When Discord Ends His Reign

Sky High fluttered above his friend, happily humming. Twister stared at the dirt path as her hooves slowly walked forward along it. She looked back at her newly acquired cutie mark. Her face scrunched, something she often did when deep in thought. Her realigned itself to the front, with Sky watching closely.

"You okay Twister? You've been pretty quiet all the way home." Sky raised an eyebrow as Twister looked up to reveal a concentrated look plastered to her normally perky face.

"Yah, I'm fine. It's just..." Twister plopped to the dirt road and held a hoof to her face. Sky turned around abruptly and landed in front of her. "What do you think actually happened today? With my cutie mark I mean..."

"No clue, maybe some sort of awesome power or something?" Sky shrugged and watched as Twister made a circle in the dirt with her hoof. "I don't know, see you tomorrow Twister!" Sky looked back and lifted to the air, landing on a nearby cloud that held his home.

"What happened today?" Twister stared blankly at the ground before lifting back to her hooves and trotting towards her nearby home.

As Twister trotted the small dirt roads, she heard a loud clank. "Hello? Is any pony there?" Another loud clank. "Um, can I help you?" This time a red flash of light burst out of a small alley way nearby. Twister turned and trotted off toward the light. "Are you here?" A loud clank and a single word replied to her.

"DELETE."

"Huh? What's that mean?" Twister stepped out of the alleyway.

"DELETE." A large metal pony stepped out of the alley and followed Twister.

"I don't think that's good..." Time Twister leapt to her hooves and ran as quickly as she could out of the darkness and into the lighted streets. A blue laser sped past her, barely missing her head. Twister screamed. "SOMEPONY! ANYPONY! HELP ME!"

"Hang On!" A male voice came from behind her along with the sound of wings. As she was about to trip, a large gray stallion with a slicked back mane and a black bow-tie lifted her from the ground and flinged her on his back. His large wings flapped to pull them high out of the robot's reach. "Now, what were you doing with that cyber-pony young filly?" He giggled and turned his head to smile at the shocked filly.

"A- a cyber what?" Twister held tightly to his neck, unsurprisingly scared of heights due to her lack of flight.

"It doesn't matter, but what does matter is you. Are you alright?" His smiling face turned quite serious.

"Uh- yeah... I think so." She glanced down at herself and checked for any sign of harm. "Yah, I don't look hurt."

"Well, now that that's taken care of!" He landed on a large cloud that held a small blue box. He trotted slowly toward it, with Twister following him closely. He flung the door open and smiled. "Well, welcome to the TARDIS!"

"It's- it's bigger on the inside?" Twister cocked her head, running through any possible way this could even exist.

"Yep! Now that we're here I have to ask you a few questions! First, what's your name little filly?" He crouched to the floor to meet Twister's gaze.

"Um, Time Twister." She shyly sat down on the floor.

"Okay! Interesting name actually..." He tapped his chin in thought. "Well that's not important, hello Time Twister! I'm The Doctor!

"Um, Doctor who?"

"No, just The Doctor."

"Okay..."

"Now, you seem to be a pegasus, correct?" He pointed to small wings still folded on her back.

"Yah, I am."

"Are you capable of flight?"

Time Twister dropped her head in sorrow. "N-no..."

The Doctor noticed her sadness, "Oh, it's okay. I myself only learned to fly a little while ago! Now, do you have your cutie mark?"

Twister stood slowly and turned to show him her cutie mark. "Yah, I just got it today actually."

"Hmmmm... Now how did you get that?" He stood and rubbed his chin again, his gaze still locked on Twister.

"I healed my wing with magic or something..." Twister's face scrunched again as she thought back.

"Was this magic, gold dust?" He raised an eyebrow at the filly.

"Uh, yah. It was."

"Hmmmm.... Very interesting." He rose and walked to the control panel at the center of the room. Time Twister now saw his cutie mark. A large hourglass, the only difference from hers was the lack of gold ribbon. "Now I doubt that that cyber pony just happened to stumble upon you. He wanted you to find him. But why..." He brushed back his black mane and sighed.

Twister watched on with a puzzled expression, until a wave of pain and exhaustion washed over her as she collapsed to the floor. "Are you okay Time Twister?" He noticed the unconscious filly on the floor and sighed. "I guess I might as well take advantage of the situation..." He walked over and plucked a single hair from her mane, placing it carefully in a small cabinet in the control panel. "Now, what are you?" The machine sputtered and sparked before exploding with a loud boom. "W-What?!" He ran around the explosion, fixing the small pieces of the cabinet as he ran. "How would one of you get on this planet? I guess it would make sense why the cyber-ponies would follow you but how did you get here?"