Chapter 2: Clone
"Who the hell are you, and what do you want?!" Liam shouted at the skinny naked man that strangely resembled him too well.
"I'm you, idiot. I've had a chance to somewhat figure out what happened while you were passed out. I think we've awakened an ability of some sort" replied the naked man.
Liam's eyes almost popped out of his socket when he heard those words and tried to stand up only to be met with pain all over his body.
"So this is what I look like from someone else's view? I'm pretty damn handsome if I do say so myself" said the naked man as he nodded his head.
"What are talking about? What ability? Why are you naked?"
In the end, the naked man explained to Liam his summary of events. A couple of hours had gone by and Liam had finally gained back some mobility, albeit his muscles were still hurting.
"So just to summarise one more time, when I passed out, you noticed me on the floor, but you still had the same memories that I had up until that point?"
"Exactly"
"And you think that I have the ability to make an exact clone of myself?"
"It's the only solution I can think of at the moment, I tried 'activating' the ability myself but it didn't seem to do anything."
"So basically I can create a clone of myself?" asked Liam still not believing what he was able to hear.
"How many times do we have to go over this dumbass?" said the clone.
"Fuck you"
"No. Fuck you. Wait, I am you so we're basically fucking each other."
"Sorry dude, but I like girls." Said Liam holding his arms crossed against his chest.
"Ugh, god you're annoying. This is why Jennifer broke up with you. You never take anything seriously." Said the clone with his palm sliding down his face.
"Whatever I can't stand your voice anymore, how do I cancel this ability, is it even possible?"
Instantly the clone's eyes nearly popped out, although he was aware that he was a clone, he did not feel like one. He didn't know what would happen if Liam were to cancel the ability, but he thought it would be the same as death. All he knew was that he did not want to die. At that moment, he bolted towards the door.
"H-hey where are you going?" Liam said, but then instantly realised he would have done the same thing if the positions were swapped. However, the last thing Liam wanted was for anyone to see a naked version of himself running out of his apartment complex.
"STOP!" Liam shouted as he felt something within him channelling his desire for the clone to stop his movements.
"Wh-what did you do to me, why can't I move?!"
"No idea, I just wanted you to stop and you did, so I think I'm able to control you?" Liam said as he walked towards his clone, albeit slowly as his muscles were still aching.
"I wonder to what extent am I able to control you?" Liam said smirking.
"So you get a bit of power and it instantly goes to your head? Why don't you fight me like a man and we'll see who's really in charge."
"Shut up" said Liam
"If you tell me what 5+5 is I'll let you move again" Liam said trying to tempt the clone just in case he was being tricked.
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"Holy shit it works, you really can't speak?"
"Nice, I think I'm getting the hang of this. I know you must be cursing the hell out of me right now" Liam said as he stared his clone in the eyes.
"Well now, what to do with you..." Liam said as he pinched the clone by his cheekbones.
As if feeling a spark, Liam felt a stronger connection with his clone and instinctively felt he knew how to cancel it.
It seemed to him that he had to be in contact with his clone in order to withdraw it, but he felt with time he would be able to cancel it from anywhere.
As he 'cancelled' his ability, the clone merged back into him as if he was a whirlpool that was sucking in everything around him.
"Ah- AHHHH FUCK that hurts!" Liam shouted as he massaged his head.
'Wait a minute...'
Liam felt strange, although he remembered most of the conversation he was having with his clone in these last few hours, for some reason he was able to remember everything his clone had said and done, word by word, and every little movement.
'Trippy... my memory has never been that good. If this is my ability then I have to experiment more with what I am able to do with it. I thought if I ever did get an ability it would be like mum or dad, but who would have guessed I'm part of the percentile that awakens a completely different ability than their parents?'
"Argh, everything hurts."
As excited as he was for finally awakening an ability, he could no longer go against his tired body and crashed back onto his bed.
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[Saturday the 24th of August 11:48 AM]
"Holy shit!"
"I can recall everything the clone did perfectly... so it wasn't a dream?"
'Only one way to confirm this... but how do I make sure that the clone doesn't just run off again, or even worse, kill me? Nah, I don't think I would do that.'
'Wait, if I can control it after it's created, maybe I can control it before?'
"Please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me." He kept on repeating.
As if acting on instinct, and although he still felt like control over his ability was still somewhat weak, he felt as if he knew how to alter his clone's 'setting' to be more inclined to behave in the way he expected.
'Here goes nothing' Liam sighed knowing the amount of pain that he was about to go through.
"A-Arghh AGHHHH!"
"FUCK" Liam shouted, and although it hurt, it didn't hurt as much as it did yesterday.
"Holy" Liam said as he stared at the naked person to his side.
"It really is another me..."
"Hey... I'm going to cancel the ability now okay?"
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"You don't want to run away? Now's your chance."
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'Perfect'
Liam made sure that the clone would not be able to run away from him, hurt him or talk unless instructed.
"Okay, go to the living room and bring the dictionary."
"Read a random page, and tell me when you're done."
After roughly half an hour, the clone had finished reading a single page. Liam then promptly recalled his ability, which brought him another, less slightly wave of pain.
He spent the next hour going through 'his' memory and what the clone had read from the dictionary. Afterwards, he went through the words starting with 'J' from the page the clone had opened and compared them line by line, word for word until he was satisfied with his findings.
"Yes, I feel quite jubilant indeed." Liam said while closing the book with one hand and smirking.
"Well then, shall we get started?"
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Jubilant: feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.
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