How Derpy met The Doctor

by Haybales22

Rating: everyone
Tags: Random, Derpy Hooves, Crossover, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Human, Doctor Whooves, Sad, Romance
Length: 2698

A love story about Derpy and Doctor Whooves.

Everypony knows about Derpy and the Doctor, but not everypony knows how they met.

Published 2013-01-02 04:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2013-01-04 02:58:45 UTC

Chapter 1

Derpy was flying around above Ponyville, bumping into clouds she couldn't quite see. Her eyes impared her vision slightly, but she didn't really care. All that mattered was that she could see, and that she could fly. Derpy loved to fly. It was her favorite thing in all of Equestria, other than muffins. Derpy did love muffins. She thought about buying a muffin. She had gotten paid this week. She didn't always get paid. Sometimes she had to pay her boss. Sometimes she broke boxes, or messed up deliveries, or dropped boxes on ponies. If only she got paid for that. But when something is broken, somepony needs to pay for it, and it was usually the pony who broke it, and Derpy was usually that pony. She decided to buy a muffin, even though that would cost all this weeks money. Oh well. She could always do odd jobs for the Cakes, or she could pick up a shift on the weather patrol. She aimed for Sugarcube Corner, and came in for a landing.

The Doctor stepped out of his phone-box, looking around at this strange new land. This certainly wasn't 1969! It was cartoony and colorful. he started walking, but discovered he couldn't. He looked down and discovered...

"Hooves?" he asked incredulously. He looked around him and saw, "Ponies?!?!" He was amazed, but they looked confused. He stumbled towards a fountain and looked at his reflection. HE was a pony too! "This cannot be happening!" he cried. Suddenly he was hit by a grey and yellow mass of fur and feathers.

"I'm sorry! I couldn't see you there! Are you alright?" A grey and yellow pony stood over him, staring at him with two lazy amber eyes. The pony cocked her head and spread her wings. Wings? Ponies didn't have wings! At least, not on Earth they didn't!

"Yes, I'm fine, thank you... Would you mind telling me where we are?" The Doctor stood up and straightened his tie. At least he had retained some form of his humanity.

"We're in Ponyville!" shouted the pony. "What's your name? My name is Derpy!"

"Umm... I am known as the Doctor." He really couldn't tell her everything about him, could he?

"Doctor who?" the pony asked. It... She obviously forgot the conversation's topic for a moment. "Hey, I like your Cutie Mark!"

He cleared his throat, "My what?" She pointed, and he saw a small hourglass on his flank. "Oh."

"So what is your name?

"I uh... don't really have a name..."

"Silly colt! Everypony has a name! If you really don't have a name, we'll have to give you a name! I'm going to call you Time-Turner!" and with that, the pony trotted off, obviously intending for him to follow her. He couldnt be wasting time with ponies, he needed to get back to Amy and Rory! At least he had the TARDIS here with him, as long as nobody- he smiled- no-pony tried to use it. Now that would be a disaster.

The Doctor followed "Derpy", as she had called herself, to a building designed to look like a giant cupcake. He straightened his tie and walked inside. He was getting good at this whole trotting thing! Inside, he found some sort of a cafe inside, and Derpy was up at the counter, ordering something or other from a pink and blue pony. Ponies weren't supposed to be pink or blue! Ponies on Earth were, well, pony colored! Well, if ponies here could tak, and build buildings that looked like pastries, and run businesses, then he supposed they could be whatever color they wanted. Derpy recieved a plate with two muffins on it, and she handed the pony at the till a few small golden tokens. The pony gave them back, nodded at him andd then looked to Derpy. Derpy shook her head no, and trotted to a table with the muffins. One was purple, the other was brown with darker specks.

"I didn't know your favorite flavor, so I just got you a brown muffin. Mrs.Cake was nice giving us free muffins!" She abruptly buried her mouth in the purple muffin and began eating. The Doctor looked to the muffin and picked it up with his hooves. It looked alright to eat, a bit cartoonish, but otherwise safe. He took a bite. Chocolate chips, his favorite. This pony society wasn't so bad after all.

They finished eating their muffins and went outside. The Doctor checked on the TARDIS and made sure nopony could see it. He walked around this "Ponyville" place with Derpy, and gathered information. They were in Ponyville, which was part of Equestria. Not the capitol city, that was Canterlot. Las Pegasus, Appaloosa and Cloudsdale were other cities nearby. Their country was ruled by two Princess ponies; Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna. And apparently Derpy loved everything about this country. He tried to see the world from her point of view; a mentally disabled (or at least unstable) pegasus who worked a low paying job so that she could buy purple muffins. He just couldn't understand why she was so happy! On Earth, a mentally disabled person wouldn't be doing something important like delivering mail and packages, they would be in a home for people like themselves, or in a shopping center making $10 an hour as a greeter. She really did have quite the life. They walked to her small house as it was getting dark.

"I guess I'll see you tomorrow then?" he asked tentativly. He was really taking a shine to this pony.

"Or you could stay with me! If you didn't have other plans..." Derpy looked sad at the idea that somepony else would get to have a sleepover with her new best friend.

"I didn't really have any other arrangements made." He had assumed that ponies slept outside or in stables. It seemed they lived in fully functioning houses, with running water, lighting and even beds. Derpy invited him to share the bed with her, but he politely declined, and decided to sleep on the couch. He blew out the candle on the table beside him, and slowly drifted off to sleep, glad he had made a friend in this strange world.

Chapter 2

Derpy woke up earlier than usual, and decided to suprise her new friend with a nice breakfast of toast with apple jam, which she had gotten from the Apple family after helping fix their barn. She popped the bread into the toaster, and then left to set the table. She could smell something funny. Not funny ha-ha, but funny in the sense that the toast was going to be ruined shortly. She decided the toaster knew what it was doing, and continued setting out paper plates and plastic cups. She wasn't allowed to have ceramic plates or glass cups, they were breakable.

The Doctor woke up on the couch, the smell of something burning coming from the kitchen. He jumped up and ran to the kitchen, to find Derpy staring at the toaster, which was emitting thick, black smoke. After airing out the kitchen and throwing away the ruined toaster, they went to Sugarcube Corner for a breakfast muffin. They recieved two more free muffins, which was very strange. Oh well, he thought. A muffin is a muffin. They each ate their muffins. Bran for him, purple for her. He was suspecting a theme going on with these muffins.

After the short breakfast, he left Derpy at Sugarcube Corner. She apparently had to work that day to pay for the muffins. He was fine with that, as he needed to check on the TARDIS. He had been thinking about just ditching this world and going back to earth, but after getting to know some ponies, he found it might be difficult to leave them behind, namely Derpy. He shook his head and stepped inside. He activated it and set the destination for Earth,January 2013. He went nowhere. He stepped outside and kicked the phonebox.

"Damnit!" he cursed, unable to suppress his dissappointment in the machine. He walked back to the cafe to look for Derpy.

And found her in a room who's floor was covered with soap suds, which was rapidly rising to fill the room. Already it was past her fetlocks. Derpy looked ashamed.

"I'm sorry!" she cried, "I tried really really hard, I promise!" She was visibly upset and seemed to think it was her fault. He comforted her and told her it wasn't her fault. They cleaned up the bubbles before apologizing to the Cakes. They still paid her for the work she did, but didn't look too happy about Derpy having flooded their kitchen.

"I can't do anything right," Derpy sniffled. she was crying about having ruined something for the second time that day. The Doctor thought of something that might cheer her up.

"You showed me your world, why don't you let me show you mine?" He looked to Derpy to see her response. She looked... scared. Scared but intrigued.

"I dunno. I gotta work later. Ponies won't be too happy if their mail isn't delivered on time." She was skeptical.

"You'll be back before they realized you were gone, promise." He actually really wanted to show her his world. He found he cared deeply for this mare, crazy as it seemed. He wanted to see how she would react to Earth, to human beings.

Derpy thought for a moment, then asked the question that would determine whether or not they left.

"Do they have muffins there?"

Chapter 4

"So lemme get this straight. You were teleported to a magical land, inhabited by ponies, who have wings, and are unicorns, and they live in houses, not stables, houses no less. And now you brought one back with you, and you're in love with her?!? Does anyone see how unbelievably insane you sound?!?" Rory was quite upset about all of this. Why couldn't he have been the one to go to a magic land and bring back a pony who turned out to be incrediably hot? Amy must have known what he was thinking, and slapped him across the face. Oh ya, because he was married.

"In a nutshell, yes. And I do understand how you could be confused by all of this." The Doctor found it difficult to make what he had said make sense.

"Well I think its crazy. You need to take her back to where she came from." It seemed like Rory was the only sensible one in the group.

"I think it's very romantic." Amy seemed to be happy to sit and 'pet' Derpy as she slept curled in the fetal position. After a few muffins, which Amy had put purple food coloring in, Derpy had promptly fallen asleep beside her and had not yet woken up.

"Of course I plan on taking her back, but I agreed to show her our world. Our culture, our food, our lifestyle." The Doctor had already prepared a schedual in his head. First, Buckingham Palace, then-

Rory interupted his planning. "Britian has a mostly meat diet, horses are herbivores. She has such a short attention span, She wouldn't be able to focus on the history and significance of our culture. We shoot things for fun, and if I were you, I wouldn't let her near any sort of firearm." The Doctor saddened. It was true. She had experienced the muffins, which was the only thing she had really cared about. It was time to return her to her home. He couldn`t stay with her, he belonged here, on earth. But he did love her, he realized that now. He was faced with a tough decision, and he hoped he could make the right one.

Derpy and the Doctor waved to Rory and Amy, and stepped into the TARDIS. They stepped out in their pony forms, and Derpy hugged the Doctor. She flexed her wings and flew in a circle, only bumping into three clouds on the way. She flew back down with a smile on her face, but when she saw his expression, her face turned grim and for once in her life, her eyes focused perfectly on the colt she loved.

So you`re leaving. She said, scared and confused. He smiled and shook his head. She then understood. He was sad because he was leaving his friends! He was leaving the only life he had ever known to be with her! The ultimate sacrifice... Derpys mind couldnt quite comprehend the whole situation, but what she did know was that he was staying. WOOHOO!! She yelled, as she picked him up and flew high into the sky. They spun and dived, and she didn`t even crash into any clouds. She spun him around and kissed him full on the muzzle. He was shocked, then closed his eyes, smiled, and melted into the kiss. Finally, everything was perfect...

Author's Note

Thank you everypony for your support, suggestions and comments. Greatly appreciate all the help, and have a good evening. One last comment...
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERP!!!

Chapter 3

After another muffin (or three, Derpy wasn't sure about the abundance of muffins that The Doctor had talked about, so she wanted to savor her "last" muffins), the not-so-dynamic duo set out to time travel to Earth. Derpy straightened her saddle bag and looked at the TARDIS.

"And you're sure its safe? And that it has muffins?" She cared mostly about the muffins, but the safety was another big factor.

The Doctor smiled softly. They had already spoken of the safety, the way it worked, but mostly about the muffins. He remembered her open mouthed awe at the thought of whole stores with nothing but muffins. That you could buy muffin mixes! That new kinds of muffins were invented everyday!

"There is no need to worry Derpy, it's completely safe. You just step in and it takes you to where we're going!" He did't feel like explaining the whole process again.

She shook her head and smiled at him, trying really really hard to focus her eyes on him. She found that even though she was scared of this "Earth" place, she didn't want to be here without him. She felt weird about this pony. Not weird bad, but weird good, if weird good was an actual thing. She trusted him, and being near him made her feel special. Not special like when other ponies called her special, but special like she mattered to him, like he really liked her. She didn't know it, and he tried to hide it, but he did really like her. They looked to eachother, smiled, and then stepped inside.

The Doctor raised up on his toes and stretched his arms and legs, feeling good about being human again. He heard a thud, and looked beside him to see Derpy lying on the ground. She looked alright, and rather attractive in her human form, with blonde hair and pale skin, and clad in a grey sweater and sweatpants. Her eyes remained their golden-amber color, and were still "derpy". Her saddlebags turned into a leather backpack, and she had a necklace who's charm depicted a cluster of bubbles, her cutie mark.

"I can't see! I can't stand! Where are we?!?!" Derpy cried. She was scared, and in a new form that was totally alien to her. "My wings!" she clawed at her back, and tried to find her wings. She removed her sweatshirt and spun about, trying to see her wings. They were no longer wings, merely a tattoo of black angel wings on her shoulders and back. She appeared to be a fully formed human female, He could see that after she had removed her sweater, but he shook his head, helped her up and put her sweater back on her. He looked up to see Amy and Rory staring at them in shock. He picked Derpy up and looked to them.

"Amy, Rory," he said tentatively, "Meet Derpy."

Author's Note

Screw the "short chapters" people (no offense) b/c im tired and want to get this chapter done!