A Lifetime of Dreams

For all of you that have been waiting for this next chapter, and for those that probably didn't, I am happy to announce that the next episode is here, I just want to thank all of you that have read the story and that I wish there will be more for you to enjoy.

I just finished watching the six seasons of the revived series of Doctor Who, not to mention reading a lot and getting new ideas, with that in mind I think I'll be able from now on to make updates quicker.

Also, I wish to invite everypony to the group tumblr: A Lifetime of Dreams tumblr where all of you will be able to send your ideas, questions, comments and anything crazy that you want to say to the four of us.

Next I just want to say that from now on the story will resemble a little more of the usual Doctor Who insanity but with touches of action, slice of life and everything awesome that MLP is for us.

Now, onwards!

“RUN!” the sound of hooves and feet running on the street was a cacophony that joined the sound of alarms, screams and buildings toppling over as both figures continued to run alongside the narrow street. (Soundtrack - The Future Kind)

At their sides they could see houses being barricaded and windows closed was a good hint of what kind of help the could expect in this city while in the distance, what once was the hall for the ponies currently behind them, felt completely rising a cloud of dust and debris around it.

“What is the plan!” the pony said to the two legged traveler.

“I thought you had one!” and as one both stopped when ponies wearing the exact armor as the ones behind them appeared “oh well… that certainly thins out our options” he said with a forced grin as the pony at his side gulped seeing all her life passing in front of her eyes.

“You are a dilemma, you are a problem and you are a disease! YOU MUST BE ELIMINATED!” all the armored ponies spoke at the same time, the sound of an empty being, no emotions or pity at all.

“Yeah, I thought you would say that” the human joked as the armored ponies raised a hoof and a light engulfed the narrow street.

(Cue opening theme The Seventh Doctor)

BBC

Hasbro

In Cooperation with Meteor Beat Entertainment

With:

Iván González

Ross Money

Ben Betteridge

Joseph Jafari

Twilight Sparkle

Applejack

Rarity

Rainbow Dash

Fluttershy

And Pinkie Pie

A Lifetime of Dreams

Episode 2: The Day of Nexus

Chapter 1: Stowaway

In their home, nothing was more dangerous than the creatures living inside the unnatural place called Everfree Forest; the animals took care of themselves, plants grew without anypony’s hooves involved and the clouds traveled and let water fall upon the earth as if by an invisible hand.

All these reasons made the six friends unnerved and scared, and they should be. The only time all six ponies traveled into the forest was in the very first adventure they had when they defeated and rescued the youngest of the royal princesses and vanquished the eternal night that had fallen upon the planet… or at least that side of the planet.

Beyond that, each of them only flew over it or traveled on the skirts of the forest. Visiting Zecora, rescuing the young trio of fillies and saving them from a cockatrice and other adventures were examples of the dangers inside the forest, but this night was different. For some reason everything seemed quieter, as if even the inhabitants of the dark place could sense something was wrong in Equestria, and all six knew how dangerous that was. Dealing with the Menace

Galloping at full throttle didn’t give many opportunities for the friends to talk about their destination or the urgency of the letter that had arrived from Canterlot. The travel was silent and not even Pinkie Pie was making much of an effort to dispel the silence beyond the hooves thundering through the forest in search of the fallen object.

Each had their ideas and fantasies of what exactly happened, and all of them also had their own fears. For Fluttershy it was even worse than that time with the dragon because this time nobody knew what could be, maybe it was only a rock, but what if they had to fight a monster or a blood-thirsty alien? Only the idea of having to come back alone through the forest was enough for her to continue onwards.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash were this time almost on the same page; they wanted to accompany Twilight because the purple mare was their friend and wouldn’t leave her alone against the unknown. Rarity because she knew that if something felt from the sky, or even beyond then it called that side of her that wanted to know about every single gossip and new information, and of course, her good friend Twilight would not go alone into danger without the fashionista at her side. Even the easily scared Pegasus didn’t even pause to complain or squeak at the probable danger of the expedition, the royal sisters had their trust on them and they won’t let them down.

Passing through the deep foliage of the dark forest they soon followed the clean road to the exit; it was the place where the unknown object had landed if the spell that Twilight had cast back at the library was correct, and the studious pony was never one to fail a spell like that. Of course, several instances where there was a wrong result, just like her fail safe spell doing nothing against Discord’s chaos or the time with the parasprites, but beyond that, Twilight was sure of her success, showing that whatever came from the hurricane was right now some place on the outskirts of the Everfree forest, a couple of miles from Sunnyday Town. Twilight and her friends were ready then to search for whatever made the princesses nervous.

The exit was right in front of them before they were finally outside the dreadful place just for them to gallop right into a cliff. Twilight, the one currently in front of the herd put the brakes on her run, skidding along the soft earth finally capable of stopping right at the edge, but her safety was short lived before a white unicorn slammed against her inching her closer to the edge and behind her a hat-wearing pony, a cyan pegasus, a butterscotch pegasus and finally a party loving pony completing the list sending the six friends rolling over the edge in a mess of limbs, screams and a crazy random pony’s laughter.

Not too far away from there or to be precise, right under the screaming and crashing there was an innocent and uninteresting sight consisting of a blue police box that crashed on the side of the cliff where the six ponies where rolling down, and as one big ball of mayhem the bounced upon the roof of the box and crashed in front of it making the only member inside it to raise his head to the strange sound.

“Oh bug it, don’t tell me they found me so soon, I thought they wouldn’t notice it until they arrived at the town” Iván said rising from the console and opening a door of the TARDIS only to find a view at the same time ridiculous and amazing.

Lying on top of each other and limbs pointing at every directing were the six bearers of the elements of harmony in all of their chaotic glory moaning and complaining of the accident while the only human present had his mouth hanging limply and his eyes wide open “Alright… I wasn’t expecting that welcome”

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Several miles from that place, with the light that Luna’s celestial body returned to the land, were resting three travelers, tired and without answers close to them.

The only person that could help them was lost, or maybe he wasn’t after all.

“What do you think he is doing?” the youngest of them said while lying down on his side due to the size of the beds in the room. Three beds had been assembled inside the rather spacious place thanks to their gracious hosts. Although it was true that several ponies still up and around inside the town had been surprised, many of them didn’t react as extreme as those that had found them in the wilderness outside the Everfree Forest, maybe because they were seen in the company of known ponies, or maybe the closeness with the forest made them used to craziness in general.

“Probably checking everything on the TARDIS, probably repairing it right now” Joseph answered back while sitting Indian style, his back against the wall.

“I think… I think he is going to do something really stupid” the last member, the semiofficial leader of their adventure said taking off his glasses and placing them on a close bedside table.

“As if that is different to what he does” the youngest human said not finding a good position to sleep.

“Don’t you remember what he told us? He found out about the hurricane and said that there was something causing it? What if that is his reason to coming to Equestria? What if... what if we were only an excuse?”

“Come on, who of us wouldn’t jump at the opportunity of coming here?”

“Would he Joseph?” Ross fired back while his head hit the pillow “how sure are we about what he would do? We still know nothing of him” before today they have never seen a picture or anything from his friend, his reasons where still his own and wherever he was right now was probably on his own adventure by now “but we cannot keep thinking about it, if Iván wants to find us he will, because tomorrow… tomorrow our new life starts”

“Tomorrow we will meet more ponies… I mean, we talked to ponies, we made friends with them, and they even gave us this room for free!” Joseph slightly rose his voice due to the excitement he felt right then.

“Yeah, maybe we could help them tomorrow, I mean, until the princesses send back an answer to what to do with us” the three soon found themselves looking at each other, maybe it wasn’t good to jinx it so early in their adventure, but really, what could possibly go wrong?

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Many things could go wrong, or at least that’s what Princess Celestia, current co-leader of Equestria and the Eternal Sun thought.

Taking a deep breath, the multicolored mane of the princess flowed by a non-existent gust of wind like usual, showing that she was finally calming down.

This past few hours had been seriously bad for her nerves, not only Discord had freed itself from his prison a few months ago, but now this foreboding feeling had assaulted Celestia and it made her walk in circles while considering summoning the royal chefs and ordering a large order of cake.

It was a nervous reaction from the royal alicorn, one that she battled all the time, although once in a while she let herself fall to temptation of meringue, cream and flour that made her forget all her problems in one bite.

Quickly shaking her head of those succulent and traitorous thoughts, Princess Celestia vowed never to fall back to that cruel safety blanket that enveloped for several instances on the past millennium; it was a time that thankfully few ponies knew beyond those with a cutiemark on studying or history. Celestia still remembered the teasing from her younger sister when she learned about those days.

The memories of the chanting of ‘Tubby Tia’ were something that made her eye tick even now. But Celestia knew that it was innocent teasing from the part of the dark princess and Celestia couldn’t be angry, just happy that she had Luna once more at her side and that the nightmares could finally abide. But tonight, those nightmares weren’t so far behind her.

Not an hour ago Celestia had completed a letter and magically transported it to Spike with a new mission for the bearers of the Elements of Harmony. Celestia still remembered the eyes of Luna when this one said those words, ‘the sound of drums’. Whatever her sister had meant then was still a mystery for the Sun Mistress, but there was no doubt, whatever that meant it could only meant trouble for her subjects and that was something that she wouldn’t let it happen.

Just as Luna had said those words the skies around Ponyville had opened but not before a strange object did a swan dive onto earth and made both sisters watch the crash not too far from their favorite little town.

With both frontal hooves on the railing and her eyes still wide open, her sister Luna repeated those words, the sound of drums while one hoof in the railing knocked a strange pattern unto it, it seemed unconscious, but the pattern of four consecutive knocks before a slight pause gave Celestia a shudder.

“Twilight Sparkle” the name was easy for her, a name that held so many emotions for the princess “please, be careful, my faithful student”

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“Would you please stop trying to break the damn door?” The voice hollered from behind the flimsy looking wooden door, not that it stopped the mare very well known around Equestria for the strength of her legs.

“Ah’m gonna stop once ya get out of that thing, ya hear me? Ya can’t stay hidden forever” the applebucking expert said ready to once again let her hind legs do the talking.

As for what was the reason for her action? Well, not two minutes ago the six ponies had recovered enough to notice the strange creature at the threshold and as one the six got on their feet… and just as quickly the door was closed.

“Well, at least I’ll try” the voice said loud and clear from inside the box making Applejack even more annoyed, first was the almost teasing voice inside that was clearly making fun of her and then the stupid door that wouldn’t give up, it was simply wood, by now it should have been splinters.

“Ah can keep doin’ this all day long”

“Knock yourself out!”

“Okay, that does it! You wanted to do this the hard way? You got it, because you’re going to get action Rainbow Dash style!” but just before the cyan colored pegasus could fly high into the sky to deliver her patented Sonic Rainboom Demolition a magical force stopped her from the tail “Twilight, what are you doing?”

“Stopping you from doing something foalish”

“But he started it!”

“Either way, you cannot fix everything with violence”

“Twilight is right, whoever is inside that place won’t come out with violence, maybe we scared him” the kind pegasus said backing up Twilight’s words, after all, violence was never the solution for her, maybe a stare down but never violence.

“OH, OH, OH, I got it, I got it! What if Twilight teleported inside so she could talk with whoever is inside that box? I mean a box is nice to hide but is under not inside what kind of pony will hide inside one if not that was too scared to try to hide under it and…”

“I think we understood what you are trying to say, and I cannot believe I’m saying this, but Pinkie Pie is right darling, whatever pony… or Diamond Dog is inside that thing must have been terrified by the uncivilized actions of Applejack”

“Hey! I wasn’t uncivilized, I was just trying to get whatever pony is inside that thing the hay outta it” both friends stood staring at each other for a second before Twilight intervened.

“It is a good idea, but I’m not sure if it could work, I need to see where I am teleporting”

“But didn’t we all see a bit of the inside, it was very well lighted that is for sure”

"Well, considering that no matter what we have tried has worked so far this is the best option… okay everypony, here goes nothing” and with those words magical energy began to form at the tip of her horn for a few seconds before the purple colored mare disappeared from sight.

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He had nothing against them, he really really liked them, but this was not the best moment to meet them, it was too soon, he still had things to do. Thankfully the shields were once again ready for Applejack’s siege upon the doors but she had better luck trying to destroy a mountain than opening them with brute force.

Just a few more seconds and he would be out of their way, he was going to find the reason for the hurricane and no one would be the wiser, it was a simple plan and like any simple plan there was the chance of something going wrong, just like the light that caught him by surprise.

Once he opened his eyes he was in front of a young woman with long dark hair with fuchsia highlights and with a confused look in her face. (The New Doctor)

“What?” he could simply say before the girl shook her head and focused her eyes on him.

“Okay, it worked, now I don’t want to scare you but I would like to ask you some questions, my name is…”

“Twilight Sparkle… but that’s impossible, how did you get through the shield!?”

“What are you talking about? And how did you know my name?” Any explaining was cut short before they felt the machine start to hum and shake.

“No… no no no no no! The time vortex is opening!”

“What are you talking about?”

“It means we are traveling through time!” Iván said to his surprised guest.

“We are what? That is not scientifically possible!” the purple haired girl said holding on to the console.

“Tell that to the TARDIS because we are traveling… 300 years to the future?! Oh what the hell, CHAAAARRGE!” the human said with a huge grin before the TARDIS disappeared in front of the surprised group of ponies and began the trip around the time vortex.

Hope everyone enjoyed that beginning of the next chapter, and for those who didn't just tell me, I'll try to do a better job next time, now what does Luna means with the sound of drums and that ominous sound? Where will both time travelers arrive and are they going to survive? What about the other three humans? Many more questions and answers in the next chapter of A Lifetime of Dreams.

P.S. Hope you guys liked the soundtrack