The Misadventures of Doctor Whooves: Dilemmas with Doppelgangers

“Ok, everypony, here’s the game plan,” said the Doctor, as he waved everyone over. “When we land, Starlight, Pinkie, and Twilight will run inside and look for the book. Applejack and Rainbow Dash will cover them. Meanwhile, Berry, Fluttershy, and I will be looking for where Rarity and the other originals are being kept. Everyone got it? We’ll meet back here as soon as possible. I have given Pinkie, Starlight, and Berry keys to the TARDIS so that way you can get in, just incase things go awry. Kapeesh?” He said this as he handed Pinkie, Starlight, and Berry their keys.

“Who will watch the thingy?” asked Berry, gesturing to the unconscious Zygon sitting in a folding chair, tied there by Applejack.

“It should be fine,” said the Doctor.

A whirring sound filled the room as lights on one of the panels began blinking. Then, from a tube in the middle of the panel, a thin, cylindrical object with a purple crystal on the end shot out. The Doctor made a dive for it, but before he could grab it, Twilight grabbed it with her magic.

“You know, Doctor, you could have just used magic to grab it, instead of diving for it.”

The Doctor looked ashamed as he said, “But I don’t know how to use magic.”

“I can teach you later,” volunteered Starlight.

“I’ll hold you to it, but we need to get ready. Now,” said the Doctor.

Five minutes later, everyone was ready. As soon as the TARDIS landed, Pinkie, Starlight, and Applejack ran out, while Twilight and Rainbow flew overhead. The Doctor turned to Berry, who wore an expression of determination, with her key around her neck, while Fluttershy hid behind the town drunk.

The Doctor bent down towards Fluttershy and said, “It’ll be alright. Trust me, I’m the Doctor.”

“Ok…..” said Fluttershy.

“Right,” cried the Doctor. He ran out the door followed closely by Berry and Fluttershy, yelling, “GERONIMOOOOOOOOOO!”

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As the three ran through the library, with Pinkie bouncing along and Rainbow flying overhead, they burst into the library, where immediately Twilight and Starlight deshelved whole rows of books, looking through them as the floated by, while Pinkie used a trampoline to bounce up, grab a book, flip through on the descent, bounce back up, put the first book back and grab the next one, all while AJ and Rainbow stood guard at the library entrance. After about three-quarters of the books had been searched Starlight cried,

“I think I found it!”

Everyone ran over to look at Starlight’s discovery. There, circled in a red marker, was a revealing spell that need to be combined with a potion. At this point, Zecora’s role was made crystal clear. As they cheered, their victory was short-lived. Since AJ and Rainbow had abandoned their positions at the library entrance, Zygons had been able to breach the castle and locate the five of them. In a moment of spontaneous thinking, Twilight immediately teleported herself, AJ, and Pinkie to outside the TARDIS, where they proceeded to try and open the lock with Pinkie’s key. Meanwhile, Starlight and Rainbow were fending of the Zygons with karate moves and the crystal spell Starlight had previously used on Twilight, when they heard the familiar sound of the TARDIS, and to their relief, it was materializing around them. When it had finished, they stood inside the console room, to find AJ, Twilight, and Pinkie, all unconscious with Rarity standing near them, Starlight’s frying pan in her magic. She grinned insanely and said,

“Time for a taste of your own medicine, dear.” With this, she charged towards Starlight, pan held in front of her like a sword.

“Doctor, if we escape, I’m going to slap you,” muttered Starlight as she began casting a spell.

“Oh no, you don’t!” yelled Rarity as she swung the pan to hit Starlight, but she was too late. Starlight and Rainbow had vanished.

“Oh well. I’ll just do what I did last time and track them down,” said the Zygon, but as she touched the console, it gave off an electric shock, knocking her out cold.