The five dark dressed ones walked up the stops of the Manor's front door, facing their counterparts leaving Darryl in the middle.
"What… who?... what's happening?" Darryl asked turning to look at each group.
"I told you I didn't hit you," Buffy told Darryl unsure of what to think.
"Go, I won't hit you again… for now," dark dressed Buffy told Darryl, he looked at his friends and left.
Faith frowned a little when she saw that the other Faith didn't look as different as herself, both where wearing dark clothes, and the other Faith almost stared at her other self and grinned.
"Who are you?" Piper asked to the dark dressed ones in general.
"You," Faith from the other group answered, "come on, I know you want to fight me," she added looking at her double who didn't do anything, seeing this, the Faith with more black clothes than the other kicked her counterpart and sent him backwards into the Manor, "I know it because I want to fight you too," she continued as she ran into the house.
Buffy orbed in purple and white lights and appeared between the Faith who was still on the floor recovering and the Faith running to attack, but at the same time, the other Buffy orbed too, but her orbs were purple and black, she orbed next to her 'twin' and tackled her, while Faith never lose her stride.
Both Buffys and Faiths started fighting their other selves. And all four wanting to reach for the black and silver Scythe.
The two sets of Charmed ones rushed inside, Piper froze the four fighting Slayers and just a second later dark Piper unfroze them.
"Hey!" Piper said pissed that her freeze wore off, she tried to blow up her dark counterpart but the other Piper used her exploding power too at the same time, both Pipers were thrown in opposite directions because of the force of the colliding powers.
This triggered the other sisters to attack, all four of them when seeing their respective oldest sister down.
Buffys where throwing kicks, Faiths trading punches, Phoebes levitating and kicking on air, Paiges orbing random things at each other and Pipers after recovering were looking carefully at everyone, every once in a while glancing each other, a silent agreement made between them.
"People! Stop it now!" Piper yelled but was ignored, dark dressed Piper whistled really loud and everybody stopped their fights, "that's better," both Pipers said satisfied at the same time.
"This isn't going to get us anywhere," normal Piper said, "we're all equally matched, it's a waste of time," dark Piper continued, "and it's breaking the house!" normal Piper ranted.
The others stopped and stared at both Pipers.
"They definitely think alike," Phoebe said.
"I see what you mean," her dark counterpart agreed.
"Hey, don't look at me, she started it!" Faith told Piper and pointed at her not much darker self.
"Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it," other Faith answered her and received a shrug, she smiled knowing that both liked that equal fight.
"Spill, who exactly are you?" Piper asked the darker ones.
"We're you, from another dimension obviously," the other Piper replied looking at the colorful clothes the others had.
"And why did you come," Paige asked crossing her arms.
"To balance the scale of evil versus good," dark Phoebe answered her 'sister',
"Good's winning, I don't see why things have to be balanced," Phoebe replied.
"Is something Prue told us," dark Piper said, "your Prue's ghost crossed over to our world and explained us that when Willow stopped being the Source, and Caleb dead things were so unbalanced in this world."
"And to end this fight and save the future, Prue suggested to let Wyatt change, and once he turns evil, which might be soon, we'll take your evil Wyatt and give you in return our good Wyatt." Dark Phoebe explained.
"I don't get is straight," Paige interrupted, "are you saying that there's a world where you're all evil and that's okay?"
"To keep the cosmic balance," dark Paige responded, "or something like that, Prue wasn't very clear."
"Why I don't get either," Phoebe said, "is why our Prue went looking for you instead of us."
"What do you mean," dark Piper said, "Prue told us that all you misses goody two shoes agreed on sending her, and all we had to do was cross over and avoid you."
"Which honestly we didn't want to," darker Faith added, "I wanted to see a good me, or whatever."
"We didn't agreed, we didn't even know your world existed," Piper said, suspecting something was wrong, her dark counterpart shared the same look.
"Your Prue played with us?" dark Piper asked, getting angrier, "you people are supposed to be the good ones, the ones who never lie, why would Prue manipulate us!" she was almost screaming, dark Piper was angry that not only she couldn't still see her own evil older sister, but she sees an opposite version of Prue and above all she lied.
"Maybe it wasn't Prue," Buffy who had been silent listening to everything said,
"The First?" darker Buffy continued for her other self.
"Makes sense, Giles said that the First could transform into whoever passed away," Buffy continued her train of thought.
"Then the First Good might had set it up too," dark Piper said in thought.
"And we left our world unprotected," dark Phoebe said alarmed, "we aren't balancing things, we are helping our enemy! How could we fall for that?!"
"Because it was supposed to be Prue," both Pipers said at the same time, both knowing that each other still missed Prue a lot and seeing her with an apparently logical plan they would do it without asking.
"We have to go back," dark Paige said.
"How did you get here?" Buffy asked them.
"A mirror, it's in the high school, by the Seal," Faith replied.
"Let's go," dark Paige said and took her sister's hands, dark Buffy held Faith's hand and black orbed to Sunnydale's high.
"We have to place that mirror somewhere else, a place where the First can't access it and manipulate us again," Piper told her sisters and friends who agreed.
The five orbed to Sunnydale too.
"We'll do the same," dark Piper said when she saw their good selves orbed right after them, she knew they where thinking the same.
As soon as the evil Charmed ones and Slayers crossed over, Buffy and Paige held each one a side of the mirror and with their free hands held Piper, Phoebe and Faith, they orbed San Francisco, to the Manor's attic, and during the orbing no one noticed a wave of magic enveloping everything around the world.
"Ok, where should we hide it?" Paige asked out loud once they were in the attic.
"Well, maybe Leo can take it up there," Piper said and called for him.
Leo orbed right away, he was smiling widely.
"Why are you so happy?" Piper asked him as soon as she saw him.
"Why wouldn't I be?" he replied.
"Yeah… ok," Piper decided to brush it off for now, "recognize this?" she pointed to the mirror, "we just met our evil selves, the First manipulated things and we don't know what for."
Still with a huge smile Leo inspected the mirror, "yeah I've heard of it, well, it's good that your evil selves aren't around spreading evil, or else they would be dead already," his mood was still all cheerful.
"Dead? Why?, and, seriously what's up with you?" Phoebe asked her brother in law.
"The punishment," Leo said as if it where very obvious, the sisters and slayers were confused by his behavior and his answers.
"We'll go back to Sunnydale," Buffy said indicating herself and Faith, she knew something was happening to Leo but decided to let his family talk to him, also she wanted to see how were the others doing with the research of how to access the Scythe's power and how to reach Quor'toth.
The Halliwells nodded and both slayers orbed to their town.
In Sunnydale, Buffy and Faith found their friends in a similar mood than Leo, all were very cheerful.
"Hey chosen ones!" Xander greeted them from his spot in the dining room, the table was covered with books, on the other side Willow was working on her computer, she seemed tired but even that she was smiling, Giles sat across Xander, also smiling, reading through books and taking notes on hell dimensions and how to reach them.
"Hey, is my family at the manor?" Chris, who was sit in the living room next to Dawn and with Wyatt on his lap, asked, also in a very good mood and received a light nod from Buffy, "great! I'll be there, see you!" he said happily and orbed with Wyatt.
"What the heck's goin' on?" Faith asked out loud.
"Hey guys!" Buffy called their attention, "what's happening?"
Willow, Xander and Giles looked at her as if she were crazy.
"What do you mean Buffster," Xander said with a huge grin and flipped a page of the book he was reading.
The doorbell rang, and Faith who was closer to the door opened it.
"Hello!" a woman she didn't recognized greeted happily, "I was wondering, if any of you sweeties own that car who is blocking my drive way."
"No," Faith simply said and closed the door.
The woman knocked and Faith opened again, "we're not blocking your drive way," Faith said impatiently.
"I really need to get out and-" the woman was saying but got interrupted by Faith.
"I told you! We're not blocking your damn way!" Faith said and closed the door, her attention returned to Buffy and the scoobies.
"Why is everyone smiling that way?!" Faith wondered out loud, "no one can be that happy all the time."
"Why are you two acting weird?" Dawn asked also chipper.
"Dawnie, we're not the weird ones, trust me," Buffy said with a frown, "what happened while we were gone?"
Dawn shrugged, Buffy and Faith turned to look at the others who didn't know what she mean either.
"Maybe you two need some rest," Giles said, a smile never leaving his face.
The doorbell rang again, Faith opened it again and saw the same woman from before.
"Listen woman, I told you…" the rouge slayer was losing her temper but was cut by the woman pointing a gun at her.
"You have bad manners," the woman said smiling, "that has to be punished," saying this she fired the gun, hitting Faith in the stomach.
"Faith!" Buffy rushed to her side, the woman satisfied and casually walked away, Buffy looked out the street and saw a neighbor working in his yard, he was acting as if nothing happened, he even greeted her. The blonde slayer pulled Faith into the doorway and closed the door, she looked at her friends and were acting as if everything were okay.
"That's what she gets for being rude with that nice lady," Willow said in a casual tone and turned back to her laptop.
Confused by the situation, Buffy still reacted and put her hands over Faith's wound and healed her.
"What the hell's happening B?" a recently healed and shocked Faith asked.
"I'm not sure," Buffy replied, looking at her still unresponsive friends, "let's go back to San Francisco, maybe the mirror has something to do with all of this."
Faith nodded and took Buffy's hand ready to be orbed.
In a swirl of purple and white orbs, both Slayers left, the scoobies continued as if everything where normal.
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