Once a Time Lord, Now a Pony

Golden Oaks Library, the next morning...

The next morning, Twilight and her brother were having breakfast. The Doctor's condition still hadn't changed and both unicorns were worried he may never wake up. Suddenly Shining's eyes widened as he felt a mental warning enter his head thanks to a special spell being triggered back in Canterlot Castle.

"What, what is it?" Twilight asked in concern as she noticed her brother's expression become one of alarm.

"Somepony's broken into the Black Archive back at the Castle." Shining said in a worried, almost bordering on panicked tone. I've got to get back there!"

"No, I'll go." Twilight said. "The Doctor appointed me as his temporary successor and I've got a feeling this is the Master. It's got to be."

"Twilight, you don't know how to handle things like this. I do, I was trained for situations like this!" Shining said, concerned for his sister's safety. But almost at once he knew he said the wrong thing.

"And I'm not able to handle myself?" Twilight snapped. "I'm a Element of Harmony, Celestia's personal student!" She yelled before her tone became softer.

"I'm not your little sister anymore, I can fend for myself you know that right?" Twilight asked and Shining sighed and he nodded but it was reluctantly.

"Alright." Shining said at last before he and Twilight walked outside. With a bright purple flash of light Twilight vanished leaving Shining standing alone in the street.

"Be safe..." He whispered.

The Black Archive, Canterlot Castle

"Hold it right there Master!" Twilight shouted as she appeared in a flash of purple light. In front of her, the Master had fished a book out of a chest and was looking through it before he looked up and saw Twilight before breaking out in a big grin.

"Ah, wondered when you'd show up." The Master said in false politeness.

"It's over for you." Twilight snarled and the Master could only laugh as one of his hooves tapped a four note beat on the stone floor.

"Oh, but it's only just begun." The Master countered as the torchlight lit up his face in a almost deathly way. "See this book I have?"

"Yes, I see the book." Twilight deadpanned.

"Oh, your sarcasm wounds me!" The Master cried, faking being struck with something. "But this book... This book right here it's very important to my plans. By now I think you and your little friends would've noticed a certain group of ice spirits trying to break through back into this world."

Twilight glared.

"Course you have." The Master said. "Anyways, good for them! And even better for me, as this gives me a opportunity. I stop these things with this spellbook here, and I get to rule Canterlot and after that... THE WORLD!" The Master laughed and Twilight stared at him in disbelief.

"That's it...?" She asked. "And here I was expecting something more along the lines of using them to kill the Doctor. Or something equally unimaginative." Twilight said dryly.

"Well, that too. Nothing like the old favorites I say." The Master admitted. "It's on my to do list. Pretty high up there, I imagine. But what can I say? I like to stick to playing it safe. Unlike the Daleks, they just want to exterminate everything. Now where's the fun in that I ask you?"

The Master suddenly looked rather embarrassed, if that were possible for him.

"Oh, look at me. I'm getting off topic and I'm telling you everything. Guess I have to kill you now. You don't mind that do you?" The Master asked sarcastically before he knocked Twilight out with a energy blast...

Golden Oaks Library

"Come on Doctor, wake up..." Shining pleaded while Rarity looked on in concern now joined by Spike who'd woke up a few moments earlier. "I don't know how, but I know my sister's in trouble. She needs you."

"Spikey-Boo, go get the Doctor some more water." Rarity asked kindly.

"On it!" Spike saluted.

But just as the young drake was about to leave, the Doctor's eyes shot wide open. His regeneration cycle was fully complete at last, and nothing could stop the Doctor now.

"You rang?" The Doctor asked, and Shining let out a huge sigh of relief he hadn't realized he'd been holding.

"Now..." The Doctor began. "What's this about you needing my help?"

Canterlot General

When Twilight awoke, she found herself strapped to a medical table somewhere in Canterlot General's ICU ward. Twilight sighed, she and her family seemed to end up here more often then she'd like. The Master was in the room with her.

"Sorry I had to do this my dear, but I can't have you interfering anymore in my... Uh, Master plan!" The Master said before he chuckled. "See, I made a funny!"

Twilight didn't laugh, and the Master rolled his eyes.

"See, someponies have no sense of humor. I bet you were the school's resident fun-killer and never even got kissed." The Master commented as Twilight glared at him unamused by the Master's jokes. If looks could kill, he'd be already regenerating.

"Anyways..." The Master continued brushing off Twilight's death glare as if it were nothing. "I'm done dealing with you. You've done far too much damage to my plan little as it is, and now I've got to get rid of you!"

With that, the mad Time Lord began to dance around the room as if he were on a sugar high.

"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. What either of them missed as they were so focused on the other was a distinct groaning, almost wheezing sound coming from somewhere nearby.

VWOOP! VWOOP! VWOOP!

"Your prattling voice will be silenced forever my dear..." The Master smirked as he readied a energy blast, 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. He was still dressed in the same clothes he had worn as his previous self however.

"You always have to show up and ruin my fun don't you?" The Master snapped and the Doctor laughed.

"Fun? You and I have very different definitions of the word. But yeah, so I do. Sue me." The Doctor countered before he pointed another Sonic Screwdriver at Twilight's restraints unlocking them. It wasn't even a second later Twilight tried to tackle the Master but he quickly flickered and vanished.

"He... He was never really here!" Twilight gaped.

"This was just a diversion. He wants to distract us while he opens up the portal to the Windego realm." The Doctor muttered with a frown before he ran out of the room with a shout of "Come along Sparkle!"

"IT'S TWILIGHT FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE!" Twilight shouted in annoyance before she sighed. Why did she even bother? It wasn't like the Doctor was going to listen anyway Twilight told herself as she ran off after the Doctor. At one point they passed a room full of the clothes the doctors and nurses wore when they weren't on duty. The Doctor went in and almost imediantly began to try on just about anything and everything while Twilight stared at him in shock.

"You can't-Those belong to other ponies!" Twilight sputtered.

The Doctor looked back at her, while he wore multiple ties of varying colors.

"So? I don't see them using them right now. Besides, how do you expect me to go into battle without looking the part?" The Doctor asked, as if lecturing a child. Twilight found herself facehoofing and muttering "Oh Celestia give me strength..." while looking skywards as if expecting a response.

"How'd you even rescue me with a Sonic anyhow?" Twilight asked as this had been bothering her. "I have yours, you gave it to me."

"I have a spare. What, you don't think I lose these things every so often?" The Doctor asked sarcastically. Finally he found the clothes he was looking for, which was a tweed suit with a bowtie.

"Ah, that's much better." The Doctor smiled before he saw something else he wanted and put it on his head. That something was a fez. Twilight groaned before her eyes widened as she glanced out a window by pure chance.

"What? What is it?" The Doctor asked nervously before he came over to the window and looked out it. The Time Lord's eyes widened as well, for outside gathering in the sky above was a winter storm of great magnitude and power. The clouds swirled and lightning flashed in them as a Windego whinnied from somewhere outside.

"We're out of time... It's starting." Twilight said nervously while the Doctor let out a loud almost manic shout which said it all as a loud rumble of thunder boomed to follow the lightning.

"THEY'RE HERRRRRREEEE!"