Chapter 3: Wander
Within five minutes of wandering through the TARDIS, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom were already lost among the twisting corridors and numerous hallways. The two were understandably scared of the strange environment, but they kept their spirits up by talking with one another.
“So what’s a zero room anyway?” Applebloom asked as they started trotting down a new hallway.
“I think it’s a room like a library, but no one goes in there,” Sweetie Belle replied.
The earth pony was silent for a moment before speaking again, “How does that make sense?”
Sweetie Belle stopped walking and used her hooves in her demonstration, “Like, you have a library, but it’s full of bad books. Dumb books, you know? Rarity always says while there are good books, there are bad books, like that one vampire novel she read once. Um….I think it was called ‘Dawnlight’ or something like that.”
Applebloom was not convinced, “Ah still don’t think that’s what a Zero Room is.”
After a bit of silence, the unicorn filly spoke up again, “You think we should open some of these doors and look inside?”
“Couldn’t hurt,” the yellow pony shrugged.
The two ponies started to open and close every door they found. Despite not finding the Zero Room, they found a number of other rooms. These included a croquet court, a kitchen, a drawing room with a number of artifacts, a garage with a number of strange machines, a swimming pool, a laboratory, at least eight bathrooms (one of them with a leaky tap), a zoo with strange and exotic creatures, and many different closets.
Applebloom exited one of the closets with a large, multi-colored scarf that was wrapped around her neck but still dragged on the ground behind her as she walked, “Do ya think Mr. Doctor will be okay with me wearin’ this?”
“I don’t think he’d miss it. There are certainly a lot of stuff in these rooms. It’s just so big,” Sweetie Belle commented.
Applebloom nodded, “Let’s try the next door.”
The two fillies opened the next door to see a figure standing on the other side. Both of the ponies screamed and quickly closed the door.
“Wh-What was that thing?” Applebloom was breathing quickly.
“I don’t know! It looks….so weird,” the unicorn replied.
Against their better judgment, the girls opened the door again, this time slowly. Poking their heads through the opening, they got a better view of the figure looking at them. This figure, however, did not purse or do react majorly to their presence.
The figure had a pale pink-ish, squid-like head with a white wire coming down from the tentacles, leading to an orb. The rest of the body was clothed in a grey. The orb was held by the body part at the end of one of his upper limbs.
The alien figure looked down at the fillies. His orb lit up as a voice was emitted, “May I be of any assistance?”