Chapters Doctor Whooves Stories: Episode 4: The Silver Army
Episode 4: The Silver Army
Chapter 1
July 19, 1518 CE, 7:45 pm, Changeling Kingdom Ruins.
The night was coming to the remains of the once great Changeling Kingdom. The sounds of bombs and shootings were accompanying the evening. Two earth soldiers were walking through the ruins, trying to arrive to the camp base. One of them was hurt in his forehoof. Seeing that they can't move faster, the other pony grabbed his radio to contact help.
"Lance Snafu to base! Lance Snafu to base! Answer me!"
After the communication ended, Lance Snafu carried Private Fubar to the shoe shop. There, Lance checked the injures Fubar got from the explosion.
"Don't leave me alone. Please." Fubar begged to him. The young amber earth pony was 22 when he enlisted to the Royal Guard. Now, with 26, he didn't think of all the horrors he would see when the war began.
Fubar was getting anxious. With his broken leg, he couldn't move. He was thanking Luna that it wasn't one of his front legs, so he could still use his gun and shoot the enemy if he would come closer. But the anxiety growed more when he heard shootings in the back of the shop, and then silence. He knew something was wrong. He took his gun and pointed to the door behind him.
"Snafu? Snafu, is that you?" Nothing but silence answered him. "Snafu, why did you shoot?" Suddenly, he started to hear steps coming to his direction. Those steps didn't sound like the ones made of the hooves of an earth pony. "Who's there? I'm warning you that I'm armed, and I was trained by the most prestigious Military School all over Equestria, so if you come here and try to attack me, you'll be the one who… who…"
In front of Fubar there was a pony-like figure. There was no mane on it, and its leg was quite short for a pony. Its eyes were small compared with the ones of a pony, it was silver and looked firm, like if it was wearing an armature. Its cutie mark had a strange design, he didn't know what it was or what it mean. It had a handle over his head.
"Who… Who are you? Where is Lance Snafu?" The figure didn't respond. "Who are you?"
Author's Note
I wanted to name one of them "Redshirt", but that was too obvious.
Anyway, enjoy it.
Doctor Whooves Stories: Episode 4: The Silver Army
Chapter 2
July 20, 1518 CE, 5:30 am, Changeling Kingdom Ruins.
Since the radio contact, there weren't news about the missing soldiers. They weren't he first soldiers who had disappeared, though. Sometimes, close to the morning and the evening, the soldiers who weren't in the camp base vanished without a trace. This strange incident had been happening the last weeks and nopony who disappeared have been seen back again.
So, when the Doctor and Derpy appeared just from nowhere, that caught the attention of the patrol units, who took them to the camp base so they can be questioned.
"There will be tea?" The Doctor asked.
They arrived to a tent, where a guard was watching them from the distance.
"Sergeant Starry Beat! Why did you bring up here these two ponies?"
They entered into the tent, where the Doctor and Derpy just could watch an empty chair, a table with a glass of water.
"Are you gonna interrogate us right here?"
July 20, 1518 CE, 5:35 am, Equestrian Base Camp.
Upon reaching the lower level, they saw another door, this time was open from the inside, where they saw more ponies, some of them talking with computers, others running with papers, and others grabbing guns and getting ready for the battle.
The guards send the Doctor and Derpy to a room in the base where they would be interrogated.
"Sit here! The colonel will be here in any moment." The unicorn said to them. They were waiting some minutes until a female unicorn entered the room. She had a very pale amber coat with a smooth brilliant amber mane. She was wearing a dark gray jacket with a medal with two golden stars and a golden waxing crescent moon.
"The ponies who brought you here are Corporal Sharp Tooth and Sergeant Starry Beat. Over there is the Flight Lieutenant Sparkling Mist."
Sparkling Mist and Derpy were talking in another stand while the Doctor, Corporal Sharp Tooth and Sergeant Starry Beat were preparing for the mission of their own.
"Look Doctor," Sharp Tooth levitated an old pergamin to the Doctor, "this is an old map of the Changeling Kingdom."
"Thank you, Doctor." Sharp Tooth said, changing back to his unicorn disguise. "Like I was saying, the last signal came over here, close to the point where we find you. They told us that they were going to stay in this shop."
July 20, 1518 CE, 6:00 am, Changeling Shoe Shop Ruins.
The Doctor and the soldiers arrived at the Shoe shop. They were explaining to the Doctor the situation about the soldiers, making emphasis that they were missing and the signal destroyed.
"There are no signals of our soldiers from this point. We don't have any feather or hair that can lead us to them. Not even magic signal. Doctor?" They noticed the Doctor sniffing a crushed flower. "Doctor? Could you stop sniffing that flower?"
Suddenly they started to hear a siren sound.
"Doctor, come here!"
July 20, 1518 CE, 6:00 am, Changeling Kingdom Skies.
"Do you see that?" Sparkling Mist pointed a location to Derpy. "That's one of our camps. You must take a photo from that place, got it?"
The two pegasi were flying lower, trying to arrive to one of the houses on Changeling Kingdom, but the explosions in mid air forced them to fly higher.
"Derpy, Look out!" Lt. Mist saw a griffon squad getting closer to them. They were pointing their claws to the pegasi. "UP!"
Some of the griffons started to chase Derpy, they were behind their quarters when she heard instructions on her radio.
"Do a barrel roll! Do a barrel roll!"
Derpy was trying to find him between the clouds, until she noticed him. "Yes, I can see you!"
"See this and do what I do! Quick!"
Lt. Mist then did a barrel roll, he started to roll and ascend to the clouds until Derpy couldn't notice him, and suddenly she saw him plummeted to her level.
"That's a barrel roll! Now do it!"
Derpy heard shootings at her back so she tried to do the same thing, but in the clouds an explosion knocked her out and she started to fell to the ground.
CRASH!
Doctor Whooves Stories: Episode 4: The Silver Army
Chapter 3
July 20, 1518 CE, 7:30 am, Changeling Shoe Shop Ruins.
The air raid alarm went off. The Doctor, Sharp Tooth and Starry Beat left the building to proceed with their investigations.
"Situation normal. I'll try to contact the colonel to receive new orders." Sgt Beat said.
A worried Doctor looked on the skies. "Where's Derpy?"
"She should be fine. " Corporal Tooth said to the Doctor. "She is with Lt. Mist."
July 20, 1518 CE, 8:30 am, Changeling House Ruins.
Derpy found herself in the ruins of a house. She realized that she had crashed after the griffon attack and she fell through the ceiling, so she decided to leave the house and reunite with the Doctor or Lt. Mist.
SNAP!
An unsupportable and painful feeling came from Derpy's right wing, pass through her body and arrived to her brain. She had broke her wing, so she couldn't fly back home. She got only one option: she must walk to the base. Thankfully, the air raid alarm ceased to ring, so probably there won't be more griffons. That was just Derpy's thinking.
When she left the ruined building, she saw in the middle of the street the bodies of ponies and griffons laying there. She guessed that nopony there was alive.
"He… Help me!"
She heard a slight voice from behind her. She turned her head but couldn't see nopony talking.
"Help me!"
She saw a dying griffon asking for help. She considered running away from him, after all ponies are fighting a war against the griffons, but she couldn't leave him. First of all, she didn't know why the war began, and second, even if she knew what could have happened between ponies and griffons, she couldn't leave anybody injured to die. So she got closer to the griffon.
"What happened to you?"
Derpy was hesitating for a couple of seconds. She knew she could get into trouble, but decided it was the best. "No, I won't." She put his arm on her back. "What's your name?"
Derpy was carrying Gerrard to the main camp. They were walking the empty streets of the Changeling Kingdom when they heard a metallic noise coming from the debris.
"Did you hear that, Gerrard?"
They continued on their path, but a couple of minutes later they heard a noise again. This time it was the sound of metallic steps coming to their direction.
"Who's there?" Derpy yelled, but nothing answered her back, just the sounds of the steps getting closer. "We need medical help! My wing is hurt but he's worse. I know he is a griffon but still…" then she could see the figure who was walking to her. It was a silver metallic pony, with a handle on its head and no mane. Its eyes were smaller than those of a regular pony.
"You have been found compatible, you'll be upgraded." The figure said with a monotone voice.
Derpy started to run with Gerrard on her back. The creature started to walk faster and getting closer to them. Gerrard took his gun and started to shoot to the creature in vain.
"It's not working," Gerrard said, "and we got more company."
Another strange silver pony came from behind a door and started to chase Derpy and Gerrard.
"Derpy… leave me here."
"Stop it!" The silver ponies commanded to her, but she didn't listen until an explosion stopped her race. "If you move you'll be considered unfit to upgrade and you will be deleted!"
Derpy turned her head to see a squad of silver ponies, one of them was pointing her with its hoof. Derpy sighed, she turned her head, and looked to the window. She looked back to the silver ponies and gave them a defiant smile. "You are in trouble. My help just arrived."
The window was shattered, and from it the Doctor and the soldiers that were accompanying him came.
"I'm so happy you are ok." The Doctor said to Derpy, but then turned his head to the silver ponies that were pointing their hooves to them.
"Doctor, what are those?" Corporal Tooth asked.
"No!" Corporal Tooth started to shoot his gun to the silver ponies "They are bulletproof!"
"Oh, gosh." Sharp Tooth unicorn appearance faded away, making him to look like a changeling again. "We've got to run."
They began to run to the Equestrian Base Camp, with some of the silver ponies chasing them. Before they arrived to the base entry, a rocket was fired from the ceiling of one of the buildings destroying them.
"We must avoid those creatures to enter the camp!" A female voice came from the ceiling.
"Talk like that again and you'll be demoted!" Colonel Samus said to Mist. "He deserves to live just like any of us"
July 20, 1518 CE, 10:00 am, Equestrian Base Camp.
A medical pony was covering Derpy's wings while she was looking to the other injured ponies.
"They are going to be ok?"
"Thanks." Derpy got up from her bed and walked with the Doctor and Samus away from the infirmary.
"Do you know what those creatures are?" Derpy asked.
"Look, from my universe, the cybermen are one of the most dangerous monsters ever made. They were once normal people, normal ponies, but they underwent a drastic change so they could live forever. They change most of his biological parts with mechanical ones, and their goal is to upgrade or convert any life form into a cyberman."
"Ok, that's hard to believe! I can't believe you are not from this planet and neither those cybermen."
"I'm hearing one heartbeat." The Doctor moved the stethoscope bell to the other side of his chest. "That's impossible."
"How many ponies do you know that have two hearts?"
"But… but…"
A laser beam was shot from behind them. Some of the soldiers run to the entry where they saw the watchman walking to them, accompanied by a cybermen squad.
"Silence!" one of the cybermen said to the soldiers, "Anyone who moves will be killed instantly."
Author's Note
I'm calling them cybermen instead of cyberponies. I'm doing it in that way because I think they would call themselves cybermen even if they don't look like men at all. Even in the DW/ST comic, when they upgrade the Judoon, they didn't call themselves "cyberjudoons" or "cyberrhinos", they still called themselves cybermen. But if you don't like it, tell me and I'll change it.
Any comments or any suggestions are received.
Doctor Whooves Stories: Episode 4: The Silver Army
Chapter 4
July 20, 1518 CE, 10:10 am, Equestrian Base Camp.
A laser beam was shot from the entry. Everypony gasped as they saw the entry guard walking with a cybermen squad at his side.
“Silence! Anyone who moves will be killed instantly!”
Samus whispered to the Doctor’s ear, “What should we do now?”
“Delete this.” Colonel Samus was lighting, and then she threw a magic blast to one of the cybermen, knocking him out.
Nate Samus remained calm for a moment. She slowly moved to Sparkling Mist, and spoke to him softly: “Is that what you think?”
July 20, 1518 CE, 10:40 am, Below the Changeling Castle.
The Doctor, Derpy, the remaining soldiers and Gerrard were walking in a tunnel below the Changeling castle. The soldiers and Gerrard were carrying the improved guns the Doctor made for them. Derpy was walking close to the Doctor, thinking about everything she experienced on that day.
“What are you thinking?” The Doctor asked to his friend.
Derpy ran next to Sharp Tooth, and she begun to talk to him.
“Great.” Samus exclaimed. “There is a locked door.”
July 20, 1518 CE, 11:00 am, Changeling Castle.
The castle showed signs of neglect from centuries before. The Doctor and his party were walking in the debris, trying to avoid the dusty and old weapons, the shattered windows and the old changeling skeletons. They found an open section of the castle, and walked there, trying to not be spotted by the cybermen or the griffons.
“I don’t hear gunshots. It’s the first day since I came here without gunshots.” Samus said.
The Doctor pulled out a couple of binoculars from his jacket and started to watch the landscape.
When they opened the door, they saw a new, modern workshop. They saw a lot of plastic cocoons in the walls, as big as a pony. In the throne were the Changeling Queen or King used to stand, there was a bigger cocoon laying there.
“What are those things?” Samus asked to the Doctor.
They begun to walk quietly and slowly, but when they were close to the other exit, an alarm was triggered and the cocoons begun to break, releasing the cybermen.
“What was that?” Samus exclaimed.
The cybermen closed the Doctor and company. Before anyone would do something, the bigger cocoon opened, releasing a big, black cyberhorse.
“What’s that?” Derpy asked.
The cyberleader walked to the group, where the other cybermen bowed at him. He then proceeded to look the soldiers, Derpy and finally the Doctor.
“Who brought them here?” The cyberleader said with a deeper voice than of the regular cybermen.
“My memory bank has a lot of information about you, Doctor.” The Cyberleader said. “But I have more information in my personal hard drive.”
Doctor Whooves Stories: Episode 4: The Silver Army
Chapter 5
July 20, 1518 CE, 11:10 am, Changeling Castle.
“I’m sorry, what?” The Doctor was cornered by the cybermen, leaded by their cyberleader. The cyberleader had just said it knew who the Doctor was.EMMA ! But… but…”
“How did you met her?” Samus asked to the Doctor.
The Doctor called EMMA attention. When the cyberleader moved her head, the Doctor called her again.
“Think Fast. Really smart.” Colonel Samus talked to the Doctor.
VWOOOOORP! VWOOOOOORP! VWOOOOORP! VWOOOOOORP!
July 20, 1518 CE, 11:30 am, TARDIS Interior.
“Anyone it’s here?” The Doctor asked. To his relief, Derpy, Samus, Gerrard and Sharp Tooth were among the ponies who survived the cybermen attack.
July 20, 1518 CE, 11:30 am, Canterlot Ministry of Defence.
The building of the Ministry was filled with a lot of ponies running and flying all over the place. In the main room, the generals of the Equestrian Army were debating over the next decision they should made.
“But we can’t do that!”
The purple alicorn horse was thinking about the proposed solution. Almost all of her generals approve the solution of bombing one of the Griffon Cities as an ultimatum. Somehow the thought wasn’t as unpleasant as to continue the war, something nopony wanted to do. But she didn’t want to hurt innocent griffons to stop it. When she was struggling with her mind, one of her generals, a deep sap green pegasus, called her attention.
“Your highness. If we don’t do something now, Equestria will fall. I know you don’t want to do it, but is the only option.”
Twilight cleared her throat and began her chat. “Everypony. I want to tell you that I’m not happy with the choice I made. Let’s remember we didn’t do it for hatred or fear. We did it because we didn’t have other choice.” A tear was coming from her eye when she said that.
“General Hawker” she added, “you may continue with Project Manehattan.”
VWOOOOORP! VWOOOOOORP! VWOOOOORP! VWOOOOOORP!
“Wait!” Twilight stopped her generals, she recognized that sound from her youth in Ponyville. “Maybe we got another chance.” She run to the source of the sound, and she was relieved to see the TARDIS standing in the middle of the other room. “Doctor! It’s a pleasure to see you!”
“Twilight! The pleasure it’s mine.”
July 20, 1518 CE, 11:30 am, Canterlot Hospital.
The hospital room where Princess Luna was staying was closed for general public. Only generals, doctors and the royal family could go there for safety reasons. Four years ago she was shot by somepony at the middle of an event in the Griffin Kingdom. Since the shooting, Princess Luna had been feeling weaker, and she was trying to do her best to survive.
Next to Luna there was her niece Princess Cadence. She put Twilight at the Ministry of War so she could decide the course of the war, because she believed that Twilight would do the best to find the culprit of the shooting. She decided to stay close to her aunt just to make sure she got anything she would need.
She was waiting for the time of her lunch when she heard the whirring of the TARDIS.
“Doctor?” Cadence greeted the Doctor.
“Ok, I need all of you to sign this.” Samus grabbed a paper in front of the princess.
July 20, 1518 CE, 1:00 pm, Changeling Kingdom.
With the newly found alliance, both nations bombed the remains of the changeling kingdom. Then they send a search party for all the remaining cybermen. All of their remains were put in a cellar that was sealed with the magic of Princess Cadence, Twilight and Honeydew. When they made sure nopony would open the seal, they walk to Gunther and his generals to discuss some aspects of the peace treaty.
“As a sign of alliance, both Equestria and Griffonia would help each other to the reconstruction of the ruined cities. ” Cadence read.And the nations will create an organization to improve the relations between the members of it and to prevent another war. ” Gunther read. “But, where we are going to put that organization?”
The Doctor and Derpy walked to the TARDIS with them. With Samus, Sharp Tooth and Gerrard were promoted as well. They were now a sergeant and Feldwebel. They walked to the TARDIS and stand there to give their goodbyes.
“Brigadier Nate Samus, how does it feel that new star?” The Doctor asked to Samus.
The Doctor and Derpy entered the TARDIS, and it slowly disappeared in front of the soldiers.
When they were walking away, a lighting sound stopped them. They saw a big blue sphere with lightings getting bigger. Suddenly the sphere faded away, leaving behind a blue pegasus pony, with a long light blue mane and a brown coat. His cutie mark was a Mars symbol. Suddenly, the pegasus raised up and began to walk.
“I… I…” He then looked at himself “I am a pony? That’s weird, a blue pony. And apparently I can talk.” He looked to the ponies and the griffon, who were in defensive stance. “Hello there.”
TO BE CONTINUED
Author's Note
Cybermen created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
