It was a cold, fall morning. Derpy awoke from under the bed sheets, she didn't get much sleep at all after her visit with Dr. Whooves. She wasn't ready to see this "Time Machine" of his and use it... "Why? It was funny at first, but now its getting scary the more I think about it..." She paused, but then continued. "This is a disaster waiting to happen and I should let Dr. Whooves know so." She said to herself.

She got up finally and went to brush her teeth and get breakfast, her morning routine was a bit more sloppy due to the lack of sleep. She slowly walked downstairs into the bathroom, where she lazily took her toothbrush, put toothpaste on it and brushed her teeth. She was so tired that she almost slipped because of the water on the floor. She came out into the kitchen, she once again was sloth-like with something, so she had cereal, the most basic breakfast ever, probably so she wouldn't have to work much... It was 5:00 A.M. in the morning so it was understandable.

She opened her front door, only to be meet with darkness and a barren-looking wasteland. It was hard to see through the black vault that thickened the skies. She could barely see anything, but the outline of shadowy figures, that most likely was her mind playing tricks on her.

At this point she felt like her head was taunting her with "screwing up the space-time continuum..." the words rang in her ears as if it were an alarm clock going off. She wasn't the one to blame if things ended sour, Dr. Whooves was, it was his machine.

Derpy could see the shape of Dr. Whooves' house in the distance, and then knocked on his door... Only to met with horror, the house a mess; papers and books with utensils all over the floor.

"Dr. Whooves? Is everything alright?" She was replied by silence. She began looking for him, not in the kitchen or dinning room, nor the living room... Checked the bathroom, nopony was there. As she came to door to his bedroom, she felt that this place, looked more like a messy science lab than a home. "Dr. Whooves?" She was so confused, until it hit her... "No! No! What if his time machine did this?!" She froze, scared on the spot. "Nooooo!!!" She saw the T.A.R.D.I.S, right there in his office...

Upon closer inspection, the papers were like a time capsule, she didn't get it... Then she saw something that surprised her a blue glow and a fade to black. She felt like she was in bed again, because she was. It appears it seemed to be one horrible nightmare.

***

"I'm here!" Derpy shouted down the path to Dr. Whooves.

"Glad you could make it!" Dr. Whooves said as Derpy came to the opened door of the doctor's house.

"Yeah, about that... I don't think this is a good idea at all." Derpy told Dr. Whooves.

"Of course it is! It could revolutionize science as a whole!" Dr. Whooves said with a "don't be ridiculous" face.

"Here let me show you it!" Dr. Whooves insisted.

Dr. Whooves opened the door to his office, and the T.A.R.D.I.S was standing in corner; wires and other devices attached to it. The T.A.R.D.I.S had the look of a old-fashion phone booth, it was blue with words "Public Police Call Box" engraved in the top. It looked a little funny, but Derpy knew that it was a complicated machine indeed and could easily screw up anything...

She was starting to hate Dr. Whooves a little because he has ignored Derpy's distress so far. Only responding like "Everything will be fine..." or "Don't worry so much..." It was getting on her nerves. Dr. Whooves had to much energy, he's usually the professional type.

"I Can't wait!" Dr. Whooves said as he dialed in a date. "We are going back to the first days of Equestria, how exciting is that?!" Dr. Whooves noted with a wide grin on his face.

"No, no, this isn't a good idea, we could get killed!" Derpy shouted in Dr. Whooves' face.

"For the last time Derpy, don't wor-" He was interrupted.

"No! I don't want to hear it! Your acting childish and your taking NO SAFETY MEASURES, WHAT SO EVER!!!" Derpy's voice grew louder and louder with anger and frustration. "WOULD YOU JUST LISTEN TO REASO-... No, no! You did not just do that! Don't you press that button!" Derpy demanded, Dr. Whooves then activated the machine.

"There's no going back now! We can argue latter, now we party, party pooper!" Dr. Whooves said excitedly.

Suddenly Derpy was swept into the machine tractor beam, after a blue glow there argue settled and survivability increased. They were in the past now and there was no going back; the portal that brought them here, closed behind them...

***

"Dr. Whooves no! I'm swear I'm gonna kill you for that!" Derpy mumbled. She spoke to sight of freezing cold weather and  Dr. Whooves unconscious on the ground, like she just was. "The beginning of Equestria..." Derpy starred at the cold empty wasteland, it reminded her off the dream she had, barren-looking wasteland indeed.

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