Doctor Whooves: Savior of the Universe
Series 2

Episode 2: The Gates of Hell

It was a dark and stormy night in Baltimare, a blue box appeared near a building and a thinned-green stallion peeked out of it,“Welcome to Baltimare, 18th century, home to one of the best painters in Equestrian history,” The Doctor said as he and his crew stepped out of the TARDIS.

“Is it always this dark in this time period?” Ditzy asked.

“No, it’s just night,” Chrome said, chuckling at Ditzy’s silly behavior.

“Oh…”

“Anyways, the house of our pony of interest should be somewhere around here,” The Doctor said.

“I think it’ll rain in a moment, let’s find it,” Chrome remarked, pointing at the clouded dark sky. They walked over to a small house at a dead end, The Doctor knocked on the door and a blue colt in a black raincoat opened the door.

“Doctor, what are you doing here? Who are those two?” The colt asked.

“Girls, say hello to Pond, as he likes to go by,” The Doctor introduced him to his companions, the two mares gasped in surprise.

“Oh great, you brought fans,” Pond said, quite unenthusiastic about seeing them.

“Don’t worry, we don’t have any paintings for you to sign or something of the sort, I just wanted to show one of them that my ship could time travel,” The Doctor explained.

“You know this guy?!” Chrome asked, still very happy that she got to meet her favorite artist.

“I traveled with this old chap, the adventures we went on inspired my surrealist and science-fiction style of painting,” Pond answered, “So, do you have to go soon or could you stay for some tea, maybe get your own painting, all that?” He questioned.

“Why not, spending some time with an old companion could be good,” The Doctor said, the trio then stepped into the house as it began to rain.

***

“Do you detect The Doctor?” A dark yellow mare asked to a mint-green stallion, presumably her husband, as they were walking.

“Not yet, but I see the next best thing just ahead,” The stallion said, pointing at a blue police box in front of the couple.

***

At Pond’s house, The Doctor and his group were enjoying cups of tea while Pond was finishing a new painting.

“This tea is really good,” Chrome commented, “What’s the title for that painting?” She changed the subject.

“The one that’s making The Doctor uncomfortable?” Pond joked, pointing at a painting behind The Doctor’s head, it showed the silhouette of a cone-shaped creature with a single blue eye and two horns, behind it was a large fire, explaining why it was in shadows, “I call it ‘Beast of Hatred’, do you like it?” Pond asked.

“Yeah, the lighting effect you pulled off is amazing, and it really captures what the title suggests,” Chrome replied, trying to sound smart.

“You don’t have to be like that, it’s not that great, I’ve made better afterwards,” Pond said.

“I like it, but I’d appreciate it if you moved it elsewhere in the house, in case I ever visited again,” The Doctor said, Pond smiled and continued to work on his new painting. A few hours passed, the group ate some things and chatted with each other, after a while, Pond seemed to get upset, and The Doctor noticed it.

“There’s something I wanted to talk about, Doctor,” Pond said.

“We’re buds, just say it,” The Doctor encouraged him to speak.

“My public reputation has been going downhill lately,” Pond began, “Someone came in another day and wanted to buy a painting, I went to get it and they wandered into the basement, they saw something in there and dashed out,” He said.

“What could be down there that would make someone so scared?” Ditzy asked.

“They have been spreading rumors that I have connections with the supernatural and occult,” Pond said.

“So, shall we see what is down there?” The Doctor asked, Pond nodded and they headed to the basement, it did not take long for them to see what was happening.

“Wow, what’s that thing?” Chrome asked, the group was staring right at an organic-looking wall, it had a round hatch that seemed to be made of bones.

“That’s what everyone’s been calling ‘The Gate to Hell’, and what I’ve been calling ‘My downfall’,” Pond said, they walked up to the circular door and it opened, leading into a cavern that seemed to be made of flesh.

“Well,” The Doctor said he walked around the cave, “I have good news and bad news,” He said.

“Good news first, please,” Pond said.

“This isn’t Hell,” The Doctor replied.

“Oh, good!”

“It’s something worse…”

“Oh bother, what is it?” Pond asked.

“It’s a spaceship, must’ve crashed here long before the town was set up, and your house just happened to be built on top of it,” The Doctor pondered.

“What type of spaceship would look like this?” Pond continued to question.

“Zygon technology tends to look very organic, so I suppose this is their place,” The Doctor suggested.

“Okay,” Pond said, “What the heck is a Zygon again?”

“Imagine a red tentacle with an ugly face and limbs, boom, Zygon,” the Doctor summarized. The group heard the TARDIS materialize nearby, they look back and see the blue box appear near the entrance to the Zygon ship, “How did it end up here?” The Doctor asked. A couple of ponies walk out of the box, the mare was a dark yellow and the stallion was a mint-green color.

“Nothing to see here, this is an alien ship, so would you kindly leave?” Ditzy said.

“They brought the TARDIS here, those aren’t civilians,” The Doctor was proven right, the couple turned into a pair of tentacle-like monsters with sunken eyes, they fit The Doctor’s description of the Zygons perfectly (At least when compared to his simple explanation of them)

“So it was this simple to find you and your group, Doctor,” One of the Zygons said.

“So what if it was?” The Doctor asked, “Do you even have a plan to beat me this time?” He continued.

“We had a plan from the very start,” The other Zygon said, Chrome then got her blaster and threatened to shoot the Zygons.

“You either stay right there and tell us the plan or eat plasma, pick your poison,” Chrome said, but the Zygons did not react, they continued to stare down at the group.

“We are not afraid of you,” The first Zygon said, it lifted up a hand and blue sparks began to form around it, it pointed at Pond and fired electricity at him, but Chrome jumped in front of the attack, saving Pond but knocking herself out, “Odd, this usually disintegrates any targets,” The Zygon was confused for a moment.

“She’s immortal, good luck getting rid of her and killing any of us, so long as she can get back up, we are invincible too,” The Doctor explained.

“It does not matter, what matters is that we have our ship and a TARDIS, if we can take your vessel back to Zygor, we could create our own,” One of the Zygons said.

“That’s your motivation? You just wanted to copy Time Lord technology like a little kid cheating on their homework?” The Doctor asked.

“Quiet,” One of the Zygons ordered, “You and your friends shall be cocooned and taken with us to Zygor,” It said.

“What if we refuse to go with you?” The Doctor taunted them.

“Doctor, it may not be a good idea to be talking like that with these things,” Pond said.

“I said, quiet!” The Zygon yelled.

“Like hell I’ll shut up while you’re around trying to do whatever lame plan you want to pull off,” The Doctor began, “How about this, I help you get your ship out of here and you leave everyone alone, does that sound good?” He offered.

“Do we have any other options?” One of the Zygons asked, walking down the staircase to be closer to The Doctor as his group as he was talking.

“I could blow up your ship and leave you two stranded on Earth for however long you live, that’s your other option,” The Doctor replied, staring at the Zygon directly in the eyes.

“Doctor, monster guy, stop it!” Ditzy said.

“Why, exactly?” The Doctor and the Zygon asked in unison.

“Blabbing about like this will end nowhere, come to an agreement already, dang it!” Ditzy griped.

“Fine, what do you suggest we do?” The Doctor asked, calming down.

“I say we take the first option, The Doctor helps you things get out of Earth and you never bother us again,” Ditzy suggested.

“How would he pull that feat off? This ship is stuck at least two meters underground, there are no entrances or exits around, just stones and dirt,” The Zygon said.

“The Doctor always finds a way to help anyone, isn’t that right?” Ditzy confidently replied, looking over at The Doctor.

“Uh… Yes, I always find some way to help,” The Doctor responded, trying to hide that he actually had no plans.

“Good, then get to work, Time Lord,” The Zygon that was still upstairs said, coming down to the ground floor of the ship.

As the Zygons headed to their ship’s control panel, The Doctor went up to Ditzy to talk to her, “Ditzy, could you specify when I said that I could always help?” He questioned, Ditzy didn’t reply, “Because now we’re surely dead, those things are counting on me to fix their ship and I have no clue how to do it,” The Doctor said.

“I’m so sorry, I thought that doctors always helped people, so I assumed that you always had some way to do it too…” Ditzy replied, looking down her hooves and the soft magenta floor of the Zygon ship.

“It’s okay, just don’t assume something like that ever again,” The Doctor said.

“So what do we do now?” Pond got in on the conversation.

“I think the only way now is to find a way to move this ship from under here to the surface, hopefully without destroying any property,” The Doctor said.

“But there’s the problem, the ship is right below my house,” Pond mentioned.

“Oh, great…” The Doctor reacted, all he could do was put a hoof against his face and head to the nearest wall.

“What now, then?” Pond asked.

‘Indeed, what now?’ The Doctor thought, ‘Anything I do will end up harming someone in some way…’ He continued.

“Well, if you won’t solve this your way, I’ll do it my way,” Chrome said, getting back on her hooves and getting her blaster out, she fired a warning shot in the general direction of the Zygons.

“You shall cease fire, unless you desire to be destroyed,” One of the Zygons got up from its seat and ordered.

“I deeply apologize on her part,” The Doctor said, “I’ll just be thinking back here,” He added. The Doctor went back to his corner and hit his face on the wall, groaning in displeasure. An hour passed and The Doctor had no ideas, the Zygons got impatient and prepared to take off with their ship.

“Beginning flight sequence,” One of the Zygons said.

“No you won’t,” The Doctor said, using his sonic screwdriver on the control panel and making sparks fly from it.

“Why must you maintain us trapped here?” A Zygon said.

“I don’t want any property damage around here,” The Doctor explained.

“Enough!” One of the Zygons yelled, “The Doctor is not complying, we must destroy them all,” It continued, Chrome got her blaster out to fight and the Zygon shot lightning at it, blowing up the blaster in the mare’s hooves.

“We don’t have to fight, I can still be helpful to you,” The Doctor said.

“Silence, you and your companions shall be erased,” The other Zygon said, also getting up and preparing to fire its electricity, it aimed at The Doctor and shot, but Chrome got in front of him and took the hit.

One of the Zygons got back down to turn on the ship again, it worked and the ground began to shake, The Doctor rushed to the TARDIS to get inside.

“Hold off down there, guys!” He yelled.

“Why are you leaving?” Ditzy asked, but got no answer, the TARDIS simply disappeared, the Zygon ship broke through the ground above and around it and the ponies outside saw it fly up into the air, crashing right through Pond’s house.

“My goodness, what is that?” An elderly mare asked.

“Probably another foolish project by the ‘artist’ living in there,” Her husband replied, the couple then walked off as several other ponies watched as the ship hovered above the crater it left in place of the houses there.

Chrome held the Zygons back while they waited for The Doctor, it was easy as there were only two foes for her to take care of.

“The Doctor is taking his sweet time, isn’t he?” Pond remarked.

“I’m sure he has some sort of a plan,” Ditzy said, “I hope…”

Chrome got something through her communicator and rushed past the Zygons to the ship’s control panel and placed something on it, she then rallied the other ponies in the ship and ran away to the exit of the ship.

“What exactly did you do?” Pond asked.

“Oh, nothing, just following The Doctor’s orders,” Chrome joked in response, the group reached the top of the staircase and opened the door, they were at least two thousand meters above the ground, “He told me that we have to jump now,” Chrome added.

“I know he’s kind of out there, but this is a bit too much,” Pond said.

“What are we waiting for?” Ditzy said, she hopped off and safely fluttered into an invisible platform in the air, the platform opened like a trapdoor and she fell into the TARDIS’ pool room.

“Oh, I see, let’s go then!” Chrome said, she pushed Pond down and he fell into the TARDIS, Chrome herself then followed.

“Is everyone alright?” The Doctor asked, taking some towels into the pool room.

“Yes, what did you tell Chrome to put on the ship’s control panel?” Ditzy asked back.

“Something I might regret, I’ll tell you that much,” The Doctor replied. The group looked up at the Zygon ship as it continued to fly upwards, after a moment, the front of it exploded and the rest of the ship went with, the three companions were shocked, but The Doctor just stared at it.

“I never thought you were the type to do that,” Chrome said.

“I never thought so either, goes to show that I’ll do anything for people I’m attached to,” The Doctor replied, he then headed to the TARDIS’ control room and the group followed him. Arriving at the console room, the wall roundels were obscured by painting, Pond’s paintings.

“That’s what you went off to do, eh?” Pond said, relieved that his works were safe.

“Yeah, you could say so,” The Doctor replied, “I’m sure you can find a better place to live, maybe one without a ship of killer aliens underneath it,” He chuckled.

“Yeah…” Pond said, getting sadder.

“You have nowhere else to go, do you?” The Doctor asked.

“Exactly, after the whole incident with everyone thinking that the ship was Hell, nobody is gonna lend me a house or anything…” Pond responded.

“I guess you could stay in the TARDIS until I figure out what to do, sound good?” The Doctor offered.

“Great, thank you,” Pond said, wiping a tear form his face.

“Well, if you two are dome moping, I have places to go, so you could drop me off in this time period, I’ll call the Alliance to pick me up,” Chrome said.

“As you wish, get right off then,” The Doctor replied and Chrome obliged, she stepped out of the TARDIS, waving at her friends and closing the door on the way out. After she left, there was a moment of silence as The Doctor turned on the TARDIS to set off to another adventure with his friends.

“Where are we going now?” Ditzy asked.

“I don’t know, I’ll just try to track ‘people in danger’ with the Doctor-Mobile,” The Doctor said, Ditzy and Pond presumed it was a joke, although they did not find humor in it.

“Is he scaring you a bit as well?” Pond whispered to Ditzy.

“Yeah,” Ditzy responded.

“Anyways, let’s just head to our proper present, see what interesting things are happening now, then, whatever,” The Doctor said, he pulled a lever and the TARDIS took off.

END OF EPISODE 2

Author's Note

I am not proud of this chapter, I had so many blocks while I was writing, I just had no clue what to do with Zygons and such and I just wanted it to be over, I, much like you, also think it is really dialogue heavy, almost every paragraph is a new line of dialogue and I didn't know how to fix it and its just garbage.

Pond is the new OC companion, I suppose, don't worry, he doesn't have a complicated character arc that spans a bunch of different series.

Next Time: The Doctor and his group find themselves having to help a little girl with sleeping problems (It's not a boring as it sounds, I swear)