Chapter 3: Old Experiment

"Derpy get the girls in the T.A.R.D.I.S.!" The Doctor shouted. He turned towards the monster, "Ok who or what are you? And how do you know my name?"

"You know me as Richard Lazarus." the beast said.

"No, that's not possible, you're dead." The Doctor said pulling out his sonic screwdriver.

"That's what you thought the first time you killed me." Lazarus pointed out chuckling.

"How did you end up here then?"

"Harold Saxon didn't like it when my experiment failed. After all he was one of my most prestigious clients."

"So he sent you here?"

"Yes" Lazarus nodded.

"How long have you been here?"

"About seventeen hundred years."

"How could you be here that long, you're only human." The Doctor said shaking his head slightly.

"My machine altered my genetic code, and now I can reverse my aging process whenever I want to."

"Oh that's convenient. Mind if I scan you?"

"By all means Doctor. I have several theories on why this happens. One: I am part lobster, the down side to this is that a lobster just doesn't age and I can reverse my ageing. Two: I am part Turritopsis dohrnii, which is a species of jellyfish that ages backwards, the down side with that one is that it doesn't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. And last but not least, three: It is a combination of genes from all over human/pony ancestry." Lazarus explained to The Doctor.

"Well the sonic is seeing more equine DNA than you had before. Did the master change you to a pony."

"No...Celestia did that."

"What? Why did she do that?"

"It was that or be turned into a pile of meat on the ground." Lazarus said as he chuckled. "Gotta love my enhanced survival instinct."

"So then you were turned into the dominate shape in this universe."

"Yes, I believe I was the first to survive the process."

"Did The Master send anything else with you?"

"Just a few angel statues he said were causing trouble. I can't blame him, they had the stupidest faces, plus they were posed weirdly."

"Lazarus, did you just describe Weeping Angels?"

"I guess you could say they looked like they were weeping."

"How many were there?"

"Four, I believe I heard some guards say that they took them form an abandoned old house."

"Those statues are some of the most dangerous things in the whole universe."

"Doctor I won't try to understand but I also have a warning for you..." Lazarus paused for dramatic effect "I won't stop trying to kill you until two hundred years ago. This is a warning I will attempt to kill you several times, just don't go over the top with killing me, I can talk a beating but fire will kill me, so please refrain from using fire when we fight."

"Lazarus do you still feed?"

"Of course I still feed, but after Discords first reign had ended I figured it was smarter to leave the prey alive and weak rather dead, which would lead to witch hunts for me."

"So you stop before you finish the kill" The Doctor was slightly confused "But I thought you were a creature of pure instinct."

"I am. I just learned some control over it."

"Did you lose control recently?"

"You will never cease to amaze me, yes I accidently drained the old watch smith here, and I didn't anticipate him having so little energy."

"I see."

"Now Doctor that I have told you this I need to be off." Lazarus said as he started up the wall of the alley.

The Doctor looked at him as he climbed then he noticed that Lazarus had wings, large strong wings. "Lazarus..." he called up to him.

"What!"

"Are you a pegasus!?!"

"Yes Doctor I am!" Lazarus shouted down as he reached the top of the small four story building. He unfolded his win to reveal his twenty five or so foot wingspan. He made a show of a powerful takeoff and disappeared behind the buildings of Canterlot. The Doctor watched as long as he could and when Lazarus was out of sight he went into the Tardis and it vanished.

"What was the sound, honey?" the unicorn mare asked Lazarus as he entered the house.

"Some unicorn was testing out some new spell and it backfired." Lazarus said heading to the cellar.

"Well, that's anticlimactic, I was hoping it was the Destruction Follower, or at the very least something to attract it."

"Sorry honey, but no flying scorpions tonight." he said rolling his eyes, If only she knew.

"Ok this time I'm certain this is a beach" The Doctor said as the Tardis stopped shaking.

"This better be" Sparkler said as she opened the door and stepped out. "Turner..."

"That's Doctor" he interrupted her and said it lightly.

"Sorry... Doctor you did it." she said looking at the beautiful greenish sparkling beach. Sparkler looked down and used her magic to examine the sand.

"Ah yes, welcome to the best beach on Celis." The Doctor said as the rest of them left the Tardis.

"What's Celis" Dinky asked.

"That's the planet we're on, little one."

"We're on another planet!!" Derpy shouted "Is it safe to bring my children here!?!"

"Oh yes, this is one of the safest planets I know of." The Doctor said as he cringed. He waited a moment "Oh, I expected something to happen. Well come on the water on this planet has a mineral that is will make you literally glow. The Doctor jumped into the water, and started swimming around in the calm water.

"Where is everypony?" Derpy asked after half an hour of fun.

"Oh this planet has no intelligent life..." The Doctor explained, "Or at least not yet"

"What do you mean by yet?" Dinky asked him.

"Well we're about two million years in your past, there won't be intelligent life here for over a million years. Just have fun for now.

They spent hours at the beach, they only left because The Doctor made them leave when it was night. Dinky was yawning and Sparkler was slumped in one of the Tardis's chairs. "Turner, can we go home now?" Derpy asked.

"Eventually you all will call me The Doctor." The Doctor mumbled. "Yes, i can take you home. He started hitting more random buttons and the Tardis was shaking. The Doctor stepped out the door and looked up, something’s not right, those creators should be gone. He ran to the console of the Tardis "Why did you take us here." he asked.

There was a bleeping on the console and The Doctor ran to it, "there's a signal coming from around here, its dimensional energy from my home dimension. One of the master’s portals!!" He shouted as he ran out the door, "Miss Hooves would you like to come with me?"

Derpy looked at her children, The Doctor assured her "They are safe in here."

"Sure, why not. We haven't done much together lately."

This statement caused The Doctor to cringe, but Derpy didn't notice it. They both went out, The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to track the energy source. They ended up in having to break into the castle and followed the energy signature to see the portal. Problem was it was surrounded by a good number of guards and even Princess Celestia herself.

"What do you think it is?" one of the guards asked another.

"A portal." the other guard answered.

"No I mean, What do you think will come through the portal." the original guard asked.

There was a clanking sound from the portal, and a large smoking bronze colored can fell from the portal. One of the guards walked up to it and jabbed it with his hoof, he immediately burst into flames. He was a pile of ash in less than ten seconds. Princess Celestia used her magic to lift the can up so its flat side was on the bottom.

The Doctor had been terrified when he saw the can first come out but now that he saw the eye stalk wasn't functioning he realized that it wasn't powered. One of the unicorn guards walked up to it and used a stick to jab it. The stick burst into flames, and the unicorn jumped back.

"If all you're going to do is poke it with sticks then I’ll take it from here" The Doctor said out loud revealing himself and Derpy.

All the guards turned to him immediately pointing there spears at him. "Identify yourself"

"I'm The Doctor and this is my companion Derpy."

"Doctor who" Celestia asked.

"Just The Doctor, your highness" The Doctor said smiling.

"What do you mean 'You'll take it from here'" She asked giving him an intrigued look.

"Well this is a dimensional portal to my dimension, and this bucket of bolts is from it as well, I'm just going to return it to my dimension. He stepped forward and the guards prepared themselves to hurl their spears.

"Doctor, looks like you fell for my little trap" a voice came through the portal. "Here's a parting gift!" The Master shouted shooting a bolt of energy at the can, then he closed the portal.

"No!" The Doctor said, "He's sent the worst thing he could have sent!"

"I FUNCTION!!" The can said as its eyestalk lit up blue. "SCANNING!!" its eyestalk moved around looking at everypony. "IDENTIFY, LESSER SPECIES!!" it said turning it's eyestalk towards Celestia.

"It wants you to identify your species Your Highness, I suggest you do what it wants." The Doctor said calmly.

"Ponies" Celestia said with a hint of pride.

"SEARCHING DATABANKS...YOUR SPECIES DOES NOT EXIST. WHICH ONE OF YOU KNOWS THE MOST OF YOUR HISTORY AND/OR SCIENCES!!"

One of the guards walked forward, "I know much of our history, what would you like to know."

"MALFUNCTION DETECTED, MANIPULATOR IMPAIRED!! PRIMARY WEAPON ONLINE!!" The can shouted as he started to move the thing on its left.

The Doctor's eyes went wide "Dalek!!!"

The Dalek’s eyestalk immediately focused on The Doctor "I know your name, how is that? How could somepony from this alien universe know what you are, well if you kill anypony here I won't tell you."

"IDENTIFY!!" The Dalek screamed.

"You’re a soldier, you don't have any orders."

"I HAVE THE PRIMARY ORDER!! NOW IDENTIFY!!"

"Doctor what is that thing" Derpy blurted out loud.

"Oh now she gets it right." The Doctor said rolling his eyes.

"DOCTOR!?! THE DOCTOR!?!"

"Yes The Doctor" The Doctor said taking out his sonic screwdriver.

"YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF THE DALEKS!! EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!!" the Dalek yelled as he shot at The Doctor. He was still damaged and his shot missed though and hit a guard who fell over. This caused all the other guards to frenzy and attack, all the unicorns used magic to shoot beams at it. The other ponies didn't even bother seeing how they would burst into flames if they touched the Dalek.

"EXAMINING ALIEN ENERGY!! EXTRAPOLATING!! CONVERTING" The Dalek said through the blasts.

"Stop!!" The Doctor shouted running over and using the sonic to distort the beams.

The Dalek had used the energy to repair itself "POWER LEVEL AT 25% CAPACITY."

"Gotta think fast" The Doctor thought aloud. "fire your beams again, but this time Princess you need to fire as well" and they all did. As they fired The Doctor used the sonic to distort the beams so they were tuned to the frequency of the Daleks shell. The Dalek was screaming as loud as it could, it knew it was going to die.

"EMERGENCY TEMPORAL SHIFT!!" it screamed and it vanished.

"They always get away, they're like cockroaches." The Doctor said aloud with a hatred that made Derpy shudder, and the guards could understand why.

"I'm going after it, Derpy I'm taking you home then I will get that Dalek" he said turning away then suddenly he was grabbed by two guards and brought before Celestia. "Explain to me, who you are and what that thing was!" she demanded with such a force that The Doctor was surprised.

"Well it's good to see you will mellow with age." he said, but that only made her angrier.

"Explain!!"

"Fine, I'm The Doctor like I said, and that can was a Dalek. Think of the most deadly thing you can think of, for that size. Now multiply its killing power by seventeen and divide by three and that's what that thing is. The ultimate in racial cleansing and destruction."

"And It's loose in Equestria now!?!"

"Oh no, not now. He did an emergency temporal shift he is either in the future of the past, but he couldn't have gotten more than fifty years, on 25% energy capacity. He shouldn't have even been able to do that now that I think of it” The Doctor said talking to himself more than her "he must not have been a soldier, some sort of specialist maybe."

Celestia's aura was getting extremely hot with anger. "Do not ignore me!"

"Well it's either this or we all die from the Dalek in fifty years, or maybe we already did"

"That doesn't make any sense" one of the guards pointed out.

"Oh of course it does, you just don't understand, now Princess if you would be so kind as to let me track that Dalek down so I can help when he shows up."

"If he went through time, how could you track him down?" Celestia said raising one of her eyebrows in curiosity.

"Oh Miss Hooves and I are time travelers, and I really need to go before it's too late."

"How could it be too late if your time travelers?"

"I can't explain it now, me and Miss Hooves need to get going now."

"Fine go, I will see you when you return to destroy the Dalek." Celestia said motioning for her guards to let The Doctor go.