Hey guys! Here I am again with a new story! I've had this idea for quite some time, but I've always felt it wasn't the right time to write it, until now! So, we begin about six weeks after the villains destroyed Mighty Med and... well, the rest you can read for yourself down below.
Enjoy!
-Writer207
Six weeks after Mighty Med got destroyed, Kaz and Oliver walked into the Domain. It's been a while since they've been here. With everything that happened the past six weeks, they didn't really have the time to visit their favorite store in Philadelphia. They had some free time now, since the heroes who survived were almost ready to get back into the field. They planned to spend that free time in the store for as long as they didn't need to help someone.
Everything was the same as it always has been, which comforted them. At least one thing has never changed. Together, they browsed through comic books, talked about what adventures the survivors were caught up in now, how it would affect the MM comic universe and whether a catastrophe of the same scale would happen to the other universes without a Mighty Med.
"Oliver, look!" Kaz suddenly said. Oliver turned to his best friend and his eyes widened. In his hands, Kaz held a very familiar device.
"The wormhole transporter," Oliver said, "I thought it was destroyed!"
"Me too," Kaz admitted, wearing a smile on his face, looking at the device, "But then I remembered I took it here one day and never brought it back." Oliver rolled his eyes. Typical of Kaz to take something from work and leave it at the Domain. Well, at least he saved it from destruction.
Maybe 'saved' was too big of a word. The wormhole generator looked like Kaz dropped it before today. There was a big dent on top and at some places, it was taped together. With this kind of damage, Oliver believed it would probably not work anymore, or malfunction.
Kaz started to push some buttons on the thing. "Kaz, stop it," Oliver said, trying to stop his friend from doing something he would regret later, "It's too damaged!"
"Come on, Oliver," Kaz said, "What's the worst that can happen?"
"We could be trapped in a wormhole like Captain Atomic!" Oliver responded. Only after Kaz carelessly had pushed a button, the hero was freed. Who knew how long it would take before someone freed them, if someone would accidentally free them at all.
"Relax, nothing's going to happen," Kaz said, not looking at what he was doing with the device. He hit the button which would activate the device. It engulfed them in that wormhole that always appeared when that button was pressed. There was no time to react when they were pulled into the wormhole and put back on their feet at the other end.
The first thing the pair of friends did was look around and they sighed in relief. They were still in the Domain – at least it brought them back to the Domain. Oliver looked at the clock Gus placed in the shop and compared it to the time his phone displayed. It was still the same time. Oliver frowned – something happened, and yet they were
"See?" Kaz then said, "Nothing happened." He seemed to be either underestimating the situation or truly believed nothing had happened while he continued to fiddle with the device.
Oliver snatched it out of Kaz' hands, believing it was safer in his own. "No, something did change," he said, looking around for anything abnormal, "We did go to the wormhole. The chances of ending up in the exact same place and time are very small." He didn't have to look around too long. From the back, Gus walked into the store behind the counter.
"Welcome in the Domain, how may I—" He froze when he finally looked up and noticed Kaz and Oliver were in the Domain. The two friends waved at Gus and walked closer.
"Hey Gus!" Kaz said with a smile on his face until he saw Gus was frightened, "Is something wrong?"
"W-What do you want?" Gus stuttered, hurrying to say these words, as if he wanted to get it over with. The entire time, he didn't stop staring with a terrified look in his eyes. Kaz and Oliver looked at one another with a confused look in their eyes before looking back at Gus.
"Nothing," Oliver said. Gus nodded quickly.
"O-Okay," he seemed to be relieved they didn't want anything, as he suddenly relaxed a little, "Stay as long as you like, please don't hurt me! If you do need me, I'm in the back. Bye!" Without any further ado, he ran back to the back of the store, far away from Oliver and Kaz.
The two friends were left speechless. They walked away from the counter to the middle of the store. Kaz looked back at the counter, waiting for Gus to pop up again. He didn't. "That was weird," Kaz said before sitting down on the couch. Oliver didn't sit down immediately, wheels in his head turning as he tried to figure out what was going on with their weird friend.
"He's afraid of us," Oliver realized, saying it out loud so Kaz would know, too. It was the only explanation Oliver could give to his behavior. He tried to link his behavior with the wormhole generator while Kaz commented on Oliver's deduction.
"Yeah, that's what's weird," Kaz said, "I mean, he never shows any fear, right?" Well, there was this one time when Captain Atomic fought the robot-principal, but back then his life was directly threatened. At this moment, only their presence scared him. He also specifically asked not to be hurt, which made him wonder what Gus had gone through.
Then, Oliver put two and two together. He turned to Kaz, "We didn't go to another place or another time," he said, "but what if we went to a different universe?" It was the only plausible explanation he could give this. Kaz just up looked at him, slouching in the couch.
"Really?" he said, "'Cause I would've noticed." Oliver could hit his friend, but didn't. as always, he looked like he couldn't care less. From experience, he knew Kaz was trying to see at ease in this world and tried to make sense out of it. Gus being afraid of them didn't really make sense, so Kaz tries to hold on to the familiar environment of the couch in the Domain.
"Gus is afraid!" Oliver almost shouted it, but continued with a much calmer tone. "I don't know what's going on either, but that's not normal. And we did go through a wormhole." They didn't know whether the chances of being at the exact same location and time were small or big, but it was weird they were at the Domain now.
"You know what?" Kaz then said, "Let's go walk around and if we see more abnormal things, we're in a different world." Oliver nodded.
"Let's do that," he said. They would leave the Domain. They could go to the school building or to the Mighty Med and everywhere else. If there saw more weird things, they knew the wormhole transporter brought them to a different universe.
As soon as they stepped out of the store, they stood face to face with their own doppelgangers. Kaz and Oliver looked at them, scared and freaking out that there were two of them now. Their doppelgangers were surprised by the visitors – they had only wanted to visit the Domain, but stumbled into two people who looked exactly like them.
The doppelgangers looked at one another and then looked at the two visitors with a threatening look in their eyes. They slowly advanced while Kaz and Oliver backed away from the two.
"Looks like we're lucky," the other Oliver said, "So, you really thought you could pretend to be us? Nice try."
"W-We're not pretending!" Kaz said, panicking, "We're real. We're you. No, you are us. No, I …"
"Kaz!" Oliver then yelled in his friend's direction, "Shut up! You're making it worse." The other Kaz and other Oliver glanced at one another. When they turned their heads back to the visitors, the other Kaz' hand caught fire and he extended it in their direction.
This gave Kaz the idea to do the same. "We come in peace!" Kaz said while the two 'natives' were confused by this unusual turn of events.
"You're not Roman and Riker," the other Kaz said, relaxing his hand and making the flames disappear. Oliver and Kaz sighed in relief when the two finally started to act friendly and hear them out.
"Who?" Oliver asked when he heard those names. Roman and Riker. He was certain he's heard those names before, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"Who are you, then?" The other Oliver asked them. Oliver decided to answer because he knew Kaz would just confuse himself when he introduced them to their doppelgangers.
"We're Kaz and Oliver," Oliver said, "We're… Well, we're you from another universe." The other Kaz and other Oliver nodded after hearing that.
"Plausible," The other Kaz commented.
"That still doesn't explain how you got here," the other Oliver then said. "We can't jump to different universes, so you shouldn't either." Kaz and Oliver looked at each other and Oliver grabbed the wormhole generator from behind his back. He had protected it from the 'natives' in case they'd break it even more, destroying their only way home. He wanted to tell them the name, but the other Oliver and other Kaz recognized the item.
"Again, plausible," the other Kaz said while his visitor-counterpart nodded. Oliver watched as they agreed. Good to know we're the same in this world.
"Maybe it's better if you two went home," the other Oliver proceeded to say. Oliver silently agreed with him while the two Kazes protested.
"I don't want to leave." Kaz said.
"Dude!" the other Kaz exclaimed at the same time, "They've just arrived, can't we just have a little fun with them?" Oliver could only imagine the four of them inside the Domain, playing games and switching places until they didn't know who came from where. Four friends having fun. Yet something in the back quickly dismissed that idea. The way they had acted before they learned they were not impostors… that was a little too dark for them to ever be.
"Maybe we should," Oliver said, not feeling okay with the way they quickly changed personalities. Before either one of their friends could complain, the other Oliver backed the idea.
"I agree," he said, "Your friends probably miss you already. Besides, just think of the many strange things you'd see here. You'd just be confused." He was looking at his Kaz when he said that last phrase, but it definitely applied to Kaz as well.
Oliver was ready to press the button when Kaz interrupted him. "Do we have to go?" he asked Oliver, who rolled his eyes.
"Yes," he said, hoping Kaz wouldn't be so reluctant to leave the next time he tried something like this again. He turned to the other Kaz and Oliver. "Thanks for not killing us."
"You're welcome," the other Oliver said, then poked the other Kaz with his elbow when he didn't say anything.
"I'm sorry for that," he said forcefully, "I really thought you were Roman and Riker."
"Aren't those Rodisius' kids?" Kaz then wondered out loud. When he mentioned the hero, Oliver put two and two together: Rodisius, the superhero who had two superpowered sons, Roman and Riker. He's seen them sometimes, but not that often. he then realized Kaz said it so they were able to stay a little longer in this other world that resembled their own.
"Goodbye," Oliver said before the could explain why they thought the visitors were Roman and Riker. He grabbed Kaz and pressed the button on the device. Nothing happened. Oliver pressed it again, but they stayed on their places. He hit it a few more times, all of them without result.
"It's broken," Oliver said, then looked at Kaz, "See? I knew something would happen." Kaz didn't really want to say anything in return. He didn't have to – the other Kaz soon opened his mouth.
"What just happened?" He asked, not fully understanding what went wrong. The other Oliver misinterpreted this simple question, thinking his friend wanted to know what exactly happened instead of wanting to know what caused this malfunction.
"I think they're stuck in our world," the other Oliver said, voicing what everyone was already thinking.