AlecReyes19: That was the only name I could come up with for Mirror Isabella's second personality. Keep in mind, in this chapter, Mirror Isabella is in her second personality the whole time.
BookMast3r: It was about time, I say.
A-Plus Cassiopeia: Well, was she truly sane to begin with.
Mirror Isabella soared from the flaming building as the terrified citizens scattered away from the scene to avoid any more carnage. The only ones who hadn't run away were Sam, the Barrets, Brenda, and Amanda.
"Hey, Janet, you're back," Brenda greeted as she saw Janet. However, the moment Janet saw her, her blue eyes blazed with anger.
"Brenda!" She hissed in a voice that was foreign to everyone else. "How dare you show your face here!"
Before Brenda could respond, Janet shouted out and lunged at her, knocking her onto the ground with a thud. Then, Janet began to wail on Brenda's face and chest with her tiny fists. Brenda struggled to free herself, but Janet was surprisingly strong and kept her pinned on the ground.
"Wait, Janet stop! I'm good now!" Brenda pleaded, raising her hands to shield her face.
"You tried to expose Sam's secret to the whole city!" Janet screamed as she continued to beat Brenda, who was openly begging and screaming now. A few inches away, Sam, David, and Amanda watched on, forgetting about Mirror Isabella. Sam was staring at the two in disbelief, Amanda was covering her mouth in shock, and David was smirking a bit.
"That a girl," He whispered proudly as he smiled.
Suddenly, a blue beam shot down towards the children, reverting their attention back to Mirror Isabella. A car exploded from the blast, causing Sam, David and Amanda to be sent flying a few feet away. Janet stopped pummeling Brenda and looked up to see Mirror Isabella, and immediately got off of Brenda.
"Janet, get out of here!" David said as he got up and grabbed Janet by the arm, pulling her behind a car.
Groaning, Brenda got to her feet, rubbing her bruised face. She then looked to Mirror Isabella, who was flying closer now. Brenda squinted her eyes as she recognized the girl in front of her.
"I-Izzy?" She whispered in disbelief, struggling to speak as a result of the beating Janet had delivered to her. Her bruised eyes widened in shock, and she totally forgot about her injuries.
Mirror Isabella was now hovering a few inches off the ground, and was several feet away from Brenda, facing her. Her eyes were narrowed at Brenda, not recognizing her.
"Who are you?" Mirror Isabella asked, her arms folded across her chest.
"I-I'm Brenda," Brenda said, hoping that her best friend would recognize her. "You know, your best friend. You've known me for two years, we did so much things together."
Mirror Isabella hissed in outrage. "No Earth-Dimension human is worthy to be my sister's friend!" She cried out and fired a volt of electricity out of her fingertips, aimed at Brenda. However, Sam jumped out and tackled Brenda out of the harm's way.
Brenda was breathing heavily in shock, in disbelief that her best friend had just tried to kill her. "Stay here," Sam said to her before getting up and running towards Mirror Isabella.
"Izzy," Brenda whispered in sadness.
Sam charged at Mirror Isabella and tackled her, knocking her onto the ground. David and Janet got out of their hiding spots to watch the spectacle before them.
"How dare you attack me, Samson Crystal!" Mirror Isabella hissed as she struggled with Sam on the street. "I'm your sister!"
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you do this!" Sam shouted back at her as she struggled to pin her on the ground. However, he was at a severe disadvantage; Mirror Isabella was bigger and stronger than he was. Before long, she'd managed to throw Sam off of her. Before Sam could get up, she shoved him back on the ground.
"Stay down!" Mirror Isabella ordered him before turning towards Janet. Her eyes focused on the younger girl and began to glow bright blue.
"No!" David shouted and catapulted himself at Mirror Isabella, unwilling to let his sister get hurt. However, he'd so impulsively attacked that he'd forgotten that Mirror Isabella had super-strength. Before he could react, Mirror Isabella backhanded him, sending him flying several feet away. He landed on his face on the hard pavement.
"David!" Janet screamed in horror, but then jumped down to avoid Mirror Isabella's ice blast. Janet raced off as Mirror Isabella continued to fire several blasts of ice towards her.
At the same time, Sam began to get up, but was knocked over by the mirror woodpecker. The bird began to rip and poke at Sam's hair, and he began to swing up at it. The woodpecker flew up into the air before diving down at Sam once more. Before it could attack, however, it was zapped by a volt of electricity. The bird squawked in pain and landed on the ground with a thud, steam billowing up from its body.
Sam's eyes widened in shock and he turned around to see Ballard, mewing softly. In spite of what was happening, Sam smiled in relief.
Behind Mirror Isabella, David got up, clenching his jaw and feeling warm blood oozing down. He felt like his jaw was broken, but he knew he had to save his sister. Suddenly, a truck screeched to a halt in front of him. David looked up.
There, only a few inches away, was the same truck driver who had struck Sam with his truck several days ago. Suddenly, he got an idea.
The truck driver rolled down his windshield. "Um, is something important happening?" He asked as he saw Mirror Isabella attacked Janet. David nodded, then added, "Could I use your truck for a moment?"
At the same time, Janet had hid behind a taxi car to avoid Mirror Isabella's attacks. Coincidentally, Amanda was hiding behind the same car.
"Hey, I know you," Janet said once she saw her. "You're the nurse's assistant I met back at the hospital."
"My name's Amanda, and I'm Sam's orphanage friend," Amanda introduced quickly in response, her mind still on Mirror Isabella.
"You're who?" Janet asked in amazement. Their conversation was cut short, however, as Mirror Isabella unleashed a blast of fire that set the car alight. Amanda grabbed Janet by the arm and dragged her away from the burning car.
As Mirror Isabella was about to give chase, the truck, driving at full speed, collided with her and sent her flying through the window of a toy store. Multiple toy shelves went toppling down as Mirror Isabella crashed into them.
Sam, Janet, Amanda, and Brenda ran towards the truck to see David at the driver's seat. He breathed a sigh of relief as he opened the door to get out.
"You just hit my sister," Sam said, narrowing his eyes at David. The older boy just glared back at him, folding his arms. Amanda, meanwhile, got an idea.
"Hey, those are all monster masks!" Amanda pointed out as she saw all the masks in the store. "Isabella's scared of monsters, so her reflection should me as well!"
"Yes!" Everyone else, including the truck driver, said simultaneously.
The children took off towards the store and dove through the windows. They began to grab at the masks all piled up in front of them. Janet grabbed a goblin mask and put it on while David grabbed a human skull and placed it on his head.
A shelf was thrown into the air as Mirror Isabella burst out of the pile, her face bruised and her hair unkempt. She was growling in fury and agony, and her teeth were bared and her eyes ablaze with fury.
"Janet, where are you!" She screeched in anger, rubbing her sore face. However, it was then that she noticed all the monster masks around her, and her face shifted from anger to fear.
"Ugh..." She whispered, uncomfortable with all the masks and symbols laid out before her. She began to shuffle out of the pile to get out of the store, but was surprised when David jumped out at her, wearing his skeleton mask.
Mirror Isabella screamed and stumbled backwards in surprise, landing in the pile of masks. As she looked up, she saw several more monsters appear before her.
"Who are you?" She asked, forgetting about Janet.
"That does not matter," David said, lowering his voice to a throaty growl. "What matters is that we have come for you."
"No!" Mirror Isabella screamed and fired a laser at David, but he dodged it. Mirror Isabella began to stumble backwards as she found herself surrounded.
"No, leave me alone!" She cried, genuinely scared. Without her seeing, Sam used his transparent vectors to grab Mirror Isabella and begin to choke her.
"No! No, I haven't done anything wrong!" Mirror Isabella screamed as she was choked.
"Yes, you have, and you shall pay with your life, Mirror Isabella Crystal," David warned solemnly. Sam began to tighten his grip on Mirror Isabella's neck, causing tears to leak out of her eyes.
"No, I don't want to die!" She was screaming, thrashing around. "I don't want to die!" As she said this, the blue aura around her began to fade. Her blue hair reverted back to red, her pitch black eyes turned blue again, and her pale blue skin returned to terracotta colored.
"She...she left," Amanda whispered in disbelief.
Now restored to normal, Isabella go to her feet, and Amanda ducked behind one of the shelves to avoid being seen.
"What-what happened?" She asked, dazed and drowsy. Before anyone could explain, the store began to glow blue.
"Oh no," David whispered as he remembered that the city was being engulfed by Mirror Isabella's mirror. Without speaking, Sam grabbed David and Janet while Amanda held onto Sam's neck. The four took off into the air while Isabella grabbed Brenda. They two flew out through the broken window and out into the air. Ballard flew up with them.
The group flew up into the night sky and observed below them, the whole city, totally submerged by the blue beam. Despite being so high up, David could see millions of people below him, all frozen and trapped by the beam. He let a single tear drip out as he realized that his parents were probably trapped as well.
Then, before anyone could blink, the whole city vanished before their eyes. The beam disappeared in a bright flash, leaving not a trace of the city. All that was their was pavement, but nothing else. One could be arrive and not have known a city had been there at all.
After a few moments of awe, the group landed back into the ground. Isabella gently lay Brenda on the ground and stared off at the forest, which was still intact. She was staring off in the direction that the mirror was.
"Oh my gosh," She whispered and then, she flew at top speed towards the forest, towards the mirror. In her haste, she hadn't even noticed Amanda, who had only been a few inches away from her the whole time.
"The city...it's gone," Janet whispered, in disbelief. She crumpled onto the ground, still trying to process what had just happened mere moments before. Sam and Brenda knelt down to console her, while David stared off in the direction Isabella had gone to.
After a few moments, David narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists in determination. He didn't know how he was going to do it, but he had a clear goal.
He was going to save the city.
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