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Mimi opened her brown eyes. She found herself looking into a vaguely familiar face. "Hey, you okay?"
"Hm, I think so."
The somehow familiar stranger ran a hand through her boyishly short brown hair. "That's good. So what's your name?"
"Mimi. My name's Mimi."
A/N: And here's where using the Japanese names to identify AU counterparts starts to fail...and prove the necessity of creating a physical difference of some sort in a few cases.
"Cool! That's my name too." Then it struck Mimi why the other's face was so familiar. This other girl, for some reason Mimi didn't know, was herself. "Why don't you hang out with me for a while? I mean, you don't look like you have anything better to do."
Mimi smiled, enjoying the thought of possibly shopping with this other version of herself. "Sure. Sounds like fun to me."
A/N: I'm betting the chapter title gives you a clue on how AU Mimi is different...
"Great!" Short haired Mimi grabbed long haired Mimi's wrist and started running. "Let's go!"
Long haired Mimi cried out. "I hate running!" Her short haired counterpart ignored her. Mimi's mind was racing now. What kind of place had she stumbled into? Who was this far more tomboyish version of herself? Was this some strange nightmare she was having? All of her questions were shoved to the back of her mind as she was forced to run faster to keep up with her counterpart. The only thing that was running through her mind now was the question of why she ended up here instead of the Digiworld.
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Palmon waited for Mimi, but her partner never game. "This isn't right. Mimi never misses a trip to see me." A feeling of unease rolled over the Digimon. "Something's happened to her. I just know it. I just hope she's okay."
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More to come...review please.