Once a Time Lord, Now a Pony

An Unknown Location...

Twilight frowned at her predicament. Currently, she was strapped to a table while a very strange stallion who also happened to be very, very insane prancing around like the cat who had got the canary.

"I can't believe I didn't see this before! Why take a Earth Pony's life when they've got nothing and instead take a unicorn's life and get some of their magic to replenish my own life force?" The Master cackled before he leaned in uncomfortably close to Twilight's face and grinned psychotically.

'"And you know the best part? I get to off the Doctor's companion in the bargain..."

Twilight had only one response to that.

"Go... To... Tartarus." She snarled and the Master only laughed harder.

"Your prattling voice will be silenced forever my dear..." He smirked, before a familiar and yet not quite the same voice jumped in with it's reply.

"Oh, that'll be the day..." The Doctor's voice said in a sarcastic manner, and Twilight's eyes widened as the Master whirled his head around to see the newest incarnation of the Doctor leaning up against the doorway.

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One day before, in Dodge Junction...

It wasn't long before Celestia and her sister reacted. To recap, in front of them lay a unconscious Doctor who'd seemingly been reincarnated into a new body after being blasted with a energy attack by his fellow Time Lord the Master. It was only now other ponies were starting to come out of their homes and a crowd was gathering as it stared and pointed at the fallen Doctor. Luna was angry, here a friend lay in who knew how bad of a condition and he was being treated to what amounted to a sideshow.

"HALT OUR SUBJECTS! DO YOU NOT SEE OUR FRIEND IS IN NEED OF SOME DIRE ASSISTANCE?" Luna bellowed in the Royal Canterlot Voice making some ponies back up in fear.

Celestia too was angry, although she forced it down and kept her calm. Now was not the time to give into base emotions. It was then the sheriff of the town one Silver Star shoved some of his townspeople and walked up before bowing to the Princesses. His silver star gleamed, pinned to Silver's vest.

"My apologies ma'ams, just not something y'all see everyday. Is there anyway Ah can help?" Silver asked and Celestia nodded.

"We need to get this stallion, a special agent codenamed the Doctor along with his machine to Ponyville General, fast as we can. Is there anyway you can help with that?"

Braeburn rubbed his chin with his hoof, lost in thought momentarily.

"Well... Ah don't rightly know how much help I can give. Ponyville's pretty far away. Several days at least. But I think I can offer you a wagon... If that's not beneath y'all that is." Silver quickly added.

Celestia shook her head.

"Don't worry, it's not too much trouble. And as for the length of the trip... Don't you know anything can be done with magic?" Celestia smirked as her wings unfolded to their full length glistening white as snow and her horn glowed golden as the celestial body she lowered and raised. Make no mistake, for this was the Princess of the Sun!

Canterlot Castle, Twilight's Guest Room

In her room, Twilight paced back and forth over and over as her brother and Rarity watched nervously. Twilight didn't know why, but she had the distinct feeling something was very wrong. Something on the level of Nightmare Moon is returning bad. Okay, maybe that was going a bit far on levels of badness but she still felt very worried indeed.

"Careful darling. You might just wear a hole in that floor." Rarity joked, to lighten the mood. Twilight glared at her, only to go back to continue her pacing.

"Oh dear oh dear..." Twilight murmured. "I... No, Twilight you've got to calm down. Listen to yourself, you're acting like some worried schoolfilly. Listen to reason, if anything was wrong Celestia would come and get you. So you've got to... CALM DOWN!" Twilight suddenly shouted to herself.

It was then a guard burst in, with a frantic look on his face. Suddenly, Shining was all business as he stood firm with his Royal Guard training taking over.

"What is it?" He asked, in a tone that left no room for argument.

"It's Celestia... and Luna! They need you and Twilight to get to Ponyville. FAST! ...And yes, those were their exact words." The guard said, before fainting dead away. Rarity, Twilight and Shining all shared looks before running out of the room. Because of this, they failed to notice the guard get up and take off his helmet revealing the distinct blond mane of the Master...

"Now, I've got free run of the castle with them gone. Time to go on a walking tour." He cackled, before briefly flashing between flesh and organ...

Canterlot Mortuary...

"What happened...?" Sunburst asked as he looked on the building's latest "Guest" so to speak. Nearby, Galaxy Swirls gazed on the dead pony as well as he grimaced in disgust. He'd seen a lot of very ugly things as a guard, but this took the cake. The pony laying on the table in front of him almost looked like it had been mauled by some sort of animal. Not only that, it looked as if he'd been flash-frozen as well.

"So, who want to look at our friend here? Anypony up for tossing a coin?" Galaxy Swirls asked mock-cheerfully. Of course maybe he really was cheerful about the whole prospect of a autopsy. It was hard to tell with him really.

"I... I'm not looking at him." Sunburst said nervously as his face turned a green hue. "You do it."

"Me? I'm not even qualified! You are though, so you do it." Galaxy argued before he quickly grabbed a trash can and threw up in it a few times.

"Hear that? That was the sound of my dinner saying hello again." Galaxy said dryly. "So for the love of Luna YOU do it!"

Sunburst shook his head in a nervous "No" motion. Galaxy sighed to himself and rubbed his temples with his hoof.

"Listen, we can argue about this till the cows come home. So why don't we both agree to do this together?"

Ponyville, Golden Oaks Library...

With a crash, Twilight kicked open the doors to her library with a frantic expression on her face. As she ran inside, her brother and Rarity followed her inside. Celestia and Luna were already inside, with the Solar Princess just barely holding up the Doctor who'd awakened if not fully.

"W-what happened? Who's this, and why's he in my library?" Twilight asked in confusion while Shining raised a eyebrow and Rarity murmured to herself "Well, whoever he is he's certainly handsome that's for sure..."

"Twilight..." Celestia began slowly. "This is the Doctor."

Twilight shook her head in denial while Rarity and Shining gaped in shock. Last they'd all seen the Doctor was a brown furred stallion with a sticky-uppy mane. The only resemblance this stallion shared to the Doctor were the clothes. As Celestia began to explain what had happened, Twilight's disbelief only became more and more evident.

"No! That's completely impossible." Twilight stammered before she turned to the Doctor. "You're completely impossible, you can't be the Doctor. It flys against all face of logic!"

The Doctor grinned the way he always did.

"Have you met me? I laugh at impossible things pretty much twice a week. Before breakfast even!" The Doctor said before sticking out his hoof only to fall to the ground with Shining rushing over to help him up.

The Doctor looked embarrassed with himself as he muttered "Oh... Early days, haven't got these things quite working yet..." to himself. With that, his eyes rolled up into his head and he fainted. Twilight checked his pulse, before her eyes widened in remembrance. The Doctor had two hearts.

"Doctor..." Shining whispered before it turned into a great shout. "DOCTOR!"

"Get him to the bedroom. Put him on the bed." Twilight said, suddenly she was all business. Doctor or not, this stallion needed help that much was evident. Rarity would normally make a joke but she understood this was not the time right now. With her help, Twilight carried the Doctor up to her bedroom and put him on the bed and covered him up with the covers.

"Er, I hate to ask but shouldn't we get him to the hospital? You know, with ACTUAL Doctors?" Rarity asked as Shining nodded in agreement, stunned at what Twilight was doing even as her friend came back with a ton of books.

"Nonsense, I've got hundreds of spells in my books." Twilight laughed. "If anything can help him, it'll be in here. Besides, if any doctors or nurses get there hooves on him they'll turn him into a lab rat. He's got two hearts, a impossibility of science!"

Rarity took this in, before she asked aloud "...Anything else he's got two of?" causing Twilight to facehoof.

Suddenly, the air began to grow deathly still and a wild and frosty wind began to blow outside throwing the windows open as something unearthly neighed form nearby. Then it appeared, a white misty horse like being in a portal halfway stuck between one world and the next. Twilight's, Rarity's, and Shining's eyes all widened collectively. What they were seeing was impossible, and yet here it was. A real live Windigo right out of the legends in front of them. It lunged for them, but suddenly Celestia and Luna burst in hearing the commotion.

"...No, it can't be." Celestia murmured before she regained her composure as her eyes glowed pure white and her horn glowed gold.

"If you think you can threaten my student think again. Back into your world with you!" Celestia roared, before blasting the creature back into it's portal with Shining shouting a spell of his own to shut the doorway between worlds. Twilight stood stunned at what she had just seen, before her eyes narrowed.

"Looks like we have bigger problems..." She murmured.