The Eleven Doctors

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"But wait...can't we come with you?" asked Applebloom.

"Sorry Applebloom" started Twilight, "but we can't risk you or your friends."

"But wah not?" Applebloom said tearfully.

"Yeah!" chimed in Scootaloo, "we could take 'em!"

"B'awwww, because you're too cute and likable to be at risk of Dalek extermination, whereas Spike is lazy and obnoxious and nopony likes Twist, so we don't give a horseapple if they get killed!" said Pinkie Pie.

"Thanks" said Spike grumpily.

"Hee-hee-hee! No problem Spike!" giggled Pinkie.  "Always happy to give constructive criticism!"

"That's not why Pinkie; the reason why we're bring Spike and Twist is because-" started Twilight, but Pinkie put of hoof in front of Twilight's face.

"Well, that's why the Author is doing it, and what he says goes; capiche?" Pinkie said with a touch of menace.

"Uh, ye-yeah, okay!" Then she summoned Lyra "Lyra...if you can learn anything about this 'Author', tell me...he must be investigated..."

"Okay; you know, this 'Author' sounds like something that might appear on My Little Human..."

Twilight groaned.  My Little Human: Friendship is Bullshit was a TV show that was popular in Ponyville.  It all began with the MLH franchise that started back in the 80s, which was geared towards adult stallions; the show was rank with violence and sex, and Stallions loved it.  Eventually, it got rejuvenated in 2010, (the current year was 2012, over two millennia after the founding of Equestria) and somehow, it attracted young fillies to the show, who called themselves "Homo sapiensisters."  Twilight felt that MLH was not a good show for foals.

"Oh come on Twilight, it's not that bad..."

"'Not that bad'? Lyra, that show is garbage, and you know it!"

"But it's an interesting conjecture! And YOU know it!"

"Girls!" shouted Fancy Pants/Master Key, "look."

The magic shield was surrounded by Daleks and Cyberponies.  Twilight realized that they had to be careful.  She also heard some conversation from the Daleks.

"CARE-FUL.  WE CAN-NOT EX-TEERR-MIN-ATE ALL GEN-ER-A-TION ONE OR GEN-ER-A-TION FOUR PONIES; WE A-GREED WITH THE CY-BER-PO-NIES TO DI-VIDE THEM BE-TWEEN OUR-SELVES: HALF FOR THE CY-BER-PO-NIES, AND HALF FOR THE FI-NAL EX-PER-I-MENT!!"

Twilight was aware that there were essentially four generations of Ponyville, but that could not have been right; Generation One was the generation of Granny Smith's parents.  Then she heard more that surprised her:

"ALL PO-NIES I-DEN-TI-FIED WITH-IN SPHERE ARE GEN-ER-A-TION FOUR, SAVE ONE GEN-ER-ATION ONE SPE-CI-MEN I-DEN-TI-FIED AS TWI-LIGHT VEL-VET!.  PRE-SERVE AS MA-NY AS YOU CAN!!"

"I O-BEY!!"

None of that could have been right either; Twilight's mother was the generation before her, not generation one, and they seemed to forget Cadence, who was young for a long period of time due to being an Alicorn, and very well might have been chronologically older than Twilight's parents, even though she was biologically younger than her own husband.

"EX-TEERR-MIN-ATE ALL GEN-ER-A-TION THREE POINT FIVE PO-NIES! MIN-TY CHRIST-MAS PO-NIES DO NOT COUNT!!"

"I O-BEY!"

Twilight was well aware of "Generation 3.5"; it was "the Lovechild Generation", in more mild terms (Granny Smith called it "the Illegitamate Generation").  What happened was that a small group of sick stallions impregnated any mare between ages twelve and eighteen, resulting in foals that were almost young enough to be their mothers' sisters and brothers, so being dubbed "Generation 3.5".  Due to the immaturity of their parents, they often had stupid names like "Toola Roola".  The Generation Four Ponies that made up Twilight's social group like Pinkie and Rainbow Dash were the descendants of the Generation 3 Ponies who were smart enough to wait.

But what the heck was a "Minty Christmas Pony"? Heck, what the heck was "Christmas"? And why was it minty?

Twilight knew these were answers she could not stop pondering easily, but she knew this: The Daleks had to be stopped.  They had to get out of the shielded area, which they could not do without Twilight lifting the spell, and they had to kill the Daleks, which also could not be achieved without Twilight taking the risk of lifting the shield.

"I'm going to have to lift the shield.  Whatever the Daleks are up to, it's not good.  We're going to have to temporarily lift the shield and start fighting the Daleks; it's the only way to save Ponyville."

"Yes, we know that." Blueblood said with a scoff, "but, do we have magnets on us?"

"Umm..." Twilight realized: She hadn't thought of how they were going to mess up the Daleks' systems!

"Uh...I didn't exactly..think of that."

There were some hushed murmurs, but fortunately, these passed quickly when Sukhbataar (still covered in custard) spoke:

"Remember that one rock that everypony could not move on until we cast off all of our metal gear?

"You mean that big chunk of magnetite?" replied Twilight  "But that was just a freak accident: It got hit by a bolt of lightning and got super-charged for a short time; it's not usually that powerful."

"I know, but maybe, with their electric rays..." Sukhbataar began.

"...We could turn that rock into a dangerous anti-Dalek weapon, charged by using the Daleks' own electric charges! Good thinking!"

"But we should still go to Sugarcube Corner to get the Boron and thus disable the Dalek generators." reminded Shining Armor.

"That is, if we can get past all of these Daleks" Hoity Toity said glumly.

"Okay," Twilight began heavily, "here goes nothing!" And with that, the protective shield was lifted, and thus, there was now nothing separating her from the Daleks.

"Attack!" Shouted Twilight.

"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!!" shouted the black Dalek.

And the Cyber Controller yelled, "Delete!!"

And so, the battle started.

Blasts from the horns of Twilight, Cadence,  Shining Armor, and Lyra took out many of the Daleks on the front lines.

"GERONIMO!!!" and with that cry, a rainbow-colored streak destroyed a Dalek machine.

The Daleks and Cyberponies immediately started firing to that direction, but the Rainbow streak was much to fast, and all of a sudden, there was a cry of "Allons-y!" and with that, Pinkie Pie's Party canon took out a whole squadron of Cyberponies.

The Daleks then showered them with Electric ray blasts, which they all had to dodge or shield themselves from.  Pinkie had already figured out a way to get them close.

"Coooome heeeeeeeeeeeeere, Mister Dalek..." she said coyly.

The Dalek shot a ray, but she disappeared out of sight.

It turned, scanning the area, and then caught sight of her again, but she was much closer than last time.

"Bet you can't get me!"

The Dalek shot again, only with Pinkie to disappear.

It scanned again, debris, debris, debris, Tenth Doctor's face, debris, debris...

Wait, what?

Pinkie/Tenth Doctor giggled and said: "'Allo, Chump! Happy Hanukkah!" As she said that, she stuck a Banana in the Dalek's Blast Gun, which was being charged to fire, but alas! You can't easily exterminate if there is a banana in your Blast Gun! The center of the Dalek exploded, and the Dalek inside died in the inferno.

"Always bring a banana to a party!" grinned Pinkie Pie.

Meanwhile, the powerful magic blasts of skilled mages Twilight, Shining, Cadence, and Lyra destroyed many of the surviving Dalek machines. Surviving Cyberponies tried to attempt close-range combat on Rarity and Octavia.

Big Mistake.

Rarity and Octavia stood on their hind legs, and then made a series of graceful kicks at the Cyberponies.  "Hwiiyaahh! Hyah! Hai!  Hah!" Several strikes later, Rarity was adjusting her mane, and all the Cyberponies collapsed behind her and Octavia.  Dead.

Spike could only stare agape.

A Cyberpony was about to shoot Rarity, but then something pulled its head away from its initial target and into a Dalek, also trying to fire: They both unintentionally shot each other.

Many of the Daleks flew up to pursue Rainbow Dash, but she flew up.  And up. And up...

...And then flew down, resulting in a mid-air Sonic Rainboom that destroyed the Daleks that pursued her.

Applejack used her lasso to keep the Cyberpony from shooting Rarity, whereas Lyra used her scarf to get a Dalek to shoot the Cyberpony.  Now there were no Cyberponies there and only one Dalek left...being stared down by Fluttershy.

"I- I- I CAN-NOT.  DOC-TOR! SPARE ME!!"

"Only if you go and tell the Daleks this" said Fluttershy with menace "The Doctor is now on the loose; all of her." You better muster your ilk and send them to get us, if they want to survive."

"I UH- AH!!" The Dalek then flew away rather quickly.

They all stared at her.

"I'm sorry Twilight, but I had to: I have to get them to follow us to the Magnetite, and I have to get them away from the tree house-"

"No, no, I know that...I just...forgot how menacing you could be...or how menacing the Fifth Doctor can be, for that matter."

"Oh."

"Hurry!" shouted Twilight "Before there are more of them!"

"Why should we worry?" asked Rainbow Dash, "It was actually a piece of cake getting rid of them."

"We already lost Twist, and we need to get rid of ALL of the monsters in Ponyville, which making the Daleks loos cannons is really the only way to do that efficiently." replied Twilight.

They were wise to retreat, although the only casualty so far was Twist/Adric, which was not a problem since nopony likes Twist or Adric!  But there was something there that they nearly missed, but saw: The remains of one of the Daleks.  Pinkie approached it, for she heard a faint "exterminate" from it, and she used her toy sonic screwdriver on the dented chamber within the Dalek casing.  Lyra also took a look at it: "That's strange, True Daleks are mutants in tanks, Imperial Daleks are cyborgs, but this one seems to be kind of...both..."  There was a mutant chamber at the center of the Dalek, but there was also a separate brain and a mass of organs, but they did not seem to be part of the mutant, but rather, were connected to the mutant's chamber, perhaps to boost the mutants abilities.

Surprisingly, Pinkie's Sonic Screwdriver worked, and the mutant chamber opened, revealing a monstrosity.

"Oh my Celestia..." Twilight said.

"Aww, it's cute!" said Rainbow Dash, which was a bit unusual for her to say such a thing.

"We need to study it" said Twilight.

But Applejack had a second opinion: "Sugarcube, thar's no tahme!"

Applejack was right; the Daleks would return in far greater numbers.

"Alright then; we're going to have to take this little bugger to Sugarcube corner with us, and once we get the Boron, we'll talk."  With that, they tied the small chamber shut with Applejack's lasso, and carried it with them to Sugarcube Corner.

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Trixie Lulamoon played with the controls to her TARDIS, when she heard the front door to the Golden Oaks Library open.

"You're flying a TARDIS? I can help!"

Peeking from around the door, a colt looked in awe at the Great and Powerful Trixie's costume:

"Cool! You have the same outfit as me!"

Trixie saw the colt's outfit and gasped in wonder:

"You'r-you're...you're the great and powerful Sixth Doctor!"

Indeed he was! Or at least, he wore the same outfit.  His name was Button Mash.  He wore a coat just like Trixie's, and it actually matched him better, since his own hairy coat was earthen, his mane orange, and his helicopter cap many colors. "But what are you doing here? There was a battle outside, did you not hear?"

"I heard, but I didn't care! I'm the Doctor! I don't give a crap!"

"Exactly!" proclaimed Trixie "Oh, you may be as Great and Powerful as the Sixth Doctor!"

"Yeah!" replied Button Mash, "my mom likes the Sixth Doctor too; sometimes, she makes weird thrusting motions when she sees him on TV, and often says she has to go to the bathroom after looking at him hungrily!!" (Button's father was never really home...)

"So did mine..." Trixie said with many joyful tears in her eyes. (Neither was Trixie's father...)

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"RE-CENT MES-SAGE SENT FROM PO-NIES! THE DOC-TORS ARE LOOSE!!!!"

"SHALL WE SUR-REN-DER??"

"NAY! DA-LEKS CON-QUER AND DES-TROY!!!"

That must have been something like a motivation speech for them, as they began chanting and raving as they departed the base they dwelt in, gliding in single file...

"DA-LEKS CON-QUER AND DES-TROY!!! DA-LEKS CON-QUER AND DES-TROY!!!"

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While trying to evade a potentially inappropriate conversation of the sort BOTH of her fathers would have forbidden her listening to, Scootaloo was also determined to help Rainbow Dash in any way she could.  That was when she climbed out of the window, and then, as she was walking out of the house, she gasped as she felt her tail grabbed, but then sighed in relief: "Oh Rumble, it's just you."

"Just me?" Rumble said with a snarky voice.

"Listen Rumble, I know you want be back, but first of all, I can't let any of them go out there all alone, and... well... Button and Trixie were talking about inappropriate things I'm not supposed to listen to..."

"Yeah, I heard that; gross, huh?"

"I know, totally, but please, don't stop me-"

"I'm not here to stop you."

"Please- wait, what?"

"I'm here to come with you!"

"Thank you...I guess..."

"You guess what, Scootaloo?"

"Oh, well...it would be more comforting, I suppose, to go with a colt dressed as a knight..."

"What, you mean this? It's a Roman Legionary costume.  I'm not a Knight, but I am a soldier.  What are you dressed as?" Rumble asked.

"Me? I'm a police mare!" Scootaloo answered.

"Well, that's two of us; people in authority, who are tough."

"Haha, yeah, nothing can stop us!"

But Scootaloo was proven wrong when they saw battalions of Daleks roll onto the battleground, and they seemed to stand still, just scanning.

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Seeing an open window, two figures more short and stout than what is normal for Ponies climbed into the house...

....And they weren't foals...

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Trixie and Button were fiddling with the buttons and the levers in the TARDIS consol.

Then, they heard a grating sound that was unusually beautiful for a grating sound.

Button squealed "Umm, Trixie...is that supposed to happen??!"

Trixie could say nothing; she knew that sound well and knew what it meant.  All she could do was stand in shock...

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