Lindsay immediately started to feel weak.

He was wobbly on his feet, and his consciousness was fading.

He then collapsed forward, unconscious and dying.

"An...na..." he managed to get out.

"Please... stop..." he sputtered.

And then he was silent and still.

Lindsay's eyes were bleary and clouded, but he nodded slowly.

"Y... yes..." he managed to say.

Then... he was dead.

Actually dead, his body turning to ashes.

Anna now had seconds to get away from him before he burst into flames.

To which he started to almost immediately. Small flames cropped up from the askes, before the fire grew and spread, growing hotter and more intense by the second.

Outside, Ashley was getting ready to go for a fly, when she saw Lindsay teleport into the backyard.

Or... at least, it seemed he did.

What landed was a pile of ashes, that suddenly burst into flames, and revived as Lindsay.

"Curses!" he yelled when he did.

"What on earth is that brutish, pernicious, unbalanced, primal savage THINKING!?" he exclaimed.

"She's NOT thinking, is the problem!" he added with a growl.

Lindsay just stood up, dusted himself off, and sighed.

"Anna." he replied.

"She's throwing away her career, her future, her family, everything." he said.

"Giving into her insanity, attacking me out of nowhere, it's disgusting, degrading, perplexing, and the entire situation reeks of aquatic life." he continued.

"...it's fishy." he clarified.

Lindsay just groaned in response.

"She won't calm down." he said.

"She CAN'T calm down." he went on.

"She told me so, herself." he said further, before pausing for a moment, a flare of fire sparkling in his eyes.

"...she's aware that she can't. Something's making her do this." he said, shaking his head slightly.

"Regardless, if she's going to succumb to her savage, primal, dysfunctional, chaotic ways, then she will suffer the dire consequences that come with it."

Lindsay just growled again.

"She can be so insufferable sometimes." he told her.

He then looked over towards her, and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"I would advise staying away from her for now." he said.

"It seems that she does not care who she attacks, or what the consequences are." he said further. "She is indiscriminately attacking people." he continued, before pausing.

"Well, her attitude seemed to portray that, anyway."

"......." Lindsay was silent as Ashley said what she did, and reacted the way she did.

"Well, that is your choice." he said.

"At this point, I fear it to be a fools' errand." he commented.

"However, if you feel you can somehow bring her back from the brink, to one of at least semi-intelligence, then be my guest." he went on, shaking his head.

"Myself? I need to gather myself." he told her.

"Corrosive poison is not fun to deal with repeatedly."

After a few seconds, she heard some arguing, some shouting, and she then heard a dull thud.

And then, after a few more seconds, the door opened, revealing Lindsay.

But there was one thing that was off.

He had a massive black eye, and the area around said eye was burned. From black flames, it seemed.

"Ah, Aunt Rocky." he greeted the woman.

"Enter at your own risk." he said, stepping out of the way.

Lindsay just sighed again.

"My brother decided, as usual, that the appropriate response to someone trying to educate him would be to inflict violence upon them." he said to her.

"I PUNCHED A JACKASS!" they then heard Ash shout from within the home.

"I swear, his incompetence and ignorance is indubitably insufferable." Lindsay bemoaned.

"This is what I get for trying to improve the lives of others with sensible solutions." he added with a small sigh.

"I was speaking to him intelligently, but in such a way that he would be able to at least slightly comprehend what I was explaining to him." Lindsay replied in a matter-of-fact tone.

"YOU WERE BEING A POMPOUS ASS!" Ash called back.

"...his anger and knee-jerk insults are quaint, and almost adorable." Lindsay then said to Rocky.

"Regardless, if you don't want to stay, I would perfectly understand that." he told her. "Ash is not in a good mood, and I fear he may lash out at anyone, much like Anna." he said further.

"Oh, SHOVE OFF!" Ash yelled, before he came into view.

"Hey Aunt Rocky." he greeted Rocky, though he still sounded angry as all get-out.