Elements

Twilight's eyes opened hesitantly, the impact of the hard floor on her skull making her just want to go unconscious again. She got up after a few minutes of struggling to regain control of her limbs. She eyed Rarity, whom was on the other side of the box by a doorway. She was fidgeting and had a few bruises, and...was that a small cut? Yes, it was, Twilight had decided. She walked over to her friend and helped her up after waking her. "Wh-where are we?" Rarity asked groggily, trying to recover from the initial shock.

"I don't know yet, but we better find out." Twilight trotted over to the blue doors of the machine after helping Rarity up. She opened them up, but as soon as she did so, a laser flew into the box and hit the ceiling. Twilight immediately closed the doors, as she heard more lasers and what sounded like hooves pound against the door. Twilight walked over to the console, and eyed a button. 'TARDIS Cloister Bell'. She turned her head in confusion. 'TARDIS'? Is that your name? She thought she heard something from the machine, a faint 'hum', but she told herself that this machine wasn't alive, even though she knew she couldn't deny it anyways.

"Hello?!" a voice came from the other side of the door. It belonged to a stallion. "Blimey...It's locked. But why would the TARDIS lock me out?"

"Doctor, there's someone in there. I saw the door open, so it isn't locked..." said a female voice.

"Let me in! This is my machine." Twilight opened the door slowly. "Who are you?" he raised his eyebrow. Another laser flew in. "Forget introductions!" The stallion grabbed a pink mare's hoof, and bolted in before pushing the door closed. "Okay, introductions now. I'm the Doctor, and this is Rose."

"I'm Twilight Sparkle, and that's my friend, Rarity." The unicorn gestured to Rarity. "Oh, I have so many questions, first off--"

"How did you find my box, and how did you get in?"

"Well, the doors were open and we sort of walked in."

"Didn't your parents teach you not to walk into bigger-on-the-inside boxes without permission?" the stallion now identified as the Doctor scoffed.

"Well, you didn't expect us to just bypass a box that had a bigger inside than outside, did you?" Rarity spoke, her voice sounding as if he was being completely unreasonable--and he was, in a way. He was used to it, so he didn't understand. "Now think, if you were in our shoes, would you just naturally waltz past a blue box that was bigger on the inside?" He ignored her, or didn't hear her.

"We sort of need help, too." said the lavender mare, and the Doctor looked at her. "In Canterlot--surely you know of it--we were searching for the seventh Element of Harmony."

"There are only six." And why areyoulooking for it? he wondered.

"No, that's where everypony is wrong. We know it exists. We're looking for it, and we hadn't found it in the Empire--"

"You mean the Crystal Empire?"

"Yes! Now would you stop interrupting me? So, we didn't find it, but we know it's in Equestria somewhere...we just don't know where."

"We as in you and Rarity?"

"Well, sort of, yes. We have four other friends--Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack."

"Oh, you're the Elements' bearers. That's why you're looking."

"Yes."

"Wait, so if there's another Element, there's gotta be another Element bearer, yeah?" asked Rose, finally speaking up.

"Well, yeah, I guess." said Twilight, shrugging. "So, will you help us?"

The Doctor and Rose exchanged glances.

"Where the hay am I?" Emerald asked to no one in particular, finding herself on a sidewalk. She saw a newspaper stand, and looked at a newspaper. "1983?! I was in 2014 just a second ago! This can't be right, this needs to be a prank! Yes, very funny!" she said furiously, looking around for any hint of somepony playing a prank on her. All she got was strange glances from strangers. "Please let this be a joke..." she whispered, her ears drooping. "Can somepony help me?" Nopony even blinked. "Please?" She sat down, defeated.

The Doctor threw down a lever. "So, Canterlot?" he asked.

"Well, it seemed logical."  Twilight said.

"Mm, I bet it did." he said. He pushed a button, as the machine rumbled.

"What's it doing?"

"She's getting ready to travel."

"To where?"

"Canterlot!" the TARDIS shook violently as all four ponies clung to parts of the TARDIS--the railings, and the console.

Rarity and Twilight screamed.

"Alright, so, where do we look?" pondered Twilight, trotting along the stone roads of Canterlot once again.

"Everywhere." stated the Doctor bluntly. The Doctor spotted something...He bent over, and stuck his hoof in it. It was ashes, as if someone had been trying to start a fire. "Ash."

"What do you think it's from?" asked Twilight, looking at it. The ash was sort of spread about, like somepony had been shuffling around in it.

"Someone was here." He narrowed his eyes. Someone was definitely here, but who, and most importantly, what were they doing?

"So, you said that your name was the Doctor, right?"

"Yep."

"Doctor who?"