It was a very cloudy day at Ponyville, the grey sky threatens to rain and ruin everyone's day, especially to a certain stallion. Time Turner was a brilliant pony, he sometimes likes to measure his intelligence with Twilight and sometimes the pony would think he had the higher IQ, but that won't really be proven if he can't challenge the mare to what he wanted to call a Brain-Off, nope, Time Turner was just too busy for such games.
Besides, he needed to get home quick since he was carrying a microwave oven on his back, that is sometimes the perks of being born as an earth pony, natural strength, if he wanted to he would become stronger than he is, but as mentioned before, he is far too busy. Time, he always spends time on work, and what ever left of it with his small circle of friends, sometimes he thinks to himself if he really can consider Pinkie as a friend, of course she always shows up on his birthdays, but sometimes Time Turner thinks that he isn't special just because the local party pony shows up on the day he was brought into the world, he enjoys her company, but the fact that Pinkie was always busy when he has time kinda bothered him, the stallion wanted to hang out with Equestria's heroes.
His train of thought was derailed when he felt a single rain drop hit his snout, his eyes widen in terror as the rain began dropping from the sky, Time Turner quickly scrambled towards under a large tree nearby. An annoyed sigh came out of him as he glared at the sky, but then Turner groans loudly when he looks over to the right and finds his house, just a few more steps away. He would have made it home, but now it was raining hard, he really doesn't want to get his microwave wet.
"Oh bollocks, now what am I going to do?" He questioned himself. "Maybe if I run quick enough, then I could reach my house without getting soaked, that just means I have to calculate the mass of a single rain drop just to get an accurate speed, and judging by how heavy this rain is, I don't think I can speed my way through. Can I make an outer layer to protect this microwave from the rain with tree leaves? Possible, but I don't have anything to hold it all together. Hmm, I should-"
"Hey buddy." The stallion looked up to find a cyan pegasus mare with a multicolored mane resting on one of the many branches of the tree. "I don't think talking to yourself is healthy."
"Well you're here, maybe I was talking to you? We are the only ones here, so unless there is someone else in that tree, I guess we were discussing about how we'll both go home nice and dry. So, have any ideas? I was thinking about how we could just create a makeshift umbrella from this tree, if we work now then we can make it durable until the two of us get home."
The mare raises a single brow. "Did anyone ever tell you that you talk too much?"
"Oh, a lot, a lot of ponies actually says that, but I just ignore them, or explain to them why I talk too much, you see, I never liked slowing down, I prefer to work quickly but delicately, though I have annoyed a few ponies but I think they understand that talking too little could make you deprive of social interaction, so to balance my work and social life I have to speak quick and put enough words and syllables into one sentence. Like so."
"I uh, did not understand any of that." She just lay there on the branch, confused by the stallion before her. "Could you maybe slow down a bit?"
"That's ironic coming from you Rainbow Dash, though sometimes a mare such as you and your friends do need to slow down, me on the other hoof, I'm needed to focus on my work so I can-"
"How about leaving your microwave here until you could get something to keep it dry?"
Time Turner paused for second, he thinks about her idea in detail before smiling widely. "Brilliant! If I run quick enough, then I could get some plastic sheets and some tape! Who cares if I get soaked in the rain?" He asked particularly no one.
"Yeah, I'll watch over your stuff, but I better get something out of this." She drops down from the branch and sat next to the microwave.
"We'll think about your reward later, for now, allons-y!" Time Turner ran out of the cover and into the open area, he ran through the rain and almost slips on the mud, good thing he does a lot of running so he manage to regain his balance quick. He smiled happily as he reaches the door, he looks back at Rainbow Dash and waves his hoof, she waved in return, before he could lay a hoof on his door, it snaps open and a pair of cream colored hooves snatches Time Turner and pulls him in, the door slams shut.
Rainbow Dash looked at the spot the stallion was on before being pulled into his own house, then she looks over to the microwave and realized quickly that the earth pony was obviously busy now, it didn't look like a kidnapping, so it means she can't exactly do anything, so she just waited patiently in case the stallion comes back.
Turner didn't expect to be taken inside by someone, so now he sat on a stool still soaked from the rain with a very confused look as his five friends surround him, the stallion looked at each and everyone of them. Lyra, a mare he met back in Canterlot before he meets her again in Ponyville, Lyra and the stallion became friends when they found out that they were both interested in the Equestrian myth, humans.
Bon Bon, she and him met on the road to Ponyville, she was strangely friendly and soon he notices her much stranger behavior, the Doctor swears that he saw Bon Bon spying on him from the ceiling that one time, he had also seen her doing these things in some nights where she sneaks around, he has no idea why she does that. His eyes soon finds Octavia, a beautiful mare that he was sure that was a goddess in disguised, her voice was like the greatest melody to his ears, her talent of playing the cello is amazing, her gray coat was clean as always, no hint of dirt at all, her dark mane was well kept and her beautiful eyes, those alluring eyes of hers, it was the most attractive part that Turner would confess.
Next was Vinyl, he was actually convince that the reason she hangs around him was because he and Octavia are friends, the unicorn also sometimes sleeps in his house whenever she and Octavia have a fight, the Doctor couldn't really complain because the unicorn would just ignore him by listening to her music very loudly. Then there was Derpy, or Ditzy Hooves, his best friend in the whole town, the pegasus would spend a lot of time with him and they would talk about many things, be it during his work, or when they are hanging out, he is so close to Derpy that her daughter started calling him uncle, it was really sweet.
Time Turner was about to get up, but Bon Bon kept him from moving, she and the others silently glared at him as if he had committed a crime. "Hello girls, may ask what were you all doing here? Our friendship anniversary is next month."
"Doctor." Octavia sternly spoke to the stallion. "I noticed that you've been busy with work."
"You just found out? I have always been working, both for Mayor Mare and to help our beloved country become much more advance than it is."
The mare places a hoof on her face, something seems to bother her and the Doctor was wondering what. "Time Turner," The stallion tensed up when she reffered to him with his real name, the fact that she wasn't using his nickname had given him an understanding of the situation. "we all have been talking."
"Oh, is this about the second heart? I promise I did not go through with it... yet."
"No Turner, and this isn't about 'Project Hades', or the strange machine below your house."
"You know about those?" The five nodded yes, this made him pale at what he learned, who knows what else they have discovered.
"Now that we have that covered, can I ask-" She could not finished her sentence when Vinyl stood really close to the Doctor to ask her own question.
"Are you gay!?" Octavia could only face hoof, this isn't really what they were supposed to ask.
"What!? No! Why in the world would you think that!"
"Well, whenever its just the two of us, you never even bat an eye, especially when I would give off hints!"
"Were you perhaps interested on me?" He tilted his head to the side.
And much to the stallion's feelings, Vinyl just laughed. "Tartarus no! Just wanted a quick one, but after being ignored a bunch of times, I figured you were gay."
Octavia smacks the back of the unicorn's head. "Honestly Vinyl, you sometimes have no respect for him." She turns back towards the Doctor. "And you, all I am going to ask is: Why have you not found yourself a mare?"
"Is such thing important?"
"By Celestia, yes!" Bon Bon nearly slaps him on the face, but she held her hoof. "How are you like this!?"
"Like what?"
"Like this!" Bon Bon motions her hooves at him. "So dang dense! Like, if I kiss you now, you wouldn't even think about it! You would probably just pass it off as some kind of way to show our friendship!"
"Well, that does sound like me."
Before Bon Bon could go berserk, Lyra quickly slides in to calm her girlfriend. "Easy Bon Bon, like you said, he's dense. As for you Doc, you can't just live like this."
The Doctor raises a single brow. "And why not? I'm not hurting anyone, though I did almost blow up the town..."
Derpy was the next one to speak. "Doctor, we sometimes worry about you!" Time Turner looks at the pegasus with confusion. "We all worry that in the future you would grow old and lonely!"
"Now why would I be lonely? I have you girls!" He said with a smile, the Doctor was sure that he wouldn't be lonely at all with them around.
Octavia stomps her hoof on the floor, causing everyone to flinch. "That is not enough! Someday, we all would be too busy with starting our own families," Vinyl coughs from behind her. "and we all might not have time for you when that happens!"
The Doctor paused and soaked in her words, somehow, it started to make some sense to the stallion, plus with the idea of his friends being too busy was a terrifying picture for him. "By Celestia, you're right!"
Derpy became gruntled by his understanding of the subject. "Glad you seen it our way Doctor, but that isn't enough."
"She is correct, we still need to help you find a mare on the count of your...social skills..." Said Octavia.
"Thank you everyone, you girls really are my best frie- wait, my microwave!" Time Turner pushes Bon Bon away and ran into his kitchen before emerging out again with a box of plastic wraps, he bursts out the door leaving his friends completely confused, but they all just think of it as the Doctor being himself.
Time Turner had slipped for the second time and fell into a puddle, he picks himself up to continue his run, when he reached the tree, the Doctor finds that his microwave was sitting at the base of the tree, wrapped neatly in plastic wraps. Time Turner looked around for the rainbow mare but couldn't find her anywhere, he looks back at the oven to find a single note on it, though the ink was a bit runny because of the humidity from the rain, it was still readable.
Dear talking dude,
I saw that you were busy with something, so I decided to go back home and came back with something that could help keep that microwave dry, but it kinda got me soaked in the rain in the process, so the next time I see you, there better be a reward for what I did.
-Rainbow Dash the Awesome
"Doctor!" Time Turner looks behind him to find his friends with umbrellas, Derpy was hovering near him. "You're gonna catch a cold out here! Come on, let's go back to your place and we can start our friendship anniversary early! I saw those frozen pizzas in the freezer and it just so happens you have a microwave~."
He looks back at the note before facing the pegasus again with a big smile. "Well, what are you all waiting for? Help me get this thing back home so we can pop those pizzas in quicker!"
And thus began a new mission in Turner's life, it may be a challenging one, but with the help of his friends, nothing could stop him. Especially when the most powerful thing in Equestria is friendship, and everyone here all knows that Friendship Is Magic.
Time Turner was cheerfully setting up the required tools for today's project in his basement, he was making sure that everything was ready, everything in the room was covered in plastic to make sure there wouldn't be any stains, he looks over to the tray of surgical tools he had just sterilized, the stallion made sure the circular saw had batteries and his stapler had ammo.
Before he could continue, the doorbell above had rang, Time Turner smiled, he had expected the brain he had ordered to be here, so he wasted no time at all and dashes up the steps, when he reaches the door, he quickly opens it to reveal not the mailpony but Octavia and the rest of his friends.
"Morning Doctor." The cellist greeted before the rest gave their own hello.
"Morning girls! May I ask why you are all here?"
A frown was made on Octavia's face. "Doctor, need I remind you of what we have discussed yesterday?"
"Oh, I thought we were starting next week..."
"Nope!" Said Vinyl as she barges in without permission, eager to start what they have planned.
As the rest enters, Derpy notices a strange smell, one that you would find in a hospital, her good eye lands on the basement door and she quickly knew why.
"Doctor?" The stallion looks over to the mailmare. "What book are you reading right now?"
Turner smiled, that smile made Bon Bon furrow her brows. "Oh, just Hemlock Bay by miss Colter, though I regret reading that one without starting with the first, I still enjoy it. I'm about to finish reading the book actually! Why do you ask?"
"You know why." Derpy said before nodding her head at Bon Bon, the earth pony trots over to the bookshelf and began inspecting each shelf starting at the bottom, once she reaches the third, she noticed the book the Doctor had mentioned, and next to it was Frankenstein, both were slightly misplaced, then it clicked, the candy mare looks over to the book next to Hemlock Bay to find dust on it, Frankenstein didn't have a single speck of dust.
"He's trying to recreate books again, specifically Frankenstein." She casually told the rest, causing Vinyl and Octavia to groan loudly.
"Doctor!" Derpy spoke with only a hint of anger. "What did we say?"
Turner let out an irritated sigh. "Not to recreate things I've read from books."
"And there's a good reason why we told you this! Can you not try to bend the laws of nature for today?" The pegasus rather not remember the first time it happened, the things she had to run from, all because of a book.
"Alright, I'll postpone my project."
"You're gonna have to put a hold on all your plans." Said Vinyl. "Cus' we're gonna start your training!" The unicorn pulls him towards the dining room with her magic and the rest followed them, Vinyl then drops Turner in his seat while Lyra and Octavia began setting the table.
"Is this really necessary?"
"Question," Spoke Octavia to test the stallion. "if a mare ask if the dress they are wearing makes her plot look big, what do you say?"
"Does it matter? We all barely wear clothes. Besides, don't stallions such as myself prefer a well rounded posterior?"
Vinyl began snickering, she tried hard not to laugh, but it was very difficult, Bon Bon actually agreed with Turner, the earth pony had to tell Lyra that it didn't make her look bigger once.
"Wrong, the answer is no." Said Octavia.
"But what if it did?"
"It is still a no." Octavia plainly answered.
"Then wouldn't that be lying?" The Doctor asked with confusion.
"Its not about lying, its about keeping her happy."
"I see where you are going with this, but doesn't telling eachother the truth make a healthy relationship?"
"You meet her prettier sister, she asks who looks better and you know she would easily feel insulted. What do you say?" When there was no answer from the stallion since it kinda proves her point, she decided to move on. Octavia pulled back the seat that was across Turner, the cellist then motions the DJ to sit down, the unicorn shrugs her shoulders before doing what Octavia wanted. "Alright Doctor, I want you to start a conversation with Vinyl."
"Oh, this should be easy!" Said the stallion. "Ahem, Vinyl, how are you today? Any wild stories from last night?"
"I'm fine, thanks for asking! Anyways, so there was this guy at the club and he was really annoying, so I-"
"Stop!" Both ponies cease their friendly chat to turn towards the gray pony. "Maybe I should have been clear on this. Doctor, start a conversation with the mare across you who isn't Vinyl."
Turner quickly understood what she means. "Excuse me ma'am, have you ever wonder what the advantages of having two hearts?"
And with that, Vinyl and Lyra bursts with laughter, Derpy only smiled at how ridiculous he was, as for Bon Bon and Octavia, both could only let out a sigh.
"You simply cannot start a conversation like that," Said Octavia. "you might even scare your date if you do!"
"Then what do I do then? Talk about the current events? Or maybe other things like how silly horoscopes are? I mean, I rather believe a unicorn telling me that I would find a shiny bit tomorrow rather than listen to voiceless stars in space, the constellation in the sky at least helps guides us. Now that I think of it, where did horoscopes even began? Oh right, cutie marks, damn, I forgot about our strange abilities. Makes me wonder even more though. If a pony who had just tried skating for the first time receives a cutie mark related to skating, do they just suddenly become talented, or do they still have to train? Ponies with writing related cutie marks seems to be only magically inspired to write, so maybe horoscopes are actually genuine fortune telling, hmm, I should look into-"
"Doctor!" The stallion stops abruptly and notices that his friends were looking at him, especially Octavia. "You're rambling again, honestly, we should teach you on how to control yourself. What would happen when you're at a real date and you just started talking nonstop?"
Time Turner only shrugs his shoulders. "Well, I haven't really started looking for a mare to ask out, so I think we can keep practicing before I do."
The neutral look on Octavia's turns into an irritated one which caused the stallion to worry.
"We do have time, don't we?"
The gray pony shifts her irritated face towards the mint colored unicorn. "We would have, but a certain lyrist had already called over a friend."
The Doctor dropped his own head against the table, the fear of messing things up was growing so fast. "A blind date!? I feel like giving up already, I'm not even slightly prepared for a social meeting, with a stranger no less!"
"I know how you feel, so that's why we should continue until tonight. Vinyl, could you start a conversation? Also, pretend that you're a different pony."
The white unicorn nodded, the Doctor looks up from the surface of the table. "Hey buddy," Vinyl began snickering and tried hard not to laugh. "ever wonder what the advantages of having two hearts?"
Lyra and Vinyl once again laughed out loud, this time with Derpy. Turner was reluctant at first but would soon join in with his friends even though he feels the pressure of tonight weighing down on his back, and Bon Bon in the end let out her own laugh. Octavia watched them silently, though they are here to help the stallion, they can't stop themselves from having a bit of fun, even if its very silly, so after feeling a little left out, she herself began laughing at a joke only her friends would understand.
They still have a lot to work with and they barely have time.
