Clockwork's adventure.

by Cadances Paladin

Memories are fun.

Previous Chapter

Earlier that day...

Derpy arrived at the house, and began to work at her usual cashier spot, where she'd been working at ever since she not only married Time Turner, but moved in with him! The day had begun slow, and gradually got even more boring then the nine months of being pregnant with her son. At one point, Octavia had come in, and bought a new clock, but that was almost the highlight of the day for Derpy. After another of hour of waiting, it was time for Derpy and Time Turner to switch places for the rest of the day.

Even for Time Turner, running the clock shop had gotten incredibly boring that day. For him, and probably Derpy, Time Turner thought, this is was the highlight of the day...

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It was an hour after Derpy and Time Turner switched places with one another, and a customer had come in. Now, this customer was filthy rich! In fact, it was Filthy Rich himself! "Oh, Mr. Rich! How can I help you today!?" Turner asked, wondering what could the richest stallion in Ponyville could be doing in Turner's shop.

"Well, I'm here to purchase a tower clock." Filthy said "You know, a grandfather clock? Have you got one for sale today?" Filthy Rich asked, looking around the shop in search of the clock he was seeking.

"Oh yes!" Turner said, then went to a grandfather clock in a glass case, and opened it and put the clock on a wheeled board, then rolled it over to Filthy Rich "This is the only one in stock I'm afraid, but it works like a charm!"

Filthy studied the grandfather clock and said "I'll take it my friend! How much is it?"

Time Turner studied the clock a bit more, determining age, the wood used to make it(mahogany) and the actual price he placed on it. "Hmm, well this is a 1898 mahogany grandfather clock, so....." Turner began, crunching numbers in his head "Yes, the clock is worth 1,560 bits! Nothing that you can't pay for!" Time Turner said, hoping the stallion would buy the clock.

It took sometime, but Filthy Rich said to Time Turner "I'll take it! First, let me get my check book out, and then I'll pay for the clock!"

"YES!" Turner shouted.... on the inside, he knew he needed to stay professional in front a very fancy pony like Filthy Rich, especially Filthy's daughter, Diamond Tiara.

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Later....

It was the middle of the day, and Time Turner finished his lunch, after closing the clock shop early, and decided to do his chores he needed to do. "OK," Turner began "I need to clean the bathroom, living room, and attic today. Great..." Turner complained to himself. It felt like ages, but he finally finished cleaning the bathroom, and only after, oh, 2 hours. Turner looked at his watch, and noticed that it was close to the end of the school day, and the weekend drew closer(basically, today is Friday in this part of the story.) "Well, better start cleaning the living room...." Turner said, as he trotted down the stairs. "Turner, I'm going to pick up Clockwork from school then head to the market!" Derpy said, as she was heading out the door.

It took him even longer to clean the living room! Turner looked at his watch once more, and noticed it took him 4 hours to clean the living room! "Ugh! Come on!" Turner said "Well, at least the attic doesn't have much in there." Turner said, as he went up the stairs to clean the attic. Once inside, Turner noticed a giant blanket over a square looking box, that made a weird sound when he approached it. Turner, curious as to what was underneath for him to clean, took the giant blanket off, and couldn't believe what he saw. Turner dropped the blanket, and what stood before him was a blue police box. "Is it... really you?" He asked the blue box. He caressed his right hoof on the door of the police box. He opened the door, and was amazed at what he saw.

"It is you!" Turner said, looking inside, marveling the giant room inside the police box "The TARDIS! It's really you! I can't believe it! I thought that I got rid of you YEARS ago when-!.... When my son was born..." Time Turner said, realizing what he'd be doing by using the blue box once more. Instead of going against the promise he made to his wife, Turner closed the blue box, chained it up, and threw the blanket over the thing! He knew he couldn't go inside, or even see the TARDIS, he forbade himself from doing so, and he hadn't seen it for so long, he though he got rid of it!

Turner couldn't clean the attic knowing that he still held the TARDIS in his house/office. He went downstairs, and was met by Derpy, who said "Hey, I'm back from the market! I brought home some dinner too! Hope you'll enjoy it!" as she went inside the kitchen, but where was Clockwork? "Honey, did you leave Clockwork back at the market by accident again?" Turner asked, worried about where his time loving son was. "Oh no, he got invited to his friends' group, and even got incited over to their place, so I let him go there to spend the night!" Derpy explained "Clockwork will be back tomorrow though, I promise!" Derpy continued, pulling out her and Time Turner's dinners.

For Turner, a veggie burger with a lot of hay fries, and for Derpy, a bowl of tulip salad, her favorite meal! The two took their food to the living room, and started to watch their favorite move together. To be honest, for Turner and Derpy, the movie  was actually pretty nice. A movie about a stallion and his marefriend moving to two separate ends of Equestria, only to find one another at the Grand Galloping Gala without knowing of the other's invitation, to Derpy and Time Turner, it was the perfect movie for one another. After the movie, they just started watching bad TV as their own little joke for one another. After some hilarious clips in "Equestria's home videos" Derpy leaned closed to Turner and said "You know, this will be our first night without Clockwork in the house. You wanna do something nice tonight, in the bedroom?" looking seductively(to Time Turner at least) towards the stallion.

Turner looked back at the mare, wearing his own seductive looking(to Derpy at least) grin, implicating 'You bet your fine ass I do!' though he wouldn't say it aloud, for no reason what so ever, and muzzled his wife on top of her head. "So, shall we shag now, or shag later?" Turner asked, smiling at his beautiful wife. Derpy looked back at her husband, hugged him for a quick moment, then said after letting go and heading up the stairs half-way then stopping "Shag now, Timey Whimey" then continued her ascent up the wooden stair case.