Doctor Whooves Season One Episode Two: The Nightmare Haunting

“Doctor! Doctor!” Fleur cried out from behind. “Wait up darn you!” The off white unicorn mare galloped as fast as her tall legs would take her, somehow only just barely keeping up with the Time Lord, never gaining ground, but only just keeping him within her sights.

“No time Miss Fleur!” The Doctor responded over his shoulder. “There’s a mystery afoot and I need information!  Do you know the best place to gather information on history and whatnot…you know, besides the internet. But really, who trust the internet these days.”

Fleur deadpanned. “To answer your question, I would have to say the library.” Her face then contorted into confusion. “Wait…Doctor, what’s an internet?”

“No time Miss Fleur!” The doctor said just as he narrowly dodged an orange mare with a Stetson. “Now keep up, we’re almost there!”

“I swear, I’m gaining a twitch just from being in your presence.” Fleur said exasperatingly to herself before speaking out loud. “And how do you even know where the library is anyhoof Doctor?”

The Doctor smirked as he looked back once again. “My dear Miss Fleur, in my experience you tend to know how to tell a lot from oh so little. Places that gather information is one of the easiest to figure out as it can only be in one of two types of places. The first one being a place that is so out of the way, anyone,” He paused before correcting himself. “Anypony, have to get use to that, anypony would miss it.”

Fleur raised an eyebrow. “And the second Doctor?”

“The second Miss Fleur…” The Doctor’s sudden stop nearly caused the mare to slam nose first into his backside. “Is that it will be in the place so unique that anypony could find it. “When she recovered she found herself going from glaring at the Doctor to looking towards what they had actually stopped in front of.

Fleur found herself looking at the door of a giant tree. Though, there was more to the tree then just a trunk and leaves. What stood in front of the mare was a rather impressive mix magic and nature. Despite having a door and many windows she could tell that the tree was still alive.

“The Second Miss Fleur,” The Doctor responded. “Can be in the one place that stands out the most.” With a smile on his face and a pep in his step, the Doctor pushed the door open, revealing the interior of the building as well as announcing their arrival as the edge of the door hit the bell dangling from the top of the frame.

“Ah that look your giving right now.” She heard the Doctor say from beside her. “That’s the look of somepony knowing something. Let me guess…You can feel it too right, through your magic and what not? It’s alive and you know it, though not sentient like you are me.” He smiled widely as he touched the wood. “It’s a living, breathing, regular tree made to look like a home. Now that is just brilliant! I would have to guess that your magic had a big part in building such a structure, am I right? Oh you ponies just keep surprising me no matter what!”

Though small and quaint, Fleur could see an impressive amount of book lined up along the shelves the were engraved into the walls, and many more scattered along the ground, as if somepony had been looking through them.

Fleur looked towards the books before looking back towards the Doctor, the Timelord’s face forming a deep frown. It was a look that nearly made her back away from him the longer he stood there, his eyes shifting from side to side as he did so. “D-Doctor…Is something wrong?”

He snapped out of his inner thoughts to give the mare beside him a wide smile. “Oh! No I’m fine. Never better actually. Just wondering who is coming down the stairs is all.”

“Coming down the…” She looked over towards the staircase to find two figures making their way down. One being that of clearly male pony with black fur and silvery white mane. A cutie mark of a thunder cloud pictured on his flank. Riding on top of his back was a purple and green lizard like creature.

“Hello?” The stallion said. “I’m sorry but the Library is closed due to this pande-“ He paused to look towards the Doctor’s companion. “W-What the?! Fleur Di Lis!?” The stallion nearly tripped down the stares trying to reach the mare, much to the little lizards dismay. “You’re here?! What? What are you doing here?”

The Doctor Raised an eyebrow as he addressed Fleur. “Do you two know each other?”

Fleur looked towards the pony before shaking her head. “Oh…I don’t think its anything like that. You have to remember that…well…I am quite well known around Equestria.”

The Doctor’s eyes widened as realization hit him. “Oh! Ooooohhh! That’s right! You’re a fashion model if what you told me was correct.”

“Not just any fashion model, “THE” fashion model of Equestia. The only other pony’s who has their faces in the magazine more than her is the Princesses themselves.” The black pony gushed before getting smacked upside the head by the purple being that rode him.  “Ow! Spike! Your claws!”

“Thunderlane, focus!” Spike scolded. “Twilight needs that book that Zacora has back at her house in the Everfree. Besides what would Twilight say if she saw you fawning over another mare like this?”

The stallion scratched the back of his head before blushing brightly. “Oh! I…She’s just…well…really, really famous. Sorry Spike.”

“A book in the Everfree you say?” The Doctor said as he smiled towards them. “Well it just so happens that you and I are after the same thing. I’m looking for a way to stop this once and for all.”

Spike rose an eyebrow. “And…you are who again.”

The Doctor smiled before reaching into his coat pocket and pulling out his physic paper. “Agent Smith! Clock Smith as it were.”

Spike’s eyes widened as he stared at the paper the Doctor produced to them. “You were personally sent by the princess? No way!”

Thunderlane stared at the paper for a long while before pulling away and nodded. “Yes…It is.” He said before smiling. “Anyhoof, we need to get going but…” He looked up stares. “I would like it better is somepony is watching Twi.” He looked towards Spike. “And since he wants to go to how about you stay here with Twi while I go with this stallion.”

Spike raised an eyebrow. “Well…Ok. But are you sure?”

Thunderlane nodded before lowering himself so that Spike could drop off. “Yeah. He is one of Canterlot’s finest, so says the paper. I’ll be just fine.” Thunderlane strolled past the doctor, making his way out the door. As soon as he left, the Doctor looked towards Fleur.

“You stay here to Miss Fleur.” He raised a hoof to stop any complaints she could say. “I need you here as a just in case measure. You’re the only pony I trust with this.” He reached into his pocket pulling something out. Pulling her hoof close, he placed something within it. When she retracted her hoof she saw that he had given her a small key. She gave him a questioning glance. “It’s the key to my most favorite thing in the world. If you find yourself in trouble, go there. Don’t move. I’ll save you.” He said before turning to run after the black stallion. “Right! To Adventure!!”

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Upstairs a lavender unicorn perked up, the sound of a voice downstairs making her heart nearly skip a beat. Despite the tired bags under her eyes, a fire lit within her soul, one that she was sure had been nothing but a dream from a long time ago. A flame that she was sure had been nothing but a dream.

“Doctor?”