//------------------------------// // Zubenelgenubi ♎ You Can (Not) Leave // Story: 6.7.11 // by Morningstar1337 //------------------------------// Stormcage-666 ??:00 10/17/5666 The TARDIS manifested inside The Stormcage-666. The interior of the ship was red with blood and rust. The Doctor, Rory, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Cheerilee, and Toola Roola exited the box. The Doctor said "Well, this appears to be too easy." The Doctor was cautious. Just then a voice was heard over the intercom. It said "Welcome to the Olympus Limited's Athena division's Stormcage-666 jail and graveyard. An inescapable jail guarded over by me: Schrodinger and surrounded by strategically placed black hole generators. If you managed to escape this prison, cake and ice cream will await you when you return home." The last sentence was said sarcastically. "Really?" said Pinkie Pie. "I just love cake, ice cream's great too..." She continued to ramble on about the sweets until Rarity told her to hush. Schrodinger was unamused. It said "Identify yourself at once!" The Doctor said "Well does the Doctor ring any bells?" Schrodinger stated to scan for the word Doctor. When it's done it said "Well I'll be damned, according to my records, you should had died at Lake Silencio April 22 2011." The computer paused to think for a second. As the warden of the galaxy's most inescapable prison, it had little to amuse itself with. It finally said "Alright Doctor, I shall give you a sporing chance. I know the rest of your companions have been arrested here. If you can find them and free them in 3 days then I'll let you go and give you the chronosteel that's on board the ship. However..." Several robot tigers then emerged from the walls "...if you are unable to rescue your friends, then everyone will stay here forever. Good luck, you will need it." The intercom turned off and the robots tigers had scattered. "Well this is going to be lovely." The Doctor sarcastically said. Unaware that the gem Sirius gave him was glowing. "Yeah, lovely." Rainbow Dash said. The group went to find their friends and a way to free them. From a distance Sirius was watching the whole thing from above. She went into another room. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stormcage-666 ??:00 The Doctor's group had saw several cells, lined up in rows and columns and slanted on the walls. The prisoners appeared to had been restrained. There was a sign that said "Circle 1: For Humanoid Prisoners." The Doctor noticed something familiar about the the cells. They looked like translucent capsules with restraints on the legs, arms and neck of the prisoners in side. The prisoner themselves looked like they were trapped in stasis, and there was small tubes in each of the cells, each tube had a purple liquid in them and a needle in the end. "Doctor," said Rory "is something wrong?" The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and examined one of the cells. Shortly after he said "We must be careful, These cells are based on the Pandorica." "Wait," said Rainbow Dash "what [Pandorica?]" "Is it a door where you put your pans in?" Pinkie Pie said. The Doctor said "The Pandorica is or rather was a one-man prison. Capable of trapping anyone in the box forever. The Pandorica was inescapable, You can't move and you can't die, The Pandoica will keep you alive if you are trapped in it." "How do you know so much about this Pandorica?" Toola Roola said. "I was trapped in it once, I would explain how I escaped but the circumstances were Timey-Wimey at the uh... time." The Doctor then examined another part of the cell and said 'This however seems to be modified from the Pandorica; The cells appear to have a failsafe that cuts of the life support and these tubes seem to have some sort of poison in them, they also appear to be trapped in suspended animation. On top of that, the needles are arranged so that most movements will make sure that the poison is injected. And the fail-safes are faulty, meaning that the cell will force the prisoners to barely survive the otherwise fatal poison. In essence this is Schrodinger's cat trapped inside Pandora's box. A 50% chance of escape and a 50% chance of death. We must be careful once we find our friends the smallest misstep will mean their death." Everyone agreed on this. The group went to find their friends and some answers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stormcage-666 ??:00 Sirius had found Flitter in another part of the ship.The cloaked woman said "You must find and help free the Doctor's companions and your friends." The lavender pegasus said "I still can't believe Ditzy made another building collapse on itself." She adjusted her pink hair bow and said "What are you gonna do Sirius?" "I have to find out more about who we're dealing with. Someone's changed the timeline here and I must find out why, Good luck." The cloaked woman gave Flitter a key-card and left the hallway. Flitter went to find everyone else. A security camera started blinking. Schrodinger though 'Well it looks like we have some cheaters here, this should make things interesting.' The several more robot tigers were scattered across the ship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stormcage-666 ??:00 The Doctor group were busy looking for their friends. Unaware that a tiger robot was stalking them from a distance. Rainbow Dash said "So how are we gonna open the cell and free them?" The Doctor said "From what I could gather we're gonna need a key-card. That should be able to tilt the cell and open the door, making sure we free our friends without them getting injected in poison, as well as knocking them out of stasis in the process." Rarity said "Can't you use that sonic screwdriver to open the doors?" Pinkie Pie chimed "Yeah you could totally try reversing the polarity of the neutron flow or something like that!" "Except if I try that then I risk activating the fail-safes and killing them. Plus these cells seem to have wood installed in the lock and the screwdriver can't do wood." The Doctor said. "Great so we stuck in a prison trying to free our friends and we don't even have anything to bust them out without killing them. Lovely." deadpanned Rainbow Dash. The robotic tiger was readying itself to pounce. Pinkie's knee started to pinch. The pink earth pony was curious about this until she saw something move behind them. She said "Look out!" The robotic tiger the pounced on the group. Everyone manged to avoid the attack, but the beast of metal was reading itself for another attack. The Doctor's group started to run from the beast. They ran and ran until they entered another hallway. The tiger was getting closer, it's teeth made of drills poise to attack, it's claws sharpened to the point of an atom and to pierce. The group entered a room with several shelves full of heavy machinery. The room was dark and blue and cold compared to the rest of the ship. The tiger was beginning to strike. "Doctor what now?" Rory said. The Time Lord saw a giant shelf behind him it was unbalanced and tilted in their direction. By that point Pinkie's tail began to twitch. She looked at the ceiling but saw nothing unusual bur saw the shelf and realize that it would crush them if they stayed here. The shelf was poised to fall and everyone else saw it. The Doctor watched the robot's movement the silver tiger prepared to maim and kill the Doctor's group. The Time Lord said "Now!" and everyone rolled out of the way. The shelf had fallen and Pinkie's tail stopped twitching for now. The tiger was crushed by the heavy shelf and was unable to move. The Doctor noticed something familiar about the tiger's wiring. He also saw a small key-card on the machine. He picked it up while everyone else began standing up. Rainbow Dash said "Well we can add [get mauled by a silver tiger] to the list of things that almost happened to us." "And [get saved by poor shelf placement] to thing I though would never happen." Toola Roola said. The Doctor looked at the pile of scrap metal that was the tiger and thought about what this could mean. After a moment they left the room to search for their friends for they knew that they have no time to waste. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ??? ??:00 The Silence and the eye-patch woman had appeared in a small boardroom at the Olympus Limited headquarters. Hera approached the eye patched lady and said "Max Zeus can't make it to this meeting today, Trying to take the Madovarium is harder than he thought." The woman with the eye patch said "That doesn't matter, what matters is that we stop the Doctor before he gets to Trenzalore." Hera smirked "I don't understand why we have to get him away from a single planet. You guys had already made still around 41 planets by now." "Our objective is that he must never answer the first question, and your job is to make sure that he's distracted with the chronosteel until we get 108 still points to the Medusa Cascade." "I see. So I take it that my husband his it all planed then?" Hera deadpanned. "Just make sure that the planets and dimensions you take don't windup erasing us from existence in the process. You would be able to traverse the void between dimensions without our help." "Don't remind me, you and you company will be compensated when we finish our grand plan." The woman with the eye-patch had left along with the Silents. Hera then went back to work forgetful about the conversation she had a few minuets earlier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flashback(Manehatten) Cheerilee had just moved to Manehatten from Ponyville. 'Well this place is so large.' She said as she stepped out of the train. "Well at least I will get a chance to help other smile." She looked at a mirror and smiled, and saw her mane had been frizzled. She walked around town for a little while then went to find her school. She stopped and saw a pink unicorn painting inside a building. She entered and said "Um hello, is this Manehatten University?" The pink unicorn nodded and said "Yes this is Manehatten University." She passed a whiteboard and said "Are you new here?" "Yeah I just moved here from Ponyville a few days ago. My parents are like helping me move in the dorms, and I start school here tomorrow. My name's Cheerilee what yours?" The pink unicorn was a little flustered she said "Toola Roola. Nice to meet you." Cheerilee looked at the painting ans saw a wonderful picture of a great sunset. She said "Did you make this?" Toola Roola was a little scared. She said "Y-yes, I did." Cheerilee said "Wow this is awesome. You must be the most amazing artist I've ever seen." "Thanks but I'm sure there are other ponies that can do better then me." "Are you kidding, like I haven't seen anypony paint that good." Cheerilee looked at the clock and saw that it was getting late. The two mares left the art room and Cheerilee said "I'm glad I met you, we should meet up again." Toola Roola said "Agreed, see you tomorrow?" Cheerilee smiled and said "Same time same place." The two mares then went their separate ways.