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Part 17-2(Good Ending)

Virgil's POV

'I know that voice.' I stood up and turned to see.................. Remy. He was wearing his regular leather jacket, white shirt, jeans, and had a cup of coffee. "Remy, what's going on? Why are you here?" Roman stood too, "Wait I thought you died! Didn't Virgil kill you like, a few weeks ago?!" I turned to look at him, "I did what now?" "Later," he told me. I nodded and turned back to Remy. "You know, it's been proven that you wouldn't recognize your twin if you saw them on the street. But I am surprised that you never noticed the similarities between us Virgil." Then it clicked, "You're...you're a Side?" "No, I'm your evil twin. Yes, b*tch, I'm a Side," he said before waving his hand. Soldiers seemed to appear out of nowhere, guns pointed right at us. We were surrounded. "Remy, what are you doing? Also, how did you censor yourself?" He smirked and took a sip of his coffee, "What? Do you want me to do a whole villain monologue about my evil plan? Well since I'm going to win, I might as well."

"You see, when Thomas was split into us, I was very powerful. What child doesn't sleep all the time? But the scientist feared me and my ability to control people, so they locked me away. But when Thomas died and the Sander Sides project was terminated, I lost most of my power and was forgotten. So I made a plan. The scientists thought it was a good idea to keep me locked away because they feared my powers, so I would show them what real power was." He tossed a file to me. I opened it up to reveal a power chart.

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(︎P︎o︎wer︎ C︎︎olor) Orange

"Full Control?" Roman asked, looking over my shoulder. "You can control people?" "It was you! You've been controlling us!" I shouted. "Well, of course, it was me, who else could it have been? Now if you would please let me continue my story, thanks b*tch. I had to find someone who would give me the unlimited resources that I would need. Where better to go then the government themselves? They, of course, were ecstatic about someone who could control people. Well some of them weren't, but I can be very...... persuasive if I want to be." He chuckled, his eyes flashing orange. "So it was a unanimous decision to give me soldiers and scientists to try and find the rest of you guys. It was quite funny to see their faces when they learned their new leader was only ten. My first order of business was to find the one with the most potential. That's where you come in my dearest Virgil. You weren't hard to find, nor was controlling that so-called father of yours. Though it's a shame that your mother had to die. It would have happened anyway but it was sad to speed up the process." I was seething, "You-You killed my mother!" I yelled and tried to throw myself at him but Roman stopped me. The sound of guns clicking filled the clearing and I saw that they were all trained on me. "Uh, rude! I was talking. Now, are you going to chill, or do I need to have them shoot you?" I growled and he just smirked. "I'll take that as a yes. Anyway, once you were alone, I needed to befriend you. What better way to do that then saving you from a 'drunk man?' But I couldn't just tell you who I was, so I made a fake name. Does 'G' sound familiar to you?" I gasped, remembering my friend that had been taken and killed by Janus. "And then you lead me right to Deceit! Everything was going according to plan until I realized, you couldn't use your powers! So I went to the only other Side I had found and what would you know, Deceit and Remus were living together. Two birds, one stone. Once I had them though, controlling them was a whole different problem. I could only control them while they were asleep, but they just kept waking up! So I started to experiment with medicine and found this little thing called pentobarbital. Doctors use it to put patients in a coma, so why couldn't I do the same? And it worked! Unfortunately, Remus was able to escape but I knew I would find him eventually. Until then I worked on finding a way to activate your guy's powers. Funny enough, blood did the trick. I activated your powers, but you needed training. So I had Deceit tell you that he had kidnapped me and the rest is history. My face, of course, was erased from your memory so you wouldn't recognize me as your new roommate. You worked for Deceit and learned how to use your powers, it was great! And then you found not only Remus but the other Sides as well! But you three didn't have your memories! It was almost like the universe was telling me that my plan wouldn't work, but I'm persistent! I used 'Thomas' as an incentive for you to find each other, and you did! Everyone got their memories back and Deceit brought you to my shed so that I could come to collect you. AND THEN THE POLICE SHOWED UP AND TOOK YOU AWAY! It was so frustrating but I wouldn't give up so easily. I planned on getting Virgil back on my own, but you guys did it for me! And you went exactly where I needed you to go! All I had to do was be ready when you so selflessly threw yourself off a cliff. Everything was perfect until I learned of much greater power. The power of all of us, together. We ARE reality. We control it! And if I could harness that power, I could rule the world. So I sent my dear anxiety back into the world. We faked my death and then you were all looking for him. You almost walked right into my open arms but decided that it 'wasn't safe', b*tch, please, you're cops! So I had to send him BACK to you. And thankfully, you followed him back this time! Using the vents to get around was quite impressive and you almost got away with my dear anxiety. But you must not have realized that he was mine. And I caught you. Putting Roman under my control was too easy but can you imagine my surprise when I learned that not only had you two escaped, but Virgil was with you? And THEN DECEIT GOT AWAY TOO! Oh, I was so angry, but.......here we are." He finished with a bow. "So what are you going to do with us?" Patton asked. Remy huffed, "Didn't I just tell you? I'm going to steal your powers to control the planet!" he chuckled and pulled a strange looking gun out from behind his back. "Now who should go first? The sweet one, the emo one, the smart one, or the brave one?" He said, pointing the gun between us. "Hmm, how about the one that's caused me the most trouble," he then turned the gun towards me. "Any last words?"

I froze in fear, not wanting to die. I was about to say something but Roman spoke up, "You said that the universe was telling you to stop, so you could say that it was trying to shut that door." "What are you talking ab-" "And you know the saying, 'When one door closes, another one opens', well maybe you should just run because your house is haunted." "B*tch what are you doing?" "Look I'm just saying that if doors in your house are opening and closing on their own, they're probably haunted. Also, you are very easy to distract," Roman chuckled. Suddenly a giant branch came crashing down on Remy. "Perfect timing Remus, thank you!" He called up into the tree. I heard Remus's demon cackle and he jumped down from the tree. "Why thank you my dearest fart noodle, now shall we finish this?" I nodded and turned to the soldiers surrounding us. "Open fire," one of them yelled, and all hell broke loose. Even though I couldn't remember any of the 'training' I had gotten in my three missing years, my body did. I ran, dodged, flipped, and fought with the skill of an assassin. I could see monsters, flying objects, and shadows everywhere. It was beautiful chaos! Everyone was working to protect and help each other. I fought side by side with Roman, covering his back as he covered mine. "Get down!" I called out to them as I sent out a wave. It was so powerful that it knocked most of the soldiers off their feet. The ones that were down stayed down and we quickly took out the remaining few.

"That was incredible. You were like, WAM and then Logan threw a whole tree at this one group. And then when Janus trapped them in a shadow bubble! That was so cool!" Patton gushed and bounced up and down. I chuckled and sat down under a tree, "I'm just glad it's over. But what do we do now?" "What do you mean?" "Well we can't just run, Remy will find us. And if we send him to jail, we'll have to have a good reason. But he has the government in his pocket so he wouldn't stay in jail for long. We can't kill him, so what do we do?" This had everyone thinking. "You're right, none of us are safe in this reality. So we should go to another." Logan stated. "Another reality? Is that even possible?" Deceit spoke up. "Well I suppose so, Remy did say that we are reality, and it does make some sense. Each of us controls something related to reality, so being able to change it would make some sense." I nodded, "It's worth a shot. How would we do this?" "We should go to a reality where Thomas is alive and was never split. That way we would be safe. Form a circle," he told us and we did what he said. I dragged an unconscious Remy over to the circle too. "Now what?" "Now we need to all think of that one reality and use our powers all at once. Ready?" A series of nods and yes's went around the circle. I focused on pushing my powers into the center of the circle. Red, yellow, green, dark blue, light blue, and purple mist began to swirl around in the middle of the circle. Remy's powers must have reacted to whatever we were doing because orange mist began to seep out of him and joined our circle. Once the orange mist joined the others, the mists began to glow brighter and shot into the sky like a beacon. It was a beautiful sight until everything began to float. "What's happening?" Patton cried out. "I think it's working," I called back. The rainbow beacon exploded and everything went dark.

Thomas's POV
I woke up covered in sweat. I grabbed my phone from the bedside table and called Joan "Hey Joan, I just had a really weird dream. But it gave me an idea for a series, we'll call it 'The Sanders Sides!".

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