//------------------------------// // Antares ♏ A Familiar Foe // Story: 6.7.11 // by Morningstar1337 //------------------------------// ??? ??:00 The Doctor was trapped inside another white void. The sword from his earlier nightmares had appeared again, this time with two strands broken. The human avatar of the TARDIS had appeared again, but she vanished when the Doctor tried to ask her what's going on The Doctor said "Well this is lovely." He began seeing flashbacks. Flashbacks of the Christmas of 2009. The time he was in before he'd regenerated. My Lord Doctor... He saw The Master right in front of the Pandorica. He had blond hair just like the last time they met. My Lord Master... The Doctor said "What is going on?" The Master vanished in a blinding light and The Doctor found himself in a room overlooking the stars, except more than half of them had vanished. We are gathered... The Doctor was teleported into another room. There he saw most his companions, dead. The Doctor was shocked. He noticed something in the center. It is, or rather was, Twilight Sparkle and her friends. Five of them were wearing golden necklaces with Twilight wearing a tiara. They were standing up, the only being alive in this wasteland other than the Doctor himself. The 6 ponies have moved uniformly almost like they were one and the same. Their necklaces and tiara glowed with an otherworldly light. Behind them was a gate, transparent, with only the frame visible but closed. The Doctor saw something familiar through the gate, which depicted another part of space. 'It can't be' He thought. But he was more worried about the ponies then the gate. ...for the end. The tiara and necklaces broke as their wearers started to disintegrate. Their particles moving through the gate. The gate started to open. A large cyclone began to blow everyone and everything sans Doctor into the gate, until he was the only one left standing. There was a glorious light emerging from the open gate. the Doctor saw something in the light as it engulfed everything. He saw... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor had just woken up on the control room. He was studying the Antikythera mechanism for the coordinates of the chronosteel. The Doctor said to himself "Well Pinkie, this the the last time I'll try your cherries-in-a-chimichanga." He began to study the device. Later, when everyone else was awake. Lyra and Bonbon were walking around the TARDIS. They were getting used to their new home. As was Flitter and Cloudchaser who was chatting with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Ditzy and Minty adjusted the fastest though and were already having fun with Pinkie Pie. Applejack and Rarity were discussing about recent events and Cheerilee and her friends were teaching the Cutie mark Crusaders another class. Twilight went to the Doctor and said "So how close are we Doctor?" "Well," The Doctor said. "We currently have 45 pieces of chronosteel now." "I see. Just checking, later." the purple unicorn left. River Song then entered the room with Rose. It sounds like they were talking about him, or rather his fez. Amy and Rory on the other hand were meeting with the Doctor. "Doctor, have you ever heard of the [Missus and the ex?]" Rory said. He sounded a little confused by the phrase. Amy was chuckling a bit. "Every man's worst nightmare?" The Doctor said. Rory nodded. The Doctor said "Why'd you ask?" before Rory pointed to River and Rose. The Time Lord said "Ooh that." He put on a fez and began plugging in the coordinates for the next piece of chronosteel. Afterward he left the room. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor had just finished putting the mechanism back in the dwarf star alloyed room in when he heard a voice over the intercom. The voice said "Hello there everybody, come on over to the control room for a big surprise!" The Doctor was surprised already. Someone had broken in the TARDIS. Everyone went to the control room to see what in the universe is going on. They saw a man. He looked off yet strangely familiar. He said "Hello everybody. Most of you don't know who I'm am but I've heard that The Doctor was searching for some chronosteel right?" The man took some spheres out of a pocket in his purple, red, and green robe. The first sphere had the sign and constellation for Scorpius (♏) and was green like the trees. The others had the constellations for Norma, Ara, Triangulum Australe, Corona Australis, and Telescopium and gave them to the Doctor, saying "Well I don't really need these spheres anyway I got all the power I'll ever need." The figure's voice started to change back and forth. The mysterious figure then took out his paw and made the TARDIS door open. Then he made several faraway stars go supernova with a snap of his fingers. The figure closed the doors and said "See, that's only a fraction of my power." Twilight said "Who are you?" The figure said "I'm not telling you. Twilight Sparkle, you're the element of magic no?" Most everyone was surprised. The purple unicorn said "How do you know? You do look kinda familiar." The figure disappeared and reappeared next to Rainbow Dash and said "Then there's Rainbow Dash, how is your Loyalty doing these days?" Rainbow Dash said "That's doesn't even make sense!" The figure said "Well is there fun in making sense? I don't think." He teleported next to Pinkie Pie and said "You know you're still my favorite Pinkie Pie. The Element of Laughter." He then made a stick figure appear and dance on Twilight's head. The purple unicorn was unamused but the pink earth pony was laughing. The mysterious madman then appeared nearby Rarity and said "Well well well, miss Rarity, as Generous as ever I presume. Yet you still have that gemstone attachment." Rarity said "Pardon?" The figure went to Applejack and said "Ah yes Applejack, the Element of Honesty." He looked to Fluttershy who cowered in fear of the man he moved his snake tail to the meek pegasus and said "And Fluttershy's Kindness." Twilight said "You seem to know our strengths." The figure took out his other arm out. The fingers on this hand were replaced with claws. He said "I know a lot of things dear." He proceeded to point at the rest of the being on the ship and said "The mailmare who broke town hall, the human obsessed madpony and her closeted friend, the flying wonder twins, the mad artist, the fallen pop star, the teacher, the blank flanks, the pony with a sock fetish, the Doctor, The Doctor's wife and assassin, the Girl who Waited, the Last Centurion, and the big Bad Wolf. Did I miss anyone?" River Song pointed her sonic blaster at the alien and said "You have until the count of three to get off this ship." The figure simply laughed and snapped his paw. River's blaster had became flooded with water. The figure said "Miss please, I've already been killed multiple times now. I already know what's it like to live, and die, and live, and die, and so on and so forth." He turned to the Doctor and said "We should have a date; you, me, them. How 'bout Earth, circa 2012, no that's to cliche. I'll get back to you on that, oh and I'll even bring some of your friends to join the party." Both Twilight and The Doctor began remembering. Twilight's memories were of the second time she and her friends saved Equestria from the menace known as Discord while The Doctor remembered what happened on the Aircraft carrier Valiant. Twilight said "Why are you here?" The Doctor said "You should be--" The figure interrupted by saying "Dead? Petrified? Wasting away as a zombie? No thanks We had enough of those the last time they happened to us. We just wanted to than everyone for helping free me the last time." He looked to the fillies who was hiding with Fluttershy. He then said "As well as getting rid of those awful drums." as he looked to the Doctor. "This is one night out you'll never forget, it will have death, destruction and jelly babies." By this point the figure realized he had far outlived his welcome. He said "I'll pick you up at 7:00. Or maybe just let you know when the festivities starts. Just look up [the Maestro of Discord]. Arriverderci." The figure vanished. "What the Hay just happened?" Rainbow Dash said. The Doctor just noticed the six pieces of chronosteel the figure left behind. He said "I'll explain later." He went back to the dwarf star alloyed room with Twilight following. Twilight and the Doctor were inside the room The Doctor let go of the new chronosteel as the metal flew up and created the images of their respective constellations. The sign for Scorpius (♏) now appearing a bright spring green had appeared. There spherical ceiling and walls was turning. Twilight said "How can Discord come back, this doesn't make any sense! We stopped him long ago." "The Silents must have took the statue while were were escaping Equestria." The Doctor said. "They have freed him and brought back the Master." "Who?" Twilight was confused. The Doctor hadn't told any of the ponies about the Master. He noticed this and said "My archenemy so to speak. We have an on-again off-again relationship as enemies, usually turned off when he dies. They might have merged together at some point." Twilight was still a little confused. But now she knew why Discord was here. She said "We need to stop them, Discord's bad enough as it is." "Agreed." The Doctor said. Both of them let the room to try to explain who the Maestro of Discord is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor asked everybody to come to a room inside the TARDIS. There The Doctor and Twilight Sparkle explained their suspicions. Flitter said "Hold up, wasn't that Discord guy trapped in stone?" Cloudchaser was a little disappointed. Twilight said "Yes, but the statue might had been stolen when we escaped Equestria, any other questions?" Minty and Lyra weren't paying attention. They were putting socks and gloves on their hooves. Bonbon was watching the spectacle and was a little ashamed at this display. The Doctor explained who the Master was and Twilight explained who Discord was. Applejack said "So you say that both of them had somehow merged togeth--" Pinkie said "Wait how would that even work?" River Song said "Stranger things had happened." Rose said "Doctor do you know where we can find hi- the-?" Rose and most everyone was getting confused by the two minds in one ordeal regarding their recent visitor. The Doctor said "I don't know. The Maestro of Discord said Earth and set a time but Discord's chaotic influence means they they could be anywhere." The Doctor heard a phone ring somewhere. Amy said "Do you hear that?" The Doctor looked around for the source of the ringing. He found a small mobile phone. He said "Hello?" but the ringing was still there. He noticed another phone in his other pocket. It was the superphone Martha left him in case she needed him once more. The Doctor answered that phone and said "Hello?" "Doctor, Something's wrong, the weather's out of cont...date's been ch...chaos every..." The transmission was cut off, something that by all means should not be possible for the modified phone. The signal was still running though. The date on it read November 6, 2102. The Doctor knew who was responsible for this. He left the room and began to follow the signal back.