//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Five Score, Divided By A Different Time // by Violet Runner //------------------------------// I woke up the next morning to the sounds of someone screaming and something crashing coming from the guest room. I quickly jumped out of bed, noticing my hair was a bit longer in the back as well as a few shades lighter, and quickly ran and burst into the guest room to find a bundle of sheets with gray ears and blond hair sticking out of it laying on the floor next to a broken lamp. “Are you alright Maggie?” I asked walking over to the bundle of sheets that was my girlfriend. “Ya I think so.” She said as I helped her out of the sheets. When she looked down at her legs she almost froze. “M-m-my Feet!” she shouted. “Oh My God!” I said looking at them. Some time during the night her feet had turned into hooves. “That’s not all” I said pointing to two bulges sticking out of the back her shirt. “WHAT!” She said looking behind herself before removing her shirt to reveal a pair of gray wings. “B-but how?” She asked looking up at me. “I don’t know.” I said shaking my head before noticing her eyes were now crossed and remembering my own dream. “No wait, did you have any strange dreams last night?” “Actually yes I did. I dreamt about the series finale of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. But it was weird, it was like I was living it.” She explained. “How did it end?” I asked looking at her. “Why didn’t you see it?” She asked tilting her head confused as her ears flattened slightly. “Just remind me.” I said reassuringly. “If she says it ended the way I think she’ll say it ended then that will confirm my hypotheses.” I thought to myself. “Well,” She began, thinking about it. “They had finally made Doctor Whooves cannon and the Everfree forest was crawling with Daleks.” So far so good. “Then Discord appeared and turned out to be behind the appearance of the Daleks. Doctor Whooves then told Derpy to run to the TARDIS and get it ready while he took on both Discord and the Daleks himself.” “Then what?” I said coaxing her to continue. “Well, she managed to get to the TARDIS without incident, and got everything ready to leave. Then a few minutes later the Doctor arrived being chased by Discord who was throwing energy balls at him. Derpy then waved to tell him that everything was ready but was spotted by Discord and was hit by one of the energy balls causing her to stumble backwards and hit the close door button.” “And that’s how it ended is it?” I asked and she nodded. “Right then.” I said taking a deep breath. “I don't know how to say this but I think that was more than just a dream.” ”What do you mean?” She asked looking at me with her now golden eyes. “You see I too had a dream about the series finale, but it was slightly different from what you remember. Also a few days ago one of my mates mentioned the finale involving Celestia and Discord yet neither of us remember anything between them happening. Thus I have come to the conclusion that they aren't dreams.” “Then what are they?” “Memories.” “Memories?” She asked backing up a bit. “Yes, residual memories from a past life.” I said as I began to put the pieces of the broken lamp into the garbage. “But how? It doesn't make sense.” She said helping me. “Oh? Think about it for a second. You’ve always had a thing for muffins, you could never get enough of the things. For as long as I’ve known you, you've always been a little accident prone but you’ve always made up for it with your bubbly personality. All traits of one Ms. Derpy Hooves. And now, almost out of the blue you get her cutie mark, been having dreams of being her and now start taking on her form.” I explained. “And me. Over the years I’ve always been able to instantly know what the time and date is in any given part of the world without even thinking about it. In high school I excelled in science, math, history and physics. I was even considering becoming a scientist before deciding on an acting career. Not to mention I’ve always been able to correctly guess the ending of every Doctor Who episode ever made! Now I have his cutie mark, I'm starting to have dreams of being Doctor Whooves, and now my hair has started to change to the same as his!” “But do you know what this means if you’re right?” She asked looking at me. “Not only does that mean that My little Pony is real but so is Doctor Who!” “I know and that would make me The Doctor but it’s the only explanation that makes the most sense.” I said sighing. “I know this is a lot to take in first thing in the morning so let’s have some breakfast before we figure out what to do next.” We then went to the kitchen to get some breakfast. She stumbled a few times on the way not used to walking with hooves. “So what do you want for Breakfast?” I asked once we got to the kitchen. “Got any oats?” Maggie asked sitting down. “Oats? You mean like oatmeal?” I asked looking at her. “Uh, yeah. I’m real craving some oats`.” She said sheepishly. “Alright.” I said turning on the small television I had in the room and turned it to the news before putting the kettle on and going to the cupboard to get some oatmeal. “Good morning London, its 7am on November 24, I’m Kate Edwards, and you're watching BBC morning news. Here’s what’s making news this morning; In national news the Queen passed away last night in hospital at the age of 94, Prince Charles is expected to take the throne and she'll be sorely missed. Also making national news, newly elected Prime Minister Adam Creedy has announced the setting up of a new research center at Larkhill. What exactly the subject of the research will be is not clear at this time.” The news women reported. “Police are still baffled by the sudden disappearances of hundreds of citizens in the past seven months and beyond the occasional unconfirmed reports of technicolor ponies associated with disappearances there are no leads. The Police would also like to remind people to lock your windows and doors even during the day when you're home untill the cause behind these disappearances is found. In lighter news Local Actor Jeremy Taylor has been chosen to play the newest reincarnation of The Doctor in the hit television series Doctor Who. The shooting for the new season is set to begin later this week here in our BBC Studios.” “In International news; Tensions between the worlds government continue to escalate as many countries are now demanding for the U.S. to come clean about their secret weapons test that made world news back in May when a rainbow explosion streaked across the sky of the state of Iowa. The U.S however still claims that no such tests were made and they are still trying find out what happened.” As we listened to the news, eating breakfast, I couldn't help but think that if I really am becoming Doctor Whooves then what happened to the TARDIS and how did the BBC find out about my past lives. As I pondered this Maggie had stopped eating and turned to talk to me. “Doctor?” “Yes?” I said turning to face her. “I was just thinking, if you’re right and those dreams really are our memories. Then the only reason we wouldn't remember anything happening between Celestia and Discord would be because we were the first to get hit.” She said looking down a bit. “But if that’s true then why is it that we are changing now when it seems that people have been turning into ponies for a while now?” “I think it has something to do with the TARDIS. We were both in it when we got hit with those energy balls Discord launched at us right before it took off. And I think that do to us being in the time stream when whatever Discord did took effect, it disrupted when we were reborn into this world.” I explained. “Of course that still raises the question of what happened to the TARDIS and why I just didn’t regenerate like I normally would.” No sooner had I said that, that my phone started to ring. “Hello?” I asked answering it. “Yes, hello, Jeremy Taylor?” The voice on the other end asked. “Yes. Who’s this?” I asked. “Steven Moffat, the head writer for Doctor Who. Your agent gave me your number.” Steven explained. “There’s something very important I wish to talk to you about in person. It involves you and the history of the show.” “I don't know. A couple of things have come up.” I said looking at my girlfriend. “Who is it?” She asked walking over. “It’s the head writer for Doctor Who. He says he has something important to discuss involving the history of the show.” I explained moving the phone away from my mouth. “Trust me you are going to want to hear what I have to say.” He said almost like he was looking at something interesting. “Maybe you should agree. It might shed some light on what’s going on.” Derpy said, listening in. “Alright. Where do you want to meet?” I asked after thinking about it.