//------------------------------// // Drunks, a Bucket of Water, and the HADS. // Story: The Misadventures of Doctor Whooves: Dilemmas with Doppelgangers // by IndigoMoon //------------------------------// As Pinkie surveyed the crowd, she noticed that somepony was missing, and the only reason she knew the clones were clones was because none of the clones were stumbling around in a drunken stupor. She asked Rainbow Dash to keep an eye on the duplicates and triplicates while she walked over to the house across the street. She knocked on the door, only to have Piña Colada answer the door. “Where is your sister?” asked Pinkie Pie. “Asleep on the couch,” replied Piña. “She accidentally drank one too many ciders at the party last night.” “I remember,” replied Pinkie. “May I come in? I need her help.” After being admitted in she walked over to the couch and tried to wake up the unconscious pony, but to no avail. She got a bucket of water from the kitchen and proceeded to walk back into the living room and dump the bucket onto Berry Punch. “AAAAGGHHHHHHHH! Piña Colada, if that was you so help me, I’ll…” she paused as she realized who had drenched her. “Hey, Pinkie, what’s up?” “I need your help,” replied Pinkie, extremely serious. Noticing Pinkie’s demeanor, she got up and followed Pinkie across to the Town Hall. When they got inside, they heard the most peculiar sound, followed by a bright, slowly flashing light on the stage. When the light dimmed, they saw that a box had appeared. Pinkie, recognizing instantly, ran over to it, with Berry Punch in close pursuit. She went to knock on the door, only to have the Doctor open it, so she ended up knocking not on the door, but his face. “Ow. Hello, Pinkie,” he said. Looking over to Berry, he asked, “And you are?” “Berry Punch.” The Doctor’s face lit up as he shook her hoof. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Berry Punch, it really is, but you and everyo-, everypony, needs to get inside now. We have trouble. In all the excitement, no one had noticed a good majority of the clones had also recognized the box. They began surging towards the box as the Doctor closed the door, and ran to the scanner. The commotion outside had everyone nervous except for the Doctor. “Why aren’t you worried?” asked Pinkie Pie. “Because nopony can get through those doors,” he replied with confidence. But his confidence was dashed because no sooner had the words left his mouth, the room began flashing red, with a gonging sound ringing throughout the TARDIS. The Doctor paled. “What is that?” asked Starlight. “The Cloister Bell,” replied the Doctor. “It goes off whenever the TARDIS is in danger and…” The room was filled with the sound of the TARDIS taking off, and the Doctor paled even more. “It activates the HADS.” At this point, everyone was absolutely terrified, and their confusion was only making it worse. “What is the HADS?” asked a worried Berry Punch. “Hostile Action Displacement System,” replied the Doctor, as he looked at the scanner. “And it looks as though we’ll be paying a visit to the Princess of the Sun…. In her bedroom.” “WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?”