“It is time. My plan is ready to unfold”
An unknown pony speaks to nobody. The only one in the cavern was him.
“So much energy in Equestria. This will be more than enough. With such power I will surely be able to destroy Equestria, once and for all!”
The pony laughs, and laughs. The sinister laughing echoes through the cavern.
All in good time (Part 1)
“Ugh… why is it so hot?”
Why can’t winter hurry and be here already?
Dad’s out on business stuff again, as usual. So this leaves me battling the heat at home alone.
“Isn’t there something I can do around here?”
I’d said that to an empty space in my room, not really caring wether I got an answer or not.
I figure I should go out somewhere, then again it's just as hot outside as it is inside.
‘Oh well’ I thought. Can’t be much hotter outside.
I leave the house, not forgetting to lock up before I do.
Now comes the simple task of finding something to do. The arcade should be open, so maybe some Prance Mania is in order. Or perhaps some Pony Fighter Alpha.
Maybe I should just go to the park.
I wonder what everypony else from school is doing?
So I wander off somewhere not particularly caring where I end up.
Turning at each second street expecting to find something interesting.
After about an hour of walking, I sit down due to intense heat, boredom and also because I'm tired out.
“By Celestia’s mane, why is it so hot?!”
About a second later after I’d yelled out, something appeared in front of me, though transparent at first, it quickly turned solid revealing itself to be a blue box.
“What in Equestria…?”
The box had some words on the top half of it that read:
“Police Public Call Box… What the hell’s a Police Box”
Shortly after asking myself that question, the door to the blue box swung open and a brown stallion trotted out with a rather odd, rod-shaped object in his mouth.
The stallion looked around as if he were searching for something.
“Hello there!” He exclaimed. Causing me to let a slight yelp of surprise leave my lips.
The stallion had a rather spiky mane, and it was a darker brown than his coat.
He seemed to be wearing a blue pinstriped jacket with a shirt and tie.
His cutie mark is in the shape of an hourglass-Or, rather it IS an hourglass.
The stallion looked around as if he were searching for something.
“Blast, still not right. One of these days, I swear, one of these days!”
The brown pony was talking to himself rather oddly, as if he was sure he’d answer himself back.
And then he turned to me.
“Oi! You!”
“M-me?” I say back nervously.
“Yes you, who else would I be talking to? Quite obviously not myself, besides you’re the only other pony around here so I was obviously talking to you“
What an obvious matter of fact that was.
“Anyway, what year is this?” He asks strangely.
And I answer quizzically. “Year 1003 of the Celestial Reign, why?”
“Hmm? Oh, no reason. Anyway, no time to explain, I am in need of a temporary assistant-sooooo, in you come!” the stallion motioned me to the police box.
“What? In there?”
“Yes there, don’t worry! It's much larger on the inside, come along now. Onwards and upwards!”
The brown maned stallion dashed behind me and forcibly pushed me into the police box.
“Oi! Wait a second here!”
“So sorry, but we need to be hurrying right about now!”
The door shut behind me, and suddenly I was in a much larger room then I had thought.
He was right! It is much larger on the inside!
“What in the hay…?” I said flatly.
“Yes yes, suprising right? Everyone always gasps the first time”
“Every…one? You mean everypony, right?” I asked confused.
“Everypo-Oh right! I’d forgotten I was a pony for a minute there!, well anyway, I guess it's time for introductions! … Is your name Georgia? ”
I stared blankly at him, not knowing what I should say back, then it hits me.
“No, no! my name is Summer Breeze!”
“Oh… Right, shame, oh well doesn’t matter anyway. Lovely to meet you Miss Breeze, I am the Doctor, and this magnificent thing you’re standing in is called the Time and Relative Dimension in Space! You can call her TARDIS for short”
A long metallic whir rings out through the room, as if it were alive.
So, this guy is a Doctor, and this thing from what I can gather, is something related to time travel?
Wow, insane.
“So do you have an actual name? all you said was Doctor.”
“No, just the Doctor.”
“So you fix ponies up?”
“No, not that kind of Doctor I'm afraid but no need to panic! I, am a Timelord!”
“A time-what?”
“Timelord. I travel in time and space doing things and going places”
So he’s a time travelling pony.
A time travelling- I can’t believe this.
“So you’re a time travelling pony?”
“Quite”
I place a hoof onto my face, more commonly explained as; I face-hoofed.
“I don’t believe you.”
“Hmm? Well why not?!”
“Because it’s totally illogical, time travel doesn’t exist-“
“Not with that attitude it doesn’t, I'm a Timelord, and this is my time machine. What more proof do you need?”
I suddenly had an idea.
If he is a time travelling pony, he should have no problem proving it to me.
“Take me back to when I was twelve then, on my birthday.”
“Okay then! If this is how I have to prove myself, first off what year, date and time?”
I tell the Doctor what the relevant information, and he begins adjusting nodes, pressing buttons and yanking handles.
“Alright just this last bit here-“ The Doctor pulls one last lever.
“Right off we go. Avante’!”
The Doctor sits on his flank, and the TARDIS-thing makes metallic screeches for about five seconds and then stops with the sound of a metallic bang.
The Doctor stands up on all fours and looks in my direction.
“Alright then, go on!”
“What?”
“Go ‘ave a look! I’m sure you’ll be quite surprise by what you see”
I opened the door and was met by a surge of blinding light probably due to the sudden change from mild lighting to bright sunlight. My eyes now hurt.
“So? I'm just out-front my house, how am I supposed to know if it’s three years ago?”
“Go ‘ave a look you silly mare!”
My birthday had taken place in my backyard that day, so I go to look over the fence.
To my surprise, and unexpectedness, there I was.
Me.
Moi.
Three years ago.
On my fifteenth birthday.
Wearing a stupid party hat.
Dad was chatting away with all the other adults.
There were other ponies playing around, but they were only there because their parents brought them.
I sat there. Alone.
As I watched the familiar scene play out I placed exactly what the younger me would say next.
‘ “It’s not the same without Mom” ‘
I sighed to myself
“Good gravy… he really is a time travelling pony…”
I walked silently back into the blue box
“I told you, so anyway I need your help; so, let’s get back to the present shall we?”
The door shuts behind me
The Doctor repeats the process of twisting all those nodes, pushing buttons and yanking that last lever, followed by shouting ‘Onwards and upwards!’
All in good time (Part 2)
I was back.
Back in Canterlot to where I was just minutes ago.
“Right, so I should probably explain the whole situation to you. I need, your help. Somepony is kidnapping ponies and draining their life energy. What they’re doing that for I don’t know BUT, we need to stop them ”
He sighs and his tone of voice turns sad and low.
“Every pony that has had their life drained ends up dead afterwards… Too many have died already…”
“That’s horrible…” I say sadly.
“Anyway, we need to stop whoever is doing this, and by doing so; I think will ultimately save Equestria In the process.”
It took me a minute to process this information, but then a light bulb went off in my head.
“Hang on a minute, how am I supposed to help? I don’t even know what we’re doing”
I sighed.
I had no idea what I was getting into, but what if I don’t help him?
Would Equestria be in danger?
And would it be my fault?
What about Princess Celestia?
Couldn’t she stop this?
“I know what you’re thinking. No, Princess Celestia has no idea what’s going on. If she did, she would have done something by now, no?”
I sighed.
What have I gotten myself into?
“Look. It could have been someone else. If not you, then the next pony I happened to run into. You could have said ‘No. I don’t want to help you. Take me back’ but you didn’t, and that tells me that you want to. Am I right?”
I don’t answer, obviously he takes my silence as a confirmation of his deduction and he speaks out again.
“Just to be sure, I don’t want to force you to do anything. It’ll be tough, and it will be dangerous. But, I can promise you one thing”
He gives me a look of determination and assurance.
“I, WILL protect you”
“Alright, I’ll help you; just tell me what to do.”
He beams a smile as bright as the sun.
“Alright! Well, right now all you have to do is follow me, but first we need to get to the present time so we can do the ‘saving the universe’ part of things”
“Right. Okay. Lead the way then Doctor.”
“Alrighty doo then”
The Doctor had pulled a lever, and the TARDIS had made the same noise as before.
In a manner of seconds the noise had stopped.
We were at our destination.
All in good time Part 3
We looked around, the TARDIS had “materialized” in front of a cave.
“Onwards then eh?”
“What, In there?”
“Yep”
“You’re crazy.”
“I know right? isn't it brilliant?”
I sighed, I sigh a lot these days.
And with good reason too, this guy is crazy.
“Well whatever, lead the way.”
“Oh, wait, hold on a sec, back in a jiffy!”
With that, the Doctor quickly trotted into the TARDIS only to come out a second later with the very same rod shaped object he had when I first met him.
“Alrighty then! Onwards and upwards!”
“What is that thing?”
The Doctor paused and held out the rod shaped object.
“What, this old thing? Well that’s my sonic screwdriver of course!”
“What’s a sonic screwdriver?” I asked curiously.
“Well-” The Doctor started. “A sonic screwdriver can do many ‘a thing’s. But it's most brilliant feature is that it can open anything whatsoever, locked doors, treasure chests what have you! It really is an amazing invention I say”
“Sound’s fascinating, that’d be cool to have I guess.”
“Anyhow, enough chit-chat for now, we've got a planet to save!”
So we made our way into the cave, that was lit with torches no less.
Creepy…
“Little dank in here isn’t it?”
“Quite right, a little too quiet too, I'm not liking this at all.”
Walking for another what seems like an hour I look around.
Just torches and walls.
“So Doctor, what exactly do you-“
As I speak I notice the Doctor stopped in the middle of the path.
“Doctor?”
“No…”
The Doctor looked straight ahead, it wasn’t clear as to what he was looking at, but as I stepped closer it became more horrifyingly apparent.
“Oh my Luna”
On the cave floor were the scattered bodies of dead ponies everywhere. Stallions, Mares even Fillies, drained and lifeless in front of me. But they all had something in common.
“They’re all… dead, aren’t they?”
He nodded.
The bodies of the ponies were all unicorns. They’re horns were pale grey.
“What’s happened to their horns?”
The Doctor turned his face to mine.
“Now I know what’s properly happened to them. Their life force and magical energy have been siphoned out of their bodies, rendering them dead in the process”
He paused, thinking to himself deeply.
“Doctor-”
“We need to stop this. Come on”
“B-but, Doctor-“
“I said, come on”