(ALTERNATE ENDING) Rocket to insanity: dawn of a dying Pegasus: the broken allegiance

Resurrection.....the word echoed endlessly in Twilight's head. Was he implying-?

"You want to resurrect them?!?" She shrieked with happiness, jumping around the room joyfully, very reminiscent of Pinkie.

"Yes." He replied. "But first, there's somepony else I have to cure." Twilight stopped bouncing to listen intently. The Doctor pointed. "You."

Twilight was perplexed. Why did she need to be cured? She wasn't sick. As though reading her mind, The Doctor said, "Remember? Rainbow infected you with the poison when she bit you!" Twilight suddenly shuddered, remembering her brief seizure-like attack. "Alright, but first, how can you time travel? What about the paradoxes?" She asked.

"Oh, i can avoid those easily, plus, the thing is, ponies assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, nonsubjective viewpoint, its more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey wimey stuff.(yes, i did just watch part of "blink" just so i could type that correctly)

Twilight stared for a second, then just accepted it. "Alright then, how can i be cured?" she asked.

"Simple." The Doctor said. "Ehh, sorta. I absorb the power of the time vortex, use it to cure you and resurrect your friends, and everything's fine and dandy!" He said cheerfully.

Twilight was slightly worried. Was it really foolproof? "Alright then, do it." The Doctor opened a hatch in the TARDIS, and a stream of light entered his eyes. Once the stream stopped, the Doctor turned to face Twilight, and his eyes were gold and glowing now. Twilight was uneasy.

"Doctor?" She asked, wanting to know if he was alright. The Doctor simply reached toward her, and Twilight noticed she had a golden aura about her now. When it disappeared, she felt as though something heavy had been lifted off her chest.

She sighed in relief. "Thank you, Doctor." She said. He said nothing, merely smiled, and did the same to Rainbow Dash.

With Rainbow it was different. Her body gradually repaired itself, her wounds simply closing up, her mangled parts regenerating, even the burns. She then acted as though she emerged from a body of water breathless. She sat up suddenly and gasped loudly. She sat still for a few seconds, then patted herself to make sure she was real. Upon seeing Twilight, she tackled her to the ground, sobbing, "I killed them! I killed them!!! I'm dead!! Celestia killed me! How am I-I..." She trailed off. Twilight smiled gently and patted her, calming her down.

"You're back, Rainbow," said Twilight. "That's what matters. It's in the past. Besides, you didn't mean to kill them. You were poisoned with a powerful hallucinogen that caused you to have horrific dreams, which made you kill Pinkie and go insane."

Rainbow looked up at Twilight, looking slightly more relaxed. "So...what now?" She asked.

"Well, first, we should bring the others back, no?" Twilight suggested. Rainbow, turned and saw the other four bodies, and whimpered.

"But...they'll hate me! How can they possibly forgive me after this? I killed them all!" Rainbow sobbed. Twilight's expression didn't change.

"You were poisoned." She pointed out. "You had little to no control over your actions. Besides, we're all friends. They'll forgive you." With a shuddering breath, Rainbow nodded. The Doctor then reached toward Fluttershy's remains.

Like with Rainbow, her wounds healed quickly, leaving no trace of harm behind. However, her reaction was... Unexpected.

"Oh, Twilight! Rainbow Dash! I just had the most horrible dream!" Fluttershy exclaimed as soon as she came back, seemingly unaware that she had been dead for nearly 72 hours.

Twilight and Rainbow were taken aback by her reaction, but rolled with it. "It, err, wasn't a dream, Fluttershy."

"Oh, I see," Fluttershy said. "Wait, WHAT?!?!" She glanced at Rainbow and then dashed for the door (no pun intended), but the Doctor held her back.

"It's alright now, Fluttershy," Twilight reassured her. "Rainbow's cured now."

Fluttershy stopped struggling for a moment to take a long look at Rainbow, and then relaxed. She then recoiled slightly when she noticed the Doctor. "Um, Twilight," She mumbled. "Who's this?" She gestured slightly toward the Doctor.

"I'm not entirely sure, to be honest," Twilight said. "He just calls himself the Doctor. I think I can trust him though; he's the one that brought you and Rainbow back to life."

"Oh, alright then," Fluttershy said.

"I'll explain what's happened while you were gone when the others are resurrected." Twilight promised.

In turn, the Doctor aroused Rarity, Applejack, and finally Pinkie Pie, from their eternal slumber, each with mixed reactions. Ironically, Pinkie was the only one who came back grinning, still optimistic as hell even after dying, though she was slightly confused as to why rainbow killed her, but that was the only change. Twilight then explained everything as best she could(the Doctor slipped away during her explanation to regenerate, due to the time vortex).

"Okay, so let me get this straight," Applejack said. "Rainbow was poisoned by somepony with that halluci-thing so she'd kill Pinkie and all of us, then she killed Pinkie, myself, Rarity, and Fluttershy, then you cured her, but then the Princess killed her?"

"Yep, you pretty much summed it up," Twilight said casually.

"Alright, but where's this colt in the picture?" Applejack pointed to where the Doctor had been, then she looked slightly confused. "Hey, where'd he go?" She inquired. Suddenly, an unfamiliar colt, similar to the Doctor in appearance, but with a different hairstyle, popped out of the darkness.

"SO!" He exclaimed, clapping his hooves. "What's going to happen now?" He asked casually, as if he knew them.

"Who are you?" Twilight asked sharply. "Where's the Doctor?"

He rolled his eyes. "I am the Doctor, Twilight Dar-" he cut off, then glanced at the resurrected. "Ah yes, they don't know, do they?"

"About what?" Rarity asked, curious.

"Nothing you should concern yourselves with," he brushed off. "Come now, I didn't tell you I had to regenerate after I did that?"

"No, you didn't!" She scolded indignantly. "What happens when you do?"

"Eh, I just change my appearance, sometimes my personality, and that's all." He explained like it was no big deal.

"Alright, fine, but what's with the random bowtie out of nowhere?" She inquired.

He responded with a smooth, "Well, it's cool. Bowties are cool." (Yes, yes I did)

"Also, I need to talk to you, in private. Now." Twilight said. Shrugging the Doctor led her to a small room and locked the door behind them.

"Now," Twilight started. "How do you know about my middle name? Only my relatives and the psychiatrist knew about the incident."

"Uhh, helloooo? I'm the Doctor, time traveller, Time Lord, I kinda know a lotta stuff I shouldn't." The Doctor said. "Anyway, that's neither here nor there, I only used your real name so you'd have a higher chance of coming here."

Maybe his knowledge of THAT incident wouldn't be so bad. "Alright then," she sighed. "Let's go back with the others."

They returned to the body room. "I must say," Rarity spoke. "You do look rather fine with your new appearance, similar to a Canterlot pony." She fluttered her lashes at him.

The Doctor scoffed. "Ha! Sorry miss, but I'm unavailable." His eyes narrowed. Rarity "tsked" in disappointment.

"Who's the girl?" She inquired.

"THAT is none of your business, though I will say she is wall-eyed," the Doctor looked away awkwardly at this.

"Derpy Hooves?!?" Rainbow exclaimed, startling everypony. "You hooked up with Derpy Hooves? MAN, no offense, but you have odd taste."

"It's also...well... It gets a bit lonely traversing time by myself," the Doctor mumbled. "I try to get a companion when I can."

"Aaannnyyywwaayy..." Twilight cut in, trying to steer away from the awkwardness. "What should we do now? We can hardly just waltz back to Ponyville, I mean, everyone thinks you're all dead."

"Personally, I think first you should confront the Princess," The Doctor suggested. "She should know you are all alright, after all, she was just doing what she thought was right. She'd be relieved to know you're all back."

"Perhaps she would," Twilight nodded. "But I can never forgive her for this. What if you weren't here? What would my fate be without the others, and your cure?"

The Doctor shivered. "Ehh, just trust me when I say you don't want to know." Twilight took him at his word. "Also, I would be wary upon approaching her. She may not take kindly to the one thought to be a murderer, killed by her, to return. I suggest disguising yourselves until you arrive before her. If she attacks, it won't work, since you're all invincible now because of the time vortex, so don't fret about that." Twilight agreed.

"I can't trust her either," said Rainbow. "She didn't even give us a chance to explain."

"I concur," agreed Rarity. "This form of recklessness cannot be overlooked, especially with the end result."

"Well, um," Fluttershy murmured. "I don't think we can trust her when she hurried on like that, either."

"Agreed," Applejack said, "She had no faith in you, she treated ya'll like strangers!"

Pinkie was silent for a moment, and the others suddenly realized, her mane and tail had flattened. "Losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend forever," she growled. "And Celestia did just that. I no longer hold allegiance to her, as far as I'm concerned."

"It's settled then," Twilight said grimly, "we will never trust Celestia again." Everyone nodded.

"Alright," she said. "Time to form a plan!"