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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Stealing Harmony 
// by chrisbiby 
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Allons-y
Chapter three
“No no no no no no no, this can’t be happening.”  Twilight muttered to herself pacing back and forth in the cell she and her friends were locked in.  This day had gone from bad to much worse very quickly. 
“Twilight calm down” Applejack said forcefully “ah know you’re scared, we all are, you just have to calm down so that we can figure a way out of here.”  Twilight stopped pacing and sat down, took a couple quick breaths and looked around the cell.  There were three benches, two long ones on the side walls, and another half the size of the others on the back wall.  There were no windows; the light came from a couple dimly lit torches outside of their cell.  Rarity was laying on one of the benches, Pinkie Pie was sitting across from her, Rainbow Dash was trying to see how much room there was to fly, while Fluttershy was content to staying curled up and sobbing underneath the bench in the back of the room.  Twilight then made her way to Pinkie Pie to ask the pink mare if she could try to comfort Fluttershy.   Pinkie went over to Fluttershy and gave her a hug, seeing this Rarity also went to help comfort her.   Twilight then made her way to the bars, she stuck her head through the bars and looked left and saw more rows of cells and the door that led to what was the royal guard’s office.  She then looked right there where less torches that way but she could barely make out to cages suspended from the ceiling, one had a white and pink blob in it, and the other had a small midnight blue figure that appeared to be a small foal.
“pst… pst” Twilight hissed towards the foal “hey are you two ok?” she asked as the blue figure stirred and turned to face Twilight, she recognized who the small foals were once the blue one spoke.
“Twilight Sparkle?”  Princess Luna said surprised “I’m sorry that I have put you through this, I should have brought the elements with me, or I should have gone with you.” Her voice growing more and more concerned and disappointed.
“Don’t worry princess we will figure a way out of here just give us time.” Twilight said as the door to the dungeon opened and three jailors walked in carrying several bowls.  Two of the jailors stopped at the door of the cell and slid the bowls thru a slot at the bottom of the door the other one put a bowl in each of the suspended cages.  As soon as he turned his back on the cages, a bowl full of disgusting brown slop nailed him in the back of the head.  He turned to face the two cages, Luna was ignoring her bowl the pink and white blob didn’t have one, the jailor then reared back and kicked the cage hard enough to send it crashing into the ceiling.
“fuckin bitch…” he muttered to himself then turned his attention to Twilight “and you six aint gettin out of here until yer execution so sit down relax and count yer selves lucky that Lord Tempest didn’t just execute you on the spot.”  As the guards left the dungeon Celestia sat up her back to Twilight.  She stretched quickly and cracked her neck twice to alleviate some soreness.  She then turned her head to face Luna and said.
“Luna I think it’s time we called Him,”
“HIM, BUT HE IS FOR EMERGENCYS ONLY!”
“I know but I’m pretty sure that this qualifies as an emergency”
“But wont Cloudburst be able to detect Him?  You know that He can’t take us right?”
“Yes he will be able to detect Him and yes we won’t be able to go with Him but, we aren’t calling Him for us” Celestia said nodding toward Twilight.
“So when He gets here where will they go, how will he make it out with them… oh right… that infernal box, so are you going to send the message?”
Celestia just nodded as her face contorted into a concentrated smirk and Luna turned toward Twilight and said “don’t worry we are getting you out just trust us when we say trust Him.”
“Princess Luna what’s going on who is “Him”, what does He do, how come He can’t get you out as well?”  Twilight said bombarding Luna with questions, again.
“Don’t worry Twilight He will answer all your questions, He should be here soon.”  Luna said reassuringly.  Several seconds later there was a loud groan almost like a rusty wheal on a cart that was stuck in the mud.  In the middle of the cell the impossible was happening, a blue box was just appearing. The six mares all instinctively backed away when with a final groan the blue box had solidified in the middle of the cell, several seconds later a beige stallion with a spiky brown mane and an hourglass cutie mark stepped out of the blue box.
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Lord Tempest was sitting lazily on his newly claimed throne.  Before him were several noble ponies, local government officials from the surrounding towns, and his guards.  The nobles and other officials where swearing their allegiance to him, when he got an indescribable feeling.  Snapping to attention he looked out one the many windows at the guards building
“No it can’t be…” he muttered to himself after several seconds thought “yes it is it’s Him.” He muttered with malice “GAURDS SUROUND THE DOUNGENS, NOPONY IS ALOWED OUT UNLESS THEY ARE ME OR A CORPS.” He yelled as loud as he could.  He then leapt off of the throne and flew out of one of the windows.
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“Ah well this is rather unexpected I’m in a jail cell, not that that I have never been in a jail cell before, but still a little weird to be told to come to this place exactly at this time.”  The stallion said with a Trottingham accent walking towards the bars completely oblivious to the six mares flanking him.  He stuck his head out of the bars and looked down to the cages “ello princesses”  before pulling his head back into the cell “right you six into the TARDIS, let’s go one at a time behind me.” He said as he walked into the blue box.  The six mares all stared at each other with puzzled looks.  Twilight then stuck her head out of the bars and looked at the princesses, while her friends filed into the strange blue box.
“Princess Celestia, who is this guy where did he come from? How are we-” she was then cut off by a loud crack
“Twilight trust me He will explain now get in the damn box” Celestia yelled at Twilight
“ya Dawn listen to me.” the deranged earth pony said dragging her by her tail into the blue box.
As soon as the doors to the blue box closed Lord Tempest blew out the door to the dungeon he then fired several lightning bolts at the blue box as it faded out of existence.  He screamed in frustration and anger before turning his rage to the jailers ending their lives in three quick flashes of lightning.
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Twilight opened her eyes, before her was a pair of dingy off white doors with a set of windows at the top.  She then looked down at the floor it was gunmetal grey.  The brass colored walls where cratered with hexagon shaped indents that had a slight glow in the middle and gently sloped upward  to form a domed ceiling supported by many unusually shaped pillars.  In the center there was an elevated control panel with a safety rail around it.  The crazy beige stallion was hitting random buttons as Twilight approached him.
“This is impossible…”  She trailed off mid sentence walking up the ramp to the control panel.  The beige stallion turned his attention to her and said “Well that was rather anti climatic, I was hoping for something more along the lines of ‘it’s bigger on the inside’ that’s what everyone says, but you’re not everyone aren’t you miss Sunset Sequin?” he said open endedly.
“It’s everypony, not everyone, and my name is Twilight Sparkle.” She said dryly.
“you do know that I just rescued you from a deranged alicorn by showing up in a blue box right, this is hardly the time for a grammar lesson,” he then thought out loud “I really got to remember that its everypony not everyone, and your name is not Sunset Sequin.”
“Well then thank you very much for saving me and my friends mister, who are you exactly?”  She asked.
“You can call me The Doctor.”  The Doctor said.
“Doctor…” she said rotating her hoof hoping that he would continue to speak.
“Just The Doctor” he said flatly
“What? That makes no sense, nopony is named just The Doctor and besides if you where a doctor you wouldn’t have an hourglass as a cutie mark.” She finished smugly.
“well I’m not that kind of doctor… as for my cutie mark… ill explain later but first let’s get everypony, ha I’m learning,  back here.” As he walked around the control panel and approached a microphone.  “Girls could please make your way back to the control room I have something important to tell you all.”  Over the course of several minuets Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash all filed into the control room.
“Where’s Pinkie we have been waiting forever.”  Rainbow Dash moaned.
“Relax Rainbow we’ve only been watein for ah few minutes, and besides who knows how far she has gone, this place is massive.” Applejack said.
“Speaking of that, how is this place so big? There must be some very powerful magic in here.” Twilight asked.
“Oh well it’s because its-” The Doctor started.
“Its dimensionally transcendental, whatever that means.”  Pinkie Pie said popping out of one of the floor panels, soaking wet.
“That’s correct basically the inside and the outside exist in different dimensions 110% non magical just science, and it would appear that you found the pool, also one of my house rules is “no bending the fabric of space unless I do it” it could create a mess that I really don’t want to clean up.” He said.  “By the way how did you know that?” he quickly asked. 
“It was in some song I heard forever ago.” Pinkie said with confidence.
Everypony just stared at Pinkie before The Doctor started “yes… well… Celestia has trusted me with an important task, protect you six while you recover the elements of harmony.”
“Ya… well how are we supposed to get the elements, last I saw they were being dragged off to Celestia knows where.” Rainbow Dash stated.
“Well what were you expecting, waltzing right up to the gate and asking Tempest if we could have the Elements of Harmony then if he would let us blast him back to the Everfree Forest?” The Doctor asked.
“Um yes” Fluttershy quietly muttered.
“It happened a lot like that with Discord” Twilight said.
“well I’m sorry girls but I think the answer is clear we need to steal The Elements of Harmony, now we need a plan.”
“If I knew what I had to work with then maybe I could come up with something” Twilight said, “and no offence Rainbow Dash but your plan was terrible.”
“My plan would have worked if the door said ‘pull’ on it” Rainbow said with a tone of annoyance yet truth.
“So let’s see what skills do we have, Rainbow is a fast flyer, Applejack is strong and I’m good with magic.  Pinkie, Rarity, Fluttershy what skills do you think that you can bring to the table?” she asked the three mares. 
“I can cook… AND BLOW THINGS UP!” The pink pony exclaimed way too cheerfully.
“Well I could make disguises and I’m quite handy with a lock pick” Rarity added.
“Um… well I don’t think I can do anything else besides work with animals” Fluttershy said timidly.
“Can you get an animal to tell you what they have seen?” Twilight asked.
“uhh… I guess I could.”
“I can work with that, but I wish that we could get some more help” Twilight said slightly disappointed.
“I think I can help fix that just let me set the TARDIS down.”  The Doctor said as he strafed around the control panel in the center of the room pushing buttons and pulling leavers as he went. The TARDIS started to violently shake.  After a few seconds The Doctor turned to the six mares and said “ok it should have been a month since Tempest took over, Ponyville shouldn’t have changed that much.”  He said as he trotted to the doors.
The six mares all looked at each other with puzzled looks on their faces when Applejack said “uhh Professor,” 
“Doctor” he interjected quickly.
“We have only been away for ah few minutes how can we have been gone ah month, and we were in jail how can we be back in Ponyville?” she continued.
“well that’s a good question, did I tell you what TARDIS stands for yet?” he said turning to the six extremely confused mares “I’ll take that as a no, well TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, so with it I can travel through time and space.”  He said walking back towards the doors.  He opened them stuck his head out quickly before pulling it back in.
“Um girls was Ponyville in a police state when you left it?”

A/N.  Ok sorry about how long it took to get chapter 3 out, I couldn’t get the jail scene to end just right.  Also I am taking a vote who should I introduce first, the hacker or the fighter you decide.  Leave a comment and tell me what you think about this chapter.
also happy birthday to me my gift to you all is chapter 3