Unknown: approx.??? : TARDIS
The TARDIS was crossing through the void in what looked like a whirlpool of vortex energy as it was being sucked into the other universe. These whirlpools of time energy have always existed with Time lords of Gallifrey’s knowledge. They however only saw them as holes in the Vortex and tried to seal them up. This is how the Doctor fell through into Pete’s world, and how the world of Anti-matter was able to exists inside of a black hole. The only real problem was that travel between worlds was always meant to happen, by plugging up the “Tunnels” the Time lords actually made the walls of reality weaker. But that’s a different story for another time. The inside of the TARDIS at this point was on fire in most places and a horrible screaming sound was being emitted from the center console. The entire room sounded as if it was being shaken apart. The Doctor meanwhile was starting to change.
“Am I…regenerating!?” Yelled the Doctor as he looked at his hands as they started to morph. “AHHHH! UHG! GAHH! Oh this hurts more than, AHHH, the time I died from all of that radiation I absorbed for! AHHHHHHH!”
Just then the Doctor heard a loud booming sound and the TARDIS shook super violently as the windows blew out and the center console blacked out. Leaving the inside of the TARDIS lit only by the fires around the room. Through the clouds of time energy the TARDIS fell out of the sky like a flaming meteor. Down and down it went towards a castle located on the side of a mountain.
Gaia: approx. 1004C.E: Equestria: Canterlot Royal Castle town
Luna galloped towards the TARDIS and frantically tried prying the doors open. “Doctor! Doctor can you hear me!” She yelled. Meanwhile Celestia and Discord had absolutely no idea what was going on. “Doctor! Answer me!” Luna was trying to pry the doors open and was looking through the broken windows. Without warning the TARDIS screeched and the doors fell open and Luna quickly jumped into the flaming machine.
“Luna!” screamed Celestia.
There was nothing but silence as she stood there, her heart was thumping inside of her as if her entire chest had become one massive organ. Only after the drumming had died down in Celestia’s ears could she hear a cooing sound coming from the strange wreckage. To her it looked like a blue box, however she somehow knew it was more than that. She couldn’t remember where she had seen it from though. It was new yet familiar, soon a sad sound started up from the machine. It sounded like a Gong but it wasn’t quite the same sound. It repeated over and over again as if it was a distress call of some wounded animal. “Luna?” she called out quietly. Discord all the while was staring at the box with a look of what some would describe later as regret. Smoke was billowing out of the open doors and up into the air when the sky began to clear. When all was still, Luna suddenly emerged from the blue box carrying an unconscious brown pelted stallion.
“I found him in the library’s swimming pool, the TARDIS must have known this sort of thing would happen a lot during this regeneration.” Luna proclaimed.
“Luna? Just what is going on? Who is this stallion?” Celestia asked as her curiosity peaked. In all of her centuries of living she had never seen such a thing happen, or had she? Everything about what was going on was so strange so…foreign yet it felt like Déjà vu. Why did it all feel like it had happened before? Discord let the force field down as Luna approached.
“Sister this stallion needs our protection. I’m afraid he will be very confused when he wakes up, that is, if he isn’t babbling about how ponies are…cool.” Luna said as she looked up at her sister.
“Luna? You seem to know about what is going on.” Celestia stated trying to recompose herself. “Would you care to enlighten me on just what is that box and who this stallion is?
Luna carefully placed the unconscious pony onto the ground after cleaning aside some of the rubble and asked; “Do you not remember the blue box from all those years ago sister?”
Celestia thought deeply as to where she may have seen this box before or even where she had heard any of the strange sounds coming from it. “Luna I do not remember such a bizarre thing. I feel like I should but there are a lot of things lately that I cannot quite put my hoof on.”
“I think I could help you with that.” Discord responded for the now stumped Luna. “I don’t necessarily remember him but I have seen that blue box before. It was there at the fall of my reign when the two of you used the Elements of Harmony to turn me into stone.”
“But just what does this all mean Discord?” Celestia was now becoming a little cross.
“It means my sister things are about to get very complicated” Luna interrupted as she started to carry the ponied Doctor.
“Why is everypony being so damn cryptic!?” Celestia yelled out of frustration. She noticed the queer looks the other two were giving her. “I am sorry that was a bit out of…character for me to say. It’s just the two of you seem to know more than I do about our current situation we are in. I do not like being left in the dark.
“In due time sister I will explain everything I know.” Luna continued to trot out of the ruined throne room.
Luna had let the night fall and the moon rise. The part of the castle that held the throne room was still smoldering. Luna was watching as her older sister was instructing a patrol of diamond dogs to help clear the ruble away from the castle so that repairs could be made. Meanwhile Discord had gone off back to Ponyville to make sure that everything was in decent order (according to his standards). Tonight’s events had already worn out the centuries old mare. Celestia and Luna are seemingly immortal, this however is not a true statement. Though the sisters have been around for…well nobody seems to know, they are not immortal. They do age, just not normally. For example Celestia one thousand years ago was around 20 years old in appearance while her younger sister Luna was 16 in appearance. Now they are closer to 30 and 27 years old in appearance. The fact being Luna was stressed out and her older sister being roughly 300 years older was even more stressed than she was.
All she wanted to do was go to sleep. Celestia was instructing the diamond dogs where to take the rubble out of the castle, and they were being difficult about it. They were arguing and getting into fights with each other and just being down right uncooperative.
“Big princess tell us to take it out of the East entrance.” Yelled Scraggle. Scraggle Coalclaw is one of the commanding diamond dogs of the Canterlot workforce in service of the Royal Canterlot Castle.
“No she say Weast entrance!” Argued Cobble Stonemason. Cobble was one of Scraggle’s many subordinates, and unlike Scraggle, had little to no education in the Equestrian schools. Diamond dogs originally immigrated from across the ocean in 904C.E looking for work in the mining industry. They came from the country state of Diamant (Dutch for Diamond) which was located in the Griffin Empire now known today as the Griffin Kingdom due to the different states breaking off from the empire after the Second World War. However putting that aside the diamond dogs also have a cast system. The ones who are intelligent (the ones who have the potential to learn) and those who just aren’t very smart no matter what they do. Scraggle was one who had the potential to learn…Cobble wasn’t as fortunate. He was the breed who just wasn’t born with the right stock to really learn anything.
“There no such thing as weast, It goes north, south, east, west! Scraggle was losing his nerve. Out of everydog he could personally work with, he got stuck with his least favorite. Celestia was fed up with the arguing and stepped into the fray.
“I don’t care where you take it out anymore! Just get it done! She yelled uncharacteristically again. The entire team of diamond dogs all turned around and stared at her with looks of complete terror as if they expected to be burnt to a crisp. Celestia thought to herself that she should probably let other ponies see her frustrated or angry more often. Though it is less lady like, it does happen, and she would rather not have ponies become scared every time she did.
Canterlot was still alive with ponies. The daytime shops had closed and the streetlamps were lit, creating a warm orange glow in the Castletown. Ale houses had opened their taverns and Cider stalls had gone up at the street corners. Now this isn’t to say that the inhabitants of Canterlot frequented these stalls. The Cider stalls mostly consisted of non-alcoholic beverages, now on the other hand, Ale houses were indeed your conventional taverns. Luna had landed in town square and was walking around. She noticed that even with the huge scare at the beginning of the evening, everypony was carrying out their lives as usual. There was one stall in particular that she was looking for. In town tonight was supposed to be arriving a traveling Griffin who sells many bazar and rare history books and scrolls from their kingdom. Sure for a high price, but extremely worth it I you are needing to search for evidence of a certain “mad stallion in a blue box”.
There were ponies all over to the left and right of him. Oh how he hated the smell of ponies. They were small and inferior to him. As a Griffin he could easily snatch up a few and devour them without anypony noticing. Claud was waiting for a valuable client, Princess Luna. In all his years of selling maps he was glad that he was finally being recognized by somepony famous. Now if only the Griffins could recognize him too. Claud was listening to two ponies’ arguing.
“I don’t believe you!” Said the pony on the left. “I don’t think the Wonderbolts were testing a new formation!
“Yeah but think about it though! It was nothing we have never seen before. Plus what else could it have been!?” Argued the pony on the right.
“Well if you ask me it was the Princesses. They were doing something secret and it got out of hand.
“You always think it’s a conspiracy.”
“But what if I’m right? We would never know. Hey, here’s a thought. Do you think it has anything to do with the recent disappearances lately?
“I’m not sure, maybe? For all we know the ponies disappearing could have just traveled to Ponyville without telling anypony.
Claud could recall that quite recently there had been many ponies that had gone missing. Within the course of a month since the first case a total of thirteen ponies had just vanished without a trace. Claud was standing in an alleyway just a few feet from the ponies. He had been so tuned into the conversation the two were having that he didn’t notice the tall figure standing behind him. When he saw the shadow pass over him he figured it was Luna.
“You know Princess I am not a bad Griffin, you don’t have to sneak around when buying a few documents from me.” He turned around to look at the Princess…
“NIEN! WAS IST DAS!” Claud yelled.
…then a hand from behind him touched his shoulder and a loud whisking sound rang out into the alley way. The two ponies who were close by heard the scream followed by the whisking sound coming from the alleyway next to them. They went to investigate and found nothing there, just a large traveling cart full of books and various scrolls. On the ground lay a single giant Griffin feather.