I cut out the really bad stuff with Meanwhiles and Time Skips, okay? But still, violence/torture warning.

Joe heard everything. The two Cubs meeting to the startled yell of pain as War!Cub knocked Cub out. After that, he rushed through to see, on the other side of the mirror, War!Cub dragging Cub out of the portal room.

So, Joe's friend had just been kidnapped by an alternate version of that same friend. That original friend was already powerful, so this alternate was likely to be even more dangerous. Oh well. Joe took a leap of faith through the mirror.

A wave of nausea washed over him as the air tasted funny. Joe saw the world spinning, and realised that jumping headfirst through a portal is generally a bad idea. Or he would've if he'd stayed conscious about five seconds longer. As it was, he passed out.

Skippitty skoppity help I have to write a pantomime.

"What was that?"

"Shhh Cub'll find us!"

"Why are we here again?"

"So you can talk some sense into Cub."

"Right. 'Cause you've never tried that."

The Joe and Scar who actually belonged to this universe we're meandering the dark corridors of ConCorp when they came across the portal room. War!Scar was about to make a remark about how he'd never seen a weird mirror-window thing like that before when War!Joe spotted something and rushed into the room.

There was another Joe there, unconscious. War!Joe shook him awake. As Joe woke up, he did not expect to see a slightly more battle-scarred version of his own face. So he screamed. After War!Scar And War!Joe calmed him down, he explained what had happened.

Meanwhile, the While was Mean.

Cub had broken free of the restraints, and was slumped against the wall, shaking. War!Cub was holding a diamond sword, doused in Cub's blood. Blood from the wounds that criss-crossed the Vex, staining his normally off-white lab coat crimson.

"I'm gonna ask you one more time." War!Cub spoke with a sadistic smile, clearly willing to start the process all over again. "What is Scar to you?" 

Cub looked weakly up, staring War!Cub in the eye. Coughing out blood, he spoke:

"My... Greatest... Strength..."

"Wrong!" As War!Cub raises his sword again, however, the door was kicked down. And then it was (somehow) kicked down again. And then, for good measure,mit was kicked down a third time.

"Cub! Back away from... uh... Cub. Um... that went south." War!Scar and the Joes were stood there.

"Me, go get your Cub! Scar, go get our Cub!"

Soon, a scuffle broke out as the two Joes helped Cub stand up. As War!Scar and War!Cub fought, the trio escaped. They made their way to the portal room, and bid their goodbyes.

"If you ever need help, you can call on me. Just knock on the weird mirror thing." Joked Joe as he waved goodbye to himself. 

"Hey. Wait. Before you go..." War!Joe pressed a healing potion into Joe's hands. "If either of you gets hurt on the way back."

"Thanks, me. See ya."

"Keep adventurin'!"

Mmmmyeah not gonna say what happened to War!Scar, as that depends on a few things. Well whatever, hope you liked this little arc, I swear I'm working on the songfics, I just have a lot of stuff I have to write and not a lot of ideas. You know.

OdalRune, signing off-

*static noises*

He stitched the fabric from the torn lab coat onto the new one. With this new cloak, he could hide his identity, and explore the multiverse, teaching every version of himself the meaning of power. But first, he had a job to do. He picked up the tipped arrows and stepped through the portal to a slightly different world. A perfect testing ground. And there was Joe.

*static noises*

-from the past!