Derpy struggled against the bounds that held her in place. She felt the weight on her chest grew heavier as she was moved closer and closer towards the huge vent. It’s spinning blades cutting through the materials before her that were fed into it to bits. She screamed out for her Doctor as the black spots from the light danced over her vision which at the moment seemed somewhat focused. She closed her eyes as hot tears fell from her face to the metal below. She would never see her Muffins that she loved so dearly again. What would happen to them? What would happen to her Doctor she loved so dearly? She began sobbing as the slicing sounds reached her ears. She took in a deep breath and looked up to the sound of a muffled cry. She saw him, her Doctor and felt joy rise into her heart only to be stopped abruptly when she felt a tug on her tail. She looked down and saw what she wished wasn’t true. The blade tore up her tail quickly causing her to scream in pain when it reached the tendril her tail came from. She looked back up and saw the Doctor used his Sonic to stop the machine. Once he did that though the guards that had been watching her slow demise only seconds before went after him. She was lying there vertically and could feel gravity staring to take its toll on her body as the straps that had held her in place started to loosen. She tried shaking her wings free but they still were strapped tightly to her body. She felt tears come over her again as her left front leg fell first. She tried moving it to stop the others, but her movements were clumsy and slow at best. She felt her back legs fall next as her breathing quickened and tears fell to the waiting blades below. Even if they had stopped moving they still were a big danger to her if she fell on them. Her right front leg tried desperately to hold on but it was already too late. She looked up and saw the Doctor fighting off the guards. She felt cool tears run down her cheeks as she called out for him again. He looked down and they made eye contact before she feel and the world went black.
Later…
Derpy woke up with a sore head. She opened her eyes only to have two fillies fling their arms around her neck. She heard them both shout Mommy and she knew exactly who they were. She had been wrong; she was able to see her muffins again after all.
“Muffins! Oh how mommy missed you!” She hugged them back even if she was still a little sore. They pulled back and Derpy could tell they had both been crying.
“How are you mommy?” Derpy turned to her youngest
“I’m fine. I’m just happy I get to see my muffins again.” She responded as tears of her own feel down her cheeks. Then it hit her “Dinky where’s your father?”
“I’m right here.” A voice responded from the doorway. Derpy turned expecting to see her husband smiling but instead he wasn’t. Something about him seemed off.
“Sparkler, why don’t you and your sister go tell the Doctor I’m awake ok?” Sparkler nodded as she and Dinky turned to leave the room. The Doctor came in to sit beside Derpy.
“How are you feeling?” He asked her.
“I’m fine. How are you?” He looked up at her.
“I thought you were dead… I killed them. All of them and brought you here thinking maybe they could do something, that’s when I found out you were still alive.” Derpy felt herself gasp.
“A-all of them? Doctor they still had other ponies trapped a-and you…?” She couldn’t bring herself to finish. He didn’t respond and they sat there in silence for a long while.
“I’m so sorry. It’s all my fault this happened.” He said looking up at her. She almost burst into tears again as she wrapped her forelegs around her Doctor’s neck, hugging him tightly. He hugged her back.
A week later…
“Ok now you better promise!” Said Derpy sternly but jokingly at the same time “Five weeks time and I want you back here.” The Doctor nodded his head. He had spent the last week with Derpy at the hospital and now that she was back home she had insisted he take the five weeks she needed to rest off.
“I promise! I’ll be back in time for supper.” She smiled waving him off as he disappeared into the TARDIS and it disappeared with the whirring noise as it always does.