The Eleven Doctors

The Doctor; he walks in eternity.  He's like fire, and ice, and rage.  He is a madman gallomphing in a box.  He is the Oncoming Storm...and he's wonderful.  He may be a fiction, but well-known, popular, and even somewhat relevant fiction, even in realities apart from our own....

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Twilight Sparkle adjusted her Safari hat to complete the costume she arranged for herself: She looked in the mirror, and saw none other than the Seventh Doctor from the show, Doctor Whooves.  She was very proud of how hard she worked to get her cosplay together, though the Fourth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors would have all been preferred by her; however, all her friends insisted that she was the Seventh, so that's who she dressed as.  She was so excited about this day that she sent a letter to Princess Celestia discussing all of the details about her favorite show and how all of her friends were going as different characters themselves.  Spike went dressed as Elvis, which seemed to go against Twilight's costume, but it was okay for Twilight that he did so.    They went right out the door to meet their friends, who also agreed with Twilight to cosplay as the many incarnations of the Doctor: Most of her friends were Hoovians now.

It was a most especially beautiful Nightmare Night, and the sun had yet to fully set, so there was lights of red and orange all over Ponyville, and all the spider-webs and glittering costumes reflected the sun like the morning dew.  Mayor Mare was now dressed as Wonder Mare, the band was playing on the stage behind her, mostly themes associated with family friendly Nightmare Night films and Mirror Stallion, the pony name for the artist that we would typically call Michael Jackson.  When the background band finished playing, Octavia Melody was on break, and she was one of Twilight's friends whom she invited to dress as an incarnation of the Doctor.

Octavia Melody went as the First Doctor, who was played by Moonshine (The thespian Pony that was called "William Hartnell" in the human world, and alas, his cutie mark was a bottle for alcohol, which his name also seems to reflect): She was rather obsessive about watching everything in order, and against Twilight's advice, she started with the First Doctor.  Twilight was impressed that Octavia was such a huge fan of him, for she herself wasn't and neither were most of her friends.

Ditzellia Esmeralda Derpy Doo Hooves, often interchangeably known as "Ditzy" or "Derpy", was dressed as the Second Doctor, who was played by Comic Genius (the pony name and equivalent of Patrick Troughton, complete with the comedy mask Cutie Mark), complete with recorder.

Rarity went as the Third Doctor, (who was played by Smart Mouth, the pony version of Jon Pertwee) whom she found gentlemanly and classy, though she crushed strongly on the Tenth and would rather go as him, but alas! There was only one Pony suitable to be the Tenth.  "The Third is a true gentlecolt anyway" she would say to comfort herself.

Lyra Heartstrings wore the garb of the Fourth Doctor, played by Tough Cookie (the Pony name of Tom Baker, which unfortunately seemed to refer to how he was often overly assertive: His Cutie Mark was a a big frowny face, and his coat was used on the show to hide this Cutie Mark), complete with scarf and grin! She was, however, doing something most uncharacteristic of the Fourth Doctor: "NO! THESE ARE MY JELLY FILLIES!!!".

Fluttershy was dressed as the Fifth Doctor (played by Softly Spoken, their version of Peter Davison, who had a Cutie Mark of what appeared to be a gentle flowing parchment of paper), because "he seems like such a nice Pony", as she always said.

As far as Twilight  knew, nobody was going as the Sixth Doctor (who was played by Gentle Heart, the pony that we would call, "Colin Baker", whom though he tended to play meanies, was actually a very nice stallion in real life, and his Cutie Mark was actually a really cute Teddy Bear with a heart on its belly, as his special talent was just being sweet in real life (it had to be hidden on the show by his coat because his character was really mean), and Twilight always thought that it was a terrible shame he never played as himself too terribly often on Doctor Whooves)...until Trixie walked by, wearing the distinctive coat.  Twilight was not close to her, and was surprised that Trixie chose to wear that....thing....when by coincidence, all of Twilight's friends happened to be dressed as other Doctors.

Twilight was also surprised when her brother and his wife Cadence showed up, the latter in cosplay of..."The Eighth Doctor!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Twily! I got your letter!"

"So you know all about the Doctor Whooves cosplay?"

"Yes Twily! And Cadence and I found the Doctor Whooves movie on Hooflix, and...well...I don't really see the appeal, except for Doctor Whooves himself."

Twilight defended by saying: "It's just the Doctor, and while the movie was merely passable except for the main star, who exceeds all expectations, it does not reflect most of the TV series!"

"Wait, this thing has a TV series?"

Twilight sighed and groaned: "Shining, what planet have you been living on?!"

"Well, I liked it!" cooed Cadence, "and I dressed as the Main!"

"Awesome! We needed an Eighth Doctor!"

But Shining Armor had no idea what she was talking about: "Wait...there are EIGHT of these guys?" Twilight groaned again and tried to not kill her brother, and to do so, she should have to spend some time with her best friend.

Twilight was none too surprised to see her best friend Applejack as the Ninth Doctor, who was played by Dramatic Darkness (the Pony name of whom WE would call "Christopher Eccleston").  What did surprise her, however, was this: "Applejack...you cut your mane!" "Ah know Sugarcube, dontcha lahk it?" Her new Mane was cut short all around except for some bit of her bangs and bits of the sides of her mane, which she wore down.  She also wore the Ninth Doctor's leather jacket.  "Like it....I love it!" Twilight exclaimed.

Spike still had some criticism up his sleeve (which he did also currently have, as he was wearing a leather jacket): "Shouldn't you change your voice a bit to match your Doctor more?" "Spike!" shouted Twilight, but Applejack simply chuckled and had a good retort:

"Well, Ah reckon every planet's got a south, dontcha think Sugarcube?" Spike tried to object: "Well..." he began, but he realized he couldn't really argue with that.

"Spike, you're lucky Applejack is capable of comebacks, because seriously-" but before Twilight could even finish, she was pounced on by none other than Pinkie Pie!

Pinkie Pie was the Tenth Doctor, (who was played by the Equestrian version of David Tennant, Theater Frenzy) which she had no problem with: "I'm the Doctor! I'm excited, are you excited too? Great! Who wants to sing the Doctor Whooves theme? Bu-ba-bumm, bu-ba-bummmmm...."

Rainbow Dash was dressed as the Eleventh Doctor, who was played by Innocent Face, which she was compared to a lot; however, she greatly preferred the Ninth Doctor. "I like leather jackets" she would say poutily, "leather jackets are cool".  However, this form of protest only proved her friends' point all the further.  So there she was in tweed and bowtie, with a fez to cap it all.  "At least the fez makes me 20% cooler" she would say.  Her mane was even reminiscent of the Eleventh Doctor's mane, which it was so naturally.

As she had already greeted her brother and his wife, and later her best friend, Twilight decided to ask why Trixie was also dressed as an incarnation of the Doctor: "Hello, um Trixie...You see...Me and many of my friends are dressed as different incarnations of the Doctor...it's an awesome coincidence that you complete the collection...so...how did you know?"

Trixie snorted: "The Great and Powerful Trixie was not aware of you and your friends masquerading as all the inferior Doctors.  With or without that decision of yours, Trixie would have dressed as him anyway."

"Then, why him? Don't get me wrong, Gentle Heart is a great Stallion, but why did that incarnation of the Doctor make such a powerful impact on you??"

"Because when the Great and Powerful Trixie was young, she did not have Great and Powerful Friendships.  Every Great and Powerful Saturday Morning, after some Great and Powerful botched attempt to make the other foals see her greatness, Trixie would come to her Great and Powerful Doorstep, and with Great and Powerful sobs, would weep Great and Powerful tears.  Her Great and Powerful mother would make her a Great and Powerful cup of cocoa and let Trixie weep while drinking it on her Great and Powerful lap; as it was always a Great and Powerful afternoon, together, they would watch the Great and Powerful show, Doctor Whooves.  The Great and Powerful Gentle Heart was the Doctor the Great and Powerful Trixie grew up with, and he will always be her Great and Powerful Doctor!"

"Yeah...okay then..." Twilight said uncomfortably, and she decided to go to her main social group, as she could not think of anything to say to Trixie.

While trotting towards her friends, Twilight hummed the Doctor Whooves theme and wished very hard that the Doctor was real, that the TARDIS was real, the companions were real, and even all the monsters were real: It would account for a far more interesting world than the one she resided in.

As Twilight caught up to her friends, she heard them in conversation: "Ah'm sorry Rainbow Dash, but yer more Eleventh Doctor than any pony here ever could be, sugarcube."

"I don't care! I hate young guys! Young guys are rubbish!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"You DO realize that's something the Eleventh Doctor would say, don't you dear?" inquired Rarity.

"What is it with you an' older gahs anyway Rainbow Dash...ya lahk that Soarin' feller, and also that Sukhbataar cowpoke, an' they're both nearly thirty, but yer barely over twenty!"

"Well, frankly, young guys SUCK!" growled Rainbow Dash.

"Oh really, Darling? What do you make of this?" Rarity pulled out a picture of Hugh Hoofner and his latest fiance.  "What is wrong with THIS picture, Rainbow Dash?"

"Uhh, he's fat?" Rainbow said.  "I don't like fat guys.  Fat guys are rubbish."

"Well, yes dearie, but what else is wrong?"

"Who is he anyway?" ask Rainbow Dash.

"He's Hugh Hoofner, Sugarcube."

"Oh! The founder of Playcolt! Yes! He's also a chauvinist! That's what's wrong with that picture!"

Applejack replied "Well, that too, but what else sugarcube?"

"I don't know..." Rainbow Dash began "...that's really all I can think of."

"He's too old fer his fiance, Rainbow, donchatcha think?"

" No he's not!  ...actually, he would be cute, if he weren't such a fat chauvinist!"

"Heeheehee! Oh Rainbow Dash, they have Doctors for this kind of thing...wait...that's While You were Sleeping!" giggled Pinkie Pie.  "Shut up....they do?" Rainbow Dash inquired "Oh wait, yeah! There's the Ninth Doctor, and the arguably the Fourth!"

"Not that Doctor, Sugarcube."

"She means a psychiatrist, Darling."

"No way! I'm way too cool for psychiatric treatment!"

"Did your Daddy love you?" Fluttershy asked.

"What?!" shrieked Rainbow Dash.

Twilight decided to intervene: "Oh come on, girls, you know everypony is entitled to their own tastes-" but she was cut off by something shocking.

From nowhere, a single cry pierced the air, and all paused at it: "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!!!" They all knew that cry altogether too well...or at least, Twilight and her friends did; most everypony else assumed it was part of this year's performance, and so they all clapped and cheered.  And with no other warning than that, the Daleks invaded Ponyville, sending their electric rays upon the Pony populace.

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