I take my girlfriend to bronycon. I forgot to not buy from con merchants. A part of Canterlot Adventures
Hi there, I'm Douglas Edwards of the Lone Star State of Texas. My girlfriend wanted to go to Bronycon and being the supportive boyfriend I am I got us passes to the convention. I personally only watched when she watched it with me and it became somewhat of a thing for us to watch it together. While she was waiting in line I found this cool stand with Doctor Who stuff. I liked the show and bought the Fifth doctor's screwdriver and a gallifreyan style pocket watch. Yeah that was a stupid move...
In this story, The Doctor has the same age of the fifth of 29 so picture is a younger looking than his actual appearance. Also this is a part of Canterlot Adventures series link below: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/424918/an-apple-a-day
It was a crisp morning the first day of Bronycon. I had brought my girlfriend Natalie since she really liked the show. It wasn't that cold to a native of Maryland but, we were both bundled up since we came from Texas. AS the doors opened and they let people in I walked with Natalie some were very committed to dressing up, but I personally didn't care for it. Natalie however, had her hair dyed like one girl from the show...Roseluck that was it!
"Hey Douggy!" Natalie called snapping me out of my thoughts.
"What?" I said looking at her smiling face.
"You know we've been together a few months now." She said slowly.
"What do you need?" I said. Whenever she brought up how long we've been an item it meant she was trying to get something and hoped he would give it to her as a gift.
"Well there is this beautiful rose that i hope you could pay for me." Natalie said putting her arms behind her back.
"Oh. Yeah sure lead the way." I replied. She beamed and lead me through the vendors to a small flower shop. The girl behind was dressed in another one of the flower ponies from the show. "One rose please? For my rose of a girl." I said pulling Natalie close. She blushed and playfully tired to push me away.
"Oh, how thoughtful of you. You two look cute together." The lady said giving my girl one rose and I paid the dollar for it. "Some say flowers can be magical. Especially, those bought for another." The lady spoke as we left the stall.
"Well I got something. You should get a gift too. I'll pay." Natalie said holding my arm. We walked around looking through the stalls searching for something I would like. After a while we stopped for some food to eat. "You can be picky sometimes." She said eating some cotton candy. I looked out through the crowd and saw some kids running about. Some of them really were committed to this show seeing a girl dressed like a cowgirl with a bow.
"Well I never was as big a fan as you." I replied. As I looked around the convention I saw a stall in the style of a certain blue police box. "What's a Doctor Who stand doing here." I asked Natalie.
"Oh that because of Doctor Whooves or Time turner who is a background character that looks like the tenth Doctor. like this." She said pulling out her phone. Sure enough, there was a pony with an hourglass mark and 3d glasses walkign beside another pony. "Whelp, i'm sold let's see what they got." I said finishing my sandwich and walking to the stand. The man running it was dressed like the tenth doctor.
"Oh hello, what can I sell ya." He said. I don't know how he nailed the voice but it was almost creepy how close it was. I looked down at what he had. A mini tardis, various sonic screwdrivers and a small pocket watch. I looked and also saw a very familiar hat. I settled on my purchases of the mark III sonic The pocket watch and the Fifth Doctor's hat
Natalie paid the low price of 10 dollars. I put on the hat and we walked away. After a long day we walked back to our hotel. I put down the hat and The two of us got into the large bed. The next morning, I woke up to here Natalie in the bathroom. She didn't sound alright so I knocked
"Natalie. You okay?" I asked.
"Douglas something is wrong." She said. I slowly opened the door and his eyes popped. Natalie's skin was yellowish and she was wearing denim jeans and a green blouse. Her hair had become exactly like the character she had dressed as.
"What happened to you?!" I asked loudly in shock. I heard my voice had been changed.
"I don't know I just woke up with the rose in my hair and looking like this." She replied. Then it hit me and I face-palmed.
"I forgot rule one of conventions. Never trust the salespeople who seem to have exactly what you want." I said sighing in anger. Natalie hugged my arm.
"Are we gonna be okay?" She said asked in fear. She was usually very carefree but the thought of being taken somewhere else without me scared her. I held her in my arms as we sat in the bathroom.
"We're gonna be okay. Whatever happens I'll do my best to fix it and you know that." I said as I held her in my arms. I felt my hair grow a little longer than I had it and my skin turned a different complexion. We held each other until I felt no ground below us. I looked to see we were in some sort of tube of light. Natalie held me close trying to hold on.
"We'll be okay Natalie just hold on!" I called as she slipped slightly. She was tugged away from me into the light ahead. "Natalie! I'm Coming!" I shouted following her into the light ahead and my vision blackened.
I woke up later with Natalie next to me and looked myself over. My clothes were those of an old fashioned cricketer and I had celery on my shirt. My clothes were exactly those of the Fifth doctor including the hat. "Uhh my head." I said. I picked up Natalie and walked us to the nearest place. I saw a school and rushed us to there. My legs wobbled and my body ached as we reached the building.
"Help!" I called as I landed on the ground holding Natalie in my arms. I started to fade as a woman in yellow clothing was rushing to them with a few others. "Help her...first." I whispered out as my body collapsed not moving.
"Call an ambulance!" a voice rang out and with that my mind faded into the black.
I felt a haze in my head as my eyes slowly opened. I saw a bright light from the ceiling and blinked away tears from the brightness. I turned my eyes to see Natalie in the next bed. "Oh thank goodness." I said straightening up in the bed. My eyes knew the white, dull color of a hospital all too well. I got sick a lot as a kid. My finger was connected to a sensor for my vitals. I stood up and held Natalie's hand and then a set of knocks came from the door. "Come in but be quiet." I said.
In from the door came a nurse. "Oh your're awake. My name is Redheart, who are you?" the nurse asked. I was about to say my name then looked myself over. I didn't know where I was so I needed an alibi.
"I'm Peter...Davison. Doctor Peter Davison" I replied.
"Oh a doctor in what?" She asked.
"History." I said. I made sense since I loved history and the Doctor traveled through time. Plus i wasn't as much of a scienctist back home so didn't want to lie myself into a science problem.
"Oh good for you. Your friend here should wake up within a couple more hours, but would some people wanted to speak with you." Nurse Redheart said. I followed out the door and there were two women wearing. one had very bright colors in her hair and the other was like a moonlit night.
"Hello there. I'm principal Celestia and this is my sister Vice Principal Luna." The taller of the two said. She offered out her hand.
"Oh. Doctor Peter Davison but most just call me The Doctor for short." I replied shaking her hand.
"Pleasure to meet you could we talk?" Celestia asked. I nodded and we walked to the visitor's room.
"So Mr. Davison, can you tell us about your how you ended up on our school grounds?" Luna asked.
"Oh well me and my girlfriend Natalie, the other one you saw, were in just arrived into this city when we were jumped by some gang members. She got knocked out and so I took her and ran as far away as I could. Body aching I saw your school and thought there would be a nurse or someone to make sure she was okay." I replied.
"Terribly sorry for your rough greeting to Canterlot." Celestia said. My mind chuckled at the name.
"Yes well, we will be in the city for a while and I could use some work to help get us a place." I said putting my hands in my pockets. I pulled one hand out to see a cricket ball. "Oh forgot that was in there." I said tossing it between my hands slowly.
"Well we are you a teacher?" Luna asked.
"Not before, but I am a doctor in History and if you have a cricket team i could train them." I replied tossing the ball around.
"Cricket... where are you from? I ask because that isn't a big sport around here" She asked. I knew this show loved its horse puns so i thought of horse breeds. Then it hit me.
"Clydesdale. From Shetland. Far above Bales and Trottingham." I said.
"I have been to Shetland beautiful highlands all around for miles." Luna said. I mentally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well you do sound qualified, but you do not have the expected credentials...We could have you be a subsitute teacher." Celestia said smiling.
"That would be good. Can I start tomorrow though, i'd rather not leave my girlfriend here alone after what happened." I said heading back to the room and the two nodded as they left. "Okay time to actually think of plans. I have a working sonic, and and...wait a minute." I said looking at the sonic. A shining key dangled from the screwdriver on a small clamp. "The Tardis of course!" I shouted then slapped my hands over my mouth remembering I had Natalie in the room. "If I can get to it, I'm sure we can get more answers. If I just give it a tuning with the sonic. Like so." I said taking it off the clamp and pointing the sonic at it. The key then glowed a faint blue. I've got my tracker I thought to myself.
After another two hours Natalie finally woke up. "Natalie. Thank goodness you are okay. I have a lot to catch you up on." I said.
"Okay so. We're in a world that looks like My Little Pony." She said trying to keep calm. I took off my cricket jacket and put it over her like a security blanket.
"Its gonna be alright. I have the key to the Tardis. Meaning it's here so we need to get there for some answers." I replied. The nurse came back and said we could leave now that we were both up and we left the hospital. I kept the Tardis key in my pocket and followed the direction the glow brightened. After walking for a while,and filling in Natalie along the way, We arrived at the woods and deeper inside was a Tardis.
"Here we go." I said unlocking the door. The inside was the birhgt white of the original series and on the console was a book labeled Instructions. I picked it up and it read:
Dear, Mr Edwards, This is your Doctor salesman that you met. You'd be surprised to hear that I am indeed the real Doctor. Now I know you are mad, but I needed you to do something here. Since I am very busy, I sometimes need someone else to save the day so here you are. You see you are not the only one to be transported to this world. Many others are here and you must help them get back if they wish. I've left you all the knowledge of the Tardis's functions in this book. Unfortunatley I cannot help you further since I'm busy trying to prevent other kidnappings on this end so you and all you find must work together to make this Tardis be able to travel back to this dimension. I'm truly sorry getting you two involved but, I promise to make it up to you when we meet again. Sincere apologies, The Doctor.
"Well this is a severe problem." Natalie Said.
"Yes it is , but I trust the Doctor to not lie about a serious problem. Alright, two things. One, we need to find, and help these people and two...I've got a job to go to tomorrow. I said with the realization of having to do all this at the same time made me fall flat on my rump. This was going to take a while...
I rubbed the morning sand out of my eyes as the alarm clock rang. A minute of blindly trying to hit the clock, I finally stopped the clock. I turned over to see my girl happily asleep. I gave her a peck on the forehead before going to get ready for a day of work. 10 minutes later, I was out the door and riding the bus to Canterlot High.
"Okay. Fingers crossed I do good." I whispered out loud to myself. As the bus clunked to a stop outside the school, I slowly stepped off in my traditional attire as the Fifth. As I walked along the students looked at me wondering what I was doing here.
"Hey you!" A voice called out. I turned to see a girl with a prismatic mane in athletic clothing and I could tell who this was.
"Yes, What can I do for you mam?" I said.
"What are you doing here in that silly get up?" She replied. I gave her a firm look at that.
"First off, this is my cricket clothes. Secondly, I have business here." I said.
"Oh yeah? What kind of business?" She asked and I smirked at that.
"You'll see. Now I must be off." I said walking around her into the building. I arrived at the office to speak to Celestia.
"Ah Doctor nice to see you on time." Celestia said motioning for him to take a seat.
"Thank you. What is my first job Mrs. Celestia?" I asked.
"Oh you may just call me Celestia. As for your job, I want you to sit in on a class to get comfortable with what we do here." Celestia said.
"Fine by Celestia. Who am I shadowing?" I asked.
"Mrs. Harshwinny of the history class." She replied and I smiled. I knew history and how it worked. I thanked her and went off to the class room.
Mrs. Harshwinny was teaching at room 205, not far from the library. After getting directions, I made my way there. What I saw was truly shocking. The room was dull and lifeless, the walls dusty and an old chalkboard with maps on it was at the front of the room. "Gosh. Talk about bieng stuck in tradition." I said.
"Who are you?!" I heard as I saw a woman in bland clothing, her hair neatly in place and a scowl on her lips.
"I am Doctor Davison the new substitute. I was told to sit in on your class and see how things are done." I said smiling. Her scowl turned into an uncaring poker face.
"Well you can sit right at the back there." She said pointing to what I assumed was her desk. The desk was covered in papers and looked like it belonged in some poor man's cubicle rather than a school with its cold metal design. The bell rang and students began trickling in. One of which was the rainbow haired girl form before.
"Alright class is in session, but before we begin, we have a guest with us." Ms. Harshwinny pointed at me and I stood up as everyone turned.
"Hello. I am Doctor Davison. I am your newest substitute teacher and I'm here to see what methods the teachers use." I said. Most didn't mind, but the rainbow haired girl looked at me with slight anger. A shy girl simply waved her hand at me as I sat down.
"Now let us begin class. Last time we were learning about the struggle between the Greeks and the Persians." Ms. Harshwinny said and I smiled. I was a big fan of military history, so I sat back and listened. As I listened to the lecture I heard something that made me shoot up my hand?
"What is it Mr. Davison?" Harshwinny asked.
"Umm You gave no context from the Persian side of things." I said. She raised her brow at me. "You said the Persians were slavers but that isn't true. That was the Greeks if anything" I said.
"Why does that matter? The Greeks were defending from the Persian horde." The teacher replied.
"It is always important to show both sides of the story. The Persians were motivated by the Ionian revolt How would we respond if another country funded an uprising." I said.
"Well I'm using the books we were given Doctor Davison. So I will run the class by the book. I'm sorry if that isn't good enough for you." Ms. Harshwinny replied. Then she continued to lecture only one side of the story. Going purely by books was not the best since they can't instantly update to new discoveries. From the way she was speaking, it was as if she completely ignored the Persian reasoning for attacking and the tactics they used.Sadly, all I could do was sit and listen to her biased perspective. After an hour, the class was over, and I left to vent steam.
The track field was empty so I pulled out my cricket ball and bat. I threw the ball up and swung. The ball landed far away, and I ran back and forth several times before picking up the ball. I repeated this three times until I heard a voice.
"What are you doing?" Said a voice all too familiar. Their was the same rainbow haired girl.
"Ah. How can I help you miss...Rainbow I believe the teacher said." I said looking at her.
"What are you playing?" She asked.
"Cricket. The best example I can give is...ah combine track, baseball, and bowling. That's pretty close." I said smacking the ball far off. Rainbow whistled.
"You've got one arm." She said.
"Thanks. If you want, I could teach you it." I said after returning with the ball.
"That...would be cool actually. I like to be great in all sports." She said. I just smiled.
"Happy to help. Now, I must get ready to head home. See you tomorrow." I said as I headed for the bus. AS I rode home I just had on thought.
It was a bright and early morning when I arrived at Canterlot High. I walked to the Principal's office and knocked. Celestia opened the door.
"Oh Mr. Davison come in." She said. I walked inside and took a seat in front of her. "I assume you came to talk to me about your time with Ms. Harshwinny." She said.
"Yes and to be quite frank, she is bloody horrid." I said. She didn't say anything so I continued. "She is overly stern to the students, hard to speak to, using outdated methods and teaches one side of the facts." I said.
"can you give an example?" She asked.
"During her lesson on the Grecon Persian war, she said practically nothing about life in Persia and portrayed them as slavers who didn't deserve to be spoken about." I replied. Celestia was shocked for a moment then collected herself.
"I shall be having words with her about this. Would you mind teaching her class today?" Celestia asked.
"Not at all, I love history. Plus it will help clear up the things they don't know." I said standing up to shake hands. Then I left for the history room. I set to work on the room cleaning everything and moving the papers to on top of or in cabinets. As I took my place at the front, the first group came in. and they dropped their jaws. "Good morning class. I'm your substitute teacher Doctor Davison, but you may call me Doctor or The Doctor. Now please take your seats. The class sat down, and much to my surprise, they seemed young. "So would you mind telling me what class are you?" I said.
"We are Geography class Doctor." Replied a small voice. I looked to see a girl with ice cream like hair.
"Thank you their miss.."I said motioning for her to say something.
"Sweetie Belle." She replied.
"Ah thanks so Let's see what would be a fun place to talk about." I took a globe and spun it round then put my finger on a random spot. I was surprised where it landed.
"Alright today we talk about Australia. Now what do any of you know about Australia." I asked.
"Its a big place!" One voice said.
"It is filled with desert." Another said.
"It is where Kangaroos come from." A third said.
"You are all right, but did you know that there was a big war their?" I asked them. They shook their heads and laughed on the inside. "Then today we talk about the Emu War!" I said and the class giggled slightly.
"So After the First World War, many Aussies were needing money so they were given farmland to work for money." I said pulling out a map of Australia. "Then they didn't realize something crucial, The local emus moved through the land they were given and they ate the food." I continued then a hand went up.
"Yes?" I pointed to a girl with purple hair and orange complexion.
"Why didn't they just move?" She asked.
"Well where are you going to go when you have no money?" I replied and she put her hand back down.
"Now if you were getting your food eaten on your farm who would you ask to fix the problem?" I asked. The ice cream haired girl raised her hand.
"What would you do Sweetie Belle?" I said pointing to her.
"Call a farm expert." She said.
"Yes, most would. In Australia the government has the minister of Agriculture, which is basically a really important expert who tells important people farmer's problems." I paused. However, these farmers called in the army instead." I said and the class was confused. One pudgy boy raised his hand.
"Yes?" I asked.
"Why did they do that?" The boy asked.
"Well...They thought the army would stop the birds. So, the army sent a dmall squad of two men with machine guns to take care of the problem." I said.
"Did they win?" A student asked.
"No they lost. Of the 20,000 emus only 1,000 were killed and here is the funny part. The problem got fixed in another way, anyone have a guess?" I asked looking to the students. A yellow hand shot up.
"Yes?" I said pointing at the girl. She had a red bow and red hair with yellow skin.
"Fences?" She asked.
"Exactly!. They upgraded from simple wooden fences to more robust ones and the whole problem eventually went away. The simplest solution was the last to be made. Now lets make this more fun." I said I picked up a pack of sticky notes and gave each student one note except for four. The Sweetie belle and those other two girls and one random guy.
"Okay now follow me." I said as we walked out back to the empty grass. "Alright all of you who have sticky notes represent two emus and you four." I said pointing to the four without notes. "Are those Australian soldiers. Grab as many sticky notes as you can until you get them all or I tell you to stop." I said and the four unlucky ones looked at me. "GO!' I said and the the group started chasing their classmates. I made sure to call anyone out if they went to far away or tried to cheat. The purple haired girl was leaving the other three behind by the end. I turned up to see Celestia looking at the spectacle from her window. "Alright stop!" I called and everyone made their way back. I saw the four had four of the sticky notes. So now you see just how hard it was for the soldiers. Those guys had to keep up with birds capable of running at car speeds so this is actually easier by comparison." I said and the class all agreed. "Now tell em something and be honest." I paused as they leaned in. "Is history more fun now?" I said smiling.
"Yes!" One said.
"We got to play and learn!" Another said
"Well if I teach you again. I will be using other methods like this. How would like if next time we watch a PonyTube video instead of a boring lecture?" I asked. They cheered at me and I looked back up at the window to see the sisters looking down and I winked at them. I was going to have to explain what I was doing, but they saw the students happy and that mattered to me just as much as them learning.
It was another early morning for me to show up at Canterlot high. Celestia had asked me to try and teach the local sports members who weren't trying. So after packing notes, a computer and some painkillers, I arrived at the older room he was given. Mrs. Harshwinny was sadly not kicked out because of the long time she served as a school member. Instead, I was given an old room that was for after school care, but was now just a room with desks and a projector. He hooked up my computer to the screen and made sure the room was not a total pigsty...yet.
The bell rang, and in came some sweaty jocks along with Rainbow Dash. She spotted me and the cricket bat I had tilted up against the wall behind my desk. I shut a book I had opened and stood in the front of the class.
"Good Morning Class I am Mr. Davison or The Doctor as some call me. I hear you don't like history am I right?" I asked and some of the students groaned. "Okay well I've got something that will be not so boring as Mrs. Harshwinny in case you had her before." I said and this caused some to tilt their heads in confusion. I typed my keyboard to the internet and pulled up a favorite history show of mine.
"You are learning about my favorite type of history. Military History and that means we are going to watch Greatest Tank Battles!" I said as I pressed play and the sound of rumbling tanks could be heard talking about the First World War. Their eyes lit up with every explosion and description given. As this happened I wrote down some simple questions on a piece of paper to quiz them.
The episode concluded and I paused the end. "Alright now to see what you learned. Who invented the tank first?" I asked and a really muscular guy raised his hand.
"Yes you." I pointed to the boy with the size of an Olympic bodybuilder.
"The British army." He said.
"Correct. What categories did the tank come in and what was the difference?" I said and another raised their hand.
"Males had two naval cannons and the females had four machine guns." The girl replied.
"Perfect!" I said looking to Rainbow Dash and I smirked. "Ms. Rainbow Dash. What was the first battle with tanks?" I asked. She tensed up and tried to remember.
"The Some?" She said butchering the name.
"The Somme actually. Ms. Dash I would like you to focus on this next one since I hear you like planes." I said and her face sparked up curious. "This is Dogfights and these battles are all Against the Odds." I said typing in and playing the next video, but I still saw Rainbow not really paying that much attention. She didn't seem that good at auditory learning and maybe she would like something better. So i thought up an idea in my head while the video played.
When the video ended, I stopped the video.
"Okay. Now time for some...physical learning." I said and this puzzled them. "Follow me to the gym please." I continued and the students funneled out confused. The gym was relatively empty, but I saw some tables which were probably for events.
"Alright I need y'all to set those tables up on their sides while Rainbow comes with me." I instructed pulling Rainbow aside.
"What's this all about Teach?" She asked.
"Simple. You seem to learn better through competition. So we are going to play to your strength." I said pulling out a dodge ball cart before returning to the set up tables.
"Okay, today we are reenacting Trench Warfare!. The Goal is simple. Each side has to knock out the other or take out the commander. Rainbow and...Flash are team captains. If you get hit you are out unless I call out reinforcements. If this happens everyone has one minute to get into position for another attack. Begin!" I called as the teams split up and began ducking from dodge balls flying around the room. Both sides lost half their team after 10 minutes so I called for reinforcements to entertain myself. Rainbow showed actual leadership by commanding coordinated strikes and after another 20 minutes, I called for the game to end.
"I hope you all learned and had fun. Next time, we might take a Paintball field trip to see if you improve." I said and they cheered as they left. Rainbow walked up to me with a smile.
"Thank you Mr. Davison." She said.
"I don't overlook a problem. Also, if you like video games try out this." I said handing her a military game. "I play this so we can see your skill." I finished winking at her and she nodded before leaving. To think...I never needed the painkillers.
