One Life to Love

Chapter 11: The Pony With the Odd Blue Box.

Ditzy's eyes widened in shock as the yellow pony exploded into light. She fell on her flank in shock as the force of the explosion caught her off her guard. She heard a cacophony of screams burst forth from the pony covered in light, almost as if hundreds of souls were being thrown around inside the light emanating from within him. Suddenly, the light disappeared, and a chocolate earth pony appeared in replacement of the yellow pegasus that had exited the blue box.

"Hello," the earth pony started, smiling brightly at Ditzy,"what's your name?"

Ditzy stared at the pony for a second in shock, then burst forth at the pony, pointing her hoof at the pony as she spoke. "Y-you, who are you. I mean, suddenly this weird blue. . .thing. . .appears in front of me, and some random pony steps out of it and explodes, then you suddenly appeared." She had her face in hers by the time she finished, and for a second afterwards all the earth pony could do was blink.

Then the earth pony stepped a bit away from Ditzy in order to be heard properly. He opened his mouth to speak, but then suddenly went about spinning around in circles, examining his body in an odd manner. The thought occurred to Ditzy that this strange pony deserved to be in a mental facility, when suddenly he muttered something to himself about his mane and tail. Finally he spoke. "What were you on about again. Oh yes, the whole,'explosion,' thing. You see, it wasn't exactly an explosion of sorts, it was a regeneration actually. As for the pegasus you just saw, I am him. . .well, was him, and he was me once. Now I'm me though and he's me, but a different me. Did I just ramble, I don't think I've done that since eight, that's nice. But again, who are you?"

Ditzy just stared at the pony flabbergasted, she couldn't catch hardly any of what the brown earth pony had said, and now she was blinking constantly as it came to her. She was suddenly assured of his insanity and told herself that she needed to get this pony to a mental ward stat.

"Well, since you're not going to answer me, I guess I'll just start, my names The Doctor, what's yours." The earth pony held out his hoof and smiled merrily at her. Dizzy could only look at him in confusion.

Finally she decided to humor this pony's craziness just to see where it would take her. She took his hoof in her own. "My name is Ditzy Doo."

"Ditzy, huh, that's a cool name, I like that name, it's nice and easy to remember. I like that."

Ditzy blushed a bit at the compliment, which was not lost on the Doctor. He smiled at her, then pulled her inside the small blue box he'd materialized in. "Come along Ditzy, into my awesomely magical blue box."

The tan pegasus was dragged into the box so roughly that she fell to her face the moment he let go of her. She got herself up and recomposed herself, only to lose that composure as soon as she saw where she was. The inside of that little blue box was really big, and filled to the brim with futuristic technology.

"I-i-it's bigger on the inside," Ditzy started, then she drifted off, letting the thought float in the air. The Doctor smiled at the mare as the door to the box shut behind her. The grey pony started twisting and turning different switches and levers. The room they were in started to shake violently, and when it stopped the doctor nodded towards the door.

"Take a look outside Ditzy." The mare did as she was commanded, and her eyes widened at the sight she was hit with. On the other side of the door was an ancient looking city that was nothing like Ponyville. The mare shut the doors instantly and turned to the Doctor flabbergasted.

"Where are we?", Ditzy asked, trotting up to the doctor slowly, eyeing him from his dark mane to his hourglass cutie mark. That was a bit intriguing to her. If cutie marks were a representation to a pony's character, then what did an hourglass mean.

"That was Ponyville, or what will become Ponyville. This is Ponyville in the year 200, 800 years before Celestia's rule in fact." The Doctor smiled at Ditzy as her jaw dropped in surprise.

"Well, whenever, where ever, we are, I need to get back."

"Why is that?", the doctor asked, cocking his head to the side.

"Because I'm getting married in the morning, and you just kidnapped me before I could get on the altar."

This time, it was the Doctor's eyes that widened in shock.

"What?"

***

Ditzy gulped audibly as she walked along the altar, her father stood beside her as she walked towards her future husband. She'd worried about this day for a year now, the parents had set this up, seeing as how they thought nopony would want her otherwise. She cursed herself for having been born with the faults she'd been given, mainly her eyes, one being askew from the other.

Thinking about her eyes also made her think about the Doctor. When she had left him, he had said that her eyes were nice, that he liked her eyes. That was the first time anyone had ever told her that, and she liked it. Not that she would probably ever hear it again, considering the fact that even her groom-to-be hated her eyes. She found herself once again wishing for a miracle.

She had just made it to the head of the altar when that miracle happened. A sudden familiar sound reached her ears, and she turned to see a little blue box appear in the middle of the aisle. She grinned widely, knowing the Doctor was on the other side. A familiar chocolate earth pony appeared out of the box and walked up to the almost-couple.

"Who are you?", Ditzy's groom to be, Aeros, asked as the doctor approached the two.

"Not important who I am, well, at least not for you. What's important is that I came to this wedding just in time to stop it, after all, can't have my new friend stuck marrying a Lorianis now,  could I."

"A what-" Aeros started, but was quickly interrupted by the doctor whipping out his hoof from his coat. Attached to his hoof was a golden K-law, and in the K-law was an odd device. He used one of the appendages on the K-law to press a button that activated the device. A  high-pitched blast of sound shot from the small device, and, after a sudden blast of light activated by the device occurred, a new creature that resembled an overgrown ant stood in Aero's place.

"Did you honestly think you could fool me with a psychic trick like that, I invented psychic tricks. Well, technically Rassilon invented them, but the point is that I am just too good to be fooled that easily." The Doctor turned to Ditzy and smiled. "Now that that's settled, how would you like to take a trip with me in my little blue box Ditzy Doo. Did I mention it travels through space as well."

Ditzy smiled, and took the Doctor's hoof in her own, running away with him into his odd blue box.