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Entering Ponyville

With his new mission assigned to him, Time Turner's new life was also on its way.

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After stepping through the portal, Time Turner was transferred to a brand new location. He originally expected to be sent straight to Ponyville, but instead, he was sent to an indoor area. He had been to Ponyville before and expected a simple little town with much greenery, where as the place he was sent to looked more like a laboratory then anything, with lots of high-tech gadgets that you would never find anywhere else in Equestria. In addition, there was a great big computer screen in the center of the room. Now odds are, you'll have no idea what a computer is. Think of it as movie screen where you can put anything on it. That's about the gist of it.

"Well would you look at this. Master Chronos doesn't normally send me to the wrong place." Turner said to himself.

"I don't." Master Chronos said as he too walked through the portal. "Time Turner, welcome to your new home base! Clockwork calls it the Time Box."

This requires some explanation. Clockwork, the mean old pegasus I managed earlier, is a futurist and is always looking into the future to study the best technology that can come improve Equestria. As a result, we can create machines far more advanced then what the rest of the world is familiar with. The laboratory that Turner and Master was in was a prototype of something Clockwork had been tinkering with for quite awhile.

"Oh, so this is the new base Clockwork was talking about. Doesn't seem anything too fancy, considering he would always keep me and Nostalgia out of his lab. Can't say I care for the name 'Time Box' either. I may have to rename it later."

"You'd be surprised by what this promises." Chronos said. "Once you get settled and comfortable around Ponyville, I want you to explore around here and get familiar with everything. There are a few other surprises for you to enjoy."

""Get comfortable in...Master Chronos, I'm not even in Ponyville. How am I suppose to get there." Turner asked.

"Step through the door over there. Not only will find yourself in Ponyville, but you'll find the best feature of the box. You know how to contact me if you need me. Enjoy."

Feeling no need to explain anything else, Master Chronos left Time Turner in the dark and walked back through the portal to return home. Yeah, sometimes Master Chronos can be a little mean too, since he left his right-hoof stallion without showing him around the new base. He still hated the name, and I personally can't blame him. It sounded like a a name a lazy writer would come up with just to move a story forward.

In any case, Turner did what Chronos suggested and took the exit. The first thing he saw when he opened the door was a beautiful view of a nearby town, and as soon as he walked out, the first thing he thought of was the fresh air from a very clean area. He wasn't right in the town, but he wasn't too far away from it either. It's something he enjoyed as he normally works in either hostile conditions or inside rather gloomy workspaces.

"Nothing like the smell of country air." Turner said as he took a big sniff. "These kinds of missions are always like a little vacation to me. Now where exactly am-"

After turning around, he shocked himself after realizing where exactly he stepped out of. He was expecting to walk out of some huge building, but instead, and I'm not lying here, he walked out of a box. I kid you not. He walked out of this big blue metal that was on top of a hill. It was about the size of a phone booth, and yet moments ago, he was inside his own giant laboratory.

"Well, fancy that!" Turner said as he laughed. "I guess Clocky was onto something after all. He somehow made the bloody thing bigger on the inside! I think I'm REALLY going to enjoy myself here."

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Although still laughing at the idea that something can be bigger on the inside, it at least allowed Turner to walk around Ponyville with a smile on his face. He had been to the town before for another mission, so he was familiar with the place. Ponyville definitely is one of the nicer places to live in as it's not too populated, it's right out in the farming country, and the ponies are really friendly. Turner was actually hoping to not finish his mission too soon.

"Ahh, nice to be back here. Nothing fancy, nothing special, but just simple." He said to himself. "I better stay clear from the market though, as I don't want to run into that little filly with the apples again. Although I do recall meeting an earth pony that I did take a liking too. Oh what was her name again?"

As he tried to remember who it was he met before, you will get guess who walked passed him. It was the same pony he was trying to remember, who immediately recognized him.

"Oh! I remember you!" Said a cheerful pink pony, coming up from behind Turner. "You're that crazy time pony who visited before

"Why...why hello Pinkie Pie, nice seeing you aga- Wait! Crazy pony?"

"OH NO! I've got to get back to the bakery and prepare some english muffins for you! Gotta go!"

And as soon as she had appeared, the weird pink pony ran off to the prepare some english muffins, which are actually Time Turner's favorite food. It's kind of weird that somepony would remember such a thing after only meeting Turner once, but he didn't complain. That's actually another reason why he likes Ponyville so much. It's the only place besides Canterlot that actually knows what an english muffin is. I myself still don't know what's so special about them, but that's not important.

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Shortly after, he went to Pinkie Pie's bakery, picked up the special order of english muffins, and walked out a happy pony.

"Well this has been a lovely day, hasn't it? I get assigned to a great location, I get some english muffins with butter, and...well I'll be."

Looking straight ahead of him, he saw something he thought would've taken him at least a few days to happen. He remembered that he was tasked to locate a unicorn filly with a violet coat, and on the other side of the street, he saw the very same filly playing with others around her age.

"Brilliant! It seems my mission will be completed sooner then expected. Maybe if I finish this in a day, Master Chronos will let me stay here for a extra few days as a vacation. Either way, this has been a great day."

Feeling a huge sense of accomplishment, he reached into his bag of english muffins to take a victory bite. That was when something finally didn't go his way, for as soon as he pulled one out, he dropped it on the ground. As butterhoofed Turner was, the one thing he hated to drop on the ground was his favorite treat.

"Oh, blast! So much for my perfect...hey, wait a moment" Turner said as he took a better look at his pastry. "That's not an english muffin, it's a regular muffin. Bah, the child can wait, I'd very much like to get my english muffins right now."

Yeah, even Turner had moments where he would be irresponsible, but he figured that if he could find the child that easily, then he would have no problems finding her again. That said, he went right back into the the bakery with his muffins to get his right order.

"Excuse me Miss Pinkie, but I think you gave me the wrong order." Turner said.

"Did I? Well then where did those english muffins go?"

While Pinkie Pie was trying to figure out where Turner's order, another pony walked into the bakery, a grey, female pegasus who also wasn't too pleased. T

"Hey, it's me again." The Pegasus said. "These muffins you gave me are completely flattened and taste awful."

"Flattened muffins? Wait a moment..." Turner said as he took a closer look at the muffins he had. "Excuse me Miss, but did you purchase blueberry muffins?"

"How did you know?"

"Well, fancy that!" Turner said as he had let out a chuckle. "Looks like we got each other's bags by accident. I believe these are yours." He said as he passed the muffins back to their rightful owner.

"Hey, thanks mister. Sorry, but I think I sat on yours or something. They look crushed."

"Oh, no worries ma'am, they are suppose to look crushed. Sorry about the one dirty muffin though, I kind of dropped it.

"That's okay. I kind of ate one of yours."

Time Turner and the pegasus both had a good laugh at each other's misfortune as both had lost one of their treats. At this time, Turner took a closer look at the mare he was laughing with to know who exactly he was talking too. He some that she was grey, had a blond mane, and as mentioned before, she was a pegasus, but the one feature that stood out the most was the fact that she had some rather weird eyes, as one eye would be looking up while the other is down and rarely being symmetric. It was like looking in the eyes of a chameleon, but Turner decided not to say anything about it right away as he wanted to take the chance to make a new friend.

"Say, I'm a little new around here. Don't suppose you'd mind if we had our lunch together, would you?" Turner asked.

"Nothing wrong with a little company, now is there?" The weird-eyed mare said with a smile.

Author's Note:

Yeah, so just because I don't know much about Doctor Who,, it doesn't mean I won't take inspiration from it. I'm still debating on whether or not to call the "Time Box" Tardis or not.

I'm open for suggestions if it can help my story.

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