Doctor Whooves Episode 1: Disharmony and Blue Boxes

                                                                        Chapter 2

                                                         Welcome to the TARDIS, Twilight

      Applejack was sitting by Granny Smith after a long day's work in the farm. She sat there, daydreaming about life and love and loss. Her mane was dripping with sweat, her entire body shimmering in the sunlight as the rays beat down on her, her sweat gleaming. She slowly slipped out of sleep and waking, sitting on the cluttered porch, the only sound audible the rhythmic beat of Granny Smith's rocking chair squeaking back and forth and the sound of the tree leaves waving in the wind. It was so peaceful.

      Applejack was slowly slipping into slumber when the familiar sound of hooves beating on a dirt path slowly became audible under the creaks of the rocking chair. She slowly sat up, drowsily putting her hat on her perfectly fitted head. She covered her eyes with her hoof to keep the sunlight out of her eyes when looking into the direction of the hoof-beaten path surrounded by apple trees leading to Sweet Apple Acres.

      When she looked to the path, she noticed two figures. One a pegasus, flying high above the other, and the other an earth pony. When the two ponies came into view, Applejack recognized the pegasus as Rainbowdash, and the earth pony she did not know. This was odd, because she knew everypony in town and everypony in town knew her. As these thoughts crossed her mind, she noticed the earth pony was galloping and Rainbowdash was flying at top speed. Applejack thought that it must be urgent business if the two were going as fast as they could, so she galloped toward them as well.

      Noticing that AJ was galloping back to them, Rainbowdash thought AJ knew what they were talking about, an that they were set. The Doctor would get his weird box back, AJ and Rainbowdash could go home, and everyone would be happy. But she was wrong. She was oh so wrong.

      "Rainbow!" Shouted Applejack. "What's wrong?!"

      "This pony needs help!" Rainbowdash shouted back.

      "What'chya need?" Applejack asked, looking into the pony's eyes.

      "A box." said the pony.

      "What?" asked Applejack, genuinely confused.

      "A blue one to be precise. Tall, says "POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX" on it. You seen it? Your friend here said it may have landed here. Hah! Landed! I probably sound insane to these ponies!" The Doctor's head shook. "Anyways, you seen it?"

      "Blue box..." Applejack mumbled, still taking it all in.

      "Heard any... loud crashes? Anything? Anything at all?"

      "No, sorry" said Applejack.

      The Doctor's head fell. He couldn't find his TARDIS. He had no sonic screwdriver. He had nothing. Ha! This reminded him of his 11th regeneration. That was fun. It was all fun. All his adventures. All the running. All of it. His head slowly raised, his lips curling into a smile. He broke off into a gallop, going around the entire farm. He didn't care if it took weeks. Months. Years. None of it mattered. He could run for all his lives. All he needed was the TARDIS. That's all.

      Rainbowdash confirmed this "Doctor" guy was officially insane. She didn't care what anypony else said. He was. It was a fact. Dismissively waving to Applejack, she went back into Ponyville. Gliding to the library, Rainbowdash saw Twilight fly towards Sweet Apple Acres. She tried to get Twilight's attention by calling her name, but it was no use. Bonbon scolded her for it anyways. Rainbowdash decided to go back home. At least there she could get away from everything. Except for memories. Memories of sorrow. Memories of people long gone. Memories of her parents.

      Twilight flew as fast as her wings could carry her to Sweet Apple Acres. The mysterious earth pony was bound to be there. Everypony went there on their first visit to Ponyville. Even if they didn't know that they should go there. There was some sort of lure to the place. She should know of all ponies. On her first visit she ended up there without even needing directions. She always found it strange.

      1 HOUR LATER... Twilight suddenly found herself flying over Sweet Apple Acres. She slowly descended to the farm, landing on the road. She used her magic to sense out Applejack to ask her if a golden earth pony had come through the place. Or just any earth pony. Sure enough, she sensed her friend in the middle of a field of corn. Teleporting there, she startled Applejack, who was picking corn. "Applejack! Has a strange earth pony come through here?"

      Applejack's brow furrowed and her head tilted, shaking very fast. A massive claw grew out of her arm and she continuously jumped up into the air. The claw drew back and went down on Twilight. A brown earth pony with an hour glass cutie mark jumped in front of Twilight before the claw hit her, letting it hit him instead. He immediately started to glow golden and shot an amazing beam of light towards Applejack. Twilight jumped back and closed her eyes. The sight before her was disturbing. The beams of light shot through Applejack and tore away all her skin, leaving a burnt skinned corpse littered with holes.

      Twilight was horrified. Her friend had just been brutally murdered by light beams and a random earth pony stallion just appeared out of nowhere. Tears started streaking down Twilight's face. Her friend had just been murdered.

      Her head was lifted. "Hey, why are you crying?" asked the stallion with a look of concern and sympathy in his eyes.

      "Th-th-th-that was my f-f-f-freind" Twilight said between tears.

      "Don't worry-" The stallion was cut off.

      "DON'T WORRY!?!?!?!? DON'T WORRY??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" she shouted, sobbing. "MY FRIEND JUST DIED RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AND YOUR TELLING ME NOT TO WORRY?! ?!?!?!?!?!?"

      The Doctor was taken aback. Why did his attempts at kindness always fail? "Listen, that wasn't really your friend." The Doctor said, grabbing the lavender alicorn's face. "It was a copy of your friend. Your friend is somewhere else right now."

      Twilight had the look of hope in her eyes. "How am I supposed to believe you?" she asked, her brow furrowed.

      The Doctor smiled. He had just the right answer for that. "Trust me, I'm The Doctor." he said, the look of genuine concern for the alicorn on his face did not match his still smiling lips, but he did not care. He needed to cheer this pony up. "Would you like to be my... acquaintance?"

      Twilight blushed. "Don't you think that's a bit rushed?" she asked, pushing away from the pony.

      The Doctor blushed hard. "No! No! Not that kind of acquaintance!"

      The purple alicorn eased up a bit. "Ok, good. What kind of acquaintance then?"

      The TARDIS slowly came into view, The doctor smiling. "Step inside the box."

      "W-Why?" Twilight asked, a look of suspicion on her face.

      "Just, do it."

      "OK... Nothing to loose I guess..." she said reluctantly. When she stepped in the box, what she saw was amazing. The walls were covered in circular lights with iron rings bolted on the wall to keep them in. In the center of the room, there was a large glass tube with a purple tube inside. Surrounding the bottom of the tube was an odd golden shape with a random assortment of buttons on it.

      There was a set of stairs leading up to two archways and what Twilight thought must be a control panel was on a raised iron platform with a railing around it keeping you from falling what looked like 20 feet, two staircases sticking out of it to get down a level.

      "So, how do you like it?" asked a voice, startling her from her observations. She looked at the stallion standing in front of her. That amazing stallion. He stood there, all grand, smirking.

      "I-I-" Twilight was speechless. It was amazing. All of it.

      "Welcome the TARDIS, Twilight!"