Amelia Pond and aunt Sharon’s yard (Earth)

23:14

26th of June 2012, Earth Time

It was one faithful evening and it was one epic tale we all know of; the Doctor and Amelia Pond, the girl who waited. But on that night, the night those two souls met, something very peculiar happened…

“What? You’ve got a real time machine?”

“Not for long if I can’t get it stabilised! A five minute hop into the future should do it!” the (previously regenerated) Doctor said to Amelia Pond.

The Doctor and Amelia Pond were in said Pond's yard, with the Doctor on the edge of the tilted TARDIS. It was a calm night, or it would have been if the TARDIS' cloister bell was not ringing.

But Amelia's curiousity was awakened by this strange man and his strange machine. “Can I come?” she asked.

The Doctor, while always on the lookout for a companion, still had some parental instinct left. “Not safe in here not yet, five minutes! Give me five minutes. I’ll be right back!” he said while fixing his grapplehook in place.

“People always say that.”

The Doctor paused, turned to Amelia, climbed down from the blue box’s edge, and looked her in the eyes.

“Am I people? Do I even look like people?” he said. Then he opened his mouth and grinned wide. “Trust me. I’m The Doctor.”

Amelia smiled as the Doctor climbed back to the TARDIS’s edge. He took the grapplehook cord in his hand and steadied himself. Then he cast one final look at her, grinned, and jumped down, shouting “Geronimo!” as he did.

Those would be the last words that Amelia Pond would hear of the Doctor.

/|\|//|\

The TARDIS

23:31

26th of June 2012, Earth Time

The Doctor now knew why he liked it when the TARDIS was in an upright position. You could actually walk around. This time he had to hang around in the air with the grapplehook to drop on the console, which was not too comfortable. After that he set the controls with his feet and released the handbrake with his heel. And as soon as the TARDIS had disappeared from sight on Earth, the artificial gravity took over and the Doctor fell to the floor next to the console, which was not his most graceful moment.

To cap things off, the TARDIS, for some unknown reason, was having a little trouble navigating the Vortex. Well, that could’ve been the fact that it had crashed only a quarter of an hour ago.

Secondly, the normally un-calm and storm-filled Vortex was now serene and peaceful. And there was that little girl he was going to come back to after he fixed the engines with a little jump.

“What could have possibly caused this? The Vortex cannot and will not be calm, they said. It’s impossible they said,” the Doctor thought aloud.

He paced around the side of the controlboard, deep in thought.

It took a moment, but then he realized it: “It’s the calm before the storm…”

He immediately ran to the control panel.

“I need to get out of here right now! Anytime anywhere, just not in the Vortex!”

He then took the brake off, and… nothing happened.

“Nothing… how can it be nothing… at all…”

*BOOM*

And then, the storm. The biggest storm the Doctor had ever witnessed to soon dominated the entirety of the Vortex. He stood, agape at the size of the storm.

“How… but… wow…”

The Doctor fell to the floor as there was a monumental rumble, and the world flashed white as a very big lightning bolt hit the TARDIS.

And so, the world was black for the Doctor.

/|\|//|\

Doctor Whooves Intro

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Ponyville

10:00

26th of June, Year 2, The Twin Sisters’ Reign

Twilight Sparkle was having a very ordinary day. A boring one, to be exact. She was trotting through Ponyville market, trying to find something to do.

Pinkie Pie popped out of Twilight’s saddle bags, as was to be expected, scaring Twilight out of her thoughts.

“Oh hi Twilight! Looking for something to do?” Pinkie said as she bounced around her.

“Y-yeah, how’d you guess?” Twilight answered, still a bit shaky.

“Silly Twilight, it’s simple! Three itchy twitches means Twilight is bored!”

“Seriously,” Twilight said, ‘Pinkie Sense’ still baffling her.

“Sorry Twi, but I don’t have time to help you! Mr. and Mrs. Cake have a big order coming, and I need to go and help them!” she said.

“That’s okay Pinkie, I’ll just read some books I haven’t read in a while,” Twilight told Pinkie.

“Okie dokie lokie! I’ll see ya later!” And so, Pinkie bounced away, without a moment’s worry.

“I’ll see you too, Pinkie!” Twilight said from the back.

And with that, Twilight trotted to the library, Starswirl the Bearded’s Theory of Magic and Everything Thereof in her mind.

/|\|//|\

The TARDIS

In the sky, just above the library

12:00

26th of June, Year 2, The Twin Sisters’ Reign

“Ow… what happened?” the Doctor opened his eyes, just to be met with a hoof.

“What is that? Is that my hand?” the Doctor said wondered curiously, eyeing his new form.

“Am I a horsething now? Oh come on, I’d just regenerated and then you go and do this again! Well, that is just brilliant!”

The Doctor froze. “Waiiit a moment. Where’s the storm? What happened?”

He awkwardly walked (trotted?) to the log panel, fumbling with his new four-legged walk. It read:

TARDIS.log:

ENGINES PHASING;

DANGER: UNKNOWN SIGNAL OVERRIDING VORTEX MANIPULATORS!;

VORTEX MANIPULATORS HAVE BEEN OVERRIDDEN!;

TRANSPORTING TO:

PLANE 474,239.937;

UNIVERSE: EQUISTRUM;

PLANET: EQUS;

COUNTRY: EQUESTRIA;

STARTING EMERGENCY RECOVERY PROCESS NUMBER 1325.3;

EOF

“Hmm, let’s find more info about this plane,” he said, pressing a button and twisting a knob with his muzzle.

Then from the screen, he read:

Message:

CURRENT PLANE: NO INFORMATION FOUND;

“Oh, great! A totally unknown plane! The second impossible thing today!” he said sarcastically.

Then, a message popped to the screen:

SAFETY ALERT: LOSING ALTITUDE;

SPEED: VERY FAST;

“Well a great sense of humor you have there! And you’re still recharging!” he shouted, running for cover.

/|\|//|\

The Golden Oaks Library

12:02

26th of June, Year 2, The Twin Sisters’ Reign

“That’s every single book in the library arranged and cleaned!” Twilight said in a cheery tone.

*WHUUM…*

“What’s that?” Twilight asked.

*CRASH*

And soon, the room was filled with smoke. The strange sense of serenity caused by the overarching noise was broken by a panicked shout.

“Twilight! Are you okay? I can’t see, there’s too much smoke!” Spike shouted over the noise.

“I’m fine Spike! What was that thing?” Twilight asked, confused.

“I’m guessing you’re talking about me?” A brown earth pony calmly trotted (well, more like, you know, awkwardly fumbled) out of the shadows.

“And you would be…?” Twilight forced out of her now fully opened mouth, jaw wide open.

“I’m the Doctor.”

“Doctor wh—”

“Don’t start.”

“How the hay did you get through the ceiling?” Spike asked, even more confused.

“I didn’t. Well sort of. The TARDIS did.” he answered distractedly.

“The TAR-what now?” Twilight questioned.

“The TARDIS. Stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. It’s how I get around,” he answered, still looking around, muttering something. ’I’m more open today. Hmm.’

“How did the TAR-thing get here?” she asked.

“A storm in the Vortex.”

“What’s the vortex?”

“Now, before I start trying to explain inter-dimensional travel as simply as I can, let me ask some questions myself.” Without waiting for an answer, he started:

“Why am I a pony? Is that dragon? And three, how can you speak?”

Twilight spit out, still flabbergasted, “I- I can’t answer the first question, as I don’t understand it. Two, yes, that is a dragon. Three, of course I can speak! Got a problem with that?”

“Well, it might need some getting used to, but it’s not critical. What is critical, though, is how I’m a pony,” he said, continuing:

“No regeneration occurred, apparently. The plane is unknown, which is impossible of course. But, it might just have something to do with the storm.”

He hummed in thought, then said “It could have enhanced my body with artron energy. That could have made me able to change forms between a pony and a human when I enter or leave this plane. Of course I can’t leave as the TARDIS doesn’t know its normal bearings. ”

“What? I didn’t understand even half of that stuff,” the purple unicorn interrupted, but she had to admit: she was very close to exploding with curiosity.

“Don’t talk to me while I’m being clever,” he said. “Now, ponies seem to be dominant species from what I’ve seen, but of course I haven’t seen a lot but I think I’m good enough to assume that! That’s new! I’m very sure of myself. But as I was saying, the TARDIS doesn’t know it’s bearings, so in order to help it, I have to find somebody wh—”

“Somepony,” Twilight corrected.

“Someone who-what? Somepony? Really? Okay then. Somepony who knows this plane’s coordinates. Somepony with universal knowledge. Do you ponies have somebod—I mean somepony like that?” he said, chuckling a little.

“Okay, I don’t know anything about you and I don’t trust you, just so you know. Buuuut, it is sort of everypony’s responsibility to help. The pony you need is Princess Celestia.”

“Not royalty. I swore that I wouldn’t interact with royalty after that incident with Queen Elizabeth. But if that’s the only way to go, then, lead the way. How can I contact Her?” the Doctor asked.”

“Well, I’m the princess’s protégé,” Twilight said, wondeing who exactly this ‘Queen Elizabeth’ was.

“Really? Wow. This should happen more often. Can we send a message to her?” the timepony asked.

“I can s-send a m-m-message,” said Spike who had finally (somewhat) recovered from a severe case of “Utterus Confusius”.

Author's Note

Yeah, so here it is! Hope you enjoy it! Criticism is welcomed, but just plain "this sucks" is gently discouraged.

Some info:

Takes place after MLP Season 2.

Reigns in chronological order:

1-100 The First Reign

1-1000 Celestia's Reign

1-? The Twin Sister's Reign

Well that's it! Also, I won't update too quickly, because I'm not big on the writing thing.
[EDIT: Let's see if I can get the next chapter out before this story has existed for a year.]
[EDIT: No, I can't.]

-Swokk on 29 of March 2012