Doctor Whooves Part 1: The Oncoming Storm

The Doctor was struggling to contain all the information that was crowding up his brain. He had been in the library for less than an hour, and he had already read enough to understand the basic principles of the land, or, Equestria, as the books and Twilight called it. It was just so fascinating.

He thought himself quite lucky because the person, or in this case, unicorn, who opened the door to his TARDIS happened to be a complete brainiac. Wait, that's a bit mean. Okay, well-educated. She happened to be well-educated. He was glad that the pony, pegasus, or unicorn that helped him wasn't, well- stupid.

He looked up from the book he was reading and saw Twilight talking to her assistant, Spike. He wondered what they were talking about. He refocused his mind and continued reading. The books were becoming harder to read as the day trundled on, and The Doctor was struggling to continue, to continue learning. "Stop reading!" Twilight yelled. "You're going to damage your eyes or something!" The Doctor was startled and dropped the book.

"What book are you reading, anyway?" Twilight asked, picking it up. "The Ponies of Equestria: Volume 1. You were reading this? This is the unabridged history of Equestria! And you're over halfway done!" "Actually," The Doctor said. "I was re-reading it to check up on some things. I'm actually on Volume 3." Twilight's eyes widened. "How is that even possible?!" she began. "You've only been in here for a few hours! It took me weeks to finish Volumes 1 and 2! And you're on Volume 3!"

"Well," The Doctor said. "Being a bit different from the typical, everyday person or pony, I read at an accelerated pace. It is because the Time Lords had developed a way of reading that used a certain part of the-" Twilight shut him up with a book to the face. "Ow!" The Doctor yelled. "What was that for!" "Can you just shut up," Twilight said. "No one actually cares about the Time Lord's way of reading!" "Wow," The Doctor began. "Looks like you're mad that I'm a better reader than you. It's okay, I'm usually better than most. Except here. That's where you excel. I need a mind that can help me navigate around this place."

Twilight's fury began to lessen. He was right. Just because he could read faster didn't mean he was better than her. She was his only stepping stone in this current. 'Oh, great,' Twilight thought. 'I'm thinking philosophically now. what has this pony done to me?'

She turned around and walked to her schedule. 'Great,' she thought. 'There's no room in here for "taking care of a time traveling pony who used to be another being".' She looked back at The Doctor. He was on Volume 4. She felt like exploding. She looked at her next scheduled activity.

'A meeting at Sugarcube Corner. Good,' Twilight thought. 'I could use a visit with my friends. Looks like we've got a few minutes, too! I've got to go! Wait, but what about The Doctor? I can't leave him here, he'll read out my entire library! Ugh... He's going to have to come, too. Great.' She walked to The Doctor. "You're coming with me to Sugarcube Corner," Twilight told him. "You're going to meet my friends." The Doctor looked like he was going to explode in laughter. Twilight groaned. He suppressed the hysteria, and told Twilight, "Let's go, I love meeting a new friend!" They left the library, The Doctor leaving a mess of books on the floor. "When we get back, you're picking that up," Twilight told him. They arrived at Sugarcube Corner a few minutes later. The Doctor looked around, and saw many ponies wandering around. There were so many ponies there. But one pony caught his eye. She was a green color, and the only thing that made her stand out was the fact that she was sitting like a human.

The Doctor was about to go talk to her when Twilight steered him to a table that sat the most mismatched group of ponies he had ever seen. It may have been the first group of ponies he had ever seen, but it was still very odd. Pink, yellow, purple, white, rainbow, every color that he could think of off the top of his head was there. Twilight took him to the table.

"Who's this?" the rainbow-colored one asked. Twilight intoduced them. "This is the Doctor," she said, then began pointing to all the ponies there in order, saying their names as she pointed at them. "Rarity," she said, pointing at a white-coated, purple-maned unicorn. "Applejack," she said, pointing to a orange-coated, hay yellow-maned pony. "Pinkie Pie," she said, pointing to an all pink pony. "Fluttershy," she said, pointing to the yellow-coated, pink-maned, cowering pony. "And, last but not least, Rainbow Dash," she said, pointing to the rainbow-colored pony. The Doctor burst into hysterical laughter. Rainbow Dash jumped up and zipped over to The Doctor.

"What's so funny?!" she yelled. Pinkie Pie also burst out laughing. "Your names!" The Doctor managed to say through his hysteria. "Dear heavens, you ponies are a riot!" he said. He stopped laughing. "So," Rarity said. "Is he your mate or something?" "No," Twilight said. "I guess he's a friend. I'm not one-hundred percent sure." The Doctor spoke. "It looks like I attracted a lot of attention," he said, looking around at the ponies who were staring at the group. The six ponies looked around and also saw that.

"Alright," Twilight said. "Let's get on with things. Let's eat." They all ordered food. The Doctor was feeling a bit awkward in the silence that followed. "So, um..." he said. "Yeah," Rainbow Dash said. Twilight broke the silence. "Let's learn more about each other!" she said with an over-exagerrated cheerfulness. "Tell them about yourself, Doctor."

The Doctor then spent a half-hour telling them about his adventures in the TARDIS. It could have easily gone on for a few more hours, but Rainbow Dash fell asleep. Her snoring interrupted The Doctor in the middle of his first few adventures before his first Companion. "RAINBOW!" Twilight yelled. All the ponies at Sugarcube looked at them again. Rainbow Dash snapped to attention. "What?" she said. "I could tell he was going to spend hours doing this. Can we talk about someone else's past?" "Fine," Twilight said. "Rainbow Dash, why don't you?" "Fine," she replied.

She then spent the next fifteen minutes talking about Junior Speedsters Flight Camp. After she was done, The Doctor made an observation. "What about before Flight Camp?" he asked. "Well, uh..." she replied. "Oh, I see," the Doctor said. "It's just like me. You're afraid of your past, aren't you? You're running away from your past like I am. You obviously don't want to talk about it either. Which is fine by me." Rainbow Dash was stunned. 'How did he know that?' she thought. 'Nopony has even thought of that before, and he happens to just think of it?' She flew off. Twilight was suprised that Rainbow had flown off. She never ran from anything, but yet The Doctor says something, and she leaves like it scares her.

"Well," she said. "I guess we should go." All the ponies nodded. They left. They returned to the library. "how did you know that about Rainbow?" Twilight asked. "It's because I'm doing the same thing," The Doctor replied. "What are you running for?" Twilight asked. "It's a long story," he said. "We've got time for a long story. What happened?"

The Doctor then told her about the Last Great Time War, and of all the death that day. He told of the Daleks, and of the Time Lords, and what he did to stop the Daleks. Twilight gasped when she heard how the Daleks were defeated. "Why would you...?" she asked. "It was my only choice," he replied. "Well, not time to dwell on the bad. I'm going to continue reading!" Twilight looked at the mess on the floor. "Sure," she said. "But first, you're cleaning this mess up."