//------------------------------// // Doctors warning // Story: The Weeping Alicorns // by TheLocoPony //------------------------------// Most of this conversation comes from the Doctor Who episode ‘Blink’. I have adapted some of it to fit. Ditzy is the Doctors current companion and I have used Ditzy as her name because I see Derpy as more of a nickname (my personal opinion). “Alright Ditzy now this is important so please look at me.” Doctor Whooves asked exasperated as Ditzy turned away from her muffin to stare at the screen. “Reading loud and clear” She shouted putting a hoof to her head in salute. The Doctor groaned and face hoofed. “For the last time Ditzy this isn’t the army and I can’t actually hear you. This is a recording from around…” His face turned around on the screen and she heard him call out “Hey, what year is this?” Another voice called back from outside “Shove off you crazy nutter!” The Doctor looked back at the screen on his end “Year 144 of the Mare, now I could wait for a few thousand years to get back to the Tardis but that will be boring and I’m not sure if Bon-Bon will cope. What you need to do…STOP playing with the wires! That’s a very delicate screen!” Ditzy immediately dropped the lead she was examining and blushed. “I thought you weren’t there, this is a recording from the past.” She mumbled The Doctor sighed and pointed a hoof behind her “That mare you’re with is writing down this whole conversation, including your actions. She will give it to me later.” Ditzy turned around and saw Lyra staring at the screen with a pencil slowly drop from the magic field. She gave Ditzy a shy grin as Ditzy turned away and rolled her eyes. Another voice called out from behind The Doctor “Are you speaking to Lyra too? I need to tell her something.” A cream coloured pony pushed The Doctor to one side “Lyra, listen to me. Trust The Doctor and Ditzy, they both know what they’re doing. Well maybe…” She turned and looked as The Doctor started singing in the background and grimaced before returning to look at the camera. “Now this is very important so listen carefully. I left some sweets cooking in the oven before I got sent back so could you get them out. Thanks…” She called out as The Doctor dragged her out of the way. “Now that’s out of the way you have to listen very carefully, this is the most important bit. The Alicorns have the phone box.” The Doctor spoke seriously. Lyra giggled “That’s my favourite bit ‘The Alicorns have the phone box’ I should get that on a shirt.” Ditzy looked at her then spoke aloud “What do you mean ‘Alicorns’? You mean those statue things?” At this she looked outside in the distance where she could see a stone Alicorn with its head bowed some distance away. The Doctor answered her mysteriously “Creatures from another world” Ditzy looked back at the screen “But they’re just statues?” The Doctor’s voice grew grim “Only when you see them.” Ditzy was now extremely confused and saw Lyra jotting down lots of notes out of one eye while she saw The Doctor with the other. “What does that mean?” The Doctor lifted his head up “The Lonely Assassins they used to be called. Nopony quite knows where they came from but their as old as the Equestria, or very nearly. And they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defensive system ever evolved. They are quantum locked” He held up his hoof to exaggerate his point “They don’t exist when their being observed. The moment they are seen by any other living creature they freeze into rock.” At this Ditzy moved one of her eyes to watch the statue at the same time as the video. Had it moved forward at all? Was it always that close? “No choice it’s a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing they literally turn to stone. And you can’t kill a stone” He shook his head to one side “Of course a stone can’t kill you either, but then you turn your head away, then you blink. And oh yes it can.” Ditzy looked up worriedly and turned to Lyra “Don’t take your eyes off that” Before looking back to the screen with full attention. Lyra gulped and looked out. The Doctor continued “That’s why they bow their heads. They’re not weeping they just can’t risk looking at each other. Their greatest asset is their greatest curse. They can never be seen.” There was a gust of wind and Ditzy spun around. She looked back to the screen “The loneliest creatures in the universe. And I’m sorry. I am very, very sorry. It’s up to you now.” Ditzy gazed in wonder “What am I supposed to do?” The Doctor nodded “The Tardis, I need you to bring it back to me. There is time energy in there, they could feast forever but the damage they could do would switch of the sun. Not even Princess Celestia will be able to stop them. You have got to send it back to me.” “How?” Ditzy asked. “How?!” The Doctor leaned back. “And that’s it I’m afraid. There’s no more from you on the transcript.” He took off his glasses “That’s the last I’ve got. I don’t know what stopped you talking but I can guess. They’re coming. The statues are coming for you.” She looked up again and stared outside the window. Was there two to begin with…? “But listen, your life could depend on this. Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink and you’re dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don’t turn you back, don’t look away and don’t blink! Good luck.” He froze in his place on the screen. Ditzy looked at it before crying out in disbelief. “No! Don’t, you can’t!” Lyra looked over at her and moved over to the screen “I’ll rewind them” Ditzy held up a hoof “What good will that do?” Then she stopped cold dead. She gazed as Lyra was looking at her. “You’re not looking at the statue…” “Neither are you…”