Doctor And Assistant (Chap. 7)
Chaptered Seven: Kidnapper Named Scarlet
/the Doctor\\
Derpy giggled, laying on her side. Cara was in between the Doctor and her, and the Doctor kept trying to avert his eyes so he wouldn't be caught staring at his assistant.
"So, what do you two think?" the Doctor asked.
Derpy picked something off of her black jacket and jeans. She looked up at him with a beautiful smile, and the Doctor felt his hearts stop. "It's so pretty here," she sighed happily. The Doctor stopped himself from blurting out "just like you".
"Definitely different than London. And you know, you two, I think it is a good time for you to-" Cara started.
"-Cara, might I have a word with you ALONE?" the Doctor asked, grabbing her hand and walking away from a confused Derpy.
They stopped after they reached a location where they could talk normally and Derpy wouldn't hear them. The Doctor turned to Caraphernelia.
"What?" she asked.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Why am I doing what?"
"Caraphernelia, why are you trying to get us to date?" he asked.
"Don't you love her?"
"Of course I do, Cara, I do. But doesn't it seem proper for me to tell her?"
"Doctor, keep it up at this rate and you'll tell her in one-hundred-and-NEVER. I'm doing you a favor."
"She probably wouldn't like me back, anyway. It won't even work," he sulked.
She out a reassuring hand on his back. "Do you want to know what she told me about her feelings to you?"
"You know what, no. Cara, if I'm going to find it out, I want it to be from a question I've asked, or something I've said."
"But-"
"-please?" he asked sincerely.
"Fine," Cara smiled.
A scream rang out and they darted to Derpy. A woman held his assistants' arms behind her back and wrapped something over her mouth.
"Get off of her!" the Doctor barked, nearly a foot away.
"Not a chance!" The sun emerged from behind the cluster of clouds and her features were shown. Long light blue hair in rough pigtails, black knee-high stockings, brown heeled boots, extremely short pale-light-blue jeans, a grey undershirt that didn't fully cover her stomach, and a black no-sleeved jacket that was the same length as the undershirt.
"I will give you one last chance! Release her!" the Doctor yelled.
The woman jerked Derpy backward and his assistant's cry was muffled, her eyes wide and filled with panic.
The Doctor whipped out his sonic screwdriver and aimed it at the woman. Caraphernelia was frozen out of fear.
"If you do one thing, the girl dies right in front of you!" the woman shouted.
The Doctor gulped and looked at Derpy's tear-streaked face. He couldn't let her do that to HIS assistant.
The woman smiled deviously. "Hope you have a nice nap, Doctor."
He pondered for a moment how she knew his name, but before he could react, a can overloaded with smoke rolled to them. The world went hazy; the dark green grass and light sky went out of vision, like the world was being smushed together by blackness. He saw the red, yellow, and golden leaves turned into blacks and whites. He staggered, landing on the ground. He blinked and the woman had grown... wings?... and flew upwards, Derpy still in grasp.
He reached out almost as if to hold and stop them. The darkness smothered him.
/Derpy\\
Her screams are muffled as she was flown away. The Doctor was motionless on the ground along with Caraphernelia.
She moved her mouth so violently the tape fell off. She bit the woman's arm and heard a growl escape from her throat. "Why, you little FIEND!" she barked.
Her wing gave out and they began crashing to the ground. Derpy pushed the woman under her to soften the blow.
Within a foot away from the ground the woman's good wing began fluttering. They skimmed along the ground and once they stopped, Derpy stood up and placed the tip of her shoe against the middle of the woman's throat.
"Tell me your name," Derpy ordered.
The woman's breathing was painful to watch. "Scarlet," she coughed, "my name is Scarlet."
"What are you?" When Scarlet didn't answer, Derpy pressed harder against her throat. "Did you hear me?!"
"Skyolozine! I am a Skyolozine!"
"And one more. Why did you kidnap me?!"
"I can't let him or myself down! I need you to survive! HE needs you to survive," she spat out. "Now, let me up or you'll die in a snap of your neck."
Derpy hopped off of Scarlet, who was taking frantic gulps of air. "You... Tell me about you."
"Take me back to the Doctor!"
"What a biography," Scarlet said sarcastically.
"If I tell you, will you take me back to him?"
Scarlet nods.
Derpy drew in a long inhale and talked in one breath. "My name is Ditzy Doo, but everyone calls me Derpy Hooves. I was born and raised in Ponyville, Equestria. I travel with the Doctor."
"Who's 'the Doctor'?"
"Not answering. Now, please. Take me back!"
"I'll take you back, all right."
Scarlet patted her pocket. Derpy tensed at the action, but then Scarlet pulled out a pistol and a spray bottle.
"What are you doing?" Derpy asked cautiously. The first thought was that she'd be shot, or poisoned. Or both.
Scarlet raised the bottle and sprayed the contained mist. Derpy's eyesight faltered.
Screaming. Someone was screaming?
She blinked.
The Doctor was asleep still. Would he ever wake up? A gunshot. A grunt. Someone was holding her again —
— she was laying on a hard bed. The walls were purple? Where was she?!
/the Doctor\\
Someone was laying on his chest. Around that area his suit was extremely damp.
With a soft groan, the Doctor began to sit up. As his memories began to come back the Doctor looked down...
And Caraphernelia wasn't breathing.
The Doctor gasped and sprung into action. He flipped her onto her back and began giving her CPR, afterwards checking her pulse. Another round of CPR. "Come on, come on! Caraphernelia, come on! Wake up!" he shouted. But there was no response. He began checking her body for any sign of injury, coming across a bullet wound to her abdomen.
He wiped away a tear, strictly precluding the rest.
"Wait... I'm missing something."
Derpy.
Her beautiful face flashed through his mind, chilling him to the bone. What had happened?! Where was she?!
Wait...; more images came to mind. She'd flown away? No, someone had grown wings and flew her away?
He rushed into the TARDIS. "Old Girl, we've got a mystery on our hands! I need backgrounds on all winged, human-looking species." he ordered.
The Doctor rested a palm against his throbbing forehead. They both were gone... Derpy and Caraphernelia was gone... And he was all alone.
Author's Note:
Sorry for for a shorter chapter this time around. Also, Scarlet is an OC made by one of my good friends, whom shall not be named for our sakes (haha!).
Thanks for reading,
— GothicPegasister