Chapter 27: Vamponies (Part Three)
/Derpy\\
"'Allons-y'? What sort of foreign language is that?" Destery asked.
"French," the Doctor informed her.
"'French'?"
"Yes; a foreign language for foreign people," Derpy smiled.
"You two are weird," Destery muttered.
"Not weird enough," the Time Lord disagreed jokingly.
"Anyways," the newbie said to change the subject, "who're Lilly, Qantiel, and Mercer?"
"It'll be hard to remember their names without seeing them. Trust me, you'll be able to remember their titles with their faces," the Doctor explained. "But, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell you that Mercer and Qantiel are our friends, and Lilly is our adopted daughter."
Destery was silent for a moment. "And, if you don't mind me asking, is your real name Derpy?"
"Merely an epithet," the Doctor explained.
"Yeah. My real name is Ditzy Doo."
"Wait... Haven't I heard of you before?" the pentacorn asked.
Derpy was silent for a moment. "I wouldn't think so."
Destery stayed quite, pondering. "No, no! You're the pony who's always being picked on! Speaking of, how's Golden Harvest?"
"...dead," Derpy tensed.
The Doctor wrapped a foreleg around her neck to calm her down, Destery beginning to apologize rapidly. When his assistant heard this she automatically reassured her. "No, no, it's okay. We weren't that strong relationship-wise anyways..."
They continued down the corridor before, alas, they reached Luna's bedchamber. Opening the door, the crew found that the Mane Six had dispersed, leaving only Dinky, Sparkler, Princess Luna, Mercer, Lilly, and Qantiel.
"What happened?" Luna asked.
The Doctor began to look nervous. As he started to approach Luna, Derpy could see a frightened gleam in his eyes, one that she'd never seen before.
"Um..., Princess Luna...?" he quietly said. "I... I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry, and I regret to inform you that your sister has become... one of THEM."
Luna's face paled a bit, her eyes now soft.
"...I see."
Lilly gulped, her eyes watering. Derpy bowed to her Princess before walking to her adopted daughter, concern in her eyes as she wrapped a wing around her. As the Doctor and Luna chatted quietly over Celestia, Lilly snuggled closer to her.
"Lilly, are you alright?" she asked mutely.
"...No," Lilly admitted after a pause, Mercer and Qantiel sitting next to her in that order as she shook her head.
Derpy held the psychic closer to her in an effort to calm her down. "Then what's wrong?"
"There are too many feelings in this room...," she admitted, burying her face in her hooves. Luna walked out of her bedchamber, the Doctor bringing Destery over to the rest of his group. Sitting in front of his daughter, the Doctor frowned.
"What's wrong, dear?" he asked, reiterating the others' questions.
Lilly looked up and into his eyes. "Some days I hate being an Empath."
"'Empath'?" Mercer asked.
Lilly wouldn't answer, so the Doctor decided to.
"An Empath is someone who can take all of the unused emotions from the people or beings around him or her, and then process and distribute them as his or her own. The word 'Empath' is taken from the word empathy, if you haven't pieced that together," he explained. "Empaths can be labeled as bipolar-"
"-Which I am," Lilly giggled sadly.
"Right. But, 'excluded emotions'?" Destery asked.
Lilly's ears perked, her eyes now lit up. "Humans -and, apparently ponies- have so much emotion that, to be frankly speaking, they don't know how to use it all. They push it outwards nebulously - they don't know they're doing it. It kind of just floats around... Yeah. So, I absorb it, and, yeah. That's about it."
"Well, just ignore us then," the Doctor instructed softly, causing her to giggle.
"Anything else on your mind?" Derpy asked when Lilly leaned away from her. The psychic shook her head. "I actually have something," she then giggled.
"What's up?" the Doctor smiled sweetly.
"How are we going to get rid of the Vamponies?"
"Well, first, we should think up a concoction of ingredients to make an antidote, as that is the only option," the Time Lord explained matter-of-factly.
"What were the other options that you eliminated on your own without giving us a chance for input?" Derpy asked teasingly.
"Sorry, love," he laughed nervously, "but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to hear this."
"Either kill or dispose or relocate all plagued ponies, or just ignore the planet," Lilly muttered. Derpy could hear something different in her voice, though; the pattern was different and her voice was more matured.
"...And," the Doctor said, his face paled, "she read my mind."
"You... You were really thinking of doing that?" Derpy asked softly, taken aback.
"They were thoughts, and I would never fulfill them as actions," he replied reassuredly. "You of all ponies should know that."
Qantiel stared at the pony who had stood in front of her, clearing her throat. "And, um, who's this?"
"Oh, right!" the Doctor exclaimed.
"Destery, meet Lilly, Qantiel, Dinky, and Sparkler," Derpy introduced, "and all five of you, meet Destery."
"And so Lilly is your adopted daughter?" Destery asked.
"No, I'm Sparkler...?" the purple unicorn stated (though it sounded more like a question than a statement).
"ALSO an adopted daughter," the Doctor explained.
"... So, Doctor, these are my new sisters?" Lilly asked after getting up and walking to Dinky and Sparkler.
"Yes," he nodded, sitting next to his marefriend.
"Wait... So if Lilly... Mommy, I'm confused!" Dinky whined.
Derpy laughed genuinely. "Dinky, Sparkler, when we found Lilly, she was an orphan, so she had no parents. The Doctor and I decided to take her in, and we said that, if it was okay with her, we'd serve as her parents."
Qantiel cleared her throat again, everypony turning to face her.
"Destery, are you traveling now?"
"Well, the Doctor said I'd live and travel with you-"
"-Okay, so, in that case, there are some things about the Doctor and Derpy that we should go over," she continued, standing up and placing a foreleg around her neck. "Thing One-"
"-Oh, here we go," the Doctor groaned. "Dinky, cover your ears, please. Sparkler, you're mature enough. And, Lilly, it's no use; you've heard it all already."
After everypony did so, Qantiel began her speech once more.
"Thing One: Frequently you'll hear the Doctor say something about his sonic screwdriver. Note that he is not talking about his-"
"-I think she gets it!" Derpy exclaimed, wrapping her wing around the Doctor, who was covering his face with his hooves.
"Although Derpy might be."
"Would not!" Derpy protested.
"Would too!" Scarlet teased. "Thing Two: The Doctor and Derpy love using 'balloons' when they 'party'-"
"-We do not!" the couple disagreed in unison.
"So, you guys DON'T use balloons...?" Scarlet smirked. "Nothing at all?"
"Why is it so important anyway that you tell her this?" Lilly asked between her giggling.
"Because I'm sure everyone has suspicions!" the Skyolozine admitted. "Anyways. Thing Three: Never watch and-slash-or walk in on them kissing."
"I second that," Mercer laughed.
"Thing Four: Even with his voice dropped, the Doctor says he is male. Obviously false."
"I think I would know if I were to be telling the truth!" the Time Lord exclaimed in defense.
"Derpy, you obviously know the answer. Is he a dude?"
Derpy stayed silent, leaning to the Doctor's ear and becoming increasingly aware of her blushing. "What in the name of Celestia should I say?" she whispered. "If I say no, they'll think you're a girl, but if I say yes, then they'll know that we... I mean, they have their suspicions, but that's just a theory, really..."
"Oh, never mind it now," Qantiel said before the Doctor could speak. "Let's continue, shall we?"
"I'm not really sure they want me listening to this-" Destery tried.
"-Oh, sure they do. They honestly have no choice in the matter anyways. Now, where was I? Oh, right. Thing Five: Always ask if they need a room when they take too long. Chances are that they do need one."
"Uh, NOPE!" Derpy exclaimed.
"Uh, YUP!" Qantiel giggled. "Thing Six: The Doctor's feelings are hurt pretty easily. I say he's overly sensitive."
"Am not!"
"Am too! Thing Seven: The Doctor is a genie-"
"-Mother of Celestia, skip that one, please!" Derpy pleaded, laughing nervously.
"Fine. Thing Eight: He's perfectly okay with you calling him 'the Nurse', so don't hold yourself back up."
"Um, do hold yourself back!" the Doctor exasperatedly exclaimed.
"And, really, that's the basics when it comes to traveling with a couple."
That's when the couple realized that everypony who'd been listening were laughing uncontrollably to the point of tears, Destery beginning to try and hide hers. The Doctor met Derpy's gaze, completely bewildered over what had just occurred.
"And we keep her around, why?" Derpy jokingly asked.
"Because who else do we know that has that large of an imagination?" he responded, kissing her cheek.
"Damn right!" Qantiel bellowed.
"Children!" Derpy, the Doctor, and Mercer warned bask in unison, causing more laughter to occurred.
After a few more moments, the laughter finally died down, and they focused on the problem at hand. (Well, er... hoof.)
"So, how do we get rid of Celestia?" Derpy asked.
"What?!" everypony gasped in unison.
"No, no! I'm not talking about trees' son!" she rebutted.
"Um, love, er, don't you mean 'treason'?" the Doctor asked quietly.
"...Oh, right," she blushed embarrassedly. "But, she's locked in the TARDIS, I mean, and the Doctor said he would make an antidote. The alchemy lab was deleted, so how do you do the antidote? We surely can't have Celestia flying around and turning everypony else."
"Maybe, just maybe, that's exactly what we need," the Doctor grinned insanely.
Everypony eyed him.
"Alright," he continued, trotting to the door, "who's coming with me? I need to talk to Princess Luna and the Element bearers."
"May I?" Lilly asked.
"Sure. Anypony else?" the Doctor offered as Lilly trotted next to him.
"I'm gonna stay here for the time being," Derpy admitted. "You two go."
The Doctor nodded, opening the door for Lilly and shutting it behind him.
/Lilly\\
Lilly took one look at the Doctor and began giggling.
"What?" he asked, eyeing him.
"Aren't you embarrassed over what Qantiel just said to Destery?" she laughed.
The Doctor grinned and began walking, beckoning her to join him. "Well, of course I am," he laughed as well, "but, I mean, she brought back some nostalgic jokes as well. Sort of cool to hear them again."
Lilly shook her head, smiling. "Only you, Doctor."
"Oi, what's that supposed to mean?" he asked jokingly.
"I meant that only you would say that in that situation," she shrugged. "Anyways, where is it that we are going again?"
"Well, to see Luna, and when I last saw her she said she'd be reporting to the thrones."
Lilly nodded, becoming silent.
The Doctor watched her intently. "Hey, Lill'...?"
She looked up from the ground, meeting his gaze. "Yes?"
He furrowed his brow in what seemed to be confusion. "Earlier today, when Celestia snapped, you didn't say anything else. Well, you were talking with Mercer and Qantiel, but you only said one or two words, and really you only said one sentence before Tia left. Why?"
Lilly sighed. "You'd call me crazy if I told you," she remarked.
"No; I would never. Now, what happened?"
The psychic shrugged. "I got a bad feeling."
"And why would I call you crazy over that?"
(Flashbacks are in parentheses)
("Really?!" Kaitlynn yelled. "You've been ignoring me because you 'felt a bad feeling'?!"
"Yeah," Lilly said quietly (Author's Note: Like, Canada's level of quietness, for my fellow Hetalian readers!), pulling down her sleeve and gripping onto her class books.
"What the Hell ever happened to us being 'best friends forever'?!"
Lilly backed away until she hit the wall, Kaitlynn approaching closer. "Kait, y-you're causing a scene," she whispered, gesturing to the increasing number of bystanders.
"Do I give a damn about people watching?!"
"Apparently not, but I do..."
"See? This is what I was talking about, Lilith!"
Out of the corner of her eye, Lilly saw a teacher cautiously walking to the scene.
"What do you mean?" Lilly asked.
"You're just a self-centered whore who doesn't deserve companionship because her craziness ruins it and makes her insane!"
Lilly shook her head, tears welling in her eyes. "I'm not crazy, Kait, I'm not, and you said so yourself-"
"-Then maybe I was wrong," Kaitlynn spat out, the teacher now running to the scene. "All of your visions are fake! All of your stories are fake! Rachel is fake! Your kind only made her up so you wouldn't be lonely, because you only have me as a friend!"
The teacher grabbed Kaitlynn's shoulder, only to be pushed backward onto the floor in response.
"But, you know what, no! I don't care anymore! I hate you! I absolutely sodding hate you! Do you think you have any reason to ignore me?!" she screamed, her finger pointed in Lilly's tear-striped face.
"Kaitlynn Anna Marie, knock off that act right now!" the teacher barked, grabbing her shoulder again.
Kaitlynn, before anyone could react, whirled her fist around, and connected it with Lilly's jaw. Her head snapped backwards against the wall, her mind going blurry and her legs dissolving into liquid. She hit the floor, some running and some staying to laugh.)
/the Doctor\\
Lilly stopped walking, her eyes glazed over like newly cut glass. She stopped breathing, flinching and trembling.
The Doctor cautiously approached her, resting a foreleg around her neck comfortingly.
"Lilly?" he asked calmly.
The said pony remembered how to breathe and blinked.
"Yes?" she asked mutely in response.
"What just happened?"
"...Oh. Oh, it was nothing," she smiled.
"Dear, please don't lie to me," he asked.
"Because something happened before."
"What?"
Lilly looked into his eyes. "You asked me why you'd call me crazy. It's because it's happened before."
The Doctor frowned, embracing her tightly before pulling away. "I'm here to talk if you need to," he promised.
Lilly smiled weakly. "Trust me. I'll tell you sometime."
"D'accord." (Dah-cord.)
"Hmm?"
"D'accord," he smiled, walking again with her at his side, "French for 'agreed'."
Lilly laughed softly. "Doctor, why do you insist on speaking in French?"
"Français est génial, Lilly!" he responded cheerfully. (Frawn-say-eh-jzeh-knee-al.)
"...Rachel, help?" she asked weakly, giggling afterwards.
"I said 'French is cool'," he laughed, shaking his head.
A pony (that was seemingly Rachel) with copper eyes, a pale white coat, and a long ginger mane that resembled a straighter version of the Princesses' appeared.
"Doctor, I've actually tried to teach her French. Avec vous dire 'Allons-y' et tout, elle devrait au moins savoir quelque chose de la langue," Rachel smiled. (Ah-veh-kz-voo-dee-Allons-y-eh-too-ell-deh-vray-ooh-mwawns-sah-vwar-kell-koo-shoos-day-lay-lohngg.) ("With you saying 'Allons-y' and all, she should at least know something of the language.")
Lilly groaned. "Rachel, not you too!"
"Oi, join the herd!" her Spirit Guide ordered.
"Where is the TARDIS translation system when you need it, huh," Lilly muttered, her questioning voice quiet.
The Doctor laughed softly, wrapping a foreleg around Lilly. "Alright, fine, we'll stop. Désolé." (Day-soul-lay.)
"A-K-A sorry," Rachel smiled.
The psychic laughed genuinely. "I'll listen to your French lectures from now on," she promised.
/Princess Luna\\
The side door to the throne room opened, the Doctor and Lilly walking in at a moderately fast pace.
"What now?" Luna asked sadly.
"Sorry to interrupt your time of grievance, Princess," Lilly bowed, "but the Doctor has a solution."
"Could it get Tia and the kingdoms back?" she questioned.
"Most definitely," the Doctor answered.
"I'm listening," the Lunar Princess said.
/the Doctor\\
"What do we need?" she asked.
"You, Twilight, Cadence, and every source of Alicorn magic. We also need the Elements of Harmony," the Doctor enunciated.
"How? It would take a far too large risk for Cadence to travel here, and she's the third and last source of clean Alicorn magic aside from I and Celestia's student," Luna rebutted.
"Then we have all that's needed," he grinned. "Princess, if you wouldn't mind, please gather Twilight and the Elements at once."
Princess Luna nodded, flying out.
Lilly nudged his foreleg. "What're you gonna do?"
"Hmm?"
"What exactly is going to be this alchemist's-nightmare that you'll call an 'antidote'?"
The Doctor laughed. "I'll call it an antidote because it is an antidote, first off. Second, we will need Alicorn magic, the TARDIS, the Elements, an equipped laboratory, and the magic of outer space."
"And how do they all fit together?"
"Okay. First, we'll collect the infected aerosols because it's airborne in a vial, which I may have in my pockets," he began. "Then, we will further scan them, make a concoction, use the Alicorns' magic to amplify it with their own antidote, the Elements will bring friendship into the solution, I'll hook into the TARDIS and -BAM!- we shoot into space, find Equestria's planet, slingshot it in, the concoction will spread throughout, and then everypony wakes up with amnesia-like thoughts and forgets the entire Plasmavore-epidemic and goes back to living their normal, everyday lives like they should be."
Lilly cleared her throat. "Dad, four questions."
"Fire away."
"Okay. One: How do you know it's airborne if the ponies that contracted the virus had bites affiliated with their sickness? Two: If it IS airborne, how come we weren't affected? Three: Celestia is in the TARDIS, yeah? How are we going to get Tia out of the TARDIS, ourselves inside, and keep everypony in a guaranteed safety? Four: What do you mean by 'their own antidote'?"
The Doctor laughed, grinning. "One: It's not the bites that are the problem. The problem is the aerosols that are infected by the virus – they play a vital part in the infection's placings."
"How so?"
"Well, from what I'm understanding, the structure of Octavia's teeth weren't matching with the description of the bites that Tia falsely affiliated with the Sickness. I say falsely because the marks on the Vamponies' necks indicate the marks of an actual bat. They simply guessed because, honestly, the ponies are too kind to really experiment and investigate others - they were too scared, but of what? Hurting themselves, or maybe hurting others? We may never know. But somehow, the aerosols were given a boost of dis-immunity, and the virus attacked like they were actual cells. Then, as the air was being filled with toxins, everypony were being bitten by the actual bats because the toxins could have infected their brains, causing them to go after something OTHER than fruits, and the bites would allow the aerosols to invade the pony's system and give them the disease."
"But, Doctor, one thing: if the virus is airborne, how would they need to be bitten for theirselves to intake the aerosols? That's what 'airborne' means, right?"
"Yeah," he nodded. "However, you're right? How could they achieve that?"
A dull silence throbbed before Rachel appeared.
"Somepony had a vial of something, Doc," the Spirit announced.
"Who?" he asked suspiciously.
"Nopony knows. My interrogated group said it was a brown stallion with an hourglass cutie mark—... Actually, ya know, Doc, the stallion looked exactly like you!" she exclaimed.
"But I wasn't even in Ponyville to begin with!" the Doctor gasped defensively.
"Relax, relax," Lilly smiled, immediately hugging the Doctor tightly, "we both know you aren't to blame, dad. Now, answer the second question, please?"
The Doctor nodded, the psychic retracting from their embrace. "Second: Being a time traveler changes the way you see the world."
"How so?"
"We travel to new places and planets which have their own sets of illnesses. You become immune to them, and your immune system can handle a lot more, this included."
Lilly nodded. "Third?"
"We'll get that in the heat of the moment, same as always."
"Really?" the psychic asked.
"Yup!"
"And, now the fourth."
"Yes; they have had an antidote ever since the first Alicorn roamed Equestria," the Doctor grinned.
"...Which is?"
"Their magic, and this I've found from a past study, contains an elixir of immunity. They, like unicorns, haven't unlocked the final stage of their magic - their true potential."
"Really?" Lilly asked in bewilderment.
"Yup!" he exclaimed once more, again popping the "p".
"And this final stage is...?"
"Healing; the power to heal other ponies or themselves."
Lilly's eyes widened. "No way!" she gasped.
The Doctor laughed.
"But... how would they unlock it? And what exactly is going to happen when you make them forget?"
The Doctor shrugged, gesturing for her to follow him when he began walking down the path Luna had minutes before. "It's like you and your telekinesis. How did YOU find out?"
Lilly froze. Then, she began listening to Rachel, which was obvious by her nodding her head in a self-mute.
But that didn't add up! If you unlock a telekinetic power, shouldn't you remember it clear as day, or remember what you were doing? When the Doctor told her this, she cleared her throat.
"Sorry," she simply muttered afterwards, picking up her pace to be by the Doctor as he continued walking.
The Doctor nodded, staying silent until they entered the throne room. Luna was conversing quietly with Twilight and her friends (the Element Bearers).
"Hey, Lilly, where are the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" he asked quietly.
"Who?"
"Oh..., right. Forgot today was your first day. I meant Sweetie Belle, aka Rarity's sister, Scootaloo, aka Rainbow Dash's sister, and Apple Bloom, aka Apple Jack's sister."
Lilly paused for several seconds before nodding. "Safe and asleep somewhere in the castle."
"Hm," he merely stated.
The Doctor and Lilly continued walking until they reached everypony, frowning at the scene. Rarity was sobbing on Apple Jack's shoulder, whom was refraining from crying as well. Twilight and Luna were paled, obviously talking about Celestia, and Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash were staring at the ground.
"Excuse me," the Doctor cleared his throat. "I'll be needing all seven of you in the TARDIS."
/(New!)the TARDIS\\
(Author's Note: I figured to change it up. Tell me if this is sounding okay or not, and, by the way, because the TARDIS is a girl, I will be using words like "she" or "her". And, also, this will be hard for me to write, so I may be vague on certain sentences.
Because, if I wrote, "she watched as her front doors opened and the Doctor led the others into her control room"...
Scarlet would be proud.)
The TARDIS watched as Celestia anxiously flew around, running into the door multiple times in means of escape.
'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' the TARDIS telepathically warned, using their earlier established link needed for a mission involving the Slitheen invading Ponyville, 'the Doctor will be mad.'
"I don't care if the Doctor is mad. I want out!" Celestia pouted out loud.
She harrumphed, ringing her cloister bells, beckoning and pleading for her thief to come back; she wouldn't be able to keep the doors locked any longer.
/Derpy\\
Derpy's ears perked when the familiar ringing shocked her out of her drowsiness. The Doctor's words barged into her head, and she repeated them in unison with Mercer and Qantiel.
"Something is going to happen, is happening, or has happened, and we need to stop it - quickly."
All together they shot up, Derpy kissing her daughters' heads and waving goodbye before grabbing Destery and entering the hallway.
"What do you think is wrong?" Mercer asked.
All three pairs of wings (and one pair of hooves) were noisily barging through the hallway in hopes of reaching the TARDIS in time.
"Perhaps a Vampony or whatever is coming," Qantiel suggested.
"Perhaps," Derpy agreed.
After they made it to the TARDIS, they ran into the Doctor and Lilly, who brought Luna and the Mane Six.
"What's going on?" the cross-eyed mare asks her significant other.
"Who knows," he murmured.
The Doctor went to open the door, but Lilly cleared her throat. At that moment Celestia began banging against the TARDIS doors.
"Who is that?" Destery asked in a frightened manner.
"Tia," Luna sighed depressively. In a flash, what seemed to be all of the Royal Guards flew up the hallway.
"How...?" Derpy asked.
Rachel appeared, smiling. "Je l'ait fait!" (Jzuh-lay-Fay.) ("I did it!")
The Doctor nodded once in confirmation, grinning. "Okay, this is how we will do this. Everypony will hide behind the TARDIS, except for the Royal Guards. Guards, Celestia is going to be unleashed from the TARDIS; fend her off. One or two of you will go up and take the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Dinky, and Sparkler outside. Another one or two will search through the entire castle and lead all ponies and Vamponies outside. Nopony will get left behind, or you risk another chance of the virus spreading."
"I'm beginning to sense a pattern here," one Guard chuckled from the back of the group.
"Yes, you should be," the Doctor admitted. "Now, how long do you think you can fend off Celestia?"
"Roughly, if she is like the others, 5-10 minutes," another Guard informed.
"Perfect!" the Time Lord grinned, his eyes lighting up. "We will be explaining the antidote to everypony when inside the TARDIS... Oh. Don't kill anypony, Guards. With that said, Allons-y."
Everypony but the guards hid behind the TARDIS, who opened her doors on her own. Celestia flew out, everypony taking her spot inside of the TARDIS.
/the Doctor\\
The Doctor rushed to the controls and added the alchemy workstation, immediately rushing into it. Everypony followed, Luna and the Element Bearers not expressing their obvious surprise.
Minutes later, after the Elements and Alicorn magic were added, the correct solution had been achieved.
"Alright. Princesses and Element Bearers, I need you to exit the TARDIS and wait outside," the Doctor explained.
"Why?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"The antidote is going to cure everypony. You need to be cured," the Doctor explained.
Everypony nodded, galloping and flying away. Derpy met up with the Doctor, everypony else in their crew (Mercer, Qantiel, Lilly, and Destery) doing the same. Once the doors shut they flew up into space, found the planet, and shot the antidote bottles into it. From afar they could see the planet beginning to change back, and a wave of relief flashed over them.
"So, we are done?" Lilly asked.
"Yes," came the Doctor's reply. "And the rooms are back."
"Will anypony remember the Vamponies?" Derpy asked.
"The antidote erased all of their memories, starting back one month 'till now. Everypony is changed back and free of harmful antigens."
Lilly yawned. "I'm gonna go to bed. Good work today, guys."
"Bonne nuit," (bun-nuew-wee) ("Good night,") the Doctor responded.
"Me too," Scarlet and Hydran agreed in unison before scowling impatiently at each other. After everyone walked off into their respective rooms, Rachel appeared. She placed a hand on the young adult's back, scaring said person half-to-death.
"I'll show Destery to her room, and I'll explain everything - for real."
"D'accord," the Time Lord smiled as Destery and Rachel left, leaving Derpy at the monitor and walking to the doors, watching the space outside.
Derpy cleared her throat. "I'll be right back."
"You seem nervous?" he stated, questioning himself. "Are you alright, love?"
"I'm okay, Doc. I just want to check something."
/Derpy\\
Not long after she came back to the control room and began watching the monitor again, Derpy felt the Doctor wrap his arm around her waist from behind. He pulled her against him and rested his chin on the edge of her shoulder, kissing her cheek. She giggled, smiling and craning her head to face him as she leaned against him.
"Yes?" she asked playfully, "whatchya doing?"
He leaned his forehead against her temple, his lips right by the center of her ear, where he huskily whispered "May I have a little fun with my girlfriend?" before pulling away.
Derpy pecked his lips with a giggle. "You're adorable. And, yes, you may have a little fun."
He grinned, linking his lips with hers after turning her to face him. He soon was pulled in closer to her so they were directly against each other when she pulled the labels of his trench coat and he placed his hands on the small of her back, their kiss intensifying until they couldn't breathe. (Not that they cared, anyways.) He nibbled on her bottom lip, and when she softly moaned his tongue ventured into her mouth where they began working in sync after giving up a fight for dominance.
Derpy pulled away, her cheeks a shade of Crimson. "Oh, the things you do to me... I don't know where or how you learned to kiss like that, Doctor, but you've certainly been doing something right...," she murmured seductively.
The Doctor grinned, caressing her cheek. "Sorry about that," he whispered, "you're just so perfect."
"Oh, stop it," she giggled, "I'm not."
"Maybe not in your eyes, but in mine, you're the most beautiful, caring, intelligent, amazing woman in the entire universe," he smirked.
He leaned in to kiss her again but Derpy raised a finger to his lips. He looked down in a confused manner.
"I have something to tell you...," she admitted, grabbing his hand softly.
"...Yes...?" he asked, anxious to see what was wrong.
Derpy continued moving his hand until she paused, resting it on her flat stomach. She looked up eagerly into his eyes, obviously wondering what his reaction would be.
The Doctor's expression turned shocked and confused in a perfect unison where they were both shown evenly. "Ditzy, my dear, are you...?"
She nodded, her smile embellishing her face. "Doctor, I'm pregnant!"
The Doctor froze, keeping his expression the same before it melted into a large grin. He held Derpy to him tightly, his assistant hugging him back as well.
"Oh, Derpy," he murmured into her neck, "Derpy, Derpy, Derpy, Derpy..." He then leant away, his hands on her shoulders. "Are you completely sure?"
"Yes," Derpy nodded once more. "Remember how I said I needed to check something? Well, that was my excuse to take the test, so I'm 100 percent. I just need to take care of myself and the baby while it's still unborn — WE need to."
The Doctor grinned out of newfound joy over the situation, holding her to him again. She laughed within his grasp. "And, awkward question: it's ours, like, including me, right?"
Derpy laughed. "Who the heck else would there be? Hydran?"
He chuckled, shaking his head. "Oh, Derpy, my dear little Ditzy Doo, I love you so, so, so, so, so much. And I am so bloody happy for us," he admitted into her hair. "What do we do about the othes? Like, telling them?"
"The safest time to start telling them is after three months, but we can always start telling them now."
"I think we should wait the three months, but it's up to you."
"I say we should wait the three months," she admitted.
The Doctor tightened his grip around her a tiny bit more. "And so now, I have to be extra careful around you..." he states seductively.
She giggled embarrassedly. "But what's so fun about that?"
He kissed her cheek, trailing down her neck softly so his lips were merely skimming her skin. "There's no fun in that, but I'm sure we can find a way to make it so..."
Derpy let out a soft and quiet moan when he finally made it to her collarbone, centimeters away from the love mark that he had planted on her nights ago, and decided to kiss him deeply when he leaned away.
They both melted into said kiss, their hands gripping onto each other's clothes to bring themselves closer until it wasn't humanly possible anymore. He sat her on the couch, continuing to kiss her while leaning against her in the floor. She wrapped her legs around his waist, becoming dazed over how surprisingly right it felt.
Someone cleared their throat from behind them and they automatically separated from each other. Scarlet stood crossing her arms and leaning against the wall.
"Oh, come on, Scarlet, what're you doing?" the Doctor asked, both jim and his girlfriend blushing out of embarrassment.
"I woke up and wanted to go into the control room, and I so didn't want to see that. You two probably just gave me nightmares."
"Then don't walk in on us, then!" Derpy suggested.
"You know that there's an assortment of empty rooms you two could've decided to go into before doing - whatever that was?"
"Did you hear us talking?" the a Time Lord asked to change the subject.
"About what?"
"Good."
"Kay, well, I'm leaving," Scarlet stated bluntly, walking back to her bedroom.
Derpy jumped off of the couch. "I guess we should do the same."
"I suppose."
So they, hand in hand, walked into the Doctor's bedroom.
***Time-Jump(4 Minutes)***
The Doctor had Derpy cuddled against him. His right arm was looped around her neck from behind, her head lolled back against his neck, but he realized she wasn't sleeping, although her eyes were closed.
"Are you just not tired?" he softly asked.
"Well, I'm tired, but apparently not enough to sleep," she giggled, looking up. "I'm really curious."
"Hmm? Whatddya mean?"
"I'm pretty sure I wouldn't know for ten days, so how come the test said positive now?"
He pondered before speaking. "You just changed into a pony. Perhaps the dimensional shift inside of your body pushed forwards the limit of how many days you already were. We will have to be careful of that."
She paused. "Sorry, but, can you explain that in simpler terms?"
"No problem. Let us say we travel... let's say we travel four months into the future. The dimensional/time change in your body would speed you forward; you'd become four months pregnant. And if we traveled nine into the past from that point, you wouldn't be pregnant anymore, because four minus nine is negative five, making you negative five."
"So... We can't travel now, because of me?"
"...I dunno. I mean, we can't go back to Ponyville until it's born, because of dimensions. But, also, we can't go. To the future or past, so... we CAN travel, but no time traveling, and we can't change into different forms."
Derpy frowned. "Sorry."
"Oi," he smiled, "don't be sorry. It's not your fault. And, to be honest, even without an excuse, I'm sure the others wouldn't mind."
His assistant yawned once more.
"Alright, love, you should get some rest," he suggested softly.
"Fine," she sarcastically groaned. Derpy kissed his cheek before drifting off.
Author's Note:
Bonjour!
Well, the second trimester ended Monday, so I'm officially done with French class. (*plays sad violin in distance*) But, yeah, and I am so extremely sorry for not uploading in about 26 days! That's a new record, obviously. I'm hoping I never do it again. Things have been going absolutely bonkers at my house, and I went on a forced writer's block for two weeks.
Two.
Weeks.
Désolé!
Also, I am working on submitting one of my narratives from Humanities (advanced language arts class) for a winter contest. Top price gets around $2,500, so I'm hoping to at least get somewhere around it. Hopefully I do well, so wish me luck!
Je ai utilisé Google Traduction pour les traductions françaises. (I used Google Translate for the French translations.)
Merci beaucoup pour la lecture! (Thank you very much for reading!)
- GothicPegasister