Sam, David, and Janet had finally reached their house, and were at the driveway.
"Are you sure about this?" Sam asked Janet, who simply shrugged in response. David, who was watching, rolled his eyes.
"Seriously, I'm a little worried," Sam whispered nervously. "I am too, Sam," Janet said, holding Sam's wrists, "But we have to give it a little try."
"Actually, I have to agree with the preconscious shrimp here," David cut in. "I mean, I thought you were joking about training him to use his powers, but, you were serious about this?"
"Of course I was," Janet said, astounded. "Why would I joke about that?"
David shrugged. "I don't know, it just seemed like you couldn't do it," He said.
"Is this because I'm a girl?" Janet asked, glaring.
"NO!" David defended, taken aback. "I mean, I don't think I could train him either! We're both kids with little understanding on how these mirror powers work."
"Um, are you going to 'train me' or are you just going to continue arguing?" Sam asked, folding his arms. "Besides, I want to see what the kid can do."
"Great, at least someone respects me," Janet said, putting her hands on her hips and smiling triumphantly. "Okay Sam, I want you to make a ball of fire."
"…What?" Sam asked. "We're immediately going to do this?"
"Yes we are," Janet said. "Now make a ball of fire."
Both Sam and David gulped. Sam, reluctantly, then raised his hand out, and a small blue flame appeared over his palm. Janet's eyes lit up.
"Now, make it bigger," She demanded.
"Janet, aren't you over thinking this?" Sam asked, somewhat disturbed. However, he nevertheless agreed, and the fireball was increased in size.
By now, the fireball was beginning to slightly burn Sam's hand. Yelping in pain, Sam tossed the fireball into the air.
"Heads up!" David shouted and tackled Janet out of the way as the fireball went soaring to the ground. It smashed onto the ground, barely missing their parents car. As soon as the fireball made impact on the driveway, it vanished.
David got to his knees, shuddering. Janet, however, sprung to her feet, ecstatic. "That was awesome!" She cried.
"No, we could've died!" David shouted.
"But we didn't," Janet pointed out. Unconvinced, David got to his feet and approached Sam, who was still recovering from burning his hand.
"Look kid, you have to find a way to make your fireballs disappear without just throwing them," David snapped. "If you don't you may end up killing someone, or worse."
"Sorry, but I told you, I'm not very adept at stuff like this," Sam reminded.
"Well, do it again, maybe you could control it," Janet suggested. "Practice makes perfect, after all."
Sam nodded and made another fireball. However, as he tried to find some way to make it disappear, it grew out of control and he was forced to toss it away. It landed on the grass, burning a few grass to a crisp.
"Again," Janet said. Once more Sam made a fireball that resulted in a similar failure.
"Again," Janet repeated. Sam rolled his eyes and tried again, but it once more ended in disaster. But still, Janet did not relent.
After several more tries, Sam collapsed on the ground, exhausted. "I give up, Janet," Sam said. "I don't think I'll ever master this thing."
Janet sighed. "Well if you can't control it, you could end up endangering others and yourself," She pointed out. Sam face palmed.
"I'm actually way better at dissipating snow and ice," Sam revealed. Then, as a demonstration, he created a small glowing snowball and then effortlessly made it vanish.
Janet's eyes brightened when she saw it. "Wait, that's it Sam," She said, snapping her fingers.
"What's it?" Sam and David asked in unison.
"Make a fireball," Janet said. Sam's eye twitched.
"Janet, I told you-" Sam started but Janet cut him off with a wave of her hand. Groaning, Sam once more made a fireball that began to increase in size.
"Um, Janet?" David said, backing away from Sam.
"Now, make a blast of snow," Janet ordered. Quick as lightning, a blast of ice erupted from Sam's hand, engulfing the fireball and putting it out.
"Whoa," Sam and David both said, Sam backing up a bit.
"That's how you do it," Janet said. "You can use our other powers as a way to control your abilities. Your ice powers overcame your fire powers and caused the fire to vanish."
"That's actually rather smart," Sam said with a smile. Suddenly, the three heard the door creak open. They turned around to see Felix and Agatha standing at the door, a look of awe on their faces.
"We noticed you using your powers and saw you use the snow to get rid of the fire," Felix explained. "It was…amazing."
"I showed him to do that," Janet said proudly.
"…Hey, you think you could do that again, just to see if you can handle it," Agatha said with a smile. Sam nodded and made a fireball, then created a blast of ice that evaporated the fire.
"Amazing," David said, eliciting a smile from Janet, who folded her arms in a look of victory. Then, David added, "But we have to keep Brenda from knowing about this."
Janet and Sam nodded understandingly.
In the mirror dimension, Mirror Isabella paced back and forth, her arms folded behind her back, when the door to her room was pushed open and a certain red-head entered.
"Oh, it's you Bella," Mirror Isabella said, clearly disinterested, before continuing to pace around. Isabella rolled her eyes and began to pick out a black and blue t-shirt.
"So, don't overreact, but David knows I'm a mirror person," Isabella confessed. Mirror Isabella paused.
"I know, Bella," Mirror Isabella revealed. "Our little brother brought his friends over to come see me." Isabella briefly gained a look of surprise before regaining her calm expression.
"So, how did it go?" Isabella asked.
"I couldn't care less about David, but Janet worries me," Mirror Isabella admitted.
"No, it's David who's a pain in the posteriors," Isabella replied. "Janet's harmless."
"Yeah, but she and Sam seem to have gotten close those last few days," Mirror Isabella sold, folding her arms across her chest. "She reminds me a bit of that orphanage girl two years back…"
"I thought we agreed not to talk about her," Isabella whispered.
"Look, Bella, if Janet's really becoming friends with Sam, then you know he'll start distancing himself from us, and someone is bound to get hurt, and you don't want that to happen, do you?" Mirror Isabella inquired.
Isabella paused, then shook her head.
"Exactly," Mirror Isabella said. "Now get out. I have to think things over."
Isabella nodded and exited the room.