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Chapter 13 Space Colony Alpha Twi

Hearing a knock at his door, the mayor looked up from the papers he was reading.

"Come in," he called out.

A guard entered the room and saluted him.

"What is it?" the mayor asked

"We've captured him sir," the guard said, "We have the pony that we believe to have been in charge of the attack that destroyed our food supply."

"I see," the mayor said, "Bring him in."

Nodding, the guard went back out and came back in followed by another guard and brown earth pony wearing a black vest, his legs shackled.

"Hello there," the earth pony said with smile as he came to stand in front of the mayor's desk, "I'm the Doctor."

One day earlier…

"So where are we now?" Dash asked stepping out of the TARDIS and looking around.

"If I did all of my research correctly, this should be the very first pony space colony," the Doctor replied as he looked around as well.

"Right, so like I said, where are we now?"

"You know, I really wish you'd have a little more faith in me."

"Well, since you can't ever seem to get us to the right place…"

"Ok, now that's just mean," the Doctor interrupted, "Pinkie doesn't feel that way, right Pinkie?"

"Well…" Pinkie said looking away.

"Et tu Pinkie?"

"You have been doing kind of a bad job lately."

"It's these blasted hooves I tell you. I don't think I'm ever going to get the hang of them."

"You always use that excuse," Dash said.

"If you had a faulty piece of equipment that kept messing up, you'd constantly blame it, wouldn't you?"

"Uh… I guess so."

"There, you see?"

"Uh…"

"I get it," Pinkie said nodding.

"See? If Pinkie understands, it can't be that complicated," the Doctor said.

"Yeah, well, Pinkie's brain doesn't work like most normal ponies," Dash said, then quickly added, "No offense Pinkie."

"None taken," the pink mare said with a dismissive gesture, "I know my brain is different."

"There's nothing wrong with having a different brain Rainbow," the Doctor said.

"For most ponies, maybe," the pegasus muttered.

"What was that?"

"Nothing. So, we're on a space colony?"

"Finally starting to have some faith in me?"

"Sure. If that's what you want to take away from that question," she said under her breath, "Anyway, this place doesn't really look much like a space colony."

"It doesn't look like anything," Pinkie said, "There's just like, rocks and hills everywhere."

"That's because I landed us just slightly outside of the colony. The colony itself is just over that rise right there," the Doctor said pointing to a nearby hill.

"Wait a second," Dash said holding up a hoof, "If we're outside of the colony, how are we breathing?"

Pinkie gasped at that and sucked in a large breath, her cheeks puffing out as she held it.

"It's fine Pinkie. You don't need to hold your breath," the brown colt said, "And the reason we're able to breath Rainbow is because although we are outside of the colony, we are still within the atmospheric bubble that surrounds the colony."

"A what kind of bubble?"

"An atmospheric bubble. It generates an atmosphere similar to that of any planet you want. Quite useful for forming colonies on atmospherically different planets so that your people can, you know, live."

"Oh. That's, uh… So the colony's over here then?" Dash asked moving towards the hill.

"Should be, yes," the Doctor replied walking alongside her, Pinkie falling into line with them as well.

The hill wasn't very tall and within about a minute they reached the top. Looking down the other side, the three ponies could see a large collection of shiny metallic buildings, several covered with blinking lights. They could see some ponies walking around the little city, as well as some small vehicles moving about.

"Welcome, my friends, to the first pony space colony in Equestrian history, Colony Alpha Twi," the Doctor said.

"Alpha Twi?" Dash asked sounding confused.

"That's what it's called. It was named after some important pony. Twilight… Something. I can't remember."

"You think it could be our Twilight?" Pinkie asked Dash.

"Could be," she replied, "She is pretty important.

"Yes, well, we'll have time to look into that later," the Doctor said, "Right now, we have a colony to explore. For glory!"

"Seriously?" Dash said raising an eyebrow.

"You're right. That's a terrible catchphrase."

"I kinda like it," Pinkie said.

"What's that place?" Pinkie asked pointing towards a large building, "Oh, wait, what's that one? Wait, what about that one?"

"Pinkie, please, slow down a bit," the Doctor said, "Just, take it slow with the questions and I'll get them all answered in time. Now then, I believe that that particular building is hospital."

"How can you tell?" Dash asked, "They all look the same to me."

"Well, for one thing, there are signs on the buildings," the brown pony said pointing to one, "Also, all the buildings have different colored lights on them. The placement and color of the lights is a sort of code that can tell you what the buildings are."

"How do you know all this stuff?"

"Far as I can tell, my brain is a bottomless pit full of pretty much any sort of information you may or may not need."

"I wish my brain was like that," Pinkie said, "Mines mostly full of cake recipes."

"Cake recipes can be very useful. Remind me later to tell you about the time I saved an entire galaxy from being destroyed by baking a cake."

"Okay, now you're just making stuff up," the rainbow pegasus said.

"I would never make up things like that."

"Really? So you're saying you really did save all of space and time from total destruction by getting married?"

"Yes! Look, I never said that any of the stuff I did made sense. All I said was that it happened."

"Hey Doctor, who's that?" Pinkie asked pointing at something in front of her.

Looking, the Doctor could see a unicorn walking towards them.

"An unicorn by the looks of it," he replied.

"I can see that! I want to know who he is!"

"Why would I know that?"

"Because you know everything!"

"Mostly everything."

"Halt you three," the unicorn said, reaching them, "Who are you?"

"Who are we? Who are you?" Pinkie shouted at him.

"Uh, I, uh… What?" he stammered taken aback.

"Ignore her," the Doctor said with a sigh, "She seems to be in a bit of a mood right now. Anyway, I'm Timepiece. This is Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash."

"Pinkie Pie? Rainbow Dash?" the unicorn replied sounding a little confused, "Like the element bearers?"

"Yeah. We were named after them," Dash quickly said.

"Named after them? We are-" Pinkie began, but quickly had her mouth covered by Dashes hoof.

"Pinkie, shush!" the pegasus hissed.

"Anyway, now that we've told you our names, how about you tell us yours?" the Doctor said.

"Yeah, no. Doesn't work that way," the unicorn said shaking his head, "I have more questions I need to ask you."

"What kind of questions?"

"Well," he said swiping a hoof through the air in front of him. When he did, a glowing see through screen showing pictures of several ponies appeared in front of him. "What I have here is a database showing the names, faces, cutie marks, and races of every single pony that lives in Alpha Twi," he said, "You three aren't in it."

"How do you know?" Pinkie demanded, "You didn't even look through it!"

"I know because the recognition software didn't recognize you," he replied, "Which leads me to my next question. How did you three get here? Were you stowaways on the transport ship? Did you fly your own ship here?"

"We flew our own ship, I guess," the Doctor said, "It's parked out behind that hill if you want to take a look."

"Might just go do that later. Next question, why are you here?"

"That question is a bit harder to answer."

"Is it now?"

"Yes. We're, uh, well, we came here because we, uh, we wanted to see the colony."

"See the colony? Like tourists?"

"Really starting to hate being called that, but, in essence, yes. We're tourists."

"Uh huh. Give a minute here."

Turning, the unicorn put a hoof to his ear.

"HQ, this is Officer Plasma requesting a prisoner transport for three. Unregistered. They claim to be tourists. Yeah, I know how ridiculous that sounds, but that's what they said. Says they flew in on their own ship. Gonna take a team to check it out later. Could be. Figure the captain can get something useful out of them. Got it. Over and out."

The unicorn turned back to them and said, "All right you three, were going to take a little trip down to the security headquarters where we're going to ask you some more questions."

"You can't just arrest us like this!" Dash exclaimed, "We have rights!"

"Back on Earth maybe, but things work a bit differently up here on Alpha Twi."

A silver blue pegasus opened the door to an interrogation room and stepped in. As he did, he swiped a hoof and brought up a small screen.

"Hello there Mr. Timepiece," he said glancing at the screen, "I'm Captain Cloudy Blitz, the officer in charge of security here on the colony."

"Nice to meet you Captain," the Doctor said from behind the table in the middle of the room, "I'd shake your hoof, but I seem to be shackled to this table here."

"Yeah, sorry about that," the captain said sitting across from him, "Standard precaution for interrogations."

"Understandable. Can't be too careful when dealing with potentially dangerous prisoners."

Cloudy nodded. "Our thoughts exactly. Now then, I have a few questions I would like to ask you. First of all, where did you come from?"

"We came here from Earth."

"I see. And why did you come here?"

"We wanted to see the colony. Well, more like I wanted to see the colony and I figured Rainbow and Pinkie would be interested in seeing it as well."

The pegasus stared at him for few seconds, then touched a few panels on the screen in front of him.

"And you came here on your own personal ship?"

"That is correct. I told the officer who arrested us where it was so you can investigate it if you'd like."

"We have a small group of ponies looking into that. Now that we've got those questions out of the way, I can get to the real questions."

"Real questions?"

Cloudy nodded. "You didn't think was just going to ask you the same questions Officer Plasma asked you when he arrested you, did you?"

"I uh… I didn't actually consider that…" the Doctor said looking down.

"Right. Well, first things first, do you have any ties to any criminal or terrorist organizations?"

"Well, not ties per se. I mean, I've encountered and dealt with a few in my time, but I'm not affiliated with them in any way."

Cloudy looked at him for a moment then typed something onto his screen.

"Okay. Are you affiliated with any radical or extremist political groups?"

"Well, like I said before, I've encountered a few in my time…"

"Yeah, okay, I get it," the pegasus said cutting him off, "Next question. Do you know a pony named Skyline Driver?"

The Doctor thought for a moment before shaking his head and saying, "Nope. Never heard of them."

Cloudy typed at his screen for a moment, then nodded his head and stood up.

"Very well. I'm going to go ask your companions some questions now."

"So, I'll just stay here shackled to this table then?"

"Is that going to be a problem?"

"No, not at all. Just wanted to make sure I knew what was going on."

"Hi there!" Pinkie exclaimed as the door to her room opened and Cloudy Blitz stepped inside.

"Hello Miss… um," the pegasus responded and looked down at his screen, "Pinkie Pie, is it?"

"Yep!" Pinkie said with a nod.

"Named after the element bearer?"

"That's right!"

"Well, it's good to meet you I suppose. My name is Cloudy Blitz. I'm in charge of the security forces here on Colony Alpha Twi."

"Nice to meet you Cloudy Blitz!" Pinkie said trying to jump over the table and shake his hoof, but instead ended up banging her head on the table, "Ow…."

"Whoa, you okay there?" Cloudy said rushing over to her.

"Yeah, I'm fine…" Pinkie said rubbing her head as best as she could.

"Um, alright. Just, uh, try to be careful while you're here okay?"

Pinkie nodded.

"Alright. First of all, where did you come from?"

"From Ponyville."

"And why did you come here?"

"Hmm… That's a good question. Why did we come here?" Pinkie mused and began to think intently.

"Um, you know what, that's fine," Cloudy said after a few seconds, "Lets just move on. You came on your own personal ship, correct?"

"Yep! Well, it's actually the Doctors ship, but yeah."

"Doctor? You mean Timepiece? He's a doctor?"

"Sort of. He tried to explain it to me once, but I didn't really get it."

"I see. Next question. Do you have any ties to any criminal or terrorist organizations?"

"Any what now?"

The pegasus stared at her for a moment then pressed something on his screen.

"I'll take that as a no then. Are you affiliated with any radical or extremist political groups?"

Pinkie stared at him for a few seconds before saying, "Are these actually questions you're asking or are you just saying a bunch of random words?"

Cloudy looked down at his screen for a second and sighed.

"Alright, one last question," he said, "Do you know a pony named Skyline Driver?"

"Should I?"

"Just answer the question please. Do you know Skyline Driver?"

Pinkie shook her head, saying, "Nope. Never heard of him."

Cloudy looked back at his screen and nodded.

"Very well then. I need to go ask your friends a few more questions now."

"And then we can go?"

"That all depends on what they tell me."

"Okie Doki Loki! Have fun then!"

Cloudy gave her a small smile as he left the room.

"Right. Fun."

"Hello?" Dash yelled, "Is anypony gonna come in here or am I just sit here by myself all day? Hello?"

The door to her room opened and a silver blue pegasus entered.

"Hello there Miss Rainbow Dash. I'm Captain Cloudy Blitz," he introduced himself as he entered, "I'm the pony in charge of security here on the colony."

"Yeah, yeah, cool. Good for you," Dash said, "Can we just get this over with so I can go?"

"Of course, of course," he said sitting down and bringing up his screen, "This is a bit of an odd coincidence though."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you're named after the element bearer Rainbow Dash, right?"

The blue mare nodded and said, "Yeah, so what?"

"Well, this isn't something I tell a lot of ponies. It's not really a secret, but it's not something I flaunt or brag about either."

"Dude, just get to the point."

"Yes, of course. The point here is that I am actually descended from the real Rainbow Dash."

Dash's eyes went wide and a shocked look crossed her face.

"You're… What?" she said after a moment.

"Descended from Rainbow Dash. She's my great-great-great-great grandmother."

"That's… Uh… That's… Uh…" Dash stammered, unsure of what to say.

"Impressive, I know," he said with a small chuckle, "But that's not why I'm here. I need to ask you some questions."

"Uh… Yeah… Okay."

"Alright, first question. Where did you come from?"

"Um… Earth."

"Why did you come here?"

"The… Uh, Timepiece wanted to show us the colony, I guess? I'm, uh, not really sure…"

"I see, I see," he said tapping something on his screen, "And you came in your own personal ship?"

"Uh… Timepieces ship, but, yeah."

"You seem nervous Miss Dash. Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, yeah! Everything's fine!" she quickly said, "You just threw me off with that whole 'descended from the real Rainbow Dash' thing."

"Ah. I see. Sorry about that. It wasn't my intent to fluster you like this. Anyway, next question. Do you have any ties to any criminal or terrorist organizations?"

"Nope," Dash replied shaking her head.

"Are you affiliated with any radical or extremist political groups?"

"Nope," Dash replied shaking her head again.

"Last question. Do you know a pony named Skyline Driver?"

"I know a pony named Cloudy Skyline."

"Good for you. Except I asked if you knew a pony named Skyline Driver."

"No. Don't know him."

Cloudy tapped at his screen a bit and stood up.

"Alright then. I just have a few more questions for your friend Timepiece, then you all should be free to go."

"Cool. Can you undo these shackles then? They're really uncomfortable."

"Just sit tight and everything will be taken care of in time."

Dash watched him leave the room then let out a huge breath.

"Holy Celestia," she muttered, "I just met my great-great-great-great grandson."

"Hello Captain," the Doctor said as the silver blue pegasus entered, "Am I free to go now?"

"Not quite. I have some more things to ask you."

"Very well. Ask away."

"Right. Your friend Pinkie mentioned something about you that I found interesting."

"I hope it was something nice."

"She said you were a doctor."

"Of a sort, yes."

"She had words to that same effect. Anyway, what I find interesting about that is the fact that you said nothing of your occupation as a doctor Mr. Timepiece."

"Yes, well, no one asked about that nor did it seem particularly relevant."

"Well, now it is relevant and I'm asking. What kind of doctor are you?"

"A scientist mostly. I study a bit of everything though."

"Never heard of a doctor like that."

"No one else has either."

Cloudy tapped at his screen and stood up.

"Very well then. You and your friends are free to go now. Word of advice though. Leave the colony. Leave and don't ever come back here."

"Are you threatening me Captain?"

"No threat. Just some advice. Advice you would do well to follow."

"I see. Thank you for the advice then."

A few minutes later, the three met up outside of security headquarters, all three of them rubbing at their fetlocks.

"Well, that was a thoroughly unpleasant experience," the Doctor said.

"You can say that again," Rainbow Dash muttered.

"I thought it was kinda fun!" Pinkie said.

"You think everything's fun," Dash said.

"Right, well, lets get going," the Doctor said and began to walk away.

"Where are we going?" Pinkie asked skipping along beside him.

"Back home."

"Back home? Already?" Dash asked confused, "We just got here."

"Yes, well, the captain all but threatened me to leave."

"He threatened you?"

"It was more he threatened me without threatening me."

"How does that work?" Pinkie asked.

"Not to sure actually. He did it very well though, however he did it."

Within a few minutes the three ponies found themselves walking up the hill that they had landed the TARDIS behind. As the reached the top, they all stopped and stared down at the area below them.

"Doctor?" Pinkie asked after a few seconds.

"Yes?"

"Where's the TARDIS?"

"That's a very good question Pinkie. A very good question indeed."

Thanks for reading and be sure to leave a nice review! And I'm still trying to figure out if radios have appeared in My Little Pony, so if you have any information on that, please leave it in a review. It would be most helpful.