Chapter 4: The Nightmare Begins
=The Moon of the Planet Gaia, 238,857 Miles Above in Orbit, Canterlot Royal Palace, Palace Grounds, 1066 C.E. =
The Doctor felt a sensation of having all the air ripped right out of his lungs as he ripped out of the oxygen field as gravity got weaker around and he floated down to the surface of the Moon. He used his superior respiratory system to hold in air in the middle of the vacuum of space. He ran across the surface as he tried to find his way to the window of the room that the TARDIS was inside. He recognized the decorated window in reverse just a short distance upwards from the ground. He tried to scale the stone walls of the castle, finding it very difficult to do with hooves, and made it up to the outside of the window, and pulled out his sonic screwdriver and held it up to the window, utilizing it to crack open the window and get inside to the room. When he got inside, he noted that all the air had been sucked out of the room when he disrupted the air generating field. His sonic screwdriver, which was still turned on, accidentally cracked all the windows in the room and made them all smash into little shards of glass.
'Oh well. They can always rebuild them later.' The Doctor thought to himself with the little energy he had.
He ran through the room, trying to make it to the TARDIS before his respiratory system gave out. He made it to the TARDIS, pulled the key out of his pocket, and opened the door.
Of course, there was still no oxygen in the TARDIS. He got up, and shut the doors. The Doctor then pressed a button on the console. He took a deep breath of air as the TARDIS filled with air and he began to dematerialize the TARDIS to a couple locations.
=Gaia, Equestria, Canterlot, The Panicked Streets of Canterlot, 1066 C.E. =
Princess Celestia tried to flee through the streets, trying to dodge and avoid the possessed Princess Cadence. She knew that this wasn't very likely to happen, as her pursuer could see perfectly in the dark, and could fly. She mentally slapped her forehead. Why did everypony forget how to fly in tight circumstances? She extended her wings, and took off into the blackened skies of the city. She could feel Princess Cadence flying up right behind her. She couldn't help but wonder pessimistically how everything always, no matter how great and peaceful and prosperous things were at one time, eventually some terrible disaster would come crashing through out of absolutely unexpected and unfathomable places.
Suddenly, her thoughts were both ended and confirmed by Daring Do crashing directly into her through the darkness into her face. Pain rocketed through her body as her nose began to bleed, and she lost feeling in her wings as she fell towards even more pain. Daring Do, even though she was probably even more hurt, caught her and held her up, not paying attention to the fact that she was heavy. She set her down on the ground. She examined her, using what little medical experience she had picked up along the way. Princess Cadence came up behind her and touched her on the back.
The entity moved through Princess Cadence's nerves and travelled into her body. Princess Cadence collapsed unconscious, severely weakened. Daring Do, as she became possessed, grabbed Princess Celestia by the arm. She extended her connection to her body to move her mouth. "You cannot run." She said evilly. "All non alicorn ponies who are possessed by my will die due to the strain of my control. If you attempt to struggle, she will be dead before you can do anything to stop me. Do you understand?"
Princess Celestia nodded weakly. Daring Do grabbed her by the neck and pulled her away.
In another part of the city, Romana was running through the streets, finding her way around with a flashlight she had pulled out of her pocket. She was doing a decent job of survival, but then her flashlight flickered and died. "Terrific." She sighed sarcastically.
Suddenly, there was a flashing light above her, accompanied by the sound she had heard a very many times. She smiled, stepped forward and pushed, walking into the TARDIS and walking up to the Doctor. "Where were you?" she asked him.
"On the moon." The Doctor said bluntly. "Now we need to find the others and get back to said Moon, because Princess Luna is up there, and her body appears to be what turned out the light everywhere."
"Well where are the others?" Romana asked.
"I'm locking on their biological signatures that I just so happened to have scanned when I materialized in the middle of the room they were all sitting in." The Doctor said as he read off on a screen. "Shining Armor appears perfectly fine, not far from us either. Princess Cadence is unconscious, we may want to leave her alone or perhaps not, we don't have much time. Princess Twilight, also fine, in the same place as Shining Armor. Princess Celestia and Daring Do are in the same place but their energy is all funny. Now, let's go!"
He pressed a lever on the TARDIS console, and the TARDIS began to dematerialize and rematerialize somewhere else. He ran out and pulled in a surprised looking Princess Twilight and Shining Armor into the room.
"What is this?" Shining Armor asked.
"This is my spaceship." The Doctor said happily.
"It is so… futuristic looking." Princess Twilight said.
"Wait until you see the outside of the ship." The Doctor said in total glee.
The Doctor and Romana chuckled at this little inside joke. The Doctor pressed the dematerialization lever and that iconic sound rang through the TARDIS.
"Where are we going?" Shining Armor asked.
"If I get it right, then we are going to the Moon!" The Doctor told them happily.
"The Moon?" Princess Twilight asked in disbelief.
"Yep. The Moon." Romana confirmed.
"What about Cadence, Princess Celestia, and your friend?" Shining Armor asked.
"Well, Princess Cadence is…" he paused, remembering that Shining Armor was married to Cadence. "I'll let you handle that one, Romana. And Princess Celestia and Daring Do are… already there, it seems. Well, let's go."
"Do you even know what's going to happen next?" Princess Twilight asked irritably.
"No. And that's the fun part." The Doctor said as he dematerialized the TARDIS. The call of the TARDIS rang out as they began their trip to the Moon where they would, at least potentially, save the world.