Mirror Image

Chapter 3: Baka Trio, Meet The oirT akaB

There are three people in the room with the mirror.

That is fact.

But it is also a fact that there are technically - in a way - six people in the room.

Why?

Because there are an additional three people literally in the mirror itself.

No I am not talking about their reflections.

...

Well... Not the type of reflection you'd probably think of anyway...

Directly in front of the mirror, is our residential and completely baffled Allen Walker. Mouth open and eyes wide, he couldn't even begin to try to comprehend what he was looking at. Next to him are Lavi and Kanda who, quite frankly, couldn't find anyway to explain this thing either. When they were told to check the mirror out, they never expected anything like this to happen.

They thought the worst case scenario was if it exploded, definitely not this.

... Y'know, it probably would've been better if it had exploded anyway...

In the center of the mirror is our recently discovered and mysterious 'Red.' With a guarded and confused expression on his face, the red-headed boy shifted into a more defensive position. Whether it was a conscious action or not, they couldn't tell. And surprisingly, next to him are identical copies of both Lavi and Kanda with matching looks of confusion.

Actually, now that they had a better look at the two, they weren't identical. Almost, but there were little differences in them that showed they weren't merely regular reflections.

The Lavi look-a-like for one, had two cold, calculating green eyes and a fierce scowl on his face that was very unlike the real one - heck, a look like that would've been better on Kanda than Lavi... -. There was also the lack of his orange scarf or his distinctive headband anywhere on him.

The Kanda look-a-like on the other hand, had his long, silky hair out of its usual ponytail and flowing down his shoulders. His eyes were calm and they swear they can see the love and compassion around him, which horrified Lavi and Allen because he looked so goddamn cute and gentle.

The copy of the great and intimidating Kanda Yuu looked about as gentle and harmless as Allen did on a regular basis.

And for the love of everything good and evil they couldn't even figure out why that made him so much more terrifying than the original!

"..."

"... Alright, I'll say this again. The fuck? And who are you people?"

Ah. Three guesses on who that was.

Snapping out of his confused state, Allen - being the little gentleman he pretends to be - decides to respond in his usual charming *cough cough*conning*cough* way.

"Ah. I'm sorry, my name is Allen. Allen Walker and the two next to me are Kanda and Lavi. May we please know who you are?"

The three strangers looked shocked at the news. (A.N. Again. Three guesses why... It's obvious)

Red looked a little confused and suspicious."Red. Just Red. And these two are Yuu and the Bookman Junior."

Hearing this, Lavi got a blank and calculating look in his eye, and not just because of this supposed 'Bookman Jr.' The reflections' names - or title for one of them - were definitely way to similar to theirs'...

Scratch that. Lavi was willing to bet his own Bookman title that they're actually identical.

Kanda twitched at his first name being spoken - whether it was being directed to him or not - and looked like he was about to snap at Red.

And he would've, if Allen didn't decide to elbow his damn ribcage in with his left arm.

Hard.

The three boys in the mirror didn't exactly know how to react to Allen's sudden physical abuse to Kanda, who was now trying - and actually pretty successful in his attempt - to hide the fact he was now out of breathe. They had seen Kanda make a face at them and open his mouth to speak, but apparently whatever he was going to say was going to remain unspoken.

And Allen?

He's not even looking at his victim. His face is that of a perfect mask of innocence, hiding any and all traces of shock, irritation - demented pleasure in hurting Kanda... - or any other emotion of the sort. Just a cute, little ray of sunshine.

"... The hell?"

"Allen, you didn't have to hit Yuu..."

"Yes I did."

"You little shit-!"

"Hey-!"

Allen bolted away from the angry swordsman. Said angry swordsman drew Mugen and proceeded to chase after him, cursing all the way.

"Come here you little shit!"

"No way, Kanda!"

"Sprout, I will fucking murder you!"

"You'd have to be able to catch me first, stupid!"

"Guys guys, c'mon just calm down-"

"Shut the fuck Up Lavi."

"Girls, girls, you're both pretty! Now stop your petty fighting, I want some answers!"

"Fuck you, and your answers!"

"Kanda, shut up! Gah-!"

Finally getting ahold of Allen, Kanda abandoned his plan of cutting him in favor of throwing him at the mirror in hopes of breaking him and it. Two birds with one stone and all that.

"-Don't brush me off you ponytailed ass!"

Pressed against the mirror himself was Red, who was cursing at Kanda. Allen had hit the mirror face first, startling Red, and shakily gripped the frame of the mirror with one hand to pull himself up.

*click* *Swooosh!*

In a flash of light, the mirror glowed again, and began to drag Allen and Red into the mirror, shocking everyone.

"Wha-?!" "What did you do?!"

"Ah-! Allen!" Running up to the white haired boy, Lavi grabbed onto the back of Allen's coat and tugged, trying to pull him out, while Red had stretched back with a free hand and grabbed onto Jr. and attempting to free himself. Nothing was working and now both redheads were being pulled into the mirror with them.

"Let me go! Don't drag me into your problems you rat! And you! What exactly are you doing?!"

Yuu had grabbed onto Jr. like Lavi had to Allen and had grabbed onto one of the bolted down chairs, trying to keep them from getting pulled further. Red and Allen were already halfway through the mirror, with Allen's whole torso stuck inside.

"I'm trying to keep us from falling in!"

"If Red would let me go, then it would only be him falling in!"

"Screw you Bookman! Do something useful and get us out!"

"How the hell am I supposed to do anything?! You're pulling me to the stupid mirror!"

"Hey! Let me go, Stupid Rabbit!"

Lavi had copied Red and had grabbed onto Kanda, who now had planted his feet firmly on the floor and grabbed onto an identical chair as Yuu's to avoid being dragged in.

"Sorry Kanda, no can do! Trying not to lose Beansprout over here!"

All six people were now in a tug-of-war fight with a mirror. And losing... Badly. Allen and Red were now completely sucked in, with only half of Red's arm sticking out, still clutching Jr. Half of Lavi's arm was stuck in the mirror and Kanda and Yuu were losing their grip on their chairs.

"Why are we losing to a piece of glass?!"

"Ah-! Kanda I don't think this is the ti-Mmph!"

"Shi-!" "Gah-!"

In a bright flash of light, the mirror suddenly increased its pull on the Exorcists and yanked, dragging the remaining people into the mirror.

With one more flash, the mirror shut itself off, leaving behind nothing but an empty room.

(This is a line. This is a line.)

Next time:

With the B.T:

"We can never trust Red with the keys to the Science Department cause he'll go and mess with everything and steal projects to play with."

"Ha, that sounds amazing-"

"-Lavi, shut up."

With the T.B:

"Who had time to make a robot dinosaur?!"

"Mwahahaha! Fear me mortals for I am the Dinosaur King!"

"Can't one of you two stop him?!"

"Not my problem. It's not my fault someone gave that idiot free access to the projects."

"Hahahahaha!"

My internet has turned into the crappiest thing I have ever had the displeasure to have. It says it's working but it doesn't, and it's one thing to have no internet. But it's another thing entirely when it says you have internet but it doesn't work. At all.

Dialogue is so not my friend. The main reason this chapter took so long to make is because I had no idea on how to get these guys to interact with each other properly and I didn't even get it right. Allen and Kanda seem to be a little OOC but I'm not sure I actually want to change it.

Anyway, I'm not sure if you can tell, but I've kinda rushed the end part of it. That's where I got stuck and just tried to push the story along so I can get to the fun parts later. Already have ideas for it and if you have one I might put it in the story. Though if you want your idea to go a certain way, be specific. Otherwise I'll let my imagination run wild.

Oh yeah! The T.B. are reversed from the originals by one or two defining personality traits. Just picking one or two traits and reversing them and you almost have a new personality~

I need help with the other characters' personalities. If you have an idea, you can share it and I'll pick the one(s) I like the most.

Also, what's a beta? I've read some stories and the authors mention something about a beta and I have no idea what that is.

Bleh.

-Red out