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// Muffins in Bed 
// Story: Doctor Whooves: The Parasprite Invasion 
// by Timeknight2425 
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	The Doctor’s eyes fluttered open. He felt weak, disoriented, and a tiny bit hungry. He looked around in confusion. He had awoken in a comfortable bed in a sparsely decorated room. It was probably a guest bedroom from the look of it. Several questions flooded his mind. Where was he? Whose house was he in? What happened to the Tardis? Why did he smell muffins? The Doctor rolled over in bed and saw his sonic screwdriver laying on the bed side table. He reached out to grab it but he merely nudged off the table on to the floor. The Doctor groaned as he watched the cylindrical device roll under the bed. Suddenly, the Doctor’s focus shifted to his hands. More specifically to the fact they were missing and had been replaced with hooves. The Doctor suppressed a scream as he touched his face with his hooves. Memories flooded back to him. While investigating the interdimensional rift, he had gotten too close and was sucked into it. The Tardis must have not been able to take the massive amount of turbulence in the rift and crashed landed where ever he was. During the crash he must have regenerated into a horse or something.  The Doctor wasn’t a stranger to the bizarre, but this had to be one of the strangest things to happen to him. Just then, the door opened, and a grey mare entered, a tray of muffins balanced on her back.
“Oh, good!” She said cheerfully. “You woke up! I was worried. You were unconscious all last night.”
“Thank you for everything, miss.” The Doctor said trying to sound nonchalant. “But, if I beg your pardon you are a small horse and you are talking.”
Derpy smiled and rolled her eyes “I notice.” She replied sarcastically. “And so are you.”
“This is normal here?” he asked.
“Yes, all ponies talk here in Equestria.” Derpy said. “You sure are asking a lot of silly questions. Did you hit your head when you crashed your box into that tree?”
The Doctor Chuckled. “I’m fine now, but I probably will be asking a lot more questions. I’m not really from around here.”
“Oh, ok.” Derpy said scrunching up her nose. “By the way you can call me Derpy Hooves.” She said. As she laid the tray of muffins on the bed. “I thought you might be hungry. So I uh, baked you some muffins” Derpy added with a blush.
The Doctor gave a small smile. “Thank you, Miss Derpy, These will be just what I need. And I am called the Doctor.” "Nice to meet you Mr. Doctor!" Derpy said cheerfully.
The Doctor devoured several muffins quickly much to Derpy's surprise. "Delicious." the Doctor said wiping crumbs from his mouth. "I was a lot hungrier than I thought. My metabolism is working overtime due to the energy loss from my regeneration. Luckily that is the only side effect this time.  That and I'm a pony now..." 
Derpy stared blankly at the strange stallion. "Those are some really big words." She thought.  "Well I'm glad you're ok, and that you like my muffins!" Derpy said. 
"Thank you for your hospitality, Miss Derpy." The Doctor said sliding out of the bed. "I need to be going."  The Doctor's legs wobbled as he took a couple steps forward. "Four legs. Need to get used to that..." he muttered.

Meanwhile, In Filleydelphia, two unicorn guards patrolled the streets. "Looks like Everypony's evacuated." The first guard said.
"Let's do another round just in case." the second replied. 
The two marched in silence as they looked at the rubble that filled the street. "Dear Celestia, what happened here?" The first guard asked.
"I dunno, Silver Spear," The second answer. "Some sort of monster must have been through here."
"But we haven't seen anything around here." Silver Spear said. "You'd think a monster capable of this level of destruction would be easy to spot, eh Warding Shield?"
Warding Shield nodded. "Hey, we haven't checked this house yet." he said pointing to a boarded up house. 
The two guards flanked the door and slowly opened the door and entered. The house was dark and almost completely empty.  
"Anypony home?" Silver called into the dark "This is the Equestrian Guard. We are here to get you out of the city until this disaster is resolved." There was no reply. the two advanced through the house until they saw the silhouette of a pony crumpled on the floor quivering. 
"Ma'am, everything is going to be ok. we are here to save you." Warding Shield. The pony was silent. The guards stepped closer and used their horns to shine light on the pony. The two gasped in horror as they saw that the pony was covered in a swarm of multicolored, winged insects. The insects dispersed from the body revealing only bones. The guards brandished their spears as they backed away. The swarm emitted a high pitched buzz and rushed the guards. They screamed in horror as countless parasprites enveloped their bodies.