Chapter I: Lopsided Unto Dusk
Docteur Onze was rather surprised to have crashed his shp, the TARDIS, this far into the future. Le Docteur had been taken by her to Ponyville, but the scenery had looked so... different. First off, Golden Oaks was a crystalline castle instead of a library. Second, Midnight had wings. He had seen Midnight's coronation into Princess Midnight Twinkle, and saw her a few times since then, but this time they appeared to have grown. Third, the sky was night and day at the same time.
The last time le Docteur had seen the sky in this state, Princess Midnight Twinkle used the Elements of Harmony to revive the Tree of Harmony and restore normality. Le Docteur knew nothing of a Tree of Symphony whose weakening could have caused this. Whatever was happening, le Docteur was the pony who had to stop it. Princess Midnight was flying to Canterlot with her fiancé Flaire Sentinel! Getting married today, no doubt! le Docteur thought. Just like last time, a disaster in the middle of a wedding day!
With Midnight and Flaire getting married, le Docteur needed to search for the Fragmental Bearers. I'll start with Derpy. he thought. He trotted over to Carrot Top's house, where Derpy lived. He spotted Carrot Top along the way, and said "Hello, Carrot Top!"
"Who are you?" the yellow-coated, orange-maned asked. "And how do you know my name?"
"I'm Onze!" le Docteur replied. "And I know you from the future. I'm a Time Lord, from Gallifrey!"
"Well, Onze" Carrot Top replied "You sound a lot like this Doctor pony that Derpy keeps mentioning. Are you related to him?"
Le Docteur didn't know what to say. Should I say that I am the Doctor? he thought to himself. No. I've never explained regeneration to a pony, not even Derpy! There's no way Carrot Top could know that I could, and did, regenerate. "Where's Derpy?" he asked. "I need to see her."
"She's out delivering mail." Carrot Top responded. "She'll probably be back in a couple hours. Why don't you just time travel to that moment?" And that's just what le Docteur did.
After a short while, the TARDIS took le Docteur to two hours into the future. Carrot Top was right, le Docteur thought. Derpy would be back a couple of hours from then! He thought he was crazy when he saw her wave, and then simply step inside. So he opened the door and then he walked her way, and what she said next gave him pride. She said "Isn't it great to be home sweet home? Isn't it wonderful to be exactly where you are? When you learn to start accepting your place, you'll become a shining star!"
"Derpy!" le Docteur exclaimed "Why are you singing when the sky's both day and night?"
"Sorry, Doctor," Derpy replied. "but I got lost and finally found my way back home!"
"How did you know I was the Doctor?" le Docteur asked. "Did you see me before?"
"No," Derpy replied. "I just remember your voice. My semi-blindness means that I can hear very well."
"If you can hear well," le Docteur replied "do you have any idea what's causing the split-up sky?"
"I heard some laughter," Derpy answered, "but it sounded like Discord, and he's reformed now!"
Docteur Onze thought about that for a while. Discord... Discord... Where have I heard that name before? Then he remembered. Discord was that Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony that Midnight and her friends defeated before she was crowned Princess! He was later reformed by Flootershai, the Element of Kindness. Is he back to his evil ways again? Le Docteur listened a little harder and heard a familiary wiliary Discordy Wiscordy voice.
This voice sung a song, a parody of a song le Docteur had heard before. "A little bit of havoc there, Confusion almost ev'rywhere, and ev'ry stallion ev'ry mare, and ev'ry foal lives through it!" An unknown pony said "I'll round 'em up!" to the singer. "And while I play my litte game, I'll set the Everfree aflame, normality is just too lame, for myself to construe it!" A second unknown voice said "To construe it?"
The singing got quicker, and the confusions more confusing. "My goodness I'm a total stupe, because I fear I'm in the coop, I'll need a victim clan to dupe, and the Fragments of Symphony! Did I say Symphony? I meant Luck, or something I don't give a buck, and then I'll drown them in the muck, and then I'll rule with tyrrany! And since I'm feeling quite confusive, why not wear something obtrusive, to Rarity I'll be abusive, make Opal a poodle! Add a slice of evil pie, with stacks of hate way up high, served with sides of those who die, more ponies, I'll need oodles!" The second unknown voice asked "Anything else?"
To le Docteur's surprise, even though the original song continued at a slow part, the Discord voice ended it here with "Nope, I'm all set!"
"You know what this means, Derpy?" le Docteur asked.
"Nope." Derpy replied. "What does it mean, New Doctor?"
I haven't been called that before since I was a humanoid! le Docteur thought to himself. "It means that we need to unite! Regroup the Fragments of Symphony before Discord can steal them!"
"How can we do that, New Doctor?" Derpy asked. "The Fragments of Symphony returned to their home, and that's the Dendron of Symphony in the Everfree Forest!"
"Then we need to save a... Dendron!" le Docteur replied, unsure of himself. I hope we succeed!
Author's Note
The whole "Carrot Top is a star" kind of thing comes from "Beyond Her Garden" and "Beyond Her Tomb" which are two songs about Carrot Top being, well... a star. Credit goes to WoodenToaster for writing them, as well as TheLivingTombstone for the remix, MicTheMicrophone for singing and BronyDanceParty for animating. Also thanks to ForestRain and Decibelle for writing "Great to Be Different" lyrics.
Chapter II: The Mare Who Waited
"We need to find the Bearers of Symphony if we are to have any luck finding that Dendron!" Docteur Onze exclaimed. "Who among them lives the closest to here?"
"Me, I think." replied Derpy.
"I meant besides you!" le Docteur replied. "Whose house is closest to yours?"
"I think it's Bon Bon's shop, the Sweet Drops Emporium." Derpy replied. "I always use something sweet for my muffins, and I don't have to fly to get there."
"Then we're going to need some candies!" le Docteur replied. "Extra sweet!"
"I wouldn't say that, Doctor." Derpy replied. "I already got enough for a season's supply of muffins!"
Docteur Onze did a facehoof. "It's not about the muffins, Derpy!" he exclaimed. "It's just a hint to the audience that we need to go see Bon Bon!"
"What audience, Doctor?" Derpy asked. "You mean the humans reading this story? Only Pinkie Pie is allowed to break the fourth wall without being questioned!"
"Isn't that what you just did? Why weren't you..." le Docteur started to ask, then he realised that he was questioning her. "Forget I said anything, Derpy!"
Derpy did forget, and it didn't even matter anyway. The pair had already arrived at Bon Bon's candy shop. But when they arrived there, she wasn't there to greet them. Instead, it was just Lyra, whom they asked if Bon Bon was home.
Lyra said something she heard a human say on her telly, but changed the name. "No. Bon Bon no home."
How did Lyra even find a telly? le Docteur asked one of his brains. Ponies never invented it, nor did they steal it from humans. Or at lest as far as I know they didn't, and I know very far! Still, le Docteur was curious as to where Bon Bon really was, so he asked Lyra. "Where is Bon Bon?"
"She's working her afternoon job at the flower shop." Lyra responded, as if she didn't care, or even know, that the pony she was talking to was a character from one of her favourite telly shows. She knew that whoever it was, he would need directions, as his voice didn't sound familiar to her at all, meaning he was a new pony in town. She added "Third building on your left." to her original sentence.
"Afternoon job?" le Docteur asked. "Why would Bon Bon need two jobs? She makes the tastiest sweets in all of Equestria! And I should know, Derpy makes her delicious muffins with Bon Bon's candies."
"She's been doing this 'secret' project to grow a Unicorn horn with the chemicals in her candies," Lyra explained, "and her constant failures of it haven't exactly been a financial boon for her."
"Yes, yes, the project!" le Docteur exclaimed. "I already know about the project! She figures out the correct formula for candies in about a month or two! I'm a Time Pony from..." he laughed in his head over the next word. "Gallopfrey!" he exclaimed, laughing his hearts out.
"Oh!" Lyra exclaimed. "You must be a pony version of the Doctor from Doctor Who! We had one before, but he died in the TARDIS. He must have regenerated into you! It's a sssssshame that you're still not ginger."
Great. le Docteur thought to himself. Of all the ponies I could have helping me, it had to be the one who knows about humans and the one with impaired vision. Still. I do need all the Bearers of Symphony. I'll just ask her to come along. She'd love that. Me, using a catchphrase that the human version of this incarnation uses to bring his companions.
"Come along, Heartstrings!" le Docteur exclaimed, with a light of triumph in his golden eyes. "We need to find the rest of the Bearers of Symphony! Since you're one of them, I mean, us, you should probably just come now!"
"Allons-y!" Lyra exclaimed, also with golden eyes' triumph.
"Actually," le Docteur explained, "I'm now part French in this body, so I don't say that anymore. Instead, I say 'Avante!' like the Portuguese word for forward. Anyway... Avante!" To find Bon Bon, we'd best work together. Same goes for the rest of the Bearers. We should also work together to save that Dendron.
Author's Note
"No. Bon Bon no home." is a reference to Familiy Guy. (Crossover idea! Fimily Guy? With a Gryphon as Peter Griffin?) The original quote was "No. Peter Griffin no home." Bon Bon's "secret" project comes from the newest (or what was the newest when I wrote that part) update to the Heartstrings comic on Tumblr. Credit to Mojang, Seth MacFarlane, and a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey credit to the BBC for all the references I used. (Can you spot them?) As a special tribute to a certain Whoovian whose stories I just recently read, I've placed his name in this chapter. Can you find it? Do you even know what his name is? I've recently found out that "Avante" isn't Italian. The Italian word is "Avanti" and the one I used was Portuguese. Just thought I'd correct myself there.
