Once a Time Lord, Now a Pony

Ponyville, Rich Family Manor...

VWOOP! VWOOP! VWOOP!

With it's usual groaning, the Tardis landed outside the Rich Family Manor home. It was a few months before the events in the Griffin Kingdom where somepony took control over both the King and Ironclaw and made them create a army of zombies to try and overthrow Princess Celestia's rulership.

"Well, we're here." The Doctor said as he and Twilight stepped out of the Tardis doors. The Doctor now knew why, or at the very least had a good guess why Twilight's future self never remembered meeting her. It was because that particular timeline was never supposed to happen, and by that logic the Cyberponies weren't supposed to exist.

"So, what do we do now?" Twilight asked. The Doctor smiled at her before replying...

"Change the future of course."

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Inside the Manor, Filthy Rich and his family were going about their normal day to day routine. It was a early Sunday morning, with the air cool and crisp as a nice breeze blew through the trees as Celestia's sun shone high in the sky. For Filthy, nothing could ruin his day. Although, if the Doctor had any say in anything, nothing would ruin his year either. While Filthy was in the Manor's library and currently engrossed in his paper, Diamond's voice suddenly called out to him.

"DAAAAADDDD! There's some strange ponies at the door." Diamond called as she ran into the room.

"So? Let Winston deal with them. That's why he got hired wasn it?" Filthy asked, but Diamond shook her head rapidly.

"No, you don't understand. The stallion, he just showed some paper and Winston bowed and said something about "Yes sir, please come in sir." They must be important, and they're asking for you." Diamond replied, and Filthy sighed as he put down his paper and got up out of his chair. He adjusted his tie after he'd done so.

"Well, if they want to talk to me... Let's talk." Filthy sighed. With that, he went down to the Entrance Hall down the front stairs and met up with the Doctor and Twilight, who in the background was currently examining a very old painting of a historic battle from long ago.

"Alright, let's make this quick." Filthy said in a grumpy tone rather annoyed he was disturbed from his paper. "What do you want? And whatever it is, I'm not buying it."

The Doctor laughed and Twilight just looked offended that somepony assumed she was here to sell something. Did she even look like a salespony!?!

"Yes, well I suppose that would be the natural reaction to somepony coming up to your door, them being somepony trying to make a investimate." The Doctor smiled. "Buuuuttttt... That's not what I'm here for actually. It's about your daughter."

"My daughter? Wait, are you from that private school I signed up her up for a few days ago? Has she been accepted already?" Filthy asked happily only to get a shake of the head from the Doctor while Twilight mumbled "Well, that's a improvement at least."

"Nope, not a private school teacher though let me tell you I have taught before at one. Mind you I was hiding from some Family but that's neither here nor there."

"Who are you two?" Filthy asked.

"Just some... friends. Listen, as a friend I want to give you some advice. Take you daughter to the hospital, and soon." Twilight said "Trust me, you will thank me."

Filthy didn't know why, but he figured she was being quite serious and that he should trust Twilight.

"Don't worry. I... I will." He said.

After Filthy said this, the Doctor smiled before he turned and left with a "Come along, Sparkle!"

Canterlot, Present Day...

Shining groaned as the light from the sun shining through the room's windows reached his eyes. Shining then noticed he felt stronger then he ever had in the past two days. He blinked, he wasn't dead. Looks like if he really had seen Flash the previous night, his former guard knew what he was talking about. It was a fairly safe bet in Shining's mind that Celestia was okay as well. Shining then felt a presence standing nearby and looked to his right to see Celestia herself along with his father Night Light. His mother was fast asleep in a chair, and Shining smiled as she must have been watching over him all night long.

"So... We're alive." Shining murmured, and Celestia nodded.

"You can thank Ironclaw and R.I.F.T for that. They managed to create the cure in time. Odd though, they said they wouldn't get the last thing they needed for it for several more days..." Celestia mused.

"Well, whatever the case we'll have to thank them." Night Light smiled before looking back towards Shining. "How are you feeling son?"

"Like I'm ready to go and kick Boltstrike's-" Shining snarled as he sat up before falling back down to the bed groaning weakly. He still didn't have enough strength yet to go and deal with the rogue captain like he wanted to.

"Easy there, you need to rest." Night Light said in a compassionate tone.

"But what about...?" Shining trailed off.

"Don't worry." Celestia began. "Cadence and a good number of the Royal Guard is going after him now. Somepony gave them a tip off on where he was, in a warehouse from what I heard from Luna. Never gave their name though." Celestia wondered aloud. Little did she know it, but that pony who gave the tip off was one Lightning Dust and like the Princess of Love she too had a bone to pick with Boltstrike and was on the hunt for him right now...

6 hours before, outside Canterlot Castle...

BANG! BANG!

That was the sound of one angry Lightning Dust banging on the castle doors. After learning of exactly what happened thanks to overhearing Cadence's and Shining's conversation she came right here. Lightning was furious beyond measure. Sure, she wanted revenge against Twilight but not like this. Her brother was innocent in this whole thing and then there was the fact that Celestia was also sent to the ICU, Lighting never wanted to be involved in treason against the crown! Nowadays, Lightning would deny this if you asked but when she was younger she had a little bit of a crush on the Solar Princess. Pretty much everypony did at one point or another.

"Man, can't you guys unlock this door or something! What, do I have to blast it down to wake you all up or something?" Lighting ranted angrily after getting no response several times. "Come on, am I invisible to ya or something guys?"

Then there was a soft coughing sound from behind her. Lightning whirled around only to see Galaxy Swirls staring at her with a coffee cup in his hoof He'd just come back from R.I.F.T Headquarters as Sunburst worked on the cure with his fellow scientists.

"...Well, this is awkward." Lightning admitted.

The rooftops of Canterlot, now...

"Give it up Boltstrike! It's over for you!" Cadence shouted, her eyes blazing with fury as her horn glowed with pure magical power. "There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide! Not anymore!"

Currently, after hours of getting a raid together along with some much needed sleep for a few ponies the warehouse Boltstrike and the Master had made as their hideout was sieged. Sadly, the Master had already fled as he knew his pawn's location would be discovered sooner or later. Either way, Boltstrike was currently running for his life across the Canterlot rooftops with one very angry Princess of Love on his tail alongside Lightning Dust who was flinging bolts fast and hard enough to make Zeus himself proud. One hit the roof shingles below Boltstrike sending him flying but he quickly landed on another rooftop of somepony's house and pulled out his sword just in time to block another bolt. What he wasn't so successful in was blocking a magic blast from Cadence which made him tumble off the rooftop down into the street below thanks to the resulting explosion.

"Does it really matter if you kill me?" Boltstrike snarled as Lightning and Cadence landed nearby with passersby clearing out as they knew this wasn't a safe spot to be. "Your boyfriend's pushing up the daisys ma'am. Sorry to say."

Cadence snarled.

"That's where you're wrong. I just got word, Shining AND Celestia are going to be fine. You however, that's a different story."

Boltstrike reeled back in shock. He hadn't even considered the possibility that the plan would fail so badly. He quickly recomposed himself and put on a serious face.

"Ah well, least we all know nothing's infallible anymore do we? Not even the Royal Guard."

This time Lightning was the one to snarl.

"Have you no loyalty left? You were respected in your position, and now you threw it all away and for what? Are you really this psycho?" She yelled in rage, and just for a moment if only for a brief one her words reached Boltstrike. Little did she know it, but Boltstrike did have some small amount of loyalty and respect for his princess left, but all of the rest of it had been torn away by those years in the dungeons. But that small amount of loyalty still wasn't enough. Whatever goodness Boltstrike may have once had, it was long gone. He snarled one small phrase as one last act of defiance.

"Go to Tartarus."

And then it was all over in a instant as Cadence charged forwards and her horn went right for it's target. Next thing anypony knew, Boltstrike lay dead at her hooves.

"The only one who's going there is you." The Princess of Love snarled before a very familiar sound filled the air.

VWOOP! VWOOP! VWOOP!

The Tardis appeared in the middle of the street right in front of Cadence and the Doctor stepped out and saw what was left of Boltstrike. He grimaced and muttered "Ooh, ouch." before he asked "So, what'd I miss?" but with no trace of his normal manic grin.

Cadence's only response?

"You have no idea..." She sighed.

END