//------------------------------// // Chapter 31: Travelling Home // Story: The Recluse // by Live Light //------------------------------// The Recluse Chapter 31 ______________________________________________________________ -----Point of View: The Woodland 6----- Fuzzy Ferret paced repeatedly on the table. Tim, incidentally a cat, watched him with confusion, Cutie Mouse watched him with worry, and Hyper grinned uncomfortably. "It's only been a minute since Hyper last spoke, Fuzzy..." Tim said, "Calm down." "No." Fuzzy replied. "...Um... please?" Cutie asked. "No." "Goose." Hyper said. "What." Fuzzy said, looking at Hyper. "Oh, didn't think that'd get your attention. Calm down or I'll throw a brick at y-" "No." "Can't throw bricks anyway..." Hyper looked sad for a moment. "Hey, guys," A familiar voice came distantly. Every one looked around, until they saw things coming out of rabbit holes. Which happened to be the rabbits they were looking for. "You would not believe what I've been through today..." Angel said, looking exasperated. ----- ----- After taking some moments to inhale needed breath, the travellers looked around the place. "Well... I think I've dealt with enough events for today. I think we should get you two home," The Doctor said, looking to Light and Fluttershy. They nodded, and got up, making their way to the TARDIS. Along the way, Ditzy brought up something that had been bothering her. "Hey, guys," She said, "Remember when that crazy demon guy said something about us forgetting something?" "I... think he means Dave..." Light said. "He seemed to have gone elsewhere during the fight." "Hrm... Maybe he'll like it here," the Doctor suggested. "And just in case, we could always come back and check on him." "Seems fine. You okay with that, Fluttershy?" Light asked. "Well... yes," She replied, "I mean, we can't leave him behind. And this TARDIS thing... it can take us to the planet a few seconds after we left, right?" "Absolutely!" The Doctor said, "Which reminds me, I have to drop you off 5 seconds after you left, right?" "R-right." Fluttershy replied. "Alright, then. I'll get to that. We're here!" He announced, as they arrived at the blue box. The Doctor opened the doors, and as everypony walked through it, they got quite a surprise. "And what's this little knob thingy? Looks useless, and what's with all the tentacle stuff? It's like tentacle erotica, but not coming from octopuses. Octopusi. How do you say that. Nevermind, Octopuses are weird. At least these tentacles are sorts of... walls... and not moving tentacles. Aliens are weeeeiiiird. I wonder how Amy and Rory are doing, haven't gotten a chance to see the new episodes on TV- AGH!" Deathelocke yelped as he noticed the travellers were in the TARDIS, watching him fiddle about with it. "Hahahahahai there! I heard an inhaling sound and it sounded really familiar! And I was right! And for some reason, this is for horses now! Funny!" He... explained. "...I noticed," The Doctor simply said, "What do you mean it's familiar?" "Err... Doc," Light began, "There's a lot of movies called Doctor... Whooves that turn up around the place... and they're apparently about you. Is that where you got it from, Dave?" "Uhh.... SURE! Yeah, sure! Somehow! Yeah!" He replied uncertainly. "Well, I guess that explains it..." The Doctor said, shrugging, "Although those would most likely be based on eye-witness accounts. Anyway, we should get you and Fluttershy home." He then walked over to his TARDIS control panel (After motioning for Deathelocke to get out of the way) and pressed a few buttons. -----Point of View: The Woodland 6----- "So then what happened?" Hyper asked. "Well, the Doctor took us back, the crazy guy in the blue costume dragged Light and Fluttershy into bed, practically forced them to sleep so he could sleep by himself downstairs, and after me and Angel comforted Fluttershy, while Light got out of bed to scold the crazy blue guy, we went here and told you guys the story." Miss Rabbit concluded. "Uh... huh..." Tim said, with obvious disbelief in his voice. "I told you there were aliens." Fuzzy deadpanned. "Yes. There are aliens..." Angel said, "Don't rub it in on us..." "You know, it could just be a mobile vehicle that took you to some uncharted forest somewhere in Equestria," Tim suggested, "That'd be logical." "Explain the part where we said it was 'bigger on the inside.'" Miss Rabbit challenged. "Exaggeration." Tim replied nonchalantly. "Oh, I'll show you exa-" Angel began furiously. "Ssshhh." Miss Rabbit shushed. "...Yes, ma'am..." Angel said quietly. "I personally believe their story." Hyper said. He swiftly appeared next to Cutie Mouse, "Do you believe?" He asked. "...Well... Angel doesn't prefer to lie... and I don't see why he would... s-suddenly believe in something he s-said was impossible... without a good reason..." Cutie replied honestly, a bit creeped out with how close Hyper was. "Indubitably," He said like a gentlehamster. "Which is now 5 against 1. So we are going to treat the experience as true, headcanon, and the first time I had made a reference such as this.... I think." Angel blinked. Then sighed. "Ugh... I'm tired. I'm gonna go to sleep. Good night..." Angel went to his crawlspace to get out of the Hedge and into Fluttershy's cottage, where he can comfortably sleep (Hopefully, considering Deathelocke's presence.) "Same with me... Good night." Miss Rabbit said, before heading to her own crawlspace to sleep in the cottage as well. ... ... ... ... "Why are they tired? It isn't that dark yet." Tim asked. "Time travel," Hyper answered, "It does stuff to ya......... WHO WANTS PIE!?" ----- ----- AUTHOR'S NOTES Yeesh... finished the arc... sorry if this was small. I have stuff planned for next time. No Doctor. Plenty of weird blue guy. And pink. :vaporgrin: