Epilogue
Derpy turned the page. The next page was blank.
“What!” She frowned fluttering through the pages “Nothing!” She was about to throw the book down the alley when she remembered Pinkies note. Each story should come to you when it needs to.
“Well that’s just great! Uh oh, Carrot top is still in the basement.” She shoved the journal into her bag and left for her house.
Finding her house was actually quite a feat considering that she had no idea where she was or which way she went to get there, but after a few dead ends and backtracks, she finally got there.
Needless to say, Carrot top was furious.
“THAT WAS THE STUPIDIST THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE DERPY, WHAT IF YOU INJURED YOURSELF AND WE WERE TRAPPED DOWN THERE WITH NO FOOD, NO WATER, NOTHING!”
“I left a note…” Derpy pointed out weakly
“THAT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH, HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY KNOW THAT SOMEPONY WOULD FIND IT! YOU LOCKED YOUR OWN DAUGHTERS DOWN THERE! YOU ARE A MOTHER, YOU SHOULD BE MORE RESPONSIBLE! I CAN’T GO LOOKING AFTER THEM EVERYTIME YOUR NOT THERE! AND EVEN IF YOU WERE THERE YOU WOULD JUST SCREW IT UP LIKE ALWAYS!”
Sparkler stepped in between the two mares “Carrot top calm down! You’re making mom upset!”
“AND SHE SHOULD BE! THERE IS NO PLAUSIBLE REASON TO LOCK SOMEPONY IN THE BASEMENT! WHAT THE HAY WHERE YOU THINKING?”
“There… there is a very good reason I locked you in the basement, I just can’t tell you.” Derpy sniffed
“AND WHY NOT? YOU PUT US AT RISK WHEN YOU LOCKED US IN THERE AND…”
“CARROT TOP CALM DOWN.” Sparkler shouted in a terrifying manner that caused everypony in the room to fall silent “Now I am sure that Mom had a very good reason to lock us in the basement and the only thing you are doing by shouting at her is scaring her and Dinky, So shut up and let her explain!”
“Th… thanks Sparkler. Well, I had to find out what was happening and I didn’t want you guys getting hurt so I thought the basement would be safe.”
Carrot top sighed “Derpy, that was an incredibly stupid thing to do, promise me yyou will never ever do that again under any circumstances.”
“I promise, I’m sorry.”
“Alright, now lets have lunch.”
Derpy looked in the corner where Dinky was huddled
“Its alright, you can come out now.” She lifted the periwinkle unicorns tail of her face “We’re going to go out for lunch today, won’t that be fun?”
“Carrot Tops not mad at you any more?”
Derpy shook her head “Not at all.”
Pinkie Pie skipped into the TARDIS console room.
“This place is Amazing! I mean you have a swimming pool! A SWIMMING POOL!”
“Pretty cool isn’t it?”
“Are you kidding! You have everything here!”
The Doctor noticed the red journal in Pinkies hooves “What’s that?”
“It’s a journal, I thought I could keep a record of all our adventures!
“That’s brilliant! Why hasn’t that been done before! Wait, never mind, I think I did it once…” Pinkie passed the book, which the doctor dropped almost immediately “How can you hold stuff with these!?”
“I dunno, I just do. You know what, I don’t really know who you are, and you don’t know how to use hooves, so your new nickname is whooves!”
“ Okay then!” the Doctor smiled, then he froze. “Wait a minute.”
“what?”
“You’re naked…”
“I guess so.”
“ah, would you mind, well putting something on?”
“I don’t really have any cloths, you know ponies don’t usually wear cloths, we only wear cloths, sometimes.”
“The TARDIS has a huge closet I’m sure something would fit a pony!”
“Where is it?”
“Here, I’ll show you.”
Derpy walked down sugarcube street, where a clean up crew was collecting all of the skeletons. A green unicorn walked over to Derpy and her family
“Derpy Hooves, do you have a moment?”
“Oh sorry I was just about to go to lunch.”
Lyra nodded “Right, Listen, I was wondering if you could drop by my place for lunch tomorrow, I’m sure there is much to be discussed.”
“I have work tomorrow.”
“Right, we’ll have our best ponies on it.” She turned around and called over a cream earth pony“Hey Bon Bon, we have a pony that needs to be let off work tomorrow, her name is Derpy Hooves and she works at…”
“Equestria postal service”
“I’m on it.” she nodded
“Oh um… okay.”
“This has the address.” Lyra handed Derpy a business card “Twelve o’clock, don’t be late.”
Derpy looked at it, it read R.I.F.T, research institute for fissures in time, 899 Everfree street.
“Who was that?” Carrot top asked
“Oh, um, that was Lyra, she’s a…friend I guess.”
“Right, let’s get to lunch then.”
As Derpy passed Sugarcube corner, she could see the crater the TARDIS left in the bakeries floor. Where did it go? She wondered.
She looked forward again, and barely visible, there was a white Pegasus, she had a yellow mane and despite being the wrong species she looked exactly like Pinkie Pie. She pressed a button on the device that she had on her wrist and disappeared.
Who was that? The grey mare wondered, not at all aware of the danger brewing right there in the very town she called home, Equestria had faced many threats before but none like this.
The Doctor of Discord was coming.