We start our story, opening up on Butterscotch landing behind Sugar Cube Corner, carrying a camera; Dusk Shine's waiting for him on the ground. "Thanks for helping out with the group shot, for the princes, Butterscotch," said Dusk Shine in his perky manner.
"Least I can do..." Butterscotch replied, in his soft tone, as he proceeded to fiddled with preparing the camera.
Dusk Shine started to pace back and forth, muttering to himself, "Okay, so we got the princes busy inside...we got the camera...uh, where's Barbara and the other's when I need them..." At that moment, AJ, Elusive, and Bubble Berry rounded the corner and walked up behind Dusk Shine.
"Howdy!" Bubble Berry shouted, making Dusk Shine jump.
"We late o'something?" asks AJ as he walked to Dusk Shine's side and sat down.
"No, none of you are late. Now, we better get this going--is the camera set up yet Butterscotch?"
"I think so..."
"Everyone in the frame?" Dusk Shine asked Butterscotch, with a smile. Butterscotch noded, turning a knob on the camera and walking over to where Dusk Shine, AJ, Bubble Berry, and Elusive had bunch themselves for the picture.
"Not everypony's here though," Elusive remarked to Dusk Shine, who then quickly took inventor of his friends.
"Your right...anyone see Rainbow Blitz lately?" Dusk Shine said, astonished of his ignorance.
Our point of view switches to the camera's viewpoint and we see Rainbow Blitz fly in, carrying his saddle bags; he lands, panting. Bubble Berry bounced over and patted him on the back, "You okay, Buddy?"
"Yeah, you look a little winded, Sugarcube," AJ said as he walked over to Bubble's side.
"I'm...fine...just a little full...I guess..." replied Blitz as he panted and hung his head. He soon straightened up, but then slouched again as he panted, wings flexing with every breath.
Dusk Shine noticed a leaf hanging out of the corner of Blitz's mouth and walked closer, plucking the leaf out of Rainbow Blitz's mouth, with his magic; he assumed examination of it as it floated in front of his snout. "Exactly where were you before you got here, Blitz?" Dusk Shine asked, not looking away from the leaf.
"I was...in the Everfree forest, coming back from Zecuro's..." Rainbow Blitz got his second wind and straightened up, "I was coming back, and I was hungry. I must've eaten some Dandelions or something--"
"Not something Rainbow, Poison Joke!" At that moment, Dusk Shine dropped the leaf, in fright, and back pedaled a little. The rest of the friends followed suit and gave Blitz a wide berth. "Have you been feeling lightheaded, Blitz?" Dusk Shine asked, precaution filling his voice as he turned the Poison Joke leaf into an orange.
"No...not at--" Rainbow Blitz staggered a little and fell over in a plume of dust.
His friends crowded around him to try and help. Suddenly a black wing shot out from the epicenter of the mass. All the friends backed away from Blitz, revealing a black coated Alicorn.
Elusive stuttered, "Rainbow, i-is that...you?" he walked closer to Blitz, who staggered to his feet.
He flexed his jet black wings and shook off the dust, revealing a dark hourglass cutie mark. In a British accent, to match Elusive’s, "Well, of course it's me Elusive...well sort of." Blitz walked over to the camera and muses at his reflection in the lens, flipping his dark, black and brown, mane and tail around to look at them; he could help but muse at the looks his horn was getting from the friends. "Seems what Ms. Time Turner said would happen--oh, and you set this camera to three minutes Butterscotch, but it's almost out," he turned to the others and gave them a grin, then trotted over. Blitz surveyed his friends and noticed they all were still dazed about what just happened.
AJ snapped out of his confusion and stammered, "Wh...who are ya?"
"Why, it's me...Blitz," he began to chuckle and scrap the ground with his hoof, with enthusiasm. The rest of the friends slowly, but surely, escape their dazed states one by one. “So...you guys...na...” Blitz paused as he mused at the idea of sharing his Tardis with his friends, but he casually denied himself.
“If we want to what?” asks Dusk Shine in response.
“Oh, just to see my new Tardis,” replied Blitz. “I’ve been wanting to show you guys it for a while, now.”
“What is that?”
“Well, it’s a ‘time and relative dimension in space’ contraption that allows me to travel to any when and where.”
Dusk Shine raised an ear in surprise, “A what?...But space and time travel doesn’t exist.”
“You want to find out if it does?” Rainbow Blitz coaxed his friends who eagerly nodded at the idea of seeing such a machine. “Good,” Rainbow Blitz replied, he then reached into his saddle bags and extracted a funny looking, green, stick from one of them.
“And if I might ask, what’s that?” Elusive inquired, a little annoyed at his friend’s accent.
Blitz set it on the ground and pressed a button on it with his nose, and it began to emit a low buzzing noise that everyone, including the camera, could hear (along with the emittence of a blue light). “Well, Ms. Time Turner said it was a...um...sonic screwdriver?” he smiled towards Elusive. From out of a spark in the air, nearest to Butterscotch, who was standing at the edge of the group, appeared a Police Pony Box. Rainbow Blitz picked up the screwdriver in his mouth, winked at the group in general, and casually strutted over to the structure. He then pressed the button, on the screwdriver again, pointing it at the Police Pony Box. Through gritted teeth, “This is the Tardis.”--with rising enthusiasm--"I’m so happy to show you gents.” A latch is heard opening and Blitz pushed the door inward, putting the screwdriver back into his saddle bags, and trotted into the machine.
From the camera’s view we can see a capacious room within the tiny Tardis. From within Blitz called to his friends in a giddy voice, “You are all welcome to come in.”
They all do so, cautiously surveying the spacious room, and gasping in amazement, as they walk across the threshold.
“This is so cool!” exclaimed Bubble Berry as he bounced around the room looking at everything. “What’s this--What’s this--What’s this?”
Rainbow Blitz frantically exclaimed, as he rushed to stop Bubble Berry, “Don’t pull that lever, Bubble--” A lever is heard as it hits its end rail, and the door of the Tardis slams shut. The lights and gears of the Tardis whir to life and the box itself leaps into the air, emitting a strange purple ripple as it hangs there, in mid-air, in front of the camera. A bolt of lightning strikes and the Tardis is gone. The residual shock of the rip in time topples the camera and the photo is taken as the lens shatters on impact.