Echoes in the Stone

The TARDIS was now drifting in space for about over a day now. The Doctor was playing with yo-yo via magic while Spike was reading a comic book. Dash came from the steps and towards the console with a yawn and stretch. On the seat next to the console there was a red folder, but Dash didn’t mind

“This place is huge, I found a café and had some breakfast and some coffee,” Dash said with a smile, “So why didn’t we talked there and how long was I asleep?”

“Well for one Dash,” The Doctor said putting his yo-yo down, “This place is infinite, I can even fit the entire population of Equestria if needed. Secondly, we didn’t talk in there because you looked you deserved a little vacation. Thirdly, a day.”

“So what have you guys been doing besides, nothing?”

“ Spike and I were thinking of how to get you back home and another thing,” The Doctor said

“And?”, Dash said having a glimmer of hope of seeing her friends again, most importantly Fluttershy.

“Well I hate breaking to you Dash, but there is no way,” Spike said putting his comic down and while walking over to Dash, “In short you even going back ten years would cause a paradox with the tree reading to elements of harmony. Heck, it might cause Discord to come back.”

“Doctor, Spike is lying right?”, Dash said looking at him

“I’m sorry Rainbow, but there is no way for to get back to your time without causing some paradox or ripping hole in the web of time,” The Doctor said looking at her with sad blue eyes

“Damn them,” she thought with a growl

She went then went to punch Spike, but he caught her, and she hit him over and over again in the chest

“Send me back, send m…”, She said before collapsing and crying as Spike hugged her tight.

After about twenty minutes of Dash sobbing, the Doctor coughed to get, and Spike looked at him while Dash glanced.

“I’m sorry to break up to two, but might have company soon,” The Doctor

Spike helped to get up, and Dash looked at the Doctor and sat on a  nearby a couch that was brown in leather with blue pillows.

“What do you mean?”, Dash asked

“Well that another I was mentioning,” The Doctor said, “Remember those things were chasing in the time vortex?”, The Doctor said, “Well, that might still be waiting for us in the vortex.”

“Why didn’t they follow to the alien planet?”, Spike asked

“That actually might have to gather intel on us,” The Doctor said

“And they might have reinforcements,” Dash asked

“So I have a cunning plan,” The Doctor said pressing buttons and pulling the lever, “I want you to get  three space suits, Spike.”

Spike told Dash to follow her and went to closest full orange spacesuits. Spike put on one that unlike the other which were designed for ponies and were horizontal. Spike was vertical and look like it was somewhat thicker than the rest. Dash put hers on as it looked it to be a universal pony spacesuit with sleeves for pagsi. Dash put on her helmet just Spike grabbed another spacesuit, as something hit and shock the TARDIS.

“Just in time too,” Dash thought

They ran back to the console and saw the Doctor moving all around the console and pressing levers and button

“What hit us?”, Dash asked

“Did you get my spacesuit?”, The Doctor asked them pressing a button and turning on the view screen

“Yes,” Spike said giving the Doctor the suit

Dash looked at the screen a saw what was chasing them. They looked like changelings, but they were metal, had red eyes and jet wings instead of bug wings.

The Doctor meanwhile, was flipping switches and levers after putting on his spacesuit. The TARDIS outside was dodging asteroids, and asteroids crushed the creatures. Right before the TARDIS was ready smushed between asteroids

“Prepare for emergency materialization,” The Doctor pulling a lever on the TARDIS.

The TARDIS made a wheezing sound as it dematerialized on a jungle planet with was twice the size of Equss and orbited around a yellow G-class star. The Doctor told Dash and Spike to follow her as they exited off the TARDIS and they went towards a cave. There was hearing all sorts of sounds from outside the caves crushes, roars, growls, and explosions.  They hung deep in the cave for a few minutes and waited for the noise to die down. The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and lighted up blue  as he went in a circle

“Okay the atmosphere is safe to breathe,” The Doctor said taking off his space helmet

Spike about to take off his, but The Doctor shook his head.

“No, I need you to get wood so we can build a fire and also get the red folder on the bookshelf,” The Doctor asked, “They should all be dead by now.”

Spike nodded and went back they  came in

“Why do we have to wear the space suits?”, Dash asked the Doctor as she took off her helmet

“Because the oxygen levels are too high on the planet, and your lungs would explode,”  The Doctor still keeping the sonic to give them some light in the cave

They then noticed Spike was coming with coming outside from the holding a red folder and good chunk of wood and Spike handed the folder,  to the Doctor, the levitated it and checked the contents inside. Spike who collected rocks and putting them in a circle the pile of wood and started the fire.  The Doctor put his sonic away and handed  Dash the folder. She noticed there was a symbol in front of the folder:

“Catch up,” The Doctor bluntly instructed as Dash looked at him

Dash open up the folder to see a hoofful of pictures of a certain somepony she knew and shook her head as her mind did a double take and looked at both of them

“This isn’t true,” Dash said, “All content in this is false, the princesses wouldn’t be this blind.”

“I’m afraid is it Dash,” The Doctor said with a sincere look in his eyes

Dash then sat down in disbelief

“Wh-What happen when I was out?”, Dash asked

“Now that a long story,” Spike said, “But I’ll start.”