Sanders Sides One Shots: Volume 2 [COMPLETED]

An Illogical Swap (Logicality)

February 22nd, 2019
Requested by PattonPending

Logan didn't always have a reason for some of the things he decided to create in the Mind Palace. As strange as that may be considering he was the logical Side, sometimes, he just wanted to indulge his scientific mind. In this case, he really wanted to invent a teleportation device.

He'd been working on it in his lab nonstop since he came up with the plans. He couldn't sleep or eat until it was finished, which was honestly fine because it wasn't as if he was a real human being with those survival requirements anyway.

To Patton though, it was bad for him and not healthy. He'd tried already to explain to him that they didn't have health in the normal sense. This didn't deter him in the slightest.

It didn't surprise Logan when the moral Side came knocking on his laboratory doors one morning. He was high up, on one of the teleportation portals as he welded together two panels of metal. Patton bit down on his lip, hoping that he could convince him to take a break and eat the breakfast he'd made him.

"Hey Lo!" he called up to him.

The logical Side paused his welding, removing his shaded goggles momentarily to look and see who it was. "Ah, salutations Patton."

"I made you some breakfast! You know, they say your mind operates better after a good breakfast!" he said, hoping he sounded convincing. Logan had already gone back to welding though, and he sighed. "Logan, come on, you gotta take a break."

"On the contrary, I've just finished my invention!" he called, removing his goggles again and climbing down from the portal.

Patton sighed in relief at the news, having been worried about the logical Side ever since he started working on it. When he reached the ground, he took the goggles off completely and set his tools down.

"So what is it?" the moral Side asked as he set his tray down as well.

"It's a pair of teleportation portals," Logan began to explain with excited eyes. "If this were a real scenario, you'd build one of them in one place, and the second in another so that you could travel back and forth between the two locations with incredible ease. Obviously, we as Sides don't necessarily require such technology, as we can teleport already one our own, but I simply sought some... mental stimulation. It's been a while since Thomas has had to do anything challenging in a logical sense."

He looked at the two portals in awe. "So do they work?"

"Let's find out," the logical Side replied with a smile, grabbing his hand and pulling him toward them, completely unaware of Patton's heart skipping a beat in his chest as he did so. They stood in the first portal. "Okay, here goes nothing."

He pressed a button on the remote the moral Side hadn't seen him grab, and suddenly there was a blinding blue light.

Patton's eyes were still closed once the flash had gone away. "Did it work?" he asked softly, but his voice didn't sound like his own. It was more monotone than usual, and a little deeper. He blinked his eyes open quickly, looking down to see Logan's feet and his jeans instead of his own. He was wearing his black polo and necktie, making his eyes widen in confusion. "L-Logan?"

He looked to his left to see himself, which made him gasp out. "Patton, it's alright!" he heard himself say, but it was obvious that it wasn't him. "I think that something went wrong and we've switched bodies. That's all."

"That's all?!" he heard Logan's voice exclaim.

"Yes, it's just a little mistake in the portals' programming, that I can fix in no time. Once I have, we should be able to go back through the portals and come out as ourselves again," he watched himself say. He watched himself step off of the portal's platform and head over to the logical Side's tool table. He froze suddenly, looking a little pale. "I... I can't use them. I don't know how to use the tools because I'm in your body, with your skills."