Once a Time Lord, Now a Pony
Interlude: Confrontation
Previous ChapterNext ChapterThe Doctor was shocked, no bewildered how his oldest friend, now one of his greatest and most dangerous enemies was in HIS Tardis. The Doctor, ever since the Master turned his girl into a Paradox Machine at one point was really paranoid about letting enemies into the Tardis. He'd put new secuirity measures in and everything. And yet, somehow there the Master was standing right in front of him with a look of someone who was about to commit the most terrible of acts. And then, the look changed to one of great amusement as the Master then broke down laughing.
"...Wow, you should have seen the look on your face Theta. Bet I had you really going there huh?" The Master giggled in his insanity. Behind the Doctor, Luna whispered "...Theta? Is that really his name?"
"How would I know?" Celestia hissed back.
"Well, seeing as how you seem to be in love with the stallion half the time I would think he-"
Celestia cut her sister off with a flushed look on her face.
"I'm not... We're not in love!" The Solar Princess retorted and Luna only laughed harder.
"But you'd like to be." She teased, before the Master coughed as he and the Doctor stared at them both. The Master commented "I'm sorry, are we interrupting something here? A little sisterly quarrel perhaps?" and the Doctor nodded along with them before whispering "You see, this is why I was glad to never have sisters." before the Master nodded in agreement before he quickly realized what he was doing and that they'd all gotten off topic before clearing his throat.
"Anyway... I just want to say HELLO!" The Master said before waving as the Doctor shook his head. No, that seriously couldn't be it. The Master smirked. "Yeah, knew that wouldn't fool you one bit. Actually, I want to give myself up. Congrats mate, you've won and you get the Golden Time Lord AKA ME!" The Master cried gleefully.
The Doctor stared in disbelief with Celestia's and Luna's expressions mirroring him.
"I see you don't believe me." The Master said sarcastically, with the Doctor having already figured a few seconds before this was just a hologram of him. "Sooooo... As a gesture of good faith I'm sending you my location. Buh-bye, and goooooddd luck!" The Master singsonged.
Sure enough, the Doctor's console received some coordinates as the hologram of the Master vanished. The Doctor growled before flipping a switch, punching in the coordinates given to him and turning a few dials and with those sequence of events done the Tardis began to travel though both time and space in pursuit of the Doctor's quarry.
"You're not getting away, not this time." The Doctor murmured.
Dodge Junction:
VWOOP! VWOOP! VWOOP!
The Tardis appeared in the desert town of Dodge Junction, a small place with a populace of less then one hundred ponies. It was almost deathly quiet on Main Street and a tumbleweed rolled by as the trio of ponies stepped out of the Doctor's vehicle. There was only one other pony outside, as everypony else had hid sensing the danger and were just barely visible peeking out doors in windows. The pony in question, standing on the other side of the street was the Master. He smirked, before just briefly flashing his bones and organs. The Doctor frowned in concern, something was very wrong here. Nothing about this latest incarnation of the Master felt natural for a Time Lord.
Luna's only reaction to this strange sight?
"Thou is even more ugly in person." She deadpanned.
The Master faked being visibly hit in response and mockingly said "Aw, you wound me missy." before he once again was only bones and organs. The Doctor frowned again, and scanned the Master with his Sonic. His suspicions were only verified by the results he got back.
"You're dying." The Doctor stated simply.
"Puh-Leeze, don't you think I know that old friend?" The Master retorted sarcastically. "This body, it was born of death. That's all it can do, die. But thankfully, I can keep living a bit longer thanks to my hunger. This world, it's full of raw meat ripe for the taking! Ponies, ready to have their flesh stripped from the bone and lifeforce drained." The Master said in a giggly tone.
"You're insane." Celestia said and the Master only laughed harder.
"Well, duh! Best you go on and take me down, but I've got a fiddle of gold against your souls that I'm still better then you lot." The Master challenged.
"I've met the Devil, and he was more challenging then you ever were." The Doctor mocked and the Master once again faked being hit by somethin before regaining his composure.
"Absolute rubbish. Nobody's more challenging then me. Nobody." The Master growled. "Personally, I think you should just go on and kill me right now. But I know you, you won't do that Theta. Mind you, if you did I'd certainly be surprised." The evil Time Lord replied before making a face of fake shock.
"Like that you see. But like I said before, I know you. You have that thing... Oh what was it? Oh yes. Morals." The Master growled in distaste. "You'd be better off without them. You could be very... Victorious shall we say."
The Doctor blanched at the Master's statement. It was almost like he knew something the Doctor didn't. Whenever that happened, it never spelt good news.
"Oh yes, I know things, heard legends. Victorious, the Valeyard." The Master said. "They're what you could become if you're not careful. Now, down to business. I'm here, causing trouble and you've got to stop me! You know that little incident in the Griffin Kingdom, my work. I've always been... a little hypnotic you might say" He stated proudfully and gleefully before laughing but nopony else joined in on it.
"Oh no, we are not "Getting down to business" as you say. How'd you even get here?" Celestia asked, with her horn ready to fire off some magic at a moment's notice. At this, her target gained a thoughtful look.
"Well, when I was revived, man on man it was with a BANG!" The Master shouted at the end, making everypony jump. "Big explosions of energy, befitting yours truly and it just so happened that they vibrated on a level that sent moi here."
"And now we are sending thou away." Luna snarled.
"Oh, I don't think so... See, you'll have something else to worry about for the time being, or rather somepony... Toodles!" The Master cried before he fired a blue beam of energy at the Doctor which blasted him into the dirt and at once stopped both of his hearts. Luna checked the Time Lord and sadly shook her head as the Master leaped off into the distance cackling.
"He's... I don't believe it." Luna said sadly, before the Doctor blasted them backwards with a explosion of golden energy before his whole form changed. No longer was there a brown furred stallion, but one with grey fur and a messy manestyle which matched.
"Oh boy... Wowza! Okay... Okay, better check to make sure everything's all there." The newest Doctor said in a new voice as he went over himself while the Royal Sisters watched too stunned to speak from seeing a dead stallion come back to life. "Eyes, teeth, nose... Mane! Oh, I don't believe it, I'm a mare!"
It was then the Doctor felt his Adam's Apple, and... something else as well. He quickly corrected himself.
"Oh, not a mare then." He said before finally noticing the Sisters. The Doctor waved, before he collapsed to the ground...
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