Chapter 6:
“I think we’re being watched.” The Doctor’s voice dropped down to a whisper.
We crept towards the toppled crates, not sure what to expect, when a loud screeching noise started up in the opposite direction, followed by a gigantic crash and the sound of shattering glass.
Me and the Doctor looked at each other, nodded, and ran towards the noise, turned the corner and bam! There was a huge bear thing with gigantic claws and these wings that stretched across the entire street! It was throwing around whatever it could reach and smashing stuff on the ground, shattering windows and cracking the street open!
Oh yeah and it was also on fire.
“What is that?” the Doctor asked me
“Oh, you know, its Fluttershys friend, Jimmy!” I joked.
It knocked of the whole second story of a building, sending fiery debris everywhere!
“Yes, because he looks incredibly friendly!” The Doctor said, dodging a heap of flaming wood.
Jimmy flipped a cart over blocking our entrance and blowing back a grey Pegasus that was walking down the street.
“Well, we’re trapped!” I announced, ducking out of the path of a lamppost Jimmy sent my way with one of his high pitched roars.
“That we are Miss Pie!”
“Again with the Miss Pie?”
“You’re bringing this up now?” some more stuff that was on fire flew above our heads.
“Well you’re the one who keeps calling me miss Pie, for Celestias sake, just call me Pinkie!”
Jimmy was getting pretty mad about not being able to hit us with anything, so he was squatting down, getting ready to jump on us!
“Look out!” I cried. The Doctor leapt out of the way and I did a really Impressive survival roll, if I do say so myself.
Jimmy let out a bloodcurdling screech, bending down and roaring in my face. And let me tell you, his breath smelled really bad.
I quickly slipped under Jimmy, and ran across the street towards a blue house
Now it was the Doctors turn to deal with Jimmy.
Jimmy dug his claws into the broken cement and heaved upwards, sending showers of flaming concrete and broken glass everywhere e. Now that I think about it though, I’m not sure how the concrete was on fire, but it was.
Jimmy was getting visibly frustrated and was trying to catch the Doctor between his front paws, but he was too quick for Jimmy. Eventually Jimmy gave up that and just sent fireballs at him.
“My tail is on fire!” he shouted, performing an incredibly funny looking dance to try and put it out, meanwhile Jimmy was about to bring his huge paws down and squish the Doctor.
“Look out!” I called. He rolled out of the way, finally succeeding in putting out the fire, and ran towards me. “In here!” I opened the door to the house. Jimmy tore the roof off the house, and we ran towards the back of the now burning building. The rafter collapsed as Jimmy ripped open the front of the building, and we narrowly avoided being crushed by the burning wood.
“Over there, there’s a gap!” The Doctor rushed towards it
“Hurry up!” Jimmy was starting to throw things again. I coughed.
Once we navigated our way out of the burning wreckage we were back on the open street.
“Do you still have the glasses?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Because with them we can see the Vashta Nerada, It’s the only way we can see if someplace is safe or not.”
“Right.” I put them on.
“Where did you pull those out of?”
“This streets alright, except for over there.” I gestured towards a large tree. “There are a lot of them there.”
We ran down to street, avoiding the little patches of vashta Nerada that showed up. Behind us I heard a high pitched roar. A very angry high pitched roar. A high pitched roar that seemed to say some very mean things such as I will skin you alive and I fart in your general direction. I think you get the picture.
We turned the corner. “Here!” I dived into a small gap between buildings. Jimmy marched straight passed our hiding place
“Nice place. Bit cramped.”
“Meh. Does the job. As long as we’re quiet we shouldn’t be found.”
“Right.” There were a few moments of silence.
“So you’re from another universe then?”
“Yeah, that seems to be the case.”
“Travel between universes often?”
“Well, travel between universes is impossible; every time you do it the very fabric of reality is unravelled.”
“So not much then?”
He laughed “not that often no.”
“Then how did you get here?”
“Well, I don’t actually know, I guess the TARDIS just kind of, slipped. But usually when a TARDIS is in another universe it loses all its power, but she’s absolutely fine.”
“And you’re sure it’s in another universe?”
“Positive. I have travelled through time and space for hundreds of years and I have never heard of colourful ponies with tattoos on their flanks. Also The TARDIS can’t find earth anywhere.”
“Earth? You mean like, Earth ponies, Dirt, the ground.”
He shock his head “Earth is a planet in the milky way galaxy.”
“Never heard of it.” There were a few moments of silence “So are you from Earth?”
More silence.
“No but I visit it a lot.”
“Then where are you from?”
Even more silence. “I’m a time lord from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation Kasterborous.”
And yet even more silence. “Wait a minute” a thought struck me “You said that you have traveled through time and space for hundreds of years...”
“Yeah.”
“How old exactly are you?”
“Oh, lets see about one thousand, two hundred and sixty four.”
“Oh, okay then.”
He grinned “So what was this town called again? Ponyville?”
“Correctamundo!”
“What Planet and year?”
“Couldn’t your TARDIS tell you that?”
He shock his head “Insufficient data, the TARDIS doesn’t know anything about this universe.”
“Right. Well this planet’s called Gaia and the year is 1126.”
“Thanks.”
“Also why does everyone, err, sorry everypony have a tattoo on their flank?”
“What, you mean cutie marks?”
“Um, yes.”
I frowned “how do you not know about cutie marks if you have one?”
“What do you mean?”
“Look!” I gestured towards the hourglass on the Doctors flank.
“Huh, would you look at that! So what exactly is a cutie mark?”
“A pony earns his or her cutie mark when they discover their special talent, destiny, something.”
“What.”
“Like mine is for throwing parties!”
“Right, balloons”
“You said that you didn’t help anymore, why not?”
Now he was sad “Well I’ve travelled for a very long time, and well, I’ve lost so much. My Best friends had just died and I was tired of losing everyone I loved, so I was going to park the TARDIS up on a cloud and just let the world pass around me but, somehow I ended up here.”
“Oh…”
And let me tell you, there was quite a bit of silence after that.
“One more question.” I said
“And what would that be?”
“What is the sonic screwdriver?”
“Well it…”
There was a moan followed by a giant crash. We peeked out of the alleyway. On the ground was Jimmy, the flames on his fur shrinking down to ashes.
In the opening to the next street was a cream Pegasus wearing 3D glasses and holding a dart rifle, he backed away into the darkness.
“Who was that?” the Doctor asked
“I have no idea…”