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// As They Get Answered, More Arise. 
// Story: Crossed 
// by OneOverTwo 
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Princess Twilight was sleeping on the floor of Derpy’s cloud bedroom. Drool was pooling and seeping into the cloud.

Derpy was stirring and managed to get up. She was very confused about the sight on her left.

“Why is there a princess on my bedroom floor?” said Derpy.

“She insisted on staying the night when she couldn’t wake you up,” said Spike.

“... Why was she trying to wake me up?”

Princess Twilight suddenly jolted up.

“The other world!” said Twilight, “The one you see in your sleep!”

Derpy lifted her blanket to cover the lower half of her face.

“W-what about it?”

“I’ve been there,” said Twilight.





Twilight Sparkle explained her adventures in the human world to Derpy. She had been there just a few days ago. Some recent events suddenly became much clearer after that, though Twilight mostly glossed over the details in her explanation. Derpy told her that humans were called humans when it became apparent that she didn’t know.

“I’ll need to ask you a few questions to verify a few things,” said Twilight, “What is your Principal’s name?”

“Celestia,” said Derpy.

“The sports team captain is who?” said Twilight.

“Well it’s not like she’s the captain of all the sports teams, but you’re probably talking about Rainbow Dash,” said Derpy.

“Who won three crowns in a row?” said Twilight.

“Sunset Shimmer, who is a big meanie,” said Derpy.

“That probably covers ourselves for making sure our human worlds are one and the same,” said Twilight, “Now, I want you to fill out this extensive questionnaire.”
Twilight gave Derpy a clipboard that was holding a thick stack of paper.





After that awkwardness, Twilight managed to convince Derpy to come with her to the Ponyville library’s basement laboratory.

‘It’s not like I have anything better to do today,’ thought Derpy.

Vast machinery surrounded them. Everything was covered in wires, switches, and buttons. Beeping noises permeated the room. There was a machine that looked like you were supposed to hook up to a pony.

“I want you to strap yourself to that machine,” said Twilight pointing to it.

“That doesn’t really look comfortable,” said Derpy.

“Small sacrifices in the name of science,” said Twilight.





Derpy had been right about the machine’s uncomfortableness.
Twilight was carefully looking thru all the readings being printed out from it, she had been at it for at least an hour. Derpy thought so anyways.

“I’ve confirmed the readings and what I’ve found is very interesting,” said Twilight.

“What?” said Derpy.

“Everything is completely normal,” said Twilight.

“What?” said Derpy.

“Since your story seems to match up with mine, I have come up with a hypothesis,” said Twilight, “The condition is not detectable by normal methods.”

“Oh…” said Derpy.

Twilight took out a pen and a clipboard with plenty of paper in it.

“Please describe to the best of your ability how your two bodies two worlds situation works,” said Twilight.

“Um, well, um, it’s hard to explain,” said Derpy.

“To the best of your ability, please,” said Twilight.

“I don’t know what to say more than when one bodies awake, the other bodies asleep,” said Derpy “and that it’s dang near impossible to wake the sleeping body or drug the awake body to sleep.”

“That explains my inability to wake you up,” said Twilight, “Is there anything that will wake you up or make you sleep?”

Derpy thought long and hard and even came up with an answer of sorts.

“I usually fall fast asleep after a Thanksgiving dinner,” said Derpy.

“What’s Thanksgiving?” said Twilight.

“Nevermind,” said Derpy.

“I’m not sure if you’ll agree to this next request,” said Twilight, “but I want you to sleep in this scanning machine.”

“Absolutely not,” said Derpy.





Another day, another day at school. Derpy now knew that school was still halted for a few more days, but since she had nothing better to do she decided to go and see if Watermelody was still relocating instruments.
She was not disappointed.

Watermelody was carrying three flute cases in front of the school. She had reached the horse statue when Derpy called out to her.

“Watermelody!” said Derpy.

“Oh, um, hey Derpy. What are you doing here?” said Watermelody.

“Really I just came to see if you were still moving instruments around,” said Derpy.

“What~? Why would you want to see that?” said Watermelody.

“There’s no special reason, I just have a bit of a lack of things to do,” said Derpy.

Watermelody tried to snap her fingers, but didn’t quite succeed due to glove interference.

“Hey, I just had a great idea. Let’s go to your place,” said Watermelody.

“Okay?” said Derpy.





Though Derpy had refused to sleep in the machine, she still slept at Twilight’s. Twilight Sparkle herself was magically testing a bunch of frequencies at Derpy. She thought that maybe a certain frequency of sound could wake her up. It was pretty much a complete guess honestly. Twilight tested this on Derpy deep into the night.

“No Owlowiscious, I don’t need anzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,” said Twilight to her owl as she fell asleep on the floor.





Derpy’s mom was reading a book in the living room. She heard a loud thud noise.

“Swear word! that almost landed on my feet!” said Watermelody, “You don’t get to hold flutes anymore.”

“I don’t know what happened, guess I’m just not good at carrying stuff,” said Derpy.

The front door opened outwards.

“Swears! My elbow,” said Watermelody.

“Um, watch out for the door?” said Derpy.

“‘Thanks’,” said Watermelody.

In front of her, Derpy’s mom saw her daughter and a girl she didn’t  quite recognize. The unfamiliar girl was having a hard time on her feet. It seemed that both had been hurt. On the ground were two flute cases. They were both very near the girl’s feet. Derpy was also 
holding one.

“Oh my, I didn’t think you’d bring a guest over,” said Derpy’s mom.

She led them both to the living room. The room was decently sized, though it was obvious that you wouldn’t be able to fit a huge amount of people in it. Derpy and Watermelody sat upon the couch which was pushed up against two walls at a corner. Derpy was still holding on to a flute case, the other two had been left on the front porch. The television was large, but it looked just a bit old. A coffee table was at the room’s center, upon it was a vase containing three flowers and a book with a bookmark in it. Watermelody’s feet were also on the table.

“Do you two sweethearts want anything?” said Derpy’s mom.

“A turkey sandwich would be nice,” said Watermelody, “Give Derpy one too.”

Derpy’s mom went to the kitchen.

“Say your pleases and thank yous,” said Derpy, “Wait, why do you want me to have one?”

“So you won’t get jealous,” said Watermelody.

Derpy tried her best to stare incredulously at Watermelody, though given her crossed eyes it was a bit difficult for her.

“Don’t give me that look, you’re weirding me out,” said Watermelody.

Derpy continued her stare with more energy than before. Watermelody’s eyes were wide open and her mouth was as straight of a line as it could be. She did her best to back away from Derpy’s stare without getting off the couch or taking her legs off of the coffee table.

Then Derpy’s mom returned to the room with two very plain looking turkey sandwiches.

“I’m not sure what else you wanted,” said Derpy’s mom, “You could go to the kitchen and add a few things if you want.”

“Nah, I’m good,” said Watermelody right before taking a bite out of her sandwich.

Derpy looked at her sandwich. It was something she could only get in this world, even if she went out of her way to get meat items in the other world it would mostly be fish. Recently she had become very confused about the nature of her two realities.

‘I guess both are supposed to be real?’ thought Derpy.

“So are you going to eat it or what?” said Watermelody who had already eaten all of her sandwich


“Oh, um, right,” said Derpy.

She ate her sandwich.

Derpy fell asleep.