Highlights of Doctor Who: Ponified.
Family of Blood
Previous ChapterThe ship shuddered with detonation after detonation as I aimed the bombardment at Ponyville. My name is Daughter. I belong to the Family of Blood. We are aliens, and our normal forms have been damaged. To preserve our lives, we inhabit ordinary bodies, killing the original owners. My Family and I have been trying to capture a mare named Rainbow Dash, but it isn't really her name. She thinks she's Rainbow Dash, but Rainbow Dash doesn't exist. She's really a Time Lord. The last one in universe. If we can capture, we can steal the rest of her lives and makes us immortal. Their wasted on her anyway. She'll just throw them away saving some one or something she doesn't even know. It's so easy to exploit. Right now is the perfect example. At any moment, she'll come and just hand us the key to living forever because her precious town is in danger.
Clang!
My Family and I turned to see the Fastest Flyer in Equesrtia, the Bearer of an Element of Harmony, shaking in her boots. She wore brown saddle bags and dark colored sunglasses on her forehead. She slowly made her way towards us, jumping like a mouse every time the machinery made noise.
"Just let them go!" Rainbow Dash snapped. "I'll do whatever you want, just stop shooting them!" She bumped against one of the controls and jumped back when it whirred to life. I couldn't resist torturing her a little.
"Beg." I told her. "Beg for the lives of your friends."
Rainbow hesitated. To make my point I fired off another round. That was all it took. She slowly bowed to us, her pink eyes pleading. "Please." She said. "Just stop this. You don't have to kill anything. It's not worth it."
Father of Mine laughed with what used to be Big Macintosh's face. "Not worth it? How could immortality not be worth it?"
Rainbow frowned slightly. She looked at Mother of Mine. "Please." She said again. "I know you aren't Cheerilee, but you have to remember something. Taking the class to Canterlot? Or helping the Cutie Mark Crusaders?
"Meaningless!" Mother of Mine snapped. "All that matters is the Family! All the rest of you are nothing more than cattle!"
Son of Mine approached Rainbow with the Body of Pipsqueak, his red balloon bobbing behind him. Unlike the rest of us, he looked a little worried. "Do you have it?" He asked in a little kid's voice. Did you bring the watch?" Dash gave him a pitying look.
Do you even know what your doing?" She asked him quietly. Son of Mine glanced at me.
"Its all right deary," I said. "Sister will handle the stupid old Pegasus."
Rainbow approached, all but begging. "Can't you remember anything of the Filly you used to be?"
"Everything." I said. Rainbow looked hopeful. "I remember all those times Scootaloo wasted trying to earn her Cutie Mark, how pathetic and caring she was." I walked towards her, watching as hope died. "She is dead, and I think this miserable planet is better off without ponies like her." I grabbed Rainbow Dash by her hair and painfully dragged her down to my level. "I am not Scootaloo." I said quietly. "I only care about helping The Family. Nothing else matters," I bucked her away. Dash slammed into the main control computer.
I watched her struggle to her hooves. "Alright." She said quietly. "If you want the watch that badly, then you can have it." Slowly, she lifted the object of the all the Families crimes into view.
It was a battered old pocket watch, with mysterious runes on the back. It was rusty, dented, and it looked like it had been ignored all its life.
My Family and I looked at it like it was made of diamonds.
This was the Watch of a Time Lord. Inside, it held the remaining lives of the Time Lord this mare used to be. It was positively brimming with energy.
Dash threw it to me, and I just barely caught it. This body was young and feeble. No matter. With this power, I can make a new body for myself.
I gave a wide smile. "Don't think you saved yourself." I said cruelly to Dash. "You'll die with the rest in Ponyville." I said the name with disdain, enjoying the look of anger Rainbow Dash was restraining.
Mother of Mine walked forwards. "At last." She said. "We will have the lives of a Time Lord." With relish she flicked the watch open.
Nothing happened.
Absolutely nothing happened,
We spun around to look at Rainbow Dash who was no longer shaking with terror. In fact, she was looking triumphant. "Oh, don't you want it anymore?" She said with mock disappointment. "Ya know, I was telling myself on the way over that I need to take to the Pawn shop instead but Noooooo!' She continued pacing. "I had to stay loyal to my customers!' She huffed. "That's gratitude for you."
Father of Mine stepped forewords. "Do you really think you're jokes can save you now?" He demanded angrily. "Who do you think you are?" In answer she let the Saddle Bags fall to the ground. Instead of the Tri-colored lighting bolt that had formerly been in place, now a golden Hourglass blazed. She dropped the false bravado and looked almost sad.
"I'm The Doctor.' She said slowly. "And you've used up you last chance."
The Doctor quickly regained her jovial nature. "And I've got to say, I reaaaaally don't like the look of that Hydro-kilometer!" She pointed back to the panel she had bumped into. "Cause it looks like its feeding tachyon energy through the Retro-stabilization system all the way to…" She looked around. "Why, that Main Thermo Buffer of course!" She looked around at our paling faces. "That means your ship-y go –boom-y." She explained in Baby talk. She backed up, spreading her wings. "But, just to be fair, I'll give you a tip." She dropped her smile and glared at us. I could hear all the pain, humiliation, and torment we had put her and her friends through over the last 24 hours all contained in one word.
"Run."
We **ran.
The ship exploded, and there we were, stranded on a backwater planet with about a week to live. But the Doctor changed that. In an instant we saw the Fury and Kindness of a Time Lord, and we understood why she had run and hid. She was trying to be kind.
Father of Mine she trapped in chains forged from a dwarf star, the heaviest things in the entire universe, for all of eternity.
Mother of Mine she left in the event horizon of a Black Hole, to be crushed by the forces and deaths of galaxies for centuries to come.
She still visits my Brother, out of kindness. Probably because it wasn't really his fault. One day, she might let him out. He's trapped in a mirror. In every mirror. If you look at you reflection and think you see something move, it's not your imagination, it's him.
As for me? Well, I hurt the most. I saw how dangerous she was and tried to cause her as much pain as possible, to warn her to listen to their Family and do what we said. In return?
In return I was trapped in Quantum Lock, unable to move or speak as long as I am seen. He left in Canterlot gardens, as a warning to any that would dare to attack the Last of the Time Lords through her friends.
We wanted to live forever.
So the Doctor made sure we did.
