Chapter 3:
The crowd was in absolute chaos, we had the ponies who were attacking the skeleton, the ponies who were Panicking and screaming, and running. And then there were the ponies that were trying to find out what was going on, caught up in the turmoil.
“What do you mean?” I asked him
“It’s the Vastha Nerada, microscopic beings that… Is that a unicorn?”
“What? Yes it’s a unicorn, why?”
“Well, there are no unicorns or Pegasi for that matter, where I come from.”
“Where are you from, another planet?”
“Well, yes actually.”
“That explains a lot. What were you saying?”
“Umm… oh yes, Vashta Nerada, microscopic beings the live in the shadows. Tear the flesh of their victims in a second.”
“Oh. Cheerful. So how do you get rid of it?”
“Well, like I said they live in the shadows, and absolutely hate light. Nothing like this has ever happened before?”
I shook my head “A lot of things have happened here, but never walking skeletons.”
The Doctor shoved his muzzle in his coat pockets “I know there in her somewhere… Ah ha!” he exclaimed pulling out a pair of 3D glasses and placing them on his hooves. He then attempted to get them on by shoving his nose in the lens, all the brown stallion managed to do was knock them on the ground
“Darn it!”
Then he tried to scoop them up with the top of his hooves, it didn’t work.
“Do you need some help?” I asked picking them up.
He looked at my hoof “How did you do that?”
“Do what?”
“Pick that up!”
“That’s a silly question!”
“You have no fingers!”
“What does that have to do with anything?”
“That has everything to do with picking up stuff!”
“Do you want them or not?”
“Oh, umm ...Yes thank you.”
He put the glasses on “Aha! I thought so!”
“What?”
He gave me the glasses “look through these.”
I put them on “whoa!” on the bones I could see some, well, stuff is the only way to describe it.
“What is that?”
“Void stuff. There is a whole bunch of different universes, differing from each other in key aspects, and between them is a void, a huge gap of nothingness.”
I nodded “Right…”
“Void stuff is stuff in the void that clings to whatever passes through it. Now, considering that Vashta Nerada is from the same universe that I come from that means I passed into another dimension where the main template for life forms is equine not humanoid! Oh this is just brilliant!”
He looked like a little foal opening their Hearths Warming Eve presents.
“So... You’re from another universe?”
“That’s about right Ms Pie.”
“And the void stuff is on the stuff that turns ponies into walking skeletons?”
“Yes.”
“So we can see where it is?”
“I guess so, why?”
“It’s coming right towards us.”
A skull piercing hiss started up. "Doctor…"
“I can see why that could be a problem.”
“What do we do?”
“Well basically, run!”
“Sounds good.”
We started off towards sugar cube corner, but the Doctor kept tripping on his pants, eventually he just gave up and took them off.
“I can’t run in these things, not as a pony anyways.”
“You know it’s kinda funny.”
“What?”
“I’ve never actually seen anypony wearing pants before.”