//------------------------------// // The Pink One (Part 1) // Story: The Filly & The Changeling // by Finnie Nara //------------------------------// Equestria #146 A dark shadow clouded over everypony, hiding the sun from view and clouding the ponies below in terrified darkness. A pink earth pony pounced around and looked up at the sky just like everypony else but what caught her attention was a blue box flying across the sky. She decided to follow it and jumped into one of her many shortcuts to reach the area she knew the blue box was going to get to. Occasionally, she had to get out of the short-cut to confirm that the blue box was indeed travelling to where she thought it would be travelling to. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Well that could have gone better,' said a brown stallion with an hourglass cutiemark as he coughed out the smoke from the blue box He looked around and inspected the area around him. He observed no intelligent lifeforms anywhere at his location. 'HI!' exclaimed a pink pony with bubblegum bouncy hair who appeared out of nowhere. 'Gah!'exclaimed the brown stallion in shock. 'Are you Time Turner's twin brother or something because you look exactly like him and if you are his twin brother i need to throw you a welcome party!"said the pink pony in her usual mile-a-minute conversational tone,'my name's Pinkie by the way, Pinkie Pie for short.' 'Um... no i don't know any Time Turners but it sounds remarkably similiar to what i do except you can't exactly turn time it moves on its own accord like water for example its all wibbly-wobbly timey wimey stuff that you probably won't understand. I'm the Doctor by the way,'said the Doctor.'Also how did you not register on my scanners?' 'Well i am using some of my special own short-cuts that i made from years of practice wanna see?' 'If you want to' replied the Doctor uncertainly Pinkie then ran straight into a wall only to reappear right behind the Doctor. 'Wha...How how is that even possible?'asked the Doctor in disbelief. 'Easy i just believe,'replied Pinkie with a smile.'That and i used a certain machiney-magick that allows me to rip holes in space and travel through it,allowing me to re-appear in another place nearly instantaneously. That's why i don't appear in some episodes.' The Doctor knew better than to question the pink mare's silly antics although it interested him to no end. 'Is there a large event coming up or anything unusual happening in this area at this period of time?'asked the Doctor 'Well a huge group of changelings are travelling to the canterlot castle i think,'Pinkie replied still smiling. 'Is that why it's night-time right now?' 'No it's the middle of the afternoon now and yes they probably are what's blocking the sun right now but they should pass soon. I tried firing my party cannon at them when they appeared but all it did was put up decorations and throw party hats onto the other ponies but i guess it's mostly because i didn't change it to the battle setting.' The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and aimed it at the swarm that blocked the suns rays. 'Hey mr Doctor what are you doing?'asked Pinkie curiously 'Just call me the Doctor,' 'Okie-dokie-lokie,' 'And it looks like we're too late.' 'What do you mean too late?' asked Pinkie 'I mean Canterlot is under her control now,'replied the Doctor grimly.'And i can't go back to save her...But i can get some help and i'm going to need yours too.' 'Okay,'responded Pinkie cheerfully. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rarity was having a perfect day in Canterlot with her friends until the changelings came. Pinkie had stayed behind because she had to take care of the Cake's foals. Most of the changelings landed near the castle and shot nearly everypony they saw into unconsciousness. Rarity and her friends were no exception. The changelings gathered all the ponies and brought them into the castle dungeons to feed on their love as the ponies dreamed happily oblivious to the chaos around them. As the changelings gathered the bodies, they heard a loud bang from the castle throne room before there was a green flash of light. Silence fell as the changelings got out of their trance and continued gathering ponies.