A Family In Time

by Animegx43

Target Found

Yeah, it must've been quite a tease for Time Turner when he met little Dinky face to face.
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Time Turner's mission was to locate a certain filly in Ponyville, who who grow up into a vicious serial killer, and bring her back to headquarters where she would...well, let's just say we are to dispose of her. We've handled what are normally amoral cases before, very few actually having anything to do with children, and we completed them for the sake of the future, but this was a situation Time Turner never dealt with before. Not only did this involve a child, but it involved the daughter of a new friend.

Our duty is to complete our missions and preserve the future by any means Jessica with no ifs, ands, or buts. Turner, however, has a bit more of a conscience then the rest of us, and because of that, he hesitated when he had the chance to just take the filly away.

"So this is your daughter?" Turner asked.

"Yep. She's my pride and joy, Dinky Doo." Ditzy answered.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Doctor." Dinky said.

He took a good long look at Dinky, making sure this was who he was looking for. Blonde mane, grey coat, unicorn, the only thing he thought looked different to him was a small little scar that tried to hide behind her mane. After a good long look, he concluded that Dinky Do was his target.

Turner wasn't sure on what he should've done at the time. He never anticipated that his target was the daughter of his newest friend. He did eventually came up with a plan that he ultimately stuck with, and he went through with it immediately.

"Gotta go! Bye Derpy!"

In a blink of an eye, he ran out of the house and out of sight, leaving Ditzy and Dinky behind with confused looks on their faces. As he couldn't figure out what to do, Turner left as quickly as he could to come up with a real plan for a later date. Until then, his new friend started to feel that he was a weird pony.

"Your friend is is nice, but strange, Mama." Dinky said.

"No kidding. Remind me to tell him that my name isn't Derpy."

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After a high-speed dash, Turner returned to post, the time box, ran right inside, and slammed the door shut, locking it up to make sure nopony followed him. It's not often he had to deal with something as awkward as that.

"Well, this certainly got more complicated then expected." He said to himself. "Mind you, if I were Clockwork, he would say that this got much simpler. Unfortunately though, I'm not him."

After he finished talking to himself, he takes a quick walk around his new lab to get a sense of direction while still getting a laugh over the fact that it's bigger on the inside, but he didn't let that distract him for long because he wanted to stay focus.

In the center of the time box was the giant computer screen which caught his attention. Now I know you probably still don't understand what a computer is, but what Time Turner had was something he had actually used before, which allows him to talk to others who have them. Now this is actually an extremely high tech device that shouldn't actually exist in this time period, so there's not very many of these machines. It's no matter though, since there's only one pony he needed to talk to.

After pushing a few buttons on the computer and a minute of waiting, an image of a familiar pony appeared on the screen. Guess who that pony was.

"Nostalgia, is that you there?"

"Turner! Hi!" I said on the other through the screen from headquarters. "We missed you! Seeing you really takes me back to the old days."

"Nostalgia, I've been gone for a few hours."

"Everything feels like an eternity to me. I lost my pen and I can't remember if I lost it 20 years ago, or 5 minutes ago."

"To think that this mare is tasked to record the past." Turner said quietly to himself. "Anyway, I need you to send me a picture of the filly I'm tracking down. I need to verify if I've found her or not."

"One second."

Upon his request, I sent the data he requested and his monitor was given a brand new image. He then saw the picture of Dinky Do, the filly he was tasked to capture. He took a very thorough look at the picture, going as far as putting his eyes close to the screen despite not being healthy for him. He was hoping Master Chronos has the wrong filly in mind, but between the picture and who Turner had seen, he was convinced that that the two were one and the same. He even found the small scar on the screen.

"Well, this got interesting, now didn't it?"

"What got interesting?" I asked.

"Whoops, I didn't mean for you to here that." He said as he turned off the computer, allowing him to talk to himself again. "Dinky seemed like a nice lass, and her mother, as bubbly as she was, she was...OH WAIT! She had a bubble cutie mark! That explains it. Haha."

While he took a moment to laugh at his realization, he quickly shook it off to focus once again. He started to think about the situation.

Firstly, he knew where his target, Dinky Do, lived, which was good. Based on her behavior, he knew it wouldn't be hard to get her trust and capture her, which was very good. The problem was that Ditzy Do was clearly a loving mother, who would not only protect her girl, but would make Turner feel guilty for doing his job. He concluded that simply taking the child wouldn't be a smart idea, since it would create suspicion, and the more stealth he uses, the better.

"Oh, wait a minute! I'm not even in any rush to do this. I've got plenty of time to think of a good idea. In fact, it would probably be best if learned a little about her so I'll know what to do."

Thinking he knew what he was going to do, he decided to call it a day and got ready to relax for the rest of the day, wanting to be well rested when he starts to research his target. Now I'm sure you're getting angry at him because he tried to kidnap a little filly, but please look at it from our point of view. Our job is to do what we can to make the future better for the world, and the future told us that Dinky would become a killer.

As far as he knew, he was just doing his job.

Author's Note:

I originally wanted this to be longer, but due to a combination of video games, anime, and writer's block, this is what I hve to offer you for now. Why must Full Metal Alchmist Brotherhood and Megaman steal my attention away from ponies?

I'll do better next time.

Comments

[Telly Vision]

Poor Doctor, Decisions Decisions .

[Animegx43]

2252695 There certianly isn't any easy choices.

[darkcloud64]

now I wanna play magaman

[GIGA-XISBASS]

Interesting dilemma there. hmm..if there's one thing Danny Phantom's ultimate enemy plot has taught me, the future's not always set in stone. Dinky may become a killer in the future, however given that that's when she's an adult, there's plenty of time to change the future for her without erasing her from the timeline. Doctor Whooves could personally make sure she doesn't become that killer. Hmm..what lead to her becoming one anyway? If the Doctor looks into her future life he could either prevent it from happening or by facing her future self, show Dinky her future as a way to get her to change it so Killer Dinky will never exist. Like that Christmas special did with The Doctor and that old man who had the power to stop a spaceship from crashing into the earth if he'd just cared about anyone other than himself.