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We Can Make this House a Home [Visual]

[There have been a lot of apologies going around since they'd managed to reforge the 'Fire of Friendship' to drive off the Windigos. Donna's been holding off, too embarrassed to join in the chorus, but there's really not a way to avoid it. At least she can limit the apology proper to the members of the commune. Everyone else? Well, there were a lot of people who could help with building.]

Hey, everybody. This is Donna Noble from the Ponyville Commune. We had some trouble recently and are looking for any help we can get to organize a building party. This isn't just for the commune, though, it's something I'd like to put together for something more regular in case any of us need the help. With everything we've faced since getting here, with as kind as the ponies in Ponyville are, I think we owe it to them to have some sort of, I dunno, on-call group. A bunch of us who'll come and fix something up if it gets knocked down in the latest invasion or whatever. If you'd like to help, please let me know. I'll be setting something up for the commune soon. I know the Agency needs some work for expansion, too, that we could see to helping with after that.

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[Donna takes a deep breath before addressing the scroll this time.]

Donna, here, again. I just wanted to say everybody at the Commune that I'm sorry. I'm the one who half burned down the barn. I'll see to setting it right, help or not, but... I-I need to get ahold of the powers I've suddenly got. They're dangerous. I think I should probably leave for a bit until that's sorted. Plenty of nice caves in the Everfree. [Her smile is more half-hearted than she meant it to be.] I want to make sure the repairs happen, but after that, I'll see myself off just until I can figure out a little more control. Nephenee, I'm more than happy to keep track of the commune's finances still. Just might be a little more work communicating via scroll.

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[And here's the one that's hardest.]

Terra, we need to talk. I think I caught your magic. How would that happen?

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Oh, so you're the reason the commune was looking kinda charred after the storm. I was wondering how that happened.

[Yang sounds anything but accusatory. Honestly, this time she sounds almost amused. She'd spent most of the blizzard away from the Commune after all, as had most of her friends, so no harm there.

That and she had no room to talk given she'd made an impromptu fire pit in some poor pony's floor during the storm. ...With good reason, but still.]

I wouldn't mind helping out when things need to be fixed or re-built.

[It'd be something else to do at any rate.]

[Donna pulls a face, but at least the other mare doesn't seem angry.]

Yeah, we'll be set on charcoal for the next two years or so. Thanks, though. I don't think we've really met, yet, though. I'm Donna. I do most of the bookkeeping for the commune.

[She giggles at that.]

No problem. I'm Yang. One of the Night Market guards.

Oh! [Now that she's thinking about it, Donna's pretty sure she's seen the other mare around there. And on the commune, of course, but they've gotten big enough that Donna doesn't keep track of everyone unless they're coming to her for money to buy something.] Cool. That's perfect, actually. I know Luna was always wanting the Market to be something better, show everyone that we can all get along. Having one of the guards on the build team would go along with that.

Think you could wrangle anyone else?

From the guard? I can give it a shot.

[She sounds confident at least.]

I'm sure I can get my friends to join up though. They aren't Night Market guards, but we've all been living here at the Commune and we were training to help people back home.

[Granted by fighting monsters, but in lieu of those...]

Wonderful, thank you! Were you... training to be builders, then?

[A construction crew in the making would certainly not go amiss.]

[More like a demolition crew. Stuff kinda likes to explode and junk wherever they are.]

Not really. We were training to fight monsters but those are kind of in short supply around here.

[Which...is a good thing?]

But we have skills that could make jobs like that go faster.

[Plus it's something to do.]

[Donna can't help but laugh slightly in disbelief.] You should've been here a year ago if you wanted monsters. Sorry we haven't had much that way since, but there were Changelings and weird sun things, and yeah, I like the quiet a little bit more than the monster of the week we had on.

I've got to ask, though, where are you from that you've got monsters?

[Man, figures she'd be late to the monster party.]

That's too bad. We've got almost two complete teams of Huntsmen now. I wonder if our arrival sent all the monsters here running scared.

[Of course not, especially since Jaune was here awhile on his own and she and the rest of them kinda trickled in afterwards, but it's funny to think about.]

Our world's called Remnant. It's inhabited by creatures called Grimm.

["Overrun" with them is more like it.]

Ah, you're not humans, then? [Or if she is, she's a human from a very different planet than Earth. Then again, the Doctor had mentioned humans had the tendency to go out and populate the universe at large.]

Not that there's anything wrong with that. [Donna half-smiles.] None of us really are at the moment. I take it there aren't very many nice Grimm from the sound of it.

No, we're humans. Or used to be.

[She laughs a little and then raises an eyebrow.]

Only if you like soulless, shadow beasts with an appetite for humans, then no. The words "Grimm" and "nice" don't really go together.

[Unless the word "ain't" is between them.]

Huh, Remnant's not a planet I've heard of, then. Does 'Earth' mean anything to you? That's where I'm from.

[Donna offers a grim sort of smile in response to the other mare's description of the Grimm.]

And those sound like a couple of the things I've run into with the Doctor when I was traveling around.

[Particularly the Vashta Narada, though she's fairly certain there isn't a good way to fight those.]

Well, yeah, but like, as something you put plants and seeds into to grow and stuff like that. That's kinda interesting your world's named after the ground.

[Far from sounding like she's poking fun at it, Yang seems genuinely curious. Her own world's most valued resource was called "Dust" after all.

She can't help but grin a little excitedly at that last comment though.]

So have you been to other worlds besides this one and your own?

[That would make two people now that she's met who've done that and it fascinates her to no end.]

[Donna's features light up a bit more. Talking about the Doctor and their adventures has a way of lightening her mood.]

I've been to loads of other worlds. I guess I never really thought about how silly Earth's name is... makes sense, though. It's what we live on! [She laughs lightly before going on.] The Doctor's got this ship called the TARDIS - Time and Relative Dimension in Space. He can go wherever and whenever he wants... thought we always seem to end up going somewhere with trouble.

[Her smile widens to an outright grin.]

Never was a dull moment, at least.

[That gets another laugh out of her.]

Sure sounds like it!

It must be exciting getting to go on adventures like that though. Seeing completely new worlds and people.

[That is the life.]

Yeah! We deal with a lot of different sorts of monsters, but the people you meet... [Donna's eyes shine a bit.] There are these aliens called the Ood. They're like... squid-faced people. Telepathic, and they look so scary-looking, but they're just the sweetest race you could ever hope to meet. And their songs, they sing to each other to communicate in their heads, are... I don't even have the words. They're beautiful. When you get to help people like that, those are the really good days.

I guess you and your friends are helping people, too, or preparing to. What made you want to go into the monster-fighting business?

[Donna certainly has a captivated audience in Yang on this. The young mare looks almost enthralled at the idea of fighting monsters from other worlds and meeting unique, new people like the Ood.]

Aww, wow, they sound really nice. Kinda wish my world had ships that could take you to places like that.

[Although if Remnant had ships that could take you to other worlds, there's that off-chance that very few people would actually want to stay on Remnant anymore.

That question makes her blink though, a momentary shift in her expression as if it's brought up some memory before she gives a small shrug and a grin.]

Honestly? I'm a thrill-seeker. Fighting monsters and getting to see the rest of the world? It's exciting! And I'll be helping people too, so that's always a plus.

My world hasn't really got those kinds of ships, yet, either. I just got lucky running into the Doctor. Or... sort of appearing on his ship when my fiance was trying to put all this time energy into me to feed me to some alien spiders he was trying to resurrect.

[You know? The normal way friends meet.]

You'd certainly get a thrill with the Doctor, though. If we can swing it, I'd love to take you and your friends along once we've got the TARDIS back. It's bigger on the inside than it looks, and there're plenty of spare rooms.

[Yang's hardly one to judge given the way she met and bonded with her current group of friends.]

It sure sounds exciting! Hey, if anything, I'd totally be down for a ride in that thing by myself.

[There's the briefest hesitation.]

I mean, just so long as I won't be gone too long, right? I've got my training to finish and stuff.

[And it's just not...sitting right with her to pick up and leave her team behind for an extended amount of time. ...Never mind leaving her sister.]

It's a time machine. You could travel for ages and pop back five minutes after you left! Well, we'd have to hound the Doctor to figure it out before we set off - he doesn't really think about things like time passing for normal people the way it does. Part of being a Time Lord, I guess.

No kidding??

[Just being able to travel to other worlds was cool enough, but being able to do it and have no time lost back home? Now that was awesome.

She grins widely.]

Well, I'm sold.

Bet that'd convince a few of my friends to come along too.

It's the best thing ever! [Donna agrees.] You can go to the beginning of the universe, the end of it, ancient Greece, space stations built thousands of years on. [It's almost infinite impossibility.]

I will warn you, there's a lot of running involved with the Doctor, though. Best keep a spare set of shoes handy for when you start wearing holes into the first set.

I'm sure he'd be open to your friends, too. [She'd make him be open to it.] Bunch of monster fighters? So long as none of you use guns, he'll be fine.

[She has to laugh again at the sentiment.]

Don't worry, my clothing's almost as durable as I am.

[Her boots were made for walking...over the bodies of her fallen enemies.]

That's great though! I'll have to tell them all about-

[You can almost hear the record scratch.]

Wait, what's wrong with guns?

[Oh dear, that might be a problem.]

The Doctor doesn't like them very much. [Donna's gaze drops.] His daughter was killed by one... and I think other people he knew before I knew him, too.

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