It had been a little while since Cheerilee and Big Mac had been knocked unconscious inside the strange room that it's two inhabitants Doctor and Sugar Hooves had called the TARDIS. Big Mac blinked a few times and rose to see Cheerilee had already awoken and that Doctor Hooves and Sugar had gotten through the shaking of the room unharmed. "Wha... ow" he let out when he stood, his head was aching up a storm "What just happened?"
"We travelled through time." Doctor Hooves responded simply. "Roughly a thousand years back if I got the calculations correct."
Big Mac was left stunned by this, not from belief but from the fact that this pony actually thought time travel was possible I've gotta set this fella straight he thought. "Listen here you! I may not know much but I sure do know that time isn't somthin' you can just hop on an' off of whenever you want and if you believe this crap is possible then you need serious help fella'." That should do it he said in his head.
Instead of settling down and accepting Big Mac's logic Doctor Hooves just stood their and laughed "Oh how ignorant they are at this point, it's simply hilarious watching these ponies chase their tails trying to look for explanations that lay within their understanding. Almost sad, wouldn't you say Sugar?" He raised an inquisitive eyebrow at his granddaughter.
"Well... actually I quite like them in this period grandfather, it was their least violent time after all." she said to he grandfather, never taking her eyes off of her teacher why did she have to follow me, he won't let them go until he's satisfied now she worried. Cheerilee saw the worrying expression and shuddered.
Eventually she spoke up "So, if this is a thousand years ago then does that mean..."
Big Mac sighed, he couldn't believe she even considered any of this to be real "I don't except a word of this fella's explanation until he gives us some proof." To his surprise Doctor Hooves chuckled again. He hadn't been expecting that, he was expecting the old stallion to start panicking, to attempt to make his lie seem plausible. But instead he started laughing!
"Sugar, be a dear and turn on the viewing screen would you?" Hooves said, still smiling. Obeying quickly, Sugar went over to the thing in the middle of the room. Doctor Hooves saw the puzzled expressions on both Big Mac and Cheerilee and explained "That is the console, it has all of the controls that make the ship work. Oh and the ship is called a TARDIS, that's Time And Relative Dimension In Space." Enlightenment dawned on their faces, they still didn't know what was happening but it was nice to know something about this place.
Light that wasn't there before poured in "Viewing screen activated grandfather." she said. Outside there was nothing but countryside, smoke in the distance but otherwise just countryside.
"That's impossible," Big Mac gasped "we've moved"
"No we haven't" Doctor Hooves grinned "we're in exactly the same spot just in a different time period, right now a creature named Discord is running Equestria and Princess Luna is on the verge of becoming Nightmare Moon. A rather dark period in your history but it was the best choice to prove to you that this is in fact possible."
Big Mac's mouth hung open in shock, he couldn't believe this was happening but here it was right in front of him. Cheerilee was a lot more accepting to the ideas being placed before her, she was a teacher after all and she liked to think her students teach her at least as much as she teaches them and not to mention the visual proof they had put in front of her. "If that's were we are" she said "then isn't it dangerous for us to be here?"
She was quite right to ask that but Doctor Hooves thought he should probably sugar coat it to keep everyone from panicking "No, we're quite alright as long as nobody does anything to make either of the two evil ones angry." he said, which he knew wasn't true in Discord's case, that man would probably mess with them a lot if he saw them but there was one thing that was certain. They had to stay away from the Crystal Empire or Sombra would just kill them.
"So are we going out then grandfather?" Sugar asked, which surprisingly enough was greeted by a warm smile.
"Yes, and never fear I will take you two home eventually so for now let's go and have a look around shall we?"