It was a peaceful day in Maretropolis. The sun was shining, the air was cleared of any clouds thanks to the weather patrol, and not a single disaster or mishap is happening during this peaceful morning. Yep everything seem to be going okay in the city-. *CRASH!!!* “Oops, my bad!” Well almost okay. As certain cross-eyed pony was flying through the air, while trying to avoid the city’s buildings. Needless to say it didn’t work out so well for the poor pony when she crashed through a building.

“I hope nopony will see that.” Derpy thought as she looked over the damage she caused. “Maybe they won’t notice the hole through the window.” Derpy was taken from her train of thought when parts of the window cracked, then shattered into a million pieces. “Nevermind.” the mare reached into her saddle bag to pull out a piece of notebook paper, and a pen. She began write the letters I.O.U on it, and placed it on the destroyed office window. “There that should do it. I’ll figure out a way to fix this later, once I figure out how to get the money to repair it.” she said as she flew on top of another building a few feet away from the building she crashed into.

“Well this is just perfect. Already here and I already broke something by accident.” The mare said to herself as she sat on the roof of the building she was on. “Matter of fact I don’t even remember how I got her to begin with. All I remember was going shopping for Dinky’s Nightmare Night costume, buying something for it from the salesmare, and then poof here I am.” Derpy looked around her environment for a moment before laying her back on the roof’s floor. “I hope Dinky and Amethyst are doing okay?” It was around then that something began to buzz around her ears and cause them to twitch. A fly had just decided to land on top of the Pegasus’ nose. And if you were Derpy… you did not like flies.

“Hey, get off of my nose.” Derpy said, as she tried to blow the fly away, only for a quick second before it flew back onto her nose. “I said get off.” she said as she slammed her hoof onto her nose, causing a loud impact sound. “It’s a good thing whoever I’m dressed up as has a hard fur. Other wise my nose would’ve been broken, and that would hurt a lot.”

Bzzzzzz! Again, the fly buzzed, this time landing on her tail. “But...I thought I hit that bug?” Derpy said as she slowly raised her hoof, once again smacking at the fly again. “Got you yeah pesky fly.” When she raised her hoof though... the fly’s parts were just scattered all across the fibers of her tail. “Eww…” the pegasus said as she swung her tail up and down to get whatever remains of the fly off her tail. “Maybe I should’ve flick him off before smashing him into dust, huh?”

She soon heard some shuffling nearby and looked to see a door to a stairwell opening up. “What the heck-?” The figure was bipedal, wore an azure coat and suit while he also had blond hair and sported a braid with a small silver badge at the end of it. “Derpy? Are you okay?”

“Yes I’m fine, strange hairless ape.” Derpy answered. “Wait, how do you know my name?”

“Derpy, you work at the Maretropolis Police Department and I’ve met you a couple of times before. It’s me… Lance?”

“Um… I never met you before, mister Lance. Wait there’s another pony of me?”

“Another pony of you?” Lance asked back, before noticing something. “Hey, what are you doing in that costume anyways?”

“I don’t know really. All I remember was buying some materials for Dinky’s Nightmare Night costume from a salemare, when all of a sudden when I bought a pair of gloves I found myself here in this city.”

“You mean Maretropolis?”

“Maretropolis? What kind of city is that? I never heard of it before.” Now was when Lance’s eyes widened. He was now was beginning to realize what happened to the mare. “Um… are you okay?”

“Derpy… are you familiar with the power ponies?”

“No, but Dinky has been asking me to get the comic book series of them. Why you ask?”

“... Derpy, my friends are the power ponies… You are in another world. Displaced…”

“What’s a Displaced?” Derpy asked. “Is it some kind of place where ponies get free muffins?”

Lance shook his head. “Not quite. Maybe we should talk about this inside. I have a couple of muffins in the kitchen if you want one.”

“Okay!” Derpy said as she hopped up and down in excitement. “Lead the way hairless ape name Lance.”

He chuckled a little, looking back at her. “Just call me Lance. I’m an Adept, not a hairless ape.” Before they went inside though, he held his hand out in a fist and held it in front of him. “Hoof bump?”

“I never tired a hoof bump before, but okay!” Derpy raised her hoof towards Lance’s hand, only for her to send Lance flying into a wall when her hoof made contact with the human’s hand.

“O-okay… Not… what I was expecting…” He coughed out, spitting out a small bit of blood.

“AH! I’m so, so, so, so sorry! I didn’t know I had that much strength in me to do something like that!”

“I-it’s okay. Really… My body heals faster than normal, so don’t stress yourself out… How about we get you that muffin?”

“R-Right, let’s go get some muffins.” Soon, the Adept had the mare follow her to the kitchen, where there were a few fresh Blueberry muffins that were left out there for her to have. Once he put them on a plate and warmed them up for her, she was ready to start munching away.

“Enjoying them, Ms. Derpy?” Lance asked, watching as she ate to her heart's content.

“Yay!” Derpy cheered as she was devouring the muffins in joy.

“So… About what I was saying before…” Lance started to speak, only for Derpy to cut him off.

“Hey, you wouldn’t happen to know a way to get me back home do you? There’s a sale this weekend for free muffin, and I was hoping to get some for Dinky and Sparkler.”

“Y-yeah…… about that… I’m in the same situation as you.” Lance explained to her, “Are you familiar with the existence of other worlds besides Equestria?”

“No.”

“Well, maybe some visual assistance can help.” He said, grabbing what appeared to be a pomegranate from the counter. “Say, this for example, is Equestria. It may look like one place or world on the outside… but on the inside…”

The Adept took out a kitchen knife to slice it down the middle, revealing the inside of the pomegranate and the many seeds that were inside. “There are multiple other versions of Equestria that either are similar to the one that you are from or not… the problem is that it’s almost next to impossible to travel between them freely… I want to help you Derpy, but right now… I just don’t know how to start.”

“Y-You mean I’m stuck here? B-But what about my home?” Derpy asked as she began to freak out a bit at the sudden realization. “What about the free muffin sale?!”

“I don’t know… But I’ll do everything I can to help you. You’re welcome to stay here at Power Pony HQ… and I can have Pinkie make a LOT of future muffins for you.” Lance told her, coming over to sit right next to her. “Why buy muffins when you can get as many as you want here for free?”

“I’m not allowed to use the oven at home again.” Derpy answered, lowering her head in shame. “I accidentally burned my house down… twice.”

“Leave the baking to Pinkie Pie… She has an emergency stash for when anything goes wrong.”

“Okay, so what do I do know?” the mare asked as she flew over to Lance.

“Well, you ended up in my world… normally for a Displaced, they end up with the powers of whoever they are Displaced as… Do you recognize the costume that you are wearing?”

“No, I don’t really read that much comic books.”

“Hmm… I got an idea… Follow me.” The Adept got up and lead the pegasus to a room labeled “Training Facility” and soon set up several different objects. Including a Box of crates, a wooden dummy and another dummy in a suit of Tactical combat gear. “Okay, Derpy. Remember when you hoof bumped me earlier and threw me into the wall?”

“Yeah, what about it?”

“I want you to try the same thing to each one. I would like to observe what happens when you punch them.”

“You sure you want me to do that? I don’t want to destroy this place if I accidentally send one flying off.”

The Adept sighed, chuckling a little. “This training room is designed so members of the power ponies like myself can handle anything under any circumstances. Watch.” To show an example, the Adept took out a gun that he had in his holster and shoot at the nearby window, only for the glass to keep the bolt he fired inside and have it stop dead in his tracks. “Whatever happens in here, this room is designed to keep it in here. So please, feel free to punch to your hearts content.”

“O-Okay.” Derpy said as she walked over to one of the practice dummies. “So I just punch it like this?” she asked as she punched the dummy wearing tactical combat gear in the chest, only for it to be sent flying out of the training room. “Um… I hope I don’t get blamed for that giant hole over there.” she said, pointing a hoof to the hole she made.

“O… kay. Continue.”

“Alright!” Derpy took a charging stance as she charged at the other dummy. She immediately stopped as she turned around and bucked the other dummy out of the room, only this time the pegasus sent it flying towards the ceiling. “This is kinda fun actually. Is there anything else you want me to hit Lance?”

“Did you hit the crates?” Lance asked, pointing at them.

“Oh, I forgot they were there.” Derpy said as she troted over to them. When she appeared in front of one of the crates, she raised a hoof and slammed it into the crate causing a hole to appeared in front of her. “You sure you want me to keep punch-.”

“What the hay is goin on in here!?” Yelled Drift Rod, trotting into the room.

“GAH!” Surprised that somepony yelled from behind herself, Derpy accidentally bucked the poor pony that was behind her and sent her flying out of the room. Just like with the dummies, only this time Drift Rod was flown out of one of the holes. “Oops.”

Lance sighed, facepalming himself. “Looks like Ash is going to have a long trot back by the time she lands.”

“You think she’ll be angry that I hit her on accident?”

“Probably… but once I explain it to her, she might calm down. She’s actually my partner and student.”

“Oh...so are you a teacher for a school or something?”

“Not exactly. Let me put it this way… I’m a hero… she’s my sidekick.”

“Oh, so you’re like Batmare and Robin?”

“... Something like that yes.”

“Oh okay. So what happens now?” She asked.

“Now we should introduce you to Twilight,” The Adept told her. “Or as her secret is, the Masked Matterhorn.”

“Wait, Twilight’s a superhero?”

“In this world, many ponies are heroes. And now… you are one too. We should come up with a name for you, just to be safe.”

“Sorry, but not really a full time hero per say. I’ll just do it because it’ll be a hobby of mine.”

“That may be the case, but with great power comes great responsibility. Heck, you can take out anything with a single punch… Oh, I got a good name. One Punch Mare?”

“But, I like my original name. I don’t want to change it.”

“No, I didn’t mean actually changing your name. I mean it as a hero name. A secret Identity. Mines Gunvolt since my powers are electricity and my weapons are my guns,” The Adept explained. “I was just suggesting it as a secret identity.”

“Why keep your name a secret?”

“So that way villains don’t know who you really are. If a villain knew who you were, they would go after the people you know and care for. You wouldn’t want that right?”

“I guess you’re right...Oh I have the perfect name for myself.” Derpy said, as she struck a funny yet an adorable pose. “The Muffin Mare.”

Lance chuckled at hearing that. “Well, follow me. My Twilight would probably love to be able to talk to you.”

“Okay, lead the way Lance.” The Adept chuckled, letting the mare follow him to the control room, where the Masked Matterhorn had just returned recently.

“Welcome back.”

“Thanks La-.” She paused for a moment upon seeing Derpy hooves. “Lance, what is Ms. Hooves doing here?”

“Actually, this Derpy is a Displaced. She now has powers.” Lance explained. “If she punches anything once, the force of the punch will demolish anything in front of it. Sent me flying into the wall on accident by trying to give me a fist bump.”

“Hi!” Derpy said as she waved at Twilight.

“Hello. You must have quite some amazing abilities based on what Lance had said,” The Alicorn explained. “I’m curious though as to how you ended up in our world though.” Lance had told her about how the Displaced worked and tried to explain it to Derpy the best he could. However, the one thing that confused the Alicorn was how exactly Derpy got here in the first place.

“I don’t know really. One minute I’m buying some materials for Dinky’s Nightmare Night from a salemare, then the next thing I know I find myself free falling from the sky and crash land into an office building’s window.”

“I found her on the roof earlier today after trying to look some information on some spells,” Lance told Twilight. “Afterwards, I learned about the powers she was capable of and also found out she was a Displaced. Something tells me that she might get along well with Filli-Second.”

“Um Lance, who’s the pony wearing the 80’s outfit?”

“Oh my apologies,” The Masked Matterhorn replied, taking off her mask. “I’m Twilight Sparkle. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Hooves.”

“So you really are a hero, just like Lance said. But why do you look like you’re wearing an outfit that i would wear in the 80’s?”

“This wasn’t technically my first choice for an outfit,” Twilight replied. “Radiance was the one who designed them.”

“So she dressed you up as a pony from the 80’s as a joke?”

“No, these are our actual suits. Radiance is… well… our Rarity.” Twilight pointed out.

“....She really need to make a better outfit for you, because your outfit is… well kinda lame.”

“Well, it’s what they got for right now…” Lance sighed. “Rarity refuses to make any new suits that have capes like yours because of the amount of incidents involving heroes and capes getting snagged by something.”

“Okay… so what happens now?”

“Right now… We should let you get some sleep. You’re going to need to get some rest before meeting the rest of the team.”

“But I don’t feel tired, plus it’s still morning.” Derpy said as she pointed outside.

“Derpy… It’s almost Sundown.” Lance told her, just as the sun was beginning to set and the moon was beginning to rise. “Still though… Where’s Ash? Has anypony seen her?”

A cloud of smoke appeared and Ash materialised, a black eye evident. “Right… Here… And who said I was like Robin!?”

“You okay there Ash?”

“Do I… Look okay!?” Her right eye twitched, “The tartarus just happened!?”

“I accidentally punched you across town.” Derpy answered, while hiding behind Lance. “You kinda startled me from behind by yelling, sorry about that.”

“Derpy here, basically has the power to demolish anything or send people flying with one punch. That’s why I would call her One-Punch Mare. However, I only see one problem. Since this Derpy is a Displaced… we might get her confused with the Derpy Hooves back at the Police Department.” Lance pointed out. “Derpy, do you have any nicknames that we can call you?”

“Nope, I’m just gonna stick with my original name.”

“O...kay then. I’m going to check on Aurora. See you guys in a little bit.” With that, the Adept used that as his cue to leave the room for a brief moment.

“Okay, bye Lance!” Derpy said while waving goodbye to Lance. The Adept waved back as he turned around the corner and went down the hall. “So are you able to help me find Dinky and Amethyst?”

“Don’t go to the police station.” Ash simply said.

“Why? Isn’t that where I could find out if anypony seen them?”

“You’ll get confused since there’s already an… Amethyst there. Her name’s Sparkler.”

“Amethyst has a sister that looks like her?”

“... Yeah, sort of. She’s working with the police right now, so I’d hate for you to get them mixed up.” Ash said awkwardly.

“Oh.. okay.” Derpy said as she lowered her head.

Ash sighed, “It’s still a free country, if you want, go. I just think she’ll need a warning since… Ugh, you wouldn’t get it. Do whatever.”

“Wait, so I can go find Dinky and Amethyst?”

Ash’s eye twitched, “When did I say you couldn’t go after them? No, I just said you’ll get confused because she looks like Amethyst!”

“It shouldn’t be that hard to tell the difference between them.” Derpy said as she was readying herself to fly off.

“Fine, later.” Ash waved Derpy off as she trotted away.

“Okay! Don’t worry my little ponies, Derpy is coming!” With that Derpy took off through the roof of the Power Pony HQ like a jet flying off at mach speed, leaving a huge gaping hole in it.

“You do know you’re going to have to fix that hole in the roof Ash?” Twilight said.

Ash growled, “I’m not a janitor…” She rubbed the back of her neck, “God, she’s got a mean hit… Buck I hurt, can’t Humdrum fix it!?” She whined.

Twilight shook her head, “Humdrum’s busy Ash, sorry.” The rookie sighed.

(Elsewhere)

Amethyst felt pain as she finally opened her eyes to find herself in a very old, but stable building. As she tried to pick herself up, she felt different for some reason. Not the bad kind of different, but the weird kind of different. “Ugh, my head. W-Where the hay am I?” she asked as she staggered to her hooves. “Last thing I remember was looking for Derpy when all of a-.” Amethyst was cut mid sentence as she just notice her hooves. “GAH! What the hell happened to my hooves?!” she scream, to what she can tell her hooves looked like they were prosthetic. During her little episode she notice a puddle of water next to her, and decided to see what she looked like.

To the mares surprise she still looked the same, but her eyes were purple and black and her hooves and body looked like a robot’s body that you would see in a action hero movies, and/or comic book. “W-What the hay happened to me?” Amethyst asked, as she backed away from the puddle in fear. “H-How did I even get here?” she said as she looked around. “Where the hay here is?” Suddenly, there was a breaking sound. Turning around, Amethyst saw two police officers followed by… Herself?

“The hay…?” Other her said.

“Who the hay are you?” asked the cyborg pony.

“Psycho. But what I want to know is: Who are you!? Are you some kind of clone!?”

“My name is Amethyst Star, and who are calling a clone, you clone.”

Psycho glared and pointed her horn towards Amethyst, “Don’t call me a clone, faker! What do you want? Take my place?”

“Look I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if you don’t put your horn down I can tell you this.” Amethyst said as she stood on her hind hooves while cracking her front hooves. “You’re going to get a can full of whoop ass on you.”

Psycho narrowed her eyes, then widened them, “What the hay?” She raised her hoof towards the police, signaling them to lower their weapon, “I… Who are you? Why are we so similar if neither of us are clones?” She rubbed her head, “This is too weird…”

“What do you mean similar?”

Psycho pointed her hoof to the door, “Go, I need to speak to Amethyst alone.” The police rolled their eyes but nodded, leaving. Psycho turned back to Amethyst, “My real name is Sparkler Hooves. I’m the daughter of Derpy Hooves. I’m a telepath and helping the police until I serve for my crimes. You… Your memories aren’t false, and I see the same family but… Different.”

“Hey! I didn’t give you permission to read my mind!” Amethyst said glaring at Sparkler.

“Permission? What’s that?” Sparkler asked, before shaking her head, “Nevermind! We’re the same pony and you’re worried about permission?”

“Aunt Derpy said that it’s not right to read somepony’s mind without their permission.”

Sparkler tilted her head, “Must be a moral I wasn’t taught. For me it was read minds or die… Wait, aunt? Nevermind! Look, what matters here is figuring out what’s going on!”

“Yes, because right now I’m finding you quite annoying ms. invasion of privacy pony.”

“I’m sorry if I was raised wrongly after my foal-napping!” Sparkler snarled, “I’ve been working hard on being a good pony!”

“Yeah you’re doing a swell job at it.” Amethyst said sarcastically.

Sparkler turned away, hiding tear, “I think you’re dimensionally misplaced… You’re an alternate version of myself from a better universe. You p-probably were thrown here by unknown means… There, happy?”

“Wait...are you crying?” the cyborg pony asked.

“N-no!” Sparkler defended, holding back sobs.

“Crap she is. Ugh I really hate it when they cry like that.” Amethyst said to herself as she placed a hoof on Sparklers head. “Care to tell me what’s wrong?”

“I-I-I d-don’t kn-kno-know-w-w!” Sparkler said through tears, “I-I just-t feel s-s-sad th-tha-that you f-f-find-d m-m-m-me an-annoy-ing…”

“Okay maybe annoying was a harsh thing to say, and I’m s-sorry for saying that.”

“R-really...?” Sparkler sniffed.

“Yeah I really mean that.” Amethyst said patting Sparkler on the head.

Sparkler sniffed again and whipped her eyes, “S-sorry f-for crying-ing… M-my d-doctor says I’m u-underdeveloped.”

“Underdeveloped as in?”

“Emotionally… Said something about not having the right childhood…” She rubbed her face again, “M-maybe Mr. Walker can help. H-h-he helped m-me…”

“Who’s Mr. Walker?”

“Lance Walker, he’s a member of the Power Ponies.”

“Power Ponies? Aren’t they just a bunch of fictional characters from a comic book?”

“No,” Sparkler said, pulling up a watch-like communicator and pressed a button, “Lance? We got a problem here. Not a bad guy, just… A lost mare.”

“Lost mare? Could you care to be a little more… specific?” The voice on the other end asked.

“Another me… She calls herself Amethyst Star, and she’s a cyborg.” Sparkler added. “Not a clone, I checked.”

“I… see. Ironically, I found myself in a similar situation earlier. Bring her to the roof of Power Pony HQ. Earlier, I found a mare who was looking for her daughter. I’ll explain once you get here.”

“Okay, Psycho ou- Wait, I need a new codename. Psycho sounds too villainy.” Sparkler complained, “Sparkler Hooves out.” And she cut transmission.

“So I take it that was Lance you were talking to on the phone?” Amethyst asked.

“Yeah, but his codename is Gunvolt… Even though everyone calls him Lance anyway.” Sparkler shrugged. “Let’s get going, I bet a police car can get there quick!”

“Can’t we just teleport there?”

“Teleport? That’s a high level spell!”

“Wait, high level spell?”

“It’s difficult because so many things can go wrong… And my magic is limited to levitate and focus when I get sidetracked.”

“Well I can teleport.”

“Aww…” Sparkler groaned, “I wish I had that… But you don’t know where the tower is.”

“....Crap you’re right.”

“Wait! I know where it is, so I’ll just give you the information! If you’re okay with that...”

“Okay, just point me to where the building is, and I’ll take us there.”

“I meant… Mentally give you the information. We can’t see it from here, and I wouldn’t feel good knowing you didn’t know exactly where it is.”

“Okay that can work to.”

Sparkler closed her eyes, using her telepathy to feed Amethyst the information. “There, now take us there.”

“Alright, hold on to me. This might be a bumpy ride.” Amethyst’s horn started to glow, as she teleported them to the location that was given to her by Sparkler. They reappeared above the human Adept, crashing into him.

“Oh… oww.”

“I think this is the place, good thing we landed on something soft.” Amethyst said.

“G-girls… Y-you’re choking me…”

Amethyst turned her attention towards whatever it was that she was sitting on. “Hey Sparkler, who’s the hairless ape we’re sitting on?”

“Mr. Walker…” Sparkler groaned sickly. She tried to get off, and succeeded in rolling off of Amethyst.

“Oh…I think I broke him.”

Author's Notes:

Thanks for FrostTheWolf & Brony Parasite for helping me with the chapter.

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