King of Games II: Electric Boogaloo (Malereader x Crossover)

Chapter 15: Careful not to Cut Yourself on all that Edge

(Your POV)
Since the assignment wasn't until tonight, me and my pieces decided to take a small stroll around for a bit. The six of us decided to stop by a small cafe to wait, with me getting a small (favorite flavor) cake, Jihan an omelette, Seraphina a strawberry cake, Joe a sandwich, Shiyeon some rice, and John a bagel. It was silent between the six of us before Seraphina spoke up, gaining all of our attention.

"You know, some of the quotes I find online can be pretty weird sometimes." Seraphina said out of nowhere before giving us an example. "One of the dumbest was :She was poetry but he couldn't read.

"His name was Jared, and he was 19." I instinctively said out of nowhere, getting a rhythm going, then Jihan continued the song.

"When his parents built a very strange machine." Jihan continued, followed by him finger gunning at Joe.

"Watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen." Joe quotes the song from Mama Mia, a movie that I watched in search of dumb joke or meme potential.

"Aaay Macarena." Shiyeon followed through, not really knowing what we were doing, but she was going her best.

"Horrible job everyone." John rolled his eyes before taking a bite out of his sandwich and went wide eyed. "Quick question, are there two Shidos in this story?"

"Last I checked there were 15 different versions of me, but aside from that, I think there's only one of each of us here." I turned around to see two Shidos, one of whom looked way more battle worn and dangerous, and then there's our Shido. "I thought I was the only one suffering from an identity crisis."

"I still don't get how you're here...the fool arcana should have erased all other versions of me..." The dangerous Shido was trying to wrap his head around something, while our Shido was at the newspaper stand, trying to pick out what newspaper to pick out. "Maybe that's an imposter who's going to hurt Tohka and the girls, I can't let that happen."

"Yo." I nonchalantly greeted after temporarily turning myself into a (f/c) light and warping in front of the dangerous Shido, already having a feeling that something bad was going to happen. "I must kindly request that you don't kill anyone, that'll cause more work for me."

"Step aside, I can't let this imposter hurt anyone I care about." The dangerous Shido growled, making me sigh and use [Observe] on our Shido to show this dangerous Shido that our Shido is the real deal...this is very confusing. "What the-?"

"It's my ability, Video game physics." I explained, dismissing my pop-up once the dangerous Shido looked satisfied. "So mind telling me what you were mumbling about earlier? Maybe I can help."

"Well to oversimplify it, I should be the only Shido in the multiverse, yet this Shido looks perfectly fine." The dangerous Shido looked behind me at our Shido, who was walking away. "Any ideas?"

"That sounds completely bizarre, so I'm going to assume it's Doctor V pulling his usual 'rule' crap." I guessed, making the dangerous Shido raise an eyebrow in interest, so I began explaining Doctor V's abilities. "V can basically control and add rules, for example: Doctor V can alter the rules of reality to summon a giant missile above your head when you step on a certain brick."

"As strong as he sounds, I'm not interested in fighting him right now." Dangerous Shido then begins walking off, while I followed close behind because my curiosity was getting the better of me.

"I can see that, but you said something about Tohka, do you have a connection to her?" I asked, making the dangerous Shido stop and look at me with extremely defensive eyes before summoning a blade made of blood and pointing it at me. "The fuck?!"