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Emmett "Doc" Brown | Back to the Future

[4thdimensional]

[Oh, look, it's a new unicorn pony! He sports a white coat, a white flyaway mane, and goggles over his head. As for a cutie mark? It's a marking shaped like the flux capacitor.

He's taking everything in with wild eyes, looking more than a little overstimulated.]

Insomnia's one hell of a drug...or is it a fever dream? This can't possibly be the future? I'm...equine!

[He holds out his hoof and gapes at it, glancing at the nearby ponies.]

But that's illogical! Unheard of! Not inconceivable, but improbable to be sure. Could someone explain this malarkey?

[He frowns. He meant to say another word. A sharper word. But whatever's messed with his physical form must have also held his tongue. Not a great start.]

[discorderly]

IT'S THE FUTURE!

[Discord crows, and then starts turning the grass around Doc's hooves to chrome.]

[4thdimensional]

[Yeah, okay, Discord. You're going a bit too over the top for his tastes. Doc suddenly snaps back to his senses and rolls his eyes.]

Cut that out, would you? I can clearly see you're using...magic. Illogical, but right in front of my face.

[And on his face, given the way he crosses his eyes to look at the horn.]

I've been to the future. This sure as hell ain't it.

[discorderly]

Don't be anthrocentric, I never said it was YOUR future. This is Pony Future!

[Still chroming things]

[4thdimensional]

...right, of course. Pony future.

[He shrugs. Okay, he'll roll with it.]

I'm still not clear on why I'm suddenly part of pony future.

[discorderly]

Well, you know ponies are just SO welcoming and inclusive! You'll be RIGHT at home here!

[Discord lands and lifts Doc into a hug. A tight, disturbingly constrictor-like hug.] Bring it in, buddy, bring it in~

[4thdimensional]

Gah! Unhand me! Or...unhoof, I suppose!

[Flailing here. You are not allowed to hug the Doc unchallenged unless your name is Marty.]

Thank you for the exceptionally exuberant welcome, but I should probably be going. Places to see...books to read...

[He's a little spooked.]

[discorderly]

Talon and paw, respectively, but it CAN get confusing. I also have a hoof and a claw, see?

[Discord detaches his lower limbs to show Doc, then drops him to the ground to pop them back on.]

Are you a sciiiiiiiientist?

[4thdimensional]

[Well, all right then. He catches himself with those lanky legs and squints up.]

Why yes, yes I am. Dr. Emmett Brown. Pleasure to meet you, Mr...?

[thepoweroflove]

[Blinks.

What a minute, he knew that voice. Marty whipped around to see a unicorn that, for lack of a better way of saying it, looked suspiciously like the Doc he knew.]

... Doc?

[4thdimensional]

[Doc blinks. It's a...the gills and teeth suggest dragon, but it's small. It's also dressed like Marty. Talks like him too. Could it be?]

...Marty?

[thepoweroflove]

Doc!

[Marty almost instantly breaks into a sprint towards Doc at that confirmation and wraps his arms around his friend's neck. Sorry Doc, he missed you.]

[4thdimensional]

Marty...

[What a relief that his best friend is here. Doc notes idly that Marty seems to be quite used to his existence as a dragon---clearly, he's had longer to adjust.

A second later, he also notes that Marty's hug somehow feels exactly the same as always. Doc is compelled to reciprocate---Marty's obviously been through hell---but flounders on how to do it. His foreleg trembles until it clicks into place: he awkwardly wraps a foreleg and his chin around Marty.]

How long were you waiting for me?

[thepoweroflove]

[Marty hesitates before eventually breaking up the hug and responding to the question, deliberately avoiding any eye contact.]

Over a year now. It's... a long story.

[Of course they probably have plenty of time now that Doc's here, but he really didn't want to seem like he desperately missed Doc or anything.]

[4thdimensional]

[Doc feels a massive twinge of irrational guilt. He lowers his head too, trying to peek.]

But it won't take anywhere near a year to tell it? Help me understand and we can fix this. For example...

[He turns to look at his wild tail and catches sight of something. His jaw drops comically.]

Why the hell is the flux capacitor tattooed on my ass? I can assure you I wasn't a regular at the tattoo parlors in Hill Valley.

[thepoweroflove]

[Marty manages a small chuckle at that. Ah, he missed Doc's eccentricity.]

Yeah, that's a cutie mark. Ponies get them here once they figured out their destiny, apparently.

[4thdimensional]

...cutie mark?

[He makes a Doc face at that term. He doesn't like it.]

Well I suppose it's true. Time travel is my destiny. And dragons don't realize theirs in the same way?

...assuming, of course, that you are a dragon. It's what you most closely resemble, but I don't entirely resemble Earth horses either...something very peculiar is going on.

[kingofthetvworld]

[Anyone else could probably explain the basic horse jamjar setting and such.

And then there's Teddie.]

Augh, how rude! I am most certainly not a malarkey!

[What even is that? A bird? It sounds like a bird. What kind of sciencemen confuses animals so easily?]

[4thdimensional]

[Oh, look. It's an indignant bear. Doc's gonna see everything today, apparently.]

I beg your pardon?

[He stares at those rounded ears.]

I said 'malarkey', not 'monkey'. Which means nonsense, like whatever sort of situation I've landed in. Alternate universes that transform us: it's unprecedented! And somewhat alarming.

[kingofthetvworld]

M-Monkey?! Awww c'mon, rip my heart out why dontcha, I'm clearly a bear! The only nonsense here is you, bub! You and your...monkey nonsense!

[The over dramatic tears are totally real.]

And if this is all so unpresenteded, then why's it happening right now? In the present!

[4thdimensional]

...I apologize, Mr. Bear.

[Oh god. He does not handle crying well. This is so painfully awkward.]

And what I mean is I've never heard of this happening before! It's certainly the first time I've been a horse. Talking to a bear.

[kingofthetvworld]

Well it just goes to show that you should try talking to bears more often.

[Well, that crying stopped rather suddenly.]

And for your infurmation, you're a pony. It's totally different!

[4thdimensional]

Right, right. Of course. I won't be a wild steed of the West any time soon.

[He's still kind of tall, awkward, and lanky looking for a pony, though.]

But that's a good point---I haven't seen many other bears, though I imagine that might be why this town's called Ponyville. Are there others?

[kingofthetvworld]

Well of course there's others, duh! There wouldn't be a town if there weren't other people here. Can't you see 'em?

[There's a pony, and there's a pony. And there's some more pony.

No one said bears were very smart.]

[4thdimensional]

...other bears, good sir.