Chapter 5: Earthshock
=Gaia, Equestria, Ponyville, Golden Oaks Library, Twilight Sparkle's Study, 1003 C.E. =
"The Cybermen must have sent a Cyber-Scout down to Ponyville, either for an invasion or to destroy any witnesses." The Doctor noted as they crouched down below the windows so the Cyberman wouldn't see them.
"Just one? That's rather arrogant." Trixie noted.
"Cybermen are incapable of emotions. They are also incapable of arrogance." The Doctor pointed out.
"Unlike you, apparently." Daring Do said snidely.
Before Trixie could comment about that, the Cyberman began to repeatedly shoot through the windows of the room, smashing them.
Trixie realized that she was watching somepony she really didn't like have their windows smashed, and she couldn't hold back laughing just a little.
"Are you enjoying this?" The Doctor asked, slightly surprised.
"Trixie most certainly is!" Trixie yelled.
Then the Cyberman broke his way through the door and walked into the room, and Trixie stopped laughing.
"Keep out of sight!" Romana whispered.
They continued to press against where they were, trying to keep out of the line of vision of the Cyberman as it stomped through the room, knowing full well someone was in the room, but not sure where.
The Doctor was unsure of how they would get out of this one, but he was sure they would think of something soon enough.
The Doctor looked for something in the small library. Finding nothing, he sighed inwardly. Then he realized that the Cyberman was now beginning to descend in to the basement. He realized this was a bit of a long shot, but it might do something.
Instead of telling the others what his plan was, he simply ran forward at top speed and pushed the Cyberman right down the stairs, creating a rather loud crash at the bottom.
The Doctor walked down the stairs to see if he had killed it, while the others stared at him in shock. "Did he really just do that?" Daring Do asked, surprised.
"You never are quite sure what the Doctor's going to do until he's already gone and done it." Romana noted.
The Doctor got to the bottom of the stairs and found that the Cyberman was slightly damaged, but was picking itself up. He also saw some primitive machinery nearby.
"Electrical equipment? Well that will suit me just fine." The Doctor said as he pulled a wire out of the machinery. He attached this wire to the Cyberman, smiled at it, and pulled a lever on the machinery panels.
Electricity shot through the Cyberman until the panel on its chest exploded, causing it to collapse dead.
Shortly after, Romana, Daring Do and Trixie came down to see it the Doctor had actually gone and killed the Cyberman, and were actually shocked a little to see that he had, and was now examining it.
"You did it, I see." Romana said, maintaining a straight face.
There was a continuous clicking noise emanating from the Cyberman, going in a pattern over and over.
"What, is it going to explode?" Trixie asked fearfully.
"No, it's a coded message that began playing on a loop after the Cybermen died." The Doctor explained.
"Well, what does it say?" Romana asked.
"If I've got it right, it says 'Mission failed. You must destroy town with Cyber-Bomb.' or something like that." The Doctor said.
"WHAT?" Daring Do yelled, horrified.
"Now all we have to do is get up to the ship and make sure they don't drop that bomb." The Doctor said, surprisingly calm.
"But how do we do that?" Trixie yelled.
"Simple. We teleport up there." The Doctor pointed out.
"But I can't do that! Trixie's magic is blocked!" Trixie yelled.
"Well I can unblock your 'magic'." The Doctor said as he sifted through his pockets and pulled out the sonic screwdriver. He began whirring it at her horn.
"What are you doing to Trixie?" Trixie asked.
"Hold still, this will take about ten minutes." The Doctor said.
Ten minutes later, The Doctor quickly rushed her up the stairs and out of the house, just to make sure that she wouldn't blow the house up. And it certainly looked like she could do that, as her horn was literally sparking with energy
"Unfortunately, there's only enough energy built up for two of us, so I'll go with Trixie, and the rest of you stay here." The Doctor said as he prepared to teleport.
"But what do we do?" Daring Do asked.
"I'm sure we can find a way to make ourselves useful." Romana said.
"Exactly. I'm sure I'll see you again." Then the Doctor placed his hoof on the side of Trixie's head. Her eyes turned pure white, and they were both transported up to the Cyber-Ship.
Daring Do and Romana then began to make their way up to the mountain not far away from them, hoping that they could help from there.
=Gaia, Equestria, Descending from Orbit of the Planet Gaia, Cyber Rescue Fleet 12, The Bomber Cyber-Ship, 1003 C.E. =
Trixie discovered that she was in the middle of a large room with lots of control panels covered in buttons she didn't understand. She also discovered that she was surrounded on all sides by Cybermen.
She wanted to scream, but she was pulled down by the Doctor, who dragged her over to where the Cybermen could not possibly see where they were at.
"Well this will be a bit harder than I thought." The Doctor whispered.
'You think so?" Trixie whispered back, slightly angrily.
"Let's just go quickly." The Doctor said as he prepared some kind of way to rush over to the controls of the bomb and disarm it. He looked at t contemplatively until an idea came to him. "I just thought of a way to kill two birds with one stone." He whispered.
"How?" Trixie whispered.
"If we crash the bomb in to the gates of Tartarus, it will close them again and kill all the demons that are already out." The Doctor explained.
"That's insane!" Trixie whispered.
"It's all we've got." The Doctor said. And then, without warning, he very quickly ran out to the navigation console and started rapidly pressing buttons at unimaginable.
The Cybermen regained their composure and tried to fire at him, but the Doctor ducked and the bullets destroyed the console, making whatever the Doctor did permanent.
Trixie just stared in shock at how insane that was.
"Congratulations. You're now permanently set on a crash course with a mountain." The Doctor said as he grabbed Trixie and ran.
They made it to the airlock with no trouble, but found it was stuck, and they couldn't open it.
=Gaia, Equestria, Canterlot Mountain, The Base of Canterlot Mountain, 1003 C.E. =
Romana and Daring Do were at the base of the mountain, planning to climb back up to Canterlot.
All of a sudden, they saw a ship blazing across the sky. It crashed into the mountain and exploded powerfully, shaking the whole mountain.
Daring Do and Romana stared in horror as they realized that The Doctor was on that ship.