Lost Gates and Girls! Arrival of the Unknown.
Ditzy Doo had never been an ordinary girl. Even before Sunset Shimmer arrived, she'd obtained a bit of a reputation around Canterlot High--Derpy Feet, clumsiest thing in a skirt, the odd-eyed beauty... basically, people had given her a wide berth whenever she entered, and it had only gotten worse during Sunset's reign of terror. It wasn't all bad; she was a decent student, had a few good friends, a heart bursting with a love for all things living, and an odd ability to find things long thought lost.
It turned out that particular ability had been related to her klutziness. Ditzy could see beyond the usual three-and-a-half dimensions that her classmates swam through, and balanced with sea legs unnecessary in normal eweclidean geometry. Sunset's big universe whammy had given her the ability to fly, although not before throwing her out of reality and sending her bouncing across a few dozen versions of Equestria. The strangeness hadn't ended when she arrived back home either; she'd been interned by a multiversal maintenance squad, met herself in multiple alternate universes, and just recently been appointed babysitter to her own future daughter.
Who, it turned out, could unconsciously increase the potency of magical abilities, like her ability to stumble through wormholes.
Which was why Ditzy was now fumbling in total darkness, trying her best to keep from tripping and possibly falling into another world.
"Okay, future reference: flashlight at all times. No, minilamp. Sphere, not cone." Wiping what felt like a cobweb off her brow, she reached out wide and far. "Rock. Rock. Ow! Sharp rock, yay. Rock... Not rock."
Ditzy ran her palm slowly up the surface of her new discovery. "Smooth... cool. Wait, here's a seam! Okay, are you plastic or metal?" She rapped her knuckles on the object. "Hmm. Feels metal... What is this thing? And... there's this round bit on the top--"
A sudden flicker made her pull her hand back with a yelp, yet even in that brief flash there was enough time to catch the outline of the object; a translucent sphere, held atop a post with strange writing. The band of light around the post snapped out mere seconds after she pulled away.
Ditzy took a breath. "So my options are to keep wandering about in the dark, and hope I find a way home, or poke this thing again and hope it doesn't kill me." She readied herself. "Well, it' s not like my life is weird enough, now is it?"
Carefully, she reached out again. The circle of light snapped on as soon as her hand brushed against it, allowing her to observe the object more carefully. The post was made of metal and lined with strange runes, all humming to life as the band of light atop it brightened, while the sphere's surface spiraled with odd fractal patterns, not unlike a living gemstone. Ditzy could faintly make out something within, an odd shape floating in a fluid that could have been liquid or gas, but the surface of the sphere made it hard to discern any detail.
The light also cast some clues as to her location--a domelike chamber, rocks and stalactites indicating it to be at least partially natural. What wasn't natural was the large metal ring lying on the ground, dominating the space as various other symbols began to flash to life. Five other posts, two with spheres of their own, flickered to life; the water resting in the ring began to vibrate as the constant thrum of power grew and reverberated against the wall.
An odd chime was Ditzy's only warning before the sphere in front of her suddenly vanished, the smokey goop withing blasting into her face. She flailed back with a sputter, trying to keep it from going in her mouth and pawing at her face. "Oh, god, ick! What is this?!"
"うーん、何...ああ！ついに！"
Blinking the last of the slime out of her eyes, Ditzy looked about in an attempt to find the source of the sound. The only thing that seemed different was the creature now standing on the post. At first glance, it looked like a cat--a blue cat, with a golden anchor-shaped pattern on its face and matching patches on its ears and belly. There were a few oddities, though, like only having three digits on each paw, or the red gem nestled into its forehead, or the fact that it seemed to be bowing to her.
"私の閉じ込め若いミスから私を解放していただきありがとうございます！"
And it talked. In neighponese.
The cat's brown eyes met her golden ones. "...若いミス？"
Ditzy sighed. "Great. A talking cat. A talking neighponese cat!" She threw up her hands. "Sub versus dub, neither taught me the language!"
"何を言っているのかわかりません。何時から?"
"I don't even know what's going on in my life anymore," the teen grumbled, pacing around the chamber in frustration. "I just wanted to get through school, maybe win some HPtGT tournaments, and get a job traveling or something. Now I don't even know if heading downstairs will send me into another reality..."
The cat tilted its head. "まあ。私の記憶はややむらのようです。何が起こりましたの？" After a moment, it blinked and hopped over to one of the other spheres.
"I mean, yeah, it's exciting and all, the ETSAB pays well for an internship... guh." Ditzy pulled her hand down her face. "It's just a little tiring to be thrown these surprises all the time. Can I at least get weekends off?"
It seemed like the cat was ignoring her, focusing as it was on the sphere beneath its paws. "まず最初の最初は。私は...はい、私は...私はここで何かを知っているはずです" The gem on its forehead glowed, its eyes twitching as though reading through a manual.
"Okay. Pull it together, Ditzy." The teen took a deep breath, letting it out slowly. "You're just a little overwhelmed, that's all. Talking cat, that's fun, Spike will have a friend now!" She let out a small giggle. "Oh geeze. First Dinky, now a talking cat. And I'm wearing a miniskirt... Did I just get dropped into a Sailor Luna story mid-season?"
Suddenly, the cat smiled. "なるほど！そこに私達は行く。若いミスを..."
Something flashed into existence in its paws. Ditzy, blinking away from the light, slipped in a small puddle and landed on her rump. "OW! Ow. What the heck?"
"じゃあ、下手ですね？しょうがない."
She looked up, scrambling back as she belatedly noticing the feline pointing some sort of wand at her. "Whoa, hold on there! Can't we talk about this or--?"
"まだ下さいホールド。これが唯一の瞬間を取る必要があります！"
The wand flashed to life, a beam of light shooting into Ditzy's forehead. She felt something sink into her mind, flexing like an octopus in cool waters. The sensation congealed quickly, swinging out as another beam went from her head to the feline's; something tugged at her, like a rope being drawn taut in her thoughts. The two beams vanished as quickly as they had come, but even though it had only taken three seconds, Ditzy doubted she would ever forget the sensation.
"Hmm. Hmm! Ah... hmm." The cat tilted its head. "Well, this... this is an interesting language, is it not?"
Ditzy frowned. "What."
"Ah! My apologies. Let us begin again." The cat bowed to her. "Thank you, young miss, for freeing me from--"
"You just pointed a wand at me and sank something into my mind," Ditzy deadpanned. "Do you even know how that feels?!"
"...Yes, actually. I've learned a number of languages this way."
"...Oh." Ditzy coughed, standing and dusting herself off. "Well... A little warning next time, okay?"
"Very well. As I was saying, I would like to thank you for--"
"So what is this place?" the teenager asked. "I mean, we've got what I assume are storage lockers, but this big ring in the middle I can't really figure out."
"That," the feline said with forced calm, "is a Gate. It can take us to worlds where strange and wondrous creatures roam, where incredible devices beyond your imagining rest, where even the very sky seems different from--"
"Been there, done that."
The feline blinked. "You have... developed interplanetary bridges?"
Ditzy blinked back. "Wait, you were talking about space travel?"
The two of them stared at each other for a few seconds.
"...You know what?" Ditzy said. "Let's start over. Hi, I'm Ditzy Doo." She held out a hand.
The cat looked at it oddly for a moment, before extending its own paw. "Hello. I am Kikai No Kawa."
Ditzy took the paw and shook it gently. "Nice to meet you, Kikai. Now, I'm pretty sure we each have questions for the other, but right now I'd like to find a way out of here so I could get home. Do you have any idea how we can do that?"
"Well," Kikai offered, "the Gate could be reoriented for the surface. I would have to activate it first, and it would open to the last known orientation, but I doubt that would cause any trouble."
"Hold on. I don't know how long this gate's been closed, but I'm pretty sure it's long enough that things have changed on the other side."
"I wouldn't worry that much. The Vaucoi were always fair and decent folk... though, yes, I suppose things on the other side might have fallen out of their control." Kikai hopped across the posts to the other remaining sphere. "Some precautions should be taken."
Ditzy walked over, peering into the murky sphere. "So... how does these things work, anyway?"
"Oh, these are extensions of our gate technology, operating to create magically sealed pockets where we can store things like... this!" A disc-shaped object flashed into the feline's paws, who handed it over. "Press this to your chest and say 'Crossworlds Guardian Emergency Activation.'"
"...What, will I transform into a super-hero or something?"
"No, but you will be outfitted with a Crossworlds Guardian Emergency Worker Uniform. That should protect you from... radiation?" Kikai flicked an ear. "Interesting, you do have a word for it now. What exactly happened while I was asleep?"
"That's a long story. We can go into it later." Ditzy examined the odd disc, noting the jewel in its center and the runes along the edge. "...Well, here goes nothing. Crossworlds Guardian Emergency Activation!"
The gem flashed to life, ribbons of light extending from the disc and wrapping around her. They went over the shoulders, around her chest, between her legs--that was an odd sensation--and tangling around her neck and limbs. Ditzy's clothes glowed suddenly, and she gave a little yelp when they suddenly vanished, instantly replaced by a skin-tight white jumpsuit with odd lines going down her arms and legs. Shapes began to glow around her waist and torso, solidifying into strange plastic armor with rings round the hips and shoulders; the same thing happened around her forearms and calves, giving her futuristic-looking vambraces and boots. The light enveloped her head momentarily, receding to reveal a strange helmet around her head.
Ditzy blinked for a few seconds, before realizing the transformation had finished. "Did... did my skirt just disintegrate?!"
"Hardly." Kikai's voice came through the helmet, and she turned to see the feline dressed in a quadrupedal version of the same suit. "The clothing disk has simply stored it into its own pocket and replaced it with the uniform it already had stored."
"...Oh."
"I would have thought that would have been obvious," the cat continued. "It is a simple modification of interstellar bridge travel--in point of fact, we Munarin developed this form of magic first, with the bridges coming afterward."
"Yeah, we're still at the rocket stage of space travel. Although there have been teleportation experiments..."
Kikai stared at her. "But... you said you had--"
"It's a very long story, and you probably won't believe it until we get out." Ditzy waved at the Gate. "So... if you would?"
"Ah, yes of course." The feline hopped over to the ring, tapping a panel on its foreleg and somehow summoning a small rod from thin air.
The teenager blinked at that, looking at her own gloved hands. There was a circle in each palm and... yes, the vambraces had very basic screens built into them. She flicked a finger over one, raising a brow as images scrolled past; her eyes widened with the picture of what looked like a wand with a crescent shape on one end came into view.
Ditzy glanced up at Kikai, who was still dragging the rod around the circle. With a hidden grin, she tapped the picture--the circle in her palm flashed to life, and the crescent wand thing materialized in her grip. "Huh. This is actually pretty neat."
"Hmm?" Kikai glanced up. "Ah! A magical purifier, that is fortunate. I do not think there will be any foul taint, but I suppose one can never be too careful."
"A purifier? Really?" Ditzy giggled. "Lunar Purification Escalation!"
"...What?"
"Sorry, I'm being silly." She twirled the thing around in her hand. "Wow. I really am turning into Moon Bunny. All that's missing now is the miniskirt and the energy-draining monster."
Kikai gave her an odd look. "I do not think you have to worry about that. Ah!" The rod started glowing in the feline's paws. "There we go. The Gate is opening, and we shall be on our way as soon as I--"
With a shimmer, the water in the ring fell away into an ominous purple glow. A splash and an angry screech were the only warning the two had before something very large jumped out of the ring.
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But you are not FanOfMostEverything?!
Or wait am i confused and are you the maker of Oversaturated and FOME has a different name for his universe?
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More than one writer can play in the sandbox.
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Looking forward to more.
This story now has an entry on the TVTropes Page. Gonna read it now...
Very Interesting! And here's the monster! ... Unless it's not a monster...
Perhaps stick a translation of the Japanese into Author Notes? ... Or just keep Google Translate side-by-side... Or you don't intend a translation 'cause it's not necessary? *shrugs*
drawn taught -> drawn taut...
... And with that image, this is Canon. Changing Page...
Well you did say you were planning a magical girl story. Didn't think you would get to it that soon.
I can help clean up the Japanese a little if you like. Would you rather do it in the comments or via PM?
"That," the feline said with forced calm, "is a Gate. It can take us to worlds where strange and wondrous creatures roam, where incredible devices beyond your imagining rest, where even the very sky seems different from--"
"Been there, done that."
Best exchange ever
Insta fave. I so love the Oversaturated universe for it's humongous shenanigans potential. And Sunset, she's a riot as an all-powerful goddess. Spoiling stuff if people have not read the original story yet.
She IS rather missing in interactions, lately... We wants moar of her
Kikai No Kawa... What does that mean? Hmm... We don't have the original characters, so figuring out from a Transliteration is a maze...
Also, cobwebs means that spiders are in the whereever?Nevermind, it just felt like one.I guess Dinky's magic amplification is just figuring how to Anti-Magic Anti-Magic, or something. ... "If you know how to take it apart, you know how to put it back together" (and possibly improve it).
Or just different version, different powers. Hmm... Perhaps Dinky is fated to have a Magic Mark, but precisely what it is is variable, but its high probability of Anti or Amplify Magic makes her a target of Nico Bolas...
... Do we even know if the current universe is the Oversaturated one? Maybe it is, 'cause Sunset's not coming to the rescue, which she might if Ditzy went outside the universe again? Then again, Ditzy has a track record of getting back safely, so Sunset might not be paying attention to Ditzy's excursions...
Aaaaaaand tracking hell yeah this oughta be a romp
Well this will either be interesting or a train wreck. It'll be hilarious either way. Tracking!
I wonder how the cat will react to the fact that Ditzy can see and move in more than 4 dimentions? Sailor moon never had that problem
, from what I remember it was teen drama interspersed with occasional monster fights.
So, I guess that was to gather the language data and send it back to Kikai?
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That is actually a very good question.
Someone really should write up a timeline of the Oversaturated verse.
Maybe I could do that.. I really do need something to do.
I'll go poke FoME to see if there already is one.
I don't wanna step on anyone's toes/hooves/paws/claws/talons or other miscellaneous locomotive limbs.
Moon Bunny? Really?
I can only hope Moon Bunny isn't as much of a moron as Usagi was in Sailor Moon.
English Translation, courtesy of Google:
Hmm, what... oh! finally!
Thank you for freeing me from my trapping young mistakes!
...A young mistake?
I do not understand you. From what time?
Oh dear. My memory is a little uneven. What happened?
First of all, first. I... yes, i... i should know something here
So that's it! We go there. Make a young mistake...
Then you're bad? It can not be helped.
Still hold. This should only take a moment!
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I'm pretty sure "young mistake" is meant to be "young miss."