Fallout Equestria: A visit from The Doctor

“I... I love you,” she choked through the tears in her eyes.

“Quite right too... And I suppose... if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler…” and then everything went black.

“I found it over here, I thought you might know what to with it, since you know the most on the subject,” came a voice through the fog in his mind.

“First of all, I TOLD you they existed, I knew they were out there. But on a more serious note, I can't say any more than anypony else on this matter, the things I read are highly controversial on how humans interact,” wait, did that voice just say humans as if it wasn't, did the TARDIS crash on a planet or something, were there any planets studying humans nearby, also what was that about any ponies “some believe that they were a violent race,” Oh believe me they can be “in which case we should run and alert the royal guards,” please don't do that “but others postulate that they only react like that when threatened,” exactly “which means we should try and reason with him, and yes it's a him. So we need to decide what we are going to do before he wakes up,” said the voice rationally.

The Doctor hoping he was not wrong about these voices hesitantly spoke up eyes still closed, “I really do hope that you choose the second option, I really hate soldiers,” he said in a voice he hoped sounded calm and reasonable, despite not feeling calm himself, why couldn’t he tell her he loved her.

“It can talk!” one voice screamed and a thud told The Doctor that whoever has said that had jumped into something trying to get away.

“Well of course he can talk Rose, that’s a basic…” Wait.

“ROSE!” The Doctor cried and flung his eyes wide open and jumped to his feet, but as his eyes adjusted to the light all he could see was something with red hair cowering behind a tree and a green pony with a green and white mane that seemed to be looking at him with a curious and inquisitive gaze, wait, was that a horn on the pony, no, Doctor, focus on Rose, “Did someone say ‘Rose’?” he asked in a way he was pretty sure didn’t come off as calm and collected anymore.

“Y-yes, I w-was talking to my friend over there,” the green unicorn stammered with a nod towards the red-haired thing behind the tree.

The Doctor darted over to the tree prepared to tell her the truth about his feelings, “Rose, I…” but as he approached he saw a white pony with a red mane staring at him with fear in her eyes. “Wait, you’re not Rose Tyler.” he said dumbfounded.

“S-sorry,” the pony choked out while trying to back as far into the tree as possible.

“I’m Lyra Heartstrings, and that is my friend Roseluck, we call her Rose for short. Sorry for any confusion,” the green pony said cautiously. “Sorry for my friend, she didn’t believe humans existed until now, so she’s a bit scared” she continued.

“Well, technically I’m not human, I’m a Time Lord, humans just look like us,” The Doctor explained.

“Okay then, are you feeling okay then, uhhh, what’s your name?” Lyra asked

“I’m The Doctor,” he introduced himself.

“Okay, but, what‘s your name?” Lyra questioned.

“Just The Doctor,” he said unhelpfully.

“Okay then ‘The Doctor’ are you feeling okay?” Lyra asked skeptical of his “name”.

“I’m feeling fine, just a little blackout, by the way, have you seen a blue box nearby?” he asked.

“Actually now that you mention it, Rose found you while she was chasing a falling blue thing in the sky, she was trying to see where it landed when she found you, then she came and got me, we saw the blue box not far, and you were here,” she explained.

“Well then, lead then lead the way. Allons-y!” he exclaimed.

As they walked on, Lyra in front, The Doctor right behind, and Roseluck curiously following from a very safe distance, Lyra decided to make conversation, “So,who’s this Rose Tyler you thought I was talking to?” she asked innocently.

“I… I don’t think I can talk about it yet,” The Doctor said tears welling up in his eyes.

“Okay then, how about we talk about where you’re from?” Lyra tried something else.

“Well, I’m from a race called Time Lords from the planet Gallifrey,” The Doctor explained.

“Gallop-frey?” Lyra asked quizzically.

“What? NO, GalLIfrey,” The Doctor corrected.

“Oh, okay,” Lyra responded.

As they came up to the TARDIS, looking a little banged up, but otherwise unscathed, was standing there, “Come on in.” The Doctor invited as he opened the door.

“I don’t think we’ll fit,” Lyra pointed out.

“Trust me, we’ll fit,” The Doctor stated, mysteriously as he entered. Lyra decided to follow him and see what he meant. As she entered she stopped dead in her tracks, trotted back outside, ran around the box examining every square inch she could, as she returned she asked:

“Is this some sort of portal or something?”

“A… portal, no, it’s just bigger on the inside, but that is a new reaction,” he said enjoying the new experience.

“O-okay then…” she trailed off as she noticed a jar on the floor, “Wait, is that a HAND!?!” she excitedly exclaimed.

“Yes,” The Doctor said in a questioning tone.

“Can I have it?” she asked hopefully.

“Uhh… I can’t give it to you, it’s a memento, it reminds me of someone special,” he explained.

“Did they lose the hand saving you or something?” she questioned curiously.

“Not exactly, you see, this is my hand, I lost it helping someone very special to me,” he explained mournfully.

"But you still have both hands, wait, it was theorized that humans were descended from simians, but maybe they could be descended from lizards," she hypothesised.

"That would be an excellet theory if I were human, but as I said I am not a human, I am a Time Lord, humans just look like us," the Doctor explained, getting tired of explaining this.

"Oh... right, I keep forgetting that, sorry," Lyra apologized.

"That's fine," The Doctor said.

After a little exploring in the TARDIS Lyra remembered.

"It's okay Rose, he's not dangerous," Lyra said to Rose who was still hiding behind a tree outside.

"Are you sure?" Rose asked hesitantly entering the TARDIS.

"I'm sure," Lyra assured her.

"So, would you two like to accompany me on an adventure?" The Doctor asked casually

"Where exactly would we be going?" Lyra questionned.

"Well, I plan on trying to go back to my world, where there would be a whole bunch of humans..." The Doctor began.

"We're in!" Lyra interrupted, without consulting Roseluck.

"But I don't...."Roseluck began.

"Oh, come on Rose, it's not like we had anything else important to do here, and besides, weren't you the one who was hoping for more adventures? Wasn't that why you were about to enter the Everfree forest before you found him?" Lyra questionned gesturing a hoof towards the Doctor.

"Well, as long as these humans aren't too bad, then I'm up for it," Rose decided, sounding an awful lot braver than she felt, humans scared her, especially this one, who somehow recognized her name.

"Well then, Allons-y!" The Doctor cried as he pulled some levers, pushed some buttons, spun some valves, and looked at his monitor. As this was happenning the TARDIS started to shake and whir. Suddenly it all stopped.

"If my calculations are correct, then we should be back in my dimension," The Doctor said as he stepped out into the grey room filled with more ponies. As soon as he realized, he backed into the TARDIS.

"It seems my calculations were wrong," he stated, as he stepped into one of the side rooms in the TARDIS, grabbing the hand as he did. Lyra and Roseluck followed him into the room.

"Can I have some privacy? I'm about to... change," The Doctor asked mysteriously.

"Oh... uhh... okay," Lyra said as she and Roseluck backed out of the room into the main portion of the TARDIS, Suddenly there was a brilliant light coming out of the room.

"What was that!?!" they both shouted in unusion as they hesitantly walked towards the room.

"Who are you?" Rose asked as a brown earth pony walked towards them, "and where did that... Thing... go?"

"Well I am 'that thing' you talk about, I'm still The Doctor, but I've changed my appearance to fit in on this world." The Doctor explained.

"H-how in Equestria did you do that?" Lyra asked.

"Well remember that hand? My Species has an ability called regenerating, it allows us to cheat death, and change our appearance, that was how I was able to regrow it, but that hand still had regeneration energy, I used some of it to kickstart my regeneration, to change my appearance so as not to scare others like I did Rose here," The Doctor rambled as Lyra and Roseluck stared at him dumbfounded.

"Now time to greet our new hosts properly," The Doctor said as he stepped out of the TARDIS, forgetting he was a pony now, and falling out the door with the hand in his hoof.