Doctor and Ditzy’s Science Theater

by Rixizu

Episode 19 - Part 2

Chapter 8: Eye Of The Storm

        Celestia gasped as she awoke from a nightmare.

Pinkie: (Celestia) No Luna! Put the tuba down. Slowly!

Having shared a tent together on the still battlefield, her gasp aroused Luna who had fallen asleep after having raised the moon. She was very tired these days.

Ditzy: She was up all day playing Ponycraft.

        “Sister, what is wrong?” the night princess asked, looking into Celestias eyes with a mixture of concern and curiosity.

        “I felt him, Luna. That… grievous Stallion.

Ditzy: The coughing and wheezing probably gave him away.

I could feel him on the border of my mind, watching me as I slept.” Luna’s face grew quizzical.

All: (Groin)

Ditzy: There’s no escaping that series is there?

Doctor: Well, it is popular with naive young mares.

Ditzy: I will never get that.

Pinkie: Oh come on Ditzy. You can’t tell me you never went through a bad boy phase.

Ditzy: (Grumbles) At least they didn’t sparkle.

        “I felt no such presence in your dreams, Tia.” There was a sudden snap in Luna’s head and the right eye of the angel appeared in her mind’s eye.

Ditzy: Luna panicked and threw dirt at it.

She gasped as her sister had and the two of them felt themselves waking up all over again. “I dislike dreams within a dream.” she commented.

All: (Hum Mind Heist)

        Celestia turned to her dark counterpart. “You saw it that time too, didn’t you? That eye.”

Doctor: (Corona) Yes, I felt it too.

        “Yes, the right eye, always the right one.

Ditzy: Now we know which one to poke out.

I fear if he’s entered the physical realm, we may be looking at war we will not survive. The Angel’s playground and every side is just a collection of Chess pieces.” Such a grim thought brought a chill to Celestia’s spine.

Doctor: Celestia hated chess. She could never remember how the horsey pieces moved.

        “Why would he come back now? He’s left us be for over a thousand years,

Pinkie: Oh, he’s just lonely and needs a friend!

Ditzy: He could have just asked.

and just when things turn hairy, he shows up and brings Hell with him.”

Pinkie: Hell? What’s that?

Ditzy: I think she means Hades.

Pinkie: Ohhhhhhh.

Celestia began to panic, a rarity indeed for the often calm and at times serene Alicorn.

Doctor: Since when, I don’t remember her being like that this entire story or the last one.

Luna felt that it was her turn to play the big sister and comfort her crying co-ruler.

Doctor: So Luna slapped her.

        “It is highly unlikely he has come for us, Tia. Perhaps he is simply observing the war through limited eyes.”

Pinkie: He could only see in black and white!

Despite her attempts, Celestia disagreed with her hypothesis.

Ditzy: He’s a bad OC character. Of course he will. The author needs to show how awesome he is by humiliating you.

        “He is not the kind to sit back and watch things unfold.

Doctor: One of the reasons he’s banned from sport games.

He is here for a reason. Besides, it’s not him that I fear most of all, it’s what lies behind that eye… within him.”

Ditzy: His spine?

Pinkie: His skull?

Doctor: His carotid artery?

        Luna grew curious about what her sister had just said. “I have not heard about anything residing within him, Celestia. Have you kept yet another secret from me? How could you? Shouldn’t you have learned from last time?”

Pinkie: (Celestia) Luna, it was just your birthday present.

The princess of the night rose to her hooves and addressed her sister in an accusatory manner.

Doctor: (Luna) This is just like the time my pet goldfish Mr. Jimmes died and you replaced him with another one!

        “No, I’d forgotten about it until recently.

Pinkie: That’s okay. I forget plot relevant things all the time!

If I’d have remembered, I would have told you the night my student and her friends brought you back to me. I’d have told you all I could about him.” Celestia defended.

Doctor: (Celestia) Forget my own head if it wasn’t attached to to my shoulders.

        “Then tell me now.”

Pinkie: The like of which you will not find in the world today.It began long ago in a land far away to the east.

        Celestia patted the cushion beside her and urged her sister to sit beside her. The dark Alicorn did as she was asked and stared at her sister, waiting for the rest of the truth.

All: Story time! Yay!

        “As you know, he is an Angel, but in order for him to have become Death, he had to be more than an Angel.

Pinkie: He transformed into a Super Angel!

He had to have control over both the heavens and Hell itself. So he fused his body with that of the most powerful demon.

Doctor: Sound a lot of work to get a simple position.

Ditzy: He wasn’t just Death from the start?

Pinkie: At least he avoided a lot of paperwork!

That Demon, though sharing his body,

Doctor: So, do all Deaths have to merge with a demon, or is this a special case?

retains his own mind and hides within the mind of his host, acting like a Parasite.

Pinkie: It gave all all sorts of horrible side effects!

Ditzy: I wonder if the constant abdominal pain and the fact he needs to visit the toilet every ten minutes was worth it.

The demon feels no remorse, no pity. He would never take a hostage

Pinkie: See, he’s not all bad!

and he revels in mass slaughter of any kind.

Pinkie: (Demon) Bwahahahaha! Eat this bubble wrap!

When you were away with Mother, I fought the Angel and found I was on par with him.

Doctor: (Celestia) We played at at the Canterlot Mini Golf course.

But then it happened.”

Ditzy: (Celestia) I failed to get past a spinning windmill.

Luna shifted in her cushion. This story reminded her of the ghost stories she would hear from her sister during the nights before they took control.

        “His left eye became like his right and he changed… for the worst.

Doctor: He tipped over waste baskets for fun!

Pinkie: He wrote graffiti on chalkboards!

Ditzy: He payed for a movie and snuck into a completely different film!

His head was covered in a strange Dragon’s skull, but it was different.

Doctor: It had a goofy expression.

Pinkie: It was the skull of Crackle’s great great great grandmother!

Like the skull itself was tainted with something unimaginable.

Doctor: Bad body spray.

This demon is more powerful than the Angel and fights constantly to take control. I nearly lost my life within a minute, had the angel not fought back and saved my life.”

Ditzy: (Celestia) I called hax at the time.

        Luna was on the edge of her cushion. She found it difficult to imagine her sister on the bronk of death,

Doctor: A pony riding a horse. Now that would be strange.

despite how often she dreamed of such a thing when she was banished on the moon.

Ditzy: She imagined her sister taking place in rodeos.

        “Could the Elements of Harmony protect against him?” she asked.

        “Once, perhaps, but I feel as though he’s changed over the years, grown stronger and more powerful.

All: Of course.

Ditzy: (Author) My super OC is so powerful, not even the Elements of Harmony can defeat him!

Doctor: The author does remember they beat Discord right?

It feels as though the Demon has won, but at the same time has given up.”

        “We came to an understanding.” a voice said from behind the two.

Pinkie: (Mar) We decided to split kitchen and bathroom duties.  We cycle them every week.

Both princesses jumped and ran towards the opposite end of the tent. There stood the angel in all his glory.

Doctor: He was wearing sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt.  

Nothing like before, he now stood as a Stallion would and the skull was not present. Yet his eyes shone bright yellow and his sclera was blacker than the cutie mark on Luna’s flank.

Pinkie: (Mal) Do you like my cool contact lenses?

        “W-what do you want here, d-d-demon?” Celestia stuttered.

Ditzy: (Facehoof) Princess Celestia never stutters!

The two princesses held each other closely, fearing for their lives.

Doctor: Okay, we get it. You’re OC is the coolest.

It felt like the longest time to them since they were considered the most powerful in the world.

Ditzy: Like a year ago when Discord got out.

        “Me, I want nothing from you.

Pinkie: Wait. Why isn’t he speaking in bold anymore?

Ditzy: Must of got tired of yelling all the time.

My friend however, seeks both your forgiveness and offers her aid to you in the war.

Pinkie: (Celestia) Pfft. Like we are gullible enough to fall for that.

I am simply here to oversee negotiations,

Ditzy: My name is Mar Grimm. I perform a much needed job here in this city of ponies.

and to make sure there is no foul play between the two parties.” As Death himself spoke,

Pinkie: So, you really don’t you have better things to do?

Ditzy: Yeah like….be Death?

 he flapped a large black dragon wing

Pinkie: Dragon wings too? You are trying way too hard author.

beside him and the Changeling Queen herself appeared as though out of thin air.

Doctor: (Chrysalis) Tada!

She seemed disorientated. When her eyes focused on the two princesses, she went still, daring not to make a move.

Doctor: (Chrysalis) You said we were going to the beach!

        Mar sat down between Celestia and Luna’s cushions and offered them their respective places. The two princesses warily sat beside their superior while Chrysalis sat across from him in a diamond shaped enclosure.

Pinkie: (Mar) Now how about a game of Duck Duck Goose?

        “Begin.” the angel said bluntly, observing the three.

Ditzy: Celestia opened up with a chair to face!

Pinkie: Chrysy responds with a big clothesline!

Ditzy: Luna grabs on to Chrysalis and puts her in her signature Lunatic Lock!

Pinkie: Celestia taking advantage of this and is pounding Chyrsy in the face!

Ditzy: Two on one. This is so unfair!

Pinkie: What is Mar doing!? He’s just watching on the sideline!

        “Oh, my head!” Spike groaned as he returned to consciousness. Twilight was the first thing he saw and felt as she leaped into him and sobbed. It took less than a second for him to remember the events that transpired prior to his blackout.

Ditzy: (Spike) That’s the last time I go drinking with Rainbow Dash.

The way Twilight was screaming, he knew he’d failed to protect Shining Armour.

Pinkie: Luckily, Shining Armor is ok!

He scooped the heart broken mare into his arms and held her close.

Ditzy: How OOC of him. He should be pushing her into the dirt and laughing at her.

Doctor: Ditzy, I think he has developed past that already.

Ditzy: Alright, you got me there.

Unlike before, the animosity he felt while enraged or excited didn’t reveal itself; however, the boiling hatred for that odd stallion remained stagnant in his mind and soul.

Pinkie: The stallion was so so off his Hearth’s Warming card list!

He could feel the dark consciousness within him, furious at having been overpowered and overshadowed. But it remained dormant for the time being.

Ditzy: (Spike) B-but, I am the fics resident Mary Sue here!

        “I can’t believe the Angel of Death himself made a deal with Chrysalis of all ponies and killed Shining Armour.” Rainbow Dash commented,

All: Neither can we!

holding Scootaloo closely. Spike took a moment to understand what Dash had just said about his enemy. ‘The Angel of Death himself’. That’s what she had said.

        “Shit!” he growled.

Ditzy: There’s Spike’s wacky catch phrase again!

        “You know somethin’ about this guy Spike?” Applejack inquired.

        Spike nodded. “Yeah.

Ditzy: (Spike) He was a failed My Little Human analyst that became Death after his show bombed.

Like Dragons, he’s supposed to act as an Arbiter.

Doctor: But he spends most of his time on the couch watching TV.

He’d observe a conflict between two sides. But unlike dragons, if he finds that one side is resorting to trickery, he will interfere and discretely give the losing side a helping hoof.”

Doctor: Why exactly?

Ditzy: Isn’t war all about trickery?

Applebloom raised her hoof before asking a question that was undoubtedly on her friends’ minds also.

Doctor: (Apple Bloom) Is this going to be on the test?

Pinkie: (Apple Bloom) If he’s an angel, why doesn’t he have angel wings and a halo?

        “What’s an Arbiter?” she asked.

        Spike thought of the quickest and simplest way to answer her without confusing her with literacy.

Ditzy: (Spike) I don’t think Apple Bloom has even been taught how to read.

“A Judge.” he replied simply.

Pinkie: But he doesn’t have a cool gravel or wig!

He then looked down at the calmly silent Twilight and realised she had cried herself to sleep almost instantly.

        “How is Cadence holding up with the loss?” he asked. Nopony was willing to answer, but after an uncomfortable silence that seemed to drag on, Gilda replied for them.

Ditzy: (Gilda) She kinda ran off with a katana and we haven’t seen her since.

        “She’s…sort of frozen. She won’t speak, she won’t move, she’s barely even blinked since it happened.” Spike sighed, being careful not to wake the sleeping mare in his arms.

Doctor: (Spike) How long is she going to stay there? I want to be a supportive coltfriend, but I don’t want to be here all day.

        “Things aren’t going well. Everything’s falling apart and we’re no closer to victory than we were before I was resurrected. This war’s going to take a toll on so many ponies.” the dragon took a moment to just relax and breathe as it almost seemed like a godsend recently.

        “Preparations are almost ready, your Highness. The Leviathan is prepared to fight for us. We had to… sacrifice quite a few of our soldiers in order to strike a reasonable deal of its assistance though.”

Doctor: (Griffon) It may have left us with...five soldiers and Garry the electrician. But Bill is good with a sword, so it isn’t a complete lose.

        The Gryphon King sat back in his throne, listening to the report his subordinate was giving him.

        “Sacrifice is a part of war.

Doctor: Except most of your plans consist of nothing but sacrificing.

When we emerge victorious, we shall remember the names of those who sacrificed themselves for the victory of the Gryphons.

Ditzy: Yeah right.

Pinkie:(Griffon) Name one!

Doctor: (King) What?

Pinkie: (Griffon) I said name one!

Doctor: (King) Um, er, well, uh….Daxelia?

Pinkie: (Griffon) That’s not even a Griffon name!

Doctor: (King) Shut up! I’m just bad with names alright!

In the meantime, prepare to head out. I want to watch the Leviathan end Spike’s life with my own eyes. Then I will personally deal with Celestia and that ignorant sister of hers.

Pinkie: (King) She thinks My Little Human is only for little fillies and colts! I’ll show her!

Perhaps I will keep them as my pets.

Doctor: Not a good idea. Alicorns tend to scratch up the furniture.

Pinkie: And they live forever and ever!

While I find ponies to be disgusting creatures,

Pinkie: (King) They groom by licking themselves!

I’m sure I’ll find some enjoyment when I test the stamina of Alicorn Princesses.” he mused. The subordinate, held back the desire to vomit at the images brought up.

Pinkie: What? He’s just talking about racing. What’s so gross about that?

        “What… are your orders, Sire?” he asked. The king returned from his reverie and looked at the gryphon before him with thought clear on his face.

        “I have none to give as of this moment. Continue with the preparations. We move out at Dawn.” With that, the subordinate bowed low and hurried out of the Royal hall, intent on avoiding failure.

Doctor: (King) And don’t forget to record the latest episode of My Little Human at 11:30!

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