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…”
They both turned their heads to see a statue standing at the end of the room. It was on its hind legs with hoofs outstretched and fangs coming from its snarling mouth. Wings spread wide it stood tall over the two cowering mares.
Lyra let out a shriek and Ditzy stumbled backwards to the far edge of the room dragging the curled up Lyra with her
“Come on Lyra, I need you! Please, get up.” She shook the quivering body of the mare while staring intently at the statue.
Lyra gave a large gulp and slowly got up, nodding. “I’m sorry.”
Ditzy shook her head “it’s okay but we have serious problems. I think I heard the others moving about earlier. Watch this one and I’ll look for a way out of this abandoned house.”
Lyra gave a whimper “There are MORE of them?!” Ditzy nodded and turned away and left the room. Lyra gazed up at the statue with large strained eyes.
Lyra heard Ditzy cry out “The front door is jammed! I’ll check the back door.”
Lyra was shaking her head now in despair. “Pleases, come on Ditzy. Please” her eyes were hurting at being open so long. Fear had paralysed her mind. She whimpered, she had to know what Ditzy was doing. It would be fine, wouldn’t it? Just too quickly turn away and see what she was doing. The statue was a few metres away. She gulped and whipped her head to the left and back, not even getting a chance to see what she was doing.
A stone hoof was a hair breadth away from her face. The face on the statue was one of insane hatred as it toward over her with fangs from an open mouth and horn jutting out the top, adding to the height. The wings spread wide wrapped a partial cocoon around Lyra, almost trapping her. She let loose an almighty shriek and slipped between the wings and backed away out into the corridor. “DITZY!!!!!”
There was the sound of tearing wood and a grunt. “Lyra come quickly, I’ve forced the back door open!” Lyra scrambled out of the way and ran down the corridor to the end where Ditzy was opening a door. Ditzy looked past Lyra to see the statue now at the end of the corridor with its head bowed.
“Why is it doing that, unless…”Ditzy turned around while Lyra continued looking at the statue to see another one just outside the door with its head also bowed. “Lyra, there is another one outside too, keep looking at that one. I’ll think of something.” She heard a chocked sob from behind her. While one eye stared at the Alicorn outside she looked around with the other to see a window to her right. “Okay, Lyra on the count of three we jump out of the window on your left, my right. Ready? Three, two, one…GO!”
And with that Ditzy threw herself sideways crashing through the pane of glass. It cracked and splintered sending down a rain of glass. Lyra jumped a second later and crashed down on the grass beside her. They looked up to see two statues glaring down at them, too big to fit through the window.
Lyra almost sobbed with relief and took in large gasps of air. Ditzy stood up quickly and examined some of the cuts on herself and Lyra. They weren’t too bad, not life threatening at least but they would sting a bit. She held out a hoof to Lyra and helped her to her hoofs.
“I want to go home, please, I can’t do this.” Lyra began blubbering, Ditzy looked at her sadly before bringing her hoof back and slapping her hard across the face. “Hey, what’d you do that for?” She cried out angrily glaring at Ditzy.
Ditzy nodded “To bring you back of course.” Lyra looked in surprise before she realised she wasn’t shaking anymore.
She took a deep breath before grinning at Ditzy “Alright then let’s do this!” They hoof bumped but looked to one side where they heard a noise. Standing under a street lamp an Alicorn statue stood watching them.
***
It was quiet, too quiet. Better not say that out loud and jinx ourselves, thought Lyra
“It’s quite, too quiet” Said Ditzy, out loud. Lyra face hoofed silently. That was that then. They walked through the abandoned street with shadows resting eerily in alleyways. They walked side by side and looked out at either side and in front. Ditzy’s eyes made it easier to see in multiple directions at once which and she checked behind them. Every so often she would see a statue appear just in the darkness behind them.
Lyra giggled nervously “So, you do know where the Tardis, or whatever it’s called, is right?”
Ditzy nodded “Yeah I remember, we parked it in the alleyway next to sugar cube corner. I was feeling hungry!” At this she gave a proud smile while Lyra shook her head and looked away. “Do you want a muffin? Pinkie let me bake a few on the oven, I was going to give it to The Doctor but that was when he disappeared.” She held out the muffin and Lyra took it gratefully. Any feeling of comfort was welcome. She closed her eyes as she enjoyed the taste. Ditzy who was watching her saw that she enjoyed it and smiled as well. Her eyes closing as her mouth curved up. She opened them again.
Surrounding them on all sides were Weeping Alicorns. They stood on three legs with heads bowed low and one hoof pointing up. They formed a perfect circle and Lyra screamed as she opened her eyes. Ditzy gulped and followed the lines of where they were pointing with one eye while looking at them with the other.
“Why are they pointing at the street lamp?” Ditzy wondered out loud. The light flickered slightly. Ditzy gasped in realisation.
“Lyra, we have to get out of here NOW!” She shook Lyra who was frozen on the spot. She pointed one hoof up to the light which was struggling to stay lit. They both ran towards a gap between to Alicorns when the light flicked off and back on in an instant. The Alicorns closed up behind them and the ones in front were reaching out with their hooves.
They nervously passed between two and continued running with Ditzy looking back and Lyra guiding her forwards. The light blinked off for a full second before coming back on. One statue was just an inch away from Ditzy and had a cruel smile on its face. Ditzy shrieked and ran backwards faster. The light was flickering dangerously now, almost like a strobe light. Ditzy watched in horror as Alicorns appeared on the roof’s looking down at them and the ones behind them advanced a few feet in each flicker.
Ditzy felt the key in her pack hum slightly. She called out “We’re nearly there! Just around the next corner.” Lyra nodded and stared ahead through strained eyes as Alicorns lined up along the side of the streets. “Why are there so many of them!”
Lyra spotted a small glow in the distance between the flickering lights and ran for all she was worth. Ditzy used her eyes to stop any advancement from behind. Lyra had been so focused on the light above she crashed into wood. She looked up to see the light was on top of this strange box and the words ‘Police Box’ on top.
Lyra cried out in frustration “We’re never going to find the Tardis In this darkness!”
Ditzy shook her head “No the Police Box is the Tardis. It’s a disguise.” She reached into her pack and pulled out a small key which was glowing slightly. Ditzy gestured in the Alicorns direction before turning to the doors.
Then the light went out. The small glow from the light on top of the Tardis created a ring of light about a foot or so from the edge. They could hear them shifting about in the darkness, unable to get closer and be seen. Lyra panted hard as her eyes cried out from not blinking for so long.
A soft and sinister voice flowed out from the dark “Blink…Go on…blink…aren’t your eyes so sore and tired...Why don’t you relieve them…Blink….why not give up…it won’t hurt…you’ll be reunited with your precious Bon-Bon…Go on…Blink.
That voice was so persuasive; it was like a chorus of angels. She felt her eyes begin to close as she heard a click from behind her.
“Lyra I got the door, come inside quick.” Ditzy called out but it seemed so insignificant compared to the wondrous sound pouring out from the shadows. She felt her eyes close.
Something tapped her on the head.
***
She was thrown back but didn’t hit anything. She was surrounded on all sides by flashing lights and there was a great thumping sound going on and on. A tear appeared in the fabric of reality and she slipped through landing in a pile of hay.
She popped her head out and saw a farm and one or two buildings. A brand new wooden sign proudly proclaimed this as the new town Ponyville. She chuckled weakly as she realised she had failed. Had Ditzy made it into the Tardis on time or was she somewhere near here too?
There was a large whooshing sound and a wind rose up whipping the hair around her face. Through squinting eyes she saw a form begin to take place. The Police Box stood there and the door creaked open and a smiling face popped out.
“Hey Lyra! I got the Tardis back to The Doctor.” Somepony pushed past her and jumped at Lyra. She hugged her tightly and buried her face into that pink and blue mane.
“It’s okay Lyra, we’re safe now. The Doctor will take us home. ISN’T THAT RIGHT DOCTOR.” Shouted Bon Bon
A voice called out “Yes, yes. Get in already, I’m bored of this year. Nothing interesting happens.”
The Doctor walked out with some kind of screen in a side pack. “Pass that transcript to me.” Lyra nodded and used her magic to pull out the sheet of paper and slip it into his pack. He nodded then disappeared inside a building for a few minutes and come back out with nothing. “There, I’ll find it when I get sent back in time. Okay let’s go! Allons-y!” And with that he led them into the Tardis. It glowed and a large sound boomed out across the countryside as the image slowly faded into a twinkle
