//------------------------------// // Weeping by wille179 // Story: False Starts // by wille179 //------------------------------// Weeping By wille179 Description: Joseph is an extremely quiet introvert. He averages less than 100 spoken words per day. He is also a brony. His younger brother, Mike, is a super extrovert and insanely popular at school. Mike hates MLP, or anything his brother likes. There is one exception: Doctor Who. Now the two brothers are trapped on Equestria as their favorite monsters. It just so happens that these two weeping angels look a lot like Celestia and Nightmare Moon. Tags: Comedy, Slice of life, Cross Over (Doctor Who), Human, (some) Dark Characters: Mane 6, Derpy, Doctor Whooves, OC humans Rating: Everyone or Teen (12 hours after arrival) Joseph could feel their gazes upon his petrified body. It was something of a sixth sense. He knew instantly when a pony was looking at him, when they weren’t, and what objects were around him. He had also noticed something else: while many of the ponies looked at him, time seemed to speed up. Then, as fewer and fewer ponies could see him, time seemed to slow. At last, the last pony looking at him blinked. Instantly, he felt life return to his limbs as time reached a crawl. He stepped off of the pedestal he had been perched on and moved to safety. In this state, the ponies appeared to have spotlights shining from their eyes. Joseph assumed these lights marked their fields of vision. Having already figured that he had become a weeping angel, Joseph moved to avoid the fields of light. Some would slowly close while others would open or turn. Even the slightest touch from the eye lights meant that he was seen. In his attempt to escape the Ponyville town square, he had gotten spotted several times, not being fast enough to avoid the lights. But upon being seen, most ponies would blink in surprise, freeing him to move once more. So long as he avoided being seen, time barely moved at all. Joseph ducked into a side street and hid behind one of the buildings. Now hidden from sight, he could finally look himself over. It only took a few moments for him to realize that he stood in the body of a statue of Celestia. He dared not look in a mirror, for fear of being trapped for an unknowable amount of time by his own eyes, which he now realized that he could not close. Prioritizing his needs, Joseph set out. He needed to find Twilight Sparkle. She could possible free him or at least direct him to someone – be it the princesses, scholars, or zebra shaman – who could. Failing that, he could go looking for Time Turner, to see if he actually was the pony form of the doctor. This was a last ditch resort, as he would probably be unwilling or unable to help. Joseph also had a need to find the source of this strange feeling in the back of his mind. For some reason, he was convinced that it was someone he should be looking for. Joseph had unconsciously started calling it ‘other.’ Finally – though this probably should be his highest priority – was food. The weeping alicorn smirked to himself as he pondered, ‘Where is Diamond Tiara?’ Mike was not amused. He had been trudging through this forest for hours with no idea where he was. Mike raged inside his stone body. ‘Where the hell am I? How the hell did I end up as a fucking horse with wings?’ A squirrel saw him, causing him to freeze in place. ‘Why couldn’t I just be a normal weeping angel? Fuck… I’m starving’ The poor squirrel chose that moment to blink. The predator pounced, tapping the squirrel with his hoof. The squirrel vanished and the stone alicorn smiled at the surge of energy. ‘Ten years,’ Mike thought, knowing just how far back he had sent the little critter. Continuing his walk, Mike eventually noticed the forest was thinning out. In time, he stepped out into a clearing lit by the evening sun. He stood on a hill overlooking a small village a short distance away. Had he had any blood, it would have been boiling. ‘For two years, I put up with Joseph’s weird obsession with ponies. Now there’s a whole town full of these retarded things? Great, just great. Ha! At least I won’t be hungry any time soon.’ The predator descended the slope leading to the town, briefly wondering where this ‘other’ was.