The Lost Pegasus

by J8ck78


Chapter 7 - Time fest!

“How stupid do you think I honestly am?” Lou looked at Jack, thinking that he had just said the most unbelievable lie he could think of.

“Very intelligent actually,” said Jack. “I'm not kidding. This is Derpy Hooves..." A sudden spark of an idea came across his mind as he jammed his thumb back to the door. "If you need more proof I got the TARDIS sitting in the back.”

Lou was taken aback at the boldness of Jack, she couldn't believe he wanted to keep the lie going, “What kind of practical joke are you pulling here Jack?”

“I'm not,” he said walking over to his window and throwing the shades open. “Look.”

Lou gave him a look like he was crazy, but decided to play along. She walked over to the window and looked out to where Jack was pointing. He stood there, waiting for her reaction as she looked out it. She looked into the window and out to the back parking lot. Tied to a tree, and sitting in plain view to her disbelief, was the TARDIS.

“If you still don't believe me, I'll show you inside..." He had been waiting to use those infamous words on someone and now was the time, "It's a whole lot bigger.”

“No, no, that has to be a fake!" Lou pulled her head back into the apartment and started pacing, instinctively reaching up and rubbing her temples "A- A- replica! Yeah, you got a replica of the TARDIS and just using it to make your excuse seem valid!"

Jack gave a look to Derpy and whispered something in her ear, making her smile as she skipped out of the apartment.

"Where is she going?" Lou questioned, now noticing the faint wisps of blonde hair pass her.

Jack motioned Lou over to the window again, forcing her to take a look again.

Derpy was just outside the TARDIS and she stopped in front of it, giving a little wave to the restrained machine. "Hello, TARDIS! I have someone that needs to know that you're you." With that, she stepped inside the police box. After some time the door opened and random things began to get flung out of it.

At first it was relatively normal things, grates, a ladder, something that looked like a Game Boy, but as the pile kept growing, the objects become more and more odd. Snowglobes that held lava, a ball that glowed and just floated in the air instead of joining the rest of the ever growing pile, a cybermat, A FREAKING CYBERMAT!

Lou kept seeing the object pile higher and higher, "How, how... but..”

Jack gave a reluctant shrug, “I'm just as confused as you are.”

Derpy's head finally poked out of the TARDIS, sweat already going down her face as she yelled up at the two humans looking down at her. "Does she believe yet?!"

“This is not happening.” Lou finally said as she walked out of the apartment, “This does not happen! I- I- I have to get out of here.”

“Yep," Jack called back, giving Derpy a thumbs up. He watched as Lou got out of the apartment and tried to cover her eyes from looking in the direction of what had happened.

"She's mad," Derpy worriedly whispered to herself before looking back at Jack. "Where did you find her?”

“I arrested her for 'Driving Under the Influence'. You can see how well this relationship has been since the start.”

“So, what are you going to do?” Derpy asked the already retreating Jack.

“Go get her,” Jack pulled his head out of the window and slammed it, hoping to sprint just fast enough to catch Lou before she got too far.

Down in the parking lot, Lou walked toward her car. She had planned on surprising Jack by returning home early, when she got a message that led to this whole episode. Either he wanted to have the most surreal break up in history, or he was just insane. She grabbed the handle of her car door and sat in the drivers seat, trying to sort everything that had just happened. She looked in the rear-view mirror and spied the thing he claimed to be the TARDIS and the woman that was now slowly moving things back inside the box, when they shouldn't have been able to fit at all! She wasn't much of a Doctor Who fan, but knew enough about it to know what she was talking about. She kept mulling over all that she saw, the blonde, the police box, all of those things that looked cobbled together, but seemed to make sense. Why didn't she notice the box itself when she showed up? She would have seen it when she drove in, a big blue box sitting next to a tree she had seen a thousand times before; without the big blue box.

Curiosity finally got the better of her and she got out of the car. She circled around the box and the now closed doors of where the blonde woman had disappeared into. It looked just like the TARDIS, even down to tiniest details. Pondering if it was the real thing, she poked the door that the Doctor had always used to open it. It creaked open and Lou almost fell on her rear at the shock. It wasn't possible! What she was seeing wasn't possible! It really was bigger on the inside!

She scrambled backwards until she hit a pair of legs. Looking up, she saw Jack standing there, half looking at her, half looking into the TARDIS. “Yep! I don't understand it any more than you do.”

Lou scrambled up to her feet and looked at him with some fear. He was right, but how? How was this possible, and how long had this been happening? If there was one thing she knew about the Doctor Who series it had some of the craziest and scariest aliens in existence. The ship sitting behind her gave proof that those might actually be real! She took a few steps back, but found herself stuck between Jack and the TARDIS.

Suddenly, the worst and yet most reasonable conclusion had hit her in the face, “Are- Are-" She tried to get her throat wet enough to finish her sentence. "Are you the Doctor?”

Jack gripped Lou's shoulders and looked at her with comforting eyes...

Before he burst out laughing in front of her, “No!"

Lou's heart jumped up out of shock and anger that Jack would make her believe he was The Doctor! How could he?! She started slapping Jack repeatedly, making him try and defend himself from the assault that had now befallen him.

From his wall of arms and a raised leg, Jack tried to beg for mercy, "Knock it off! I just found the thing!”

Lou pulled away and pushed strands of hair that had started to cover her eyes, “Then, where is the Doctor?!”

Jack rubbed a sore spot that Lou had managed to make, “Probably in Equestria. That's where this TARDIS comes from.”

Lou's ears seemed to perk in interest in the one word that seemed to stand out from Jack's mouth. “What? Equestria? From 'My Little Pony'?”

Jack gave a nod, “Yeah.”

Lou had been a fan of the show back in its day. A Pegasister, if you will. Quite possibly one of the few things she and Jack had in common was their mutual like of the show. Of course, the TARDIS never was in My Little Pony... was it? There was a fan favorite minor character who looked like the Tenth Doctor in the show, but that was just Fan Fiction.

“Once again, if you don't believe me," Jack opened the door as far as he could as Derpy finally leaned against the doorframe to catch her breath, "This woman you just about killed, is Derpy Hooves.”

Lou looked over the blonde that now tried to stand up again and not fall over from the exertion she just did by moving all of those things. “Seriously?” Despite the fact she was still standing in front of the TARDIS, and the blonde managed to at least resemble some of the characteristics of Derpy, that was hard to believe.

Jack pointed out each each of the points on Derpy as she stood there looking at him and her with one eye each, “Blonde hair! Wall eyes, which happen to be yellow in color, by the way! She likes muffins like crazy! Do I need any more proof?”

Lou could only stand there and let this situation sink further into her mind.

----

“Wow, now this is quite the city!” exclaimed Whooves, basking in the sheer size of it, “I wonder what city it is? Doesn't look like California, and this sure isn't New York City.”

“New York City?” inquired Twilight

“Think Manehatten, my dear. In fact, a lot of towns and cities in Equestria seemed to be based off towns and cities from this exact country!” The Doctor was beginning to contemplate the names of Equestria and trying to make the connections as he noticed Twilight was giving him a look that seemed to say, 'Explain.'

“Well, there's Fillydelphiea in Equestria, and Philadelphia here! Las Pagasus, Las Vegas. Trottingham, Nottingham! It's quite amazing when you think about it!”

Twilight began to try and put the connection together, but it was as if she was working a 9-piece puzzle into a 1000-piece puzzle. “But, those cities have been around for over a thousand years! How can they be based off places here in America?”

“Hmm..." The Doctor seemed to get the same analogy that Twilight had going in her mind, "Now that I think on it, some of these places have hardly been around for a hundred years seeing the date here seems to be about early 21st century. And what you've said is interesting, cities here can actually be based off there Equestrian counterparts! But how? Is that even possible?”

Twilight scratched her head, something that she was actually good at doing whenever she started to get confused, now that she had hands. “I don't know. I've never read anything on Humans before.”

The Doctor's voice became chipper for a moment before going back to worry, “It's so fascinating! I don't understand it! You'd think a Time Lord like myself would know of something like this happening before, but I can't seem to recall a thing! How can a race develop cities similar to another race Dimensions apart! Something isn't exactly right here. Something-" He suddenly stopped on the route he was going and walked down toward a large convention center. "What the!?”

Twilight barely had time to turn and catch up with him before seeing what he was staring at. It was a large banner over the building that read in large words: “SCI-FI EXPO IN THREE WEEKS. However, it was the smaller words in the attractions list that caught their attention: Doctor Who.

“You didn't tell me you were a celebrity.” said Twilight

“Neither did I, but they got the name wrong. It's just the Doctor, No 'Who' in there, just 'The Doctor'!" He looked over at the doors that now stood in his way of figuring out the burning questions on his mind. "Come on Twilight! We need to investigate this!”

Twilight watched Whooves as he began fumbling around for something in his suit, “But, what about Derpy!?”

The Doctor turned around but kept going in the direction of the doors, “If she saw this she'd be here! Come on!”

Twilight couldn't argue with such logic and followed him towards the building. A security guard tried to stop them both from getting in, but a quick flash of the psychic paper and a story about them being 'Expo Inspectors' got them in. Since it was three weeks away, not all of it had been set up yet, but a few pamphlets laid on a table. Whooves picked them up and started reading through them to try and find what was going on.

As he read the words that proclaimed his 'name', his voice kept getting higher in pitch. “See the TARDIS, Daleks, Cybermen, and props from the show!?”

“You have a show?” asked Twilight, amazed and bemused all at the same time.

All that was going to do was add more to his already huge Time Lord ego. He kept on reading getting more and more excited by the minute.

“Appearances by David Tennant and Matt Smith!" He closed the pamphlet and pointed the paper at the now hand-covered face of his assistant. "Twilight! Do you know what this means?”

From behind the hand that Twilight had found quite comfortable towards her situation, she spoke up, “That I'm never going to hear the end of this?”

“No!" The Doctor exclaimed, making Twilight remove her hand from her face and giving him a cynical look to show she wasn't fooled. "...Well yes, but that's not the point!”

“At least your honest," Twilight moaned in a flat tone.

“It appears this isn't even my Earth, or Universe! This is a separate one entirely! In this Universe, the events surrounding my life are a TV show! A TV show! Can you believe it!?” The Doctor's eyes seemed to glimmer in excitement as he now started stuffing the pamphlet into one of his pockets.

Twilight looked at him with the fear that he had just lost his mind, “And you're okay with it!?”

The Doctor threw his arms out and gave a spin, “I'm ecstatic! I wonder if I have my own theme song! Oh, that would be bloody brilliant! I should get autographs from these two! Can you imagine that!? The Doctor having autographs from actors who portray me, The Doctor!? It would be incredible!”

Twilight had no interest in The Doctor's need to massage his already over-inflated ego as she turned for the door, “Yeah, it would be. Can we go back to searching for Derpy?”

“I'm sure Derpy would understand if I stay around here and look at this for awhile, in fact, I have good reason to believe that she would have come here when the TARDIS came through to this universe." He was already trying to separate himself from Twilight so he could explore freely. "So, here's what we'll do! You use your magic to search for the TARDIS, and I'll search through all this stuff to try and find Derpy.”

“You just want to look at all the stuff about you don't you?” Twilight kept her judgmental eyes on The Doctor's own as they seemed to jump around excitedly, trying to find the nearest thing to latch onto.

“Derpy could be here! Looking at stuff based off me isn't my only reason for staying here," He paused and gave a look of panic. "No, wait!”

Twilight just laughed. “Alright Doctor, but when I find Derpy, I'll be sure to tell her.” She turned around and walked out, leaving the Doctor to his fancy.

“I wonder if there is more in there?” he pondered as he began his own adventure in the nearest door he could find. Seeing it dark he fumbled for a light switch and found it. Flipping it on, his happy expression turned to stone at what he had witnessed. "And it appears that I've found the janitor's closet..."

Outside, Twilight looked over the giant city wondering where should she even start. Silently and stealthily charging her horn, it told her the TARDIS was to her east. She took one step to her left when suddenly, a man in a hooded shirt bumped into her. There was something off about him, and Twilight felt a odd, familiar, cold feel when they touched. She looked back to him, seeing him continue to walk into the large building, and gave little thought to it. The Doctor had said that some humans were evil, the idea of running into one was far fetched. Ponies acted like that on occasions, but they weren't really bad, per se. She put it from her mind and continued to walk on. Unbeknownst to her, the moment she turned back and walked off, the hooded man turned back and looked at her as well before continuing on inside.

----

“This is amazing! So you really are Dinky's mother!?” asked Lou, trying her best not to hop up and down in her seat.

For the past few minutes, she had become quite good friends with the woman sitting before her known as Derpy Hooves. It had taken quite a bit of convincing the skeptical Lou that this was the famous fan character from My Little Pony. Now, she was bursting with joy at the idea of actually being able to talk to her. The only thing that could make this better was if Derpy was a Pegasus and not transformed into a human. She just shoved it off as you can't have everything.

Derpy kept nodding her head furiously, “Yep!”

“So where's her Father?” Lou asked, seeing the bobbing head freeze in place and the expression on Derpy's face change in an instant.

Derpy briefly tensed up before forcing her body to relax for her to talk again, “I really don't know. We- We- We don't talk about him much.”

“Oh.” Lou, seeing the sudden change in Derpy's demeanor, tried to change the subject, “So, why are you in my clothes?”

“Oh, I showed up here naked!” responded the Pegasus-Human before she looked over at Jack. "I'm still not over why wearing clothes is a big deal..."

“You saw her naked!?” screamed Lou as she turned to him.

Jack, who was leaning up against a wall having a drink nearly spit it out all over when Lou screamed at him. He managed to swallow what had managed to not escape and gasp for air before turning to her, annoyed and a little frightened. “I didn't ask for it! She ran out in front of my Cruiser!”

“Uh-huh.” came Lou, not believing a word of it.

“Well, it's true!” defended Jack. "Besides, you didn't believe me when I said the TARDIS was outside, now did ya?"

Lou gave a sour expression, she could tell that Jack was going to use that excuse as a back-up to when she wouldn't believe a word he said. “So, why did you put her in my clothes?”

“Because mine don't fit her,” came Jack as if he was answering a dumb question.

“Okay, you know more about 'Doctor Who' than me, and even I know that ship has a wardrobe in it," Lou shot back, giving out her own piece in the argument that began to simmer.

“I ain't stepping foot in that thing!” stated Jack, trying to keep his voice from letting it loose that he was frightened of stepping inside and then getting vaporized, or worse.

“Whatever.” she said turning back to Derpy heeding her boyfriend no further attention.

“You okay with me wearing your clothes?” asked Derpy innocently.

“Okay!?" Lou yelled, making Derpy somewhat shrink back in fear, "I'm a little annoyed, but more over I think it's awesome that THE Derpy Hooves is wearing my clothes!”

Derpy's initial fear was removed from hearing this, “So, I can keep them?”

“No," Lou responded quickly, not realizing that Derpy looked glum after she said that. She began to try and backpedal again, hopefully to fix the situation. "I should take you to a friend of mine that specializes in designer clothes. I'm sure she'll love you!” She grabbed on Derpy's hand and lifted her up from the couch.

“You taking her now?' came the voice of Jack from behind.

Lou turned and looked at him, giving a face of annoyance. However, this face turned to intrigue and she turned around giving a small little smile.

“Sure! Why not!" She looked over at Derpy and let the sarcasm roll out hard, "I'm pretty sure timid Jack here hasn't let you outside since you arrived.”

“I'm cautious, thank you.” spoke Jack, feeling annoyed that Lou took such a blatant shot at him in front of Derpy.

Lou gave a pleading look at Derpy, hoping to bring her along and go on an adventure. Well, at least a small one that wouldn't involve a TARDIS, Doctors, and Ponies. “Come on Derpy! It will be fun!”

“O-okay. So long as it's fun.”

Lou's clasped hand on Derpy slightly tightened and relaxed as she began leading the surprised woman, the excitement filling in her as the two walked out the door.

Jack stood there, still leaning up against the wall. He tapped the bottle of soda he was drinking from a few times as their laughter flooded up the stairs and through the apartments. He then looked down at his soda and placed it on the table and moved toward his fridge. He wondered if he was really going to do this, and by the time he opened the door; his answer was upon him. He excitedly clapped his hands together and started rubbing them.

“Yep! Where's Jose Cuervo?”