Doctor Whooves: New Genesis

POV: Ditzy Doo

They lined the streets like water, a shimmering river of solid steel.

“No. No, not them. Anything but them!” I whimpered, backing up slightly.

“Wait, you've seen them before?” Sublight asked, his eyes still glued to the street.

I thought back to Fillydelphia. I gulped.

“Yeah.”

The cyberpony nearest to us lifted up its right hoof and hit a button on its chest. A hatch opened in its arm and a laser popped out. Sublight yelped, and the Doctor slammed the TARDIS doors closed, latching them. Through the door, a droning voice said,

“You will be assimilated.”

Another.

“Delete. Delete. Delete.”

And another.

“You are the Doctor. You are an enemy of the cyberponies. You will be deleted.”

Sounds of the cyberponies firing against the outside reverberated all around me. I wanted to crawl into one of the ottomans on the side of the walkway and hide. I put my hooves over my ears and shut my eyes. Suddenly, the whole chamber was filled with a loud groaning, like stressed metal. The Doctor ran up to the console, grabbing it and spinning it until the screen mounted on it was facing him.

“Teleport! They're beaming us onboard!”

More beeping.

“Oh, that's bad.”. He pulled out a sort of tube like thing. I asked him what it was.

“Screwdriver! Sonic screwdriver!” He pointed it at the console, and looked at the screen. “They have an electron triboscope!” He hit the console with a mallet that was hanging from it. He then pulled out what looked like a curved boogie board with blinking lights on it, wired up to a system under the main console. Sublight looked like he had gotten electrocuted.

“No way. A tribo-physical, macro-kinetic, wave-from extrapolator?”

“Exactly!”

I looked between them. Then to the 'extrapolator'.

“What does it do?” I asked gingerly.

“It essentially shrouds us in a force-field-- SHHOOOM!” Sublight waved his hooves in a circle around him, “protecting us from nearly anything if we have enough power.” Then the Doctor chimed in.

“And since the TARDIS has no other kind of external shielding other than the doors, this is all that stops them from using their tribscope to force their way in here.”

“And delete us?”

“And delete us.”

I eyed the extrapolator, really hoping that it didn't break. The Doctor grabbed the console again.

“I can't hold it! Their teleporter is gonna beam us!” I looked out the window. A blue light started shimmering around the TARDIS, and the whole outside world started to stretch and grow smaller. I looked back at the Doctor. He was standing, mallet in hand, over the console, looking a bit bouncy. The glass thing in the center tube shot upwards. He lunged forward, and with a yelp, smashed the mallet down on the console. The TARDIS made a loud banging noise, and everything started shaking. Suddenly, we were all thrown to the right.

“Ha! I managed to shift it! We're only about 30 feet to the left, in a hallway of some sort on their ship. They'll realize soon, and the extrapolator won't be able to stop the triboscope for long! It's now or never!” The Doctor yelled, worryingly charismatic. Sublight yanked the doors open and sprinted out, turning back after a few paces.

I turned to the Doctor, and with a light kiss on the cheek, I turned and followed Sublight out.

The hallway in front of us went forward for about twenty feet, then turned left. There was another hallway going right starting right next to the TARDIS, but Sublight was already halfway down the one in front of me, and I didn't want to lose him. I galloped up, and almost ran straight into his flank as he backed up, rather quickly, and sprinted back. I glanced around the corner for a split second only to see a dozen or so cyberponies marching forward with their hooves extended.

I ran too.

The Doctor came out of the TARDIS just as Sublight ran past. He glanced at me.

His cheeks were red. He was blushing.

Are guys even supposed to do that?

He nodded to the hallway behind me.

“Cyberponies?”

“Yepperz!”

I ran past, the Doctor right on my hooves. We got down the hallway, then came to an intersection. Left or right?

We ran to the electrical panel on the left. The Doctor pulled out his screwdriver, and with a whirr, slammed a bulkhead behind us. Sublight slumped against a wall, panting. I looked at the Doctor, his cheeks still as red as mine when we met at the crystal empire. He walked up to me, and looked me in the eyes.

I leaned forward, and he kissed me on the lips. They closed. He put a hoof on the back of my neck and pulled me close to him, evicting a slight moan from the back of my throat.

I heard a clopping of hooves.

“Not to interrupt or anything, but we're kind of being hunted by evil death robots.”

We slowly pulled our mouths apart. I opened my eyes slowly, his forehead still touching mine. Our muzzles were still just barely not touching, his hoof still on my neck. I was the first to break the silence.

“He's kind of right.”

His eyes sparkled with a devilish glint, and he nodded his head behind me. Turning, I saw the shadows of cyberponies. I heard a loud pinging noise, and I turned to see Sublight with his horn thrust forward. A brilliant white light was shining from the top of it. I quickly got out of the way as the cyberponies got around the corner. Sublight leaned forward, and a huge blue burst shot out of his horn, a light blue swirl encompassing it. It reached the first row and split, jumping from one to the next until they were all screaming robotically and thunking to the ground. He stopped and, panting, said,

“Run.”

We ran, past the bulkhead that was slowly beginning to creak open. Behind us, a new wave of cyberponies marched over the dead, broken bodies of their predecessors. Brilliant arcs of red split the air above us as the cyberponies pounded their chests and attempted to delete the hostile elements. We reached a right turn at the end of the hallway, bolts of energy cascading above our heads as we skidded around the corner, not even stopping for breath as we rounded it, continuing to gallop down the next hallway, wherever it might lead.

As it turns out, it lead to the chamber we had been beamed up to in the first place.

We burst through the doors, only to be faced by a cybercontroller and two other cyberponies, in the middle of a chamber full of them. We turned, heard the footsteps, saw the lasers and turned again. Everypony in the room other than us hit their chests and stuck a hoof out.

“delete. Delete. DELETE.”