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Chapter 4:

Clockwork watched the map as hundreds upon thousands of lines crisscrossed across the display. The blue threads shimmered as the ghost inspected their paths, tracing some across several icons. Shaking his head, he turned to grab his staff and floated over to Grim, who was looking over several mountains of paperwork.

"Dis is too much paperwork! If dat boy hadn't gone an get that damn key I could have just dumped all dis on him!" The underworld lord complained, throwing a sheet into a nearby pile.

"You did what you believed would protect Megaville. That I cannot blame you my dear friend."

Clockwork shifted into his adult self and sat down in a chair across the desk, giving no mind to the stack of folders that he was sitting upon.

"However, I have some concern about certain events…"

Looking up from his paperwork, Grim removed his reading glasses to focus on the now elderly ghost. Clockwork wondered why the skeletal being wore them when he had no actual eyeballs but pushed that thought aside.

"I have lost track of several of the Doctor's timelines."

Grim sat confused for several moments before recollecting his memories.

"De Doctor? As in dat insane time traveler wit no fashion sense and a habit of getting into trouble? How can you lose someone like him?!"

Clockwork's mouth thinned a bit.

"I haven't lost the man, in fact, I can easily trace his path across the majority of the timelines outside of his native realm. However, my concern is the paths that I can't follow."

Grim suddenly felt a bit of foreboding.

"How can you not know the where…I mean when-abouts of dat man? You are de ghost of time! I understand dat within his native realm he has started erasing records of himself, but dat does not cross de meta-divide! Nothing dat occurs within a realm's can affect other realms except through continuous contact. And with de Doctor's realm constantly destroying and resetting itself, dat process alone prevents such."

The child form of Clockwork raised his hand to the map behind him.

"It could be of his doing. The man has a personal grudge against the Doctor and would jump at the chance of destroying him. I fear that he may have already neutralized several incarnations of the Doctor in the various timelines."

Grim nodded and glared at the map.

"Dat is possible, but what can we do about it?"

"I have already contacted the Q Continuum. Q apparently is already aware of the problem and is already keeping an eye on several Doctor versions. However, the greatest problem lies not in the Doctor's humanoid incarnations."

At the sight of further confusion, Clockwork sighed and reached out to place one of his medallions around Grim's neck. Before Grim could protest, Clockwork opened a portal and pulled them both through.

"Clockwork, where are…we?"

Grim trailed off as he looked around. The pastel colors of all the buildings were hurting his vision, but what captured his interest was…

"They are all ponies!" The Lord of the Underworld shrieked like a schoolgirl, skull turning this way and that trying to take in the local populace.

Several unicorns pranced by as a pegasus landed to talk with a shop merchant at a uniquely shaped bakery. Clockwork extended his arm to grab Grim's hood as the man attempted to head off. The skeleton was not pleased when his adventure into this amazing town was prevented by the ghost.

"Clockwork! Unhand me! Dis is a 'My Troubled Pony' fan's greatest dream! How can I let up such an opportunity!? You should have told me about this realm eons ago!"

Clockwork rolled his eyes and tapped the medallion.

"The better known term is 'My Little Pony' and no, I will not let you. There are no such things as humans in this specific incarnation of their universe. That necklace you're wearing helps prevent us from being seen and more over from being interacted with."

Grim looked down at the pendant in frustration.

"Den why must you torment me by bringing me here?"

"I told you earlier. Someone or something has caused me to lose track of the Doctor. Until we know for sure what that is, it is unsafe to interact with the local environment."

Grim glanced around, peering for anything out of the ordinary…if multicolor ponies could be considered ordinary.

"Well de Doctor is not here…" The skeleton noted, watching as the grey pegasus from earlier sat happily chewing on her muffin. "…how can we find him?"

"The dimensional fault lines seem to anchor themselves to this specific town…Ponyville if I recall correctly...and the Doctor was here before the disruptions."

Pointing his staff toward a distant mountain, Clockwork shook his head.

"We must be careful. The princesses warned me earlier we might risk collateral damage if we catch the enemy's full attention."

Grim looked out to see the cliff-side city through the distant mist.

"So how are going to find de Doctor? It is not like as if he will just pop out of no…where?"

They could hear it clear as day. While most of the locals seemed to have noticed, the grey pegasus perked up and immediately flew toward the sound, Grim and Clockwork following just behind.

Vworp Vworp Vworp

The trio slowed down at the outskirts of town, as a blue box began to materialize out of nowhere. In clear white lettering the words 'POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX' was displayed prominently across the signs atop each side, the light on the roof flashing before with a thud the noise and blinking stopped.

The door opened and out popped a brown pony with blue eyes, indifferent to his odd mode of travel. An hourglass marked each side of his flank as he scanned the area.

"No fair! Why does de doctor get to have a pet pony?!" Grim complained in annoyance, indicating the pony who had exited the Tardis. "You didn't even allow me to talk wid any one."

"Actually Grim, if Q's report is accurate, then that pony is in fact the…"

"DOCTOR!" The mare squealed as she bounded toward the stallion, embarrassing him in a tight hug.

"It is nice…to see you too…Ditsy..." The pony replied as the air was squeezed out of him.

Grim stood frozen in surprise as the ghost beside him chuckled.

"My dear friend, I would like to reintroduce the Doctor...as a pony."

A/N: Okay, an update after nearly a year of nothing...yeah. Read and review (hopefully).