Title: Outbound
Author: Jonathan and ZenNoMai
Rating: M (covering my bases this time)
Chapter: Two
Category: RADE, RORI, RORILOLA, RADELOLA
Spoilers: Post 'Bound' and 'Unbound,' sit will follow season 2 canon.
Summary: Spin-Off of 'Rebound'. Everyone has a double. But do doubles always act the same way?
Disclaimer: Victorious and Zoey 101 are owned by Dan Schneider, Danwarp, Nick, Viacom

Jade West looked at the sight in front of her in shock. In all her dreams, she would never, ever imagine that Robbie Shapiro would ever be with Tori Vega.

Never.

She already knew that she and Robbie had that unique relationship which could never be broken. they always found refuge with each other and that they would always be together; almost as if they couldn't live at all if they weren't together. Jade had never felt that she would ever see the day when Robbie wouldn't be with her, let alone be withTori Vega.

But that was not what she was seeing. What she was seeing was what would be described as the one greatest fear in all her life. The one person she loved more than anyone in the world was with the one who she loathed more than anyone in the world. Who she despised and who made her life miserable since the day they met. It was almost as if she was the butt of some cruel joke, or is she was in a weird episode of 'The Twilight Zone.'

Damn Robbie and his love for sci-fi.

"Get your hands off him!" She snapped. "Robbie does not belong to you!"

As soon as the words left Jade's mouth, Tori quickly turned toward her and glared before snapping back. "Robbie doesn't belong to you!"

"Shapiro is mine, Vega. I own him. I put the work into him!" Jade held onto her Robbie as Tori held onto hers. It started to get confusing for all four of them.

Tori shook her head and turned her glare at Quinn, "How is this possible!?"

Quinn tapped a finger on her chin in thought before replying. "Well, it all starts with the Flux Pulse Battery. It a special kind of battery that re—"

She cut her off. "No." She glared at Jade and pointed. "I mean, how is Robbie with her!?"

Quinn's face scrunched up in deeper thought before she started to pace back and forth between the two couple. "We're dealing with another reality. Another world. What sets the differences between them is what makes them unique." When she noted the confused looks on their faces, she clarified. "It's like this. In one reality, I turn left at a specific corner. In another reality, my double turns right and suddenly, a new reality is made and a whole new world is born. Something so small could impact the universe in ways that would make a huge revelation."

"Many different versions of us, then." Tori's Robbie pointed out as Quinn nodded. "That's great. That just means their world is completely different than ours. So wonky that you ended with Jade."

"But their world looked exactly like ours." Lola pointed out.

"Right. It's like the general laws of physics. No matter where you go, no matter what planet you're on, the laws of physics will be the same. Just the circumstances would be different. There could be a world of shrimp, and it would still remain the same. Just the circumstances would be different." Quinn pointed out.

"That's a relief. But it's your world that's wonky if you ended up with my Robbie." Jade scoffed. "At least we know that...Robbie?"

Jade's Robbie wasn't looking at her as he stared down Tori's Robbie who was doing the same.

"Robbie, what's wrong?" Tori asked in worry.

"My worse fear is losing..." Robbie started.

"...Jade."

"...Tori."

"The day my parents and Sarah left me alone for two weeks while they were on vacation I..." Jade's Robbie started.

"...I cried and ate mayo for three days straight." They both answered much to everyone's shock and sadness for the Robbie's.

Robbie grasped Tori's hand tightly as he looked at her and then back to the other Robbie who was doing the same. They knew what they should asked each other to be sure what they thought was happening.

"The two days I was thrown in isolation, for protecting Tori..." Robbie whispered.

"...I considered suicide." The other Robbie finished softly as both Tori and Jade looked in shock at their own Robbie.

"Robbie! You never said anything about what happened that weekend." Tori stated softly in concern.

"Shapiro, you...you were going to kill yourself and leave me alone?" Jade whispered. "You were going to take your life?"

"I was so alone, so alone." Jade's Robbie muttered.

"The darkness was too much. It caused me such pain, I kept blaming Rex for the reason why we were stuck in Yerba." Tori's Robbie continued the story.

"But I knew, I knew it was my fault why Jade and I were stuck. My attachment to Rex."

"I wanted to take me life, to end my pain and Tori's. I caused her pain because she went after me. It was my fault."

"I wanted to die." They both finished together as their eyes met one other, a deep understanding between them.

"I'm sorry." Lola stated after a few moments of the awkward silence. "So by what you guys are saying, our realities are pretty much the same then. Except for the fact that you were with Tori and he was with Jade.

"So… wait…"

Everyone turned away from Lola to face Tori as she pointed back and forth between themselves. "Are you telling me that at some point in our timelines, we split?"

"And because of that split…" Jade attempted. "Robbie ended up with Vega?"

"In a manner of speaking…yes." Quinn told them. "Like you turned left and she turned right. That why everything seems to be the same in both worlds except for you guys."

"This is heavy." Robbie uttered suddenly as he felt Tori grab hold of his hand. He looked at Jade and her Robbie that practically mirror the same gestures and concerns. He then took a moment and made his way to a bed. Taking a seat on the mattress, he soon felt the bed dip when Tori sat down beside him. He looked at his counterpart. "Does anyone else feel like this is the most wonky thing they had ever heard of or seen?"

"I've seen some serious wonky." The other Robbie told him before he looked at Jade and smiled. "We both have."

"Us too." Tori added.

She then looked at them, and back at Robbie. And then something dawned on her. Tori looked at them again, and then they all said one word.

"Yerba..."

Lola, Quinn, Chase, and Zoey looked at one another. "Isn't Yerba the place where Tori and Robbie were? Where Robbie almost...you know." Zoey asked as Tori nodded

Jade said in a whisper, "So...it wasn't me that went after Robbie here?" She looked at Robbie. "For us, it was Tori, Robbie, and me. We went to McDonald's. Then Rex got stolen… And then...I went...after him."

"Here, it was me, Cat, and Robbie. You weren't there, Jade."

Robbie's eyes widened as the words rang in his mind. He looked at his Tori. "Then...in their reality...you never went after me...Jade did" His eyes focused on the carpet. Tears started to well in his eyes. "I thought...I thought we were supposed to be...it was just because I was there...it could have been anyone."

"Don't think that! Who ever that Tori is, she isn't me! I went after you, you know that!" Tori reassured him. Jade looked on in pity for she knew the feeling as well. Would she have never fallen in love with Robbie if Tori went instead of her? She couldn't bear the thought.

Jade then turned to Quinn. "Fix this now, Quinn. Fix it now so we can go back! I don't want to know anymore, just fix this!"

Quinn looked at the broken ring, and the shattered glass. "I can't. Not now at least."

"Why not?!" Jade snapped.

"We need another flux pulse battery. Until then, I can't do anything but make some repairs."

"Wait. I'm confused." Chase spoke up. "How does one choice make so much difference in their lives?"

Quinn answered. "It's like...what if your parents decided not to send you to PCA? What if you went to public school? Then you never came here, and then you never met Zoey, and then you two never got together. It's a chain. One idea set it off and the outcome became totally different."

"Right…" Zoey said, finally getting it. "Each choice created a new reality. There could be one out there where you and I never met. Or Lola and Vince never got reconnected or where you and Vince never made up. So the difference between Robbie and Tori and Robbie and Jade is that Jade went after Robbie there and Tori went after Robbie here."

Robbie shook his head. "This is going to get confusing." He looked at Jade. "There's two of me here now?"

Lola looked at him, "Now you'll know how me and Tori feel."

"All I know is that this is going to really chizzed." Tori's Robbie announced.

"Right..." The other Robbie said. "So we're going to need find some way to tell difference. A different name?"

Robbie grinned for the first time since the accident. "Well, My Tori calls me..."

Tori's eyes widened. "We don't need them to hear about that."

Jade smirked. "You mean 'Daddy'?"

"Actually, it's Papi. She's half latina, remember?" Tori's Robbie smirked.

Tori told him, "This is our universe. We should not have to change your name." She looked at the other Robbie. "And we are not calling him 'Daddy.'"

Jade smirked. "I'll call him 'Daddy' all I want."

Both Robbie's groaned.

"Just call me Rob." Jade's Robbie said. "Simple enough."

Jade sighed. "Fine...but I'll call you whatever I want in the bedroom."

"Good." Tori admitted with a small blush. She turned to Quinn. "How long are they going to be here for?"

She answered, "It's going to be another two weeks at least. Finding another flux pulse battery is going to take a while and then get it sent here."

"Great…" Tori said, unimpressed.

"So we're going to stay here for how long?" Jade asked. Her eyes glaring at Quinn. It seemed this Quinn was just as annoying as hers.

"Two weeks." She replied with a little fear.

"How the fuck are we supposed to live here?" Jade argued. "Everything we have is back at home."

"Lola and I got some extra clothes." Zoey told her. "And since Rob and Robbie are the same, you guys can obviously share clothes."

Robbie sighed before rubbing his eyes. "This is going to get complicated..."

"Tell me about it." Rob replied as he rubbed his forehead. Suddenly, as if a veil of angst and loathing was lifted, everyone started to chuckle and smile again.

"Okay, now that everything is okay, there are living arrangement to be made. So what we will do is..." Zoey started to explain to everyone as the mood was lightened but behind everyone's back, two people were still in a dark mood. Jade and Tori stared each other down with mistrust and hatred in their eyes. They both knew that they weren't each other's version of their worse enemy but that didn't take away from their hate.

Everything was far from okay.

TBC in Chapter 3