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// chapter two, time and relative dimensions in space 
// Story: Bad Wolf. 
// by Sam Cole 
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	I Ran into the box, not caring about the damn size, I just wanted to wake up. This had to be a dream. It had too, please Celestia let it be a dream. I could hear pounding on the door outside of the box, some pony was trying to hide in the office too. But John and I were already in here. There was no room, nothing for them here except a few more seconds, but soon those monsters would find us. I looked to where I realized John should be, and saw he was a few feet away... 
"What... what is this?" I stammered. 
"Opie, those are the Daleks. I do not know why they are here, but I will stop them. This is my ship, the TARDIS. It is bigger on the inside. but we need to get her working again. That is why you are here, you are right Opie, you are the best repair pony there is. and all of Equestria needs you to fix my ship, okay?" John said.
"John, John didn't you bucking see what happened out there! We can't stop those monsters with a blue box that's bigger on the inside!" I yelled. I wept. I had seen friends dying outside, I had seen so much in my life, and to now see this. When I was young, Mac and I saw our friend Lightning Flash crash into a tree. A limb had pierced his hind leg, severing the artery. Before Mac and I could even get to him, he bled out. Now I was helpless again as my town died.
"Opie, let me tell you something," my old friend said, fire in his eyes, his voice like ice " I am the Doctor, a 1172 year old Time Lord from the Planet Gallefrey. I watched my world burn as a result of a war with the Daleks, And I Will Not Watch as Another World Is CONSUMED! NOW OPIE, GET UP AND HELP ME SAVE THE WORLD," The Doctor said, and for the first time ever, I truly understood the odd pony. He gave me hope, maybe we could do this. In his eyes, I saw that what he said was the absolute truth, and he would beat these things.  I swallowed hard and got up.
"What can I do, Doctor?" I said, ready to do the right thing.
"HA HA, excellent, now, lets fix 'er!" The Doctor said with a smile. 
I dove under the center consul of the box, a large thing with all kinds of buttons and knobs and levers, but I was looking at the guts of it, trying to spy the problem. I worked hard and fast, but a few times I had to call to the Doctor for a new tool, seeing many places here that took a device I didn't have. Finally I was down to the last part, Troubleshooting.
"Did you connect this wire to here?" I asked.
"Yes Yes, didn't work," He said rather agitated. Outside there were sounds of freight, the Daleks were close now.
"Did you hit the panel with the mallet?" I asked.
"Of course," He said. 
"AT the same time?" 
"Yes I NO! No that's it, you're Brilliant Opie, absolutely Brilliant!" the Doctor said as he hit the the panel with the mallet and I plugged in the wire. I don' know how, but I could even fix this thing. That's why I'm named Opie Fixx I guess. With a start the ship as the Doctor called it lurched and made an odd whirring sound, like whooormph, whoormph, whooormph. We tossed and turned as the Doctor pulled here and there at the consul, muttering to himself.
"Nope, that's a little to close to the 1970's now, a little more to the left," He said.
Doctor, what's going on?" I yelled. 
"We are moving, through time and space," he said with a laugh.
"What? How?" I asked, lost in the sauce.
"TARDIS, stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. Neat, huh?" The doctor said. Okay then, I thought, I hopped in a crazy box and broke down, I was now nuts. That's all. With a bang we stopped. I picked myself up as the doctor grabbed some clothes and tossed them to me.
"Here, these creatures like if all visitors wear some kind of clothes," The Doctor said.
As I dressed, it dawned on me, "Hey wait, we left our world?"  
"Yep, sure did," the Doctor said.
"Then we could just go back, gather every pony left and evac them with this thing, Doctor you're a genius!" I said laughing, this was the plan, we just took off too soon, should have checked the brakes or something.
"I'm afraid we can't Opie. Your race would never recover long term from that kind of help, it would cripple you. You know that, deep down. But you haven't given up, and that is good," The Doctor said. I tried to argue the point, but the Doctor in all of his wisdom was calm, and talked me down. I argued size, resources, time, and he told me that the Daleks were now a Fixed point in time, so we had to do it his way. I didn't want to, but I went along with his idea, what choice did I have?
We left the box to find ourselves on a sandy beach of some kind, but with green sand instead of tan. I thought this was amazing, but then I turned around and saw the city. It was a huge collection of glass and steel, but after a minute I saw that this place had no soul, not like Ponyville at all. I trotted behind the Doctor, hating wearing these damn vests, and this was just my vest from the winter wrap up. I swore to get even with the doc for this prank. We walked among shops and stalls selling food, but when I saw the stuff, I realized it was flesh. I knew not to yell, I had seen horror movies, dude that yells dies first. We went to one shop, didn't look to different, but these odd aliens everywhere, that meant nothing. The Doctor went in first, and as soon as I was in, I realized where we were, or at least what the place was.
"Hey," I said, "This is a tailor!" 
"Hey is for horses," said the client turning around, it's long blue coat swaying about. It stood on just two legs, with the other two ending in odd thingies, like the little dragon Spike's claws. When it laid those blue eyes on us though, he smiled and changed his tone, "Oh, well I guess for you that's apt."
"Hello Captain Jack Harkness," The Doctor said to him.
"Bloody hell! Doctor?!?" Jack said.
"The one and only!" the Doctor said with a laugh as Jack ran over and hugged him and gave the doctor a big kiss on the lips. 
"Well guess we should start to call you Doctor Whooves now, huh?" Jack said.
"Oh haha, I like this form."  The Doctor said. 
"So who is your sexy little friend Doctor?" Jack said, eyeing me up and down. CRAP!
"Hey Cap, names Opie," I said offering a hoof. Jack tried for a hug, but i put the hoof up to his chest. "Down boy."
"He's a feisty one!" Jack said.
"No, Jack. I swear, anything that moves with this guy," The Doctor said under his breath. 
"So how did you find me Doctor?" Jack asked.
"When we landed, I scanned the area for alien tech, and your teleporter came up," The Doctor said. 
"So this is just random Doctor? I'm hurt," Jack said.
"Well I could use your help anyways Jack, we have a bit of an infestation back on Equestria. Daleks, to be precise," the Doctor said. 
"Doctor, I would follow you to hell and back a thousand times, let's go beat us some Daleks," Jack said.