It was a quiet night in Ponyville; the stars shined brightly, the moon was full, and the gentlest of breezes caressed the hills. All the Ponies were asleep in their houses, dreaming happily in their beds. All that is, but one. Stargazer was walking through the streets of Ponyville on the way to the park, and her favorite hill.

"The stars are bright tonight," she said "I wonder If I'll see that light again." As she walked, she thought about that night years ago, when she first got her cutie mark as a little filly.

"But mom! They were making fun of my blank flank!" She moaned. "I don't care!" her mother yelled "You had no right to use you magic to cause trouble for them! I will not be swayed. You are grounded. One week!" Stargazer could tell that she had lost and wen't upstairs to her room to mope.

"It's not fair!," she cried "They had it coming!" She was getting ready to throw her best tantrum when something caught her eye out of the window. There was a strange light rocketing towards Ponyville park through the night sky! Stargazer didn't know what it was, but she did know that she was meant to find out, she could feel it deep inside!

Carefully she sneaked her way down the stairs and out the door while her mother was distracted, and dashed towards the park. There it was. she was so surprised she stopped dead in her tracks. There was a giant...THING... sitting right there in the grass. It was surrounded by a ring of smoke and steam, making it hard to really see clearly, but she could hear voices. She couldn't properly hear what they were saying though, it was like they were speaking a different language. Despite he fear she decided to get a closer look. Slowly and silently, she trotted through the grass to where the object stood. "It looks like a big box" she thought "but how did it get here?" Just then she saw a light that looked like an open door. As she ran towards it, she saw strange shadowy figures retreat through the door, the door suddenly closed and the box began to rumble. The air around Stargazer grew hot.

Terrified, she galloped away at full speed, and when she stopped and looked around the mysterious object had risen high in the sky and soon could not be seen at all. She realized that there was a lot more to the stars than she ever knew before. She had always liked looking out at the night sky, but now the stars glittered for her more than ever and the moon was twice as bright. As she looked up in amazement, she felt a small tingling sensation near her rump, more specifically, on her flank! Excited, she looked around to see her very own cutie mark! A trio of three brilliant stars had just appeared and she couldn't be more happy!

Stargazer returned from her daydream when she realized she was at the top of her favorite hill. The cool breeze sent ripples through grass and her navy colored coat, and her yellow mane flew out behind her. From the top of the hill Stargazer had a clear view of the night sky. The flap of her saddle bag glowed with yellow magic and it opened to reveal a collapsible telescope which set itself up magically in front of her. Withdrawing her notepad from the other side of her saddlebag she began to draw. She loved drawing sketches of the night sky, the movement of the moon and the stars, and the constellations. She was always borrowing books from Twilight on the subject. Tonight was a very special night though. The anniversary of the night she got her cutie mark years ago. She could feel something special was going to happen in the stars tonight. Almost like pinkie-sense.

After what seemed like hours she was getting ready to pack up, when a loud bang came from the Everfree forest. She ran full gallop to investigate, her instincts leading her deeper and deeper into the trees. She could smell smoke and she ran even faster. when she arrived at the place where the sound came from she hid in the bushed carefully, not wanting to be seen A large blue box had crashed into the Everfree forest, and a brown stallion with a raggedy mane was trying to fix whatever problem had caused it to crash. He was running around frantically diving into the box and popping out again, tightening things, and loosening things. Sometimes he pointed at the box with a strange stick that made an odd high-pitched noise. As dangerous as she knew it was she had to get a closer look. She carefully stepped closer, one hoof at a time, trying not to make a sound. But she was never known as the most graceful of ponies and she promptly stepped on a sharp rock, causing her to gasp in pain. She planted both front hooves over her muzzle but the stallion had already heard the noise. He spun around and she shied back into the bushes hoping he hadn’t seen her. “You can come out” he said “I know this looks a bit strange, but I’m no harm to you.” warily she stepped out of the bushes afraid he would be angry with her for eaves dropping. Rather than be angry at her however, he smiled and said:

"Oy! Hello! What's your name miss? I'm the Doctor! I don't suppose you know where I am?"

“um, you’re in the Everfree forest, just outside Ponyville. Doctor who?”

“Whooves actually, Doctor Whooves.”

“yeah. ok. Well, I’m Stargazer, nice to meet you. Is that your box?”

“Why, yes! You want to have a peek inside?”

END OF CHAPTER ONE

Authors note:
Hope you liked It! I'll be working on the next chapter soon!

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