Return of the Master

The Ponyville officers laid at his feet, all unconscious, save the one he shot with his laser, whom was dead. “Now to find the Doctor...” The Master mumbled.  With a leap, he took to the skies and flew across Ponyville, firing his laser at random buildings as ponies ran in all directions. He noticed a blue unicorn mare in particular, for reasons he did not know. She did have a distinctive coat, so he chalked it up to that.

He dropped directly in front of her, causing her pupils to shrink and her mouth to drop as she curled back from him. He chuckled, and aimed his screwdriver at her.  As it began to glow, her horn started to glow as well, but before either of them could fire, a rock hit the Master in the side of the head, disorientating him temporarily.

“Run!” The Master heard through his newfound headache.

The Doctor and Twilight ran outside to find buildings set ablaze and ponies lying dead in the streets, from what appeared to be an act of terrorism. “Doctor...” Twilight turned to look at him. “I think we’re in trouble.”  The Doctor took out his Sonic Screwdriver, spun around and frantically scanned the area.

“Weird... It says I’m here... And down the street...”  He looked to where the signal came from, then back to the screwdriver.  ”It's not the first time something like this has happened...” The Doctor looked from the brown and green device to Twilight. His eyes lit up as he realized what that meant.  “It’s the Master! He's here!  We’ve got to hurry,  GO!” He said as he started to race down the street, with Twilight following close behind. “Come on, Twilight! We don’t have much time!”

“You’re not very fast yourself, mister!”  She spoke as she easily kept pace with him.

As Twilight finished, she noticed Colgate, the Ponyville dentist, cornered by... “Doctor?! How... Is that him?!” Twilight asked with surprise. The Doctor stopped with a skid, and scanned the grey pegasus.  He looked to the purple unicorn with fear and worry.

“Yes.”

“We’ve got to help her!”

“Yes, I know...”

Twilight looked around, and saw something that might help them. Her horn glowed as she levitated the small object from the ground, and hurled it towards the grey pegasus with great speed. She smiled as it made contact with his temple. “Yes! Doctor, I got him!” Twilight said gleefully, but the Doctor was not there to hear her. He had run towards the blue unicorn, and grabbed her by the hoof.

“Run.”

“Doctor...” The Master grumbled. He slowly got up, and saw the Doctor running away with Twilight and the unicorn he was just about to kill. “Oh, no you don’t!” The Master spread his wings, and flew after the Doctor, who had made it to the Library and went inside. The Master noticed that it was a tree, and smiled.  He once again took out his Laser Screwdriver, and fired at the Library setting it aflame.

“Try getting out of that one, Doctor.”  He laughed as he flew away.

“Get in, get in!” The Doctor said to the two Unicorns as they rushed into the Library. “Twilight, get down to the basement and grab Spike! Colgate, it is Colgate, yes? Anyway, stay here, and don’t get into trouble-” The Library exploded with a flash of red and orange, sending the Doctor and friends to the ground. “Take cover! Twilight! Colgate!”

The Library started to fall apart as branches, pieces of wall and ceiling broke off and crumbled. The Doctor got up from the ground and dodged the debris as he ran over to Colgate. “Get out of here...” The Doctor coughed as the smoke began to overtake the room.  “I’ll get Twilight... R-run...” The Doctor lead Colgate to the door, and opened it for her.  She turned to look at her saviour.

“Th-thank you.... Who are you?”

The Doctor gave her a weak smile. “I’m the Doctor.”

“Doctor who?”

The smile faded. “Exactly.”

The Doctor closed the door and leaned up against it for a second. “T-Twilight...” The Doctor managed to choke out the name before he enter a fit of  coughing. The smoke was getting extremely thick. It would be a wonder if Twilight was still conscious. It wasn’t effecting the Doctor as quickly as it would a  regular pony, but it would kill him eventually.

“*Cough!!* Hold on... Twilight...” The Doctor wheezed as he stumbled away from the door, which, being made of wood, set aflame almost as soon as he stepped away. He stumbled towards the stairs, and was nearly crushed several times by falling debris, but he made it there nonetheless. He stopped to rest up against the wall for a second.  Suddenly, a branch fell, but was caught part way down by a group of leaves.  It caught on one side, making it act like a pendulum, and it hit the Doctor in the back of the  head, knocking him out and sending him tumbling down the stairs.

The Master hovered in the air, still destroying Ponyville and murdering innocent ponies. He knew what he was doing would eventually drive the Doctor to face him, and when that time came, he would kill him. He fired one last shot at Sugarcube Corner, smiling when he saw a pink mare run out, her mane aflame.

It was starting to get dark out, the flames of the town glowed magnificently in the dusk light.  They reached and leapt several metres off the buildings, setting others around them on fire. He thought it was beautiful. All of this destruction, the death, and the pain, all of his own doing. The flames reached past Ponyville.  Starting without the grass fields that surrounded the town, the fire made its way outward, to the Everfree Forest on fire as well, and, if nopony put it out, it would most likely reach the neighboring towns.

“Now to finish the Doctor off...”

He flew over to the burning Library, which was just about ready to collapse. If the Doctor and his friends did not make it out soon, they would all die. “Hm.“  He grunted, ”Guess I’m going in.”

When the Doctor woke, he was in the basement, in a small pool of blood. The fall down the stairs had most likely broken some, if not most, of his bones. His head was throbbing, and judging from his surroundings, the Library was ready to crumble in on itself, burying him, Twilight and Spike inside. “Twilight....” The Doctor managed to choke out as he propped himself up with his front forelegs. Using a wall for support, he eventually managed to stand up on all fours.

He lifted one of his hooves up to his eyes, and saw a faint glow through the smoke.

“What? What!?  How... Am I regenerating? This universe is already destroying my Time Lord genetics... I’ll be lucky if the regeneration is able to be completed...” He put his hoof down and shuffled toward the bed they had put Spike in. He found Twilight beside the bed, cowering behind some debris, protecting herself and Spike in a shield of magic.