Oh Colgate, must you always play Doctor? The mare kept running through the twisting turns of the cavern, hoping that there was some way to evade her pursuer.
The blue unicorn known as Colgate was always getting herself into trouble. This was mostly due to her constantly searching out problems that would normally need to be solved by the one and only Doctor. If there was any way that she could help him, she would. Many times her adventures crossed paths with The Doctor.
Colgate, though not a Time Lord, did have some power over space and time. Most unicorns have some kind of specialty to their magic, and that was hers. She could (most of the time) travel short distances through time and teleport across the majority of Equestria. It was these powers that even allowed her to meet The Doctor.
Her talents can come in handy when the TARDIS is unavailable, especially since The Doctor and Ditzy Doo (his faithful assistant) were unable to perform magic themselves. Well, The Doctor did have some bizarre gadgets that might as well be magic.
As she rounded another corner, she froze with fear. Oh, that’s just great. Fantastic. Something in the cave was inhibiting her ability to use magic. She started charging her spell and took off the way she came from.
At best that will keep it at bay for a few minutes… Colgate was desperately trying to find an exit. The entrance she had used was now collapsed. If I could just teleport away, the universe would be fine and dandy, but NOOOOOOOO I just HAD to go explore the mysterious cave.
She could feel her spell running out and desperately began to make sure that she could see in all possible directions. The last remnants of her magic faded, but her horn remained lit. That was the important part at the moment. At all costs she needed to be able to see. She had only just blinked before the creature was in plain sight. It was barely a foot from her face. By Celestia’s beard that thing is fast, she thought to herself.
Colgate had spent a decent amount of time with The Doctor and Ditzy Doo, and she vaguely remembered The Doctor mentioning something similar to this. Grrr….what was it he called them? She loosed another spell and kept running. Even though her magic was almost nothing in this mysterious cave, she could at least lock the creature in time for a few minutes. It would give her a little breathing room to try to locate the exit.
Think, Colgate, think! He had to have said something about defeating this think…Right? Blast, I can’t remember… She kept running around and around, unable to get out of this nightmare of an adventure. How long had she been doing this? An hour? Two? It seemed impossible to know for sure, but Colgate was beginning to tire. She didn’t know how much more she would be able to do this. There was no food or water other than what she had brought with her, and that wasn’t going to sustain her much longer.
The whole “adventure” began when Colgate had heard rumors of ponies disappearing outside of Baltimare. That alone wasn’t particularly curious, Baltimare was a large city and ponies disappeared often enough. The interesting this was they all had last been seen outside of Malum Lupus Cave, which sits almost twenty miles outside of Baltimare. For years, Malum Lupus Cave was said to have been cursed. Then suddenly ponies nearby suddenly disappeared? The temptation was too great for Colgate.
The magic faded faster and sooner this time. Colgate scanned her surroundings as soon as she felt the last remnants of her spell slip from her mind. Of course, it was not even a second before the creature was once again within Colgate’s sight.
Is it really fair to call it a creature? It looks pony enough. Still, it’s faster than anything I’ve ever seen, and if it was flying I couldn’t hear it. Colgate took the time to examine her surroundings, careful to keep it in her sights. The cavern was not very tall or wide, but who knew how long they could stretch into the earth. C’mon Colgate, there’s gotta be a way out of here. She looked around the tunnel. There were only two directions she could go, forward into the cave or back the way she came.
As Colgate turned back around, she saw that the creature had once again moved, this time with its hooves only inches from her head. She noticed something that greatly unnerved her. The being had great, pointy fangs. Ponies don’t have fangs. Clearly whatever it was couldn’t be a pony.
Wait a sec….Could it be? She noticed something else as well. The creature only moved when she wasn’t looking at it. Hang on, The Doctor said something like this…what was it? She gathered as much magical energy as she could and cast yet another time lock spell on the creature. This should hold for a few minutes anyway…
Hoping the spell was as powerful as she thought it was, Colgate decided to dash off deeper into the cave. Certainly there would be a way out somewhere. But if there wasn’t a way out…
Oh crap. Colgate came to a startling conclusion. There was a likely possibility that the beast was luring her into a trap. What was it? What was it he was talking about? Colgate slowed down so she could focus on the memory of that particular conversation.
”…And then there was this stone pegasus!” exclaimed Ditzy Doo excitedly.
“A stone pegasus?” Colgate responded.
“It’s not stone,” started the Doctor. “Well, it is. Well, sometimes. It’s a Weeping Pegasus. It looks like a pegasus statue. Nothing dangerous about that. But that’s only when you’re looking at it. As soon as you look away it comes back to life. It’s the perfect defense mechanism. If you ever come across one, get out.” The Doctor looked at Colgate with a very serious expression. “I know you go off and do things for the good of Equestria, but I can’t always be there to save you if something big comes up.”
Of course, a Weeping Pegasus! It’s a little late to get away now, huh Doc? Colgate picked her speed back up, desperate again to find an exit. Unfortunately for her, the path continued, never splitting and never stopping. I wonder… She started to think of The Doctor’s slightly-psychic paper. She had seen him get “distress calls” on it before. The spell was breaking. Any moment now the Weeping Pegasus would be upon her.
Colgate focused her thoughts on The Doctor and his paper, hoping that he would get the message. She thought she had felt some kind of connection, but with her fatigue it was hard to tell exactly what was going on.
Rapidly the power from the spell was vanishing. One of the few things she could count on was keeping her horn lit to provide a bit of light. The one thing she remembered The Doctor telling her to do in this scenario was now the most important:
Whatever you do, don’t blink.