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// A New Friend and a Loss without End 
// Story: Dr Whooves: Minequestria 
// by Tardis of Dr Whooves 
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The Doctor's vision started to return to him. All he could see was red blurs and a figure to the right. His vision cleared up but he was still fairly weak. He could see that he was in a large red room with 3 block high glass surrounding them. Above he could see what appeared to be glowing blocks hanging from a wooden fencepost. He could barely make out some random things in a corner but he then turned to see the figure working at a table.


The figure was a dark brown pony with a black mohawk for a mane. Unlike a normal pony though, he was standing on his hind legs with no stumbling! Also, he was wearing a black and gold suit and golden rings with a green gem in each on his upper arms. As a final touch, he wore sunglasses so the Doctor couldn't see his eye colour. He appeared to be brewing something in what appeared to be a brewing stand. He finally turned to see the Doctor awake and smiled gently. As he walked over to the Doctor he held a glass bottle with a potion inside.

"Who-who are you?" asked the Doctor with little breath left in him.
"Introductions will have to wait my friend, for now, drink this. It should speed up the healing and give your strength back." said the mystery pony. The Doctor took the bottle still laying against the wall and eyed it slowly. He proceeded to sniff it and looked up to the pony. "It's alright, not poison, although, I will warn you that netherwart may not be the best tasting thing out there! But we'll get into details later, those ghasts really seemed agitated!"

The Doctor then decided it was better than nothing so he downed the entire bottle. It was sweet, a hint of apple but something disgusting creeped into the taste."Must be the netherwart" the Doctor thought to himself. After 10 mins the Doctor finally found the energy to stand up and found his body no longer burnt or cut.
"Thanks for that potion, my names the Doctor. But I'm not from here...and neither are you, right?"
"Well, I'm mostly known by the name of Mr T but you can call me Terrance. You're right too, I'm not from here! But I've been in this dimension for a long...long time!"
"How'd you get here?"
"Well.....it's a long story....."


Flashback Scene


Mr T's Narration


About 20 years ago, in Ponyville I was with a group of scientists who were working on inter dimensional transportation. While I reluctantly helped, I was always warning them that the whole project could cause devastating consequences should it go wrong. They of course denied these worries and rambled on about how they can revolutionise the world! I eventually stopped giving advice and spoke to Princess Celestia about it. She's a very close friend of mine. Back then, I was still on all 4 hoofs with no clothing apart from my scientist’s uniform. I was also much smaller back in that day!

After speaking to Celestia she came to a decision that she will attend the ceremony of showing it off to the public. Now, I had the most knowledge about the whole project and so I was picked to be the test subject. I tried to persuade them otherwise...but they wouldn't listen. They were so frantic over changing the world that they wouldn't come to reason with any warning! Reluctantly, I stepped inside the machine and the glass door closed in front of me. 

It was then where I knew I couldn't turn back. The chief scientist then announced what should happen and pulled down the lever with confidence. But instead of the gentle hum of the generator staring to power up, lightning of all colours shot out of the top of the chamber I was in, it was at that point I was banging at the glass yelling out "What did I say? WHAT DID I SAY??? I also knew that I would either be killed or shot away somewhere. And that’s exactly what happened, I saw the machine start to flame and random energy bolts shooting out everywhere. Then a flash of white light enveloped me as the machine exploded. 

That’s when I woke up in the strange land. Over the years I began to adapt to walk on my hind legs. I then acquired some cloth from random blocks of it scattered about and made myself this suit. After more years I had become wary of the creatures in this dimension....or sub dimension as I call it nowadays. I'll explain more on that later though. I knew of the Ghasts, which were what attacked you and, what I believed to have seen, your 2 friends. There’s also the Zombie Pigmen, they won’t harm you or anyone....as long as you don't hurt them first, and they carry golden swords. There’s the magma cube which bounces but separates in slices revealing a core inside as it does so. I'd advise you get away from them though. While they are slow, if you kill a large one, it'll split into 4 more and so on until all the smallest have died. It's related to the Slime, of which lives in another sub dimension. Next up are the Blazes, they're floating heads with hot sticks flying around them. They charge up and when they're primed, they have a fire start around them. That’s bad as they're ready to rapid fire 3 fireballs at their target. They also burn and hurt to touch.

After a while, I managed to find a dead body of a block man of sorts and found gold and various things around by the body. I then forged myself these arm bands with the glowing green gem being from what was with me as I travelled here. I have since been living in this world...but also hopping back and forth between sub dimensions. Using this I've brought things here and made a few things. I have a friend named Steve. He's another block man. Found him after my 5th year of being here. I haven't seen him for 10 years since he went missing one day. I'll leave out those details but as for the things I've created, well, we'll get to that later on as well!


Flashback Scene End


Normal Narration


After Terrance had finished his flashback and info to the doctor, the Doctor took full understanding. "I just hope Twilight and Rainbow Dash are okay..." said the Doctor with a worried tone. Mr T looked at the Doctor and started another long explanation of sorts.
"Lemme tell you how I found you. I was off on one of my walks looking for more soulsand, it's basically brown sand cubes that slow you down when you walk on it. Anyway, as I was looking, I saw a large ground of Ghasts gathered around one area. I knew instantly that they were hunting someone, or in this case somepony...ponies! As I got there you had passed out but using my arm bracelet, I cast a repelling spell that fire the ghasts back a few blocks back while stunning them. This gave me time to drag you back here. I also noticed the black frame of obsidian. That was a portal frame. It links between this sub dimension called the Nether to the other main sub dimension called the Overworld. Through my studies there is apparently a 3rd sub dimension. But that can wait for later. I've actually been thinking of a way to get back to our dimension. Back to ponyville! How did you get here exactly?"

"Well, I'm the last of the Timelords, I have this Tardis.....had...." the doctor paused for a few seconds before continuing on "Anyway, I visited Ponyville in Equestria but only after a few days of being there, a time storm broke out as I was with Twilight. Then we went to gather Rainbow Dash then we all flew into the centre time storm that turned out to be a portal! Then we crashed here but the Tardis got picked up in a lava stream and........" the Doctor paused again stifling tears. "So, after THAT....we walked along going to nowhere in particular when we got attacked by those ghasts as you call them. As I was blacking out, I saw a purple light in that black frame of...obsidian you called it I believe, and they were both gone." the Doctor finished lowering his head to the floor.
"I'm sorry for your loss Doctor....but for now, it's time I show you what I've made here and get you a suit and a arm bracelet like mine! After all....." Mr T paused for a few seconds and the Doctor looked up at Mr T with a funny smile as if he was half sad and half happy. Mr T then held out what appeared to be a diamond pickaxe and looked down at it. He then put on a serious face and spoke....
"I pity the FOAL that tries to screw things up!"

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