Chapters The Doctor's New Companion
Chapter 1
They were a perfect match.
He was a headstrong stubborn stallion who spent his days alone with no one to talk to but himself. He had had many friends over the course of his life but they had all died or left, never to see him again. He spent his lonely days traveling the world until all the views and landmarks had blended together. Nothing was special anymore. He had seen, smelled, heard, felt and tasted everything there is to see smell hear feel or taste. He had outlived all the friends that had not left him. He eventually stopped trying to make friends entirely to avoid the misery of losing them. He had continued this for many years. Or at least until he met her.
She was a lighthearted cheerful mare with laughter in her eyes and a silly smile plastered across her face. She didn’t have very many friends on account of her clumsiness and the ones she did have weren’t very close. She also spent many of her days alone, like him, in the clouds, dreaming of someone she could be with all the time. Someone who wouldn’t mind her crossed eyes or clumsiness. Someone to snuggle with on cold rainy nights and play with on warm sunny days.
The y had met completely on accident. He was on his way to ponyville for probably the fiftieth time in his life. She was sleeping on a cloud above the road. As I said she didn’t have many friends, so she was picked on all the time for various reasons. A small group of Pegasus was flying nearby. They kept looking in her direction and giggling to themselves. Eventually one of them quietly flew over to her cloud and looked back at his friends with a big smile on his face. He turned around and gave the cloud a strong kick, poofing it out of existence and causing her to wake up and scream as she fell, tumbling through the sky towards the unforgiving ground. Her wings had locked up in the confusion keeping her from just flying away.
He heard her screaming and looked up to see the grey Pegasus falling out of the sky, golden mane whipping around her fear stricken face. He ran down the road as fast as he could towards her. He dove under her, catching her just before she hit the ground. They tumbled down off the road and down a hill before coming to a stop in some bushes.
Both had their eyes closed tightly and their teeth clenched. Tentatively, he opened an eye to find her on top of him, holding him tightly and shivering. She slowly lifted her head and looked around. Her breathing slowed back to normal and she finally looked down at her rescuer.
Her yellow eyes het his and they both froze. He had become accustomed to reading expressions over the years but he couldn’t read hers. He stared into her beautiful golden eyes, not even acknowledging the fact that they were crossed. She stared right back into his. His eyes seemed to hold the secrets of a thousand years of life and an entire universe.
“Um” he began, “are… you okay?”
She stared back at him, still mesmerized by his eyes. She shook her head and climbed off of him, smiling sheepishly.
“Yeah, I’m fine, thanks” she pawed at the ground shyly and tried not to look up at him.
“What happened?” he asked, “Why were you falling? Your Pegasus, you could have just flown”
“I—I don’t know” she said, truly confused, “sometimes when I get scared my wings don’t work. I was sleeping on a cloud, but then… the cloud was gone.” She thought hard, her mouth contorting into a funny little scowl, “I just don’t know what went wrong.”
“Well your safe now” he said climbing to his hooves. “I’m the doctor” he smiled holding his hoof out to her.
“Dr. who?”
He ignored the question. He had heard it so many times it was starting to become a joke. “Just the doctor.”
“Oh, okay, I’m derpy” she shook his hoof awkwardly.
“Derpy who?” he asked jokingly.
“Nope” she grinned, “derpy ‘hooves’.”
They continued to chat as they climbed the hill back to the road and started off towards ponyville. They grew close quite quickly and learned that they had very much in common. They were both lonely, somewhat rejected by society and different from everyone else. By evening they felt like they had known each other since they were foals. They left ponyville and started down the road they had met on.
As they turned the corner she saw a big blue box sitting next to the road. It looked a lot like a telephone booth but unlike any derpy had ever seen. It was quite a bit larger than an average telephone booth and appeared to be made out of wood, not glass. It had a light on top and a small door in the front. Across the top it read “POLICE BOX” in big white capital letters. The doctor turned to derpy with a glum look in his eye.
“I have to leave now” he said quietly, looking at her with a look of dismay.
“But you just got here!” she protested
“I know. But I never stay in one place very long.” She gave him a look that pleaded him to stay. “I don’t want to leave any more than you want me to.”
A little tear formed under her left eye. She didn’t cry very often but she had grown attached to the doctor. “Will I ever see you again?”
He sighed. He hated when they asked that. “Probably not”
More tears started to brim in derpys' eyes and she sniffled. “You can’t leave; you’re the closest friend I’ve ever had.”
He trotted over to her and put a foreleg around her shoulders, “I know. I’ve lost more close friends than you can imagine”
“That doesn’t help” she sniffled.
He scowled. “I never was very good with people” he thought to himself.
She looked up into his eyes for the millionth time that day, “i'll never forget you”
“Nor I you” he gave a little smile and wiped the tears from her face. He unlocked the blue box, stepped inside, and closed the door behind him. Derpy watched in sullen amazement as the box began to slowly fade in and out of existence with a soft whooshing sound. She stood there a few minutes after it had disappeared, then turned away hanging her head, and started her slow walk back to ponyville.
“—on second thought—“derpy gave a surprised yelp as the doctor stepped out from behind a tree in front of her, “—why don’t you come along with me!”
Derpy regained her composure only to lose it again running up to him and giving him a big hug. “Yes! I will! Let’s go!”
“Whoa whoa whoa! Slow down!” he laughed, “we’re going!” he led her past the tree to the police box that had reappeared behind it.
He opened the door and motioned for derpy to enter. She hesitated.
“Won’t it be a little – cramped, in there?”
He laughed again, “oh no! Just go on it!”
She stepped inside and her jaw hit the floor. The inside of the box was a cavernous round room with a raised platform connected to a few flights of stairs. At the center of the platform was a huge clear tube with some sort of piston inside. A table covered in all forms of switches and doohickeys wrapped all the way around the piston.
“Its – its big—“she started to stutter in amazement.
“Yes. It is bigger on the inside. This is the tardis. It’s the universes most powerful spaceship and/or time machine. Could you grab the door for me?”
She closed the door and followed him up the stairs to the raised platform. He began pushing seemingly random buttons and pulling seemingly random switches. The piston began to slowly move and the sound she had heard earlier echoed through the room.
Their adventures had begun.
The Doctor's New Companion
Chapter 2
The sounds and smells of 1887 Paris wafted through the air. The Eiffel towers silhouette dominated the horizon in front of a fading orange sky. It was late evening and derpy and the doctor were sitting on a hill in a public park. The Eiffel tower had just been built and shone brightly in the remainder of the day’s sunlight. They had decided to go there for derpys birthday. Or rather, the doctor had decided to stop here as a surprise.
He had come a few minutes earlier to set up a picnic then returned to pick her up. Thanks to the miracles of time travel she didn’t have to wait that long. They had a wonderful time talking and eating and laughing. As the sun completely disappeared the doctor grinned, his next surprise was about to begin.
Just as the last rays of light started to vanish below the horizon fireworks blasted across the sky, illuminating them both in bright shades of blue, red, green, and yellow.
Derpy yelped in surprise and jumped onto the doctor, knocking him over. They rolled down the hill and came to a stop in some bushes. Derpys eyes were closed tight and she was holding him tightly.
“Well well well” he chuckled, “this seems familiar now doesn’t it?”
Derpy opened her eyes and blushed. She began to climb off of him but he stopped her.
“No” he whispered, “stay.” He wrapped his forelegs around her in a warm embrace and nuzzled her neck. They found themselves once again looking into each others eyes. Her golden iris’s reflecting the colors in the sky above them.
Slowly, ever so slowly, they leaned in closer to each other, never breaking eye contact. Their lips met and they finally closed their eyes. The finale of fireworks erupted around the Eiffel tower then ended, accenting the kiss in an almost surreal way. Finally they broke apart and smiled at each other. This was the happiest either of them had ever felt.
“I have something for you” the doctor said softly, smiling uncontrollably.
“Really?!” derpy perked up, she loved surprises.
“It’s in the tardis” he said as she jumped off him excitedly. She ran into the blue police box and returned with a small package wrapped in muffin wrapping paper. She trotted up and set it down in front of him.
“Is this it?” she asked.
“Yes, go on, open it”
She wasted no time tearing the paper from the little box and pulling the lid off of it. She sat down and brought a hoof to her mouth. She wiped a happy tear from her eye and choked up a little. Inside the box sat a little red bowl, its colors faded and worn. a small bottle with a picture of bubbles on it, a little pink wand, and a muffin. A purple muffin.
“Where did you get these?” she asked, carefully taking the old bowl out of the box.
“On the other side of a mountain near ponyville, they were just sitting there, as if someone had just left them.”
She looked up at him with teary eyes. “Thank you” she whispered, and nearly tackled him with a hug.
“Well? What are you waiting for?” he asked, nodding towards the rest of the contents of the box. Derpy set the bowl down and emptied the bottle into it. She took the bubble wand into her teeth and dipped it into the bowl. She shook her head, surrounding them both in a cloud of bubbles.
She stared at them, mesmerized. The tiny rainbow globes floating around them delicately. She tentatively poked one with a hoof and popped it.
“There’s one more thing” the doctor said, nodding towards the box again. Derpy turned and picked up the muffin. It was purple, purple muffins were her favorite. She was about to take a bite of it when she noticed one last thing in the box. It had been hidden under the muffin. A little piece of paper. A photograph. It was a trio of ponies. One was a big grey stallion with a yellow mane and tail. The other was an all yellow mare. In between them sat a little grey filly her little hooves clutching a doll and her crossed eyes curiously staring at the camera.
Derpy picked up the picture and broke into tears again. She hardly ever cried. But this was something she had been longing to see for a long time. The doctor put a comforting hoof on her shoulder but kept quiet. After she had cried herself out she clutched the picture to her chest and kissed him on the cheek.
“This is – the best birthday I ever had” she smiled.
“I’m glad you like it” the doctor replied. They sat there on that hill for quite a while, just quietly enjoying each other’s company, the only light shining from the top of the tardis. Eventually they got up, packed their things, and got aboard the tardis. They set a course for ponyville. Five minutes after they had left a year ago.
The Doctor's New Companion
Chapter 3
They landed smoothly and quietly, the tardis’ engines slowly whooshing and wheezing as they shut off. Derpy was sitting by the railing, still staring at the picture the doctor had given her. She could only remember bits and pieces of her foalhood. The last thing she remembered of her parents was her mother teaching her how to make bubbles. She didn’t really remember much else. But she knew the faces in the picture and was happy to see them again.
“We’re here” the doctor announced, breaking derpy out of her trance. He trotted down the steps and to the door.
Derpy stood to follow and started down the stairs when she heard a scream from outside. She looked up to see the door of the tardis was open and the doctor was gone.
She barreled down the stairs as fast as she could. Her hoof caught on the last step causing her to slam her face into the floor and summersault out the door. She shook her head to clear it and gasped at what she saw. A small group of stallions had surrounded the doctor and were trying to restrain him. He was obviously not happy about it.
He was bucking wildly trying to get them off of him. He managed to hit one solidly in the chin knocking him back and popping a few teeth from his mouth. The enraged stallion brought a hoof down on the back of the doctors’ head with a sickening thud, ending his struggle.
“NOOOOOOOOO!” derpy screamed racing towards them. One of the stallions turned to face her, his dark eyes boring holes in her soul. His coat was filthy and stained with blood and various scars peppered his immense body. On his back sat a gruesome looking pair of rusty mechanical wings.
She charged him, half out of fear and half out of desperation. He raised a hoof and bashed her across the face. The powerful blow sent her across the clearing and into a tree. She fell to the ground dazed and bleeding from her cheek and mouth. She spat up the blood and stood up again. The blow had severely thrown off her vision and now everything was a dark blur.
She watched helplessly as the shadowy figures lifted the doctors’ unconscious body and took to the sky. Something fell from his vest picket but she ignored it and gave chase as best she could. But it was a losing battle. They quickly faded into the distance and she fell to the ground, to tired and hurt to continue. She stumbled over to a tree near the road and collapsed. Rain gradually began to fall through the branches and land on her face, mixing with her tears and soaking her mane. She lay there, sobbing weakly, her picture sitting beside her, ink running together in the rain.
“Do you think that she’s okay?”
“I don’t know, she’s in pretty rough shape.”
“Look at the blood all over her face, she must have went through quite the ordeal”
“I know… wait! Shh! She’s waking up!”
Derpy slowly opened her eyes and blinked the sleep out of them. She lifted a hoof to block the blinding sun and groaned. She had an immense headache and her chin was caked in blood that she had coughed up in her sleep. Her eyes were crusted over and her whole body was sore. She turned to find two mares standing over her, both with concerned looks on their faces.
“Are you okay? One of them asked, her red eyes wide with worry for this pony she didn’t even know.
“You look like you’ve just fought an ursa minor” the other mare stated. She seemed to be the polar opposite of her companion. She had a neatly styled mane and tail with a perfectly knotted pink bow tie, which greatly contrasted with her beige coat. Her unicorn companion, on the other hand, had a wildly styled two tone blue mane and a pure white coat.
“They have him” derpy moaned, trying to stand but falling, too weak to walk.
“Have who?” the white unicorn asked.
“The doctor, they took him. I couldn’t stop them” she sniffled and tried to wipe the crud from her eyes. She saw her picture lying next to her and her heart skipped a beat. “No” she whispered, reaching over and picking the picture up off the wet grass.
The ink had smeared and run together into a big swirling mass of meaningless color. The picture had been completely destroyed. She turned it over numbly and found a note on the back.
To derpy hooves
My favorite companion
Happy birthday
-dr. whooves
“What’s that?” the white unicorn asked, leaning in for a better look. Derpy just drooped her head and cried. Her shoulders shook gently as her quiet sobs were noticed by the other two mares.
Octavia trotted over and lay down beside her. “Don’t cry, you have friends here to help you, don’t cry”
Derpy looked up with a glint of anger in her gaze. “HE was my ONLY friend, I don’t even KNOW you!”
Octavia was unphased by derpys little outburst and put a foreleg around her shoulders. “I’m Octavia,” she said giving her a little smile, “my friend here is vinyl scratch.”
“I’m, I’m derpy” derpy replied trying to smile back.
“So” Octavia said in a soothing tone, “why don’t you tell us what happened”
Derpy took a deep breath and recounted the entire story as best she could. Meeting the doctor. The tardis. The adventures they had. The doctors’ abduction. Everything. She didn’t even care whether they believed her or not.
Vinyl had a skeptical look on her face but Octavia clung onto every word. When derpy had finished Octavia helped her to her hooves and got her to the road.
“Let’s go get you cleaned up” she said, “then we’ll see what we can do about your friend”
The Doctor's New Companion
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