Please Read: Addressing Continuity
In Dexter's Lab, Dexter has done everything from revive a dinosaur to save the earth by blasting asteroids with a giant robot. (I've been watching Dexter's Lab on Netflix.) I will try to stick to his character as much as I can, but some liberties will have to be taken with what he remembers/brings over to Equestria - and also to avoid 'Gary-Stu' situations. Remember, Dexter is incredible, and that can break a story.
Enjoy and leave a comment!
“WHAT HAVE YOU FREAKS DONE TO ME?” Dexter screamed, pushing away from Nurse Redheart. She was trying to help him up off the floor but his struggling caused him to fall over again. Either his body was horribly contorted, or had it changed shape altogether. The lack of debilitating pain indicated it was the latter.
“Dexter! Calm down!” She replied. Dexter’s screams must have been loud, as two more nurses and a doctor appeared in the doorway ready to assist.
“WHERE ARE MY HANDS AND FEET?” He cried, pulling himself up using the bed. Redheart tried to come to his aid again, only to receive a kick to the chest for her efforts.
“Ow!” Redheart cried, more out of surprise than actual hurt. The colt’s strike was far from strong enough to do any real damage to an adult. Although it was enough to get the other nurses to come to her aid, surrounding Dexter.
“You FREAKS!” He wailed, waving an accusing hoof before grabbing the only thing he could. A pillow. “I’ll never be your guinea pig.” He shouted, waving it defensively at the approaching ponies. After a rather traumatic event in his past, where he woke up in the company of aliens and was enslaved, he wasn’t prone to the best of reactions. “You’ll never take me alive!”
However, he wasn’t going to hurt anyone with a pillow. A fact he realized this instantly, and decided to throw it at the closest nurse where it landed on her head with a puff. Dexter then bolted for the window, forgetting that he didn’t know how to walk as a quadruped. Obviously, he didn’t get far.
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Doctor Band-Aid, a unicorn with a brown coat and graying mane, rubbed his temple with a sigh. He had only heard about this patient ‘Dexter’ and already knew he would be a difficult one. According to the nurses, Dexter had a panic attack shortly after waking up. The nurses had to wrestle him back into his bed before he would calm down.
That’s when Band-Aid had stepped in. The hyperventilating mass on the bed before him was still trembling, burning off the adrenaline of the panic attack. He was obviously still on edge, eyeing nurses and the doctors somewhat cautiously. However, that’s when the colt spotted a mirror and froze.
“Okay Dexter,” He said to himself as his face adorned a more-than-slightly creepy smile. “Calm down, breathe . . . just breathe” He said, trying to make his voice soothing. Hey, his asthma was gone! “Get a grip on yourself Dexter, you can do it. Okay.”
He spent a few more moments hyperventilating. The doctor and nurses just watched, dumbfounded, as the colt continued to talk to himself.
“It looks like you've been transformed into one of those equines from Dee Dee’s stupid girly shows.” He said to himself between breaths. His creepy smile and the act of talking to himself put the nurses on edge, ready to restrain him if he were to have another panic attack.
“C'mon Dexter, You’ve seen a lot weirder stuff than this. . .” He started to gain control of his breathing. “But it's all a hallucination anyway right? Isn’t it? Of course it is. Let's run a probabilistic analysis on the situation . . .” What followed was a stream of nerd-speak. Dexter reviewed probabilities and mathematical concepts the doctor and nurses didn’t know even existed. While he did so, he completely ignored any attempts the staff made to converse with him. Thankfully though, the rant was short.
“So you see Dexter,” Dexter concluded, still talking to himself as he stared into space. “The odds that my wormhole generator turned me into an equine and transported me to a planet of other techni-colored intelligent equines, who speak my native language on earth, are infinitesimal in comparison to the likelihood that Dee Dee kicked over a bottle containing a hallucinogenic compound.”
There was another awkward moment of silence as Band-Aid and the nurses glanced toward each other, then back at the rambling colt.
“Wait a second,” One of the nurses said eventually. “How can you trust any logical conclusion you come to if you believe yourself to be under the influence of a sanity-impairing drug?”
Dexter’s eyes shot over to the nurse, who clasped her mouth the moment she finished her thought. She didn’t need the ‘you’re not helping’ stare from Doctor Band-Aid to realize her mistake. “Help me out here will yah, and go get the on-call psychologist? I think we should keep this one for observation.” He whispered into her ear and she left.
“THE FIGMENT IS RIGHT!” Dexter proclaimed at her retreating form, jumping upwards and shooting a hoof into the air. Normally he’d be wagging a finger about now. “I’m so totally screwed.” He muttered before falling face first back onto the bed.
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Needless to say, they didn't get much out of Dexter. There was no record of his family in any of the hospital's files, and he kept claiming to be a species none of them had ever heard of.
It took a little while, but Dexter’s ranting eventually calmed to disgruntled muttering. Band-Aid had long since gone, having examined the colt and concluded that nothing was wrong with him. Physically anyway.
“Don’t worry Dex,” Dexter continued. “I’ll be fine in no time. I’m sure Quadraplex 3000, my precious computer, is already filtering out whatever hallucinogen Dee Dee released. All I have to do is wait for it to work its way out of my system. Then I’ll be human again, all the equines will disappear, and I can go lock Dee Dee in a cryogenic freeze for a month. Everything will solve itself and-”
“Hello Dexter?” Greeted another feminine voice, causing Dexter to look up. It was a blue unicorn in a Doctor’s coat. She had emerald eyes, a light blue mane and a book for a cutie mark. Her name was Avid Aura, she was a psychologist’s intern and one of Ponyville Clinic’s counselors. At least, that’s what she told Dexter.
“So they sent you to see if I’m crazy, eh?” Dexter accused, “Well, I already have an answer for you!” He said, raising a hoof before stating simply. “I am crazy. “ He admitted as he adjusted his glasses.
“Oh, I’m not so sure you’re crazy, Dexter.” She replied while giving him an encouraging smile. Either she really cared or had a second career in acting.
“Well, I’m obviously hallucinating, and that’s a trademark sign of several mental disorders.” Dexter said, crossing his forelegs. He was used to being right.
“Yes, but the insane typically don’t believe what they’re seeing is a hallucination. Usually it’s the other way around, believing what they’re not seeing is real.” She said as she took a look at his chart. Good, they didn’t give him any medication. “Nor are they so quick to proclaim their own insanity. Did you consider for a moment that you’re not hallucinating?”
That got Dexter to think for a moment. “Well . . . I have to admit it is a possibility however unlikely. Either way, no one else can see this hallucination, so I won’t lose any dignity if I play along.”
“Well, if you are crazy, you’ll be the easiest patient I’ve ever dealt with.” She said with a reassuring smile. “Not too many mental patients are crazy because they think I am a hallucination when I’m not.”
“Ah ha! Exactly what I would expect a figment to say.” He replied as though he had won an argument.
“And what would you expect somepony who was real to say?” she replied, causing Dexter’s brain to stop again. Aura, having dealt with a few of Ponyville’s mentally questionable individuals before, didn’t believe that Dexter was actually insane. She figured that the colt was scared, and was making up lies about hallucinating in order to get attention.
This was also the opinion of the rest of the hospital staff. Which is why they stuck Dexter with a psychologist’s intern, they had to save the pros for the ponies that were actually screwed up.
“You know, it is almost dinner time and I bet you’re hungry. How about we take a break and get something to eat, sound good?” Aura suggested.
“Sounds good to me,” He said as he let himself off the bed. However, he again forgot that he had four legs now and fell flat onto the floor. “Oh right,” He said, looking up at the confused counselor. “Quadrupedal locomotion. Don’t worry, I’ve done this before. At least I’m not a turtle this time . . .”
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“You’re kidding right?” Dexter said, as he tentatively prodded his plate of food with a fork. Its lush green contents being the ideal combination of fruits and vegetables for a young pony.
Unfortunately, Dexter avoids all green food like it’s the plague.
“If this isn’t to your liking, I’m sure you can try something else.”Aura replied to the colt. The Ponyville clinic was actually a small hospital, which housed its own cafeteria.
With that, Dexter left the table and returned to the counter that served trays. Aura merely watched him go before returning to some paperwork. Dexter wasn’t at all difficult, at least for the moment. She had to concur with her peers that his claims to insanity were probably an attempt to get attention, at the most extreme he might have had a slight form of Munchausen Syndrome.
Which was a real psychological disorder, but with his claims to insanity being his only discernible problem, she wasn’t inclined to humor that claim by labeling him with an actual disorder.
“Hey Aura! Where’s the meat?!?” Then again, she could be wrong.
For a genius, Dexter had the odd habit of missing the obvious.
His shout got the unicorn to drop her pen after a moment, after she processed what he said. She cast a surprised look in Dexter’s direction.
“I know it is hospital food, but your selection can’t really be this bad.” Dexter badgered a slightly flustered looking pegasus, who by the apron he was wearing, was in charge of the cafeteria.
“I’m sorry, I don’t understand.” He replied to an impatient Dexter, “Did you say meat?”
“Yes, meat.” He replied. “You know, chicken, fish, pork or beef? Meat. I need some protein. I’m a growing boy not a rabbit. Cook some meatloaf.”
“We umm, we don’t serve meat except for special circumstances involving griffins” The Pegasus began slowly, still nervous. “And for that we call in a special caterer, I don’t even know how to . . .”
Dexter immediately facehooved, as if the answer was obvious. “Oh I see the problem; of course you don’t know what to do.” Dexter’s mother always made him his meals, and he wouldn’t trust his father’s cooking to save his life. “Males like us have no business in the kitchen.”
Every mare in the room blinked.
“Don’t worry, I once had to program a robot mom to cook for me. So I know exactly what to do. Now meatloaf is made from beef, which is cow meat. So this is what you need to do . . . ” Dexter started to describe in detail how to prepare the dish, earning him frightened looks of disgust as he described how to make ground beef. His words were making the ponies within earshot sick to their stomachs.
“That is enough, Dexter!” Aura interrupted him when she finally couldn’t take it anymore, surppressing an urge to vomit. “The sick ponies in this hospital have a hard enough time eating without you describing obscene acts of depravity and cannibalism!”
“Obscene? Depravity?" Dexter replied, confused and slightly unsettled as he looked between the mare and the now sickened stallion. “Cannibalism? You mean eat him? Lady, what kind of meat are you talking about?”
. . .
“Oh I think you need a time out.”
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“You know ponies don’t eat meat.” She said while looking down at the colt as they returned to his hospital room. She had been lecturing him about how much trouble he was in, and how he had better behave until his parents were found, otherwise he’d be in a lot more trouble.
For the record, equine meat was illegal and taboo in the United States, where Dexter’s family lived. That’s why he was confused and slightly unsettled. Eating a pony is taboo even for him. Though Aura didn’t know that . . .
“Well of course they don’t,” Dexter began, it didn’t take long for him to realize his error and understand why eating meat was taboo for ponies. He felt like an idiot though, and was now trying to save face. “All equines, like most herbivores, have symbiotic bacteria in their gut which give them the amino acids they require but cannot produce themselves, removing any need to consume meat for protein.” He said matter-of-factly, trying to look smart.
“Exactly,” She replied, making another note on her clipboard. “And with that you’ve confirmed my suspicions.” As far as she was concerned, his explanation showed he understood the taboo and was only putting on a show in the cafeteria. A show aimed at getting attention and one with very poor taste. “You’re not crazy, you’re a borderline Munchausen.” She let slip without thinking.
“Huh?”
“Just . . . lie down Dexter,” She motioned toward the bed with a sigh. “Doctor Band-Aid thought you should stay the night for observation, or at least until we find your parents. I’ll come back first thing tomorrow morning. In the meantime, behave for the nurses.”
And with that, Aura left. Dexter didn’t see her for the rest of the evening, though a few nurses came by and checked on him every so often. Dexter mentally kicked himself as he paced in his room; he should have seen it coming. “Of course figment equines would take issue with eating meat. Especially the meat of something as similar to them as a cow.”
So now he was alone in the room, with the exception of one other patient. Though said roommate didn’t do much, seeing how he was in a full body cast.
“C'mon Dexter, think.” He muttered to himself as he continued to pace. “The blue equine said I was a borderline Munchausen. She must have meant Munchausen Syndrome! She thinks I’m only claiming to be crazy to get attention!” He paused.
“Ah who the heck cares what she thinks anyway?” Dexter said as he turned around and continued to pace, a little more frustration in each step. “Come to think of it, this hallucination sucks. Dee Dee would be happier here. Why couldn’t my fantasy be about fighting crime with Major Glory or Action Hank?” His thoughts drifted to his favorite super-heroes. That’s when he had an idea.
“That’s it!” Dexter said triumphantly. “Maybe I can force this hallucination to change, or even snap me out of it all together. But how?” He sat, thinking for a minute before cracking a smile. “Oh, I know. I’ll build a medical diagnostic module and scan my brain.”
“If it shows that I am crazy, then I’m right. If it says I am sane, then I have no reason to doubt the conclusion of my probabilistic analysis. Said conclusion indicating that I am insane.”
“Either way, the hallucination will become self-contradictory and my subconscious will have no choice but to acknowledge that this is a hallucination. Then, like a dream that becomes lucid, I will gain control! And I will be able vanquish the equines from my mind and fill my fantasy with action and science!”
He finished his long winded self-explanation, not realizing he had woken up his roommate. Though the pony didn’t voice any objection, or do anything for that matter. His body cast was a prison, stopping him from doing anything but listen to Dexter’s rant. Poor soul.
And without a second thought, Dexter put his plan into motion. His room had enough medical equipment he could cannibalize for parts. All he needed were some tools. Fortunately, there was a janitor’s closet and stock room across the hall. It stored a set of tools decent enough for his purposes, and he was easily able to get the tools back to his room.
The nurse at the nurse’s station was too busy with a Daring Do novel to notice a colt sneaking about.
So Dexter worked into the night, using his incredible knowledge of science and engineering to accomplish his vision. In truth, it was child’s play for Dexter. He finished the device a good couple of hours before sunrise.
“Whew,” He wiped some sweat off his forehead as he tightened the last bolt. “At last! My latest invention is now complete!” The device itself looked simple, it consisted of a bulky terminal connected to a large ring mounted to the floor. A semi-circle was within the ring.
“Now, to test the device.” He said, his eyes drifting around the room until they landed on his poor roommate.
The bedridden pony could only plead with his eyes, any other attempts to escape or protest were thwarted by his body cast. However, Dexter didn’t notice the pony’s ‘kill me now’ look as he walked over and started to wheel his victim test subject onto the center of a ring.
Once the unwilling patient was in position, Dexter pressed a large button. A moment later the semi-circle inside the ring rotated off the floor and to the other side of the ring, then back again. The whole time it bathed the pony in a white light bright enough to be a laser.
“Hmm…” Dexter said as he looked at the screens on the bulky terminal. “It appears that every other bone in your body is broken . . .” He turned toward a long printout the device was spewing onto the floor. “And other than an elevation in your adrenaline levels, you’re perfectly fine.”
The bed-ridden pony gave no response.
“Well, it looks like it was a success, as I knew it would be. Time to hit the hay!” Dexter said as he powered down the device and returned to his bed, confident that next day he would succeed in breaking out of his hallucination.
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“Time for breakfast, who's hun-THE HAY HAPPENED IN HERE?!?” Dexter woke to the sound of a shout, followed by a tray hitting the floor.
In retrospect, it looked like most of the medical equipment had exploded. Their unused innards littered the floor.
But that didn’t deter Dexter. He was up almost instantly. “Oh, good morning nurse.” He said as he put on his glasses. “Could you please fetch counselor Avid Aura?” However, his request proved unnecessary. The mare in question, along with a number of other ponies, had heard the commotion and entered the room. Most wore a look of shock.
“D-Dexter! Are you alright? ” She said after a few moments, surveying the carnage of the medical equipment. Judging by the cup of coffee in her magical grasp, she had just arrived. “My goodness, what happened in here?”
“Science happened, my dear equine, science.” He replied, trying to hide a smug grin. Raising a hoof, he drew the other ponies' attention to his sleek and shiny invention in the center of the room. “Allow me to present my latest invention! The Medical Diagnostic Module Mark One. This baby can image an entire equine in 3D with a resolution of up a tenth of a micro-meter, as well as measure a wide range of physiological variables!”
“Dexter?” She managed to say, obviously trying to figure out to say. “Are you telling me you did all of this?” She motioned toward the destroyed equipment and the invention.
“Of course I did this,” Dexter replied matter-of-factly. “What, you think he did it?” He asked rhetorically as he pointed a hoof at the pony in the body cast. “Now allow me to demonstrate!” He said as he pushed a few buttons and jumped into the ring of his new device. It scanned him, emitting it’s near blinding light.
While it did so, a few of the nurses and at least one doctor got curious enough to approach the terminal. They had to admit, at the very least its sleek form appeared impressive. But it really caught their attention when displays started lighting up and the terminal started spewing print-outs.
“You see Miss Avid Aura,” Dexter began as he stepped out of the ring. “In a moment, we will have all the proof we need to finally prove I am hallucinating!”
“You’re bonkers in my book, kid.” Said one of the Doctors, it was Band-Aid.
“Dexter . . .” Aura began, trying to overcome her shock. “Are you telling me . . . you destroyed thousands of bits . . . worth of medical equipment to make . . . that?!” Aura was one of the few ponies hoping that this wouldn’t end up coming out of her paycheck. She was partly responsible for him.
“Well . . .” Dexter began hesitantly, starting to realize the down side of his plan. “Those devices sucked anyway.” He said defensively. “You’ll find that the Medical Diagnostic Module Mark One is far superior in every aspect. A fact which I will prove to you in a moment with the results of my scan. Heck, it might even tell what hallucinogen is in my system.”
“Umm . . . actually Dexter,” Came another new voice, it was Nurse Redheart. She was one of the nurses who had gotten curious about the invention and was now sitting at the terminal, looking into one of the screens. “This thing, whatever it is, says there is nothing wrong with you. The only detectable abnormality is that you have a significantly higher than average brain cell density . . .”
“Well I could have told you that,” Dexter said before remembering why he built the device. “Ah ha! It says I’m not crazy. Therefore this hallucination is now self-contradictory!” He cheered. “Now for this illusion to disappear!”
. . .
. . .
“Any second now . . .”
“So, let me get this straight.” Aura began, giving off a nervous and slightly creepy chuckle. At least she found a thread of irony. “You won’t listen to anypony when they tell you that you’re not hallucinating, and decide to spend all night destroying thousands of bits worth of medical equipment, to build a device . . . ”
She gets no response from Dexter, who was still, by the looks of it, waiting for something.
“Which only calls you dense?”
. . .
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“Stupid equines . . . stupid hallucination.” Dexter muttered to himself in frustration as he paced back in forth. He had been relocated to the waiting room, where somepony would always be around to watch him. “Why can I envision Action Hank beating the stuffing out of them? Better yet, why am I still here?!?”
Needless to say, the aftermath of his morning was rather unpleasant. He never knew ponies could give off steam, and for a moment he was worried Aura might have a heart attack or something.
He’d never seen equines so angry before.
Shortly after his scheme failed to ‘liberate him from this fantasy’ an all gray unicorn had entered his hospital room. By the looks of him, he was an administrator. His name tag read ‘Gray Matter – Chief of Psychology.’
He addressed Aura through gritted teeth. “Tell me, Aura. Why is this colt, which is unsettling the other patients, and ruining medical equipment, still in this hospital? Especially when there is nothing discernibly wrong with him?”
He didn’t like the ‘we haven’t found his parents yet’ excuse.
“He is the most expensive case of Munchausen Syndrome this side of Canterlot, cut him loose!” He ordered.
He gray pony had turned to leave, but not before Dexter would get a word in.
“Hey gray butt!” He called out, causing the pony to stop.
“What was that?” He said, in an angry yet condescending tone.
“How can you accuse me of being a ‘hospital hopper’ when I have no medical history? What? Don’t other hospitals take notes too?” Dexter pointed out. His point was actually a rather good one.
However, this doctor was not the type to appreciate it when someone pointed out holes in his logic. Even if the hole was large enough a blind man could drive a dump truck through it.
So now Dexter was in a waiting room, awaiting the arrival of the pony who would volunteer to watch after him. He had waited about an hour before he was finally called by Aura.
“Dexter, would you please come with me?” She called and Dexter began to follow.
“Now Dexter, I was hoping to wait at least another day before doing this, but we are going to have to discharge you” She said, not getting a response. “But seeing how all attempts to locate your relatives have failed, coupled with the fact that no one of your description is listed as missing, we’re going to have to discharge you into the care of a temporary caregiver.”
“You mean a baby-sitter” Dexter replied, earning a glance from the unicorn. “Don’t worry, I’ll behave.” He hurriedly assured her.
“Now fortunately, Ponyville almost never has a situation where a foal is found without a family to care for them. So there are several listed volunteers available.” She explained. “And I took the liberty of contacting one last night.”
“Wait a second,” The colt said, looking up at the mare. “I thought you said you were trying to wait?”
“I was, Dexter,” Aura said. “But I knew that, with your parents being so hard to find, there was a chance that they would be deemed unfit for caring for a foal. Maybe even charged with negligence. If something worse didn’t happen to them . . .”
“I see.”
“So as a precaution, I contacted a listed volunteer last night after work.” Aura began again. “It was actually her and her brother who found you, and they requested to be updated about your status anyway. She comes from a respected family with strong values, and she’s considered one of the most dependable ponies in Ponyvi-”
“Relax Aura, You don’t have to try to sell me.” Dexter cut her off. “I’m sure she’ll suffice, at least until I break out of this hallucination.” He didn’t want to admit it, but a small part of him was hoping this ‘baby-sitter’ would share a love for science.
Aura merely nodded in response to Dexter as she guided him into a conference room, she resolved the best way to deal with his hallucination comments were to ignore them.
Following Aura into a conference room, Dexter laid eyes on his new ‘babysitter’ for the first time. She was a light orange pony with a golden blonde mane and green eyes. She sported a Stetson hat . . .
“Howdy!” She greeted warmly, her accent almost caused Dexter to trip. “You don’t remember me Dexter, but we’ve already met . . .”
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Somewhere in the hospital two Doctors and a couple of nurses were standing around their newest piece of technology.
“This thing is . . . amazing!” Band-Aid said to one of the nurses who nodded in agreement.
“Yah, it's too bad we’ll never get to use it.” One of the nurses replied. “Gray Matter ordered it dumped.”
“What?! I’m going to talk to him” Band-Aid said as he left. “If anything, I’m taking that thing home for myself.”
“Why does Gray want it trashed?” Nurse Redheart asked her colleague. “It was made with parts from our own equipment, it must have some value.”
“I know, it's just that we can’t trust it. A young colt tinkered with it, not a professional.” The other nurse replied. “It is a shame though. We tested it against a bunch of standards and known samples, it reports information more accurately than anything we’ve ever seen. It agrees with previous measurements on the old equipment and even points out when the other devices are making mistakes . . .”
“Yah, it's good. And I have a feeling Band-Aid is not going to let it go.”
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I got it up o/
Fail or Win? I'll be reading comments people, this is my first attempt at comedy and I don't know what is good or bad.
You know, I instinctively clicked the dislike for this just on the principle of a human-turned-pony cliche (which I loathe) but after actually taking some time to remember Dexter's Laboratory...this isn't even close to the weirdest thing that happened in that show.
So I'm going to give this a chance.
And hey, it's been funny so far. Just...please, please PLEASE don't let culture clash and character conflict slide away, don't turn this into some crappy slice of life thing.
you are resurrecting my childhood, keep the good work.
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I'm not sure if I'm reading you correctly, were you going to down-vote it on the basis of premise alone (without reading it) or did you read it and not like it?
pm me.
"don't let culture clash and character conflict slide away,"
Oh, it wont >:)
Great story, very funny and man I miss this show... I do hope you fill in the missing periods you have in dialogue but otherwise it reads like a dream. MOAR!
This was brilliant!
... Phew, had to get that off my chest. Anyway, this is still a fun, if not frustrating story and I hope to see an update soon. Hopefully denial on one of the two sides is cleared up in the next chapter. Good luck and happy writing
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Thanks for commenting.
I can understand your frustration, but let me explain. The way I write stories (especially this one, given that I don't like HiE's were the human is turned into a pony) is sort of like a simulation. I line up the dominoes (premise) and watch them fall (story).
I think the general feel of that scene, and it's place in the story, is true and necessary due to Dexter's character. There was an entire episode about Dex's eating habits.
4418531 The meat scene could have been better. Maybe more inner monologue?
Otherwise great story. Can't wait for the next part.
Dexter will now shout "No!" because he will be forced for manual labor, greeting and brother notion was the biggest hint.
In other news, Dee-Dee clone inbound, stupefied about Dee-Dee clone knowing his life and lab, fourth-wall break inbound.
I'm waiting for the CMC to become the new Dee-Dee


Human in Equestria - HiE


Dexter in Equestria - DiE
Dexter's skepticism and lack of realization will be the death of him in this world if he doesn't accept the fact it's all real. But now that he's meeting the Mane six and all sanity will really be tested.
OOO, now you've got me excited, can't wait for Dexter to thrash Twilight with science... but, on the other hand, Twilight could always point out that Dexter can grip stuff without fingers... logic is a cruel mistress.
You have earned your Like from me, sir. This chapter had me openly laughing.
some people never grew up with Dexter!?
all joking aside, love to see an story crossing one of the shows i grew up with and ponies together, i shall read this at a later date
now all we need as an ed, edd and eddy crossover and i'm happy
4418589 - No Dee Dee clone, but a main six pony might find her way into Dexter's lab to push his buttons . . .
4419504 - Dex + CMC ? Run for your lives!
4419759 ,4420400 - Thanks
4420043 , 4420139 - He will deal with both the crazy issue and Twilight.
4420666 - I would like to see a adult battling KND one myself.
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He'll still think a certain pink pony is a Dee-Dee clone or Dee-Dee herself in his 'Imagination'
4422530 - THANK YOU. You want to be a proof reader? You'll get early access to the chapters. (Next one is currently half written atm.) I'll probably make those corrections sometime tomorrow.
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Which pink pony? A lot of them have pink, hazard a guess?
Is there something possibly WORSE than Dee Dee?
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Not getting farther, waiting on the next chapter.
4423159 actually, I imagine dexter thinking the cmc being Dee Dee, Lee Lee, and Mee Mee
-Wait, let me get this straight. A good fic about Dexter's Laboratory? And with ponies?
-I say yes, my friend. Pure awesomeness plus...
SCIENCE!
Thank you. Anyways, this thing is awesome. Keep it up!
-Favorite and Like. Instantly.
Im going to make this brief so as to avoid the possibility of any redundancy on my part as i go fan mode on your story (i see myself making another comment when the new chapter comes out so..) ... *clears throat* THIS IS FUCK8NG AMAZING!!!
*hyperventilates*
ahem.. uhh what i meant was you did ok, i guess... *clears throat* keep it up.
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Edited: This got me thinking... what will happen when dexter finally meets two members of the main six that'll give his scientific knowledge its ultimate test?? Namely Twilight Sparkle and PinkiePie.
Why these two?? Because Twilight's immense knowledge of magical laws rivals Dexter's knowledge on the laws of physics (that and because they're both nerdy and talk in egg-head language). Pinkie pie because she is an anomaly that even in magical equestria defies understanding (she's gonna stump Dexter!!! I'm sure of it!! Ha!)
A dialogue between these three is going to be fun in epic proportions!!! Thank you for making this happen!
I can't wait to see Dexter and Twilight go head to head and debate over things in general (for once twilight has finally met her match!) *squeeee*
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That and an 'Amazing World of Gumball' crossover... seriously these two needs to happen! :D
I am enjoying this
, Please continue 

I cant wait for Dex to meet Twilight, with their mutual love of gadgets and science/magic, I expect the poniverse to implode.
Does this mean dexter morhan is in Dexter's lab now?
I couldn't help but laugh when Dexter's description of meatloaf preparation set off those ponies. Nice piece of medical tech that Dexter came up with, I'm already looking forward to whatever role it'll serve in the future. It's good that Applejack is going to look after Dexter, I wonder how long it'll be before Dexter invents something to make life around the farm easier. If the CMC were crazy before, wait until Dexter is drafted into their ranks! Dexter and Twilight are bound to get along famously given their interest in logic and knowledge. Will Dexter learn to relish how Dee Dee is no longer around to destroy his precious inventions and hard work? I can only imagine how the ponies with siblings will react to learning of his sister's mindless destruction of Dexter's inventions.
Typos/Suggestions:
nurse Redheart - Nurse Redheart (2 times)
all together - altogether
After rather traumatic - After a rather traumatic
realized this instantly, - realized instantly,
breath . . . just breath - breathe . . . just breathe
breathes. - breaths.
Common Dexter, You’ve - C'mon Dexter, you’ve
its all - it's all
Lets run - Let's run
come too if - come to if
hospitals files, - hospital's files,
quadraplex 3000, - Quadraplex 3000,
work it’s way - work its way
mane and book - mane and a book
crazy Dexter.” - crazy, Dexter.”
insanity. You consider - insanity. Did you consider
ponyville - Ponyville (2 times)
It’s lush - Its lush
paper work. - paperwork.
Yes, Meat. - Yes, meat.
protein, I’m - protein. I’m
enough Dexter - enough, Dexter
surpressing - suppressing
cannibalism!” - (no space in between this and the next line)
Depravity? Dexter - Depravity?" Dexter
said looking - said while looking
as the returned - as they returned
mean time, - meantime,
Common Dexter, think. - C'mon Dexter, think.
attention!”He - attention!” He
dream that that becomes a lucid - dream that becomes a lucid one
needed was some tool. - needed were some tools.
Daring Doo - Daring Do
sun rise. - sunrise.
connected to large ring mounted to - connected to a large ring mounted on
kill my now - kill me now
whose hun- - who's hun-
equipment exploded. - equipment had exploded.
ponies attention - ponies' attention
say’s there - says there
out of them. - out of them?
an equines so - an equine so
was Dexter,” - was, Dexter,”
its too bad - it's too bad
its just that - it's just that
its good. - it's good.
let it go” - let it go.”
Keep up the great work!
4420666 You think that is where that Lily pony comes from?
4470619 what are you on about? I don't know what you mean
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4475169 oooooooh, I didn't realize what you were talking about, dunno if that was a reference to Dexter though
FIrst and foremost, I did not think that Dee Dee's a brony... or whatever older female fans of the show call themselves. All this IS definitely something that Dexter can and will do. I think Twilight either has a rival or a fellow colleague.
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Those first words totally captured the essense of Dexter's Laboratory in a heart beat.
I think you're being very true to his character. While the "I wanna eat meat" thing has in fact been done a bit much in HiE stories, Dexter's approach was well thought out (explaining to a pony how to harvest the flesh of another--potentially sentient--creature was great).
Gonna storm threw the next two chapters.
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Is funny.
Is entertaining.
Is goooooooooooooood~
...dat logic.
Wow, you did an incredible job with this fic didn't you?
It's so good I don't even needed to read it before favoriting it and liking it!
Before reading further, I wanted to respond to the note at the top:
I've seen this kind of thing done before, and I never like it. Why in the world would we consider Dexter a Gary Stu if he acts like his canon self? I hate this idea that seems to keep popping up that the only thing needed to avoid a Gary/Mary Stu/Sue (especially if it's not an OC) is by massively nerfing them in some way, because it always seems to defeat the purpose of having them in the first place. You can have a character who literally is unbeatable and still not have them by a Mary Sue while also having an interesting story. The abilities a character has is not the only thing that matters.
Now I'll read on, but I just wanted to get that out. I'll just hope that Dexter isn't brought down in this story, which would absolutely suck because this is the only Dexter's Lab crossover I've ever seen (thanks for that, by the way!). Anyway, I wish you luck with the story.
Sorry for the double post, but there was one last thing I wanted to say now that I've finished the chapter. See this part?:
Stuff like this keeps showing up in the story, and it's making it hard to read. It's less like reading a story and more like reading the author making a commentary about his own story. The readers aren't stupid. We know (in the above example) that the doctor's logic was flawed. You don't need to keep rubbing the point in our faces. Basically, you have an issue of either telling instead of showing (meaning instead of letting the descriptions and character actions speak for themselves, you end up spelling it out instead), or showing and then telling anyway. Example:
See the part in green? When you say that she clasped her mouth shut, that action tells the reader everything they need to know, which is that she realized her mistake. The problem, which I made red, is that immediately after "showing," you end up "telling" anyway by restating what we already found out.
This happens so much in this story (at least, up to the end of this chapter) that at times it feels like I'm reading each paragraph two times in a row, and it really messes up the flow of the story.
really, "a plea to get attention?" that's the EXPERT opinion? I know they're supposed to be skeptical, but that's not even professional. Attention seekers don't speak in a vocabulary twenty years above them. Nor do they hyperventilate.
Plus there are SEVERAL psychological disorders where the patient believes that the reality they are in is a dream or hallucination or similar.
Do you still not have a proof reader? If you don't I can take the role.
Wooo, woooo, woooo *ALERT* Confirmation of dexter within strike distance of CMC, Defcon 4 , I repeat , Defcon 4 this is not a drill.
Been awhile since I belted out a laugh that loud.
So basically, what Dexter just created is an M.R.I
Dexter just made a freakishly advanced MRI like medical scanner. This device reminds me of several devices from science fiction, but was made with what is likely magitech of some kind.
I have a sense that Avid Aura will have to eventually become Dexter's new caretaker. Never seen anybody (or anypony, for that matter) who can successfully shut down Dexter with mere words...TWICE! Things will become even more interesting once the hospital ponies past Band-Aid, Redheart, and the other two who were with him realise just how advanced his MRI device is.
Now, 'blank flank' Dexter and the Cutie Mark Crusaders, together? Three easily impressionable fillies looking to get their Cutie Marks stuck together with a mad scientist? This will end in more than just tree sap, everypony.
exitement!
Oh please don't go making Pinkie a fucking empty headed with no regard for others....Pinkie is only a bit dense at time and she actually care about those around her and their general opinion of her.