The inside of the Tardis was shaking furiously as it did on the way to Cloudsdale. Sparks were flying out of the console and fire was building up around the Tardis as it went into crazy speeds! Although Twilight had experienced this before, she still sat there with a slightly frightened look on her face. Next to her, Rainbow Dash had stopped looking around at the console and was now staring at the blur of colours that were covered by a transparent sheet of fire on the scanner screen from the fire that had formed around the Tardis once again. She had never looked so terrified in all her life! She knew for a fact that the Tardis was going at least 20% faster than a sonic rainboom!
Twilight looked over to the quivering Rainbow Dash and put a reassuring hoof on her shoulder.
"It's fine! You’re not really in any danger! Isn't that right Doctor?" said Twilight as she looked to the Doctor with a small smile for a response. The Doctor merely looked up at her as he stopped bouncing around the console.
"Huh?"
"We're not really in any danger in here are we?" Twilight was now looking at Rainbow Dash and back to the doctor as if to tell him something.
"Well, I'm not sure what you would consider safe. But the shields are up so the fire won’t bother us. But as for impact or crash landings...."
Twilight just looked at him. She then saw Rainbow Dash looking at her then to the doctor.
"W-w-what’s that supposed to mean?"
"Well..." the Doctor began "you've experienced it haven't you? When we crashed onto Cloudsdale, sorry about that by the way...." he quickly said as he looked at Rainbow Dash with an apologetic look on his face. "But seeming as your friend here hasn't really experienced it like you have, she may not be fully braced as you will be."
Rainbow Dash had finally gotten the image of the scanner out of her head and could manage to say something without being blocked by pure terror. "So, w-w-where are we g-g-g-going?" she said weakly. The Doctor merely put a hoof up to a small black sphere that had pulsing purple lines all around it and looked like it was spinning. It also appeared to be in the centre of the time storm.
"That’s where we're going! The heart of the storm! See, the centre of a time storm isn't like the centre of a normal storm where you can fly right through it. See, that sphere, is actually a breakdown of time and space. Basically an unstable inter-dimensional portal if you wish to call it that. Travelling through one is near impossible unless you have strong enough shields and a good enough ship such as the Tardis. We're going to go through the portal to see where it leads to, because if it doesn't close soon...physics of that world will leak out worse than before!"
Twilight and Rainbow Dash took a while to take all this information in. It was enough to make them both forget about the chaos outside and the killer speeds the Tardis is going.
"Wait, what do you mean by worse than before?" asked Rainbow Dash (who we will now call RD for the sake of being lazy) with a slightly frightened tone.
"Well, you know that strange cloud?" asked the Doctor. Twilight and RD both nodded their heads. "Well, that wasn't from a faulty cloud making machine thingy. It actually came through the portal. Well, some of it. See, I literally meant, physics from that dimension will flow through the portal and into this dimension. So that little bit of cloud that came through the portal had taken a normal cloud here, and turned it into that funny looking cloud we all saw."
Once again, Twilight and RD took a while to process all this information. The Doctor then suddenly looked at the scanner then dashed back to the console. "Right, hold on girls! I'm going to increase the speed of the Tardis to 75%!"
Twilight then looked at him with wide eyes. "Wait! Why?" she asked with a slightly freaked out tone, as if she was told to burn all her books.
"Well, we want to get through that portal as fast as we can! So I’m going to put the speed from 25%, to 75%! So hold on tight! But, on the bright side, we'll be going so fast we won’t be shaking so much!"
Twilight then gave a sign of relief, as did RD.
The Doctor then pushed the two levers down some more and everything had stopped shaking so much. Infact, it was as if all pressure had just gone. All 3 ponies looked at the scanner screen to see nothing by lines of colours vibrating at unbelievable speeds, all being peppered with random white dots. The white dots were due to the Tardis going so fast it was starting to literally, cut a hole into the sky. Imagine scraping a cheese grater down a piece of paper. But these little shreads in the sky would heal themselves up almost instantly as the Tardis flew past them. At last they entered the Portal and as soon as they hit it......
Everything just got 20% cooler!