Pinkie Pie and Twilight followed the Doctor and Clara to the TARDIS, but they paused before entering to gaze at the exterior of the blue box. Pinkie smiled at the familiar police box.
When they entered, Pinkie shouted, "Doct- WAAAAAHHHH!" She gasped. "YOU GOT A NEW TARDIS!"
The Doctor looked at the entrance over a balcony and spoke, still with sadness in his voice, "No, it's the same TARDIS you remember. The TARDIS, she's like me. When she gets banged up, she regenerates."
"Oh." Pinkie said. "What's going on?"
The Doctor sniffed. "Clara and I are going to save my friends... We're going to Trenzalore..."
"Well," Twilight said. "we're coming with you! Where is that Clara pony anyway?"
"Right here!" Clara peaked her head over the balcony, but she was not a pony. She was human.
"But..." Pinkie's jaw dropped. "you were a pony..." She gasped. "Did you regenerate?!?"
The Doctor answered that question. "No, she is not a Timelord. But she is my Impossible Girl. At any rate, you two cannot come with us. I already couldn't dissuade Clara."
"But why-" Pinkie started.
But the Doctor stopped her short. "BECAUSE IT'S TOO DANGEROUS! I'm a time-traveler. I've seen the problems you've had to face in the past. Those were NOTHING compared to what's waiting for us at Trenzalore! If you came with me, you would surely die... I don't wish to watch that happen, nor do I want it to be because of me... Which brings me to another point. You have another problem. You must retake Twilight's Element back from that Sunset Shimmer. Now... just leave..."
"But Doctor..." Twilight started to protest, but she realized what he said was most likely true. "...Will we see you again? We're not leaving without at least a 'goodbye'..."
He paused. "...I don't know for sure if we'll see each other again... I hate endings... I don't... I don't even know how to begin to say that word..."
"Then..." Pinkie smiled. "say it like we'll see each other again!"
The Doctor looked down, chuckled a little, then also sobbed a little. "Well then, Miss Duskshine, Miss Bubble Berry... I'll see you around..."
"...Goodbye Doctor..." The two equines said as they slightly sobbed in unison. They turned around and left the TARDIS. It began making it's travel noise as Pinkie and Twilight looked back and watched it disappear into time and space.
They sighed and made their way back to Celestia, who was now on her feet, being supported my Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Twilight spoke. "Alright princess. I'm ready to take back my Element of Harmony."
Celestia nodded. "Follow me."
As they made their way through the castle, Twilight asked Pinkie, "So... how were you able to remain so strong throughout this whole 'revolution' thing?"
Pinkie's mane and tail had finally regained it's original cotton candy shape as she answered with another question. "Do you remember that one voice? Just after I found out about Celestia?"
"Yes..." Twilight answered.
"Well," Pinkie sighed. "I've been kinda putting my trust in the God it talked about. He kept me going. Fluttershy?"
"Yes?" Fluttershy looked at them.
"Don't you remember?" Pinkie asked. "We've been kinda trusting in the God that that one voice talked about."
"Oh yes!" The shy mare exclaimed. "He was really nice! He saved us from poison!"
"Yep..." Pinkie sighed and looked up. "Y'know, there's been a surprising lack of singing, considering the we've quoted a song every chapter."
"Chapter?" Twilight asked. "What are you talking about?"
Pinkie laughed. "Oh, um, it's nothing! But I'm going to sing a song. This is how I've coped over the past few days... this is what I believe.
"The world around me... is lost in misery... The only good I've got in my life is You! No meaning... no other reason... When everything feels wrong, I feel right with You!"
Fluttershy began singing as well. "Um... So madly... and a little desperately... we're a bit deeply obsessed... Your love is better than ours to us... Can we have this moment forever?"
Pinkie smiled and looked up. "Take me to the beginning!"
They sang together. "You are what I believe! I’ll live and die for You! This is all that I need!"
Pinkie sang solo. "When nothing is real... You are my truth!"
Fluttershy uncharacteristically shouted, "In the darkness, You shine! Can you keep us safe tonight?"
"When I’m down on my knees," They sang, "You are what I believe!"
They continued walking, and Pinkie continued singing. "When we started, wholehearted, I never needed anything or anypony else... I was broken... and You made me whole again! You're the only one I trust in more than myself!"
Fluttershy sang again, "So madly, desperate, and deeply, I will live for You completely! Can we have this moment forever?"
Pinkie prayerfully looked down. "Take me... to the beginning..."
In unison, they sang again, "You are what I believe! I’ll live and die for You! This is all that I need! When nothing is real, You are my truth! In the darkness, You shine! Can You keep me safe tonight? When I’m down on my knees... You are what I believe!"
They continued to sing in unison. "Believe in Your love, believe in Your life! Believe that you can put me back together on the inside!" Pinkie stomped her hoof on the ground. "Chase all the fear away! Every time I speak Your name!"
"Take me... You are what I believe!" Pinkie sang solo.
They both looked downward and closed their eyes.
Pinkie's eyes shot open, now ablaze with fire. "You are what I believe! I'll live and die for You! This is all that I need! When nothing is real, You are my truth!"
Fluttershy sang the next part as she gazed upward, "In the darkness You shine! Can You keep us safe tonight?"
"When I'm down on my knees..." They both fell to their knees as they lifted their forelegs upward. "You are what I believe!"
"Ahem," Celestia interrupted coldly. "I don't mean to interrupt your singing session, but we are here." She opened a door to reveal a dusty room with dusty knick-knacks save a pristine mirror. "That mirror," Celestia spoke, "is where Sunset Shimmer fled..."
"...What's beyond it?" Twilight asked.
Celestia shook her head. "I do not know. You will soon learn more about that place than even I do..."
"Well then," Pinkie shouted, "What're we waiting for? I'm SO nervouscited! Let's go! Allons-"
"NO." Celestia dictated. "This is something Twilight must do alone... We cannot risk raising too much suspicion with all six of you going."
"Seven." Pinkie corrected.
"Seven?" The princess asked. "What do you mean 'seven'?"
"Well," Pinkie started. "we found Derpy Hooves in an alleyway, you know that story- how the guards treated her and all- and we promised we wouldn't ever leave her alone again. She may not be an Element of Harmony, but we made her a promise."
"Fair enough." The princess responded. "But Twilight must still go alone." She looked directly at Twilight. "You've got good, strong pairs of legs, my student. It's time that you got up and used them."
They all sighed and complained, until Twilight finally gulped, "Okay... Here I go..."
Just as she walked into the portal, Spike came from out of nowhere and followed her through. Funny thing is, no one really even noticed him at all until that point.
Celestia sighed. "Be safe my student..."
TO BE CONTINUED...