Chapter Four: Disappearing (Doctor`s POV)
"WHO took Twilight?!" I asked.
"Stone creatures, your wife says they are Angels..." Luna says breathlessly.
"They aren`t very nice to be considered angels..." Rarity pouted.
"No... But we killed them all!" I groaned as I started to walk to the door. "Wait, they took Twilight, so where is everybody else?"
"We`re over here, ya`ll," Applejack confirmed as she grabbed my hand and pulled me over to Pinkie and Fluttershy - Pinkie`s arm was draped around Fluttershy`s shoulders and Fluttershy sobbed hysterically.
"Fluttershy...?" I said cautiously as I approached the two. "Fluttershy, are you alright?"
"No, they took her! She just vanished!" She cried out.
"Tell me, Fluttershy, what they looked like?!"
"Stone creatures with their arms outstretched... they were hissing and they kept coming closer!"
"Hissing... that`s new." I muttered, clearing my throat as I walked away and into the control room, exiting the TARDIS with Derpy.
"So, we got a missing persons report, how new THAT is," Derpy murmured. "How are we to even know where she was taken?"
"What does Twilight always do when she`s bored, tired, sleepy, happy, are even when she is just feeling like it?" I asked her as we stepped out of the TARDIS to search.
A smile lit up across her face and she looked at me. "The bookstore...? Oh, the bookstore! That makes more sense than what I was thinking."
"And WHAT were you thinking, exactly?"
"That she went to a bakery," Derpy giggled quietly.
"You`re hungry, aren't you?" I asked her after I stopped walking and looked at her, crossing my arms with a huge smile.
"...yeah, I am," She laughed.
"Alright, look," I said, grabbing her shoulders and making her look into my eyes. "Let`s go get some evidence, then some muffins as a group and then while we are here we can figure this out. Deal...?"
"Deal," Derpy laughed.
"So I am saying it is... Weeping Angels, time travel, in the bookstore," I smiled as we started walking closer to the store.
"Well there is only one way to find out," Derpy pointed out. "I was talking to Fluttershy. She said that she got a bad feeling about the statue so she didn`t look at it. She just looked at Twilight. Apparently Twilight was in an alleyway and turned around, and when she looked behind her again the statue was there. Then she went to leave, also known as turning her back, and she vanished, the statue taking her place. Then Fluttershy said she ran back home."
"Whoa, look at this!" I said excitedly as I ran over to an alleyway, picking up a piece of purple silk. "A piece of Twilight`s dress..."
"And the bookstore is right around the corner. Oh, and there is a piece of paper!"
"Well, what`s it say, what`s it say?!" I asked quickly as she made faces at the script.
"I dunno, I can`t really read," She frowned.
"Well I can read, so give it here."
"Alright, but it the writing is really small, just a warning," She sighed.
The paper was about as big as my thumbnail and I read aloud what it said. "Alright, this is what it says. '-stole from a – but nevertheless – Taylor. She ju – I don`t understand – Pl—'. Well... that was weird. It is just a story – oh my goodness that is it!" I yelled happily as I grabbed her shoulders and jumped up and down.
"What is? What is it?!" She asked quickly, trying not to laugh from my excitement.
"This proves my theory! She went to the bookstore earlier before she vanished, like I said. And this paper (I sniffed the ripped page) smells like a new book! That means it isn`t something that she brought with her, because in Ponyville, who is named Taylor?! Anyway, back on topic, she bought this, we need to find the bookstore, and watch security cameras." I explained quickly.
"You would think after your personality changed after a regeneration you would talk slower," She muttered as she held my hand and ran across the alleyway and into a building.
"I couldn`t change that even if I tried," I sighed.
In the bookstore we went directly to the cashier.
"Sir, please, has a customer with purple hair been in here recently? Bought a few books?" I asked him.
The elderly man just looked at me funnily and chuckled. "We aren`t allowed to give out customer credentials, if that is what you are asking. But all I will say is 'yes'."
I looked at his nametag. "Jack, she disappeared. Show us the security cameras!"
"If you insist, I can double check-"
I pointed the sonic screwdriver at the TV and the security tapes showed up, scaring the cashier.
"How did you... what is that?!" He asked quietly with his opened wide.
"Sonic screwdriver, very useful when you want to do stuff, so," I said, clapping my hands together, "let`s watch this security tape, now shall we?"
Derpy and I went around the desk and watched the non-black-and-white security tape.
Twilight grabbed a few large books and paid for them (having a little talk with the cashier) before going across the street and into the alleyway.
"Do you have a camera that can follow her?" Derpy asked.
"Yes, right here—" He answered as he typed onto his computer and a screen pulled up. The way his building is shaped it that there is a wall that is in a circle in front of the store. A camera was perfectly placed where he could see us at the entrance of the alleyway.
All of a sudden she stops walking and looks behind her. Fluttershy appears and hides behind a dumpster, watching Twilight open her book. All of a sudden while scanning the pages, a Weeping Angel appeared behind the once-alicorn.
She looked back around and stared at it for a few moments before turning her back. The Angel`s arms outstretched and grabbed Twilight, who looked into its eyes. Then, she did the one thing I would have told her not to – blink.
"That`s it, it ends there," The cashier says after an awkward pause of just staring at the paused TV.
"Do you remember where that statue had gone?" I asked him.
"Not a clue. I was watching it, but then you two came in through the alleyway and I was like 'Okay, it`s gone now,' because it had left. Just, POOF, it just vanished."
"And what books did she happen to buy?" Derpy asked him for me.
"I will need to see your credentials in return for Twilight`s. That`s a funny name, Twilight is. I mean, who names a child Twilight? Maybe a hippie...?" The cashier rambled as he took my license (that for some reason I kept through all these years in Ponyville).
"Yeah, well who names their kid Ditzy, Dinky, and Minky?" Derpy muttered.
"Not the time," I said to her quietly.
"Twilight walked in here and bought a few books. I don`t read books so I have no clue what they were about," The cashier informed us.
"If you don`t read books how did you become a bookstore clerk?" Derpy asked with her eyes crossed.
"What were the names of the books?" I asked him.
"Lemme see," He says as he types onto his computer. "And... ah, here it is! Alright, so your friend bought three books, one called 'The Traveler', one called 'Aliens', and one called 'Her Kidnapping'. Pretty odd if you ask me... they are also all by the same author, named 'Williams Anderson'."
"Williams Anderson... why does that sound familiar?" I asked as we walked out the door.
"I don`t know, but Princess Celestia knows EVERYTHING about this world. At least, that`s what she told me. She might know," Derpy suggested.
"All I heard was 'Celestia knows,' by the way," I laughed. "But yeah, let`s head back."