Chapter the Ninth – On the road again
The Doctor quietly returned up the winding staircase and through the building to see Trottingham was in better shape than before. There was still a disturbing lack of anypony, but the buildings were no longer in their disheveled, condemned states.
“Well, that was interesting.”
The Doctor chuckled, and continued past Octavia’s house to the main street. Cautiously optimistic, he skipped down the road, almost forgetting that Discord wouldn’t let him win that simply.
As he strolled down the paved streets, colour slowly but surely returning to the city, the first break in the gloomy overcast sky appeared. A pale blue began to pour into the landscape, lifting the shroud of darkness.
Just as The Doctor was about to believe that things were looking up, the sky shifted. Waves of harsh green pulsed through the soft blue, until eventually something fell out of the sky with a strangely soft *Boing!*
He dashed to where the sky had opened to get a closer look at what had fallen.
When he arrived, he saw a theatrical stage had suddenly appeared, with a strange pedestal in the very center. On top was a massive chocolate cake, complete with three layers of icing.
“Aha! This must be what Discord’s second rule meant!”
He got up onto the stage. Suddenly, the pedestal holding the cake rose incredibly high, and walls shot up from all sides, leaving him trapped inside. As if on cue, a small whirlwind of crumbs and sugar started spinning out of nowhere, and shot out two tall gingerbread ponies, terrifying as they were silly.
Soon afterwards, a couple of long candy canes dropped from the sky. The Doctor soon realized what was going on. He backed up slightly as the gingerbread ponies slowly approached, swinging their candy blades quickly and forcefully.
Thinking quickly, he turned up the power on his sonic screwdriver and pointed it towards the tall pillar in the centre of the room, causing the floor to shaking. However, he couldn’t keep it going very long, as a blindly swung candy cane knocked it out of his hoof. Panicked, The Doctor darted around the room, trying to make the room vibrate, but he couldn’t do it with the two sugary beasts after him.
As one of the gingerbread ponies swung its candy cane at him, he jammed the sonic screwdriver into its hoof, causing it to throw the sweet weapon. The Doctor grabbed it, and smacked his enemies without letting up. After a while, the cookie creatures were eventually too dazed to continue chasing The Doctor. Seizing the opportunity, he once again pointed the sonic screwdriver at the pillar. The sound waves reverberated from the pillar, causing the room to shake violently. The gingerbread ponies got up, ready to pounce on The Doctor, but the room shook so much they began crumbling, until they became sweet dust.
The defeated gingerbread ponies suddenly vanished, the walls collapsed, and the pedestal holding the cake lowered.
“Well, that was very bad science.” The Doctor remarked.
He climbed up on top of the pedestal to claim his prize. However, when he tried to pick up the cake, it vanished, leaving a small note behind.
“ Lol, uMad?
~Discord ”
The pedestal unexpectedly morphed into a long cannon, catching The Doctor and firing him miles away.