Through Another's Eyes

Berry Punch, already sober from all the alcohol… wait, I mean punch, she drank, staggered through the streets of Ponyville with great difficulty. Her safari explorer costume hung casually on her body as she crashed into another wall. Hey, that’s Nightmare Night for you. The best excuse anypony could give to get away with being drunk or sober.

She was thinking about the event that had happened only minutes previously, the appearance of the Princess of The Night, Luna. What amazes her greatly would be the fact that everypony seemed to be afraid of her for some reason despite knowing she has changed back into her original form back when Twilight Sparkle first came to Ponyville. However, she would not have any recollection of these thoughts. After all, ponies do tend to get philosophical once they were sober.

After more and more staggering (by now everypony was avoiding crashing into her), Berry finally reached her intended location; the juice bar. She was just about to grab another cup of alcohol… punch, when a hoof stopped her in her tracks. This was very impressive indeed, for nopony has ever dared to stop Berry when it comes to her drinks.

“Haven’t you had enough already?” asked the owner of the hoof, a blue unicorn wearing a dentist costume

“No, I mean yes, I mean… Oh, whatever” Berry recoiled, too tired to even think of an appropriate answer “So, what brings you here, Romana?”

The unicorn, Colgate, gave an audible sigh. So far, Pinkie Pie and Berry Punch were the only ones to call her by that name. It was strange, seeing as the name Colgate had little resemblance to the name Romana. Plus, what does somepony named Romana do? Talk like Romans? Oh well, no use trying to figure that out.

“Ever since Pinkie showed you that so-called computer, you were never the same” Colgate said with a sigh. She wasn’t angry about that, just annoyed by the new name.

Colgate, the only one that would tolerate Berry Punch despite her drunkard state, would be what one would say her Berry’s best friend. Sure, apple cider season puts a whole new perspective to the term “alcoholic”, but what could anypony do? The Apple family trademark cider was to die for! Don’t even get me started on the Cider Shortage of 2010. That was a nightmare which included smoke bombs, a mini zombie apocalypse and Princess Celestia needing to come into the fray herself. And Derpy. Derpy is always involved.

“Pfft, what’s so bad about calling you by your real name, Romana?” Berry said with a smirk “After all, you Time Lords sure have weird names. At least I don’t call you Romanadvoratrelundar”

“I am NOT a Time Lord and my name is NOT Romana!” Colgate fought back, stomping her fore hooves in annoyance “How do you even remember such a long name?!”

“Sure~” Berry said as she giggled uncontrollably “Tell that to your Cutie Mark”

This made Colgate stay silent for a moment. Her Cutie Mark, which was an hourglass, raised suspicious looks from a lot of ponies in Ponyville. Not only does it look exactly like The Doctor’s Cutie Mark (he was always such a mysterious stallion), it also clashed with her profession as a dentist. It was highly ironic that she chose to dress up as a dentist during Nightmare Night too.

“One’s ability is not limited to a mere picture on one’s flank” Colgate retaliated “Surely one pony could have one Cutie Mark but still be a professional at something else”

“Taken word by word from The Doctor’s mouth” Berry said with another laugh “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you like him, Romana”

Colgate blushed madly at the mention of her having emotions for The Doctor. In fact, she barely even knew the pony in the first place… or so she claimed. She opened her mouth to speak again when suddenly a herd of screaming foals led by a giant chicken galloped past them.

“Aaah! Night Mare Moon is gobbling Pipsqueak! Everypony run!” Pinkie Pie screamed , making the ponies scream as well and run away in fright. Everypony; except Berry Punch who had held back Colgate as well.

“Makes you wonder why everypony’s afraid of their own princess, don’t you think?” Berry said, suddenly sounding rather philosophic

“I guess some ponies just like to get scared” Colgate answered, inching away from her best friend

“Don’t you see? Some ponies have that look of pure fear and desperation on their faces. Some even cower and tremble with their pupils dilated. Isn’t that a sign of pure fear? “
“Well, maybe they’re just-”

“Not only that, Princess Luna has also lost all of her dark powers thanks to the Elements of Harmony?”

“Maybe-”

“Perhaps the only one I might consider playing to be scared would be Pinkie Pie, seeing as she’s the Element of Laughter”

“Well, look at the time! I have some important work to do. I’ll see you around!”

“Okie Dokie!” replied the sober mare once more, losing her temporary intelligent state

She watched as the unicorn trotted away into a random location, looking as unbusy as Rainbow Dash if she wasn’t on weather duty. Of course, Berry just shrugged it off as natural and trotted to her next location: Princess Luna’s royal bat-pony guards.

Ever since Princess Luna spoke in her Royal Canterlot Voice to all the residents of Ponyville and scarring their hearing for life, the two ponies seem to have disappeared from the face of Ponyville. Berry, being the drunkard she is, easily found them during her drunken stupor around town. Apparently, they were standing guard in front of the princess’ chariot which was parked under a tree just outside of town.

“So...” the mare said as soon as she reached the aforementioned tree “You guys are like those Princess Celestia’s guards that can’t even blink without killing everypony that saw, right?”

She then started to laugh joyfully in front of their faces, puling hilarious and mocking expressions in front of them as the bat-ponies only stood still. After five or more faces; which included sticking her tongue out, stretching it to unnatural lengths, a wicked grin that would make Pinkie Pie proud and even waving her flank at them, something happened. A powerful hoof suddenly slammed into her square in the face, sending the sober pony flying into a nearby house.

“Third time this week…” said Caramel, whose house had just become victim to Berry’s flying stunt.

“I suppose you could see that we are not to be compared with those simpleton day guards” one of the bat-ponies said as they trotted over to the mare “We are given permission to attack anypony that poses as a threat to the princess or us”

“Whoa... Didn’t know I was such a big threat” Berry replied as she got up, earning confused looks from the guards as to how she even had enough strength to do so “Cool! Say, care to give me your names. You know, in case I wanna file a report for threatening a weak little ol’ pony like me?”

“I am Sunshine Flowermeadow” said the other guard

“And I am Joyful Trothouse” the first said once more

Berry laughed. In fact, she laughed so hard she soon ran out of breath and looked more or less like a retarded seal.

“Do you think our names are a mere joke?!” Sunshine screamed into the mare’s face, earning no fear-filled face in response.

“They’re hilarious” Berry said matter-of-factly “So, do any of you boys want to hang out with me for a drink? I swear this’ll be a night you won’t forget… If you know what I mean”

The two bat-pony guards, missing the seductive sounding end to that sentence, looked at each other for confirmation. They nodded and followed the purple mare to the nearest drink bar. They shared a toast to the relatively new drink to them and gulped down, not knowing the dangerous effects the drink could pose to them.

The next time they would awaken, they would be in an unknown location and would find the mare sleeping with them. Princess Luna, who didn’t find the two guards, would have learned the joys of slumber parties… after chucking Twilight Sparkle’s Guide to Sleepovers out the window. Sadly, the first scene would be a little bit too mature to be explained in full detail so let’s just say the guards would pretend the night had never happened and never return to Ponyville for the next few years.

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Colgate trotted silently as she passed the citizens of Ponyville who had just learned to accept Luna as the scary – but fun – princess of the night. Her destination was clear, the big blue box that The Doctor lived in. She barely left the crowd when a brown stallion crashed into her, making her trip far shorter.

“Sorry, there, Colgate” The Doctor said as he rubbed his head “Didn’t see you there and all that. Have you seen the princess? Oh, now THIS is what I call a party! Too bad nopony brought a banana; now THAT would make it even better!”

“Doctor…” Colgate sighed “You need to get better at hiding our little secret. Did you know Pinkie Pie and Berry Punch already know?!”

The Doctor pondered this for a moment before waving a hoof off. Colgate, or should I say Romana, grumbled loudly as she tried to punch the stallion with a hoof but was easily avoided by him.

“Where are the TARDIS keys?” she then asked

“Well, they’re right here with… me…” The Doctor started to say before realising his keys weren’t with him “Well, this is inconvenient”

That was the moment where the two Time Lord ponies shared a worried look and dashed off to where the TARDIS was located. When The Doctor stated he saw a pink pony in a chicken costume headed to where the TARDIS was located, this made them run even faster. When they got there, the last thing they heard was a wonderful sound, usually called the sound of the universe, and a joyful squeal from a certain pink pony.