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// chapter one, jail time 
// Story: The Fallout of a Fractured Sky 
// by Sam Cole 
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CRAP!!!!!1!!! Running now, gotta run! Can't stop, hearing the zip of laser fire pass overhead! I turn fast, which way, which way! The TARDIS! I can see it! A blinding flash! Crap! What was that, Run forward, hope for the best! Hope for-BANG!- owww, my head... I found the TARDIS now. I'm inside, I ran right into the consul again, didn't I? 
"Tehehehehehe, Opie, that was fun," My wife, Pinkie Pie said. I groggily looked at her, and saw in her hooves the Polaroid camera the Doctor had given her. How she worked it, that was beyond me.
"Pinkie," I said calmly, "Did you take my picture right before I entered?"
"Yep, its a good one, lookit!" She said pressing the photo into my face. 
"That's a real keeper Pinkie," the Doctor said, laughing, "Just in time too. He looks like an action hero!"
"Yepperunie! This one is my new favorite, going right here!" Pinkie said pinning the picture to the bulletin board we had put up, full of pictures of our adventures to new worlds. 
"Great," I said trying to stand, "Now can we go home, I don't think they want us here on... where are we?"
"Raxitalianfalibitorious!" The Doctor said with a smile, "They were rather polite today."
"Why do you say that Doc?" I asked. He hated when I called him that, but he chalked it up to a country upbringing.
"They missed," He said so calm, so passively, all I could do was laugh as we twisted and turned through time back home. At least, til we got that darn call. Something in the TARDIS was ringing. I had heard this before now, the Doctor called it a Telephone, but never said he had one in the TARDIS. He answered it, and then turned to us a little miffed. 
"What's wrong Doctor? Lets turn that frown upside down," Pinkie said, twisting her neck for visual effect showing a frown literally turn upside down. How the buck she did that, even the Doctor was at a loss. 
"That was my wife, she needs a lift," The Doctor said. I think my jaw hit the floor now, because Pinkie laughed and read my mind.
"Doctor, Doctor. Keeping your wife a secret form us, shame on you. I didn't know you were married. So then, where/when is she?" Pinkie said. 
"Stormcage Containment Facility, a galactic prison," The Doctor said.
"Uhm... Doc, mind if I ask?" I posed to the intrepid time lord.
"What she did?" The Doctor asked, to which Pinkie and I both nodded, "She was arrested for my murder, happy?"
"Oh, well," Pinkie said, "Not really, Sorry Doctor."
"It's alright, you all were bound to find out some day," The Doctor said.
"So just out of curiosity..." I started.
"No no, we do this all the time. It's our thing," The Doctor said.
"Does she know your a pony now?" I finished.
"Oh... um... no, I don't think she knows..." The Doctor said sheepishly. I will admit, I was scared, anyone that could rile up the Doctor like this, that has to be bad. We soon started the materialization inside Stormcage Containment Facility, and when the loud bang of the ship stopping rang, Pinkie and I opened the doors, to see 5 or 6 armed guards at the ready. Although as soon as they laid eyes on a box that's bigger on the inside filled with ponies, they lost the ready. Pinkie didn't.
"Hiya, I'm Pinkie," She said to them all.
"Ohmygod she is cute, my daughter would love her!" One of the guards said. 
"Yeah, sure Steve, your 'Daughter' would definitely love her... BWAHAHAHA!" Another guard said. 
"Can you help us Steve?" Pinkie asked. Only my wife would ask the guards for help during a prison break.
"Sure thing, whaddya need?" Steve said. Only my wife would get the guards help during a prison break.
"We need his wife, can you get her for us?" Pinkie said with a smile. I thought we were about to die. 
"Sure thing, who is she?" Steve's friend said. The hay! What kind of prison is this? Wait I know better, this is working, don't jinx it.
"Doctor River Song," The Doctor said stepping up to the door now. 
"Of course," The guards said and parted to reveal a nice looking human female, in an adventurous outfit. 
"Hello Sweetieeee What the Hell?" She said looking at the Doctor now, she couldn't see over her guards I guess. "What on Gallifrey happened to you love? You're a freaking horse!?!"
"I'm a pony now. Ponies are Cool," The doctor said. We had to let this slide, last week he had gotten his hooves on a Fez, and pranced around it in, always saying 'I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.' But this time he was right.
"Oh, for the love of... 12th regeneration?" River asked.
"Yes indeed, now, get in the box," the Doctor said. When River was on board they started working the controls, taking us back to Ponyville once more. "So love," the Doctor asked in between pulling a lever and kicking the command node, "Hallucinatory lipstick again?"
"Oh love, no imagination. I used the old Jedi Mind trick," River said.
"I really hate to rush you Docs, but some of us have work in the morning, like say all of us except Mrs... The Doctor, here," I said. If I didn't keep the doctor on track, we would never get anywhere.
"Oh, you work now?" River asked her husband. 
"Yes I do, need to keep up the mild mannered Pony bit. By the way, this is Pinkie and Opie Pie," The Doctor said.
"It's Fixx," I said.
"No it's not," The Doctor said.
"No it's not... Hey!" I said. 
All the while, Pinkie and River talked, soon laughing it up like long lost friends, maybe sisters... oh Celestia that's a scary thought. I took the chance to turn to my new hobby, inventing. I had made some modifications to my tools, and was close to having my own working Sonic Screwdriver. I say working because I have a rather nice collection of useless ones. The Doctor walked up to me, and in a deflated manner, fell back on his haunches, letting out a sigh and doing something I had never expected of him.
"Opie, I need your help," He said. I was floored, the Doctor never asked for help.
"Um, what can I do for ya Doc?" I asked, unsure how to go forward with this. 
"I need some advise, I am not really good at the whole being married bit," The Doctor said, head hung low.
"Well, you're 1173 years old, buddy. You mean to tell me the only thing you don't know about is love?" I said. 
"Well being the last of your species, you kind of give up on love," The Doctor said.
"Wait the last? You mean..." I started
"Yes Opie," the Doctor said, his stare aimed at the floor, "Even with time travel, I can not go back to my world. It is forever lost to me now, I am the Last of the Time Lords." With that he looked me in the eyes, and I could feel all of his pain, all of his suffering. All the times he had opened his heart, all the times he had to watch those he loved die. All the wonders he brought, that was only one side of the coin that is the Doctor, the other side... was death, agony, pain, loss, and hopelessness. 
"Doctor, what I did a year ago..." I started.
"I don't hold that against you Opie, You wanted to save everyone, and you had what you believed you needed. I did the same myself," The Doctor said.
We forgot about the issue of the Doctor's marriage, it seemed irrelevant now. How do you help a relationship between two time travelers that never meet up in the right order. The Doctor went over to River and they started comparing their journals, to sync up where they where with each other. Once she asked if he had seen the river of plasma on Hexdrcop yet, when he said no and tried to ask about it, her only response was 'Spoilers.'  Pinkie and I watched this scene, eating some popcorn Pinkie had just made or found, I don't know, I don't ask these questions.
"So my little ponies," River said, "What should I know about Ponyville?"
"Oh my, Ponyville is great, its where all of my best friends live, Except you now, and Captain Jack, And the Princess of course, and Zecora, and..." This was a long list. Every one worked while Pinkie listed off friends, literally everyone she knew that didn't live in Ponyville. "So River," Pinkie said when she was done, "I feel we should warn you, some ponies in town are not too happy with aliens..." 
As if on cue, the TARDIS started to buck and shake, like it does when we are in for a bad landing.
"Oh what now Sexy?" The Doctor pleaded with his machine, "Some one outside the TARDIS managed to change our course? But, but how?"
"Who the hell is this Celestia?" River asked, looking at a tweed billfold from the Doctor's pocket she had swiped earlier.
"That's the Princess, but how did you know that name?" I asked.
"Psychic paper love, the Doctor here was thinking it, he read it on one of the screens. Apparently she wants to see us." River said.
"Oh boy, I'll get my party Cannon!" Pinkie said. We were soon materializing, and form outside we could hear the echo of the engines as we came into the world. With a deep breath The Doctors, Pinkie and myself readied for the worst. 
"Oh Opie, it's not the worst, the Princess is our friend!" Pinkie said.
"What, how..." I started.
"I'm reading the narrative, silly," She said.
"Pinkie... how... Forth wall... I," I admit, I was at a loss. Pinkie, just get on with the story.
"Okay dookie artichokie," Pinkie said. I'm in a battle with physics, I swear.
We left the TARDIS, to find an army of royal guards at the ready, and the Princesses Luna and Celestia, walking towards us, a serious expression on the elder, Celestia. Luna looked a little dazed and tired, but I didn't say anything. River walked calmly towards them, then bowed. 
"Greetings my most elegent hosts, I am Queen Cleopatra, how do you do?" River said offering the paper from before. But Celestia was not falling for it.
"That paper is blank Doctor Song," She said, her voice oddly cold, "And you and the Doctor here are no longer welcome on Equestria. We want no more involvement with you beings from other worlds. So we would like to ask that you leave, before we make you leave."
"Of course, your highness," The Doctor said.
"Doc wait, you can't, this is your home," I said, trying to keep a hold of my friend. The Doctor came over and gave me a big hug, odd, but not for him. During the embrace, he whispered into my ear, he had a warning. A plan. Unfortunately those were his exact words almost, real helpful Doc.
"Come along River, this world does not need us," The Doctor said. Pinkie cried, a big flowery display.
"No, Doctor, River, TARDI, don't go!" She said.
"You named the TARDIS 'TARDI?' The buck hun?" I said. We sat and watched as my best colt and his wife left our world, the music of the engines playing an almost sad note now. We turned to the Princess that had just banished our friend, looking for a reason, a sign to why she willingly cast off our only protection form the bad aliens. But we were in for a shock.
"My little ponies, do not cry, and do not fear. My actions are in our interest. We do not allow contact with any advanced races now," Huh, that's an odd way to put that, what was up with our Princess? "The rule had to be across the board, meaning even the Doctor."
"(Sob) But Princess, he was our friend, he only wanted to help us, live a nice life," Pinkie said.
"I know my dear, but tomorrow, you wouldn't even remember the good Doctors." Celestia said. Wait what? Like a fog, she decended on us, her normal playful laugh now one that struck fear and panic into my heart as the world went dark.