The RoseLuck chronicles #1: The Madman and his box

by Trixterforrester


Chapter one: introductions

Hello.
My name is RoseLuck, I'm an Earthpony from Equestria and I've decided to start keeping a diary containing all of my exploits with a stallion who recently fell from the sky and showed me a whole universe of possibilities.
This diary will contain nothing but my knowledge and experience from these travels, so if the pony -er...person reading this is not me, I invite you to keep reading; but I warn you that in doing so your life will be changed and I cannot guarantee your safety, so continue with caution.
We start my story as most do, with a madman and his box.

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But before that, let me give you a general background of my life up until now.
I was born in Manehattan where I spent the majority of my childhood locked up indoors, not by force mind you, but rather by the vast array of nothingness found on the streets of the concrete jungle; and as I went on I found myself becoming more and more brain dead by the day, my only solace from the agonising boredom came from my books, specifically adventure novels along the lines of 'Daring Do', and science fiction stories like 'Hoofhikers guide to the galaxy' which filled my young mind with dreams of adventure, mystery, and space dolphins.

As my life got on I decided to take up traveling as a hobby, easier said then done when you have next to no financial income and have to take up selling flowers in the middle of a metropolis, but luckily my cutie mark aided in that endeavour, and eventually I gained enough bits to make my way to a small town called Ponyville, located in the country side.
I then managed to arrived just as I was nearing the end of my midlife crisis and I was happy, happy up until I realised that the town had buck all to do in it, except continue selling flowers and admiring the adventures literally throwing themselves at a purple unicorn named twilight and her ragtag group of friends with gems.

This was more or less all there was to my life, until one random Tuesday when my lunch was interrupted by a meteorite hitting my flowerbeds.

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As I mentioned before it was a day like any other, the sun was out, the birds where singing, and I was drowning out the idle gossip of my friends Bon Bon and Colgate by thinking about how I was probably going to be stuck in this lazy town until the day I died from some comical accident incorporating duck tape, olive oil, and a hoard of magical lavender; until a burning shape appeared from the distance and then almost instantly disappeared behind a hill which served as a pedestal for my house and my flower farm...orchard...set up...thing, followed by a loud bang and a small mushroom cloud (which I must say made my house look pretty magnificent).
We all jumped at the noise and then proceeded to run our separate ways in an attempt to protect our property.
"MY HOUSE!"

"MY OFFICE!"

"MY LYRA!"

When I got back home I was relieved to find my house untouched, and then instantly mortified to discover that there was now a big blue thing pointing out of my flowerbeds, leaving them all either crushed, crooked, or on fire.
Upon further examination I realised that this thing from the sky's wasn't a meteorite but rather a box covered in unfamiliar writing, Windows, and a flank ton load of blue.
Upon an even FURTHER examination I realised that it had doors, now I would like to say that I approached these doors and bravely kicked them down to get to the bottom of this mystery and defeat this alien invader before it had the chance to destroy anything else, but in reality it went more along the lines of me nervously knocking on them 3 times only to realise that it was:
A) still hot
B) made of wood but hadn't been burnt, or even sindged for that matter
C) had set my coat ever so slightly on fire

Having rectified point C I watched as the doors swung open to reveal a stallion with a chestnut coat, a hour glass cutie mark, and a hat shaped like a banana,

"ALOHA OMICRON PERSEI EIGHT...oh, what's this then, a ginger horse? I thought that the coordinates looked funny but I didn't think that it would send me to earth with a different colour filter, I thought I had rectified that bug back when I visited that planet made of M&M's"
He said as he eyed up his surroundings.

"Well any way, who might you be then? Oh wait, you probably can't talk, now I'm a bit rusty at this" he cleared his throat before creating an volley of guttural sounds.

"Wh-what are you doing?" I asked,

"oh you don't speak horse, well then, that's rather unusual" he said casually, completely ignoring my question

"so then, could you tell me what planet I'm on because my magic box here doesn't seem to know the answer"

"P-I'm sorry, did you just say planet? As in you don't know? As in your from another" I said, rather bewildered by the whole thing

"That is the gist of it yes"

I paused, "...are you an alien?"

"Yes, and to answer your next few questions: yes, yes, no, yes, maybe, green, and mandarin, now can you please tell me what planet I'm on because my T.A.R.D.I.S doesn't feel like co-operating right now and won't bring up my location on the monitor, it keeps saying that there's no planet here."

I thought about possible questions to ask this strange individual who claimed to be form beyond the stars, thinking about whether he knew the answers to this worlds greatest mysteries, about the answers to life, the universe, and everything; until I thought up the perfect question for that exact moment in time.

"If you're an alien, then why do you look like a regular old earth pony?"

This question seemed to surprised him as he answered

"really, I don't remember regenerating...wait...hold on I've got this"

he then pulled a stick from out thin air and then lit up the end which made this odd buzzing sound, this caused him to seemingly change shape as he turned into a ladybug, a griffin, and this big red thing covered in suckers; until he ended up in a form I was unfamiliar with, it looked a bit like a small, hairless, hornless Minotaur with crooked legs and wearing some clothes of some description.

"CHANGELING!!!" I screamed jumping back, "ALIEN CHANGELING FROM SPACE!!!"

"NoNoNoNo, calm down; I'm not a changeling ("whatever that is" he muttered), I just altered this planets perception filter to make myself look like...well...myself I guess; I can turn it back on if that helps"

He brought his stick back out and then changed back into a chestnut stallion.

"Better?" He asked.

"......."

"I could shove off if I'm scaring you" he said, visually concerned for my current state

"......It doesn't have one"

"I'm sorry?"

"This planet doesn't have a name; we don't actually have a global name for it as a whole since the different kingdoms couldn't decide on one name; so we just refer to the region that we're in, this one being Equestria."

"Ah, that maybe why my TARDIS can't answer me," He said, looking around his surroundings, before picking a blade of grass and licking it.

"Any way, why don't you show me around this place; this place looks quite beautiful" he added having dropped the grass and tossed the hat back in his box.

"Alright, but in return I want you to tell me: who you are, why it is you crashed into my flower bed, and everything there is to know about space" I said

"Okay then, deal" he said with a smile that looked slightly too large for is face to physically contain

"What's your name?"

"Roseluck" I answered

"Nice to me you Miss Luck, I'm the Doctor."