Moon Dancer entered the room. She saw the Doctor working away at the Cybermare locator at the table. “Doctor,” she started, “did you get any sleep?”
“Of course I did,” The Doctor said. “I got sixty whole minutes. It was great.”
Moon Dancer looked at the Doctor and turned around. She soon came back with a fruit carried by the magic of her horn. She sat it on the table next to the locator. “Breakfast is served.”
The Doctor looked up to see a pear next to him. “Oh no, I can’t eat that,” the Doctor said.
“Why not?” Moon Dancer asked.
“Well, it’s a pear,” the Doctor replied. “One of the most disgusting things of them all. I’ve traveled across all of time and the most repulsive thing I’ve ever tasted was a pear!”
“All right, I get it,” Moon Dancer said, hoping to have cut him off. She left the room again and came back with an apple. “Other than the pears this is the best fruit we’ve got.”
Like she said, the apple seemed significantly older than the pear with several bruises. Granted, it was still most certainly edible.
“Ah, a fine fruit the apple is,” The Doctor declared before taking a bite.
Moon Dancer sat down next to him as he ate the apple. “Any hints on the locator?” Moon Dancer asked, eating a pear of her own.
“I believe I’m close,” the Doctor said, putting the apple down. “All I need is a bit more time before I can open it.”
“Why has it taken so long?” Moon Dancer asked.
“They are used by the Cybermares to find the way back to where they “turn others into Cybermares,” The Doctor explained. “They are made to open with their suit on the front hoof.” The Doctor pointed to his front left hoof to show where it would go. “They open automatically when they cybermares think it with their suit, but they never considered opening it manually. Not to mention this technology,” he pointed to the tools. “The Cybermares made these with a bit more advanced tool set. However, I might be close to opening it, even with these tools.”
Moon Dancer and the Doctor sat together in the command room making conversation every now and then. However, the Doctor continued to try to open the locator for hours. Many ponies came and went while the Doctor worked away.
Moon Dancer seemed to doze off when she heard something from the table. “Eureka!” the Doctor cried. He held up the Cybermare locator. It was open. The segment that used to be closed was now open. It showed a holographic image of Equestria. On it was a lengthy line going to a spot near Fillydelphia.
“That is where the Cybermares are located,” the Doctor said, looking at the locator. “We’ve finally got them!”
The commotion caused several others to come into the room. All of them looked at the hologram with a twinkle of hope in their eyes.
“We have a tunnel near Fillydelphia,” Moon Dancer said. “It might be close to their base of operation.”
“Excellent,” the Doctor said. “We’ll take the rest of the day to get our things and make the trek to Fillydelphia.”
Lyra spoke up.. “What is our plan exactly.”
The Doctor looked at the mare and explained his plan. “As we can see on this locator, there is only one Cybermare base, so if we take that down, the Cybermares will fall. At the very least no more will be made. Then, after we leave with the Tardis, you all can advance toward the Pie family farm. There should be tons of gold there where you can forge some type of weapons to take down the remaining Cybermares.”
“What are you going to do?” Bob Bon asked.
“Me and my companion,” the Doctor said pointing to Derpy, “are going to take the Tardis and go back to our timeline. If we’re lucky, we’ll find what the major change that was made that changed the trajectory of events that lead to this timeline.”
The other ponies stared at the Doctor for a moment, not understanding what he was saying. Bon Bon stepped up. “I don’t understand anything you just said, but I know we can take down the Cybermares!”
“Yeah!” the others cheered out.
The Doctor brought all his things together for the next day. Once they had eaten breakfast, they were set to go to Fillydelphia and take down the Cybermares. He packed what he thought he would need: a few tools, map, and some food (though he didn’t let any pears near his bag).
He tried to get some sleep (after packing the closest thing to muffins for Derpy) but found himself restless. He stayed up all night thinking about the plan. Though he tried to convince the others that this plan would work, even he didn’t believe in it fully. He sat there replaying the sicario all night just trying to find any way for it to better.
That wasn’t the only thing he pondered during the night. He also thought about the Cybermares and how they were back. He had several enemies, sure, but none of them attacked him in the years he had been stuck in Ponyville. Sure, there were a few attacks, but they were by the inhabitants of this world (and time). But the Cybermares? They were enemies of his from years and years ago. After the time wars, they should have died out after the moment was activated.
The Doctor was up all night pondering the impossibilities that he was in, never getting a satisfactory answer to any of his questions