Nope Chronicles #1 - The Pegasus Epidemic

Chapter 3: The Doctor is in

The sun began to fall in the night sky, casting a bright and warm glow onto the few ponies that remained in the park below.  Several ponies had returned to the comfort of their homes as Princess Luna began to raise the moon.  Nope had remained near and in the lake pretty much all afternoon.

He was worried that the lake might be some kind of private property, but nopony seemed to stop him, they just wandered past minding their own business.  They seem to do that a lot... Nope realized as about seven groups cantered past completely ignoring him.  He had also been extremely hungry since Berry Punch left, not knowing what else to do, he simply ate the grass surrounding the lake.  It tasted wet and had a tang of onion in it.

"Hey! Nope!" Came the familiar Irish voice of Berry Punch.  Nope looked over the hill to see Berry, The Doctor and Derpy trotting over.  Nope dragged himself out of the lake and galloped over to the group.

"I've been waiting here for about six hours now," Nope complained, "what took so long?"

"Yeah, sorry about that..." Berry mumbled, "got into a little chase with the guards..."

"Guards?" Nope shockingly exclaimed.

"She means the police," The Doctor explained.

"What, the po po?" Nope asked curiously.

"That's one way to put it," The Doctor shrugged.

"Yeah... Something to do with stolen cider," Derpy explained to Nope, "my name's Derpy by the way."

"Hey," Nope replied, "I forgot my name, but she called me Nope so my new name is Nope."

"Alright, let's get down to business," The Doctor interrupted, grabbing his screwdriver and leaning in to Nope.

Nope flinched as The Doctor began to scan him with the screwdriver, creating a strange buzzing noise, although flinching, he was curious about the flashing lights and constant colour changing.  While not in use, the screwdriver glowed a slight blue, and when The Doctor used it on his head, it glowed a slight purple.

Halfway through his scan, he pulled back for a few seconds and looked puzzled at Nope, who shrugged in response.

Next, The Doctor used his screwdriver on Nope's cutie mark, looking even more puzzled when he looked at the results.  He moved to his abnormally long tail, to his wings and then back to his head.  The screwdriver flickered to different colours as The Doctor continued to investigate Nope.

After a good half an hour, in which Berry and Derpy were falling asleep, The Doctor backed away from Nope and checked his screwdriver one last time.  The sun was fully set now, with the moon taking its place in the starry deep purple sky.  The ponies in the park were long gone now.  The Doctor placed his screwdriver behind his ear and stared at Nope for a few seconds.

"Sorry I didn't introduce myself, but I'm The Doctor," he told Nope, realizing that he had just barged in and started scanning him.

"Doctor who?" Nope asked, rubbing his eyes.

"Just The Doctor," The Doctor said, glancing back at the two sleeping mares.  "Well, you have the strangest case of memory loss I've ever encountered," he explained.  "It's almost as if you literally have no memories prior to this day, like you were literally born last night only to have the knowledge required to survive."

Nope took all this in, and lay down on the grass, trying to make sense of all this information.

The Doctor stared at the moon, then at Derpy and Berry Punch snuggled into each other snoring away, then at Nope lying down on the grass staring at the moon, his eyelids growing heavy.

He pulled Nope up onto his legs, "we'd better get in somewhere for the night, you can stay at my place."  He used his screwdriver to levitate Berry and Derpy up into the air, being careful not to wake them.  "Maybeh weh chan find ouht mohre tohmorrow," he suggested to Nope with his screwdriver in his mouth.

Nope shrugged and followed The Doctor back to The Doctor's cottage.

The cobblestone pathways were lit by the moon, allowing for an easy method of navigation through the town.  A few houses still had lights on, but many of them were beginning to flick off.  Through the light of a nearby house, he noticed a strange signature on the wall of an opposite house, he couldn't make out what it said completely, but he did spot the word 'yay' before the light flicked off, leaving the wall in darkness.

"Here we are," The Doctor announced, pointing at the tiny cottage nestled between two houses.  He used his screwdriver, while still levitating the unphased mares to open the wooden door.

Nope stared blankly at the cottage, "it's tiny..." he said.

"Yeah, but Derpy and I manage to live with it," The Doctor replied, strolling inside, bringing Berry and Derpy.

Nope followed closely behind, once he entered, his face went from blank to shock.  He glanced outside the door, orbited around the cottage and then raced back in.  "It's..." He stuttered, seeing The Doctors approving look.  "It's bigger on the inside."

"Yes," The Doctor replied, placing Derpy and Nope onto a mattress in the corner of the room and covering them in a warm blanket.   "That's because this place is dimensionally transcendental."

"It's what now?" Nope asked, "what's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that the interior dimensions are far more superior than the external, or to put it simply, it's bigger on the inside."

Nope blinked sleepily a few times, before collapsing onto the ground.

"I've been trying to transform it into something a little more inconspicuous over the past few years, like a phone box or something, but to be honest, I can't seem to get the cham-" The Doctor was interrupted by Nope's loud snores.  "Well, excuse me," The Doctor said disapprovingly, "it's not my fault if you don't appreciate scie- oh, he actually is asleep."

The Doctor used his screwdriver to lie Nope onto another mattress in the corner of the room.  He looked at the two mares, then at Nope before he felt a light draft come over him.  He turned around to see that Nope hadn't closed the door.  "Were you raised in a barn?" The Doctor complained, about to shut the door with the screwdriver.

But as the blue aurora swallowed up the door, he noticed something in the distance.  A pair of glowing golden eyes.  They were similar to dragon eyes but seemed smaller.  "Hello, what do we have here?" He wondered, aborting his screwdriver's hold on the door and trotting outside towards the eyes.

They blinked back at him, he heard a faint inaudible whisper and then a flap of wings before the eyes had disappeared, along with whatever creature they belonged to.  The Doctor observed the sky, trying to figure out where it had gone, before shrugging, and closing the door.