My perfect world

He looks shocked at seeing us appear here. He looks familiar, and his looks immediately inspire hate in me.

I look at Mr. Dash. “Where are we?”

He’s just as confused as I am. “I dunno.You were the one tasked with location and time, not me”

The other pony brakes into our conversation. “I’m so glad that you brought me back. I know that you have questions.I can answer them, but first, let’s get out of her, alright?”

“How much do you know?” I ask. If he can give me answers, I want to have him come back. But then I look at him, and I see blood on his hooves. That, coupled with the fact that my mind instinctively hates him, makes me worry. Better to be on the safe side. “Just one question. Why do you have blood on your hooves?”

“I know quite a lot, Vinyl. And what blood? Why would there be blood on my hooves?” He holds his perfectly pristine hooves up, showing me that they’re clean.

“I could've sworn there was blood on your hooves... How can I trust you though?”

“You can’t. I don’t know if they wiped this part of your memory also, but even though you didn’t like me, you still trusted me”

“Alright, I’m going to trust you then. I’m sure you can fit in the Tardis?” I look at Mr. Dashas I ask this.

“Yeah, he can squeeze in, I’m sure. What's your name?”

“Runner. Night Runner” He says.

The three of us walk towards the Tardis, and if I would’ve looked around a little, I would’ve seen my dead body tied to a chair, dried blood coming from my knee and a stab wound in my heart. I also would’ve seen Dr. Whooves almost dead form, the blood still flowing, not yet dried, reaching out a hoof to us, to save him. But I didn’t look, and I didn’t see it.

The three of us pack back into the tardis, and I can feel my shoulder grind up against Runner’s. My mind screams that this isn’t right. ‘Shut up!’ I scream back at it. Since Mr. Dash knows where and when we’re going, he takes over the transportation. I look down at Runner’s flank, to see his cutie mark, and it’s a black zero, outlined in green.

I’m treated to the same view of the universe, before the the room rematerialises. Everpony has calmed down, and are sitting there, Whooves not back yet. The three of us spill out of the Tardis onto the floor. Runner is the first one up, and the first pony he sees is Derpy. He looks at her for a moment, then proceeds to tackle her to the floor.

“She’s one of the ones out to get you! Help me hold her before she uses her power again!”

At first I doubt what he’s saying, but then when he mentions the powers she has, I believe him. I pin her down, while Runner focuses on her. “Off, now” He says to me. I get off her, and a green plasma-like substance forms a box, and traps her inside.

I immediately get ready to attack Runner. “Then why do you have odd powers like her?” I ask him, warming up my magic. I’ll have to subdue him quick, I don’t know what he’s capable of. But it would be a losing fight for me, and I know it.

“Because, she was like me, given a gift from a god. But she used those gifts for her own purposes, instead of for the benefit of others. For some reason, she started hunting you down, and me, being the good person I am, started defending you. Eventually, she managed to turn another pony that had gifts to her side, and they wiped your memory. And then you woke up at her house, for whatever reason. As for how Rainbow Dash got there, I don’t know. I fear they have some sort of master plot. I made the mistake of leaving you for a while, which is when they captured you. I’m sorry”

I’m about to respond, when the wall facing the outside is blown outwards, and a pony is standing there, the sun directly behind him, floating in midair.

“Speak of the devil, there he is” Runner says. “Everpony that wants to live, get behind me now!”