Skeptical didn't describe fully the feeling Rebecca had with the device. She completely thought it was lying. Maybe a promotional piece of junk for a movie or something. Her first instinct was to chuck it in the garbage and get back to homework. That instinct quickly was quelled by the slight hope of something new, brought through to her from the part of her that was still a child in a teenage body. Maybe, just a one-in-a-million chance maybe, the device was real. Certainly couldn't hurt to try, could it? She studied the device once more, a pout of doubt still on her face, then examined the manual once again. Point at something, WARP button does whatever you want it to do, right? And on a raygun-like device, no less. "Sounds like something from a bad sci-fi fanfic," she murmured. Pausing only briefly to let out a sigh that she still believed in stuff like this, she stood in the middle of her room, set the WARP setting to Clone and the subsettings to <default>. She closed her eyes, pointed the device at her arm, and pulled the trigger.
It happened in a flash- a popping sound, a numb yet painful feeling like a hair being pulled off of numb skin, and...
"Yo, Reb! Mind getting out of the way? The show's about to come on."
Rebecca couldn't believe her eyes when she opened them. Right in front of her, on a bed similar to her own, a woman who looked exactly like her, from her long brown hair, to her lime green tank top, to her white shorts and relatively thin physique, was painting her toenails and looking at her with a slightly annoyed face she recognized all too well. "Hello? I said move, brain surgeon." Rebecca snapped to- a sitcom was playing on the area right behind her. She moved out of the way shyly, watching her double with wide eyes. The clone stopped watching TV to eye Rebecca warily. "You okay, sis?"
"Yeah, fine.... um... who are you?" The clone stared. "Me? What are you talking about? It's Becky, your sister."
Rebecca took ten seconds just to process this simple statement. Sister. She had a third sister. She slowly shifted her gaze to the small 14" television at the foot of her bed. "Since when did we have this?"
Becky burst out laughing, suddenly. "Beautiful, isn't it? I can't believe we have it either, sometimes. I gotta hand it to you, pooling our funds and merging our rooms so we could buy the television was an awesome idea. Teamwork RULES!" She said with a grin.
Rebecca watched the TV for a short while with a numb brain, then looked back at the device in her hands. "It works" floated through her mind.
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