Doctor Whooves: Savior of the Universe - Series 1

by veeSheep

Episode 6

A large shuttle on an odd planet’s surface was empty, save for a single pegasus colt, his fur was a bleached gold color and his messy, curly mane was a few shades darker. He was sitting alone at the cafeteria of the ship.

“How old is this food, anyway?” He asked himself, “Doesn’t matter if I go outside, eat spoiled food or stay here doing nothing, I’ll be dead soon…” He spoke. From a supply closet, he heard an odd wind-like sound and what seemed to be a ship landing. A brown stallion and a purple unicorn walked out of the closet.

“TARDIS, what’s your obsession with landing in supply closets?” The Doctor said, locking the TARDIS with the sonic screwdriver.

“Umm, where are we?” Twilight asked.

“In a stranded spaceship on the planet Crux,” The lonely stallion said.

“Thanks” Twilight replied.

“You seem to be alone here, are you?” The Doctor asked, the stallion took a bite of his food before answering.

“Yep, everyone else went outside and something happened to them,” The yellow colt said, “My best, or, worst guess is that they’re dead and rotting out there,” He added.

“Well aren’t you a Positive Paul if I’ve ever seen one,” The Doctor chuckled, “Do you have anything to keep yourself not bored while you live your life in this ship, whatever its name is?” He asked.

“It’s the S.S. Bad Wolf, a cargo ship that was meant to pick up something from another planet, but we had to do an emergency landing,” He said, “The name’s Lightning, by the way, Lightning Cloud,” Cloud introduced himself.

“You’re kind of avoiding my question, what even is there to do on a stranded ship on a deserted planet where it constantly rains molten led?” The Doctor asked again.

“Well, I eat what’s left in the cafeteria, if I’m lucky I might get enough signal for a good song on the radio or a TV show episode,” Cloud explained.

“A life where I can rarely listen to music is a life I’d kindly quit,” The Doctor said, he go odd looks from the two other ponies in the room, “I’m not encouraging suicide by the way, follow your dreams kids, teens, everyone,” He added, correcting himself.

“Who are you talking to, Doc?” Twilight asked.

“Doesn’t matter, what matters is that while the metal rain doesn’t let us get back home, We’ll be keeping you company, Cloud,” The Doctor said.

“Thanks, what’re your names, by the way?” Cloud asked.

“This purple missy is Twilight Sparkle, student of magic back on Earth and an aspiring writer, and I’m The Doctor, renegade Time Lord who tasked himself with protecting the universe, from the biggest civilizations to the smallest of lives,” The Doctor introduced the two of them.

“Great to meet you two,” Cloud replied, “What do you two have in mind as a ‘fun’ thing to do?” He asked.

“Well, you got me there…” The Doctor said.

“Oh! Don’t you have that guitar you bought at a space fair?” Twilight said.

“Yeah, it’s somewhere in the TARDIS, I’ll go get it,” The Doctor agreed with his companion’s choice and headed into the TARDIS, coming back with a black box and a black electric guitar, he plugged the amplifier in and connected the guitar itself, “I have a very limited repertoire, so choose wisely,” He said.

“My birthday was yesterday, but nobody was there to celebrate it,” Cloud said.

“Be very glad that my limited repertoire includes ‘Happy birthday to you’, or else I’d feel kinda bad for everyone,” The Doctor said, he then began to play and sing the song in its entirety.

“Happy late birthday, Cloud!” The Doctor and Twilight said in unison.

“Thank you,” Cloud said, smiling. As they were having a good time, The Doctor heard an odd noise outside, he went to look through a window and saw a shadow running just out of his vision.

“Did anyone else hear that?” The Doctor asked.

“Hear what?” Twilight said.

“That weird noise, how would I describe it…” The Doctor began, “It sounded like a gurgling scream, like, underwater,” He described.

“I didn’t hear anything, Doctor,” Cloud said, “Must have been the metal rain,” He continued.

“But I’m not hearing the droplets falling on the ship, are you two hearing it?” The Doctor asked, making the other two ponies slightly uneasy.

“No, I don’t hear the rain either…” Twilight said.

“Nobody hears the rain and only I hear that gurgle,” The Doctor simplified this situation.

“Do you think there’s something outside?” Cloud asked, “It rains white hot liquid metal all the time here, nothing could survive on the surface of Crux,” He said.

“Well, I know what I heard, and whatever made the sound, was either outside, dying in the rain,” The Doctor said, “Or it’s in here with us, and it sounds anything but friendly,” He added. A wave of silence drowned the room as the three ponies looked around, checking for anything that shouldn’t be in the ship. They remained silent as they walked around the ship, looking for any alien creatures. They eventually came to the conclusion that they were safe and whatever made the sound must’ve died outside, but why did only The Doctor hear the noise?

“Well, I suppose there’s nothing to worry about, night is coming any time soon, so I’ll go to bed,” Cloud said, The Doctor agreed and took Twilight with him to the TARDIS’ bedroom.

“So, what will we do about whatever else is on this planet?” Twilight questioned.

“I’m not sure, why did we even end up here?” The Doctor replied with another question. The Doctor went to the bedroom while Twilight locked and turned off the TARDIS for the night, but as she turned around to go to the bedroom, she saw a ghostly white silhouette that heavily resembled The Doctor. The figure merely stared at her with its cold black eyes before fading away, no words, no actions, it just disappeared.

The next morning, Twilight woke up to the sound of the TARDIS being turned on, which meant The Doctor woke up earlier. Twilight got up and headed to the console room and greeted The Doctor.

“Good morning, Doctor…”Twilight said.

“Is something wrong?” The Doctor asked.

“It’s something I saw last night,” Twilight said, “When I was going to the bedroom, I saw this ghost-thing that looked just like you, it was staring at me from across the console room,” She explained.

“Whatever it was, could it have something to do with our monster of the week?” The Doctor said, Twilight felt like he was pretending to not know about the ghost, but she wasn’t sure. The two of them left the TARDIS and walked to the cafeteria of the S.S. Bad Wolf, they saw that Lightning Cloud was already there.

“Good morning, Cloud, how are you doing in this fine day?” The Doctor greeted him.

“I’m pretty bad, I had a hard time sleeping, kept thinking ‘What if something is truly outside? What if it finds a way in?’,” He said, it was visible that he didn’t sleep, at least not as much as he should’ve. His condition only got worse when they all heard a knock at the bottom of the ship, moving from directly under them to underneath the corridor connecting the deck to the cafeteria.

“Twilight and Cloud, settle down and eat, I’ll check the cockpit of the ship,” The Doctor said. He walked over to the deck of the ship and looked out the window, the glass was slowly cracking from the rain of molten led, “Oh boy, this isn-” The Doctor was interrupted and jumped in horror as a terrifying sight popped up on the windshield, a black pony with bright red cracks on its skin, it seemed to be melting and its mouth and eyes were glowing yellow, it made the same gurgling sound The Doctor heard the previous day and it tried breaking the window to reach him.

“Doooooc… Doc… Tor…” The creature tried speaking, calling for The Doctor.

“Twilight! Cloud! Help!!!” The Doctor called out as he ran back to the cafeteria as fast as he could.

“What is it, why are you so scared?” Twilight asked.

“The monster attacked me, or rather, it broke the window to try and attack me,” The Doctor explained, “Did you not hear the ruckus?” He asked.

“We heard you freak out and run over here,” Cloud said.

“How curious, if I had to guess, I’d say these beings have some sort of quantum perception manipulation ability,” The Doctor said, but he only got mildly confused looks from his friends, “Translating from Nerd-nese, I just said ‘Those things can change how and when they’re seen’,” He explained.

“Would you mind elaborating on this conundrum?” Twilight jokingly asked.

“These creatures, whatever they are, can manipulate how they’re seen, they can change when they can be seen, they can change between who can see them,” The Doctor said, “That explains why only I heard it that time, but…” He cut himself off to think.

“If we couldn’t hear the rain from here…” Twilight continued the sentence.

“These things are already inside the ship,” Cloud finished it, “Oh god, I’m hearing one, it’s sounds like it’s right next to my ear, it’s make that disgusting gurgle noise you described, Doctor,” Cloud said, he was getting extremely worried, he ran out of the cafeteria and to the cockpit of the Bad Wolf.

“Cloud, what are you doing?” The Doctor asked.

“I’m gonna program this ship to fly into space and self-destruct, taking all of the monsters with us,” Cloud replied, not thinking clearly, he thought he would die anyway from the creatures, so why bother?

“Doctor, I can hear their sound, there are at least six right behind us,” Twilight said.

“I can hear them too,” Cloud replied.

“I can too, they must’ve made themselves visible and audible for everyone,” The Doctor said. They all turned around and saw the grotesque monsters walking slowly towards them, backing the trio into the cockpit so that they couldn’t escape.

“Doooc… Tooor…” One of them said.

“Yes, what do you want with me?” The Doctor asked.

“Clooooudss…” Another monster said

Cloud noticed something, “I don’t think they’re calling out for us, that one said ‘Clouds’, plural,” He said.

“If I’m getting the story straight, didn’t your crew leave the ship and apparently die?” The Doctor asked.

“Yeah, why?” Cloud asked back.

“I think I know how to find out what or who these monsters are, I just need to get to my ship, I’ll be right back,” The Doctor shoved the monsters aside, but they continued to march towards Twilight and Cloud, they could hear the TARDIS take off as the beasts got closer.

“These suits will resist the liquid metal for about thirty minutes, we have to move quickly,” The female captain of the Bad Wolf crew said to her team. The TARDIS materialized nearby, where The Doctor could see them, he followed the crew with his binoculars. He eventually saw the clouds become denser and darker, it rained even harder than before, the drops ripped through the crew’s suits and melted their flesh, they collapsed on the ground and seemingly died, until The Doctor saw them get back up, looking like the monster that attacked him and his friends.

“How? What?” The Doctor asked himself, he took the TARDIS back to the future to rescue his friends and tell them about this. The ship showed back up on the cockpit of the Bad Wolf, The Doctor opened the doors and used his sonic screwdriver to change the monsters into being invisible.

“What did you discover, Doctor?” Twilight asked.

“These monsters didn’t kill the crew, they are the crew,” The Doctor replied, “Cloud, are you still sure you want to explode them in this ship?” He asked.

Cloud remained silent, simply nodding and getting off of the controls of the ship to enter the TARDIS, leaving the Bad Wolf to explode in the middle of space while the TARDIS flew away and de-materialized.

The TARDIS appeared again on Earth, Cloud stepped off and said bye to The Doctor and Twilight, who then left to their next stop. The Doctor left Twilight at her library back in Ponyville.

“You know,” Twilight began, “I think I’ll give the space-time adventuring a break,” She said.

“Alright then…” The Doctor responded.

“Is there something wrong?” Twilight asked.

“No, I won’t guilt trip you into staying with me, you have friends and family you might wanna spend time with, I’m just a mad pony in a box,” The Doctor said.

“Okay, see you later,” Twilight said, waving at The Doctor as he went back into the TARDIS, Spike walked outside to see the blue box disappearing and greet Twilight.

“Sir, will you have anything or did you just come here to lay down?” A waitress robot mare asked The Doctor.

“Get me some iced tea then,” The Doctor replied, getting his head up from the table. The waitress then walked off with his order. A gray mare with a vortex manipulator then showed up and sat on the same table as The Doctor.

“So, Doctor, how have you been?” She said, The Doctor looked up and recognized the mare as Agent Chrome, the one who helped him when he fought the Knycobus at the New Year party at sea, “I had another mission designated to me, but I never promised I’d go alone,” She said.

“So?” The Doctor asked, “Do you want me to go with you?”

“Exactly, the mission is taking care of an invasion on the planet Hiskus, it’s colonized by Equestrians,” Chrome said.

“Okay, what are we fighting?” The Doctor asked.

“A little known army, you may have heard of them,” Chrome said, “They go by ‘Cybermen”