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// Wake-Up Call 
// Story: Crossed 
// by OneOverTwo 
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Silence permeated in Derpy’s room. It was an awkward silence. Atom was kind of just standing and waiting to one side while Sunset held her intense gaze on Derpy.
Finally, the silence was broken.

“Well?” said Sunset Shimmer.

“What?” said Derpy.

“The sound!” said Sunset Shimmer, “The one that can wake you up!”

“What about it?” said Derpy.

“What does it sound like?” said Sunset Shimmer.

“Oh, right,” said Derpy. She tried her best to remember what exactly it did sound like.

“Ooooooooooooooommmmmeeee-” said Derpy doing her best to imitate the noise, including how abrupt the stop felt and the dynamics of what she had heard, “Also, it breaks glass.”

Atom adjusted his glasses.

“Well… judging by how my glasses still remain intact, I’m going to say that that’s not exactly the noise we’re looking for,” said Atom.

Sunset Shimmer gave him an unimpressed look. She was going to point out the obviousness, but decided not to dignify his statement.

“It’s a start,” said Sunset.





One month later:

Sunset Shimmer had visited Derpy every night playing recordings of sounds after sounds as she she slept. Derpy’s mom had be suspicious about the locked door, but decided to leave the issue alone. Sure the massive lack of sleep had hit her hard during the school day, often resulting in her falling asleep in class and such, but it was about to pay off.

Sunset Shimmer had set up list number sixty-six of sounds and when that list got to sound UA (she had separated the sounds by sets of letters) something happened.

Derpy woke up.





Derpy was flying around the library. She had been stretching out her body after being cooped up inside the building for a long time. After a while she was satisfied with it and glided back down to the ground. Princess Twilight Sparkle was there  to greet her.

“So,” said Twilight Sparkle, “Has Sunset been making any progress  recreating the wake-up noise on her side?”

“Well things have been stead-” said Derpy right before she collapsed.

“I really hope that’s a good sign,” said Twilight Sparkle, nervously.





Derpy was bleary eyed and didn’t feel like getting up, though she was awake. She tossed and turned, rolled over onto her front, until she finally sat up as she scooted to rest her back on the headboard. 

Derpy mumbled something unintelligible.

“It worked!” said Sunset Shimmer, huge smile across her face.

“It worked!” said Sunset Shimmer as she hugged Atom, who just stood there frozen and confused.

“It worked!” said Sunset Shimmer as she squeezed the breath out of Derpy.

“It! Worked!” said Sunset Shimmer in the middle of the room with her fists raised up in the air in celebration as she jumped a little.

“I see someone’s excited,” said Derpy.

Sunset’s face grew red. She stopped all that nonsense and coughed to compose herself. She brushed off the lower half of the front of her jacket.

“Ahem,” said Sunset Shimmer, “Now that we have achieved this step, I have some questions to facilitate the next step. What time do you fall asleep here and what time do you wake up on the other side?”

“I’m not sure,” said Derpy.

“Then let’s find out,” said Sunset Shimmer, “Atom, be sure to make a note of the time.”





Derpy had eaten a turkey sandwich on the human side and thus woke up on the pony side.
Princess Twilight Sparkle was drawing up scenarios for practical applications for advanced spells, she had been bored with nothing better to do at the moment.

“Twilight,” said Derpy.

“Gah!” said Twilight Sparkle as she dropped her quill, “Oh good, you’re awake. Does this mean you recreated the sound on the other side?”

“Yes, they told me to ask you something,” said Derpy.

“What?” said Twilight Sparkle.

“What time is it?”





Atom and Sunset were both writing down records for the day, making sure to list what sound was the one that woke Derpy up. Luckily there had been no glass in the room; the screen on the machine was plastic. Sunset pondered upon something.

‘Considering what makes her sleep, we’ll probably have to wake her up after waiting a few minutes...’ thought Sunset Shimmer.

“What should we do with all this science stuff?” said Atom.

Sunset turned around to face him.

“I guess we don’t really need it at this point, but I don’t think there’s any reason to remove it either,” said Sunset Shimmer.

“Sure, I guess,” said Atom.





“It’s 4:34 a.m., why?” said Twilight Sparkle.

“Sunset Shimmer wanted me to let her know what time it was here when I woke up so she can compare it to what time I fell asleep over there,” said Derpy.

“Oh. It’s a pity we don’t have a way to make you fall asleep here then,” said Twilight Sparkle, “Because it’d probably be good for her to get her answer as soon as possible.”

“Yup,” said Derpy.

There was a long silence.

“So… read any good books recently?” said Twilight Sparkle.

“... I’ve read books recently,” said Derpy.

Silence once again filled the room.

Derpy coughed.

Twilight shuffled a bit and ruffled her feathers.

Derpy did her best to scratch a wing itch.

Twilight took in a long breath then let it go.

“Do you think my eyes being crossed has anything to do with my ‘unique situation’?” said Derpy.

Twilight shrugged.

Things went on like this for a while.





“I can’t take it anymore!” said Sunset Shimmer, eyes as wide as her face would allow, “I’m waking her up now!”

Sunset Shimmer played the recording of the noise, having to retry hitting the play button a few times due to being a bit overeager.

“I’m glad I remembered to stop wearing my glasses when I come over here,” said Atom, “Still not used to contacts though.”

Derpy shot up speedily. Unfortunately for Sunset, she had positioned herself over Derpy again; having forgotten what had happened last time.

“Ow!” said both Sunset Shimmer and Derpy.

They had collided at the foreheads. Sunset turned around and squat down, rubbing at her forehead to ease the pain.

“So… what time was it you woke up over… there?” said Sunset Shimmer, still rubbing at her forehead.

“Um… 4:34 a.m., I think,” said Derpy.

“You fell asleep at around…” said Sunset right before she gently bit a finger, “7:30 p.m.”

“Man, this has been really playing havoc with my sleeping schedule,” said Derpy in a whisper to herself.

Sunset got up, her head apparently feeling better.

“Tomorrow we’re going to try something odd,” said Sunset Shimmer.

“Oh?” said Derpy.

“Tell Twilight to prepare to wake you up,” said Sunset Shimmer, “At the same time as we do it.”