VRRRSCHH VRRRSCH VRRRSCH
The engine’s sounds off as the light brown colt fiddled with the buttons on the console. His vehicle looked very strange. On the outside, it was a bright blue box, with a sign that said “Police Barn” on the top, but on the inside…oh the inside. It was immense, the grandeur of the inside. It was huge on the inside. The main area was a round console with weird knobs, levers and buttons on it, surrounding a large cylinder that pumps temporal energy throughout the machine. This was a very special police box; this was the colt’s home, his friend, his connection to a home that wasn’t there. This was his TARDIS.
‘Come on sexy. You can do it.’ the colt said, his dark brown mane flowing when he moved ‘Come on! Why are you playing up on me?’ He rushed around and turned knobs and banged the console. ‘What’s wrong? Is there something the matter?’
There was a loud thump sound, coming from a long corridor behind the colt. He spun to hear hoof steps running away. He followed the sound immediately.
‘Whoever you are, you might as well come out? My sexy won’t let you stay.’ He calls, trying to catch up to the intruder.
He turned a corner, to find a dead end. In the corner sat a light grey bundle, soft sobbing could be heard coming from it.
 
The colt slowly walked towards the grey bundle, cautious with every step he took. He didn’t know what this creature was, but if it found its way in here without detection, it must be all powerful.
‘What are you doing here? How did you get here?’ said the colt.
‘I’m…I’m sorry. Please don’t kill me…’ came a voice. It sounded like a boy but very feminine.
‘I wasn’t going…I won’t kill you.’ He took another step closer. ‘Can you tell me your name?’
‘Y-y-yes…’
‘Well…?’
The grey bundle lifted its head. It was a p0ny, a grey p0ny with a blonde mane. ‘Well what?’
‘What is your name?’
‘Derpy Hooves…’ she said, tears still rolling down her face.
‘Miss Hooves, do you mind coming with me? I would like to talk to you for a bit.’
‘You…you won’t hurt me?’
‘No. I just want to talk, maybe over some tea.’
He walked over and put a hoof out to help her up.
‘Who are you?’ she asked
‘Oh, I’m the Doctor.’
 
Derpy sat across from this weird colt, sipping at a concoction of water poured through dried leaves. As she drank more, she became more calm. She began to smile again, a smile that made the Doctor’s hearts twitch.
‘So Miss Hooves, can you tell me how you found your way in here?’ he asked.
‘I don’t know.’ Derpy said simply. ‘I just found myself in here.’
‘You just wandered into a temporal displacement device?’
‘Doctor, I’m not a very smart p0ny’ she looked down ‘At least that’s what the other p0nies say.’
‘Umm…Miss Hooves—‘
‘Derpy.’
‘Pardon?’
‘Please call me Derpy. I only get called Miss Hooves when I’m in trouble with somep0ny.’
‘Okay Derpy, why do p0nies call you “not smart”?’
‘It’s just how I act, how I can’t fly really well, even my eyes.’
The Doctor finally looked into Derpy's eyes. They were yellow, like light from the moons on Gallopfrey, but faced in different directions.
‘Derpy, if you found your way on to my ship then you are quite a smart p0ny. You are the first p0ny to find your way in. It will be sad to see you go.’
 
Derpy started to cry again, her face falling into her hooves.
‘Derpy, I said I wasn’t going to kill you. I’m just going to take you back to P0nyville.’ The Doctor said
‘Please don’t.’ Derpy said between sobs ‘Don’t make me go back. I don’t like the way they see me. I don’t have a lot of friends in that town, I only have Carrot Top. And even she gets annoyed with me at times.’
‘You’re an outcast?’ Derpy could only nod. ‘Derpy, do you know where we are?’
‘No…’    
‘This is my sexy. A long time ago, I stole her from my people and ever since I have been running. She runs on wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.’
Derpy giggled ‘Timey Wimey.’
‘And I want to know if you would like to travel with me in my little blue box?’
Derpy looked at the Doctor. ‘Really? You want to travel with such a ditzy p0ny like me?’
‘Well, can you make scones?’
She shook her head ‘But I can make muffins.’ She reached into her saddle bag and pulled out a muffin.
She placed it on the table in front of the Doctor, and pushed it over to him. He was hesitant to take food from a p0ny, but her eyes pleaded he try just one.
 
That first bite was magical, it felt like he was regenerating with flavour. He couldn’t believe a p0ny could make something so wonderful.
‘Did you make these yourself?’ he asked.
‘Yes. Do you like them?’
‘Derpy, I love them. Are you a baker or a pastry chef? Back home, I mean.’
‘No, I deliver mail. I just muffin in my free time.’
‘Well, they are wonderful.’
Derpy blushed. She had never been complimented, especially by such a handsome colt.
Wait, did I just think that? She thought
‘Derpy, there is something I want to tell you before we leave. In my time, I’ve lost a lot of friends who choose to travel with me. It is a dangerous thing, but I promise I will do my best to protect you.’
‘Okie Dokie’ Derpy gives the Doctor a winning smile.
 
The Doctor walks Derpy through the halls of the TARDIS, showing her all the rooms available.
‘Doctor, how is all this possible?’ Derpy asks
‘Oh darn it. I forgot to explain it. I’m not a p0ny.’ The Doctor says, slapping his forehead
‘Of course you are. You look like a p0ny, you talk like a p0ny.’
‘I’m from a different planet. I’m a Time P0ny.’
‘So you can fix my watch?’ Derpy pulls out a gold watch. The Doctor chuckled.
‘No, I’m an alien. I travel through time and space to help people.’
‘Don’t you get lonely?’
‘Well, yes.’ The Doctor went silent for a while, only to feel something jump on his back. He turned to see Derpy laying across his back.
‘Well I’m here now, so you won’t be a lonely muffin.’
For the second time that day, the Doctor’s twin hearts twitched.
 
As the Doctor flipped switches and typed in numbers, Derpy just sat there quietly smiling.
‘If you’re an alien, why do you look like a p0ny.’ She asked
‘Why do you look like a Time P0ny?’ the Doctor replied with a cheeky grin.
‘Cos I’m awesome.’
‘You know, in all my years, I have never heard an answer like that.’
‘again, cos I’m awesome. How old are you?’
‘You shouldn’t ask a Time P0ny his age.’
‘No, that’s a lady. Rarity taught me that.’
‘Ahh yes, Rarity. She denied bow ties were in, even though they were. Still a nice p0ny.’
‘So, how old are you? 24?’
‘907 years old.’
‘Wow, you’re a filly fiddler.’ The Doctor looked at her with a shocked look ‘I mean if you dated a p0ny…’ Derpy face went red.
>Wow, that was awkward.
‘You don’t say brain. Now he won’t like me.’ Derpy says out loud.
The Doctor looks at Derpy again ‘Umm, pardon?’
‘…nothing.’ Her face turning 8 shades of red.
 
‘So, Derpy. Where would you like to go first?’ the Doctor asked
‘Umm…muffins.’ Derpy says
‘Muffins?’
‘Yes, Muffins.’
‘I…don’t think there is a world of muffins.’ Derpy’s face fell ‘But I know of a bakery that is supposed to make really good muffins.’
‘Better than mine?’
‘Derpy, I doubt anything in space and time can match your muffins.’
The Doctor pushed a great big button on the TARDIS control pad, and it was off. Everything began to shake, and Derpy fell to her flank.
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The engines sound stopped, as did the shaking. The Doctor helped Derpy stand up and they walked towards the door. The scenery outside was surprisingly barren. It was a simple rock face and dried grass. It wasn’t very inviting.
‘Umm…Doctor? Are you sure this is the right place?’ Derpy looked at the Doctor, but his mouth was just agape.