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"So, both of you are magical beings chosen by the Man in the Moon?" Baljeet was asking, rubbing his head over the information he was hearing. None of it made sense or coincided with how he saw the world, but he could not exactly tell these magical beings that they weren't real when he could see them.
"Yep, though Manny doesn't seem to really like me that much. What about you?" Jack asked, thinking about how Manny always ignored his questions. Even if the guy wanted to make Jack a Guardian, it didn't make up for hundreds of years of silence.
"I can't say. He never talks to me." A/D Jack replied, shrugging.
"Well, looks like that's something that hasn't changed. Did he want you to be a Guardian too?" Jack asked, raising an eyebrow at his other self.
A/D Jack made a slight choking sound, unable to comprehend what he was saying. "Are you serious? Me, a Guardian? I'm not going to spend my time thinking of new ways to bribe kids." he said, once he recovered from the shock.
Jack grinned and stood up, laughing at his reaction. "That's exactly what I said!" he replied, realizing just how similar he was to this other Jack.
"Does anyone else feel the urge to punch one of them?" Buford asked, annoyed with the two boys. They might be immortal spirits, but both of them continued to act like children.
"Do that and you'll find yourself with a nasty case of frostbit, kid." A/D Jack threatened, glaring at the bully.
Jack smacked his arm, glaring at him. "Hey, is that any way to treat one of your first believers?" he asked, making A/D Jack feel a little guilty.
"Sorry." he mumbled, glancing away from the boy.
"Don't forget the other Guardians! Tell them about those guys!" Jamie said, excited to learn more about all of them.
"Well, I can't exactly tell you about the Guardians in this world, but I do know quite a bit about the ones in my dimension. First, there's North, more commonly known as Santa Claus. He protects the wonder in children across the globe and he never stops working. Christmas is everything to the guy and if you try and tell him anything else is more important, be ready for a long argument." Jack began, grinning as he thought about his other friends back home.
"Next, we have the Sandman, or Sandy as we like to call him. He protects the dreams of children. I'd like to say that I know him well, but he can't exactly talk and I'm not good at reading his sand symbols to know what he is trying to tell me." Jack commented. At this point, even A/D Jack was interested. He had barely even met the Guardians here, so he knew so little about the people he had destroyed. They sounded like nice people, making A/D Jack feel even worse about his role in destroying belief in his world.
"Then we have the kangaroo, I mean Bunny. You know him as the Easter Bunny, but he is not cute and cuddly by any means. He is big, able to take on any enemy with his boomerangs and eggs. He protects the hope in children and will not tolerate any interference with Easter. Take this warning seriously, do not mess with his egg hunts. You will regret it." Jack told them, thinking back to the blizzard of '67. As fun as it had been, Bunny was never going to forgive him for that one.
"Why do you call him a kangaroo?" Baljeet asked, not understanding the similarities between the two animals. Jack chuckled, shaking his head.
"You'd have to meet him to understand. Finally, we have Toothiana, or Tooth for short. She protects the memories of children, by gathering their teeth which hold the most important memories of childhood. Oh, if you meet her Jack, keep your mouth shut. Trust me, she is obsessed with our teeth." he added, but his mind was going back to the teeth in his pocket instead of the Guardian. His hand brushed against the golden case, once again wondering if he should try and regain his memories yet. He didn't know if it would help or not, but it never seemed to be a good time to do anything with them.
"Why is she obsessed with our teeth?" A/D Jack asked, curious to hear more.
"They're really white, apparently. She likes teeth, especially ones that are well cared for." Jack replied, shrugging and pulling his teeth out. He sat down and stared at the picture on it, unable to get his mind off of the idea now that he had thought of it.
"Well, that was fun and all, but we've got some work to do. Baljeet, get to work on rerouting the power and opening another portal. Gretchen, monitor the Doofen Channel and make sure no alarms are raised. Buford, keep resisting!" A/D Candace called out, giving commands to the resistance and trying to recover from the distraction.
"What's that?" Phineas asked, seeing the case in Jack's hand. A/D Jack was curious as well, not recognizing it from his dimension.
"My teeth. Tooth was supposed to get me my memories back after…after we dealt with Pitch. That was before I…well before Easter…" Jack trailed off, not certain of how to explain what had happened.
Phineas gave him a small smile, not wanting to see the winter spirit in pain. "Well, don't worry about it! I'm certain we'll be back in no time and then you can get your memories back." he said, getting up and walking towards the others to help work.
A/D Jack stayed behind, wondering if he would have the same issue in the future. He had gotten rid of this world's Tooth and he did not have his memories either. Both of them were stuck, one by guilt and one by impossibility. "Whatever Pitch did to you, don't blame yourself. I know him well. He gets under your skin, knowing your deepest fears and using them against you. It isn't your fault, whatever he did." A/D Jack said, hoping to be more helpful than Phineas. Jack nodded, running his hand across the side of the container.
Both of them were distracted however by a golden light in the center of the room. The children were focused on their machine, not noticing what was going on. "Jack, do you see that?" Jack asked, glancing up from his teeth. A/D Jack stared as well, curious to know what was going on. Maybe Manny was doing something to help stop Pitch. It would make sense after all, since it was only the two of them left against an all powerful nightmare king.
As the light began to glow brighter, expanding within the room, Jack began to recognize what it was. He touched it gently, his mind going back to the Guardian that had fallen in his own battle against Pitch. "Sandy." he whispered, letting the sand flow towards the center of the room. As it gathered in front of them, he gasped at what appeared when it vanished. Standing within the base of the resistance, were all four Guardians.
"What the heck is going on?" Bunny complained, his accent the same here as it was in Jack's world.
All of the kids turned around, hearing the new voice and staring in shock at the people they saw. A/D Jack was reacting similarly, unable to believe that the Guardians had returned. "I don't know. Perhaps Manny gave us another chance?" North suggested, glancing at the Guardians within the room. They all knew that they had failed, that they had vanished into nothingness. Now, they were clearly back but none of them knew how.
"I knew it would work! They believed and it brought them back!" Jack cheered, happy to see that some part of his plan had succeeded.
All four Guardians recognized that voice, remembering the winter spirit that had attacked them so suddenly. He had frozen the tooth palace, destroyed all the toys for Christmas, and he even helped Pitch destroy Easter with a massive blizzard that spread over almost an entire continent. The boy was nothing but trouble and they were all prepared to fight against the familiar threat. "Jack Frost, what are you doing here?" North asked, pulling out his swords and glaring at the boy in the blue hoodie. His clothes may have changed, but North would not trust this boy.
"Uh, guys? Jack, what did you do to them?" Jack asked, backing up slightly and glancing at his other self.
"I was helping Pitch, what do you think I did?" A/D Jack asked, thinking that his other self must be pretty dumb at times.
"Yeah, right. I forgot about that." Jack replied, watching the Guardians grow even more alarmed as they saw two versions of the winter spirit in front of them.
"You were right, they are real." Jamie said, interrupting them as he stared at the Guardians in awe.
Bunny glanced over at the kid, happy to see a believer after all this time in the dark. No belief meant no power and since he was his normal self, not tiny, there must be at least a few believers in the world. Still, he felt a bit weak but it was better than nothing. "Who's this?" he asked, confused.
"That is Jamie and you better be nice to him, Bunny. He's my first believer." Jack said, grinning at all of them. He was happy to see them all, even if they weren't the Guardians from his world. They all looked and acted the same as the Guardians he knew, so it worked for him.
"Oh no, he's got a believer? Look kid, you've gotta stay away from him." Bunny was saying, making both Jacks realizing that the Guardians were going to take some time to convince. Jack however, knew of a certain way to get them all to believe. North's belly was never wrong, so all Jack needed to do was convince the big guy and they would all let this go.
"Jamie doesn't have anything to be afraid of, Bunny. We just had some fun, didn't we?" Jack asked, grinning at the kid. Jamie nodded and smiled, happy to tell the story.
"Yeah, we had a massive snowball fight! It was awesome, with Jack, Phineas, Phineas, Ferb, and Ferb!" he explained, creating even more confusion.
Bunny figured it was some kind of speech issue for the kid, ignoring the repeated names in his statement. "Look, I know you don't exactly trust me right now and I get that, but we've got a bigger issue than me to deal with." Jack began, appealing to them for help now that they were here.
"Bigger issue? If it weren't for you, Pitch would never have gotten ahold of my fairies!" Tooth complained, surprising Jack. She had always liked him, especially his teeth. Her threats were not familiar to him, at least not when they were directed towards himself.
"Don't yell at him, I'm the one who froze your tooth palace!" A/D Jack said, defending his other self.
"This is confusing. Jack with blue hoodie, you are Jack 1, Jack with black hoodie, you will be Jack 2. Jack 2 froze palace, which Jack did the rest?" North said, glancing at both of them.
"Jack 2 did it all. I'm from another dimension, actually." Jack told them, but he wasn't done yet. "Though, Jack over here is really sorry about what he did. He even helped bring you guys back." Jack told them, deciding to let his other self take some of the credit for this plan.
"Brought us back? What do you mean brought us back?" Bunny asked, glaring at them. There was no way either of these fun-loving winter spirits helped the Guardians. It just wasn't possible. When Sandy shrugged and created a golden question mark over his head, Bunny could only nod and agree with his confusion.
"Well, your power comes from belief, right? We brought belief back to this dimension." Jack explained, gesturing to himself and the other Jack.
"Uh, guys? We really need to get this portal opened soon if we want to go home." Phineas said, interrupting them. As interesting as this was, they couldn't keep redirecting the power without raising some kind of an alert to Doofenshmirtz.
"I told you, I'm not going back, not until I stop Pitch." Jack told them sternly, glaring at the boys.
"Really? Are you trying to take that job as a Guardian after all?" A/D Jack asked, curious to know if something had changed his mind.
"Guardian? There is no way he could ever be a Guardian. Jack Frost is nothing but a selfish, irresponsible trouble-maker!" Bunny complained making Jack laugh.
"You know, I think you said something similar back in my dimension as well." Jack commented shaking his head. Thinking back to what he had learned earlier, Jack now knew what he would protect in children. "These kids are going home and it is up to us to stop both the Pitch of this world and the Pitch from my world. Together we are going to be unstoppable." Jack told them. North was stroking his beard thoughtfully, noticing the strange absence of a warning in his belly about these two boys.
"Just how do you plan on doing that?" North asked, watching Jack 1 turn to look at Jack 2. Both of them grinned, knowing exactly what they needed to do.
"By having some fun, of course. That is my center, after all."
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