The Eleven Doctors

The Opening Theme to Today's Episode; Special Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day Edition:

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Pinkie Pie shouted: "Found the Boron! It was in my sock drawer!"

"FAAAAANTASTIC!" Applejack cried out happily.

"A Dalek mutant that can't survive on its own" Lyra mused at the dead mutant. "Those machines must provide them so much...but how? It's kind of a brain with fingers; you can't feed a brain without a body..."

"Well, why don't we ask a Dalek?"

"Don't be silly Derpy."

"Oh, I guess I'm going to have to send Mister Dalek away." Derpy said sadly "And he was so generous too!"

"Wait...what?" asked Rarity.

"Yeah! Mister Dalek! He helped me make muffins! Come on out Mister Dalek! It's time for your breakfast!"

'Mister Dalek' then glided, with the eystalk hanging down, as if in shame: "I AM AN E-MAS-CU-LA-TED DAAA-LEK!"

"Isn't he cute? Let's name him Dalek Fred!"

"THE MAS-TER WITH-IN DOES NOT DE-SIRE NAMES! HE WANTS EX-TEERR-MIN-A-TION!!"

"Master within?" asked Cadence.

"THE UL-TI-MATE LIFE FORM, THAT COM-PLETES DAAA-LEK ES-SENCE; BUT ITS BEAU-TY IS DEL-I-CATE, AND MUST BE PRO-TEC-TED!!"

"You mean the Kaled mutants? I thought that it's the mutant speaking."

"I BLAS-PHEMED E-NOUGH AS IT IS; MY VOICE SOLE-LY BE-LONGS TO THE MAS-TER WITH-IN!! I AM NO-THING!!"

"What are you doing here, what do you want?"

"I WOULD RATH-ER DIE THAN TELL YOU A-NY-THING!"

"Fine then" Lyra replied, "Go to your tin-can masters, tell them that the Doctors deprived you of your weaponry...and...what did you do with its appendages Derpy?"

"Oh! I used the egg-whisk and toilet plunger, to, umm, whisk eggs and plunge toilets!"

Lyra burst out laughing.  The Dalek lowered its eyestalk in shame.

Then, the sound of a train pulling in echoed throughout Ponyville: "Applejack, Rarity, go investigate that, and bring your companions with you!" Lyra ordered "we need the Third and Ninth Doctors to see them safely.  When you can, report back to me, and we'll leave to go to the Magnetite patch."

They rushed out, with their companions in tow.

The Dalek, however, decided to send a silent message over the Dalek Pathweb...

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A train pulled in, full of U.N.I.T. soldiers.

And Applejack and Rarity were there to greet them.

"Why hello, Darlings!"

"Howdy y'all!"

They meant to be yelling at them to run away, but female hormones at these big, muscular stallions in uniform kicked in.

"So, what's the problem?"

"We're single virgins, that's what's wrong, Darling."

"....wut..."

"What? Oh, sorry, meant that there are aliens everywhere" (indeed she did mean to say that, but her hormones decided to first inform that she never had any serious mates in her life)

"Yes, we know, we were informed that."

"By who?" asked Shining Armor.

"Don't worry, it was all me, I took care of everything!" a familiar voice said.

Then, Discord materialized out of nowhere, dressed in a nice suit.

"Discord!" Applejack exclaimed, "What in tarnation-"

"Oh sh, sh, sh, sh," Discord said, placing a firm finger over Applejack's mouth.  "I saw all the chaos, death, and destruction, and well, I wanted to help out! I wanted to make things better, so I called U.N.I.T over here to save the day!"

"Couldn't you just use yer powers to help out?" Applejack asked.

"But Princess Celestia forbade me from doing so, so I had to be a good boy, and call U.N.I.T. over here!"

"I'll go back and report to Lyra; you stay guard over the train station."

"Alright, Sugarcube! You can count on me!"

"I'll bring the officers to the abandoned City Hall to form a great strategy!"

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When Lyra got the news, she was pleased:

"Problem is, is that bullets don't work on some of these creatures, but we could use every helping hoof we can get.  Let's go! We'll make it to magnetite patch, and wipe the Daleks clean of their memories!"

The disarmed Dalek, now hiding in a corner, was pleased to see his plans enact: The Daleks he summoned then burst in through the back door, and swept the baking room by storm, bringing the Cyberponies and also new allies with them: The Voord.

Luckily, Derpy was prepared: She turned to the Cakes and to Carrot Top, and shouted: "Muffins!"

And true to her previous word, when she said muffins...muffins.

The blasts from the Daleks, Cyberponies, and Voord completely destroyed the oven, which was simply stuffed with muffins by Derpy.  The resulting muffen-flood created at tremendous muffin-wall, safeguarding the Ponies on the other side.

"Muffins" Derpy said with a smile.  She planned that to happen.

"Wow" Lyra said "we can leave safely; guess Derpy is the Second Doctor after all."

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"You know, you need a name" Fluttershy began "...How about...Angelica?" (she was quite missing Angel Bunny)

"AN-GEL-I-CA? WHAT IS THE MEAN-ING OF THIS NAME?!"

Fluttershy apologized "Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"NO NEED TO A-PO-LO-GIZE; I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE MEAN-ING OF THIS NAME!"

"Oh, well, it implies that you're Angelic; you know, like a guardian angel of a sort." Twilight explained.

"OHH...I AM NOT A PRO-TEC-TOR! I AM A SWORD!"

"But you housed that Kaled Mutant in your body! You protected him!" Rainbow argued.

"THE MAS-TER WITH-IN PRO-TECTS ME FROM SEN-TI-MENT!!!"

"It's a raw deal!" Rainbow Dash roared "You do all the work and take all the damage, and your Kaled Mutant controls you and makes you feel nothing but hatred!"

"I AM AN IN-FER-I-OR BE-ING! I CAN LOVE AND HOPE AND DREAM!! ALL OF THESE ARE MEAN-ING-LESS!! ALL THAT MAT-TERS IS THE SU-PRE-MA-CY OF THE DAAAA-LEKS!!!"

Twilight asked "Who is the Dalek: You, or the Master within?"

"I-I...I DO NOT KNOW.  I SUP-POSE TO-GETH-ER WE MAKE THE DAAA-LEK."

"But you're separate creatures; how about you write your own destinies?" Fluttershy suggested.

"THE DA-LEKS MUST SUR-VIVE!"

"Of course they should." Fluttershy said softly.  "But they should not be a slave race to heartless monsters."

"IF YOU WILL NOT STOP TEMP-TING ME, THEN I MUST DIIIIEEEEE! EX-TER-MIN-AAAAAAAAAAATE!!!!"

The Dalek Cyborg's round orbs then departed from its body, and surrounded it, as it killed itself.

"Way to go, Fluttershy- ow!"  Twilight hit Rainbow Dash really hard on the head.

"Didn't you hear those words though? Tempted; that means the Cyborg wants more out of life than to kill, but it's been brainwashed to think that constant murder and sacrifice is what it takes to be clean, kind of like what the Medieval Ponies used to think.  We have to get out of here, and tell all the others about this!" Twilight lectured.

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As they walked to Sugarcube Corner to warn the others, Sukh sighed deeply.

"I just hope Mom is alright.  She has the biggest team here, but- I don't know." Sukhbataar began.

Rainbow replied "Yeah, I'm worried about mine too- wait what? But Nopony here could possibly be your mom...except..Octavia?"

He chuckled.  "No, no, I mean Cadence."

"HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!"

"Well, she became an Alicorn when she was a child, and stayed that way for a long time; my earliest memories of her...she actually looked pre-adolescent back then, but I didn't know that and just called her "Mommy", and thought she was a big Pony, so that was good enough for me; but all those years of being alive, she had the wisdom and warmth only a truly mature mother could have.  It's- It's kind of awkward when 'Dad' is actually a bit younger than you, and 'Auntie' Twilight Sparkle appears to fancy you partly on the premises that you're not biologically related and the psycological relationship is a loose one, but that's the Alicorn family, I suppose; the downsides of extended youth."

"THE SLUT! WHEN SHINING ARMOR FINDS OUT-" Rainbow Dash began to yell, but she was cut off.

"No, I'm sort of...well...I'm adopted."

There was silence.

"Przewalskia was taken over decades ago by the Daleks, sorry Cyberponies, er, I mean, Budennies, back when the Budenny country was known as the Hoviet Union.  They're both free countries now, but when I was little, it was a dangerous place to live in.  The Hoviets wanted to exterminate all threats to the government, and I guess my parents were considered threats.  They smuggled me away with other little foals to Equestria, and well, Cadence found me, and with Celestia's permission, she raised me in her mansion, with a lot of help from the staff there."

"So, you're the older guy Twilight likes...I take it?"

"Probably."

Rainbow felt bitterly jealous: "How does it feel to have her admiration?"

"To be honest..." he said with a small smile "I love how she adores me...but..."

"Her being an adoptive Aunt makes it weird?"

"Yeah...the fact my mom married her brother, who is not only a bit younger than me but is also really irritating, is bad enough."

"Oh, so you met Shining?"

"Yes, the Corndog guy."

"Don't like him?"

"Hardly."

"Why?"

"I don't know...he's just, he's kind of smarmy, I guess, like...like...."

"Like Harley?" Rainbow whispered, as to not concern Scootaloo.

"Yeah."

"You don't like him either?"  Rainbow Dash actually liked Harley (not as much as she liked Sukhbataar though), and suspected that Sukh's judgement was more related to family...

"Listen, I don't want to talk about this.  We're almost at Sugarcube Corner."

But he opened the door, and it was dark and destroyed: There was nopony inside it.

"Stay here" Twilight said.  "I'll look for the rest."

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Two stray Ponies, Berry Bright and Morning Glory, ran to the Train Station, as the entryway was decked by stairs.  They assumed that would keep them safe.

They were wrong.

The Dalek levitated over the stairs, and landed on the platform, then did a DNA lock on both of its targets: "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!"

If you cannot guess what happened to them, you're stupid.

A second train pulled in, also filled with U.N.I.T. soldiers.

But this time, there was a Dalek to greet them.

"EX-TEER-MIN-ATE!"

A blast eminated from the Dalek Blast Gun, and one electron blast derailed the train, causing many deaths and even an explosion at the engine.

Applejack, however, caught sight of this:

"Open fire!" she shouted.

The machine guns of U.N.I.T. troops released their contents, but to know avail to the Dalek.  "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"

And it shot

"Whah dontcha jus' DAH!!!"

The Dalek was silent for a moment...then it spoke

"YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DA-LEK."

This made Applejack furious. "Raauggh!"

Then she heard almost simultaneous "EX-TER-MIN-ATE"s eminate from different directions: She was too angry to care if she got hurt.

But before she could strike at the dark Dalek, hit it, and it wasn't from her sonic screwdriver.

She turned, and saw another Dalek standing there, all alone; she guessed that was the one where the second "EX-TER-MIN-ATE" hailed from.  But it didn't look like the Dalek she was fighting: The Dalek Applejack was fighting, and all the other Daleks she saw that night, were mostly black with varying shades of blue and green for the highlights, not unlike the Changelings.  This Dalek, however, was different; this Dalek was white and gold in coloring.  She hadn't watched the classic series, so she didn't recognize the significance of the coloring.  Then a U.N.I.T. private approached the Dalek and said "I thank you kindly for your assitance; would you like to help us-" The new Dalek, however, would have none of that.

"HELP YOU?? YOU ARE AN IN-FER-I-OR CREA-TURE!! YOU MUST LEAVE THE PRE-MI-SES, YOU ARE ON DAA-LEK TER-RI-TOR-Y!! DE-PART OR BE EX-TEERR-MIN-A-TED!!"

Applejack recognized that threat and that reason behind that threat, but not from Daleks; to threaten death because you are on territory that was claimed by the belligerent party...now, where did she hear that kind of talk before?

"If you will not be reasoned with-" the private began.

The Dalek then shot him without a warning.

Then all the guns of the soldiers cocked.

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Rarity was went to the spa to get the Boron powder installed in the vents when she was the Daleks come in.  Twilight Sparkle managed to catch up to her: "Rarity!"

"Oh, Twilight! I have wonderful news! U.N.I.T. is here, the Boron is ready to be installed, the others are finding the magnetite patch, things couldn't be better!"

"But that's the thing Rarity! We can't use the Boron on the Daleks! We don't just kill the Kaled Mutants; the travel machines are also living creatures, they're Cyborgs with hearts, same as you and me.  The Mutant's can't attack, defend, or even retain information without the Cyborgs, and without the Mutants, the Cyborgs can act on logic and compassion!"

"Ah; that explains all that 'Master Within' talk."

Twilight began to be insistent, and was now standing on her hind legs in front of the spa doors: "Yes! But don't you understand? We can't use Boron; it will kill the Cyborgs!"

"I'm sorry Darling, but that is how to kill the Mutants."

"But Rarity, the Cyborgs are innocent! We can't take innocent lives, unless there is no other choice! The Doctor wouldn't take an innocent life unless there is no other way!"

"And I doubt there is another way; now get out of the way!"

"Do what she says Twilight!" Spike insisted.

Iron Will shouted: "NO! WHEN SOMEONE DOESN'T LISTEN, SHOW THEM WHAT THEY'RE MISSIN'!"

With so much pressure of different opinions from her two companions, Twilight was beginning to feel overwhelmed...

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"Come closer, oh yes, come closer to me, my dear Doctor..."

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