//------------------------------// // The Final Feeding // Story: In The Time Trap // by The Master Whoovian //------------------------------// =Gaia, Equestria, Everfree Forest, Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters, 1003 C.E.= The unnamed mare panicked slightly as the Doctor and Romana were fed upon. She didn’t know what to do. Wait a mini, yes I do! I have to help them! And furthermore, I am not some unnamed mare, I have a name! I am Daring Doo! Her eyes widened. She knew her name! It was all coming back to her now that she was here! Her epiphany was interrupted by the golden vapor flying away. It must have been satisfied for now. She galloped over to the Doctor and Romana, who looked very trained and tired. “Are you okay?” she asked them. “No, not really,” the Doctor said weakly. “What was that thing?” Daring Doo asked. “It's called the Entity. It feeds off time from random unfortunate people until they die of old age. This time, however, it appears to have figured out how to stop aging,” the Doctor said. “What do you mean?” Daring Doo asked them. “You’re starting to remember who you are. I can tell. What year was it when you first came into the forest?” he asked her. She thought for a moment. “I’m pretty sure it was 913 C.E.,” she replied. “I have no background knowledge of what year it is, but my time senses (or my abilities to read the words in bold) tell me its 1003 C.E. You’ve been here 90 years. The Entity stops you from aging so it can feed off you forever.” Daring Doo’s eyed widened. “Well, we have to stop it!” “Me and Romana need a few hours to from cranial drain, but something tells me we don’t have a few hours before the Entity gets hungry again. So, that would mean its up to you to save the entire universe, as that’s what it’s likely to consume once it runs out of food in this forest, however long that may take,” the Doctor said before he finally passed out weakly. Daring Doo gulped. The Doctor hadn’t told me how to stop the Entity in the first place. How do you defeat an intangible entity that feeds off time? Wait… I'm an archaeologist! How did they always defeat the evil entities in all the stories and cave paintings I have seen? She backed up slightly, but then bumped into something. It was an old blue vase. She suddenly realized. They trapped it! She picked up the vase. She new getting the Entity in there would not be an easy task. She needed help. She went over to the Doctor and shook him, trying to wake him up. She tried Romana also, who stirred and slowly became conscious. She coughed and tried to sit up, but to no avail. She looked at Daring Doo. “What happened?” she asked weakly. “I have an idea to beat the Entity, but I need some help, and I can’t get the Doctor to wake up,” Daring Doo said in a hurried tone. Romana blinked and fully sat up. “The Doctor is older than me (extremely), so it might be a while be fore he wakes up,” she said, “What’s you plan?” “I think we can trap the Entity in this vase, they both ran off in the direction of the Entity, but first we find him, or it,” Daring Doo told her. Romana nodded, and, taking the vase, they both ran off in the direction of the Entity. After a while of running, they found the Entity as it roamed through the halls of the castle. They waited until it phased through a door into another room to follow it. They went through the door into the room that the Entity was in. It was a very old room where the Elements of Harmony used to reside, even though neither of them knew this. The Entity was feeding off the other people it had trapped in through the pillars in the room. It didn’t have eyes, so they couldn’t tell that it had seen them until it spoke to them. “So you have come to stop me I see. And with an old vase? I don’t think you really thought you plan through very well,” it said snidely. Daring Doo and Romana didn’t answer. They just charged at it, each coming at it from different angles. The Entity, unfortunately, had 360 degree vision, so it saw them both coming. The Entity decided to feed off them one at a time. It grabbed Romana and began to feed off her, this time not caring whether it killed her or not. Daring Doo was horrified, but managed to not call out. She grabbed the vase, opened the lid, extended her wings, and flew directly at the Entity. She pushed the vase directly through it, collecting as much as she could. The Entity was only half the size it was originally. “Extensive damage! I MUST FEED! I MUST FEED!” It yelled in pain. It grabbed Daring Doo and it began to feed off her as well, making her drop the vase. She and Romana could feel themselves growing weaker. They knew this was the end… Suddenly, they heard a loud whirring noise. They looked to see the Doctor, holding up his sonic screwdriver. The Entity shriveled up in pain, dropping Romana and Daring Doo. “It’s weakened! Get it in that jar!” The Doctor yelled. Romana ran up, grabbed the jar, and waited until the Entity, which was falling to the ground, was close enough, and stuffed it in the vase, closing up the lid. The Doctor dropped the sonic screwdriver. “Well, that was easy,” he said weakly, losing consciousness. Romana and Daring Doo, who were both weakened, followed suit.