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To Me Chapter 3: Twice~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Look
upon yourself
Imagine
you are two
Power
lies within this is true
Can't
you see its clear like a mirror
It's
all within what you're searching for
(Yngwie Malmsteen - Magic Mirror)
She turned to her defender and bowed her head slightly in appreciation.
"Thank you Vegeta."
"What?" His head whipped around and he came face to face with himself. Deep obsidian eyes stared back at him, a smirk on its face.
"Anytime." It answered with a voice the same as his own.
"Uh! What is this?" Vegeta gasped.
"Your present. Not so bad now, is it?"
"But… that's me!" :Do I really look like that?:
"No. He's the 'same' card from your deck."
His double grinned at him, as though he knew much more than Vegeta thought.
"Vegeta-same is your precise replica, a reflection of you if you wish. He has all your fighting skills and strategies, knows everything about you and your life and…" She paused for effect. "He is your absolute equal in strength. Impressed?"
He was, but he'd never admit it to her.
"I'll be warming up while you two talk."
His voice again. :This is getting a bit weird.: Vegeta looked back at the woman when his double phased over into the open space and began stretching.
"Warm up?"
Anysis couldn't help but smile dreamily at her creation doing push-ups on one hand. :Mmm. I do make them well.: Vegeta cleared his throat and she turned back to see the confused look on his face.
She sighed. "What, did you honestly think that I'd make your double just so you could sit and look at each other?"
He glared at her, baring his teeth.
"Take it out on him. He's your first sparring partner." She pointed over at Vegeta-same in the middle of a flurry of kicks and punches.
The way she said 'first sparring partner' bothered him. Vegeta grunted.
"So he's exactly the same as me?"
"Well, not exactly." Anysis frowned. "It's actually impossible to have two beings who are exactly the same in the one dimension. If he was, then the card would have just disappeared."
"I don't see anything different about him."
She chuckled. "Of course you don't. If I had made it physical, he wouldn't truly be your equal."
"So what is it?"
She looked at him, as if debating whether or not to tell him.
"Spit it out woman!" Vegeta yelled through gritted teeth.
His double suddenly froze mid-kick and glared menacingly at him.
"What is your problem?!" Vegeta yelled at his twin, hands in fists at his side.
Anysis answered. "His problem is that you don't know who you're yelling at, and he does."
"What?" Vegeta stepped back, stunned.
His double, apparently satisfied with his reaction, went back to his warm up.
"He knows who and what I am, where I'm from and why I'm here. But I suppose the greatest difference is his reason for fighting."
"He needs no reason! The warrior is in our Saiyan blood. That is good enough."
She just looked at him as if she were bored. "Maybe for you it is. You will find, however, that an opponent with something to fight for will be very hard to beat."
"I'm ready Anysis." Vegeta-same's voice came from behind them.
She spun around and flashed him a dazzling smile. :Hmph. She doesn't smile at me like that.:
"Great. Vegeta, are you ready?"
He snorted. "I'm always ready for a fight. I don't need any 'warm up'."
She shrugged. "Well, then there are only a few things you should know. Firstly, you can't kill each other. That's not a request, that is fact." She eyeballed Vegeta when he started to protest. "A death-blow will return Vegeta-same to card form or will change your clothes white. Secondly, once you go out there, past the living area," she pointed into the vast emptiness, "you won't be able to get back in here until the fight is over."
"How are you going to do that?" Vegeta interrupted.
His double snickered and Vegeta glared at him, daring him to say something.
:This should be very interesting.: "I'm going to put up a barrier wall to protect myself and our quarters from you two. It takes far less energy for the wall than to remake all of our things." Her last comment earned her an odd look from Vegeta and a small laugh from his twin.
"She's just full of surprises isn't she?" Vegeta-same chortled.
Anysis cleared her throat. "And lastly, the rules. There aren't any."
Vegeta smirked. :Just the way I like it.:
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Verrrryyy Innnterrressting. How will the fight between the two Vegetas turn out? Is Vegeta jealous of his twin? Find out in the following episode of
To MeChapter 4: Form