//------------------------------// // 4: towers, rivers, and celery. // Story: TCB:NU:New Lunar Republic // by kryxel //------------------------------// The doctor looked out the window at the falling tower; he could barely make out a pink dot sliding down a zip line towards an area full of humans. "Interesting... Genesis, Ralph? I want you two to find out what Pinkie was doing in there, I need to go see somepony..." Genesis nods. "By somepony, you mean…?" "Oh, no-one in particular, just the head of the grape vine… which means... I kind of need to be kicked out to the paddock." "You do know that..." Ralph said standing up "Yes, I do, and Genesis… Please not as hard, had to walk about with one of my eyes swollen shut last time..." the Doctor said, standing by the door. "Sorry doc, have to make it realistic." Genesis swung himself around and kicked the doctor square in the chest, causing him to fly through the doors and smash against the wall. Ralph took his cue and started shouting. "GUARDS! GUARDS!" The armored guards appeared in a minute, roughly dragging the doctor to his hooves. "Sir?" one of them asked, aiming a gun at the grey pony. "Get him out of my sight, and no shooting him… he still may have some information. Take him out to the paddock to work, maybe if he toils in the sun for a few days he’ll come around to our way of thinking." Ralph said, picking up the sonic screwdriver and placing it back in the desk. "Right away, Sir." The doors closed and Ralph sighed. "Godspeed, Doctor... Genesis, it would be so much simpler to kill that pony and follow in the paths of my grandfather..." Genesis laughed. "it’s true... But when has being good ever been easy?" ------------ Towers, River, and Celery Written by kryxel translated from 6000 illegible languages into 1 legible one by Kaliedo Clockwork -------- The ride to the paddock was a bumpy one. It also did not help that the Doctors left front leg was sprained. Possibly by hitting the decorative table on the way down. "So, how far until the paddock?" he asked the guard sitting opposite him in the back of the cattle trailer being pulled by a pickup truck The guard said nothing. "Oh come on, you have to at least say something! If you don’t say anything you are practically a red shirt..." The guard still sat silent. "Oh, don’t tell me they don’t show star trek anymore..." The good Doc said, before sticking his head out the window and looking down the road. He saw the pony by the gate before seeing the gate itself. "Ahh, my escort. Well, if you gentlemen excuse me, I have a mare to go meet." The Doctor said, as the doors opened and he got up to limp towards the gate. The guards shrugged and went over to a shack where a worker waited for paperwork. The stallion trotted up to the gate where a white pony with a golden mane and tail waited "Ah, snowbell! It has been far too long…" he said "Doctor, charming as ever… have they gelded you yet?" she said with a smile. "Oh, they would never do that to me! I’m too important." "Ah, yes indeed. Come doctor, I would like to converse to you on the matter of… Falling towers." "Right away, Snowbell!" the Doctor said, playfully slapping the identical hourglass cutie-mark on her flank. ------------- "OH MY GOD!" Snowbell said "I know, it’s still erect! Even i can’t believe it!" the Doctor said in return. "But I’m feeling worn out already…" "To be fair, we did play about fifty-or-so games of Jenga already" "It is true. Now stop playing games with me doctor... Why have you really come?" The doctor looked out over the fields of Newfoals, geldings and mares alike. Some of them once a unicorn or a Pegasus, as indicated by the scars present on their hide. "Equestria may be returning…" he said after a pause. "Impossible!" Snowbell replied. "Equestria was destroyed. Everypony knows that." "The falling Dis-co tower was the work of somepony claiming to be Pinkie Pie." the Doctor said. “We even got a disk from twilight." "A disk?" Snowbell asked as a white ex-Pegasus with a checkerboard mane and tail walked over. "Mama Snowbell?" she asked as Snowbell walked over. "Yes pawn?" Snowbell nuzzled the white pony. "Rook and Knight want to know what the uh… tower falling was all about. You haven’t said anything about it yet." Pawn said as she drew a circle on the ground with her hoof. "Hmm, I don’t know for sure sweetie." Snowbell said. "How about you three go talk about it over by the pumpkins, they love speculation, the more outrageous the better!" Pawn nodded, and trotted back over to a black stallion with a checkerboard mane and tail with a rook cutie-mark and a red mare with a white mane and a sword on her flank. "Ponies, the ones destined to rule the world… Or so most think, if things had kept going... Maybe circumstances would be different…" "You know as well as I do, River." the Doctor said as Snowbell put a hoof to his lips. "No. don’t call me that. I am not... ‘Her’ anymore... I am, and always will be, mama Snowbell. Now, if you would be kind enough to move your time traveling flank over by the celery. You always have a knack to making it grow well.” "Well, I have had a close relationship with it since I was five." the Doctor said, with a smile, before heading over to the patch of farmland. "And by Celestia, I hope you are right sweetie... I do hope Equestria has returned." Snowbell said, before starting to sing in old Equestrian. Edited by Kaliedo Clockwork “Why do I love commas so much?” (kryxel here. i want to point out that "mama snowbell" is not mine but midnight shadows. i just gave her a cutiemark (one was not mentioned) and a background to fit her personality. midnight if i trod on any tails just tell me and i will replace her with a different variation.