//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Welcome to Ponyville: Pt 3. // Story: The Background Mane Six. // by omegafan101 //------------------------------// Everypony, besides the Doctor, Derpy, and Amethyst, stared at the ‘TARDIS’, very confused. “Oh boy a ride in the TARDIS.” Amethyst said, “You almost never let me do this.” “Um, Doctor…” Octavia spoke up, “I don’t mean to be rude but-“ “That’s nothing but a big blue box!” Vinyl said, cutting her roommate off. “Oh is it now?” the Doctor opened the doors to the TARDIS. Revealing a large room on the inside. The five ponies were amazed, each one of them looked around the outside of the blue box, walking around it. Octavia, Vinyl, Bon Bon, and Carrot Top all said five words that the Doctor loved to hear almost in unison, “It’s bigger on the inside!” “I love hearing that!” Lyra walked in a bit later then everypony else, but with the same look of amazement on her face, “It’s smaller on the outside!” she said. “And instantly, I like you!” The Doctor trotted over to the control panel and started fiddling with some levers and buttons, “I’ll explain the whole thing later but right now I’m going to prove to you that everything will be fine.” The Doctor hit one last button, “Allons-y!” The TARDIS started shaking a made a strange moaning sound. Derpy, Amethyst, and the Doctor all held on to something out of instinct while the others all fell from all the shaking. The Blue Box finally stopped shaking and moaning. “I think I’m gonna be sick…” Vinyl said, looking green. “Alright everypony, have a step outside!” The Doctor said. The ponies trotted outside the TARDIS to find themselves in a strange new building, made entirely out of stone that looked to be falling apart. Octavia started speaking, “Th-this is the Castle of the Two Princess’s!” Bon Bon continued the cellist’s statement, “Right in the middle of…” “THE EVERFREE FOREST!” The five ponies said, amazed and frightened at the same time. “I don’t get it,” Lyra spoke up, “How did we get here?” “Simple, allow me to explain the TARDIS!” The Doctor started, “It stands for, ‘Time And Relative Dimension In Space’ It allows me to travel anywhere in space and anywhen in time!” “So it’s a time machine, and a teleporter?” “Precisely!” “That’s. SO. COOL!” “Yes yes now everyone back inside! The shows about to start!” “Show, what show?” Carrot Top asked. “You’ll see.” The seven ponies followed the strange stallion back into the TARDIS, waiting for the ‘show’ Suddenly, Nightmare Moon appeared in the room, which they could see from the monitor, along with, “Twilight!” Lyra spoke up, “She’s in danger, we have to help!” “She’ll be fine.” “How can you be so sure!?” five other ponies came from the entrance and confronted Nightmare Moon together. There was suddenly a flash of light as six shards of… something… formed around the six heroes and created… something… nopony could really tell what was going on due to the lack of sound. “Doctor! I thought you fixed the sound!” “Never really got around to that…” Before anypony knew it, there was suddenly a large rainbow that engulfed Nightmare Moon in a massive, yet colorful, explosion. After the smoke cleared, a seventh mare appeared, “Princess Celestia!” Everypony said. “I told you everything would be fine.” the Princess walked over to the downed Nightmare Moon, who was now smaller and less evil looking, “That’s Celestia’s sister, Luna. She banished her to the moon after darkness over took her and turned her into Nightmare Moon. Though I think she’s okay now… There! Fixed the sound!” “Now can anypony, tell me why there’s a large blue box in the corner of the room?” Celestia asked. “Huh, I didn’t even notice that.” “Doctor!” Derpy said, “You said you fixed the cloaking device!” “Guess not!” The Doctor said, now sweating. He frantically pushed a bunch of buttons and levers again causing the TARDIS to shake “Emergency evacuation! ALLONS-Y! REPEAT! ALLONS-Y!” The five other mare held on to something this time as they reappeared in Carrot Top’s house, “Thank God.” The Doctor said. “What does allons-y even mean!?” Octavia asked. “It’s french, for let’s go.” “Then how does that make sense!?” “It’s best not to question him.” Amethyst responded. “Well, I may have taken us a bit into the future, not to far though, about mid day.” The ponies looked out to see a crowd cheering as the six heroes and the two Princesses arrived. “It looks like everything turned out, okay.” Vinyl said. “I told you so!” “Well, that was fun and all, but I’m going home to take a nap.” Octavia said. “Same!” responded everypony except Lyra. Once every pony had left, Lyra confronted the Doctor. “Alright, cough ‘em up.” “Cough what up?” The Doctor responded. “I saw you grab somethings before we left, what were they?” The Doctor sighed and took six colorful shards out of his pocket, “They’re Elements of Harmony, notice anything about them?” “Th-they look like our cutie marks!” Lyra responded. The six gems looked just like the cutie marks of herself, Bon Bon, Vinyl, Octavia, Derpy, and the Doctor, “Where’d you get them!?” “They flew into the TARDIS when they other pieces formed around those six mares. Legend states that they’re supposed to represent six elements. Honesty, Generosity, Kindness, Laughter, Loyalty, and Magic. Although I have no idea why some were made for us.” “So what are you gonna do with them? I mean, shouldn’t we figure out why we have them and which elements we represent?” “We will, I’m going to study them, do some research until then, let’s keep this a secret between the two of us, okay?” The mare nodded, “Fantastic!”