//------------------------------// // Spica ♍ Nightmare's Loyalty // Story: 6.7.11 // by Morningstar1337 //------------------------------// TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor was busy researching the Antikythera mechanism. Pinkie Pie bounced in the room. She said "Hi, Hey, Watcha doing?" while bouncing over the room as she pleased. The Doctor said "Just studying the device. For some odd reason The coordinates aren't showing." "Oh well, be sure to get some sleep." Pinkie bounced out of the room. The Doctor had noticed something. The gears started turning again. Though the needle stayed at Virgo, the other gears turned to give the proper coordinates. "Weird." The Doctor said. He began studying the device. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ??? ??:00 Rainbow Dash was speeding alongside some sort of asteroid belt. She was avoiding the asteroids that littered the belt. She flew as fast as possible dodging asteroids left and right. Lightning just shot past her. "Whoa, what was that?" Rainbow Dash said. Several more lightning bolts struck the asteroids. She noticed a small sphere and went towards it. She noticed some familiar shapes inside. But they were being obscured by some sort of orb in the center. The orb was shooting out several bolts of lightning by the minute. She looked for another window. After a few minuets she saw a doorway and flew inside the sphere. Rainbow Dash evaded the lasers, and spikes, and asteroids that had broke through the shell. Eventually she was on the floor with the sphere that shot out lightning. She looked around until she saw something that read "108 still points." She then searched around the big room. She saw another sign that said "88 screaming stars." She then noticed herself evading the bolts from a distance. "What the hay?" Rainbow Dash was confused. Surely she can't be in two places in once. She assumed that her doppelganger was a changeling of sorts but brushed the possibility aside. The other Dash left the room. Rainbow followed her clone all around the place until... "What in the--" She noticed her friends and her clone in another room, The room was under a dark and stormy sky despite being indoors. There was another sign and another orb that strikes with lightning. Thunder is heard in the distance. The sign said "Another Harmony." Rainbow Dash's friends and her clone were wearing the Elements of Harmony. They surrounded the orb. Rainbow's clone was in front of the other Rainbow Dash. The clone wept a tear before everypony's eyes glowed. They were about to use the Elements until... "No." Rainbow Dash said as a giant bolt of lightning struck her clone and her friends. "NO." The ponies were being electrocuted for a long period of time. The bearers of the elements had collapsed. They then transformed into ash and their particles blew away in the wind. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Rainbow Dash was crying. She had continued to weep until she saw a lightning bolt head for her. She was too scared to move. and the bolt struck her down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 Rainbow Dash woke up from her nap. She jumped up into an upright position. She said "Ugh. I really need to stop having those cupcakes before bed." She looked at her guest bed and thought 'Maybe it's the bed. I haven't slept on anything other than a cloud or train bunk before." She then thought about her nightmare and decided to ask Pinkie Pie about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 Toola Roola and Rarity was in the kitchen fixing up lunch for the others. "Thanks for volunteering to help me today." Toola Roola said. She was busy putting some lettuce in a bowl. "It was nothing darling." Rarity said. She brought in some potatoes. "But are you sure you can make a proper salad?" "Or course." Toola Roola said "How hard can it be?" She then took a knife out of a drawer and began chopping some carrots. She was cutting them diagonally. Rarity noticed what the pink unicorn had been doing and gasped. She then interrupted Toola Roola and said "Dear me, you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to cut the carrots straight." "Wait what?" The multicolored-maned unicorn was baffled. "Does it even matter what angles the carrots are cut?" "Of course dear." Rarity said "Here let me do the carrot cutting, why don't you go slice some tomatoes?" Toola Roola just shrugged and lat Rarity cut the carrots. She went to the tomatoes to cut them into little cubes. Meanwhile Pinkie Pie entered the kitchen and said "Ooh are you guys making food. I'm a great chef you know. I can make the best cupcakes this side of Equestria." The other ponies were baffled. Partly considering what happened to Equestria. Pinkie Pie just took some baking supplies out of the cupboard. including some of the sugar cubes from Amy and The Doctor bought at the beginning of the trip. Toola Roola and Rarity decided to let her bake the pastries and went back to the salad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 Rainbow Dash was waking down the hall until she saw the Doctor walking along. He noticed the rainbow-maned pegasus and said "Care to tell me whats wrong?" Rainbow Dash said "Nothing. Have you seen Pinkie Pie?" "I think she was going near the kitchen." The Doctor said. Rainbow Dash sighed and she said "How many planets have you been to? How many world did you see?" The Doctor was a little stunned. He said "I've been to countless worlds or course." "And how many of those did you save?" "Well let's see, There's Earth, countless times. I've saved the Oodsphere from having its inhabitants lobotomized, I've helped stopped someone from taking over a factory under a solar storm. Why do you ask?" "Nothing." Rainbow Dash lied. She was worried about her nightmare but was too afraid to say so. She left the hall. The Doctor went on to talk to River about something. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 River was in the dwarf star room. She examined the device. The ceiling above her was rotating allowing for some of the constellation to shine. The Doctor entered the room. River said "You still think she's in this dimension?" The Doctor said "Something must had happened in Pete's world River. I'm sure of it." River said "Didn't you say that the phrase scattered through time and space Doctor?" River took out the book she picked up before the TARDIS landed at the planet of lotuses. "Yes, but they usually don't come near me unless she's in this universe and that all reality's at stake. Granted it only happened once but--" "You still worry for her." River said. "Well I'm sure it's just a coincidence." River handed him the book and said "Lightning doesn't strike twice Doctor." She handed him the book. The Doctor looked at the inside cover and noticed the phrases there. The Doctor still remembers what had happened on that planet: The flashbacks and the cloaked woman. Something is going on. He said "I have a feeling that Equestria was the first world the Silence had stropped time in," He looked at the "Bad Wolf" phrase. "Nor will it be the last. But how why--" They heard some party noises outside the room and left to see what was going on. The moment they left the Antykythera mechanism's gears had stopped turning at a set of coordinates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor had noticed that everyone on-board the TARDIS. There was a table to the side with some food, including a giant cake, some cupcakes and a lot of salad. Pinkie Pie bounced in front of the Doctor and River and said "Surprise." The Time Lord saw Amy and Rory in the back. They were a little confused. The Doctor went up to his parents-in-law. Meanwhile Rainbow Dash was busy looking for Applejack. The rainbow-maned pegasus found the orange earth pony and said "Can I talk to you?" "Sure Rainbow," said Applejack. She took an apple and said "What's your problem?" "I just had this awful nightmare." "Did you talk to Pinkie?" "I'd tried but her advice is well..." She pointed to the party pony as she and Toola Roola were serving the food. Pinkie was wearing some weird glasses and had her party cannon shoot some of the tables. "Ah get it now." Applejack said. "What about Twilight?" "I wanted your opinion first." She then explained her nightmare to her friend. Twilight and Pinkie Pie walked in on the conversation. The purple unicorn said "What's going on?" "Rainbow Dash was getting something off her chest." Applejack said "Was it that nightmare about us dying?" Pinkie Pie said. "Please don't say that Pinkie." Rainbow Dash said. Fluttershy and Rarity walked in at that time. The white unicorn said "So did you like the party? Toola Roola and I made the salad and Pinkie made the cake." "Oh yeah that cake was super-duper yummy." Pinkie said. "Yeah listen can we talk in private?" Rainbow Dash said. Her friends and her then left the control room. Meanwhile Cheerilee, Starsong and Toola Roola were busy chatting. Starsong said "Well it's nice that you're doing something other than painting." "Thanks." Toola Roola said. "But Rarity's instructions were getting a little ridiculous. The whole [straight cutting makes the juices stay on the carrots] thing was a little too obsessive if you ask me." "Well Rarity is one for the high-class life style." said Cheerilee. "She means well for her friends and always try to give though." "I guess. well I gotta go. Later." Toola Roola took some salad and left the room. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 Rainbow Dash and her friends went to an empty hallway. She told her friends about the nightmare she had this morning. "That sounds horrible." Fluttershy said. "But I don't get it," Twilight said. "What were we doing in a place like that sphere your dream said we were in?" "Duh, isn't it obvious?" Pinkie Pie said. "We were in a dream." "I don't think it was a dream Pinkie." Rainbow Dash said. "If it was [just] a dream, why would I go to find you and tell you about it?" "Well," Twilight said "We'll try to look more into this in the morning. Let's enjoy the party." "Don't have to tell me twice." Pinkie Pie said. She then bounced back to the room. Everypony followed her back. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor went back to the dwarf star alloyed room after the festivities. He checked the mechanism again. He noticed that the device had finally stopped and gave some useable coordinates. He then studied the machine. Meanwhile Toola Roola was trying to sleep in her room. She while half-asleep went to painting on the easel. The painting now depicted 6 piles of ash. The piles had something on top of them. 5 of the piles had a necklace each, but the other had a golden tiara on it. The multicolored-maned unicorn went back to sleep, unaware of what she had painted.