//------------------------------// // Alrescha ♓ End of the Road // Story: 6.7.11 // by Morningstar1337 //------------------------------// ??? ??:00 Hermes had teleported to a spaceship somewhere. The machine heard battle cries of some sort. "Sontar-HA! Sontar-HA! Sontar-HA!" Hermes had found itself an a Sontaren warship. The Sontarens noticed the machine and pointed their weapons. They were prepared to fire. The machine said "Help." One Sontaren said "Help?" "Help...Earth." The teleportation that he used had nearly broke his vocal circuits. "Why should we help the Earth huh?" Another Sontaren said. "Help...Doctor." the aliens laughed and let a shot out. "The Doctor is dead." "War...coming...Time Lords...returning...Silence..." The machine collapsed on the ground. "War?" The first Sontaren said. The General said "Men set coordinates for earth. We must see what kind of war this machine warned us about." The Sontarens set their course for earth. The cries of "Sontar-HA!" resonated across the warship. Hermes Whispered "Activate emergency code 1167B." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ??? ??:00 The 6 ponies were still exploring the tomb. They came across another statue. The statue said "Why are you here?" Applejack said "Beg pardon?" The statue said "I must know why you are here. If you speak the truth I will let you pass. Why are you here on this piece of existence?" Twilight thought 'Applejack I think you should handle this one.' Applejack thought 'But why Twilight?' Twilight thought 'I don't know. But I think that this place seems connected to us somehow.' Rainbow Dash thought 'Wait, what?' The other 3 were similarly confused. Applejack thought 'Alright sugarcube. Ah'll do it.' She stepped forward to the statue and said "What is it you want to know?" "What were you doing in this universe? Why are you here?" The statue said. Applejack said "Alright then. We were here because we lost our home. Several aliens had took it and stopped time there. We wound up traveling with an unusual man with a blue box inside a universe similar to or home in some respects but different in others." Applejack surprised herself a little bit. She continued "We think that a peculiar set of items would help us return to our home and return it back to normal. We already gathered up the rest of those items. We just need what's in this place." The statue said "And from where do you come from?" "Equestria." The orange mare said. The statue was glowing for several moments, for which it was scanning Applejack. Afterwards the statue said "You speak the truth. Go, the chronosteel awaits you." The statue sunk into the floor and reveal a path. The ponies were relieved. Twilight pondered 'First Me, then Pinkie, then Rainbow, then Rarity, now Applejack. That leaves...' The purple mare looked to Fluttershy. She then thought about the Elements of Harmony. The bearers moved forward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ??? ??:00 The Doctor, River Song and Alexander III were looking for the others. They saw an open door. River said "Think they might be there?" "Someone is." The Doctor said. The trio entered the hallway. Alexander said "Doctor, you've been to other worlds right?" The Doctor said "Sure. I've been to tons of worlds." "Did you conquer any?" Alex said. "No. I'm a traveler, not an emperor." The Doctor said. The group continued down the hall. Meanwhile Amy's group had found a hidden pathway in one of the rooms. There were small holes and singed walls. Rory pondered "What are lasers doing in a place like this?" forgetting the fact that this ship was only masquerading as a hidden tomb. They took the left pathway. Cheerilee and Starsong had noticed some movement form the shadows... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ??? ??:00 Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy were in another chamber. They triggered a trap. The wall grew spikes and were closing in on them. There were spikes on the ceiling as well. Quicksand was pouring in through walls and there were stone fish swimming in the sand. Rainbow Dash said "Oh come on!" The sand had flooded the room. The stone fish looked wounded. Several were missing their fins, others were swimming without a tail, a feat that baffled the ponies. The fish were also coated in scales. Twilight used her magic to stop the walls and ceiling but they were still moving and the ponies were still sinking. Fluttershy was the first to sink. She held her breath as she swam for a solution. Rainbow Dash flew to avoid the sand and fish. The other 4 mares were sinking like stones. Fluttershy noticed the wounds on some of the fish. The other 5 ponies were trying to keep as much air in as they cam but the sand-sea rose to the point that the spiked ceiling were 5 feet away. The walls were still closing in, waiting to skewer and crush those trapped in this room. 'Fluttershy!' Rainbow Dash yelled as she flew down. She could not see the yellow pegasus anywhere here. Meanwhile under the sand's surface Fluttershy went to one of the fish and 'You're hurt aren't you?' She then thought saw some stones on the floor of the water. She surfaced and said "I need help." She began coughing up some sand, took a deep breath and dove again. The other 5 ponies did the same for the sand soon filled up the room. Once under the sand's surface Twilight thought 'What's going on?' 'Those fish,' thought Fluttershy. 'They look hurt.' She pointed to the stone fish who looked more eroded by the second. They were in pain. The ponies saw several stone that looked like they could replace the missing scales on the floor. The 6 ponies swam to the bottom and began to applying the scales to the fish. Suddenly the walls stopped as they "fixed" one of the fish. Twilight and Fluttershy fix several more fish in this school and the walls began to retract back to their original positions. The ponies were swinnign around picking up the loose scales from the floor and attaching them to the fish. With every fish that was restored the walls were going backwards even more. The sand begun sinking as well. The school of petrified fish was becoming restored fish by fish, piece by piece, scale by scale. They have finished with the last one. the school of fish was restored. The sand began to empty out of the room at an incredible rate. The fish were returning back to their homes. Eventually the sand was gone and a wall had an opening appear. The ponies were gasping for air. Pinkie thought 'Wow for a moment I thought we were not gonna make it there. Can you believe how depressing that would be?' 'We get it.' Rainbow thought. The ponies noticed the door and went in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ??? ??:00 Homonoia was inside a chamber with something in the center. She said "Any minuet now." Meanwhile the Doctor, River, and Alexander were still traveling the hallway. The Doctor was a little curious he said "Why did you want to conquer the worlds Alex?" The king of Macedon said "I want to unite the world Doctor. I believe in Homonoia." "Homonoia?" River said. remembering the blue earth pony going by that name. "Unity. A union of hearts, being one mind together." Alexander said. "Worse men than you have tried to take over the world." River deadpanned. The Doctor knew that this was a few months before Alexander's death. He said "Why is it called Homonoia?" Alex said "For the goddess of concord and unity of course. Why do you ask?" The Doctor said "I have enough of stuff named for gods." They eventually went to the end of the tunnel. There they saw Homonoia there. She said "Hello. How you've been?" River still could not trust that blue pony. She knew that her name now holds significance. and that significance is suspect. Shortly after the bearers of the Elements of Harmony entered the room. Twilight said "Doctor?" The Doctor said "There you are. We've been looking everywhere in this ship for you." The Doctor then noticed something and said "And now we'll be looking all over this ship for Rose and the others." Applejack said "Umm ship?" then thought 'That would explain the lasers.' The group noticed the spheres in the center. They were chronosteel. The center piece was magenta with the sign and constellation for Pisces. The other pieces had the constellations Carina, Cepheus, Fornax, Horologium, Lacerta, Lepus, Pisces Austinus, and Tucana on them. Alexander said "What in the world is that?" The Doctor said "Blood chronosteel. An unnatural perversion of the sous trapped within and the time stream in general." Alex then asked about the ponies but the Doctor didn't answer. The Doctor scanned the pedestal the metal was on. He said "We must remove this metal carefully. If we disturb the pedestal it will collapse the entire temple on us." Pinkie's tail began to twitch at that exact moment. She said "Um guys?" The group got distracted by Pinkie's tail. Homonoia went to the chronosteel and took it off the pedestal. A pebble from the pedestal fell off. The tomb began shaking. River said "What the hell?" She then looked at Homonoia with a bag filled by the chronosteel form the pedestal. Everyone looked at her. The blue earth pony said "Oops." Just then another door began to open. On the other side were Amy and Rory's group, marked. Rory said "Doctor we have a problem." The Doctor deadpanned "You don't say?" The group looked at the marks. The Doctor said "We should run now." The group now reunited and with the last of the chronosteel decide to flee the collapsing ship and the evade the Silence. They took the way the Doctor, River and Alexander came in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ??? ??:00 The Doctor's group were running as fast of they can to escape the ship disguised as a temple before it collapses on them. But the Silents were everywhere trying to stop them. Fortunately, River Song and Alexander were no strangers to killing. And Twilight had a large barrier over the group to protect from falling debris. They escaped the long hallway but they were not out of the woods yet. There were several gaps caused by the collapse. Twilight made some platforms but her strength was sapped. The group went over the platform before both they and the barrier vanished and the purple mare collapsed. Rainbow Dash carried Her the rest of the way. Eventually they made it outside but... "Well I see you didn't take me up on my offer." Korvarian and several Silents have surrounded the place. The Doctor said "What are you doing here?" There was sand flowing out from the Hanging Gardens. "You know why I'm here. You lied to the universe Doctor." Korvarian said. Alexander whispered "Go now I'll keep them distracted." "The Silents will kill you." the Doctor said. "Look at them, You can't survive this." Alex said "There is nothing impossible for he who will try Doctor. I know that you are as important to the universe as I am to my kingdom." The king drew his sword and said "Go!" The Doctor and his group left for the TARDIS The Silents tried to stop them but they were ether killed or stopped by any of the group's members. Alex said "Now then witch. Have at ye." And began charging at the aliens. He slaughtered several aliens while the Doctor's group escapes. Meanwhile the Silents were following them all over Babylon. The group saw the TARDIS and entered the box. Rose River and Applejakc tried to keep the aliens at bay as they approached the TARDIS. The Doctor and Rory jury rigged something inside. The group made their way in as the TARDIS began to vanish. The Silents were trying to break in the TARDIS. But were stopped by Rose and River's blasters and the box vanished. Later Alexander's was wounded. He had slain over half of the aliens. The Hanging Gardens had fully collapsed. Korvarian was cross. She said "You had sealed you fate Alexander. And the fate of the Earth." with a slight sneer. "We are leaving." The Aliens left. Later Alex collapsed and was found by several guards. A guard shouted "Sire!" And rushed him to the nearest shelter to get treated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 Later The Doctor's went to the dwarf-star alloyed room and let the pieces of chronosteel go there. The chronosteel in Homonoia's bag had took their place and Pisces's sign (♓) glowed a brilliant magenta. The Doctor noticed that the zodiac sign were colors in the rainbow. "Fitting he said." He checked the Antikythera mechanism but the needled never moved. It had no reason to. The Doctor had collected all the chronosteel. The device is now just like the other Antykythera mechanisms. The Doctor left the chronosteel room. Meanwhile The Doctor companions were having a small celebration. They had all 88 pieces of the chronosteel. Now all that's left is for the Doctor to study it and find a way to return the metal spheres to their true forms. The Doctor took out his Tarot Cards and found that some of them had dropped out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ London 7:00 AM 9/14/2012 Martha and Mickey were in their home waiting for updates from Jack Harkness. There was a news story about all the stars disappearing. Marhta's phone rang. She answered it and said "Hello?" Jack was on the other side. He said "They're here!" Later Martha and Mickey went to Jack's location. There they saw several Silents and a woman with an eye patch. Jack and Gwen along with another man were busy fighting off the aliens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor picked up the first fallen card. The Hanged Man. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ London 8:00 AM Martha and her group were fighting off the aliens. They saw something in the sky. It was a Sontaren warship! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor picked up the next fallen card. The 10 of swords. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ London 8:01 AM Hermes had beamed down form the war ship and started to fight the aliens. He took the wings off his shoes were being improvised as blades. Jack and his friend noticed one of them had a machine with a blue unicorn strapped to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor picked up the next card. Death, upside down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ London 8:05 AM Hermes was overpowered. The Silents had taken him and vanished. The blue unicorn was screaming in pain as she cast a spell she was forced to cast over and over again for the last 107 times. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor picked up the next card. Judgement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ London 8:10 AM The blue unicorn was ready to cast her spell. Martha, Jack, Gwen, Mickey, and Rex tried to examine her but were beamed up to the warship. The Sontarens fled Earth's atmosphere as the blue unicorn cast the spell for the last time. Earths was trapped in one miniscule moment in time. Unmoving. Unknowing. Silent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TARDIS ??:00 The Doctor picked up the last fallen card. It was upside down with "IXX" And "ǝsɹǝʌıu∩ ǝɥ⊥" Written on the lower right and top respectively. The Doctor noticed the planet depicted here. He knew it all too well. Gallifrey. The slip with the prophecy form the Planet of Lotuses had flew out of his pocket. Most of the letters had faded, But the ones that remained left a message. GALLIFREY WILL RISE. SILENCE WILL FALL.