Equestria and the Time Lord Episode 6: To Days to Come

Prologue: The Forest of Fear

=Gaia, Equestria, The Future Site of the Badlands, Just Outside the City, 145, 675 P.C.E. =

The TARDIS began to materialize in the middle of a dense forestry. The Doctor stepped out, examining the area around him. "This is infinitely preferable to what it's going to be in 1003." He noted.

Daring Do looked around as well. "I wonder what lives here back in this point in time."

"That's one of the things that we're here to find out." Romana said as she also stepped out.

The Doctor started walking. "Well, I'm sure we'll run into something if we keep walking."

"With you, that's a definite." Romana said.

"Now we must be careful. There's a possibility that we are more advanced than the species you're going to evolve from and seeing us is going to make them invent fire early or something. I'm not entirely sure." The Doctor explained.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a blast from a stun ray hit Daring Do in the chest and she fell to the floor, stunned. The Doctor and Romana chose to run in opposite directions, hiding behind a tree.

The shooter stepped out to where Daring Do was. No wait, there was another on too. They looked terrifying by pony standards, but the Doctor found them fascinating. They were about six inches taller than the average pony. Their bodies were much more slender, and looked like an actual horse from his dimension, except they were wearing black all over their bodies that exposed only their heads. It looked like they cared more about their hair than most ponies he had seen. The rest of their heads were rather like most ponies, except they were both a gray color, their noses were longer, with more snakelike nostrils. Their eyes were narrower than regular pony eyes, like human eyes. But what was most intriguing was that their fore hooves had hands on the end that looked like they were suited to walk on and hold things, and said hands were carrying guns, which he had never seen anypony in the future have anything even close to.

"It's another one of them mutants." The first shooter said in what sounded like Scottish accent.

"But there's something funny about this one. Very off." The other one said in what sounded like a British accent.

"Yeah, you're right." The first one said. "The hair's too colorful, and so is the coat. I don't even understand what this right here is." He said, looking over her cutie mark. "And these wings, that shouldn't be there either on a mutant."

The Doctor wondered how they would've reacted if he hadn't made Daring Do take off all her clothes and hat. With that, he scratched the theory that the pony species was more advanced than what they evolved from.

"So what do we do with this one?" The first one continued.

"Take her back to the cages. The Scientist will want to have a look at this one. It's got something more wrong with it than the rest of the mutants." The second one said.

"You mean it was born?" The first one said humorously.

"Exactly!" the second one said, chuckling.

Then they grabbed her and carried her off.

The Doctor nodded at Romana and they slowly began to follow, hiding behind something at all time to avoid detection.

They went through the forest as quickly as possible that wouldn't end in their capture. They kept sight of the two hunters that had their friend, but soon saw more hunters that must have been hunting closer to home than the others were, possible standing guard, further complicating their mission.

As it became harder and harder to avoid somepony seeing them, they saw the end of the forest. They also saw the two they were after walking out of the forest, putting their guns in some kind of gun checkout that locked them in place, and inputting a code on the barbed wire fence, opening the only way through, and closing it up behind them, taking Daring Do with them as they went beyond the fence. They realized they would be sitting ducks if they went out there, so they stayed at the edge of the forest, trying to get a good look at whatever was beyond that fence. When they did see it, they did a silent sort of gasp.

It was a giant silver city. Well, actually, it was something more of a dome. This dome had four silver towers surrounding it. It looked incredibly high tech compared to the civilizations and cities he would see so very far away into the future. It put away any doubts that they were more advanced than what they would evolve into someday.

"Well this was certainly unexpected." The Doctor couldn't help but say.

At that moment, the stun rays hit them both, knocking them unconscious.

=Gaia, Equestria, The Future Site of The Badlands, The Domed City, 145, 675 P.C.E. =

The one that was referred to by many as 'The Scientist', who was actually named Krycer, was wearing a white outfit with gold buttons that almost looked like a kind of lab coat was working at his desk, fiddling around with inventions to increase security against all the mutants that lived out in the forest, threatening their way of life.

All of a sudden, the first hunter, the one that shot Daring Do, came in dragging three of the mutants in to the room.

"What do you want this time, Vyne? Have you brought me more Devolutions for my experimentations?" Krycer said as he continued to pump volts of electricity into the gyroscope shaped device.

"Yes sir, but you're going to want to take a closer look at these ones!" Vyne said, very insistently.

Krycer stopped pumping and looked down at the three Devolutions. His eyes widened in shock at the bright colors, the mysterious symbols on their flanks, the fact that one of the mutants had wings, the outlandish scarf and hat one of them was wearing, and how different they looked from other mutants he had ever seen. "He stepped back. "A most intriguing discovery, Vyne. I will deal with these three later. But for now, imprison them in the cages. Do all the normal methods of keeping them in place."

Vyne nodded at this and dragged the three away.

Krycer went back to pumping electricity into the gyroscope shaped device. It looked like he would be able to test this sooner than he thought. He supposed he would go easy on the three mutant prisoners. He would allow them to survive 10 minutes into the interagation.