The Equinulous

Ponyville Train Station, Night

Doctor Hooves stands over The Dragon, now known as The Master

Doctor Hooves “you really don’t remember?”

The Master “not a thing, why, do you?”

Doctor Hooves thinks about his options

Doctor Hooves “no”

The Master “well except the fact that I’m a, time lord was it? looks like I am qualified to pilot your TARDIS after all”

Twilight “Time Turner, would you mind filling me in on whats going on?”

Doctor Hooves “all you need to know is that this stallion has the intention to destroy your world”

Twilight “Hhhh, very well”

The Master “aww c’mon Doctor, you should come with, us time lords should stick together”

Spike “wait, Time Turner your a Time Lord?”

Doctor Hooves “that is none of your concern Spike”

Twilight “actually it is, if your a time lord, and he’s a time lord, and he’s a equinulous, whats to keep me from claiming that your an equinulous as well?”

Doctor Hooves “What would it matter, I’m trying to help you”

Twilight “the master claimed to be helping us as well, and now you claim that he’s bent on world destruction, equinulous have a history of attacking Equestria. Im sorry but this is now a matter of national security”

Twilight then uses an x-ray spell and sees DH’s 2 hearts

Twilight “you and the master both have 2 hearts, you are the only ponies in Equestria with 2 hearts”

Spike “Time Turner, your an equinulous?”

Doctor Hooves “I’m on your side, I’m helping you!”

Twilight “if what you say is true, then you will have no problem explaining yourself to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna”

Twilight then used her magic to levitate Doctor Hooves and take out more rope from her satchel and tied Doctor Hooves hooves together. she then proceeded to place both of them in the train

Royal Throne Room, Morning

Twilight carries both Doctor Hooves and The Master with her magic into the throne room, royal guard then proceeds to take them from her, remove there rope binds, and place them in chains.

Luna “identify yourself unicorn”

The Master “I am the master, a dragon turned pony equinulous. and according to my associate..”

Doctor Hooves “I am NOT your associate!!!”

A royal guard comes up from behind and hits Doctor Hooves in the back with the side of his spear

Royal Guard “you will speak when spoken to!”

Celestia “continue”

The Master “and according to… my fellow prisoner, I am also a being known as a time lord”

Luna “Time Lord?”

The Master “I have no idea what it is but apparently, he does”

Celestia “very well, Earth Pony, identify yourself”

Doctor Hooves “I am the Doctor, I am a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Costello, I am 914 years old and if you don’t arrest this unicorn you will be making the worst decision of your eternal lives”

Celestia leans over to Luna

Celestia “well, he’s insane”

Celestia “tell us, Doctor, what is a time lord exactly?”

Doctor Hooves “you identify your race as ponies, I identify my race as Time Lord”

Luna “we’ll need more than that”

Doctor Hooves “There is nothing more too it, Time Lord is quite simply the name of my race”

Royal Guard “your Highness, I believe this pony is trying to fib you, allow me to cast a truth spell on them both”

Luna “very well”

The guard then casts the truth spell on both of them

Celestia “you claim to be from another world, can you prove it?”

Doctor Hooves “I’m 914 years old and I have 2 hearts what else would you like to know”

Celestia “you obviously didn’t fly or teleport here. you may be a different species but an earth pony is still an earth pony, meaning you must have attained some means of external transit here, What did you use?”

Doctor Hooves “A ship only obtainable from my world”

Luna “how did you obtain it?”

Doctor Hooves “I…. I stole it”

Celestia “stealing is a crime all on its own, but we are not educated in the customs of your world, we will make any attempt we can to contact them and inform them of your crimes.”

Doctor Hooves “forgive me for asking but what crimes am I being accused of on your world?”

Royal Guard “you will address the princesses as your royal highness prisoner”

Luna “thats enough, guard”

the guard stands down

Celestia “you are accused of being an accomplice of the equinulous known as the master”

Doctor Hooves “your highness, the Information you have on him was supplied by me”

Luna “then perhaps you are the one true criminal and you are framing the master for your crimes”

Doctor Hooves is shocked by the words of the princess, he then looks over to The Master and sees that he is exerting the slightest grin

Celestia “you say you stole the ship from your world, why?

Doctor Hooves “there was nothing left for me there”

Luna “elaborate”

Doctor Hooves “there was nothing left for me there, because there was nothing left, My planet was destroyed”

Celestia “how?”

Doctor Hooves then realized what he had gotten himself into and remembered that he couldn’t lie because of the truth spell

Doctor Hooves “By me!”

The princesses are shocked, Doctor Hooves looked over at the master, the master is shocked as well

Celestia “we may not know the customs of your world, but since you no longer have a home world, we will take their justice and apply it for them. Murder is an unforgivable crime! GUARDS!”

The guards then walk over to Doctor Hooves and take him by the fore hooves and begin dragging him down the hall

Doctor Hooves then outbursts

Doctor Hooves “I’M STILL UNDER OATH!!!”

Luna “halt guards”

the guards ceased dragging Doctor Hooves

Luna “what did you say?”

Doctor Hooves “I’m still under oath, that truth spell is still applied, so let me talk”

the princesses look at one another

Celestia “we will allow you to speak, but this will not resolve the crimes you have committed”

Doctor Hooves “don’t you think I know that?”

the princesses look at each other in realization of his regret

Doctor Hooves “I’m still under oath so know that I speak the very pure truth when I say that this planet, is the closest thing to a home I have, the reason I destroyed my home world was because of sympathy, my planet was already destroyed, it was being invaded by a race of exterminators, they killed nearly every one of my species and they weren’t going to stop with my world. In fact on the way to it they had already wiped out thousands of other planets. They were all in one place, so I ceased the opportunity, I stole a ship and a devise that would grant a single command, any command. So I commanded it to destroy the world I loved with the race that had already killed them all off. so go ahead, judge my actions, is it wrong that I killed a race of killers?”

every pony in the room lay dumb faced by Doctor Hooves story then out of curiosity Luna spoke

Luna “why here? why Equestria”

Doctor Hooves “before this world was Equestria, it was a world called earth, inhabited by a different species of bipeds, I came here for refuge, and in return, I saved their world from any invading force that threatened it, without ever harming a life myself. lives were lost during certain attacks, but none of them from my own hooves. I grew to love their race, and they grew to love me, but one day their species turned on one another and destroyed the world they had built, and from their ashes, your world was born, thats why I’m here, to continue to protect the world that I had promised to keep safe”

Celestia and luna looked at one another they discussed his actions and took in mind that he was under a truth spell

Celestia “We will spare you, Doctor, under one condition, tell us all you know about him”

Celestia then pointed at The Master

The Master “theres no point, he doesn’t know anything about me”

Doctor Hooves “His name is the master, he is the only survivor of the destruction of Gallifrey I have found. but on Gallifrey, he was notorious for being ill behaved and known to be scarred by the sound of his own heartbeat, which drove him insane”

The Master heard this and began to hear the sound of drums

Doctor Hooves “In my defense of earth, he had come twice, both times with the intent to turn this world into a war factory, with the means to use its inhabitants to overthrow the galaxy.”

The Master “do you hear drums? is someone playing drums outside?”

Doctor Hooves “The second time he attempted to bring back my home planet from the nether verse, and use this worlds inhabitants to overthrow Gallifrey and use their technology to take over all of time and space”

The Master “seriously do none of you hear drums?”

Doctor Hooves “and now he’s here, and quite literally he admitted to me the plans to use the magic of this world to most likely attempt to do the same. to enslave the ponies of Equestria and use their magic to conquer the universe!”

at that moment, The Master had a mental break and flung himself backwards he began twitching on the floor. 2 guards then went over to him to see what happened. The Master then outstretched his hoof and expelled a magic essence that turned the Canterlot guard into a perfect replica of himself.

Replica guard “Doctor!, OLD BUDDY OLD PAL!”

Doctor Hooves “and if you don’t remove me from these chains you could very well see the end of this world right now”

Celestia used her magic and broke the chains of Doctor Hooves, Doctor Hooves then went over to the replica guard and grabbed each side of his face with his hooves, the guards head began to shake violently and the guards original body returned

The Master “whats the matter Doctor?”

The Master voice was different, it sounded as if he were speaking through a fan, a robotic fan

The Master “Didn’t you miss me?”

The Master body rose from the floor and began shifting in and out of a skeleton like state

The Master “don’t you know its rude to imprison your own kind?”

Doctor Hooves “stop this, stop this now! come back to me, were all we have left!”

The Master “there the man I once knew, even as a horse you haven’t changed a bit”

The Master raised his head and magic aura began to surround his horn

The Master “goodbye Doctor”

But before the master could fire off his magic he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, he looked down and saw a spear shoved straight through his chest, the second guard’s spear. the second guard let go of his spear and the master fell to the floor and began bleeding out.

Doctor Hooves “no, NOOOOOOOO!!!!”

Doctor Hooves ran over to The Master and kneeled down next to him

Doctor Hooves “no”

Doctor Hooves lowered his head and tears began to stream down his face

The Master body then began to glow a bright yellow, his body rose off the floor, the spear fell from his chest to the floor, he was regenerating. then a massive burst of energy expelled from his head and his 4 limbs The ponies in the room covered their eyes from the bright yellow light. and then all in one instance the final amount of regeneration energy left his body. smoke circled around the body of the master. once cleared, a medium sized stallion pegasus with the Gallifreian symbol of forgiveness as a cutie mark remained. Doctor Hooves laughed and began to smile. The Master awoke and looked at Doctor Hooves

The Master “Doctor?”

the royal guards took a defensive position around the 2. The Master had a a medium higher voice, just a few notes above Doctor Hooves own

The Master “Doctor, whats going on?”

Doctor Hooves “hello master”

The Master “that doesn’t really answer my question”

Doctor Hooves laughed and smiled

Doctor Hooves “Master, I believe, everything is going to be just fine”

The Master smiles and reaches out to hug Doctor Hooves, The Doctor returns the favor and they hold each other in friendly embrace

Twilight (remember Twilight) hears an odd sound and looks down at her cutie mark, it begins shining signaling her friendship task is complete

Twilight “well this is certainly one of the strangest friendship problems I have ever solved”

Doctor Hooves and The Master stand up and look at the princesses

Doctor Hooves “your royal highnesses, with your permission I would like to take the newly reformed Master under my care”

Luna “ABSOLUTELY NOT!”

Doctor Hooves face goes flat in shock of her response

Celestia “no offense Doctor but this stallion just tried to kill you and conquer Equestria”

The Master cowers in embarrassment

Celestia “the master will remain here in Canterlot Castle under our watchful eye until his full reform is confirmed, you will be able to come and see him any time you desire”

Doctor Hooves gave the princesses a large smile

Doctor Hooves “thank you, thank you both, uhh, your highnesses”

Doctor Hooves then takes a bow, The Master sees this and follows suit

Twilight “well it looks like our work here is done Spike”

Spike “finally, that was exhausting, and to think it took place over the span of 3 days”

Twilight “c’mon Spike, lets get some most deserved Canterlot Cakes”

Doctor Hooves runs over to Twilight

Doctor Hooves “Twilight! and where are you going?”

Twilight “oh uhh, heyyy, Doctor? is it? sorry about the whole, arresting you thing”

Doctor Hooves “oh thats nothing, I’ve gone through much worse”

Twilight “really, I’d like to hear about that”

Doctor Hooves “you would? thats rather odd, why would a mare want to hear about all the times i’ve been arrested?”

Spike “phh, women, am I right?”

Doctor Hooves “no kidding, and thats coming from a guy who’s been married 5 times”

Spike “by the way, I’ve been meaning to ask, Doctor who?”

Doctor Hooves “there it is”

Spike “no, but seriously”

Doctor Hooves “well, if you must know my name is…”

END PART 4