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"Just the Doctor."

"What, ponies go around calling you 'the Doctor'?"

"Yep." As Twilight had talked, the Doctor's blunt responses showed her, 'shut up, I'm being important'. She wasn't sure if this stallion was a genius, or just incredibly arrogant.

He had been inspecting the ash as Rarity and Rose engaged in conversation. "Who is he?"

Rarity questioned the pink mare. All she did was blink.

"You heard him."

"T-the Doctor? Why I hardly think that's a proper name for a--"

"Aha!" She was cut off by the Doctor's yell."This isn't...huh."

"What?" Rose asked him.

"This isn't ash..."

"Please, please help me..." Emerald pleaded, but her tiny voice wouldn't be able to get enough attention for any ponies passing by, and none could help.

No one would be able to.

"Then what is it?" Rarity interjected.

"It's residue of time displacement. Ponies taken from time, put in ones they don't belong. This almost never happens, only when the aliens who do it are weak. The only aliens that can do this and have come into contact with equines before are..."

"The Weeping Angels?" Emerald read aloud, her green magical aura surrounding her horn and a newspaper. "Weeping statues known as 'the Weeping Angels' being spotted everywhere. Bystanders report, 'here one second and gone the next'. Local celebrity, Sally Sparrow reports, 'Don't go near them. But, if you do, by some chance, have a run-in with the Angels, remember this...'."

"Don't blink. Don't even blink. If you do...you're dead."

"W-eell, you couldn't possibly-" Rarity tried.

"You can't? Then you're dead."

"Doctor!" Rose warned. She rested her hoof on his shoulder, and he stopped. Rarity's eyes had widened and her willingness to do what she was about to do receded visibly.

"Sorry." He mumbled. But, as far as he was concerned, there was no time for apologies.

Rarity was half considering staying in the TARDIS and letting the smart ones figure everything out. After all, Twilight had her book smarts, this "Doctor" character seemed to have quite a bit of knowledge, and the pink mare seemed to know a lot about the situation at hoof. Some may have misinterpreted that Rarity felt left out, but she wanted to be. For if this got messy, she didn't want any part of it.

Little did she know, she had no choice.

After reading the newspaper, Emerald flashed back--an angel statue in the city of Canterlot, how it'd moved so eerily, in the way that was basically impossible. Every time you looked away, it moved. Even a blink could send you to your death, as the unicorn soon realized. But she didn't die. She was sent back in time! Sent back in time to live to death in a time that wasn't her own. That was absolutely terrifying to think about, but she couldn't keep her poor mind off of it. How would she get back home? What about her friends? She didn't belong here! But those two ponies! The stallion and the mare! He'd said, "Don't blink." But how did they escape? That box...it did have a bit of a strange glow to it, in a way.

So what? How could the two even fit inside? How did they in he first place? She looked around hopefully, thinking maybe she would see them. As bad as it sounds, she also hoped they'd suffered the same fate as she did. They seemed like they'd known what they were doing.

"I want to go home."

Twilight didn't feel like the stallion was trustworthy at all, especially once you considered what he'd said to Rarity. She had been scared already. He wasn't helping. They all trekked the small way they had to to the blue box, which Rarity still hadn't gotten used to, and they entered.

"See the Angels always send you back about, hm, 31 years or so, so if...hmm. That'd be 1983. So anypony who's sent there and looks confused, ask them some question that would be weird to any pony who hadn't been sent back in time." Said the Doctor, getting ready to fly the TARDIS to 1983, to the old Canterlot.

Rarity and Twilight grabbed on to the railings.

The Doctor and Rose were already holding on.

Everypony screamed.

The TARDIS' loud whirring sound caught a few passerby ponies' attention, but others ignored it. It then faded into a more distorted version of itself, and the inside rumbled and shook uncontrollably, causing the ponies inside to screech.

"What the hell is happening?!" Yelled Rose.

"Please tell me there is a button you can press to fix this!" Screamed Twilight at the Doctor, who was just shuffling around the console pressing buttons, pulling levers and flicking switches. The TARDIS stopped rumbling.

"Are we there?" Panted Twilight, not used to the bumpy rides the TARDIS could bring.

"No." said the Doctor, flatly.

"Why not?!"

"That time is full of time distortions, apparently. The readings are all over the place, I can't tell."

Twilight groaned. This was a huge setback. How would they get there? But this pony was smart. He'd find a way.

Right?