Percy began to loose hope, he walked around town for what felt like hours now and still no sign of Thomas, "Thomas, where are you?" he cried quietly, just then a grayish amber earth pony with a dark amber mane and pale, light grayish cobalt blue eyes stood before Percy. Percy couldn't help but notice the hourglass marking he had, the pony looked down and in a friendly manner answered Percy's question, "If you're looking for Thomas, he should be at the library at the comic book signing. I'm heading over there now if you want to tag along." the mysterious pony offered as Percy beamed from ear to ear. The duo started to the library.
"I'm Percy by the way, what's your name?" asked the little green pegasus to the noticeably larger earth pony, "I go by The Doctor, but some ponies call me Doctor Whooves." He answered as they trotted pass SugarCube Corner, "Where are you from?" Percy asked, Doctor Whooves pondered on how much to reveal to the young colt, after a minute or two of silence he decided to reveal his secrets, besides who would believe a young colt's story about a Time Lord turned pony?
"I'm from a different universe, I spent most of my time on a planet called earth, it was inhabited by the humans. That universe housed so many aliens that if you thought about it to hard your little head would hurt. I, myself, was not human but a alien race known as Time Lords from the planet Gallifrey. We looked human but trust me, when you can traverse all of time and space, human doesn't begin to cover it." He finished his story as they started to see a massive crowd, and they weren't even close to the library!
"Wow! that sounds so cool!" Percy was intrigued by the story he had just heard from this pony..err, Time Lord he just met, "Sounds kinda like me." he said as they finally got near the front of the line, "Oh how so?" Doctor Whooves asked as the crowed got in a loud uproar over Thomas stepping up to the signing table. "Well I wasn't always a pony either, I used to be a tank engine from the island of Sodor, that's right off Britain by the way. I found a vortex on the tracks and I went through, I was looking for my friend Thomas." Percy admitted as the new duo got ever closer to Thomas.
Percy noticed all of the ponies had comic books with them, and all of them had Thomas on the cover! Percy just had to wonder to himself, "What the hell have I been missing?" Thought the little green pegasus as he looked towards The Doctor, even HE had some comic books. Percy noticed a comic book on the ground at his hooves, he picked it up and looked at the cover, "Thomas the Swift-Hooved Guardian meets the Mysterious Mare-Do Well." was sprawled out in bright yellow and purple letters on the top.
Thomas was getting kinda exhausted and bored with the signing, yet he was scheduled for a Q&A after words. He looked up to see pale, light grayish cobalt blue eyes staring at him, "Hello, I'm The Doctor-" before he could finished Thomas started to sign the comic. He handed the comic back the Doctor Whooves, "Next!" he said in a dull tone as he waited for him to move, "-As I was saying, I'm the Doctor and I have someone I believe will extinguish you sadness." He said as he stepped aside, revealing the small green pegasus in front of him, even though he was smaller then he knew him to be, Thomas just KNEW who this was. "PERCY!" Thomas shouted, reaching over the table and hugging his best friend as tightly as he could without suffocating him, "I missed you too, Thomas!" Percy squeaked as Thomas' tears of Joy started to dampen his mane.
Twilight watched the whole scene play out from her bedroom window, the happiness that spread across his face made her smile brightly, this was the first time she has seen him smile in about a month. She decided to go down and check out the festivities for herself, she walked down the stairs and opened the door, "Thomas, Everything ok?" She asked as she trotted over to the happy duo, smiling at the sight of Thomas being anything but the depressed sad sack he's been. "Percy, This is Twilight Sparkle, she's been helping me get my bearings for the past month." He said as he motioned towards the purple unicorn.
"A MONTH?! Back home you've been gone for only a week!" Percy screamed in shock, everypony started to give him a weird look as Thomas started to whisper to him, "Percy, don't mention S.O.D.O.R to any pony. I'll explain later, for now just pull up a chair." Thomas finished his whispering prep talk to his best friend then pulled up a small chair next to his at the signing table. After the thousand and one comics he had to sign he cleared his throat and spoke, "Ok, the Q&A session will begin in twenty minutes, right now I need to get something to eat." He announced to the crowed as Percy, Twilight and Himself began to walk towards SugarCube Corner.
'Mind filling me in now, Thomas?" Percy asked in between bites of delicious cupcakes that Pinkie Pie had made for them. Thomas shifted uncomfortably as he tried to figure out how to explain Ponyville to Percy, and explain Sodor to Twilight. All of this started to give him a slight headache, "Where should I begin?" he asked as he took a sip of apple cider he bought from Applejack. He had a lot to sort through before he should explain to Twilight so he decided to explain things to Percy first.
"Percy, Since you're here only means you found the vortex on the railway so that part you already know." He stated as he slipped at his cider as his friend began to grow impatient , "Go on." he began to tap his hooves as Thomas took a bite of his cupcake. "Well the reason I'm so popular is because I save a princess from being attacked." He finished as they trio pain their bits and left towards the Q&A session.