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// Love at First Sight? 
// Story: Fluttershy and the Dalek: Opposites Attract 
// by the ghost 
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Love at First sight?


Rainbow Dash blew through the forest and arrived first at the crash site, Fluttershy followed close behind.  
The meteor if that’s what it was had cleared a bath around one hundred meters wide through the forest until came to a stop after about fiver hundred meters.  There were small fires lit around the area.  The object itself seemed to be a gold metallic disk.  Small fires burned on the outside of it.

“Whoa.”   Said Rainbow Dash.

“Ooooo.  It’s like a giant Frisbee, except it’s made of metal.”  Said Pinkie popping up from nowhere startling Fluttershy.  Dash was less surprised. 

“I didn’t know Meteors were saucer shaped.  I thought they would look more, I don’t know star shaped?”  Said Fluttershy after she looked around for any hurt animals.  She found a baby bird that had fallen out of its nest.  She quickly returned it to its parents and then joined the Rainbow and Pinkie.  

“Well duh, that’s because it’s not a meteor, this is clearly a Dalek space ship.  How many times do I have to say it?”  Said Pinkie Pie

“It’s an alien ship?  Like the aliens form “Daring Doo and the Crystal Skull”?  That’s awesome! Let’s go take a look inside!”  Said Rainbow Dash.  

Fluttershy was less eager.  

“B-but what if the aliens aren’t’ nice like the little green colts from that book?  What if they…eat meat or worse?”  Said Fluttershy panicky.

“Well you don’t know that now do you?  Besides what if sompony or somealien in there is hurt?”

Fluttershy pictured somepony with his leg trapped underneath some rubble, calling sompony to come rescue him.  Well if there were injured if there were injured ponies inside then she would have to be brave.  

“Ok…” said Fluttershy reluctantly.  The three ponies looked around the outside meteor/spaceship looking for an entrance.   There was no sign of one.  

“I don’t get it.  If there are little green colts in there how do they get in and out?”  Said Rainbow Dash.   

“Oh well, we tried, let’s go home now?”  Said Fluttershy.  

Suddenly a hatch on top of the ship sprung open as if it was a mouth of a creature inviting them inside.



***


Inside the ship Dalek Zek was doing a damage check on himself and his ship. 

“Check of all systems has indicates complete loss of function of all systems with the exceptions of some lighting and door mechanisms.” Said the main computer before it shorted out.

Repair is impossible with this type damage.  Zek himself had received minor damage, though many dents covered his black Dalek armor.  He would not be able to do a full system analysis however until he could get upright.  

As it was, he was trapped on his sides underneath metal and wire debris that had fallen on him.  He turned his mid section and tried to free himself using his plunger arm.  No matter how much he struggled he could not get himself free.  At last the Dalek gave up his struggle and was ready to except his fate of rotting in the bottom of his ship.  When he suddenly heard the noise of the cargo door opening.

***

The three ponies walked over to the hatch that had just opened.  Above the entrance read Xob Llac Ecilop in some alien language. 

“It says the “Sickness” in alien.” translated Pinkie Pie.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes at that.

Fluttershy peered into the dark entrance of the space ship.   Light from the moon only illuminated it partly it was impossible to see what lay beyond that point.”

“Huh what do you know.  I guess it was a space ship.”  Said Rainbow Dash.

“See told you.”  Said Pinkie Pie. 

“I-it sure is dark in there…” said Fluttershy getting the feeling that some kind of horrible monster was waiting down there just out of her sight.  

“Good thing I brought flash lights!”    Said Pinkie Pie pulling out three flashlights.   “In case of flash light emergencies.”  Pinkie handed each of them a flashlight.  

“Ok let’s go.”  

The three ponies descended into the ship.  Looking around they could see a technology that was beyond their wildest dreams.  The walls were covered with circuits and pipes that led deep into the ship.  None of them knew what any of it did.  

Ooooo, that’s a neutron flow machine.   Oh and that’s polarity reverser! " Exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

None of them.

“And that’s a…sonic…screwdriver…” Pinkie Pie trailed off as she looked at a metallic object on the floor.  She seemed to space out a little bit.  

“Pinkie are you ok?”  Asked Fluttershy.  She was worried.  It wasn’t normal for Pinkie Pie to stop talking mid sentence.  

“Huh? Yeah i'm fine someone just needs to turn down their music.  Now lets go!”  She skipping off to the beat of some sort of unseen drum.  

Rainbow dash shrugged and followed Pinkie.  Fluttershy afraid to be by herself in this dark and alien spaceship followed.  The three ponies walked for minutes a twisty hallway.  There were a few doors on each side, but they couldn’t find anyway to open them.  After minutes of walking they reached a three-way fork in the hallway.

“Well I guess this is where we split up.”  Said Rainbow Dash.  

“Wait, what. Split up?  Like separate from each other?”  Said Fluttershy feeling panic growing.

“Don’t worry, just yell real loud if you need anything and I’ll save ya.  We’ll meet back here in about an hour.  Ok?”  Said Rainbow Dash.

“B-but b-but-”   

“All set?  move out troops!”  said Rainbow Dash as she flew off into left tunnel.  

“I’ll see ya latter Fluttershy.”  Said Pinkie Pie as she bounced off into the middle tunnel

Leaving Fluttershy alone.
In the dark
On an alien spaceship.  

Ok Fluttershy you can do this.  All you need is to hold keep it together.  Forget that you’re in a terrifying, dark, alien spaceship.  With no lights.  She almost decided to turn back. But then she thought about somepony being trapped.  Alone in a terrifying, dark, alien spaceship.  She couldn’t leave somepony like that. 

Fluttershy took a deep breath and pressed onwards.  She took the passage on the left.  She walked through when there was not a lot of debris and flew when there was too much.  Her flashlight was held in between her teeth.  It cast it’s light off of the pipes casting strange shadows to appear on the walls.  They scared Fluttershy.  But she pressed on anyway.

Suddenly there was a loud noise.  The sound of a wall collapse caused Fluttershy to jump into the air.  She looked over at the collapsed wall.  It had opened a passage to some sort of main room.

“Oh just the crumbling wall of the creepy space ship Fluttershy nothing to be worried about.”  She said trying to reassure herself.

Fluttershy was about to move on when she heard a voice.

“Help me.” Croaked the metallic voice.

Fluttershy immediately hid behind a pile of rubble.  

“Help me, somebody.”  Croaked the voice.  Fluttershy nervously peaked her head over the rubble.  She had never heard a voice like that.  And she never anypony use the phrase, “somebody”, before.  But if there was one thing that Fluttershy never did it was abandon sompony who needed help.  

Fluttershy had never heard anypony talk that before.  But being whoever it was needed help.  “Don’t worry I’m coming.” said Fluttershy going through the hole in the wall.  On the other side of the wall was what looked like the main bridge of the ship with cracked computer monitors and scanners and who knows what else.   In the center of the room was a bunch of debris on top of a trashcan-looking thing.

“Hello?  Is anypony in here?

“Over here.”  Said the voice.  It was coming from the debris.  Who ever it was must be trapped underneath.

“I’m coming don’t worry!”  Said Fluttershy.  She flew over to the debris “But where are you?  All I see is debris.”

Suddenly the trashcan was speaking to her the light bulbs on top of it’s head flashing as it spoke.  

“Help me, I’m trapped under this rubble, please assist.”  



Fluttershy was almost in too much shock to help the poor thing.  On closer inspection it did not look like a trash can at all.  It was a sleek black and so shiny that she could see her reflection even though it had several dents and burn marks on.  It had bumps running down it’s sides and a stock on it’s top.   What looked like a plunger and some kind of stick poked out from its mid section.  

It was beautiful Fluttershy had never seen anything like it before.  It was so shiny and elegant although she was sure some would disagree.  She stared at it in shock.

“Assist me life form.”  It repeated.  “Assist.”  

“O-o-of course.”  Said Fluttershy brushing off her initial shock.   She jumped to her hooves to help this strange alien, for that's what the creature must be.  “How did this happen to you? Are there any more of you?” said Fluttershy pulling off the wreckage.

“I...don't know.”  He said and then was silent.  

Oh no this poor robot.  All his robot friends must have been killed in the crash. 

After minutes of shifting the trashcan-robot was free.  Fluttershy hoisted him into an upright position.  

“Up you go.   Um are you ok Mr. Robot?  Are you hurt anywh-

“I will ask the questions inferior life form!”  The creature yelled startling Fluttershy.    

“What planet is this?" 

"Well, this is Equestria Mr. Robot now if you could-”  

“What type of organism are you?”  Demanded the Dalek with its harsh voice  

“Well… I’m a pony if that’s what you’re asking.”  

“You belong to the species known as ponies?”  The machine said putting stress on every syllable.  

“Yes and what about y-you.”  Stammered Fluttershy.  

“I am a Dalek I am the superior race.  I have no further use for you.  You will be EX-TER-MIN-ATED!”   The Dalek aimed its weapon towards Fluttershy…