//------------------------------// // Celaeno ♎ Reunion's Acciaccato // Story: 6.7.11 // by Morningstar1337 //------------------------------// Stormcage-666 ??:00 10/19/5999 The Doctor and his group were running from the Cybermen. The humanoid machines were trying to intercept them at each turn. Eventually the group hid from the robots in a hidden room. Rainbow Dash was rightly confused, for she had never seen those machines before, and neither did anypony else. The Doctor and his human companion on the other hand have faced the Cybermen before. The rainbow-maned pegasus said. "What the hay are these things!?" The Doctor said "Cybermen. They are machines made by placing the minds in a hollow shell. Their goal is convert all life in the universe into Cybermen. There are many types, but almost all of them came from the planet of Mondas." The Doctor remembers another group of Cybermen in Pete's world. The Cybermen had left, having searched the perimeter. The Doctor and other went to find the remaining prisoners. Twilight Sparkle noticed something in a distance walkway. The Doctor had noticed that same thing too. The group went to investigate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Storcage-666 ??:00 The Doctor's group had found River's group. They introduced the ponies they found to everyone else. Twilight did a check. She said "let's see, Lyra, Bonbon, Ditzy,..." She couldn't find the Cutie Mark Crusaders anywhere. "Where are the fillies?" The cells began shuffling around and around. The cells have been completely randomized. Schrodinger said over the intercom "Well I sure didn't expect to find some cheaters here, but I thought they would make things interesting not break the [game!]" "Where's my sister?" Applejack said to the A.I. "Rest assured that these last 3 are safe in their cells, for now." The A.I. said. The groups Key-cards changed color form a bright azure to a deep crimson. "You're gonna have to risk a 50% chance of them dying if you want to escape now, course you'll have to find them first." "Where are that!?" Rainbow Dash said. "Like I'll tell you." said Schrodinger. "I'll give you a clue though. They're at my control room, a place that changes position every 30 minuets and at random." "And why would you tell us this?" The Doctor said. "Because in case you haven't notice my [guards] have began patrolling the halls now. Really when you have the populations of entire planets imprisoned here. You just can't let even a few escape. Tick Tock goes the clock Doctor." The A.I. stopped the intercom. Everyone began searching for the control room. Rose and The Doctor became suspicious about the A.I.'s motives. She thought 'Entire populations, but why?' They decided that the answers can be found at the control room and so tried to find it with the others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stormcage-666 ??:00 Everyone started looking for the control room. The cells had started shifting again. Toola Roola went up to Rainbow Dash. the rainbow maned pegasus said "Um I just wanted to say thanks for rescuing me." "No sweat," Rainbow Dash said. The doctor saw a computer terminal. it was different form the others. He said "What in the..." he began to examine the terminal. From a distance several Cybermen were marching. The Doctor saw a map of the entire ship on the terminal. He saw a blinking red dot on the floor above them. Pinkie Pie said "Whatcha doing?" "Discovering where the control room is." The Doctor said. the blinking red dot stopped next to a stair case. The Doctor scanned the map with his screwdriver. The Cybermen had moved closer. Everyone had noticed these machines. The Cybermen had said "You are under arrest for the crimes of attempted escape and harboring freedom, resistance is futile." The Doctor said "Well that sounds kinda familiar." Then everyone ran away from the Cybermen. The Doctor examined his screwdriver and started looking for a staircase. Rose noticed that the Doctor was a little distracted. She said "Doctor what are you looking for?" The Time Lord said "The control room. I think I know where it is." There was a stair case. The Doctor said "Everyone this way." as he went up the stairs. Cybermen and robot tigers were moving from the other end of the hall blocking off the only other path. The Cybermen began firing, but Twilight used her force field spell. The group have moved up the large staircase. Eventually they saw a door. the Doctor tried to open the door Twilight's spell was weaking. Rory and Applejack helped the Doctor try to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. Amy saw that one of the Cybermen had dropped a blue Key-card. Rose also noticed the card on the ground. Twilight's spell was broken and the machines were getting closer. Amy and Rose then moved to get the card while River, Rainbow Dash and Rarity tried to stop the robots. every else was trying to get that door opened. Rose fired her stun gun at the Cybermen and Amy disarmed one of them. She fired the machine's gun at the other machines but the severed arm was still moving, trying to latch to Amy. She threw the arm away and grabbed the Key-card from the ground. She went back and swiped it on a nearby lock and the door opened. Everyone went inside and The Doctor closed and locked the door just before the machines were about to enter. They saw a tiger shaped robot hanging from the ceiling. It sarcastically said "Well It appears I should have cut power to the computers. Well that happens when you run a prison ship for about 3000 years." The robot took it's head and leered at the group. For they had found and entered the control room. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stormcage-666 ??:00 The Doctor's group was confronted by the A.I known as Schrodinger. The Doctor said "Why are there Cybermen here?" Schrodinger said "You can be surprised what you can find orbiting the planets on patrol. There were several destroyed Cyber-Legions that died out. The Athena division just repurposed them into my own police force. I was created when One of the Olympians temporally took over another division of Olympus Limited and they gave me full jurisdiction over this sector." Rose said "Why did you say you have entire populations in this ship?" Schrodinger responded "Well one of the terms of my authority and my very programming itself is that I must conform to the laws of the planets under my jurisdiction. The problem was that their leaders were growing corrupt. Passing laws that made everything from listening to music, to even eating punishable by law. Therefore I much obliged and imprisoned everybody on these planets." Everybody was getting mad at the A.I. Especially Fluttershy and The Doctor. The former of which said "Why would you do that?" Schrodinger said "Well technically it wasn't my fault. Nor was it theirs. 1000 years ago Olympus Limited had bought every planet From Cretopolis to New New Venus. The leaders in response passed a treaty witch then criminalized everything. In a way it was sorta suicide when you think about it especially considering that the longer people stayed in the cells the less of their minds they retain. Of course over the years some cult had shown up took the empty planets. Not that I cared. Those are bound to a law that I enforce by keeping everyone in stasis." Rory said "You can't do that, it's wrong!" "Is it?" said Schrodinger. The metal tiger head moved closer to him and said "I merely enforce the law, and you know that say: [Justice has a price, The price is freedom.] I suppose you want to free the little tykes from their cells?" Three cells had emerged out of a turning walls. Sure enough Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were in them. Applejack and Rarity were furious. It was then that the metal Tiger head said "Too bad!" Rose's key-card turned red and the door behind them had opened letting the machines flood in. By then everyone split up The Doctor went to find a terminal. Twilight cast a shield over the group once more, concentrating more power this time. Cheerilee, Applejack and Rarity went to the cells trying to find a way to free the fillies. Everyone else was either hiding or trying to hold the enemies back. The Doctor had found the terminal. The piece of jade had glowed with the Dragon Virus inside. Schrodinger said "Hahahaha! You think you can stop me me with that?" The Doctor said "I can save the universe with a kettle and a shoe string, I used the Pandorica, that same Pandorica you based your cells on to save the universe and I created a time flow analogue out of nothing but household items. I can stop you with less if I wanted to." Schrodinger was scared. It said "Who are you?" "What forgot already? It's only been what, 2-3 days? I'm the Doctor, so basically..." He jammed the crystal into the terminal. A dragon appeared on a nearby screen that said "Virus detected. Now rebooting. Deleting all files and programming from 4000 A.D. onwards. Shutting off artificial intelligence." The Doctor said "...Run!" The corrupted A.I. screamed as the robots around him turned off and were reduced to piles of scrap. The three cells started to tip and release the fillies who were knocked unconscious. The cells were opening outside the room as well. The Doctor and his group had left for the TARDIS. On the way, they saw someone, a blue skinned woman with orange hair. She was carrying a bog behind her. The Doctor recognized the girl and said "Ariadne?" The alien said "Who are you? Where am I? Who am I?" River noticed that Ariadne didn't notice anyone here. She said "Must had been the among first prisoners Doctor?" "Doctor? Oh." Ariadne noticed the bag behind her. and said "I found this when I woke up. Is this yours? It said [For the Doctor.]" She put the bag down. The Doctor looked at the bag and saw several pieces of chronosteel. There was a greenish-yellow one with the constellation and sign for Libra (♎). the other pieces had the constellations for Hydra, Lupus, Canis Major, Puppis, Antila, and Pyxis, on it. The Doctor realized that she must had been trying to get the chronosteel for him before she was caught, and that everyone in the cells save those that the Doctor's companions had their memory wiped. He took the bag and said "You're free now to lead your own life. You have a clean slate, a fresh start. You must now help the people rebuild their lives." and left. Eventually they found the TARDIS among the crowd of confused people. The Doctor turned to Rose Tyler and her companions and said "You can come with us of you want." while his companions entered the blue box. Rose said "Are you sure? I'm sure you got your hands full already--" Lyra interrupted and said "Speaking of which do we get to see more people with hands?" with childish glee. Bonbon said "Lyra." in shame. Rose was thinking the decision over, she wasn't sure if her TARDIS that she gained from the metacrisis Doctor would handle a potential paradox. The Doctor noticed this and said "Don't worry, I'm sure that Handy won't mind about the TARDIS-within-a-TARDIS thing. I'll make sure that a paradox won't destroy either TARDIS. Rose and the others were still thinking it over. After a moment she accepted and entered the Doctor's TARDIS. As a result Pinkie Pie then went to get some stuff. River Song thought 'Well The Ex has moved back in, should be interesting.' The Doctor went to Rose's time machine and used his sonic screwdriver to activate the machine remotely and shrink it to the size of a baseball. He handed the miniature TARDIS to Rose as both entered the Doctor's own time machine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor went back into the dwarf star alloyed room and opened the bag he got form Ariadne. The chronosteel within flew out of the bag and took their place in the starry room. Libra's sign (♎) had emerged and glowed a radiant chartreuse. The Doctor then examined the Antikythera mechanism. The gears turned again. The needle now pointed to Scorpius (♏). The Doctor decided to wait until tomorrow to get the coordinates and left the room. Later Pinkie Pie threw a reunion party for Rose and a welcome party for Lyra and the others. The Doctor was sitting down eating cake. River came to a table and said "Hello Sweetie." "Hello." The Doctor said. "Been a while since you seen her huh?" River then gestured to Rose who was blindfolded and trying to hit a Dalek Pinata. "It's not that, you know that Rose was in another dimension when I last saw her." "I see, you're worried that the Silents got to Pete's World huh?" "The Silents have never tried attacking other dimensions. Apart from the whole [exploding TARDIS] thing. What are they up to?" "I'll guess we'll find out soon enough. Right now we still have to find the rest of the chronosteel." Pinkie Pie butted in and said "No silly, right now we have to celebrate." Streamers blew out behind her. The pink pony then put a fez on the Doctor's head. The Doctor said "Well, if you insist." He went to see if he could take a swing at the pinata. The party continued to last for several hours, unaware of what the Silence were up to... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ London 12:00 9/05/2011 The Silents had appeared in an abandoned building.They brought the Discord statue along with the stolen Nemean skin and laser screwdriver. They met with several members from the Cult of Saxon. The aliens left a note on the screwdriver and left. The cultists then prepared a ritual. There was a bright light that engulfed the entire building.