Our little band of ponies, a man, and a Time Lord had nearly reached our means of rescue. There however was the issue of the battalion of ponies we were sure to face if we stepped even a foot outside our protective stairwell.
“Life’s never fun without complications, is it?” I had to remark with a sigh.
The Doctor looked back to me with a grin on his face, “Complications are what make life interesting!”
“So what’s tha plan now?” Applejack asked.
The Doctor pondered a minute, “We can’t just go out there; that’s suicide. We need a distraction…” His eyes lit up, “They can’t get natural sunlight down here, so they have to be using electricity of some type! If we could find a circuit breaker, we could shut off all the power, killing the lights!”
“That might only provide us with a second or two of cover,” Twilight dejected rebutalled, “If the lights don’t go directly to backups, then the unicorns out there can easily cast a spell of illumination; we’d be walking targets!”
“You know Twilight Sparkle, for being such an intelligent pony, you only ever seem to be able to shoot down others ideas rather than creating a few of your own,” the Doctor said with a playful frown.
A thought occurred to me at that moment, “Can’t you just summon it to yourself? You know, like ‘Beam me up Scotty’, and whisk us away?”
“Who the hay is Scotty?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Doesn’t really matter right now, and no, I can’t. It would make things such a hell of a lot easier though with all the times I’ve gotten trapped like this. You know, I really should work on that.”
“Doctor! Back to the subject!” Ditzy Doo quickly blurted to steer the Doctor back on course.
“Right, sorry! Anyway, Oh! I know what we can do.” He began to fiddle with his Sonic Screwdriver, “I’m going to access the Tardis and lower the shields,”
“What good is that going to do us?” Rarity asked.
“It means that now the Tardis will allow someone to teleport inside, specifically, Twilight Sparkle.”
Twilight had been zoning until she heard her name mentioned, “Wait, what?”
“You need to teleport inside the Tardis and fly her to us.”
Rainbow Dash shook her head and exclaimed “Honestly Doc, if you can’t fly the thing without nearly killing us all, how is Twilight gonna do it?”
“She’s going to be my hands..” He paused in thought and looked down at Twilight, “Hooves. My hooves. And we’re not flying out this time; we’re dematerializing.”
“What does that mean,” I asked.
“We simply vanish from here, and reappear somewhere else.”
“This is getting weird, even for my life,” I grumbled.
“Um, no offense Adam,” Fluttershy quietly said, “I don’t mean to be rude, but your life here wasn’t exactly normal to begin with.”
“Hm, touché.”
“I don’t know if I can do this,” Twilight finally broke in, “What if I mess up? I could end up nowhere, or worse!”
“Or worse would probably be the more likely option,” the Doctor pointed out, “But don’t worry, just follow my exact instructions, and you’ll be fine. Now, can you sense it out there?”
Twilight closed her eyes and concentrated. Her tongue involuntarily stuck out as she searched for the Tardis’ interior. “I’ve found it.”
“Good, now then,” the Doctor got down on his knees and placed his splayed fingers across her face as he closed his eyes.
Applejack cocked her eyebrow in confusion, “Wwwhat are yah doin’?”
“I’m psychically transplanting instructions into Twilight Sparkle’s head. She’ll be able to temporarily pilot the Tardis just as well as I can.”
“Celestia help us all,” Rainbow Dash muttered.
“Oi, I heard that!”
After a few seconds of the Doctor’s psychic link, both of them opened their eyes. “Ready?”
“Ready.”
“Alright then. Off you go!”
And with that, Twilight Sparkle vanished in a burst of lavender hued light.