The Other [Ep: 003]

"It's late." I whisper to myself. I look around. "I should go back home." "Actually, you should come with me instead." A voice quite too similar to mine said behind me. In an instant, I turn my head. It's...me?! No way that's me, they look like me, but different?

"What the...who the hell are you?!" I back off slowly trying to avoid this...guy. "Seriously..?" They sounded disappointed. Did they..expect me to know who they are? I tilt my head in confusion. "I'm you! Duh! I'm just from another timeline...another universe even."

((The heck?! Nonsense! Another timeline? A different universe?? This guy must be crazy.)) They grab my shoulder, pulling me to my previous position. "Let me know if I got into the right timeline. You're name is Blank, right? You call yourself Blank?" They asked me as their lifeless black eyes lock with mine. I hesitated to answer. "I-...yeah, you're right. What do you want?" I managed to calm myself down. "Right, I'm Coward." My face formed a look of disbelief. Coward? Seriously? Is he playing with me? "Don't look at me like that. I don't know my own name, people around me call me a coward, okay? I have no choice." "Uh..understandable..."

I'm still confused of why and how. What's he here for? "Again, what do you want?" He smirked. "I'm not telling you yet. Not until we get to where I want us to be." "Alright, just take me where you want me to go. I don't even care at this point. All I care about is that stupid-" "I know. Clover, yeah? Yeah, yeah, I know. That's not what I want to talk about right now, stay quiet until we get there." He said, dragging me by my wrist. "May I ask where we're going exactly..?" "Behind the local bar. Into a portal, to another universe."

((Is this some kind of Mosquito-man: No Way Home type of crap? What is this guy talking about?)) He started to walk faster, does the 'portal' have some sort of time limit? "Hey, slow down-" "No, the portal's gonna close in ten minutes." Ah, so the portal *does* have a time limit. Wonderful, definitely realistic and possible.

After a few minutes, we made it to the bar. Coward was still gripping on my wrist. He dragged me behind the bar, I can see a bright purple-ish pink-ish light. Is there really a portal..?

"Here we are." I tried to catch my breath after seeing a literal portal. It's real?? Is it an illusion? I can see the inside of someone's home inside the portal. Coward tugged my wrist. "C'mon, it's about to close." He ran in the portal, I followed. I was so confused yet amazed that I just walked through a portal. The portal brutally closed behind me as I brush the dust off my clothes. "Now that there's better lighting, take a good look at me." He told me while he walks back for me to see his full body.

I look at him up and down, head to toe. Let's see...he has pale-ish grey-ish hair, he has the same haircut as mine but a bit longer. He's wearing a black turtleneck sweater, along with a white shirt that I think was a bit too big for him. For the pants Coward was wearing black jeans, it has a few rips...I don't think they come with the jeans. He was also wearing boots. They were quite shiny...the laces were tied really well too. ((Huh. Weird, I feel like something's missing.)) I look back at Coward's neck. The choker...wasn't there?

"Hey, where's the choker?" I asked in a calm tone. "The choker? I- I don't..err..." He stuttered. Did he...lose it? Am I here so that he can get it back? No way! "It's uh...not on my neck, actually." "Then...why were you so hesitant to tell me?" "I thought you would find it weird. It's on my wrist." On his wrist? Why on the wrist? "I didn't want people to see it. I didn't want people to see the gold." "Understandable." "Are you finished?" "Yeah."

They walk up to me. "You know, I took a good look at ya' too while you were observing me." I don't know why, but I feel embarrassed. "I forgot what the choker looked like, to be honest, it looked really boring." "Well, that sure hurts."

He began to circle around me, looking at me up and down, head to toe. "Look at me." "Huh?" "I said look at me. You didn't examine my face, didn't you?" "Oh yeah.." They back away from me once again.

His eyes were black, by black I mean black, I'm sure that my eyes were dark brown. His skin was a bit paler than mine, and he has a few scars on his face. "Hey, what happened? You have scars on your face." "Oh, not just on my face. But if you want to know, it's normal. I fought with many people."

Of course.

"My voice is a bit raspy and deep, yeah?" "You're actually right about that. I just realized." "I'm so jealous of you. You're so pure, your face is scar-free, your voice is so clean, you're..." They groan loudly. "Forget it. You're- *We're* here for a different reason." Wonder what it is. "Alix!" Coward suddenly yelled. Alix? Who's that?

Suddenly, I saw someone walking toward us. He looks like me. Another one? Is he from another timeline? Universe? His skin was pale, His hair looks a bit like mine, but it's thicker and...fluffy? His eyes were light brown—he's wearing glasses with a small crack on the corner of it. For what he was wearing, he wore a simple white turtleneck sweater with a pale purple shirt extra sized shirt overlapping. He was wearing black jeans, the same as Coward. For the shoes, Alix was just wearing a normal pair of White sneakers.

"Huh. He's a normal guy, eh?" "He might *look* like a normal guy." That sentence scared me a bit. "You must be Blank." His voice is like mine, clean, not low..but not high, and calm. Alix then approached me. "Kiss me if I'm wrong, you've met someone called Clover, am I right?" "Right. What about it?" "Have you seen his face?" I pause for a moment.

"Now that you mention it, I don't think so." "Will you believe us when we tell you that Clover's another one of us from an alternative universe?" My eyes widened. Really? "So does that mean I fought with *myself*, and the other *me* wants *my* choker? *My* gold?!" "Exactly." Coward answered as he crosses his arms.

"We should talk somewhere else...somewhere we can sit." He took my wrist and softly lead me to what looks like an office, followed by Coward.

"Take a seat. Let's discuss why we're here."

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