“JACKSON!! WHAT IN THE DEVIL’S NAME HAVE YOU DONE?!”

“It wasn’t me! It was him!”

“It wasn’t me! It was him!”

Both Jackson’s were glaring at Kai like they had been personally offended by the mere thought of this being their fault. (which they very much were but it just wasn’t the thought at the forefront of their minds at the moment)

I mean, sure he had messed with some gadgets and junk that he made when he was drunk before (which admittedly always went wrong as he was a chaos devil incarnate when he was sober, so him being intoxicated only took away the usual barriers that kept his impulses at bay) that led to disastrous consequences he was still paying for to this day, but that didn’t mean this in particular was his fault!

He had been perfectly minding his own business tinkering with an old project (one he’d made sober he’d like to add) and then, bing, bang, BOOM, (it was actually a ting, clang, shroom sound but the original sounds better than whatever the hell he heard) there’s a cloud of smoke, a blast (from a place that is most definitely not the past), and next thing he knows, he’s on the floor, his ass hurts from the landing along with his head after something hit it, and more importantly, there is someone in front of him who looks like an exact replica! (well small differences really but we’ll get to those later)

After that he’s arguing with said ‘replica’ (not sure what else to call him at the moment) about why there are 2 of them, who’s in the wrong place / time / universe and whatnot, and then his best friend (read: unwilling partner in his experiments who became his friend as he had no other way to keep his sanity intact) bursts through the door like he just ran from the other side of the galaxy and yells at him like he was the cause of all this.

He has every right to be insulted! Even the other him believes so too because he reacted the exact same way to being yelled at / scolded for this.

Also, just so everyone is clear, the new guy is no evil counterpart or weird opposite, he’s had experience with those already and they may have acted alike / sounded the same / lived the exact same lives up until that point, but there would always be differences that explained their tells, their perspectives on their lives or just their thought patterns in general. The ways that separated one Jackson from the others that showed up in his version of reality.

So this guy being one of those evil clone / universe reversal persona versions of himself - not a chance.

(Do not ask for extra information on them, he’s already had to explain enough and since he had to kill both versions to stop whatever scheme/plot they came up with to ‘rule the world’ or whatever they had planned - he’d forgotten from the head trauma both gave him -, he is now dead to the world twice over (there are 2 fully professional and fully legal death certificates, graves and everything), so no more, thank you.)

“Okay GREAT! Now there’s two of you again?! UGH!” Kai threw his hands up in the air in a frustrated rage and then drooped his whole top body like a puppet with its strings cut because he was done with this bullshit already and it was only 9am.