Fourteen years later, Crystal Castle, Ponyville

Princess Twilight Sparkle walked through the crystal halls of her castle in the direction of the throne room. Or that's where she should have ended up. That didn't happen however when she realised she was lost... again.

A rustling sound from one of the rooms to her right caught her attention, it was coming from the storeroom where most of the things from Twilight's time in Canterlot were kept, or at least the things that had survived the destruction of the Golden Oak Library.

Cautiously Twilight approached the room, opening it as quietly as she could.

"Spike?"

Somewhere in the time vortex

The TARDIS hummed softly as The Doctor placed in some final controls.

"So it's decided, the beaches of planet Barcelona! Honestly picture my surprise when I find out that planet exists in this universe! I was going to visit with Rose once but regeneration got in the way of those plans, oh and killer Santa's."

Derpy finished trying on her diving gear and looked up at The Doctor, "Huh? Did you say something?", her voice was muffled by the diving mask.

"What are you wearing that for?"

Derpy took of her mask, "We're going to the beach aren't we?"

"Yes but if you want to go diving surely you should wait until we're actually there before putting on the suit?"

Derpy shrugged with an innocent and completely adorable smile.

All of a sudden the TARDIS began to make it's signature wheezing sound as it materialized at it's destination.

The Pegasus and Time Lord quickly rushed to the door, that is after The Doctor helped Derpy out of her suit, and exited the TARDIS.

"Hello Barcelona!" The Doctor shouted happily.

...

"Um Doctor?"

"Yes Derpy?"

"This isn't the planet Barcelona is it?"

"No... it's Canterlot castle... which means the TARDIS has once again brought me where I'm needed and not where I want to go," He gave an annoyed glance at his oldest companion.

"Which means adventure!" Derpy shouted excitedly.

"Which means adventure!" The Doctor agreed.

"Spike?" Princess Twilight Sparkle approached her assistant who was half way into an old cardboard box.

“Yeah?” He responded.

“What are you doing?”

“Oh not much, just going through a bunch of old Knick knacks from your fillyhood.

“Spike, don’t you think you should ask permission before going through my things?”

“Oh come on Twilight there’s a bunch of cool stuff in here!”

Spike dug through the box and brought out a clay statuette of Starswirl the Bearded, “See!”

“Huh, forgot I even made that…”

“You see? It’s good to go through memorabilia like this every now and… what’s this?”

At the very bottom there was a small cardboard box, slowly Spike picked up the box and showed it to Twilight.

“What’s in here?” Spike asked.

Twilight examined the box momentarily, before shrugging, “No idea, open it.”

Spike undid the tape with his claws and opened the box excited to see what treasure this ancient and mysterious box could hold, the flaps coming apart when he did so due to their age.

Spike frowned in disappointment, “Oh, it’s just some old fob-watch, a family heirloom or something?”

Spike looked up from the watch and saw Twilight staring intently at the watch as if in a trance.

“Twilight?”

“I... don’t know Spike, I’ve never seen it before but… I feel like I should know it," Twilight near-whispered.

"Open it..." A voice lightly reverberated through the air.

"Wait, do you hear that?”

Spike was a bit worried now, “Hear… what?”

Twilight shook her head coming out of the trance, “Oh, nothing. Just give it here and we’ll see what other secrets this old box holds!”

Spike nodded and passed the watch to Twilight who hung it around her neck.

As they continued to dig through Twilight's old junk a beating began in the back of her mind.

Drumming

‘Bang’, ‘Bang’, ‘Bang’, ‘Bang’,