Date Part 2
A Doctor and Ditzy Doo Story
“Don’t be scared Ditzy, don’t be scared. You’re with the Doctor, and he always makes things better,” I think as the Dark Alicorn stands and looks at us.
She sort of looks like Luna, but her eyes look wrong. She nears us, takes a moment to look at the Doctor before a smile crosses her face.
“A stallion Alicorn has graced our presence,” she says as she nears him.
“This is not who you want to be,” my Doctor says.
“Oh, is that so? Tell me little stallion, who do we want to be?” she asks.
“You want to be Luna,” he says.
I watch as she studies the both of us, but instead of being angry and attacking she instead smiles.
“We have not heard that name in nearly three centuries. Thou must remember us before our banishment,” she says.
A bright light flashes and suddenly there is another being on the moon. He radiates a healthy white glow, and everywhere, and everything he touches seems to frost over. I touch the Doctor and he nods.
“Nightmare, my dearest, I’ve come for our little weekly visit,” the Ice King says.
“When will your army be ready to be led against my sister?” she asks.
I watch him smile and look at her.
“Any day I’m certain, although, there is a little matter that would help so much. Remember when we first came together how I gained a small amount of your power?” he asks her.
I look at this and instead of staying back I walk out.
“You said that you were just playing with her emotions! Just like you were toying with that poor thing you had chained up!” I exclaim.
Nightmare Moon looks toward me, then back at the Ice King.
“I… I would never just play with your emotions Nighty!” he exclaims.
“Then where is your army?” she asks.
“Ummmmm… Well…” he begins before the Doctor touches my foreleg and walks toward them.
“What Ms Doo said is right. We did over hear him say that he has no intention of sending his army, and instead he is just using you,” the Doctor says.
“Wait… Nighty… Please, let’s talk about this… I can’t go to war with your sister because I’m already fighting a war!” he cries.
“We have done things for thou! Things we have never done for anypony! Things that make us ashamed! We are only glad that we learned of thine intention before we gave ourselves fully to thyself! Be gone from our presence!” she exclaims.
I watch as he grumbles.
“Fine, you aren’t worth it anyway,” he says.
In a moment he’s gone. There’s no way to describe how glad I am to see him gone. He was so mean the last time we saw him, and he wasn’t any better this time. I try to understand why he didn’t know who we were, but then again I do remember Luna remembering the doctor when she met him for the first time. I shake my head and watch as Nightmare Moon does something I never expected her to do. She cries.
I had grown up hearing the horror stories about Nightmare Moon. How she would eat bad little colts and fillies that didn’t offer her candy on Nightmare Night, and how she wanted to bring everlasting night to the land. This wasn’t the same being. She was sobbing, and I couldn’t help but walk up to her. I pulled her into a hug, and she returned it. I felt her forelegs tighten around me, her sobs shake me, and soon I felt the Doctor joining us.
“It is not our fault!” she cried out.
She pulled back from the embrace and looked out into the vastness of space.
“Our sister hath done this to us. She feared us,” she said.
“I don’t think it was just fear,” the Doctor said.
She turned to him and walked toward her. He gently put a hoof on her shoulder.
“If she simply feared you then she would have tried to destroy you right?” he asked.
“We suppose thou may be correct, but why send us away?” she asked.
I smile because I know the answer to this. I know because of my family. I walk toward her and smile.
“It’s because you’re sisters. The both of you were still fairly young when she banished you right?” I asked.
She nodded as she looked at me.
“I grew up with my cousin Carrot Top. Actually, we grew up in the same house, and since Carrot’s parents had an accident she lived with us. We were actually more like sisters than cousins, and there was times we got really mad at each other. I remember once that I got so mad at Carrot that I went up into our treehouse. She came up there, but I didn’t want to listen, and I flew down. I wasn’t thinking and I removed the ladder. I had flown down, but it didn’t occur to me that Carrot was an Earth Pony. She couldn’t fly down. It wasn’t until that I calmed down that I realized what I had done. I put the ladder back, and I told her how sorry I was for doing that to her. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings, and it took a while for her to forgive me, but she did. It’s the same thing with Princess Celestia. The two of you had a fight, and she didn’t think about it. I know that right now she’s sorry that she did it,” I said.
She looked at me for a moment and then lowered herself so she could look at me face to face.
“Even if what thou says is true, and our sister did this because of a foolish argument, it only proves that our sister is not suitable to rule. We merely wished to be recognized as co-ruler, but if our sister is so quick to anger then it is our duty as a princess to protect our little ponies from her wrath. She could banish them all simply because she became angry with them. I will not stand for her to do this to our subjects,” she said.
I shook my head as I listened to her. She wanted to take back Equstria from Princess Celestia, but that was part of the trouble before. She wanted to rule all of Equestria on her own. I watched as the Doctor walked closer to her. He looked her straight in the eyes.
“No,” he said.
She studied him, raised up to her full height and glared down at him.
“LITTLE ALICORN STALLION WE ARE THE RIGHTFUL PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT! AS YOU REMINDED US WE ARE LUNA, SISTER TO CELESTIA, DAUGHTER OF THE CREATOR FAUST, AND IT IS OUR DUTY TO PROTECT OUR SUBJECTS!” she roared with her Royal Canterlot Voice.
“Would you really tear apart the kingdom in order to restore order? Would you cause so many of your subjects to suffer because of this?” he asked.
She stared at him, her eyes narrowed and then she walked toward him.
“What would thou have us do? We are half of the rightful ruler of the Kingdom, and it is our place to ensure the safety of our subjects,” she said.
“But you don’t want to do that. I know a lot of ponies that adore you Princess Luna. They love you, and they speak nothing but praises about you,” I said.
She turned toward me. The fierce glare in her eyes softened. She motioned for me to come closer. I did and she sat down on her haunches.
“My subjects love me?” she asked.
“Every pony where I come from loves you. All of them love the beautiful tapestry that you make every night, and I know that there are a few of them, myself included, that likes how you make the night very romantic,” I said.
I leaned against the Doctor and notice a soft blush on his muzzle.
Nightmare Moon does something I never expected. She giggles. She then nods and looks up at the ceiling which glows a light blue and then moves to reveal a glass dome. She looks at the night sky above.
“Our sister doesn’t have the same flare for beauty in the night sky that we do. We fear that the romantic nights are no longer special. If our nights have brought your joy, and brought you together then we are glad, but it has been three centuries since we’ve walked in Equestria. Your stallion would still be alive, unaged, but thou would have long passed,” she says.
“We’re time travelers. The Tardis brought us here, and what Dizty says is true. Every Pony in Ponyville loves and adores you,” the Doctor says.
She looks at him, a gentle smile crosses her face. She looks back at the planet.
“Then I shall make sure that I do all I can to give them reason to love me,” she says.
The air around us gets cold and Nightmare Moon seems to notice it as well. She narrows her eyes and looks toward the middle of the room.
“We said to depart!” she shouted.
The form stepped out. It was the same Ice Pony from before, but he brought two large guards with him.
“Yes, you did Nighty, but I felt that our little discussion ended a bit too early. I’d rather take you back with me,” he said.
“No, she said she didn’t want to deal with you!” I shout.
For a moment I felt so cold. I looked toward the doctor and heard him scream and then everything was quiet. It all turned black and I couldn’t see, or hear, or touch anything, but I felt. I felt scared and worried. I was more scared and worried than I had ever been in my entire life. I don’t know how much time passed, but I awoke inside of the Tardis. I looked up to see Nightmare Moon standing above me. She looked back over her shoulder.
“Doctor, verily thy mare has awoken!” she shouted.
A moment later he rushed into the room and I felt him scoop me up into his forelegs. He pulled me into a tight hug and rocked back and forth.
“Doctor?” I asked.
“I had to do it Ditzy… I had to…” he said.
I could hear the sadness in his voice, and I wrapped my own forelegs around him.
“It’s okay,” I whispered.
“Doctor, thou did what must be done. Thou made a lasting example,” she said.
“At too great of a cost. That guard was just doing his job, he was simply doing as his king commanded. I had no right to do that to him,” the Doctor said.
“He had struck out against thy mare. He forced thy hand,” she said.
“Doctor?” I asked.
He shook his head and then looked at Nightmare Moon.
“What I did shouldn’t have been done. That guard didn’t deserve to lose his mind. He didn’t deserve to see that side of me. It’s a side that I’ve locked away for a long, long time, and now… Dizty,” he said looking back at me, “Forgive me please. Tell me that you forgive me.”
I wasn’t sure what he had done, but I know that the doctor loves me. He cares for me, and that’s more than enough reason to forgive him. I nuzzled his neck and offered what comfort I could.
“I forgive you,” I said as he shook, “I love you Doctor, of course I forgive you.”
I look behind us as Nightmare Moon looks around the Tardis for a moment.
“Thy home is quite spacious Doctor. Perhaps thou could stand another visitor?” she asked.
He turned toward her and then looked at me. I nodded and he gave a small smile.
“You’re welcome to join us if you want to,” he said.