Echoes in the Stone

*** Andromeda Galaxy; Planet:  Hydroelica****

The TARDIS materialized on a grassland while it is raining and the distance was a city full of skyscrapers. The Doctor, Spike, and Dash  stepped out and smelt the air

"Nice one Doc. You have a time machine, and you couldn't think of landing us at a time when it's not raining?", Dash asked

“ This a planet called Hydroelica located billion and billions of miles from your home,” The Doctor said with excitement

“So awesome, but why is it raining ?”, Dash asked scratching her head

“Well that is  because ninety percent of the year it’s raining, but if I timed this correctly,” he said looking at a watch

The rain then stopped and after a little bit, the sky went blue and lite up with rainbows in every direction

“This only happens once a week on this planet and citizens call it Rainbow Week,” The Doctor said look the rainbows with awe

“Good pick, Doctor,” Spike said putting his hands in his pockets

“Thank you, Spike,” The Doctor said gusting his tie, “Onwards towards the town.”

The Doctor and the rest went towards the town. Inside the town were ponies, but with thick fur, at least two times as thick than Dash own skin. The Doctor went to saying hello to some citizens, while a huge coward was photographing Dash. After Dash had time to herself she saw Spike and the Doctor enter a café, she followed and sat down with them

 "I have only been here ten minutes, and I'm already a celebrity, sweet,” Dash said raising a hoof in the  air and lowering it

 "Don't be so surprised; this world hasn't seen any sapient being with actual wings on their backs. Not to mention not beings from another world to visit them in their known history. Which is why will make stay short; appearing in a small town like this is one thing, but once the authorities catch a whiff of us we might be stuck here for the foreseeable future”, The Doctor warned her

“Good point Doctor,” Spike said

The waitresses came over and asked if they wanted anything and they all ordered food; Dash ordered enough food for six, Spike oatmeal and the Doctor two cups of hot chocolate with Chocolate Chip Pancakes

After a while, as Spike was scarfing down the last of his oatmeal, accented by throwing a whole apple into his maw. The Doctor then spoke.

“When I was far younger and wearing a long scarf, I once ate at a place where an entire planet celebrated breakfast all day, mainly because their sunrise took an entire day.”

Spike swallowed and nodded to let him know that he was listening. While Dash was still steel eating her toast, eggs, and pancakes

“Geez Dash,” Spike said with a chuckle. “How long has been since you eaten anything decent?”

Rainbow Dash swallowed and then looked at him, with absolutely no amusement. Then he remembered and said. “Oh, right.” With what can only be described as the most sheepish of smiles.

“So Doctor what happen to you?, Dash said finishing off a piece of toast, “Last time we meet you’re a brown earth pony with Derpy now you’re a Blue Unicorn, who loves chocolate, I’m guessing,  and is traveling with Spike.”

“It long story,” he said looking down

Dash sat down and crossed her hooves

“We have time,” she said

The Doctor looked at Spike, and he nodded and shrugged

“You see me, Dinky …”

“Who’s Dinky?”, Dash asked

“My and Derpy’s artificially created daughter, which another long story, but that’s not the point now. The point is Derpy and Dinky were sent back into the past about 50,000 years ago your time Dash when they were shopping. It was trap made the Dalek who claimed to be the one who started the Time War The Time Controller, who escaped it to here. They then went to war with the alicorns.”

“So what happen to the alicorns?”, she asked as sat down along with Spike.

“As I said, Dinky and Derpy were abducted from their times to the last year of the Alicorn-Dalek war on Aesir.”

“I arrived during the final week of the war and well they changed. Derpy looked like an old mare who had seen too much and Dinky well she no longer my daughter, she was now a product of the war;  I meet with last alicorns which included a filly Celestia and a newborn Luna. There plan was to get to a  shuttle and take it  to this planet.”

“So what happen?”, Dash asked

“Our plan was pretty simple, get alicorns off the planet using the shuttle and blow up the world using the bomb and deliver it to the core, but there were a couple of problems. Somepony need to distract the Daleks. Dinky offered, but Derpy and I refused. The plan, in the beginning,  was to lure  all the Daleks of the promise of a device that can transform  any species into anything.”

Spike rolled his eyes as Dash did too

“Yeah I would even pick out it was a lie too, but the alicorns pulled off it pretty well. There was one problem, the bomb was never delivered, which was the second issue.”

“Why didn’t it get delivered?”, Dash asked

“Short and straightforward: A mad alicorn who worshiped the Daleks like gods, well betrayed them, So Derpy offered to take it, and I said no because I didn’t want her to leave me and I forced her to stay. The next thing, I knew she left behind my back halfway between the drop zone and the bomb.”

Dash was still interested while Spike went into the hallways to explore for a bit. The Doctor took a minute to collect himself.

“This is where things went from bad to worse. For the remaining alicorns to get to the ship, somepony needed to distract the Daleks waiting at the ship. So I offered myself up, and they took me to their leader, the Time Controller.  Unknowingly, the there was a trap set for my daughter and the alicorns, it was an ambush, and there were waiting around the ship. I watched them helplessly try to defend themselves and Dinky getting everyone aboard. Unforuntently, Dinky was shot, but as she was going to regenerate, but then she got shot again. Luckily she bought enough time for them to get aboard the ship getting away from the planet was another matter entirely. That is when Derpy took a ship with the bomb on it and told me to get out of there, and I ran for the teleport. I got to the teleporter and managed to teleport a mile within my TARDIS. I looked up and saw her ship exploded, and cried so hard and then I was knocked out. I woke up and saw the world around me blowing, and I knew I had no time as the toxic fumes and the radiation from the bomb was killing me and it was painful getting to my TARDIS. I barely managed to get to her, and I told her to get out of her, and then I regenerated.”

“I can take it from here,” Spike said

“A couple of ponies found you in the alley of Ponyvile and took you to the hospital. From there, well,  you woke up, told you who are, and we went on adventures, and here we are Dash.”

“I think we should leave Doctor before we get more attention ourselves,” Spike suggested as more citizens were coming the festival.

“Right,” The Doctor said getting up and used his physic paper to pay for the meal and walking out and Spike and Dash following. After a short walk out of the city, the TARDIS  and Dash yawned.

“Where are the beds? I feel sluggish”, Dash asked letting out a yawn

Spike laughed and said, “I bet you are, follow me.”

Outside, three male ponies  looked at the TARDIS; one was blue with light green mane, another was red with a yellow mane, and the other green with a lime mane

“We should get them now,” the blue one said

“No, we’ll cut them off a the time vortex,” the red one replied, and he looks at the green pony, “Call for reinforcements.”

The yellow pony nodded as the TARDIS dematerialized