The Background Mane Six.

by omegafan101


Chapter 4: Doctor I Shrunk the Ponies

Derpy was spending the day at Vinyl and Octavia’s house. It was a cold summer’s evening, nothing much to do, so she figured, why not get to know the two musicians she’d come to know as friends?

“So Derpy, I don’t mean to be rude,” Octavia said, “But, how did you meet the Doctor? He seems like a rather strange man.”

“Oh, well, that’s a long story.” The pegasus started, “I guess it started-“

Derpy was cut off by Vinyl’s scream. The DJ was suddenly standing on the chair looking down at the ground.

“Vinyl what’s wrong with you?” Octavia asked.

“Snake!” the DJ replied. The two mares looked on the ground to see a small snake slithering on the ground. It looked rather cute and didn’t seem to be able to hurt anyone.

“Oh relax Vinyl,” the cellist started, “It’s not poisonous or anything. We’ll just take it outside and set it free.”

“We could take it to FlutterShy.” Derpy suggested.

“Exactly… Who?”

“I’ve got a better idea!” Vinyl opened the drawer next to her and levitated what looked to be some sort of ray gun.

“Where did you get that!?”

“I may or may not have taken it from the TARDIS the other day.” The DJ pointed the gun at the snake, “Now hold still little guy…” Vinyl shot at the snake and missed. She kept shooting but the snake just kept dodging.

“Vinyl stop you’ll kill it!”

“Exactly!”

“Hmm… Where have I seen that before…?” Derpy thought. The pegasus came to a sudden realization, “WAIT, STOP!” Vinyl kept shooting at the snake, “IT’S NOT A RAY GUN!!!” The snake stopped in front of a mirror and Vinyl fired, “IT’S A-“ It was too late.

The snake dodged the ray again and it deflected off of the mirror into the three mares. The three all started to shrink, until they were smaller than an ant. “Shrink… Ray…” Derpy finished.

“Whoops…” Vinyl said, “Sorry guys…”

“Sorry!?” Octavia screamed, “You shrunk us! We’re small enough to fit in between the cracks in the floor! All because you had to kill a harmless, tiny snake!”

“Well I have a fear of snakes and it’s a completely rational fear! So a ‘tiny snake’ is a big deal to me!”

“Um.. Girls…” Derpy cut in.

“WHAT!?” Both mares screamed.

“That ‘tiny snake’, isn’t so tiny anymore…”

The musicians looked up at what the pegasus was looking at. The snake was now the size of a dragon. It looked much less cute then it was before. It’s giant teeth opened and it looked as if it was about to lunge. “Run…” Octavia said with fear in her voice.

The three mares got out of the way just in time. The snake luckily managed to get it’s teeth stuck in the floor for a few seconds, leaving the ponies time to find a hiding place. The friends ran under the couch and hid there quietly.

The snake got it’s teeth out of the floorboards and started it’s hunt for pony pray. It didn’t seem to be very smart and left the room.

“Well that was terrifying.” Derpy said, breathing heavily, “You two okay?” Octavia nodded, Vinyl not so much. The DJ stood still and silent, almost like she was paralyzed.

“Oh poor thing,” Octavia said, “She must be terrified…” Octavia slapped the mare and brought her back to reality.

“OW!” Vinyl said, “What was that for!?”

“To wake you up of course… But really I’m still mad at you for shrinking us…”

“I said I was sorry!”

“GIRLS!” Derpy screamed, “You can bicker all you want, AFTER we get back to normal size!”

“And how are we going to do that?” Octavia asked.

“Simple, Doc made two rays. A shrink ray and an enlargement ray. We just need to find the enlargement ray and we’re back to normal size.”

“Yeah…” Vinyl started, “I only grabbed the shrink ray…”

“Well that is a problem… So, we just have to wait for some pony to come and look for us. Amethyst should come looking for me if I’m not home soon. And the Doctor will be looking for his shrink ray.”

Just then the door opened. Just as Derpy said both Amethyst and the Doctor walked in.

“Mom?” Amethyst said, “You here?”

“Vinyl give me back my shrink ray,” the Doctor said, “I know you have it! At least I hope she has it, the past few ponies didn’t…”

“Now’s our chance!” Vinyl said. The three ran out from under the couch and started jumping up and down, screaming for the Doctor and Amethyst to notice them. The two ponies couldn’t hear them, and simply walked over them.

“Great,” Octavia said, “Now what!? We’re to small for anyone to hear!”

“We need some kind of amplifier so they can hear us.” Derpy said.

Vinyl gasped, “My wubs.” she said under her breath.

“What was that?” Octavia asked.

“My wubs! We can use them for Doc and Amethyst to hear! We just have to get to my room!”

“Okay but we need to act fast,” Derpy said, “There’s no telling when they’ll be leaving…”