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Logan and roman when not fighting over crofters flavors or a new sleep schedule for Thomas work surprisingly well together. And during one of those sparse times, roman and logan decide to combine their two forces to make a practically magical item. Dimension jelly, A creation to be made for 'the knowledge of other worlds and how they are different or what we can learn from them. Perhaps to have a better look into our own dimension.' and for Roman's case 'WHAT DO OTHERS MES LOOK LIKE????'. And just as they are about to use their new creation, Patton walks into the kitchen "what cha doin'? Can I have some?" Logan stutters about to explain before Roman does it for him. "Of course you can Patton BUT are you ready to travel to alternate worlds?" He wrapped an arm around Patton's shoulder,continuing to talk with Patton already being pretty engaged. "Are you ready to see what other yous like or even other EARTHS?!" "If you're there, sure!" Logan raised his eyebrows from how quick he was to convince "well um" he grabs a spoon and hands it to him "just have a spoonful and it will randomly choose a dimension for us to go to." "Aight!" They all collectively have a spoonful of jam and are immediately transported to seemingly random woods. ``..is this some sort of world where our modern cities were never made?" Logan questions looking around for any sort of tech. "Maybe it's just us but as cavemen er somethin'' Patton proposes looking at some of the cave and some of the flora around him. Roman stands completely still however,looking at the cave,the autumn trees and the soft path of footprints. "Oh my god. This- THIS IS ROLESLAYING!" "Ohhhh it's your sister series er brother? No sister that would make more sense as this is a brand of-'' Logan is stopped mid thought"I-i have to go talk to Roman!" As Roman starts to sprint to where he thinks Youngblood and Roman of Reston might be. Patton, still distracted, continues to look around, eventually going into the cave. Logan then ran after roman "Wait why?!" "There are so many things I have to tell him! Like his mother, a way to sing and oh oh His last name!" He nearly catches up with the two before being tackled by Logan behind some trees. "Did you hear that?" "Yes but…does it matter?" "Guess not." The duo keep walking along. Patton meanwhile sneaks into the cave peeking his head a little out of the entrance. He sees criss and cross being intertwined together,both smiling and blissful in their state. Patton softly smiles assuming there a sort of fantasy couple, letting them be in peace, going back to picking flowers. Roman yells "why did you stop me?!" "Because we would ruin the narrative!" "But he would be so much happier seeing all of his questions answered! He would finally find happiness with himself.." "Roman. You should know this as a man with a love for Disney. Yes he would be happier knowing all of that but it would ruin his character. Would Cinderella be better if the prince knew who exactly was the princess? Would Aladdin be better if princess jasmine knew who prince Ali was? Or would wreck it Ralph be better if vanellope knew she wasn't a glitch? No!" Roman looks up at Logan, his eyes watery but deeply focused. "Because that would ruin everything those characters were. And to that extent the story as a whole would fall." Logan puts his hands on Romans shoulders "Roman. They have to go on their own journey,let them go naturally through the lore you've imagined. It'll be better that way." Roman sniffles getting up with Logan "I need a minute..you can be so beautiful sometimes Logan." "Um..thank you?" Logan passes him a tissue,walking with him back to where they first spawned. Patton stood up when Logan and Roman walked back "oh hey did I miss anything?" Roman sniffles "No, just Logan giving me a pep talk." "Oh ok, say Logan, can we keep things from other dimensions?" "Like what?" Patton then puts a flower in Logan's hair. Logan looks at it "no. That's very minor." Roman grabs a spoonful of jam "You guys ready to go?" Logan and Patton both nod,Patton wipes the dirt on his pants before grabbing his spoon. They all take some jam,all spawning behind Thomas's couch. They all crouch and peek their heads out, staying as quiet as possible for a bit before the coast is clear. Patton looks down at the couch to see a sleeping Thomas,he whispers "awww he's so cute when he sleeps..roman roman look-" Roman doesn't "um…how can Thomas asleep and also there?" He points to another Thomas in the middle of the room talking to past versions of themselves. "Is this a dimension where Thomas got cloned?" "Or maybe we're in an alternate past..?" Logan looked at expiration date of the jelly,not working at a form of warning but as a helpful marker for dimensions that are near identical to the consumer's home. [Exp - July 11th 2021] "no it's too current for either…wait" he squints looking at their past versions,seeing how their softly faded. "I need to test a theory.." He then puts a hand through his past self "yep. These are just memories of us." Patton and Roman look at him with utterly horrified faces "Yeahhh that was probably too far-" he took his hand out and shook it off. Roman and Patton eventually came over after the shock "so wait…if here were just memories,does that mean only the first episode was made? But why? Did this Thomas stop making content?" Roman questioned "possibly but it could be that-" "Logan- take a picture-" Patton posed next to himself sticking his tongue out and using bunny ears. Logan snorted "ok that's actually kind of clever-" He took a picture before Thomas started to wake up causing the group to roll out of the way and hide in the kitchen. There hearts beating out of there chests. Other thomas yawns and takes out his laptop from underneath the sofa "welp better finish the rest of this script." Roman whispers "ok.. that's good but what is it?" As Logan draws out a plan on one of other Thomas's paper towels, Patton has a light bulb moment "Say Logan what's the date?" "Um July 11th why?" "And who's birthday is on July 11th?" "Frederick the first of Prussia?" "Candace Flynn?" Roman and Logan both said back "what? No,it's aunt Patty-" ''what about it?" Patton softly snapped his fingers and like clockwork other Thomas's phone rang. Thomas gave an exasperated before awnsering the phone "oh god…Aunt Patty-!" [You forgot my birthday again didn't you?] "What no! I would never forget one of my favorite aunt's birthdays!" [You've better have gotten me something nice.] "Oh I certainly have!" He didn't. "So how's birthday things going with uncle Nico?" Thomas goes out and paces in the backyard as he talks. Roman and Logan both take a moment to slow clap for Patton. "Awww shucks~" Logan then takes the opportunity to take Thomas's laptop,looking at the word document. The title reading [Cartoon therapy Season 3 Episode 1 title pending] Roman covered his mouth as he gasped. "Hm..the writing style of this Thomas is.. incredibly darker then our own- I like it." "Wait what did the lack of us do to his channel?" Logan quickly looks it up "well instead of nearly 4 million subscribers, we have about 2 million." Roman laughs near evily at there importance "Interesting…instead of sander sides there's lots of video essays on obscure horror films" Roman clutches his pearls and again softly gasps "ugh this Thomas is such a nerd."and piano covers of anime music?" "Wait aww look, there's still videos where Thomas and his friends do little games." Patton comments "wait we must answer the most important question." Roman then goes to bing up Thomas's sexuality. "He's a pansexual cis man with a nonbinary partner." The three all say "huh. Good for him." Patton then looks over to Thomas "Logan-! He's nearly done with his phone call quickly put it back" Logan swiftly maneuvers up and under to simply put it right back where the device was. "You know you could've just…walked-" "well it never hurts to have more precaution." They all collectively scoop their 3rd spoonful of jam "Does anyone want to make predictions for our next dimension?" Roman glad to not whisper "I really hope we go one where he's some sort of super celebrity!" Patton ponders "I hope we go to one where he's a cute cartoon." Logan finishes "Personally hoping for high tech future." They all eat their jam and end up in the middle of another similar living room but only occupied by objects, they all have a sigh of disappointment to a degree before looking around. "Ok sure it may be another living room BUT maybe outside of this house there's something super cool!" He runs outside, his excited gaze halted. "Ok…not cool just sort of creepy?" Logan and Patton walk behind, Logan asking "Explain-" They two look outside to see a world entirely frozen in time. People are paused in the middle of walking, birds' wings are kept perpetually in stasis and the autumn leaves are left glued in the wind. Roman goes over to Logan and shakily grips his shoulders ``is this some sort of glitch in a simulation?? Are we in like sims 178??? IS THIS THE MATRIX?!?" Logan breathes deeply "First of all we won't get anywhere through blind panicking so we must be rational in these situations. Secondly, we are not in any danger as no one around is presently…awake. So we can always just smash this jar to go home." Roman sniffles starting to calm down "ok..ok." Patton rocks back and forth on the grass as the two converse, having a more internal panic attack. "Ok, but where are we though?" Logan answered with his trademark intelligent smugness "And we'll get closer to that answer with the expiration date of" his tone drops immediately as he reads it "October 19th…2017. We- we need to look in Thomas's room." Patton listens in "But how do you know he's here?" "It's..a strong assumption." They all walk into Thomas's room to see that the only thing moving is his eyes and chest in his deep rem sleep. "I knew this would be a possibility…this the dimension where Thomas can never wake up." Logan spoke soberly looking down at him trying not to cry as mourns. Roman covers his mouth, his pupils shrinking and his heart making a pit in his chest "i- I can't look at this-" Roman walks out covering his face. "Just stay inside the house." Logan softly replies. Patton looks down at him and holds sleeping Thomas's hand dragging his finger across his palm. "Um, can I talk to…him?" "Sure. He can't hear you anyway." Patton sits next to him "hey there big guy, having some good dreams? Probably you look sorta happy." He laughed weakly "But I hope you wake up soon. There are so many beautiful things to experience. And so many wonderful people you should meet." Tears quietly fell from his face "Sure some stuff might not be as nice but, it'll be good to learn from them. And become the best version of you." Patton sniffles "Please wake up soon. We'll be waiting for ya." He hesitated for just a moment, but then leaned down and gave a farewell kiss to his forehead. He stood up from his bed and wipes his eyes "I wanna go home, Logan." "Me too, let's just grab Roman." When they all met up in the kitchen, Logan smashed the jam on the floor transporting them back to their home. Thomas wakes up "ugh what time is it?"