Doctor Whooves Season One Episode Two: The Nightmare Haunting

I ran…

I ran as fast as I could, but it was there.

It was always there.

It didn’t help that everything looked the same. Every hallway, every door, every room. The same.

Still I could feel it right behind me, almost like it was breathing down my neck. But each time I looked back nothing was there. Nothing but the sound of my hoofstepes.

It wasn’t behind me.

No…

But it was here…

It was always here…

I turned another corner and gasped at the wall I stared at.

It was a dead end.

I tried to double back but found my way impeded by something…monstrous. I could hear a gurgle sound and I realized, it was laughing. It was laughing at me. It knew it had me and it was laughing. I backpedaled  until my flank hit the wall behind me and even then I stood on my hindhooves and rested my back against the wall, my body quivering like a leaf in a galestorm.

I tried to talk but nothing came, no words, not even a whimper. All I could do was stare as it approached me, its monstrous form becoming more vivid in the light.  Its maw opened revealing rows of sharpened teeth, each one filed to a deadly point

My eyes widened with shock before I quickly shut them as I waited for the end that I knew I could not escape. I could feel it getting closer and closer and upon feeling its hot breath against my fur, I began to shake more and more violent, fear seeping into my heart.

“The nightmare…”

I tried to shut my eyes tighter against its voice. The voice I had come to dread in my long hours here

“…Never…”

I opened one eye, my curiosity getting the better of me.

“DIES!”

I hear a roar and then-

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“Noo!!”

A lavender mare sat up in bed in a cold sweat, her eyes wide and dialated and her breath ragged. She wrapped her hooves around her body and began to sod softly to herself.

“Twilight!” A little purple and green dragon hopped onto her bed and drew closer to her. “Twilight! What’s wrong?! I-“ His question was stopped as a pair of hooves found their way around his body pulling him closer to the shivering mare.

“Spike…please…Don’t leave me…Don’t leave me…Please”

Spike’s eyes grew wide with concern but soften at the sight of the shivering mare.

“I’m here Twilight…I’m here…”

He held the mare closer as best he could, the lavender pony sobbing softly into him as he did so.

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Doctor Whooves

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The Nightmare Haunting

Ponyville

Fleur held on for dear life as the TARDIS began to violent jut around, making her wish that she had a stronger stomach. She had barely believed him when he had said that he was an alien, let alone a time traveling one, but after what the Doctor had called, ‘Just a quick spin around Equestria’, and after seeing her world from a view only seen by one other being she knew about, she was very much so inclined to believe him.

She looked over to her side to find the Doctor laughing like a colt who had found twenty bits on the ground, he too clinging to the rails just a tight as she was, and still wearing what ridiculously oversized tweed coat. Despite her now turning stomach, not really know if it’s the movement of his fashion statement, but she could help but smile lightly at the Doctor’s ever sunny personality. Well ever light until he had come face to face with that monster. Fleur shuddered at the thought of those ponies dying at that things hooves or whatever it had. She was scared out of her mind but found that the Doctor, despite his foalish personality, kept a calm cool and level head, even when he was angry.

She brought out of her thoughts by the sudden stop of the TARDIS coming to a rest. Fleur released the rail with shaky hooves before turning to the Doctor. “Please tell me that this doesn’t happen every time you travel.”

The Doctor looked at her, and then looked off into the sky, and then looked off to the side. He focused back on her with a smile to fringe innocence. “Weelllllll….”

“Lovely…” The mare groaned as rolled her eyes. She turned to trot to the control panel and looked up at one of the screens trying to figure out what exactly it was saying. “So…did we arrive where I wanted to go?”

“Of course! Ponyville 1001 C.R. 19th of summer.” He pulled one of the screens close and inspected it. “Yep! Yep! Yep! All is good on this end! Alright then shall we get going? I barely got a chance to interact with any ponies due to that whole body snatching incident.” He made his way to the door and pulled it open with a creek, letting a flood of sunlight wash over him. “Oh now this is what I’m talking about!”

“Doctor! Wait for me!” Fleur called out before following him out.

The sun shined brightly upon the mare and the stallion as they trotted outside. Fleur looked about finding that they had landed behind one of the many houses had littered the town of Ponyville. She was taken aback that they had once again moved but took it in stride this time. If she was going to traveling with a weird Trottingham speaking stallion that travels in a small blue box that’s a lot bigger on the inside then she would need to.

She could see the Doctor a ways off bouncing like a foal. “Would you look at that! And that over there?! This place is just bonkers! Oh but the good kind of bonkers! I love the good kind of bonkers!”

“Doctor.” Fleur called out as she approached. “Do not forget why we are here. I’m just here to pick up a few things for my room back in the TARDIS, which I had yet to thank you for by the way.” When she saw him wave his hoof dismissively she continued. “I’ve seen Ponyville before. Its quant yes but I would rather…” She looked up and smiled as she did so. “See what’s out there. See what I can see…” She lowered her head as she thought. ‘And to get as far as away from Fancy as I can.’

“Right! Sorry! Alright Off we pop!” He ran off to his right.

“Doctor it’s the other way.”

“Right! I knew that! Just testing you.”  He said as he correct his direction.

Fleur shook her head as she smiled again, following after him. “Silly foal…”