Chapters The beginning of the rest of my life
The day was like any other. I was working on one of my jobs as an at home programmer, or more specifically finishing the job of bug fixing the program I was given to work with yesterday. Once I was finished I sent the product to my contractor and started checking the internet to sate my boredom.
Once there was nothing left on the internet to sate my boredom I decided to play an old solo roleplay of mine. Imagining what my mlp oc is doing.
Which is trying to fix his TARDIS.
My oc, as well as my presence in the fandom is something I like to keep anonymous.
Gavros was trying to fix his machine, as it couldn’t leave equestria. He could leave, but not with his TARDIS. He found an easier way of doing it. With a reverse engineered mirror portal!
It took five long years, or ten seconds for starswirl (thank time travel).
But that’s beside the point. The point is, around then a flash of green light knocked me unconscious.
I found myself walking through a forest. I had no idea where I was going but, I somehow knew that I was heading in the right direction.
I entered a clearing with an old rusty shed in the middle.
Realizing what it was, I checked if the door was unlocked. To my surprise it was.
I entered to find Gavros looking at a monitor. It just said it was nine thirty two in the morning everywhere, everywhen.
I looked around.
“Did you break the universe again?” I asked, as this would make it the fifth time he did that.
He looked to me then spoke.
“No, not this time… This happened on your side, and this is not just affecting you. Its affecting around a million different universes at once, including yours, but from what I can tell you're the black sheep in this.”
Thinking about what that meant, I asked the big question.
“What’s going on?”
Gavros was blunt.
“You are turning into me.”
When I awoke and had a full memory of the dream. I knew something was up. As not only have I never dreamed of Gavros, I have also never remembered an entire dream, no matter how short it is.
So I went into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. I gasped. My eyes had turned to the crimson red of Gavros’ eyes.
As someone who is sensible, I did the only thing I knew.
I knocked the mirror four times and waited.
Every other time nothing happened in my mind. Gavros heard it he, but just didn’t want to mess up the multiverse by destroying my view of him as a creation of mine(which he is. Both of our views of the multiverse say all fiction exists somewhere). But this time is different.
The charcoal gray fedora flying out of the mirror was all I needed to know my favorite griffon was finally coming to visit.
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Meeting an old friend for the very first time
When the fedora flew out of the mirror, it hit my head and landed in my hands. Right after that, Gavros came out like it was the surface of the water, took his hat and put it on.
After that he was enveloped in green fire, which cleared fairly quickly to reveal a human being.
“Took you long enough to visit.” I said to him.
“I told you, it wouldn’t work before.” He said crossing his arms.
“Whatever, lets just figure out what’s happening. You scan the universe with the sonic, I’ll check the web.”
“The sonic doesn’t work like, that but I can try something.” He said pulling out his screwdriver.
I went to my computer and searched for anything like this happening. Mostly just transformation fics and hoaxes. It was so hard I had to get Gavros to sonic the internet to find anything. We found a post that was copy and pasted across almost all brony message boards. It basically said that these two guys are responsible and there holding a convention in Chicago.
“So… How the hay are we going to get to Chicago? I guess we can use my car, but I don’t have a licence.” I said.
More importantly, why did I say hay?
How is that more important?
When did I gain a sarcastic side?
Focus on the task at hand.
Gavros just smiled and pulled out his psychic paper.
I face palmed.
”Is that even legal?”
“When have I ever done things legally?” Pointing to the time he stole celestia’s cake just to give it back to her a thousand years later.
I looked at him like he just said the most obvious thing ever.
“Right. I forgot how good you are at proving me right. But I’ll let this one slide.” I got up and went into the garage to reveal the pricey Deloreon I bought for when I got a licence.
So I got in the passenger seat and Gavros got in the drivers, I gave Gavros the key and he started the car.
“Just one question. Can you drive?”
“Driving a car can’t be as hard as flying a TARDIS.”
“Did you really have to say that! now we are so doomed.”
The driver has tempted fate. Is he really a timelord?
I’m starting to question that as well.
Luckily fate must have not heard him because the drive went surprisingly smoothly.
“We are going to need an RV to travel cross country, so lets go get one.”
I set the GPS to a nearby RV park, and when we got there we got there we bought something within my budget that could get us to Chicago.
I then set the GPS to the local walmart and got enough groceries for both of us… maybe...
“Hay Gavros? What’s a timelords diet?”
“Simple. Same as you, just NOT fishsticks and custard.”
“But-”
“The doctor is not best show of timelord preference! I mean he wears a fez.”
“I guess you're right, fedoras are cooler.”
“Come on, lets go get all this checked out.”
Derpy had just gotten back from work as the mailmare and had gone home to see her family, and was surprised to see that the Doctor seemed puzzled.
“Doctor, is something wrong?”
The Doctor looked to Derpy. “Oh, hay Derpy. No its just that the TARDIS detected a huge energy spike in a large amount of universe’, and the spike pointed straight at one universe. I can’t figure out what’s going on, but I found one object that seemed to travel from one of these universe’ to the center of the anomaly. I have no idea what it was but it was confusing how this energy was traveling through the void.” the Doctor said
Derpy barely understood what the doctor was saying, but she understood that the Doctor was perplexed, and she knew only one thing to ask.
“Why not try following it?”
“The TARDIS was not designed to fly through the void. The timelords closed off the other universe’ long ago.”
Derpy understood that more. The doctor always said that to get home he would need to heavily modify the TARDIS to fly through the multiverse, and that he didn’t know how to do that.
Thats when something flashed in her mind.
“If your kind closed off this sort of travel. How did this thing get though?”
“I don’t know Derpy. I just don’t know.”
After we bought the RV, we modified it with a built in router and brought my laptop along. It helped sate some of my boredom as well as Gavros’, as he had somehow installed an auto pilot. Don’t ask me how he did that, as I have no idea.
Just about an hour into the drive, I find an odd feeling in my hands.
When I look down, they have turned into full on talons.
Luckily, I had Gavros there to calm me down. Unluckily, I had Gavros to calm me down!
“Hay, calm down! Its not the end of the world, thats in two billion years.”
Congrats, we have a non social timelord on board who doesn’t understand that explaining the end of the world is not helping!
I’m starting to wonder if I’ve always had you?
Stick to the program, you have griffon talons.
Right! After a while of breathing and ignoring Gavros, I finally calmed down enough to to speak.
“Did you forget that telling someone the exact date of the world’s end does not calm people down!”
“Oh… Sorry about that. Heh...Heh…” He always forgets. Which is why I face pa- talloned just then.
“Now then lets try to figure out how to fix this. The online post just said that a particle accelerator and a light decelerator were plugged into a laptop playing MLP. Do you think there’s a way to reverse it?”
Gavros struck the thinker pose and spoke. “Hmm… I will need to see the device itself to decide that.”
I was unsure if these guys would be bringing the science experiment, but it was clear to me that the chance was half to half.
If they didn’t bring the device, Gavros can’t help reverse it, and from the conversations down below, some are say our OC will disappear when the transformation is complete.
This made me scared for Gavros’ sake.
“Gavros, what will happen when all this is completed?”
“I will disappear. there cannot be more than one version of me as an OC. So if this ends that way make sure to take Celestia’s cake for me.” I rolled my now red eyes.
“Lets not focus on that right now! We need to get to Chicago, this ride needs to go faster!”Gavros said.
“But we're already over the speed limit. We can’t go any faster.”
“We don’t need to follow the speed limit if we’re flying.”
“You didn’t!”
“I did!” Gavros said as he pointed his sonic at the floor.
When he activated it… Nothing happend
“What were you trying to do?”
He looked to me. “Uhh… ok fine I may have gotten a knock off brand flying car attachment.”
“Where did you even get it?”
“Um well… If we get back from this, lets just say you will be happy with the results.”
“You turned my delorean into a time machine didn’t you?”
When he shook his head I sighed. I don’t know how he got the thing working without plutonium but he did go to the future.
“Look we shouldn't use this anyway, since it may cause a bootstrap paradox where the the inventor got the idea seeing us flying.”
Gavros looked at me like I just told him something possible was not possible. “You realize who you're saying this to right.”
I realized that I just said that to a time lord and face pa- taloned. I’m never going to get used to that.
Yes you will!
Shut up brain!
“Wibbily Wobbily.”
“Timey Wimey. Good, you understand now.”
It was then that the RV suddenly shook, and the thing started flying
“Hah! I knew I got a Main brand.”
“Then why are we shaking violently?”
It was going to be a bumpy ride till Gavros could fix it.
Don't let time travelers behind the wheel
I was holding on for dear life!
Its not exactly rocket science, implanting a hover system that won’t be available for three years. Its far harder.
And Gavros has no attention to detail, he gets stuff done and messes up a lot.
“Why do I let you out of my sight when you do things like this?”
“Because if you did, I wouldn’t be helping you out.”
I rest my case.
“Just fix the shaking.”
Gavros pulled out his sonic, and pointed it at the floor. When he brought it back up he extended the sonic like the tenth’s to reveal white teeth that extended like the eleventh’s except slightly bigger.
“I see so thats what wrong.”
He then pointed it to the ceiling and activated the sonic. After which the shaking stopped.
“Finally. So what was wrong?”
“Insufficient power. I just overclocked the solar cells so they can power all four at once.”
“Speaking of that, how did you power a delorean time machine without plutonium?”
He looked at me. “The flux capacitor is not too different to a TARDIS time circuit. The difference is in power requirement which is lower in the time circuit. And before you ask, a TARDIS needs all that power because it is not getting most of its power from the kinetic energy of the tires spinning! Anyway the time circuit can be powered just off the battery… Although, if we get through this… you may want to change the battery.”
I face tallond. Hay, I got right!
Is that really a good thing?
Not sure?
And because Gavros cheated at a poker game against lady luck, both of us have really bad luck. So, like in the odyssey. We won’t have smooth sailing for long.
That is if he has not yet apologized.
“Please tell me you apologized to lady luck.”
“I refuse to apologize to a cheater!”
“Lady luck didn’t cheat, she’s lady luck! To beat her at any casino game is proof of cheating as she will always have a royal flush and no one else will!”
“Thats why she cheated! No one ever gets a royal flush!”
“Alright you got me there, but please just apologize to the omnipotent spirit of luck!”
“No!”
Thats when I gave up, this topic is something i've tried to win for months after he did so. And just then like lady luck heard Gavros’ stubborn rejection of apologizing to her. The RV was suddenly surrounded by police helicopters.
“Why did you have to say that?”
Now Gavros can be a bit hot headed… Scratch that, more hot headed then the Master at time’s.
So when he took out his sonic screwdriver and took control of two of the helicopters and moved them out of the way. I was unsurprised.
“At least you’re not blowing them up.”
“I have standards.”
“And one of them is-.” I got hit with a sudden pain at the end of my spine like something down there was being pinched.
I put my talons down there to check and… Yep I have a tail.
Pulling my new tail out of my pants I decided to look out the window to see how the police situation was going. Surprisingly well, actually.
The police were then convinced somehow.(As in a combination of psychic paper and sweet talking!) that Gavros is the Doctor!
Now when you're a man in a box it’s pretty easy to fool someone into thinking that you’re another man in another box.
The problem is that I can only think of one use for it. Scaring daleks.
And that would be all well and good… If Clara hadn’t wiped the memory of the Doctor from the daleks memory.
But Gavros has told me that it’s perfectly valid to use it for other things.
And now I’m inclined to believe him. If you can give someone proof you’re the Doctor, which Gavros can by showing his sonic. Then you’re in a position to get around stuff like this.
But then I noticed the pocket watch around his neck and realized that he’s making himself look like the ninth.
when the officer left the rv and went back into the helicopter. I tried hard not to roll my eye’s but it failed.
“Give me the watch.”
“What no! It’s mine, get your own.”
I sighed. “Then put it away, we need to stay honest.”
He sighed. “Very well.” He put the watch in his pocket.
“Come on lets go figure out a reversal method.” And with that it was back to the computer.
Sympathy for a timegriffon
The Doctor and Derpy had slowed from a gallop to a trot after about a mile in as they realized they do not want all of Ponyville following them into the Everfree.
This also allowed them to find some things out.
Aparently, Pinkie has gotten another one of her doozys. And Twilight, in a similar fashion as they found a sonic screwdriver, had found a portrait.
The doozy happened when the first energy spikes occurred. The portrait appeared a few hours later.
On top of that, Twilight’s portrait seems to be changing. When she first got it, it just was two humans sitting under a tree. As time went on, the portrait changed, slowly turning them into ponies.
The people in the painting were mostly human, more or less. It’s hard to tell since neither had seen the portrait.
Since Twilight’s painting was the only lead the two had, they decided to give the golden oaks library a visit.
“Hello Twilight.” Derpy said.
“Oh, hay Derpy. Need another cookbook for your ongoing debate with Pinkie again?”
“No, not this time.” Said Derpy letting the Doctor in.
“Hello Twilight. I’m Time Turner and I would like to see this painting of yours.”
Twilight was skeptical about letting a stranger look at the mysterious portrait.
“Uhh…”
“Maybe this will help.” Said the Doctor, showing her the psychic paper.
“Well… If you’re an expert on this sort of thing… Then go right ahead.”
And with that. Twilight had taken them to the fireplace where she left the painting.
“I’ll be in the other room if you need me.”
When she left the Doctor scanned the painting with the sonic.
“It’s somehow tied to five universes’, including the center of the anomaly!”
Derpy had only one question. “If there are five universes’ tied to the painting, why are there only two ponies?”
“I have a hunch, but will need to head back to the TARDIS to find out.”
After saying goodbye to Twilight and giving her some vague information, they went on their way to the TARDIS.
While on the way, they were able to pick up on some rumours that say that all the princess' have felt something around the same time as the energy spikes. but nopony knew what it was.
So that was a dead end to their investigation, and for that matter the rumours.
So they made it to the everfree unfollowed.
Once there they made it to the clearing where they left the TARDIS and made their way inside.
Once inside the Doctor put the black screwdriver in a port on the dashboard.
Once placed the screwdriver activated revealing its claws that were hidden inside its chassis.
The Doctor and Derpy went over to a nearby monitor to learn what they can about it.
Here is what they saw.
/T/BEGINNING DATA EXPORT PROCEDURE
/T/LOGGING DATA
…
…
/T/DATA LOGGED NOW PRINTING
Name:David
Location:Earth
Species:Human
Occupation:Programmer
Transforming into:
Name:Gavros
Location:Earth
Species:Timelord
Number of regenerations: 2
Number of regenerations left: 10
Current face:Griffon
Occupation:Multiversal Explorer
/T/END OF REPORT
Derpy and the Doctor couldn’t believe what they were reading.
“Doctor… Do you know this Gavros?”
“I don’t think so… But from the feeling I’m getting I think a different me might have.”
“Why does it say Earth?”
The Doctor was wondering that too earth was back at his universe, and it was not being affected by the energy spikes. Unless…
The Doctor turned another monitor so the two can see both screens at the same time.
“The data collected was from the internal storage, if we scan it’s recorded movement’s, we can discover where this Gavros has been!”
The Doctor typed the correct command into the console to get that data.
/T/PRINTING SPATIAL/ TEMPORAL MOVEMENTS
Gallifrey to Equis
Equis to Equis
Equis to Equis
Equis to Equis
Equis to Equis
Equis to Earth
Earth to Unknown
Error to NaN
/T/WARNING DATA CORRUPTED CANCELING LAST COMMAND
The Doctor couldn't believe it. These recorders were designed to handle universe to universe changes without getting corrupted.
But then he realized that the last location, the unknown. Seems to be corrupted from an outside source. Like something didn't want to be found. And they corrupted the log just to make sure no one ever found them again.
That put a monkey wrench of sorts in the works. The Doctor couldn’t find out anything as it was, making things difficult.
“Come on, Doctor we can try to figure it out tomorrow for now… Lets head back to Ponyville.” Said Derpy, heading out of the TARDIS
“Yeah that sounds good.” Said the Doctor following her.
After an hour of scrapping ideas we finally gave up for the time being.
Plus there was the problem of the hover tech that Gavros put in failing.
Luckily for me, Gavros got us down safely.
Unluckily for Gavros, they are beyond repair because he messed up.
Although it did bring us halfway there. I’m happy to be back on the ground.
Looks like his bad luck can be in my favor.
You can’t turn bad luck into good luck!
Shut up brain! Why do I even have a sarcastic side now?
“Well it’s dead… Why are you smiling?”
“It’s safer on the ground.”
Gavros face palmed.
“It’s slower as well!”
I was about to say something when I saw a small green flame behind him.
Knowing he would thank me later, I walked up to him and took his hat.
When Gavros returned back into a griffon he was about to take it back when I spoke.
“The flames are now upon you.”
Upon me saying that Gavros stopped and looked at his hat. “Thanks for the save.”
I guess I should explain. When the enchantment on his hat comes into contact with magic it creates green flames, the more magic the more flames. And they do burn, they can cause Gavros minor burns, but it’s his hat that’s in danger. He never did spray it with flame retardant.
I smiled. “Hay don’t mention it, I know how much this hat means to you.”
Gavros smiled. “taloncrafted in the griffon kingdom.”
“Out of the finest wool from Equestria.” I said.
“And the softest silk from Zebrica.”
We both laughed at our ability to remember exactly how we got this hat made.
I sighed. “*Your last companion enchanted it so it made you human when you wore it.”
“But she did said enchantment in the TARDIS where magic is too scarce to power the enchantment.”
“So she added a sort of magic battery to keep it working in a low magic environment.”
“She never thought about what happens to a magic battery when in a high magic environment.”
“A magic fire.”
“Like pumping high voltage through a rechargeable battery.”
“It’s going to end badly for your head, and will incinerate your hat.” I said as I put said hat away in a closet for later use.
“But I can’t get rid of the enchant.”
Anyone who’s played skyrim will know what he’s talking about.
I looked to him.
“I know you miss her. But you had her leave for a good reason.”
“Having one companion is hard, but having five is even worse!”
Gavros had five companions all at the same time. Three ponies of each tribe, a changeling, and a griffon.
All died, except one, the unicorn.
Like the tenth after Donna left. Gavros couldn’t take it, but for him it was a lot worse. he had the unicorn leave. But not before he let her give one last gift.
“Its all thats left to remember her by.”
“I know. Come on lets find out more we still got…” I looked to the GPS.”... Four hours till Chicago!”
Before sitting down I made sure my tail was not in the way before sitting down…
“YOW!” I pinched something on my back.
“You got your wings by the looks of things.” Gavros said with a smug grin.
I took off my shirt to see my new wings which I didn’t notice form.
”Any tips?”
“Yeah, don’t go flying until you’re fully me.”
Now that I understood that fact, I went into the kitchen got a knife, cut two holes in my shirt and one in my pants, for my wings and tail respectively.
Once in my newly fixed clothes, I came back to ask Gavros a question.
“How long do I have?”
He gave me a scan with the sonic. “I don’t know. You seem to be slowing down.”
“Does that me-”
He shook his head.
“Your transformation time is fluctuating like a timelord’s regeneration. I can’t give an exact reading on how long it will take.”
That basically means that it’s slowing for now. But it could speed back up again at any point.
“Alright, let’s say it stays relatively put, when will the next change be?”
“Around three miles from when we get there.”
“Then lets use that time wisely!”
“Granted, that’s a rough estimate that does not take into account any fluctuations. So we could not see one till tomorrow, or we could see one in a minute.”
This is going to be a long four hours.