Pinkie Who

Chapters

Chapter 1: Meetings
Chapter 2: The Pocket Watch
Chapter 3: Pinkie...Who?
Chapter 4: Waiting in the TARDIS
Chapter 5: Nightmare Moon
Epilogue
Alternate Timeline 1
Alternate Timeline 2
Alternate Timeline 3

Chapter 1: Meetings

A brown earth pony wearing a green tie sat a table reading a book. Weeeell, reading would be an inadequate term to describe the speed at which the pages moved. Flipping would be a more accurate, if generous, term to describe what was happening. Any normal pony would learn only that this is a book and does indeed have marks in it, whether those were words or black smudges no pony would know. This was no normal pony.

This pony is the Doctor. He's a Time Lord. He's from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. He's 933 years old and he's the pony who is gonna...read a book...obviously.

The Time Lords are a race that are gifted with many abilities. One of which being regeneration which allows them to regrow every cell in their body at the point of death. This allows them to live unnaturally long lifetimes at the cost of their appearance and personality. The limit to the amount of regenerations is twelve which allows for thirteen different faces.

The eyes of the Time Lord quickly darting across the fast moving pages would be his tenth set if he remained in his own dimension.

For reasons still unknown his time machine/spaceship, the TARDIS (That's Time And Relative Dimension In Space), transported him to a dimension where the default shape was equine. This forced his body to transform into a brown earth pony. Prior to that he had been more human-like, a human being a bipedal, mostly hairless primate.

Aside from regeneration, Time Lords have been gifted with the ability to speed read. Which is what the Doctor was demonstrating as he flipped through various dusty tomes that he had picked up from the local library.

The books came from the ever updating series simply titled "Equestrian History" and detailed all major events that led up to the current moment. This included the situation with Nightmare Moon, which was the day the Doctor had arrived in Equestria and met his lovely companion Derpy Hooves.

Derpy Hooves, or Ditzy Doo as she is more commonly known, is a grey pegasus with a yellow mane and a natural skill in muffin making. She also has a rather...unique "look on life", as it were. Her left eye seems to like to wander with little care to Derpy's wants.

The Doctor sighed as he remembered that day and his companion. Regardless of her appearance, she was so kind to the Doctor. Putting up with his shenanigans and sticking by his side.

"Weeeell..." The Doctor said looking upwards in thought "...There was that one time in Appleoosa."

He rubbed his hoof to his chin in thought then shook the memory away with a smile. The past was in the past...and sometimes in the future depending on your viewpoint.

The Doctor got up and stacked the last book on the large pile he had gotten from the library. The whole reason he had gotten them in the first place was to have some understanding as to the differences between Equestria and its other dimensional counterpart. Turns out there are quite a few, like-

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

"Who in the world could that be?" The Doctor thought aloud "Surely it isn't that dragon fellow. I mean, I did say I'd only have the books for a half hour but it's only been 23 minutes."

The Doctor walked to the door and opened it. The Doctor was greeted by a pink earth pony mare with a quite poofy pink mane. Her cutie mark was different colors of balloons, which would have led the Doctor to believe she made balloons for a living if it weren't for the basket she held in her mouth.

The Doctor smelled the sweetest smell he could have imagined coming from the basket. The basket itself was full of what looked like cupcakes with little drawings of muffins on the frosting. She was obviously a very talented baker.

"Ummm...Hello There. Der-" The Doctor was cut off by pink mare.

"Oou Rrnt Dishey Doo!" She said through the basket handle.

"Perhaps you should put the basket down." The Doctor said.

She noticed the basket and proceed to gently set it down on the ground before her.

"You aren't Ditzy Doo." She repeated rapidly "Infact, I've never met YOU before. Which is weird because I meet everypony that comes into Ponyville and we become the best of friends. Why are you Ditzy's house? Are you family, a friend, or *GASP* her very special somepony? It's just rude of her not to introduce me to you, especially if you ARE her very special somepony. It also makes it more weird that I never met you. Unless you were her very special PENpony! That's so romantic. So are you? Are you? Are you?!"

With that last question, the mare hopped with an audible BOING. This mare seemed to be in some level of sugar rush.

"Um no, I'm just a friend." The Doctor began, blushing a bit. "I'm visiting from far away. I don't believe we've met. I'm The D-er-Timer Turner. Yes, Time Turner."

The Doctor barely caught himself. He often used alternate names to blend in better to his environment and to not raise suspicion. His usual pseudonym was John Smith, but he had to change it with the change in naming. No one was named Smith or David in this dimension. Time Turner was the alternative to fit his hourglass cutie mark.

"Hi Time Turner! I'm Pinkie Pie!" The pink mare announced

***

The next twenty minutes contained the ever rapid questioning of Pinkie Pie. Varying topics from his favorite type of cloud shape to his favorite color. All of this rather one sided since Pinkie was rather content in answering her own questions. This went on until Pinkie finally let the Doctor get a word in.

The Doctor took a deep breath before attempting to answer her many questions. "I don't have a favorite shape of cloud. I have no idea what a Cherrychanga is. I don't like pears. My favorite hoof is...this one I guess. And finally my favorite color isn't green, it's blue. Ditzy gave me this tie and it goes well with my mane."

The Doctor panted while looking down at his tie. 'How in Equestrian does she talk so fast and isn't slightly out of breath.' He thought.

After a few moments he cleared his throat and looked back at the mare. She seemed to have been waiting for him to recover before talking again.

"One more question, Mr. Turner. What's your cutie mark mean?" She said gesturing to his side.

The Doctor looked to the mark he had been given in this dimension. An hourglass. Very appropriate. Pinkie isn't as clever as Derpy it would seem. Derpy had figured out that he was a time travel relatively quickly yet Pinkie hadn't connected the dots. If she did, she showed no sign at least.

"I...repair clocks." The Doctor lied.

"Oooooooh. That makes sense." Pinkie said "I'll have to make cupcakes in the shape of a giant clock for your party!" Pinkie punctuated that sentence with a hop.

"Party?" The Doctor said a bit shocked. 'A party isn't exactly a good way not to draw attention. Why on earth does she want to throw a party for me?'

"Your Welcome-to-Ponyville party! I throw everypony a party when they come to Ponyville and they're always so AWESOME!" Pinkie screamed the last word in excitement.

"No. No. That isn't necessary. I'm just visiting for a day or two. No need to go through all that effort." The Doctor said, hoping she would just let it go.

"Then I could throw a Visiting-Ponyville-for-a-Day-or-Two Party! What color streamers do you buy for that?" Pinkie rubbed a hoof against her chin in contemplation.

The Doctor was about to reply when he was interrupted by a third voice who yelled "Oh, Hi Pinkie!"

It was Derpy carrying her saddlebags full of groceries. She had gone out earlier to the market while the Doctor was studying. Apparently the whole scene with Pinkie was long enough for her to finish shopping and come home.

"Hi Ditzy! I was wondering where you were." Pinkie said, excitedly "I was confused when your friend Time Turner answered the door. I thought maybe I had the wrong house, but I remembered that I always come to THIS house so I knew it was right."

Derpy smirked ever so slightly at hearing the pseudonym. She always found it kinda funny when the Doctor had to use his alternate name.

"I was just out getting groceries." Derpy explained "I was all out of flour and butter."

The Doctor looked downward, embarrassed. He had kinda, sorta ate all of Derpy's butter. What could he say? He was hungry...and it was butter.

"Okie Dokie!" said the pink pony "I was afraid you had forgotten all about our session."

***

Apparently Derpy and Pinkie Pie have a meeting every Sunday. During these meeting Pinkie brings cupcakes and Derpy makes muffins, and the two have an extremely civil and calm debate over which is better. It was actually pretty shocking as to how it didn't involve throwing of baked goods or insulting of each other’s baking trays.

To avoid the weirdness of the situation, the Doctor decided to bring his books back to the library. Spike fussed at him for having the books out over a half hour but seemed happy enough to have them all back in one piece. Especially after the incident with the 'Cutie Mark Crusaders Book Printing' that ended up destroying a majority of the "Encyclopedia Equestria" set.

The Doctor seemed overly excited just to be in Spike's presence. It was a DRAGON running a LIBRARY. How could the Doctor not want to stick around and chat? From his conversation with the apparently 'baby' dragon he learned that he actually didn't own the library. The owner was away in Canterlot for important business with Princess Celestia. The owner also was a unicorn. The Doctor SO wanted to meet her and wondered to himself if he would in the future. How could the Doctor EVER pass up the opportunity to meet a UNICORN? He wondered if she was nice....or a ginger. How great would that be? A ginger unicorn. A GINGICORN!

The Doctor bid Spike a farewell and returned to Derpy's home, which was now Pinkie free.

Derpy told the Doctor all of the "exciting" details of the debate, which she had won this round, and how she had managed to talk Pinkie out of a full party.

"I just told her that you would be upset to meet all the ponies and end up just having to leave." Derpy said while washing a teacup.

"Clever clever, Ms. Hooves." said the Doctor wondering why he hadn't thought of it himself.

***

A few hours later, just as it had become night, there was a knock on the door. Unfortunately, Derpy was in the bath so it fell upon the Doctor once more to answer the door.

Opening the door revealed a very familiar pink mare with a pair of saddle bags.

"Oh, hello Pinkie Pie. Ditzy is in the bath currently. Is there any way I can help you?"

"Hiya Mr. Time Turner! I'm actually here to see YOU. I need your help with something." Pinkie said.

"Oh? With what?" The Doctor asked tilting his head slightly.

Pinkie began to dig in her bags. "I was hoping...you could fix...THIS."

The object she took out shocked the Doctor. 'The symbols...the writing...it couldn't possibly be...'

From a chain, Pinkie held a pocket watch.

Author's Note

Thanks go to DJNightmareNight, Neko Majin C, and refferee for noticing big errors I had made.

Chapter 2: The Pocket Watch

The Doctor took the pocket watch in his hooves and examined the strange symbols. 'That's....that's Gallifreyan...' He flipped the watch over to reveal what looked like a solar system. 'That's Gallifrey...how?'

"Are you okay, Mr. Turner?" asked a concerned Pinkie Pie. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

'Oh how right you are.' Thought the Doctor, looking up at Pinkie.

"How long have you had this watch?" The Doctor asked.

Pinkie put a hoof to her chin. "As long as I can remember, I think. It's just always been broken so I never bothered with it."

The Doctor looked back down at the watch. 'So it's true...'

"So...do you think you can take a look at it?" Pinkie asked breaking the long silence.

"Huh? Oh...of course. I'll see if I can fix it." The Doctor faked a smile. "How about you come back to Ditzy's house tomorrow morning and we can talk about your watch."

"Okie Dokie Lokie!" Pinkie said with a burst of energy. "Goodbye Mr. Turner!"

"Goodbye Pinkie Pie..." The Doctor said, seemingly lost in thought.

The Doctor shut the door and looked at the watch.

'I am not alone.' The Doctor thought. 'But why would you be hiding? There's no danger to be a Time Lord in this area. No Daleks about. So why on Earth would you want to forget it all and be just a normal pony? Maybe there's more differences between dimensions...Gallifrey...the Time War...did the Time War even happen? And if it did, how did it end without me in this dimension? Maybe she got trapped here like I did. Would it be right to wake her up and ask her? Would it?'

"Doctor!"

The Doctor snapped back to reality. How long had he been standing there?

Derpy had apparently been trying to get his attention. She was in a bathrobe with her mane wrapped up in a towel. She looked worried.

"Oh...Sorry Derpy...I was just thinking..." said the Doctor.

"What's wrong, Doctor?" said Derpy, catching what seemed like sadness in his voice.

"....Pinkie Pie."

***

After giving Derpy the opportunity to dry her mane the two sat at the dining room table. The Doctor had made some tea for the both of them and had a stick of butter on a plate in front of him. The latter was untouched.

Derpy sipped her tea concerned by the Doctor. Overall he seemed less like himself and more serious. He never passes up butter, it's the best way to cheer him up. Maybe it was because she had convinced Pinkie to not have a party for him.

"Doctor?" Derpy began "Did I do something wrong?"

"No Ditzy...you've been fantastic..."

Okay. Something is terribly, TERRIBLY wrong. Derpy knew the Doctor. She knew that he would never call her Ditzy unless he was angry at her. Normally he called her Derpy or Ms. Hooves. He didn't seem too angry, more sad.

Derpy's left eye drifted to the pocket watch he kept in his sight. It had the marks that she had seen in the TARDIS. Was it a language?

"Doctor, did that watch come from the TARDIS?"

"No, Ditzy. Though it was made by the same people, the Time Lords."

"Does it have some kind of powers? Like, well, time powers?"

The Doctor laughed slightly at Derpy's mention of 'time powers'.

"No, Ditzy, but it isn't an ordinary watch. It's what's called a Chameleon Arch. It disguises every cell of the host so they appear like another species. It also takes all of their memories and replaces it with a different set."

Derpy thought on this.

"So if you use it you'd be a normal pony...forever?"

"Correct, weeell kinda. I would be a normal pony until I opened the watch. Then I would turn back to a Time Lord. The problem being that the watch always appears broken to the host giving them no incentive to open it."

After a long pause, Derpy focused both eyes on the Doctor.

"Is it mine...and I just don't remember using it?"

"No, no." The Doctor replied "You're just a pony."

"Oh..." Derpy looked down at her now empty tea cup "...JUST a pony..."

The Doctor heard a touch of sadness in her voice. The Doctor hadn't meant any offense, but it had sounded like he said she was inferior. This was beyond the truth.

The Doctor got up from his chair and walked around the table to Derpy. He gently grabbed her chin and turned her face to him, looking directly into her eyes. Her left one drifting upward.

"Derpy," he began "Even if you are just a pony, you are the most important pony I have ever met. You are kind, smart, and strong. You are my companion. That key isn't just a way to open the TARDIS, it's a promise. A promise that you most important pony to me...even more important than myself."

The Doctor smiled. Not just the smile of somepony trying to cheer another up, but a genuine smile. Derpy couldn't help but return it.

"Oh Doctor..."

Derpy couldn't help tearing up when she hugged him.

***

After Derpy released him from the hug, the Doctor recounted how he had gotten the watch.

"So Pinkie Pie isn't a normal pony?" asked Derpy.

"It would seem not. She seems to be a Time Lord of this dimension. The Gallifreyan on her watch seems slightly different than mine. Much like Equestrian is slightly different than English."

"Isn't it good then? Pinkie being a Time Lord?"

"Normally I would agree with you, but the fact that this one is hiding as a normal pony means there's something amiss. I mean I'm a Time Lord and there isn't anything attacking me for it."

"Maybe she just wanted to live a normal pony life."

"But why would she wipe out her memories then?"

"Maybe something bad happened that she wanted to forget."

The Doctor went silent. First in thought, then in immense sadness. Derpy saw his eyes. They were tired, full of loss and pain. There were simply not enough tears for him to shed. Derpy began to tear up again but quickly wiped her eyes.

"Doctor...what's wrong?"

The Doctor was silent for a few more moments before answering.

"Derpy...I fought in a great war. A TIME war. A war with my people against the Daleks." The Doctor paused again. "The war ended with the destruction of both sides. One Time Lord ended the war. Sacrificed all of Gallifrey to save the rest of the universe."

"Who?" asked Derpy

The Doctor looked up at her, meeting her gaze. He looked as if he could cry for a thousand years. Derpy got up and gave him a hug this time. He remained silent, unmoving. Derpy released him from the hug and sat back down. The Doctor continued.

"The problem is that I didn't exist in this dimension. So if there was indeed a Time War, then who ended it? And if there wasn't, what kind of traumatic event could have occurred to cause Pinkie to want to forget?"

The Doctor's sadness seemed to lift, leaving him just pondering.

"Are we sure it's Pinkie's?" Derpy said "She seems like she's always been the Pinkie we know and love and it seems so genuine."

The Doctor took out his Sonic Screwdriver. He set it to the scan setting and pointed it at the watch. A familiar whirring was heard. The Doctor looked at the blue tip of the screwdriver as information was displayed on it at such a speed that only he was able to see it.

"Well whoever used this, did so roughly 50 years ago." The Doctor said putting away his screwdriver.

"See! Then it can't be Pinkie! There's no way she's over fifty years old."

"Time Lords age slower than normal ponies. I could go off in the TARDIS for 50 years and come back completely unchanged."

"But she wouldn't be a Time Lord anymore if she used the watch."

"She wouldn't LOOK like a Time Lord anymore. The watch uses a type of Perception Filter to change what everyone-"

"Everypony."

The Doctor looked confused then began to laugh loud and long. Derpy still didn't get what was so funny about grammar correction, but she wasn't going to stop him. He needed to laugh.

When his laugh seemed to end, he cleared his throat and continued.

"It makes it so everyPONY *giggle* sees the user as a different species, but the user is the same species. She may look like and think she's a normal pony, but she still has two hearts like a Time Lord."

There was a bit of silence as Derpy put it all together.

"So...are you going to make her open it?"

The Doctor looked back down to the watch.

"I...don't know. What if you're right and she's just trying to forget. What right do I have to make her remember?"

"...Well, maybe you could talk to her after she opens the watch and if she still wants to forget she could just forget again."

The Doctor contemplated this. He took a bite of the butter that was beginning to melt at this point.

"Maybe."

***

The next morning seemed to move very slowly. Neither the Doctor nor Derpy talked. The Doctor seemed content just to wait as time ticked slowly. He barely moved. If it wasn't for his breathing, you'd swear he was a statue.

Derpy decided that she should cook breakfast. Maybe some tea and a few of those gross English Muffins would cheer him up.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

That seemed to wake the Doctor out of his trance. Derpy looked at him with wide eyes, but the Doctor seemed completely calm. The Doctor walked over to the door and opened it.

There stood the pink mare. Pinkie seemed absolutely ecstatic to see the Doctor. In her hoof was a half eaten oatmeal cookie. Her breakfast on the go.

"Hiya, Mr. Turner!" Pinkie yelled excitedly.

The Doctor forced a smile before replying.

"Hello Pinkie Pie. Here for your watch I'm guessing."

"Mmmhmm." She replied through a mouthful of cookie.

The Doctor took that watch out of his pocket and handed it to Pinkie Pie. She took it in her hoof and pressed the open button with the side of her occupied hoof.

The few seconds felt like an eternity wrapped in forever.

"Wow! Good work, Mr. Turner!"

Pinkie took another bite of the cookie as the Doctor sighed in relief. Maybe it wasn't her watch.

Then light poured out of the watch, much like water. It flowed towards Pinkie's face. She had stopped chewing and her pupils shrank.

Her cutie mark began to shift. The strings of the balloons met at a central point and straightened out. At that point grew a circle with numbers circling the perimeter. Her cutie mark was now a clock with balloons for the hands.

The glowing stopped. Pinkie looked disgusted. She threw the cookie and began to spit it out in the grass.

"Oatmeal? Are you crazy?"

'Well it couldn't be worse then waking up tasting pear.' The Doctor thought.

Pinkie looked at the Doctor. Her look went from disgust to anger.

"YOU!"

Author's Note

Thank you, all of you, for your kind comments. I had thought that no pony would read this and those that did wouldn't like it. I am so surprised to see the opposite. I must confess that I originally had no idea where I was going to send this story. I had a rough idea, but it was just that, an idea. With everypony's feedback and ideas I'm actually beginning to form a story that may go somewhere. I'm sorry to leave you on a bit of a cliffhanger, but this is literally all I had thought up when I originally thought of the story. I need to think out my next chapter a bit before I begin writing. I'll try to write as fast as I can, but I don't promise to have it 4 days later like this chapter. Again. Thank you all for reading. I really hope you enjoy the story as much as I enjoy writing it.

Chapter 3: Pinkie...Who?

The Doctor took a step back into the house.

This new Pinkie seemed to have recognized him as more than just Time Turner. This wasn't unusual, more the life of a time traveler. People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect. Which to most people, or ponies for that matter, it is. An average individual can mix some flour then make some muffins. When actually, from the nonlinear nonsubjective viewpoint of a Time Lord, time is more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly...timey wimey...stuff. A Time Lord can eat a muffin, plant the wheat to make the flour, build the house where he's cooking, and then mix the flour. In that, or any other, order.

He could remember hearing in his schooling on Gallifrey of how often fights would get started over things not yet said or not yet done. So much so that it was put into law.

"We haven't met yet it would seem." The Doctor said "I must ask you to please calm down."

"Calm!?" Pinkie shouted "What gives you the RIGHT to tell me to be calm!? You...you TRAITOR!"

'Traitor? Oh hell. What did we do, future me?' The Doctor thought.

"Whatever I've done, let me assure you, I haven't done yet. I can apologize on behalf of my future self but I can't-"

"How old are you?" Pinkie asked. Her flames of rage cooling down to embers. Still hot, waiting to rise again.

"...what?" The Doctor asked, caught off guard.

"You heard me, old timer." Pinkie said, eyes narrow in suspicion.

"Last time I checked, I was 933. Not an old timer anymore." The Doctor trotted in place as if to emphasis his point.

"933? Oh you've long since done it. In fact, it was two regenerations ago if I'm right. I've seen pictures of those faces, this one aswell. I must admit that this face is my favorite. Just...the MANE."

Pinkie seemed to have cooled down. Admiring the beauty that was the Doctor's mane. The Doctor opened his mouth to speak, but was interruptted as Pinkie continued.

"Great mane or not, you are a traitor to your race! You are a disgrace to the title of Time Lord."

"What exactly are you referring to?" The Doctor asked. He already guessed the answer and now it was time to see if he had guessed correctly.

"Don't play dumb, Doctor. You destroyed Gallopfrey!" Pinkie yelled.

'Apparently that happened in this dimension, too. But how? I was never...wait...'

"GALLOPFREY?!" The Doctor more shouted than asked.

The Doctor began laughing uncontrollably. Pinkie was completely shocked by this.

"I mean..." He tried to say between laughs. "I can *giggle* understand every *laugh* PONY...but *giggle* GALLOPfrey? Are you joking?"

SMACK

Pinkie had slapped the Doctor across the face in a flash of anger.

"Ok. I deserved that." The Doctor admitted, rubbing his cheek.

Derpy joined the Doctor by his side. She had stayed back in confused, shock but decided she needed to be by the Doctor's side. In case he needed help with diplomacy or pegasus kicking Pinkie in the jaw. Pinkie was her friend, but this was not Pinkie.

Pinkie noticed Derpy. Her face turned slightly pale. "Y-you...um." Pinkie cleared her throat "Who are you?"

If Derpy didn't know any better she would think Pinkie already knew who she was, and seemed surprised to see her.

'Oh, Future Doctor...' Derpy thought 'What did you do? And why did you drag me along?'

"I'm Derpy Hooves. The Doctor's companion."

Pinkie mouthed the word 'companion', with what seemed like sad understanding.

The Doctor cleared his throat to get Pinkie's attention. Pinkie snapped out of her lost state.

"Well, who would YOU be?" The Doctor began at a pace that would make the old Pinkie proud. "You're obviously not Pinkie Pie anymore. Actually, no one is or ever WAS Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie was essentially wiped from existence when you opened the watch. Like pressing reset. Actually...more like reloading an old save. So again I ask you, who are you?" He emphasized the last three words.

Pinkie stepped back, as the Doctor seemed to offensively question her. Not angry, but determined to get an answer. She gave him a mischievous smile.

"Oh, but giving you my name now would be no fun." She said, her smile widening. "But since you insist, I'll follow your lead. Call me The Baker."

"The Baker?" The Doctor asked.

"Did you honestly think that watch gave me the art of the baked good?" The Baker said. "I learned from the best. My...mother."

That last word seemed to hold tears. Memories of love and the emptiness of loss. The Baker's smile was lost and her eyes seemed to be losing a battle with tears.

'Maybe this is why she chose to forget.' The Doctor thought.

The Doctor walked up to the Baker and put a hoof on her shoulder. She looked into his eyes. His eyes were full of understanding. He had seen loss in its purest form and had chosen to keep going in its wake. Kept running, if only to outrun his own loss and sadness.

The stare seemed to last hours, weeks, centuries. Enough time for stars to be born and die. Yet no more than a moment or two had passed. The stare was broken by the lights of something teleporting.

A figure had teleported behind the Baker. This figure was quite robotic. The body was shaped like a triangular prism with the top corner being rounded. The robot had a black base that separated the main body from the ground. The rest of the robot was a bronze color. The exterior of the robot was covered with evenly placed half spheres of the same color. From the front extended two devices. One that resembled an egg beater and the other a plunger. The head of the robot seemed equine-like. It had a neck that featured vent-like areas and the head was free of all but two features. Where the ears would be were two short, cylindrical lights, and in the center of the head extended a horizontal eye stalk. At the end of this eye stalk was a black object with a blue light. This could only be one race, a-

"DALEK!" screamed The Baker. She backed away from the robot and towards the Doctor.

"Really?!" The Doctor began to laugh. "THAT'S a Dalek?! *ah ha ha ha* Oh if only Davros were here to see this. *he he*"

"THE DOCTOR HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED." The lights on its head flickered in time with its words. "THE DOCTOR IS THE ENEMY OF THE DALEKS."

The Doctor's laughter dissipated to a more serious expression.

"Nooow it's not funny." The Doctor said slightly annoyed.

"SECONDARY TIME LORD IDENTIFIED. IDENTITY NOT KNOWN. INFORMATION SUGGESTS POST-GALLOPFREYAN BIRTH. YOU WILL IDENTIFY YOURSELF TO THE DALEKS."

"Bite me." The Baker replied, spitting at the Dalek's base.

"INSULTING GESTURE SEEN AS SIGN OF ATTACK. BEGIN EXTERMINATION. EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE!"

"Some things are the same in every dimension." The Doctor mumbled "RUN!"

The Doctor hopped past The Baker and broke into a gallop. The Baker followed suit. Derpy took advantage of her wings and took off. She flew high and fast, knowing exactly where the Doctor was heading.

Fortunately, Daleks aren't known for their speed. Hell, in the early days a good flight of stairs was enough to stop a Dalek. But speedy or not, Daleks are deadly. Especially their laser blasts. But lucky for the Doctor and 'friends' the Daleks were pretty rubbish with moving targets.

After a few minutes of full gallop the lasers stopped. Hopefully signalling that the Dalek was left in the dust. At this point they had exited Ponyville and had entered the field that preceded the Everfree Forest. The perfect place to hide a blue box.

The Baker picked up the pace upon seeing the box and left the Doctor behind. This wasn't exactly the hardest feat as the Doctor hadn't entirely perfected galloping yet. Running on two legs was one thing, but galloping with four was a totally different kettle of fish. It was more like a bowl full of fish fingers....and custard.

The Baker made it to the TARDIS before the Doctor. The Doctor was now down to a good trot because...well...galloping was hard. He was out breath but still managed to yell.

"It's *breath* locked! I *pant* have the *breath* key!"

The Doctor made it to the TARDIS and tried to catch his breath. The TARDIS was as blue as always. It looked like a Police Call Box from 1963. It had the sign proclaiming it to be a "POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX" along with a blue light on the top. Once he had regained his composure, the Doctor walked to the TARDIS door to find it....OPEN?!

The Doctor was sure he had locked it and Derpy hadn't gotten here yet. How?

The Doctor walked into the TARDIS control room. The control room was pretty big especially since the outside was rather small. TARDIS interiors are set in their own kind of dimensional space. They can be infinitely big yet the exterior would remain the same size. Kinda like opening a mailbox expecting a letter and finding the entirety New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New......New York.

From the door led a metal pathway to the TARDIS console. The console being a rather circular area in the center of TARDIS that consisted of seemingly random bits and baubles. Random as they were, these were the controls that allowed the Doctor to travel anywhere and anywhen. In the center of the console rose a large glowing column called the Time Rotor. For the sake of brevity, think of it as a giant piston that glows and moves when the TARDIS is working. It also makes an odd noise that the Doctor just assumes is just how it works and isn't something silly like him leaving the handbrake on.

At the console stood the Baker. She seemed to be examining the various levers.

"How did you get in?" The Doctor asked. "The door was locked."

The Baker held a key up, not breaking eye contact with the console. The Doctor was shocked and began to search himself for his own key. The Baker spoke up.

"I didn't steal your key, you twit. I have my own." The Baker turned to face him.

The Doctor stared at her, hoof still in his seemingly unnatural, equine pocket. As if reading the question on his face, The Baker continued.

"You gave it to me...a long LONG time ago...with the promise that I was always welcome to come back."

Author's Note

Thanks to Syvvak for the name "The Baker". Thanks to Neko Majin C and refferee for error correction.

Sorry for such a short chapter. I ran out of ideas and didn't want to delay you guys while I thought on it. Please keep posting predictions and ideas in the comments. I have and will use people's ideas.

Thank you guys for your continued support!

Keep Buggering On!

Chapter 4: Waiting in the TARDIS

The next half hour was spent in silence. The Baker sat, glaring at the Doctor. The Doctor tried to focus on the TARDIS screens. Anything to avoid that burning gaze. Derpy had yet to arrive, which was beginning to worry the Doctor.

Derpy had taken to the skies while the Dalek was focused on the Baker and himself. The Daleks had no reason to pursue Derpy. So where was she? Had she decided that enough was enough and left for good? No, she wouldn't abandon him like that. All he could do was wait.

The Doctor pulled a lever and pressed three buttons. The temporal readout vanished from the screen and was replaced by a program searching for a planet made of muffins. Ever since the Doctor had mentioned the place, Derpy was obsessed. To be honest, the Doctor only had a vague memory of the planet. He was having breakfast at the console one day and had dropped the banana nut muffin he was eating. Before he could say "Bugger", the TARDIS had landed and he was on a planet that grew muffins. He grabbed a replacement and off he went. He had never returned or really thought about it. For all he knew the planet didn't exist in this dimension. If Gallifrey was Gallopfrey, what's stopping Muffin Planet from being Cupcake Planet. All of this was making the Doctor crave an English Muffin...or maybe just some butter to calm his nerves.

The Doctor flipped a switch and the program was replaced with a warning that read "WARNING: CHAMELEON CIRCUIT MALFUNCTION. PLEASE SEEK NEAREST TARDIS TECHNICIAN IMMEDIATELY." The Doctor ignored the warning as he always had and continued to let his mind wander.

Gallopfrey. How could it be gone if he hadn't been in this dimension? The Baker said he had long since done it, which was true...with Gallifrey. If this version of Gallifrey was gone before he had ever landed in this dimension, how could he have been involved? Which brought up the matter of the Daleks. If he had never met the Daleks, fought them, or destroy them...then how are they enemies? Granted the Daleks aren't known for their allies. It still seems odd to single him out as an enemy rather than refer to the Time Lords as a whole as enemies. It's unlikely for him to be recognized at all, let alone anger an entire race and destroy another. Especially two regenerations prior. He had never visited a equine dimension two regenerations ago or ever for that matter. He'd sure as hell remember that.

The Doctor grabbed the screen and walked with it. The screen clicked along its track until it was facing completely out of the Baker's view. The Doctor pressed more buttons and even threw a lever for effect. He loved doing that.

The screen showed the figure of the Baker, still glaring at him. Blue horizontal lines ran down the image, followed by two vertical lines. Words began to fill the space next to the Baker's image.

NAME: Unknown
ALIAS: The Baker
SPECIES: Gallifreyan Variation
AGE ESTIMATE: 300 Years
REGENERATION ESTIMATE: 2nd
ANALYSIS: DNA seems Gallifreyan in base, mutated from humanoid to more equine-like. This mutation seems stable but completely unknown. Mane follicles seem to have inbuilt Gallifreyan technology.
CONCLUSION: Approach with caution.

The Doctor looked around the screen at the Baker herself. She continued glaring. Inbuilt Gallifreyan Technology? In her mane?

"You know," The Baker broke the silence. "It's rude to use Sonic Scanners to Molecularly Analyse a lady without her permission."

The Baker's eyes narrowed as if she was trying to light him on fire.

"Um...Sorry." The Doctor then became more enthusiastic in his words. "I've just never met a Time Lord of this dimension. I'm surprised you aren't called *he he* Time Horses, or Horse Lords, or *snicker* Lords of Horse-y Time.....Horse-y Time *ah ha ha ha ha ha*."

The Doctor began laughing to himself. The Baker began to roll her eyes but stopped suddenly.

"Wait...This Dimension?"

The Doctor's laughter was cut short as he cleared his throat. He pulled a lever on the console and walked to face the Baker.

"Yes, this dimension. I'm originally from a dimension where the more default state of a creature is bipedal. We don't have this arcane energy that seems to make up this universe. We are more reliant on technology. Regardless, my TARDIS brought me here not too long ago for a reason I have yet to determine." The Doctor paused staring down at his hooves. "I have no idea how to get back."

"How long ago?"

"Do you remember when Nightmare Moon tried to take over?"

"Of course. I am the element of laughter. Well, WAS anyway."

The Baker retrieved the pocket watch and studied it.

"Well I arrived earlier that day and met Derpy Hooves."

The Baker looked up at the Doctor.

"Wait, I remember seeing you. You were in THIS regeneration."

"Yes...? I haven't been in this dimension that long."

"That's impossible..." The Baker put away the watch. "You're lying!"

"If I were lying, do you honestly think I would design my console to be difficult to drive with HOOVES?"

The Doctor emphasised his point by trying to turn the Turn-y Crank with his hoof. His hoof kept slipping off the grip. Definitely designed for fingers.

The Baker continued to stare, a mixture of surprise and confusion on her face.

"And if you need more proof..." The Doctor walked around the console and pushed the screen sideways with enough effort that it stopped before the Baker. "There!"

She read the screen. She looked up at the Doctor.

"You put up a Truth Field?"

"I did indeed. I knew you wouldn't believe me without proof and there's proof."

"Please turn it off." The Baker asked with a shocked expression.

The Doctor tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. He shrugged and pushed a lever. A powering down sound was heard.

"But...." She began. "You can't have just arrived. You've been here long before."

"Well, timelines don't always meet up the right way. You should know that, you're a Time Lord!"

"I didn't mean it like that! I mean you've been here at earlier points on your timeline. Earlier regenerations."

".....what?"

"I've found records in several databases. Along with your destruction of Gallopfrey. I guess...it wasn't you that destroyed Gallopfrey then."

The Doctor shook his head and sat down. He leaned against the console, staring into the distance. He was lost in thought. The Baker sat next to him. She dug in her mane and retrieved a white bag.

"Would you like a Jelly Filly?" The Baker offered the bag full of sweets.

"...yeah..thank-Wait a minute. Did you pull that out your mane?"

"Umm...yes? My mane is enchanted with a Spatial Compression Field. Basic Gallopfreyan technology."

The Doctor looked confused.

"My mane is bigger on the inside. Haven't you wondered why it's in a constant state of poof?"

The Doctor raised an eyebrow and rubbed his chin.

"Yes." said the Doctor. "Yes, that makes sense."

The Doctor grabbed this 'Jelly Filly' candy he was offered and popped it into his mouth.

Yup. Just a pony shaped Jelly Baby.

***

After the two had emptied the bag of its sweets, the Baker started to talk.

"Look, I'm sorry. I didn't exactly leave my Doctor on the best of terms when we last met."

"Yeeeah, Article 42.3 is there for a reason."

The Baker looked at the Doctor completely confused. The Doctor met her look and raised an eyebrow.

"Article 42.3?" The Doctor asked "The Shadow Proclamation? Come on! That's day one in the Academy!"

The Baker continued her look and it finally clicked.

"You..." The Doctor began "...were not born on Gallopfrey were you?"

The Baker looked down at her hooves.

"No, I was not. I was born long after Gallopfrey was gone. I did try to get every piece of information I could and recreate it for myself, but there wasn't much to find. Though my searching did find that it was destroyed...by YOU!"

The Baker slammed her forehoof on the TARDIS floor. The resulting CLANG echoed slightly. The Baker took a deep breath and sighed.

"Sorry...by your dimensional doppelganger. Anyway, I wanted to recreate an image of Gallopfrey. To see the beauty I only heard of in tales passed down to me. I made this a life goal of mine. Then I found out that a pony I trusted had been the one to destroy it. Beautiful Gallopfrey. All those innocent Time Lords gone. Millennia of technological advancment trashed. I suppose you can see why I might be a bit angry."

The Doctor remained silent. Static started coming from the screen. The Doctor and Baker quickly got to their hooves.

The image that displayed was a Dalek, that quickly spoke.

"OUR LEADER WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH THE DOCTOR."

"Fine." The Doctor said. "Put them on."

"Dalek diplomacy, that's new." Joked the Baker.

"THE DOCTOR WILL MEET THE DALEK LEADER ONE ON ONE."

"Why would he fall into such an obvious trap?" asked the Baker, eyes narrowing.

"BECAUSE WE HAVE HIS COMPANION."

The Dalek moved aside showing an unconscious Derpy in a cell towards the back of the room. She looked dirty from what might have been a fight, but overall unharmed.

"Derpy! NO!" The Doctor shouted. He grabbed the screen as the Dalek moved back into frame. "You listen to me, you fancy rubbish bin. You harm her in any way and I will make you regret it for the rest of your life."

"THE DOCTOR WILL MEET WITH THE DALEK LEADER."

With that the transmission was cut.

The Doctor sighed and released the screen. The Baker was staring at him, surprised.

"What?" asked the Doctor.

"I've never seen you angry before."

"Well, the Daleks just did something that half the universe is smart enough to know not to....They made me mad."

***

The Doctor traced the signal of the transmission to a building on the moon. He wasted no time setting the coordinates into the TARDIS. With that he flipped a switch and the TARDIS dematerialized.

The Baker remained silent and out of the way. The Doctor was obviously very angry. He was working at the TARDIS console silently and with an angered expression. With a Doctor that was normally smiling and amazed at everything, this was a bad sign.

Once the TARDIS had landed the Doctor walked to doors that led outside. He stopped and looked over his shoulder at the Baker. The Baker still sat off to the side and was just watching the Doctor.

"You coming?" The Doctor asked, a touch of impatience in his voice.

The Baker got up and followed the Doctor. If his dimensional counterpart destroyed an entire race, then an angry Doctor is never good. Best to stay on this Doctor's good side.

The Doctor opened the doors to reveal the same room they saw on the transmission. The walls were grey and metallic, as were the floors and ceiling. On one side was a console of many lights and displays. A rather stunned Dalek was at one of the screens and was turning to face them. On the other side of the room was a cell with-

"DERPY!" shouted the Doctor as he ran to the bars of the cell. "Derpy, can you hear me? Derpy!"

In the Doctor's voice were hints of desperation and denial. He never wanted anything to happen to Derpy. He cared about her too deeply to let her get hurt...or worse. The Baker could hear the scars of his hearts in his voice. How many more times could it possibly break?

Derpy did not get up.

"Derpy...please..." The Doctor pleaded. Tears began to build in his eyes.

Derpy did not move.

The Baker walked up to the Doctor and placed a hoof on his shoulder. The Doctor muttered a faint "No..." as he let his head fall forward and hit the bars. An echoing CLANK was heard.

Derpy's ear twitched upon hearing the noise. She still remained unmoving otherwise.

The Doctor's eyes grew wide. He wiped away tears and sighed with relief. He reached through the bars and gently shook Derpy.

"Derpy?"

She seemed slightly cold, but alive.

The Doctor turned to the Dalek, his rage alight once more. He approached it until his face was looking directly into the eye stalk.

"What have you done to her?"

"SHE WAS SEDATED, AS REQUESTED BY THE DALEK LEADER."

The Doctor found relief in that. Sedation was good. People wake up from sedation generally, no reason for ponies to be different.

"Well." said the Doctor more coolly "Take me to your leader...I have always wanted to say that."

The Baker audibly facehoofed in the background. The Doctor let out a slight chuckle.

"What are we in a bad Sci-Fi movie or something?" she said through her hoof.
***

The Doctor and Baker were led to a giant door by the Dalek. The Dalek moved to the side of the door as it opened inward.

The room was large and mostly empty. From the door led a red carpet. At the end of the carpet stood a cylindrical platform that was very Dalek-like in style. On the top of the cylinder was a glass dome with the same two light cylinders on the top as the Daleks. Inside the glass dome was a plasma that was so dark blue that it was almost black. This plasma seemed to slowly flow in random patterns.

The Doctor and Baker walked into the room as the door closed behind them.

"Greetings" said a female voice that seemed to echo but not off the walls of the room. The lights on the cylinder prooved that it was the one speaking. "I am the Dalek Leader, but you might know me better as Nightmare Moon."

Author's Note

Dun dun daaaaaaa! Nightmare Moon everyone! Thank you guys for reading, as always. I'm sorry for again leaving you on a cliffhanger, but I really had to end it here. Chapter 5 is going to start with a long sequence.

Thanks go to BLTmunch for the idea for the Jelly Filly part and Neko Majin C for correcting my grammar mistakes.

Chapter 5: Nightmare Moon

Did this plasma really refer to itself as Nightmare Moon? This can't be right. Nightmare Moon was just Princess Luna driven mad, right? Right?

"That's impossible" said the Doctor "Princess Luna is safe in Canterlot."

"Yeah, plus we destroyed Nightmare Moon with the Elements of Harmony." added the Baker.

Nightmare Moon laughed.

"Fools. Do you honestly think that Nightmare Moon was just Luna going mad?"

Well, yes actually.

The lights dimmed and a panel opened on Nightmare Moon's platform to reveal a projector. An image was displayed on the far wall. This image was of a rather sad looking pony in a dark room.

"I am the one that lives in the edges of a pony's mind. Causing terrible nightmares based on their own self doubt. I feed on this lack of self confidence. It's what lets me in."

Behind the pony in the image appeared a pair of cat-like cyan eyes. The image was gone and was replaced by a picture of a younger Celestia and Luna on a balcony. Celestia was at the center of the balcony and looked generally pleased. Luna was in the shadows and had a look of sadness.

"And who better to feed on than dear Princess Luna? Luna, who was ignored by her subjects in favor of Celestia's Sun. Luna, who was ignored by her own sister. Luna-"

"Who felt she would never be loved as much as her sister." said The Baker.

"Precisely." Replied Nightmare Moon. "I began by just simply feeding on her self doubt. Cause a bad dream here, a sleepless day there. It was quite the feast, but it simply wasn't enough. I wanted more. I wanted power!"

The image changed to one of Luna yelling with all her might at Celestia. Luna had tears streaming down her face, Celestia seemed completely shocked.

"So I messed with Luna's emotions. Made her angry at Celestia. Planted the thought of overthrowing her sister in her broken mind. Unfortunately, Luna was too loyal to act on these thoughts. She still loved her sister too greatly. I couldn't stand it anymore. At this point I had been in Luna's head long enough that I knew my way around."

The projector turned off and the lights brightened.

"But why tell you, when I can show you."

Suddenly the Doctor felt light headed and unable to focus. It felt like someone was forcing his conscience self away from his senses. He tried as hard as he could to fight it but it was a losing battle. His field of vision went dark as he was sucked into nothingness.

***

When the Doctor awoke he was in what looked like the throne room of a castle. He stood up slowly expecting some sort of pain or stiffness from being passed out on a stone floor. He was met with nothing. He seemed to have no sense of feeling, yet it wasn't weird or awkward to move. In fact his only senses working were sight and sound. What was this?

He heard a groan from behind him. The Baker was on the ground, looking quite confused at her surroundings. The Doctor helped her on her hooves.

"That felt weird." said the Baker "Where are we? Why can't I feel the floor?"

"I have no idea. Maybe we can find someone to help us."

The Baker just stared in surprise.

"What?" asked the Doctor

The Doctor followed her gaze past him and found-

"Princess Luna!" The Doctor gasped.

The Doctor bowed in respect, the Baker followed his example.

"Princess," the Doctor began, still bowing. "We didn't mean to intrude. We were just lost and-"

"Not another step!" interrupted Luna.

The Doctor picked up his head and looked at Luna.

"Beg your pardon, your highness?" asked the Doctor.

The Doctor noticed that Luna wasn't addressing him. He turned to look behind himself and saw Princess Celestia across the room. She seemed displeased.

"Princess Celestia? Is there something wrong?" asked the Doctor.

"Did you really expect me to sit idly by while they all basked in your precious light?" Luna asked Celestia.

"Precious light?" asked the Baker, more to herself than Luna.

Princess Luna walked up to a balcony.

"There can only be one princess in Equestria!" she shouted "And that princess...will be me!"

With that she smashed the front railing of the balcony which caused a crack to form on the wall behind her. This crack traveled up and destroyed a stained glass window when it reached it. Through the window the sun was clearly visible, but the moon seemed to rise quickly as it covered the sun. The resulting eclipse darkened the skies.

Luna was enveloped in a plasma similar to what was in the glass dome. Suddenly the Princess was inside a sphere of magical energy that seemed to spin insanely fast. When it was gone a different alicorn stood when Luna did. This was Nightmare Moon as the Doctor remembered her.

Nightmare Moon's laughter filled the room. She shot a blast of magic energy at a random place on the ceiling. Debris fell in front of the Doctor and Baker causing them to back closer to Celestia. Celestia looked down at the rubble and back to Nightmare Moon as she took a few steps out of the dust cloud the debris had caused. Celestia flew up towards the ceiling. Nightmare Moon took quick aim and fired a second magical blast at Celestia. The white alicorn quickly dodged the magic bolt as it blew a hole in the ceiling and she landed.

"No..." The Doctor said under his breath "This can't be right...unless...Ooooh."

The Baker stepped past the Doctor to try and address the Princess.

"Princess! It's me, Pinkie Pie! Stop this or we'll have to send you back to the moon for another thousand years! Princess! Please!"

At this point the Doctor walked up to the Baker and put a hoof on her shoulder. She turned her head to look at him through tear-filled eyes. The Doctor just shook his head.

"Luna, I will not fight you!" shouted Celestia "You must lower the moon! It is your duty!"

"Luna? I am... Nightmare Moon!" shouted the former moon princess "I have but one royal duty now: to destroy you!"

With that Nightmare Moon shot a blast of magical energy at Celestia who immediately took to the skies, flying through the hole in the ceiling.

"And where do you think you're going?" asked Nightmare Moon, following Celestia into the sky.

The Baker was still crying. She sat, facing where Celestia had stood but turned to face the Doctor.

"What the hell is going on?" She asked, clearly shaken by recent events. "How could Luna do this again?"

"If I had to guess," began the Doctor "This is probably the first time Luna became Nightmare Moon. I mean, think about it. Dalek-mare Moon back there said she was going to show us what happened. Next thing we know, we wake up and can't feel our legs. We are obviously looking at a scene from the past which is why no one has noticed us. We aren't actually here. Either that or they're extremely rude."

"So...Luna isn't becoming Nightmare Moon again?"

"No. Well, at least not now."

The Baker wiped her eyes and cleared her throat.

"I mean, I knew that. I was just testing you." The Baker obviously lied.

There were flashes of light as Nightmare Moon continued trying to attack Celestia.

"I don't know what we're supposed to do now. Neither of us have wings and the rest of the memory seems to be happening out there in the sky. It's times like these that I wish I had wings...or a horn....or ginger hair."

The Doctor was snapped out of his external thought process by a scream. It was Celestia. She fell through the hole in the roof, leaving a trail of smoke from the magical blast that hit her. She landed on the ground with a thud. Nightmare Moon's laughing could be heard from above.

"Princess Celestia!" screamed the Baker as she ran to the alicorn's side.

The Baker was looking over Celestia's body for wounds. The Doctor sat to the Baker's right.

"This can't be right." The Doctor said, "I've read the history. Celestia is supposed to win this battle with Nightmare Moon and banish her to the moon. This isn't where Celestia dies...it can't be."

Celestia stirred. Both the Doctor and Baker backed up as she got to her hooves.

"Oh, dear sister." Celestia said, "I am sorry, but you have given me no choice but to use these."

Celestia used her magic to activate a floor panel which opened revealing a hole. Out of the hole came what resembled a model of the solar system made from stone. On the five "planet" pedestals stood gems that stood perfectly balanced on their end point. The gems were of varying colors but were the exact same shape. In the center stood the stone "Sun". Out of the sun came a purple gem surrounded in Celestia's magical aura. This gem was shaped like a six pointed star, like a sparkle. Something was familiar about those colors.

The Doctor then had a sudden flash of memory. The night when he had arrived and had gone to that castle with Derpy to help Nightmare Moon. There were already six ponies there. Each pony had a necklace with a colored gem. The history book he had read had called them the "Elements of Harmony." Was it possible that these gems were the Elements in a past time?

The gems began to vertically orbit Celestia as she flew off the ground. This spinning increased in speeds and became horizontal. The speeds had increased to an impossible degree as a burst of power came from Celestia. The Princess began to radiate rainbow light.

Celestia flew through the hole in the ceiling once more. The Doctor and Baker looked up through the hole at Celestia. She had stopped a short distance from Nightmare Moon. Nightmare Moon had stopped laughing and started to form an attack. The Elements of Harmony stopped spinning and formed a five pointed star in front of Celestia. The purple gem was in the center and was a bit further forward. The outside gems focused colored light on the purple gem. Nightmare Moon shot a beam of magical energy as Celestia shot a rainbow beam from the purple gem. The two beams met and fought. The rainbow beam overpowered Nightmare Moon's beam and eventually hit her.

"Nooooooo!" shouted Nightmare Moon as the rainbow beam sent her shooting towards the moon. As Nightmare Moon hit the moon a shadow formed in the shape of a unicorn on its surface.

***

The Doctor was thrust back into his senses so quickly he felt he might fall out of his eyes. They were back in the Dalek base, in Nightmare Moon's chamber. Besides a slight dizziness, the room and Doctor were perfectly the same as before.

"Whoa..." The Baker said, her eyes derping a bit.

She stumbled around before deciding sitting might be a better option. She knocked the side of her head a few times. Each time her eyes picked two random and opposite directions to point. After the fourth or fifth time she finally got them right.

"Enjoyed your little trip?" asked Nightmare Moon, seeming amused.

"How did you do that?" The Doctor asked, worried but curious.

"I make nightmares. You don't need to be asleep to have a dream. What makes a nightmare any different?"

"So you put us in a day dream and made us dream the memory?"

"Precisely."

"I must say, I didn't see that coming." The Doctor said, "That's pretty clever."

"Are you really complementing the Queen of the Daleks?" The Baker said, annoyed.

"Ahem." Nightmare Moon interrupted. "If I could continue my story."

The Doctor and Baker turned to face Nightmare Moon, but not before the Baker could roll her eyes.

"Good. Now I waited my thousand years on that rock. Planning my revenge while in exile. Celestia couldn't keep me there forever. Upon my return, I was banished from Princess Luna entirely by the new bearers of the Elements of Harmony."

The Baker just glared at Nightmare Moon.

"Without a powerful vessel to occupy I returned to the moon. I began trying to look for somepony else who I could use to try again. That's when I came upon the greatest mind in the universe. You, Doctor."

The Doctor raised an eyebrow. The Baker had stopped her glaring and instead gave a puzzled look towards the Doctor.

"There's no way in the universe I would have let you get my mind." The Doctor said.

"I didn't take your mind." Nightmare Moon said "But I did cause some nightmares. And in these nightmares I saw something interesting. Daleks. Something that scares the great and powerful mind of the Doctor, that was something I needed."

"Wait," the Doctor said, "YOU created the Daleks in this dimension?"

"Well, more recreated them. All the original Daleks were lost in The Time War, but I think the Dalek Empire is due to rise again. I hope you don't mind if I changed their design a bit. I found it...funny...Pony Doctor fighting Pony Daleks."

Wait, did she know that he wasn't from this dimension?

"But enough about me. Let's hear you introduce yourself."

"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time-"

"Oh hush Doctor." Nightmare Moon said "I was talking about her."

The Baker looked suddenly surprised as Nightmare Moon had addressed her specifically. The Doctor turned to look at her. He, too, had been curious as to her identity.

"I-I'm the Baker." She stuttered.

"You're a very bad liar." said Nightmare Moon. "Tell us the truth, Dinky Doo."

The Baker was utterly shocked. She had turned a few shades of pink lighter and her pupils shrank.

"That's right, Dinky. I know who you are. I cause your nightmares, I know your secrets and fears. So either you can tell the Doctor who you are or I'll tell him. Your choice."

The Doctor was staring with a raised eyebrow at the pony formally known as the Baker. Was the fact that she's Dinky important? He had never meet a Dinky. Granted he really hadn't been traveling in this dimension that long so it is possible he COULD meet a Dinky. He had met an Alonzo so anything was possible. The weird thing was that the name sounded extremely familiar but he couldn't figure out why.

"Fine," said the Baker, "My name is actually Dinky."

There was an extended pause.

"Continue," said Nightmare Moon.

"What more do you want from me!" shouted Dinky.

"There's more mystery to you than your name. Enlighten us. Surely you know your species or age."

Nightmare Moon seemed to be pushing Dinky to spill something.

Dinky sighed before speaking."Fine. I'm Dinky Doo. I'm a Time Lord. I'm not from the planet Gallopfrey and was born in a TARDIS. I'm 203 years and I'm a mare that just wants to see the home planet of her race. Happy?"

"Oh, Gallopfrey." said Nightmare Moon "The same planet destroyed by the Doctor. Yet you traveled with him and in fact sit calmly by his side."

The Doctor opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by Dinky.

"This Doctor didn't destroy Gallopfrey. This Doctor is from a completely different dimension. Gallopfrey was destroyed by my Doctor...the Doctor of this dimension."

Her Doctor?

"And what is that Doctor to you?"

"He's...well I guess it doesn't matter anymore but he's my father. We traveled as a family long ago. Just him, my mom, and me. Until I found out he destroyed Gallopfrey. I couldn't believe it. How could he have been such a traitor to his own people? How could he have murdered everyone? I begged my mother to leave him but she didn't want to leave my father and kept asking me to calm down and talk. I couldn't stand to see him. I left and grew my own TARDIS from a piece of his."

What....what? So his dimensional counterpart had a child that left him after she learned of Gallopfrey. What are the odds that he would meet his dimensional doppelganger's daughter...or the odds he could say that five times fast?

"But," The Doctor spoke up "Why did you use the chameleon arch on yourself?"

"Well," Dinky began "I won't go into details but I kinda crashed my TARDIS outside of Ponyville while regenerating."

"Regenerating?" The Doctor asked "What were you before Pinkie?"

"I was a unicorn, even though neither of my parents were magic users. Something to do with the Artron energy and the magic of this universe affecting my mother while pregnant caused me to have a horn."

The Doctor looked really focused in thought for a moment or two and then shrugged. What did he know about how this dimension works?

"Anyway," Dinky said continuing her story, "My TARDIS was really broken something nasty. I set it to start repairing itself as I became a baker in Ponyville. I set my TARDIS's chameleon circuit to be a small toothless alligator so that I could keep an eye on it and always have it close. After a while I began to have mental breakdowns. I missed my mother terribly and even began to miss my father. Even if part of me hated him, he was still my dad. On top of that, I was grounded from all time and space until my TARDIS repaired itself. It all became too much. So I used the chameleon arch I stole from my dad's TARDIS. I became Pinkie Pie."

"What a heart wrenching story," Nightmare Moon said, her words dipped in sarcasm, "It's too bad that the other Doctor isn't in this dimension anymore."

Dinky let out a small "...what?"

"According to my Dalek researchers, when this Doctor came into this dimension it was too much for the dimension's stability. Like two Doctor's trying to squeeze into a space that can only fit one. This Doctor won and knocked the other Doctor into another dimension."

"So my dad is...is..."

Dinky's eyes began to fill with tears. The Doctor put his hooves around her, pulling her into a hug.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," he said.

"Too bad you left before talking to your father." Nightmare Moon said, evil joy hanging on every syllable. "You could have said goodbye by spitting at him."

Dinky was filled with an emotional fire. She broke from the Doctor's hug and began to gallop towards the Dalek queen. The Doctor reacted quickly, grabbing Dinky's tail in his mouth. Dinky was halted to a stop, shaking slightly from internal rage.

"Or he could have told you that he never destroyed Gallopfrey." Nightmare Moon said, pausing slightly before continuing. "He wasn't even in this dimension at the time."

Everything froze. The only movement was the plasma in the glass dome. It was as if the whole room had stopped to take this in. The Doctor dropped Dinky's tail.

"...what?" The Doctor and Dinky said in unison.

The Doctor and Dinky look at each other.

"What?" said the two.

The both looked at Nightmare Moon and utter a final "What?"

The lights switched to that of emergency lighting as an alarm began to go off. The Doctor got into an aggressive stance, eyes darting around. Dinky had followed his lead but kept her eyes locked on Nightmare Moon. A speaker system seemed to come to life with the voice of a Dalek.

"DALEK SHIP PREPARATIONS COMPLETE. EVACUATING ALL DALEKS. BASE SELF DESTRUCTION SEQUENCE INITIATED. DESTRUCTION IN FIVE MINUTES."

"Ah," said Nightmare Moon, "My work would seem to be done here."

"What do you mean?!" shouted Dinky "What work?!"

"She's been distracting us," said the Doctor, standing up straight. "Keep us busy while the Daleks get ready then kill us with the self destruct."

"Clever colt," said Nightmare Moon. "Can't have you stopping the New Dalek Empire, can we? I really must be off, but before I go, one last thing. You might want to ask your father how he destroyed Gallifrey with the time you have left."

With that, the entire structure that was Nightmare Moon dissolved into blue light and was gone.

"Gallifrey?" Dinky said turning to the Doctor.

"My Gallopfrey." The Doctor replied closing his eyes.

"And you destroyed it?"

"Look." The Doctor said, turning to look directly into Dinky's eyes. "To answer your question, yes. But we have far more pressing matters right now. You can yell at me for the four minutes we have left or you can drop it and we can get out of here."

Dinky saw raw determination in those eyes. She nodded and they both ran to the door. The Doctor took out his Sonic Screwdriver and began to use it on the door.

"No use!" shouted the Doctor, still sonicing. "My Sonic isn't powerful enough."

Dinky took out a Sonic Screwdriver of her own and began to sonic the door. Her Screwdriver seemed more arcane in base, having a pink gem at the tip. The tip glowed with a pink aura. The Doctor glanced over and smirked.

'Atta Girl,' he thought.

The door opened and the two galloped down the halls at full speed. They reached the room where they had landed the TARDIS. The alarms were more concentrated in this room. On the screens showed a counter that showed they had less then three minutes remaining. The Doctor ran to the console and begun to sonic it.

"What are you doing?!" shouted Dinky

"Getting Derpy out of that cell!" The Doctor shouted in reply.

Suddenly Dinky's face was filled with fear. She quickly ran to the cell itself and began to sonic the electronic lock. After a few seconds, the lock beeped and the door swung open. The Doctor ran over to the cell and picked up Derpy on his back.

The two made a bee line for the TARDIS. Dinky got there first and opened the doors. The Doctor followed and closed the doors behind them. Dinky pulled a lever on the console and sent the TARDIS into motion. The sound of alarms was replaced with the sounds of the TARDIS traveling through the vortex.

The Doctor sighed in relief and walked down one of the TARDIS corridors with Derpy still on his back . Dinky continued to work on the console.

***

Dinky opened the door the Doctor had entered with Derpy. It was a bedroom, and on the bed was Derpy. She looked pale, her breaths seemed weak. The Doctor sat next to the bed watching Derpy.

"We've landed." Dinky said approaching the bed. "What's wrong with her?"

"I don't know." The Doctor said quietly. "I'm having the TARDIS scan her."

There was a pause. The Doctor just watched Derpy as if his staring might wake her up. Dinky stared at the floor and finally looked up at the Doctor.

"So..." Dinky said, "Something I never got to ask my father...you...is why?"

The Doctor turned his head towards Dinky. His eyes seemed empty and cold.

"Why what?" he asked.

"Why did you destroy Gallop- I mean Gallifrey?"

The Doctor looked forward and then slowly lowered his head.

"There was a war between the Time Lords and Daleks called-"

"The Time War." Dinky interrupted. "I read about it in a database."

The Doctor nodded ever so slightly.

"At one point I fought in it. I threw off the title of Doctor and became a warrior. Billions died. Whole races were wiped out in the crossfire." The Doctor paused for a moment before continuing. "The Time Lords wanted to use a weapon called the 'Ultimate Sanction' that would destroy the entire universe, leaving the Time Lords on a higher plane of consciousness."

The Doctor had turned his head to Dinky once more. His eyes were open and filled with tears.

"I couldn't let them." He continued. "The universe was filled with so many beautifully fantastic people of every species, gender, and intelligence. I had spent most of my lives seeing it and I loved it so."

The Doctor closed his eyes tight. Some tears managed to escape and fell down his face.

"I had to use a device called 'The Moment' to destroy both Gallifrey and the Daleks. To save the universe I had to kill all of Gallifrey. Every man, woman, and child gone. My family..."

With that the Doctor fell silent, head hung in deep sadness. Dinky hugged the Doctor from the side, putting her head on top of his.

"I'm sorry," she said, "I'm so sorry."

A moment had passed just like this. The Doctor broke the hug and exited the room. Dinky followed.

***

The Doctor stood at the console reading a wall of fast moving text. Dinky watched him from across the console, deciding it would be best to not interrupt the Doctor. The Doctor's eyes stopped and his pupils shrank.

"...no." he mumbled. "NO!"

The Doctor galloped as fast as he could back to Derpy's room. Dinky followed as best as she could, unable to really keep up.

She stopped as she entered the open door. The Doctor was checking her pulse yet it seemed Derpy was still breathing.

"Doctor!" shouted Dinky. "What's wrong?"

"She's been poisoned. The Daleks didn't just give her a sedative. They used a rare poison that has no antidote."

The Doctor lowered his hooves to the ground, finished taking Derpy's pulse.

"She's going to die." The Doctor said softly.

Dinky had joined the Doctor by his side.

"Why Derpy?" The Doctor asked no one in particular. " Why kind, brilliant Derpy?"

The Doctor put his head down on the bed next to Derpy's arm, closing his eyes.

A few seconds later there was a blinding light and the smell of-

"Regeneration energy?" the Doctor asked.

The Doctor opened his eyes and expected to see Derpy regenerating. What he saw was the same Derpy as before and regeneration energy coming from-

"Dinky!" shouted the Doctor. "What are you doing?!"

Dinky was standing on her hind legs, glowing with regeneration energy.

"Making a sacrifice for those I love." Dinky replied. "Just like my father."

With that Dinky pointed her fore hooves and head at Derpy. The golden light shot from Dinky and was absorbed by Derpy. The Doctor just stared, mouth hung open. All the lights in the room flickered brighter.

After a few moments, if was over. Dinky fell onto her front hooves and shook excess energy from her mane. Derpy seemed to have an immediate reaction. Her breathing had stabilized and become peaceful, as if she were only sleeping.

"What did you do?" asked the Doctor, finding his voice.

"I used up my future regenerations to cure her."

"How did you know how to do that? You never took Time Lord Biology."

"You used to read me an old Time Lord fairy tale."

Dinky got closer to Derpy, addressing her directly in a soft voice.

"A Time Lord noble was walking through a forest to a high-class party. He enjoyed the walk as he could view nature in it's beautiful harmony. Fitting together like clockwork. He had walked this way many times, but this time was different. There was a girl. This girl was not a Time Lord, she was of the poorer classes. This girl was sick, she was poisoned by a rare species that could disable regeneration. She was so weak that she could hardly speak, but she still could utter a few words to the noble. 'Help me.' she begged, looking into his eyes. The noble waited a moment, gazing into her eyes. The noble then focused all his remaining regenerations into her, restoring her health. After he was done he offered to help her up and said-"

"'Come. I want my friends to meet the one I plan to marry.'" The Doctor finished.

The Doctor looked at Dinky. His eyes were warm and happy.

"Thank you. I can never repay you."

"Trust me, you will."

The Doctor gave Dinky a questioning look but dropped it as Derpy began to stir. She yawned and opened her eyes, looking from the Doctor then to Dinky.

"Doctor...Baker..." she said half awake.

"Hello, Ms. Hooves." The Doctor said, smiling wide.

"I had the most *yawn* beautiful dream." Derpy said, closing her eyes. "I dreamt I was a mother of the most beautiful little filly."

"What was her name?" asked the Doctor, wanting to hear Derpy's voice more than the actual answer.

"...Her name was..." Derpy's voice was becoming slurred with sleep. "Dinky...Doo...."

With that Derpy began snoring lightly. The Doctor's face went from happy to surprise in 10 seconds flat. He looked up at Dinky who just smirked.

***

The Doctor and Dinky left Derpy to sleep. They now stood in the control room.

"What are you going to do now?" asked the Doctor. "Track down future me and rejoin the family?"

"Not quite now." said Dinky. "I have a destiny as the Element of Laughter. I think Equestria might need me."

The Doctor nodded sadly.

"So I guess you've got to become Pinkie again." he said, hints of sadness in his voice.

"Well not always!" said Dinky. "You could wake me up and visit every now and again! Go take a vacation and drop me off 10 minutes later! And Hearth's Warming! We have to spend Hearth's Warming together! Just you, me, and Mom! At least for Hearth's Warming Dinner!"

Dinky's eyes pleaded with the Doctor, begged him. The Doctor smiled.

"Of course," he said.

"Oh. One other thing. If you ever have foals, and one of them, when she's eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug... go easy on her."

"Gotcha."

Dinky caught the Doctor off guard with a hug.

"I love you, Dad."

"...I love you too."

Author's Note

*hides* It's not the Master or Rani please don't hate me.

Thanks go to Tatsurou for the Dinky Daughter idea and refferee for mistake correction.

Special thanks go to Neko Majin C for going Grammar Dalek on this chapter. PUNCTUATE! PUNCTUATE!

Epilogue

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. The sun was shining bright, the birds were singing proudly, and Sugarcube Corner smelled sweet as always.

The Doctor and Derpy sat at a table as the Doctor told a rather abridged version of recent events. Spoilers and all that.

"So," said Derpy as the Doctor finished, "The Dalek just sedated me and ran away?"

"Yup."

"And you and the Baker talked about how you never destroyed Gallopfrey?"

"Yes indeed-y."

"And she decided that it was probably best if she became Pinkie again for Equestria's sake?"

"Mmhm."

"And you took the pocket watch-"

"For safe keeping, yes."

Derpy looked down at the half eaten blueberry muffin.

"I see." she said. "I could have swore something cool was going to happen. Like...a Nightmare Moon...Dalek...thing. I don't know."

The Doctor shrugged and kept his poker face.

"Aw well," said Derpy. "I'll see you back at the TARDIS."

The Doctor nodded and Derpy left.

The Doctor had a lot to think about. Daleks were on the loose again, led by Nightmare Moon of all things. He had also learned about this dimension. That he had kicked a Doctor out when he came here and that even here Gallifrey was gone. He had been spoiled to his own future which ruins the fun just a bit. He had met his future daughter and made peace with her. Not to mention that he and Derpy-

The Doctor was brought back to his senses by a clattering. A little colt had dropped a plate with a muffin. The muffin had rolled away on the ground. The colt looked saddened by this. He sighed.

"Here," said the Doctor, offering his untouched muffin. "Take mine."

The colt brightened up as he took the muffin.

"Wow. Thanks Mister!" The colt said, gratefully.

The colt walked back to his friends and begun conversing. The Doctor watched, smiling.

"Do you have a foal, Mr. Turner?" said a voice. "Because you would make a really good dad."

The Doctor turned to see Pinkie Pie placing a muffin in front of him and smiling. She walked back to the counter and began talking to a customer. The Doctor couldn't help but smile as he watched Pinkie work. He wondered if he would be a good dad.

Suddenly Derpy busted in and ran to the Doctor.

"Doctor!" she said. "You gotta come see. There's this weird talking cat that disappears popping up around town."

"A Cheshire cat?" asked the Doctor. "That DOES sound fun. Lead the way, Ms. Hooves!"

The End

Author's Note

It's over! *party popper* I hope you've all enjoyed the ride as much as I have. Two things to note:

This is not my final story. Stories have been bouncing around my head all throughout the last chapter of this. I plan to continue writing.
This story is not quite done yet. I have some...let's call them "Bonus Features." So stay tuned.

Thank you. Everyone reading this, everyone commenting, and everyone liking. You all helped me write this story and showed me that this is something I CAN do (I wonder what a Fan Fiction Writing Cutie Mark would look like?).

Thanks go to refferee and Neko Majin C for mistake correction. Yay Grammar! :D

Thanks again, and as we say in my hometown, Don't Forget To Be Awesome!

Alternate Timeline 1

The Doctor took that watch out of his pocket and handed it to Pinkie Pie. She took it in her hoof and pressed the open button with the side of her occupied hoof.

The few seconds felt like an eternity wrapped in forever.

"Wow! Good work, Mr. Turner!"

Pinkie took another bite of the cookie as the Doctor sighed in relief. Maybe it wasn't her watch.

Then light poured out of the watch, much like water. It flowed towards Pinkie's face. She had stopped chewing and her pupils shrank.

After a moment the glow faded, leaving a stunned looking Pinkie Pie. She blinked and swallowed her bite of cookie. Her face became an evil grin.

"Pinkie has returned!" She shouted to the sky, her voice deeper and with an odd accent. "Pinkie regrets using that watch. It makes Pinkie forget, yes."

The Doctor was shocked by the sudden outburst. He had this weird feeling in the back of his head that this wasn't how this was supposed to go.

"You," said Pinkie Pie, addressing the Doctor. "You have saved Pinkie from that memory prison, yes. For that Pinkie will remove your name from hat tonight. Which reminds Pinkie that she must invite Dash to make cupcakes. Pinkie is so excited. She cannot stop rubbing her hooves together, yes!"

Pinkie proceeded to rub her hooves together...yes. The Doctor opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted by Pinkie.

"Pinkie has no time for talking, Pinkie must prepare, yes."

Pinkie pulled a frog from seemingly nowhere and placed it in front of the Doctor. The frog looked up at the Doctor.

"Pinkie commands you to assimilate," said Pinkie.

Before the Doctor could mumble that he would try, she was gone. The Doctor blinked for a few times and looked around randomly. As if looking for something. He took a long sniff and turned around. Derpy was behind him, she looked concerned and confused.

"Doctor," said the grey mare, "What was that about?"

"I have a hunch, but we need to get back to the TARDIS."

"Why? Shouldn't we just ask-"

"Please, Ditzy." The Doctor interrupted. "We need to go to the TARDIS."

Derpy looked into the Doctor's eyes. She could see impatience with a dash of fear. Derpy nodded.

***

The walk to the TARDIS was rather uneventful. The Doctor had his head tilted downward as if completely lost in thought. Derpy just followed silently because the Doctor was scaring her. The Doctor was normally bubbly and fun, but he seemed more serious. That fear she saw in his eyes just didn't seem right. The Doctor didn't even look up when Rainbow Dash was doing her stunts. The Doctor should be having an episode of "Fancy That's" and giggles, but he trotted on.

Eventually the pair made it to a blue box in the middle of nowhere. The box was tall enough to allow pony entry via a double door entrance. Above the door frame read the words 'POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX'. On the doors themselves were a pair of windows, a panel with instructions, and a lock. This box should have stuck out like a sore hoof, yet no pony gave it a second glance.

The Doctor used his key to unlock the TARDIS and stepped inside. Inside the TARDIS was a lot bigger than the exterior would show. In the center of the spacious room was a set of console panels that were built around a large glowing column that extended to the ceiling.

The Doctor stepped aside and allowed Derpy to enter. After she did, he closed the doors and locked them. The Doctor then joined Derpy at the console. He looked down at the screen embedded into the console and began to pull levers. The screen display changed to an image of several lines of varying colors. These lines started from the left side of the screen and all curved to meet a single point on the center of the screen. From the point the lines curved back outwards as they went to the right. The lines were slowly shifting and moving, except for the center point. The lines consistently curved to meet at the center point and the point itself stayed static.

"What's that, Doctor?" asked Derpy.

"This is a representation of time. Starting from yesterday..." He gestured to the left of the screen. "...and ending tomorrow." He gestured to the right.

"I'm confused," said Derpy, tilting her head.

"Well," the Doctor began calmly, "Each line is a possible timeline that is occurring, has occurred, or will occur. We are that orange one there. Now, that bit in the middle is what's called a fixed point in time. They're a mess."

"But if each line here is a timeline," Derpy interrupted, "Then how come they keep moving? Shouldn't they all be straight."

"Oh, Ms. Hooves. You're not thinking fourth dimensionally. Time is in a state of flux, it can be changed. Just by the TARDIS being here we are changing time. Bumblebees now have to go around a big box to do their normal routines. This isn't big but it's a change from the original timeline. Normally time sorts itself out and everything moves on. That is, except for fixed points. Fixed points are events that need to happen no matter what, even Time Lords can't prevent them. This is why every line bends to that point, the point forces them to."

"How did you know there was a fixed point in time?" Derpy asked. "Besides Pinkie Pie becoming weirder than usual, I didn't notice anything out of place."

"Time Lords can sense these things. Smells of snozberries oddly enough."

"So, if you can sense these fixed point thingies, why did we come back to the TARDIS?"

"Because I had a terrible feeling about it. A fixed point normally has no general feeling towards it. It just is. This point, however, felt like it would change everything forever. A once innocent thing would be given an extremely dark side. Something to do with donuts....or croissants..."

The Doctor was starring at the screen. Well, more through the screen than actually at the image. Derpy just sat facing him, blinking a few times. The Doctor snapped out of his thought after a moment and looked up at Derpy.

"Mainly...I just wanted to keep you safe. I may not be able to stop a fixed point in time, but I can try to stop it from hurting-"

The Doctor was cut off by a sudden hug. Derpy broke the hug and addressed the Doctor.

"Thank you."

***

The Doctor had planned to wait out the fixed point until the next day. When Derpy asked why they didn't just travel to tomorrow, the Doctor said that he wanted to monitor the environment to determine the source of the fixed point.

So then began the waiting game, and what a long one it was. The Doctor had returned to the TARDIS at roughly noon, so there was a long time to wait out. Lucky for Derpy that she was trapped in the TARDIS. She spent a lot of time just exploring. Flying down one corridor and up the next, and in one case diagonally zig-zagged across one. She had found a library, a messy wardrobe, a kitchen, three choices of bathroom, a room dedicated to bananas, and even a pool. She wandered for hours, but even when she thought she was lost she would turn left and she would be back in the control room.

Every time she would come back, the Doctor was standing at a different part of the console and looking at a different screen. Since Derpy flew everywhere, he didn't really notice when she entered the control room. Eventually the sound of hoof steps on the metal ground caught the attention of the Doctor. He looked to see a rather tired looking Derpy.

"Hey Doctor, I think I'm going to turn in for the night," said Derpy with a yawn.

"Alright. Goodnight, Ms. Hooves."

"Goodnight, Doctor."

Derpy then turned and walked out of the control room and down the corridor to her room.

The Doctor let out a long sigh. He was honestly bored out of his mind. Every instrument and readout on the console said that Ponyville was absolutely fine. The only oddity was that someone was singing a version of what sounded like "Hooked on a Feeling" in the distance. Besides that everything was ordinary.

"Surely this point has to be a big event," the Doctor said to himself. "Like the return of Nightmare Moon. Yet there's nothing!"

The Doctor slammed a hoof on the console in frustration. Maybe he should get away from the console. Get some butter to calm his nerves. The Doctor let out another sigh and looked back at the display showing the timelines. Something looked different.

"It can't be. That's impossible."

The Doctor turned a knob and other lines came into focus. They were colorful and shifting like the others, but they didn't meet at the fixed point. They curved away from the fixed point and continued on. There were three of them: a pink one, a green one, and a white one. Everything the Doctor knew said that was impossible, yet there it was. The Doctor just stared at the image, eyebrow raised. After a moment or two he shook his head and looked up at the screen hanging on the glowing column. It showed outside the TARDIS in a monochrome of green due to the night vision technology. In the distance was Ponyville, quiet and still. If it weren't for the clouds moving it would look like a photograph rather than live video.

Then he saw it. For just a fraction of a second he saw it. A gorilla with wings that looked like it left a monochromatic rainbow trail. The Doctor blinked a few times. Surely that couldn't be right. There weren't any flying gorillas in Equestria to his knowledge, and that rainbow trail further showed the madness in what he saw. Something moving that fast must have been the fastest flyer in Equestria. Surely if there were supersonic rainbow gorillas in Equestria Derpy would have told him. That would be day one of pegasus school: 'Don't fly to close to the sun, the ground isn't made of clouds, and supersonic rainbow gorillas. Okay, same time next week.'

Maybe he did need a break. He was obviously seeing things from being at the console so long, and he could use a nice snack.

***

"Dooooctor..."

"No...it's just a screwdriver..."

"Doooooooctor..."

"...A flux capacitor?...Rubbish..."

"Doctor!"

"It's a good source of potassium!"

The Doctor awoke with a start. He was in the kitchen and Derpy was next to him.

"Oh hello Derpy. How are you?"

"I'm fine, Doctor. You fell asleep eating butter again."

The Doctor looked to the counter he had used as a pillow. Several wrappers for sticks of butter covered it. Where his face had been was the smashed remains of a stick of butter. The Doctor brought a hoof to his face and it too was covered in butter.

"So I did," said the Doctor. "Well, since we're out of butter maybe we should go out to breakfast. After I clean up of course."

The Doctor looked to Derpy with an embarrassed grin. Derpy rolled her eyes, in opposite directions, and walked away.

***

Sugarcube Corner was as sweet smelling as always. The Doctor and Derpy sat at a table and enjoyed blueberry muffins.

"So Doctor, did you ever figure out what that fixed point was?" Derpy asked between bites.

"Unfortunately no," said the Doctor. "The scanners didn't pick up anything out of the ordinary. So it must have been such an isolated event that it flew under the TARDIS's radar."

Derpy shrugged and continued to enjoy her muffin. The Doctor let his gaze wander around the bakery. It met a tray of rainbow cupcakes. The Doctor's mind began to entertain the idea of icing made from actual rainbows. The pegasi could control the weather after all, what's stopping them from using rainbows in baking. It might add a bit of spice.

The Doctor's curiousity got the better of him and he scanned the cupcakes with his sonic screwdriver. He looked at the tip of the screwdriver as it displayed its findings. The Doctor's eyes grew wide. He looked up at Derpy, who stopped chewing as she made eye contact.

"Derpy...we need to leave..."

Author's Note

Here it is! The bonus content are alternate timelines that are based around references. This is a reference to FiMFlamFilosophy's Rainbow Dash Presents: Cupcakes. I have two more of these planned. I hope you enjoyed. :D

Thanks go to both Neko Majin C and referee for grammar correction.

Referenced Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AbtCTbSWTk

Alternate Timeline 2

The Doctor took that watch out of his pocket and handed it to Pinkie Pie. She took it in her hoof and pressed the open button with the side of her occupied hoof.

The few seconds felt like an eternity wrapped in forever.

"Wow! Good work, Mr. Turner!"

Pinkie took another bite of the cookie as the Doctor sighed in relief. Maybe it wasn't her watch.

Then light poured out of the watch, much like water. It flowed towards Pinkie's face. She had stopped chewing and her pupils shrank.

After a moment the glow faded, leaving a stunned looking Pinkie Pie. She blinked and swallowed her bite of cookie. She looked around before addressing the Doctor.

"Wow, that was weird," she said. "I was just trying to get some clock parts for a potion I was brewing and here I am."

Before the Doctor could speak, Pinkie interrupted him.

"Oh, I almost forgot," said Pinkie to herself. "I gotta get all that stuff for the time portal!"

With that Pinkie ran off, leaving the Doctor with his mouth hung open. Derpy walked up next to the Doctor and looked at him.

"Doctor, are you okay?"

The Doctor broke into a big grin and began giggling.

"Haha! Pony Time Lords! They don't use TARDISes but time portals. I HAVE to see this."

***

After following Pinkie Pie, and later Apple Bloom, the Doctor and Derpy ended up outside Sugarcube Corner. They were looking into the kitchen through a window. The Doctor had a video camera, which Derpy had to use due to the Doctor not being totally used to hooves. The following was recorded:

***

The Doctor and Derpy were walking back to Derpy's house while the Doctor talked to himself.

"That's such a terrible way to time travel. Worse than a vortex manipulator. Traveling that way you'd be lucky if you don't accidental make like 8 copies of yourself and save someone's grandma by mistake. No wonder the Time Lords are gone in this dimension."

"The song was catchy though."

"It was damn catchy."

Author's Note

This idea seemed a lot better and longer in my head. I apologize. :I

Thanks go to Neko Majin C for editing my bad grammar.

Alternate Timeline 3

The Doctor took that watch out of his pocket and handed it to Pinkie Pie. She took it in her hoof and pressed the open button with the side of her occupied hoof.

The few seconds felt like an eternity wrapped in forever.

"Wow! Good work, Mr. Turner!"

Pinkie took another bite of the cookie as the Doctor sighed in relief. Maybe it wasn't her watch.

Then light poured out of the watch, much like water. It flowed towards Pinkie's face. She had stopped chewing and her pupils shrank.

After a moment the glow faded, leaving a stunned looking Pinkie Pie. She blinked and swallowed her bite of cookie.

"Um...Ms. Pie?"

Pinkie began to glow with that light that came from the watch. She closed her eyes tight as if she were in pain. Her entire coat turned white and her mane turned yellow. Suddenly two wings shot out of her back and folded up. The glowing stopped. Pinkie's face looked calmer but her eyes remained closed.

Derpy walked up next to the Doctor.

"W-what just happened?" she asked.

"That chameleon arch made her into an pegasus with different colors.", said the Doctor with a shrug. "It's not much different than changing from earth pony to Time Lord."

"Oh always so clever, Doctor." said Pinkie in a English accent.

"Wait a minute." said the Doctor. "I've heard that voice before....no....NO!"

Pinkie opened her eyes and smiled slightly.

"Hello, Sweetie."

Author's Note

This is for every single one of you that though Pinkie was going to be River Song. No I am not writing that story.

This marks the end of Pinkie Who. Thank all of you for your support. I have really REALLY enjoyed writing this and I hope you enjoyed reading it....some of it...maybe a little....at least thought the picture was pretty cool....

Mega Thanks go to this story's Grammar Dalek: Neko Majin C

I hope that you will all stay with me as I start my next story. Bye! :D