The Wonderous Misadventures of Doctor Whooves

What in the name of all that's holy have I gotten myself into, The Doctor thought to himself. He sat in a chair in a dark room, the only lighting residing in the center. Apparently, he and Twilight Sparkle were in the basement of the Ponyville Library and her house. He wasn't going to approach that logic. The entire scene reminded him of an Earth horror movie, a dark-lit room, somepony sitting across from him with an insane-looking smile, a table only between them, odds are this wasn't going to end well. The Time Lord cringed as Twilight reached under her chair, undoubtedly for some type of lethal and murderous weapon. This is it, he thought, I'm going to die for the second time in two days.

He opened his eyes to see that instead of a chainsaw or machete in her hooves, there was instead a notepad on the table, a quill floating in her telekinesis, and a puzzled look on her face. "Are you okay?" the unicorn asked. The fearful expression of his quickly disappeared and he reassured her he was fine. "Riiiiight..." she said with obvious skepticism in her voice, "anyway, what do you remember about your arrival here?"

The Doctor pondered his answer for a moment. It was going to be difficult to tell her the truth without sounding like a madpony. Mental institutions aren't fun at all. "Well, this is probably gonna sound utterly ridiculous to you, and you may consider me absolutely crazy, but promise me that you'll believe me?" he asked before continuing. She nodded, excellent. "Okay, well to put it simply, I died." her eyes widened in disbelief and confusion. The librarian opened her mouth to speak, but she was cut off with a, "Let me finish." Once again, she nodded in confirmation. "My kind, the Time Lords, regenerate twice in one form, and then they turn into another form. My previous being had already regenerated once, so I was set to look different this time. I was absorbing dangerous energy so basically an entire dimension wouldn't explode, potentially affecting other universes like yours. The after-effects weren't too serious, but they must've been worse than I thought because my TARDIS and I crossed over into this realm. I hypothesize it happened right as I was transforming, because instead of a bipedal, mammalian-like structure I was, well, this," he motioned downwards toward his pony body and then continued, "My TARDIS happened to need some regeneration as well, since I crashed in it in what I believe you said was 'Sweet Apple Acres'. I assure you, I wasn't trying to steal from anypony. Although I might've had a slight craving for a series of various foods. I believe you know the rest."

The Doctor looked to see that her frantically scribbling quill finally came to a rest after what was probably his story was transferred to parchment. Once more, her eyes held amazement and wonder. She expressed this amazement and wonder in the question, "You...you sacrificed yourself for countless lives?"

"Welllll, sorta," he said in an almost unsure tone. "I didn't really sacrifice myself, but I certainly saved a lot of people. More than I could count, probably a few trillion maybe." That last sentence was too much for Twilight to handle. She fell back into her chair with her jaw so unhinged one might say it was dislocated, or not even attached to her skeleton. Her eye twitched twice, before the unicorn plain fainted. "Oh dear. That's not good." The Doctor stood up and made his way to the kitchen. A kitchen in a library, how ridiculous.

Twilight woke up sputtering and coughing, and also soaking wet. She looked up and saw The Doctor standing over her, stifling laughter. The mare wasn't exactly the happiest camper in Equestria at that. "What the hay was that for!?" she shouted at him before getting to her hooves and glaring at him angrily.

The stallion calmed himself down as best as he could before answering her, "Well Ms. Sparkle, you happened to faint after I told you I estimated I saved around a few trillion lives, and I couldn't just leave a pal passed out on the floor, could I?" He gingerly tossed the bucket he'd used to dump the frigid water on her over his shoulder and went back to his seat. The answer did little to reduce Twilight's anger, but it was enough so they could get back to the questions.

"Okay, so second question; can you explain any of your technology to us?"  the unicorn asked him. The same goofy grin from when Derpy asked the similar quesion in the TARDIS overtook his face.

"You better be able to write pretty quickly, my dear," was all The Doctor said before taking in a large breath of air and beginning the momentous explanation.

Several Hours Later...

"...and that's why the engines need to phase with every new TARDIS," he finished his lecture on not just his tech that he carried around, but also a history and majority of Time Lord innovations and advancements. Twilight had the same determined look on her face the entire time to capture every last word of his overview, and based off the exhausted exposition of hers at the end, she succeeded in that task.

"Well...uh...thank you and...you sure don't skip a detail do you?" the out of breath and panting Twilight asked him. Using her telekinesis for that long sure wore her out.

"Hey, apparently you're the princess' personal student, I don't want to leave anything out for you."

Twilight blushed a little and said, "Oh, you're too kind. It's getting a little late though, what are you gonna do tonight?"

"Well, I was think-" The Doctor was cut off by the door to the basement opening. Inside the doorway stood a...dragon?

"Hey Twilight, whaddya want for din-oh. Who's this guy?" The lizard gave him a once over and asked another question, "You been doing any funny business with Twilight mister?" A blush spread over both of their faces immediately. The Doctor wasn't exactly sure how blushes were possible through fur. No matter! He had some explaining to do. Twilight did it for him, though.

"Spike! This is The Doctor. He's not from around here, but don't be so rude for Celestia's sake," she scolded him and wore an angry grimace.

"Sorry," "Spike" looked towards the Time Lord and apologized. "It's just that I'm protective of her, ya know? She's practically like a mom to me." That statement piqued some curiosity in The Doctor. He looked quizzically at Twilight, who got the message and elaborated.

"When I was still in Canterlot Magic School, I hatched Spike and since then we've really been like best friends," she said as she nuzzled him and they both smiled.

"How adorable," The Doctor said as he rolled his eyes and clopped his front hooves together, "Anyway, I'll be going. Hopefully I can figure a bit more out about this place soon?" Twilight nodded and the stallion took his leave. As he trotted through the streets of Ponyville at night, some thoughts came across his mind. I have no money, no house, I was tied up when I first got here, one pony trusts me, I've changed into a completely different creature, and I know close to nothing about this odd world. A challenge, I like it.

He figured it was best to stay in the TARDIS for the night, and then regroup tomorrow. He wondered where Derpy was. Eh, he'd find her tomorrow. One thing was important right now after an extremely long day: sleep. Thankfully, it was pretty easy to remember where he kept it. Right behind the barn of Sweet Apple Acres. Hey, if they didn't know, it didn't hurt them. It was only temporary anyway.

As The Doctor made his way through all the apple trees, that first night came into his memory. This one was just as beautiful as the last, with each dot of light in the sky looking as if it was put there intentionally and crafted with extreme care and delicacy. In fact, he was pretty sure somehow it was painted like a work of art. The Time Lord seemed to remember Twilight muttering "Ooh...Princess Celestia'll want to hear about that." during his little speech from earlier. The word "celestia" had to do something with the sun if he remembered correctly, so why not have somepony have something to do with the night? Another thing that backed this up was that outer space past Equestria seemed void of any light whatsoever, let alone life. His theory had to be the case, there was no other explanation. The Doctor stepped inside the TARDIS and eventually fell asleep.

His dreams were of that one thought. Would he have to rename his ship the "TARD"? That wouldn't be good. But that was a tangent for another time. What really mattered was the physical existence of space in this universe.

"I don't understand why this concerns you so," a loud voice from seemingly nowhere echoed throughout his dream.

"What? Who's there? Am I schizophrenic? Have I really gone insane?"

"Hahaha...calm down, subject. It is I, Princess Luna. I have not detected your presence in Equestria before, but I did feel your encounter with the residents of Ponyville," the voice supposedly named "Princess Luna" spoke once more.

"Okay, so there's Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, how many more bloody princesses are there? And what exactly do you mean by 'feel' my encounter with Ponyvillians?"

"There is only one other Princess; Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but she prefers Princess Cadence. By 'feel' your encounter, I mean I have not felt such disharmony since the return of Discord," the voice said as it suddenly made itself visible. It was dark blue and black, with a flowing mane and tail unlike the other ponies which seemed to be filled with stars. She appeared taller than the others, and instead of just one extra feature she bore both wings and a horn, an alicorn. However, the reference to Discord flew right over The Doctor's head, which Luna could see. "Discord is the embodiment of chaos himself," she explained briefly. The stallion nodded as Luna fluttered close to him, almost as if examining him.

"Might I ask what your cutie mark dictates?" the Princess asked him.

"What's a cutie mark?"

"Oh, my apologies, you are new here, I forget. Cutie marks are the symbols on everypony's flanks. I have one, you have one, you get the point," the apparent Princess of Night told him. He craned his neck around and saw an hourglass on his thigh, or flank as they called it. The Doctor twisted his head around to the other side and saw a mirror of the hourglass on one side. Well, that makes sense since I can travel through timey-wimey stuffs.

"What do you mean by that?" Princess Luna asked him.

"Mean by...what?" The Doctor questioned her as well, confused since he didn't say anything.

"'Timey-wimey stuffs. It is humorous but what does it mean?"

"But-but...I didn't say that, I just thought it." The Doctor stared at her. It wasn't like he hadn't seen mind-reading before, but he wasn't aware that the ponies could do it.

"Ah, my apologies. During nighttime, I have the power to access anypony in Equestria's dreams, and this includes their thoughts. The Time Lord nodded in half-understanding. Mind-reading alicorns that can enter your dreams and control the moon that are also princesses, why the fuck not?

"I see. Interesting power of yours, but why are you here?" The Time Lord inquired.

"I know many see you as a regular pony, however that is not the case with me. I know what you truly are, a Time Lord and once I heard that Time Lords had returned, I just had to see for myself," Luna said to him. How could she possibly know? Had there been Time Lords here before him? Was there an incident similar to his.

"H-how do you know that? I've only told maybe six or seven ponies," The Doctor asked, stunned.

"Simple, long ago, when my sister and I were still young, there was an invasion. An invasion of robot-like creatures who stated they were the embodiment of perfection and dominance. Therefore, all "lesser species" had to be exterminated in their eyes. My mother and father fought, but," she sniffed a little, "it was not enough to combat the effort. With no clear ruler, and with everything seemed lost, a mysterious group of men in what they called TARDISes came and defeated them, saving us, and Equestria. The creatures left, but vowed vengeance. It has been dozens of thousands years since that incident, though, so I estimate they have gone back on their word."

That explains why I've heard much about the princesses but nor a king or queen. Tough responsibilities. "Dozens of thousands of years, you say?" The Great War was after that, so it made sense there were still other Time Lords.

"Yes. My sister and I are biologically immortal, so we can live forever. Similar to you," she said to him. This princess was pretty intelligent.

"Wow, that's incredible," he said slightly dumbfounded. Correction: mind-reading alicorns that can enter your dreams and control the moon that are also princesses and are immortal, why the fuck not?

Luna closed her eyes for a moment, almost as if she was in pain, but looked back at him and said, "It appears my sister is calling for the Sun to be raised. It has been a pleasure, Doctor. Until we meet again." She turned and began walking away as The Doctor bowed. So, if Luna was leaving, and the Sun was being raised, did that mean-

Yup. The Doctor awoke with a start like he'd had a nightmare, even though his "dream" was mere conversation. Whatever, not worth the thought. One thing was certain though, things were strange. Not only had he met supposed royalty with incredible powers in his dream and conversed with them, but he'd learned that Time Lords had come here before him. If there were other Time Lords, than did that mean there was a way to get back? He couldn't exactly return to the former universe without a convenient and rare rip in space and time, yet he doubted that happening. Had the Time Lords turned into ponies like him? So many questions. Which meant there were answers to find! And where there were unanswered questions with existing answers, there was an overly complicated run-on sentence and The Doctor to solve it!