Tales of the "Good Doctor"

Tales of the good doctor
patient: Rarity/Name Unknown (Love Child)

Dr.Cold awoke several hours later in a daze, he could tell at that point the sacrifices that must be made to ensure that this world will survive the cataclysmic events soon to come. Trying to stand up he made is way to the living room just in time to accidentally greet his son and his companions.

"Dad! What in Celestia's name happened?" Bartok exclaimed with shock. Rushing to his father's side he began to look over his father's injuries.

"I'm fine. Any idea where Dr.Softheart is?" the doctor said laying down on the couch.

Bartok quickly cleared his thoughts. "She is meeting Dr.Newblood at the train station. By-the-way Rarity went home already".

"Damn… how long have I been out?" asked the doctor

"A little over a day" Applebloom answered.

Dr.Cold face-hoofed "Not good. Bartok I'm assuming you told her to stay at home until we can gather everypony"

The foal nodded his head yes.

"Good. If anyone needs me I will be going out for a bit" Cold said regaining is strength. "If Dr.Newblood gets here before I return show him to the OR and allow him to look over the files" Finished the doctor before stammering out the door.

Needing supplies Cold Hooves decided to travel to the town's shopping district. Upon his arrival he noticed something odd, A unicorn filly downing a purple and black hooded cloak from head to hooves concealing her identity. He put this to the back of his mind until he bumped into her

"Watch where thou art going, fool" the shadowy mare said. The impact unveiled her face. Her fur was a shade of hot pink and her mane was avery dark shade of purple, but the oddest thing was her necklace made out of black beads connected to a stone with a glyph carved into it.

"I'm sorry. Interesting necklace, where did you get it?" the doctor inquired.

The child glared at him. "Its a talisman fool as any unicorn worth thou's horn would know". With a huff she stormed off.

Curious Dr.Cold took a small yet old book out of his saddle bags. "I knew I've seen her before. She's Night Bane the young, a practicer of shadow magic until her banishment to Tartarus 6,000 years ago"

Walking into the local tavern Cold noticed a familiar sight at the bar. "Sand Runner. I thought I'd find you here"

The beast glared at his Friend. Finishing his pitcher of cider Sand decided to approach the doctor stumbling as he did "You have some nerve, give me one reason why I should return to your side" the griffin said staring down Dr.Cold.

Pulling a strange bottle from his saddle bag Dr.Cold began to speak "Listen, although you may not believe in what you see this potion should allow you to see enough of the future to know why I need you"

After ingesting the whole bottle the griffin passed out on the floor, an hour later he woke back up and stumbled to his feet. "What did you see?" asked the doctor helping his friend up.

"Enough, forgive this old drunk" replied the griffin

Dr.Cold smiled "If I could forgive you for what you did back in that Las Pegasus casino don't you think I could forgive you now? besides I'm going to need your help with something"

On the walk back the doctor and archeologist discussed what Cold saw on the way to the tavern. "Judging by what you told me it seems the cultist known at 'The Forsaken' have started to break out of Tartarus. This World of Nightmares is used to hold dangerous magical creatures and to then later hold users of forbidden shadow magic during the crusades of light, this world is also known as Tartarus to some" said the griffin.

Cold grunted "At least we know what were up against. See what else you can figure out, In the meantime I have someone to meet up with" finished the doctor who then casted a teleportation spell on himself.

Reappearing in Rarity's room startling the poor thing and the dragon comforting her, Dr.Cold removed his goggles in a vain attempt to appear sincere. "Have you come to a conclusion?"

Rarity feigned a smile "Yes and we invited the others to tell them that we are keeping it"

"I'm assuming Spikes okay with this" Cold asked putting his goggles on.

Spike nodded. Afterwards the three went downstairs to explain the situation to there friends, there was a mixture of pride, shame, hope, regret, and a bit of ambition in the air. While this was going on, the forces brewing in the World of Nightmares were rallying together

Deep within Tartarus hundreds of ponies, all wearing matching black and purple cloaks or armor made from black steel gathered within a make-shift amphitheater. Unicorns, earth ponies and a large swarm of bat-winged pegasus gathered as a towering Alicorn took the stage. His fur was black as coal while his mane and tail were long and a dark shade of grey, his intimidating hight taller than even Princes Celestia was complimented by his mighty bat wings. His body was adorn with armor of Shinny black metal covered in ancient glyphs

"Hear me children of the shadows! Warriors of darkness, and champion of The Forsaken lend me your ears! For 10,000 years they have banished us to this place" shouted the towering figure. "I Darkshire the Betrayer, will leaded us to victory against the living! Our scouts report their weaknesses while we gather more of the damned into our ranks! As we prepare our forces they sit unaware of our legions!" The crowd was going nuts hanging on every word. "In due time we will rise to our true destiny. Death to Equestria, and death to the living!". The audience gave a standing ovation rhythmically stomping there hooves in response to their leader.

After Darkshire returned to his throne a unicorn downing black steel armor took the stage. Her peach colored fur clashed heavily with his gear and blood-red mane. "May all unite in the chant of allegiance" said the unicorn mare going by the name of Hemorrhage.

The members of the audience all closed there eyes and held their heads high. "A voice from Tartarus calls to us, All that he is what we can be. We forsake the light, we forsake the code, With unholy steel, we serve his throne. From darkness we are born again!
Our deeds will bring the fall of Equestria. Embrace the darkness, Now our lives belong, To the lost student of Celestia!"

Hemorrhage wiped the tears of pride from her eyes. "You all have your orders, long live Darkshire"

Once nightfall came Dr.Cold and Dr.Newblood met at the town park to discus various maters

"Once I do this for you, I never want to here from you again" said Newblood. His tan fur and shaggy orange mane shown in the moon light.

Dr.Cold laughed "Why would I do that?"

Dr.Newblood glared at the good doctor "Because that favor you did for me ruined some filly's life and wrongfully saved some mare's. Your a embarrassment to the medical arts"

"And to think we were such good friends back in med school" Cold said looking to the other unicorn. "All I need is for you to do your job. An expert on the matter will assist"

"When?"

Cold tossed him a bag of coins "Now. you know where I live. Remove the egg, and let it age naturally. I'm sure we don't want to repeat the incident with the Wonderbolts"

Shivering from the thought Dr.Newblood walked off.

Meanwhile high in the skies above Equestria the airship known as the cloud breaker flew high in the air. Like most airships it's design is basically a large ship held in the air by a ballon connected with long rope. Inside the captan was hard at work, he was a young stallion downing his uniform when he heard an alarm.

"Captan, something big is on radar! It looks like a 10,000 pegasus army lead by something big" shouted an operator. Suddenly the ship was caught in whirlwind of bat-winged pegasai. Then there leader landed on the ship's deck

"Surender the ship in the name of Darkshire" Darkshire announced with a roar.

"Screw off" stated the captan over the P.A.

Once he said that the opposing force landed and broke though the ship's doors, ravaging everypony inside. Killing and consuming everything in there path while a trail of toxic clouds trailed them. Within the hour the ship was under the command of Darkshire.

In the ships command center Darkshire and his team were settling in nicely. Hemorrhage walked over to her dark lord siting the captain's chair. "Lord Darkshire, I assume this will be our new base of operations"

Darkshire grinned "Correct, what is the status of the rest of our forces?"

"The cerberus guarding the nearest dark portal has been slain. The changeling scouts are rejoining with the main group, the Shadowbolts have taken up refuge in the cargo hold, and the rest are gathering at the portal's entrance my lord" Spoke the dark lieutenant.

"Good" said Darkshire. "The ship is yours now, have fun"

"Bring us down to 100' altitude. Bring the ship over by the nearest Tartarus gate" commanded Hemorrhage.

Once daybreak came in ponyvile everypony's day went on as normal, unaware of the impending war. Rarity had already seen Dr.Newblood and was carrying the egg in a basket around town with Spike and full of pride. Much to Dr.Cold regret he agreed to meet twilight at the café.

The two stared each other down until one broke the silence.

"Whats your angle Cold Hooves?" Asked the purple mare

"Elaborate" the doctor replied.

"First you stroll on in here then turn-tail and get yourself involved with the affairs of everyone I know. What kind of pony are you?" she asked somewhat shocked by his cold demeanor.

"Tell me, have you ever seen into the future?" pressed the doctor. Surprised by his question she nodded yes. "Then you know of the disaster soon to come but have only been presented with snippets of the truth. I have seen the big picture, my skills in combat wont be enough, you and the other Elements of Harmony must take the leaded"

Twilight looked down at her hooves "But thats not enough, is it?"

"The four nations on this continent must unite" said Cold.

Just as they were discussing other matters a member of the royal guard showed up "Twilight Sparkle and Major Cold Hooves of high spec-ops, your presence has been request aboard The Devine Intervention." said the pegasus

Twilight stood at attention while cold remained seated "There are two thing wrong with what you just said. First off I was discharged 11 years ago, and second I was a colonel before that" said the doctor

The guard grunted "Despite everything, you have been reenlisted with a demotion. Both of you into the carriage"

Both ponies were loaded onto the carriage then it took off high into the sky. High above the clouds they saw it. The Devine Interception, Celestia's personal super-carrier. The white exterior lined with ornate gold fixtures along the sides of the hull. Landing on the deck they saw all of the guards pointing their spears and swords at the pair. After being escorted to the command deck they were greeted by Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Captan Shining Armor.

"Good your here" Said Luna.

"Whats this about?" Asked Twilight walking over to the table in the middle of the room noticing the map and figurines on the table

Shining Armor spoke up, "At 0300 hours last night a destroyer class airship was taken over by a terrorist group"

"How dose this involve us?" Twilight asked even more curious.

"The suspected leader is my former student , now going by the name 'Lord Darkshire the betrayer' fitting name I must admit" Said Celestia "1,000 years in the past after Luna's tantrum I needed to find a disciple to take by place in the event of my demise. I found Night Shade and trained him in the magical arts, not seeing the lurking darkness in his heart. He lusted for power and dabbled in shadow magic to satisfy that lust. Night tried to kill me long ago but I trapped him in the World of Nightmares, same place I trapped all users of shadow magic when I was a crusader of light and a common mare. Now he has returned with a vengeance. As per your contract Twilight Sparkle during times of war your my Right-Hoof-Mare. So any advice?"

Twilight was speechless. Fortunately Cold had the solution. "Give out a call to arms order. Rally back all living former soldiers fit for duty"

Celestia thought this over "That could work, if I were to follow this plan of yours then what would I tell the civilians?"

Cold grinned "The truth"

They were In agreement. That evening Princess Celestia began sorting through the paperwork to order a "Call to Arms" to all citizens of Equestria. Twilight Sparkle and Cold Hooves returned to their homes to make their affairs in order.Taking a transport back to the ground both ponies thought over the events leading up to now.

Twilight felt a sickening fear. "What if this really is the end, how should this time be spent? Maybe the Princess will understand me backing out. What do you think?"

Cold Hooves on the other hoof was lost in his own world. Replaying memories of his glory days in the military. Between the heartwarming tales from his days as a combat medic to the bloody satisfaction from his spec-ops career. "I don't plan on fighting this. You can take the soldier out of the war, but not the war out of the soldier". Before they knew it the carriage has landed and the two set off in there own directions.

Cold Hooves returned home and call for its occupants. "Listen everyone. The drums of war are beating again and I must answer the call. So before I have to leave tomorrow but before I go I have some things I need to say. Bartok, take care of Applebloom. Also school might resume in 3 days so your little filly-friend might need to go home"

Bartok responded with a salute

"Runner, try not to drink yourself to death. I wont be here to repair your liver"

The griffin responded with a quick hug then recomposed himself.

"And Dr.Softheart, your more then welcome to join the cause"

She smiled nervously "I really must resume my research. If I ever need a my lab torched again I know who to contact"

Dr.Cold smiled back "I better call it a night, big things are coming the next day"

Indeed the doctor's assumptions were correct. Everypony gathered at the train station as instructed and waited for there assignment. Twilight was standing nervously, scanning the crowed for anypony she might know. She was utterly shocked to find a few of her friends with recruitment forms.

"Fluttershy, Rainbow, Pinkie, what are you doing here?!" the purple mare gawked at her friends.

Pinkie Pie shrugged "I'm a sergeant in lower spec-ops. Sorry I didn't tell you. Fluttershy here here plans on joining the medic's corps. I'm not sure why Rainbow Dash is here"

The cyan pony laughed "I'm here to join the equestrian air force and show the Wonderbolts what I can do"

"Also Big Mac's here because he was a tank operator back in the Griffin wars" Fluttershy added.

As the group went on with there conversation a pegasus stallion in battle armor stood at a podium "Attention everypony listen up! I am Lieutenant Buck Wild and my stallions and I are going to work quickly to get you all on the right train to your proper destination. Behind me are four magic-fueled armored trains that will escort you to the appropriate bases. All former combatants are to take the first train to the Canterlot Skyport"

Hearing his call Cold Hooves gathered his bag and stepped onto the train with the others.

The Lieutenant resumed "All Unicorns enlisting take the second train to the Canterlot Magic Academy for basic training in combat magic. Unfortunately due to the circumstances all pony races will receive and abridged training trimmed down to 1 week"

Twilight sighed hopping on to the train and saying good-bye to her friends for what might be the last time.

"All pegasus recruits take train 3 to Fillydelphia Skyport and then to Cloudsdale for training" Buck said as the recruits boarded the train. "Earth ponies will take the last two trains to Fort Iron Saddle for your training" the last of the recruits took there seats at the trains sped off with a mighty roar". The four friends and one insane doctor knew that they all passed the point of no return.