The Lost Pegasus

The TARDIS bucked and almost jumped as it traveled through the air. The Doctor was navigating the ever changing air currents, as well as trying to avoid the pink clouds of chocolate rain. His three allies stood nearby, waiting for his announcement that they were going to land. Derpy herself was hovering a few feet above the ground as to avoid the crazy trip the TARDIS was going through, as Celeste stood next to her unfazed by what was happening. Lou sat in a corner a few feet away, using her magic and a whet stone she created to sharpen her blade. Celeste looked to her sister concerned before the Doctor spoke up with pride from his console.

“Alright! We're approaching the city! Hopefully Discord hasn't probably-” He was cut off by a loud and thunderous bang that echoed through the TARDIS. His face darkened as he steered the TARDIS to the ground.

This time he actively applied the brakes on the TARDIS, and it landed silently without so much as a sound. If Discord was here, he didn't want him knowing where the TARDIS was. He activated it's invisibility and shut the TARDIS down. Taking the key to the TARDIS, he turned around, still having the unhappy look on his face before it sprung to life with joy: “We're here!”

He opened the door to reveal what looked to be a former war zone. With Discords power running rampant, it was conflicting with reality. Cars knocked off the road, signs bent like pretzels, windows and doors switched places, Cars tires exploded as if they had over filled with air. The grass that grew was colored plaid. Derpy, Celeste, and the Doctor looked on horrified at the warping that had taken place. Lou meanwhile grabbed her blade and stepped forward with a cold hard scowl on her face.

“How far we from Discord?” demanded Lou.

A loud explosion sounded off in the distance, followed by a large pink cloud. Derpy sniffed the air and could swear she smelled the mythical chocolate milk. The Doctor turned to the irritated Princess pointing with one finger.

“All I need,” she growled as she walked into the street.

The rest looked at her in fear and concern, none more so than her older sister. She watched as Lou walked, the few plants that were around her seemingly retreating and withdrawing at her presence. She cared little for anything, or almost anyone else, that stood before her path. When a car blocked her path, she touched it lightly. In a instant the car dissolved into a oily black mass before she continued on.

Celeste tried to repress her own fear of Lou's new-found ability. “I've only seen her this angry once in my entire life. She didn't know of her power then fortunately.”

“Yeah, can you explain that?” The Doctor asked.

“She's always had it, to some extent, but her, I guess ignorance toward it, kept her from using it. Discords manipulating of reality, and her own emotional pain must have unlocked it completely.”

As she finished, Lou used her weapon to slice a bus that had been turned over in half. The two halves slammed into the sides of the buildings and she continued on as if nothing had happened. Seeing this, the three followed, but kept their distance. As Whooves passed the bus, he noticed a few abandoned items such as purses, briefcases, and a few shoes even. It was then when it struck him: Where were the people? Certainty a city this big there must still be a good chunk of people still around. Walking into the destroyed bus, he found it's radio still intact for the most part. and with a little work from his Screwdriver, he would have it working again. He adjusted the dials as Derpy and Celeste looked on. He was completely oblivious to them even as Derpy walked in.

“What are you doing? We're losing Lou!” she scolded.

“Hold on! When Discord attacked Ponyville, where did all the ponies go?”

“Uh, those that could, took cover wherever they could.”

“Exactly! If there is one thing I know about America, they were in a bit of a conflict that nearly destroyed this planet! This city has to have some style of shelters located around here!”

“Destroyed the planet!? How did they-”

“Got it!” cheered Whooves.

The radio buzzed to life. At first, it was some old song about not wanting to set the world on fire. The Doctor pointed his Screwdriver at it one more time, and it came to a emergency broadcast system.

“Everyone is to report to the storm shelters. Repeat, everyone is to report to the storm shelters. Shelters are located on 4th Street, Fredrick Avenue, and off the Interstate. Police are ordering a city lock down until Military forces arrive."

“It's a trap!” yelled Whooves in fear.

“The Police are still under Discord's control!” added Celeste.

Whooves looked through the bus's driver seat, and found a map of the city. Looking around, he pinpointed their position and then the closest shelter, which was two miles to their north.

“Okay, Derpy and I will go there and try to save those people. Can you keep up with Lou?”

Celeste nodded her head in response.

“Doctor, why are we going to save them?” came a curious Derpy.

“Because, if you think about it, we're kinda useless against Discord. Even with your wings.”

“Oh.” answered Derpy.

The three nodded and went their respective ways.

Elsewhere the Humane 6 and Twilight walked through the woods, which seemed to be growing darker and creepier by the minute. The sun wasn't shining through the trees, a fog had rolled in, and worst of all, they felt like they were being watched. Fiona and Reine huddled close together as Diane took cover behind Dash. Up front were April, Tara, and Twilight who were unsure of what way to go other than straight. There was a dead silence that had befallen the group which seemed to overshadow their previous bravery and determination. As the leader, Twilight felt it her duty to stop it.

“So, any of you ever been hiking in these woods?” She broke.

“Not often. A lot of strange things in this place.” replied Dash.

“Strange? Like, Everfree strange?” inquired a slightly alarmed Twilight.

“No, but there's a lot of parties late at night, and people end up missing only to reappear days later unharmed but no memory, or hikers find some odd abandoned campsite, and then there's all these odd Halloween things that happen.” explained Tara.

"Halloween?" came Twilight.

"Think Nightmare Night." answered Reine, "Just, a bit more sinister with actual ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and well, the occasional demons."

"Oookay." Twilight replied nervously.

"Jack always had these strange tales of weird radio channels he would pick up, sacrifices, and one story where some guy vaporized in his spotlight."

"Yeah, this place is Everfree Strange." commented Twilight

“Not to mention the worst of the worst possible thing!” cringed Diane as she shuddered at her thoughts.

“What?” replied the rest in fear.

“Bigfoot!” she squeaked in fear.

This was met with universal groans and several face palms. Save Twilight, who was intrigued.

“Bigfoot?” she inquired.

“A seven foot tall walking ape man who likes to terrorize people!” cried Diane in fear.

“Bigfoot doesn't exist!” snapped Dash.

“Have you seen a Bigfoot?” Diane asked of her friend.

“No.”

“Then how do you know he doesn't exist?”

“Because I never seen one!” shouted Dash

“Just because you never seen one doesn't mean Bigfoot doesn't exist.” Diane replied with a huff before moving on.

Dash stood there her mouth agape looking at Diane as she walked on as April put a hand on her shoulder.

“Well, she is based off Pinkie Pie.”

“But, but, but that doesn't even make sense!” claimed a exasperated Dash.

“Again, Pinkie Pie!” sang Reine as she walked past.

Dash watched Reine walk past before her eyes met April, who gave her a reassuring look. With no hope of winning this argument, the befuddled Dash continued on trying her hardest to forget what just transpired. Ten minutes later, she had succeeded for the most part. Of course it wasn't mental prowess. The terrain had changed from a dense forest to a rocky outcropping. Despite this rough terrain, they were still making good time. Tara even noticed they were on the old paved road from several long forgotten bits of asphalt and pavement below their feet. As Celeste said, it had been uprooted and overgrown, and nature reclaimed it at its fullest. There was even a tree that had a mile marker inside it it had grown around. This seemed to only add to the eery nature of it all, and heightened the girls senses as they continued past it.

In the distance, they could hear the literal chaos coming from the city. Explosions, crashes,and a sinister laughing. As they passed over a small stream, Reine nearly fainting at the idea of getting her shoes wet, there came a snap behind them. They all looked back alarmed and ready to run and fight respectively when they saw a little squirrel running across the ground. Sighing in relief, they started to march forward when a crash from above alerted them. Looking up, Dash grabbed Twilight and pulled her out of the way as a Police Cruiser landed right where she was standing.

“How did that get there?” cried Tara.

“Discord, no doubt.” cursed Twilight.

“Uh, guys look at the number on the car!” commented Fiona.

They all stood up and looked at the car number: 42. They took a step back as they realized who's car this was.

“But, but it was destroyed!” said Reine in fear.

“We saw it blow up!” added Diane.

“This must be a trick of Discord! Come on!” called Twilight.

“So, yer tellin' me that Discord dropped Jack's Police Car nearly on top of us?” came April.

“That actually makes sense,” answered Reine.

“Come on! I have a feeling things are just going to get worse from here on out.” spoke a grim Twilight.

A few yards away, a figure stood and watched them as they continued slowly and cautiously past the car.

“Oops.”

“Doctor, how much farther?”

The streets had suddenly become clogged with cars from when Discord truly spread his presence. She flapped her wings over three overturned cars as the Doctor clambered over them showing no loss of energy.

“According to the map, it should be right up the next block.”

“Doctor, I don't see a block,” responded Derpy.

“No, it's a unit of street measurement,” explained Whooves

“Oh. That makes more sense.”

“Still stupid if you ask me,” came a sinister voice from behind.

They both froze as it chuckled. The turned rigidly around to see Discord sitting in the car of one of the trucks. Wait, no he wasn't, he was in the windshield. Derpy huddled behind the Doctor as the Time Lord stood defiantly against the Spirit of Chaos. He quickly aimed his Screwdriver and shattered the window he was in, but all this did was have his reflection appear in each of the broken glass panes.

“Really, that's your best attack?” Discord asked bored.

“Well it was worth a shot,” replied the Doctor.

“Wasn't it you who said: “It doesn't maim, doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't burn?” at Canary Wharf?”

“What? How?” The Doctor cried in shock.

“Oh, I visited that little Sci-Fi expo in town, and was particularly interested in your little sideshow.”

“Sideshow?!” shouted the Doctor.

Discord checked his nails, uninterested in the Doctors anger when there came a explosion from behind them His enthusiasm picked up intensely as a car landed a few feet behind them smoldering from the blast. The two Pony-Humans turned around and listened to the approaching threats.

“While I was there though, I ran into some friends of yours that are just dying to meet you! Let's see you save those pitiful humans with these three following you! Have fun!”

With a snap of his fingers, he was gone. The Doctor was ready to hide behind Derpy out of fear when he saw the familiar dome shaped entities emerging out from the traffic jam.

“Doctor, are those-”

“Discord you monster!”

“SCANS INDICATE TWO LIFE FORMS IN VICINITY!”

“ONE SCAN RESEMBLES DATABASE ENTRY. SEARCHING. FOUND. SCANS INDICATE THAT ONE ENTITY IS THE DOCTOR!”

“OTHER INDICATES A HUMAN OF EQUINE ORIGIN.”

“DESTROY THE DOCTOR AND HIS ALIEN COMPANION! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!”

“WE OBEY!”

“Doctor, those, those are Daleks!”

“Don't worry, there's only three. Three's nothing!”

“CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS! DO NOT LET THE DOCTOR ESCAPE!”

“Three huh?” snapped Derpy.

“This is going to end very very badly,” said a alarmed Whooves.

“What should we do?” asked Derpy.

“RUN!” screamed Whooves.

The two took off as fast as their legs and wings could carry them as the three Daleks opened fire from behind them, destroying a car, mailbox, and a traffic light in the process.