The Tyranny of Princess Celestia

Pinkie and her friends found Celestia where she landed, surrounded by the townspeople of Ponyville. Celestia struggled to get to her feet.

"I wouldn't do anything funny if I were you." Pinkie warned. "You couldn't deal with me alone. What makes you think you can stand up to this crowd?"

"How..." Celestia coughed up blood. "How did you even amass this crowd...?"

Pinkie scowled. "YOU amassed this crowd, 'princess'."

"I... don't understand..." The monarch breathed.

Pinkie smiled.

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"Welcome to the freakshow!" She sauntered around the princess. "Step up, status quo. Hope you enjoy the ride! Hehehe!" She laughed. "Welcome to the freakshow, we've got both horns and wings with us. Heh. We're not afraid and we're not buying your lies. Eat it... drink it... think it... be it... breathe it... Hmm... I guess you don’t really even know who I am, do you? Well lemme tell ya, I don’t believe it, need it, see it, or be it. It's time to make my final stand!

"Welcome to the freakshow! This is where the freaks go! This is the place that you can never take away." Pinkie smirked. "Welcome to the freakshow, where we don’t ever need anyone to tell us who to be or how to think... I don’t care what you believe."

She pause and looked Celestia square in the eyes. "I'm naturally a freak, and yet I'm just how I wanna be." She turned to her friends. "You are freaks, just like me!" Then she turned to the crowd and shouted. "I'm a freak naturally! I'm just how I wanna be! You're all freaks just like me!"

She then looked back at Celestia. "And this is MY life. I'm not living for you."

She started walking away, when Celestia made one final attack with her words. "But you were born in my kingdom! YOU WERE BORN TO SERVE ME!"

Pinkie turned around. "Look at yourself. You really are pathetic. Just because I was born in Equestria, doesn't mean I was born to be your servant." She sighed. "A wise creature once told me, 'The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It's what you DO with the gift of life, that determines who you are.'"

"YOU ARE MY SUBJECTS!" Celestia shouted. "AND YOU WILL BOW BEFORE ME!"

Pinkie sighed and shook her head. "I'm done with this." She turned around and started walking away.

Twilight spoke up to the princess, "Wasn't it you that, at my coronation, told me that, 'A princess leads not by forcing others to bow, but by inspiring others to stand and fight by her side'?"

Celestia snarled, "I never said that, you ingrate!"

Twilight looked surprised. "But... I distinctly remember that... I don't understand."

"I may be able to explain that." A male voice spoke.

And of course, everyone looked to the holder of the voice. Pinkie and her friends exclaimed as they saw a man wearing a fez and a bow tie. "DOCTOR!" They yelled.

The Doctor smiled. "Ah! Bubble Berry! Duskshine! AND THE REST OF YOU! You are looking well! Different, but well! Did you change your hair? No... You must've gotten taller! No... that's not it either... AH-HAH! I've got it! You ate a banana! Yes! That's it! Good source of potassium, you know!"

Pinkie smiled. "We got our bodies back, Doctor! We're mares again! And it's good to see you're doing fine as well! But..."

"But what?" The Doctor asked.

Rarity interrupted. "What IN THE NAME of Celestia are you wearing?!?"

The Doctor replied. "It's a fez. I wear fezzes now. Fezzes are cool."

"And what's that LAME thing around your neck?" Rainbow Dash insulted.

"HEY!" The Doctor disagreed. "Bow ties are cool!" He cleared his throat, pulled out his sonic screwdriver and scanned the princess. "As I was saying, you see, time is not made of lines, and is more like a ball, a ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff."  He turned away from Celestia and looked at the readings on his screwdriver. "But that doesn't pertain to the situation whatsoever."

"DOCTOR!" A mare screamed as she tackled the Doctor as a magic bolt from Celestia flew over his head. She was the same one who had collapsed in the throne room. His fez flew off his head and landed a few feet away. As he reached for it, however, another magic bolt was shot, hitting the fez and disintegrating it. He looked at Celestia with anger, who was shaking her head in denial.

"Actually," Rarity spoke up. "I shot that one..."

He looked at her in disappointment and said, "But... My fez..." Just then, he noticed the pony who had saved him. He exclaimed, "CLARA?!? Clara Oswald?!?"

Clara smiled. "Hello, you clever boy."

The Doctor smiled as well. "But you're a pony! ...Ah-ha-ha! You really are my Impossible Girl! Now, as I was saying-"

"Doctor," Clara interrupted. "I have something important to say. It extremely urgent!"

"Just one moment, Clara." The Doctor replied. "Now, as I was saying, someone from this world has taken something very important, VERY powerful and went to another."

"But," Twilight interrupted. "That doesn't explain why I remember something that didn't happen..."

"I have the answer to that as well." The Doctor replied. "You see, every time stream has an infinite number of parallel universes, so when phenomena like this happens, sometimes you can remember something that happened to another you, or something that is going to happen to a future you. Anyway, the question of the moment is; what was stolen, and who stole it?" He paused and turned to Celestia, "I think you know who." Then, he threw a back-handed slap to the princess' face.

Celestia's eyes grew wide and tears began to fall. "What... What have I done?"

"Better?" The Doctor asked.

The princess rubbed her face. "Yes... Thank you."

"Now, just wait a minute!" Pinkie shouted. "Celestia was never a tyrant after all?!?"

Celestia looked at the ground, "Actually, Pinkamena... I am ashamed to say, that ever since I did that Alchemy transmutation... I was. I asked for too much... It took my sanity... I really did almost murder you and Fluttershy... I really did turn that colt to dust with Alchemy... I really did give the order that destroyed most of Ponyville..." She paused. "...But those sins will be mine and mine alone to bear."

Twilight interrupted, confused, "But I did that same thing, and I didn't go crazy."

Celestia replied. "That's because I tried to give you more than just your genders. Which brings me to my next point. One of my older students has stolen your Element of Harmony, Twilight Sparkle..."

Everyone gasped except for the Doctor and Clara. The Timelord just smiled and exclaimed, "Ah-Hah! I knew it!"

"Yes." Celestia nodded. "An old student of mine, Sunset Shimmer, stole your crown and left this world through an old artifact inside the castle. I wanted to prepare you better... I tried adding something extra to the transmutation... but it backfired..."

"But..." Derpy spoke up. "for months you've been sending guards to hurt me..." She showed the princess the scars on her wrists.

Celestia's eyes grew wide with fury as she declared, "MY GUARDS DID WHAT?"

Rainbow Dash snickered as she whispered to Rarity. "Yep. Somepony's losing his job."

"Doctor!" Clara finally interrupted. "That urgent thing I was talking about, yeah, it's... well... urgent!"

The Doctor rolled his eyes and sighed. "Fine, Clara. What is it?"

Clara began explaining. "When I was sleeping, I was actually communicating across time and space with people who know you. Of course, I say 'people', but one was a lizard woman, two were humans, one by the name of River, I believe, and a short man that looked like a potato who could not get our genders right at all. Anyway, they contacted me because something really important had been found out about you... a secret I believe... a criminal said he had found it out."

The Doctor looked scared. "Clara... I need you think... What exactly did the criminal say?"

"Um..." Clara put her hooves to her head and thought. "The Doctor... has a secret... One that he will take to his grave... It... It has been found out..."

"My name..." The Doctor mumbled.

"Also," Clara added. "your friends were being captured one by one... the kidnappers told me to tell you, "If you wish to save your friends, you must come to a great battlefield... you must come to Trenzalore.'"

The Doctor staggered backwards and trembled, "T-Tren-Trenzalore?" He began sobbing. "Are-are you s-sure they said, 'T-T-Tren-Trenzalore'?"

"Yes." Clara answered.

The Doctor continued to cry. "O-oh no..." he briskly walked back to his TARDIS which was parked just around the other side of the castle, followed by Clara.

All of the ponies just stood and stared at each other. They had no idea what was going on.