//------------------------------// // The Start of Disaster // Story: The Time Lord and A Unicorn // by doctorwhooves11 //------------------------------// Somewhere in the universe a blue box is seen floating around in space near or far from planets. Most wonder what kind of world occurs within the small box, but to a few it's world is know to be like.... "DOCTOR!!!!!" Yells a mare with a purple mane and fur. "Yes? What is it Twilight?" Replies a brown stallion. "There you are" Twilight says in a normal voice "Um... What are you doing?" she asks. "Oh! Well after our last adventure the TARDIS doesn't seem to want to respond properly! I mean like she just doesn't want to... move!" "That doesn't sound nice...." "No it does not Twi. So thats why i'm trying to fix her but it would be easier if i knew what's the reason why she doesn't want to go" "It's never good when you don't know whats wrong is it Doctor?" "No it is not my companion, though I feel like one of the Inter-Dimensional Stabilizer is not attac-" He continues until the TARDIS shakes with a disagreeing -VROMP- and sends them all to their backs. The lights dim down to a less bright sheen to the point where its the console lighting up the room. "D-Doctor? Where are you...?" Says Twilight trying to get up. "Im right here... though I wonder... What caused the TARDIS to suddenly stop... like it's power has been almost completely drained." He explains. "So we're stuck in deep space millions of light years from home... and the TARDIS is basically... dead? This can't be good Doctor..." Says the worried mare. "No Twilight, this can't be good but if the power has only mostly been drained then there should still be some left so I can see whats wrong on the scanner... First I should reroute the power to main things..." He says as he thinks. "What do you mean?" Curious of this new term as Twilight isn't too familiar with the TARDIS. "Well the TARDIS has a star, The Eye of Harmony, where it's when the star is in the act of turning into a blackhole." He starts explaining. "Isn't that dangerous Doctor?" "Sort of... the Time Lords understood of what power it releases, so with Time Lord engineering, the star is suspended in the state of decaying so that it repeatedly produces energy. But a TARDIS is large so it can't charge it all at once so it needs to give it time to charge. Some of that power is routed to the heart of the TARDIS but most of the energy needed for the heart is dimensional energy. Since we've been in this dimension for so long the TARDIS has adapted to your universe to charge from it." Now say that the energy produced from dimensional rifts and from The Eye of Harmony is like the energy in your body. If it's been drained then you have less will to do things but if you really want to do something then your brain does manage to take some of the energy left to spare and move it to where it's needed so for starters it leaves some energy to the heart. But some to the legs if movement is needed and other parts aren't as important to the task. So with the TARDIS some of the power is disperse to some things like rooms, noise, lights, ect." "Uh huh..." Twilight nods "So anyways i'm going to delete some of the rooms that aren't needed but storing some in a drive like your room and the library. Also i'm going to turn down the heating to conserve the power but not low so we freeze but sustainable." Few minutes of power routing later. "Alright so we have power to the console so we have just enough power to send us to Equestria but not enough to land at your library... but if I-" -VROMP- The TARDIS shakes violently again. "No no no no NO!!! DON'T DO THAT!" He shouts kicking the console and regretting it by shaking his hoof in pain. "What wrong this time Doc?" Twilight asks. "The power's been drained to the point where we cant make a return trip home... we're just drifting in space... lost...I-I'm sorry, I meant to take us o-on a trip, not get stuck and possibly die in here... I..." He tries to apologize but stutters at continuing until Twilight shocks him with a hug. "It's alright Doc, this wasn't intentional so it's not your fault." "Right so how do we fix this?" "Well the TARDIS is a complex machine, it's alive so it has to be handled carefully... I remember this in TARDIS training!... Which I failed... But anyways! The TARDIS has a backup power source where a reserve of power is strong enough to send us flying home and to the library!" "Then why don't we just activate it?" Twilight asks. "Well... think of it like a heart or anything like it, wait no it's nothing like a heart but imagine it if you like. The power reserve requires a live detection so for example me, I touch it and give it the power of time after all the time travel we did and I've already done and Badaboomba! We're off! And I will not say that again. But lets get going Twilight as we can't live in a low power TARDIS forever." "Right then Doctor let's go to this power reserve so we can get home, I don't like sticking in a place that may be potentially dangerous." says Twilight "OK but remember, the TARDIS is a machine that can generate tricks and traps like infinite hallways so be careful!" he warns END OF CHAPTER 1