The Adventures of Dr.LunyJoy, Book 1.

by Dr.LunyJoy

Chapter 2, Hopelssly lost (Revised)

I awaken to see a black creature standing above me. I lay unresponsive, still tired and not processing a single thing. I stare blankly at the curious character, it kind of looks like a monster. A butterfly lands on the changeling's head. CHANGELING!?

I had forgotten that since they were part of a hive, they knew when each other died. My transport must not have been the only moving automaton in the area.

I roll to the side quickly, right as a magical ball hits where I was sleeping. There are 3 changelings and each transform into me in my angry personality. It is scary that when they mimic me, they a part of my personality.

I barely stand before a changeling is running towards me, I uppercut sending him flying backwards into a wall. Two magic missiles come at me from each changeling, classic. I dive and the two collide in midair. However, one would think that like in the stories, they nothing else would happen. Instead, magic shrapnel buries itself into the upper part of my rear leg on the front side. I can barely move without injuring it due to the long scratch that also resides on the leg. The cave is blinded with light and a boom. Dizzly, I go from rolling to standing up, then I receive an punch in the snout, a changeling getting revenge. I use him as a pony shield from the incoming spell.

The strike kills the changeling I used as a shield, the ruthless monsters din't even care. I fly back and hit a wall, and 2 more changeling come in. I become frustrated, fortunately this leads back to the militant. You see, it seems awfully handy, me constantly having a fluctuating personality with people who are better at fighting or chemistry than me, but it isn't. Each personality is just a piece of what I was and what I could be. Little parts of my brain that merely utilizing parts of my subconscious, and repressing MY thought like one merely snuffs out a flame. If I was who I once was I would be able to think with a free will, and utilize myself. Fortunately, these parts of me access what I had buried in my memories. Things such as where a buck in the face will deal the most damage.

I get up, changing, prepared to fight. As a changeling advances, I buck him with my good leg, in the face, knocking him out. I use a tiring magic missile, killing or knocking out the last three of them. I wipe my crinkled brow with a hoof, letting myself lay down just for one minutee.

I toss all the bodies of the cliff into the river and start my trek back to Equestria. Two of those automatons are coming from the path that leads into their country.

I trot away.

•
A day ago at the royal wedding…

“I've nearly completed the checklist, everyone is here,” Twilight Sparkle said, still putting things back in order. She and her friends had worked so hard the past day to reassemble the wedding, so she just needed to make sure no one who was to attend the wedding wasn't confronted with a disaster. She even had to go to various ponies' houses to make sure they still wanted to go or if they had a broken leg. Somehow, Derpy ended up on the invitation list and no one knew where she currently was.

She pushed the task aside and went back to the castle to see Shining and his soon to be wife. In all this chaos, Twilight hardly had time to even be excited for her brothers big step. She actually found some of the friends and family from the list, including her brother with Cadence, helping remake the wedding room. Derpy was helping, with less clumsiness than usual, put up a banner with the help of other pegasi. Twilight safely assumed that she was going to be able to attend the ceremony.

Surprisingly, some of the remaining people on the list were here, but that meant the last pony left was someone near the end call Dr. Lunyjoy. He was listed as friend of the groom and lived in Manehattan, so he had to either have left or still be around in Canterlot. Fortunately the one to know was her brother.

"Oh, Twilight! Again, can't thank you and your friends enough for doing this all me and Cadence. Twi, your such a good sister..." Twilight blushed with pride, but had work to do.

"Shining, speaking of which, I've tracked down everyone on the guest list except one last pony, do you know where he is?" Shining a look at the list, along with Cadence, and immediately recognized the name.

"Oh, Twi, you know him. He was that pony who was learning that lightning spell a while back, you remember? I asked you for tips because he couldn't get it to hit more than one target."

Twilight thought for a moment, "I think I vaguely remember. Blue coat and brown mane with the astronomy cutie mark, right?" Derpy had just proudly finished putting up the banner, and went to sit down.

"Yep, that's him. Unfortunately, I don't know where he is. He was only going to be here for the day, but I haven't seen him since the fiasco."

"Do you think he is alright?" Cadence sweetly asked her husband, with more a purpose to reassure her husband .

"Well of course," Twilight interjected. "Why nopony had seen Derpy," she said, partially bring the mare into the conversation, "since yesterday but here she is. It would have been impossible for the changelings to drag a hostage while being hurtled through the air. He's probably somewhere in the city... or locked up in a closet in the castle."

Cadence looked at her husband for his smile. "Of cour-"

"Hey, but uh, Twilight?" Twilight quickly changed her attention to the quietly listening mare, who fiddled with her hooves awkwardly. "I know the stallion, and, uh, I saw him get dragged off unconscious by some changelings. I tried to wake him up, but, well... the changelings." She said with a frown settling on her face.

"Oh don't worry about him. He's got a strong spirit and can fend his own in a fight, I'm sure he'll be at the wedding tomorrow." Shining said with confidence, but Twilight actually hid some displeasure so she decided she should double check he's Okay.

"I'll look for him anyway. The more I think about the closet thing..."

•
1 day later…

Leaving on the train ride back to Ponyville, Twilight felt joyus. She fixed the wedding and everyone had a great time. However, not finding Dr. LunyJoy anywhere, put a heavy burden on her mind. Looking out the train car window she wondered if the changelings had taken a... snack. Changelings won't kill, but they can seriously damage the brain. Twilight thought of Derpy, she knew the mare well enough she might try to blame this on herself.

•
The next morning…

She still hadn't heard from the Shining if he had been found yet. She already repacked somethings to go back to Canterlot. She had to at least inform the Royal guard of his disappearance, yet they had a lot on their hooves.

Before she left she wento Derpy Hooves’ house. She knocked on the door. “Hello? Derpy? Are you there?” The door opened showing a Derpy with a worried look on her face. “Oh… Hey Derpy, where’s Ditzy?”

“Oh, she went with her dad to our vacation home,” she said, face enlightening. It is clear that she had been upset because she felt as though Dr. LunyJoy missing was her fault. “Have you Found Dr. LunyJoy yet?"

“Hey, Derpy. I hope you know that it isn’t your fault Dr. LunyJoy might... have gotten captured," both mares' faces fell. "I still haven’t found him, I am going back to look again though.”

“It is just, even though I never knew him that well. He was a nice to me.”

“You knew him?”

“Yes, at a therapy center. He was nice to me... and seemed like the only person with scense.”

“Oh, Derpy. I’m sorry, I didn't realize you knew him. May I ask, why a therapy center?”

"I never knew. I always went to the facilities physical therapy center...."

"Sorry for prying."

"Oh, no, it's OK. Well let me know as soon as you find him." Derpy sighed as twilight said her goodbye's too. Derpy closed the door thinking about how someone who had been so nice. She did have many friends in Ponyville, but the horrid thought of even one having captive... hurt.

•

Gallop, just gallop. I Thought as I ran from the new automatons that came from another road that was on a fork. I tried to think of what to do, but it was hard to. My small body had little to no stamina and was not very fast. My legs were burning and I was already tired.

I need a spell that can stop those automatons. Apparently they explode like dynamite with in contact with fire. It also has to hit all of the automatons. That’s it! The Lighting spell, I just have to concentrate. I continued running but horn began to glow.

Two words crossed my mind, Epic Explosion. Then another two, Oh No. The explosions sent sound for miles around. Better start running.

I began galloping as fast as he could towards the border line equestrian border. At least all the changelings probably are far away given I may have already killed most of the closest ones.

I traveled in a trot to conserve my energy. It seemed like I was going through unfamiliar territory though. The ravine and river were father to the right.

• 1 hour later…

This is where the ravine should be. Why isn’t here yet? None of this looks familiar. I growl in frustration. t is about 5 Hours away from the equestrian border and it should be 3. I finally find the stream flowing in mt direction. MY Direction! I have been going the wrong direction the whole time! Wait... what is that rustling?

I turn around and see nothing but the trees and shrubbery. It was most likely my own stomping on the ground.

Author's Note:

The POV will not always be that of Dr.LunyJoy