Doctor Whooves: Past Adventures

by JohnSmith1963

Chapter 2: Doctor... Who?

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76 Trotter's Lane, Equestria, 1963

Susan liked this era of Equestria. She made lots of friends and even attented school. She lives inside the blue box alongside her Grandfather. The blue box is parked on I.M. Foalman's junkyard.

Susan, just having arrived from school, goes home to the blue box.

"There you are, Grandfather." Susan said, seeing her grandfather.

The grey elderly stallion lets his granddaughter enter the blue box. As he was about to go inside and follow her, a voice caught his attention.

"Excuse me."

The grey elderly stallion looks back, seeing a red younger stallion. The stallion wears a suit with a cutie mark of a test tube filled with green liquid, indicating he is a science teacher. The stallion approaches the grey elderly stallion to ask for Susan's whereabouts.

"We're looking for a young mare... I saw her enter that strange blue box..." The stallion examines the blue box, he never saw anything like it as no such thing exist in Equestria. ...What is it?"

"The chameleon circuit got stuck when we visited Canterlot High. Now, tell me why you are here." The grey elderly stallion demanded.

"Canterlot High...?" The stallion wondered, knowing he never heard of it before. He has been on Canterlot but there is no "Canterlot High"

"A place in another world where everypony stand on two legs. Now, tell me what you are doing here, you insolent child!" The  grey elderly stallion yelled.

"We're just looking for one of our pupils. She went here." The stallion answered.

"We?"

Another stranger arrives, this time, a blue mare, she has a single basic flower as a cutie mark. The grey elderly stallion was familiar with the mare's face as he had already seen her multiple times on the same school where Susan goes to. The grey elderly stallion doesn't like this...

"G-Good eve-" The blue mare was able to finish her greeting as the grey elderly stallion rudely interrupted her as he suddenly yelled.

"Have you been spying on us!?" The grey elderly stallion asked, clearly angered.

"Grandfather! What's going on!" Susan called out from inside the blue box. "Susan!" Cried both the mare and the stallion. They approached the blue box and slowly opens the door.

"Don't you go in there, I'm warning you." The elderly stallion said in grimace. However, the pair ignored the grey elderly's warnings, they still entered the mysterious blue box that happens to be in the middle of a junkyard. As they entered, they were speechless of what they saw. It was bigger on the inside. A strange machine was on the center, strange humming noise and very advanced technology.

The grey elderly stallion followed them inside as they were speechless and motionless.

"Susan, close the doors." The grey elderly stallion demanded his granddaughter.

"But... Grandfather!"

"NOW!"

Susan pushes a button on the control console causing the doors to close behind the stallion and the mare. The red stallion starts banging on the door demanded to be let out while the blue mare starts to get nervous. The stallion then glares at the grey elderly stallion. The grey elderly stallion puts his coat on the chair.

"What are you doing?! Explain this right now!" The stallion said as he angrily approaches the grey elderly stallion.

"Explain this to you? Hmph! You're the one who went in here the first place. Tell me why must I need to explain this to you?" The grey elderly stallion starts pulling levers and pushing buttons on the control console, everything starts shaking with loud noises as the central column of the control console starts going up and down. "Vwoorp... Vwoorp... Vwoorp..."

"Grandfather! What are you doing?" Susan asked as the blue box starts taking off and leaving Trotter's Lane, she tries to stop her grandfather from touching the controls but he just shoved her off.

"Let go of me, child!"

"It's an illusion... It must be..." The stallion said as he looks at the monitor showing the time vortex.

"Where are you taking them, grandfather?! Stop!" Susan cried, desperately trying to stop the grey elderly stallion.

The blue box seems to be going faster and faster across the time vortex... The shaking slowly becomes worse every minute...

"Taking us? Taking us where!? Susan, what are you talking about, exactly?" The stallion was just even more confused.

"The TARDIS can go anywhere in time and space. It can go to any point in time of any planet's existence." Susan explained that the blue box was actually a Gallifreyan spaceship.

"I'm not understanding you, Susan." The mare asked.

"I made up the name TARDIS from the initials! Time and Relative Dimensions in Space!" Susan then puts her attention towards her grandfather. "Just please bring them back home, grandfather! They didn't do anything offensive."

"Listen, my dear child. If I let them go, they'll report us to their so-called "Princess" and then we'll gain attention and become public spectacles, a subject for news and idle gossip! They are bound to make share of their experiences and cause it to spread all throughout this land! I cannot let that happen, Susan. If I've to let them go, then we must go back to Gallifrey." The grey elderly stallion argued. "You got that, my dear?"

"Grandfather! They're nice gentlecolts! Can't you trust them?"

"I'm not sure I could trust that face..." The grey elderly stallion glared at the red stallion. "Fine, I'll let them go... But we'll never be returning ever AGAIN. Got that, Susan?"

"I won't leave this place, grandfather. I won't leave Equestria. I'd rather leave the TARDIS and you."

"P-Please... Please, Dr. Foalman. Let us go and we will not tell anypony about this!" The blue mare said, clearly scared and wanting to get out so badly.

"Doctor who? What is she talking about?" The grey elderly stallion was confused. Both the mare and the stallion started calling the old pony 'The Doctor' for not knowing his true name.

"Just open the doors! This old trick doesn't scare me!" The stallion commanded, he is clearly starting to lose his temper.

"No." The Doctor answered.

"Listen, I've seen magic even better than this! I've seen Princess Celestia raise the sun!"

"Wrong, child. Your 'Princess' is not raising the sun. She is simply moving your planet's gravitational orbit as well as its rotation. She's just giving the illusion of moving the sun. I bet you haven't seen ponies go through other dimensions." The Doctor was annoyed by the red stallion, he dislikes every bit of him. "They are coming with us, either if they like it or not!"

Something suddenly hits the TARDIS, causing it to bounce all over the time vortex. It spun around violently as it starts to crash. Inside, the lights were going on and off as electricity were exploding all over the control console while a bell-like ring is heard. The Doctor holds onto the control console...

"Grandfather, what's happening!?" Susan panicked.

"We've probably crashed onto something, hold on, Susan!"

"I've had enough of this! Open the doors now, for Celestia's sake!" The stallion makes his way towards the control console and starts pushing random buttons.

"STOP, YOU IMBECILE!" The Doctor yelled.

The stallion pushes a certain button, the doors starts opening slowly, revealing the time vortex. The TARDIS spins around uncontrollably and then suddenly goes onto a horizontal position as it flies through the time vortex, the doors were unfortunately at the bottom. The ponies quickly hold onto something. The stallion was only holding onto the Doctor's coat that was tangled onto the chair.

"H-Help me!" The stallion cried.

"Just hold on, my boy! I'll close doors!" The Doctor said.

One of the roundels on the wall that was just right next to the stallion's head blew up, the accident causes the stallion to lose his grip and fall out of the door and into the time vortex.

"No!" The mare screamed, tears running down her eyes and sobbing.

"Dear me... I am deeply sorry... The Doctor quietly said...

"G-Grandfather! I-I'm slipping!" Susan screamed, her hooves slowly losing grips from one of the control console's handles.

"Just hold on, Susan! Hold on!" The Doctor tried to reach the button on the control console to close the doors, sweat was running down his neck. His old physical body gave him difficulty, he could've done this easier if he was younger.

Susan loses grip and fell. Everything slowed down for the Doctor's perspective as he sees her dear granddaughter fall down towards the open doors and into the depths of the time vortex...

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