Freeze Up - Chapter 2: Daylight
A bright beam of sunlight shined upon the two ponies who were huddled against a blue phone box. The brown stallion was first to open his eyes. His first observation upon opening his eyes was that a fresh layer of frost had appeared overnight on the surface of Telos. Both the coat of his companion and his own had a small gleam of frost to it. The Doctor then looked to the sleep grey pegasus next to him.
Lightly shaking her body, the time stallion spoke to the mare, "Rise and shine, Derpy."
The blonde maned pony was a little slow to respond. Opening her eyes, she looked up to the Doctor's eyes before snuggling back up to the brown pony and the scarf, "Morning, Doctor."
The Doctor smiled to the pegasus, "How well did you rest?
"Great! And you?"
"Just fine, despite the dangerously low temperatures. But you can't worry about the small things like that! They just get in the way!" The Doctor stood up onto his hooves and shook his entire body, shaking the frost of his body.
Derpy watched the Doctor before standing up and untangling herself from the scarf to do the same. After shivering from her hooves to the tips of her wings, she noticed the Doctor was fiddling with the door of the TARDIS with his sonic screwdriver.
"What'cha doing, Doctor?" the mare asked, her right eye slowly drifting to the side.
"Oh, just a little of this and a little of that and….there!" as the Doctor's exclaimed, the door of the TARDIS flung open inward.
Excitedly, Derpy flung her front limbs around the stallion's neck, "You did it!"
"Yes, I did, but I couldn't have done it without your help, Derpy," the Doctor explained.
Releasing the brown pony from her embrace, Derpy gave a puzzled look as she trotted into the time machine.
"If it weren't for your scarf of many colors, we wouldn't have stood a chance like an energy being against a Cyberman," the brown stallion knelt down and picked up the scarf with his mouth. Dragging it inside of the TARDIS, he threw the scarf back on its rightful place on the hat stand, next to a wide-brimmed hat.
Derpy immediately felt bashful at the Doctor's comment, despite not understanding the last part of the sentence. She sheepishly rubbed the back of her neck with one of her hooves while softly giggling.
The Doctor looked to her and smiled before he closed the TARDIS doors. In one fluid motion the doctor rushed to the console, pausing only for a moment to pick up a piece of celery on that was lying on the floor to put in his mouth. After pulling a few levers and turning a few knobs, the Doctor looked towards his pegasus companion and spoke, "So, shall we try for planet with snow this time around?"
Derpy excitedly nodded, "Yay! Can we bring Dinky along?"
"I don't see why not," the time stallion replied, flipping a number of switches and chewing on the celery stock, "we can go pick her up in the middle of her classes to come along, the more the merrier!"
With that, the blue phone box made a strange noise as it began to disappear from the cold and rocky surface of Telos.
END (for now)