Doctor Whooves Part 2: Lyra and the Portal

"Do you have to sit like that?" Bon-Bon asked. "It looks so, painful."

"It is not painful!" Lyra said. "It is the way the humans sat. And you know perfectly well that I love humans." Bon-Bon sighed. This was typical of her unicorn friend. She had been obssesed with humans ever since she had read a book in Twilight's library about them. She had been human-crazed ever since.

"Shouldn't you be going to the library?" Bon-Bon asked, looking at the clock tower, which read, not like this, because it's not digital, but, anyway, 4:58.

"Oh, yeah!" Lyra said. "I've got to go to the library! More reading up on humans!" Lyra left in a rush. 'That crazy pony,' Bon-Bon thought. 'Always on about humans. Can't wait for her to start walking on two legs.'

Lyra ran as fast as she could and opened the door her magic, barreling inside, crashing into a bookshelf.

"Lyra!" Twilight yelled. "Don't do that!" Twilight used her magic to pick up all the books Lyra had knocked off. Lyra got up and ran over to the section of the library labled 'H'. She used her magic to select a book, and began to read. The Doctor looked at Twilight.

"So," he said. "When to we ask her?"

"I don't know," Twilight replied. "I'm unsure about this. What is she says no?"

"Then we're out of luck," he replied.

They continued to talk amongst themselves for a while longer. Lyra began to take notice after a while. 'What are they doing?' she thought. 'They're talking about me, I think. Why? Talking about going somewhere, outside the borders, something about a portal, and... humans. Hmm..., wonder what they're doing. Wait, humans!?' Lyra jumped up, dropping the book on the floor with a thud. "Humans!" she yelled.

"Sh...," Twilight shushed her. "Yes, we were going to ask you if you..." She waited for The Doctor to finish the sentence.

"Oh," he said when he realized what she was doing. "Well, um..., wanted to go with us to a portal outside the borders of Equestria, where there might be human stuff, and we knew that you would want to see the human stuff, so..."

"Oh my God!" Lyra yelled. "Yes, yes, YES!" She began jumping with excitement. She hopped around in Pinkie Pie fashion, looking like a little filly who just got an A on a test.

"Wonderful," The Doctor said.

"Wait," Lyra said, stopping her ecstatic bounce. "When are we leaving?" She looked a bit concerned when she said this, for what reason nopony could ever explain.

"Today," The Doctor said. "Now. As soon as we can possibly leave in this area of time."

Lyra began to bounce again. "YAY!" she yelled.

"Let's go," Twilight said.

"Yeah," The Doctor said.

They left the library and went to the train station, and boarded a train to Fillydelphia, the closet city in Equestria to the portal. The train took off.  They sat for hours in complete silence, then The Doctor fell asleep. His snoring cut into the silence like a butter knife into, well, butter.

Twilight hit him on the head to wake him up. He snapped up. He rubbed his head and complained. Twilight grinned. The rest of the ride was done, once again, in complete and utter silence.

They reached Fillydelphia as the moon began to rise. They went to a hotel and slept peacefully through the night. They woke early, packed up what they brought, and left. They then walked all the way out to the border. Twilight pulled out a scrap of paper.

"What are you doing?" The Doctor asked.

"I'm making a map," Twilight replied. "If nopony else has made one of the outside before, then I will." The Doctor groaned at her enthusiasm to go trekking into a place that held many more dangers than any other place The Doctor had been to.

They all took their first steps into a land that nopony had ever explored before. Lyra walked in, then began to panic. She tried to run back, but an invisible barrier blocked her way.

"Wow," The Doctor said. "This is a peculiar wormhole. It won't let you pass back through. The portal must be prevent anypony from going back into the world, or, it's a defense against the creatures out here. Either way, we're trapped."

"A wormhole?" Lyra asked. The Doctor looked at Lyra like she killed another pony. He was wondering why they didn't know what wormholes were. He had never meant a single creature that didn't know what a wormhole was. But, then again, these were talking ponies.

They began to walk foward, as The Doctor followed the trace of the portal with his Sonic Screwdriver, and explained the basic fundamentals of wormholes, at the same time. They walked for hours, but still the trace of the portal grew no stronger.

"What is going on?" The Doctor asked. "We're following the portals trace, but we seem to be getting no closer, even though it says it's not too far away.

"Maybe it's underground," Lyra speculated aloud.

"Underground?" The Doctor said. "Why would it be, you're right! That makes sense! Maybe the ground is made of a material that can't be scanned through by the Sonic! If so, then we've got a really long day ahead of us."

He looked out across the lands plains, stretching on for miles in every direction. Under one acre of that ground, sat a portal, encompassed by a stone building, roof broken apart, ready to be found. They all walked to the west, hoping to find the portal.

"Wait!" Twilight said. "How are we going to find a portal that is buried under the ground?!"

"Remember back in the forest," The Doctor said. "We felt energy when we were near the portal. To find this one, we need to feel the portal, then we can find it."

"Oh, yeah," Twilight said. She looked across the not-so-proverbial plains, and saw they were in, as The Doctor said earlier, "A long day."