When Discord Ends His Reign

"What's a timelord?" Time Twister tilted her head at him.

"Oh! I never told you did I?"

"Told me what?"

"I'm not from Earth!" The Doctor smirked, expecting questions or arguing to ensue. To his surprise the filly stood up again and hopped around the room, occasionally bumping into walls or objects.

"That's so cool!" She smiled and giggled before slipping and skidding across the floor, bumping into the control panel. It did not spark, much to The Doctor's surprise. She sat for a few seconds before standing and noticing she opened something. She stood tall on her hooves and looked into the opening.

"Don't do that!" The Doctor ran across the room too late to stop the filly from looking.

"What?"

His jaw dropped. "How did you? What?!" He ran back and closed the opening.

"I didn't do anything."

"Oh, yes you did!"

"What did I do?"

"You looked into The Heart of the TARDIS!"

"So, what?"

"You should be dying right now! Even I'm not supposed to do that!"

"Has that happened before?"

"Yes..." He paused for a moment, and looked kinda sad. Time Twister hated it when ponies were sad.

"But, look! I'm fine!" She smiled and stood up again, rapidly flittering her wings.

He smiled then paused again before looking at her cutiemark. "How did you say you got your cutie mark?"

She thought for a moment, it was kinda blurry in her memory. "I, uh, broke my wing. Then, then gold dust appeared, and, I uh, it healed itself, and then it went away, I think." The Doctor noticed that her eyes were looking in different directions.

"I think your eyes are, a little bit, unaligned." She looked up.

"Oh, sorry." Her eyes realigned themselves on him. "Happens when I focus too much to!"

"Well, anyway, that doesn't really explain much, unless..." He grabbed his screwdriver and the filly and ran out the door.

"Okay, now just stand there..." She was more confused than ever.

"Why are we doing this again?"

"It's just a test! Now stand very still." They had walked two blocks to a alleyway. If he wanted an alleyway she could have shown him one that was closer, but he said that it had to be far away for the test to work. She didn't even know what he was doing.

Stand there, he said. Do nothing, he said. She was starting to get annoyed. His screwdriver made a funny sound and it flashed. "Now this is where you need to stay perfectly still!" He was extremely serious about this.

"Okay!" She stayed as still as possible. A ghostly image started to appear around them before solidifying into a large room. In fact, the room they just left. "Why did we leave, just to have your box come back? Actually, how did your box come back?"

"This is incredi-" He looked over at the filly, who was staring at him. He sighed. "Okay, you have huon particles in your body, thus causing your body to trigger regeneration without actually dying, which causes the larger injuries you have being healed and the huon particles are responsible for the you magnetizing to the TARDIS. You are pretty much constantly in a state of limbo, between dying and regeneration." He smiled sheepishly.

"And could you say that in Equestrian?" He giggled slightly when she said Equestrian, causing his coat to turn lighter. "Hmm..."

"What?" He was actually quite curious.

"Nothing. Go on."

"You have these particles in your body that normally make ponies die. Because of your timelord genetics your body is trying to battle death by regenerating, but you're not dead, so it just heals major injuries like your broken wing for example." She blankly stared at him. "You understand?"

"Yep."

"So, the TARDIS has those particles in it too. These particles like to be together, so they kinda act like magnets. You and the TARDIS can be attracted to each other through these particles. You are always in limbo, kinda."

He smiled again. "So, I shouldn't exist." She tilted her head.

"Not really. But it's just a theory."

"How can I look into the TARDIS then?"

"You're already exposed to the energy?" He smiled sheepishly again.

"Okay!" She smiled again and hopped in the air.

That reversed quickly. he thought.

"Oh, wait!"

"What?"

"You didn't tell me what a timelord is or where you're from!"

He paused for a moment as she sat in front of him. "Well a timelord is a thing from a planet in another dimension. I'm one of them. I'm from a planet called Gallifrey."

"Cool!" She hopped around and stopped again.

"Oh, I have one more question."

"What is it?"

"Why is there a swimming pool in the library?"