"It was mike's fault that you're here. He didn't even try to stop his personalities from closing the portal and now that D has all the control, only he can open a portal outta here and do you really think he's gonna anytime soon? Even if he did, there's no way he'll let YOU out of here, it'd probably only be for bue."

"But...with this face, D said that after spending at least a year in the darkness and after our faces had changed fully, we can't leave for long anymore. D showed us what happens when he goes into the light."

"And you believed him? He's not like you two, you're much less sensitive to the light once you've gotten used to it, even if you don't, you can still cause some mischief on his side, you could ruin him. Face it, he ruined you so isn't a little payback only fair?"

"When you put it like that. My memory...bue and I were both asleep at the time so I can't tell for sure whether he-".

"Want some proof?" The older mal disappeared from the mirror and after it became clouded by darkness, a...what looked like, a flashback occurred. It showed mike and his personalities all outside the portal to the darkness, his personalities were trying their best to close the portal and mike just stood and watched as they shutout the one place he could reach one of his best friends. Don't you think that qualifies as worthiness of a little revenge, you know for ABANDONING you and leaving you here to be stuck and simply known as 'the third wheel'?"

The younger mal was holding one of the newly imagined teddy bears and the minute his older self mentioned him as the third wheel, he squeezed it until the whole thing exploded, head, limbs and all. The older mal smirked at this, "not only that but from my experience, the minute you see mike again on his side-" the younger mal's eyes shot up but his head didn't. He was simply intrigued as to what else he had to say, knowing it can't be good. "-He's gonna banish you and send you right back here because he's that eager to get rid of you once and for all. Don't 'ya just want to show him who's boss?"

"Yeah…"

"show him that no one should underestimate you…"

"yeah…"

"'Cause you're NOT gonna let anybody push 'ya around anymore!"

"Yeah!"

"No more third wheel, you can finally get what you deserve!"

"YEAH!" Mal smirked, "but then, how do I get the practice?"

"I'll make a portal for a new room that you can practice in while the love birds sleep."

"You can do that?!"

"Yep, because I practiced. Trust me, they won't notice any difference in company." The younger mal sighed at that statement but still knew he was right and got over it. The older mal reached toward the mirror and his hand came through, it landed on the younger mal's shoulder as though he was his older brother giving him a pep-talk. He cheered up afterwards then smiled.

"Can 'ya make the portal now?"

"A portal to a training room where you can get used to the light." The younger mal's eyes were gleaming with excitement.

"But first…-". The older mal put his hands behind his back then when he brought one hand forward it was holding something.

"Is that a puppet? It's like a little wooden me! Does it do anything?"

"Heh, man was I a cute kid. I guess it could be considered a communicator. Talk through it and I'll respond, kay?" The younger mal nodded happily, not a question in his mind and most likely none to come soon. The older mal directed his attention toward one of the far corners, where a large beanbag laid then shot his hand up and a small light appeared from behind it which quickly faded until it was completely undetectable. "The portal?" The older mal smirked then folded his arms, the younger mal took it as a 'yes' and ran over. The room was no longer the black abyss but returned to the way it was, the door, the headless teddy bears, the other beanbags, everything just came back all at once, this was all while mal was staring through the portal, his attention completely gone with astonishment. He turned around to see that the full length mirror from before had disappeared, a knock came from the door and mal pushed the beanbag back against the portal to hide it. Bue and D walked back in...though...something was different, bue was smiling and clinging to D's arm while D was trying not to blush. "Hey." D said, mal just got up and looked at them with a bored and sarcastic face then both D and bue noticed he was holding a teddy bear, headless. When mal noticed what he was holding and saw D and bue staring at it, he quickly hid it behind his back. "What'cha got?" D asked in his usual cocky and smug voice, mal backed away toward one of the other corners so it wouldn't look like there was something behind the beanbag, bue rubbed her chin detective-like. "It's anotha' headless teddy bear!" D burst out laughing, bue felt bad after seeing mal's face turning red with a sad expression. She kicked D in the shin and he fell over throbbing while bue just stared into mal's eyes worriedly, he stared back but embarrassed as he threw the bear under the bed. Mal looked down at his feet but then an idea popped into bue's head, "hey! we haven' played solda(soldier) in a while, whaddaya thin'?" She put her hand over her face and created her war image in hopes of encouraging mal but his mind was elsewhere. Bue just rolled her eyes then went back to D, "I need a sketchpad for making the outfit." She told him, D got up and snapped his fingers, giving her the pad with a poof and a pen. Bue ran over to one of the beanbags by the bed and started drawing. "Outfit for what?" Mal asked curiously while D laughed nervously, a little afraid of his reaction. "Bue's getting a little more… 'girly' you could say. So she wanted to start making fashion designs. You know, sketching the jewelry and the belts and the colors." Instead of waiting for mal's response, he walked over to bue who was starting with the pants and working her way up then started speaking a little louder than normal, purposely, so mal could hear. "You know, some purple spots on the top would be fine!" Bue thumped him, it left a big red mark and he almost fell over. He's a horrible liar. Mal thought, then...the bear he was holding felt different, almost...wood-like. He kept it behind his back, but then it got slightly heavier and, being used to the light weight of the teddy bear, he accidently dropped it. It caught D's attention but bue was still in the zone with her outfit, mal was speechless and worried as to what he'd do to the puppet. "You're still holding that teddy bear?! C'mon, just watch a movie or something!" He looked back down and saw the puppet but apparently D only saw the bear, an illusion? Am I seeing it or is D just delirious? "Delirious of what?!" D asked, annoyed. Mal nearly jumped. "Nuh-nuh-nothin'!" Bue turned her head over to him then got up and walked in. "Ok, clearly we all got few secrets, it's jus' the 3 o' us so...how well can we really keep it tha' way?"

"Huh?" Both boys said in unision. Bue rubbed her brow, frustrated.

"How 'bout we jus' keep to ourselves fer a li'l while, hah?"

"Ooooooh…. Kay." She rolled her eyes then sat back down in front of her pad and continued drawing, while D kept his eye on mal whom was simply and blankly staring at the 'bear'.

While D wasn't looking, bue turned to another blank page and started on a self portrait only with one difference, her hair shortened.

It was later in the night that bue had finished sketching her outfit. An all white outfit to bounce off the sun's rays. D had fallen asleep by the bed, mal on the beanbag, even to him his puppet had changed back to a teddy bear. Bue passed out, sketch book firmly in hand and wouldn't be letting go anytime soon. Mal's dream was worrysom, for some reason he was just walking on a narrow, earthy, rocky, dusty path. Surrounded by blackness, and the churning feeling in his stomach was coming. Then a voice, "good to see 'ya, mal! Ahaha!" The voice sounded unlike anything he'd ever heard, not mike's, D's, buena or bueno's, it was odd. Higher pitched and kinda raspy with some type of 'click' in between it's words that made it sound robotic or just inhuman in general. "Wh-who's there?" Mal asked sheepishly. Then something fell from the non-existent black sky and landed right in front of him...it was the puppet. It started to get up but slowly and very wobbly as it headed toward mal who was too freaked out to run or do anything. "Listen, this is the communication device, I told you I could talk to you through this thing?" "It's you!" The voice of the puppet had changed from mechanical to lower and smoother, mal knew it was his 16 year old self. "Come on, follow me." He said so nonchalantly and gave the younger mal no time to refuse nor respond in general for that matter. Mal just went along as a small light showed at the end as a door appeared. He just opened it without a thought as to what might be on the other side. It looked like the dark room he was currently residing in with D and bue only this one had no furniture and just looked like some plain room. "Let's train." The puppet told him and it like he was reaching for a type of switch hanging from the ceiling but he was too short, mal chose to help him, thinking some kinda target would appear. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." He said playfully and yet a little creepily. The puppet jumped up and pulled the switch and a bright light came on in the center of the room, looking just like a spotlight, it was right above mal. The minute it came on, mal screamed then jumped back to a far corner while he started shaking and feeling sick. Trying to possibly overcome it, he looked back at the spotlight, his face went pale and he threw up with a coughing fit right after. "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF PLEASE, PLEASE!" He begged as he crouched down and into a ball, "if I turn it off now, you'll never learn to adapt." "THAT LIGHT IS BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN ITSELF IF IT'S SHINE WERE SHOVED DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EYES, TURN IT OFF!" "Believe it or not, this is the same brightness as on mike's side or even on the outside when the sun is almost completely gone and not yet given birth to night time." "Th-there's no way that can be true!" "If I turned on all of these lights at once, it'd be the same brightness as a classroom with the lights off but the shine of the half set sun facing the other side of the building!" "There's...o-other...l-li-lights i-in here...too?!" Mal held his hand to his mouth as he leaned over in the position to vomit once more, in the light, for the very brief moment he got to look at the puppet in it, it seemed as though he'd become invisible. "It's those eyes of yours. They're like night-vision goggles, they're incredibly sensitive to light and you can't change them." "Then how can I, oh, wait a minute-! BUE! SHE'S GONNA BE GOING OVER TO MIKE'S SIDE! But...why would D of all people agree to letting her leave the darkness?...then again...according to him, I'm not too trustworthy, bue's such a loyal dog!" Mal laughed to himself.

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