Will the Original Doctor Stand Up Please?

Isabell had indeed woken up, and she was not happy about being a pony.

"Fix it."

"I just can't fix it. I'll need more time, and even then there's no way to tell what form we'll end up as. We could end up as any of the millions upon billions of creatures with the same bio-mass as us. How do you feel about the all-to-possible outcome of ending up as Ood?"

"Point taken. But still, why did we change in the first place? I thought the TARDIS protected us from outside forces."

"It should. I don't know why it didn't. Let me check a few things and I'll get back to you.

He then proceeded to look at the console, which was unusually shiny due to all the atoms being broken apart and put back together. That tends to get rid of pesky annoyances like dirt and dust. The only problem is now the altitude meter was now in the place that the oxygen meter was, and the altitude meter was nowhere to be found.

"First thing first, to find out where we are! That may help."

"Doctor?"

"Okay Isabell, I'm going to tell you two0 things, and I want you not to freak out on me."

This was the wrong thing to say, as it immediately puts anyone on edge.

"What happened Doctor? Tell me, and no sugar coating it!"

"One, it appears that we're not in our universe anymore. Two-"

"Hold it. Not in our universe. Explain."

"The only explanation that I have is that this universe seems to have magic at it's very core. Everything in this universe seems to have a spark of magic in it, even if it's not alive! And it seems to me that sense we were messing with magic and loss control of it, whenever we 'disintegrated' as it were, we were then transported across the ever-thing membrane of our universe into the nether region in-between the universes. Or universi? I don't really know."

"Doctor, get back on track."

"Ah, yes, sorry about that. But as I was saying, when all of out itty-bitty bits were zooming around outside reality, they searched for the galaxy that was closest in likeness. Which would've been our universe except.-"

"Except you were messing with magic."

"So easy to put all the blame on me, isn't it? But yes. Since our atoms were mixed up in the magic they came here, to the most magical universe that they could find in a matter of nano-seconds."

"And does that explain why we're ponies?"

"Noooooo-welll yes, I suppose it does. If the magic mixed with the TARDIS's faulty chameleon circuit, then it would be possible that the magic expanded it's capabilities and changed us into this world's inhabitants to best blend in. And it seems that the excess magic manifested itself in your horn."

"Horn?" Isabell rushed over to the nearest reflective object in the TARDIS, and gasped. The Doctor just rolled his eyes.

"You've had a horn for fifteen minutes, and you hadn't noticed it?"

"I was sorta asleep of 10 of those 15 minutes, and I had other things on my mind!" Isabell said, her voice gaining several octaves.

"Calm down. It's probably not life threatening. Besides, it's probably normal for this world inhabitants.

"A world full of ponies.... And if it's normal, then why do you have wings?"

"I do?" The doctor went over and tried to get a look at his side in the small mirror.

"You've had wings for 15 minutes and you haven't noticed?" Isabell said, copying the Doctors voice.

"Touche. I can't seem to get a glance at them in this blasted tiny thing!"

"Well, if they truly are a part of you, then shouldn't you be able to control them and open them up?"

"Can I? Probably. But that would require that I know what muscles to move. It's just not a simple matter of gaining an entire set of new appendages. I'll have to train my body to know what to do."

"Doctor. You're doing it."

"Doing what Isabell?"

"Your wings, they're open."

"They are?" Glancing back as far as his neck would allow, that Doctor managed to catch a glimpse of what appeared to be two avian wings, which he assumed were his. He flapped them tentatively. He could feel the wind pass through, and he could also feel the movement. It came naturally, as if he had known his entire life how to do it, like an old dream of flying, only to be forgotten the moment you awake.

"It would seem so! This is certainly interesting!"

"Now that that is out of the way, what was the second thing that you were saying?"

"Ah, yes. That. It would seem that there is another Doctor in this particular universe, and he's coming this way."

"Oh, that's not good, is it?"

"Not at all. This shouldn't be happening. If the unofficial 'official' rules that were in place in our universe are in place here, then standard procedure is to detain the illegal aliens-"

Isabell glares at the Doctor's bad pun.

"- and then keep them detained in a high security area, and then pressure them into-"

"I get it. Now what are we going to do about it?"

"I don't know! I don't know what to do about this whole mess. We could try bluffing our way through, but that implies risks!"

"More riskier than being tortured!"

"Yes! We could completely screw up this universes Time-line! Ever here of the chaos theory? The one where a butterfly flaps it's wings in the jungle and there's a hurricane in the Gulf?"

"So we're screwed."

"That is the understatement of the century." A pause. And then came the inevitable.

"They're here."

//{0}\

Five Minutes Earlier in this Universe's TARDIS.

"Do you realize what this means? This means that someone else escape from Gallopfry before the timelock came into effect! This could mean that I'm not alone!" Doctor Whooves.

"Doctor, I don't want to say this, but what if it's not another time lord? What if it is, and it's just another Master? I don't want to see you get your hopes up only to lose them."

"Twilight, don't worry! It won't end up that way! All those in control of a TARDIS were strictly mentally checked before they even got to see the a TARDIS. Those people were so sane that it took the almost insane to see how sane they were."

Twilight looked into the Doctor's light blue eyes and saw the desperation behind them. He needed his words to be true. He was on the brink.

"Doctor, those lights are flashing at a very alarming pace." Twilight said, worried that the Doctor might be putting them into a position to explode. It had happened before. In fact, it seemed to be a weekly thing with them.

"Those? Those are just the .... the lights that tell us when we're in danger of hitting something!"

"Hit the breaks!"

"There are none!"

"But River said!"

"River doesn't own the TARDIS!"

"FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE, IT'S THIS BUTTON!" And with words, Twilight slammed the button that the Doctor's very unusual friend had said were the emergency breaks, screaming.

And then it all came to a standstill on the outside. The TARDIS, had indeed been about to hit something, and as it was it

still bumped into the other TARDIS. Anypony looking up would've seen a very strange sight indeed. Two hovering police boxes in the sky, side by side and moving slowly towards Celestia's sunset.

But inside the TARDIS with Twilight in it, the two things not bolted in place were thrown against the railing. Even with the inertia dampeners, it was still a heck of a jolt, and there bodies were in pain.

"Oh, that hurt more than expected." Moaned the Doctor

"And of course only you would've expected this."

The Doctor pushed himself onto hooves and stumbled to the console.

"We need a visual on that TARDIS! I wonder what form it took. I mean, it's chameleon circuit can't be faulty too!"

Twilight was content to just stay on the ground and not moving. Her limbs had taken the brunt of the force, and they were all tingly. Definitely best to just say on the floor. for the time being.

"You'll have to tell me, as I'm not moving an inch until I can feel all of my legs."

"Twilight, you might want to reconsider that."

"And can I ask why?" Came the ever-so-subtle sarcastic response. Of course it was lost on the Doctor.

"Because I need you to tell me the odds of another chameleon board failing on a TARDIS."

"I wouldn't know, because I don't know the statistics of the failure rate of the board is. But with what you've told me, about a million to one."

"Then what about a failure of the chameleon board in a police box form."

"What!? I'm getting up!"

The Doctor chuckled despite the situation.

"I'm going to try to hail them."

//{0}\

Inside the other TARDIS (This is just getting confusing)

"Blast it all! They're hailing us!" The Doctor cried out in annoyance.

"Hailing? Who talks like that anymore?" Noticing the look the Doctor threw her way, Isabell backpedaled.

"Not helping, I know."

"We've got to answer them or they'll know that somethings up! I can't do this right now!"

"Oh, for the love of god. I'll do it." She gave the Doctor her best "you owe me big time' look and sighed. "Which button is it?"

"That one."

Pushing the button, they , sounding completely different from the Doctor having the nervous break-down.

"Hello? Is anyone reading me over there? This is TARDIS... well, to be honest I've forgotten the designation code. But still this is the original TARDIS to this universe! Can I talk to my alternant?" He then spoke to somebody(pony?) off screen. "Alternant! I just made that up on the spot! Oh, this is exciting!"

The Doctor in the TARDIS with Isabell promptly fainted. Isabell just sighed, and moved into the view of the camera.

"Oh, hello! Um, you're a mare! Am I really a girl in another universe? I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. It's an interesting concept."

"No, I'm not the Doctor, but I'm his companion. Does the Doctor get off topic in this universe as he did in mine?"

Off screen there came a "Yes!" followed by laughter.

"I do not! But back to the matter at hand. Is my double there, and may I speak to him?"

"Um, yes he's here, but he's also... occupied at the moment."

"Occupied? How so? He's just broken the Universe, and he's occupied?"

"By occupied I mean fainted. He's worried that we'll be taken into your judicial system for not belonging to your universe." The thought suddenly seemed silly to Isabell. But it was better safe than sorry

"That won't happen, will it?"

"Oh no, it won't this planet hasn't achieved space-travel yet, lest quantum physics yet. But they do have magic. And they will use it if you're not friendly. But you should be doubles of me and Twilight, so I don't think that it will be to much of a problem."

"Doubles? But with an alternate universe, there could be countless possibilities of alternate realities. How can you be so sure that we're like you?"

But the voice came from two different sources. One of them was Isabell, and the other was ...

"Twilight, thank you for confirming my suspicion. That is why I am so sure that the reality that you come from is like this one. That, and you're ponies."

"But we weren't always ponies."

"Humans?"

Stunned silence.

"What? How do you know about humans?"

"Time lord, my friend. I have a few secrets that are mine to keep still."

"Fine then. But can we get out of the TARDIS's and meet face to face. I'm sure that you want to talk to the Doctor whenever he wakes up."

"Absolutely. In fact, I have just the place. Twilight, remember the waterfall in the caves below Manehattan?"

"The one with the bio-luminous algae?"

"That's the one! Now. Um, what did you say your name was?"

"I didn't say, but it's Isabell."

"Isabell? That's a funny name, but it will do. Alrighty then! Isabell, I need you to find a light green button on the control panel. Have you found it?"

"Yes."

"Good, don't touch that button. Ever. I don't know what it did in your universe, but it has devastating consequences if you press it. I want you to press the light blue button directly below it. This takes off the parking break and allows me to drag you to the cave. See you in about 5 minutes."

And with those parting words, he cut off the transmission.

In their TARDIS, Twilight asked the doctor something.

"Doesn't that button just make coffee?"

"Wellll, yes."

"That's not deadly at all!"

"Have you seen Pinkie with coffee?"

"Point taken. Good call."

Switching TARDIS's

Isabell glanced at the Doctor, trying to hold back tears.

"Will we ever get back home?"

//{0}\