After trying to help the Doctor get back to his own Dimesnion, Derpy finds herself trapped on Earth
After discovering a way to get back to his own Universe, Doctor Whooves causes a accident trapping Derpy and his TARDIS on Earth in another dimension! With all his Time Lord knowledge, and Twilight's help, he has to find a way to save her, and get her back to Ponyville. Meanwhile, Derpy is left alone and trapped on a strange alien world, as a human of all things. While she finds some help from a few humans, some of them seem strangely familiar, but she quite can't quite put her finger on it. What's worse, there seems to be some Disharmony brewing on this Earth, and what it has teamed up with is going to make it all the more worse.
Born out of boredom and an idea while I did my main story. And well, after seeing everyone's reaction to when I submitted this.... there is only one thing I can do! ADD EVERYPONY I CAN! and still make a good story! Hopefully....
Derpy awoke to a brilliant shining sun on the most perfect of days of the year. Rainbow Dash, it seemed, had gotten up and actually cleared all the clouds away for the first time in weeks, or some other Pony went and did it. Either way, the warm rays of sunshine comforted her as she stretched to get up. Yawning, she looked into her backyard, and to her actual surprise, saw a large blue box sitting in the back yard. She screamed in glee, the Doctor had come back from one his adventure for a visit. She would have went, but she had one large package to deliver, and well, couldn't remember which direction to deliver it to. Besides, he needed Twilight for this one anyway, and the Unicorn was more than happy to oblige. Getting up, she trotted down the stairs and walked into the kitchen to get her morning muffin. Already, Dinky was there eating her cereal while Sparkler drank her coffee. They were both very tired still, having just woke up. Dizzy herself wasn't awake and wasn't even down the stairs. She was just grabbing the muffin when the brown Stallion burst in.
“Ah, Good Morning everypony!” He said cheerfully as he always did, “How did everything go while I was gone?”
He was instantly met with a big hug from Derpy. Sparkler and Dinky smiled and waved respectively as Derpy went back to buttering her muffin. Whooves sat down as Dinky used her magic to hand him some butter and a English Muffin, which he happily went to preparing.
“Same as it usually does.” mentioned Sparkler taking a sip from her coffee before putting it back down, “Dinky and Dizzy went to school, I did my job, Mom delivered that package to Trottingham.”
“Uh, Derpy, that package was from Trottingham.” claimed Whooves with some concern, “You weren't supposed to send there.”
“It was return to sender.” said Derpy matter-o-factly, “I can deliver stuff in the mail.”
Whooves tried his best to give a "I'm sorry smile" as Derpy gave him a dark look. Looking around, he needed to change the subject fast.
“Right. So then! See anything exciting over in Trottingham?”
“I saw a bunch of other TARDIS's... or whatever you travel through time in.” Derpy claimed happily
“What? That's impossible! You're kind wont have the ability to even read the Time Vortex for another.....wait, did it read TARDIS, or was it Call Boxes for Police?”
“I think it's that last one! They were putting them up all over town!”
“Yes, Police Call Boxes. I remember back when those used to be all over the place. Sadly, that changed as time went on.”
“What do you mean?” asked Sparkler
Whooves gave her a funny look to her response. It was silent for a moment until the Unicorn elaborated on her question.
“I mean, I've never seen another box like yours!”
“No, it was back on Earth.... you know, the place I came from before here?”
“I thought that was Gallifrey?” asked Dinky
“No, no, no me dear! That's my home planet! After that I spent most of my time on Earth with Humans! A amazing race they were! Sometimes I just wish I could go back there and see it all again.”
“Why can't you?” inquired Derpy eating her Muffin
“Well I would if I could, but you see, it's not that simple. I'm not only crossing through time and space, but dimensions! Universe's even! I could quite possibly destroy the TARDIS in that process! If not that, tear a hole in the very fabric of both My old Universe and this one!”
'So, why didn't you when you came here?” asked Dinky
"Because that might destroy all of creation." Whooves answered as he patted her on the head not thinking on what she just asked
“No I meant the fist time. We're still here aren't we?”
Whooves, who was pouring himself a bowl suddenly went alert at this.
“You're right Dinky! Why are we still here? By all means tearing through dimensions powerful enough to warp my own body to fit its needs means something must've happened that we are still alive. How is this possible?”
'“I'd like to not have these kinds of questions now.” answered Sparkler
Whooves suddenly ran outside leaving them all to sit in confusion. Dizzy walked in, just barely having been missed by the Doctor.
“What was that all about?”
“I'll go check.” said a annoyed Derpy as she flew out after him.
The door to the TARDIS had been left wide open, and inside, she could hear the Doctor going over everything and anything he could find. Of course that's what it looked like, but he had a idea of what he was doing. Running around the center console, hitting it with his hooves, pushing buttons, throwing levers, and looking at the screen, he was going on and on about stuff, most of it seeming to be in his head since he was speaking in short sentences that didn't make sens when put together. He ran further into the TARDIS in one door, and a few moments he appeared out another holding a long sheet of paper.
“Now if these match the...... yes!” he cheered “Yes they do! Brilliant! I can't believe it!”
“What? What is it?” came Derpy as she walked inside the TARDIS
“I know how to return to Earth! I can go back there!”
“Are you sure it's safe? I mean, you said it can tear a hole through-”
“Not if the current is at the right frequency degree! Ha ha! This is marvelous! I can't believe it! I can return home!”
“Yay!-Wait! Frequency degree? What's that?”
“Oh that's nothing much. Just a little thing that keeps the Universe's from spilling into each other. Sort of like a dimensional fingerprint.”
“Fingerprint?”
“Right, Pony. Never mind! Now if I am not mistaken, the next one to appear is..... well, thirty thousand years into the future!”
“WHAT!? Thirty thousand years!?”
“I know! Pretty short if you ask me..... hmm...”
“What do you mean pretty short?” yelled Derpy
“Well, the next closest one is the one I came through not too long ago. Well... that may be the reason!”
“What are you talking about?” asked Derpy
“Well, if my theory is correct, I am the very reason as to why I showed up here in the first place!”
“Huh?”
“Think about it! I set the TARDIS to arrive in London, and yet I ended up outside Ponyville as a Pony! The TARDIS didn't set those coordinates, that means a outside force set me upon my journey here into Equestria! It makes sense!”
“Uh, kind of.... how exactly do you?”
“All I have to do is set the coordinates to the right time and area in space and.... ha ha! It's working! The TARDIS is reuniting with it's original dimension!”
“Wont that cause some kind of...oh, I don't know, problem?”
“Well, maybe if you were bringing a Army across the dimensions with you, but if you were sending just the two of us with the TARDIS, the effects will be minimal. About the equivalent of when I came through the first time!”
“Nothing happened as far as I remember.”
“Exactly! Now then! We got a barrier to cross!” shouted the Doctor as he powered up the TARDIS
“Hey! Why didn't you exactly ask me if I could go with?”
“Oh....sorry Derpy. Well, ever wanted to see where I come from?”
“I thought it was destroyed or something?”
“No, I meant Earth!”
“Oh! Sure! Why not! I'm sure it can't be that bad!”
“Right, the TARDIS is starting to get ready. Hold on, it may get a little bumpy.”
The familiar sound the TARDIS powering up was music to both their ears. As it began to rise off the ground the door flew open to reveal Sparkler.
“Uh, Mom, Doctor, the Doctor is here?”
“What Doctor?” asked Derpy, Who is sick?”
“It's not who is sick, it's that Who.”
She pointed to Whooves, who looked on puzzled.
“Sparkler! NO! STOP!”
The voice was of Whooves himself. Moments later, the good Doctor appeared and tackled Sparkler to the ground. He stood up and looked into the TARDIS alarmed before ducking to the ground as the TARDIS flew over him.
“Doctor, that was you!” said Derpy in shock, “How was that you if you're right here?”
“Better yet, how did that not cause a paradox?”
“Oh Celestia no, not one of them!” cried Derpy in fear
She ducked down under the stairs to shield herself from the horrors that came from a Paradox. Whooves, meanwhile, knew there wasn't one going to happen, for if it did, there would already be the horrors by now. He tried to turn the TARDIS around to get a better look, but everything seemed to be locked onto something. Whatever it was, he,nor it was in control. The most he could do was slow down the spinning so he could get a better look. He ran over to see what was going on when the TARDIS took off through time. Derpy's house was now a distance away, but he could still see Sparkler and...himself? Standing there looking up in horror. Whooves strained to get a better look when he lost his footing and to his alarm, almost fell out. His hoof grabbed onto the edge of the TARDIS as Derpy appeared and grabbed it.
“Don't let go Derpy!” shouted the Doctor
“I wasn't planning on it!”
Whooves looked around, and something wasn't right. They weren't in the Time Vortex they they should be, if that were the case, he might have been tore apart almost. Instead, they seemed to be flying through Ponyville, with everything going in reverse! It must've been them not going through the time stream, but through the dimensions! What was worse, they were flying right toward the town hall!
“Pull me in Derpy!” he screamed
“Trying!” responded Derpy
She pulled with all her might, and Whooves started to crawl in. He sighed relief knowing he was safe, until the TARDIS hit the town hall, and Whooves fell out the door into Ponyville.
“DOCTOR!” screamed Derpy in alarm.
The door suddenly slammed shut, as if to shield her from something violent about to happen. Derpy suddenly felt funny, and it wasn't the ha ha funny. It was the weird funny. She was scared and covered her fave with her hooves as the TARDIS sparked, and flashed violently. With no Doctor around to comfort her or try and fix the situation, she was on the verge of tears. Then, suddenly, it all stopped. Derpy opened her eyes and saw all the lights in the TARDIS were off, as if the whole time machine had shut off, or died! Without the Doctor to help her, Depry could be stranded here forever, where ever here was. Standing up, a cold chill ran over her. She tried to cover herself with her wings, but to her horror, her wings weren't there. She reached back with her hooves to try and find them, but they weren't her hooves. No, these were pale, hairless palms of sorts. She followed her palm down her arm, and to her stomach, and she realized, she was hairless, standing on two legs, worse, she wasn't a Pony Pegasus anymore! She was some kind of two legged, hairless, alien!
Alarmed that the TARDIS had mutated or transformed her into some freak, she slowly stood up on her hind legs, which now felt oddly natural. Looking around, she found a mirror and ran to it. Sure enough, all her hair had disappeared on her body, as did her tail. All that remained of her previous self was her yellow eyes still walled, and her mane, which cascaded down her neck. She looked to herself in horror. What kind of creature was she? Why didn't she have her wings? Or her hooves? Or her tail? Or just about anything!? Backing slowly away from the mirror, she bumped into something and the TARDIS powered up. The lights and sounds frightened the already unnerved Pegasus and she made a made rush to get out of it. Not used to two legs she stumbled her way a little bit and fell down. The slam echoed throughout the dead TARDIS, and it frightened her even more. She lunged at the door, and it swung open, revealing a dark, foreboding world around her. She was paralyzed, not knowing whether to stay in the TARDIS, or go outside. She took a step back, but tripped and stumbled forward. At first she felt soft grass on her bare feet, but then came cold stone. It was dark and she couldn't see anything, until there came a loud screech from something to her right. She looked to see two giant glowing eyes of some monster coming at her fast, the heat of it's breath could be felt on her now exposed skin. She stood, frozen in terror as it stopped next to her. More eyes above it's normal ones appeared, flashing red and blue.
“Don't move! This is the Police!” came a loud voice from the creature
It spoke? Let alone spoke English!? But, she didn't see it's mouth or anything. It's like the voice came from inside it or something. Furthermore, Police!? They used evil scary monsters as Police? The side of it opened and out stepped a being similar to her own makeup and design, just wearing what seemed to be blue clothing. He walked over, hand on his belt and looked at her concerned.
“Ma'am, are you alright? Anyone chasing you? Are you hurt?
“I'm fine. I, I just don't where I am, or what I am.”
The Officer looked at her dumbfounded.
“Ma'am, I'm going to ask you to stay calm as I ask you a few questions.”
“O-okay.” said Derpy, still a little unnerved
“Are you drunk?”
“No, no. I don't like to drink.” she responded
“Uh-huh. Are you under the influence of any drugs?”
“Nudist.... they don't like to wear clothes.” replied the Officer
“Oh, no it's not that I don't like to wear clothes, it's just, I don't normally wear them. No one does where I come from.”
“Where's that Ma'am?”
“Ponyville. It's in Equestria. Have you heard of it?”
“Ponyville, huh? Well now, Okay, mind if I give you a few tests?”
“Tests? I don't know, are they hard?”
“They're real easy. Just do what I say.”
“Okay!”
“Sing your ABC''s starting with C and ending at P.
“C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K ,L, M, N, O , P.” sang Derpy
“Alright. Stand on your left foot and count to ten. You may hold your arms out.”
“1,2,3,4,5-whoa!” she tried, nearly falling over, “Sorry, can I start over?”
“Uh, no. Okay, can you walk from here to my car, placing one foot in front of the other?”
“I'll try.” said Derpy, still not used to her new two feet.
She managed to get three steps before falling over into the grass.
“Okay, you got one more test.” the Officer told her while helping her up, “Follow my finger right here with both eyes okay? Don't turn your head, just the eyes!”
“Okay! I can do this!” announced Derpy, knowing she could do this easily
“Okay, just tell me when your ready.” replied the Officer
“I'm ready!”
“Uh, both eyes ma'am.”
“I am!” said Derpy
“No, one eye is, the other is, well, I don't know where that one is.”
“Sorry, it's a condition I have.”
“Uh-huh. Okay, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to take you down to the station, we'll get you some clothes, You can spend the night, and tomorrow we'll get you home and we'll be good, alright. Public Intoxication Ma'am, it's a misdemeanor, nothing major as long as your records clean.”
“I hope it's clean.” spoke a worried Derpy
“Here, I'll check okay. Uh, what's your name?”
“Oh, it's Derpy Hooves.”
The Officer did a instant double take and raised a eyebrow. He looked at her as if she was a alien, while all Derpy could do was Derpy smile. The Police officer looked around, and scratched the back of his head unsure of what to do.
“Heh, uh, no, seriously Madam, what's your name.”
“Derpy Hooves. Or Ditzy Doo. Which ever fit's you best.”
“Okay, maybe I'll add under the influence to this list as well...... Did you come from a asylum?”
“No, I came from the TARDIS over there.”
“WHA? The TARDIS!? What do you mean the TARDIS?”
“It's right there.” answered Derpy pointing
The Officer turned to look at the blue box sitting there. He was quite surprised he missed that while driving up.
“What? That? That's a regular old Police box, not the TAR-”
The Officer stopped himself. This city didn't have Police Call Boxes, nor did this entire state. They were outdated, old fashioned, and, and.
“No way.” he spoke in a daze
He slowly walked over and looked at the blue box before him. There was no way this could be the Doctors time machine? Of course he was taking advice from a random naked woman behind him, but, he'd driven past this particular spot on the road hundreds of times before and never seen this box before. He had however, seen this box on TV, lot's of times. He pushed the door open and peered inside. It was a split second later when he closed it and held it shut with his back; a look of fear in his face.
“What? What was it?” asked Derpy
“It's bigger on the inside!” he said alarmed
He looked over at the woman, and happened to spy a tattoo on her hips. It was of bubbles, she had a tattoo of bubbles on her butt. He looked up to see her blonde hair, and....wall eyes that he mistook for drunken eyes. Anyone else would see some crazed college girl, but he was different. The show may have ended years ago, but he was still proud to say he was a Brony. He had read numerous fanfics in the era. Ponies crossing the universal boundaries to Earth, or Humans landing in Equestria. If it wasn't for the fact that he was standing before the TARDIS, he wouldn't give this thought half a second to be real. Now it was real! No, this couldn't be? Could it? No, it's impossible! This just doesn't happen! That only happened in fiction!
“Uh, are you okay?” asked Derpy
“I'm standing in front of Derpy Hooves and behind me is the TARDIS..... this can't be real!”
“Hey! How do you know about the TARDIS, and what do you mean you are standing in front of me?”
“They're TV Shows, just TV shows, not real! It can't be real!”
“Do you know the Doctor?” she asked
“You could say that.” responded the Officer in a stunned daze
“Can you help me? Please!”
She moved toward the office with a pleading look. The Officer pulled out his pistol from his belt and pointed it at her. Derpy looked frightened and tried to shield herself from the gun as the Officer walked over to the cruiser. He opened the door and got in, Derpy still looking at him scared, frightened, and alone. Looking at her, his emotions got the better of him. If everything was true, than he was starring at the human embodiment of Derpy Hooves, the Pegasus pony that he adored so much. He groaned in pain and stepped out of the cruiser.
“You can't be, you.....” he stammered before opening the back door of his cruiser, “Get in!”
“What? Really?” asked Derpy excited
“At least back here, you can't do any harm to anybody.”
“You mean anypony.”
The Officer was speechless for a few moments.
“No I mean anybody. Get in.”
“Oh, uh, okay.”
Derpy walked around and got in the back seat. It was cushioned at least and she laid down on it, not knowing exactly how these aliens used them. The Officer shut the door and was about to get in when he looked at the TARDIS. He didn't want to believe it, but, the evidence was stacked toward the more insane answer than the real one. He stepped into his cruiser and looked back to see her standing there.
“Names Jack Parker by the way.”
“Okay.” said Derpy, “Thank you.”
Jack smiled and nodded before putting the cruiser into drive.
“I hope the Doctor can find me.” she mumbled
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Meanwhile in Equestria, Twilight slept soundly. After a fun trip with the Doctor in the past, she needed this rest. That was until there came a disturbance from below, followed by something scrambling up the stairs. Before she knew it, Whooves was shaking her awake.
“Twilight! Twilight! Wake up! This is an emergency!”
“Huh? What?” came the purple Unicorn
“Now time for what!” yelled the Doctor, “We need to go now!”
Twilight stood up from bed to see the Doctor standing there, a frantic look on his face. Something terrible had happened or was happening, and she was up in a instant.
“Is Ponyville under attack? Is there a Alien invasion!?...Did Pinkie Pie get lost in the TARDIS again?”
“You woke me up that's what.” grumbled Spike
“Twilight, I've lost the TARDIS!”
“WHAT? How can you lose the TARDIS!?”
“I was thrown out by accident! The door was left open and I fell out!”
“Well, I'm sure it can find it's way back to you.”
“No, you don't understand! I had set it to return from this Universe to a different one! One that's on a completely different dimensional scale! It can't get back!”
“Well calm down!” said Twilight realizing the situation, “No pony is going to really notice it, unless it's giving off some signal that attracts aliens.”
“Twilight, Derpy was on it!”
“WHAT? DERPY!”
“Yes! We need to go now! Who knows what kind of danger she is in!”
“What's going on?” asked twilight suddenly appearing in front of him
Whooves didn't want to explain right now, he wanted to save Derpy, but Twilight blocked any chance he had of escaping out the front door.
“I managed to find a way back into my own dimension, and I fell out of the TARDIS leaving Derpy in it.”
“So, where is Derpy?”
“She's on Earth! In another Dimension!”
“Your Earth?”
“Possibly! It could be any number of Earths!
“What do we do?”
“We need to build another TARDIS!”
“What!? How to we build another TARDIS? You always say Ponies will never have the technology capable to see the Time Vortex for another few Millennium!”
“No, but my species!” said the Doctor with a grin
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“Okay, so tell me, what happened?”
The cruiser they were in drove down the highway, Derpy curled up in the back starring at the lights in the sky, and by lights, tall pillars with lights on the end. Tall, block-like buildings taller than all the buildings in Manehatten reaching into the sky. She was scared, but at least talking seemed to make her feel better.
“I just don't know what went wrong!”
Jack jumped at those words. Those were the first words ever spoken by Derpy, and to hear them from the actual Pony herself, was incredible!
“The Doctor, he was trying to get back here, where he came from. But, something happened! I saw him outside the TARDIS, yet he was still inside it! Then it was pulled away from my house, and then we hit Town Hall, and he fell out.”
“That doesn't sound right.” spoke Jack
“What?” asked Derpy
“Well, if my knowledge of the TARDIS is correct, shouldn't you have been in the Time Vortex or whatever by then?”
“How do you know this?” asked Derpy sitting up, “You said you sort of knew the Doctor, how!?”
“He, he, he was on a TV show a few years back.”
“He was on TV!? Why didn't he ever tell me!?”
“No, no, you don't get it-wait, they have TV's in Equestria!?”
“In some places.” answered Derpy
“Interesting. Anyway, it's a fiction show! All fake, portrayed by actors and what not! I know my fair share of Doctor Who."
“You mean Whooves.”
“Not around here.”
“Is there anyway you can help me get back?”
“I don't think so. I may know a lot of the lore of the Doctor, I don't know close to anything on the workings of the TARDIS.”
“So, what do I do?”
“I'm positive that the Doctor is working on it. Probably call up Celestia if he has to.”
“How do you know about Celestia!?”
Jack nearly slapped himself at that. Derpy had little to no idea what she was in this....Universe. She looked at him angrily while Jack gave a nervous smile.
“Remember when I said that the Doctor was a TV show?”
“Yes.”
“So are you..... kind of.”
“What!?” she yelled, now more confused than ever, “There is a TV show based around me!?”
“Not exactly. Look, I'll explain everything in a moment. This is my house...err... apartment. I'll explain everything. Or at least try to.”
Jack opened the door of his cruiser as Derpy stepped out. She looked out over the large blocky building before her. There were windows all over the place, some lit, some not. It did not look inviting, but before she could say anything, Jack pushed her a long.
“Come on. We got to be fast!”
“Why?” asked Derpy
“Because me being seen with a naked girl I just pulled out of my cruiser is bad.... Really bad. Lose my job bad!”
“Oh.” realized Derpy and she hurried along
Fortunately, no one saw her and they made it inside Jack's apartment relatively quickly. It was surprisingly empty, only a TV, couch, and a table with a few chairs. This guy didn't have a lot to go with. He himself slid down the door still trying to get in all that what happened in the past hour. He looked over to the still naked Derpy, and covered his eyes, not exactly wanting his past to haunt him like that in any way shape or form.
“Um, do you have any clothes?” asked Derpy upon seeing that
“There's a small dresser in that bedroom! It's full of Lou's clothes.... take some from that.”
“Lou? Who is Lou?”
“My girlfriend! Just hurry up! I'm getting....bad thoughts!”
She hurried in there as jack peeked to see if she was gone. Standing up, he walked over to his computer he stored in his kitchen cabinets and turned it on. After clicking through a few folders, he found the old My Little Pony Archive he kept in the back for nostalgic purposes. Never did he dream that he was going to have to use them in a case like this. Back in the Brony day's, there were hundreds of stories, if not hundreds, thousands, of Pony characters coming to Earth. He always wondered what it would be like for that to happen to him. Be interesting to say the least and so far this experience had been just that: interesting. Good thing he was ending his shift when it happened, for driving around with a naked wall eyed blonde in the back of his cruiser, was as he said earlier, bad. It wasn't helped when she thought herself a Pegasus, whether she was right or not. Bringing up The Last Round Up, the first episode with Derpy speaking. The video started and he paused it to wait for Derpy to come out. He knew Ponies sometimes wore clothes, but that she probably wasn't used to doing it bipedal. He heard a crash from in the bedroom, and fought every urge of his body to go in and help. If there was one thing he learned, never walk in on a half naked woman... even if she was a pony. A minute or two later, Derpy walked out, wearing a simple gray T-shirt, and a faded pair of jeans.
“You good?”
“Kind of.” she said rubbing her back, “What happened to my wings?” she asked
“Hell if I know. Here, watch this.”
He turned the computer around and pressed play. Derpy looked on with curiosity as suddenly, the image of Applejack was suddenly running through the obstacle course on her farm. Curiosity turned to minor horror as she realized that he was right, that her entire world, was a TV show in this dimension. Still, nothing could prepare her for what happened after the opening title.
“I just don't know what went wrong!” came Derpy on the small computer screen
The real Derpy screamed in fear and fell back on her rear as suddenly she saw herself jumping up and down on a thunder cloud.
“H-h-how is this possible.”
“Ah...Dimensions I guess.” said Jack
She looked to Jack wanting more answers, but it soon became apparent that he was as clueless to the situation as she was. The show continued on as Derpy caused a few more problems for Rainbow Dash. She went a little red in the face when she remembered that day, which included destroying town hall. She laughed a little when she cheered for Applejack, but it soon died away as the shock and confusion returned to her over what exactly she was watching. Jack finally paused it seeing the emotional state she was in as Derpy recalled the events of that day
“That took them forever to fix. It was kind of funny.”
“Really?” asked Jack intrigued
“Rainbow never let me help out in construction again. And anywhere around her for a few weeks. That was a good day.”
"You want me to continue it?" asked Jack
Derpy thought on it, and her curiosity was more than her fear of what it was. With a nod yes Jack pressed the play button. As the video continued on, they sat in relative silence, aside from the small bouts of laugh when Pinkie or some other pony did something funny. When it was finally over, Derpy saw the beginning of the end credits.
“Who is that?” she asked seeing the name of the creator
“Who is who?”
“That Lauren Faust. Who is she?”
“She's the , ahem, creator of this show.”
“Creator? You mean she created Equestria?”
“In a sense, yes. I wouldn't think on it, probably hurt the mind.”
“Is, is, is there more?”
“Eight seasons, two TV Movies, and one glorious Full Length Film. Yeah, there's more.”
“Can, can, can I see them?”
“Here.” said Jack spinning around his computer and bringing up the file where he kept all the episodes, “take your pick.”
Derpy looked to all the files, and didn't even know where to begin. Jack just shrugged and walked away needing to use the bathroom.
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Out behind Twilight's Library, Whooves worked like mad around what seemed to be a pile of useless junk and spare parts. Taking pieces and using his Sonic Screw Driver on them before moving on to something else, looking at it would make a person question whether the Doctors sanity was still about him. His constant mumbling of the situation didn't seem to help the few Ponies passing by, but he ignored all of them. Twilight herself noticed this as she walked up holding a barrel full of tools and other stuff from Apple Acres. She set it down next to him and he instantly went rummaging through it. Twilight sat and watched with curiosity at how he went around trying to build a TARDIS from scratch, and it bugged her so.
“How exactly do you go about building a TARDIS using pieces of Applejack's farm equipment, parts of the Flim Flam brothers Super speedy machine, and scales from Spikes back?” asked Twilight
“Trust me Twilight, I've had a lot of time to think about this one.”
“How much time?”
“Seven years.”
“Wait, you've been planning this for seven years?” asked Twilight
“Yep!”
“Did you plan for this?”
“Nope!”
“So then how did you?”
“Remember when I said I fell out of the TARDIS?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, somehow, despite the fact it wasn't traveling through the Time Vortex, it was still traveling backwards in time.”
“How is that possible?”
“I don't know. I stopped questioning it after two years.” said Whooves as he used his Sonic Screw driver to fuse to pieces of metal together
“So, you fell out, seven years in the past?”
“Yep!” he responded attaching a shovel to a barrel
“Why didn't you stop yourself?”
“Paradoxes. It pained me to know Derpy was going to be trapped in another Dimension, but it needed to happen lest the whole town of Ponyville would have been set upon by horrific creatures.”
“So, what did you do?”
“I roamed the background, sometimes accidentally showing up in the same place as my normal time counterpart! Fortunately I never noticed.”
“Okay, so we build you a new TARDIS, then go through this Dimension barrier, and end up on the other side.”
“In a nutshell yes. There is just one complication. Can you hand me that barrel?”
“Sure.” said Twilight levitating the barrel over to him, “Wait, what complication?”
“Well, building a TARDIS that can fly is one thing. Going a few years into the future and the past, child's play. Making a TARDIS that can protect us as we travel a couple thousand years into the future, now that's hard.”
“What!?”
“I know right?” he said putting two gears on a gardening hoe, “It's almost down right impossible!”
“Impossible!? Why do we have to go that far!?”
“Well, how else are we going to get through to the other dimension?” he asked like it was obvious
“Going through the one a few years back might help!”
“We can't do that.” said Whooves pulling out a rake
“Why not?” asked Twilight
“I thought I already explained it to you!”
“You explained something about finger printing on dimensions. All I know is they have to come close in some sort of frequency for travel between the two to happen.”
“Exactly!” he replied screwing two planks of wood together with his Screwdriver
“So, why can't we go through seven years in the past?”
“Well, if my theory on the subject is correct, then think Inter-Dimensional travel as a two way street. Then think the only way to cross it is for something of the exact make and build up to be crossing at the same time!”
“Okay, so we can't cross over at that point in time because?”
“Because something is blocking the street! In a sense.” he said, thinking on it for a moment “It's a two lane road, not a four lane.”
“So, by you originally crossing over, and Derpy crossing over, it's blocking the pathway?”
“Yep!” answered Whooves slamming a hammer on a sheet of metal
“So, by going into the future, we'll cross over when you and Derpy are coming back?”
“Exactly! Simple right?”
“Yeah, but one problem.” said Twilight
“What?”
“If you go over, and you bring Derpy back, you'll only have one life going over, and two back. Wouldn't that cause a problem?”
“Of course not! That's what I have you for!” he said cheerfully
“Huh?” asked Twilight, “Excuse me?”
“Well, I need another life form on board, so I'll just bring you.”
“Yeah, but that's two going over, and three coming back.” said Twilight
Whooves stopped what he was doing as he struck the piece of metal with his hammer, The tool bounced off and went sailing across the sky and into bowl of someponies soup. They looked at him angrily, to which Twilight apologetically waved her hoof back. Whooves meanwhile sank his head low in almost bitter defeat.
“Oh, I didn't even think of that! What do I do now?”
“I'm sorry Doctor. I wish I could help.” said Twilight trying to comfort him
“I know my dear, but I didn't even-wait a minute! You can help!”
“Huh?”
Whooves didn't respond and ran over to the flower shop nearby. A few seconds later he ran out holding a Rose in a pot.
“Here we go!”
He said it in front of Twilight proud of himself for his quick thinking. Twilight, however, was far from amazed.
“A plant? How is that going to help?”
“Third life form!”
She looked at him for a second, and face hoofed. Whooves himself just laughed and went back to working on creating his TARDIS.
“Why not bring the plant and leave me here?” asked Twilight
“Where's the fun in that!? Besides, having a Unicorn around on Earth will actually be beneficial.”
“Aren't humans Bipedal Apes who think Unicorns are a myth?”
“Yes, but crossing the Dimensional barrier will cause you to transform into looking like the closest being around.”
“So, if what you're telling me is true, Depry is now a TARDIS?”
“No, no, no, no!” laughed the Time Lord, “My TARDIS is so full of particles of myself from when I regenerated that the closest thing around her was me. In retrospect, she's actually a Time Lord! almost!”
“So, I get to be a Time Lord!?” asked Twilight happily
“No, you get to be a Unicorn that looks like a Time Lord. I'll have to keep a few fail safe's off so that you'll keep your horn and powers, but other than that, sorry.”
“No, it's okay.”
“You're going to want to put some clothes on. Dimensions don't generate those.”
“Didn't you arrive here in Ponyville without any clothes on?” asked Twilight
“Yes, why do you ask?”
Twilight looked to him as the answer was obvious.
“I can go around my own TARDIS with or without clothes thank you! It's my TARDIS!”
Jack gave a long sigh, “I wonder if I am hallucinating?” he asked as he looked over to the blonde woman claiming to be Derpy.
From his chair, he could see that she was still going through the My Little Pony videos. She'd been going at it all night, right through his sleep and into the morning. For him, the very idea that the real Derpy Hooves was standing in his kitchen brought about bitter sweet emotions.One the one hand, Derpy was standing in his kitchen! On the second, Derpy was standing there in his kitchen! How and why did she get there? How was she going to get back? What is she going to do in the meantime? And why was he asking himself these questions? If there was one thing he was good at, was winging it. Second, the TARDIS was parked more or less out off the highway, at least they had that to go with. Or she had that to go with. Confused as she was, this was the Derpy who was a companion of the Doctor in Pony form. She could handle herself easily. At least, he hoped so. Currently, she was still trying to figure out how the computer actually worked, even though she had been at it all night. According to her, she accidentally closed the lid on it, and after Jack put in his password, was having trouble. She pressed a few buttons and the computer gave a loud beep. She ducked under the table in fear, knocking a plate to the floor to which it shattered.
“Oops, My bad!” she said.
“Nope,” said Jack.
It was like he was in one of those bad fan fiction stories he used to read every now and then. He laughed at the idea of posting a story like this back on the old FimFiction net. Ha, the responses he would get would surely be worth it. "Another Derpy-on-Earth story? Ugh, no thanks!", it would be hilarious! There were hundreds of those types of stories, and right now he wished that he had actually read a few if it would have helped in trying to get her back to Equestria.Sadly, all the sites that had those closed down years ago when the show ended. It was kind of hard, he himself had written a story or two. He wondered if there could still be a few around somewhere like on Deviant Art or something. He'd go check himself, but Derpy seemed to be having a fun time trying to operate that computer.
“Uh, its, its, its black.”
“It went to sleep. Just press the space bar,” called Jack.
“Sleep!? You sure I can wake it?”
“Trust me it wont mind,” said Jack.
Derpy pressed the space bar and everything went back to normal. She pressed the file where the videos were kept and the next episode was finally brought up. She clapped with joy until a beeping started up behind her. “I didn't do that!”
“I know.” groaned Jack, standing up. He walked over to a small clock on his stove and clicked it off and grabbed his police belt. He put it on with Derpy watching in and tucked in his uniform. In moments, Officer Parker was ready for another day on patrol.
“Okay, I need to get to work. I'll be back, oh... around 5:50 this afternoon if everything goes good.”
“So, I'm here all by myself?” Derpy asked, a tinge of worry in her voice.
“More or less.” replied Jack, “Just, don't answer the door, don't go outside, and... well, yeah stay in here.”
“Okay.” said Derpy, not wanting to go outside and instead still fiddle with the computer. She froze briefly before asking her next question, “What if something happens?”
Jack looked around the room for a moment, trying to find something. "Uh.... here.” He walked over and grabbed a house phone and placed it front of her.
“Knew having this would come in handy," he exclaimed before continuing to put on his gear. "If someone breaks in, or the house catches on fire, dial 911, say Officer Parker's house is.... whatever is going wrong, and just run for it.”
“What if it rings?” she asked him.
“Don't answer it. As much as I hate to say this, no one can figure out your here!”
“Why?” asked Derpy.
“Because they'll think you're crazy. You look like a human, and if you claim that you are a pegasus from Equestria, they will think you're insane." Jack tried to mumble quietly in order to not offend Derpy, "Your eyes wont help much either.”
“What's wrong with my eyes?” Derpy responded angrily, overhearing the hushed whisper.
“Nothing!” said Jack thinking to quickly change the subject, “Just... Keep watching the videos until I get back, alright?”
“I can do that!” said Derpy, “When do we go back to the TARDIS?”
“Right, I didn't think of that..." Jack thought for a moment as he snapped on his badge, "When I get back, I'll get my truck and tow it back alright?”
“Alright!” answered Derpy cheerfully.
Jack nodded and walked out the door. Derpy went back to the computer and started to watch the next episode.
“Hey! That's me!” she said happily.
As creepy as it was watching videos about Equestria, it sure was entertaining. At least she was with a nice guy, or human. According to what she heard from the Doctor, Humans were capable of great acts of kindness, invention, and feats of power she had never seen before. At the same time, he warned her they could be the cruelest things on par with a Dalek This Jack guy however was nice. He was a Police Officer after all, whatever that was. They seemed similar to the Royal Guard and although they were always official and steadfast, were always willing to lend a hoof when others were in danger. Her thoughts soon returned to the screen when she saw Rainbow Dash competing in a race against two dragons and her ex-friend Gilda.
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In Ponyville, Whooves was still at it trying to make a TARDIS. Twilight herself walked up carrying a bag of clothes she had and placed the on the ground. So far, the Doctor had created a central console, two walls, and the central pillar from where the heart would be stored. He worked furiously, and was drawing quite the confused looks from the passerbys. He ignored each of them. Twilight herself sat down in the grass and watched.
“So, how exactly do you make a TARDIS?” asked Twilight.
“Well, that's just the thing!” said Whooves, “You don't make a TARDIS, you grow them!”
“Grow them?”
“Yep! Grow them from coral I do believe. Or something.”
'So, why don't you go grow one instead of building one from scratch?”
“Because that would take awhile.... a few thousand years give or take a millenia. Besides, despite what I said, I'm not exactly building a TARDIS.”
Twilight looked at him in slight confusion, “So what are you building?”
“A TARDIS!” came Whooves
“But you need to grow those,” answered Twilight, now even more confused than before
“Yep.” Whooves responded matter-of-factly, putting up another wall.
“So, your not building a TARDIS?”
“Nope!”
“So, what ARE you building?”
“A TARDIS!”
“But... that doesn't... didn't you say? RRRRGGH! That doesn't make any sense!”
“That's what you think! Now, stand back, this is going to cause me some slight pain!”
“What?”
“Rassilon Imprimatur!" he announced, "I need to do this or else we're going to disintegrate the moment we travel forward in time!"
The Doctor motioned Twilight to the fourth wall on the ground, "Close up this wall will you, it might send panic amongst the other ponies when I do this.”
"Why? Is it painful?"
Whooves did not answer, but gave her a stone faced look. Twilight grabbed the last wall that needed to be put up and sealed it together with the rest of the new... well, whatever it was. A small door had been fitted to it, but there was no window to see in. From inside, the Doctor began to feel the pull of energy needed to create the new TARDIS and there was a flash of light. When it was over, he opened the door, shaking his hoof.
“There, I think we're ready!”
“What happened?”
“I primed it! Now all we need to let it do is rest for a few moments and we'll be ready to go!”
“Rest? What?”
Twilight looked into the makeshift TARDIS-thing, and saw that the central console was lit up. Another thing she noticed was it was about the same size inside as out!
“Uh, Doctor, it's not bigger on the inside.”
“I know. It's sort of a...temporary TARDIS.”
“What? Temporary TARDIS?”
“Yeah! You don't need a TARDIS to travel through time! Just a vortex manipulator! That's essentially what this is, I just added in a few designs from my TARDIS to do just that!”
“So, it's not a TARDIS?”
“Well, It is a TARDIS, but at the same time it's not a TARDIS.”
“Would you stop that!” screamed Twilight.
“Well, you asked.”
She shot him a dark look, to which he returned with a smile. Twilight looked back at box that now stood proudly in the yard, and another question entered her mind. Despite what her conscience told her, she had to ask it.
“Why is it temporary?”
“Simple! We'll be lucky if it even survives the trip through time, let alone dimensions!”
“WHAT!?”
“That's what you get when you create an imposter TARDIS. I don't even think this thing will even be able to fly through space!” he claimed cheerfully.
“You're not giving it a sound argument there.”
“It knows it's job! Get us to the next Universe over and save Derpy! Keep an eye on it while I go get my clothes!”
Twilight watched him trot happily off to Derpy's house, where he kept a few of the clothes he owned, and collapsed on the ground.
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Jack sat in his cruiser and stared at the sky. His thoughts had turned from 'How did this happen', to 'Why did it happen to him?' Maybe it was just a fluke, coincidence, a stroke of luck? If it was the last one, he wasn't counting himself lucky. His mind was awash with questions to the point he let cars going well over the speed limit pass by without even a care in the world. His thoughts turned to what he was going to have to do once he got the TARDIS back to his place. He'd have to tow it there somehow, as a Police cruiser sitting on the side of a highway with a Officer and some woman going in and out? Well, now that he thought on it, that would kind of make sense. Of course he'd have to leave it over night, he had no idea of what was in that thing. He'd go through one door, and well, end up in the arctic or a pool. Even if he let Derpy stay and Guard it, what if someone went in it? he thought to be a actual regular police box until Derpy pointed it out to him. Then you got some random guy who has the most advanced piece of technology this planet had ever seen. If that came to be true, the Doctor would kill him! If not, make him wish he was dead. He breathed out heavily when his radio came to life.
“Car 42, Car 42 please respond!”
Jack grabbed the mic and clicked it on: “42 here. What's up?”
“We got a call about a disturbance in Old Town. Trixie's bar and Grill.”
“Oh god, please not them.” he pleaded outside his mic, "Uh, I'm a good few miles away, isn't there someone else in the area?"
"We were told to keep units away unless it would turn ugly."
"So why me!?" he yelled irate
“They asked for you specifically. Yes, it's her again.”
“Damn it!” cursed Jack, “Why is it always me!? Let her beat up another officer for once!”
“They're saying chairs are being thrown!”
“WHAT!? What do you mean she's throwing chairs!? Jesus, what set her off this time? Alright, I'm on it. Don't send backup.”
"We have units establishing a perimeter."
"Negative. Just have the guys go one their patrols. They wont be necessary."
"You sure?"
"yeah I'm sure."
He grumbled something incoherent even to himself. It was a mix of griping, groaning, and anger all jumbled up into a bunch of words that all came out at the same time. Jack started up his cruiser and hit the lights. He took off down the road, getting some humor from seeing a car who though that they had gotten him as he sailed past. That soon past as he thought back on what was happening.
“Throwing chairs!? What happened this time?”
It was a few minutes later when he arrived at the scene, and saw the large crowd gathering around.Most were straining their necks and rising up on their feet to try and get a better look. Others were taking cover, having seen enough. Other cars were turning around, deciding this wasn't the best street to go down. No one suspected the next car to be a Police cruiser, well a few who saw did, but not the majority of them. He had to flash the siren just to get people to move out of the way. At that point, they did, and even gave him a little lane for a parking spot. As he pulled to the side of the road, he saw a line of motorcycles lined up outside.
“Great," he groaned.
Stepping out, he heard a window smash and looked to see a skinny little guy landing on his side and rolling through the shattered glass and onto the street. The man quickly got up and ran away at top speed. Jack sighed and drew his tazer. If people were being tossed out the window, that meant things had went south really really fast. He walked over to he entrance with others thinking he was going to get torn a new one, or just plain old killed. Standing there looking in was, well, more of a acquaintance of his. She was a good friend of his girlfriends and the one who probably asked for him specifically over the phone. She was the only one brave enough to stand out in the open and watch the spectacle unfold. She signed and shook her head in embarrassment.
“Hi, Tara.” greeted Jack as he walked up
“Huh? Oh, Hi Jack. She's in there.”
As she finished, a chair smashed on the wall.
"Really?" he spoke sarcastically
Tara gave him a dark look, but he smiled and it went away. Poking his head through the door to see a chaotic mess. Chairs smashed, tables overturned, and a few large burly bikers laying on the floor clutching their wounds. He looked on impressed and grabbed his radio on his shoulder.
“Yeah, Dispatch, Parker here. Send a ambulance.”
“Roger. Ambulance sent. Sure you don't need backup?”
“Have animal control on alert," he laughed.
Dispatch didn't respond. Jack chuckled a little bit more as a bottle was thrown across the room and smashed. Pulling his head out of the door, he shifted his attention back to Tara. “So, Tara, what set her off?”
“She was denied acceptance to the Academy.” she said.
“Ooh. No wonder she's in a rage." He hypothesized what started the chain reaction of events, "One of the bikers hit on her?”
“No, they made fun of her hair,” answered Tara putting her face in her palm for even mentioning something so childish.
Jack sighed and walked in. He was immediately shoved out of the way by a fleeing man, who tripped over his own shoes, but continued to scramble on as fast as he could. He looked back inside to see a rainbow haired woman standing there holding a man twice her size with one hand, ready to punch in his already bruised up face with her other fist.
“Alright Dash, put him down,” said Jack.
Dash looked up to him with the darkest look she could give a person. She dropped the man and walked over ready to beat him up as well.
“You want to start something as well?” she asked.
“Not if I don't have to,” answered Jack.
“You still don't scare me.”
“Yes, and you still scare me. However, I'm the only Police Officer who wont taze you or hold you at gun point.”
She glared at him and stamped on his foot with all her might. Jack grimaced in pain a little, but kept his composure.
“You do know that I'll have to arrest you for this.”
“You can try,” she sneered
“It's this very reason as to why you weren't accepted to the Air Force Academy. Being a bullheaded showoff that doesn't want to follow the rules! Especially one that causes property damage. ...On this level.”
He finished as a light fixture landed behind them both and shattered on the ground. Dash glared at him, ready to beat the officer into submission. It was almost a comical sight really. Jack was a good foot taller than dash, even then, he was slightly intimidated by her. Dash was ready to give this Officer a piece of her mind, and probably a piece of himself at the same time when she got around to it. Instead, she broke down and collapsed into him and began to cry. He carefully folded an arm behind Dash's back and gently hugged her.
“I'm sorry you didn't make it,” he told her.
He was a little offset by suddenly having to comfort her, but he knew getting in the Academy was her biggest dream. To be able to fly with the Thunder Birds, and do tricks with them. Right now, with this episode, all those chances seemed lost and ruined. It was helped when Tara walked in, although it didn't stop Dash from crying. She tried her best to comfort her friend, allowing her to cry on her instead of Jack. Regardless, she got no further than Jack did. After some needed breathing time, Jack pulled the radio to his lips.
“Dispatch, suspect in custody.”
“Suspect? As in single?! We're getting reports of a major bar brawl! A whole gang of bikers! What do you mean suspect?”
“I got one suspect. That will answer everything. See you at the station.”
He ended his call and looked Dash still sobbing on Tara's arms. it pained him to do so, but he took out his cuffs and placed it on the rainbow haired girl.
“Do you have to?” asked Tara.
“I have no choice! She's caused more property damage today than all of last month.”
Dash ended her crying while Jack walked her outside. tears were still rolling down her face as a news crew rolled up. They tried to turn on their cameras and get a shot, but were stopped by Jack. For his friends sake, he pointed his tazer at them as he led Dash into his cruiser. Tara walked up, doing her best to shield her friend from the cameras that she knew were rolling. She gave Jack a pleading look, and he had no choice but to give a answer.
“I'll do my best, but I can't guarantee that I'll get her out of this one.”
“Okay," Tara dejectedly gave a huff. "Lou says 'Hi,' by the way!”
“Thanks! Jack called back, putting Dash in the car, “Tell everyone else I said 'Hi,' as well.”
“You still going to April's Farm Festival? Diane is helping bake this time!”
“I was invited! Of course!” laughed Jack getting in, “How about you Dash? You going?”
“Yeah I'm going.” she grunted, “It's the only thing I can do now.”
Jack smiled at her. It was all he could do given the situation. as crews were desperately trying to get someone to say something, he drove off.
Despite her best efforts, Derpy couldn't sleep. Up for most of the night and day watching the entirety of the My Little Pony episodes, there was no chance she would ever be able to sleep now. Her mind was abuzz over it all. The very idea of her entire universe as being a show, a kids show, was a little surreal. It was amazing, though, that she was watching a complete and near chronicling of the entire saga of the Mane 6, seeing ponies she recognized, places she had been to. She even saw herself, Sparkler, Dizzy, Dinky in there along with the Doctor! It was at the end though, after every episode, that her spine froze and her nerves tingled in fear: The end credits.
Everything about their lives, from their words to their colors, came from the thought process of someone else. It was enough to drive her mad just thinking about it. Then she came to the feature film Jack had kept with him and started to play it. She didn't get past the first five minutes before she shut the lid on the laptop and sat back in shock. Some red haired human by the name of Lauren Faust was sitting there giving a personal thanks to all those who watched it. Derpy herself felt no ill will toward her, she just couldn't take it! She had basically created all of Equestria as it was. The idea of it was maddening, because technically, she was looking at this “Goddess” of sorts. The creator of all life in Equestria. Or at least that version after she read several comments about them being G4 Ponies. She didn't even want to know about the earlier Generations at that.
She laid on Jack's couch starring at the walls and empty ceiling of his apartment, tired from being up for so long, but too shocked to go to sleep. This whole world was crazy, populated by monkey-things, and somehow, she was one of them! What was worse, she didn't even have her wings. Why didn't she have her wings? What force drove her to lose her wings? That question now surfaced and beat out all other ones. Whooves would probably say the very force that transformed her into a human. It didn't bring much comfort to her.
Letting out a breath, she stood up and walked over to the window to get some fresh air. If she couldn't go outside, she would do the next best thing and go open the window. Opening it, she got her first real taste of Earth. The feel of the breeze, the smell of the trees, and the sound of the neighborhood in her ear drums. Looking down, she spied a younger human couple having a argument over something, which she really didn't want to hear about and did her best to tune them out, a trick she learned flight school after so many made fun of her eyes.
Looking around, the apartment she was in was across a large concrete road where several cars were going back and forth at high speeds. She kept observing the world through the window, seeing a few birds flying through the air, and some butterflies floating in the gentle breeze. The whole place really wasn't in a bad spot. Wasn't upper class obviously, but it wasn't run down either. Just a nice, safe little apartment block.
As she kept her eyes looking around, she spied a rather tall man in a brown hoodie with his hands in his pocket walking along, seemingly minding his own business. The hood itself was draped too far over his head to where only he was able to see out, but in this light no one would see in. Derpy watched him from afar, there was just something off about him for some odd reason. Something sinister that made Derpy shiver to the core. He walked through some bushes and across a street not taking his eyes off of anything but the path in front of him it seemed. Even when a vehicle honked its horn at him, the man heeded it no attention.
Derpy traced what she believed to be the mans future path, which was right between the arguing couple. Derpy watched him as he stepped closer and closer to them until suddenly, the strange hooded man was past them and with a jump of her heart, swore she heard a crash. This was quickly followed by a female scream. Derpy looked down in horror to where the sound was uttered. Below, a the man who just before had been arguing with his girlfriend was laid flat out on the floor with a large potted plant smashed over his head. He wasn't moving and the woman ran inside to call for help. She happened to glance up by chance, and saw the hooded man standing there under a tree. He seemed to be smiling, laughing almost. He raised his head up just a inch, and sitting there were a pair of blazing red eyes.
Derpy instantly shut the window and closed the blinds. She ran over a locked the door, not wanting anything to get in. She huddled on the couch frightened for her life when there came a knock at the door. Derpy froze her heart having skipped a beat at each knock. Had that man seen her? Did he know where she lived, and how did he get up here so fast? She didn't move, and just hoped whoever it was would go away. Sitting on the couch, her fear turned to horror as the door knob began to turn. In her haste to lock the door, she had forgotten that Jack had locked it when he left, and she had just unlocked it! The knob turned all the way, and the door opened. Derpy covered her eyes, hoping that if she did this the man wouldn't notice her, fearing the worst until she heard a familiar voice.
“Derpy, why is the door unlocked?”
Derpy peered through her fingers to see Jack entering the room and instantly grabbed hold of him. Her fears melted away, for now at least she felt safe. Jack didn't know what to make of this, and just awkwardly hugged her back.
“Uh, did I miss something?” he asked confused, “You didn't watch the Exorcist did you?”
“Exercise? What?” Derpy's thoughts were lost in the relief that Jack had brought to her, not wanting to think on the man she had just saw.
Jack stumbled briefly over his words, “N-Never mind, what's wrong?”
“That window!” explained Derpy, “There, there was this...guy standing there, and his eyes were red and crazy!”
“What?” Jack walked over to the window and looked out and around. All that was down there was his neighbor who was rubbing his head from where a potted plant had been smashed on top of it.
“You mean Darrel? Was he arguing with his girlfriend again?” He looked back at Derpy and gave a sideways smile. “Those two always fight, don't worry about it.”
“No! By that tree!” Derpy yelled.
She walked over nervously and looked out, only to see that the man wasn't there anymore. “But, but, but! He was right there, starring and he had this evil grin and his eyes were red and-!”
Jack looked out again before giving a shrug. “Meh, drug addict, probably. There's a few around here.”
He spoke calmly, like it was a everyday experience, giving some ease to Derpy. She gave her own shrug and sigh of relief, whoever he was, he was nothing to worry about. There were a lot more things to panic about around here.
Jack looked over at the clock and then over to the now calmed pegasus-turned-human. “Right, now, there is a reason I came home early.”
Derpy looked to the clock to see it was 1:47, not the hour he'd said he would show up.
Jack gave his best heroic smile, “Come on! We're getting the TARDIS!”
Derpy's eyes shrunk in surprise, “What? How? I don't know how to operate it!”
“No, but I can tow that thing with a rope and my cruiser!” Jack ran off to his room, knowing he kept a length of rope somewhere hidden in his pile of junk that he kept in his closet.
“Tow? You mean you're going to drag it here? Do you know how heavy that thing is?” Derpy kept asking questions, unsure as to how smart it was to be pulling the mystical police box.
“Five thousand tonnes..... on one planet." Jack finally found the coil of rope and slid it onto his shoulder. "But hell, if Greeks can pull it with carts by horses, I can pull it with my cruiser!”
Derpy looked over the excited man and couldn't help but smile. He seemed to know what he was doing. Or at least acted like he knew what he was doing. Kind of like the Doctor. It was at that point she wondered what the Doctor was doing at that point and if he was trying to save her?
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“Alright Twilight!” announced Whooves, “Are you ready!?”
"Kind of." Twilight looked down at her choice of clothing and started pondering, “Why am I dressed in my old school uniform?”
The Doctor gave a once over at Twilight before answering the obvious, “Because you chose to bring it.”
Twilight didn't know whether to facehoof, or punch him with her hoof. She played it off as the fact he was the Doctor and let it slide. He himself was standing there sharply dressed in a blue pinstripe suit with a red bow tie. He got a few looks from mares passing by but he had more important things to handle right now. Although he did like that fact they thought he looked good. Twilight, however, wasn't exactly liking the idea of being stuck in her old uniform, and wished she could take it off.
“Why did I have to put it on before we left anyway? Can't I just put it on when we get there?””
“If there is one thing I know about humans,” huffed the Doctor, “is that they take public nudity very, very seriously. In fact, it's illegal in most places!”
Twilight kept trying to reach an itch that seemed to just stay out of her reach on her back, “Why?”
“Don't know. I guess decency. You see, unlike ponies, they don't have any real fur to cover their bodies. So, if we were to arrive in a crowded place full of people it would certainly make things less..." He struggled to find an appropriate word before just giving up, "Weird.”
“Less weird?” Twilight gave The Doctor a rather unpleasant and confused stare.
Doctor Whooves leaned against the wannabe TARDIS and gave it a few taps to serve his point, “Humans aren't used to people magically appearing out of thin air.”
Twilight understood, it wasn't easy to explain to some ponies how a blue box would appear from nothing. “Right, Humans don't have magic.”
“Exactly! Now, there is one other thing I need you to do for me!”
“What is it it now?” Twilight asked as The Doctor made a final round the TARDIS, a bemused look on her face.
“Well, I thought that once I got the central console up and running it would emit a field that would protect us from traveling through the Dimensions." The Doctor peeked inside and gave a grimace, "Turns out that it's being rather stubborn about not wanting to make one, Would you mind terribly if I asked you to make some sort of bubble around it?”
Twilight began to worry about what this trip was going to entail, “You need a force field? What kind?”
“Oh, any old barrier will do. Those wooden walls wouldn't be enough if I knew that they are going to shred into a thousand pieces the moment we start to enter the Time stream." Stopping at a small spot, he pulled out his sonic screwdriver and pressed it against the doorway. "without something to keep the outside forces from ripping us apart, we could go through one way, and end out in another way completely!”
“A thousand pieces!” she yelled, alarmed at the prospect of her body being ripped apart.
“I know, that's a bad estimation." Thinking only for a moment, he stored his sonic screwdriver back in his front pocket. "More like a million!”
“You're not helping make this choice any easier!” she spoke, annoyed as ever
“I'm doing my best!” came Whooves, “I'm not even telling you half of what can go wrong! We might not even land on Earth! I programmed this semi-TARDIS to lock onto the energy signature of my TARDIS. That being said, if it finds a stronger signature elsewhere, oh, lets say ME since I'm all over in that Universe, then we could land on any planet anywhere in the Galaxy!”
“Oh.” she said no more worried than annoyed, “How are you calm then?”
Doctor Hooves bit his lower lip, he wasn't necessarily calm, if anything he was more upset. “Because Derpy's predicament is my fault. I was so excited to go home, I didn't even ask her if she wanted to come. I just assumed she would and the risks would be nothing. This time, it was.”
“It wasn't your fault.” comforted Twilight, “You couldn't have predicted this.”
Whooves just stood there, hanging his head a little in shame for his actions. His eyes were closed as if trying to hold back tears for what he did. While he had years to react on it, it never got any easier. He opened his eyes, more determined than ever to get his dear friend back, a single tear dropping down the side of his face. Twilight saw this and smiled, knowing the Doctor was ready now more than ever.
“So, force field?” Twilight proudly spoke,
“Yep! Ladies first!” Whooves opened the door and let Twilight into the little control room, and followed her in and closed the door. When it slammed shut, the door fell backwards and off the makeshift-TARDIS completely. Whooves looked on surprised at the happening while Twilight sighed and just sealed back up the door with her magic.
“Okay! Thirty Thousand years in the future here we come!" Raising up, he held his hooves up in a conductors pose and pointed at Twilight. "Force field!”
Twilight charged up her horn and released a force field that engulfed the machine as it started to power up. The makeshift-TARDIS dematerialized form from the yard in Ponyville and soon was flying through time.
“100 years! 200! ooh, we just jumped a few thousand right there!" His hooves still dancing out as he conducted and moved around the console. A slight shudder started to rumble through the machine, "Keep it together Twilight!”
Twilight could feel the effects of the the Vortex battling against her force field, and it was taking all her concentration to keep it at bay. The Doctors own coaching was breaking some of her concentration. The makeshift-TARDIS shook and rocked violently, nearly throwing them off balance. Whooves threw levers and pushed buttons, but that didn't seem to help at all.
“Where's that rake!?” he yelled in frustration, “Aha! Here it is!”
He grabbed it off the floor and shoved it into the center console. The gardening tool glowed a brilliant blue, and it seemed to stabilize the machine to a degree.
“13 thousand! 15 thousand! Halfway there!”
She wanted to tell him to be quiet so she could concentrate, but with all that was going on around her, she could hardly stand up. Whooves looked to his friend with some concern until he heard the sound of wood starting to crack. He looked around and saw one of the walls breaking. Even withing Twilight's shield, it was feeling the strain. A single line appeared in the wall behind him, and slowly, began to expand along with the Doctor's horror. It chipped up all around the semi-TARDIS, branching every which way, until he heard a hissing sound. Looking to the rake, he cheered in victory as smoke began to protrude from the points of the end of it. The gas given off floated up and began to illuminate the cracks, sealing them up the moment they started to break. This bought them a few more minutes, but he knew that this wouldn't last forever. He looked at the console and saw that they were speeding up, approaching thirty thousand years!
“Here we go!”
His sudden burst of hope was soon dashed when the cracking sound returned. He looked to the rake to see it cracking as well, the light aura around it fading fast.
“No, no, not now!” he yelled in fear.
He ran to the console, but by then he was too late. The rake shattered into a million pieces, taking with it the walls of the makeshift-TARDIS. Whooves looked around, seeing the Time Vortex swirling around him. It would take the less dense objects first, then it would go for him and Twilight next. However, there was one advantage to this: He could see the hole he needed to fly through. Grabbing the control console, he saw they were at the correct time line, and looking up, he saw it. A dark, misshapen hole that was the bridge between the dimensions. Throwing two levers and slamming his hoof on a button, the machine he and Twilight were on were flying right towards it at high speed.
“Hold on Twilight! Here we go!”
Twilight opened her eyes for a split second to see the large hole they were flying towards just as they entered it. The moment the edge of her shield touched it, the pressure on her was too much. “I can't hold on!”
“You don't need to! We're through!” he cheered
Twilight thanked Celestia they were done with it, until a horrible tearing sound ran through her ears.
“What was that?”
“The TARDIS-thing is breaking up! Hold on Twilight this could get-”
He never finished his sentence. The makeshift-TARDIS exploded in midair in a brilliant golden glow, albeit a terrifying one at that. The pieces of the machine, now nothing more than farm equipment and sheet metal fell towards the ground, right over a patch of trees. Twilight turned to look for the Doctor for help, but all she found was some strange monkey thing falling in his suit.
Furthermore, since when did she have fingers? Before she could get a better look, she struck a tree and was knocked out.
“You know, I thought I had this figured out, but it has come to my attention, I didn't.” commented Jack
“What do you mean?” inquired Derpy
Jack briefly gave an embarrassed chuckle, “I forgot it doesn't have wheels.”
“Well of course the TARDIS doesn't have wheels!” she yelled, amazed he would even think that!
He stood there, pondering over what he should do now. The only answer he thought of wasn't very comforting toward him. Yet, it was the simplest answer he could think of. He turned to Derpy who was standing there, trying to think of an idea as well when he spoke. “Do you know how to operate that thing?”
Derpy didn't exactly understand the question at first, but as it sat in her head, she figured out what he said.
“Well?” he impatiently waited for an answer.
“I don't know how to operate that thing!" Her left eyebrow rose up, "What makes you think I can operate it!?”
Jack's frustration to the situation began to show on his face, “You ride with the Doctor don't you? Surely you must've picked something up along the road!”
“No, I have not picked something up along the road!”
Jack noticed that she was mentioning the road they were nearby and he gave a groan.
"I mean, you haven't learned what any of the buttons or levers or whatsits do inside it?"
Derpy shook her head, only making Jack more stressed.
“Well, I don't know any other way to get that thing moving!” he stated, exasperated at his loss for ideas.
Derpy's eyes shrunk back in fear, “Wait, you want to actually fly that thing home!?”
“What? No! God no!” he replied as if she had grown three heads.
“Then what's your plan?” she asked him.
“Just get the TARDIS to hover in midair and I can attach a rope around it and tow it home. Kinda like a balloon.” He paused for a brief moment, realizing how stupid that just sounded now that he said it aloud.
“You sure that will work?” Derpy questioned, now fearing that Jack was just second guessing by this point.
Jack grit his teeth slightly, not wanting to look like an idiot, “If that fails, I'm renting a trailer and we're taking it home the hard way!”
He clearly was in way over his head. He knew it, Derpy knew it, the TARDIS probably knew it. Still, he was going to at least try and get the fabled Time Machine off the road and back to his apartment where at the very least he could keep an eye on it. He kept on thinking of other ways to getting it to his house, while Derpy kept on wondering on his last idea.
“If I do that, it will be another few hours before I can get the thing, and even then, my Cruiser doesn't have a trailer hitch.”
“Is that Cruiser your only mode of transport?” Derpy looked behind Jack's shoulder to the ever trusty police cruiser, sitting there as the small conversation continued.
“I have a truck in the shop, the one I was talking about this morning? Turns out the transmission blew out.” Jack's face turned grim, thinking back on when he figured out when that happened as he was driving. Someone could've gotten hurt if he didn't notice it right away.
“Transmission?" That sounded like one of the funny words Doctor Hooves would use, "What's that?”
Jack wondered if he could even explain the basics of how an engine was supposed to work, “Complicated.”
He walked over and looked over the door to the TARDIS. If there was one advanced thing he knew about this space/time ship, was that it was sentient. It would easily choose to not let him in since he was only an acquaintance of it's Doctors assistant. Despite this, there was one thing he could do to try and make peace with it. He grasped the handle on the door and with a move of his hand, pulled it open. Poking his head in, he saw the machine glowing a brilliant blue, the central console a mixture of the later two versions of the Doctor's TARDIS control room. Gold and blue danced around amazingly. Doors lead off to all corners of the TARDIS, the idea of it hurting his head, but he was giddy with excitement that he was looking inside the TARDIS. The TARDIS! How many people would give up a limb to have this chance, and all he had to do was meet Derpy.
All in all, It was bittersweet for him. Despite the fact he wanted to, he dare not set foot inside it. He was still technically a uninvited guest inside it, well, he sort of felt like one. Maybe it was respect for the Doctor and his TARDIS, or the underlying fear of what this represented. This sitting here meant it could all be true. Daleks, Cyberman, The Last Great Time War, the Master, that one thing that turned people into pictures... all of it could be real. The hair on the back of his neck stood up when a finger tapped on his shoulder He jumped and turned around only to see Derpy standing there. “Done looking around?”
Her face was somewhat annoyed and bemused that he had taken so long. He rubbed the back of his head kind of embarrassed and backed out of the way. Derpy walked into the TARDIS, everything alive now as if nothing had happened. She walked up to the console and ran her hand over the controls, hoping that there would be something that would help her. They felt cold for some odd reason, as if the TARDIS knew the Doctor was missing and wanted him back. Derpy felt the same way and was silent.
“Anything?” came Jack's voice
Derpy looked over to see him still standing in the door. He looked around with his eyes a few times looking at the various doors and objects inside the TARDIS waiting for a answer. What he got was a question. “Aren't you coming in?”
“I ain't setting foot in there!” he replied, alarmed at the prospect of disturbing one thing inside it.
“Why?” she inquired, “It wont hurt you.”
“Nope! Not goin' in there!” he retorted adamantly.
He was not budging and actually took a step back. Derpy laughed a little at how afraid he was of entering the TARDIS and went back to the controls and looked them over. Maybe Jack was right, all the adventures she had with the Doctor, she had to at least learned a thing or two on how it operated. Looking over the console, she saw buttons, levels, a large screen, a keyboard, two phones, a shoe, and a twisty thingy the Doctor always liked to twist. Tossing the shoe off as it had no place on the console, she saw a small red button. Something was calling to her to push it. Taking that chance, she pressed it. The machine roared to life rocked back and forth. Derpy looked outside in fear as Jack seemed to sink into the ground. No, she was rising up off the ground! She did it! She got the TARDIS to fly!
“HAHA! You did it!” cheered Jack in sheer joy before running back to his cruiser, “Hold it there! I'll get the rope!”
He opened the trunk of his car and grabbed the large neon green rope praising himself for bringing it. Right now, it was going to serve this purpose of towing the TARDIS, which was quite the feet considering this ropes true purpose and why he kept it in his room. Tying it around the blue police Box, he hopped into his Police car and started it up. Derpy was standing there in the TARDIS doorway as Jack gave the cruiser a little gas. It, and the TARDIS, moved a few inches.
“WHOO HOO!” screamed Derpy
“Yes!” said Jack in victory
He stepped out and checked to see if the rope would hold and turned back to Derpy.
“It wont be long till we get to my apartment! Stay in there and make sure everything stays okay alright!”
“You got it!” saluted Derpy returning inside the TARDIS
“Okay!” said Jack putting the cruiser into gear and putting all fears aside, “Hopefully, no one will find this odd.”
He knew that was hopeless, a police car towing a floating box. Heads were going to turn. Regardless, he had no choice and drove on anyway.
----
Twilight stirred at the smell of pine needles and the sounds of bids chirping in the air. She opened her eyes slowly and stirred a little. She noticed she was wrapped in a blanket and laying up against the side of a tree. The light from the sun shimmered through the trees and down to the ground. To her left she could hear footsteps, and she turned her head to see a tall slender, thing, pacing back and forth. He was talking to himself and scratching his chin. She had never seen a creature like this before, and she guessed it to be a human since it looked like what the Doctor had talked about. At first she was alarmed to think that she had been found by some strange human. She never read any books on them for there were none in Equestria. She looked around for the Doctor when she noticed something about this human. First off: it was wearing his clothes! It also had a similar hairstyle to him, as well as eyes. She sat up, and the human noticed this instantly.
“Good, Twilight, you're awake!” Twilight recognized the voice as none other than the Time Lord she came with.
“Doctor?” Her voice was the same as well.
He laughed a little and held out his arms and spun around for her to see. “In the flesh! Ah, it feels good to have fingers again! As much fun it was being a pony you never get over fingers! You'll see what I'm talking about.”
Twilight tried to think over what The Doctor was talking about, but couldn't quiet understand what he meant. “What do you mean?”
“Why, just look at your hands!” he told her happily.
“You mean hoove-.” Twilight cut herself off the moment she brought her arms up and looked at her hooves. No, these weren't hooves, they were hands! Looking herself over, she suddenly realized she wasn't a unicorn anymore, she was a human just like the Doctor! “What happened to me?!”
“Dimensional Transmorphication. A by product of inter universal travel. Don't worry, you're not completely a human. You still have your horn!”
Twilight nervously reached up her her new left hand and touched her horn on her head.
The Doctor stared at it closely, marveling at such a concept that a unicorn could still retain their horn. “Yes, it seems using your force field had a added side effect to your transmorfication, allowing you to keep your horn." He gave a slight pause, realizing a problem that needed to be taken care of. "Do you know of a way to hide it? Humans don't have horns... at least this dimension doesn't.”
"Don't you have someway of doing that yourself? Aren't you a Time Lord?” asked Twilight as she stood up, not exactly used to two legs.
“Eeehhh, Part Human, Part Time Lord," He responded, giving one of his hands a side-to-side shake. "More Time Lord than anything though. Quite surprising that Time Lords evolved to a similar look with humans. Sure made my adventures all the more easier." He tried to get Twilight to focus, "You have anyway of hiding the horn, perhaps?”
Twilight looked around and found a small branch lying there. Concentrating, the branch illuminated in her magical powers glow before instantly popping into existence as a hair band. Putting it on, she again used her magic to hide her horn under it. The Doctor clapped at the results. “Marvelous Miss Sparkle! Now then! I think there is a city not too far from here, -”
“Let me guess: Allons-y?” chuckled Twilight.
The Doctor gave a conflicted look before returning to a smile, “I was going to say 'Let's go save Derpy', but that works too!”
Soon, the two were walking through the forest, the Doctor leading the way, mind set on the mission. Twilight was more marveling at how everything seemed to do things on their own! Animals were caring for themselves, the wind was blowing without anyone moving it. looking up and around, noticing the clouds moving on her own, and the fact that the sun seemed to be at a different position then when she woke up. It was like Everfree forest, but somehow, it wasn't as threatening. In fact, it was peaceful, as if everything was right.
“So, this is...Earth?” she said still looking around.
“Yep! It's not like Equestria where magic and physics intertwine! Nope, everything here is good old fashioned physics and rules! Well, actually, it depends on what your definition of physics and rules are, but I like them here, more than most others really. Lovely I'd say, although not as fun as magic when you think about it.”
Twilight kept looking around, hoping to see another face to observe, “So, Humans live in forests and what not?”
“They used to back when they were a real primitive race," He turned his head slightly as they continued to walk, "Kind of how your Equestria started, bare bones, nothing but the fat of the land and survival of the fittest! They've grown into quite the robust race! Flying machines, space travel! All of it just because they want to!”
“You speak highly of them,” commented Twilight.
“Outside you pony folk, I have never come across a more indomitable race in all my life! If there is something that confuses them, they don't just leave it alone, they go in and study it just because it arouses their curiosity! Almost poking it with a stick seems to satisfy some of their needs. However, there are times when they are some of the cruelest species outside the Daleks. Some have even wiped out their own race just because they viewed things differently." His voice had changed to a lower tone that Twilight had rarely heard him use. "Be careful Twilight Sparkle, just because one Human seems friendly, doesn't mean he is friendly.”
Looking at him, his face had darkened, the Doctor remembering some of the dark deeds that mankind had done.
“Are they that bad?” Twilight asked, remarking the expression on The Doctor's face.
“Nope!” he said as his face and tone lit up with its usual jovial attitude, “Some are, but at the very least, Humans have a understanding of ethics that at least keep them from killing everything like the Daleks.”
“So, when will I get to see one?” asked Twilight, a little excited and worried.
“Well, if my ears don't deceive me, we should be near, at least, what they call a highway!”
Twilight's eyelids lowered in natural response, “I know what those are Doctor.”
He never answered. He stepped out of the trees and sprawling before them laid a average sized town with a larger city out behind it. Twilight stood amazed, it was almost as big as Canterlot, if not bigger! The Doctor meanwhile, groaned in distaste.
Twilight continued to look over the marvelous city, “How can you be like this!? This is amazing!”
“No, look at that banner over there.” He pointed to a pole where a large, blue, red, and white banner flapped in the breeze. Twilight looked at the design and couldn't find anything wrong with it.
“What? It looks like a regular flag to me.” Unlike Equestria's flag, it looked rather simplictic, using only lines and the left top corner covered in five point stars.
“Yes, but it's a American flag! Of the United States!”
Twilight seemed worried about why The Doctor would be acting like this, “What's wrong with them?”
“Nothing. I actually find them to be quite the robust people. I just prefer England!”
“England?” Twilight's mind started to try and store all of the things that he spoke, finding a lot of pieces just outright confusing. Perhaps if she found a book that explained some of it...
“Trottingham is the best example I currently have to relate to it, prim, proper, clean.”
“So, places like that?”
“Yep! Jolly old England!" Breathing in the air deeply, he put his hands in his pockets, "Well, I'm back on Earth, so I might as well be happy. Come on! Let's go explore!”
He skidded down the side of the hill they were on and kept on walking, humming some tune to himself. Twilight sighed and followed after him.
----
It took longer than they hoped, but after two hours, Jack and Derpy had made it all the way back to his apartment. The TARDIS sat on a corner hidden behind some trees after Derpy had managed to land it by pressing the button again. Currently, Derpy was watching the news eating a muffin, which was quite possibly the only thing Jack had that she could eat. He had very little in his refrigerator for a salad. In fact, most of Jack's foods were meat related in some way. Jack himself was a testament to this by eating a ham sandwich. It was relatively peaceful at that moment when a knock came at his door. Both were caught off guard and looked in surprise toward the door to see if it was real. Sure enough, it knocked again, this time more forcefully.
“Probably someone complaining about the TARDIS.” grunted Jack as he ate his sandwich. He had no intention of answering the door and tried his best to ignore it. The door knocked harder several more times, each one progressively getting louder and more violent by the moment.
“Alright! Alright! I'm coming!” yelled Jack, forced to set his sandwhich down on the small table nearby. There was one loud slam that nearly tore the already battered door down. “Hey! I'm a Police Officer! You really don't want me angry!”
The banging continued as he grabbed the doorknob. “Who the hell is this, is this is some drunk I swear-" Jack's eyes met the attacker of his door and felt his heart jump into his throat. "LOU!”
With a scowled face and crossed arms, Lou looked to Jack angrily, wanting a answer.
“Uh, Hi.... I thought you weren't going to be back for another few....”
“Days?” she cut off Jack, finishing his sentence with a huff.
“Yeah, basically. Nice surprise.” He smiled nervously, but she lowered her brow in anger and narrowed her eyes at him.
“What the hell?” she asked, the fury burning behind her eyes making Jack feel more confused and frightened as to what she was talking about.
“What?” asked Jack, “What did I do?”
“I'm gone a week and you go and decide to cheat on me?”
Jack felt his body nearly gave away before he caught himself from falling over, “Cheat on you?!”
“You think I wouldn't find out?!” she yelled at the top of her lungs.
His eyes shot behind him into his apartment, fearing the worst of what sort of picture Lou was painting about the situation he now faced. “No, really! It's not what you-”
Lou pointed a finger into his chest and continued to scream at him, “I got a message that you were bringing some blonde haired girl here a few days ago!”
“How the heck did you find that out?” yelled Jack alarmed. She gave him a dark look and pointed down the hall. Standing there was a old woman who quickly withdrew into her room. Jack gave a sigh of relief. “She wont report this to the station. I can still keep my job.”
Lou's voice seemed to hit a new pitch of anger, “Are you serious!? You're more concerned about your job over me!?”
"This is going to end badly!" Jack thought, realizing where this was going, fast.
From behind Jack back in his kitchen, Derpy poked her head out to see what all the yelling was about. Lou caught sight of this, and directed all of her anger toward the confused pegasus turned human. Derpy couldn't put her finger on it, but she had seen and felt that stare and anger before, and every instinct told her to run for her life. She ducked back into the kitchen before Lou tore off after her, screaming something incomprehensible. Unfortunately for Derpy, she had nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide before the dark haired girl was upon her, ready to tear her apart limb from limb. There was a sudden crack, and before any of the two knew it, a tazer dart was stuck on Lou's back.
Lou gave a howl of pain as she hit the floor from the shock, forced to look at Jack from her now compromised position. Jack gave a regretful look to both of the women.
“Lou! I can explain!” Jack tried to reason, as he rounded the corner, trying his best not to look like he was the villain in the situation.
“Oh you better have a damn good reason!” she shouted to him before turning her eyes to the dart, “And get this thing off me!”
Jack nodded before Lou tore the tazer dart from her body. The wire retracted up into the little weapon and he put it away. She was expecting words, and Derpy was expecting the worst. Jack wanted to make words, but he fell short each time. It was if he was wanting to create a story to explain it all, but nothing was coming together. Stammering on a few words, he sighed and began to speak.
“Lou... meet... meet, meet Derpy Hooves.”
“Who?” asked Lou.
“Derpy Hooves... the Derpy Hooves. From Equestria...”
Lou looked at the cross eyed blonde, and then at Jack with confusion.
“How stupid do you think I honestly am?” Lou looked at Jack, thinking that he had just said the most unbelievable lie he could think of.
“Very intelligent actually,” said Jack. “I'm not kidding. This is Derpy Hooves..." A sudden spark of an idea came across his mind as he jammed his thumb back to the door. "If you need more proof I got the TARDIS sitting in the back.”
Lou was taken aback at the boldness of Jack, she couldn't believe he wanted to keep the lie going, “What kind of practical joke are you pulling here Jack?”
“I'm not,” he said walking over to his window and throwing the shades open. “Look.”
Lou gave him a look like he was crazy, but decided to play along. She walked over to the window and looked out to where Jack was pointing. He stood there, waiting for her reaction as she looked out it. She looked into the window and out to the back parking lot. Tied to a tree, and sitting in plain view to her disbelief, was the TARDIS.
“If you still don't believe me, I'll show you inside..." He had been waiting to use those infamous words on someone and now was the time, "It's a whole lot bigger.”
“No, no, that has to be a fake!" Lou pulled her head back into the apartment and started pacing, instinctively reaching up and rubbing her temples "A- A- replica! Yeah, you got a replica of the TARDIS and just using it to make your excuse seem valid!"
Jack gave a look to Derpy and whispered something in her ear, making her smile as she skipped out of the apartment.
"Where is she going?" Lou questioned, now noticing the faint wisps of blonde hair pass her.
Jack motioned Lou over to the window again, forcing her to take a look again.
Derpy was just outside the TARDIS and she stopped in front of it, giving a little wave to the restrained machine. "Hello, TARDIS! I have someone that needs to know that you're you." With that, she stepped inside the police box. After some time the door opened and random things began to get flung out of it.
At first it was relatively normal things, grates, a ladder, something that looked like a Game Boy, but as the pile kept growing, the objects become more and more odd. Snowglobes that held lava, a ball that glowed and just floated in the air instead of joining the rest of the ever growing pile, a cybermat, A FREAKING CYBERMAT!
Lou kept seeing the object pile higher and higher, "How, how... but..”
Jack gave a reluctant shrug, “I'm just as confused as you are.”
Derpy's head finally poked out of the TARDIS, sweat already going down her face as she yelled up at the two humans looking down at her. "Does she believe yet?!"
“This is not happening.” Lou finally said as she walked out of the apartment, “This does not happen! I- I- I have to get out of here.”
“Yep," Jack called back, giving Derpy a thumbs up. He watched as Lou got out of the apartment and tried to cover her eyes from looking in the direction of what had happened.
"She's mad," Derpy worriedly whispered to herself before looking back at Jack. "Where did you find her?”
“I arrested her for 'Driving Under the Influence'. You can see how well this relationship has been since the start.”
“So, what are you going to do?” Derpy asked the already retreating Jack.
“Go get her,” Jack pulled his head out of the window and slammed it, hoping to sprint just fast enough to catch Lou before she got too far.
Down in the parking lot, Lou walked toward her car. She had planned on surprising Jack by returning home early, when she got a message that led to this whole episode. Either he wanted to have the most surreal break up in history, or he was just insane. She grabbed the handle of her car door and sat in the drivers seat, trying to sort everything that had just happened. She looked in the rear-view mirror and spied the thing he claimed to be the TARDIS and the woman that was now slowly moving things back inside the box, when they shouldn't have been able to fit at all! She wasn't much of a Doctor Who fan, but knew enough about it to know what she was talking about. She kept mulling over all that she saw, the blonde, the police box, all of those things that looked cobbled together, but seemed to make sense. Why didn't she notice the box itself when she showed up? She would have seen it when she drove in, a big blue box sitting next to a tree she had seen a thousand times before; without the big blue box.
Curiosity finally got the better of her and she got out of the car. She circled around the box and the now closed doors of where the blonde woman had disappeared into. It looked just like the TARDIS, even down to tiniest details. Pondering if it was the real thing, she poked the door that the Doctor had always used to open it. It creaked open and Lou almost fell on her rear at the shock. It wasn't possible! What she was seeing wasn't possible! It really was bigger on the inside!
She scrambled backwards until she hit a pair of legs. Looking up, she saw Jack standing there, half looking at her, half looking into the TARDIS. “Yep! I don't understand it any more than you do.”
Lou scrambled up to her feet and looked at him with some fear. He was right, but how? How was this possible, and how long had this been happening? If there was one thing she knew about the Doctor Who series it had some of the craziest and scariest aliens in existence. The ship sitting behind her gave proof that those might actually be real! She took a few steps back, but found herself stuck between Jack and the TARDIS.
Suddenly, the worst and yet most reasonable conclusion had hit her in the face, “Are- Are-" She tried to get her throat wet enough to finish her sentence. "Are you the Doctor?”
Jack gripped Lou's shoulders and looked at her with comforting eyes...
Before he burst out laughing in front of her, “No!"
Lou's heart jumped up out of shock and anger that Jack would make her believe he was The Doctor! How could he?! She started slapping Jack repeatedly, making him try and defend himself from the assault that had now befallen him.
From his wall of arms and a raised leg, Jack tried to beg for mercy, "Knock it off! I just found the thing!”
Lou pulled away and pushed strands of hair that had started to cover her eyes, “Then, where is the Doctor?!”
Jack rubbed a sore spot that Lou had managed to make, “Probably in Equestria. That's where this TARDIS comes from.”
Lou's ears seemed to perk in interest in the one word that seemed to stand out from Jack's mouth. “What? Equestria? From 'My Little Pony'?”
Jack gave a nod, “Yeah.”
Lou had been a fan of the show back in its day. A Pegasister, if you will. Quite possibly one of the few things she and Jack had in common was their mutual like of the show. Of course, the TARDIS never was in My Little Pony... was it? There was a fan favorite minor character who looked like the Tenth Doctor in the show, but that was just Fan Fiction.
“Once again, if you don't believe me," Jack opened the door as far as he could as Derpy finally leaned against the doorframe to catch her breath, "This woman you just about killed, is Derpy Hooves.”
Lou looked over the blonde that now tried to stand up again and not fall over from the exertion she just did by moving all of those things. “Seriously?” Despite the fact she was still standing in front of the TARDIS, and the blonde managed to at least resemble some of the characteristics of Derpy, that was hard to believe.
Jack pointed out each each of the points on Derpy as she stood there looking at him and her with one eye each, “Blonde hair! Wall eyes, which happen to be yellow in color, by the way! She likes muffins like crazy! Do I need any more proof?”
Lou could only stand there and let this situation sink further into her mind.
----
“Wow, now this is quite the city!” exclaimed Whooves, basking in the sheer size of it, “I wonder what city it is? Doesn't look like California, and this sure isn't New York City.”
“New York City?” inquired Twilight
“Think Manehatten, my dear. In fact, a lot of towns and cities in Equestria seemed to be based off towns and cities from this exact country!” The Doctor was beginning to contemplate the names of Equestria and trying to make the connections as he noticed Twilight was giving him a look that seemed to say, 'Explain.'
“Well, there's Fillydelphiea in Equestria, and Philadelphia here! Las Pagasus, Las Vegas. Trottingham, Nottingham! It's quite amazing when you think about it!”
Twilight began to try and put the connection together, but it was as if she was working a 9-piece puzzle into a 1000-piece puzzle. “But, those cities have been around for over a thousand years! How can they be based off places here in America?”
“Hmm..." The Doctor seemed to get the same analogy that Twilight had going in her mind, "Now that I think on it, some of these places have hardly been around for a hundred years seeing the date here seems to be about early 21st century. And what you've said is interesting, cities here can actually be based off there Equestrian counterparts! But how? Is that even possible?”
Twilight scratched her head, something that she was actually good at doing whenever she started to get confused, now that she had hands. “I don't know. I've never read anything on Humans before.”
The Doctor's voice became chipper for a moment before going back to worry, “It's so fascinating! I don't understand it! You'd think a Time Lord like myself would know of something like this happening before, but I can't seem to recall a thing! How can a race develop cities similar to another race Dimensions apart! Something isn't exactly right here. Something-" He suddenly stopped on the route he was going and walked down toward a large convention center. "What the!?”
Twilight barely had time to turn and catch up with him before seeing what he was staring at. It was a large banner over the building that read in large words: “SCI-FI EXPO IN THREE WEEKS. However, it was the smaller words in the attractions list that caught their attention: Doctor Who.
“You didn't tell me you were a celebrity.” said Twilight
“Neither did I, but they got the name wrong. It's just the Doctor, No 'Who' in there, just 'The Doctor'!" He looked over at the doors that now stood in his way of figuring out the burning questions on his mind. "Come on Twilight! We need to investigate this!”
Twilight watched Whooves as he began fumbling around for something in his suit, “But, what about Derpy!?”
The Doctor turned around but kept going in the direction of the doors, “If she saw this she'd be here! Come on!”
Twilight couldn't argue with such logic and followed him towards the building. A security guard tried to stop them both from getting in, but a quick flash of the psychic paper and a story about them being 'Expo Inspectors' got them in. Since it was three weeks away, not all of it had been set up yet, but a few pamphlets laid on a table. Whooves picked them up and started reading through them to try and find what was going on.
As he read the words that proclaimed his 'name', his voice kept getting higher in pitch. “See the TARDIS, Daleks, Cybermen, and props from the show!?”
“You have a show?” asked Twilight, amazed and bemused all at the same time.
All that was going to do was add more to his already huge Time Lord ego. He kept on reading getting more and more excited by the minute.
“Appearances by David Tennant and Matt Smith!" He closed the pamphlet and pointed the paper at the now hand-covered face of his assistant. "Twilight! Do you know what this means?”
From behind the hand that Twilight had found quite comfortable towards her situation, she spoke up, “That I'm never going to hear the end of this?”
“No!" The Doctor exclaimed, making Twilight remove her hand from her face and giving him a cynical look to show she wasn't fooled. "...Well yes, but that's not the point!”
“At least your honest," Twilight moaned in a flat tone.
“It appears this isn't even my Earth, or Universe! This is a separate one entirely! In this Universe, the events surrounding my life are a TV show! A TV show! Can you believe it!?” The Doctor's eyes seemed to glimmer in excitement as he now started stuffing the pamphlet into one of his pockets.
Twilight looked at him with the fear that he had just lost his mind, “And you're okay with it!?”
The Doctor threw his arms out and gave a spin, “I'm ecstatic! I wonder if I have my own theme song! Oh, that would be bloody brilliant! I should get autographs from these two! Can you imagine that!? The Doctor having autographs from actors who portray me, The Doctor!? It would be incredible!”
Twilight had no interest in The Doctor's need to massage his already over-inflated ego as she turned for the door, “Yeah, it would be. Can we go back to searching for Derpy?”
“I'm sure Derpy would understand if I stay around here and look at this for awhile, in fact, I have good reason to believe that she would have come here when the TARDIS came through to this universe." He was already trying to separate himself from Twilight so he could explore freely. "So, here's what we'll do! You use your magic to search for the TARDIS, and I'll search through all this stuff to try and find Derpy.”
“You just want to look at all the stuff about you don't you?” Twilight kept her judgmental eyes on The Doctor's own as they seemed to jump around excitedly, trying to find the nearest thing to latch onto.
“Derpy could be here! Looking at stuff based off me isn't my only reason for staying here," He paused and gave a look of panic. "No, wait!”
Twilight just laughed. “Alright Doctor, but when I find Derpy, I'll be sure to tell her.” She turned around and walked out, leaving the Doctor to his fancy.
“I wonder if there is more in there?” he pondered as he began his own adventure in the nearest door he could find. Seeing it dark he fumbled for a light switch and found it. Flipping it on, his happy expression turned to stone at what he had witnessed. "And it appears that I've found the janitor's closet..."
Outside, Twilight looked over the giant city wondering where should she even start. Silently and stealthily charging her horn, it told her the TARDIS was to her east. She took one step to her left when suddenly, a man in a hooded shirt bumped into her. There was something off about him, and Twilight felt a odd, familiar, cold feel when they touched. She looked back to him, seeing him continue to walk into the large building, and gave little thought to it. The Doctor had said that some humans were evil, the idea of running into one was far fetched. Ponies acted like that on occasions, but they weren't really bad, per se. She put it from her mind and continued to walk on. Unbeknownst to her, the moment she turned back and walked off, the hooded man turned back and looked at her as well before continuing on inside.
----
“This is amazing! So you really are Dinky's mother!?” asked Lou, trying her best not to hop up and down in her seat.
For the past few minutes, she had become quite good friends with the woman sitting before her known as Derpy Hooves. It had taken quite a bit of convincing the skeptical Lou that this was the famous fan character from My Little Pony. Now, she was bursting with joy at the idea of actually being able to talk to her. The only thing that could make this better was if Derpy was a Pegasus and not transformed into a human. She just shoved it off as you can't have everything.
Derpy kept nodding her head furiously, “Yep!”
“So where's her Father?” Lou asked, seeing the bobbing head freeze in place and the expression on Derpy's face change in an instant.
Derpy briefly tensed up before forcing her body to relax for her to talk again, “I really don't know. We- We- We don't talk about him much.”
“Oh.” Lou, seeing the sudden change in Derpy's demeanor, tried to change the subject, “So, why are you in my clothes?”
“Oh, I showed up here naked!” responded the Pegasus-Human before she looked over at Jack. "I'm still not over why wearing clothes is a big deal..."
“You saw her naked!?” screamed Lou as she turned to him.
Jack, who was leaning up against a wall having a drink nearly spit it out all over when Lou screamed at him. He managed to swallow what had managed to not escape and gasp for air before turning to her, annoyed and a little frightened. “I didn't ask for it! She ran out in front of my Cruiser!”
“Uh-huh.” came Lou, not believing a word of it.
“Well, it's true!” defended Jack. "Besides, you didn't believe me when I said the TARDIS was outside, now did ya?"
Lou gave a sour expression, she could tell that Jack was going to use that excuse as a back-up to when she wouldn't believe a word he said. “So, why did you put her in my clothes?”
“Because mine don't fit her,” came Jack as if he was answering a dumb question.
“Okay, you know more about 'Doctor Who' than me, and even I know that ship has a wardrobe in it," Lou shot back, giving out her own piece in the argument that began to simmer.
“I ain't stepping foot in that thing!” stated Jack, trying to keep his voice from letting it loose that he was frightened of stepping inside and then getting vaporized, or worse.
“Whatever.” she said turning back to Derpy heeding her boyfriend no further attention.
“You okay with me wearing your clothes?” asked Derpy innocently.
“Okay!?" Lou yelled, making Derpy somewhat shrink back in fear, "I'm a little annoyed, but more over I think it's awesome that THE Derpy Hooves is wearing my clothes!”
Derpy's initial fear was removed from hearing this, “So, I can keep them?”
“No," Lou responded quickly, not realizing that Derpy looked glum after she said that. She began to try and backpedal again, hopefully to fix the situation. "I should take you to a friend of mine that specializes in designer clothes. I'm sure she'll love you!” She grabbed on Derpy's hand and lifted her up from the couch.
“You taking her now?' came the voice of Jack from behind.
Lou turned and looked at him, giving a face of annoyance. However, this face turned to intrigue and she turned around giving a small little smile.
“Sure! Why not!" She looked over at Derpy and let the sarcasm roll out hard, "I'm pretty sure timid Jack here hasn't let you outside since you arrived.”
“I'm cautious, thank you.” spoke Jack, feeling annoyed that Lou took such a blatant shot at him in front of Derpy.
Lou gave a pleading look at Derpy, hoping to bring her along and go on an adventure. Well, at least a small one that wouldn't involve a TARDIS, Doctors, and Ponies. “Come on Derpy! It will be fun!”
“O-okay. So long as it's fun.”
Lou's clasped hand on Derpy slightly tightened and relaxed as she began leading the surprised woman, the excitement filling in her as the two walked out the door.
Jack stood there, still leaning up against the wall. He tapped the bottle of soda he was drinking from a few times as their laughter flooded up the stairs and through the apartments. He then looked down at his soda and placed it on the table and moved toward his fridge. He wondered if he was really going to do this, and by the time he opened the door; his answer was upon him. He excitedly clapped his hands together and started rubbing them.
Jack zipped his pants up from going to the bathroom. Four rounds of Jose Cuervo and nature called him forth. His phone vibrated on the table and he picked it up. It was a text message from Lou. Looking it over, he couldn't help himself from sighing.
“At boutique with Derpy :D Tara's coming over to see teh TARDIS! Bye!” read the text. He closed his phone and grabbed his belt once again to go out on patrol.
“At this rate, everyone's going to know about that box!” he grumbled stepping outside.
Of course he had bigger problems, if he was found out about taking this extended lunch break it would mean an earfull from the chief and perhaps docked pay, and he couldn't afford to have that happen to him. Heading down the stairs, he thought up various tricks and schemes to try and get out of trouble if there was a call for him and he didn't answer. If there wasn't one, he'd just say he was on a stakeout. If there was, he could always blame it on his radio malfunctioning. There had been a lot of those going around the squad cars the last few days. He might get away with it; or they might catch on as it seems a little too convenient. Regardless, he had a job to do and he stepped into the sunlight taking a look at the TARDIS sitting there. He almost did a double take as he saw Tara standing there looking at the Police Box tied to a tree. Remarking to himself at the incredible speed to which she got here, he walked over with the intent on trying to keep her away. Lord knows what's inside that thing that girl could get into, or cause for that matter. Another thing he noticed was she seemed to be pretty used to the fact she was starring at a Time/Space ship. Catching her face, the only thing she seemed curious about as to why this was here in the first place. His first thought was the excitement of the fact the TARDIS was real overcame her, but she showed no surprise to it at all.
“Hey Tara. Come to see it?” She whirled around and then the surprise came to her face. He knew Tara to be pretty awkward around people she didn't exactly know, but she knew him quite well. Tara's eyes darted left and right in a almost state of panic trying to find someone else who he might be talking to. “You okay?” asked Jack, growing a bit concerned for her.
She looked to him as if he were a complete alien: “I'm sorry, have we.... met?”
“Um, yeah. You're good friends with my girlfriend Lou, and by extension me. I'm on good terms with most of your friends... I arrested Dash a few hours ago.”
“Dash? What?” came Tara, her eyes opening up in shock from hearing her name.
“Dash, uh.... Daphne? I know she hates that name, but she's your friend!”
She shook her head, “I honestly don't know what you're talking about.”
Jack didn't know what to make of this. He cocked a eyebrow at her while the girl nervously looked around for a avenue of escape. “I think you might have me mistaken for someone else,” she finally said.
Jack was unimpressed at this. Tara tried her best and failed to make a smile, leaving the door open for Jack to respond. “Dark hair. Rose and Violet Highlights.... Favorite color is Purple... You changed your clothes since we last met but I think I got the right person.”
“Pony,” she spoke.
“Pony? What?" Jack got nervous, did Lou let on more than she texted him? "Did you go in that thing!?”
“That 'thing' is the TARDIS,” responded Tara with a spiteful tone.
“Yeah, I know." spoke Jack, unaffected. Perhaps this was some game she was trying to pull, but Jack needed to get the conversation moving. "I towed it here.”
“You towed it!?”
“Yep. With my cruiser,” he responded nonchalantly seeing what sort of response he was going to get from 'Not Tara'.
“You could of damaged it, or broke something, someone could have seen it!” She looked at him furious, eyes burning red with anger. Jack looked back a little offended as she turned away to go back to the TARDIS.
“Tara, just when exactly did you become an expert of the TARDIS?”
“My name is not Tara! Quit calling me that!”
Jack spun on his heels and walked back to his cruiser. He didn't know where she got this attitude, but it was annoying, and he needed to get back to work. It was almost as if she was a different person entir-.
Jack stopped right there. Standing in front of him, with a look of confusion and shock on her face was Tara! Dark hair, rose and violet highlights, same purple outfit she had on earlier! It then hit him like a oncoming train. He turned around to see the Tara doppelganger looking over the TARDIS again.
"No... it couldn't be, could it?" Jack whispered as he kept looking back and forth between the two Taras. Any other past time in his life Jack would have just thought himself crazy, but recent events had taught him otherwise. But how? It wasn't possible! No! It was entirely possible! The real Tara walked up next to him as he held his head from the ensuing headache. She herself saw the girl who looked exactly like her standing before the actual TARDIS. She didn't know whether to scream and run, or run and scream.
“Jack, who is that?” Tara asked as she saw the lookalike that was admiring the blue wooden box tied to the tree.
“I... I have an idea, but I wont like it,” spoke Jack in a trance. “Stay here. I'll be right back.”
Jack slowly walked over to the strange double of his friend as she opened the door to the TARDIS. She looked inside and gave a sigh of relief when the shocked Police Officer tapped her on the shoulder with two fingers. “Huh? Wha? You again?”
"Here goes Jack," he thought to himself before gulping down a bit of spit to wet his throat.“Yes, hi. Can I ask you two questions?”
“Why?”
“Because I'm a Police Officer and that's my job.” It was a dumb response, but making up an excuse was not going to get him anywhere faster.
“I don't have time, sorry.” she said looking back into the TARDIS.
“You're standing in front of a Time and Space machine, you have all the time in the Universe.” Jack quipped back, making the double freeze before she tried to run into it.
She gave a huff and turned to him with a lowered brow: “Two questions, that's it. Time is of the essence here, regardless of this Box's powers.”
“Why do you look so much like my friend over there?” She looked down to see him pointing back out into the parking lot. She looked and froze the moment her eyes locked on the double standing there. She nearly tripped into the TARDIS amongst seeing her when Jack spoke his second question. “Is your name, Twilight Sparkle?”
“How, how-?” Twilight already felt herself going bonkers, she automatically recalled the incident she went back in time with a spell to warn herself to not worry, her mind was already reaching out for answers and couldn't find one that would make sense.
“You're a cartoon character here, but that's beside the point-”
“Cartoon character?” She thought to how the Doctor had his own show in this Universe. Could it be that her world was the same as well? A show, a cartoon? The thought was disturbing to think of thousands, if not millions, of people watching her every movement. Private and public moments, adventures, that incident with Rarity and Celestia! Twilight looked to him as if her world had just ended. He stood there with a cocked eyebrow waiting for an answer to both his questions. She was still before she slowly nodded her head, 'Yes'. He gave a slight smile and turned back to Tara still standing in the parking lot. He signaled for the her to walk towards him, and she did ever so cautiously.
The two stared at each other, tilting their heads sideways, lifting up their arms, and making a disturbing face by sticking their tongues out and pulling down their lower left eye lid, all the while standing on one foot.
“You two done?” asked Jack, holding back a laugh from the display.
“I think so,” spoke the two, before jumping at the fact they talked in unison. “Did you, you did! Stop copying me! No I'm not copying you, you're copying me! Stop it! I said stop it! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!”
“How about both of you stop it?” came Jack's voice.
They looked to him annoyed. He was unmoved and started talking. “Tara I understand why you're here. Twilight, why are you here?”
“I'm trying to save Derpy now that I found the TARDIS.”
“Derpy's fine. I've been watching her since she showed up." He waited for Twilight to get a little less tense before continuing. "She's with a friend of both mine and Tara's. She's in good hands.”
“You sure?” asked a demanding Twilight.
“I hope so,” Jack mentioned suddenly, thinking on the subject. He thought to what exactly Lou could be doing with her. When that girl got to partying, there was nothing that could stop her. He knew, he tried! That's how he got into this relationship with her. Twilight looked to him suspicious, but a reassuring look from her double eased her.
“Alright, now can I ask you a few questions now?” Twilight continued her focus on Jack, now curious as to what else was going on since Derpy had managed to find this man.
“Shoot,” answered Tara.
"Not you, Tara," Jack apologized, trying not to make things confusing. He nodded his head at the double again and crossed his arms, "Twilight."
“How do you know who I am and who are you?” Twilight started off, getting the basic questions going.
Jack maintained his position as he introduced himself, “Officer Jack Parker. Metropolitan Police. This here is my friend Tara, a local student at the University.”
“And I'm a Cartoon character?” came Twilight
Tara chipped in before Jack could give a response, “You're a fictional cartoon character in 'My Little Pony'.”
“Fictional? Like Daring Do!?” Twilight's mind began to try and spin that word in her mind, all of the studies she did, believing in the sciences and magic of Equestria, all of it fake?!
“Yeah basically.” smiled Jack, who happened to be oddly enjoying this moment.
Twilight was still unnerved by the prospect of this. This wasn't her universe and while the chances were slim, one like this had to exist somewhere. Tara, meanwhile, was switching between looking at the TARDIS and looking at Twilight.
“How did you come through without the TARDIS if it's right here?” Tara thought aloud as she continued to look at the infamous Police Box. Jack gave a nod in agreement, only Derpy came in the TARDIS, and as far as he could recall, there had rarely been an instance of two TARDIS' in the same place.
That was a easy one for Twilight: “The Doctor built a, well, kind of, second one, but you need to grow real TARDIS's. So he did something with making it, and we came through on that to-.”
“Wait," Tara's head snapped from the TARDIS to Twilight. "You mean The Doctor here? Doctor Who? The DOC!?"
“Yes. He found a convention full of his stuff.” Twilight tried her best not to let out another sigh, hoping to just ignore the fact that she had at least did something useful, instead of admire junk.
“That's not for another few weeks,” put in Jack.
“They're still setting up.” replied Twilight.
“Then we should probably go find him." Jack uncrossed his hands and put a hand in his pocket, ready to bring out the keys to his vehicle. "He'd explain this mess here.”
“You mean why we look the same?” said the two, in unison again.
Jack did his best to contain his excitement at the issue that came up again and walked off to his cruiser with them both in tow.
-----
“This theme song I have is brilliant!”
Whooves walked around the incomplete Doctor Who exhibit humming and whistling the theme to himself. It was somewhat eery to be seeing all these things. A replica of a Fendhal, several Sonic Screwdrivers, two life size replica's of the Daleks, a Ood mask. His scarf which he once wore back in the old days. Looking around, he quickly grabbed it and threw it over his shoulders.
“Ah, brings back memories. I still have one of you lying around the wardrobe somewhere.”
Continuing on, he nearly tripped when he saw a silver object that was quite possibly the most powerful weapon on all of existence. Reading the plaque below the stand it was placed on, a shiver ran down his spine: De Mat Gun. He thanked it was just a prop and not the actual thing, and continued onwards. Since it wasn't fully set up, there was a lot he couldn't see, and he figured he might come back in a few days once he found the TARDIS to see it when it opened.
Turning around, he was prepared to remove the scarf he had wrapped on him when he suddenly heard a strange commotion from one of the rooms near the back. Curious as The Doctor he was, he strode towards it to see what it was. Walking back there, he found a loading dock where they were still loading props for the show. What he saw quite a sight. Some girl was trying to apologize for just slamming into a street pole.
The pole itself had fallen down on a few boxes that they were unloading. Looking on at the scene, he happened to glance to his left and saw a man in a hoodie. Something wasn't right about how he looked and acted, as he seemed to be enjoying this way too much. When things started to calm down, he walked off and the Doctor began to go after him, soon finding himself running after the hooded figure.
“Hey! What are you doing!?” came a yell from behind him.
“That's The Doctors scarf!" Another voice called out, "He's stealing it!”
Whooves heeded them no attention. He lept over a chain fence using his mix of human, Time Lord, and Equine abilities. The others looked on in amazed by this, but gave chase. Whooves himself landed perfectly and took off after him. Yet, even despite his speed, the hooded individual seemed to be moving faster than he could go! As the Doctor ran past a small liquor store, inside he saw that several bottles had dropped and shattered all over the place. Continuing on, he passed a trio working on a car when the tire suddenly erupted and the engine caught aflame! Past that, a truck carrying chickens careened into the side of the road as its chickens got loose and flocked all over the road. Wherever this guy seemed to walk, chaos seemed to follow.
“Chaos!” spoke the Doctor out loud.
No, it couldn't be! Him? Here? On this planet? In this dimension!? Either this guy just seemed to walk the most convenient route for things to go wrong, or this guy was the very king of chaos! Hell, he was a pony Time Lord on this planet turned human Time Lord, why could it not happen to the god of disharmony? Chasing him down the street, a bus happened to pass in between them and the entire thing backfired loud. The entire bus jumped from and not far away on a balcony, a old man shot up and screamed before falling over, his wife screaming right after that. She yelled for someone to call a ambulance, while the Doctor watched on as the hooded person kept on walking.
This could not continue any longer. Taking in a deep breath, he steadied himself, and then tore off at a dead run. To anyone else it was super human, as Whooves tore past stores and up the street. He came to another intersection where a car was driving out. Unable to stop, the Doctor leaped over the car with all his might, before landing on all fours on the other side. The car slid to a stop as Whooves looked to his target, who was closer than before. He didn't stop running, and now the man was getting closer and closer away. Just as the Doctor neared him, he turned around. His face was a pale gray, but the piercing crazed red eyes told all.
“DISCORD!” yelled the Doctor, jumping into the air.
The man was caught off guard as the Doctor came down on top of him, tackling him to the ground. Whooves couldn't believe he just did that, and attributed it to the fact he still had some equine power in him. The hooded man meanwhile swiftly recovered and looked up from the ground. There was no question to it now, any normal human would have been knocked into shock at that impact. Discord here, was perfectly fine. The Doctor tore out his Sonic Screwdriver and pointed it at him, ready to unleash whatever power the little tool had against the Spirit of Disharmony.
“How did you know who I am?”
“I'm the Doctor! There's a lot I know.”
Discord let out a sneer at this, which unnerved the Doctor right down to his core.
“I see. Were you sent in after me to stop me? What does good ol' Celestia have planned?”
“What are you talking about? Why are you here?”
Discord's eyebrows rose momentarily before going back down and a sly smile crossed his face. “Really? Well, there's a lot you don't know it seems. Too bad you'll never find out.”
“What do you mean? Tell me right now or I'll-”
“There he is!” Whooves looked back to see the loading dock workers still chasing after him. He had completely forgot about them and the fact he was still wearing the scarf. When he looked back to Discord, all he saw were a few bubbles popping where the spirit once lay. There was no way the Doctor could take on all the workers alone, especially for a wrong he had done. As they closed in, Whooves looked for a avenue to escape, and he found it. A shopping mall just a short distance away. The amount of people in there meant he could make a escape easily from the angry mob chasing after him.
Running at full speed, the mob right on his heels, but he could tell they were losing energy. Running into the parking lot, he got an idea, and began to use the cars to his advantage. As they split up to try and find him, he ducked in behind them, doubled back, and ran circles around them. The workers didn't know what to make of it, and soon, were running in the opposite direction and he was standing there laughing. Throwing the scarf over his shoulder as his new badge of honor, he looked to the large building and decided that since he was here, he might as well enjoy the mall.
While he had bigger problems when it came to Discord, he figured once he got his TARDIS, he could come back to this point in time and look on it. Right now, he wanted to visit the mall! Walking in the front doors, he could instantly tell this was American. The smell, the hustle of people, the stores all crammed together in a little tiny space all at once. He couldn't get anything, but he hadn't shopped at a human shopping mall in a long time. Besides, Americans had a ability to have just whatever you didn't need that you always wanted. Food, clothes, jewelry, electronics, cars, toys. The only thing more amazing then what they sold was their names. Jareds, Toy's R Us, Radioshack, Gamestop, Harley Davidson, Carousel Boutique, it was quite funny.
“Wait a second,” said the Doctor stopping cold in his tracks.
He spun around 180 degrees and walked back a few stores to see the large clothing shop sitting there in full view. To his relief, it wasn't Carousel Boutique. He laughed at how he could think on such a thing. Given the name though he could understand why. It was simply called 'Carrousel', and while it did sell clothes, it wasn't the same store in Ponyville. It did have many similarities, the high sense of fashion was a big one, as the store carried brand names and unique clothes on mannequins standing out in front of them. Feeling whimsy and wanting to experience this little coincidence that befell him, he walked into the shop without a care in the world.
Inside, several women looked around at the choices given to them in the store. Most were looking at the custom choices than the brand names, and just when he was starting to feel out of place, a woman was upon him instantly.
“Hello. Welcome to Carrousel. Where everything- My dear sir, what are you wearing?”
“What?” asked Whooves looking down at his suit seeing nothing wrong with it
“Ooh! You're accent! Is this the latest in British fashion? Hmm, Blue Pinstripe? Going retro I see. Could lose the scarf though, It just clashes!”
She walked around him looking all over what he was wearing, examining it to the very smallest detail. The Doctor was a little offset by this, but then again, one word came to his mind: Americans. Still, there was something familiar about this woman. Maybe it was her red glasses. Maybe it was her choice of high workers fashion. Maybe it was her purple hair! Looking it over, he knew he'd seen that hair before, in fact, he had even heard her voice before. No it couldn't be, that was impossible!
“Hey Reine! Is this good for her?”
The woman examining Whooves looked up, as the Doctor looked over, to see a dark haired woman standing before a blonde showing her off. Whooves looked on agape at the blonde for more than one reason. One, she was quite the beauty. A Grey blouse, faded jeans, it all went well with her. Second, her long blonde hair. Third, he eyes! Amber colored, walled, yet somehow it was natural! There was no denying it was her.
“Oh darling, you look fabulous!” cheered Reine.
“I'll say,” said Whooves checking the blonde out.
“Who are you?” asked the dark haired girl that began to notice the stalking brit that just walked in.
“Exactly.” laughed Whooves
They both gave him confused and sideways looks. There was both something they recognized about the man standing there, but they couldn't quite put their fingers on it. He chuckled to himself, reached into his pocket, and whipped out a small metallic pen. Or, at least that's what it looked like. Flipping it in the air and catching it, he aimed it at a cash register and it opened up on its own with a little buzz from the pen. Reine, however, was less than enthusiastic.
“I will not have remote controls doing that in my boutique.”
“It's not a remote control!” he answered, offended she would even think that.
“Then what is it?” demanded Reine, ready to call the mall security to chase this man out.
“Why it's a Screwdriver!” he happily spoke
“Doctor!?” came a surprised Derpy
The Doctor gave a bow and expertly put his Screwdriver back in his pocket. “Hello Derpy! I've come to rescue you!”
Derpy was upon him instantly hugging him. Whooves embraced her back, happy to have finally found her at last. Behind them, Reine turned to Lou and whispered in her ear.
“Who is that man? Why did he call her Derpy? That's quite rude!”
“Reine, do I have a story to tell you.” chuckled Lou.
“Alright, can you describe what he looked like?” asked Jack
“He was about 5 foot 11. He had brown hair, Caucasian, wore a dark blue suit.”
The burly worker tried to remember more about the thief as he reported it to the Police officer as he wrote everything down on a paper and pad. The problem with that description was, he basically just described Jack. Jack tapped his pen a few times looking bemused at the oblivious dock worker before writing it down.
“So, he only stole was a multicolored scarf from the Doctor Who exhibit?” he noted on his paper before looking back to the load worker, “Anything else?”
“Breaking and entering I guess. This guy was dressed like one of the characters from the show. I think he was a crazed fan.”
Jack gave a heavy breath through his nose, “Alright. Do a inventory check. If anything else is missing, call it in and we'll add it to the charges.”
“Thanks Officer. By the way, who are those girls in the back of your car?”
“Huh?” Jack turned back to still see Twilight and Tara sitting in the back of his Cruiser and instantly formed a lie. “Twins. They're on a job shadow. Screw up, have them both sent with me. What can you do?”
“Oh." The worker gave another look at the two before giving a slight nod to the officer, "Well, thanks again. I'll do a inventory check.”
“Alright, Hopefully nothing else was stolen.” Jack walked back to his Cruiser. He got in and began to punch the information into his on board computer.
“So, what happened?” asked Twilight, or Tara, it was hard to tell as it was difficult to distinguish them either by look or voice.
“The good Doctor stole his scarf from the exhibit. They lost him in the Mall Parking lot. That's where we're headed next.”
“Why?” asked one of them.
“Because Derpy and Lou are there, and there's a slight chance he ran into them while they were there. Since Lou hasn't said where she's taking Derpy next, I can only assume she's still there."
“Oh. Why are we still here?” asked the two in unison
Jack gave a baffled look to them both and returned to his computer: “We'll go there, don't worry. Right after I report this in.”
----
“WHAT!?” Reine screamed out.
“Yep. It's the truth.” laughed Lou.
The stunned Reine looked at the Blonde and Brit standing before her. After the little reunion out front, she had brought them back to her back office as to not create the scene she was playing out right now. Right now, she was at a loss for words. Standing before her was the Doctor, and the Derpy Hooves. While she found it hard to believe, four things were working against her. One, she never knew Lou to lie to her on any occasion. Second, the blonde looked almost exactly like Derpy, right down to the walled eyes. Third, the Doctor had used his Sonic Screwdriver to unlock her safe with ease. The fourth was only the Doctor could make Pinstripe work.
“This- This... This is... I don't know what to say!” She took off her glasses and began rubbing around her eyes with her left hand.
“I know isn't it awesome!” squealed Lou
“So, Equestria exists?" Reine reapplied the glasses and gave her own smile. "It's like a dream come true! What's it like over there?”
“It's... fun.” said Derpy nervously
The awkward situation was new to Derpy. While she had explained Equestria to others before who knew little about it; Reine seemed to know a lot about Equestria as she appeared to be a fan of the show.
“Is Celestia a prankster?” Reine kept going.
“No, well, I don't know.” Derpy answered, unsure of the answer.
“She can be.” spoke Whooves
The two fangirls broke off into laughter that befuddled the two Ponies-turned-humans as the Doctor spoke up.
“Yes, I can see you're quite excited, but I must get to my TARDIS. Who knows what's come of it in Derpy's absence.”
“Oh no worries. My boyfriend has it,” said Lou with no fear at all.
“Boyfriend?!" Whooves knew too well that the TARDIS was not a trusting type of lifeform. "Who is this boyfriend of yours?”
“His name is Jack. He's real friendly, Doctor.” spoke Derpy
“You sure? What is he?”
“He's a Police Officer. Trust me, he's a good man,” answered Reine.
“He's how I met Lou and Reine.” added Derpy
The Doctor tapped his arms that he had instinctivly crossed before lowering them. “Alright. If all three of you say so. Regardless, I need to get to it. Your planet is in grave danger. Danger I don't think it's capable of handling. Danger I don't even think I'm capable of handling.”
His alarm was met with curiosity rather than alarm. Even Derpy looked to him with some curiosity. “You're the Doctor! You can handle anything right!”
“Yes Doctor, you can handle anything right?” came a voice from behind them.
No, it wasn't behind them, it was all around them. Whooves took a dominant stand as the rest were a little scared at the disembodied voice that was now cackling around them. Whooves looked up to the air vents wondering if the spirit was in there when he caught something out of the corner of his eye. Standing there in his hoodie and worn out jeans stood the laughing embodiment of chaos.
“Discord!” cursed Whooves.
“Discord!?” screamed Derpy.
“Yes, yes, it is I, Discord. Hold your applause and cheers, do we really need to say it?” he asked uninterested in the whole situation.
He was more interested in the various items of clothing that were hanging around him or on mannequins ready to be put out on display. As he searched through them, the doctor fumed in anger.
“What are you doing here?” he demanded.
“Oh, just shopping. What better place than Rarity's Carousel Boutique!”
“My name is Reine!” she stated.
“Not where I'm from.” he chuckled before stopping at a brown suit with yellow undershirt.
Looking it over, feeling the texture, and admiring it, he nodded in approval. With a snap of his fingers, he was suddenly wearing it. Whooves almost growled at the sight while the rest gasped in horror. His features were sharp and and his eyes a crazed yellow and red. Though he was obviously human, his left hand was of a different size than his right, in fact, one could almost see the horns sticking out of his head. He looked pleased at his new attire for a moment, then changed his mind. Seeing their expressions of his new look, and looked it over again. Sticking his tongue out in disgust, he was no longer pleased with it..
“You're right. Could use a bit more work.”
With a snap of his fingers the pants suddenly became a two colors, the left leg, yellow. Right leg, green. Reine almost fainted at the sight of her ruined suit, but was kept up by Lou.
“Now then, the better question Doctor, is what are you doing here? You're not here to stop me, and you don't even know the rest of the 6 are even here!”
“The rest? What are you talking about?”
Discord just laughed as Derpy grabbed onto the Doctors arm. “Let's go! We're not strong enough!”
“Oh, can it be?" Discord seemed to lean forward right into Derpy's face, "The fabled Derpy Hooves and her messed up eyes?”
“My eyes are not messed up!” snapped Derpy.
“Of course, they're not." He responded, reaching out to run his hand through Derpy's hair before she slapped it away. "Is that why the Doctor is here? Did you screw up something on the TARDIS?”
“She did nothing of the sort, Discord!” yelled the Doctor as he stood in front of Derpy and stared down the newly suited spirit, “Why are you here and why are you a human!?”
“If you don't even know, then why should I tell you? That's the boring option." He placed a foot on the wall and then started walking up it and around the room to the amazement and terror of the group. "What to do, what to do?”
Stopping in place on the ceiling, he checked his nails and smelled his breath before perking up with a idea.
“I know! Just the thing to get this show a rolling!” He snapped his finger and in a instant, he was gone. The four looked around nervously wondering where he went when a scream came from outside. They ran outside to see that the mannequins had suddenly come to life and were attacking.
“What is going on?” shouted Lou.
“Looks like Discord's power alright. Kind of cliche, but downright effective if you ask me.” chimed the Doctor
“Weren't you angry a second ago?” inquired Reine.
“Yeah, but Discords gone. Nothing to be angry about.”
As he finished he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked back to see a mannequin along with a army of the soulless creations advancing towards them. “Although there is plenty to be in fear about! Time to go girls!”
The three looked back to see the army approaching them, screamed in horror, and ran after the Doctor. They almost made it to the entrance when four mannequins stood in there path. Its lifeless eyes seemed to stare into them. Stuck in a trance, Whooves struggled to grab into his pocket and pulled out his Sonic Screw driver. He didn't exactly want to do this, but he had no choice. Pointing it at the mannequin, he activated it and the little tool lit up. The sudden output of sonic energy cracked and shattered the mannequin and it fell down in a heap of plastic and clothing. He clapped his hands in joy and quickly pointed it at the second one. It took longer to break, which piqued the Doctors curiosity. Waiting a few seconds, he aimed it at the third one, and it shattered instantly. He then moved it rapidly to the final one and after a few seconds, it too shattered. The others quickly recovered from the attack as Whooves flipped the little device in his hands.
“Yep! I say Discord is certainly here alright.”
“What just happened?” asked Derpy.
“Meeting point. When two opposing objects meet, they are instantly attracted to the other. Like magnets. Those things don't have a life, we do.”
“How were you not affected?” asked Lou rubbing her head.
“I wasn't. But I have two hearts so I'm resistant.” he smiled.
The rest looked at him bemused as another scream was followed by a smashing of a window. Whooves looked to see that more mannequins were coming to life and were starting to wreak havoc on the customers. “Time to go!”
The Doctor moved fast followed by his assistant and her friends. They tried to make it to the exit, only to be stopped by a line of the lifeless creations standing there preventing their exit. “Okay, we can't go out that way.”
“Why!? Your Screwdriver works on them!” commented Derpy
“Yes, but it needs a moment to recharge or else it's useless. Come on! There has got to be another exit somewhere!”
They ran back into the mall trying to find another exit. Despite their best attempts, every exit seemed to be blocked by the army of lifeless models. As they kept on moving, a loud crack came from nearby that echoed all across the mall. It sounded like a gunshot, but was more muffled. Either someone was trying to fight back, or the mannequins were now striking out at the shoppers. Point was; they needed to get out fast. Passing by a railing to down below, they could see that the mannequins were corralling the humans into small spaces, entrancing them with their stares.
Seeing this, they doubled their efforts to get out. Reine, having worked here for awhile, led them to a fire escape that was undergoing under maintenance. At the very least, the Doctor's Screwdriver could unlock it so they could get out. Running into it, the Doctor aimed his Screwdriver at it, and unlocked the door. Shoving all their combined weight on the door, it didn't budge.
“What!?” NO!” screamed Lou.
“It must be blocked from the outside!” commented Reine, realizing they were trapped.
Behind them, the click of plastic feet and heels approached them slowly. They turned and looked in fear as four mannequins approached them silently. Whooves aimed his Screwdriver at them and shattered one. He waited a few seconds to destroy the next when one of them had picked up a hammer and threw at him. The Doctor tried to dodge it, but it wasn't aimed at him. Instead, it struck his Sonic Screwdriver, knocking it from his hand. Disarmed and helpless, they looked on to their fate.
With a boom, a mannequin exploded. They jumped and shielded themselves from the explosion as a second burst into pieces. As the mannequin fell to the floor, the third turned around to see its attacker before it to erupted into a thousand pieces. Their attackers gone, the Whooves looked to see a man in a dark uniform standing there holding a shotgun.
“Doctor! I'm here to place you under arrest!” he spoke.
“What!? How do you know who I am?”
“UNIT.” said the man.
“WHAT!? They don't exist here do they!?”
“No, but I'm never going to be able to use that again in my life!” he chuckled.
The rest uncovered their eyes at their savior, and Lou flew into a rage. “Jack! Are you insane!? You could have hit us!”
Jack started walking up as he lowered his shotgun and pointed a finger at Lou, “Hey! I just saved your life! A thank you would be nice!”
Lou walked up to him a scowl on her face and eyes narrowed in anger. She stared at him, before embracing him. Jack just smiled, unable to hug back since he was still holding his Police Shotgun.
“Who is this man?” spoke the Doctor
Derpy gave her own relieved smile, “That's Jack, the Police Officer we told you about. The man who has your TARDIS.”
“Oh. How did he know we were here?”
Jack was about to answer when a mannequin grabbed Lou. Jack went to fire, but his shotgun was dry. Reaching to his belt, he grabbed his extendable baton, whipped it out, and struck the lifeless model, shattering it. He started to reload and turned to the rest of them: “Better question here, what is going on here!?”
“Jack, it was Discord!” replied Lou.
“Discord? What!? Discord?!" Jack felt like he needed to ram his head into a wall, "How many Equestrians came over in those stupid TARDIS's!?”
“How do you know all this?” demanded the Doctor
Jack tried to answer, but was halted and was forced to blast several of the mannequins into dust and plastic. “I'll explain everything later! We need to get you out of here now! I got both Twilight's in my Cruiser let's go!”
“Both Twilight's?” asked the Doctor
“I said later! Now, come on!”
The Doctor grabbed his Screwdriver as Reine grabbed the hammer that was used to knock it from his hands. Making a break for it, the Doctor destroyed one Mannequin, while Jack reloaded and shot another to pieces. He destroyed another with his baton before taking five out with his shotgun who were a distance away. He was reloading when the Doctor shattered one with his Screwdriver before unleashing the power of his tool on another one a few seconds later. Jack looked around to see several more advancing on them, and fired into that mob while grabbing his mic.
“This is Officer Parker! We got a crisis at the Shopping Mall on 45th Street! Send the God Damn SWAT Team now!”
“What? Can you elaborate?” responded Dispatch.
“We got-," Jack paused for a moment to try and find the right words to say before going back to the attached radio. "Hell I don't know! The whole damn city just entered the Twilight Zone, we got mannequins attacking the shoppers!”
“Mannequins?” came Dispatch
“Yeah! Hold on!” He fired at one as another grabbed him. Reine acted fast and tore it's head off with her hammer. The rest fell over and smashed as Reine gave a innocent smile. Jack gave a small laugh and grabbed his mic again.
“I'm not lying here. Check other 911 calls, they're collecting a bunch of them in the center of the mall! I'm escorting a small group out now as I speak. Send backup now!”
“ETA 6 minutes!” responded dispatch.
“Get it down to 3 and you'll save some lives, damn it!” he screamed before letting go of his mic
“They believed you?” came Reine
“No, but they know something is going on at the mall.” spoke Jack
They made it to a exit, where several lay destroyed from where Jack had entered, his shotgun shells still laying on the floor. To their horror, more had arrived, doubling their numbers to prevent their escape. The Doctor, Reine, and Jack brandished their weapons ready to fight through all of them of they had to. As the forward line started to advance, the rear was engulfed in a field of magenta and lifted off the ground. The rear was thrown into the forward line and smashed into them, ending both in a instant. Behind them stood Twilight, her horns glow slowly fading away.
“Is that Tara?” spoke a shocked Reine.
“No! That's Twilight come on!” answered the Doctor.
They started to run until Lou was grabbed by three and pulled back. She screamed for help as she was dragged away.
“Oh no you don't!” Jack yelled as he turned to save Lou.
He was about to run in after her, when a mannequin grabbed his leg. Looking down, he saw half of one holding on. Like a zombie film, the half-broken models started to crawl toward him in a attempt to stop him. Whooves, Reine, and Twilight tried to help, but were stopped by them as well. As Jack ran out of ammo, he looked pleading toward his girlfriend when he noticed something.
There seemed to be a blue energy forming around her, when suddenly, she burst out; eyes white with the power flowing out of her. A wave of blue and lavender expanding in every direction sweeping through the halls of the mall. Every mannequin ceased to animate and fell over, returned to normal. Lou collapsed, exhausted, Jack catching her as she fell over.
“What in the blue hell was that!?” he asked her.
“I, I... I don't know.” she said, breathlessly.
Whooves and Reine were on them in a instant and helped her up.
“Get her to my cruiser! I got to check on the rest of the people,” ordered Jack.
“Right!” responded Whooves.
Jack ran back inside as the rest ran outside. He appeared over the edge to the bottom floor holding his shotgun. Down below, people were just coming out of their trances, or were still worried about what had just happened. Seeing there was nothing else he could do, he spoke out to them.
“Everyone, please remain calm! I'm a Police Officer, back up is arriving soon!”
“Sir!” called out a man from below, “What just happened?”
Jack looked to him with the most confidant look he could give: “I have no idea.”
Amongst the group, a tall man in a odd colored suit looked up with angered red eyes. Ducking out of sight, there was a snap of fingers, and the man was gone
Whooves and Reine helped the drained Lou into the backseat of the Cruiser. Derpy checked on her to see if she was okay as police sirens sounded in the distance. Knowing that everything was going to be okay, the Doctor turned to his unicorn companion with a smile on his face.
“Great timing Miss Sparkle!” he praised.
“Uh, you mean her?” pointed Twilight.
Whooves looked at her funny and looked to where she was pointing, only to see, Twilight? His view shifted back and forth between the two, and aside from clothes, they were exactly the same! He jumped back in shock still looking at them both as Reine and Derpy looked on as well, reacting the exact same way.
“They're multiplying!” said Whooves, as he ran his fingers through his hair in fear.
“No, Doctor,” said the other Twilight, who removed her headband to reveal her horn.
“What? How?” He whipped out his Screwdriver and activated it over both of them. “Hold on! If I am correct, this is just a cosmic coincidence and-!” His speech went uninterrupted as he continued to stare intensely at his little device that gave him information on the scan he just did. “You two are exactly the same.”
“What?” asked Jack walking out, not hearing half of what The Doctor had discovered. They looked to him wanting answers for a different reason for why Jack was here. “Security is handling it. Now, what's going on?”
“Who is she?” demanded the Doctor pointing to the other Twilight
“That's my friend Tara.” Jack caught The Doctor before he could ask another question, “Yes, she looks like Twilight over there. Is that what I'm missing?”
“Yes! They are exactly the same! How can it be!? Could there be-” The Doctor's mind kept buzzing as another idea crossed his mind. “Wait!”
He scanned Jack, and breathed in relief. There was nothing similar in the Pony Universe he was similar to. He wasn't done however, and he spun around and scanned Reine, and then Lou. Taking out his brainy specs he put them on and looked over his Screwdriver with great curiosity.
“Impossible!” he said in fear.
“What?” asked Twilight.
“They're... They're exactly the same!”
Derpy looked between Lou and Reine, and couldn't find anything similar about them: “Uh, Doctor, they're completely different.”
“No, not that! I mean, they are exactly the same as the others in Equestria! Amazing! Absolutely amazing! That explains why Discord is here! But why? He wouldn't do it, would he? No, he may like games but the chances of him being defeated by the 6 would be too risky for him. Why?”
“Hey! Number 12! Care to explain what you're rambling on?” called Lou from the cruiser.
“It's the Doctor, thank you. As it turns out, you, uh, Tara, and Miss Reine here are exact copies of the Ponies back in Equestria.”
“Copies of who?” inquired Derpy.
“Well, look at them. Isn't it obvious? Miss Tara here is Twilight. Reine is Rarity! Are there more of you?”
“Well, there's Dash, April, Diane, and Fiona,” spoke Tara nervously.
“Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy!” He practically jumped in joy at his discovery. “This is incredible! In fact, I don't think even human words can describe it yet! Let's see, what's another language I know that can describe this?”
“Hey! Who am I based off of?” demanded Lou, her energy returning to her as she tried to get out of the vehicle.
“Why, Princess Luna!” spoke Whooves as if it was obvious.
Jack felt a large smile cross his face, “This is awesome.”
“How is this awesome?” came Twilight.
“We're all copies of fictional characters from a little girls cartoon show!” added Tara.
“Not to mention there is a villain with poor taste from that exact same show loose amongst the city!”continued Reine.
“I don't think awesome is even the right word to describe this!” finished Twilight
“No, not that. THAT is weird and horrible respectively.” answered Jack.
“Then, what's so awesome?” inquired Derpy
“I'm dating Princess Luna! WHOO!” cheered Jack
He turned around and walked off, unable to contain his joy, holding both his hands and his shotgun in the air still cheering. The rest, outside the still pondering Doctor, looked on at him bemused at his little display.
“I guess the only good thing to come from this is, I'm a princess.” chuckled Lou
“Are you going to do anything about that?” asked Tara, pointing to the still celebrating Cop.
Lou just leaned back into the Cruiser gave a smirk: “He just saved our lives. Might as well let him have this moment to be happy.”
“Well, technically your Majesty, you saved us after you used your magic.” spoke Derpy
“Huh? What?” responded a confused Lou thinking back to what she did.
“Yes, how did you do that your Highness? I mean, you shouldn't have control of magic. You're just a human” came Whooves, his attention now to her.
Lou liked the fact she was suddenly being referred to as royalty, but regardless she had no clue as to how she was able to do what she had just did. “I don't know. I just wanted them to get off me and then all of a sudden, they were off of me.”
“Interesting.” remarked Whooves beginning to pace and tapped a finger on his chin.
Almost instantly Jack returned: “Hey! Backup's here! Look sharp! Doc, lose the Scarf for a moment!”
Whooves looked at his scarf and quickly discarded it into the cruiser. Jack walked over as several Police and Sheriff squad cars rolled up, followed closely by a few ambulances. One of the other Officer stepped out gun drawn as he met with Jack, who was still brandishing his shotgun.
“Jack, what is going on here?”
Jack thought fast and formulated his best lie on the subject,and then decided it was better go with a variation of the truth: “The Mannequins started to attack people.”
“What? Mannequins?”
“Yeah. That's what everyone is going to tell you. Don't believe me, check the security cameras.”
“You sure it wasn't some kind of... gas attack?”
“Well, I thought that, but I didn't put all those things by the front door.”
The Officer looked inside to see the piles of the plastic figures littering the inside near the door. He scratched his head and walked over, opening up the door and nearly falling over. Laying all over the floor were dozens of them, the whole mall it seemed. What was more, many that had been knocked in half or torn apart were seemingly crawling along the floor as if grasping for something. Others were in pieces, ripped apart or torn asunder by a weapon. Looking toward the back, he could see people wanting to get out, but nervous to clamber over the mannequins laying there.
“Something strange went down here,” he said.
“Told you,” spoke Jack walking up.
“I'm going to need a statement from you on this. What about the people by your cruiser?”
Jack looked to see the odd group sitting in and around his Police Car.
“I've already got statements from them. I'll file them in with my own. None are hurt, they just want to go home.”
“Alright. Go tell them they can. I'll report this in.”
Jack nodded and walked over to the others still trying to make sense of all that has happened.
“Alright, you're free to go. Go home, get the TARDIS, I don't care. Get out of here and get to safety! Just uh, use Lou's car. I still need mine.”
“What about you?” asked Lou
“Someone's gotta clean this mess up. Doc, you know what you're doing right?”
“Maybe. With Discord around I don't think anywhere on Earth is safe!”
“On Earth?” came Derpy.
Whooves just smiled.
---
“This sucks.” grunted Dash
Laying back on a bed in her cell bed, she stared out the window at the evening sky. She wasn't in prison. Yet.
Fortunately, since her first “Cell mate” decided to “leave” to a different cell, she had been pretty much left alone. That however came with the fact of boredom, something she hated. Being cooped up in the precinct holding cell was not her idea of a good time. There was some excitement when the Officers in the main room seemed to be going nuts on all these incoming calls about some freaky happening down at the mall, but that was now over. Now there was nothing to do but stare at the night sky and wish she could be up there instead of down here. She was still lost in thoughts as an Officer walked in and unlocked her cell door and opened it up.
“Alright Miss. Your free to go for now.”
She blinked once before she looked up to the upset cop. “Huh? What?”
“Yep. Bail's been paid. You will receive a court summons date soon. Better be there or you will end up here.”
“Yeah fine. Who paid? Was it Scoot!?”
“Nope!” came a chipper voice as Diane burst into the room much to Dash's surprise.
“Diane? How'd you pay for it?”
“She wasn't alone,” spoke a southern voice.
Dash turned to see the stetson wearing cowgirl standing there proudly. She tipped her hat to her friend and stepped out of the way to see a shy pink haired girl standing there.
“April? Fiona? What?”
“We heard Jack had to arrest you from Tara,” spoke Fiona quietly.
“Since we were all at mah place, we chipped in what we had and decided to bail ya out!”
“So, here we are!” said Diane.
“Awe! You guys are the best!”
She gave her friends a hug, which they happily returned. The Officer standing there rolled his eyes and walked out. After separating, the four walked out and prepared to leave when there came a laugh at the door.
“Greetings everybody! How is everyone tonight?”
Standing there was a tall thin man in a oddly colored suit clapping his hands together. To the four girls, there was something sinister and dark about this man. Everyone else in the station however looked to him with eyebrows raised and curiosities piqued. Either this guy was crazy, or just wanted attention. Unfortunately for all of them, it was both. As one Officer walked over to ask the man to leave the station, the strange visitor smiled a wicked smile, and poked the Officer on the head. The Police man screamed in pain and grabbed his head before his brown hair suddenly drained white and his skin became pale. He turned around, a distant look in his eyes. Others drew their guns while one went up to see if his friend was okay. As he touched the Officer, he met a similar fate. It was like a virus, and the two were going to spread it all across the Police Station. Behind him, the strange man who started this just laughed.
“By oath, you are to uphold the law and enforce order. I think it will be so much more fun to break the law and enforce disorder.”
He laughed as more Police fell under his spell. Stuck between whether to fire at their friends or not until it was too late. One managed to get a shot off at the cackling being standing there, but it went through him causing no damage.
“Oh really? I'm doing all this and you think a bullet will stop me?” His eyes went beyond the cop that shot him. “Oh hellooooo.”
He looked to Dash, April, Diane and Fiona standing there looking on in fear. While Fiona and Diane stepped back out of fear, the other two readied themselves for a fight. He clapped his hands together and gave a evil grin as every controlled officer suddenly turned to them.
“I was hoping to just corrupt Law Enforcement to remove of that one pesky Policeman, but with you here it makes it all the more fun!”
Before anything else could happen though, a small pop erupted in the center room and smoke began to cloud their vision. A hand suddenly grabbed Fiona and she screamed in fear. Dash and April turned to attack whomever it was, but it was a normal Officer with a shotgun.
“Get out of here! Use the fire escape!”
“What about you?”
He didn't answer and ran into the smoke, his shotgun going off twice before it silenced.
“You heard him! Time to go!” said April pushing her friends back.
They ran for it as the smoke behind them made out the still silhouettes of the zombie-like officers stumbling forward toward them. As Diane shut the door, a voice bellowed through the halls.
“FIND THEM!”
It sent chills down their spines. In the span of a few minutes, some guy had just taken control of the near entire police force, and was now hunting them. Other officers further inside rushed past them confused and ran toward the front, unknowing of their fate. Running past them, they finally found the fire escape as the door Diane had closed burst open, revealing the infected officers. They spread their control to the others who approached them, who kept it spreading. Dash grabbed at the fire escape, but it wouldn't budge. Even with her, Fiona's, and Diane's combined strength it wouldn't budge. It was almost as if it was sealed shut.
“Stand back!” yelled April.
They did and with one kick, the door to the escape actually broke off it's hinges and crashed to the floor, much to everyone's surprise.
“How did you-?” tried Dash
“I don't know. Come on!”
They burst out the broken door and ran for their lives, the Police close on their heels. Ducking into a alley, they heard sirens sounding, knowing their time now was short. There was no way that they could outrun them all if the entire city's Police force was now under the control of whoever that was. Turning a corner, they skidded to a stop to see two cruisers and their zombie-like owners standing there guns drawn. They tried to double back, only to find five more had appeared. They were trapped with nowhere to go, and if they were, at the very least April and Dash were going to fight.
“You take the two on the left?” asked April
“No I'll take the three on the right!” laughed Dash
The humor lightened the situation a little, but they were still doomed. Actually, there was a whole lot of light coming into the dark alley. It was as if the sun had come up again! The Officers shielded their eyes and dropped to their knees as the light glowed around them. The four girls standing there didn't know what to make of it until they turned around to see a woman standing there.
“What in Tarnation? Miss-” started April
“No time to explain! I need you to come with me right now!”
“Alright, jiggly leaver, throwy button, strange purple-pushy-poundy-object! Let's get this old girl running!”
The Doctor walked around the console almost dancing as he activated the TARDIS. A telephone on the console rang, he picked it up, and handed it to Derpy.
“It's for you.”
“Huh?” asked Derpy
She put it up to her ear and heard the Doctors voice: “Let's fly!”
She looked to him confused, but he just smiled and laughed. The TARDIS whirred to life with the sound that brought music to their ears. Whooves clapped and smiled before appearing to the door. Standing there was Lou, Tara, Reine, and Twilight.
“Alright! A quick spin around the block to see if she still works and I'll be right back!”
“Yeah, you have a poor record with that,” said Tara.
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“I've seen the shows. You say you'll be right back, and you show up thirty years too late.”
“Yeah, my double has a point,” added in Twilight.
“I can assure you it's just a quick test,” eased Whooves.
He shut the door and began to work the console as Derpy looked on to him with a curious and sort of disgruntled look.
“What?” asked Whooves noticing.
“Why does Twilight get to keep her horn and I can't keep my wings?”
“Ooh....” He started trying to find some excuse that would explain it before thinking back on the fact that there was no time to discuss this. “When we got back I'll see if Twilight can fix that!”
Derpy rolled her eyes and stood off to the side as the machine started working. It started to float and in seconds, they were traveling through the time stream. Both were relieved and Whooves overjoyed that the trip hadn't done any damage to the ship. After checking the systems one last time, and then going over them with his Sonic Screwdriver, he looked around for a particular object, yet he couldn't find it.
“Derpy, there was a shoe here. Where did it go?”
Derpy looked to him befuddled that he needed that shoe. She walked over to where it landed and tossed it over to him.
“What was it doing over there?” he asked confused.
“I don't know,” Derpy answered sheepishly, trying to hide the fact that she had actually threw it over there in the first place.
He just shrugged and placed it on the console, and gave it a twist. He clapped his hands and Derpy could feel the TARDIS slowing down. The sound of it coming back into existence without its breaks and in a instant, they felt it touch Earth. Before anything could be said, the door burst open and in stormed Twilight.
“What kept you!” she screamed.
“We were only gone a few seconds Twilight,” tried Derpy.
“A few seconds? Try thirty minutes!” she yelled.
“Oops,” responded the Doctor.
“'Oops' doesn't even begin to cover it,” stated Twilight darkly.
Amongst all of Twilight's shouting, her human double poked her head in. “Hey, I thought I might want to let you know, Jack's here.”
They looked to her as she gave a little smile and withdrew back outside. Derpy was the first outside, followed by the Doctor with a still fuming Twilight right behind him. They could see the Cruiser just at the end of the parking lot, and mysteriously, it stopped there.
“Now what is he doing?” asked Lou.
Right as she said that, a spotlight shined on them all with someone speaking over a megaphone.
“This is the Police! Surrender now!”
“What!?” yelled Reine.
“We know you're there Doctor! Come out with your hands up!”
“What!? How do they know?”
“The rest of the Mane 6 as well!” came the Officer again.
Whooves pondered on the thought as the rest looked on confused and scared. Thinking about his options, he came up with the best one. “Right, well can't argue with that, they clearly are law enforcement- Everyone into the TARDIS!”
The Doctor jumped in followed by the rest of the group as the Police started to open fire. Bullets bounced harmlessly off the TARDIS as the ship levitated and took off into the air. Inside, they could be heard echoing down the halls as the Doctor spun a wheel and slammed down his fist on a keyboard.
“Well, let's try and see them pursue us through the time stream! AHA!”
There was a horrific snap that rang through the TARDIS, and nothing happened.
“What? No, no, no, no, no! What's going on!?”
He looked all over the console as the TARDIS still rang with bullets. The rest took cover what good it did them as Whooves threw up his hands in frustration.
“DISCORD!”
“What? Discord?” came Lou
“He's preventing us from escaping into the time stream! Ah, I still got one more trick up my sleeve!”
With a press of a button, the bullets slowly stopped bouncing off the TARDIS. The Doctor adjusted his suit and leaned up against it, satisfied.
“What did you do to them?” asked Reine.
“Nothing. I just turned the TARDIS invisible.”
“Why were they shooting at us? What does Discord have to do with this?” came Derpy
“I don't know. How could the Police know I exist if I'm just a fictional character? Discord's behind this, I know it! He's the only one!”
“He's working with the Police?” asked a shocked Tara
“Now, I do believe the Police are now working for him.”
“Wait, Doctor!” came Derpy
They looked to her, and she had the worst look of fear on her face. They almost didn't want to hear what she had to say.
“The Policeman said the rest of the Mane 6. Didn't you say there were more of them out there?”
“Dash!” yelled Tara, “She's at the Police station!”
“Not to mention April, Diane, and Fiona!” added Reine
The Doctor began to work furiously at his console and stared into the viewfinder.
“I'll find them! Don't worry!”
Twilight looked on worried at all that was happening around them. If Discord was here on Earth, the Humans were not prepared for the chaos he could bring. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught Lou leaning up against the side of the TARDIS with a sickly look on her face.
“Are you okay?” she asked.
Lou's eyes stared up at Twilight as she wrapped her arms around her chest, “If Discord has the Police force under his control, he may have gotten Jack too!”
----
“Why the hell do I have to head down to the station!?” yelled Jack into his radio
“We need all Officers to come down to the station for an important message.” responded Dispatch, they sounded rather calm against Jack's anger.
“Tell me over the God Damn radio then!”
“Suspects are using Police Scanners to intercept our communications.”
“What!? Then go to one of the three secured channels then!”
“We need all Officers to come down to the station for an important message.”
“Back with his again! Can I just go home!?” cried Jack in frustration.
“Negative.” came the reply.
Jack sighed and clicked the button on his radio: “10-4, I'm on my way to the stati-”
He was stopped by a white mustang careening across the road and slamming into a light pole. In a instant he was out of his car and rushed over to see if they were okay. He could hear sirens approaching in the background and they were approaching fast. Wondering if there was a chase nearby, he was at the very least relieved to know there was a ambulance already on call. Whoever was in this was going to make it. Upon reaching the car, he nearly stepped back in horror. He knew who this car belonged to, and grabbed at the door. As he clicked open the handle, the door burst open and knocked him to the ground. Before he could get back up, the wind was knocked out of him and he felt a fist slam against his face. He was expecting a second when he heard a familiar voice
“Jack?”
“Hello Dash,” he greeted in a daze.
“Don't tell me he got you too!” she pleaded.
“Who got who now?” he said still in a daze.
From behind the two, April appeared as the Mustang began to back up.
“Come on Dash! We got to go!”
“April! It's Jack.”
April looked, and to her surprise, it was Jack. He recovered from his attack and stood up, albeit a bit wobbly.
“What's going on here? Why are you in such a hurry to-”
“Too late!” screamed Diane.
“How many you got in that mustang, and is that C-”
He was cut off by a Police car running up and instantly the Officer driving it drew her gun as he stepped out. Parker looked at her, and recognized the cop.
“Smith? What the hell are you doing!? Put that gun away they're no threat.”
“Parker! Return to the Station for an important message.”
“What the-? What did you guys do?” asked Jack putting his hand on his pistol.
“Jack! No! It's not what you think!” cried Dash.
“There was this guy and her started to take over the Police Station!” added in April.
“They were all zombie like, and it was CRAZY!” cried Diane.
“The Police are after us!” finished Fiona.
“Anything you want to add?” Jack asked the fifth occupant.
She shook her head no. Jack drew his pistol much to their alarm, and pointed it at the other Officer.
“Smith! Put your weapon down!”
“Parker return-”
“Smith! I'm ordering you to put your weapon down or I will open fire on you!”
Dash tried to get Jack's attention, “Jack! What are you-?”
“If Discord has control the Police, nowhere is safe! Get out of here now!”
Dash was confused by what Jack just said, “Discord? What?”
“Get in now!” ordered the driver.
“But Miss-!” tried Diane.
“Now!”
More Police Cruisers drove up and replayed the action of Smith, drawing their guns at the mustang. Jack stood there defiant as the others got into the car.
April put her head out of the window, “Jack! What about-”
“Get out of here now!”
The moment the last word left his mouth he unloaded his pistol. The deadly projectiles impacted off the other Police cruisers and gray cops took cover. The Mustang tore off just as Jack ran out of ammo. The mustang tore away with its terrified occupants. Several loud booms pierced their ears, and they looked back to see Jack falling back onto the ground, a fountain of red erupting out his back
-----
Lou jumped for no apparent reason. She was breathing heavily and a cold sweat ran down her face. They all looked to her confused as she shook off the feeling. The Doctor continued to move madly around his console trying to pinpoint the others exact locations, but every time he tried, he would fail. He slammed on the console in frustration and cried into the air.
“WHY!?”
“What's wrong Doctor?” asked a concerned Derpy.
“The TARDIS wasn't designed to locate people! I was trying to see if I could lock on to their energies, but I'm getting nothing!”
“Well, can't we try the Police?” came Reine.
“What good will they do us? They're trying to kill us!” yelled Twilight.
“You obviously don't know how Police work. They communicate all over radio! Can't you pick up those? If they are looking for them as well, we could use that to our advantage.”
“Bloody brilliant, Miss Reine! Why didn't I think of it? Don't answer that.”
Reine had her mouth open ready to reply, but the Doctors words canceled that action. He pointed his Screwdriver on a panel on the wall and it sprung to life.
“We need all Officers to come down to the station for an important message.”
The Doctor gave it a dark look: “Bait and trap. The poor souls.”
“You think Jack got caught into that?” came Tara.
No one could give an answer. Whooves figured this was going to repeat and started to change the frequency. Most signals were the same near automated tone for the trap, but finally they came to one that was clear.
“All Officers, We have a White mustang carrying the four suspects going south on the County Road 32 toward the river. License plate 856-JWX.”
“Well that doesn't help.” remarked Whooves.
“That's my sisters car!” cried Lou.
“Who?” came Derpy.
“My sister Celeste!”
Whooves turned around and looked at her bemused: “Okay, that one was blatantly obvious! How could you not see it!?”
“Huh?” came Lou.
“Celeste, Celestia? Come on! It's staring you right in the face!” he yelled.
“It's a common name!” argued Lou.
“That's not my point!” he yelled before grabbing the TARDIS's controls and yanking on them, “Hold on! We're going in! Derpy! Twilight! The door!”
Both ran to the door and opened it. The Doctor maneuvered the TARDIS around to where they could see out in front and the machine stopped spinning. In front of them as he flew it in was a massive high speed involving several Police Cars and even three helicopters.
“There! In front!” yelled Twilight
Pointing out the obvious aside, Whooves flew in and low. He skidded off the top of a Police Car and zeroed in on the mustang. Looking in, Twilight and Derpy were surprised to see the human versions of their friends back in Equestria. The doubles themselves looked on quite surprised to see the TARDIS and what looked to be there friend flying there next to them.
“We have a flying box in the chase. Confirmed, it's the Doctor!” came the radio.
“They're on to us!” yelled Tara.
“Well we better hurry up!” called the Doctor with a bit of laughter.
Gently working the controls, he moved the TARDIS right next to the car, remembering what he did back in London all those years ago, or will do. He never found out what year it was to be certain. Looking in his view port, he could see the Police cars closing in.
“Tell them to get in!”
“Open the door!” screamed Twilight.
Instead, the window rolled down and Dash poked her head out. Twilight was a little taken aback by the resemblance she could see between her and the real Rainbow Dash.
“Are you crazy! What are you in!?”
“The TARDIS! We'll get you out of here!” tried Twilight.
“Do as she says!” yelled Celeste from the drivers seat.
Twilight looked up and nearly fell over to see the human embodiment of her mentor. Sure it was weird enough to see a human Rarity or Rainbow Dash, even a human Princess Luna. But Celestia caught her off guard. Her thoughts were suddenly brought back to the situation as Dash opened the door and prepared to jump.
“We'll catch you!” called Derpy.
“You better!” threatened Dash.
Looking at the speeding ground below her, she gulped and closed her eyes. Putting all her strength into her legs, she pushed off from the car and felt herself flying in the air. It was amazing, like nothing she ever felt before! That was, until she started to fall to the ground. Her teeth clenched and every part of her body froze in fear until she was grabbed by four arms and pulled inside. Landing, she shook from the experience and then realized where she was.
“Whoa. This is cool.”
“Next one!” yelled Whooves.
April was up next, and putting all her faith in her strength, jumped for her life. Unlike Dash, she didn't close her eyes as she felt her stetson starting to fly off her head. She grabbed it, but it threw her off her trajectory and instead of being caught by the rest, she slammed into them.
“Whoops. Thanks fer catchin' me there Tara.”
“My name's Twilight.” answered Twilight.
“What ya talking about?”
“Hi April!” greeted Tara.
April looked up alarmed to see Tara, and a equally surprised Dash standing behind her. The Doctor struggled to keep the controls working when the radio sprung to life.
“Officers disengage, we have a SWAT armored van moving in!”
“Armored van?” he asked.
Looking in the view port, he saw to his alarm saw a large armored truck barreling down toward them at high speed. They were going to ram that mustang right off the road, if not ram the TARDIS off it's path, which could be disastrous!
“Hurry! We don't have long!”
Twilight looked out and back, and to her alarm saw what was coming toward them. Next in line was Fiona, who was frightened to death to even be outside of the car at these speeds. Everyone was coaching her on to jump, promising that she was going to make and they were going to catch her. Tears flooded from the scared girls face as she struggled to even stand. The SWAT truck approaching fast, Twilight removed her headband, and used her Magic. Fiona was engulfed in a orb of pink magenta magic and floated over safely to the TARDIS. She was set down, too shocked at what just happened for words.
“What was that?” asked Dash.
“Later! I need to get the rest-”
Twilight was cut off by the TARDIS jerking under the force of the armored van outside. The Doctor fought for control as the battering ram struck the mustang next.
“I can't get a clear shot!”
The mustang was almost out of control. Struggling to aim, her horn powered up and with a pop, Diane was sitting in the TARDIS still screaming from the mustang. Her friends eased her screaming as she realized where she was.
“WOW! Look at this place! It's bigger on the inside!”
“One left!” cheered the Doctor.
“My sister!” called Lou.
Twilight moved to the door to get Celeste from the car, when to her surprise, she looked to see her already in the speeding TARDIS. The Mustang skidding off the rode and into the ditch.
“What?”
“Later. Doctor! Wee need to get out of here!”
They all looked on stunned when the TARDIS was hit by the SWAT truck. Unlike before, this one was violent and Twilight was flung out. She screamed in fear until a arm grabbed her. Looking up, she could see April holding on along with Dash and Derpy behind her.
“Pull me in!” yelled Twilight.
“Working on it!” struggled April as the TARDIS was hit again.
She was joined by the rest of the crew outside the piloting Doctor. The SWAT vehicle hit the TARDIS again and then went to the Mustang.
“Please be alert! We have a rouge Cruiser in the chase! Car number 42.”
The radio blared this message and was about to give out more information when it was interrupted.
“Ah-hack-shut up!” came a familiar voice.
“Jack!?” called Dash.
“But, but, but he got shot!” stammered Diane.
“He got shot?!” screamed Lou.
“We thought he died!” answered Dash.
Lou fell back against the wall stunned. The Doctor looked into his view port and saw the Cruiser approaching at high speed. Zooming in, it wasn't a pretty sight. The cruiser had been shot up, and was smoking in several areas. Jack himself lay slouched to the side in his car, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. His face was blank and determined, save for when he coughed up blood. The Doctor grabbed the phone and yelled over it.
“Officer! What are you doing!? Are you trying to get yourself killed!?”
“Doc? *cough* When-when did you get on the radio?” replied Jack over the phone.
“What are you doing!?”yelled the Doctor.
“*cough, cough* Doing my -hack- duty Doc. I'll get that *cough* SWAT truck off your back!”
“You'll be killed!” yelled Whooves.
“That's *cough* the idea.” he laughed weakly, having accepted his fate.
“No! No one's dying!” ordered the Doctor.
“Tell, -hack- *cough* tell... Tell Lou I love her!” he coughed out.
The Doctor was about to scream back, when the line went dead. The only way Jack could have done that was to have destroyed his radio. He slammed the phone down in anger and fury and tried to bring the TARDIS up in a desperate attempt to save the Officer, but the sudden change followed by another ram attack nearly had Twilight falling from her friends grip. The Doctor cried in agony and steadied the TARDIS. They all watched as the damaged cruiser slammed into the side of the heavy armored truck. It knocked it off course and Jack spun his car in front of it. The SWAT truck slammed against it, the Cruisers tires popping and sparks flying from it. One spark struck home in the wounded Police Cruiser and it erupted into flame, sending the SWAT Van off the road and careening into a ditch. They all looked on in horror as the fire burned. The burning hulk rolled across the ground finally coming to rest a few feet away right side up. Sitting in the drivers seat, one could almost make out the outline of the former cops body, and Lou was forced to turn away. She walked over, unsure of what to do until she was met by the forgiving face of the Doctor. His face was long and saddened. He clicked two buttons on his controls and handed her the phone he had been using to Lou.
“Listen,” he told her.
Lou grabbed the phone and listened to the last words Jack had said.
The Doctor worked his TARDIS. He was still piloting it manually slowly and gently set it down in the grass outside a large mansion. Whoever owned it certainly had a taste for gardening, and was wealthy. The house itself was three stories high, and larger than most of the buildings in town, let alone Ponyville.
“So who owns this place exactly?” asked Derpy.
“Isn't it obvious? It's Celeste's house!” snapped Dash.
Her tone was spiteful, though it wasn't her fault. There wasn't a word said since the county road. Derpy just nodded and walked off toward the house. Whooves was the last out and turned the invisibility on the TARDIS on as to disguise it from everything else. Stepping inside the large mansion, they all marveled at, quite possibly, the grandest interior decorating they had ever seen. It was almost too fancy for almost a palace. Expensive and fine furniture, crafted wood finishing, glass tables, vases and paintings obviously not of this country. The others were already getting comfortable with the place, but despite their attempts, the tone of mood was the same as back in the TARDIS. Well, at least for most of them it was. The Doctor, while saddened that Jack sacrificed his life, was more or less used to such actions. Right now he wanted answers from one particular person in this mansion. He eyed the eldest woman in the back, dressed in the white and gold dress and confronted her upfront.
“Alright! Talk!” he demanded.
“Excuse me?” answered Celeste.
His angered and demanding tone got him looks from the rest of the group, but he would have no playing games.
“You know what's going on here! You even seem to have Magic! Why is Discord here! What is going on!?”
Celeste looked at the angered Doctor nervously, not knowing what to say.
“Everyone here outside my group, excluding the late Jack were based off ponies from Equestria! You're the embodiment of our leader, Princess Celestia! You know something!”
Celeste was growing more nervous by the second, and the Doctor noticed this. His anger only raised with every second he thought on it.
“This could have been prevented! The lives of those innocent Officers and Jack could have been prevented! Yet you chose to sit and watch!” he declared.
“That's not what happened!” argued Celeste.
“Then what then?!” he yelled.
Celeste looked to him, and then to the rest of them sitting or standing there, their eyes upon her like knives cutting into her. Taking in and letting out a deep breath, she looked at them and spoke.
“What do you want to know?”
“What is Discord doing here? He's supposed to be forever trapped in stone in Canterlot!” asked the Doctor, starting it off.
“And your Discord is in Canterlot, right where you left him.”
“You're telling me that this Discord is a different Discord entirely?”
“Doctor, do you know of parallel dimensions?”
The Doctor eyes went wide at the sound of those words. He didn't even need to speak and she continued.
“The Discord you face is a different one from yours. This one managed to defeat Twilight and her friends long ago.”
“So what? They banished him out of Equestria or something?” came Twilight.
“Yes, that is right!” answered Celeste.
“How?” asked April.
“Celestia and Luna managed to open a portal to another realm of space using their combined powers.”
“So they sent him here?”
“No.” said Celeste in a dark somber tone, “Doing so used all the energy Celestia and Luna had, and they passed away after that battle.”
“Oh my!” said a shocked Reine
“Now, answer me this Doctor, what are you, Twilight, and I'm guessing Ditzy Do doing here?”
“A fluke in time and space. A random anomaly! Don't change the subject.”
Celeste seemed to have a comforting smile, much like Celestia would have when she had a thought or plan. “Maybe not, Doctor. Your presence here might be for a reason,”
The Doctor pondered on this. He never considered that. Was there another force out there acting as well? If so, Who?
“So, let me get this straight!” came Diane who was exasperated through this whole situation, “So Discord drifted through space, found Earth, and somehow another Celestia and Luna put us here to try and stop him?”
“Close. Our doppelgangers come from a separate Celestia who saw him, and instructed a third one to entrap him on this planet with weakened power. A fourth one, sensing his power rising, seeded the essence of herself, her sister Luna, and the Mane 6 on this world to watch over him. I learned this one day from a fifth Celestia who warned me about it a few years back.”
“How many Celestia's are there?” yelled Derpy.
“In short: Infinite.” replied Celeste.
“Parallel Dimensions,” finished the Doctor.
“But wait! Why did he wait so long to strike?” came Dash.
“I'd rather not want to think what would happen,” added Fiona.
“Discord was weakened when he came here. A world governed by laws of physics and not magic. There was nothing to get his power from at a rapid pace. Over the years, he accumulated more and more power until he guessed now was the time to strike.”
“He's going to regret he ever did,” grunted Lou from the corner.
They looked back to see her sitting on a chair, her faced darkened and angry. She didn't even bother to look at them and just brooded in her anger.
“I guess, the question now is what to do?” came April.
“Well, in the show they used the Elements of Harmony!” spoke Diane.
“Yeah, it's not a show,” spoke Derpy.
“Sorry,” apologized Diane.
Dash was the next to speak: “Even if that is how they did it, we never exactly fought Nightmare Moon! What's worse, I don't think there is a old princess castle in the middle of a dark enchanted forest!”
The mood dimmed once again at the futility of using the elements. Or at least, so they thought.
“That's not entirely accurate,” spoke Celeste.
“What? Which part?” inquired Whooves.
“Sister, you don't mean!?” spoke up Lou.
“I mean it,” answered Celeste.
“Sorry to interrupt, but are you telling me there is a Everfree Forest and a Royal Pony sisters castle on Earth?” yelled Twilight.
“Not exactly,” said Celeste walking out of the room for a moment.
“Tara, can I ask you a question?” asked Derpy.
“Yeah.”
“Back in Equestria, Princess Celestia is Twilight's mentor. Is that true here?”
“Kind of. She's president of the local University.”
“President Celeste! It's literally begging you to notice!” cried the Doctor in frustration before he started to beat his head up against the wall repeating over and over, “Why?”
“So, how did you meet her?” continued Derpy.
“Well, I was part of a program and she kind of became my mentor at the University.”
This was met with a cry of aggravation by Whooves.
“I met the rest of my friends through it.”
“And we all became best friends!” cheered Diane.
“More or less,” added Dash cleaning out her ear from Diane's outburst.
“It was right in front of you!” screamed Whooves.
“Doctor, you didn't suspect anything until you met Tara here,” scolded Twilight.
“Yes, but I noticed it beforehand! I certainly would have found out what was up with all this evidence shoved in my face.”
“Celeste's back,” said a cold Lou.
They turned to her as she laid a map on the table. They formed around it to look at it as Celeste finished smoothing it out. It was of a state park, but the map was several years old. Celeste seemed to ignore this fact as she ran her finger on a road to a large house in the center.”
“Here. It's where my sister and I used to live.”
“What happened?” asked a worried Twilight.
“Foreclosure,” smiled Celeste sheepishly.
“Oh,” Twilight responded bemused.
“Ya think the elements are there?” asked April.
“I don't think, I know,” answered Celeste.
“Alright! We go there, get the elements, and smash Discord just like in the show-er, Equestria!” cheered Dash.
“Well, dear, there is one problem with that,” spoke Reine.
“What? Scared of some dust?”
She looked to her brash friend unimpressed with her mocking of her higher standard of living.
“Hilarious. The map here is from the 80's,” she pointed out.
“Afraid of some outdated fashion?” laughed Diane.
“Don't start with me Diane,” threatened Reine through clenched teeth.
“Ah, the 80's. That was a fun time,” chimed in Whooves.
“Yes. That's the only map with that road still marked. The road has since been uprooted and destroyed, but they left the house there as a hiking destination for tourist. They actually say it's haunted.”
“Okay, Plan B! We hike in to the haunted house, get the elements, and smash Discord!” again tried Dash.
“He'll know.”
The words came from Twilight. Unlike all of them, she had actually fought against Discord and knew what he would do. He'd separate them all, turn them against each other. If not that divide and conquer. “We need to distract him. He'll come for us in the forest. Nothing we can do will be able to stop him.”
“Here's an idea, why don't I fly over with the rest of them in my TARDIS, we grab the Elements, and fly back. I can do it in a snap!”
“Ah'm pretty sure if this is Discord, he's planned that out,” spoke April.
“How so?” inquired the Doctor, wondering what she was going on.
“Well, if he knows he's up against the Doctor. Ah'm sure he's got some sort of protection against it,” continued April.
“Well, I guess we'll need a Plan C then,” pondered the Doctor thinking on the subject. “Twilight, your plan is for us to distract him?”
Twilight nodded 'Yes' in answer.
“While my friends and I go to here and get the elements?” added Tara a little nervously.
“We have no choice,” Celeste said with some regret.
“Leaving just us to stop Discord,” Derpy worriedly answered.
“Agreed. Leaving the Doctor, Derpy, Twilight and I to stop him,” said Celeste looking at the rest standing around the table.
“Ooh, I don't know,” responded the Doctor.
They all gave him puzzled looks as he elaborated more on what he was saying: “As much faith I have in the *snicker* Humane 6, sending them out alone is a bad idea.”
“We can handle ourselves thank you!” argued April.
“Yes, but what if we fail? Then you have nothing to protect you against the whims of Discord. The Mane 6 nearly failed, and in this Discord's past, did fail! Twilight, I think you should go with them.”
“Why? I can help with Discord-”
“Yes, but you can help out even more with a wounded Discord. Understand what I'm saying?”
“I understand Doctor. I'll go with them to help.”
“Hey, I know I'm going with the Doctor to go fight Discord, but I have one question.”
“Yes Miss Hooves?” replied the Doctor.
“What about Lou? What's she going to do?”
They all turned back to see her still sitting there. She held something in her fist, and she opened it up, and out flew a dark colored butterfly. They watched it flutter in the air until Lou stood up and faced them.
“I'll distract him,” announced Lou.
Her eyes darker and her demeanor distant and chilled. A rage had built up inside of her and was ready to erupt out. Even with this, Celeste was still concerned for her sister.
“Sister, are you sure you can?”
Lou didn't respond, and grabbed a pole lamp next to her. Looking at it, the lamp began to shake. The windows rattled and before their eyes, the lamp began to glow a violet blue and was engulfed in a dark light. With a flash of blue, it was no longer a lamp. At each end was a long blade, fearsome and terrifying to look at. All looked on shocked at what had just transpired and the realization that Lou had unlocked her power, but not just of Luna. No, she had some Nightmare Moon in there as well.
It was silent amongst Celeste's house. It had been a long sleepless night for most of them, and none of them were talking about anything. Even the normally cheery and jumpy Diane was sullen and quiet. According to the news, the city had come under a terrorist attack or some sort of gas attack and people were ordered to stay away while officials quarantined the city and tried to find a way in. Newscasters and average people were saying the most incredible things. One said Zombies, the other a alien invasion, another crackpot claimed it was lizard men come to eat peoples brains. It was actually pretty interesting to watch. The Doctor knew, however, what would come of this in the long run. They would send in the Military when they got the chance, and when that failed, they would bomb the city. That was pretty much how Americans did things. If they couldn't get it normally, they would bombard the sense out of it until there was nothing left of it.
“So, when do we leave?” asked Tara, her voice a little shaky over what see was about to undertake.
“Are you ready Tara?” a concerned Celeste asked.
“No.”
“Why?” asked a innocent Derpy.
“We're just regular people! We don't do stuff like this!” replied Tara.
“Yeah! We don't go adventures like ya'll do. The most adventure we have is trying to find a new place to hang out at after Dash tears it apart!” added in April, “No offense.”
Dash shot her a dark look.
“Now, we're forced to go and save the world whether we want to or not.” finished Fiona.
“I'm sorry. I wish I told you earlier. I never thought it would happen like this though,” spoke up Celeste. She gave them a apologetic look, which was met with forgiving faces.
“No one could have known this would have happened. Not even you dear.” said Reine.
“Regardless, we need to stop Discord before anyone else get's hurt!” announced the Doctor. With that, Lou stood up and waked out of on the front porch with a huff. They all watched her leave concerned for their friend. She had been silent all night, and there was crying coming from her room last night. As the door behind her slammed, Whooves rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. “Oops. My bad.”
“It's alright. She can get emotional at times.” said Dash.
“Emotional, she just lost Jack!” snapped Tara.
“Yeah, how did those two...? I mean, she is technically a Princess,” spoke Twilight.
“He arrested her for Driving under the Influence,” replied Derpy.
“Wonderful way to start a relationship,” commented the Doctor.
“She found out where he lived, showed up to complain, and the next thing we knew, they were going out,” clarified Reine.
“I hope she's okay. Now that she has powers, I don't know what will happen,” Celeste commented.
“Yeah, sorry to change the subject, why do you guys have powers?” inquired Whooves.
“Celestia and Luna are some of the most powerful Alicorns in the land. Even with their powers mitigated into humans, some would still survive.”
“Some? She turned your lamp into a medieval weapon!” screamed Diane.
“Okay, a lot of powers,” Celeste replied looking around somewhat embarrassed.
Just then, the front door opened and Lou stuck her head in. They expected something similar to a yell about them talking about her. Instead, she spoke in a wary, nervous voice.
“Uh, you guys may want to see this.”
They all headed towards the door. From the front porch they could see the city off in the distance, and it was in the chaos only Discord could create. Pink clouds, buildings floating upside down on mountains, and even from here they could see the patchwork colored ground. All stared in shock, except the Doctor. He was laughing uncontrollably and fell over.
“How can you find this funny?” snapped Twilight.
“Lo-loo-look at it! It's hilarious!” he got out.
“How is that hilarious? It's horrible!” questioned Derpy.
“Even on Earth he uses the same old tricks. Can't he think up something original?”
“It's not like someone is writing this, Doctor,” came Twilight.
The Doctor laughed regardless. The rest rolled their eyes and looked back on to the city in horror.
“Ah, it's simply brilliant when you think about it. Well, no not brilliant more horrific when you think about it, but the sight of it is... okay, nothing is brilliant, let's go stop him! Who's ready!?”
“We'd thought you'd never ask.” grunted a bemused Derpy.
“Well, there's only one way in!” said Dash.
The Doctor smiled and with a smile pointed his Sonic Screwdriver into the open lawn. The TARDIS appeared, it's invisibility melting away. The small army ready, they walked over and entered the space/time ship and the lights inside glowed to life. The Doctor ran his fingers over the controls like mad, yet each one seemed to bring a new hum to the TARDIS itself. The machine slowly lifted off the ground and with a tug of a squiggly lever, it flew off into the air.
“First stop, the State Park, then to the city where Discord is!” announced the Doctor as he slammed a hammer into a shoe,
“By the way what city is that?”
“Oh that's easy! It's-” started Tara.
The TARDIS shook violently as it hit something. The Doctor checked in his view screen to see he wasn't exactly hitting anything. He was just flying through pink clouds.
“Hold off on that answer, Miss Sparkle's double! It's going to be a rough ride! Ah, I was afraid of this!”
“What is it?” came Derpy.
“Discord!” cursed Whooves.
“What's he doing?” came Twilight.
“He's blocking our exit! He's trying to keep us trapped here! With his lock on the timeline, there is nothing I can do about it!”
From the outside, the TARDIS seemed to be hitting a invisible wall surrounding the mansion. It bounced and spun violently as it tried to break through. Inside, sparks flew and screams echoed down the halls as the Doctor fought furiously alongside his ship to try and break through. Looking over his console, he cried in frustration at what he saw. Discord had inadvertently created a one way Time lock of sorts on this area. It was different than normal ones, since you could technically “get in” through the back, but it was getting in through the front that was a problem. He was pulling every trick he could think of in the book, and some from another book he read to try and break through. Even with his near infinite knowledge of Time and how it worked and ways to get around locks such as this, he couldn't find a way in. Every hit seemed to drain power from his ship bit by bit.
“Wait! That's it!”
“What's it?” came Derpy.
The Doctor didn't answer, he ran all around the console doing almost random things. When he went to push a button, the covering on it shut hard.
“I know what it will do! We have no choice!” yelled the Doctor as he opened the casing.
“Doctor! What are you planning!?”
“Temporal shift!” he shouted as he slammed the button.
Everyone in the TARDIS, and the TARDIS itself, glowed white as it vibrated and rattled with enough force to create a earthquake. The TARDIS seemed to vanish from Time and Space entirely.
“Hold on!” called the Doctor.
Even he was wondering if he was going to make it. Sweat poured down his brow as he heard the screams of his friends. The shift tore them through time and space, nearly splitting them right down to the atom as it cut through the second rate Time Lock Discord had placed. The Doctor worked the controls with everything imaginable. Using his Screwdriver, then his foot, shoving his head into it, and running his “stolen” scarf though two panels to keep it alive and well. Without warning, the whole thing suddenly turned upside down, the gravity matrix on it reversing. Yet even this didn't stop him, with his friends screaming around him and holding on to whatever they could for dear life, nothing could. As he fell to the ceiling, he aimed his Screwdriver at three different places midair. There was a bang, and what sounded like a whistle as he landed on top of the TARDIS. The TARDIS righted itself, and the Doctor grabbed onto a pole and slid down. Then, with a shrieking crack, everything returned to normal. Slowly, the passengers stood up and looked around nervously a the now darkened machine, wary of what had just happened.. Whooves rested his hands over the console, glad his gamble worked. Looking on his screen, he read the time where they were: November 23rd, 1963. Something brought a comfort to the Doctor seeing this until he was whipped around and slammed up against the console.
“What was that!?” shouted Twilight.
“A trick I learned from the Daleks?” tried Whooves.
“Since when do you take ideas from Daleks?”
“Well technically it wasn't their idea, Temporal Shifts have been around for years. Actually one of the original modes of time travel until more safer methods were arranged.”
“You nearly got us killed!” shouted Dash.
“We're all here right? No one hurt? Everything's fine!” answered the Doctor.
“Uh, hello! A little help!” came a voice from above.
They looked up to see Derpy clinging to the top of the TARDIS for dear life.
“Alright, can anyone fly?” asked Diane.
“I got her,” answered Twilight.
She aimed her horn at the trapped human Pegasus, slowly and easily engulfing her in Twilight's magic. With a loud hiss, the
TARDIS suddenly sprung to life, lights, sounds, everything. Twilight jumped, startled from it.
“Powers back! Hello TARDIS!” announced the Doctor.
“Look out!” screamed Reine.
Derpy was falling now. They tried to grab her, but with a flap of feathers, Derpy hovered in midair, covering her eyes, unaware she was flying.
“Whoa! Haw are ya doin' that!” shouted April.
Derpy uncovered one of her eyes, and with a nervous glance behind her, saw a flash of gray feathers. Her wings were back. Her wings were back! With a cry of sheer joy, she flew around the TARDIS with her re-found wings before landing in front of them.
“I got my wings back!” she cried.
“I can see that,” replied a shocked Twilight.
“How did she do that? I thought she didn't have wings!” came Lou.
“Hmm, well, it seems we were exposed to the same radiation going through Dimensions. The TARDIS seems to be able to protect against some of it, but not all of it. Two doses of it must've reverted Derpy back to a pony somewhat.”
“So, what? Are we now part ponies?” asked Tara.
“No, of course not! Had we gone over to Equestria, maybe. No, you're still Humans. Derpy here is just on a bridge between Humans and Ponies.”
“Okay, I'll ask it. What?” said Diane.
Whooves was quick to answer: “Derpy reverted back a little to a Pegasus.”
“Yeah, I still don't get it,” was Diane's response.
“I'll explain it later, well, probably not. Right now! We got a world to save!”
The TARDIS whirred to life once again and began its travel through the time stream. They were fast approaching the 21st century when Whooves remembered something: “What year were we in?”
“I'm on it!” said Dash jumping up and looking at the little time display, “There! Stop it now!”
Whooves slammed on the TARDIS's brakes. There was a crash somewhere, but they could feel themselves exiting the time stream. “State Park incoming!”
There was a crash and they were thrown across the room and slammed into the far side. The Doctor pushed off Twilight and helped up Fiona before brushing himself off.
“Right, Discord put up another barrier around the park. Plan B!”
“He knew we were coming!” cursed Celeste.
“Can we get through?” came April.
“Yes and no. This is a barrier prevents the TARDIS from getting through, but I'm quite positive you can.”
“Quite positive?” asked Twilight.
“Okay, mostly positive. If not, we may need a new plan fast. Get ready Humane 6! Your journey awaits!”
They still didn't like that name, but the Doctor was going to use it regardless. The TARDIS landed with a thump. It was silent, they all knowing what they were about to undertake. The door opened and Twilight and the aptly named Humane 6 stepped off into the forest. The TARDIS had landed in a clearing right outside the forest, the closest they could get to without bumping into Discords barrier. Even a few feet away from it, they could see it vibrating to the TARDIS's presence. Dash was the first to walk over, and albeit hesitantly, touched the barrier. Nothing happened. More confidant and ready, she leaped into where the barrier was, and landed in the grass. She looked back smiling proudly and gave a thumbs up. Diane cheered, but they all knew what was going to happen next. Looking back into the TARDIS, they saw Derpy, the Doctor, Celeste, and Lou with both confidant and worried faces. Twilight gave a nod that she was ready, and the Doctor returned it. With heavy hearts and some reluctance, they watched the TARDIS lift up and spin off toward the city for the second part of their plan. Around them, the woods were silent and still, a morning fog still holding out in the shadows, illuminated by the rays of sunshine that pierced through the trees. Birds chirped and crickets sang, giving it a peaceful, yet somehow sinister feel to it. Twilight herself gave a slight shudder at how similar this place was to the Everfree Forest back In Equestria. She nearly jumped when a hand was placed on her shoulder. She turned to meet the ready and waiting face of Tara.
“You guys ready?” asked Twilight.
“We're always ready!” responded Dash with enthusiasm.
“Let's go save the world!” cheered Diane.
Twilight smiled, and remembering what she saw on the map, started off toward the abandoned house followed by everyone else. Yet, a mile away on a ridge overlooking the clearing stood a tall figure. His face was hidden behind a darkened face shield, and what could be seen of him was more of a silhouette than anything. Clad in heavy body armor, and armed with a Riot gun and Riot shield that read in large white words: POLICE. He watched the TARDIS land and the passengers disembark without moving, barely breathing. As they made their way into the woods, the still man looked down to where this ridge met the next With a crack of bones, he moved stiffly and silently away.
The TARDIS bucked and almost jumped as it traveled through the air. The Doctor was navigating the ever changing air currents, as well as trying to avoid the pink clouds of chocolate rain. His three allies stood nearby, waiting for his announcement that they were going to land. Derpy herself was hovering a few feet above the ground as to avoid the crazy trip the TARDIS was going through, as Celeste stood next to her unfazed by what was happening. Lou sat in a corner a few feet away, using her magic and a whet stone she created to sharpen her blade. Celeste looked to her sister concerned before the Doctor spoke up with pride from his console.
“Alright! We're approaching the city! Hopefully Discord hasn't probably-” He was cut off by a loud and thunderous bang that echoed through the TARDIS. His face darkened as he steered the TARDIS to the ground.
This time he actively applied the brakes on the TARDIS, and it landed silently without so much as a sound. If Discord was here, he didn't want him knowing where the TARDIS was. He activated it's invisibility and shut the TARDIS down. Taking the key to the TARDIS, he turned around, still having the unhappy look on his face before it sprung to life with joy: “We're here!”
He opened the door to reveal what looked to be a former war zone. With Discords power running rampant, it was conflicting with reality. Cars knocked off the road, signs bent like pretzels, windows and doors switched places, Cars tires exploded as if they had over filled with air. The grass that grew was colored plaid. Derpy, Celeste, and the Doctor looked on horrified at the warping that had taken place. Lou meanwhile grabbed her blade and stepped forward with a cold hard scowl on her face.
“How far we from Discord?” demanded Lou.
A loud explosion sounded off in the distance, followed by a large pink cloud. Derpy sniffed the air and could swear she smelled the mythical chocolate milk. The Doctor turned to the irritated Princess pointing with one finger.
“All I need,” she growled as she walked into the street.
The rest looked at her in fear and concern, none more so than her older sister. She watched as Lou walked, the few plants that were around her seemingly retreating and withdrawing at her presence. She cared little for anything, or almost anyone else, that stood before her path. When a car blocked her path, she touched it lightly. In a instant the car dissolved into a oily black mass before she continued on.
Celeste tried to repress her own fear of Lou's new-found ability. “I've only seen her this angry once in my entire life. She didn't know of her power then fortunately.”
“Yeah, can you explain that?” The Doctor asked.
“She's always had it, to some extent, but her, I guess ignorance toward it, kept her from using it. Discords manipulating of reality, and her own emotional pain must have unlocked it completely.”
As she finished, Lou used her weapon to slice a bus that had been turned over in half. The two halves slammed into the sides of the buildings and she continued on as if nothing had happened. Seeing this, the three followed, but kept their distance. As Whooves passed the bus, he noticed a few abandoned items such as purses, briefcases, and a few shoes even. It was then when it struck him: Where were the people? Certainty a city this big there must still be a good chunk of people still around. Walking into the destroyed bus, he found it's radio still intact for the most part. and with a little work from his Screwdriver, he would have it working again. He adjusted the dials as Derpy and Celeste looked on. He was completely oblivious to them even as Derpy walked in.
“What are you doing? We're losing Lou!” she scolded.
“Hold on! When Discord attacked Ponyville, where did all the ponies go?”
“Uh, those that could, took cover wherever they could.”
“Exactly! If there is one thing I know about America, they were in a bit of a conflict that nearly destroyed this planet! This city has to have some style of shelters located around here!”
“Destroyed the planet!? How did they-”
“Got it!” cheered Whooves.
The radio buzzed to life. At first, it was some old song about not wanting to set the world on fire. The Doctor pointed his Screwdriver at it one more time, and it came to a emergency broadcast system.
“Everyone is to report to the storm shelters. Repeat, everyone is to report to the storm shelters. Shelters are located on 4th Street, Fredrick Avenue, and off the Interstate. Police are ordering a city lock down until Military forces arrive."
“It's a trap!” yelled Whooves in fear.
“The Police are still under Discord's control!” added Celeste.
Whooves looked through the bus's driver seat, and found a map of the city. Looking around, he pinpointed their position and then the closest shelter, which was two miles to their north.
“Okay, Derpy and I will go there and try to save those people. Can you keep up with Lou?”
Celeste nodded her head in response.
“Doctor, why are we going to save them?” came a curious Derpy.
“Because, if you think about it, we're kinda useless against Discord. Even with your wings.”
“Oh.” answered Derpy.
The three nodded and went their respective ways.
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Elsewhere the Humane 6 and Twilight walked through the woods, which seemed to be growing darker and creepier by the minute. The sun wasn't shining through the trees, a fog had rolled in, and worst of all, they felt like they were being watched. Fiona and Reine huddled close together as Diane took cover behind Dash. Up front were April, Tara, and Twilight who were unsure of what way to go other than straight. There was a dead silence that had befallen the group which seemed to overshadow their previous bravery and determination. As the leader, Twilight felt it her duty to stop it.
“So, any of you ever been hiking in these woods?” She broke.
“Not often. A lot of strange things in this place.” replied Dash.
“Strange? Like, Everfree strange?” inquired a slightly alarmed Twilight.
“No, but there's a lot of parties late at night, and people end up missing only to reappear days later unharmed but no memory, or hikers find some odd abandoned campsite, and then there's all these odd Halloween things that happen.” explained Tara.
"Halloween?" came Twilight.
"Think Nightmare Night." answered Reine, "Just, a bit more sinister with actual ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and well, the occasional demons."
"Oookay." Twilight replied nervously.
"Jack always had these strange tales of weird radio channels he would pick up, sacrifices, and one story where some guy vaporized in his spotlight."
"Yeah, this place is Everfree Strange." commented Twilight
“Not to mention the worst of the worst possible thing!” cringed Diane as she shuddered at her thoughts.
“What?” replied the rest in fear.
“Bigfoot!” she squeaked in fear.
This was met with universal groans and several face palms. Save Twilight, who was intrigued.
“Bigfoot?” she inquired.
“A seven foot tall walking ape man who likes to terrorize people!” cried Diane in fear.
“Bigfoot doesn't exist!” snapped Dash.
“Have you seen a Bigfoot?” Diane asked of her friend.
“No.”
“Then how do you know he doesn't exist?”
“Because I never seen one!” shouted Dash
“Just because you never seen one doesn't mean Bigfoot doesn't exist.” Diane replied with a huff before moving on.
Dash stood there her mouth agape looking at Diane as she walked on as April put a hand on her shoulder.
“Well, she is based off Pinkie Pie.”
“But, but, but that doesn't even make sense!” claimed a exasperated Dash.
“Again, Pinkie Pie!” sang Reine as she walked past.
Dash watched Reine walk past before her eyes met April, who gave her a reassuring look. With no hope of winning this argument, the befuddled Dash continued on trying her hardest to forget what just transpired. Ten minutes later, she had succeeded for the most part. Of course it wasn't mental prowess. The terrain had changed from a dense forest to a rocky outcropping. Despite this rough terrain, they were still making good time. Tara even noticed they were on the old paved road from several long forgotten bits of asphalt and pavement below their feet. As Celeste said, it had been uprooted and overgrown, and nature reclaimed it at its fullest. There was even a tree that had a mile marker inside it it had grown around. This seemed to only add to the eery nature of it all, and heightened the girls senses as they continued past it.
In the distance, they could hear the literal chaos coming from the city. Explosions, crashes,and a sinister laughing. As they passed over a small stream, Reine nearly fainting at the idea of getting her shoes wet, there came a snap behind them. They all looked back alarmed and ready to run and fight respectively when they saw a little squirrel running across the ground. Sighing in relief, they started to march forward when a crash from above alerted them. Looking up, Dash grabbed Twilight and pulled her out of the way as a Police Cruiser landed right where she was standing.
“How did that get there?” cried Tara.
“Discord, no doubt.” cursed Twilight.
“Uh, guys look at the number on the car!” commented Fiona.
They all stood up and looked at the car number: 42. They took a step back as they realized who's car this was.
“But, but it was destroyed!” said Reine in fear.
“We saw it blow up!” added Diane.
“This must be a trick of Discord! Come on!” called Twilight.
“So, yer tellin' me that Discord dropped Jack's Police Car nearly on top of us?” came April.
“That actually makes sense,” answered Reine.
“Come on! I have a feeling things are just going to get worse from here on out.” spoke a grim Twilight.
A few yards away, a figure stood and watched them as they continued slowly and cautiously past the car.
“Oops.”
----
“Doctor, how much farther?”
The streets had suddenly become clogged with cars from when Discord truly spread his presence. She flapped her wings over three overturned cars as the Doctor clambered over them showing no loss of energy.
“According to the map, it should be right up the next block.”
“Doctor, I don't see a block,” responded Derpy.
“No, it's a unit of street measurement,” explained Whooves
“Oh. That makes more sense.”
“Still stupid if you ask me,” came a sinister voice from behind.
They both froze as it chuckled. The turned rigidly around to see Discord sitting in the car of one of the trucks. Wait, no he wasn't, he was in the windshield. Derpy huddled behind the Doctor as the Time Lord stood defiantly against the Spirit of Chaos. He quickly aimed his Screwdriver and shattered the window he was in, but all this did was have his reflection appear in each of the broken glass panes.
“Really, that's your best attack?” Discord asked bored.
“Well it was worth a shot,” replied the Doctor.
“Wasn't it you who said: “It doesn't maim, doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't burn?” at Canary Wharf?”
“What? How?” The Doctor cried in shock.
“Oh, I visited that little Sci-Fi expo in town, and was particularly interested in your little sideshow.”
“Sideshow?!” shouted the Doctor.
Discord checked his nails, uninterested in the Doctors anger when there came a explosion from behind them His enthusiasm picked up intensely as a car landed a few feet behind them smoldering from the blast. The two Pony-Humans turned around and listened to the approaching threats.
“While I was there though, I ran into some friends of yours that are just dying to meet you! Let's see you save those pitiful humans with these three following you! Have fun!”
With a snap of his fingers, he was gone. The Doctor was ready to hide behind Derpy out of fear when he saw the familiar dome shaped entities emerging out from the traffic jam.
“Doctor, are those-”
“Discord you monster!”
“SCANS INDICATE TWO LIFE FORMS IN VICINITY!”
“ONE SCAN RESEMBLES DATABASE ENTRY. SEARCHING. FOUND. SCANS INDICATE THAT ONE ENTITY IS THE DOCTOR!”
“OTHER INDICATES A HUMAN OF EQUINE ORIGIN.”
“DESTROY THE DOCTOR AND HIS ALIEN COMPANION! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!”
“WE OBEY!”
“Doctor, those, those are Daleks!”
“Don't worry, there's only three. Three's nothing!”
“CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS! DO NOT LET THE DOCTOR ESCAPE!”
“Three huh?” snapped Derpy.
“This is going to end very very badly,” said a alarmed Whooves.
“What should we do?” asked Derpy.
“RUN!” screamed Whooves.
The two took off as fast as their legs and wings could carry them as the three Daleks opened fire from behind them, destroying a car, mailbox, and a traffic light in the process.
Birds chirped a eery song while crickets sang a sad tune. It was almost as if the forest knew of the impending doom that was going to befall the world. Despite the sun being at midday, the forest floor was blanketed with a thick layer of gray fog. The trees themselves looked darker than normal and almost seemed to be trying to create their own world to protect them from Discord. All this combined into one and this place couldn't resemble Everfree anymore unless it had Poison Joke and Cockatrice's. Of course, Tara had noted some Poison Oak and there were timber wolf tracks running through the are. This did little to settle the intrepid 7 women who walked through it, their fears eating away at their bravery. They jumped and screamed when a branch fell a distance away and made a racket falling down. They laughed it off nervously, but they were still uneasy at the whole situation. The silence did not add to it, and when talk finally sprung up, they wish it hadn't considering the subject.
“Anyone get the feeling we're being watched?” asked Reine to the group.
“I'm trying not to think about it.” spoke Fiona.
“Well, I know what to do!” announced Diane cheerfully.
“What?” inquired April.
“Well!” started Diane in a singing voice.
“OH NO!” shouted Dash.
She clasped her hands around Diane's mouth and held it shut tight. “Just because your the human image of Pinkie Pie doesn't mean your going to break out in song! Got it?”
“Mmm-hmm!” squeaked Diane in fear.
The rest looked back to the two, and while they didn't want to mention it, they were all thinking the same thing. Walking on, their thoughts drifted back to what Reine had said. The whole time they felt like they were being watched. As if someone, or something, or somethings, was staying a distance away. Stalking them, watching them, waiting for the perfect moment of ambush. Twilight herself was keeping her head alert and her horn ready for anything. Ever since that Police Crustier had nearly crushed her, something was up. The worst possible scenario for her was something she dreaded above all else: Discord was here.
It made sense in every way. Celeste, Luna, even the Doctor and Derpy could handle the crazed creation, but they were at a disadvantage. Thus, while they attempted to threaten him in the city, he would be nowhere to be found. No, while they searched for him, he would swoop in and easily remove the true threat to him. He was probably shifting through the woods right now waiting for his perfect moment, which would probably be when they got to the mansion. As Fiona said, she tried not to think about it, but it kept coming back to her. She shivered at what would happen to the rest if they were caught, which was noticed by Tara.
“You okay?”
Twilight looked back to her double, and gave her best smile, but couldn't hide her feeling of unease. As the others were too distracted in their own conversation and keeping watch, Twilight spoke, albeit in a hushed tone. “This is too easy.”
“What do you mean?” whispered back Tara.
“Discord would know we would go for the Elements. It's the only possible thing capable of defeating him! Why has it been a free walk all the way?”
“Well, there was that Police Cruiser that almost crushed you.”
“Either the exception that proves the rule, or a test to see how sharp we are. The reason that it was your friend, Jack's car means something is up.”
“Hey, you guys here that?” came Dash from behind.
They all stopped and looked to her. She had a blank look on her face, but her reason soon became apparent. In the distance, monotone mumbles could be heard along with the barking of dogs. They stood there in fear as they slowly got closer and closer.
“He sent the Police after us!?” screamed Diane.
“I guess so! What do we do?” asked April.
“Run!” cried Tara.
“I can't run in these heels!” shouted Reine.
“Why did you bring heels to a hike through the forest?” groaned Dash.
“I'm sorry! I wasn't exactly able to go home after work!” snapped Reine
“Twilight, a little help?” April asked for her friend.
Twilight concentrated on the heels, and in a moment they were suddenly hiking boots that matched with the rest of Reine's dress. She marveled at them and looked them over.
“Ooh, remind me to ask who styled these?”
“Uh, I think you did, now RUN!” screamed Diane.
The barking dogs closed in as the girls took off. There was little hope that they would make it far with attack dogs on their trail, but what other choice did they have. Suddenly, there was a sharp boom from behind them which caused their hearts to jump a beat.
“Are they shooting at us?” asked dash as she leaped over a tree.
“Wouldn't be the first time!” replied Twilight.
There came several more, but instead of tree branches around them snapping off, they could hear the dogs behind them yelping in pain.
“Are they shooting at the dogs!?” came a confused Twilight.
“Poor Puppies!” spoke Fiona.
“I think those poor puppies won't mind,” tried to ease April.
Then there came the sound of actual gunfire. As the girls took cover, they quickly realized it wasn't at them. There were more explosion off in the distance, which confused them to the fullest.
“What is going on back there?” asked Tara.
“Did one of the Officers break free of Discord?” spoke Reine.
“If so, why is he shooting at everyone else?” added Dash.
“Come on! Let's use this chance and put some distance between us and them!” ordered Twilight pointing up a small hill toward a cliff side.
It looked daunting to climb from the looks of it, but Twilight used her magic to create a small path. Taking it, they scrambled up as Twilight “closed” the path behind them as they ran.
----
Celeste looked to her brooding sister. Since they had left the TARDIS, she hadn't spoke a word. Unsure of whether to talk or not, she chose the route that kept Lou from snapping and stayed quiet. Lou herself kept her head forward and eyes straight as they continued their walk toward Discord. Celeste could tell they were getting close, the air having an odd feel to it, and the pretzel tied trees on the side of the road. Amazingly, they bent the opposite way as Lou walked between them, before returning to their “original” position as she passed. Celeste looked on amazed when she caught a dark figure out the corner of her eye. Looking and bracing for a fight, she was relieved to see it was just Lou. She was standing still over a parked vehicle, and when Celeste looked, could tell why she stopped: It was a Police Cruiser. Oddly enough it was the first one they came across on this entire walk, but it was enough to make Lou stop. Celeste put her hand on her sisters shoulder, who turned to look at her, a tear nearly forming.
“I know you miss him,” she finally spoke to her little sister.
“Why did he have to go?”
“He went out saving you. What more could you ask for?”
“For him not to,” was Lou's answer.
“What would he say right now?” asked Celeste hoping for the answer.
“That he's not worth crying over,” chuckled Lou before it died away, “He's still worth it for me though.”
Celeste hugged her sister, when there came a sobbing behind them both. They turned and darkened their faces as they both saw the Human-Discord standing there holding a pink neckerchief to his eyes drying up fake tears of sadness. Lou glared at him while Celeste stood defiant.
“Oh please, don't stop on my account. You were having such a wonderful moment,” laughed Discord.
There was the sound of scraping metal, and in blue flash Lou was wielding her double bladed staff. Discord looked on intrigued at the development, while Celeste brandished her own weapon, which appeared to be a lance infused with the power of the sun itself. Discord smiled devilishly and held out his left hand. From his shoulder to his hand appeared a large gauntlet ending in sharp spiked talons. Clearly, he was ready for the fight. Yet, he knew something they didn't. This was reinforced by his smug chuckling.
“What's so funny?”
“Have you once even given thought to why there is not a single police officer here in this city?”
The two looked around nervous upon realizing that simple fact. Discord, by now, would have the entire Police force under his control, and yet the streets were deserted. They stepped into a defensive pose as Discord just chuckled. He held up his hand as if he was drinking something, and from his mouth came a glass and some chocolate milk inside of it. He finished with a satisfaction and with a snap, the glass was gone.
“What's going on Discord?” demanded Celeste.
“Wow, even as a human your still as grim as could possibly be. I just sent them to patrol some woods; particularly the state park.”
The two reacted in shock. Discord just laughed, reveling in the trap he had set.
“Between the Police, and those alien Dalek things I sent after the Doctor and his Assistant; I'll give you a choice: save your friends, or defeat me. Since there are two of you, I guess I can- AARGH!”
Discord clutched the bloody wound that was left from Lou's blade as it passed through his shoulder. She held out her hand, and in seconds it returned to her, ready and waiting for it's masters next move. Discord snorted in anger while Celeste looked to her Sister in surprise.
“Go save the Doctor, Sister! I can take Discord!”
“Are you sure?” came Celeste.
“I'm sure,” she smiled.
Reluctant, Celeste nodded and held her lance in front of her. Discord watched in anger before Celeste suddenly disappeared from sight with a flash. Lou stood there, ready for a fight.
“What about your friends?”
“You obviously underestimate my friends. They can take on a few zombified lawmen. Especially with THE Twilight Sparkle leading them.”
“You think just because you're Princess Luna you can defeat me? It took both Celestia and Luna to lock me away on this accursed world.”
“Oh, there's a whole side to Lou you forgot about!”
The spirit of Chaos looked on as she sliced open the Police car behind her, and the armor from inside of it flying out and around it. It floated around her, increasing in speed before suddenly, with a flash, Lou was no longer the human embodiment of Princess Luna. Instead, she had become Nightmare Moon, and all her anger was fixated right on Discord.
“Didn't see that coming,” noted Discord.
“You will pay for what you've done!” she shouted.
Discord weighed his options before Lou slammed her blade down upon him. Discord barely managed to capture it with his gauntlet, but he could barely hold it, and redirected to the ground in mere moments. He was about to strike back, when the other side came down on him, only his small horn on his head preventing his head from being split open. Discord recoiled in pain and held his head. Lou stood back and smiled at her handiwork as the spirit of Chaos seethed in anger. He looked to her, his normally crazy red eyes aflame with vengeance. With a snap of his finger, the ground shook, and Lou was catapulted into the air on a stream of rock and water from below. Nightmare Moon or not, unless she could fly, there was no way she could survive the fall. Discord reveled in this, until he saw the wings Lou now sported.
“Hmm, how cliché,” he mused.
“Cliche, but it works,” spoke Lou.
Discord burped a little, and snapped his fingers again. From the ends of the streets the street lamps themselves grew and angled right toward Lou. They wrapped themselves around the Nightmare entity and started to constrict and Discord expected to see a struggling Lou. All he got was a smirk. With a blue flash, Lou became a sparkling blue cloud that easily slipped out of the constricting poles and bee-lined right for Discord. Discord stepped back and looked around, with each gaze, similar geysers of water and rock burst from the ground where the cloud was, each one missing. Finally one struck home right in front of her, but the cloud split in two and flew around each side before appearing right before Discords face. Discord looked on in horror as Lou materialized out of the cloud and was struck with he staff and slammed into a wall, leaving a cartoonish hole in it as he crashed through it. Lou landed, wings folded in and blade ready for the next round. Discord stumbled out of the hole and held his stomach where the blade had hit.
“You've clearly gotten stronger,” he grunted.
“Where there is chaos, there are nightmares,” taunted Lou.
He eyed her, and spit out some blood. “We shall see Princess.”
It was quiet. Almost too quiet. Aside from a few low rumblings from another part of town, the streets were dead silent. Derpy scanned the area rigidly, not knowing what to expect. Nothing. Nothing but crashed cars, torn streets, and a lot of debris. A few puddles of chocolate milk here and there, but other than that, nothing out of the ordinary in a post-Discord world. Lowering her head back down, she looked to the Doctor, who was just as scared as she was. Regardless, she still looked to him for answers.
“Doctor, what do we do?” She whispered.
“We hide, that's what!” answered back the Doctor.
The two had taken cover inside a taxi, but Derpy was unsure of the whole idea for one simple reason.
“Don't Daleks have sensors or something that detect life?”
Whooves eyes shrank in fear as he realized that she was, unfortunately, right. He poked his head up over the window and looked out and around only to see the cold and dark circle of the eye stalk.
“HELLO DOCTOR.”
“Oh, hello. Would you like a ride?”
The Dalek didn't respond, but it did aim its gun stalk, firing at the door the Doctor was hiding behind. It glowed a brilliant turquoise blue and vaporized in seconds.
“Run Derpy!”
The two burst out the other door and took off down the street as the Dalek floated up and over the Taxi and was followed by the other two Daleks. The Doctor felt his suit being lifted off of him, until he himself was lifted off the ground. He looked up to see Derpy holding on to him while she flapped her wings as hard as she could.
“Thank you Derpy!”
“You're a lot lighter than usual Doctor!”
“Well, Humans naturally weigh less than Ponies,” explained Whooves.
“Hold on!”
“Actually I was going to ask you to do the same!” screamed the Doctor as he narrowly flew past a tree.
Derpy flew in low, carrying her friend as the Daleks opened fire behind her. Using every tip they taught her in flight school, and a few tricks she learned from Rainbow Dash herself, the blonde hared Pegasus-human dodged every incoming bolt fired by the Daleks. Banking left and right, swooping through a bus, and taking advice from a bunny Fluttershy once showed her, did a barrel roll right through a crumbling building. The Doctor cheered, exuberant at the whole experience. He looked back to see the three Daleks still approaching, firing their gun stalks aimlessly trying to hit them. Glancing forward, he saw a fire truck that had crashed on the side of the road, and drew his Sonic Screwdriver. With the signature little noise it gave when working, the nozzle on the end burst out with water. The Daleks flew right into it, in their arrogance not expecting the high rush of water to disrupt their flight path to such a extent and they crashed into a nearby building. The Doctor cheered, until he suddenly felt himself slowing down rapidly. He looked forward to see a building coming at him fast. He closed his eyes fearing the worst as Derpy slammed right into it, sending the two right through the thin wall and crashing into the desks inside. After the initial daze had past, the Doctor stood up and cracked his neck.
“Sorry Doctor. That building came out of nowhere,” apologized Derpy.
“So it would seem,” the Doctor said bemused.
There came a humming sound and suddenly they looked back to see a Dalek standing there. It slowly lowered its gun stalk toward the two, Whooves using his body as a shield to protect Derpy.
“DOCTOR EXTERMINATED,” announced the Dalek.
A white pole erupted through the body of the Dalek as it was lifted into the air. Bits of armor and the Dalek itself slid down and off it as the pole moved rapid and flung the dead Dalek outside into the street.
“Celestia!” cheered Derpy.
“It's Celeste.”
“Not where we're from,” corrected the Doctor.
She stood there wielding a large lance, and glowed the brilliance of the sun itself. As the other two stood, she brushed the dead Dalek off her weapon.
“What are you doing here?” inquired Derpy.
“Helping you,” she answered before hearing something behind her.
Celeste turned around to see the other two Daleks that were chasing the Doctor and Derpy. The human sun deity smiled and readied herself for battle. In her other hand a golden shield materialized and it itself glowed as the sun. Golden armor that the Doctor noticed seemed to match Nightmare moon, but Celestia's version, appeared on her body. The Sun was going to war, and mercy on everything lay in its path, for it will show none. The Daleks were undaunted and opened fire, but a simple screen of light and their attacks were useless. She didn't even need to use the shield she had in her hands, her own powers enough. Both the Doctor and his Pegaus-Human companion looked on amazed at the sight, and they both could swear they could sense some fear coming from the Daleks. Celeste gave a stare at the one of them, and it started to shine as if glinting in the sunlight. It's eye stalk rotated around and it began to shake.
“HULL TEMPERATURES RISING.”
“DISREGARD AND OPEN FIRE!” replied its comrade.
“TEMPERATURE PAST MAXIMUM LEVELS! COMBUSTION IMMINENT!”
In a flash it did just that and burst into flame. It's outer shell melted away, revealing the blackened crisp remains of the Dalek inside. The other Dalek looked on in whatever fear it actually felt and then returned it's vision to Celeste. It slowly started to back away before it was struck by a beam from Celeste's lance, and it erupted into a fireball that slowly started to shrink before it disappeared altogether. Derpy and Whooves looked on dumbfounded as Celeste stood there victorious. She turned to them and smiled at what she just did.
“Yes I can do that. Problems?”
“Brilliant! I wonder if our Celestia can do that?” cheered Whooves
“Probably. Just she has no reason to. Now then, we need to help my sister.”
“Why?” came Derpy.
“She's not thinking like herself. She has too much pain right now, it's corrupted her into Nightmare Moon. Even if she defeats Discord, I don't think there will be much of Lou left on the surface to reach her.”
“Then what?” inquired Whooves.
“Then we'll have to defeat her,” Celeste told them grimly.
“It's never easy,” sighed Derpy.
“Oh don't say that. We only had to deal with three of the unknown number of Daleks! Just imagine if we had to face the rest of them!”
There was a crash, and they were alerted to the arrival of five more Daleks. Celeste drew into a defensive stance while Derpy hid behind her. The Doctor just face palmed and gritted his teeth in anger.
“Derpy, do me a favor.”
“Yes Doctor?” she replied nervously.
“Next time I try and make things look better, shut me up.”
The lead Dalek fired, but it was useless against Celeste's shield, and she returned fire with a pure white beam from her lance that singed the Dalek to a pile of ash.
----
“Okay I- I- I think we lost them,” said Tara out of breath
“Ya sure?” came Reine as she held herself up on a tree.
“Well at the very least put some distance between us and them,” she breathed in response.
After running for nearly a half hour, the girls stopped on a small cliff side in a attempt to catch their breaths. It was silent in the woods, not a bird, bug, or dog made a sound. There wasn't even the distant passing sound of motors showing the Police were nowhere to be seen. They were all laid out on the ground or bracing up against trees as they regained their breath and composure after running.
“I didn't think running from the cops would be so hard,” Diane got out as she struggled for air.
“Ah, ya get used to it,” chuckled Dash.
“You've never ran form the law,” commented April bemused.
“As far as you know,” replied Dash poking April in the nose while doing so.
It was swatted away by April when they heard a twig snap in the most obvious sound it could possibly give. They all looked down the hillside to see a heavily armored Riot Police Officer standing there. He brandished a shield that read POLICE in white letters, and on his side was a pistol ready for use. While all that alone was imposing, it wasn't the worst of it all. The worst part of it was what the Officer held in his other hand, a grenade launcher. Slowly, the grenade launcher lifted up and pointed toward them until Twilight screamed for them to run.
Their energy returning to them, they took off as fast as they could leaving the assailant there standing dumbstruck. The rest tore through the trees keeping their heads low in fear of the demented Officer using that weapon of his. As if things couldn't get any worse, their was a low beating overhead that got louder and louder until a helicopter passed overhead. Twilight looked at it and could barely make out the words 'Police' before it disappeared behind the trees.
“Where did that riot guy go?” yelled Tara.
A distinct “WHUMP” sounded behind them, and they could hear the grenade shells sailing overhead at them.
“You just had ta ask, didn't ya?” snapped April.
The silver lining of this was at the very least it seemed to be driving the Police Chopper away. Of course, so it seemed, but the moment it left, they could hear the Police dogs in the distance, as well as Police sirens closing in. They were surrounded and the window of escape seemingly closed right on top of them. The helicopter buzzed back into view,and it looked like it was leading the rest of the Police towards them. As it banked off, their path came to a clearing that seemed to fork into two separate directions. One lead off to what looked like a cave, while the other lead off into more woods. The Police Chopper buzzed over the area, but failed to see them and turned to the left as the grenade toting maniac behind them started his barrage yet again.
“We're not going to make it!” cried Reine
“What do you mean we're not going to make it!?” shouted Diane
As her friends tried to comfort her and bring her back from the point of breaking, Twilight formulated a plan.
“Between that Helicopter and that madman, with two separate groups chasing there's less of a chance we'll all be killed!” explained Twilight.
“So what do we do? If we can't keep running, I guess we'll fight!” inquired April.
“How do we fight against guns?” snapped Reine.
“We get lucky,” Twilight answered sheepishly.
The rest groaned, but as the Police drew closer, there was little choice they had. As the Chopper buzzed over, she knew there was little chance of any that they would stand against the Police. Looking around, her luck actually held out. A few hundred yards away was a small cave. She couldn't believe it, it would be the perfect place for a ambush. She finished her plan up and looked to the rest of the Humane 6.
“We'll use that cave!” she yelled pointing to it.
“What if the cave has no exit?” asked April.
“I doubt it does. We're using it for a ambush!” grinned Twilight.
Dash got a similar, sinister smile, which was followed by April. The rest were a little unsure, but when Reine cracked her knuckles ready for a fight, there was no turning back. Twilight smiled and prepared her best spells.
“Okay, just one problem,” spoke Tara.
“What?” asked April.
“Where's Fiona?” she yelled in shock.
---
Fiona stumbled over a tree. One trip, and she had lost all her friends in these unending woods. What was worse, there were Police right on her tail, and closing in fast. Tears of fear were already streaming down her face as she could hear their monotone voices closing in making note of where she was. At least there were no Police dogs in the area, she couldn't imagine what she would do with those attack dogs after her. She saw a large old log, and figured that behind it was the best place to hide in this situation. Clambering over it, her heart stopped as she saw the half-mile drop that was behind it. She slowly gathered up the strength to climb off when she turned her head to see two pale officers standing there, their guns pointed at her. She again froze in fear, but this time, the log's rotting bark gave way and she slipped. With a scream of terror she just barely managed to grab hold on the edge, and hung there, the Officers slowly walking up to capture her. She closed her eyes, wishing they could go away, until there was a “thawk” and a grunt of pain. She opened one eye, and wished she didn't.
Standing there, attacking the two enslaved officers was the insane grenade launcher Riot Officer from earlier. He seemed hell bent on capturing Fiona and her friends all by himself, and no one was going to stand in his way. He held a baton in his hand, and with one final swipe knocked out the first officer. The second fired point blank into the Riot Officers chest, but his armor negated the attack, and with a strike to the head, the second Officer went down as well. A kick sealed the deal in overkill and then he turned to Fiona. He walked over the two officers and put his baton away. For Fiona, this was it, he would throw her off, then climb down and retrieve her body for proof. She braced for the worst, until he outstretched his hand.
“Grab on!” he yelled in a familiar voice.
Fiona looked up to see the hand, and while unsure, grabbed hold of it. With a jerk, he pulled her out of the death trap and landed her safely on the ground. She brushed off her dress and looked to the Riot officer as he grabbed the radios from his fallen targets.
“Uh, thank you?” she spoke nervously.
“Don't mention it. We need to find Twilight and the rest. The whole force is out here and they're closing in!”
“Uh, how do you know this?” inquired a curious Fiona.
“Huh? What do you mean how do I-I'm still wearing this face shield ain't I?”
Fiona didn't know what to make of this. For one, he had a really familiar voice. He lifted his hand up and with a flip, revealed his face. Fiona's face went as white as paper as she looked at her friend standing there.
Fiona was speechless. Standing in front of her was Jack, but that impossible. She herself saw Jack shot multiple times by the controlled Officers, and then when his Cruiser exploded on the Highway. He handcuffed the officers he had knocked out together and grabbed some of their ammo as to better help himself. He also grabbed one of their radios and held up to his ear.
“Yes! Still works. This will help.”
Fiona disregarded his comment and just stared at him. He attached the radio to his armor and adjusted it so. He looked to her, but she was blankly starring at him as if she was looking at a ghost.
“What?” he asked.
“How are you alive? We saw you die!” she yelled exasperated .
“I did die. I've been dead for quite some time.”
“Then how are you right here?”
“I'm a zombie, I guess,” he chuckled.
“Zombie?” shrieked Fiona.
“BRAAAIIIINS,” groaned Jack.
Fiona froze in fear as Jack just laughed at his dark joke. “Sorry, I couldn't resist. Zombie's all I got for describing how I am alive again. I know I was dead, I was at the pearly gates and everything.”
“Then how are you here?” she asked rigidly.
“From his mahogany desk the Great King Yemma said I have unfinished business on Earth and sent me back. Showed up here naked though.”
“What?” came a confused Fiona.
“Exactly what I said,” Jack answered with a equally confused look on his face.
“How are you dressed like this?”
“Found that SWAT truck I forced off the road and took some of the equipment from it. Then, for some reason, I felt compelled to walk out here. Good thing I did too! Probably would have never found you guys.”
Fiona looked at him silent, not knowing exactly what to say. Jack looked to her and smiled the best he could, but it did little. He looked around, scratched his chin, and just shrugged.
“So, where exactly were you guys headed to before I scared you by accident.”
“We- we- we were going to a old mansion somewhere around here in this forest.”
“Oh that place? Why?”
“You know of it?”
“Every Halloween or so, we'll get strange reports of some ritual going on up there. All the more reason for me to hate Halloween. Come on, it's not far from here.”
“What about the others?”
“Well, with you around, hopefully they wont go running off. Knew I should have used my shield hand instead of the grenade launcher to lift my visor...” Jack lowered his visor back down and nodded to Fiona. She slowly nodded back in response before Jack readied his Launcher. He walked off stiffly, and while she was reluctant, Fiona followed him. At the very least she wouldn't be alone in these scary woods. She looked down to the Police Officers cuffed together and got a shiver down her spine.
“What if more of them find us?”
“I'll shoot them,” said Jack holding up his Launcher.
“Well, they're going to shoot at me first? They're looking for me!”
Jack pondered on it for a moment, then got a idea looking at the two officers.
----
Lou skidded along the ground after Discord tried to attack. He was more powerful than her, she would give him that. However, she was faster, and currently, slightly more cunning thanks to his over confidence. Still, even with all these advantages, every time she got near him now he would just as easily strike at her, a tear in the back of her dress and a scratch in her armor a constant reminder to that. From atop a pile of metal and rubble he had created, he dared her to come after her, mocking her. Gripping her blade, she looked at him ready for anything he could through at him. Smiling, she faked a lunge forward as a geyser of hot water and steam blew forward from the ground, capable of scalding her in seconds. Stepping back, another shot out. With a rumble at her feet, she leaped into the air as it erupted from beneath her feet, and following fast. Looking to the sky, she saw a cloud, and remembered back to the first episode of My little Pony, and grew a devilish grin. Just when the Geyser was about to engulf her, the human embodiment of all Nightmares disappeared into thin air. Discord was smarter than that, and looked around, wondering where she teleported to. His gaze scanned the horizon looking for that blue mass of darkness or a glint of her armor. Then, he saw it, on a building in a distance. With a snap of his fingers and a scowl on his face, the whole thing erupted into a massive fireball. With a wave of his other hand, it flew over toward him, shrinking down as it did. Soon, it was right in front of him the size of a soccer ball. He breathed on it and in seconds to looked like a snow globe. He peered in expecting to see a little Nightmare Lou standing there not knowing what was going on.
“You missed Discord.”
Discord turned around to what looked like the night sky floating in the breeze. Stars shined and twinkled as it floated there, until Lou appeared out of it and slammed her blade down on his head. Discord could feel it slicing through his skin, but once it hit his skull, it stopped. Even this blade couldn't pierce his skull, but the force kept pushing until Discord found himself in a daze laying on the side of a fire truck. He looked up to see Nightmare Lou slowly walking toward him, blade in hand ready to strike. He looked on in fear and snapped his fingers. To Lou's left a geyser of steam and rock erupted from the ground. All it did was reshape her form that was hit into the night sky. The same thing happened on her right as well. Where every Discord tried to strike, Lou just dissipated into a cloud of night sky, not letting it hit her. Looking around, he saw the mounted spray nozzle on the fire truck, and aimed it at Lou, yet all it did was fly right through the Nightmare Discord had created. She looked to him with a evil smile.
“Having fun?” she asked him.
Discord just smiled. “Oh yes. While you were here attacking me, why don't you see what your sister and your friends are up against.”
Lou looked to him confused, until Discord grabbed some of the water that laid around him from his miserable attack, and formed a screen. In it, Lou could see her sister, the Doctor, and Derpy desperately fighting off Daleks.
“Daleks? But how?”
Discord just gave a evil laugh. Lou watched on in horror as they were slowly starting lo lose ground and fall back toward each other. Even together, there was too many Daleks to handle, there had to be hundreds of them. One smashed into a fuel truck that exploded, nearly blinding her. Outside the water screen she heard the explosion, and she knew she had to go help.
“Your choice. Kill me, or your friends are killed. Take your pick?” sneered Discord.
Lou looked to him eyes ablaze. He wasn't going to win out on this one. With a wave of her own hand, the Fire trucks hose constricted around Discord and squeezed tight. The back of it fused with the truck preventing all hopes of escape for the master of Chaos as he struggled to move.
“Stay here. I'll be back to deal with you.”
Discord looked on, smoke pouring out of his nostrils from the rage built up inside of him. He didn't like to be cheated out of his own game. Lou just smiled and flew off to save the others.
----
The cave had worked perfectly. It was smaller than they had hoped, but it was working tremendously. The Police Chopper had seen them go in and the cops had followed. After that, it was divide and conquer. The floor was littered with the knocked out bodies of the Police and those that managed to scramble out were running for their lives. The best one of the whole fight was when one was grabbed by April's lasso, which she happened to forget she brought, and hogtied on the floor. Dash, Diane, and Reine then heaved him out of the cave into three more who were trying to enter. They didn't know what to make of it, until Twilight used a spell to teleport them away into a nearby stream she saw. While their spirits were high seeing there hadn't been a Officer to enter in five minutes, there thoughts returned to Fiona. If she was lost in the woods, she was sadly no match against the entirety of the pursuing Police force.
“Maybe we should go look for her,” mentioned a concerned Reine.
“They could be waiting outside for us to leave,” spoke Dash.
“But she's our friend!” argued back Reine.
“I know but-”
Dash was cut off by a explosion. They snapped their heads outside to see a horrific sight. That grenade launching psycho was walking up, firing his deadly ammo. They watched from their concealed positions as he walked toward the cave, firing into the trees.
“Why is he firing at his friends?” asked Diane.
“I- I- I don't know,” spoke Tara.
“He's crazy! He doesn't need a reason,” yelled Dash.
One of the officers ran forward with a shotgun and blasted him point blank with it. The pellets flew out his back along with some blood. He fell over as the victorious officer looked on. The controlled cop was about to march into the cave, when the body of the fallen maniac moved behind him. He stood up, completely unharmed, unhurt, and not even bleeding from his wound. He grabbed the Policeman and spun him around. The Officer gave out a yell of fear as he saw the undead man take him out with one punch. The Office fell to the floor ans the maniac looked to his stomach where he had been shot. Instantly, he pulled out a pistol from the fallen officer, pointed it right below his head and fired. The bullet went out the opposite side along, and the man staggered back. Yet, he did not fall over, he kept standing there. He cheered a muffled cheer of victory as he realized his new found power.
“What the? What is that thing?!” screamed Reine.
“That thing's immortal!” yelled April.
“It's a monster!” shuddered Diane.
“What has Discord done?” spoke a worried Twilight.
“What do we do?' asked Tara.
“Isn't it obvious!? We need to get out of here now!” shouted Dash.
With that he turned his head sharply and looked into the cave. He seemed to be straining his vision to see in until he recoiled in surprise. The girls stood there in fear as they knew he saw them. At any moment now he was going to walk in and kill them all and there was no way they could beat him. He gave a whistle and signaled to someone behind him, and the 6 inside waited for the worst. Emerging from the trees was what appeared to be another Police Officer. A female one at that, and she nervously walked up toward the cave entrance as the 6 inside wondered what was going on. He had just shot through a full army of the controlled cops and now he was suddenly helping one? Either way they feared the worst as both slowly approached the cave. As the female Cop got closer, she removed her hat and let down her hair, and to their surprised, it was pink! It took them a moment to realize who it was, but when they did, it was quite the shock.
“What the! Fiona!?” shouted Tara.
“Hi,” she said quietly.
“What are you doing dressed as a Cop?” came Reine.
“Oh, he said it was good camouflage,” Fiona said, pointing to the heavily armed Riot Officer behind her.
The officer waved his hand hello as the rest emerged from the cave. They were a little nervous of him and kept their distance. He almost seemed to chuckle at their reactions to him.
“You just shot yourself in the head, and are perfectly fine!” shouted Tara.
“Uh-huh,” responded Jack.
“How are you not freaking out over this!” yelled April.
“I'm surprised how you're not freaking out over how I'm alive again,” chuckled Jack.
“Yeah, ya care ta explain that one?”
“I think it has something to do with a giant red Ogre and some sort of mission.”
“But, but, but, but, this doesn't happen!” yelled Tara, all her thoughts on how the world worked falling apart before her.
“Discord's power can do strange things, but I've never known him to bring back the dead.” commented Twilight, still more used to crazy happenings like this.
“I think this one may be outside power,” responded Jack, as if he knew something.
“Well, do you feel okay?” asked Dash, not exactly sure
“Well let's see, I was shot a dozen times, slammed into by a armored car, caught aflame, and rolled over at 120 miles per hour. Died, then brought back to life, had my neck broken by some SWAT guy I stole these clothes off of, was attacked by five police dogs, and shot point blank with a shot gun. Also, I took a pistol to my head. Yeah, I've never felt more peachy!” explained Jack.
“Well, he's got a point,” said Twilight.
“I do?” came a astounded Jack.
They all looked to her irate she could even say that. Unicorn or not, these things didn't occur normally even in her Universe. To Twilight, traveling around with the Doctor was all she really needed to be calm in this situation. They looked back to the undead officer, who just shrugged. Even with his coming back to life, he was still as clueless to the situation as ever. Or at least he seemed like it.
Regardless, April slapped him on the back as Diane gave him a hug.
“Glad to have ya back there Jack,” said April.
“Lou was so crushed when you were killed,” added Diane
“We all were to a degree,” finished Reine.
“Glad to know ya guys, and my girlfriend care. By the way where is she?”
“Probably fighting Discord in the city. She wanted his head after he killed you,” spoke Dash.
“She knows I sacrificed myself right?”
“Well, she blamed Discord for causing it,” replied Tara
Jack looked out to the city and worried for his girlfriend. They all did, and hoped they would be okay. Somehow, Twilight knew they would be, deep down the Unicorn-Human just knew. Straightening out her mane, Twilight hopped down off the rock she was sitting on and looked to the sky. It was darker than before, night time was coming.
“We need to get going. We need to get the Elements to defeat Discord.” she ordered
“Elements of Harmony? Yep, I missed something. That why you guys are going to the old Mansion in this place?”
“You're not surprised about the elements?” asked Reine
“Okay, I'll go on another rant. Derpy Whooves, the Doctor, and all of Equestria exists! I fought off animated mannequins, learned Discord exists! I'm dating Princess Luna! I'm a Zombie! As far as I'm concerned, the Elements of Harmony fit right into this big old parade! I'm open to everything right now!” shouted Jack
“Well, that's good to know,” Reine finished.
Jack cocked his head to the right, holding his mouth shut lest untold blasphemes would come out. A vein on his head throbbed, indicating his anger. Reine just smiled and slowly backed away. The rest ignored the little fight going on.
“Yeah. If we can get those magical items, we can crush Discord,” Dash said ready for a fight
“Right, which means we should stop standing around and get to that Mansion!' Tara called as she tried to climb the rocks up the incline.
The rest clambered on to climb up while the undead Jack just stood there watching in confusion. They looked to him expecting him to start his climb, but he just stood there.
“There's a quicker route up this way, follow me,” he finally spoke.
He walked off toward the west as the 7 looked on confused.
“How the hell do you know?” came Dash.
Jack turned around and just laughed. “Do you know how many stupid calls the Police get from that place? After that one incident with the llama, The mounted unit commissioned for a trail to be set up not far from here. How do you think I got here so fast?”
He turned around and started walking again.
“Llama?” asked Twilight.
“You don't even want to know,” said a disgusted April as she slid down the rocks.
Twilight looked on even more confused.
“You'll have to forgive her, that was her llama they stole,” added Reine as she slid down.
Twilight thought on it, gave a shrug, and followed suit. Jack meanwhile had seemingly returned to that still, creepy state he was in when they first saw him. While he may be a freak of nature all of a sudden, aside from that, they had little reason not to trust him. He had just saved them after all, and this was Jack, actually, thinking on that it didn't hold much water, but it was their best lead. Following him, they made their way to the path he was talking about. It was a simple overgrown gravel trail with grass patches popping up all over the place. It wound it's way up and down the hill, and was eerily abandoned. Dash was the first to step out, and nothing happened. No helicopter, no searchlights, not even a rustle of the leaves. The route safe, the rest walked on and up the hill. Only Jack stayed behind and watched the woods, making sure they weren't being followed. Reloading his grenade launcher and readying it for a fight, he knew where they all were. If the Discord controlled Police were here, then they would have used that road as well, and if they were trying to go for the Elements of Harmony, Jack would know full well where they would head them off. Taking one last look, he caught up with his friends and joined them in their climb.
----
With a beam of white, the Dalek burst into flam and melted into a sizzling pool of molten metal, it's organic body long having vaporized in the heat. As another tried to back away from the sun deity, he was stopped by the Doctor. He pointed his Sonic Screwdriver and fired it, and it seemingly did nothing. The Dalek looked around expecting something to happen from it's age old enemy, until it suddenly felt itself being lifted into the air. It looked around with it's eye stalk, but it couldn't seem to turn it's head all the way around. As floated up above the buildings, the Dalek started falling. It finally got its eye stalk around to look behind it, and it saw a human with a pair of wings. It tried to engage its flight systems, but they did not work. The Doctor had disabled them and it's flying companion had dropped him from a height where it's shell would not protect it. The last thing it saw was the ground before metal and impact blacked it out permanently. Two down, a hundred to go. Celeste herself zapped two more into oblivion when a Dalek fired right at her shield. Even with her power negating the bolt into only the shield, she was weakening. Aiming her lance she engulfed two of them with her power, destroying them all with the power of the sun itself. Five more appeared behind those two and floated over the molten Dalek pit and toward her. She took out two of them before the return fire forced. She felt her foot brush up against something and looked to see the Doctor holding up a trash can lid.
“What's that for?” she asked.
Her response was a demonstration when a Dalek fired and he tossed the lid into the air, taking the Dalek bolt instead of the Doctor. With skill, he leaped up over and landed in a seemingly pointless spot, and as the Dalek fired, it hit one of its comrades that fell from the sky. He gave a salute upwards, and Derpy returned it. The ever present Dalek that had been firing all this time aimed upwards to try and shoot Derpy down, only to have it's body pierced by a lance and thrown into another file of advancing Daleks. As they got up, Celeste used this moment to her advantage, and the Daleks were suddenly gone, vanished into this air. She looked on impressed when a Dalek crashed into a car and exploded, dropped from the air. Derpy landed next to them, tired as wore out.
“Doctor, I, I can't go on!” she got out, nearly collapsing.
She looked over to see four of the aliens advancing and opening fire, but the blasts were suddenly blasted back by a screen of light that appeared in front of her and the Daleks were obliterated by their own beams. She looked to Celeste, who smiled at her victory. The Doctor meanwhile joined them after sending a semi to crash three of them through a building.
“We can't stop now Derpy, AAH!”
He jumped into the air as a Dalek missed shot vaporized a pipe that was next to him. Celeste acted fast and in moments the Dalek was aflame.
“We've fought long into the night Doctor. Now might be a good time to retreat,” optioned Celeste.
“Impossible! There's no way we could have!”
“Retreat? You've done that before!” cried Derpy.
“No, we've been here a hour. How could it possibly be.... night!”
He froze. He was looking up into the air, specifically towards the large full moon that now orbited the sky. Derpy only noticed the moon, and turned to the other side to see the sun floating up there as well. What could cause the moon and the sun to come up in the same exact moment, and then it hit her like a freight train. She looked back to the moon just as a beam of light shown brightly in the middle and grew at incredible speeds. It took them a second, but they realized it wasn't growing, it was coming at them. They braced for impact when the light burst into even more light and shot all around them, but didn't hit them. Instead, it hit each and every Dalek around them. They watched as the cyborgs glowed with a intense blue light, and shattered into a million pieces as glass. Yet, even as the pieces of the glass went out, it didn't hurt to the touch, instead they just cooled into water, and began flowing upwards until they almost became stars in the night sky.
“Great Gallifrey!” exclaimed the Doctor.
They watched as the Nightmare Lou floated down, the ground shuddering almost with every step of her armored boot. The few Daleks that survived shrank back in fear as Lou looked to her sister.
“Thank you Lou.”
“I will not leave my sister to become another victim of Discord.”
Celeste looked to Nightmare Lou, and for a minute, she saw her younger sister in there. She was about to say something when there came a crash behind them and a fire truck rolled into a building with a thud.
“Did you honestly, in all your outcomes, think that for even a second, a rubber fire hose fused to a Firetruck could hold me?”
Lou turned around to join the rest in looking on at Discord as he adjusted the gauntlet on his hand. All she could do was smile.
“Never did Discord. But now your Dalek friends are dead, and you are right here with me, My sister, Derpy, and the Doctor.”
“Ooh, Doctor Who, I'm shaking in my boots,” mocked Discord.
He broke out into laughter when a Dalek gun stick blast suddenly shut him up and sent him falling to the ground. He wasn't dead but the attack still hurt. From behind the Doctor walked up holding a Dalek gun stick in his hands, having modified it to fire with his Sonic Screwdriver.
“It's just the Doctor, thank you. Nightmare is right. Let's see you fight all of us!”
Discord stood up, and his nostrils shot out green flame with his anger. Facing off against both the Princesses, and the Doctor and his Assistant, he eyed them angrily and snapped his fingers
----
At long last, and with no issues, police, and even a single tree to block the road, they arrived at the mansion. Looking around, it was what they expected, but at the same time it wasn't what they expected. It was old, decrepit, and falling apart all over. A storm had seemingly knocked out the upper floors and all that remained was the first floor. It's stone siding was still there, but inside all that was left was shattered walls and abandoned rooms. They were all a little reluctant to go inside, even Twilight and the undead Jack. Dash was the first to step inside, and while the floors creaked and echoed throughout the house, nothing happened.
“It's safe!” she called out.
The rest walked in nervously, looking around and fearing the worst. Jack was the last one in, checking for anything that was following them. Fortunately there wasn't.
“Okay, let's get this over with. Hopefully, we wont have to go to the basement,” he said closing the door.
“Why? What's down there?” Twilight inquired.
“Last I checked, part of a llama,” Jack shuddered as he kept on walking.
She looked to him confused as ever, but a reassuring her double made her forget the mysterious llama issue and she started looking through the house. As the rest walked in and out of rooms, she wondered if it was through a hidden passage or something.
“So where would the Elements be?” asked April
“In Equestria, they were on a podium. I don't know about here.”
“Most stories talk of a treasure buried here. I bet the Elements are what they're talking about!” spoke Tara
“Fortunately, I happen-” started Jack.
He was cut off by a hair raising scream from Reine. They barged into the room where she was, Jack ready to fire his grenade launcher, when they realized she just walked into a spider web.
“Get this thing off of me!” she shrieked.
Dash and Fiona walked over and helped her remove the web while Fiona herself helped the spider back into its little corner.
“Well, it's not in here,” chuckled April
“I can see that,” snapped Reine
“Maybe it's in a secret room or something,” came Fiona
“Yes and if I can get a word out-” Jack tried again.
“Everyone start searching for a hidden panel! It's gotta be here somewhere,” ordered Twilight
“I'm never getting a word out,” sighed Jack.
No one listened to him and began searching furiously for the panel. All except Twilight, who was analyzing the whole place for anything. She looked around for the most obvious obscure thing she could possibly find. It wasn't easy. There were broken wall and floor boards, a single peg for the former stair railing, and lastly, a room full of books? She was drawn to it, both out of her love for the printed material, and for the fact it seemed so obvious and obscure all at the same time. At the same time, the library room seemed to border along a mysterious block of the building there seemed to be no way in to! All arrows pointed toward it and she knew what she had to do. The others saw her walking in, and caught on to where she was going.
“Uh, Twilight, it's uh-” tried Jack.
“Help me tear these books off!” she shouted
Using her magic, she began pulling books off one by one. The rest of the girls ran in and followed suit, just with out magic. Soon books were piling up on the floor or were crumbling where they stood due to old age and decay. While Twilight tried to read a few, the writing was so decrepit she couldn't even make out the slightest letter. Tossing it aside, she kept going, tearing every book that came into her sight off the shelf. Finally, they came to the last one. A large heavy tome that rested right on the wall where Twilight guessed the room would be. With a heave, April and Dash tore it from the wall, and it fell to the floor with a thud. They heard a knocking behind it as if something was moving. But it just kept knocking. They leaned in closely and listened to it, and it just kept knocking, or tapping. Tara's eyes lit up as she recognized what it was.
“That's Morse code!” she yelled.
“What? Impossible! How can that be Morse code?” came April.
“Sound more like Horse code,” commented Twilight.
“Not around here.” replied Reine
“What's it saying? Is it a ghost?” cried Diane.
“Ssh! Quiet. Come.....come..... come to the.... staircase?”
“Staircase? What?” asked Dash.
“Come on let's go!”
The tapping suddenly changed and was a bit more furious than usual. They all looked to Tara for a translation.
“It said: Yes, let's.” she translated, confused.
“What is this? A ghost with a sense of humor?” grunted Dash as they walked out.
They walked to the staircase, and a sight beheld them. The single railing peg was shifted the opposite way and the stair lowered to reveal a hallway of sorts. Inside, Jack leaned up against the wall, tapping said wall with his baton.
“Not really a ghost. More on the lines with a zombie.” he laughed.
“What the? Why didn't you tell us about this?” snapped Twilight giving him a dark look.
“I tried to. No one was listening!” he snapped back.
“How did you find out about this place?” asked Tara walking in.
“Accident. Discovered it a few years ago while investigating on a call. Not much, just a empty room of sorts, but it's the only secret room in the house I know of.”
Tara was about to say something when a Helicopter buzzed overhead. Their worst fears were realized when they heard sirens right outside.
“Of course, they would show up now!” shouted Jack.
He ran to the front door, and wasn't even there for two seconds when he started to fire his grenade launcher. Twilight looked on worried as a spotlight was suddenly cast upon the house. It searched through the house until it centered in on the the Pony doppelgangers. They knew they were in there, and as Jack doubled his firing rate, they were coming.
“Quickly! You need to get the Elements of Harmony!”
“We don't even know where to begin!” shouted Dash.
“This room is just a fluke! There's no way we can find them!” added in Tara.
Twilight looked around the room. It wasn't like Equestria where the Elements were just sitting there on that pedestal. These were hidden away so that some random Human didn't stumble across this place like Jack did and find some of the most powerful items in all of existence! Looking around the room, she looked for a clue, sweating with anxiety as Jack grunted from his fire and the rest cowered not knowing their fate. Twilight had to find something, anything! If Celestia was the one who put them here, then she must've had to have put a sign or something. A marker, an inscription, an incantation even! Going past her cutie mark on the wall she kept searching when she suddenly stopped. Back tracking she saw, that under the grime, mold, and decaying wood was her Cutie Mark! She looked and it was lined up exactly with the center of the room which seemed to have some designs on the floor as well. That was it!
“Tara stand here!” ordered Twilight.
“What? Why?” asked her double.
“Just do it! Dash stand here!”
“Uh, okay.” spoke Dash.
Twilight was rushing around the small room trying to find them, and every time she did, instructed the correct Pony-Person to stand where it lay.
“April, here! Diane, here! Fiona, stay where you are! Reine! Here!”
They all got into position and waited. Nothing seemed to happen. Dash was starting to get skeptical when she suddenly found herself frozen where she stood. They all did as they began to glow with a white aura. Twilight cheered, it was working! She watched in glee as the 6 lifted off the ground, a little unsure what to make of what's going on, when Twilight heard Jack scream. She turned around to see him getting hit by two tazers all at the same time. The Police soon followed, and Twilight acted fast. She looked into the other room where she thought the secret panel was, and using her magic, grabbed as many books as she could and sent them flying at the zombified police officers. They weren't expecting the full on book assault and were knocked the ground and buried in the books. A simple spell, and they were trapped down there, temporarily of course, the spell would wear off after a few hours. Her job done for the moment, she turned back to see the rest as the Elements worked their magic, when she felt two hands grasp her. She turned around to see a third Police Officer had made it in and grabbed her. She looked right into his emotionless eyes, and he was there. He was watching, laughing at them knowing there was nothing they could do now. Then, in a instant, he was gone. Jack stood there, his baton out ready to strike the officer again, but she didn't get up. He looked to Twilight, who was just recovering from the attack.
“You okay?”
“I'll be fine,” she said coming to.
“Good,” smiled Jack as he raised his grenade launcher and fired out the door, a white smoke enveloping several Officers, who then grasped for air and retreated.
“What's in those?”
“Tear gas. Not fun stuff. I only got three rounds left, then all I have are frag rounds.”
“Frag?”
“Kaboom,” answered Jack.
“Oh.”
He fired out another round while Twilight herself loaded up another volley of books and sent them flying towards the cops. As they're attacks momentarily ceased, they felt a strong presence behind them. They looked back to see a ball of white light floating there where the room was once. Every molecule in their body seemed to vibrate as Jack took a step back.
“This is going to either end very good, or very bad.”
“They're the Elements of Harmony! They shouldn't be bad.”
Jack was about to say something, when everything stopped. He braced for the worst, and in a flash, couldn't see anything. He felt himself being thrown across the room and slamming into a wall. Twilight meanwhile managed to hold herself up against the blast, and when it subsided, everything seemed peaceful all over again. There was no tense air about them, the helicopter wasn't buzzing around, no Police closing in, there wasn't even Jack! He stood up groaning and walked over and looked on at the sight.
“Whoa.” he got out of the pile of decrepit books that had managed to cover his entirety.
The 6 stood there, still in a sort of daze, and it wasn't just the Elements of Harmony that adorned their necks and head, respectively. That alone could cause awe, but it was what it gave them as well. Tara and Reine now had horns growing out of their heads. Dash and Fiona had wings jutting out their backs. Diane and April looked the same as before, but outward looks could be deceiving. Tara was the first to come to and rubbed her forehead, finding her newly acquired horn in the process.
“Huh? What?” she said alarmed at she rubbed it.
“Congratulations! You can now practice magic!” cheered Twilight.
“What? Magic?” asked Tara still confused.
A sharp scream filled the air as Reine looked in horror at the horn growing out of her head. They looked to her before she herself started gawking at Dash's new set of wings. The rainbow haired girl looked on alarmed as Fiona, aware of hers as well, tried to hide them.
“What in tarnation just happened to us?”
“Yeah, what happened to us?” asked Diane, literally coming out of April's Stetson
Jack stood there, his hand half limp and pointing at what was going on. A look of dumbfounded shock painted on his face. He tried to say something, bu he was incapable of even making a simple grunt as to what he was seeing. April looked up alarmed, and with one hand, tore her out of her hat and held her in midair, not knowing her own strength.
I guess the Elements gave you the powers of my friends as well. Talk about side effects.” smiled Twilight sheepishly.
“I'll say! We can't go out in public like this!” shouted Tara.
“Oh, there's a real easy spell to hide your horn. Here I'll show you.” comforted Twilight.
“Not without me! Magical powers or not, I wont have this- this- this thing on my head all the time!” snapped Reine as she walked over.
“What about us? We can't go in public with wings,” came Dash.
“Ah, just fold them in. No one will notice.” said April with a grin.
“Oh ha ha. You didn't even undergo a change!” Dash shot back.
Jack still looked on, stupefied by what he was seeing. Even with all the crazy happenings, this one took the cake. He reached to his side and pulled out his pistol. With a sharp snap he shot it right through his head and he fell over. The rest jumped as the man fell over, and rose his head. Nope, he wasn't dreaming this up. It was real.
“Did that serve a point?” asked Twilight bemused.
“Uh-huh,” Jack finally got out.
He heard something in the distance, and sent his mind to go look for it. Meanwhile, the rest slowly became more and more adjusted with what just happened.
“I guess having a horn on my head wont be so bad. Just imagine all the work I can now get done!” sang Reine thinking on the subject.
“With this strength, I can easily do my days farm work in a hour!”
“I got a few old spell books I keep in the TARDIS. I can give them to you if you want.” spoke Twilight to her double.
“That would be nice!” Tara responded excited.
“Pssh! Screw spells! With these wings I can do all sorts of tricks and stuff! This is awesome!”
She lifted into the air off her feet with her wings and began to do some tricks with her wings and the small space she could. They looked on impressed with her feats, even Twilight, who had seen the Pony Rainbow Dash preform those exact tricks.
“What do you think Fiona? Are you ready to fly as well?” Diane asked appearing behind her friend.
“Oh, I really don't know. Maybe a little, but not too much. I don't like heights.”
“Yeah, you're Fluttershy alright,” grunted Dash as she flew around the room.
“Hey! Come check this out!” yelled Jack.
They all looked to see him standing at the foot of the door. Joining him on the former front porch, they found themselves with a million dollar view of the city below, and what a sight it was. The sun and Moon shown brightly inside of it, and there in the center, was where the fight was. They could see the flashes of blue and white form Celeste and Lou, fighting against Discord, the Doctor and Derpy somewhere down there fighting right alongside them.
“We need to get down there now,” spoke Jack.
“How? That's a good five hour walk, and I don't think those Police cars are still working after that blast,” commented Dash.
“Well, there are three Unicorns here, myself included. We could try a teleport spell,” Twilight said looking at them.
They looked back to her, unsure of what to make of it.
----
The Doctor felt himself slam up against the wall. Even with all of them teamed up as one, Discord was proving to be a worthy opponent. He stood up, the Dalek Gun stick he was using on Discord shattered from Discords attack. He tossed it down, it wasn't like it was doing anything against the spirit of chaos anyway. Above, Lou and Celeste were really putting up a a fight. Together, the Human versions of the Royal Pony sisters used everything they could against Discord, and while he held his ground, he wasn't able to gain any in the process. From the suns lance, to the moons blade, the attacks were pressed on hard and not showing any sign of giving up. He stepped outside thinking of a new avenue of attack, when Derpy fluttered down next to him.
“Are you okay Doctor?”
“I'll be fine Derpy, don't worry about me.”
“But, Discord got you really bad that time.”
“I'll be fine! We need to stay on the issue at hand! If we can't stop Discord right now before Twilight get's the Elements of Harmony, we're doomed!”
“Way ahead of you Doctor,” yelled Jack as he ran past.
“Jack!” yelled Derpy, amazed he was suddenly alive.
He turned and gave a salute before looking back towards the battle.
“Doctor! Look! Jack is back! He's alive!”
“What the? What's he doing here!? How is he alive? How are you alive!?” demanded the Doctor.
“Yeah, brought back to life, Zombie and all! Hows the fight going?” shouted Jack.
“Oh cool a Zombie! What, what's a Zombie?” asked Derpy.
“But, but, but!?” stammered the Doctor.
“Hello Doctor!” greeted Twilight.
“Twilight? Is this a trick of Discord? What's going on?” shouted the Doctor.
“It's no trick! We got the Elements! Look!”
She revealed behind her not only to reveal the Human 6, but the Humane 6 with added Pony powers as well. Horns, Wings, everything. The Doctor was both giddy with glee and shocked in amazement all at the same time. Derpy meanwhile was just giddy with glee.
“Tara, Reine, and I managed to combine our magical powers and teleported us near by. We're ready to fight!”
“Wha? But, I, how can... how is he? The Elements?” The Doctor continued to stammer.
“I can't believe it! We are going to do it! We are going to beat Discord! WHOO HOO!” Derpy screamed.
“Very well then! Let's do it!” the Doctor announced, having quickly regained his composure. He looked back at the Humane 6 and called out to them: “You ready girls?”
“Are you kidding? This is going to be awesome!” shouted Dash.
“We're ready!” announced Tara.
“Alright, we just charge up the Elements and let fly!” remarked Twilight.
“Yeah, not exactly,” The Doctor corrected.
“What is it now Doctor? We got everything we need! Just fire!” Derpy groaned, not wanting him to answer.
“Yes, but we need a clear shot Derpy. So long as Celeste and Nightmare Lou are up there, there is a danger we could hit one of them!”
“Nightmare Lou!?” yelled Jack.
“Well, with your death, Lou seemed to go into a silent rage and well, became the embodiment of Nightmare Moon.”
“She's not going to revert is she?” asked Jack.
“What?” the Doctor responded, caught a little off guard.
“When she transforms back, she wont regress to a younger version of herself? I can't date a 12 year old.”
“No of course not! She wont do that! Humans, seriously! The things they come up with!”
His rant was cut short, when, with a cheap shot from behind, Discord managed to knock Lou into a building and through three stories to the ground floor. The impact could be felt from afar as Jack looked on horrified.
“Lou!”
He ran off to go find her while Discord moved in, not knowing the undead Police Officer was down there, until Celeste cut him off.
“You're going to pay for that one Discord!” she growled.
“What are you going to do? Banish me to the moon?” he mocked her before breaking out into laughter, “Do your worst.”
Celeste just grinned and before Discord suddenly felt himself growing hotter and hotter. Celeste's wicked smile grew wider and wider, but not as wide as his. With a intake of air, he expelled his growing body heat out through his mouth in a blaze of fire. Celeste held up her shield, but it was too much, and she fell to the ground, defeated.
“I said do your worst. I didn't mean for you to take it literally.” he chuckled as Celeste impacted on the ground out cold, her armor and lance still smoking from the heat.
“Now, where did the other one go?”
Down below, Lou slowly came to. She would have to watch out for Discords behind-the-back strikes next time. As her vision cleared, she saw a figure run up beside her dressed in Police armor. Just when she was about to effortlessly destroy said Police Officer, she recognized the face on him.
“Lou! Are you alright!? You took one hell of a hit!”
“Great, now I'm dead.”
Jack face went from concerned to disgruntled. “Really. I give up my life for you and that's the first response I get?”
Lou sat up and dusted off some of the rubble from her armor and looked to him angry.
“Why did you kill yourself! Do you know what kind of pain you put me through?”
“What the? I saved your life!” Jack shouted poking Lou right in the stomach.
“Saved it? Why did you have to kill yourself? We almost had her in the TARDIS!”
“You know, I don't know many people who would willingly give up their lives for their girlfriends. Especially ones who act like a jackass when they do.”
“A Jackass!? You did not!”
“I'll go a lot further there, babe,” taunted Jack.
Discord landed before them and looked at the spectacle unfolding before them. He couldn't quite believe it himself to be honest, and watched with curiosity.
“I've been dead. What's your excuse?” argued Jack.
“My excuse? My excuse! I've been fighting off Discord! That's not an easy task!” she shouted, using the equivalent of the Royal Canterlot voice.
“I don't doubt you!” Jack replied, completely calm despite the shout that nearly knocked him over
Discord turned around to see the Doctor, Derpy, Twilight, and the rest of the Humane 6 standing there watching the spectacle as well. Oddly enough, they looked to him for answers, but all he could do was shrug in response.
“If you knew for a second the emotions I've been dealing with!” she snapped.
“I think I have a idea. You've been yelling at me over it!” he shouted back.
“Um, if I could intrude for a moment-”
“Stay out of this Discord!” shouted Lou.
“But I-”
“Hey! Get out of this ya freak! We're in a fight here.”
“You're supposed to be fighting me!” shouted Discord.
“Fine! You want me to fight you! I'll fight you!” shouted Jack.
He aimed his grenade launcher and fired, the projectile arcing across the sky, and right into Discords mouth, who promptly ate it and smiled. His stomach expanding outward and inward in a comical fashion as it exploded.
“A grenade? Really?” he sneered.
“It's tear gas. Enjoy,” said Jack.
Discord looked at him confused. Suddenly, his insides felt like they were on fire. From his stomach to his lungs, everything was burning! Throbbing, pulsating with pain. He screamed in pain and stumbled away, hacking up gas and smoke as the gas continued to fill his body.
“Now then!” started Jack.
“Wait a minute, Discord's not dead.” Lou interrupted as if she had a epiphany.
“No, no he's not.”
“Then, I'm not dead.” she stated.
“Nope. You're still here.”
“And- and Discord was talking to you, which means your real, as in, alive?”
“Yeah I came back to life a few hours ago. Don't know how.” Jack answered not really caring for that story again.
Instantly, Lou landed on top of him, tackling to the ground as she embraced him. She held him tight and did not want to let go.Jack tried to say something but was cut off when her lips met his. He didn't have much to complain or argue about after that.
“Thank you,” she got out weakly after separating.
“No problem,” Jack returned, now caught off guard from her emotional 180.
They both stood up, Lou clinging to Jack, tears rolling down her face from the fact Jack had returned from the dead and was here again. All the anger between the two gone in that moment as they looked at each others eyes and the world seemed to melt away around them. Sadly,it was not to last and ended as soon as it began. The moment was suddenly interrupted by a coughing Discord as he walked up, flame shot from his nostrils and sparks blew from his mouth every time he coughed. With one final hack, he expelled the last of the tear gas.
“I don't care who are what you are. Even if your some sort of knight in armor coming to rescue this Princess, your going down!”
Jack looked down at himself at the absurd comment Discord just spoke about. He didn't know what was worse, the fact Discord was technically right, or how cheesy it all was. He smiled uneasily at Lou, who was trying to hide away from the comment altogether. Discord just laughed at it, relishing in the stupidity of it. Jack's face darkened, he readied his grenade launcher and brandished his shield as Lou grabbed her blade and held it up, the metal glinting in the moonlight. Discord was undaunted and raised his hand, a orb of power appearing in it until suddenly, his whole arm exploded as Jack fired a frag grenade he had loaded into the launcher. He grabbed hold of it, but his body was pierced by a blue beam fired from Lou's staff blade. He dropped to his knees in pain, his eyes aflame with anger. He raised his other hand ready to snap his finger and call forth whatever came into his mind when he did it; when a white beam hit him from behind, and he caught aflame. He screamed in pain as he fell to the ground trying to put out the fire; Celeste standing behind him holding her lance from the attack.
“Now! Use them!” shouted the Doctor.
Discord weakly looked behind him to see 6 figures standing there, each one having a golden element around them. He looked on in fear as they started to glow white and lifted up into the air, a rainbow forming around them. He tried to scramble away, but the rainbow was too fast.
“NOOOOOOO!” he screamed.
His Power dissipated, everything started to return to normal. Windows fixed, cars righted themselves, poles realigned themselves. In a flash, it was if Discord had never even shown his power.
“It did it! The colorful Magical Rainbow of Friendship saved the world from disharmony! I can't believe I just shouted that!” remarked the Doctor.
He got a hand on his shoulder and a reassuring look from Twilight, while Derpy snickered behind her. The Doctor buried his face in his hand, it itself was red with embarrassment. Celeste, weak from her fight, started to fall over, but was held up by Tara and Diane. The rest ran over to help the wounded Princess as she stood up. She smiled at them, the battle having been won, and they looked over to a set of doors opening and Jack and Lou walking out, their arms around each other.
“You look good in armor.” commented Jack.
Lou only blushed at the comment. They joined their friends as they looked on as the moon and sun returned to their normal positions.
“So, is it finally over?” asked Diane
“Yes, I think it's finally over,” answered the Doctor.
“Uh, I don't think so!” came a alarmed Derpy.
They looked to her as she herself was looking all around, flying from place to place looking for something.
The 11 searched frantically for any sign of Discord, while the resident undead stood around uninterested.
“How did he escape!? The Elements are one of the most powerful objects in all of existence!” cried the Doctor.
“This is a different Discord, Doctor! He beat the Elements in his own Universe. Makes sense he would know how to avoid them in this one!” explained Twilight.
They kept on looking, searching under every rock, every car, even under a turtle that happened to be passing by. With each passing moment, their search grew farther and farther away from the epicenter and their hopes were replaced by fear.
“He couldn't have gotten far!” yelled Diane.
“It was the Elements of Harmony! He shouldn't have gotten anywhere!” still argued the Doctor.
“Where would he be?” asked Twilight.
“Probably went to the TARDIS,” spoke Jack.
They all looked to him as if he were insane. He just shrugged.
“That's where I'd go,” he continued.
The Doctor was quick to disprove that theory: “Impossible! I have the chameleon circuit and the Invisibility on! He can't even see it let alone find it!”
“Well, he did managed to break into a spell sealed vault and steal the Elements of Harmony back in Equestria,” Twilight told him.
Whooves couldn't argue, since she was right. His blood boiled through both his hearts at the very idea that Discord was even looking at his beloved TARDIS.
Twilight looked to Tara and Reine, and they knew what to do. This time however, they were joined by Celeste and Lou and in seconds they were standing in another vacant lot. Whooves aimed his Sonic Screwdriver and fired, removing the invisibility from his TARDIS, revealing it to the world. Everything on it looked the same, as if nothing was wrong. Just as the Doctor was about to announce that Discord wasn't here, blindly holding onto the hope that his TARDIS was okay, he saw it. The white sign that forever adorned the call Box look on his TARDIS. “Push to Enter.”
“DISCORD!” screamed the Doctor.
He furiously grabbed at the door and flung it open. Derpy tried to grab onto him and keep him from going into his own doom inside his own TARDIS, but the Time Lord was too strong and marched right on in. Twilight followed suit, asking the Doctor to wait, but it fell on deaf ears. The rest looked on from the outside, not sure exactly what to do.
“Do- do we follow them?” asked Tara.
“Sure! Why not!” Diane sang as she walked in oblivious to the danger.
The rest looked at each other amazed. She was defiantly Pinkie Pie's human version. This was confirmed when she marveled at a object inside the TARDIS, disappeared down one end of it, and popped out the other end still marveling at it. The rest followed, save Jack, who was still unsure of whether or not to enter. He actually took a step back still fearing what could tear apart his molecules at a split second when he has grabbed form behind.
“I got you scardey cat. Move it!” ordered Lou.
She literally had to push him into the TARDIS. Once inside, he did not move from the exact spot she left him at. He clutched at his grenade launcher and shield, looking around nervously at the slightest movement, fearing the worst was going to happen. There came a snap and a rumble followed by a high pitched scream that shook them to their cores. Only the Doctor stood untouched.
“She's fighting him! He's here!” he announced.
“What?” asked Tara.
“Discord doesn't understand the TARDIS is intelligent. She's fighting him alright! That's my TARDIS!”
The lights flickered for a few seconds before shutting off completely. They turned back on, although this time with a distinct hum.
“This is bad,” said Lou.
The rest looked worriedly around the room hoping that Discord would not pop out and get them at any moment. As the lights flickered again showing the TARDIS was still fighting Discord in it's own way, the Doctor ran to his controls. After a mass of buttons, switches, levers, and a kids toy, all mixed in with his Screwdriver, the lights came on even brighter and the humming stopped.
“He seemed to have taken a fancy to the urinals. Weird.”
“Maybe he had to go?” commented Derpy.
“Maybe.”
Meanwhile, Diane, April, and Dash meanwhile walked over to a door. They all were more curious about the inside of the mythical blue Police box than the fear of Discord and looked at the panel for it's controls. After a round of Rock Paper Scissors, Dash huffed angrily and pressed the button. The opening of said door was fast and rapid, and they swore they heard the splashing of water. Looking inside the trio were welcomed by what appeared to be a Olympic sized pool.
“So this is the pool room,” commented Diane.
Suddenly the door closed, much to their alarm. Apparently the TARDIS didn't want them snooping around while Discord was loose, but they had other ideas. Dash pressed the button again, and this time it opened to reveal the wardrobe room. The door shut again, followed by Dash opening it again. The next a stable, next room a track, another room appeared to be a single chair in the middle of a illuminated white light. They were glad when the door shut that time. Still, curiosity got the better of them and this time Diane opened the door. The door opened again revealing several doors down a hallway. When it shut again and April opened it, it showed a room with several dozen beds lining up for miles almost. All the while, their small antics had gotten the attention of the rest, and the Doctor looked in and saw it.
“So that's where the barracks went.”
“Barracks?” asked Diane.
“It is a ship you know! They were planned with having a crew! Not one madstallion!”
“Stallion!?” asked Dash.
“Still used to Ponyville,” answered the Doctor walking.
The door shut and Dash opened it again, however, the three were looking at the Doctor bewildered and not at the door.
“LOOK OUT!” screamed Twilight.
They looked in to see, to their deepest horrors, a Dalek standing there. It didn't say a word, it just fired at them. The three barely got out of the way and Jack was struck with the blast. His skeleton illuminating a bright turquoise, his bones a sharp black. He screamed in pain and fell over as the door shut again.
“No! Not again!” screamed Lou.
“No!” spoke the Doctor.
“Wait! Hold on!” yelled Tara.
Jack gasped for air before coughing. Everyone who hadn't seen his spectacle with the pistol jumped back in amazement at his immortality. He stood up, still a little winded from his “death” and looked at everyone starring at him. He shook his head a little and stumbled around before being caught by Lou.
“So that's what a Dalek Gun stick blast feels like.” he got out.
His demeanor soon changed form amazed to angered. Before anyone could say anything, his eyes narrowed and he cried out in anger.
“See! See! I told you! The moment I step foot in this thing I die! Why is that thing even in here!?”
“How did you survive a full on Dalek blast?” asked the Doctor, intrigued by his survival.
“What are you? Immortal!?” asked Derpy.
“So it would seem,” The Doctor pondered.
“Okay, yes! I can't die! Somehow I gained immortality when I came back to life. Answer my question! Why was there a Dalek!?” yelled Jack.
“Did you have to ask Jack?” came a sinister voice from all around.
“Yes, yes I did,” snapped Jack.
“Well, you clearly aren't bright are you, Officer?”
“It was rhetorical!” snapped Lou.
“Ooh, now you're coming to his aide. How sweet.” mocked the spirit of chaos.
They looked around expecting to see him, but he was everywhere and nowhere, omnipotent. This did little to satisfy the Doctor.
“Discord! You don't know what you're doing! You are trespassing in my TARDIS! I am warning you! Leave now and I'll find you a place to-”
“Please Doctor, you don't scare me. Just the mere mention of my name sends others running or cowering for their lives.”
“So does mine.” muttered the Doctor.
He stood defiant amongst the laughter of Discord. Around him, the Mane 6, Celeste, Lou, Jack, and the Doctors companions readied themselves for battle. Yet, Discord was smarter than that and kept hidden and there all at the same time. They all knew what they had to do: If they wanted to fight him and finish this, they were going to go and find him. However, the TARDIS was massive, much larger on the inside then out. What was worse was if they went as a cohesive force, he could easily hide, double back, and sneak around them without their knowledge. He chose the perfect battleground in the universe. To catch him they would have to do the one thing they didn't want to do, and it was exactly what Discord wanted them to do. They all knew it, they all despised it, and it was Discords exact reason for coming here. Yet, even in this dark hour, he had underestimated them yet again. For Twilight was way ahead of him and formulated a counter to his divide and conquer.
“We stay in groups. Two per Pony!”
“You mean person?” corrected Tara.
“Not where I come from.”
Pony dialect aside, it was their best option. 6 groups, 2 per group. Twilight was ready to split them up, but the Doctor mysteriously beat her to it.
“Alright, here it is!” ordered the Doctor: “Derpy and Twilight. Tara and Diane, Dash and Arpil, Fiona and Reine, Celeste and Lou, and I'll stick with Jack here.”
“Why?” asked Lou, not exactly wanting to leave him after his second 'death'.
“We're both immortal.”
Jack caught onto where he was going. Twilight wondered why he wanted to stay around him? Immortal or not they hardly knew each other and would hardly make a cohesive force together. The rest just agreed with the Doctor and got into their groups. While reluctant, they moved out to catch Discord with fire in their eyes. His terror was going to end here and now in the TARDIS and there was nothing he could do to stop them. Dash opened the door one last time, and the TARDIS seemed to be in the fight as well. It revealed a entrance to six different hallways, and while they knew each one lead to Discord, it was the best it could do since it was fighting the human-Dracqouness. Nodding to each other silently, they stepped forward to the first doors they came across, and stepped in. Those next doors they crossed into, though, was purely Discord's doing. Twilight and Derpy appeared in a forest of sorts complete with birds and a sun. Diane and Tara appeared in the library, while Dash and April showed up in the pool room, again. From the moment the door shut behind them, Lou and Celeste found themselves in a large dark void with only themselves illuminated, while Fiona and Reine just appeared in another hallway full of hallways. All that was left was the Doctor and Jack, and this one wasn't of Discord's doing.
Looking around the small room, Jack instantly knew something was up. There was no exit, only one entrance guarded by the Doctor. The room was completely devoid of anything and everything aside walls, floor, ceiling, and a light. After nodding in assessment of it, he looked the the Doctor; who stood there eying him angrily ready to go off at any moment. Jack gave a small laugh and flipped open the chamber on his grenade launcher. He set it down on the floor, rested his pistol and tazer on it, and placed his shield over it. He looked the Doctor, who aimed his Sonic Screwdriver at the pile and fired. The items were fused together and stuck to the floor with a ding. Jack rested up on the wall awaiting anything while Whooves put the Screw Driver back in his pocket. The two stared at each other, Jack looking on unconcerned, the Doctor eying the Office angrily. Finally, after what seemed like minutes, the Doctor spoke.
“Went to the TARDIS. How original. You planned this!”
“I didn't plan anything. I was just doing as instructed.”
“You traitor! You sacrificed your life for us just for Discord to corrupt you and bring you back.”
Jack was a little shocked by this. “Uh, no. It can look that way, but that's not the case entirely.”
“I will give you one chance, Officer. One chance!” threatened the Doctor.
“Well Doc, what do you want to know first?” Jack asked him.
Whooves and Jack stared off at each other. Despite the Doctor's demands to know everything, his question of knowing “Everything” was a bit too vague for Jack to answer. He tried to answer, but nothing seemed to come out. Thus, for the longest moment, they had stared silent and unmoving. Finally, the Doctor worked out where he wanted to begin.
“That excuse you used for saying you came back to life, what was it?”
“A giant Ogre King said I had to come back?” Jack told him sheepishly.
“That's a lie and you know it.”
“I know, but I needed something to explain me coming back.”
The Doctor fumed over it and walked around, all the while keeping his distance from Jack. Jack just eyed him, somewhat wishing he hadn't put down ALL of his weapons. Finally, the Doctor stopped and began to speak again.
“The moment you rushed past me in the city I knew something was wrong. When just looking at you was a effort I knew what it was. My question is how and why?”
“We both know to the answer to that one Doctor. The great man from the 51'st Century!”
“Yes, with my Universe a show you would know about Harkness. Though I suspect the names were a coincidence?”
“Purely. Kinda cool though,” answered Jack.
“And the immortality?”
“Uh... A bonus I guess.”
He just shrugged. While the Doctor was still suspicious, Jack was right. It was a coincidence that the two had the same name. Besides, there were more pressing matters to deal with first.
“Then how? Harkness was a anomaly created by accident. A by-product of the Time Vortex regenerated a human body! You didn't have it when we met at the Mall, so you got it after you died; am I correct!?”
“Bingo-Bango,” replied Jack.
“Who? Who did it!? Why!? It couldn't have been Rose! She's nowhere near this Universe!”
“I wanna point out, it was not my idea! I had full intentions to die that night and never come back. It wasn't her's either.”
“Her's? Which one? We're on a ship full of Her's!”
Jack didn't want to answer and kept his mouth sealed.
“Damn it, man, tell me!”
“Derpy.”
The Doctor nearly fell over at the mention of the name. No, it couldn't be, she became a Bad Wolf? Why would she? How could she? The last time that happened, his companion nearly died and he had to regenerate just to save her! He was nearly ready to strangle Jack where he stood, but his own nature kept him back.
“Who's bloody hell idea was it then?”
“Exactly.” Jack answered with a sly smile.
Whooves didn't know what he meant at first, until he caught on to it. A pit formed in his stomach and he begged for Jack to not be right. Jack rested back up aside the wall, reluctant to go on. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small hand device and tossed it to the Doctor. Whooves caught it and looked it over. Looked like a common video phone to him, but when he pressed the play button, he was alarmed with what he got.
“Hello there Doctor,” The Doctor greeted on the screen.
“Me!? What? What am I doing?”
“Yes, I'm having this message recorded using this message I got from the other Jack that was recorded by me in the future with my memories of my watch of this recording to answer your questions and sent back with him so you could see this recording and then record it as me in the future to be sent back with the other Jack.”
“Makes sense. Now what am I doing?”
“Saving the world of course!” Screen Doctor replied.
“By turning one of my most trusted companions into a Bad Wolf!? Have I gone mad!? How did this happen!?”
Screen Doctor looked down and away from himself and shook his head. “I can't tell you, it wasn't on the recording. I'm sorry,”
“Damn me! Tell me right now! I wont have her become it! I'm not losing anyone this time! I've already lost other Jack once, and I don't even know him well enough! You know damn well who caused this! Tell me!”
“I can't!”
The Doctor looked up to see Jack standing there, somewhat intimidated and amazed by the Doctor's fury. Just as it was about to be unleashed upon him, screen Doctor came to his rescue.
“He doesn't know either. He's as clueless as you at this point.”
“No, I'm going to stop this come Paradox or Black Hole!”
“You can't stop it, you can't prevent it. The paradox created would rip a hole right through the heart of the TARDIS. That in turn will cause a rip through the Universe, a Black Hole, you'll not only getting a Paradox and a Black Hole, you'll be getting both! You'll lose everyone and destroy everything in creation Doctor!”
The Doctor gave out a cry of frustration, as his screen self was right.
“I'm sorry.” apologized the screen Whooves.
“There has to be another way! I will not allow it!” snapped the Doctor.
“You are arguing with yourself here,” screen Whooves pointed out.
“I've done it before, I'll do it again! I will not risk Derpy, Twilight, or anyone! This plan is absolute insanity!”
“No, no, you see, it will all make sense in the long run!”
“Long run!? Last time I died! I regenerated! I don't want to go again!” Whooves shouted at his screen self.
“You won't be regenerating. You won't be dieing. Not this time,” Screen Doctor said.
“How!? How not this time!?”
“Because you got someone who is willing to not die,” smirked the screen Doctor.
Whooves looked at himself and the screen suddenly flickered black. He looked all over the video phone and tried to find something to press something when he looked up at Jack.
“Someone who is willing to not die.”
“What?” asked Jack.
“Oh, I am bloody brilliant!”
As he finished the screen came alive again: “Right you are Doctor! Here's the plan for once it all goes down!”
“I'm going to die, aren't I?” Jack asked the Doctor.
“Well, just for a little while,” the Screen Doctor told him.
“Twenty minutes, tops,” the real Doctor finished.
----
“So... you have any idea where we are?” Fiona spoke.
“No, no, no, no, no, no!” Reine repeated, ignoring her friends question.
The two had traveled at least a mile by now. Reine went from door to door opening it, and upon seeing that there was nothing of use inside,went to the next one. When that one failed, she went to the next one. So on and so on it went to the point Fiona didn't even know where they were anymore, thus prompting her to answer her question.
“No, no, no, no, no, n-wait a minute!” Reine changed.
Fiona looked back as Reine walked over to a door and opened it once again. Fiona poked her head around the door frame only to see a library full of books, and two others as well. Diane stood in the center of the library on one foot, all the while balancing five books on her nose, and seven more on her hands each. When she noticed them, she tossed the books into the air, and they landed in neat piles behind her. She was instantly next to them with a big smile on her face.
“What's up?”
“We're looking for Discord,” Fiona replied quietly.
“As should you!” snapped Reine.
“Oh we were, until Tara found some old spell Books Twilight keeps in here and started reading them.”
“What?”
Reine said no more and marched into the library. The shelves went almost two stories into the air, and she could see it was bigger than the cities own public library. For a 900 year old Doctor, this was quite the collection. Looking around, she heard a gasp of amazement and followed it. Walking through the various bookcases, she found her friend Tara sitting at a study with several books floating around her head, reading each one.
“What are you doing!?” she hissed.
“Huh? Oh, Hi Reine! You wont believe some of the spells in here!”
“We are supposed to be looking for that drab fashion wreck of a monster! Not reading books!”
“Oh, it will only take a second.” Tara told her before returning to her new found books.
Reine looked back at the other two who had followed her, and they just shrugged. Tara kept on reading, starting to hum a little to herself as well. Reine's anger grew by the second.
“One, one-thousand,” she said.
Elsewhere, the real Twilight and Derpy walked and glided respectively through the halls. After a short trip through the TARDIS gardens, they appeared in the halls of the TARDIS. If Discord was anywhere, he was in one of these doors. As Derpy picked a branch from her hair, they both heard a door opening. Looking and ready for a fight, Tara came sliding out on her butt and skidded into the wall. She looked at them blankly as if she couldn't believe what had just happened to her. Next Diane came cartwheeling out of the door, followed by Fiona. Reine was the last out, slamming the door shut behind her.
“Do I want to even know?” Twilight asked.
“There is a time for reading, and a time for working!” Reine snapped.
“I said, I would only be a second,” Tara replied standing up.
“You don't want to know,” Derpy answered Twilight.
Tara stood up and brushed her clothes off, when they heard a sinister cackle from afar.
“Discord!”
Fiona and Diane trembled a little bit while the rest looked on angrily.
“He can't be far,” Tara spoke.
“Or he's trying to trick us!” Reine added.
Twilight looked to the numerous doors of the TARDIS. It was just like the hedge maze. One way or another, he would split them all up and take them out one by one. Even with teams of two, he could easily separate them. The question was why was he laughing right now? Could he have already gotten some of the others?
“We need to find the everypony else! Right now! They're in danger!” she warned.
“How? These doors lead to nowhere!” said Derpy.
“The Console room! We can track their life signs from there and direct them to it!” Twilight answered.
“How? This thing have a intercom?” Reine asked.
“No, but with a little work we can make doors open up to rooms anywhere inside of it!” Twilight smiled, confidant in her plan.
“Couldn't we have done that with Discord?” asked Diane.
Twilight froze and in a instant, her palm met her face. In the frenzy of Discord in the TARDIS they were too quick to move out to catch him when the key was right there! As much as she hated to admit it, Discord had tricked her once again!
“Don't be too hard on yourself Twilight Sparkle. No one is perfect.” came a voice from behind.
“Discord,” cursed Twilight.
----
“So, Doc, are you sure you want to go along with this? I mean, It's-”
“So long as you're around to absorb the Time Matrix, all should end well!” the Doctor told him.
“Okay. So, can we get out of here? If I am going to die, I want to get it over with.”
“Yes, this room is a bit drab.”
“You're telling me,” commented Jack.
“Now then our first objective is to find the others and bait Discord. Shouldn't be hard, I know a few tricks. Just need the Console that's all!”
“Yeah, I was wondering, couldn't we have just teleported him to the Console room?”
“He's the Spirit of Disharmony! Do you know what kind of chaos he would cause in there?”
“Good point.”
“Yes! Now stupid questions aside, let's go!”
Whooves used his Screwdriver to open the door and turned to the Officer.
“Coming along?”
Jack looked on with a dumbfounded blank stare. His eyes were fixated on something right behind the Doctor, and Whooves feared the worst. He expected to see a sneering Discord standing over him ready to pounce, but his eyes were met with a much different sight. Dripping wet and in nothing but their underwear, Dash and April stood at the door with their clothes in their hands.
“Uhh...” stammered April.
“Hi,” Dash greeted nervously.
The other two looked on with blank stares before the Doctor shut the door. He turned back to Jack, who couldn't make heads or tails of what he just saw.
“I think those two found the TARDIS pool,” Whooves commented.
“I hope that's all they found.”
The Doctor shrugged and opened the door again. This time they found the Console room.
“Alright, Officer, watch the doors! I need time to set this up!”
For the past hour Lou and Celeste had literally been floating through a vast void. It was dark, ominous, but there seemed to be a light of sorts that illuminated the area around them. Where it came from was beyond them, and they had given up trying to think on it. It seemed like hours floating through this void, but Celeste's own knowledge of Doctor Who was the rooms could speed up or slow down time, and with Discord here, who knows. Time could have sped up for all they knew; they just hoped they didn't. This whole time they had been searching for a door, just there wasn't a door to be found. Even the one they entered had disappeared the moment it shut like some sort of cheap cliche horror movie door. They had tried to blast their way out using their powers, even teleport. Nothing. The energy blasts continued on forever almost, and they just teleported to what appeared to be the same place regardless of what they tried. Eventually, they figured that the Doctor or somebody would come along and get them out. Well, Celeste figured that and Lou was slowly losing her patience.
“So sister, do you know exactly where we are?” Lou asked.
“How should I know?”
“You were a bigger Doctor Who fan than me!”
“Yeah but they never showed this in the show. Not in the movies, books, even the video games!”
“They have video games?” Lou asked intrigued.
Celeste looked at her sister amazed she would ask that question. She shook her head while lou went a little red from embarrassment.
“Okay, your best guess.”
Celeste gave it her best. A large void where nothing existed and yet still was inside the TARDIS. One way in, no way out. It was a room of sorts, but what kind.
“I think this is the spare area when the Doctor deletes a room or something.” she said, her best answer to it
“What?” Lou replied not exactly getting what she was going at
“Well, when the Doctor deletes a room, normally for more power or something, when he's done, the energy isn't needed anymore and I guess this is where the stuff goes,” Celeste said, giving it her best shot.
“Stuff goes?” returned Lou.
"Yes."
"So, this is technically a giant Trash Can inside the TARDIS?"
Celeste answered it off with a shrug. Looking as her sister floated on, Lou gripped her blade and held in the air. It started to spark and suddenly, energy erupted from all around it. Celeste turned around in fear of what she was doing and tried to stop her. Lou would have none of it.
“Are you mad?!” Celeste pleaded.
“If this is where all the deleted rooms go! I'm making my own!” she shouted.
Celeste tried to think of a way to stop her but before she could even grasp at an idea, she was engulfed in a brilliant blue light. Opening her eyes, they were in the most basic room. A floor, four walls, ceiling, and a door.
"Knew you had it in you." she congratulated her sister
Lou smiled and went to the door when they heard voices. Thy were female, but muffled. Listening close to the door, it was April and Dash.
You seen my sock?" yelled Dash
"No Ah haven't!" replied April
"Where could it be?"
"Ah told ya swimmin was a bad idea! But you had to test your wings underwater!"
"How was I supposed to know they wouldn't work! Penguins fly underwater!" snapped Dash
"You got the wings of a Pegasus! Not a Penguin! Lucky Ah was there to save you!"
The two didn't know what to make of it, and wondered whether to go outside or not depending on if the two were fully clothed. Last thing they needed was a startled and embarrassed April and a shocked Dash. Celeste herself leaned in closer to try and hear the sound of clothes being put on when suddenly the room around them started to dissolve.
Now or never!" shouted Lou
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“Three minutes Officer Parker!” The Doctor called out.
“You're opening a vent, or something?... Why is it taking so long?!” snapped Jack.
"It's a bit more complicated than that!"
"I've seen it happen in that episode! It didn't look complicated!"
It had been close to a hour in the Console room, the Doctor setting it so they would have a longer time to work. As far as Jack was concerned, it was opening a door or something. Of course the Doctor was right and it was something much more complicated. Jack just didn't see it that way.
“If I don't set it right, when I expose Derpy to the Matrix everyone in the room will be affected. Me, Twilight, the Humane 6, Discord even! Not to mention if you see it, the result could be, well, let's go with bad.”
Jack didn't exactly know what to make of that as the Doctor continued around his controls working at his hardest to create the conditions.
“Bad?” Jack said anyway
“A fixed point in time suddenly granted with the powers of the Time Vortex. It's unfathomable to the point such a combination would be “bad”. I don't even want to think on it.”
“Oh that bad,” Jack answered getting where the doctor was going.
There came a loud bang that alerted the two. They looked around wondering where it came from, the initial one so omnipotent they couldn't figure where it came from. Suddenly, there came the echoing of a door opening from afar, followed by another, and then another.
“Doc, I think we're going to have company!” Jack said bracing himself.
“The time field around the console room is failing! It's him!”
Their stomachs dropped as the banging continued. It was getting closer and closer, and despite their prayers, it was headed right towards them. Jack readied his Grenade launcher and looked at how many shots he had left: three. He groaned in anger.
“I'm only good for three rounds here Doc. All I have is my tazer and baton.”
“Don't you have a pistol?”
“One magazine,” Jack answered.
“Hmm, give me your tazer and baton!”
Jack complied, not out of knowing where he was going, he didn't have a clue. He was just opened to all options the Doctor was throwing at him and the doors were getting closer. Whooves caught them both and instantly cracked the tazer open with his Sonic Screwdriver. With it's signature sound, he fused the baton and tazer together and wired a few of it's circuitry to the baton itself. Another blast from his Screwdriver and he tossed back to Jack. Curious, Jack pulled the trigger and suddenly the whole baton lit up like a light-saber.
“Cool,” he said shocked.
“Yes! Now! We have incoming!”
Just as he finished, the doors opened and Jack readied his weapon. Screaming at the top of their lungs, Fiona and Diane ran in followed by Derpy, who was carrying Reine, who had apparently fainted. There was the loud sound of a explosion, and in flew Twilight and Tara, whose horns were smoking from the attacks they had just endured.
“You alright!?” yelled Derpy
“He's right behind us!” yelled Twilight.
"Get back!" shouted Jack
"What the?!" came twilight, now realizing they were in the Console room
Jack was about to say something when he felt his armor being grabbed. He looked down to see a golden armored hand clutching it, before he was pulled into the darkness before him. The rest looked on and couldn't hear a thing until there was a scream that seemed to echo through the TARDIS. Then, silence. Eery, cold, unforgiving silence. They stood or sat there in fear until they heard the light footsteps of their enemy approaching. With a sinister laugh, Discord strolled in, holding up his armored hand and moving his fingers around, blood running from each finger. He looked around the room and took note of everyone there.
“We seem to be missing a few.”
“You don't want to know,” the Doctor commented.
“Hmm, well, they're not needed. All I want is the Time Lord. The rest of you, begone!”
Twilight was about to say something, before she and the rest of the girls were teleported out of room.
“All it takes is the wearing down of their magic and simple spells can override them. Sad, Twilight never figured it out. That's how I defeated them last time.”
“You really are more twisted than our Discord! Why do you want me!”
“Isn't it obvious!? The one real threat to me! I can handle those elements, and it's going to take both those Royal Princess Parodies to defeat me. A second Twilight Sparkle and a wall eyed klutz? Please!”
Whooves gritted his teeth in anger as Discord walked over to him smiling all the way. However, as the human draconequus got closer, the Doctor felt himself taking a step back. He could hear the slight chuckle coming out of Discords mouth.
“A Time Lord with the knowledge of the Universe! Do you really think I hid out in your TARDIS in a attempt to escape you? I hid here to trap you. Worked quite well didn't it?”
“No!” The Doctor said in fear.
The Doctor stepped back again, but suddenly found himself against a wall. He saw Discords hand reach out to touch him, infect him with his Chaos, when they both heard a gun cocking.
“I’m going need my organs back, thank you,” Jack hacked. A gaping hole revealed the hallway behind him, sitting where his heart should have normally lied. He himself was spitting blood on the ground, yet he was still able to point his pistol at Discord with a steady hand. The other two looked amazed and horrified all at the same time.
“How, how are you still alive!?” Discord asked in shock.
"I'm a fixed point in time. I can't be killed!" sneered Jack
Discord growled and a puff of fire escaped his nostrils. taking advantage of this, the Doctor moved out of the way of Discord. The deranged spirit noticed this and moved to intercept, before a bullet impacted on his gauntlet hand. The pain was sharp, but it didn't penetrate and Whooves escaped, leaving Discord to snarl at the Police Officer. Jack looked to the human Draconequus with dark eyes and aimed his pistol. With three consecutive shots, the small lead projectiles sailed through the control room and embedded themselves in Discords stomach. Discord recoiled in pain, slamming into the wall of the room. He looked down at his wounds as they instantly healed up. He gave Jack a sinister smile, for his weapon was useless against the sheer power of disharmony. He took one step toward Jack, showing off his armored hand, while Jack took out the light-saber baton.
The two weapons met, sparks flying from Discord, electricity from Jack. Even weakened, Jack held his own and the two stared at each other, giving enraged expressions. Suddenly, Discords hand nearly felt like it was being cooked and he tore away in a instant. His gauntlet glowed a bright orange while he looked to David, who was smiling a disturbing smile due to the blood in his mouth. Undeterred, Discord reared back and struck again, blocked by Jack's weapon. He tried again and again, but Jack somehow managed to match him blow to blow. Having enough of this, Discord threw all his power into his next strike, both physical and magical, before being struck with a green light and falling to the floor. The Doctor stood over him, smiling proudly at his Screwdriver. He tossed it into the air, and after a flip, caught it expertly. Jack nudged the motionless Discord confused.
“I thought that thing didn't kill,” Jack grunted.
“Of course it doesn't! It can stun though."
“Works for me.” the officer shrugged
“Right, now then, we need to find Derpy again and prepare her, might as well find the rest and detain Discord before he causes any more-What are you doing!?” he shrieked.
Jack had bent over and was rifling through the pockets of the downed spirit, before looking to the Doctor confused.
“Do you not see the hole in my chest here!?
Whooves clicked three buttons on the console and pointed the screen toward him.
“In the hallway!” he snapped.
“Thanks,” coughed Jack.
He walked out, making a beeline for his lost organs, wondering how exactly he was going to fit them back in there. As he took one step out of the control room, he stopped. He had suddenly realized how morbid this whole thing was
A few seconds of hitting Jack with his Sonic Screwdriver, Jack was all patched up and ready to go. The same could be said for their plan, as the Doctor pushed a banana peel and in seconds, the TARDIS center glowed a brilliant gold for a few seconds. He looked over it in a bitter sweet feeling. On the one hand, he had, at his fingertips, the very tool they needed to defeat Discord. The downside was he needed to nearly sacrifice one of his dearest companions to do so! He took in a deep breath as Jack walked over. Sweat was pouring down his face as Jack put his hand on his back and gave him a reassuring smile. While it was tough to look at him, the Doctor nodded back and finally fired his Screwdriver at the TARDIS.
“So, Doc, we ready?”
“Yes. All we need now is Derpy.”
“She'll be fine,” Jack tried.
“Can you be sure. This power is not meant to be seen by anything! It can drive a person or pony insane!”
Jack of course had an answer: “I'm not sure. It's just the only option we got and I'm going with it!”
“You're somewhat similar to your namesake,” The Doctor remarked.
“I'd like to know how,” Jack responded sarcastically.
Before the Doctor could respond there came a low moan and they looked over to see Discord starting to stir. Their fears rematerialized as they hoped that Discord hadn't caught on to their plan. Jack ran over and aimed his Grenade launcher prepared for anything. Whooves ran to his controls and started throwing and activating everything and anything he could. He cursed himself for not doing this earlier as he madly ran his fingers and eyes over the TARDIS. With Discords own power reduced, he could locate all inside the TARDIS, and sure enough he did. In a flash, Twilight, Tara, Diane, and Derpy appeared trying to wake up Reine, while Lou, Celeste, and a half clothed April and Dash appeared, the latter two screamed in horror.
The Doctor looked to Jack, a bit uncomfortable with the sudden change in the situation. While April and Dash quickly put their clothes on, Twilight and Diane walked over to the out cold Discord, Diane poking him somewhat to see if he was dead or not. There was a subtle movement, and she jumped back and his behind Twilight.
“What is going on?!” shouted Twilight.
“Derpy forgive me!” the Doctor pleaded.
Derpy looked to him confused until the Doctor opened a panel. From it came a stream of golden colored smoke, that began to whisk around about the room. It swirled around the center, then out to each one of the beings standing in the room; save Jack which it avoided at all costs. The Doctor looked on, a tear nearly forming in his eye as it started to orbit around Derpy. He started to have second thoughts, he could end this, right here and now. One punch at the panel and it would shut and the vortex stream would dissipate before any harm could come of it. His hand slowly reach for it, the Doctor unwilling to put Derpy through it. Just as he grasped it, a voice in his head said everything was going to be alright. What startled him the most was it was Derpy's voice! He found himself suddenly unwilling to close the panel, and watched painfully as Derpy became transfixed on the golden glow swarming around her.
All eyes were upon her, in awe of what was happening, until a explosion changed it. Jack was being held in the air by Discord, his Launcher smoking from being fired. In seconds he was thrown across the room so hard he cracked the wall of the TARDIS. He fell off and fell face first onto the ground, out cold. Discord stood there; more of his old draconequus form than human.
“Hello everybody and everypony.” he grinned.
He was through playing games, and held his hand up charging a attack, eyes glowing white in a chaos powered rage. Celeste and Lou met the force with their own attacks while the Humane 6 attempted to use the elements of Harmony. Meanwhile the Doctor ran over to Derpy, who was holding her head in pain, the golden aura glowing around her. He held her close nearly on the verge of collapsing in emotional pain himself.
Doctor! I'm scared! What's going on?”
She looked up to him, her eyes glowing with the power now manifesting inside of her. The Doctor could hardly look at her, knowing he was the cause of all this.
“I'm so sorry Derpy. I promise everything's going to be okay.”
“What happened to me? I- I can see everything!”
“I know.” The Doctor told her
“The TARDIS looked into you, and you looked into the TARDIS.”
Before Derpy could say anything back to him, there came a chuckle from afar. The two looked over to see Discord holding back, having managed to throw off the rest of his attackers.
“So you glow in the night. You honestly think that will beat me?”
The Doctor glared at him with a fire in his eyes: “Discord, this is your last chance. Stand down and stop this madness, or you will be destroyed.”
“We will see about that,” he sneered.
However, before he could even raise a finger, he was thrown across the room and slammed into the wall. He slid down when he suddenly felt his power being drained. He looked up to see what he thought was Derpy standing there, albeit a golden glowing one. The rest, their strength returned thanks to Derpy, readied their own attacks to finish him off for good as Discord looked on in disbelief.
“You honestly can't hope to stop me!” he cracked.
Dash was quick to answer: “We got a Goddess, two Deities, The Elements of Harmony, Twilight Sparkle, the Doctor, and a Zombie! I think the odds are pretty stacked in our favor!”
Then came a grunt from said Zombie nearby as he stood up, ready again to fight. Everyone was up and ready to fight Discord, and he knew it. He looked on, trying his best to hide his fear. This wasn't going as he planned, and he couldn't think of anyway to weasel his way out of it. The rest looked on as he tried to think of a way out, and Jack struck first. Smoke arced across the TARDIS, striking the man in the face, throwing him into the wall. He recovered fast, and was instantly up before being restricted by magical bindings from Twilight. He struggled to break free before a green beam struck him in the center and he fell over, the Doctor looking on in anger. The others closed in ready to fire upon him, but he was not intimidated.
“Even if you turn me to stone, I wont be held long! This amount of Disharmony on this planet will have me out in a few years!”
“Then we wont put you in a prison,” said Celeste.
“You can't kill me,” Discord chuckled.
“You've terrorized people and ponies long enough.”
“Do your worst,” he challenged.
Derpy's golden glow seemed to wash out all over the place as if it was interacting with the time line.
“I already have. I brought me here on the TARDIS, I brought The Doctor and Twilight here. I resurrected the dead Jack, and almost dropped his car on Twilight by accident.”
“What!? That was you!?” yelled Twilight.
“I was trying to warn you he was coming!” she apologized.
Twilight wanted to say more, but kept her mouth shut, it was Derpy they were talking about. Derpy turned back to Discord as he himself started to glow.
“And lastly, I destroyed you.”
Discord looked to her confused until he looked down to see himself starting to dissipate and disappear. He snarled, and snapped his fingers and he was back to normal.
“Did you think it was that easy?”
Derpy glared at him, until Discord was struck down with a bright white light. Celeste threw everything she could into this attack, holding nothing back. Her sister joined her, the dark blue beam erupting from her own weapon. Discord tried to hold them back, but his power was continuing to drain thanks to the efforts of Derpy. Just when things couldn't get worse, a rainbow of lights hit him, and Discord fell to the ground. Celeste, Lou, and the Elements of Harmony all firing at once at the Spirit of Chaos. He managed to open one eye to see Derpy standing over him, eyes glowing with a mix of rage and power. He felt his body dissipate, starting at his feet and working it's way up.
“You shall harm nopony else, anymore!” she told him
“No! You can't kill-”
He never finished, his body, mind, and soul erased from the time line. After all this, it was finally over; Discord at least. Derpy could feel the power starting to eat away at her, burn up inside of her. She couldn't control this, she knew why the Doctor did this, but couldn't find out why. The rest looked on to Derpy as she stood there slowly starting to burn up trying to think of a way to help.
“No! Don't go near her!” shouted the Doctor
He held them back, using his Sonic Screwdriver as a weapon. They could see the pain in his eyes, and felt it as well. The Doctor looked back to Derpy, tears in his eyes, until a hand was placed on her shoulders. She herself looked to see a bruised Jack standing there, a worried look of determination on his face. Despite her new powers of the vortex, she could not understand what he was doing.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“My job,” he said.
Derpy suddenly collapsed and the Doctor grabbed her. Jack stood there, but stumbled back a few steps.
“You know Doc, regardless if this stuff is or isn't going to kill me, you failed to realize one thing, even when you realized it!”
“What?”
“I'm still a fixed point in time, and I have the power of the Vortex.”
The Doctor cringed in fear when there came a loud low ringing that echoed through the TARDIS. There was no mistaking it, the sound of the Cloister bell. Everyone looked to Jack as he stood there laughing.
“Yeah. This is going to hurt.”
“You knew about this!?” shouted Twilight.
“Only thing I was capable of doing was giving me my future memories. I knew this was going to happen from the beginning.”
The Bell continued to ring and ring as Jack struggled to even stand.
“Goodbye everyone,” Jack coughed.
He then turned his head to one person in particular: Goodbye Lou.”
She had a tear on her face, but before anything could be said, Jack disappeared in a flash of gold and white. A breeze seemed to sweep through the TARDIS as they all looked on in disbelief. Nothing of Jack remained, nothing of Discord remained. However, in the wake of it all, everything started to return to normal. The cloister bell had stopped ringing, and albeit faintly, they could hear birds chirping outside. Still, questions needed to be answered.
“What just happened? What did Jack do!?” yelled April.
The Doctor was quick to answer, although he didn't like it: “He deleted himself from the time stream! He deleted himself to save the Universe. Aside from us in the TARDIS, no one will ever remember his existence.”
“He died, again!” shouted Lou.
“I thought he was immortal!” exclaimed Diane.
“He deleted himself from the Time stream! He didn't die, he was erased! There's a difference.” the Doctor explained.
“And he knew,” said Dash.
“He was willing to die once. What was preventing him from doing it again?” Twilight said.
The Doctor instantly caught onto that: “But that doesn't make any sense! He was willing to not die!”
“What?” asked Lou.
“He was willing to not die! What happened!?”
There came the sound of a door opening and the head shell of a Dalek skidded across the floor and into the wall. Next thing they knew Jack walked in holding the lightsaber-baton the Doctor had made him.
“I forgot about that guy.” he said walking in.
“What the? What happened?” shouted Reine.
“How are you here? You deleted yourself!” shouted Diane.
“No, I blew up,” came Jack.
Faces of amazement and disbelief hit his face; which he returned with a smile. So many wanted to ask him questions and he just shrugged.
“How did you-” started Derpy.
“I don't know,” Jack responded.
“I thought you-” tried Twilight.
“Still don't know.”
“But the vortex-” started the Doctor.
“I blew up. Can I leave? This is the fifth? Time I've died in this thing. I'm tired of dying.”
Lou was upon him and hugged him close: “Same here.”
With Discord gone, everything returned to normal as if it had never happened. The Police had no knowledge of their enslavement, and the official word was of a kind of accident involving a chemical at the local water treatment plant that accidentally seeped into the water. Since no one would yet know of the true cause behind the strange events, The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS, beaming with the pride of what he had done. Once again he had saved Earth, the nostalgia of it all seeping through him. Everyone was standing there in a small secluded area of the park. Jack's police Cruiser sat there, Jack resting on it alongside Lou. Up above in a tree was Dash and Diane, the former having flown up there and the latter just appeared up there. The rest stood or sat around talking amongst themselves about what happened, what they were going to do with their new found powers, and what else they could think up. The Doctor looked back to the TARDIS smiled. It was repaired, fixed up, and better than ever, he knew the TARDIS was happy, and if she was happy, he was happy. Of course that didn't mean the rest didn't dread this moment. This meant that the Doctor, Derpy, and Twilight would have to go back, and losing new found friends was never easy. Even the Doctor was a bit sad for this moment having finally come.
“Well, I guess it's time to go,” the Doctor said.
“Do we have to?” begged Derpy.
“Yeah do you have to!?” Diane said suddenly appearing in the Doctors face.
Whooves nearly fell over at this, but Twilight managed to catch him. He straightened out his suit and looked over everyone. Despite the hundreds of times he had done this, it never got any easier on him. Especially for his companions.
“Sadly yes. We need to get back to our Universe. To our own home. We can't stay here forever.”
Derpy was quick to protest, “Why? That's a Time Machine! It can go back at any point in time!”
The Doctor tried to answer, but he couldn't. With the unpredictability of the TARDIS, he was only certain that if the left now they would arrive in Ponyville a few minutes after he and Twilight left. Any longer and he would never be sure when they end up, and that would present it's own set of problems. Twilight however, came to his aide. She placed her hand on Derpy and gave her a reassuring look.
“It's time to go now.”
This was met with Diane breaking out into tears in a comical fashion that drenched both Jack and Lou until the moon deity managed to create a umbrella to shield themselves.
“This is going to take some getting used to,” said Lou.
“Yes, that is right! You all have powers now!” the Doctor remarked.
Everyone's spirits perked up at this, a little. It was true! Between flight, magic, and one case of Immortality, things were going to be quite different from here on out.
“Not to mention you all are going to live a lot longer,” Twilight told them.
“How?” came Jack.
“Well, since most of you are created from Equestrian ponies and we live long lives. What's the longest humans live?”
“We live to a hundred in the long run,” Reine exclaimed.
“Average, 70,” added Jack.
“Wow, you guys live short lives.”
Each of the girls looked at each other, still not getting what Twilght was getting at.
“Celeste and Lou maybe, But the rest of us?” asked April.
“Well, Granny Smith is a couple hundred years old. So, just take the average human age and multiply by that by a couple hundred...”
“That's a couple thousand,” Tara answered.
Everyone went silent over this one. They both were right, they were going to around for a long long time. The Doctor did some math in his head, and sure enough, they all were going to live for awhile.
Everyone saying their final goodbyes, the three pony-Humans/Time Lord boarded the TARDIS on Earth for what would hopefully be their final time. Derpy looked back to Jack, and waved goodbye one last time, and he nodded in return. The doors shut the Doctor began to work his skills.
“Alright. Just turn this up, move this over, and do, whatever the heck this thing does! And we're good!”
From the outside, the TARDIS began to spin and lift into the air. The sound of it taking off filled their ears. It shot off into the air and in a few seconds was out of their sight.
“Aaand, they're gone,” Finished Jack.
***
Inside the TARDIS, each one held on for dear life as the ship rocked and tumbled through time, space, and dimensions. Derpy suddenly found she couldn't grip the rails anymore with her fingers and wrapped her legs around them. There was a slight tearing when she opened her eyes and she saw she had her old gray skin back. Looking around, the Doctor and Twilight had returned to their original forms when suddenly the whole thing stopped.
“Whooves, tail, horn, fur! I'm a Unicorn again!” cried Twilight.
“Ah, I'm going to miss fingers,” the Doctor lamented.
There came a knock at the door, and being the closest, Derpy answered it, and within seconds Dinky tumbled in full of energy and questions. She noticed her mother and was on her feet.
“Mommy! Mommy! What happened?” yelled Dinky as she ran up.
“Once I get a Muffin I'll tell you!”
The two walked out, Dinky jumping around her mother desperate for answers for her curious brain. Derpy knew she would have quite the story to tell her. The Doctor stumbled out followed by Twilight, who was a bit more steady on her feet. As Whooves stood up, she confronted him.
“Next time you decide to transverse dimensions, don't get me involved!”
“Oh Don't worry Twilight! There wont be a next time!”
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Back on Earth alongside a lone stretch of road; Jack sat in his cruiser. His adventure over, he himself had mixed feelings. On the one hand, he was now immortal and couldn't die, the other, he somewhat sort of wished he could go back and go on another adventure with the Doctor and Derpy, and well, all of them. Sure there was going to be some interesting times ahead thanks to his friends new found powers, it just wouldn't be the same without the Doctor and Derpy. He pointed his radar gun off down the street and laid back waiting for it to go off. Just as he began to drift off into dreamland, he heard it. The familiar whirring of the TARDIS. He shot up, thinking he was just hearing things, but it was growing louder and louder by the second. He looked straight ahead as a light appeared before him, and below it the familiar blue Police box materialized out of thin air. He couldn't believe it, and was shocked when the door opened, and he suddenly saw: Himself! His duplicate was wearing the same Police Uniform, but it seemed a bit more futuristic than usual. His otherself spied him in the Cruiser and threw his palm on his face before shouting back inside.
“Doc! You overshot it! This is way too far back. I remember this! This is about a few hours after you left the first time!”
Present Jack looked on his mouth wide open as a second face appeared with spiky blue hair and large purple glasses poked her head out.
“Wow is that what you looked like in the past! Tavi! You gotta see this! It's all retro and old and classical! You'll love it!” she spoke.
“What the-? Get back in there!” shouted his future self.
“Officer! I fixed it! Get back inside now!” came the Doctors voice.
“Alright.”
His future self was about to walk in when he remembered something and turned to his past/present self.
“Just a note! Roll down that window when you do it, alright? It's going to go everywhere.”
Jack nodded stiffly to his future self as that self stepped back onto the TARDIS and it slowly dematerialized out of space and into the time stream. Jack figured he knew what his future self was talking about as he reached for his pistol.
Alright Folks, this is it. The stories over, and is my tradition, and the tradition of several others, I leave a goodbye and thanks in the form of a authors note at the end of the chapter in Bold. Adds words, but I don't like dedicating whole chapters. Kinda a slap to the face in my view. I also will apologize for the ending being a little rushed, Im on a limit here in my life, and also for Jack being a slight little Gary Stu there and getting Luna..... i regret nothing!
Well, for a novice authors take into the endless sea of Pony-On-Earth stories, I say it went well, even if the beginning was a little rough. I'll admit it, one of those likes was mine that I put to even it out so people would read it. Worked out well I say with two hundred views or so. So, thanks to everyone who read and enjoyed the story. I liked it, and I even learned a little about writing during it. Special thanks to Quick Fix, the ever talented and busy Editor/writer/TWE admin who edited it. Well, I'm done, so thanks for reading this far in, it's been fun and i enjoyed the story.
