//------------------------------// // That One Portal // Story: Dr. Bob Saves Equestria // by Supahsnail //------------------------------// Dr. Bob lowered his chainsaw and wiped a bit of blood off of his featureless face. The former patient was now in three different sections on the ground; another unsuccessful operation. "Well, that guy whined a lot, huh, Pick?" Dr. Bob commented. "...Pick?" Pick was sitting down next to the fragmented body trying to pull two sections back together. "Pick!" Dr. Bob called. His assistant replied by glancing back at him. "Pick, get away from there. It's too late for him. You might get sick or something." Another blue, featureless klay man waddled behind the doctor and tapped him on the shoulder. "Um... Dr. B-" "Oh, Jesus!" Dr. Bob exclaimed as he jumped and turned to face the klay man. "Dr. Bob, I need to..." "You scared me!" Dr. Bob interrupted again. "Okay, sorry, but..." "I was scarred." The doctor interrupted a third time. "What do you want!?" "Well, I just had to tell you that..." "Spit it out!" "I, um..." The klay man kept attempting to talk, but each time he started to speak, he was interrupted again. "What do you want? Come on... Spit it out... I don't have all day... Come on." "PORTAL!" The klay man finally screamed. ________________________________________________________________________________ "Do you really think it's gonna work?" Spike asked. He was standing as tall as he could, using his claws to pull the top of his body above the table Twilight was working on. The wooden table was almost completely covered with papers, notes, and books, with only a few places where the brown oak wood could be seen. It was illuminated by a purple glow. In the center of the table, a purple, disk shaped light hovered up right. It was only about a foot in diameter. The purple light wasn't magical in nature, at least not completely. It was framed in a hollow, metal circle that was plugged into a metal cube through two power cords. "It looks awfully small, Twilight." Spike warned. "I don't even think I can fit through it!" "Well, you aren't supposed to." Twilight replied. "This is just a test run. Any unicorn can learn a teleportation spell, but creating a temporary warp could have hundreds of uses! Maybe they'll let me lead a lecture!" "How long should the power source last?" Spike asked curiously. "Only about two hours. But I can easily recharge it with my magic." Spike leaned over the table and gazed into the purple light. "What's on the other side of the portal?" He asked. Twilight lifted an orange ball. "That's what we're gonna find out!" "What does that ball do?" Spike asked. "It's sort of like that crystal ball queen Chrysalis used to monitor us when she fillynapped Applebloom and her friends. It should give us a perfect view of what's on the other side." ________________________________________________________________________________ Another purple warp had appeared in the middle of klay world. It was almost big enough to divide the table in half. A conglomeration of over twenty klay men stood on one side of the portal. Among them was Dr. Bob, Pick, and Sheriff Marv. Sheriff Marv always wears a yellow hard hat and has a burly brown mustache centered on his face. The crowd was murmuring and flailing their arms about. Most of them didn't seem too concerned. Marv projected with his nasally voice, "Okay everybody, calm down!" He said. His request was ignored. He pulled a hand gun from behind his back and fired into the air, then the others paid attention to him. "Okay, much better." He began, putting away his gun. "Now, as you have all noticed, there is a big purple thing that appeared on the table this morning." "I think it looks more like blueish red!" One Klay man shouted. "Well, no one cares about your opinion!" Marv snapped. "Anyway, we don't know what the hell it is. We don't know if it's dangerous or if it does something cool..." "I like cool things!" "NO ONE ASKED YOU!" Marv snapped again. "So, what we're planning to do is assemble a team of highly trained, super smart badasses; and they're gonna investigate this thing using the magic of science! And... Dr. Bob here is going to lead them." Marv gestured to Dr. Bob, who was standing behind him at the time. "WHAHOO!" Pick screamed while vibrating his head. "Hey, hey, hold on a second!" Dr. Bob exclaimed. He stepped forward a few inches. "I didn't volunteer for this!" "We love you, Dr. Bob!" someone screamed. Dr. Bob cupped his invisible mouth and yelled in the direction of the voice. "Shut up! You have no friends and your parents hate you!" He turned back to Marv. "Damn it, Marv, I'm a doctor not a scientist! What do you expect me to do?" Marv was about to reply, but before he could say anything, an orange ball that was larger than a klay man shot out from the portal and landed in the crowd of klay men. One klay person was crushed and the rest of the crown started to panic. "OH MY GOT!" "Has anyone seen my hotdog?" "WHAT IS THAT?" "Is it aliens again?" "I found the hotdog." "SOMEBODY CALL 991!" As the crowd began to disperse away from the mysterious object, Marv and Dr. Bob went in closer. "Should we touch it?" Marv asked.