Sunset snuck out of the library and headed for the secluded forest that lies beyond.
“Ok so I need to find a way to make allies among the pony community, um…um…crap I got nothing...”
She was too busy thinking, and unfortunately, tripped over rock, tumbled down a small cliff and crash landed in a ditch. Her head throbbed with pain, along with her scrapped limbs, as she tried to find her balance and regain her vision.
She had landed in front of something blue. In fact it was a shade of blue she recognised.
She looked up to find she was in front of a blue, old fashioned police box. It took a second to realise what this meant. But when the possibility clicked, she sat down in shock and her jaw dropped.
She was still gaping in awe when the door of police box opened and a light brown earth pony with dark brown spiky mane and tail, wearing a blue suit underneath a long brown coat poked his head out and looked down at her.
“Um are you alright?” he asked in concern.
“Uh….”
“Oh sorry how rude of me, I’m the Doctor, just the Doctor” the pony introduced himself.
“You’re the doctor and you’re a pony”
“Yep that’s me”
“A Timelord pony”
“Yes, and is that an Australian accent?”
“Huh?” Sunset replied in a daze.
“I said is that an Australian accent?”
“Yeah it is, because I’m from Australia”
“But that would mean you’re human!”
“I am human” she replied.
The Doctor pulled out a small silver tube from the inside of his coat, it made a high pitched whirring sound and the end lit up in a blue light as he scanned her with it. After a few seconds he held the device sideways in his hooves, as if getting a reading from it, he then looked at her in astonishment.
“And so you are human, hah! A human all the way out here! This is brilliant! Hold on…” his mood went from elated to deadly serious in typical Doctor Fashion. “That means you’re the human that-that thing-“
“Discord?” Sunset supplemented.
“Yeah that’s the one, so Discord brought you here, and the both of you are wanted by pony kind all over Equestria...You haven’t done anything bad have you?” he asked.
“No I don’t think so, I hardly think suggesting an idea for a musical number is bad…is it?”
“Musical number? No everypony loves musical numbers! They break out in song all the time here!” he replied happily, but then frowned. “In nine hundred years of time and space I never thought I’d use the word pony so many times”.
“Hah the Doctor speaks brony!” Sunset joked.
He looked at her oddly.
“Uh anyway how did you end up here?’ Sunset asked.
“I should be asking you that” he replied.
“Well long story short, Discord hacked my computer, teleported me here, I got blasted by the elements of harmony and voila I end up going from human to chimera in less than a day”.
“I see well I was doing some general maintenance for the TARDIS and somehow wound up here, looking like this, oddly enough” The Doctor explained.
“You forgot to put the shields up again didn’t you?”.
“Yeah…” he replied sheepishly.
“Wow in the space of one day I get teleported to Equestria, turned into a magical creature, meet an all powerful god of chaos and crash into the ship of my TV hero”
“TV hero?” he asked.
“Parallel world, where I’m from both this world and yours are nothing but TV shows” she explained.
“Ah”
“This, in all honesty is a dream come true, meeting you I mean” Sunset said suddenly after a few minutes of silence.
“Really?”
“Yeah, you see every human who watches your show has a favourite regeneration; funny thing is you’re my favourite”
“Thanks I guess uh-?” the statement hung in the air as he didn’t know her name.
“I’m calling myself Sunset Sapphire while I’m here, no need for a human name if I’m no longer human” she explained.
“Ok then, but if you somehow say…got turned back into a human what would I call you?” he asked.
“Got a pen and paper? I’ll write it down for you”
They spent a few more minutes just sitting in front of the TARDIS just talking, about his adventures, her fan-made theories and trying to figure out a solution to deal with Discord should the time ever call for it.
It was only when the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver let off a signal, did the pony-fied Timelord jump to his hooves and hastily entered the TARDIS.
“Sorry it looks like there’s an opening to my universe, I really need to go if I want to get back, Rose is waiting for me you see and I really don’t want upset her…or Jackie by extension” he explained hurriedly as he poked his head out of the doorway to say good-bye.
“It’s cool listen if you manage to find a way back to this universe, look me up ok?”
“Alright then, say you could-“he began.
“Don’t even try it Doctor I am not going with you, Fangirl or not some things just can’t happen” she cut in firmly.
“Ok..Allons-y!” the Timelord declared.
“Oh and Doctor, before you go”
“Yes?”
“Has anyone told you how awesome your coat is?”
With that statement and a silly grin on both their faces, The Doctor closed the door, fired up the TARDIS and dematerialised before Sunset’s eyes.
Sometime later she walked back to the library to find an irritated Discord waiting for her.
“And just where have you been? And what is so funny?” the Draconequus asked as Sunset grinned.
“I just ran into some pony and we talked for a while, why?”
The explanation was met with Discord throwing a teacup at her. It missed her and shattered against the wall.
“You’re late for tea!” Discord replied and with a snap of his fingers, they were in Discord’s little wonderland he had made for the song. Before them was a long table with a white table cloth covering it, on top of said table were cups and saucers, plates laden with an assortment of confectionary, and a large china teapot in the centre.
Twilight was sitting near the head of the table, Spike next to her surprisingly. Discord sat at the head of table and gestured for Sunset to sit on his right side.
“Well this is new” Sunset commented.
“You’re telling me” Twilight replied.
Spike was too busy stuffing his face with chocolate coated gemstones.
“Let’s eat!’ Discord declared and snapped his fingers once more, causing a plate of food to appear before each of them.
Sunset grinned again as she eagerly dug into her sticky date pudding, while Twilight looked apprehensive about eating the cupcakes on her plates.
“Relax Sparkle-butt they are just normal cupcakes, not like they’re made of ponies or anything” Discord stated to the purple unicorn.
“Yeah come on Twilight, this is the best, who cares if Discord made it” Spike reassured her between mouthfulls.
“Twilight I don’t think Discord is the kind to poison ponies anyway” Sunset deadpanned. “Enjoy yourself for once”
The purple unicorn sighed and took a bite, finding that they were indeed normal (albeit very tasty) cupcakes, she continued eating.
The reason why Twilight was nervous about eating was rather obvious.
Discord was eating a hamburger.