Note:
Definitely play the Doctor Who intro before reading. Gotta get into the mood.
Just saying, play the 12th Doctor's intro.
Sabre, Time Steve, the Doctor and Starlight continues screaming while Hypno Steve slowly stops chuckling maniacally.
"The spell does work... but not well enough..."
The TARDIS has stopped shaking and had made a loud thud ss it landed somewhere. But sparks continue coming out of the controls. Hypno Steve would undo the illusion of the TARDIS ripping apart he has the others facing, particularly, the Doctor's illusions. But to undo the Doctor's, he has to undo everyone's. Hypno Steve can't be bothered to deal with the loathing of the group, at least not yet.
"The TARDIS hashas overheatededed..." Hypno Steve concluded. Even being protected by Starlight's magic, the TARDIS had taken a beating. Hypno Steve can't go anywhere near the controls without burning himself. The former Red Leader's injuries Madness Steve had left him with many physical challenges, even thousands of years on in his perspective.
"Elementaltalwlwl, coolcooloolwlwlwl the controlsthecontrolstrolstrls," Hypno Steve ordered. Also on board the TARDIS unbeknownst to everyone else but the Doctor, is Elemental Steve.
"On it," Elemental Steve groaned has he walked from the bottom, up the stairs, to the controls. Elemental Steve puts his hands on the very hot controls and uses his ice abilities to cool the controls down. Only then did the sparks stop.
"Now will you undo their illusion?" Elemental Steve huffed in a demanding tone. Hypno Steve looks at the others and summons lightning on them. They stop screaming immediately, they look at each other in confusion, and then look at Hypno Steve with anger.
"I have just about had it with your illusions," The Doctor sternly spoke as he walks to Hypno Steve, frantically pointing at him.
"From this point on, no more illusions!" The Doctor sternly raises his voice at Hypno Steve.
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"Wait- when was Elemental on board?" Starlight questioned.
"I was in my hot tub downstairs," Elemental Steve replied.
"So... what are we up to now then?" Elemental Steve yawned.
"Breaking reality's rules, using the void to get to parallel worlds- something we're really not meant to do," The Doctor replied as he goes back to piloting the TARDIS. He knew how very risky doing what he is doing, is.
"So uh, Elemental- I'm gonna ask before I forget- any updates on what those Cyberdrones are after?" Sabre asked.
"They've broke whatever this... temporal blockade, was. Some are still sticking around the Red Kingdom, as well as that house in Rockville. They were also discussing something about detecting gold spheres of quantum uncertainty in the void, very far away from our home dimension," Elemental Steve stated. The Doctor steps away from the controls, then looks at Elemental Steve when he heard 'spheres of quantum uncertainty'.
"What... what are they exactly, according to them?" The Doctor sternly questioned Elemental Steve.
"I dunno, they just said the spheres that they found in the void technically didn't exist," Elemental Steve shrugged.
"I remember seeing something of that description before..." The Doctor mumbled quietly to himself, starring off into nowhere, his back facing everyboy else. Both of his hearts slow down their beats, his blood goes cold, when his memory traces back to another sphere that appeared which matched the description... the sphere that appeared in Canary Wharf...
"It can't be those type of 'spheres'... no..." The Doctor's shuddering became noticeable to the others.
"Is something wrong?" Starlight asked, gently resting her left forehoof on him, which he takes off.
"Yeah I'm fine, just cold... we're in the void, where there's nothing," The Doctor lied. He is anxious that the only reason this action killed the TARDIS' power is because of some temporal spell.
"Uh..." Time Steve stammered as he had walked to the doors and opened both of them. Outside is the overworld, a parallel overworld. They are definitely no longer in the void.
"This is a parallel universe alright..." Time Steve trembled as he closes both doors. The others walk up to Time Steve. Whatever Time Steve saw outside, terrified him. He waits for Sabre, Elemental Steve, Hypno Steve, Starlight and the Doctor to walk to the doors. Time Steve works up the courage to open the doors again.
Outside is a forest, and pitches of it is covered in black blocks and bedrock, with undying blue fires dotted here and there, on their own, or in patches. The whole area outside the TARDIS are several completely black blocky figures. Most of them are the same size as a steve, but some are as tall as giants.
"Darkness..." Elemental Steve trembled. He knew why his brother also trembled. The area in this parallel overworld is infected, corrupted with darkness. It is day time, but the skies is clogged with clouds of darkness, which is letting barely any sunlight through.
"Why are we in a parallel overworld- wouldn't the parallel Elements of Harmony be in a parallel Equestria?" Sabre questioned, looking at Hypno Steve as well as the Doctor, mostly looking at Hypno Steve.
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"Right... got it," Starlight slowly nodded. It was a lot of information to take in. The echo in Hypno Steve's voice didn't help.
"Time, Elemental, stay inside the TARDIS. You two are the most vulnerable to darkness... we don't know how the darkness in this parallel universe will behave... so we should be cautious about this," Sabre advised.
"I could also have a couple powerful beings look after my TARDIS," The Doctor added onto Sabre while looking at Time Steve and Elemental Steve.
"That's a good idea... I don't know how we'd get home if this was destroyed," Starlight spoke while gritting her teeth at the thought of being stuck in a parallel universe.
"To avoid exactly that- yes," The Doctor nodded.
"Stay safe," Time Steve gave his best wishes. Sabre, Hypno Steve, Starlight and the Doctor venture off, away from the TARDIS.
"This feels wrong- we're here to take crystals- this universe needs them," Sabre sternly protested to the group. This parallel very clearly has a rampant darkness problem.
"Sabre does have a point- we're taking the hope from the steves of this universe," Starlight agreed with Sabre and takes his side.
"If we don't get what you all need, all universe will fall," The Doctor responded with a mumble. Deep down he feels the same as Sabre and Starlight. But without the crystals and the Elements of Harmony, the First Curse and Grogar will dismantle every universe until there is nothing.
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But the Doctor has mixed feelings. In some ways, the Doctor sees that this situation is almost as bad as the threat the reality bomb posed. The First Curse and Grogar had put their multiverses in jeopardy. Things are so desperate, he's had to do break down barriers to get to parallel worlds and take what's required to stand a chance against the First Curse and Gogar, which also further dooms those parallel worlds. But there is no other option, it has to be done.
"Uh- they've noticed us!" Starlight shrieked. Dozens of darkness surround the 4. Starlight's horn glows bright blue and shoots bright blue beams, destroying a few of those darkness, but more darkness rose up and charge in its place.
"We're trapped!" Sabre panicked. He uses the supercharged redstone staff to destroy more darkness, but it was useless. More and more darkness swarmed them.
The Doctor reaches into his inside pockets with his right hand, and pulls out a colourless crystal with some kind of gold ring on it. He frowns as he aims it at the darkness and orange yellow energy bursts out, roaring out of the crystal, hitting and bouncing onto all the surrounding darkness, almost instantly disintegrating all of the surrounding darkness.
"Woah- what was that!?" Sabre exclaimed.
"Never mind about that- just run!" The Doctor shouted as he puts the item back in his inside pockets as he sprints off. Sabre, Hypno Steve and Starlight sprints off with him. The 4 are running on ground that is partially corrupted by darkness. There is blue and regular fires everywhere. Any tree that isn't corrupted by darkness, is burning in flames.
They then see 3 Colourless Guards on horseback ahead. The horses are wearing iron armour. The horse-mounted colourless guards are charging and fighting another group of darkness. They defeat them and they turn right. They spot the 4 runners, and they guide their horses to trot to them.
"There's more darkness behind us!" A Colourless Guard yelled. Behind everybody is a massive horde of darkness.
"Get on- Sabre!? All of you, get on!" The guards boomed out orders. Sabre, Hypno Steve and the Doctor gets on the horses while putting their arms around the Colourless Guard's waists as they trot away. Starlight follows and trots on her own hooves, she is able to keep up. Eventually, they get away, they lose the darkness. They get deep into a forest, a forest that isn't corrupted by darkness... yet. They all arrive at a very small camp site. There is just a single tent and a campire, which is currently cooking steak.
Once everybody that are on the horses hops off their backs, the 3 Colourless Guards place down a single oak fence. They attach the horses to them with string. Then 2 of the guards heads off, to patrol the area.
Sabre notices a colourful tint coming from the tent. He takes more notice, and sees that there is a red crystal.
"The rest of them must be in that tent..." Sabre quietly said to himself.
"Sabre!? We thought you became corrupted!" The remaining Colourless Guard exclaimed.
"He is not the Sabre you know. This is Sabre from a parallel universe," The Doctor clarified.
"And who and what may you be, sir?" The other Colourless Guard questioned.
"I'm the Doctor, I am a Time Lord," The Doctor replied, in a slow and serious tone. He wants to be taken seriously.
"What is a Time Lord?" The colourless guard asked.
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"Also- what the heck was that weapon you used? Doctor?" Sabre inquired.
"Oh, you mean this?" The Doctor responded as he pulls out with his right hand a colourless crystal with some kind of gold ring from one of his inside pockets. He looks at the item as he explains what it is.
"It's one of the TARDIS' power cells. It wasn't made to be a weapon- what I did was I used the energy to destroy that group of darkness. I keep a spare one on me in case of situations like being surrounded. But it will take about four hours for this cell to recharge," The Doctor answered and explained as he puts the power cell back into his inside pockets.
"Right... got it- TARDIS stuff is just confusing," Sabre nodded.
"Don't worry about it, just have trust in me," The Doctor reassured. Sabre nods.
"What happened here- what happened to the overworld?" Starlight asked.
"After Sabre defeated the First Curse and had reset the loop-"
"Wait, this parallel has it's own First Curse- there's more than one version of him?" Sabre interrupted as he scratches his head.
"Wait- nevermind- yeah that was a dumb question," Sabre quickly retracted his question. There is definitely parallel Origin Steves. So there has to be parallel First Curses.
"Sabre defeated the First Curse with this... dark sword... the Shadow Sword... but quickly after saving this universe, he... he- he became corrupted- he wouldn't let go of those friends he lost... he was consumed with rage, he- he became 'the new Void'..." The colourless guard trembled.
"I..." Sabre also trembled. He himself almost got completely consumed by darkness. He was able to break out. This parallel Sabre wasn't so lucky. Sabre knew he could've ended up like that parallel Sabre.
"AAHHHHHH!"
"AAHHHHHH!"
The 2 other Colourless Guards scream in agony, making the others face the direction the screams came from. Then, walking up to the camp is...
"Shadow!?" Sabre gasped. He trembles backwards while holding the supercharged redstone staff. This is a parallel Shadow Sabre.
"You think you three could hide the crystal from me? Oh no no no, that belongs to me! Hand me the crystal, or else!" Shadow Sabre forcefully demanded, paying no attention to the others, but he walks up to the Colourless Guard, who shows no fear.
"No," The Colourless Guard denied access. Shadow Sabre pulls out the Shadow Sword, and in one hit, smites the Colourless Guard down. A single darkness spawns in the guard's place.
Sabre and Starlight stare in horror, while the Doctor and Hypno Steve sternly stares forward.
"Finally, the crystal... it is mine- huh!?" Shadow Sabre stumbkes back as inside the tent flashes blue. It flashes and appears in the Doctor's right hand.
"Take it! You three, run! I'll distract him!" Starlight firmly ordered. As Sabre, Hypno Steve and the Doctor try to make it back to the Doctor, Starlight turns to face Shadow Sabre.
"You are causing so much misery and pain- I know there is good in you!" Starlight pleaded. She knew this is Sabre from a parallel universe. Starlight hoped this parallel Sabre would listen.
"There will be no misery and pain once I make this universe one with nothing. No feelings, no pain, just nothing... one with nothing... I'm so close to achieving that... and you won't get in my way!" Shadow Sabre declared as he summons a barrage of fireballs. Starlight uses her magic and raises a shield to protect herself. She then disappears, and so does the shield.
"Huh?" Shadow Sabre walks to where Starlight was.
"Do try to keep up," Starlight frowned as she charges from behind, charging Shadow Sabre. Starlight's horn glows blue, and headbutts Shadow Sabre.
"Agh!" Shadow Sabre is knocked 10 blocks back, and crouches. He then uncrouches and chuckles.
"Impressive, you have unique abilities. I can't wait to see what you will offer the darkness." Without warning, Shadow Sabre lunges at Starlight with the Shadow Sword. The unicorn jumps and falls to the ground, narrowly dodging the attack.
"I will give you nothing!" Starlight yelled as she shoots a beam of light blue magic, which Shadow Sabre defends himself against by creating a small ball of darkness in between him and Starlight.
Starlight trots around the ball. Shadow Sabre isn't there. Starlight looks in all directions for him. Then a lightning bolt narrowly misses her. She looks up and sees Shadow Sabre, who is hovering 10 blocks above the ground.
"What's the matter? Can't fly? I'll destroy you in this very instant!" Shadow Sabre shouted as he tries to strike lightning on Starlight, which she dodges. She trots into the forest, following the others, using the leaves on the trees as cover from Shadow Sabre's lightning.
"Over here!" Starlight hears Sabre loudly whispering. Starlight turns left, seeing Sabre, Hypno Steve and the Doctor, hiding. Starlight trots over to them, panting.
"Where's the TARDIS- how will we get out!?" Sabre quietly exclaimed.
"Don't worry, the TARDIS was in this exact spot," The Doctor reassured. He has something up his sleeve.
"Found you all!" Shadow Sabre's voice boomed as he uses the power of the Shadow Sword and rips every tree concealing the 4, out of the ground. The group is now exposed. Shadow Sabre slowly levitates down.
"Stay back!" Sabre yelled as loud as he could as he tries to attack Shadow Sabre, who simply pushes him backwards.
"Sabre!" Starlight exclaimed as she catches up and helps him back up right.
"Hand me the crystal... and you will..." Shadow Sabre demanded, in a somewhat 'calm' tone. He sees the Rainbow Crystal in the Doctor's right hand.
"Oh, and what if we don't?" The Doctor questioned as he takes his sonic sunglasses out of his inside pockets with his left hand puts them on. It makes the wrowrowowowowo sound like the sonic screwdriver does.
"It doesn't matter anyway, because I'll destroy you all!" Shadow Sabre boastfully declared as he summons a barrage of fireballs, and they explode. But they don't destroy the group of 4. It seems there is some kind of forcefield.
"What!? No!" Shadow Sabre shouted, more eneraged than confused.
"Oops, sorry. You shouldn't of let me put on my sunglasses. And by you attacking my TARDIS, you made her redistribute itself for a moment, Hostile Action Dispersal System. With a quick blast from my sonic, the TARDIS reassemble right here!" The Doctor stated in quick motion with a serious tone as well as with hyped energy in his voice, as several small blue glowing particles surround the area, gravitizing towards Sabre, Hypno Steve, Starlight and the Doctor.
"No! No no no!" Shadow Sabre yelled in denial. He tries summoning several darkness giants to attack. But they do nothing to the forcefield.
"The TARDIS' forcefield is still here, and she herself will shortly reassemble here. We get in, you don't," The Doctor spoke in a smug tone while pointing at Shadow Sabre with the Rainbow Crystal.
"No! The crystal is mine! No! No no no no NO!" Shadow Sabre screamed with fury, enraged that even with the Shadow Sword, the fireballs and lightning does nothing. The TARDIS very quickly fully reassembles right where the 4 are, taking them back inside safe. The fireballs and lightning does nothing to the TARDIS' forcefield.
Vworp! Vwrop vwrop vwrop vworp!
Inside the TARDIS...
Sabre, Hypno Steve, Statlight are back in the TARDIS. Time Steve and Elemental Steve quickly walks over to them.
"What did we miss? Are you all alright?" Time Steve asked.
"Seems that in this world, Shadow won- the darkness is almost like- it's almost like it's omnipresent- the darkness was everywhere!" Sabre exclaimed.
"It... it made me feel... scared... that- that could've been who I become while possessing the sword- I'm fine now, but... seeing Shadow- even though it's a parallel overworld- it- it made me feel on edge," Sabre added, slightly stuttering. Starlight gently holds Sabre's right hand with her left forehoof.
"Thanks Starlight," Sabre quietly spoke. Starlight nods.
"I'm glad we all got out of that. We wouldn't of survived without the Doctor- you sure do have clever tricks up your sleeves man," Sabre complimented.
"I always have tricks up my sleeve, and pockets," The Doctor nodded as he takes of his sonic sunglasses with his left hand and puts them in his inside pockets.
"Now we just need parallel Elements of Harmony, and then we can go back and you lot figure out what comes next- speaking of- Sabre, take the Rainbiw Crystal before I forget to give it to you," The Doctor said as he gives the Rainbow Crystal to Sabre, who puts it in his inventory.
"Don't the steves of that parallel universe need the crystal!?" Elemental Steve exclaimed.
"That universe was doomed, even with the crystal," Hypno Steve stated.
"It's either these universes we're taking from, or it's both multiverses that will fall. I'll let you choose, Elemental," The Doctor spoke sternly, glaring at Elemental Steve with cold eyes. Elemental Steve takes a step back.
"I'm over two thousand years old, and not all those years were good. I've had to make many difficult decisions, like now. I am choosing the least terrible choice, I'm trying to help," The Doctor added in the same stern tone, while stepping towards him, then steps back, and turns back to the controls, flying the TARDIS back into the void and to the next parallel universe. This time, the TARDIS didn't violently shake and rattle, nor create any sparks.
Vworp! Vwrop vwrop vwrop vworp!
The TARDIS materializes in a parallel Equestria. The doors open, and the first one to walk out and check the surroundings, is the Doctor. He is followed by Hypno Steve, and then the others.
"It is unusually chilly," The Doctor stated.
"It was also daytime, back in our universe and that last universe- but yet, it is night time here," Sabre noted.
"Uh, wasn't the Castle of the Two Sisters destroyed? If I remember correctly from the Friendship School's lessons..." Elemental Steve scratched his head while looking at a tall castle with a pink and purplish bottom half, and a dark bluish top half. The 3 towers have turquoise-colpured cone-shaped roofs, with the middle one havinng a glowing moon on top.
"Oh," The Doctor slowly let out with a mutter.
"Am I thinking we're in the timeline I think we're in? If we are, then we better find this elements and travel back to our universe," Time Steve shook a little bit. Twilight had been to a parallel worlds before, and this world fits the description of one of those worlds Twilight had been to.
Hiss...
"Who else is here!?" Starlight jolted.
"Everyone, back inside the TARDIS!" The Doctor ordered.
"Halt!" A female voice screeched. A massive bat pony flies down and lands in front of the group.
This bat pony is slightly bigger than a regular stallion, but they are a female, and is wearing dark blue and purple armour that is protecting her flank back, chest, neck and head. She has sunset orange irises and the castle-slit-looking pupils look like the eye pupils of a cat. Her ears look really soft and fluffy. She has a short grey light mane and a short dark grey tail. Her coat is light black. Her cutie mark looks like a clock. Her left wing is a really hard, sharp grey bat wing, a lot harder and sharper than a normal batpony wing. But her right wing looks like a metal prosthetic pony wing that stallions would use. The bat pony also have large shiny white upper fangs that stuck out.
"Get in the TARDIS- I'll deal with this," The Doctor instructed his group, who all nod, and listens to him.
"They will not go anywhere!" The bat pony hissed with hostility, making the others pause.
"Okay, come back here, everyone," The Doctor reinstructed, and the others did.
"What are you all doing here- what is this machine!?" The bat pony snapped, making a bluff charge, to scare the group into making a confession of some sorts.
"These are my friends- we uh, crashed- we'll be on our way now, don't mind us," The Doctor lied as he steps back, away from the bat pony, as did the others.
"You lot are not going anywhere," The bat pony hissed.
"Oh yeah, how will you stop us!? Well, there's six of us, and only one of you!" Sabre yelled at the bat pony. He holds the supercharged redstone staff in his right hand, and summons a lightning strike a few inches away from the bat pony, which made her flinch and step back.
"Sabre, keep it cool," Time Steve advised.
"How do you expect me to stay chill man!? She's literally yelling and threatening us!" Sabre exclaimed. He feels some kind of urge to smite the bat pony. He doesn't know why, but he felt a surge of anger he can't explain to even himself.
"She won't threaten us further if I have anything to stay about it," Elemental Steve muttered, and stands in front of the Doctor.
"Elemental, she could take us near where the elements are," The Doctor whisphered as he puts his right hand on Elemental Steve's shoulder, to lean to his left ear. That was the only sentence that kept Elemental Steve from attacking the bat pony.
"What are you saying to each other!?" The bat pony hissed again, bluffing to bite.
"Firstly, who are you? We have met on the wrong hoof... so let's deescalate and know more about each other, shall we?" The Doctor gently spoke, trying to deescalate the situation with the bat pony.
"That is none of your business!" The bat pony snapped.
"Screecheechech Stormchasersersererwr," Hypno Steve spoke.
"How do you know who I am?" The bat pony questioned, clenching her teeth together while lifting up her lips, showcasing a very sharp array of teeth. The bat pony, who is Screech, can tell Hypno Steve suffered very serious injuries, that had debilitated him physically. One swipe of her forehooves or wings should knock the irritating head clean off his shoulders.
"Ohohwowo, I knowIknowknowowow everythingthingingng aboutaboutboutout you Screechyouscreecheechchch. Youyou arearearewrwr a monsteramonstersterster," Hypno Steve replied, trying to on purpose antagonize Screech.
"If we're to get out of here alive, I suggest we stop antagonizing her," Starlight muttered as she grits her teeth.
"I was about to say something, along those lines," The Doctor nodded in agreement with Starlight's advice.
"I'm detaining you all and taking you all to Nightmare Moon. I will also be siezing your machine," Screech declared.
"We don't have a choice. Lets see what she wants," The Doctor quietly spoke to his group. He always gets anxious when access to his TARDIS gets confiscated. He and the others follow Screech, who is leading them to the castle, which the group of 6 knows as the Castle of the Two Sisters.
"Not like we have a choice," Sabre muttered.
"You do..." A shadowy voice echoed inside Sabre's head.
"What!?" Sabre exclaimed. He turns around, and trembles, as he sees a dark version of himself.
"Hello, Sabre... it's good to see you again..." The darker version of Sabre spoke, taunting Sabre.
"Sh- shadow... h- how are you back!? You were- Discord said you couldn't come back- he erased you!" Sabre exclaimed.
"As I said before... he couldn't erase me completely. Erasing me completely would erase you. You can deny it all you want... we are the same," Shadow Sabre responded.
"You didn't really answer my question, Shadow," Sabre sternly spoke back.
"Isn't it obvious? The Sabre you could've become, in that parallel world... he hit you. That small touch of darkness was all I needed. Darkness is darkness... the darkness, is one... we, are one... we, are darkness..." Shadow Sabre spoke slower and slower, making Sabre cringe in anxiety.
"I bet you were deep down wishing you had kept the Shadow Sword... well, don't wish any further- hmhmhm hm hm hm..." Shadow Sabre cackled. Sabre trembkes as he reaches into his inventory, and he immediately closes it while now shaking. In the middle of the inventory, is the Shadow Sword.
"The darkness from the parallel world rematerialized the Shadow Sword," Shadow Sabre stated.
"Oi, you!" Screech yelled as she came back for Sabre and firmly grabs his neck with her left forehoof.
"She is about to destroy you! Use the darkness, embrace it!" Shadow Sabre furiously encouraged. Sabre has no choice, he has to defend himself... and he listens to Shadow Sabre. Sabre's right hand gets darker as he grabs Screech's left forehoof with his right hand, and yanks it off of him, making Screech step back, and she tries to pull her left forehoof back, but Sabre's handgrip is too strong.
"Good! Now, destroy her!" Shadow Sabre further encouraged. But Sabre knew he had to restrain himself for now, and he lets go of Screech, who takes several steps back.
"I will follow you, but do be warned, I am capable of defending myself. Do not make me use my abilities on you," Sabre sternly warned Screech. Even after everything his shadow had done, Sabre still listened to him, because he is him, Shadow Sabre is Sabre, he is a part of Sabre.
After that brief confrontation, Screech escorts Sabre back to the group. Screech, while a bit on edge, is not that scared of Sabre. To Screech, it is better to die selflessly serving Nightmare Moon, than to live for one's self as a coward.
Meanwhile in the throne room...
Nightmare Moon is sitting on her throne as she waits anxiously. She had felt an anomaly enter Equestria. This anomaly could threaten her eternal night and eternal rule. But her tensions eases when she sees Screech, forcibly nudging 6 figures up the stairs. The other bat ponies that are also wearing armour, are standing on both sides of the purple carpet, glaring at the figures, with a mix of intrigue, and fear.
"Excellent, Screech..." Nightmare Moon grinned. This 6 figures are the anomalies. One of which is a female unicorn pony, but the other 5 figures look very weird. One of them looks like an old ape, and the other 4 look even weirder, they are made entirely of cubes and oblongs.
Once up the stairs, the ape-looking figure steps forward.
"Nightmare Moon, I'm the Doctor. I'm not here to stir up trouble. I am simply passing by, looking for some things," The Doctor stated his and his group's purpose here.
"I don't believe you... Doctor. What is your true purpose here?" Nightmare Moon demanded answers to. She leaps off her throne and lands in front of the Doctor, who doesn't flinch.
"This whole multiverse, the multiverse these steves are from- my home multiverse- these universes- thesesultiverses- they're all in perilous danger. It is something that is far above you, and I believe what I'm after may be lying in this world," The Doctor spoke sternly, as he stares into Nightmare Moon's eyes.
"I am after something that doesn't even matter to you- I'm asking nicely, for the elements," The Doctor stated what he is after.
"The elements? You mean these? And why would I give them to you? To defeat me? Never!" Nightmare Moon taunted as she steps back and her horn glows dark blue, and then 5 small balls of flashing light bursts out. Being held by Nightmare Moon's aura, are 5 spherical stones with shapes carved on them. One of the shapes is a triangle, another is a diamond shape, another is a square with curved corners, another is a mix between an oval and rectangle, and the last one is a house-shaped pentagon.
"They don't look like the elements we saw back in our universe. We should time travel to see if the elements we did know did exist in this timeline or not," Time Steve stated.
"Time travel? Somepony mentioned time travel... years ago, but she got away..." Nightmare Moon pondered, thinking, whether they know that dastardly purple alicorn that got away. Nightmare Moon then glares at Starlight, and steps towards her.
"You must be that pony that purple alicorn was on about! You must be the one with that time travel spell!" Nightmare Moon's voice roared as her voice rises, and Starlight steps back while nervously gritting her teeth.
"Give me that time travel spell!" Nightmare Moon roared as she is about to lunge and attack Starlight.
"Uh, how about- no." Time Steve summoms lightning and pauses time. He keeps himself and his friends unfrozen.
"Grab those five stones, they will have to do. Me and Elemental will hold off Nightmare Moon," Time Steve instructed. Sabre grabs them and puts them into his inventory.
"Will you two be alright- are you sure you two can hold her off? We don't know what will happen if we're destroyed in a parallel world- just be careful, both of you," Said Sabre, worried for Time Steve and Elemental Steve.
"They willtheywillillwlwl bebebe alrightightwtwt. Hurryryryeyey, wewewe shouldould gogogo, beforefore Time has to unpause!" Hypno Steve strongly advised. He, as well as Sabre, Starlight and the Doctor runs down the stairs and out the door.
"You ready Elemental?" Time Steve asked. While he has been getting better at keeping time paused, he still can't do it for too long.
"Yeah, I'm ready," Elemental Steve nodded. To show he's ready, he summons lightning, and teleports himself as well as Time Steve outside, above the roof of the castle. Both of them aee hovering about 30 metres above the ground.
Time Steve summons lightning, and unpauses time again. As he did, a heavily saturated blue beam of magic blasts a hole through the roof, and hits Time Steve.
"Agh!" Time Steve is knocked out of the sky, crouching as he falls to the ground.
"Ah ha hahahaha! It is just me and you ah hahaha!" Nightmare Moon cackled as she flies straight towards Elemental Steve, and her horn glows again. Elemental Steve anticipates the attack, and he swurves left to dodge a beam of magic.
"You won't be laughing when I'm done with you! You'll regret hitting my brother!" Elemental Steve furiously screamed as he unleashes a continuous barrage of fireballs at Nightmare Moon, who simply raises a shield. But the sheer power in the fireballs knocks her back, and the shield starts to shatter. So she teleports before her shield gets overwhelmed and she gets hit.
"Huh!? Where did you go!?" Elemental Steve looks in all directions for Nightmare Moon. Elemental Steve uses his ability to sense energy signatures, and he turns around when he senses something behind, a beam of magic. There isn't time to respond.
"Agh," Elemental Steve winced as the beam hits him, but he remains in the air, strong. Meanwhile, Nightmare Moon is hovering a few dozen metres away, flapping her wings.
"You honestly think you could challenge me!?" Nightmare Moon boastingly retorted. Then from out of nowhere, with incomprehensible speed, Time Steve punches Nightmare Moon in the face, knocking her backwards several dozen metres. Time Steve's eyes are glowing yellow.
Time Steve summons several lightning strikes on Nightmare Moon, who is struggling to keep up and dodge the attacks.
"I'm sorry Luna," Time Steve apolgized as he dances around Nightmare Moon, dodging every attack she tries to use against him. Time Steve has slowed down time, making him much faster than her, and everybody else for that matter.
"I am Nightmare Moon, and I will not let you defeat me! The night will last forever!" Nightare Moon roared as she tries to land a blow with a beam of her magic, and what seemed like a perfect hit, ends up missing. In Time Steve's current perspective, Nightmare Moon's beams of magic travels slower than a snail. That is how much Time Steve slowed down time.
"Oh shut up," Elemental Steve mumbled as he manifests a huge stone boulder in his right hand, and flies over to the distracted Nightmare Moon, and whacks her in the face with his massive stone boulder. He instantly knocks Nightmare Moon unconscious, and throws her to the ground with his left hand.
"Okay, Elemental. That's enough. We were only meant to destract him," Time Steve urged Elemental Steve to hold back. Time Steve's eyes stops glowing yellow. Elemental Steve trembles as he chooses between leveling the castle, or listen to his brother. He chooses the second option, and he dematerializes the stone boulder with both hands.
Then, without warning, the TARDIS, spinning while having both doors open, flies towards Time Steve and Elemental Steve, safely scooping them inside.
Once inside, Time Steve and Elemental Steve sits down on the floor. While not completely exhausted, they did have to really exert a lot of their energy into their abilities to keep Nightmare Moon distracted while the others booked it and ran to the TARDIS.
"Are you two okay!?" Sabre asked as soon as they sat down.
"Yeah, we're fine," Elemental Steve nodded.
"She was distracted for long enough. We got out of that, and that's the main thing," Time Steve concluded. Everybody else nods in agreement.
"Now, we can go back, and I can close all breaches made," The Doctor said as he pushes the lever, hurling the TARDIS back into the void, and then they can all go back to the correct worlds.
But then, something goes wrong, very wrong. Everybody is flung back, away from the controls, as Starlight's spell protecting the TARDIS wores off. The whole TARDIS shook violently, making everyone rock. Massive sparks and loud bangs come from the TARDIS' controls, making the whole TARDIS shake even more violently. Emergency masks dangle down from the TARDIS' ceiling. Then every single light in the TARDIS immediately goes out. All power inside the TARDIS had completely tripped, followed by rough crashing from outside.
"No! No no!" The Doctor yelled at the TARDIS' controls.
"Hypno, you are not creating illusions are you- this is serious!" The Doctor loud and sternly spoke as Hypno Steve walks up to him.
"No," Hypno Steve replied.
"What's wrong- what happened, Doctor!?" Sabre exclaimed.
"Starlight's spell had worn off, and going through the void just killed the power. The TARDIS is dead, and we're stuck in whatever world we're in," The Doctor replied, trying his very hardest to not completely lose it.
"Oh great..." Sabre muttered under his breath.
"Me and the others will see what's outside," Starlight said to the Doctor.
"If it's pitch black outside, come back inside immediately. We could still be in the void for all we know," The Doctor instructed.
As the Doctor checks for any source of power that may still remain in the TARDIS, the others follow Starlight through the door, and outside.
"Looks like we're in Equestria at least," Said Starlight. It is snowing, like it is back on her Equestria.
"And it isn't night!" Time Steve joyfully yelled.
"Thank goodness for that," Elemental Steve nodded.
"Thisisis a differentadifferentnt Equestriayayayaya," Hypno Steve stated.
"Kinda figured that one out Hypno," Sabre retorted. He is not in the mood, as they could be permanently trapped in a parallel Equestria.
"Good news, bad news," The Doctor spoke as he too then walks out of the TARDIS.
"I found a power cell that still has power, and provided it with ten years of my life energy, and we will be able to get out of this parallel world. But it will take about twenty four hours or more for it to power the TARDIS back up," The Doctor stated the good news, that they will all be able to leave, and the bad news, that it will be at minimum 24 hours until they can all leave.
"The bad news isn't nearly as bad as I thought it might've been," Time Steve sighed with relief.
"So we're just here for twenty four hours? That ain't too bad," Elemental Steve shrugged.
"We should probably see where we are," Sabre suggested. Everybody looks to their right, and they see that over in the distance is Manehattan.
"What on Earth happened here?" The Doctor pondered with suspicion. Instead of shiny windows, every building that can be seen, js missing their crystal-clear windows. He also sees that most of the buildings, buildings that should be standing proud, is nothing more than just piles of rubble. It is very evident that a war had definitely taken place, or it is a war that is currently ongoing.
"Hang on..." The Doctor and the others, see wide grey stone-made barricades with only a small gap in the middle. There is also dozens of humanoid figures patrolling the area on the other side of the bridge, in the city itself.
"They're human beings..." The Doctor had very reasonable suspicion that the humans on the other side of the bridge are responsible for whatever destruction Manehattan faced. It could be a parallel world that had a Conversion Bureau, except the humans had won. But it doesn't seem like that is the case, it doesn't feel like that. Something tells the Doctor that there is something else.
"Uh... w- what is that red flag on top of- of the statue?" Time Steve inquired, stuttering slightly in confusion as he points at the oxidized copper pony statue. The Doctor looks at the red flag that waving in the direction the wind is blowing. The Doctor's eyes widen in upmost concern. The top left corner of the red flag has a yellow hammer and sickle and the outline of a small yellow star above.