Chapter 1
Andiamo! Or The Time Travelling Pony
Thump!
"Eek! What is this anyway?" Doohickey focused both her eyes " 'Italian to English dictionary'… why is this even here?!" she shouted tossing it away. The Tardis had not been used in a very long time; as such certain things were taking awhile to turn on or had been turned off to save energy. One of those things was the artificial gravity.
"AHHH!" an anvil BANG!"WHAT! Uh-oh!" a flower pot SMASH! "That was close… oh come on…" a piano CRASH! "THIS PLACE IS DANGEROUS!" suddenly a huge wave of water rushed her way "I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Doohickey screamed before dashing o the console and pushing random buttons, the door shut
"Okay calm down Doohickey, use that intellect your known for. It can't be that hard…" she looked at the many buttons and knobs and switches. "Then again maybe it is." Suddenly the Tardis tipped over and everything began sliding downward. Suddenly a book she had not notice in a compartment that had passed her eye slid out of it's holding but a chain attached to the console kept it in hooves reach "what's this?" the cover was covered in circles and triangles yet as Doohickey's eyes focused she could clearly read it. "Instruction Manual, glory to Luna above! Thank you!" she quickly flipped through the pages before slamming her hoof down. She felt a bit dizzy with all the things she'd read. She shook her head banishing her thought and quickly read over the page she had stopped at. She rushed over to the console book in hoof. "This switch," flick "this button," boop "that button," beep "and pull." She pulled down on the switch that looked like a lever. There was a whirling sound "oops… actually, that noise is kind of neat." She laughed before opening the inner doors again. A puddle of water rushed in. "ah man." She said looking at the waterlogged state of the hallway. There was a thumping sound followed by another whirl. The light outside flickered on and off before settling on a bright yellow colour. Doohickey stared at it in wonder. She went back to the console. She put the book away in its place. She took the key her father had given her and weaved it into her braid and tightened her bow. She walked up to the things that had tumbled all over the floor. She straightened them out, leaving them where they were as she was no strong enough to move the anvil, flowerpot, or piano. She picked up the dictionary and looked at the page that was opened, one word jumped up at her
Andiamo- (An-Dee-yah-Mo)
Verb. (Let us go, Let's go!)
1An exclamation of joy, adventure, and curiosity.
"Let us go have an adventure!"
2An exclamation in intimidation
"'Let's go!' he said angrily brandishing his boxing gloves"
3A command
"'Let's go, son!' the mother said dragging her son by the hand."
She Smiled as she thought of the word. She walked up to the door after putting the book away.
"… Andiamo." She whispered before opening the door. She squinted at the light and walked through the door. As she closed it the screen above the console went red. The lights began to flash red as well.
"Paradox Imminent. Paradox Imminent "
Outside Doohickey was too preoccupied with what she was seeing to notice the Tardis shuddering ominously. Hundreds of ponies were walking around her, all of them smiling. The sun was shining and Doohickey could her a light twittering the background. She realized that t was birds. BIRDS! She had heard stories about birds from aunty Fluttershy. She looked up to the sky and saw shimmering purple and yellow top on pearly white towers, white fluffy clouds and pegasi flying freely.
" I'm in Canterlot," she said excitedly. "I'M IN CANTERLOT! Whoop!" she screamed before flopping on her back happily. She laughed and let her eyes fill with joy. Suddenly a shadow fell over her
"'ello! What are you doing on the ground small child?" a British voice called out happily. Doohickey's eyes whipped open
"Papa?" she asked excitedly.
"Oh I'm sorry, no I'm not your father… are you lost little one?" the brown stallion asked worriedly. Doohickey stared up at her soon to be father. She smiled sadly.
"No, I'm just excited. I've never been to Canterlot before." She was telling the truth too. In her future Cantelot had been renamed Celestlana, in honor of their 'fair' and 'just' queen.
"Oh! Well neither have we… wait, yes we have! With the cyiiider mishap, yes, cider." The doctor said smiling weakly. Doohickey could see her mother waving her hooves back and forth very quickly shaking her head. Doohickey turned slightly.
"Why are you doing that?" she asked. Ditzy saw her crossed eyes.
"Oh wow! You have disscycrose myopia too! Wow I've never met another pony with the same eyes as me, my name is Ditzy, what's yours?" she asked Doohickey smiled completely forgetting about the hoof waving.
"My name is Doohickey."
"Aw well that's adorable! I'm the doctor!" the Doctor said smiling. Doohickey eyed him with a smirk, now she could get her answer.
"Doctor Who?" Doohickey asked. The Doctor laughed
"Just the Doctor!" he said bouncing around happily. Ditzy just rolled her eyes. Doohickey stood there with her mouth open. Seriously! That was it! She puffed out a breath of air angrily.
"You just chuffed! Ahaha!" the doctor said holding his stomach. She pointed her nose I the air and walked forward a few steps, where she ran into a lamppost.
"Ow." She said rubbing her nose.
"Oh gosh are you alright little one." The doctor asked suddenly feeling bad. Doohickey stared at his sudden mood shift. She rubbed her nose
"I'm okay." She ran her hoof under her nose.
"Oh gosh! Your nose is bleeding!" Ditzy said nervously. Doohickey looked at her hoof.
"Oops." She said before holding her hoof under her nose to catch the blood.
"Hold still I'll be right back!" the doctor shouted running around the corner.
"DOCTOR! Wait up! And he's gone… ugh." Ditzy said with a huff sitting next to Doohickey. "He is so confusing, one minute he's an adult, marveling at the attention to detail in a piece of architecture or a painting, the next he's a little kid slurping soda through a straw and colouring outside the lines. It's exhausting… god I love him." She looked at Doohickey who was smiling wide and blushed like a tomato. She looked as the doctor galloped around the corner holding a purple cloth.
"Here you go, wipe up your nose with that. Don't worry the jacket was horrible tacky." he said Doohickey noticed there was a pocket on the piece of cloth. Doohickey shrugged and wiped her nose. "So! How is it that you came to Canterlot? Where are your parents?" Doohickey suddenly got very quiet and sad. Ditzy and the doctor looked at each other. The Doctor suddenly looked very sad as well. He sat beside Doohickey. "I don't have a family anymore either. " suddenly he was holding an armful of young Pegasus. Doohickey cried silently into the Doctor's shoulder. Ditzy looked at Doohickey with tears in her eyes. When Doohickey was done crying she pulled away and wiped her eyes.
"My…eccentric aunt is here, she's seeing her psychiatrist, she gave me a bunch of bits and said to go have a day."
"Oh I see, and what do you have planned for this day of yours?" the doctor asked quietly making sure to be properly mature for the young filly.
"Well… my mother was always telling me about the times her and my papa went to Canterlot. She said my papa would buy one of those disposable cameras and they would take pictures every where, then they would buy ice cream." Doohickey said smiling at the memory of her mother animatedly talking about those days waving her hooves in the air as her papa laughed and laughed smiling at her mother with so much love. Then her face screwed up "course then they would start making cow eyes at each other because they would go up to one of the Canterlot gardens and kiss while the sun set. yek" Doohickey said sticking out her tongue.
"Yuck, and they told you that, parental omission thank you very much." The Doctor said shuddering. Ditzy sighed.
"That sounds very romantic." She said. Looking at the Doctor dreamily. The Doctor didn't even notice. He was in deep thought.
"You know what Doohickey my young friend, I say let's go have one of your parents days! With out the kissing at sunset of course. Uuk." The doctor said shuddering. He stood and looked at Doohickey. "What do you say?" Doohickey's eyes filled with tears and she hugged the doctor again
"Thank you…" she whispered against his chest.
"Alright enough crying, no more tears! We've got an adventure to begin! Avante!" he said happily before galloping off. Doohickey's jaw dropped again
"Did he just speak in Italian?"
"Yep, he says it's his catch phrase, but I don't know what he's catching." Ditzy said sighing. Doohickey giggled
"He's catching laughter! Andiamo!" she shouted before galloping after the Doctor. Ditzy blinked before smiling and zipping after the filly and stallion. The Doctor and Doohickey where now engaged in a race. Doohickey was winning because she could weave through the legs of the grown up ponies fast where as the doctor had to hold back and let others pass before he could catch up. By the time Doohickey got to the tourist stop the doctor was gasping for breath
"Goodness gracious…huff… and here I thought I could run fast…whew… no dalek could catch you… uhh."
" What's a dalek?"
"Hmm, what are you talking about, ooh look! Postcards! I've always loved post cards! Excuse me miss, how much for one of those disposable cameras?" he said reaching into his pocket
"Four bits." The teen pony said chewing on a piece of gum. The Doctor smiled and threw the bits on the counter
"Thanks a bunch." he said picking up one of the camera's. He took a picture of Ditzy and she flew around the corner. The flash made her blink rapidly. She stumbled slightly bumping into a fruit stand and two ponies walking by. There was fruit all over the ground and the two ponies were sprawled over. Ditzy looked around and winced.
"Oops."Ditzy said, mirroring Doohickey's earlier words. The Doctor winced too.
"I think we should get going, come one Ditzy!" He shouted before him the Doohickey galloped away. Ditzy squeaked and flew after them. When they got far enough away. Doohickey started laughing. As her laughter drew on the Doctor joined her. Soon the two were rolling on the floor guffawing with joy. Ditzy put her hoof to her face and shook it. Over the course of the day decorum became a 3-syllable word and mischief was lifeblood. Doohickey had never had so much fun, the doctor felt more like a child then usual and Ditzy swore that BOTH of her eyes were spinning. She was also sure that there may or may not have been a warrant out for the two foals arrest by the end of the day. Which, Ironically, was ending with a trip to the castle.
"…and over here is the hall of history, named so because the windows in the hall each show a different chapter in equestrian history." The guide pony said smiling.
"Would you look at that! Oo! Look Ditzy! Remember that?! That was fun!" The Doctor said gesturing to the window that pictured nightmare moon being defeated by princess twilight and her friends. He turned to Doohickey, who was no longer in Canterlot. She was staring at the empirical window in Celestlana. The window in Canterlot showed the two sisters controlling the moon and sun in a symbol of peace. In Celestlana it showed Celestia, coloured white and gold, surrounded by red and yellow as every pony bowed down to her. Above her was the sun the moon and the stars. Below her the words
'The just ruler of all things, may she shine her light upon us all.'
'Long live Celestia, the one true queen.'
Doohickey had seen the window only once; she had been forced to watch as her father was whipped for attempting to flee by Celestia herself. To save herself the trauma Doohickey had watched through her rolling eye instead and had gazed the empirical window until the sound of the whip stopped. She memorized every detail of it, and seeing where it would stand reminded Doohickey of the horrors this world would face.
"Doohickey…" The Doctor said snapping Doohickey out of her stupor. Suddenly there was a bang like a explosion and the whole castle shook. The three ponies dashed out to see what was happening.
"DO NOT FORCE MY HOOF LUNA!" Celestia bellowed in fury.
"YOU ARE THE ONE FORCING MY HOOF CELESTIA!" Luna shrieked back. Suddenly Celestia roared and fired a blast of magic at Luna, throwing her across the hall, where she skidded to a halt and struggled to stand.
"As of today, you are no longer welcome in Canterlot, Luna. You are a traitor of the state." Suddenly three guard ponies flanked Celestia. Luna looked at them all in horror before Luna turned to Celestia, tears welling in her eyes.
"Tia…"
"Enough, Guards, finish her." The all fired their weapon at her, but she was displaced from that spot in seconds. She flew down the hall of history The Doctor and Ditzy watching from a hiding place while Doohickey watched from the hall. Luna blasted the widow of peace; the symbolism not lost on Doohickey, and flew out the window. From her perch Doohickey could see Luna's mouth moving, it looked like she was apologizing to Equestria, before she turned and flew off to the horizon. Doohickey's eyes widened in horror, as she remembered her mother's words
"The war really started with Luna's banishment." Ditzy said looking sad "your father and I were just to foalish to see that…"
"WHAT! The Tardis was supposed to take me away from the war, not to the beginning of it!" Doohickey said hitting her hoof with her face, annoyance dominating her emotional spectrum. Suddenly she was lifted from the rubble by a guard pony.
"Er, your highness, what d'ya want to do with this one?" the guard pony asked holding her up she smiled weakly.
"Just toss her out with the other two." Celestia said glaring at her. Doohickey looked over to see the Doctor being held up by two Pegasus guards. He waved at her. Ditzy was being held by to unicorns. She looked a bit annoyed at the Doctor but did nothing else. They were all tossed out by the guards unto the front path.
"Well, that was certainly unexpected." Ditzy said
"Most definitely, worth looking into too."
"Definitely, I just don't see what they could have been talking about to make Luna so upset."
"Well, perhaps she was over-reacting a bit."
"Well, yeah, Luna is known to over react." Ditzy said recalling the nightmare night festival
"But still Celestia banishing her sister, it doesn't add up, she wasn't even attacking."
"True, Celestia was the one with all the fire power."
"Luna is attacked for nothing at all and is banished… why do I get the sickening feeling I've heard this story before…" the Doctor said sadly looking at the sky the sun was setting. Wherever Luna was she was still in control of her magic, because the stars were beginning to appear and the dark was growing. "Well, the day is done, best get going back to your aunt Doohickey." He turned to see she wasn't there any more. Ditzy gasped
"Doohickey! Where are you?!"
"Doohickey!"
Blocks away, a mare and her foal stopped to look down an alley; she could have sworn she saw a bright flash of light out of the corner of her eye.