A/N: Hey, guys! Well, I'm here with a little treat for y'all! A four-shot I planned back in the summer, and I've finally kicked my lazy butt into shape and, well, here it is!
As mentioned in the summary, this four-shot is based on the Phineas and Ferb episode "Split Personality". Remember? When Candace is split into her two different personalities? Don't worry, you don't have to watch Phineas and Ferb to get this four-shot... I think. Anyways.
I must warn you - two Chads. And I know that's like, all of our DREAMS, but itb may get confusing... I'll do my best to make sure y'all know which Chad is which... yeah. Okay? Let's start!
I don't own SWAC...
Split Personality
Part 1
It was a regular day in the So Random studio's Prop House. Sonny Munroe was lounging on the couch, her nose dug inside a great book, Tawni Hart was filing her perfect fingernails, pausing to admire them every few seconds, Nico Harris and Grady Mitchell were playing on their newly-bought YBox 5000, and Zora Lancaster was working on a strange contraption, which was covered and labelled "No Peeks – That Means You, Nico and Grady!"
Zora had been working on her latest invention since Sonny came in early in the morning. Sonny had been watching her young friend's progress for about three hours now – she was curious for what this invention was meant to be, and, more importantly, if it worked.
"How's it going, Zora?" She asked politely, not lifting her nose from her book.
"Pretty good." Zora said from underneath the cover that was draped over her invention, before a clanging noise made the others in the room jump in shock. Tawni Hart recollected herself clumsily, trying to make it seem as if nothing happened, before looking up from her nails for the first time in an hour or so.
"And… do we have to still stick around to see this… thing?" Tawni shook her head in slight repugnance at the thought of what could be under the cover… Zora had an odd mind. "We should get to rehearsals soon."
"Just a few more minutes." Zora assured her curious – and rather bored – cast mates. "Trust me – this one's gonna blow you guys away!"
Sonny rolled her eyes good-naturedly. Zora always made these contraptions, and then assured them it was going to work… and then something went wrong. And yet, although Sonny was fairly certain the same thing was going to happen today – Zora was her friend, and she wasn't going to just walk out and upset her. She was better than that.
So, she waited. All the Randoms waited, for about another thirty minutes. Finally, though, to the surprise and relief of all, Zora finished her invention.
"It's finished!" She screamed gleefully, scaring her fellow Randoms. Tawni Hart happened to have been redoing her Coco Moco Cocoa lipstick at that exact second, and Sonny couldn't help but laugh when she saw the messy trail of lipstick smudged across her blonde friend's cheek. Tawni was far less amused. She shot a death glare at Sonny, who bit her lip, before she reached for a dainty handkerchief and wiped the lipstick off carefully.
The Randoms gathered around Zora's invention. Zora was stood in the middle of the gang, looking rather proud of herself.
"I know I've said this a million times before…" The young tween said, "But this is gonna be my most successful invention yet!"
Tawni rolled her eyes, dabbing the smudged make-up. This isn't going to be a hard mountain to climb then, she thought.
"So… what exactly is this thing?" She asked with a polite smile, before smirking, eying the material covering the invention. "Please don't tell me you've invented a cloth."
Zora gave Tawni an evil glare, before turning to the rest of the Randoms and smiling. "Allow me to show you…" She lifts the cloth skilfully from the contraption, motioning to it and grinning. "Ta da!"
The Randoms scanned the machine carefully. It was about the same height as Zora… and looked vaguely familiar. Sure like something they'd all seen before, and been faced with many times. Getting a closer glimpe, Sonny realised – it looked like a camera, resting on a tripod.
Tawni rolled her eyes again, "Seriously, Zora?" She asked, "You invented a camera? Although…" Having second thoughts, Tawni realised this invention could come to her advantage, finally…
"It's not a camera," Zora told her friends, "It's a molecular separator – it splits an object into its two original components."
Sonny smirked. She'd seen this before. "Been watching Phineas and Ferb for inspiration again?"
Zora nodded, grinning. "Check it out."
The young girl scanned the room, looking for something to use to demonstrate her miraculous invention. Her eyes settled on a cheese sandwich on the side of the table in the middle of the Prop House, and she picked it up and placed it in shooting range of the machine. Grady frowned.
"I was gonna eat that!" He complained, but Zora ignored him. She rested the sandwich in front of the ray, turning it on and letting it work its magic. She switched on her machine, and, to everyone's surprise, the fully-prepared sandwich transformed to a block of cheese and a loaf of bread, right in front of their eyes. Sonny gaped at the miracle her friend had performed, before clapping excitedly with a large grin on her face. The boys followed, applauding the young star, but Tawni just blinked, shell-shocked.
Grady reached for the two components, just to check this wasn't just a silly hologram. But when he found the food was real, he gasped in awe, taken aback. And then, he put himself in front of the ray and grinned.
"Do me!" Do me!"
He reached for the switch, ecstatic, but Zora wouldn't allow it. She slapped his hand, stopping him from hitting the switch and turning on the ray.
"Don't!" She yelled, "It's not safe to use on humans! Did you not watch Phineas and Ferb? It was totally unsafe on people! The two halves could be totally over-the-top!"
"Sup, Randoms?" An arrogant voice called from the door.
Sonny sighed. "Speaking of over-the-top…" She, along with her friends, spun around to see the star of Mackenzie Falls, their egoistic rival, Chad Dylan Cooper, entering the Prop House, wearing his Mackenzie Falls uniform, not to mention his signature smirk.
"Chad." Sonny scowled.
"Sonny," Chad replied, satisfied that he'd only been in the So Random studio for a few seconds and had already annoyed Sonny. He found it hilarious (and kinda cute…) to see Sonny mad. "Randoms." He greeted Sonny's friends as an afterthought.
"Pooper." Tawni growled, ignoring the actor and looking back to her recently-painted nails.
Chad rolled his eyes conceitedly, before scanning the room. He noticed something new, and strutted past the So Random cast to where Zora's contraption was set up. He pulled a face at this… thing, before circling it, studying it.
"And what…" He asked, eying it cynically, "…is this? Another one of your worthless comedy props, perhaps?"
"Actually, no." Sonny said, "It's Zora's latest invention."
Chad smirked, "Lame! What exactly is it meant to do? Fuel your comedy? Coz…" He clicked his tongue, leaning against the machine, "…it's not doin' its job."
Zora glowered at him, angry, annoyed by his mocking. She was fed up, for her friends, for herself, because of how irritating Chad Dylan Cooper could be. "No." She said, before a plan formed in her head, and an evil smirk formed on her face, "It's a camera!"
Chad's eyes widened at Zora's answer. He scanned the contraption, realising how much it did remind him of a camera – indeed, that's because it was one.
"Finally!" He laughed, "You guys actually have something in here worth caring about!" He studied this 'camera' in more detail, which made Zora grin. She knew this would be a good plan – she knew Chad Dylan Cooper, the egomaniac, couldn't resist something which would make an image of himself. And this thing, well, this would make a clone of him. And although she knew no-one wanted there to be two Chad Dylan Coopers, she knew this plan would be worth the torture of the two of them. If the egomaniac side was over-the-top enough (and she knew there was going to be an over-the-top ego side of him) the producers of Mackenzie Falls would get so tired of him, they'd fire him. And a fired Chad meant a broken rival show!
Ah, sabotage was Zora's favourite kind of revenge.
"Check out the switch!" Zora instructed, causing Chad's curiosity to spring up. "Pretty flashy, huh?"
"What does it do?" Chad asked suspiciously, rubbing his chin as he noticed the switch in question.
Zora shrugged, "Flick it and find out."
"No, Zora!" Sonny hissed. She pulled her friend to the side and talked to her in a hushed tone, "You can't use it on Chad!"
"And why not?" Zora pouted, "I have an awesome plan! Besides, it'll be fun to see what Chad's two sides are! We can finally see his two personalities rather than his usual zero."
Sonny sighed, rolling her eyes lightly. How annoying it was when Zora had a point… "But… but Phineas and Ferb! You said it wasn't safe to use on people, remember?"
Zora scanned Sonny with judging eyes, as if she was crazy. "Sonny." She said, "It's a stinkin' cartoon."
"Yeah, but…"
"And don't you wanna mess with Chad?" Tawni added to the conversation, also curious to see the two-faced jerk's, well, two faces.
"Well, yeah, but…"
Before Sonny could protest any longer, the Randoms were startled by a flash and a poof sound, and they all span around to see the image they'd surely all seen in their nightmares.
Two Chad Dylan Coopers. Sonny gasped silently. Uh oh…
She took time to observe the two Chads. The one on the left was wearing the Mackenzie Falls uniform he originally entered the room in. He was looking around the room disapprovingly, raising his nose every two seconds at something that CDC would usually call "Ugh. Funny."
The one on the right wasn't wearing the Mack Falls uniform though – rather, just a red T-shirt, blue jeans, and a red and white checked shirt over the top (A/N: Kinda like what he wore at the end of Fast Friends). But Sonny noticed something very distinct – and disturbing – about Chad. He was smiling… in her direction. She looked behind her, confused, just to check a hot girl hadn't entered the room or something.
Nothing. The only people in the room were the Randoms, the two Chads, and herself. Although, at that moment, she felt it was just her and Chadin the room. The way he was looking at her was just so… strange, so different… so not Chad Dylan Cooper.
She found it awkward. And scary. And slightly wrong. But… it also felt kind of right.
And that fact made it even scarier.
Chadwas still smiling at her, after many seconds that really, to Sonny, felt like hours. Embarrassed, she looked away from him, hiding behind a curtain of hair. She couldn't help the smile that slipped onto her face, though, and prayed that the other Randoms hadn't seen it.
After a long moment of shell-shocked silence, the Mack Falls Chadturned to the Randoms and snorted.
"Okay…" He said, raising his eyebrows cynically, his tone dripping with sarcasm, "I have no idea what I'm doing here… so I'm out. Move it, Randoms!"
Chadpushed his way through the Randoms, and did the typical CDC stride out of the room – head high, grinning smugly, looking like he was on top of the world. Sonny rolled her eyes at how self-righteous he was – at least she knew what side of Chad that was. The bigheaded jerk-face who cared about nothing but himself and his big-shot career as the "greatest actor of his generation". Which made her ponder even more on the question of…
Which side of Chad was left?
She studied the second Chad some more. He was still looking at her. Still. He was shuffling his feet around… shyly? The way he was looking at her was like no-one else was in the room. And those eyes, those deep, blue pools… they were leading her into a trance. A trance she feared she'd never find her way out of.
Neither of them seemed to realise, that the Randoms were still there, still watching, confused, shocked… but also slightly amused. They'd never seen this side of Chad before… it was so entertaining to see he wasn't just a total jerk. And, he seemed to be hypnotised by their cast member! It was hilarious, in their eyes. But, they also were suspicious that Sonny was equally as in a trance as Chad was…
Sonny suddenly snapped out of her trance, "Ch-Chad?" She stammered out, "Are you… okay?"
Chad smiled, taking Sonny's hand in his. She pulled away, but he took her hand once again and squeezed it tightly and this time, she couldn't protest. She was… hypnotised by the twinkle in his eye. She'd never noticed it before, but Chad had the most stunning blue eyes…
"I'm fine…" Chad said, grinning, "I'm with you."
The other Randoms watched the scene unfold, shocked. It seemed this side of Chad had a crush on their cast-mate… he was looking at her with the most adoring eyes…
Sonny snatched her hand back from Chad, who tilted his head, looking like an innocent little boy.
Confused and slightly shocked by the scene unravelling before her, Tawni Hart cleared her throat noisily, watching with a raised eyebrow as Chadlifted his hand to caress her cast mate's soft cheek. Sonny flinched out of the way of his warm hand, shocked at how the touch sent a shiver down her spine. She was sure it was just some weird electrical shock or something.
Of course.
"Um, Sonny?" Tawni asked carefully, watching as her friend snapped out of the dream-state her archenemy had inflicted on her.
"Huh?" Sonny could barely speak a syllable – the grunt she managed squeaked at the beginning, and she felt her cheeks turn crimson in horrible embarrassment.
Chad, watching the beautiful girl in front of him, found his heart begin to race as she batted her eyelashes. In his eyes, suddenly everything was in slow motion. Sonny's frantic eyes, to him, were shining gorgeously. She fluffed her hair as a nervous habit, but to him it just made her look twice as beautiful.
Chadfelt weird. He felt good. He felt different. This side of himself had always been hidden, masked by the more chauvinistic, bigheaded side. He'd always had feelings – for Sonny, of course. He was, silently, a sucker for romance, but of course, his bad boy attitude never let him show that. But now… he didn't feel bigheaded. It had been two minutes and he hadn't even touched his hair, or said his name, or winked at some pretty girl.
It felt good, though. Really good.
"Chad…" Sonny breathed, finally getting her breathing back to its normal, natural rate. "Shouldn't you, um, go back to The Falls? Won't they need you on set?"
"I don't really care." He shrugged, "The other me is on it anyway."
Sonny sighed. She just wished he would get out of her face already… and stop looking at her like that…
"Maybe we should go get the other Chad…" Zora spoke up, "Get the two of you back together…" She, like the others, was slightly beginning to regret separating Chad. Double the Cooper? Ugh. And now, one of them was looking at her like that.
"No, no, no!" Chadshook his head, "Not gonna happen. From the moment you separated that other Chad from me… gosh, I've never felt better! I'm free from all that crap about being the greatest actor of blah blah blah… I've been focusing on… more important things…"
Sonny felt his gaze burning in her back as she twirled a length of hair around her index finger nervously.
"I, um, I have to go…" She said, quickly stepping towards the doorway before breaking out into a sprint. Her cast and Chad watched her eager escape. Chad dug his hands into his pockets and smiled. Even when she ran, she looked amazing…
"C'mon, Chad, man, we're getting you back to normal…" Nico reached out for the actor (or half of him, anyway), to grab his wrist, but he snatched away, angrily.
"No!" He yelled, before clearing his throat, "I-I don't want to change back." He looked around, at the confused, expectant gazes on him.
"Don't make me."
Then he bolted.
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A/N: Well, that was the first chapter! I hope you enjoyed it! Please review with your thoughts, and if you liked it, I'll continue!
Love y'all!
~Amy x
