//------------------------------// // Not the Best Time for a Party // Story: The Lost Element // by Pinkie Pyro //------------------------------// Luna was a clever pony. She thought out her actions, and did them. She was skilled in magic and philosophy. She's not your average pony. Yet, in a time like this, magic and philosophy isn't going to be much of an aid. There she was, laying on the ground with little magic. Her sister has taken the powers of Chaos and Harmony to become the most powerful creature in existance, and she's using her new power to burn down the citizens who defy her. Philosophy wasn't too much of help either. She had either two choices, run with low energy, or die for wanting the people's freedom. This is where her intellect kicks in. She slowly crawled on the floor to where the weilder of the Element of Magic lay still. Her mane was in hideous condition, slightly singed. She stopped next to her body. She pushed her hoof into Twilight's side. "Twi?" She said in a weak groan. She shook her body, but she stayed quiet. A single tear dripped from Luna's eye. She stood up and limped towards the Element of Laughter. Her mane had poofed back up into it's pink cotton candy-ish state. Her normally never ending words had ceased. The same thing with Loyality, Generosity, Honesty, and Kindness. Luna fell down to her knees and cried. It had become hopeless. "Uh, hello?" A male voice said from the shadows behind Luna. The ex-princess turned around to see a brown earth pony coming towards her. Normally in a situation like this, Luna would defend herself. Luckily for the stallion, Luna knew him. Luna knew him well. "Doctor!" She said beaming, with tears still strolling down her cheeks. "It's so good to see you again!" The Doctor only laughed. "Luna! I see you've..... gotten yourself into quite a pickle." He said, looking at the destroyed ceiling. Luna gave him a confused look. "What's a pickle?" She said. Doctor Whooves lit his Sonic Screwdriver up over the sleeping bodies of the old weilders of the Elements of Harmony. He donned his glasses and turned to Luna. "Human food. You remember the humans, right?" He said, examing Pinkie's body. 'Odd. A lot of residue from the fourth wall on her body. Gotta keep an eye on her....' He said putting the pink earth pony back on the ground. "Ah yes, humans. Odd creatures. Hey, do you need my help in any way?" She said, still trying to wake the slumbering elements. "Have you got a pen?" The Doctor said. Luna only returned with another blank expression. "Quill? Hoof-paint? Something?" Luna jumped up and ran to her room. Doctor Hooves felt a tremor shake through the castle. A segment of the roof broke of and crash landed on the floor, taking the floor with it. He jumped back. "Hey, Luna, we may have a situation here." He said. Luna crashed from room to room. Bits of the ceiling and floor were falling straight down of the mountain. She flew cautiously, swearing Celestia's name as she did. A chunk of debris fell and hit her right on the wing. She crashed and slid across the floor. Normally, a pony would have given up. A normal pony would have stopped and died. Good thing for Luna, she wasn't a normal pony. She crawled across the damaged floor, determined to make it to her bedroom. The floor was breaking quicker than Luna could crawl. The bits and pieces of ancient Equestian tile fell down a few hundred feet onto the grasslands far below. Luna tried to go faster. She was using every bit of energy she had left. The hole had grown too big though. Her rear hooves fell off of the floor and down the mountain. She screamed and tried to pull herself up. Her wings were too weak for flight. All she had was her own strength. It wasn't much, but it was working. Celestia noticed this. With a grin, she had found herself an opportunity. Celestia's horn glew a brilliant yellow, and struck the ground where Luna was. Luna looked down in fear. The floor around her was pure cracks. One wrong move and it was all over. She was blessed with thi one moment to have life. Yet, she wasn't blessed with luck. She took her first step forward. -CRACK- - - - - - - - - - - 'I am going insane..' Doctor Whooves thought. Normally, the Canterlot castle is on rock and mountainside. Now, it seems like the rock has magically vanished and the collapsing roof is breaking the tiled floors. He kept his Sonic Screwdriver aimed at the Element of Magic, hoping it's sonic properties would reactivate her magic. Luckily for him, it did. Twilight slowly opened her eyes. She was greeted by an ecstatic stallion and a sharp pain in her sides. She jumped back. The new situation thrown into her lap had startled her. "Hey, you. Tan guy." She said, trying to regain her composure. "Who are you?" He turned froom Pinkie's body and looked and her. "The Doctor" he said. "That explains it." She sighed. Memories of recent events had caused her to sadden.She looked back up. "You're a doctor, right?" "Yes and no." He proclaimed, mananging to awaken the married pegasi couple. "What? Where are we? The castle?" Dash said, rubbing her head. Both her and Fluttershy had a massive headache. "What's happening to us?" Twilight said to Doctor Whooves. Rarity and Applejack had awoken. Both with massive pains in their sides as well. Applejack also commented about having a headache, too. "A change. Magical Metamorphing. I'm guessing it has something to do with your relation to the Elements of Harmony. Which by my guessing is in the hooves of that giant glowing floaty thing, yes?" He stopped talking to get a nod from Twilight. "Right. Listen, all I can say now is that you're going to get-" "A SURPRISE!" yelled a famous pink pony as she quickly darted across the crumbling room to give every one of her freinds a hug. (A special rainbow maned pegasus got the hardest one.) "Hey! My head hurts. So do my sides." She stopped mid-dart to slide across the floor on her flanks, finally noticing the pain. "Doctor?" Twilight said though the commotion of the friend's apologies. Whooves turned back and looked. "You're older than us, right?" "Older than you by a total of 882 years, why?" He responded. Twilight shot him a confused look. He smiled. "Yep, I get that all the time." "No, doctor. If you're older than me by centuries, how are you shorter than us?" "While I do not understand why you have lived for so long, the mare is right. How are you smaller?" Rarity added. "Fillies, Fillies. Listen. It's not that I am shorter than you. It's that you are now taller than everypony else." he said with a serious tone in his voice. All of the girls' jaws dropped. "How?" Fluttershy asked. "Ah'm sure ya'll're jokin'. Ya're jokin', right?" the orange farmer added. "It HAS to be true! I have like, 20% more party in me! I have to be bigger if I can hold all this party in my body! Or I'll explode! Then I'll explode again! My hoof isn't stomping, so that means nopony going to explode today. Good luck for little old Pinkie. Whoops, I mean, not-so-little." Pinkie Pie said with a giggle. "Pinkie Pie logic. I'll never get it." Dash whispered to Fluttershy. "Girls, I'm sorry to end this here. I really would love to stay, but you have bigger things on your plate that I cannot help with. Just remember, it is URGENT that you-" "Halt! You aren't going anywhere!" Three of Celestia's personal body guards had entered the chamber, and were pointing spears at the Doctor and the six strangely tall ponies. "You don't have to do this, we're trying to help you!" Twilight said, jumping in front of the Doctor. "You are a threat to Celestia's rule. You shall be locked away far from civilization, so that you may not hurt the ponies safety any longer!" One of the guards said. Another pair of three burst through the door behind them. "Stop this! This isn't brave! This isn't valor! This is suicide!" Doctor Whooves shouted. The number of Celestian guards multiplied by the dozen as more and more marched in, effectivly surrounding the seven. Just then, Queen Celestia herself floated downwards. The tiles and shingles of the ceiling were magically flying around her at different speeds, creating a sheild around her snake-like body. "I found this outside. You should know not to run from me." She hissed. Luna with magically thrown onto the floor between the ponies. Her mane and wings were ruffled and out of shape. She was bruised all over. Still, she stood up. She had a look of hatred for the monster that was there, standing in place of the once caring sister shy knew. "I have lost all tolerance I used to have with you. All of you plan to take me down. I cannot just bide and let you do that, now can't I?" She said. Luna's eyes sone in a bright white as she yelled back to the magical beast. "You are NOT fit to oversee a kingdom! You aren't fit to oversee a city! You aren't fit to oversee a tortoise race! You aren't my sister any more, Celestia. You should slither back into the pits of hell from which you came and give me back the REAL Celestia!" She yelled. Tears flowed down from her eyes. "We'll see about that." Celestia's hron glew a brialliant yellow with black undetones, and the gemstones of the Elements of Harmony lit up in their respective color. The beam of magic shot out, hitting Luna square in the chest. Luna thre her head back and fell downwards as magic was sucked out of her own body. Doctor Whooves and the girls looked on in horror. "I need more magic for where you seven are going..." She said as the magic beam split into three. The two spare beams hit the doors, locking them. They then touched the Royal Guards, absorbing their magic until all that was left of them was a pile of bones. The Doctor was infuriated. "That was murder!" He said, growling at Celestia. "It was self defence! They were eventually going to rebel. I needed their magic, anyway." She said, without a hint of care for the dead soldiers in her voice. "Besides, I'll need more magic than what these baubels have, because instead of banishing one weak little alicorn, I'm banishing six ponies and a Time Lord. " "I can bring your rule down in six words!" The infuriated Doctor said to the malevolent tyrant Celestia. He turned to the six ex-weilders of the Elements of Harmony. "You are going to become alicorns!" Celestia was outraged. She cast the banishment spell on the Doctor and the six ponies. "Goodbye PESTS! I hope you enjoy the moon!" She said with an evil laugh. The Doctor took this one moment to strike. He broke through the teleportation spell, and knocked Luna out of the magic draining spell, putting him where she used to be. Luna was sucked into the spell and vanished with the other six. "What?!? You! Oh, I'm going to end you, peasant!" She turned all of the beams of energy onto Doctor Hooves' body. He turned back in pain. For the first time in the Doctor's life, he cried. 'Goodbye Dinky, Daddy loves you. Goodbye Ditzy, I......I......I....' "I don't want to go." The Doctor said.