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// Stay out of the Shadows 
// Story: Doctor Whooves 1: The Shadows of Ponyville 
// by Laura Heartstrings 
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Chapter 2:

The next fifteen or so hour’s were kinda boring, made a cake, played with Gummy, went to sleep, woke up, and stared at the stallion for a while drinking my Dr. Hay.  Finally, around 8.15ish he came to.

“Gaah! Hands! No hands!  Or feet, where did my shoes go!  My face feels kind of…” he started feeling his muzzle “I’m a horse!”

“Hi!” I bounced up to him “I’m Pinkie Pie!”

“Aah!!!!” he fell off his chair. He sat up rubbing his head “where did you come from?”

“Duh, I’ve been sitting here for hours!”

“Why?” 

“Well you've been out cold for fifteen or so hours, I was making sure you weren't dead.”

“Right… Where am I?”

“Sugar cube corner!”

His face was blank

“In Ponyville.”

Still blank

“Near Cloudsdale…”

Blank as a canvas.

“How can you not know where Cloudsdale is?”

“Hate to be rude but, Pinkie wasn't it?”

I nodded

“Pinkie have you seen a blue box anywhere?”

“You mean the one that crashed into the floor yesterday?”

“Probably.”

“Right there!”

He paused for a moment. 

“You’re a pony.”

“Umm… yeah…”

“This is a bakery…”

“Yes…”

“You work here?”

“Yeah, why?” 

He grinned “A pony that works in a bakery! That just brilliant!”

I looked at him “Are you okay?”

“Yeah I’m fine… but do you have any blueberry muffins? I’m famished!”

“Sure!” 

I skipped to the kitchen, on the way I passed Gummy

He looked at me “That guy is a total Whack job.”

“Gummy, don’t be rude.” I scolded

I put a muffin on a plate and carried it to the table. When he got the muffin to him, he devoured it quickly without even 
picking it up. Then he paused again.

“How did you make this?”

I giggled “why do you keep asking silly questions?”

“Well this is my first non-humanoid regeneration, it’s very exciting!”

I looked at him “Non-humawhatta?”

He shook his head “Never mind, Thank you for the muffin.” he said getting up, attempting to stand up on his hind legs, than 
falling over.

“Are you okay?”

“Yep I’m fine” he said getting up again. “I’m fine.”

“Hey I didn’t catch your name.”

“Oh sorry, I’m the Doctor.”

“Doctor who?”

“Just, the Doctor.”

“Oki Doki Loki! Welcome to Ponyville, Doctor!”

“Thanks.”

He walked towards his box. 

Then all of a sudden, we heard somepony scream.

“Someponies in trouble!” I ran towards the door “Are you gonna come?”

Then, for no apparent reason, he started to look sad “I promised myself I wouldn't help anymore.”
“Right then, well I’m going.” I say starting to run out the door.

I don’t know when but eventually he started to follow me.

“I thought you said you didn’t help.”

“I’m not. Just, investigating.”



We ran towards the source of the noise. Eventually we found it, there, in city square, was Pipsqueak, and he was being corned by two skeletons.
“
Oh no.” the Doctor muttered
“
Pip!” I exclaimed

The Doctor shoved his muzzle in his coat pocket, producing a slim metal object with a green light at the tip. He pressed the button, causing it to make a whirring sound. He then examined the device with wide eyes.

“Oh no.” he repeated.

“What’s that thing?”

“Sonic screwdriver. I’ll explain later, but Pinkie?”

“Yes?”

“Stay out of the shadows.”