Dusk was tucked nicely in his bed waiting for sleep to befall him. But as he closed his eyes to sleep, he heard a loud crashing noise coming from his backyard. He went to go investigate. As he went outside, he found there was a large blue box sitting in his yard smoking, apparently from impact. He went in closer and found the doors, so he decided to knock. As he did, the doors opened, revealing a brown pegasus pony standing there in the doorway.
"Well this is new never been a girl before or a pony for that matter." She muttered to herself for a little while before she noticed the small unicorn at her hooves.
"Excuse me...um... who are you." he asked with confusion. "and what is this thingy."
"Well I guess I'm the professor now........whats your name little one." she said with a mischievous grin on her face as Dusk just sat there in awe. Realizing that he had been asked a question Dusk stood up proudly and said his name as if he'd practiced saying it. "Well Dusk to answer your first question this 'thingy,'" she said this trying hard to use air quotes which was not very easy to do with hooves," is a T.A.R.D.I.S, Time And Relative Dimension In Space.
"What do you do with a TARDIS." Dusk asked quizzically.
"Well my good colt you travel. You travel though space and time saving worlds, defeating dastardly villains, and you run, oh how you run." she said this wistfully staring at the TARDIS.
"Can I come." he said timidly tracing circles in the ground with his hoof.
"Off course you can, go in your house and put something warm on and pack some things; I'll fuel up the T.A.R.D.I.S and we'll meet back here in five minutes." she got inside the large blue box. After a few seconds it made a wheezing noise and disappeared.
When this happened Dusk ran into his house and did as the professor asked; rapped a scarf around his neck, grabbed a suitcase, grabbed his smartypants action figure,and ran out side and waited, and so he waited and he waited until Solaris's sun rose over the horizon. Dusk was to tired to wait any longer so he went inside and slept all day long. Dusk would wait in that same spot every night until the day the that that prince Solaris sent him to Ponyville.
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It was about year after the wedding of Dusk's sister, Glowing Gold, and he was on his way to the library, after a long day of chill'in with his buds. He was tired and planned on crashing as soon as he hit the bed, little did he know that what would happen next would change his life forever. As Dusk went in the door of the library he was met with his number one assistant. Spine.
"Hi Dusk how is everyone today"
"Well just the usual Blitz crashed into a tree, like he always does, A.J. had to buck the tree until he fell out, like he always does, and the entire time Butterscotch was crying, like he always does. Oh and you won't believe what Bubble did, he............" instead of finishing his sentence he got to watch a familiar blue box appear right in front of his eyes and all he could do was to stand there in disbelief as a little brown mare came out.
"Hello Dusk I'm back, did you pack something warm.........." ,then she noticed that she was not in that field that she had landed all those years ago and that dusk was no longer a small colt but a full grown stallion, "Oh I seem to be off about I'd say from the look of you about twenty years.
"P-ppppp-ppp Professor I thought you were just a dream. That dream inspired me to learn all that I could about magic. I wanted to learn so that I could bring you back and we could go on our adventure. It's kind of funny now that I think back on it, but either way I would like to thank you for my inspiration.
"Your welco........wait this world has magic."
"Yes, does you world not."
"No, no we don't and it's quit sad but I'm here now aren't I. By the way you might want to duck right now."
"What!?" at that moment dusk heard a metallic voice scream "Exterminate" at this Dusk decided to listen the professor. Just as he ducked laser shot right were his head had been and hit the wall leaving a char mark on the wood.
The professor looked into his eyes and said one word that would help him live many time over in the future. That word was, "Run"
Dusk followed the professor to her box, which just so happened to be bigger on the inside. Dusk would have argued that this was impossible but had a very angry alien tin can with lasers chasing them at the time. So they galloped to the TARDIS with Spine trying to hold on to Dusk's neck.
"Dusk is there such thing as combat magic in this world."
"Yea I know some."
"Good, ok can you prepare a spell or what ever it is you do."
"What kind of spell."
"A blaster spell or some thing any thing that can kill that Dalek."
"Whats a Dalek?"
"I'll tell you all about it right after you figure out how to kill it. That was short of me is that what I'm like now short and I'm a pony" ,then she decided to look at herself in a mirror, "and still not ginger at this rate I just might get some dye. Dusk how's that spell coming along."
"I'm working on it but I'm not exactly used to casting spells with a alien in a trash can trying to kill me."
"Well i don't like it either but I'm ready when you are. She was waiting by the door ready to open it and let Dusk cast his spell and kill the vile creature that just barely deserved to be called a living being.'
"Ok ready open the door." the door swung open to reveal the dalek charging its laser ready to kill anypony in its way when it was surrounded by a purple aura of light in which it imploded into and all that was left in its place was a pillar of smoke.
"You Dusk you are absolutely, absolutely brilliant, well not as brilliant as me but brilliant.
"Why thank you professor now can you tell me WHAT THE HAY IS GOIN ON HERE."
"Now now no need to get testy. I'll tell you everything ,what do you want to know first."
"Well then I'll ask again what are Daleks."
"The Daleks are retched beings artificially made to have no emotion other than hatred. They feel no pain they never disobey orders they are the perfect soldiers. They move like a plague through the universe killing anything that is not Dalek believing that they are superior to all other races in the universe."
"Ummm....okay.......what are you?"
"I'm a time lord."
"Whats a time lord?"
"We were just that, the lords of time itself the oldest and most powerful race in all of the universe. We governed over the whole of space and time."as she was recalling her past, Dusk could see a tear start to role down her cheek making him think twice about prying deeper but he had to in order to trust this strange mare that stood in front of him trying to hold back tears.
"What do you mean 'were' if they you were such a powerful race what could have happened to change it?"
"There was a war, the last of the time wars. The time lords fought valiantly against the Daleks keeping them from destroying the whole of the universe. The time lords and the Daleks were evenly matched but the Daleks were becoming stronger until they had the advantage and I was given a choice, let all my people die while the Daleks run free or kill all of them but in order to do so I would have to take all of my people with them, I chose the latter, leaving me the last remnants of my race in the whole of the universe." she said with not only mourning but with true sadness and regret that she will never be able to be forgiven for the sin toward her race."But enough with that old history" ,she said trying to wipe the tears off her cheeks but to no avail, "lets save this world from those tin cans, come Mr. Shine allons-y.
"Dusk stood there struck dumb trying to comprehend the that fact this seemingly normal pony standing in front of him had at one point held the fate of two all-powerful racers in her hooves. After some coaxing the professor managed to get him out of the TARDIS and bring him back to his senses.
"Well now that you back to normal lets see what the Daleks want, well actually we already know what they the question is how they plan to do it, and how did they get here anyway. I thought that I was the only thing that came through I guess I was wrong, isn't that a rarity. Well lets be off then."
"Oh no you don't it's 2:30 in the morning, we aren't going to do anything or go any were until you get some sleep.
"But I don't want to sleep, I want to go save the world."
"Don't argue with Uncle Dusk, you can use my bed. Go on now, get to bed." it was hard for Dusk to keep a strait face saying this as if he was the mare's father, but he managed. The professor went up the stairs to Dusk's room and laid on the bed.
A half-hour after the professor had been sent to bed Dusk heard groaning coming from upstairs. He went up to check on the professor."Everything okay up here."
"The professor stirred in the bed and sat up,"No not really its just, its been so long since the time lords died and I guess I just want to be forgiven. You know when you do something wrong to someone and you can't find so you can ask them for forgiveness, well I'v been trying to find someone to forgive me for the last 500 years.
"I can never truly understand just how deep your pain goes and I can do nothing to ease it but what I can do is tell you how to get to sleep. Try to get thoughts of those tin cans out of your head. Think about a time that was happier then this, a time when you had somepony with you that could understand your pain, and think about waking up with them next to you in the bed. Think how things would be if you were just part of the crowd instead of who you are." There was a pause after this and Dusk got up to leave the room but he turned around and said "I hope that helped. Sleep well professor."
The professor smiled at him "Thank you that really helped." She turned around in the bed and closed her eyes hearing the door close behind Dusk. She thought over what Dusk had said and decided to try it. So that night she fell to sleep with images of her wife and son dancing in the fields of Gallifrey having fun and laughing under a burnt orange sky."
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Dusk woke to the smell toast, eggs, and orange juice. Not yet have his morning coffee, he stumbled into the kitchen.
"Good to see your up Dusk I was just making some breakfast."
"Well it looks delicious." Dusk sat down at the table and dug in. While they ate, they talked about many things. They talked about how Dusk had first come to live in Ponyvyille, how the professor used to be a stallion called the doctor, and about the differing politics of there worlds.
"So wait your telling me that you have two princes that raise the sun and moon. That's incredible, much more interesting than my world. In my world planets rotate around their sun."
"Really that's how it works in you world. If you were to say that here you'd get called crazy and thrown in a mental ward." Dusk was laughing at what he had just said while the professor was trying to fly there dishes over to the sink. Being that the professor had never tried to fly before gravity was quit cruel to her and she ended up with her face in the floor
Dusk walked up to her and helped her up holding back a laugh "Professor, you hurt."
"Noting but my pride."
"When we get the chance we should ask Blitz to teach you to fly. There's not much he wouldn't for a mare."
"Oh really. Is he a gentle colt or is he just a creeper."
"Little of both." the two began busting out in laughter when they heard something that they wish they hadn't.
"Exterminate"
"Come Dusk we have Dalek to stop, allons-y." they galloped out side to find three Daleks one crimson red, one navy blue, and one white as snow. "Hello scum you have three minute to convince me that you should live."
The white Dalek came a little closer and said "Who are you."
"You may know me as the doctor but I'm the professor."
"You are not the doctor but you will die none the less."
"You see there's a problem with that, you see I don't like being dying. By the way you havee two minutes left and you see I'v battled against you lot so many times that I have grown tired of mercy so unless you convince me that you should live within the next minute you will die." The professor nudged Dusk. He got the message and began to prepare his 'Dalek-be-gone' spell.
"We will not die. We will not die. Exterminate, exterminate, exterminate!" They began to fire on the professor and Dusk. Dusk cringed thinking "This is how I die." Dusk opened his eyes to find himself alive. He was wondering how he was until he notice the Daleks shots stopping in mid-air.
"Oh stop that. You can't get though, nothing can get though the TARDIS's shields. By the way your time is up and all you'v done is convince me even more that you should die. Dusk, do it." Dusk obeyed and cast his spell. As he turned around to follow the professor into the library he left behind nothing except three pillars of smoke.
"Professor that was amazing how do you keep such composure against such odds"
"Thank you but its nothing, I guess I'm just used to them. In fact I lost count of how many times I'v faced them but that's besides the point. Right now we have to find there mother ship and destroy it.
"Do we have any idea were it is."
"No, Dusk, no we don't but we can find them.
"How."
"Well you see it's a Dalek ship. Dalek ships travel though time and space kind of like the TARDIS. Since there ship can time travel it has to run on rift energy, so we scan near by space for condensed rift energy."
"It's really that easy."
"Yes, yes it is and there's their ship now let go end some Dalek shall we."
"I think we shall."
Then she flipped a switch and they were off and away to end some Daleks.
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When the TARDIS landed they heard allot of ticked Daleks. "Professor with that many Daleks firing, do we have to worry about them getting thought the shield.
"Don't worry about it. Lets go meet the neighbors shall we." The professor stepped out of the TARDIS ,stood on her hind hooves raising her front hooves above her head. "This Dusk, is a class five Dalek war frigate, most likely last in the multiverse, and we're going to blow it up."
A large Dalek levitated toward them. It landed right outside of the TARDIS's shields and asked one simple question with a answer not quit as simple, "Who are you."
"If you really want to know I am the last of the time lords, I'm 1,226 years old, and I am here to kill ever last Dalek on this ship."
"You are wrong. You will not kill us."
"Oh but you see, I'll do just that I will end all of your pathetic lives with the flip a few switches." content that she had said her peace she and Dusk left them and went into the TARDIS. Then the TARDIS was gone.
When the TARDIS came back it was on the control deck of the ship. The professor walked out of the doors casually. There were two Daleks firing at her but she was not phased in the slightest as there shots just stopped next to her leaving her unharmed. She walked right up to the control panel, flipped a few switches and walked back the TARDIS."What do you say we go watch some fireworks."
"That would be great" at this the professor pressed some buttons and the TARDIS took off towards the Planet of below, When they landed they were in the same field were Dusk had first met the professor. They sat there watching the Dalek ship explode in the upper atmosphere. The professor leaned over to Dusk and said "Lets go get me those flying lessons."
