The storm's pitter patter ont he roof was wonderful noise to the grey mare as she walked through her small cottage. Ditzy Doo had just put Dinky to bed and was laying down, reading a book of her own. Her eyes, unlike how they are normally, were both affixed to the text. But as a knock rebounded through the house, she looked around in her cross eyed vision.
Getting up, she hurried to the door. The knocks began getting more urgent and she began to think it important. Running up to the door she stopped ust in front of it. Something was wrong here.
"H-hello?"
"Ditzy! Good! You're there,, open the door, quick! Come on, opent he door!"
"Who are you?", she raised a hoof in caution.
"It's me, The Doctor. Now hurry! We haven't much time, and I'm running out of it especially."
Ditzy cautiously opened the door and once she turned the knob, a figure flew in and slammed the door behind him, locking every lock on it and placing something in the center of it, creating another lock.
"It's dead bolted. Now, do you have any other doors?", he asked.
"No, why?"
"Good. Ditzy, we are all in danger."
"Uh, how could we...be in danger?"
"Look out the window, luckily they don't know how fragile windows are yet."
Taking his word, Ditzy looked out of her single cottage window into the small open yard. Outside a little filly was laying in the center of it, water cascading around her as the rain worsened.
"Doc, there is a filly out there, we must go help her!"
"NO!!!!", Doctor Whooves screamed, possibly having awakened Dinky.
Ditzy ignored him and continued unlocking the door, only for The Doctor to tackle her and hold her down. A few trinkets placed down and she was latched to the floor.
"Sorry, Ditzy, but I had to do that. We can not leave this cottage now, not now, not ever. Or atleast not through the front door or windows anymore. But we need to board up the windows so that they don't try getting in at all.
"Who is they, and why am I on the floor?!"
"Ditzy, listen to me. We are all in danger, even I, and I am immortal. I don't know what they are, and if I don't know what they are, then something changed time. Something changed what I didn't. These things were never supposed to even exist. And now their all over the planet."
Ditzy, grasping the Doctor's warning like it were in true black and white text on a book page. She knew the Doctor. She had even ran around with him a few times on small adventures, him explaining a ton of new things that looked to never exist. But this scared Ditzy. As the Doctor unlatched her, Dinky had walked down from her room.
"Mommy?", was all she could say before harsh bangs sounded ont he door.
The little filly began crying and the Doctor began panicking. All of the three except Ditzy were scared. Ditzy, on the other hand, had a solid frown on ehr face, clearly angry.
"No one will make my filly cry. Doctor!"
"What?"
"Go upstairs and take Dinky with you, lock her and yourself in my room, not hers, not the guest room. I'll stay down here and open the door. I will take care of these things.", she walked over to the blankest wall of her home.
"Ditzy, that is suicide, you have no weaponry, and these things are like killing machines, they have no mercy!"
"Doctor!!! You're scaring my filly. Now, if there is one thing I learned, I have to be prepared for anything. So I got a few things for protection."
Ditzy bucked the wall she was standing in front of and the sheet rock broke easily. She bucked in several other places before bucking int eh center. The wall crubled, showing a few weapons of use. A simple shotgun for easy use by any pony, aa classic machete for hacking down any enemies as well as blaze a path through the woods, and a holy hand grenade. Deadly in it's holy embrace, the holy hand grenade could clear the building from existence.
"Doctor!", Ditzy called up.
"Yes?', he appeared at the stairs.
Ditzy took the shotgun out and turned to him, loading a few shells in.
"Take Ditzy out of here. Now."
"I can't!"
"Use the Tardis! Take her to another time, fifty years into the future or past if you have to, I want my filly safe!!", Ditzy exploded, marking her point by chambering a shell.
"Ditzy, you may have an idea, but we have a bigger problem. The Tardis has been affected by the same virus. It travels only centuries at a time. I am from three hundred years prior to this time. I just arrived to this break out."
"Doctor, I have been in a rebellion against Celestia's own army, I have survived this forest, and above all, I'm a mother with an attitude. What you WILL do is take my filly with you back in time. I need something to be left here."
"It will cause a rift to open. Possibly."
"I need you to Have a stone wall built around ponyville and here. Can you do that?"
"It will have aged a lot, three hundred years is a lot of time even for stone. And, being as big as you want it, that could very well have caused this outbreak."
"Do it, we need the time and protection. Leave a letter for Celestia with my great, great grandmother. She was the most reliable Mail Mare in history. That letter will get there more surely, and faster, than Spike's own magical breath."
"Can do. Anything else?"
"Yeah...Could you take care of Dinky?", Ditzy said with a slight look of sadness.
The Doctor couldn't help but feel sorry for her. He would be takign the young unicorn under his care, not as a guardian, but he would have to do it as a father now.
"Ditzy, I am a time lord, over nine hundred years old,", he began.
"I understand, if you can't, then give her to-"
"I didn't finish. I will take that job. But on one condition. If I come back for even a second, I want to see you alive and kicking."
Ditzy smiled, a look of determination forming.
"Can do, sir. Should you come back, I will have the fort held down like a Great Dane protects it's master."
"Thank you. See you in two days."
Ditzy nodded and positioned herself in front of the door.
The Doctor went back upstairs and picked up the filly.
"Dinky, we're going somewhere, you're going to have to get used to it, but I'm sure you'll love it."
Diky didn't fight it.
"I...I-id mommy...coming too?"
The Doctor stopped whatever he was doing, nearly burning himself with a key.
"Dinky...I..."
Dinky's eyes began to fill with tears as the first sobs she would give off began to near.
"Doctor! Hurry! They are breaking dow the door!"
The Tardis finsihed forming, the blue box like a beautiful sight for the Doctor. Dinky began running, only to be caught by the Doctor as he rounded the corner.
"Sorry, but I can't let you go do that."
"No! I want ot be with mommy! Mommy!!! No!!!!", the filly screamed.
However much she struggled, the hold the Doctor had on her was unbreakable by her weak arms. They bth entered the Tardis and Dinky began sobbing, beating ont eh locked door, trying to get it open. But it wouldn't budge. The seals on the inside had no knobs for her magic to turn and she didn't know the mechanism. But out of the sound the core made, her sobs were the only other thing audible in the room.
Though, she felt something wrap around her, embracing her as she wept. It was comforting and she sat there, crying out the new pain of having been taken from her mother. A tremor shook the Tardis as it traveled through time, landing in the past of Equestria.
Though the Doctor did not leave. He couldn't. Not untilt eh filly could handle the change herself.
"Dinky."
As Dinky's sobs began to soften, she looked at the brown stallion.
"I'm sorry. But, you are worth more than she is."
"Why?! Why couldn't you take us both?! You could have taken her with us!!!"
"I...Couldn't. Some things are unexplainable, Dinky. That is one that even slips from my grasp."
"Than...why didn't you do anything?"
"I did. I brought you to safety. You came from your mother, meanign you carry a part of her with you. She grew up, had a family. And now you can do the same. Though, I'm sorry about the...newest change."
As the last of her tears rolled down Dinky's cheeks, she looked up at the stallion.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm terribly sorry. But...uh...the best way to...bring you to safety was to bring you back in time."
"Does that mean I can still play with my friends?"
The Doctor did not speak.
"Where are Applebloom? Pip? Where are every body?"
The broken grammar was simple, but understandable.
"Dinky. They do not exist anymore. Or atleast not yet."
Dinky could feel fresh tears begin to swell in ehr eyes.
"Dinky, look at me."
She refused, looking away and turning her back to him.
"Dinky. I did promise your mother one thing."
"What?", she asked with a slight annoyed tone.
"I promised to raise you till you could go on your own."
"You're not even going to are you?"
He was silent for a while.
"I'm sorry Dinky but I really can't stay but mroe than two years. That should be mor-"
"No!!! You promised! Why! Why can't you keep my mommy's promise!", she sobbed.
The Doctor sighed and took Dinky into his arms.
"Because I have to raise her too."
Dinky couldn't understand.
"What do you mean?"
"The truth. I could never have told you or Ditzy. But now I can tell you. I am your grandfather."
"B-but...How? I was told Grandpa died..."
"Thats where you are mislead. While I did die, to your mother's view, It was only an illusion. In fact, I had done that three years ago in my life. Right now, I have to leave, but I will be back. Here, take this letter with you. Now, give it back to me."
Dinky took the letter as it fluttered to the dirt. Seeing the soft ground, she looked at her surroundings. She enver walked outside.
Looking back to her front, she saw down the road which lead to her home. She turned, and the sight depressed her even more. There was no cottage, there was no house, there was no home. She could feel hot tears begin to bubble up and sniffed once before she felt a hoof on her shoulder.
"Little filly, you alright?"
It was the Doctor. She lunged at him, hugging him. The sudden change in emotion shocked him and he fell over from momentum change as well.
"Might I ask what is wrong?"
"You said to give this back to you."
Dinky held up the letter with her magic and the Doctor took it, reading it.
"Oh no...Ohhhh, this is very bad. I can't do this! I have to be in Canterlot in seven days...But I Can't! Why can't I just drop her off in an orphanage?...Really? Fine...I know, I know, I'll keep the promise, nonetheless."
The short conversation he had with the letter was weird, but once he was done with it, he tucked it away in his vest. She had never seen him in a vest, or with his hair fixed to flow down freely.
"Dinky. Seems you and I are not in a difference of much at all. Time travelers. For now, I will do what the letter says. No use in keeping a promise unless you can keep em. How old are you?"
"I-I'm only just three years old."
"Three...Hmmm...I know what to do now. Let's go."
