Equestria: The Master's Dumping Ground
Chapter 9: The Hunt
Previous ChapterNext ChapterThe Tardis appeared on a metal platform, its light being the only one around. The door opened and the Doctor walked out and pulled out his repurposed ‘Timey Wimey Detector’. “OK, all I need to do is find the source of it and I should be able to get to him.” He said as he started to race down the metal alleys.
“Doctor what is that thing even for?” Derpy asked taking off to catch up with him.
“It goes ding when theres stuff!” He yelled back to her, and turned a sharp corner losing her for a moment.
“That doesn’t explain anything” She said, after catching up and landing hard in front of him. He tried to go around but she kept getting in his way, “we were almost turned into Cyber…things and you didn’t even bother fighting, if it wasn’t for Luna we would have lost. I want some real answers and I want them now!” She said with a fierceness that could make Nightmare Moon cry like Fluttershy.
“Fine. As you know, I’m not from your universe and I have an enemy. His name is the Master, and…” The modified ‘Timey Wimey Detector’ began to ding repeatedly and there was a flash of light from behind Derpy as a yellow-orange portal opened up and a statue got spit out of it.
“Derpy make sure you keep looking at it, it can’t move if you keep looking at it.” The Doctor said calmly.
“Why?” she asked “What…”
“Make sure not to touch them, last thing we need is more troops lost to them.” the voice cut her off and another statue flew out of the portal. “Once the statues are through throw the failure through, I’m tired of seeing his face” another statue flew out of it. The final statue fell through and they heard a steady stream of human curses flying out of a distraught blond man who was bound and blindfolded.
“Saxon!!! I will feast on you energy and consume your being!” he shouted as he was thrown through and landed with a thud. Lazarus was attempting to change but the bindings around him were stopping him.
“Master!” the Doctor shouted over Lazarus’s cursing.
“Hello Doctor; I would say it’s good to see you again but it isn’t.” the Master said checking his watch. “Turn it off.”
The Doctor reacted and charged at full speed at the portal, “Goodbye, Doctor” the Master said grinning, and a little too cheery. The Doctor dove for the portal and it abruptly closed. He was in a diving position and was going to face plant into the ground behind the portal. In the last moment he tucked his head down and began an odd roll, his body on the other hoof wasn’t as good in the roll and he landed hard on his back.
"Uuugghh." the Doctor moaned in pain.
"Doctor! Are you OK?" Derpy said fluttering over to him.
He got up quickly and looked at her, "If you're here when who's watching the Weeping Angels?"
"The what?" She asked confused.
The Doctor pushed her to the side so he could look at the Angels and saw them all standing up and in a circle around where Lazarus had been.
"Where did that screaming thing go?" Derpy asked.
"They sent him back in time, and used the energy it created to feed. The Master must have been using them as a rudimentary form of time travel to send his agents back to accomplish his goals. But now he no longer needs them and he has sent them here because he can't create a paradox to kill them, what with his Paradox Machine and all."
"What?"
"Now you listen to me..." The Doctor said to the Angels, "I know you remember everything the Time Lords have done to your kind. Now remember that he was a Time Lord and what he called me, remember that I'm the Doctor." The Doctor blinked and the Angels started to move away for them. "You will blend in as the statues of this city. I will only allow you to feed on the background energy of this city. If I learn that you attack even one single pony then I will return and you will have to face me. Now go!!!" he ordered the Weeping Angles.
The Doctor turned and walked past them, "So bloody close I could taste it. Even in death he tortures me. I won't miss again." He said unknowingly thinking aloud as he walked back to the Tardis.
"Doctor what happened?" Derpy asked catching up to him.
"He keeps getting away. I'm not the Time lord I once was and I won't ever be again if I can't fix the Chameleon Arch."
He opened the Tardis doors and walked to the main console, "We're finding Lazarus, not the young one, the old one. He has existed longer than even the Princesses and he may have some information I'm not aware of."
"Wait we're going to intentionally look for somepony that has tried to kill us in the past." Derpy asked.
"Yes. Now go get the girls, I'm not taking them with us to meet him." He said starting to hit the console.
"What, why?"
"I'll tell you later" He said as the Tardis started to move.
"OK Sparkler, We'll be back soon" Derpy said hugging her eldest daughter.
"Don't worry mom, I will."
Derpy gave Dinky a hug and walked into the Tardis. As it vanished Dinky looked at Sparkler "What happened to Turner?"
"Sis, I honestly have no clue, but I don't like it."
At the Canterlot castle in the year 6000 ALR (After Luna's Return) on a balcony overlooking the beautiful Equestrian landscape, an elderly pegasus was sitting in a wheelchair watching the clouds as they rolled across the sky. He was, after all this time, finally at true peace with his inner demon. It probably helped that he didn't have enough life energy to change any more. He knew he would be dead soon, he gave off slight laughter, after all this time, countless false deaths; I finally give in to old age. It's a bit anticlimactic of a death for me, former king of the Crystal Empire, countless advisors for the Princesses, soldier in Commander Hurricane's army, and Destruction Follower, but that is inevitable. His thoughts were interrupted by a familiar sound that sent a shiver down his spine.
He turned his wheelchair around to face the blue box. The door opened, "Hello Doctor, have you come to see me off?" he asked grimly.
"No I've come to ask the Destruction Follower where the Master has been dumping his trash." The Doctor replied.
"Well, you chose a fine time, I fear I'm close to death."
"Don't lie to me Lazarus."
"You know this place has really good security."
"I've already taken care of that, now answer me."
"I don't know what to tell you I've only witnessed three of those, the one with those angel statues, the one with the Cybermen, and one with the lizard things."
"The Lizard things, when did that happen?" The Doctor asked.
Lazarus was thinking, "...about two thousand years ago, I think."
"Where?"
"The Empire." he said. There was a cracking sound from underneath the balcony that they were on. "It's a bit more fitting that I would fall to my death. Don't you think Doctor?"
"What do you mean Lazarus?" he asked, before his eyes went wide with realization.
"I haven't changed in over fifty years and now I can't, I don't know if I'll survive the fall but if I don't then I will have died the way I was supposed to all those many years ago.”
"Come on you are a prominent member of pony society you can't just decide to go and kill yourself."
"You know I've been married many, many times and I still remember each one of them, every wife, son and daughter I've had. I didn't deserve a single one of them, and yet they all accepted me. My death means the end of one of the least important beast in all of Equestrian history, in the end the only record of any of my lives will be a footnote in the Pony's Guide to Monsters, and I doubt that will last long."
"You've got plenty of life in you Lazarus."
"I am not Lazarus, I haven't been Lazarus since I came here, unless you want to call my other half by that name." he blinked slowly and there was another loud crack.
"You know at one point I was so bent on killing you and anypony that got in my way that I had attracted the attention of the Princesses. I was an adviser at the time and tried to get that as my name, but over time the majority wanted to name me the Destruction Follower. I never liked that name."
"Lazarus what is your name now?"
"I go by the name Lightning Chaser."
"Well Lightning Chaser good luck where you’re going." The Doctor said pulling out his Sonic; he used it to speed up the breaking of the balcony supports.
Unfortunately an earth pony guard just to walk by to see the Doctor do this and the balcony fall. "Prince Lightning Chaser!" he yelled as he ran to the edge.
The Doctor was looking too and he noticed a pair of wings much wider than Lightning Chaser's had been, and he smiled. It only lasted about a second before he was tackled by the guard. He heard in his ear "You have the right to remain silent!"
Author's Note
So my muse kind died for a moment there and I had to restart it's heart a few times. But then I went back and watched all of season two of MLP FiM and Series three of Doctor Who, and that managed to bring her back.
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