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// Chapter Fifty-Four 
// Story: A Journey Unthought Of 
// by Hustlin Tom 
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I saw Lyra’s eye wince, and then she was awake!  I moved my head quickly out of the way as she jolted up into a human’s sitting position.  

“Easy!  You’re safe Lyra, but if you keep waving your horn around like that, you’ll take out somepony’s eye!”  

Awareness of her surroundings came to her, and she looked to me.  

“Adam?  How—“  

“Relax, Lyra.  Everything’s going to be alright.”  I tussled her mint and white colored hair, and she did relax.  She looked up at me.  I guess she and I had developed a bond of trust, because she smiled up at me now, as if somehow everything was going to be alright, no matter what.  

Lyra then began to look around, and as she did, she got to her hooves.  Everypony else, assured of Lyra’s eventual recovery, had scattered into several different rooms of the Tardis, and some were more lost then others at the moment.  

I quickly went over to the console, and pressed a button the Doctor had designated as capable of contacting him.  “Doctor?”  

“Adam!  Has our last companion recovered?”  

“Completely.”  

“Splendid!  I’ll head up to the Control Room straight away!  Oh, and another thing; press the button two rows down and three to the left, and I’ll start to get everyone back there as well.”  

After pressing the button, I looked over to Lyra who was gawking at everything in sight.  

“When did this happen?”  

I walked over to Lyra and sat down next to her, “Well, what do you remember after being captured?”  

She looked down to her hooves and thought, “I remember being captured, with the horn clamp being placed on me.  I yelled at you to run, and then they gagged us and blindfolded us.  Then there was some traveling where they carried us on their backs.  Then there was a whining sound, and a feeling like all of my bones were vibrating.  After that, they tried questioning me, but I wouldn’t answer.  Then they pointed some long barrel-like thing in my face, and then I was asleep until I woke up here.”  

“Mine was a bit like that, but I had to carry you, Bon Bon, and Vinyl out.”  

She looked up in surprise, “They had Vinyl Scratch too?”  

“Yeah, so they could steal her sonic therapy technology and turn it into a weapon.”  

Lyra looked down at the floor and shook her head, “I can’t believe that other ponies could do things like that or act like that.  It just seems so..wrong!”  

“So many things are wrong with this world now.  Eden has been tarnished,”  I said wistfully.  

“What’s an ‘Eden’?”  

I opened my mouth to tell my best friend in the world about the paradise lost, when I saw everyone and everypony was coming back to the Control Room now.  “I’ll tell you some other time,” I said with a smile.  She gave a small smile back.  

Everyone gathered around the console.  Ten ponies and two humanoids in one small space make for cramped quarters.  

Lyra looked up to the Doctor, “Are you another human?”  

The Doctor smiled down at her, “No, but I’ve come to help.”  

“Who are you?”  

“The Doctor will do.”  

“Well, whatever you are, thank you.”  

The Doctor replied back with a serious but kind, “You’re welcome.”  

“Alright Doctor, the time has come for you to explain everything,” Rarity pointed out, “We’re all here, and we want to know what’s going on.”  There were several agreements with that statement from the others.