A Lifetime of Dreams

“So… if this is a TARDIS… where are the time lords?”

“Who knows? For the last decade I have seen nothing, no monsters, no aliens, no time lords, no Doctor or anything at all, is like if this thing simply appeared, I have no idea and nobody has contacted me, for several years I thought this thing was dead, that everyone was dead, but now this happens… it makes me think that this… TARDIS is not from our world” everyone turned to see each other, now things were starting to get interesting.

“Doctor Whooves?” Ben said while the others couldn’t deny or say that it was true.

“Whoever is the owner or wherever this thing came from we have only one destination in this thing”

“The hurricane” Ross said while Iván nodded as confirmation.

“No second thoughts, because here we go!” Iván said before the TARDIS made his distinctive sound and the adventure of a lifetime started.

Hearing the rumbling on the machine, the vibrations on the floor and also the characteristic sound of the machine disappearing from one place and appearing into another, it was indeed magical, which was quite interesting considering this was a purely scientifically perspective but it could be forgiven considering the crew of the ship.

In just half an hour everything crashed and news and visions of another world were more than enough for the four humans inside the huge ship (it was bigger on the inside obviously) to pack everything and risk life and future for a dream.

Flicking a switch in the hexagonal control board, the young man with the dark sunglasses started the preparations for departure while another member of the group was looking through the pages of the manual.

“So, how long until we reach the hurricane? I though the TARDIS could do instant travels” Ross said while reading about the pool room in the manual.

“Don’t know, probably another five or six minutes, I need to check if the shields would hold up” in that instant, all activity went into pause so to say, even Ben and Joseph stopped talking and turned around to see the de-facto captain of the TARDIS.

“Ah… shields?” Ben said slightly scared about the word usage.

“Yeah, take this in consideration, we just can’t suddenly teleport into the… portal, cannot believe one day I would say that, it would simply be suicidal, so instead of trying to do something impossible we will do something extremely dangerous instead which is much better”

“When you say something extremely dangerous…”

“I meant flying directly into hurricane to get into the portal and go right into another world Ross… if we don’t get ripped apart by the wind currents” Iván said with a shrug as if it wasn’t a big deal.

“Okay… I’m pretty sure you forgot to tell us that before we got into the TARDIS” Joseph said a little bit worried about what he heard “doesn’t this thing have shields or something like that?”

“Sure, but take in consideration this, the TARDIS has been grounded for ten years, it didn’t even have energy to light a bulb, now suddenly it can move but it only has enough energy restored to make this couple of quick jumps and for what I gather, enough energy to go into the portal, maybe it’ll be able to charge up once we are in Equestria but I don’t know”

“Or maybe it will blow up!” Ross said getting more and more worried about their chances.

“Damn… and I thought I was the negative one” Iván turned from them to look at the controls moving a dial to the third level allowing energy to flow faster for now “look, it’s not as bad as it sounds, the TARDIS was made for things like that, heck, it can survive the explosion of a sun… when it has full shields, but even at this level it won’t break so don’t worry, I have eve…"

“If you say everything under control I’m jumping out of the TARDIS” Joseph said quickly regaining his good humor.

“Oh, right, don’t tempt fate, forgot about that”

(Cue theme music)

A Lifetime of Dreams

Episode 1: Arrival

Chapter 2: Into the Eye of the Hurricane

“Alright… ETA… 2 minutes… and countdown starts… now” Iván said while the TARDIS central pillar, the one that always signaled the time portal travel was now silent.

“Where exactly are we?”

“Like I said, two minutes from the hurricane, which in itself it isn’t that much, but it will give us enough space if things wrong Ross”

“Wrong? Like getting totally blown apart in the middle of the Atlantic?”

“I said ‘if’ which indicate a certain degree of probability that it could not happen and everything will go right according to plan”

“Just two things, one, nothing ever goes according to plan and two, since when do we have a plan?” Ross said waving a hand referring to the four of them. Iván raised a finger to argue… then lowered it while he tried to think of something to say.

“Okay, point taken” he answered back before going back to the controls.

At four sides of the console, right over the controls, there were four widescreens that showed plethora of information while another two showed scenes of Equestria, probably what existed beyond the portal the pilot of the TARDIS told them about.

As seconds passed they felt a slight rumbling on their feet which only grew more pronounced as they got closer to their target.

“Is everybody else feeling what I’m feeling?”

“If you are talking about the turbulence due to us getting closer to the hurricane, then yes, we all feel it Ben”

“No need to be so sarcastic”

“I have the feeling he is always going to be like that” Ross said slightly entertained by the banter”

“Well, it seems we are playing a round of twenty questions so I’ll be next” Joseph said at the right moment to release some of the tension inside the TARDIS “I think we all saw the big scary hurricane on telly, but really, how big can it be?”

“Open the doors and find out, don’t worry, shields are active… for now” Iván said walking backwards until he was well behind the console “go ahead!”

“I truly have a bad feeling about this” Ross said watching how Joseph simply shrugged his shoulders and opened up the double doors of the TARDIS, just to be witness of a true force of nature.

It was impossible to feel the strength of the wind due to the shields, but in his mind Joseph was sure that he would be killed instantly in front of that power.

The sea was raging, waves were easily ten or fifteen feet, but the true monster was a ferocious monster made of wind; the size of it dwarfed anything they have seen, it towered over every single man-made building in their world, the power was palpable and made Joseph take steps backwards closing the doors immediately.

“Okay… that was definitely a bad idea!” quickly bolting to one of the chairs. Joseph quickly understood to what they were going to be fighting against, looking around at the faces of his friends he realized that they all had the same thing on their heads, this was serious now, this was something that could easily destroy them if they weren’t careful.

“Okay, last chance to turn back” with one hand over the controls Iván was ready for the plunge into the hurricane, but a light on the console started to blink calling his attention “oh no, oh no!”

“What?” Ross went to the console to look closer, anything that flashed red was definitely bad news.

“We have no time to turn back now! The portal is closing!” Iván all but screamed quickly glancing at the information in one of the monitors. Iván was right, the monitor showed them that the hurricane was slowly losing speed, the portal was probably closing “if we don’t do it now, we won’t have another chance”

“Then what the hell are you waiting for!”

“Because I don’t know if the shields will resist, we can die out there!” Ross and Iván stood looking while the latter had his hand on the lever switch that could send the TARDIS into the hurricane, one could see the indecision, one wrong move and they could die, it was too much of a choice for him, their lives depended on it. Ross closed his eyes, took the switch on his hand and activated it.

With a  rumble every member of the ship felt the TARDIS go into the direction of the hurricane, it was now time to die or for glory, this was what Iván needed to regain his confidence.

“Alright, that takes care of it! Not the way I imagined it, but oh well, everybody, hold on to something! "HANG ON TO SOMETHING EVERYPONY! HERE GOES NOTHING!" Iván screamed before the TARDIS began to shake, outside, the wind was a force to be reckoned even though it was slowly losing power, the blue box rammed into the hurricane quickly flying around alongside the wind, the console made its characteristic sound as the interior rumbled and shook due to the enormous forced at play.

"Wind-speed just dropped under guys! We must work faster!" Ross said hanging to the console while they were being tossed around, everything around was shaking, everything was quickly getting out of control.

“Shields at only 40%! I don’t know how long they will resist!” Iván quickly tried to divert the energy to shields “oh god… we’re inside the hurricane, we’re in the eye!” all eyes flew to the monitors where it was showed exactly the calm inside the hurricane, but most importantly, right in the middle there was an anomaly, an sphere the size of a mansion, colors and sparks flying around inside it was the only sign of movement inside, but everyone knew that it was their door to another world but at that moment everything flashed inside the TARDIS “the hurricane is getting out of control! The eye is supposed to be the safe point… the hurricane is breaking up!” just at that moment the TARDIS lost control.

“What the hell happened!” Ben screamed when they felt the worst turbulence in their life, the chairs were shaking, the pillars were dangerously creaking, the lights were flickering.

“We lost our shields! The power of the hurricane is going out of the scales! Is dying! The portal must be going critical!” then, just as Iván said that the doors of the TARDIS were thrown open by the force of the wind and everyone inside was simply pushed by the wind signaling the fallen shields.

Falling to the floor the four friends tried to regain their wits while the TARDIS flew out of control inside the dying hurricane-portal.

Iván raised his head only to look how the youngest member was sliding on the direction of the door.

“BEN!” he tried to move but he was too late, fortunately, another member jumped at the precise moment to hold Ben’s hand while this one had one leg already out of the TARDIS “I got you!” Joseph was holding Ben’s arm trying to save his life. Meanwhile, Iván was on the controls moving faster than ever trying to regain control of the ship and Ross went to help in the rescue.

“I… think… I got it!” with one last switch flickered the shields were once again active and the other two people could pull back Ben into the TARDIS.

“OK, I'm not sure, but I think we're flying upside down...SOMEONE CORRECT THIS PLEASE!" Ross screamed while the three were resting on their backs in the floor of the TARDIS.

“Oh right, I think we are going to be killed at any moment but no matter, we have to correct our flight pattern, just shut up and let me do my job” Just as soon as Iván said that, the doors still open showed all of them the moment when they finally entered the sphere and the sudden silence that followed, millions of colors, lights and images flickered around the TARDIS as this one entered the time and space tunnel.

“We did it… we did it!” Joseph jumped up celebrating at their success.

“OK, good news and bad news”

“Good news first” Ross stood up dusting himself.

“Good news is that we are on route to Equestria”

“Bad news then?” Ben said still not believing how close he got to be sucked by a hurricane.

“Well… the TARDIS energy is, ah, well, the TARDIS is overloaded” just when Iván said that a control panel exploded sending him backwards, the doors closed and the lights died.

Everyone in town were working hard to maintain everything in order, not that it was an easy job but Ponyville have had their share of trouble and destruction already, the parasprite invasion, the Ursa Minor attack and countless other little things that the residents were used to, but this one took the cake.

Usually the weather was monitored and handled by the local pegasi weather team, but the chain of weather events were getting out of control, first clouds travelling in the sky, by themselves, that was enough of a reason to send the flower trio into hysterics, but then the rain started and then the winds, all to end in the hurricane present at the fields close to Ponyville.

“Still nothing darling?” The white coated unicorn asked to one of her best friends while the other unicorn kept on checking book after book, the purple mane of the studious unicorn was disheveled, a clear sign of how worried she was.

“I have found nothing! None of my books say anything about an anomaly like this”

“But I thought these things only happened in the Everfree Forest, I mean, raining and hurricanes and all kind of weird things happening, nopony has ever heard of it”

“And that’s the point Spike, never in the history of Equestria natural phenomenon of this caliber has occurred without the intervention of pegasi, it is unheard of, it is unnatural, it shouldn’t happen, and now we have to find the reason of why it is happening!” the purple unicorn screamed while throwing another book to the floor making the small dragon roll his eyes at the disaster area that was the library floor with so many books thrown.

“Twilight darling, you need to rest, you haven’t slept for a whole day, bags in your eyes, frazzled mane, my dear. You will need a full treatment at the spa to correct this madness” Rarity said worried about the condition of the unicorn, she was always getting so over the board over small things like that, of course, rarity didn’t realize how hypocrite that sounded considering her usual antics.

“Hey Twi, you in there?” just as the voice was heard the door of the library and an orange pony walked inside “Ah know you have been workin’ like crazy, that’s why ah brought you something to eat”

“Thank you Applejack but I cannot rest or eat or sleep until I find what is causing all this madness!”

“Don’t tell me, she’s gone into one of her crazy study moments, ain´t it right?

“I’m afraid so… you did remember to clean up your hooves before getting the entire floor muddy, right?”

“That only happened once Rarity” before both could start one of their usual talks the door was thrown open again as a cyan colored Pegasus flew quickly inside.

“Guys! We have a problem!”

“Seriously rainbow Dash, why do you need to be so rude? You need to knock on the door before walking inside”

“Not to mention that you were in charge of seeing that that damn hurricane didn’t destroy everything in Ponyville”

“That’s why I came here AJ, the hurricane is finally stopping”

“Then, everything is over, finally” Rarity said holding a hoof to her forehead.

“But that’s not all of it” Rainbow Dash said pointing at the still open door where Fluttershy was following a shaking Pinkie Pie. The number one party pony was shaking up and down in a motion that all present knew what it meant.

“Oh no! Oh nononnononononononono!” Quickly appearing at the side of the pink pony, Twilight was ready to investigate more “not another doozy!”

“It seems so, I’m not quite sure what could be the doozy, but it is even bigger than the last one and that one was a big doozy, I just can’t imagine the enormous, huge, outstandingly big this doozy could be compared to the other one, is that pie?” Pinkie quickly searched Applejack’s saddlebag in search of that delicious smell.

“Ah, everypony” a barely noticeable voice coming from the window alerted the other four quickly looking at Fluttershy who was pointing at something outside the window. Twilight, once she summoned her binoculars quickly scanned the sky locating the alarm from Fluttershy.

The sky was weird, clouds spiraling around a mass of energy while bolts and electricity danced around it and then, in a sudden flash, an object came from the vortex quickly descending to Earth.

“Something came out of the sky! It is going to crash!”

“Do you have an idea of where that thing is gonna fall into?”

“I don’t know, but it can’t be a coincident, if there is something I learned from Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense is that! Whatever it is, it seems it will fall beyond the Everfree Forest” the six ponies looked outside the window watching how the weird object fell into Equestria.