Strange things were happening all around the city. Then again, it was Halloween. Halloween tended to be whacky, especially when mutants got involved. Much like New Year's Eve. And Christmas. And Thanksgiving. And Easter. And Valentine's Day...

"Dammit all to Hell." Sveta growled in Russian as she stood on the roof of an apartment building. She was out of breath and more than a little disheveled. She had originally left her apartment in her usual vigilante getup to patrol the streets after the first worrying news of "supernatural" occurrences started to come in. But now she had a problem of her own.

Very, very own.

The blonde stood on the roof with one arm extended, aiming a gun... at herself. The Other Sveta, the one that should have never been, stood opposite to her as a perfect mirror. Except, she looked a lot more organized, a lot sexier, and also definitely, utterly crazy. A wicked smile played on her dark red lips as she aimed the twin of Sveta's own gun at Sveta's own head.

It was kind of a standoff.

Sveta had been chased around by her own personal nightmare of what she could have turned into - gloves off, mask off, and a definite interest in doing harm - for a while now, until they ended up on the roof. She tried to page Sam, but dropped the phone in the fight, and she was not sure the call had gotten through.

"What the hell do you want?!"

Halloween, one of Sam’s least favorite holidays too many people took the masks and costumes for granted meaning you could be anyone you wanted. Some like to dress up as vampires, zombies or even Aqua man (not sure why) others took the costumes and masks and used them to distract while they broke the law. For instance Sam already broke up an armed robbery before anyone could get hurt and it wasn’t even that late. He had a feeling there would be another dozen or so before the night was over and all he could do is slide around the city waiting for something to happen.

His phone rang and before he even picked it up he shifted his weight to the side and changed course Sveta’s the blonde bombshell he had employed to help keep the streets safe. Sam wondered what she stumbled on to tonight. A rapist or a murderer? No with her it would have been a gang or two. Picking up the phone Sam heard some struggle in the background then Sveta saying something along the lines of wanting something in Russian. He really wished he learned more than what he knew especially if he was going to continue to hit on Sveta. Just mindless flirting right?

Sam sped up and managed to make it to Sveta’s place in a few seconds, it wasn’t like he was passing by just to check up on her at all. Sam slowed when he saw she was fighting with another blonde bombshell this one in a similar but more revealing outfit. Sam let out a wolf whistle when he arrived his body already covered in ice he wasn’t too worried about the gun. ”Didn’t know you had a twin.” Sam waved to the other one while keeping his distance for the moment. ”Hey there!”

Sveta lunged and a shot rang out, missing her by a few inches. Her own shot also missed, and then they were down to brawling. In the middle of the two blondes rolling around, suddenly there was.... a wolf whistle?

That had to be Sam.

>>”Didn’t know you had a twin. Hey there!”

"BUSY!" Sveta yelled as she got pinned down by her cheerfully smiling copycat, and managed to kick her in a gut enough to roll off and scramble to her feet with her back to Sam.

"I don't have a twin."

"No, we don't." Evil Sveta grinned, and waved at Sam "Hello there boytoy. Wanna join in?"

"I'm de real one." Sveta stated completely unnecessarily.

>>>>"BUSY!"

”No I got that.” Sam said smirking, his mind focusing on the guns while his eye was fixed on the girls, ”Take your time. I’ll just watch.” Sam said as he managed to put some frost on the guns while the two women were rolling around and kicking each other. This was quite a show.

>>>"I don't have a twin." "No, we don't." "Hello there boytoy. Wanna join in?" "I'm de real one."

Sam smirked and continued to wave back to the one who was wearing less clothes, ”Two could fool me you both look alike.” Sam said stating the obvious as he walked closer adding more frost onto the guns so they wouldn’t fire. He was sure the Svetas would be mad at him but he didn’t like the idea of stray bullets flying around. They did have to stop somewhere eventually the last thing he wanted was for someone to get hurt. The first thing he wanted? Sam smirked, ”Sure! I’ll join you two. But maybe we can take this somewhere else? Maybe not out into the open?” he stopped when he was at an equal distance from both of them trying not to favor one to the other just incase someone wasn’t who they said they were.

Though the one who claimed she was the real one didn’t change her costume, and he spent some time staring at it. ”So what’s going on here? I’m sure we can come to peaceful discussion. Maybe over drinks? See where the night goes?” Sam asked shrugging his shoulders wondering if it was a shapeshifter. Cold spread out around him adding a slight mist to the air, not like the fog that was lower below on the streets. Where screams could be heard only to be drowned out by the passing police and ambulances.

>>”No I got that. Take your time. I’ll just watch.”

Hfff. Sam was being... well, Sam. Sveta, who was not entirely sure what the heck was going on, was glad to see him anyway, and hoped he would not get too distracted by Evil Sveta's cleavage.

>>”Two could fool me you both look alike... Sure! I’ll join you two. But maybe we can take this somewhere else? Maybe not out into the open? So what’s going on here? I’m sure we can come to peaceful discussion. Maybe over drinks? See where the night goes?”

"But how could it be any fun if there is no one to see the show?" Evil Sveta grinned, and lunged for Sveta again, who was too slow to dodge, so they were down to brawling again. Sveta noticed that there was no circular boosting the way it used to be with Jude - she hoped Jude was safe - so apparently Evil Sveta at least did not have her powers. Good enough. She did, however, pack a punch, and Sveta snarled up at her mirror image with blood dripping from her nose as she tried to fight her off.

What a crazy b*tch I can be sometimes.

The body heat of the two seemed to be the same in fact the woman’s voice seemed to be the same as Sveta’s as well. Classic shape shifter though he had met many with the same powers though in his opinion none looked as good. Sam coughed slightly when the seductive Sveta said it was more fun with an audience, ”Well… I think I can give it a shot. But one of you do work for me. Might make things complicated… but I mean I can over look it.” Sam stepped forward a bit more ice spreading out on the ground near him as he continued to step to the cat fight.

”Can’t believe I’m doing this…” Sam said wishing he didn’t have to break up the fight but for the moment it seemed like his Sveta was getting a few lumps. His Sveta… Sam coughed again ignoring his current thought process and then raised his hand sending some ice forward towards the pairs feet. Again the Svetas wouldn’t be happy but… he had a feeling he was going to need his employee tonight. Another siren went by below and Sam ran towards evil Sveta and tackled her to the ground ending in a roll. Maybe not the best strategy but he was pretty sure he could control the Sveta with more clothes. The one he was currently on top of not so much.

Sam raised a hand trying to signal he had the situation under control. ”Well if you aren’t twins, you must either be a clone or a shape shifter. Like the outfit. Either way I have some handcuffs for you.” Sam said as he created some from ice. ”Firing a weapon is against the law unless in self defense.” Sam smirked, ”Pretty sure you’re a little more aggressive.” Sam studied the cleavage.

>>”Well… I think I can give it a shot. But one of you do work for me. Might make things complicated… but I mean I can over look it. Can’t believe I’m doing this…”

Sveta rolled her eyes at all the innuendo, and it was even worse that her evil twin seemed to enjoy herself. As Sam tackled her, Sveta rolled to her feet again, wiping the blood from her face with the back of her gloves. She was pretty sure that Evil Sveta allowed herself to be tackled and rolled, but she wasn't sure Sam noticed that too.

>>”Well if you aren’t twins, you must either be a clone or a shape shifter. Like the outfit. Either way I have some handcuffs for you. Firing a weapon is against the law unless in self defense. Pretty sure you’re a little more aggressive.”

"Aww, but I thought you liked me that way" Evil Sveta grinned up at him "Handcuffs are not a bad idea, though. Maybe later." With that, she leaned up and planted a kiss on Sam, just before she pulled up a leg and did her darnest to knee him in the groin or in the stomach. Real Sveta, on her part, discovered the guns had been frozen over. Splendid.

"Sam can you not flirt wid my evil twin please?"

Sam was kissed by the evil clone of Sveta and yes, he liked it. He liked it enough to be distracted by it even with the ice covering his body he felt the connection on the groin. It was protected but there was still enough power behind the knee to cause him to jump backwards and drop the ice cuffs. On the ground next to her. ”Cold.” Sam said as he placed his hand on his groin out of reaction. If he didn’t have ice there he would have had an octave or three higher in his voice.

”She is so coy.” Sam grunted as he waved good Sveta forward to confront the other one still trying to make sure everything on his person was okay. ”Wouldn’t be an issue if you kissed me before her,” Sam said straightening up, ”Wouldn’t got distracted by your evil twin.” Sam said as he looked back to the evil twin.

”Seriously, that was mean.” he thought of the time he fought himself under the effects of a dream state and a spirit walk state and he was sure that evil Sam would have never gone for a groin shot. Did that mean the he was the good one and Sam was the evil one. His head started to hurt the more he thought about it and before he could say anything else a familiar voice, his was behind him on the ledge of the room sitting there clapping, “So mean I love it!” Evil Sam pushed himself off the ledge and walked over towards the group. “Buncha good looking people up here!” the other Sam said as he looked from the two Svetas over to Sam, “Hey @######, remember me?”

Sam, the original looked around confused even more now ice melted away from his face and he raised the question, ”The hell is going on here?” a snap heard from the other Sam’s hands, “Hell, exactly where I plan on sending you!” with that he passed between the two girls and ran for Sam ready to unleash a flurry of attacks.

>>”Cold... She is so coy. Wouldn’t be an issue if you kissed me before her. Wouldn’t got distracted by your evil twin. Seriously, that was mean.”

"What part of 'evil twin' was not clear for you?" Sveta asked, shaking her head, as she stepped up between Sam and Evil Sveta who scrambled back to her feet and from her look she also realized the guns were useless. Sveta was ready to continue the fight while Samm got himself together from the groin kick. It could have been worse. Apparently Evil Sveta didn't have boosting powers. Good news of the day.

>>“So mean I love it! Buncha good looking people up here! Hey @######, remember me?”

"What de..."

There was another Sam. And he seemed to be very much like Evil Sveta. Was it Evil Copycat Day in New York or something?
Crappiest Halloween idea ever.

>>”The hell is going on here?”

"Our alternate universe coming to haunt us?" Sveta ventured, keeping an eye on the other two. It was all ironic in so many ways.

Evil Sam moved towards them from the edge of the roof, and Evil Sveta seemed to stay out of the way, watching the show with a grin. Sveta did the only thing she could think of: Grabbed Sam by the collar and planted a kiss on him. It was only a few seconds before Evil Sam grabbed her by the back of her jacket and threw her out of the way, but hopefully it gave Sam enough of a boost to fight.

Sveta landed at the edge of the roof and rolled, balanced dangerously close to tipping over the edge.

Another kiss this one more welcoming one he had been wanting for some time. Sam’s eye flared up a neon blue as ice solidified more around his body, the temperature dropped past freezing within a few seconds and he felt the three on the rooftop flare up with body temperature. Sam was still focused on Sveta however pushing the other things out mind for the moment. However the kiss was cut short by the clone of Sam. “Sorry love birds but Sam is already spoken for, he has a wife and kids if you’d believe it.”

Sam’s stomach churned when he was reminded of the false memories of people who didn’t exist, the home that was never to be, of the kids the wife and the life that were given and then taken from him thousands of times over. The smell of the corpses and burning wreckage of his false house, the memory of the screams the feeling of being weak unable to do anything when Amanda toyed with his wants and dreams twisting them to keep him under control. His heart hurt as images passed before his gaze all within seconds but he was forced to relive the nightmare and the dream.

Rage, he was weak and almost on cue the other Sam was laughing as the original Sam was smoking mist pouring off of him his good eye still glowing while tears froze to his face. “You were weak, you didn’t deserve them you couldn’t protect them.” The evil Sam kept his distance for the moment still making comments telling Sam exactly what he was feeling. Finally Sam yelled ”Enough” and with that spires of ice shot forward starting from under his feet and projecting upward in razor spires towards evil Sam. He kept his sense enough not to hit either of the Svetas his vision was obstructed by his sixth sense they were all so hot.

Okay, so she might have overboosted him.

Sveta looked up in time to see Sam covered in ice and steaming, with a strange light in his eyes. Oops. She had seen the effect of her full boost on elemental mutations before - green crystal guy turned into a freaking rock giant once - but seeing Sam boosted to full potential was legitimately scary. Even more so because Evil Sam seemed to be taunting him, and despite the ice armor he hit home.

As the spires shot up, Evil Sveta lunged out of the way and towards her. Sveta tried to move, but ended up shifting and tipping over the edge of the roof. Now she was holding on with both hands, not daring to look down if she had a fire escape under her, or maybe a trash container, or just hard asphalt all the way down.

"Oh that's precious" Evil Sveta laughed and leaned down to look her in the face "I feel like there is a Disney movie like this out there somewhere." she giggled again, her high-heeled boots dangerously close to Sveta's hands on the edge "I wonder how long you'll last. I mean, I would just let go if I were you. Everyone's really better that way."

One heat signature went over the edge and was hanging on to the edge of the roof he could only tell it was the edge of the roof because her heat signature from the hands down was dimmer than the rest of the body. Sam was about to will ice to catch her under her feet but was distracted once again. “Sam you can’t save her, you can’t save anyone. Think about your kids, who started that fire that killed them? Amanda? No you. Remember when you lit the matches that lit the stove or do you remember strangling them when you continued to fight everything you had? The look of disgust on your wife’s face when she was killed by those intruders? Who were they? Oh yeah, your friends! Face it Sam, you are better off back in isolation at the edge of the world where you can’t hurt anyone. Where you can’t let anyone down.”

Sam felt like collapsing under the guilt but from the boost of the kiss he couldn’t. ‘Mind over matter’ Sam thought to himself as the ice started to move him forward his neon blue eye dimmed as it focused on the roof around him the steam projected forward sending little snowflakes towards the other Sam causing tiny cuts on his person. He let out a howl in pain that was music to Sam’s ears. Maybe he was the evil one?

Ice covered the rooftop as Sam’s will reached forward towards Sveta. Both of them. Hands of ice sprouted from the ground and misshapen golems pulled themselves out from the sheet of ice that covered the ground. The other Sam jumped back a few feet avoiding one grabbing on to his foot. The evil Sam wasn’t as good on the ice something he noticed from the start. Even with the guilt and the haywire he was still able to think somewhat straight. The clones don’t have the powers. Why when Sveta’s clone kissed him his powers weren’t as jacked as they were now. Sveta. His thought of her willed the misshapen golems to rush to her aid knocking the evil Sveta causing frostbite on contact.

Frozen hands grabbed onto gloved ones causing frost to form on the outer layer of the gloves. The golems pulled her up and over then turned their attention onto evil Sam. They started to rush him trying to get him to slip up. “Oh look at that playing hero! Couldn’t evil save your kids. Think about them Sam! The screams their faces that cause you not to sleep!”

Sveta felt her gloves slipping, and she really hated the idea that the last thing she would see in life would be the grinning face of her evil twin. Would she take over if she died? Would anyone notice? Sam would notice. But would Sam survive this one?

Evil Sveta suddenly disappeared from sight with a yelp, and she felt herself being lifted by ice-cold hands back onto the roof. Sam was surrounded by ice and snow, and Evil Sam was still taunting him, dodging the attacks of the golems.

>>“Oh look at that playing hero! Couldn’t even save your kids. Think about them Sam! The screams their faces that cause you not to sleep!”

Wait, children? Sam had a family? Something even colder than ice crept down Sveta's spine. Did Sam really have something that horrible in his past?

"Oh, boo-hoo" Evil Sveta intervened "Big freaking deal, you two. You should take an example from my girl over here."

"Shut up."

"I mean, you think I go around kissing too many strangers?" Evil Sveta grinned "Pfft, please. Remember that one time several hundred people dropped dead from heart attack around New York? That was our little girl here, making out with a boyfriend."

"Dat's not what happened!" Sveta yelled, lunging at her evil twin, this time fully determined to shut her up once and for all.

Everyone was talking now Sveta was being taunted by Sveta; apparently her kiss came at a greater cost than just a power boost. He felt for her even more so now because he had always been flirting with her not knowing about her own past. Ice golems continued to reach out and try making contact with Sam however they were battered away or dodged even on ice evil Sam could still move a bit. “Sam, you really think you could kill me like you did your family?” he chided kicking a golem in the leg then jumping back sliding on the ice moving away from Sam as he rushed forward quicker than usual his speed greater than before. Everything seemed to be moving slower than before meanwhile his speed was unaffected.

Sveta wouldn’t kill hundreds of people willingly heck she refused to touch him in fear of boosting his powers. Sam felt the girls going at it while his neon blue eye was fixed on his clone his evil version who was still trying to get away. His hand reached out and before the evil Sam could stop him Sam had his hands around his throat his ice powers spreading over him like a frozen blanket turning his neck blue as he gasped for air. Frostbite followed then Sam’s hand tightened more causing it to crack. “Just an attack dog, a killer… monster…” said evil Sam weakely as he was grasping for air before Sam retorted ”No! I’m not the attack dog nor a monster! Killer maybe but I made my peace with that!” Sam was about to pull back with his hand around the clones throat when he saw a smirk before Sam ended it causing evil Sam to poof into nothing. That made Sam uneasy.

His powers still boosted he turned his golems onto evil Sveta they rushed towards her as misshapen hands rose up from the ice below them. ”Fight her!” Sam yelled to Sveta. ”Don’t let her get into your head!”

>>”No! I’m not the attack dog nor a monster! Killer maybe but I made my peace with that!”

Sveta was vaguely aware that Evil Sam disappeared, although she was not sure she wanted to know how. Sam was obviously still boosted since the golems were popping up all over the place.

>>”Fight her! Don’t let her get into your head!”

Sveta frowned at the obvious answer and aimed some more kicks and punches at her nemesis. She also got quite a few hits herself, and knew that if she survived the fight, she would be sporting bruises and cuts for days to come. At the same time she also noticed that there was ice underfoot, and her nemesis was slipping. High heels for a vigilante. Rookie mistake.

"Oh but I am all in her head" Evil Sveta grinned "You really should stop doing the vigilante thing, darling. You're not helping anyone."

Sveta groaned again, ducked, and turned around, pushing Evil Sveta towards the edge of the roof step by step. She dodged again, but was up too close, and the evil twin managed to hit her in the gut. Sveta doubled over, gasping for air.

"I mean, best case scenario, you overboost someone, and leave them to deal with their own powers." EviL Sveta chuckled "And that went really swimmingly with Jude, didn't it? Are you sure this is the right career for you?"

"I am not" Sveta groaned, standing up "But I have had enough of this sh*t now. And you don't get to talk about Jude. We're done."

And with that, she kicked Evil Sveta over the edge of the roof.

Poof.