//------------------------------// // The Voyage // Story: Into the Unknown // by Bubble-Fics //------------------------------// Present day… “Derpy!” The grey pegasus awoke with a startle “Oh…I thought you would be up by now” Derpy rose herself up in bed to look over at the Doctor. “Derpy, sleep off the large amount of muffins she ate from last night” The Doctor watched her wipe the sleep out of her eyes with a hoof. “Oh…Anyway, you must come at once to my lab, I have something dire to show you!” In Doctor Whoove's lab... “So what was it you wanted to-“ “Behold!” The Doctor presents an ordinary looking key in front of Derpy’s face “It was just mere moments ago that I found this peculiar key that fit the lock of this old chest you see here” Derpy focused her attention on an old, rustic looking chest in the corner “Little did I know it contained a whole memory’s worth of my family’s work” The Doctor moved over to the chest and opened it using the key in his hoof “more specifically my mother’s” He added on. “That’s real great, Doc!” “That’s not just the only thing” Derpy looked on “I found this!” The Doctor pulled out a very old, brown book, from the chest, that had dust all over it. “A book?” “Yes” The Doctor blowed off the dust on the book’s cover, causing Derpy to sneeze “This is a book of legends and mysteries of the unexplainable!” Derpy came over to the Doctor’s side to examine the book’s interior “My family were quite fond of the topic and would travel to various locations that had reports of such tales” He gestured to a scrawny, drawn map of Equestria drawn in the book “Once they were done with that location, they would mark it off with a red marker” He pointed to the red markers on the drawn map “but…” The Doctor recoiled away, confusing his ditzy friend. “But?” “One location still remains…unmarked” The Doctor uses his hoof to point at a drawn mountain range on the map, that, true to his word, was left without a red marker. “Where is that?” Derpy inquisitively asked. The Doctor flipped a couple pages before presenting, images of some ancient looking architecture. “This discrete chamber, you see here, is found in the heart of a cavern, deep within one of the tallest peaks of the mountain range in the..Unknown” Derpy looks on, intrigued “It is only in the Unknown where you’ll find the ‘In Modis Aliis Porta’” Her eyes widen in wonder a she stares at the beautifully drawn picture “The gateway to other dimensions” “Ooh” Derpy looks back up to the Doctor “Does it have muffins?” Doctor Whooves scrunches up his face in confusion. “Um, I don’t know…” He flips some more pages in his book before giving up on his search “I guess there’s only one way to really find out!” “What do you mean?” “Doctor Whooves, what are you doing?” Derpy watched the Doctor, run around his house, like a headless chicken, scrambling for various things around his home to put into his saddlebags. “Preparing myself for an adventure” He grabs a set of warm overalls, shoving them into his ever growing bags “One must be fully equipped if they are to discover and behold the treasures of the ‘In Modis Aliis Porta’” Derpy raises an eyebrow, before watching him dash off upstairs. “You’re leaving today?” “Why yes!” He comes back, almost falling down the stairs as he does, with some random tools “What better time, than the present” The Doctor begins zipping up his saddlebag before dashing off into the living room, remembering something. “For how long?” “Well, its hard to say, but one can assume quite some time” He runs back into the foyer “Why?” He continues to shove more stuff into his pretty stuffed saddlebags while Derpy droops her head to look at the ground. “Derpy don’t know what she’ll do when Whooves is out of town” The Doctor freezes his furious packing to look back at a saddened Derpy. He bites his lip before coming up with an idea. “Maybe” Derpy’s ear flickers and she slowly raised her head back up to stare at the Doctor, with a glint of hope in her ditzy eyes “…she could join Whooves on his voyage” Her expression changes to an unsure one “I’ll pack a box of muffins”