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"Woah?" The second Jack looked unimpressed. "That's the best you can come up with? It seems the less evil version of myself is also less witty."
"How-" Jack was cut off as his copy jumped backwards into the air. The second Jack lifted his staff, and then slammed it down towards Jack just as he had done to the presents.
"And also less powerful. There seems to be a pattern going on here." The original Jack was now buried under a heap of snow and ice as the second one laughed.
"Hey! Who the bloody hell are you?"
The second Jack looked over his shoulder at Bunnymund, who had gripped his boomerangs in a fighting stance. "Finally woke up from your nap, huh?" Jack laughed. "You look cold, kangaroo?"
"I am not a kangaroo," Bunny growled as he struggled to stop shivering after having been tossed into an icy lake. Bunny pulled his arm back to throw his boomerang. He needed to hurry up and beat this imposter so he could go check on the real Jack.
A sudden explosion of ice from the mound Jack was buried under told Bunny that there was no need to worry about his friend. Jack bursted out of the snow and into the air. He gripped his staff like a weapon, ready to join the fight with Bunny.
The second Jack looked back and forth between Jack and Bunny on either side of him. "I think I'll avoid fighting two at once for now," The second Jack said. But he never lost his smirk as he flew higher into the air and sped off with the wind.
Jack started to fly after him, determined to find out what was going on.
"Jack!" Bunny called him back. "As much as I'd like to chase after him too, we don't have time to waste on that. North needs our help."
Ever since Jack had left, the remaining four Guardians had been working hard to save Christmas. That is, until one of Tooth's fairies flew in to urgently inform them of the massive storms. Bunny took off to put a stop to it while the rest of the Guardians remained working. Tooth and a group of her fairies flitted around, giving help where it was needed. Sandman used his sand as arms to do the work of ten. North took stock of the damage and was informing the yetis what needed to be done. The Pole was alive with hurried movement and urgent talking.
And it all came to a halting stop when Jack Frost and the Easter Bunny suddenly appeared in the middle of the action through a rabbit hole. The ones nearest to the whole froze and stared first, but the rest of the Pole's workers quickly realized Jack's presence and stopped what they were doing as well. North pushed through a crowd of yetis until he stood at the front of the crowd.
North found himself actually relieved to see the boy. Despite all the destruction the Winter Spirit had caused, he found it difficult to muster up the appropriate anger. Soon after telling the boy to never come back, North had regretted his words. Not only because was Jack an important member of his family, but also because North didn't want him to be subjected to the loneliness he had suffered for three-hundred years ever again. Maybe something terrible or painful happened and that was why Jack acted as he did. If North was honest with himself, he knew he hadn't given Jack any opportunity to explain.
And so, when North saw Jack standing in the middle of the Pole, he did not immediately berate him. He waited to listen to what Jack had to say.
All eyes were on Jack as he nervously scratched his leg with his foot and opened his mouth to speak. "Uh..." He was uncertain how to start, how to explain, and he stared at the ground as if it would provide him with the answers.
Bunny was just about to take over for him when Jack looked up again. Defiance was in his eyes as he faced his audience. "Look, whatever you think I did, I didn't do it. I don't know what's going on, but somehow, there's... there's another me. I don't know where he came from or who he is, but he looks exactly like me and he has all my powers." Jack looked straight at North for this last part. "But he is not me and I would never try to ruin Christmas."
There was a moments pause before Bunny backed up Jack's declaration. "It's true. I saw him too."
"Another Jack...?" North murmured in confusion. "Come, we ask Manny."
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