Once a Time Lord, Now a Pony

Shining, The Doctor, Twilight, Ironclaw and squads of both griffins and Royal Guards rushed to King Gilded Chest's royal palace, which towered over the kingdom reminding all of it's owners absolute power. But no more would that power be his. Despite what the king thought, nopony or no griffin wanted another war. Both sides were still rebuilding from the last one as it was. They could not afford another. So, Gilded's bedchamber doors were swiftly kicked open and guards rushed in, Shining at the lead.

"King Gilded Chest, you're under arrest for-By Celestia!"

But what they found was the last thing any of them was expecting.

"No no no no... NO!" The Doctor suddenly shouted.

What had happened at least a few moments before was Gilded Chest had killed himself. At least, that was the way it looked to the unobserving eye. But Shining knew better. He knew all the signs of a murder when he saw one. Question was, who had done the deed?

The Doctor however, had other things on his mind as he scanned the late king with his sonic.

"Mind controlled, just like..." The Time Lord trailed off. Ironclaw finished for him.

"Me."

And nopony said anything else to that.

Later, after Shining had given a story to the press about what had occurred that night just as Celestia's sun rose and replaced Luna's moon for another bright and glorious day the Captain of the Royal Guard talked to the Doctor. Nearby, his sister watched with a tired look on her face. She'd been up all night, and it showed.

"T-thank you Doctor. If you hadn't been there I don't know what might have happened to my little sis. I... I can't protect her anymore, just like I couldn't protect Flash." He said sadly.

"Stop, just stop right there. That was not your fault, and you know it." The Doctor told him.

"But-"

"Did you kill Flash, did you snap his neck? NO! That was the Angel's fault and the Angel's alone. All the blame rests on it. Not on you, so get that straight through your skull. And as for Twilight, she chose to help me of her own free will." The Doctor finished, and Shining knew he was right.

"I'm such a idiot... AN IDIOT!" He admonished himself.

"No... No, you're a normal pony. Just like my companions were normal humans." The Doctor reassured him, and Shining blinked at the strange and foreign word he'd used. Humans? What were those? But if the Doctor knew, he wasn't telling a thing.

"So, uh, I haven't had a companion in a while. That offer's still open, you know. To travel." The last of the Time Lords asked, but all he got was a shake of the head from Shining.

"I can't trust you Doctor. Who are you, really?"

The Doctor sighed, he had a idea albeit a stupid one.

"Alright this won't be pleasant but it'll help I promise you."

Then he headbutted Shining and with a yell of pain alongside it, the unicorn received some of the Doctor's memories. First he saw a strange elderly being on two legs with graying hair.

"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection."

Then Shining saw another being similar to the first with curly white hair and a black and red suit with cape.

"...Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow."

Another man, who wore a long scarf or almost impossible length and had very curly hair.

"Never cared much for the word 'impregnable.' Sounds a bit too much like 'unsinkable.'"

Another man appeared next: One with a youthful face and blond hair.

"That's the trouble with regeneration. You never quite know what you're going to get."

Then another, this time a being with question marks all over his clothing and a hat. He also had a question mark on his umbrella.

"...Time Lords have an infinite capacity for pretension."

Now, another image appeared, a man facing a older woman in red robes inside a cavern.

"Good. Charley, C'rizz, Lucie, Tamsin, Molly: Friends, companions I've known, I salute you. And Cass, I apologise. Physician, heal thyself..."

The man turned into a another man with a flash of golden light. Little did he know it, but Shining was being trusted with one of the Doctor's darkest moments, when the Doctor for a time no longer considered himself the Doctor.

"Doctor no more."

Finally, a black haired being with a leather jacket alongside a female being with blond hair.

"Nice to meet you Rose. Run for your life!"

He got more memories too, but if I listed those we'd be here all night. Shining recoiled in shock and took a step back.

"You're a- I mean, that's..." Shining stuttered.

"Yes." The Doctor said with a grin.

"But you're-"

"By jove, I think he's got it! Molto Bene!" The Doctor cried. He gestured to his Tardis with his hoof.

"So, what do you say?"

Shining fainted with a thud while Twilight facehoofed in the background.

"Oh, well that's unfortunate...." The Doctor muttered.

Later, about a day before the Summer Sun Celebration as she poured over her books Twilight received a letter. It couldn't have been from the Doctor as he sent his letters by cube even as he and her brother traveled the stars together. She was quite envious of them to be honest. To be up there... But enough of that. She had a letter to read. It was from Princess Celestia.

"My dear and faithful student, I want you to discover a brand new form of magic. The magic of friendship. To do that you must journey to a little town called Ponyville..."

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