Jack and I sat I silence, watching the Doctor work the controls, flinging us through space and time, back to the hell that Ponyville had become. I liked Jack, the Doctor trusted him, so that was good enough for me. I found out during the ride that the TARDIS was actually in my head, translating everything into my language, but it didn't translate that because I had no idea what the buck that meant. The Doctor cursed and yelled while he piloted, pleading with the machine he called Sexy to just work for him.
"Bloody hell!" the Doctor yelled, "This was much easier with hands!"
"The hay are hands!?!" I yelled back. Jack laughed at our little exchange.
"So Opie, are you ready?" He asked me.
"As much as I can be. I wish I had told Pinky Pie how I felt about her now, at least once..."
"You'll get your chance, that would make too good of a story for your kids for it to never happen," Jack said. His words gave me steel, readying me for anything. So did the tool bag the Doctor gave me, it was bigger on the inside too.
We banged down now, and gathered by the door of the TARDIS. "Ready everypony?" the Doctor asked. With a great rush we all left the box to find ourselves surrounded by, of all the damn luck, trees.
"You missed town Doc," I said.
"I said it was easier with hands. Come on," He said. We ran towards town, then jogged, then walked.
"How far off were we Doctor?" Jack asked.
"Be quite," He said obviously angry. We poked through just in time to see a light in the Clock Tower, like a light house, and hear the whoomph-ing sound.
"Ah, thats why we were off, to avoid the paradox of meeting our selves!" The Doctor said.
"Great, so what now?" Jack asked. from where we sat, we could see the whole town, they talked strategy, I saw the horror. Friends and loved ones lay every where, just dead ponies now. Little kids walked around their parents, nosing them, pleading with mommy and daddy to wake up. The kids that didn't get up were the worst though. I lost my lunch seeing this.
"Easy there kid," Jack said, "I know this is hard for you, I saw something like this when I was little. But Doctor," Jack said turning his attention, "Why didn't the Daleks just wipe this world clean? How did they know you were here?"
"I don't know Jack, but the fact the Daleks didn't kill everyone scares me. As for how they knew I was here, they just did a scan for alien tech, and I have the only tech on world here. Now, look there," The Doctor said jumping and pointing. I saw Twilight Sparkle and Pinky fighting off the Daleks, Pinky using Twilight as a magic cannon it seamed, and the Daleks were falling.
"Magic," I said, "The Daleks are weak against magic?"
"Makes sense. Nowhere else in the universe has this kind of power. That's it!" The Doctor yelled, "The magical field, they plan to collapse it, making this world a big reality bomb!"
"And that's bad?" I asked.
"Very," Jack said.
We left our cover as a Dalek rounded the corner, and aimed at us, specifically Jack.
"Halt, Doctor!" The thing yelled. It thought Jack was the Doctor. From what I understood, the Doctor used to be a form like Jack's once, so I guess it made sense, the Daleks had no idea the Doctor was a pony, and Jack was the only Human on our world. They let loose a shot at Jack. I watched him fall to the earth, dead. The Doctor took off and I was not far behind, the Dalek let out a few shots, but he missed. The Doctor told me later the magic of our world slowed the speed of the shots, and the Daleks could not adjust to hit moving targets here. I ran, not knowing how tired I was anymore, not seeing the death around me, I just ran. When we stopped, we were hold up in Pinky's bakery. the basement had already been cleared. I paid my respects to the late Mr Cake here, who had given himself so his family could escape, or so I hoped. The Doctor drew up a plan with frosting.
"There is where we need to hit on the Dalek ship," he said.
"Right on the gumdrop, got it!"
Overhead we could hear the Dalek's relaying the info the Doctor had been killed. So they thought. But still, poor Jack.
"How do we get up to the Ship, Doc?" I asked.
"Leave that to me," said a voice behind us, I turned to see Jack standing there, a grin on his ugly Alien face.
"Jack!? How?" I asked.
"Let me just say, never look into the heart of the TARDIS," He said. "As for how to get there, the Doctor already said I have a Teleporter."
"That word has no meaning to me," I said.
"Jack, I though I said no teleporting?" The Doctor said.
"Now where is the fun in that," He said, pulling us both tight to him and pressing a button on his fore leg hoof thingy... I don't know what it was called, He's an alien, alright?!?
We instantly left the bakery and a moment later, we were in a corner, but in a great big metal belly. Daleks were everywhere, the closest had its back to us and didn't raise the alarm, so we were in luck. I dove at it, reaching into my tool bag, and pulled out a working plasma torch the Doctor had called it. I didn't know what it was, but find a tool in the universe, and I can use it. I cut into the Dalek, but instead of making an opening, it rose into the air, the metal balls around its base shot out in a sphere, and a moment later the Dalek was just gone.
"By Jove, that was excellent kid, you tripped it's self destruct," Jack said. He had pulled something out of his coat and took aim himself at the approaching Daleks, letting ring thunder from the damn thing. We ran down a corridor Jack using the thunder maker to cover us. We zigged and zagged, dropped levels, and climbed ramps to new ones. Eventually, we were at it.
"The gumdrop!" I said, remembering the map in the bakery.
"That's the AI core," the Doctor said.
"The what now?" I said.
"Intruder alert," the thing cried. the doctor ran up to it, pulling out a silver tool from his pocket, and a quick point later, it made a small whistling sound. The thing blinked off, then came back on, spinning wildly. "SPAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEE!" it cried, "ohmygodohmygodohmyogd I'm in Space!"
"That. Jack is why I have a Sonic Screwdriver!" The doctor yelled in Triumph.
"Later Doctor, we need to go!" Jack yelled back.
"Right, Allons-y!" The doctor yelled as he searched for a way out. as we sat there, I saw a contraption, a temporal messenger it read. I went to it, and Easily found out how ot use it. I put out a small message now, just in time to here the Doctor yell for me.
"Opie, we found a way out, lets go!" He yelled.
As I joined up I asked him "Why can't Jack Telephone us out?"
"They blocked all teleportation when the alarm when up," Jack said, "But escape pods still work."
We left the giant craft just in time, it was starting to destroy itself, the Daleks wanting to stay put, the ship wanting to explore space. We fell to the planet, the outside of the pod getting so hot it caught fire. I hoped the Doctor could figure this part out. As we fell closer and closer, I saw a brilliant rainbow double helix that made one rainbow beam, sweep the land.
"Well they finally used the Elements of Harmony," I said.
"Yes, that would work now that the mother ship is not putting out the shielding code to the ground units," the Doctor said.
"The what now?" I said. As if on cue, Jack hit a button and the pod slowed down and then landed rather nicely on the planet.
As we got out, I heard Jack say "Doctor, Daleks don't use escape pods..."
"I know," The Doctor said, "That was a scavenging party, using random ships to invade. All that remains of the Daleks are just nomads, drifting through space now because of me."
"Good," I said, "Give em a chance to cool off." I surveyed the town. Most of it was destroyed, lots of dead ponies everywhere. I saw a familiar filly sitting there, holding her daughter close to her chest. I Turned and Ran into the Everfree Forest, straight to the TARDIS. When I got there, I found the Doctor and the Keepers of the elements there.
"Doctor, please," I begged of him, "let me go back, stop this from ever happening."
"I can't Opie, you know that," He said.
"Bastard! How can you sit on so much power, and not fix everything?" I yelled, angry at him, the Daleks, myself.
"Opie, every second I see the universe as it could be, the way it should be, the way it has to be and the way it is. Every second, of all eternity. That is the curse of being a Time Lord, I don't get to choose who lives and who dies. if I could, I would be no better than the Daleks, because I would be taking away ponies fates, their free will. Please understand," He said. I knew he was right. That made it hurt worse.
"Doctor," Said Jack stepping out of the TARDIS, "I'm ready to go when you are. Hey," He said to the assembled girls, "Which one of you is Pinky Pie?"
"That's me, why?" Pinky said.
"He likes you, a lot, just thought I should say that," Jack said. Plothole.
"Oh, well I like him a lot too, I always wanted him to ask me out..." Pinky said looking down.
"Pinky," I said swallowing my pride, "I would like your help in rebuilding our town." I said.
"Of course Silly, and afterwords we can go out on a date," Pinky said rather chipper. But could see the change in her face, the heart break of what we had seen.
"Well, that's two couples out of this hell hole," Rainbow Dash said, giving Applejack a quick kiss to tell every one else about them.
"Yeah, um, not surprised," Twilight said and they all broke into a good laugh.
I took the chance to talk to the Doctor now in private. "So Doc, after you drop him off, when will you be back?"
"Oh, what makes you think I'm coming back?" The Doctor said.
"2 reasons, A) your a pony now, where else can you go," I said.
"True," He conceded.
"And 2 or was that B).. anyways, you wouldn't make me a liar," I said.
"Oh?"
"Yeah, on the ship I found a Temporal messenger, so I put the word out that Equestria was protected. We should be safe now," I said. The Doctor laughed, and agreed to come back, telling me I was special, I had managed to change his mind. He and Jack got in the Box, Jack waiving good by too all of his new friends, but I had a feeling we would see him again. The TARDIS soon wavered in and out of existence, all 7 of us watching it disappear.
"Will he ever come back?" Fluttershy asked.
"Yeah, someday." I said with a smile, til i turned around and ran face first into a big blue box that had just appeared quietly this time, like a prank.
"Hey its someday!" Pinky yelled, and everyone had a good laugh, including the Doctor stepping out of his box.
It was hard rebuilding the town, but a year later, you could never even tell it had happened, except for the graveyard and memorial wall. 544 ponies died that day, Big Mac had given his life it turned out to buy his sister time to use the Elements. Cheerilee went with him, so in the record, we recorded that as their marriage. Pinky inherited the Corner, no pony ever saw the Cake family again. The Doctor thinks they were used as an experiment, testing the reality bomb idea out. Pinky and I laid together in bed, married all of 4 hours now, when we heard a knock at the door. We went down stairs and found an old friend and his blue box on the step.
"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue," The Doctor said, and at a click of his hooves against the ground the doors opened up. "How about a trip you two, anywhere in the universe, my treat? How about Barcelona, not the city, the world, where they have dogs with no noses."
Pinky and I looked at each other and stepped out and into a new adventure.