"We're in my house now" The Doctor said as he opened the doors to the Tardis.

"So when are we?" Derpy asked.

"Oh it’s been about three hours sense we left just to be certain that we don't cross our timelines." the Doctor said walking out and looking at the clock above the mantel of the fireplace. He shook his head I said my house, this isn't my house, its Turners. The Master sabotage of my chameleon arch is really starting to annoy me.

Derpy ran out of the back door to the house and disappeared. The Doctor walked over to the wall clock above his mantle and noticed it wasn’t moving. But that clocks spring only needs to be wound every week. His eyes went wide and he ran out the back door. He Went into Derpy's house and yelled "Derpy, I was wrong it's been longer than three hours"

"Your right it's been three weeks" Sparkler said walking up to him. "Where have you been" she said getting in his face.

"Well we were just fighting a Dalek..." The Doctor started when Sparkler slapped him with the side of her hoof.

"First you kick us out of that box of yours, then you steal our mother for three weeks!"

"It wasn't intentional..."

"No you’re not Turner anymore you’re a fraud! Leave now!"

"Of course." The Doctor hung his head as he went for the door "I left you two here for three weeks without your mother." He closed the door behind him.

The Doctor went back into his house and walked in, he looked at his many clocks. He counted his clocks, something’s not right his eyes went wide. He counted again; he walked to the door to the kitchen and pushed it open. Immediately a clockwork robot stepped forward and fell over with a crash.

The Doctor quickly rolled it over and it made moved its head to face him directly. "Message" it said in its rough voice then it played its message, it was the voice of The Master "Hello Doctor, I have no idea how long it's been for you but I just saw you myself. Imagine my surprise when I realized that you fell for my trap, I put a lot of work into it. But I digress, I sent this old robot through the portal because it was the only thing I could program to find you, it has come to warn you. A certain group had hijacked my portal and used it to escape, they have run into you before so I guess you'll be able to deal with them. After all no one, or is it pony now, kills you but me." There was a click from the robot as the message stopped playing, and the robot stopped ticking.

Why didn't he specify, could it be Cybermen, the Ice Worriers, Homo Reptilia, or whatever is left of The Silence. he was thinking hard, so hard that he didn't hear the knock at the door to the shop. After about a few minutes of the nocking he went downstairs and saw Lyra at the door holding a small alarm clock.

"Oh thank Celestia your finally back!" She yelled through the glass of the door.

The Doctor opened the door "Hi Lyra h..."

She cut him off "Here's my down payment, and the clock. I'll be back at five to pick it up." She said throwing some bits and the clock at him. She quickly ran off.

The Doctor walked to the back of the shop and sat the clock down on one of his work tables “I shouldn’t” he said to himself. “Oh Celestia why is it so hard to resist the temptation to six this clock!?!” he shouted then quickly unscrewed the casing. In one fluid motion he removed several cracked gears and replaced them. He screwed the casing back together and set it down.

There was a ring as the front door opened, The Doctor ran out to the show room and saw Vinyl Scratch walk in wearing saddle bags that matched her hare. “What can I do for you?” The Doctor said in a cheerful voice, he mental kicked himself, Why am I doing this? I’m not Turner anymore, am I?

“Hi ya, Turner. I’m here to by a clock for a friend of mine.” Vinyl said looking at the assortment of clocks that were arranged on Turner’s walls.

“Well feel free to call me when you find what you’re looking for.” The Doctor said. “I have some work to do.” The Doctor said heading into his back room.

The moment he closed the door to his workshop he heard Vinyl yell “Found one!” The Doctor opened the door and walked out picking up a key from its slot behind the counter.

“Which one?” he asked wearily.

“That one” Vinyl said pointing a white clock with gold trim that was in Turner’s “Too Rich for Ponyville” case.

“You sure you can afford it?” The Doctor asked hesitantly.

“Oh course I can, I just had a gig a few days ago” Vinyl said as turner opened the case and pulled took the clock off its wall hook. He set it down on its back and let Vinyl get a good look at it.

"This good?" He asked.

"Ya, how much?" Vinyl said.

"One hundred bits." The Doctor said, he honestly didn't expect her to be able to afford it.

She took out a box and started used her magic to pop it open. She then started taking out bits, one by one. She counted as she took them out, and then once she hit one hundred, The Doctor counted them and allowed her to leave with the clock. Once she was gone he went up to the second floor and rummaged around for a blanket. Once he found the blanket he laid it next to the clockwork robot and rolled the robot onto the blanket.

It took him about an hour to get it down the stairs without damaging it; he was intending to get it started up again. He removed its masquerade mask and wig revealing its clockwork the gears were a little too worn, “How long has this been here?” he asked himself. He looked pulled out his sonic and scanned it, “Hmm, about two hundred years.” he said reading the display.

He took out some teasers and a screwdriver and started to disassemble its head. He gently removed the main drive gear and placed it on the table. Then he removed several of the connecting gears and set them down. Then he found out just how intricate this bot was, as he had expected it only had a clockwork gears to control its joints, but inside it was a small processing computer and a dead power core.

"Well that's slightly less impressive" he said to himself. He went upstairs and into his Tardis, after removing a floor panel he rummaged through a chest he had stashed there. He pulled out a small bronze box with his mouth and went downstairs to the robot. After about fifteen minutes of trying to get the old power core out he slapped the new one in place. Immediately some of the gears started to turn and the robot nearly hit him as its left arm swung up violently.

After putting the rest of the robot back together he began to ask it his questions. "What species hijacked The Master's portal to Equestria?" He asked the robot.

"I do not have that information." The robot replied.

"Then can you tell me how long they have been here?"

"Yes."

"Well?"

"I arrived three hundred and thirty two years after their arrival on this planet." The robot said.

"Can you describe them?"

"The only know description I have of them is that they are tall."

"That's not much to go on."

"Turner!!!" The Doctor looked up as he heard Sparkler's voice come from outside his shop door. He walked out into the shop and unlocked the door for her.

"Please tell me that one of you girls didn't break another clock." The Doctor said wearily.

"No, Mom's missing!!!" Sparkler said panic coming into her face, "I hoped she was with you."

"What do you mean missing!? She might have gone out with her friends."

"She would have told me that if she was."

The Doctor's eyes went wide as a crashing sound came from the workshop and the door flew open. The robot stepped through and extended its blade, "Foreign entity detected." It said walking towards Sparkler.

"What is that thing?" Sparkler said more curious than scared.

"He's just a robot that The Master sent to warn me of something really bad that escaped to this dimension." The Doctor explained calmly. He turned towards the robot, "Halt!" he said and the robot stopped moving.

"So what escaped?"

"No idea, but when I find out, I'll be sure to tell you lot."

The robot leeched forward and fell hard onto the ground with a crashing sound. A gear rolled out and stopped at The Doctors feet, there was a large cursive ‘S’ carved into it. He turned towards Sparkler and found she had gone. He looked out the door and saw no pony, he looked down at his forelegs expecting to see marks but there was nothing.

He turned around and saw it, a dying Silent lying on the floor of his shop, but it was in ponyform. It was pale white and the feet similar to a camel, it had no ears and its beady black eyes were staring at The Doctor “What happened to you?” The Doctor choked out.

“You did, we are a dying race and we ran from the humans, our last resort was to escape the dimension. We stole the Master’s portal to save ourselves. But even here we could not escape you, with this I beg that you spare us from your wrath in this world.” The Silence held up the old fob watch. “We will erase the memories of your companions so that you can return to your normal life; all you have to do is change yourself back.”

“Why would I want that?”

“We know that you chameleon arch is broken and you are neither Time Lord nor Pony, revert and you will be safe from us, we are dying as it is.”

“But what of all the other things I can do.”

“Like get you companions killed?”

“What are your plans?” The doctor said narrowing his eyes.

“To die peacefully and without remorse over knowing we have not failed to make this world better than it once was."

“What do you mean by that?”

“We have been here since the founding of Equestria and we have seen much, but we are tired of tis world and we cannot control the pony leader. We are trapped and we simply wish to die, and now we wish to give you the life you could never possess.

“Why? What are you up to?”

“We are dying of the incurable disease, age. Now you have done so much for our others and we have seen this, we simply wish to let you rest.”

“No there’s always something else.”

“Your distrust is justified, but if you really don’t want to live a normal life then I will leave. Simply look away and I will return everything to the way it was before I appeared to you.”

“Or I look away and you take advantage of the situation and kill me.”

“Well then you might as well just kill me now.” It said.

“We could protect you till the day you die, we won’t be around much longer and this offer won’t stand forever. All you have to do is close your eyes and let us do our work."

“Tempting offer, but no.”

Author's Note

Well I seem to be digging my hole a lot deeper.
Sorry for the wait my laptop fell out of a car at roughly thirty miles per hour and well you can guess what happened to it.