The Doctor looked at the young Colgate with great excitement. Oh the great mysteries of time, thought The Doctor. It would seem that this would be the first time she ever meets The Doctor, though The Doctor had known Colgate for years now.
“Um…Mister? You’re kind of creeping me out. Do you need something?”
“Oh yes my dear. I need you to do me a huge favor.”
“Um…”
“Just listen to me. One day, I need you to give a message to a very important pony. Understand?”
“I guess…”
“Right. My life and the lives of my friends depend on this particular message getting delivered. Can you handle that?”
Filly Colgate looked at The Doctor with a great amount of confusion. Sure, delivering a message for somepony was an easy enough task, but this guy was a bit…odd. “Yeah, I suppose I could manage that. Who is the message for?”
“Oh, you’ll know who when the time comes.”
“What do you mean, ‘when the time comes’?”
“I need you to hold onto this message for a very long time. Then when the time is right, you will know who the message is for.”
“You’re not really making any sense, you know?”
“I know.”
“So what is this mysterious message?”
The Doctor thought for a moment. What is the mysterious message? I really don’t want to screw this up… Finally The Doctor had his answer. “Just tell her to meet me where we first met.”
“That’s…odd. I suppose I could do it if you really need me to.”
“Brilliant. Colgate,” started The Doctor, as a particularly odd siren began to sound outside of the dentist’s office, “I’ll be seeing you soon enough. Allons-y!” The Doctor quickly turned to the door and trotted out.
“Wait! What are you talking about?” Colgate followed him out, only to come face to face with a large blue box. A blue box which she would later know as the TARDIS. A blue box that she would have adventures in with the mysterious Doctor. But for the young filly, these were things to come. The siren sounded again, and the box vanished from thin air.
“Ah, it’s good to be back,” stated The Doctor upon boarding the TARDIS. He was quickly assaulted by a pegasus-shaped blur. “Ditzy…you’re…crushing me…”
Ditzy’s face flushed bright red and quickly stopped hugging/crushing The Doctor. “Sorry…I’m just glad you’re okay.”
“Me too…” responded The Doctor, still gasping for air.
“So, we’ve known each other for fourteen years and you couldn’t just tell me that I was the recipient of that particular message?”
“I only just came up with the idea. Besides, first met you six years ago. Not fourteen.”
“But-“
“You met me fourteen years ago.”
“But-“
“Look. It’s all –“
“Ooh! Ooh!” interrupted Ditzy. “Wibbly wobbly timey wimey!”
The Doctor looked at her and spoke. “I was just going to say ‘confusing’, but I suppose that work’s too.”
“Um…okay?” Colgate still understood absolutely nothing about the whole ordeal. But that was okay for now, she really didn’t need to know anything much past the fact that The Doctor is a very confusing pony.
“Good. Now we have to figure out a way to defeat the Pegasi before they destroy the entirety of Ponyville. Unless that’s what we want….no, we can’t let that happen. But really. How are we going to stop them? They’re blind now, so we can’t make them look at each other. We could…No…could we? Ooh. I like this plan.”
Colgate and Ditzy really had no response to The Doctor’s ramblings. It was usually best to just let him ramble.
“Great. So now I need….” The Doctor rummaged around in the various storage compartments on the deck of the TARDIS. “Blast. It’s not there. Excuse me but I have to go run down to the swimming pool. If it’s still there.” The Doctor ran off down a staircase, leaving Colgate and Ditzy to just stand there looking completely inept and helpless. The Doctor did that to many ponies on many occasions though, so it was mostly all right. “Ah-hah! Found it,” called up a voice from below that hopefully belonged to The Doctor.
“Doctor, what are you doing down there?” asked Ditzy, her voice echoing slightly through the interior of the ship. Ponies tend to forget the size of the TARDIS.
“I’m finding the thing we need. Well, found the thing we need,” replied The Doctor as he ascended the staircase. On his back was a very odd looking contraption, one that appeared to fit over somepony’s head.
“And what exactly is that?” Colgate asked cautiously.
“This is a spell amplifier. Here, put it on.” He tossed it over towards Colgate, and she caught the device telepathically.
“What exactly do you mean ‘spell amplifier’?”
“It’s a device. That you put on your head. And in increases spell power. Exactly what it sounds like.”
“So why are you giving this to me?”
“Well, after what had happened earlier, I realized that this was exactly what we needed to defeat the Pegasi. We are gonna take our disturbingly creepy friends on a little trip.”
“What do you mean?” inquired Ditzy.
“Well, Colgate here is gonna use that amplifier to freeze up the Pegasi for just a few moments,” said The Doctor, turning his head to face Colgate. “Don’t worry. It will be easy. Anyway, then we will bring them onto the TARDIS and take them with us.”
“Where exactly are we taking them?”
The TARDIS siren signaled the return to Ponyville. “Oh, I dunno,” started The Doctor, “I was thinking….the sun?”
“Wait…you mean that large, bright circle in the sky during the day?”
“That’s the one. Now then, are we ready?”
“Nope,” said Ditzy.
“Doctor, I’m never ready when I’m with you,” responded Colgate.
“Brilliant. It’s time.” The Doctor ran over to look at one of the monitors on the center console. “Yep. They’re waiting for us.” He shut of the screen. “Now Colgate, but that amplifier on your head and just use the same spell you have been. Trust me, it will be relatively easy.” Colgate obeyed The Doctor’s commands. He continued to press various buttons on the console and turned to Ditzy. “Now, once the Weeping Pegasi have been loaded onto the TARIDS, press that button.”
“This one?”
“No, not that one. You’re on the wrong side of the console.” Ditzy repositioned herself and motioned to a different button.
“Yes that one. On the count of three.”
The whole room was tense. There was a slight chance that the plan did not succeed. More than likely it would, but there was always that stray possibility.
“One.”
“Two.”
“THREE!” The Doctor flung open the doors of the TARDIS. He quickly leaped backwards as Colgate cast her spell. The Pegasi were frozen in time, leaving The Doctor sufficient time to ensure all three were loaded into the TARDIS. They were heavy, being stone and all, so it took several minutes. Colgate remarked how easy it was with the contraption on her head and Ditzy looked at several thing on opposite sides of the ship. Soon The Doctor signaled Ditzy to launch the TARDIS towards the sun. Only a moment later was The Doctor tossing Weeping Pegasi out into space, just so that the sun would destroy them permanently.
“Gone,” remarked Colgate. She could no longer sense the Pegasi within her spell. The Weeping Pegasi were gone for good. Colgate took off the amplifier. Sure, it was powerful, but it was a tad uncomfortable.
“Whew. That was a lot more difficult than it should have been.”
“Hey, do we still have any muffins?”
“I haven’t a clue. You can go check though.” Ditzy wandered off to find the door marked Muffin Storage. “So Colgate,” started The Doctor, “Can you please just sit tight in Ponyville with your little dentist-ness? It’ll make life easier for everypony.”
Colgate sighed heavily. “I guess I can try. It’s just so much fun, almost dying and all.”
“Well, we’d better get you back. No need to have your name on a list of the missing ponies. Who knows who all got taken in our absence?”
Ditzy arrived moments later carrying a large tray of muffins, ready for the three of them to eat. Shortly afterwards, the TARDIS landed right outside of Colgate’s office.
“So Doctor, when can we do this again?”
“Maybe sometime soon. Who knows?”
“Bye Colgate! See ya soon!”
The Doctor and his ever faithful assistant entered their mysterious blue box and vanished from sight. “Oh, those two…” muttered Colgate as she walked through the front door of her shop, ready to face the challenge of living after having been with The Doctor.