Equestria and the Time Lord Episode 8: The Gates of Tartarus
Prologue: Revenge of the Cybermen
=The Time Vortex, The Doctor's TARDIS, The TARDIS Console Room, Where Time Has No Meaning =
The Doctor was pressing buttons on the TARDIS console, having completely mastered doing it with hooves by himself. He was flipping through a history book, trying to find out where their next destination should be.
All of a sudden, Daring Do walked in to the room, looking rather depressed.
"Oh hello Daring Do." The Doctor said as he continued to look through the incredibly thick book. "How are you doing? Now, I've been thinking about our next destination. Some of the potential choices would be…"
Daring Do cut him off. "I'm rather sorry, Doctor. But I don't want to go anywhere any more." She said, almost choking on the words as she said them.
The Doctor had heard these words in certain variations many times before, but that didn't stop him from saying "What?"
"Ponies often think I'm completely fearless and nothing can get to me. They're completely wrong. I've been terrified this whole time, and I've seen a lot that I'd never thought possible. I even killed someone. I don't think I can stay on the TARDIS traveling with you anymore. It's horrible, all that's been happening, and I don't want to do it anymore. I'm leaving." Daring Do said, shaking and, shockingly, beginning to cry.
The Doctor knew this was coming sooner or later. It didn't really make it less surprising. He supposed he was incapable of detecting the way his companions truly felt about whether or not they wanted to leave. "I see. If that's your decision and I know I can't change your mind about it all, then I suppose I'll have to set the coordinates for your home time." He said, rather sadly.
"Thank you." She said, not able to look directly at him.
=Outer Space, In Orbit Above the Planet Gaia, Cyber Rescue Fleet 12, The Fleet Command Ship, Cyber Computer Room, 1003 C.E. =
Three spaceships flew along side by side. One was larger than all the others, them being smaller versions of the bigger one. All of them were silver and sleek.
Inside the larger one was a large room. Inside was a computer identical to the computers on Earth that took up an entire room. On one of the computer panels had a glass case in it, and inside of the glass case was a silver orb that was hosed in four tube like light sliver nozzles that stretched around it and where they met, there was a small antenna going upwards. This was the Cyber-Planner, responsible for planning out all the strategies of the Cybermen.
The Cybermen themselves were like humans, except their entire body was silver. They had a panel up from their hips to just below their neck. Coming from these panels were thick sliver wires that ran down the side of their arms and the side of their legs. They had blank silver faces with teardrop eyes. They had a helmet like thing attached to their head, with the silver nozzles stretching from where their ears originally were to the top of their head, where there was a gun that they shot by thinking about shooting.
Among them was their leader, the Cyber-Leader, who looked no different than the rest of the Cybermen except the helmet and tubes on his head were black, and for some reason, his hands seemed to be permanently jammed on his hips.
"TAR~DIS in flight de~tected!" said the Cyber-Planner said in a slightly high-pitched voice.
"Where is it?" said the Cyber-Leader said.
"Head~ing for the year 913!" it replied.
"Do not let it get there!" The Cyber-Leader bellowed out. "Order it to be brought down! They will bring us…what we need!"
"Indeed!" The Cyber-Planner said. "The order…has been given!"
"Ex~cellent." The Cyber-Leader said, still continuing to briefly pause between the syllables.
"TAR~DIS located in Time Vortex. Bring~ing to this time period!' One of the Cyber men called out.
"Very soon, The Cyber-Controller will be free!" The Cyber-Leader as the ship began to be lowered down towards the planet of Gaia.
=Gaia, Equestria, Canterlot, Canterlot Mountain, Unknown Cave in Canterlot Mountain, 1003 C.E. =
A mare sat in a cave, looking down into her reflection in a small pool of water, wondering where everything in her life had gone wrong. She sighed at the sight of her large purple hat and cape that were covered in stars, which she had discarded a while ago and left in the corner of the cave.
Suddenly there was a glowing gold light down at the bottom of the cave, begging her to grab at it. To take it. She ignored it, but it seemed to grow more hypnotic as it grew brighter. She ran out in to the snow in order to avoid having to look at it.
=The Time Vortex, The Doctor's TARDIS, The TARDIS Console Room, Where Time Has No Meaning =
The Doctor finished pressing all the necessary buttons needed to set the coordinates. "I've set the coordinates to get back to your home time. You'll be all right, won't you be?" he asked sadly.
"Yes, I think I will be." Daring Do said, still not able to look directly at him.
"Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this to happen so soon. Could you go and tell Romana?" The Doctor asked her.
Daring Do was about to comply, when suddenly sparks flew up from the TARDIS console as a terrifying ripping sensation knocked them to the side.
"What was that?" Romana yelled as she charged in to the room.
"We were just ripped out of the Time Vortex by some outside force. All I can tell is that we're suspended 500 feet above the nearest planet, and the anti-gravity controls are about to fail." The Doctor said, panicked.
"But that means…" Romana said.
"We should probably hold on to something." The Doctor said as he sealed a chair to the floor and held on to it.
Romana and Daring Do grabbed on to the TARDIS console. There was another spark from the console, and the TARDIS began to fall hundreds of feet.
The Doctor kept a firm grip on the chair, but the rate they were falling made him begin to rise right out of the chair.
Romana and Daring Do also felt the same effect as they tried to hold on to the TARDIS console.
Daring Do blacked out first due to the extreme G-force she was experiencing. The Doctor and Romana didn't black out until the TARDIS made impact with the ground as they smashed to the ground at 90 miles an hour.