The Return of Doctor Whooves

A few minutes earlier...

Twilight and Rainbow trepidatiously stepped out of the hut, all the while Rainbow still fighting her urge to mate with Twilight with all of her willpower, her mare parts aching with pain and her body desperately seeking the need of an act of love. That's right, I said love, not lust. At first, Rainbow suspected her wanting to mate with Twilight was just because she was in her pegasi heat cycle, but now she had begun, in the last day or so, to suspect it was something more. She had thought back to her recent memories with Twilight, her cuddling up to her in the bed, and older memories as well.

Hearth's Warming Eve: Ponyville Town Hall

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It was with grand fever and joy that the Hearth's Warming Eve Celebrations kicked off in grand fashion. As Applejack and her family visited Apple Fritter in the hospital, bringing her gifts and food, back at the Town Hall the Doctor and company along with their new friend Calming Heartbeats enjoyed the spirit of the season. A band, consisting of Octavia Melody on cello, Noteworthy on piano and the Ponytones led by Rarity for the vocals sung a little song consisting of a tale about  a pony found a stowaway upon a ship in Hearth's Warming Day. She asked him of his tale, even though she ought to throw him to the whales and all the stranger in return said was "Come here, let's dance." but all the stranger said in return even as they did take up the dance "But borrow or steal, I'll be with my lover on Hearth's Warming Day. I'll run and I'll roam and I'll cover the ground, next Hearth's Warming I'll see her around."

Rainbow, even as she twirled with her old friend Fluttershy on the dance floor, both wearing dresses. Surprisingly, Rainbow wasn't complaining. Even she understood that there were certain times one needed to dress fancy. She wore a variation on her old Grand Galloping Gala Dress, except instead of golden laurels in her mane, it was a white poinsettia flower in it and her tail done up differently as well. Rarity who called this creation the Forest Fairy dress, and who happened to be singing this song seemed to be singing with a passion that she and the Ponytones normally didn't. Now normally, Rainbow would have chalked it up to the Heart's Warming Spirit in the air, but lately she had noticed Rarity musing about somepony that she loved, just when she thought she was out of earshot. But that wasn't all Rainbow noticed, she also saw Twilight in a rather attractive red and white dress sitting in the back of the room alone next to a potted plant listening to the song, and Rainbow swore she saw a tear dripping from her eye and heard her mutter "Guess I'll have to wait another year to dance with Rainbow on Hearth's Warming."

It was then Rainbow made her choice, and whispered "Sorry Flutters, but I think there's somepony who needs a little bit of help from a Rainbow." and Fluttershy, who wore a dress which matched her butter-yellow fur perfectly except for the bottom which was light blue and had her Cutie Mark (Basically her Equestria Girls dress from the first movie) on it nodded in understanding and smiled to herself. She, being the Element of Kindess and someone who was very skilled with empathy, could often note when two ponies held feelings for each other that were more than just friendship, even if they both needed a good clobbering over the head with a frying pan to see it for themselves.

"Want to dance Twi?" Rainbow asked flirtatiously with a wink of her eye as she trotted up and held up a hoof, and Twilight took the offered up hoof in return.

"Gladly." She said and took up the dance as Rainbow smiled.

But it wasn't just that, Rainbow had also noticed strong feelings when they were in Sleepy Hollow for the Headless Horse Crisis.

Sleepy Hollow: Town Hall

Even as Twilight and Rainbow ate and drank from the snack table, they along with the Doctor, plus Shining and Cadance who were dancing to the song being played by the band kept a wary eye out as they scanned the crowd. The Headless Horse could show up at any time, and they knew it.

Twilight sighed even as she turned to Rainbow.

"You know, as much as I'd like to enjoy this party... I... I just can't, not with..." Twilight trailed off, and Rainbow finished for her as she knew exactly what she was thinking.

"The Horse? Yeah, I know what you mean." Rainbow admitted. She wasn't going to admit out loud as she considered herself far too awesome for it, but she was nervous as well. Suddenly, Rainbow got an idea, her Element showing itself in concern for Twilight.

"Hey, I got a idea that should help you get your mind off things." Rainbow suddenly exclaimed as she pulled Twilight onto the dance floor making her friend yelp even as Rainbow shouted "Hey Crypt-Kickers, give us something to dance to! Something real slow!"

The Crypt-Kickers all shared a shrug before they started up another song, and a saxophone began to play setting a romantic mood as a female singer with tan fur and a bucket of white liquid for her Cutie Mark, whose name was White Wash began to croon out a tune.

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Rainbow began to slow dance with Twilight as the song progressed, and to Twilight's shock as they twirled on the dance floor she found herself enjoying it.

"W-Where did you learn to dance like this?" Twilight asked, her face quite flushed from being so close to Rainbow however her lavender fur made it barely visible unless you looked closely enough. Rainbow too was blushing, though thanks to her blue fur it was MUCH more obvious.

In the background, Cadance had stopped dancing with Shining and whispered to herself "Just a little closer, please!" in an almost pleading manner. Shining sighed in embarrassment, his marefriend loved shipping ponies a little too much.

"Eh, my dad wanted me to become a Class-A dancer instead of a radio DJ." Rainbow admitted before laughing. "You can see how well THAT turned out huh?"

Twilight let out a small giggle, before she found herself moving her muzzle closer to Rainbow and Rainbow found herself doing the same.

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Sadly, that moment had been interrupted with the Headless Horse's arrival. Rainbow, even as they stepped out onto the empty street, snarled at the memory of the creature, remembering how it killing Twilight's aunt drove her into grief for days, and almost kept her from adventuring with the Doctor.

"...Something's wrong. I can feel it." Twilight whispered to herself as she scanned the street. It was quiet, too quiet. Now normally, she would have just chalked it up to how late at night it was, but she had seen a few Bat-Pony tourists when they first arrived in town, and Bat-Ponies were much more active at night (With the rare exception, as Galaxy Swirls proved, although that was only because he had to adjust his sleeping schedule because of him working in the Royal Guard.) so they probably would have been walking the streets, but not even they were there. The whole town was empty.

"...Like a ghost town." Rainbow muttered and Twilight's head turned to her.

"You noticed that too, huh?" Twilight asked.

"Well, duh!" Rainbow replied. "I'm arrogant, not stupid. This feels almost like an..."

Just then, black swirling pillars of smoke, at least fifty of them swirled around the air and rushed towards the ground and reformed into the Zebra townspeople, and the tourists as well, and when their eyes opened, they were pure black charcoal. Twilight's eyes widened even as Rainbow muttered "...Ambush." and sighed in resignation. Twilight meanwhile, knew exactly what she was looking at, thanks to pretty much having books on anything and everything back at the Golden Oaks. What she was looking at exactly, were demons from the pits of Tartarus. How they got here she didn't know, but she did know how to stop them.

"Problem is... Neither of us brought Holy Water or Salt with us. The one time I don't come prepared for everything, and look what happens." She mused even as Rainbow asked "Uh, Twi, how do we deal with this?"

"I...I DON'T KNOW!" Twilight shouted in fear, completely freaking out. "Holy water, don't have it! Salt, none of that either, so we can't deal with this!"

"Twilight, calm down." Rainbow said, planting a hoof firmly on her shoulder. "Remember, creepy as Tartarus ponies or not, we can handle ourselves. You're the most powerful unicorn in ages, and I'm... Well, completely awesome, so we can kick their asses to Kingdom Come!"

"Okay... Okay, you're right." Twilight said, taking a few deep breaths and mentally slapping herself on the forehead. "But remember, they're only possessed, so we can't harm them in any fatal ways. Remember, there are ponies inside those bodies. I don't think they'd be too happy with us if we damaged their bodies too much."

"Relax Twi, I know when to restrain myself. I'll try, but I'm not making any promises, you hear?" Rainbow replied.

"Get them!" One demon ordered, and Twilight charged up her horn with a purple glow and fired blasts of magic into the hoard and knocked a few demons back even as they charged in full force. Two grabbed Rainbow by the wings from either side, no doubt intending to rip them off completely, but Rainbow threw them off her with her body strength (Still fighting off her heat cycle) while Twilight created a flaming whip from the tip of her horn, a spell taught to her personally by Princess Celestia, and swung her head around lashing the whip forcing demons back and sending the few unlucky enough to be close to her flying backwards in various directions. Rainbow smirked at her friend's badassery, and thought to herself Okay, never mocking Twilight for being an egghead again. Ever." before she got an idea.

"Hey Twilight, you think you can outdo me in terms of coolness?" Rainbow challenged. "Well then, watch this!" before she turned to a collection of demons and shouting "Hey, asshats! Try and hold on to something. Believe me, you're gonna want to!"

Then, Rainbow showed exactly why she was one of the fastest flyers in Equestria, and flew up in the air and began flying in circles generating powerful rotating gusts of wind even as storm clouds gathered and soon, Rainbow was flying in her own personal multicolored tornado and sweeping up possessed ponies and Zebras alike before they were soon spat out of the whirlwind and sent flying every which way, some landing in trees, and others crashing through hut windows and walls.

"Now, THAT's how you deal with demons!" Rainbow boasted, but she shouldn't have spoken so soon, as then more black pillars of smoke swirled down around the twosome and surrounded them on all sides.

"Aw come on, how many of these guys are there?" Rainbow asked in disbelief before she and Twilight found themselves thrown telekinetically up against a tree. But then, walking through the hoard calmly and with demons parting out of his way, seemingly in terror was Akachi, his normally brown eyes glowing a celestial blue. Twilight swallowed when she sensed the sheer power coming from this being, but she felt safe as well, as if a warm comforting blanket of energy had wrapped itself around her.

"W-Who are you...?" Twilight stuttered out nervously. Lightning flashed, and for a moment, both Rainbow and Twilight could swear they saw Akachi gain two black shadowy wings.

"My name is Castiel, I'm an Angel of the Lord." The Zebra stated simply, and from his robes, emerged a silver blade with runes on it.

"Do not be afraid, I shall deal with these pit-dwellers. You must go to my host's home, the Doctor is there and needs your assistance." Castiel stated before swiftly stabbing a demon in the neck with his blade, the demon's eyes and throat glowing orange before he fell to the ground, undoubtedly dead, and Twilight and Rainbow found themselves released from their telekinetic hold.

"Go, now." Castiel ordered before Twilight and Rainbow ran off towards the chieftain's hut fighting off any demons that dared stand in their way even as Castiel began his brutal work...

Now...

"I think it's safe to say you have a security breach. A massive security breach." Twilight deadpanned but her eyes widened when the Doctor turned to her, and his eyes were pure blood red.

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"Oh Faust... He's been possessed..." Twilight whispered in horror.

"Hey, freakshow, get your mind out of the Doctor's body!" Rainbow shouted in anger and disgust at the being who dared possess one of her closest friends and a hero of Equestria who'd saved it many times over without even being asked to do so, only doing it because it needed to be done. "The Doctor" sighed to himself and tsk tsked them and gave them a condescending stare.

"Really now, is there any real reason for rudeness?" Abaddon asked before flinging the two up against one of the hut's walls knocking masks off the side. "You should show respect to a Knight of Tartarus and its King. Now bow."

When Rainbow spat at him, Abaddon bellowed "BOW!" and forced the twosome to hang their heads, making Abaddon smirk.

"Much better. See, now that I'm being shown the proper respect a King deserves, we can all get along now can't we?" Abbadon asked in the tone of a gentlestallion and adjusting his bow-tie before muttering "Really, bow-ties, so old fashioned. Went out of style decades ago." in disgust before tossing off the fez off his head and shaking his head. Suddenly, Abaddon's eyes went from blood red back to the Doctor's normal green.

"I... I can't keep him back for much longer!" The Doctor shouted as Twilight and Rainbow fell to the floor, released from their hold. "Run, now!" before his eyes went blood red again and he stroked Twilight's cheek.

"Oh, I know the secrets you hide... That mind of yours. It's true what they say, it's always the quiet ones, and if you knew what Gay Rights over there was going through, you would gladly accept I think." Abaddon said with a grin making Twilight shudder in revulsion before the Doctor took control again.

"No, we're not letting that thing control you! You can fight him!" Rainbow shouted.

"You're... You're right." The Doctor said to himself. "I am the Doctor, I'm 920 years old, I'm a Time Lord from the Planet of Gallifrey and I will not, and I repeat WILL NOT let this so called king control me! He wants my life, HE CAN COME AND GET IT!" The Doctor bellowed before turning to Twilight.

"Twilight, give me a chessboard. We'll have a little tussle for my soul and mind, and we'll do things on my terms. I've beaten chess champions in games of Live Chess, and I do mean LIVE Chess for a reason. Abaddon doesn't know who he's dealing with." The Doctor grinned, and Twilight, with a shrug, conjured a chessboard and chair for the Doctor to sit in, but not before restraining the Doctor/Abaddon in golden celestial chains.

"Hey, what's that for?" The Doctor asked and Twilight replied "In case you're not you right now. Or even if you are – just in case."

The Doctor gave a "Fair enough" expression before moving a pawn on his chessboard and answering "Oh, don't worry. Abaddon's hibernating between moves right now. Shh. You have time to run."

"Run, why?" Twilight asked in confusion. The Doctor's eyes went blood red again and patted something seen only to him on the head before replying "Oh, did I forget to mention? I have my Hellhounds in here with us. A king never goes anywhere without his guards. SIC 'EM BOYS!"

There came two sets of snarls and Twilight and Rainbow made a run for it as something unseen made pawprints in the wooden floor and barked loudly as it chased after them. Both ponies ran through the village and eventually found themselves a hut and Twilight locked the door and barricaded it with whatever she could find even as the unknown number of demonic hounds scratched at the door, their barking being heard from outside. Twilight swallowed in fear as Rainbow looked at her.

"We're... We're going to die aren't we?" Rainbow asked, showing visible fear for perhaps the first time in her life. Twilight nodded before thinking to herself "Oh well, if I die today, I might as well die happy." before grabbing Rainbow with her magic and slamming her lips onto hers...