Cloudsdale · 7:15pm May 7th, 2012
Soooo... you'l never guess what I did today! Go on, I dare you!
Alligator wrestling in Amarezon? Nope.
Water skiing on the moon? Nope! Did that tomorrow!
Running? Nop- well, sorta. Close, though.
Give up? Ok, I'll tell you.
I was messing around with the TARDIS- I mean, I was calmly piloting the TARDIS, when, all of a sudden, the lights went out.
Now, this being a time-travelling organic spaceship of infinite power and abstract notion (accept no compromise), you would expect this to be a rare occurrence. Nigh-on impossibly improbable. And, for your usual time-travelling organic spaceship of infinite power and abstract notion (accept no compromise), you'd be correct.
Of course, your usual TARDIS doesn't posses it's own WEP (Weapon of Equine Destruction): Derpy Hooves.
Apparently, she entered the Engine Room whilst looking for the bathroom (of which I have precisely three-hundred and forty-nine, and none of them anywhere near the Engine Room), and promptly broke the Thingamajig Un-Modulator, causing the Flux Capacitor to burn out and the power to fail.
Of course, this meant that I had to go fix it. So, I entered the Engine Room, Sonic in-hoof, and discovered that not only was it deadlock sealed (so no screwdriver), but also that it was too high to reach unless you could fly. Which was just brilliant.
I couldn't ask Derpy to fly back up there and fix it - one has to have a degree in jiggery-pokery to even consider DIY, don't-cha-know - so I was stuck.
Until, of course, Derpy somehow managed to make the Chameleon Arch explode, rendering both of us unconscious and painting the main console hot pink.
A few hours later, I awoke - ten metres off the floor. With NOTHING UNDERNEATH ME.
I, being an intelligent sort of fellow, immediately ran through some options as to how in Equestria I was FLOATING.
Number one: temporary insanity. I thought about it before remembering that I was already insane, so no joy.
Number two: gravity manipulation. I glanced at the floor and noted a slight waviness. Nope, same as usual.
Number three: spontaneous wing growth. I should probably fire my brain, I thought, as I turned my head to check out the ludicrous suggestion. Clearly wasn't doing anything useful if it was producing crazy theories lik- BUCK
It was then I discovered that I was, apparently, a pegasus pony.
To tell a long story short, Derpy had damaged the Chameleon Arch so badly that it had literally swapped our species. And let me tell you, I for one was glad it hadn't swapped anything else.
Regardless, I utilised this sudden odd fortune to fly up to the Flux Capacitor and fix it lickity-split. That gave us the power for a quick trip to 1985, where I... ahem.. borrowed a new one, installed it, and came back.
After the TARDIS was back online, I fixed the Chameleon Arch, re-painted the console, and told Derpy that she wasn't having any muffins for at least three centuries. I also discovered that we weren't going to be able to change back for at least 24 hours, and so I decided that if was going to have wings, I might as well use them, and so Derpy pointed me (quite literally - its very hard to steer whilst flying) towards the Cloudsdale Young Fliers Competition.
Upon pointing out that I was about a thousand years out of that particular age range, she raised an eyebrow and said that it was the only one I was "likely not to come last in" (cheeky mare).
But anyway, I totally won.
Totally.
Of course you won, Doc. I was there, I saw you do fifteen barrel rolls and crash into a pillar. Come on, man, you can't lie to me. We're, like, brothers.
With a thousand year age difference.
Yeah.
104133
Exactly - fifteen barrel rolls. I bet you couldn't do anything like that.
And anyway, I would have won, were it not for that pesky rainbow-coloured pest and her sky-diving butterfly friend. I mean, I was doing sonic rainbooms before her species evolved, after all.
And let me tell you, that's bloody hard without wings.
105289
Well, I once pulled off twenty. Of course, I was inebriated and only semi-conscious at the time, and it was an accident, but the sentiment remains.
How exactly do you do that? Do you just use the sonic to help?
106981
Well, I don't know how sound could help me do a rainboom; it's not the super-sonic screwdriver. I keep that in the shed.
As for how I did it, well, all this running has to be useful for something.
107089
Wouldn't that destroy whatever you were running ON, though? I'm pretty sure a light-spectrum shattering explosion isn't that good for the structural intergrity of the ground.
108322
Nnnope.
Fun though.
108415
Can't argue with that.
Yeah, I totally started watching you just for the blogs.
110056
Well, what can I say.
I'm an interesting guy.
110669
I don't believe this! This can't be right! Another me?! Oh time you're fantastic! Brilliant! You must be a future regeneration of me visiting the same timeline as me! Oh that's great! Glad to see I'm still being spectacular in the future. So I see that we get a new traveling companion. Derpy Hooves huh. PLEASE tell me we're not going domestic. Anywho, since we're one and the same, we should go on adventures together! After all, there's a whole ponyverse out there full of the strange and unimaginable. And who knows. I could catalog those adventures! So, what do you, or should I say I, say?
111163
Oh! You! I thought I told you to- or maybe that hasn't happened yet- or maybe it has- but in any case, you need to remember this sequence: SGVsbG8sIEknbSB0aGUgRG9jdG9yLg.
It'll make sense in about... ooohhh... two hundred and fifty thousand years? Something like that, anyway.
As for traveling together; I seem to remember something about Universes exploding when past and future variations on the same life force meet. That probably wouldn't be the best of ideas.
111358
Wait that can't be right. I've met myself on the same timeline in the past, nothing particularly bad happened. Apart from the usual madness that ensues in our everyday lives. But other than that, nothing out of the ordinary for a time lord.
As for the sequence:
SGVsbG8sIEknbSB0aGUgRG9jdG9yLg
Don't worry. We've got the single most brilliant mind in all of, what is this world again, Equestria? Anyway, yes, it's all in here.
111650
Ah, don't forget the punctuation - its SGVsbG8sIEknbSB0aGUgRG9jdG9yLg.
You have to remember the full stop, it's pretty important.
111660
SGVsbG8sIEknbSB0aGUgRG9jdG9yLg.
Got it. Now tell me, in the future, am I ginger? Please tell me I am.
111693
Do I look ginger? (grumble)
Oh, and you can stop repeating that now. Remember - 250000 years, not ten minutes, so you can relax.
111722
(grumble) Why do you evade me so? I've regenerated at least 13 times counting you. And I still haven't been ginger once! Sigh.
Anywho, you're saying I won't need it for 250000 more years. Alright then! Setting the TARDIS for 250000 years in the future, and away I go!
112007
Have fun!