It all started with a trip to another planet. Any plan can go awry, and for the TARDIS that's just how it usually ended up. The dark blue box landed in its usual grinding way on a mysterious planet. Voices could be heard from inside as the door opened.
"Where are we again Doctor?" The bubbly curious voice of a blond pegasis mare asked.
“ Oh, you’ll love this place Ditzy. The whole planet is nothing but giraffes"" replied a colt with chocolate brown fur and a darker brown mane. "They all have necks 2 meters long! And they are covered with spots. Just wait till you see they're....” The Doctor’s voice trailed off. “This isn’t Giraffrica,” he said his brow furrowed. Instead of open plains with tall tall tree and warm grass, they were instead in a dark, cold laboratory. The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS, looking around; his hooves crunching on broken glass.
“Watch your step out here Ditzy there's a lot of…” He looked over his shoulder to see that Ditzy was, as usual, hovering above the ground; her head tilted looking back at him inquisitively. “Right. Wings.”
Ditzy shivered. “I thought where we were going would be much warmer Doctor. It’s FREEZING!” She rubbed her fore hooves together.
He pulled out his trusty Sonic Screwdriver and stuck it in his mouth to get readings. It took a few months after he arrived in Equestria and took equine form, for the screwdriver to change its form as well. It no longer burnt his mouth when he used it in his mouth. He still couldn’t get the hang of having hooves instead of hands, and often wondered if he ever would. But it had changed and now he could press the buttons with his teeth now and not suffer from a numb tongue from both the vibrations and the heat. The screwdriver hummed and glowed a soft red as he swept it around the room they were in. The Doctor took it back out of his mouth to look at it.
“Hmm, no signs of life detected. Seems like this place is quite abandoned. Still, there has to be a reason we arrived here instead of where we wanted to go.”
Ditzy flew around the middle of the room they were in. “The TARDIS sure likes to do that doesn’t it?” she asked.
“Yes, she does.” The Doctor walked around the room in the opposite direction that Ditzy went into. It seemed the TARDIS never went where he wanted her to go. She had a strong willed mind of her own, taking him where he NEEDED to be rather than where he WANTED to go.
He passed many empty clear capsules, all dark. But then he stopped at one that wasn’t empty, nor dark.
“Ditzy come here quick!” He called over to his faithful pegasus companion. She flew over to the side of the room he was, in front of the occupied chamber. She followed his gaze. “I guess this place isn’t as abandoned as we thought.”
Inside the capsule was a rather young, pink and purple unicorn.
"Who is she, Doctor?" Ditzy asked.
The Doctor held the sonic screwdriver to the panel next to the capsule. "I don't know about WHO, but she IS alive. It seems she's in some sort of cryogenic stasis." He was hard to understand as he had put the sonic back in his mouth to continue trying to get readings on the machinery.
Ditzy scratched her head confused, "Cryo WHAT!?"
The Doctor removed the screwdriver from his mouth. "Cryogenic stasis. Basically she's in a deep deep sleep intended for a long period of time. I'm trying to see if I can.... THERE we are!"
AWAKENING PROCESS ACTIVATED
Suddenly the door to the capsule opened. The young filly seemed unstable on her feet as she stumbled out of the capsule only to collapse into the Doctor's hooves.