smirked, and he focused all his power into a giant energy blast. At impact the light from Jackie’s energy blast made the sun look dimmer.
After the light faded, Marvin looked to see Anti on the ground and Jackie’s arms were burnt to his shoulders. Anti tried to get back up but was too injured to get up, he had 3rd degree burns on different parts of his body, there were deep gashes on his chest deep enough a human wouldn’t even survive, his blood was slowly oozing out.
“You… How are you still fucking alive?” he snarled, spitting out blood. Jackie stood over him
“I’m not the only one who has the blood of a Phoenix.” he answered, voice low and raspy.
Anti glared at him hating how he will have to put off his plan for power and control.
“I’ll be back… and I’ll get that magician’s mask one way or another.” he warned. With one last flash of static he went teleported into his pocket dimension.
Once the glitch disappeared, Jackie’s eyes faded out, he looked at his body and saw all the wounds still left on him. He looked at Marvin and reached out to him before collapsing to the floor.
Marvin ran over to his brother and quickly put his mask back on “Jackie! I’ll get us out of here, just stay with me alright.” he panted. Jackie gave no answer, but he was still breathing. As Marvin created a portal back to Schneeps lab, he could only hear one thing echoing in his mind “I’ll get that magician’s mask one way or another.” With that much power Anti would be unstoppable, but thanks to his brother the world is safe… for now.
((I didn’t realize how long this was but I really hoped y’all liked it!))
