The derp chronicles sliders part 4

Miranda ran a hand through her hair, a habit she had taken over from her boyfriend after years together, when she saw a quad of derps and a different John enter the camp. While he looked like their John, Miranda sensed that he was different. Where their John was more of a twitchy geek, this one showed off an air of arrogance, like everything should belong to him. Truth be told, Miranda was glad their John was a bit more reserved. The way the girl next to him fawned over him was not something she was used to. However, as a leader of the camp, she had a duty to fulfill.

As the John pulled a box out of his inventory and handed it over to his universes’ Yatina, Miranda stepped up to them and held out her hand. “Greetings, John and companion. I think you two and I need to have a talk. Our own John is currently out hunting, so at least we don’t have to worry about temporal derpfuckery. But still, I’d appreciate it if you two would touch as little as possible, in case something goes badly wrong.”

As Miranda, John and Idenna talked, the four little derps wandered off into the camp, both Mimis trying to grab the pat in the box, but Yatina managed to stay just ahead of them thanks to the helpful welp that kept nudging her ahead with her tiny snout. “Weee, boops!” Yatina giggled.

Eventually, the four of them found their way onto the clearing at Old Fred’s smithy. There they sat down and Yatina placed the pat in the box on the ground. Yatina cranked the handle a few times and then, with a small pop, the lid came off and a big soft hand started to wildly pat every one of the four derps in turn. “Yaaaaay, pats!” came from three little girls and a happy roar from a googly eyed dragon. Yes, Mimi had put the googly eyes on her Yatina again just above her real eyes.

While the derps were having harmless pat fun, Miranda and co were having a very intense conversation. “So, you're telling me that while going through a portal, Mimi released some energy and that made you two wind up in our version of the world? And you have no idea how to get back?” Miranda sounded tired, shaking her head as she tried to think of a way to get half the Mimis and Yatinas back to their own world. If the tent destruction was anything to go by… keeping them around would not do well for their hunting operation.

“Basically, yes. Though, my king needs to get back soon; we are at war with the Order and we NEED to get back,” the harpy girl that John had introduced as Idena stressed.

“Hmmm, well. How about we…” Miranda started when a small whirlwind appeared in the corner of the tent. As if forming out of fog, a small, derpy ghost appeared.

It flailed its arms as it said in a nasal, cute voice, “Pat me! Oh, wait, different universe. Right. Hunter crossover.” Miranda, John and Idenna looked perplexed as the tiny ghost rubbed its eyes, then looked at them. “Hi. I’m Dargon. I felt a disturbance in the derp and I consulted with myself that it might be best that I come here right away.”

“You are Dargon?” Miranda asked incredulously, not having been there when the fabled Dardar had dropped off Mimi at the main camp of Artemis. She had been told that Dardar was a - and she quotes - ‘juuuuuuuuge dardar’, nothing like this little ghost of derpy cuteness she saw before her.

“Dargon I am! Yes! This is a derp projection; me in this world is currently very, very busy with experiments, so I was send, by me, to help me, as I was slightly murdered by a flying butt. Luckily, Dargons never die!” the ghost said as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

John looked at Miranda, Miranda looked back. “If you are the one that raised Mimi, do you think you can help send us back to the right universe?” John asked the ghost, slightly annoyed.

“Yes. I can. All you need to do is…” as Dargon explained to a more and more surprised trio of people, Mimi and Yatina were busy playing derp the snek.

“Ha! Caught you! You can’t derp the snek this time! Muhahahaha” One of the Mimis giggled with glee, having spotted the Yatina welp trying to pat the snake on her forehead. The little welp pawed at the floor with a sad expression until she got a triple pat from the other girls.

“Mimi, Mimi, Yaya, I am getting sleepy,” the girl Yatina said as she yawned openly. The girls had been playing for a few hours and, obviously, they started to get sleepy. The girl just flopped onto the ground, curling up as both Mimis cuddled her from each side.

“Then, we shall nap! After that! More plays!” one of the Mimi’s decided solemnly. When there was no argument from the others, the welp curled up on top of the three, and they drifted off to sleep in one big pile of cute derps.

Around that time Miranda, Idena , John and Dargon walked into the clearing. Looking at the slightly soot covered girls, Miranda gave a soft: ”Aww, they are quite cute when they are sleeping,” thinking back to how adorable Cynthia had been when she had been a little girl.

“So, Dargon, you are sure this works?” John asked as he started to scribble some symbols in the dirt as Miranda and Idena slowly pried the girl Yatina and the other Mimi from the cuddle pile, their hands flailing in their sleep until they found each other and cuddled on to sleep some more. This universe’s Mimi and the welp too cuddled up with each other as they snored peacefully.

“It will work, I am the derp physicist after all! By power of derp, I promise you,” Dargon said solemnly.

“Well okay then. Miranda, thanks for the hospitality,” John said with a slight nod. Idena patted the oh so destructive but still adorable girls as John injected some mana into the weird symbols and a small tear in reality formed.

“It’s been... interesting,” Miranda said as she waved at them, seeing them step through the tear, and then the tear closed with the sound of a zipper and gone they were.

“Well, that is it for me too then. Hopefully I will appear in this story again,” the derpy projection said with a smile, patting Miranda once, then just as he came, he disappeared again.

(and so ends the mimi crossover event, thanks for reading. Next ch will be about Hunter John again)