//------------------------------// // Chapter Six: The Power of Music // Story: Doctor Whooves: Ever changing // by AvianAlpha1 //------------------------------// Doctor Whooves: Ever Changing Chapter Six: The Power of Music Beams of energy whizzed over the heads of the trio as the Doctor, Vinyl and Octavia ran as fast as they could from the two hostile ponies. As they ran, turned a corner and came face to face with another group of ponies began to pepper the area that they were at with labor fire. The group quickly dove for cover trough a window of a nearby building as the ponies continued fire upon them. Octavia was panicking at this point as Vinyl tried to comfort her. The Doctor quickly jumped up and took a quick scan with his sonic screwdriver before ducking back in to cover. What the Doctor saw surprised him. “Huh, this is fascinating,” the Doctor said as he looked back over his scan. “WE’RE GOING TO DIE!” Octavia screamed as she grabbed the Doctor by the shoulders and started shaking him. “WHY AREN’T YOU WORRIED ABOUT THIS!?” “OoOoctaAaAviaAa stoOoOp shAaAakiNg meEeE,” the Doctor said causing Octavia to stopped shaking him. “Listen, those aren't ponies out there.” “How do you know that?” Octavia asked as she still panicked. “SHIMER!” the Doctor said and he pointed his sonic at the approaching ponies. WHIIIIIIIIRRRRR The ponies staggered as the sonic screwdriver caused their disguise to explode in a burst of light, leaving behind a pile of crystals where each pony stood. After a few seconds, the crystals slowly floated up in to the air as they reformed in to pony like shapes. The crystalline beings didn't seem too concerned about their disguises, as their right hooves reshaped themselves in to cannons and opened fire on the building again. Octavia looked back at the Doctor with both confusion and anger. “Okay, why did you do that?” “I wanted to see what they looked like,” the Doctor replied with a smile on his face. “Do you know what they are?” Octavia asked. “I have absolutely no idea,” the Doctor replied with slight giddiness in his voice, “My first day on a new planet and I've already encountered a new species.” Vinyl immediately slapped the Doctor as she gestured to the window that they jumped through. “Right, yes,” the Doctor said as he became serious, “from the scans I took, of the creatures, they seem to have some sort of harmonic resonance keeping them together…” “Get to the point Doctor,” Octavia exclaimed. “Right, well if we can find the right frequency, we can disable them,” the Doctor said. “Well how are we going to do that?” Octavia asked. Vinyl tapped the Doctor shoulder as she pointed towards the numerous sound systems that were on display inside the building they we're hiding in. “Huh, wonder how I missed those,” the Doctor said as his smile returned, “you two might want to plug your ears.” The Doctor pointed his screwdriver at the many speakers. Whiiiiiirrrrr All of the speakers sprung to life as they started to emit a steady, pulse of sound that soon started to increase in pitch and speed, causing the Doctor, Vinyl and Octavia to quickly cover their ears. When the pulse died down, the group noticed that the barrage of lasers had stopped and they slowly got up and looked out the window. The crystalline ponies that once were shooting at them were now nothing but piles of dust. “Well that seemed to work brilliantly,” the Doctor said as he looked around. “Doctor, those things are all over Ponyville,” Octavia said as she pointed at the laser fire further away, “how are we going to stop all of them.” Vinyl started jumping up and as she waved her front hooves. “We’d need some way to emit a pulse strong enough to cover the entire town,” the Doctor said as he put a hoof to his chin. Vinyl redoubled her efforts as she stomping clapping her hooves against the floor. “Not now Vinyl,” Octavia said as she waved Vinyl off and focused back on the Doctor. “How can we do that?” “I’m not sure, with the buildings in the way; we’d need to be in the air to…” HOOOOOONK The Doctor and Octavia looked over to Vinyl who currently held an air horn in one hoof. She threw the air horn away as she pointed out the window. “Oh,” the Doctor said as he looked out the window, “That might work.” “Okay everypony, calm down,” Twilight Sparkle said as she tried to pacify the crowd housed in her castle, “I’ve sent a message to the princesses and the royal guards should be here soon.” “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE,” a pony cried out causing the panic to rise in the already scared crowd. Rainbow Dash quickly zipped over to Twilight and said, “Twilight, we have to do something we can't just stay in here and do nothing.” “You think I don't know that,” Twilight said, panic in her voice. “I’ve tried every spell that I could think of, and each time those things would just shake it off.” “Well we got to do something,” Rainbow Dash said. *Ahhhhhhhhh Ya ya yaaaah Ya ya yaaah Yaaah ya yah* The two ponies stopped as they heard what sounded like music. *Ohohohohoooo Oh ya yaaah Ya ya yaaah Yaaah ya yah* The music slowly grew louder, causing the ponies in the castle to stop panicking and start looking for the music’s origin. “Twilight,” Rainbow said as she stared out the window, “you might want to see this.” Twilight trotted over to the window. She rubbed her eyes as she couldn't believe what she currently saw. “Is that a hot air balloon?” Rainbow Dash nodded. “Are those speakers strapped to it?” Twilight asked. “Eeyup,” Rainbow confirmed. “Who is crazy enough to do something like that?” Twilight exclaimed. Vinyl was currently sitting at a makeshift mixing board as the Doctor and Octavia looked over the sides on the basket. Each one of them wore a pair of ear phones to help protect them from the volume of the music coming from the speakers. “THIS IS CRAZY!” Octavia yelled, trying to make herself heard over the loud music. “I KNOW!” the Doctor yelled back, “THAT’S WHY IT’S GOING TO WORK! BY THE WAY, HOW IS THIS HOT AIR BALLOON ABLE TO CARRY ALL OF THESE SPEAKERS?!” “THIS IS A CARGO BALLOON,” Octavia replied, “IT’S ENCHANTED TO CARRY HEAVY LOADS!” “ENCHANTED?” the Doctor exclaimed to which Octavia nodded, “FANTASTIC!” The Doctor looked over the edge of the air balloon as he saw that they were about to pass over the center of town. The Doctor estimated that they would have to be right in the middle of the entire town to get maximum coverage. What he also spotted were several of the crystalline ponies aiming their weapons in their direction. The Doctor quickly took cover as laser beams whizzed past the balloon. “WE’RE ALMOST THERE, GET READY!” the Doctor said as Vinyl nodded. He then pulled out a microphone as that was connected to some of the speakers as he yelled out, “EVERYONE IN PONYVILLE, COVER YOUR EARS!” The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver as he pointed it at the sound board. “NOW!” the Doctor yelled as Vinyl flipped the switch at the same time the Doctor activated his screwdriver. *AAIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE eeeee-eeeee-EEEEEEEEE!* The volume coming from the speakers went full blast, as the pitch and frequency quickly fluctuated. Octavia looked over the edge of the basket as she saw the crystalline ponies crack and exploded as the sound waves covered the entire town. Soon, all that remained of the crystalline ponies was dust as the music came to an end. “We did Doctor!” Octavia said as she took the ears phones off of her head. “WHAT?” the Doctor yelled back. Vinyl’s horn glowed as she levitated the earphones off of the Doctors head before pointing down over the edge of the basket. “Hey, we did it,” the Doctor said causing Octavia to facehoof. “But this isn't over yet, we still need to take out the source in the caves underneath Canterlot.” “How?” Octavia asked The Doctor put a hoof to his chin as he thought about this. “I’m still working on that, but the question is how are we going to get in to the caves?” Octavia grew a huge grin upon her face as she looked over to Vinyl who had a big smile across her face as well. “Doctor, we might have an idea.” Lucky Clover was, for lack of a better word, lucky that those things didn't burn down his house. As soon as he heard the laser fire outside he barricaded all of the doors of his house and closed all of the blinds on the windows. He hid behind his couch, armed only with a frying pan as he waited for those monsters to come in to his house. After several tense moments, Lucky Clover soon heard some sort of music over head before hearing a very familiar voice call out, “EVERYONE IN PONYVILLE, COVER YOUR EARS!” Feeling like it would be a good idea to do what he was told; Lucky Clover clamped his hooves over his ears. His widows began to shudder before finally exploding outwards and out on to the ground outside. Lucky Clover sat there for a long time before he took his hooves off of his ears and looked around his house. Fortunately, nothing else besides his widows seemed to be broken. One thing he did notice was that everything was silent. Lucky Clover jumped as he heard a knocking on his door. He slowly made his way to the door with his frying pan in hoof. He closed his eyes as he swung the door open… “Ah Lucky, I’m glad you’re still-“ And he hit whoever it was at the door in the face. He slowly opened his eyes as he looked down at what he hit. “…oops,” was all Lucky Clover could say as he looked at the dazed Doctor sprawled out on the ground. “Yes Suzan, tea and biscuits would be lovely,” the Doctor mumbled out. Octavia walked up to Lucky Clover as Vinyl attempted to help the Doctor back up. “Lucky, we are going to need some help, and you are the only one that can assist us,” Octavia said as she slowly took the pan out of Lucky Clovers hoof. Lucky Clover shook his head quickly before refocusing on Octavia and asking, “Sure, what do you need?” “We're going to need a way in to the crystal caverns underneath Canterlot,” Octavia said with a smile on her face, "And you going to help us get there."