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// Chapter 4 -  
// Story: Doctor Whooves and The Triarch Colony 
// by gcsmith 
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The Doctor was sitting on a sofa surrounded by six ponies, one of them was the rainbow coloured mare from before, the other five who were also female were of multiple colours and species.

With a mug of tea between his hooves and a bandage on his head he sighed, "Nothing like a brew to help you cope with a problem. Probably why the British once ruled a third of the world." The other six ponies looked at him strangely. 

A purple unicorn approached him, shaking her head and ignoring his last comment. "So you say you're some kind of Alien being that fell through some rift in your dimension and arrived in ours." 

"Pretty much, except the rift exists in all universes and that when I arrived I suffered extreme damage to my body and required regeneration to survive."

The Unicorn snorted, it seemed all her friends were willing to let her deal with the mad-pony for now. "Ah yes, this regeneration. You expect us to believe, without empirical evidence, that you were once a bipedal creature and for some reason the regeneration turned you into a pony? In short you expect us to believe your an alien?"

The Doctor put down his tea and scratched his head with a hoof. "Well, to be honest yes. Never had someone need much evidence before. Then again I never need to explain I'm an alien outside of some strange situation where people's lives are in peril. Really easy to prove myself in those situations." He paused for a second, "Now I think about it, the universe is rather strange at making things like my Tardis catch fire right when I need it most. At least this universe seems kinder."

He noticed the six ponies share a certain gaze, a gaze he had seen many times, a gaze which meant 'well actually...'

"So I take it you guys have a problem as well, why do I never get a break. First I'm not ginger, and now I have to save more lives. So whats the problem?"

"Well, um, actually no one knows." This time it was a yellow Pegasus that replied. "Four ponies have gone missing, but um, well that's all anyone knows."

"By missing you mean?"  the Doctor asked.

"She means that they haven't been seen in over a week, and these are ponies who wouldn't disappear without telling no pony." Said an orange mare wearing a cowboy hat.

The Doctors ears picked up at the last part. "Obvious disappearances you say? Hmm that is strange, mostly when people get kidnapped without any information they are unknowns. People no one would miss, makes it less obvious you see. But if you say they are people know then that means they need those people in particular but why..?"

A white unicorn approached, "It seems you have quite the experience at dealing with these kind of situations darling. But what do you mean by they?"

"Well isn't it obvious?" asked a Pink pony before the Doctor could reply, the white unicorn shook her head. "Well they are whoever took our friends. That is who you meant right Doctor?"

"Right you are," he Doctor confirmed before doing a double take, "How do you know my name?"

"Oh I know everypony's name Doctor," the pink pony said wiggling her eyebrows.

"No really, have we met before or something mrs...?"

"Names Pinkie Pie," she said, "and this Twilight Sparkle; Applejack; Rarity; Fluttershy; and Rainbow Dash. And about that other thing I can't say, as you would say, spoilers."

He looked bemused as he tried to make sense of this entire siuation, stuck in a new universe with a new body, and already encountering a near paradox. 'Lovely.' 

"Ok lets see, so you have disappearances, anything else so far?" The other ponies shook their heads, "Ok so how long ago was the first disappearance?" 

"Um, about 2 weeks ago." Fluttershy answered. The Doctor simply nodded.

"Doctor, that is your name right?" the pony now known to him as Twilight Sparkle asked, he nodded. "What are we going to do?"

He smiled, "I'll tell you what we are going to do, we are going to look around the homes of the people who have gone missing, and get to he bottom of this mystery." he exclaimed with a certain gleam in his eyes. "Oh and we are going to run, the only thing I can promise, it will involve running."