Chapter 1: Weird Just Met Strange
It was a beautiful day in Ponyville, the sun was shining, the townsfolk were going about their business, everypony was having a normal day... except for one…
Sweetie Belle peered from the alleyway she has been hiding in for several hours now. Mayor Mare had tried to use her as an ink well today, and Fluttershy used her as a bird feeder a few days before that. Something is making ponies use her as random objects for a few weeks now, yet only she seems to know that this is happening.
“Why is this happening to me?” Sweetie Belle cried out. She plans her next move, when the air starts to move unnaturally.
Wheezing could be heard...around her?
“Come on old girl. No need to be so upset.” the Doctor stroked the TARDIS’s console, trying his best to calm down the ancient time machine. “What has gotten into you?”
The TARDIS is throwing herself throughout time and space in a panic. Something strange is happening on a nearby planet causing temporal anomalies. Something she knows her Thief needs to solve.
“So, something is happening on this planet eh? Well, let’s check it then.”
The TADRIS materializes around a scared Sweetie Belle.
"EEEEEEEEEEE!" "Please don't use me as a pencharperner again!" She turns to run away... only to smack into a railing "Oww..."
The Doctor begins to observe the small equine, almost unsure what to make of the poor dear.
Sweetie Belle shakes the stars out of her mind, quickly turns around to keep an eye on the odd two legged creature, while slowly backing away "P-please, just leave me alone" she wimpers.
"Are you scared of me? An old man?" The Doctor kneels down. "Hi, I'm the Doctor. Who are you?"
Sweetie Belle is hunched down, trying her best to seem small, perhaps sinking through the grated floor and mumbles out "...Sweetie Belle" in a voice so meek Fluttershy would be jealous.
"Nice to meet you Sweetie Belle. Now tell me, has there been anything strange happening lately?" The Doctor says with intrigue in his voice.
"Strange?" she looks up at him "Strange?!" her eye twitching "STRANGE!!!"
She snaps.
Sweetie Belle stomps over to him, shouting in anger "For the past two weeks, two WEEKS, have I woken up in weird places, been used as a doorstops, pillows, fire extinguishers, medical tools, arrows, a pencil sharpener, swords, a vibrating... thing, flotation devices and far more many things! The only good one I've had is being a little foals snuggie, and even that was weird!"
She glare up at him and stares into his eyes, "For two BUCKING weeks nopony has noticed that I'm a living, breathing being that thinks and feels and had to more or less fend for myself just because nopony seemed to care!" she breathes heavily "Does that count as 'strange'? HUH?!"
Doctor blinks, then continues as though nothing had happened. "Yes. Lets go fix it shall we?"
The Doctor runs to the controls, pulling levers and pushing buttons and making things go ding.
"Two weeks you said? What was the first thing that happened?"
Sweetie blinks, almost dazed by her own outburst. "Fix? what do you mean 'fix'?... who the hay are you anyway?"
"I'm the Doctor. A crazy mad man with a flying blue box.” He bends down and looks Sweetie Belle in the eyes. “And I mean fix, I promise you that.
Getting back up, he continues, ”Your being has been scattered across a localized space-time fracture. You retain the memories of the other realities, but you are the original." The Doctor explains, feeling proud of himself.
"The biggest question is 'Why?'"
After hearing this Sweetie Belle gave the information some time to process before giving the best retort to said information.
"I don’t know?"
"OK then, how long ago for you has it been since these events started happening?" the Doctor asks.
"Umm... two weeks I think...maybe more." feeling unsure of the answer.
"Right, two weeks it is." the Doctor starts to pilot the TARDIS. Bells, whistles and other noisemakers go off in the TARDIS. Strangely, despite everything that has happened, Sweetie Belle is captivated by everything that is happening.
"And here we are. Short trip only takes a few seconds." the Doctor exclaims. With a click of his fingers the TARDIS’s doors snap open.
"Same place, little over two weeks ago. Now, don't run into your other self or telling others about what has happened. It would not end well for any....off she goes" The Doctor sighs as Sweetie Belle runs through the doors into Ponyville.
'Finally got away from that weird... weirdo,' Sweetie Belle thinks to herself as she makes a run for it. 'I mean he even called himself crazy, who does that?!'
‘Did he really believe he could travel through time? pff, yeah right, good thing I was just playing along long enough to get out of there.'
With a loud growl, Sweetie Belle stops running. *sigh* 'Might as well get some food.' With Sugarcube Corner so close, she decides to get something to eat there.
She walks in, ringing the bell, but the Cakes haven’t noticed at all, talking with a couple of customers. Perplexed by this, Sweetie Belle walks into the kitchen to find Pinkie Pie using….her… as an icing bag.
Quicker than she thought she could Sweetie Belle runs out of Sugarcube Corner and into a nearby lane. Panic, fear and confusion are going through her mind. 'W-what the hay? T-thats me, but thats impossible. That happened four days after... this all started...' Sweetie's eyes go big “I'm in the past!'
"So, believe me now?" the Doctor smugly proclaims, freaking out Sweetie Belle.
"EEP!" Sweetie Belle jumps in shock, backpedals into a wall and stares at the biped "H-how, when, it, I, that, I was..." her eyes roll back into her head and she blacks out.
