Jeremy remerged in a castle like interior, but he knew it was a cave by the stalagtites on the "ceiling".

"You've done well Digi." The figure who had stole Jeremy removed a bandana from her face.

"I told you I'd get Papa away from that mean man." The child ran over to the voice and hugged its presumed leg. "Do I get a reward Dad?" They asked and they received a cookie and a hair floof.

"Now you take care sweetie. I want to have a little chat with your papa." Jeremy froze when the figure walked out of the shadows. Why was he surprised it was Squip? "Hello Miah."

"Squip." Jeremy clenched his teeth together as he stood up, pulling his parasol out of his bag and aiming it at Squip with an actually intimidating expression on his face.

"Now isn't the time for fighting Love." Squip whispered, pushing the parasol down and moving forward as to kiss Jeremy on the lips, which the prince did not enjoy what so ever. "Stop resisting it Miah, you know you enjoy my lips more than that pathetic boyfriend of yours." Squip cooed softly before continuing to kiss the prince.

Jeremy tried pushing away but Squip just held his arms down.

Eventually he stopped, and Jeremy felt disgusting after having kissed his enemy.

"What do you want from me this t-time?"

"Well I seen you were on vacation, and I was thinking, why not have a little family vacation."

"F-Family!? I have no interest in being apart of your family!" Jeremy stomped his foot and Squip laughed a bit at him before continuing.

"But you are. Why, our daughter brought you here. Digi, sweetie, can you come back in here please?" Squip yelled and the child from before ran into the room, paintbrush still in hand. "See?"

Jeremy stared down at the child. She resembled him more than he was comfortable with. She had one green eye the emerald shade of his own, freckles dotting her face, and curls.

"H-How did y-you..." He bit his lip as he looked at the child.

"Her name is Digi. I made her from our combined DNA and a little dark magic. What do you think?" Squip whispered darkly in Jeremy's ear, and the prince gulped and faked a smile.

The smile activated a smile from Digi, who hugged Jeremy's leg and stayed there.

"I love you Papa Jeremy." She spoke with pure joy in her tone, and Jeremy turned to Squip, who had a face that just dared him to hurt this kid...because he knew Jeremy couldn't bring himself to do that.

***

"Michael, calm dow-"

"Calm down? How can I calm down when they called MY boyfriend their father!? Does this mean he's been cheating on me? Or did the Squip...oh if that jerk thinks he can get away with hurting my Jeremy like that he's gonna get what's coming to him!" The now quartet had found a nice little gazebo to eat at, and currently, Christine was trying to calm Michael down, which wasn't working.

"Jeremy wouldn't cheat on you Michael. He loveth you. I'm thure thith ith another plot by Thquip to marry Jeremy." Rich reassured and Michael sat down from his pacing and took a bite of one of the many fruits sitting on the table.

"I know but...how did he conceive a child anyways? If that is the case."

"Alchemy."

"Maybe it'th a robot."

"Dark magic. His brother is great at that." Christine suggested after...obvious wrong answers given by Jake and Rich.

"Of course. Guess we're going after Winston to see how he pulled it off?"

"No Michael! You can't. He loves you. We'll split up. Me and Jake will go after Winston, you and Rich can figure out how to rescue Jeremy."

"We don't know where he is Chris."

"I'm sure you'll figure it out. C'mon Jake, we gotta find the jerk who gave Jeremy a child." Christine grabbed Jake's arm and dragged him out of the gazebo, leaving a confused Michael and even more confused Rich behind.

***

"Just as I thought." Winston mumbled from the side of his disguised airship, watching Christine and Jake from his binoculars. "She thinks leaving him behind will keep me from getting him. That's naive."

"So how are you gonna get him?" Shane questioned, and Winston smiled maliciously, turning to his brother slowly

"Simple. Eric has made fair use of that magic paint I created, so why can't I do the same? All we have to do is disguise ourselves with it. And by we I mean you."

"Wait, disguise as wha-"

"Jeremy. You've spent enough time around the prince that you can mimick his personality perfectly." Winston found a box on the deck and began looking through it, finding a fake golden crown and smiling. "We'll connect this crown to the paint. You wear it, and you let the paint form to look like Jeremy. Since I'm using the raw paint and it's not deluded, it should make you look authentic."

"But what if it falls off?" Shane asked, holding the jar of paint his brother then took from him.

"It won't." Winston took the paint and poured it slowly on the crown, watching as it embedded itself into the fake gold perfectly. "There. Now, put it on."

"Okay." Shane did as told and felt a cold sensation run over him. He looked at his hands and froze when they were pale with freckles. "What happened!?"

"It did as I said. You look exactly like Jeremy now." Winston smiled as he looked back down at the island, beginning to observe Michael and Rich. "You just have to get to Michael. You can do that, right?"

"Of course!"

"You just need to lure him to me."

"Got it Winst! I'll be back." Shane grabbed the rope from the anchor, and while using one hand to keep the crown on his head, slid down on to the island.

From inside the airship's rooms, Sal had heard all of Winston's plan. He hit his head against the door and sighed.

"Why the long look bro?" Keira asked, and Sal looked at her in sadness.

"He's so oblivious Keira! He's so in love with Michael that I'll never be able to tell him I love him." Sal whined slightly and Keira gave him a sad smile.

"How do you think I feel? Squip is too blindly in love with Jeremy he'd never notice that I love him."

"If only they could get over those two and let them be happy...things would be easier on us."

"Yeah. But that's not gonna happen, and we're not gonna sabotage their crushes...that would be wrong of us."

"Keira, Eric likes Jeremy, who like Michael, who Winston likes. If we stopped these kidnappings, we could have Eric and Winston. We could also help Jeremy stop being kidnapped. We both know he hates it. We've both talked to him."

"Yeah...but what do we do exactly?"

"That I haven't figured out...wait... Winston's paint. It's got shapeshifting powers. We just need objects to attach it to!" Sal smiled as he began looking around his room for something that remotely resembled Michael's hat.

"You're genius Sal."

"You know it sis." Sal smiled widely at her, but inside he hated having to lie so Winston would give him love...why had he let himself fall so deep into the crush for somebody he'd never had?