Doctor Whooves: Savior of the Universe
Series 2

Episode 3: Realm of Dreams

Twas a calm night at Fillydelphia, all of the ponies were going to sleep or heading home to do so, except for one little, cream-colored filly in an apartment building, who could not sleep for some odd reason, she could fall asleep, but would wake up soon after.

The filly’s father went to her room to comfort her after she woke up again, crying into her pillow, “Flint, what’s wrong?” He asked.

“It’s the Nightmare Man, he won’t stop!” The filly, named ‘Flint’, replied.

“It’s alright,” The father said, hugging Flint, “I’ll take you to a doctor in the morning, just think of happy things and try to sleep,” He said.

“Okay, daddy…” Flint said, still saddened by her nightmare, she thought of her favorite things, candy, animals, flowers, and went back to sleep. When she woke up again, it wasn’t due to a nightmare, it was a sound outside of the building, it sounded like wind or an engine of some sort. Her father also heard the noise and rushed out to check on it.

Outside, Flint’s dad saw a blue police phone booth with a glowing light on top of it, ‘this was not here before’ He thought. Before he could open the doors to the box, a dim-green stallion, a gray and blond mare and a blue stallion with a black jacket walked out of it.

“Oh, hi there,” The green stallion greeted, “I’m The Doctor, the blond one is Ditzy and by process of elimination, the other guy is Pond,” He said.

“A doctor? Of what?” The father asked.

“Of many things, medicine, biology, laundry cleaning, the list can go on and on,” The Doctor replied.

“Well, what about psychology and such?” The father asked again.

“I don’t keep track, but, maybe,” The Doctor answered.

“Oh, thank goodness, come in right now,” The father said, taking the trio into the apartment building, “My name is Steel, by the way,” He introduced himself.

The group arrived at Steel’s apartment and got to Flint’s room, where she was just staring at the door, most likely waiting for someone to come in.

“Flint, this is The Doctor,” Steel said.

“Greeting, small pony, I’m… Well, he kinda just said who I am,” The Doctor chuckled, Flint didn’t respond, instead, she hid under her bed sheets, “There’s nothing to be scared about, I just want to help you out, whatever your problem may be,” He said.

“So you’re here to help me beat him?” Flint asked.

“Who?” The Doctor was immediately confused.

“Her imaginary ‘friend’, the Nightmare Man,” Steel explained.

“Well, I’ve heard of imaginary friends, but imaginary enemies is definitely something new, I’ll tell you that much,” The Doctor said.

“So, Doctor, what do we do about it?” Ditzy asked.

“I have some stuff in the Doctor-Mobile, be right back,” The Doctor rushed back to the TARDIS, still parked outside, he headed inside and checked for things in a treasure chest, he went back to the apartment with a small bag with a bunch of yellow clips inside of it.

“What are those?” Pond asked.

“Dream Tags, put one of them on Flint’s ear and another on another pony’s and they can go into her mind,” The Doctor explained.

“That idea sounds familiar…” Ditzy said.

“Anyways, I’ll place Flint’s tag right away,” The Doctor said, “As long as mister Steel is fine with it,” He added.

“Just do it already,” Steel responded, The Doctor nodded and walked towards Flint, he placed one of the Dream Tags on her ear and two others on Pond and Ditzy.

“So, what now?” Ditzy asked.

“You all just have to be asleep at once and your dreams will be connected,” The Doctor said.

“Why do you get to stay out of this?” Pond asked.

“We need a mission control or whatever,” The Doctor replied, “Anyways, try to fall asleep soon,” He said, he walked out of the room with Steel and left the other three to sleep there. After a while of trying, Pond fell asleep, then Flint followed him, and Ditzy also slept. Inside of Flint’s dream, the trio was in a restaurant that served nothing but candy.

“This dream seems pretty nice,” Ditzy remarked.

“For now,” Flint said, she knew what would happen soon. The restaurant had a stage with curtains around it, the curtains opened and a creepy pony with a suit and a pale, painted face was behind them.

“Nice, a show!” Ditzy said in excitement.

“No, that’s the Nightmare Man,” Flint said, “We have to stop him now!”

“Okay, but how?” Pond asked.

“I don’t know either,” Flint replied.

“Hahahah! For my first act, how about a joke?” The Nightmare Man began, “What is gray, yellow and lost a leg?” He asked.

“I might know this one!” Ditzy said, raising her hoof, but a small black tendril appeared and sliced it off, leaving a black void where a wound should’ve been, the void grew around her and Ditzy disappeared from the dream.

“You got it right, it was you,” The Nightmare Man pointed at where Ditzy was seated. The other two soon woke up as well, to Ditzy screaming in terror then falling back on the floor, crying, The Doctor and Steel went to the room to check on her too.

“What happened?!” The Doctor asked.

“The Nightmare Man attacked the yellow hair one,” Flint explained.

“Ditzy, are you okay?” The Doctor questioned.

“Yeah, I thought that clown-looking guy actually killed me,” Ditzy said.

“Well, you’re fine,” The Doctor assured her, “It’s nine o’clock, we have plenty of time to try this plan again,” He said. Ditzy took off her Dream Tag and headed to the living room with Steel as The Doctor stayed at the room to watch over Flint and Pond, who managed to fall asleep a while later.

In Flint’s dream, she was in a bright, colorful hotel, Pond was presumably at the other side of the building and the Nightmare Man was there as well.

“Flint? Where are you?” Pond asked from his end of the hotel.

“Over here!” A childish voice shouted, he assumed it was Flint so he calmly trotted through the corridor he heard the voice from. The corridor got darker and darker until Pond’s vision was pitch black, he could not see anything, until he bumped into something, or someone.

“Uh oh,” Pond whispered to himself, the figure in front of him turned around and revealed its pale face with clown make-up and no eyes, the darkness dispersed slightly and formed a dome of spikes around Pond, before they could kill him, he woke up with a gasp, but that did not wake Flint up, most likely because it was too quiet.

“Nightmare Man again?” The Doctor asked.

“Yeah, he’s relentless, he almost got me there,” Pond replied, Ditzy and Steel walked into the room to talk to The Doctor.

“So, have you figured out what type of alien this Nightmare Moon is?” The blond pegasus asked.

“It’s ‘Nightmare Man’ and, no, I have no clue if its some sort of parasite or ethereal monster,” The Doctor responded.

“Well, at the very least, Flint seems like she’ll be okay for the night, she’s sleeping just fine,” Ditzy remarked.

“Wait a minute,” The Doctor said, he walked over to Flint and shook her a bit to try and wake her up, but it did not work, she was completely asleep, “Oh no,” The Doctor got very worried.

“What’s going on?” Steel asked.

“Your daughter seems to have been locked in a sleeping state by something, and with the Nightmare Man in her dreams, it’s not very safe to use the Dream Tag to try and save her,” The Doctor explained.

“So, she’s gonna die to some dream monster?” Steel also got worried for Flint’s life.

“We’re not even sure if the guy’s attacks can kill someone, but a coma is just as bad as death, if not worse,” The Doctor answered.

“So, what can we-” Steel was cut off by Ditzy pushing him to the side.

“I volunteer to go and save Flint,” She said.

“Are you crazy? What if the Nightmare Man hurts you?” The Doctor asked.

“Maybe I am crazy, but I don’t want to just sit back and be useless like always,” Ditzy replied, taking one of the Dream Tags and putting it on her ear before laying down on the floor.

“Fine, good luck,” The Doctor said.

Ditzy appeared in the dream, the entire hotel was dark and she could not see anything, she ventured through the corridors and avoided the Nightmare Man as much as possible. She eventually saw a light, presumably where Flint was, and a clown-like figure slowly walking towards her.

“Stop it!” Ditzy shouted at the Nightmare Man, getting his attention.

“What do you want?” The Nightmare Man replied, staring at Ditzy.

“I won’t let you kill Flint,” Ditzy confidently said.

“That’s her name? Good to know who I’ll be eating up soon, heheh,” The Nightmare Man chuckled, but Ditzy was far from amused, she rushed up to him and tried kicking him, but some type of invisible barrier stopped her.

“Heh, okay, you get another chance at stopping me, missy,” The Nightmare Man said, breaking the barrier so Ditzy could try to hit him again, but she missed, “Get it? ‘Missy’, hahahah!” The Nightmare Man laughed.

“I wasn’t really aiming to it you, I just wanted to pass,” Ditzy said, making the Nightmare Man notice that the blond mare was closer to Flint at that point.

“You will regret tricking me, I am the master of reality in the realm of dreams,” The Nightmare Man said, he stomped on the ground and made the floor and walls start disappearing, revealing a black void around the hotel which contained various other spheres, presumably more dreams, “I can warp this world at my will,” The Nightmare Man said, twisting his head upside down and scaring the two mares in front of him, but Ditzy got over it and took flight across the void, with Flint on her back.

“We’re headed to another dream,” Ditzy said to Flint, who nodded and held on to the gray pegasus’ back, they made it to a dream set in a bright and sunny land with many trees, mountains and animals, they rushed behind a few rocks to hide in case the Nightmare Man chased them.

Back in the real world, The Doctor tried to wake Ditzy up, but she was also stuck asleep.

“Oh no, the Nightmare Man has her too,” The Doctor said, “I hope she can save herself,” He continued talking to himself.

In the dream, everything seemed safe for Ditzy and Flint, until some dark clouds appeared in the horizon, along with a pitch black fog, the Nightmare Man had indeed followed them.

“Stay back here, I’ll try to save us,” Ditzy said.

“Okay, good luck,” Flint responded, Ditzy flew out from behind the rocks to confront the Nightmare Man, she slowly walked towards him and he did the same towards Ditzy.

“So you stop running and decide to face me?” The Nightmare Man taunted, “Face it, you are useless, what will you do? Weird me out with your stupid eyes until I pass out laughing?” He continued, a black tendril appeared and sliced at Ditzy’s leg, having the same effect as the previous time she was attacked.

Ditzy was silent for a moment and continued walking, until she began to talk to her foe, “Everypony always called be useless, because I looked like I’d mess up any and everything,” She began, “You know what’s truly useless? People, no, monsters like you, who feel that their only purpose is to make other people suffer and who think that they’re the best thing in the world because of it all,” She ranted.

“What point are you trying to make?”

“My point is that you’re nothing, you’re not a threat to the Earth, the universe, nothing, you’re some little girl’s nightmare, you’re not an evil alien, you’re something she thinks is in her closet, waiting to eat her while she sleeps,” Ditzy said, being slowly consumed by the Nightmare Man’s cut.

“Why should I care about that?” The Nightmare Man angrily asked.

“Because if she dies, you go with her, you’re what fear looks like to her, you’re a part of her imagination who went wild thinking that looking spooky makes you the boss around here,” Ditzy said, “This is our dream, we can do what we want to it, so how about you shut it and go away already!” Ditzy finished her speech, the sun broke through the fog and clouds and made the Nightmare Man disintegrate with its light, Ditzy’s cut was also healed as he was destroyed.

“Blondie, you did it!” Flint yelled, jumping out from behind the rocks and hugging Ditzy.

“You’re welcome,” Ditzy said, “My name’s Ditzy, by the way,” She added.

“Then thank you, Ditzy, you’re the best!” Flint said, hugging Ditzy more before she disappeared from the dream, waking up and allowing her father to calm down, Ditzy soon woke up as well, making The Doctor sigh with relief.

“You two are okay!” The Doctor said.

“Yep, the Nightmare Man is no more,” Ditzy replied.

“And my little Flint is okay, thank you Doctor, Ditzy, not so much the blue one,” Steel said, much to Pond’s dismay.

“Well, now’s a good time to get going, wherever it is we should be going, nice to meet y’all, hope to do it again some day,” The Doctor said, “Meeting you guys, that is,” He clarified. As The Doctor and his two companions were heading into the TARDIS, Ditzy saw Steel and Flint waving at them from their window, she waved back before entering the blue box.

“Where now, then?” The Doctor asked.

“Anywhere we don’t have to fight dream monsters, that’s for sure,” Ditzy said, “Maybe somewhere we can relax in,” She suggested.

“Well, let’s see…” The Doctor checked the TARDIS’ computer, “How about the planet Petrichor?”

“That could be fun, depending on what's on the planet,” Pond said, sitting down on a chair near the TARDIS console.

“Then let’s g-” The Doctor was cut off by a distress signal coming in through the monitor, he turned it on, but nothing appeared, just static, “That’s weird, this signal is nothing, but I’m able to trace it back somewhere,” He said.

“Then where is it from?” Ditzy asked.

“Apparently from Sepra, a planet near a large space station,” The Doctor said, “Well, what are we waiting for?” He asked himself and took off with the TARDIS.

END OF EPISODE 3

Author's Note

Episode 3 is here, and it's just as awful as the last one.

I tried to make Derpy/Ditzy better than Twilight by making her useful, with her saving Flint in this episode and the dumb speech that any monkey could've put together, I think it mildly worked, but just a tiny bit.

I'm getting kind of tired of making and posting this story, but I'm too impatient to take a break... Help

Next Time (If I don't die mid-writing or something): The Doctor and his crew visit Sepra and find themselves stuck in the middle of a war and underneath a falling space station.