50 Years Ago...
The Master grinned at his new device. "It is finally complete! After 10 years of work, the Paradox Machine is finally complete! With this, I will be able to change the history of Earth and become the master of those pathetic humans!"
A voice called out from behind him. "I don't think so."
The Master, surprised, swung around. He smirked. "Doctor."
"Master." The third Doctor approached him.
"Oh," said the Master, "I love it when you call me that."
"You chose the name," the Doctor said smugly.
"Just as you chose yours," the Master said back.
"Indeed, but back to the point. You're creating an extremely risky device." The Doctor stomped on the ground. "Destroy it."
"Destroy it?" The Master chuckled. "First, you explain to me why this is such a bad idea. Perhaps I'll consider it then."
"You're risking the total destruction of the entire cosmos, all in hope that you'll be able to change history." The Doctor laughed. "Which, by the way, you can't."
"So then, if I fail? I suppose I'll take you, and the whole universe, with me."
"Master, surely you understand the insanity of this idea? You're crazy, mad! Do you hear me? You're releasing a force that nothing can stop!" The Doctor was panicking. If the Master went through with this, every living creature would cease to exist.
"Who cares? With this much power, I can conquer all of time and space!" The Master gave the Doctor an evil grin before turning back to his machine. "I can already taste success."
"Why are you doing this?" The Doctor asked.
"Hate," replied the Master, "I am doing this because of hate."
"Hate?"
"You do not understand, nor could you understand. Only hatred keeps me alive. Ending the pain I feel when watching people live, that's my goal. I hate them. Those filthy, no good humans." The Master faced the Doctor once more. "They're just like you."
"I understand. But please, using a machine like this will tear a hole in time Itself!"
"ENOUGH!" said the Master in a deep and powerful voice, "I have suffered long enough from your stupid, stubborn interference in my designs! Now we are coming to the end of our conflict, Doctor! When I'm done here, you'll be enslaved with the rest of those worthless beings!"
"I won't let that happen," he said.
"You're too late to stop this, Doctor! Soon, you shall bow before me!" The Master gave a loud and psychopathic laugh.
"If I use my Sonic Screwdriver to reverse the power that it is reviving and send it directly into your TARDIS mainframe, I can stop your plans." The Doctor smiled. "It will cause a mass surge of energy transporting you into a place you can never escape from."
"But, that will cause it to overload," said the Master in fear.
"Do I have to repeat myself? Yes, it will overload, and then it will send you and this device into a time prison, where you will never be able to escape." With that, the Doctor grinned. Victory was his.
"NO!" The Master screamed, but it was already too late. The Doctor used his Sonic Screwdriver and overloaded the mainframe.
"You fool, don't you know that you doomed us both?"
"No, I don't." The Doctor was teleported out of the Master's TARDIS into his own.
"I shall return!" The Master shouted, "And when I do, I will make you feel pain greater than anything you've ever felt!"
And with that the Master fell into the time prison, hopefully to be there for the rest of his life.
"Sorry about that Jo. Alright then, where were we?" The Doctor was speaking to a middle-aged woman. She was wearing a blue shirt, some jeans, and a gold necklace which complemented her blonde hair.
"Returning to UNIT HQ." Jo said with the Doctor smiling at her.
"Very well, UNIT here we come." The TARDIS disappeared from where it was, making a loud strange noise as it did so.
49 Years Later
"Ah, that was quite the adventure, right Derpy?" A brown stallion stood with the pegasus. He a short, spiky mane and an hourglass cutie mark.
"Yes it was, Doctor." Derpy grinned.
"So, now where do you want to go? How about the Lost Moon of Poosh?"
"What?"
"Well, it's now known as just the Moon of Poosh, but... some people believe that there is a secret alien race living under the surface of the moon. Just... waiting for the right time to reveal themselves to the universe."
"That sounds nice, but I really want to go home. I am starting to miss my friends and family." Derpy put on a sad expression.
"Well, alright then. Ponyville, here we come." The Doctor looked up to see Derpy smiling. The Doctor began flipping levers and pushing buttons. "Allons-y."
Ponyville Time: 36 hours before the Doctor arrives
"So, yeah basically you are in charge of making sure that the ponies are happy and if any trouble pops up you have to deal with it, do you understand?" The purple alicorn looked at the stallion.
"Yes, Princess Twilight, I am fully capable of completing the task." A stallion with a black tie and suit was sitting in a leather chair at a desk. The gold name plate on the desk read, 'Mayor'.
"Good," Twilight said, "because I'm counting on you to make sure nothing happens here while I'm in Canterlot for a meeting, okay?"
"Go to your meeting, princess. I promise you, nothing will happen here while you're gone. Nothing I can't handle, anyway. So, you don't need to worry. Okay?"
"Thank you, Mayor." said Twilight.
"Please, Mayor was my mother's name. You can call me Harold Saxon." The stallion grinned.
"Um... Alright, Harold Saxon." Twilight trotted towards the door.
As the alicorn left, the stallion walked up and shut the door behind her. Then, he walked over to the window that was overlooking all of Ponyville and said, "This place doesn't need a mayor, it needs a master." An evil smirk appeared on his face.
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Location: Ponyville , Equestria
Time: 10:00 A.M.
As the TARDIS appeared in front of Derpy's house, the a Doctor, accompanied by Derpy herself, walked outside. "Ah, Ponyville!" The Doctor beamed as he looked at the familiar scenery. "Just as we left it. Well, right about... 5 minutes ago." The Doctor chuckled.
"Yeah, it's great!" Derpy said. "Well, I'm heading off to see what's new in Ponyville, if anything. I'll see you later, Doctor!"
"Indeed you shall," the Doctor said as he trotted back into his TARDIS. "Don't be too long!"
While Derpy was walking, she noticed something weird on a light pole a poster. It read, "Vote Saxon for Mayor".
"Hmm... this is strange. I don't remember Ponyville have elections for mayor."
She looked at the tiny date in the corner, presumably when the poster was made.
It had been printed months ago. With this strange information, she decided to take a trip to Town Hall.
Meanwhile, the Doctor was busy working on timey wimey stuff when suddenly he looked up and saw Ood Sigma standing there before him.
"What do you want?" the Doctor said, immediate senses of fear grasping at him.
"Your song is ending." Ood Sigma said.
"I know, I can sense it coming closer."
"It will knock four times. Then..." Ood Sigma disappeared from the TARDIS.
"I refuse to die," the Doctor exclaimed, "not today, not tomorrow, and not for years to come!"
As Derpy walked up to the door of the Mayor's office, she gently knocked on the door.
"Come in," said a voice on the other side. The voice was not sounding like the Mayor she knew.
As she open the door she noticed a stallion standing there with a light pale color of fur and a light color of blonde for his mane and tail. He had a short stubble beard on his face, and finally his cutie mark was a scepter that was diagonally facing a crown.
"So, why are you here miss....?" the stallion said strangely, not knowing this mare's name.
"Oh, um, Hooves, Derpy Hooves."
"So Miss... Hooves, why are you here?" the stallion said.
"Umm.. I have kinda been out of town for the past few days so... why are you mayor instead of Mayor Mare?" Derpy said.
"Well Ms. Mare has been getting older and sicker to the point she couldn't complete her work very well." The stallion put on a forced smile. "So eventually, Princess Twilight and Prince Flash had to let her go. Before she left, however, Pinkie Pie, along with her husband Cheese Sandwich, threw her the biggest goodbye party I have ever seen. An election was held three days after she left, and I was chosen to become Ponyville's newest Mayor. And then, well, here we are."
"I do feel better knowing that Ponyville will be in more capable hooves than before, but-"
"You have no idea. Ponyville will be JUST fine." the stallion did his best at concealing a grin.
As Derpy headed towards the door, she realized that she had forgotten to ask him a very important question.
"By the way," Derpy said, her head peering into the Mayor's office one more time, "what's your name, mister?"
"Saxon." the stallion started. "Harold Saxon."
"Nice to meet you, Saxon." Derpy left the room.
Saxon got up from his chair and looked at Ponyville from the balcony. "Tick tock goes the clock....where are you, Doctor?"
As Derpy arrived back at the TARDIS, she was shocked to see the Doctor... crying.
"What's wrong, Doctor?" Derpy said in a concerning voice.
"I'm going to die." The Doctor said sadly.
"Well, so will I one day." Derpy joked.
"Don't you dare!" he said.
"Alright, I'll try not to!" Derpy said as she chuckled.
"But I was told: 'It will knock four times'. That was the prophecy, knock four times and then..." the Doctor tried to continue, but was consumed with sadness.
Derpy was confused, but then asked, "Yeah, but I thought your people could change like your whole body, right?"
"I can still die," the Doctor started, "if I'm killed before regeneration."
"But..." the Doctor added, "Even then, even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away... and I'm dead."
When she heard this from him, she could only make out two his emotions: fear and sadness.
What happened next had the Doctor stunned. He felt hooves wrapped around his waist. As he opened his tear-filled eyes, he saw Derpy hugging him.
"I will never let you die," she said, "as long as I am here beside you, healing your broken heart. I will never ever let you feel any kind of sadness ever again."
The Doctor, who had experienced so much sadness in his life, started to smile. Nonetheless, he knew that he would still die no matter what happened.
As Derpy released from the hug, she said, "I will spend the rest of my life with you so you can remain happy."
The Doctor smiled at the comment, but then said in a sad voice, "You can't stay with me forever."
Derpy heard this, and was fairly disappointed. "Why not?"
"Because," the doctor said, "no matter how long you travel with me, you will eventually age and then..." He stopped mid-sentence.
"But, you will age too." Derpy said.
"I don't age. I regenerate. But humans decay; you wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone that you--" The Doctor was consumed with too many emotions to continue.
"Someone that you what, Doctor?" Derpy asked curiously.
The Doctor then said, "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but... I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords."
