The Doctor Whooves Chronicles Episode 5: Prisoners of War

by Doctor Perseus

Meet Twilight Sparkle

Chapter 1: Meet Twilight Sparkle

Orbit of Nymphadora, 1678 C.E.

The TARDIS shot out of the Time Vortex like a bullet and quickly became tangled in the gravitational pull of a massive, purple planet. The Doctor fought with the TARDIS controls furiously as he tried to regain control of the ship. Sparks fell from the ceiling and the ship groaned and screamed like it was simultaneously exploding and repairing itself. "DOCTOR!" cried Derpy as she held tightly onto the main console, her ponytail bouncing around like a bubble of hairy jello.

"I've almost got it!" the Doctor replied as he forced another one of the levers down. The TARDIS leaned sharply to the left and the Doctor nearly lost his footing.

"WHAT IS GOING ON?!" cried Twilight Sparkle, who was still holding on to one of the control room columns.

"We're landing!" The Doctor pressed a series of buttons and the TARIDS gave off a loud hiss in response. Then, the ship began to fall. Everything began to shake even more violently and the air grew incredibly warm. Beads of sweat rolled down the Doctor's face as he fought against his stubborn ship. "Come on! Come on!"

"Doctor?!" cried Derpy nervously.

"EVERYPONY HOLD ON!" warned the Doctor as he tightened his grip on the main console. It was going to be a bumpy landing.

Nymphadora, 1678 C.E.

Twilight Sparkle hit the floor hard. The blue box had finally stopped shaking. Everything became calm and quiet. The stallion known as the Doctor and the pegasus mare were lying on the floor around the control console. As she lay on the floor, Twilight could only think about how much she regretted entering the blue box.

She had just said goodbye to Shining Armor and Cadance and had decided to take a quick walk around the city. She had come across the box randomly. She hadn't recognized it and had known that it was something new. She would have simply walked past it but something about it seemed to draw her in. She had felt an immense amount of power emanating from it and, somehow, she swore that she could have heard a faint voice calling to her. Curiosity had overtaken her. And now, thanks to curiosity, she was now lying on the floor of a large room within a blue box alongside a strange stallion and a strangely familiar pegasus.

"I...think...it's over...for now," stated the Doctor as he pulled himself up. "Everypony okay?"

"I think so," groaned the pegasus as she stood up.

Twilight was incredibly confused but this meant that she desperately needed some answers. She quickly picked herself off the floor and marched over towards the Doctor. "Okay. I want answers. Now!" she snapped.

"Well I can't really provide answers to questions that haven't been asked," the Doctor replied with a smirk.

Twilight instantly got a powerful urge to slap the suited stallion straight across the face but she resisted. "Who are you?"

"I already told you who I am. I'm the Doctor."

"I want a name."

"That is my name."

"That's not a name! It's a title! Doctor? Doctor who?"

"It's just the Doctor."

"No! There has to be more to it than that!"

"Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, Twilight Sparkle, but there really isn't anything more to it. I'm the Doctor. Plain and simple. No ifs or buts. No who, where, when, what, how, or why. Point. Blank. Period. We're done. End of story. That is all. Ta ta for now!"

Twilight was silent for a moment. She couldn't help but feel a bit impressed by the stallion standing before her. This was a pony who definitely had many secrets to hide. "Okay...so you're the Doctor." Twilight then turned towards the pegasus. "And who are you?"

The pegasus blushed a bit and took a couple steps back. "Derpy," she replied softly. "Derpy Hooves."

"Well, it's nice to see that there's at least one other pony here who goes by a name." Twilight extended a hoof and Derpy Hooves awkwardly shook it. Twilight narrowed her eyes as she and Derpy's hooves parted. She looked incredibly familiar. Twilight knew she had seen Derpy somewhere before. But where? "Okay, second question, what the hay just happened and what are we inside of?"

"That's two questions," the Doctor corrected.

Twilight rolled her eyes. She really wanted to slap him now. She took a long, calming breath and turned towards the Doctor. "Can you please just answer my questions?"

"Certainly! You're inside my TARDIS!"

"Your...TARDIS?"

"Yep!"

"Time and Relative Dimension in Space," Derpy added with a smile.

"Oh! Very good, Ms. Hooves!"

"Time and Relative Dimension in Space?" Twilight asked.

"Yes!" exclaimed the Doctor. "Basically, it's a spaceship and a time machine."

Twilight's ears stood up. "What?"

The Doctor ran over to one of the monitors on the main control console. "And, according to this, we're on the planet of Nymphadora in the year 1678 C.E."

Twilight was silent for a brief moment. "But...that's impossible. Time travel of that nature couldn't possibly-"

"It is possible when you have a TARDIS."

Twilight ran over to the TARDIS doors and pulled them open. A light, violet light poured in through the open doors. Twilight couldn't believe what she was seeing. A massive, purple plain opened up before her. Light blue grass fluttered in the wind and green ladybugs the size of foals flew through the air. It was nighttime but the sky was illuminated with the light of a small orange moon and a large blue moon. Twilight turned back towards the Doctor and Derpy. Her legs were shaking and her mouth was agape. "This is...I can't...how did...who are...oh my Celestia!" Twilight exclaimed.

The Doctor walked over to the doors, quickly closed them, turned to Twilight, and grabbed her shoulders. "I know this might seem like a lot to take in. Just take deep breaths. Deep breaths," he instructed. Twilight did what she was told. After a few rounds of deep breathing, she let out a great sigh and shook her head a bit. "There! Feeling better?"

Twilight nodded in response. "Yeah. There's just one more thing."

"What is it?" Twilight brought one of her hooves back and slapped the Doctor right across the face. "Oi! What was that for?!"

"That was to help me feel better," Twilight replied with a smile.

"Hey!" cried Derpy as she flew over to Twilight and glared angrily at her. "Don't slap the Doctor!"

"You're one to talk, Derpy Hooves! If I remember correctly, you slapped me the first time we met!" the Doctor snapped. Derpy blushed a bit and lowered herself down.

"So, let me get this straight," said Twilight. "We've actually...literally...traveled through time and space?"

"Pretty much," replied the Doctor.

Twilight walked over to the control console and began taking everything in. "This is just...amazing."

"Well, I'd probably say fantastic or brilliant but, yes, it is also very amazing."

Twilight turned back towards the Doctor. "Are you from the future?"

"Not exactly."

"Now what's that supposed to mean?"

"The Doctor may look like a pony but he's really an alien from an alternate universe," Derpy stated with a grin. Twilight looked at Derpy in disbelief. "I know it sounds crazy. Trust me, I thought he was a mental patient when I first met him."

Twilight looked back at the Doctor. "So...what are you then?"

"I'm a Time Lord," replied the Doctor.

"That's not the name of a species," Twilight stated.

"Says you."

"That sounds like a title."

"So? Who died and gave you the right to decide what a species should be named?"

"Nopony! So, what, does everypony in your species have titles for names?"

"No. I'm just the rare exception."

"Your real name's not Doctor. I know it isn't."

"It is as far as you, my companion, and everything else in my universe and yours is concerned!" The Doctor approached the console and began fiddling with the controls. After a few seconds of this, the Doctor threw his hooves up and sighed. "Well, I guess we're stuck here for a while."

"What's wrong?" Derpy asked.

"We're not budging. For some reason, the TARDIS wants us to stay here."

"Why are you talking like your ship is alive?" Twilight asked.

"That's because it is. What? Did you think I intentionally had the TARDIS take us to this random destination with you on board?"

"Uh...yes! Are you saying that this ship closed the doors and teleported us away on its own?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying."

"But, Doctor, the TARDIS has never done this before," Derpy stated

"Oh yes it has. It's done it many times before you ever came aboard, Derpy. Now it's done it again." The Doctor looked up at Twilight. "And I think you're at the center of things."

"Me? Why?" Twilight asked.

"I don't know." The Doctor pulled a magnifying glass out of one of his suit pockets, approached Twilight, and began examining her with it. "Tell me, Twilight Sparkle. Are you extraordinary in any way?"

"That's an easy question," said Derpy.

The Doctor turned around to face Derpy. "Derpy, do you know Twilight?"

Derpy quickly shook her head. "No...well...kinda. You see, I know who she is."

"Well, who are you, Ms. Sparkle?" asked the Doctor as he turned back to Twilight.

"I'm a pupil of Princess Celestia. I also represent the Element of Magic," Twilight replied.

"Element of Magic?"

"Yes. The Element of Magic from the Elements of Harmony."

"Oh! You're one of the six mares that represents the Elements of Harmony?!"

"Yeah."

"Brilliant! I've been interested in meeting you ever since Derpy told me about you when we helped Princess Celestia banish Nightmare Moon to...well...the Moon."

"Wait...what?"

"It's a long story," Derpy replied.

"One we can tell another time," said the Doctor as he stored his magnifying glass away. "Right now, I guess the only choice we have is to explore."

"Explore?" Twilight asked.

"Yep."

"As in explore the world waiting outside those doors?"

"Yep."

"As in explore the world with the foal-sized ladybugs, purple dirt, and blue grass?"

"Come now, Ms. Sparkle! You live in a world where it's normal for ponies to cast magic, fly, obtain unique tattoos on their rumps, and interact with griffons, dragons, and alicorns that control the Sun and the Moon."

"Believe it or not, Doctor, there are actually some things that us ponies do find strange," Derpy added. "Like a stallion from another dimension who travels around all of time and space in a blue box that's bigger on the inside."

The Doctor looked back at Derpy and shrugged his shoulders. "Fair enough." He then wrapped a foreleg around Twilight and began leading her towards the TARDIS doors. "Come now, Derpy Hooves and Twilight Sparkle! A new world awaits us!"

Twilight gulped as the Doctor opened the TARDIS doors and walked her outside.

Derpy was met with a cool blast of air when she stepped through the TARDIS doors. The light blue grass rubbed against her hooves. It felt incredibly smooth and yet very tickly. Derpy giggled a bit as she kicked the grass away from her. "Brilliant!" she heard the Doctor exclaim as he closed the TARDIS doors.

"It's like nothing I've ever seen before," said Twilight as she looked around the field they had landed in.

"Of course it is, Ms. Sparkle. It is another planet after all."

Derpy couldn't help but feel amazed by what she saw. So far, the closest she had been to being on another planet was being on the Moon of Gaia. Now, she was truly on an alien planet somewhere far out in the universe. "What did you say this place was called again, Doctor?" Derpy asked.

"Nymphadora," the Doctor replied. "It's quite a fitting name, if you ask me. It has a violet tone to it."

"A violet tone?" Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Am I the only one who thinks of purple when I hear the name Nymphadora?"

"Probably."

Derpy jumped a bit as one of the foal-sized ladybugs appeared in front of her. It stared at her with its large eyes. "Nice ladybug," Derpy said with a gulp. Derpy shuttered a bit as the ladybug flew towards her and nuzzled itself against her neck. The ladybug then proceeded to give off a purring sound as it nuzzled against Derpy's neck.

"Is that ladybug...purring?" asked Twilight.

"Yes, I believe it is," replied the Doctor as he walked over to the ladybug and examined it with his magnifying glass. "Beautiful! Ladybugs that are the size of foals and purr like cats! Even my universe doesn't have these!"

The ladybug then turned towards Twilight and flew over towards her. "Ahhh! No, no, no! Keep it away from me!"

Derpy couldn't help but giggle a bit at the sight of the ladybug chasing after Twilight. "It's not going to hurt you. I think it likes you," Derpy said.

"That still doesn't change the fact that it's a giant ladybug that purrs!" Twilight turned around to face the ladybug. A purple light simultaneously appeared around both Twilight's horn and the ladybug. A few seconds later, the ladybug drifted to the ground and fell into a deep sleep. "That's better."

"What did you do to it?!"

"Nothing! I just put it to sleep!"

"You didn't have to do that, you know."

"It was starting to annoy me and I didn't want to hurt it."

"Well, you might have!"

"Putting it to sleep isn't going to hurt it!"

Derpy and Twilight glared at each other but the Doctor quickly broke them apart. "Ladies! Come on now! No fighting!" he pleaded. "Let's just continue exploring!"

"Fine," said Twilight.

"Oh! One more thing!" The Doctor turned back towards the TARDIS, pulled out his sonic screwdriver, aimed it at the TARDIS, and activated it. A second later, the TARDIS disappeared into thin air.

"What did you do?!" asked Derpy.

"Don't worry. The TARDIS is still there. I've just put it a second out of sync so that no unwanted visitors can come across it."

"What's that you're holding?" Twilight asked as she pointed at the Doctor's sonic screwdriver.

"This? This is my sonic screwdriver," the Doctor replied as he presented the screwdriver before storing it in his pocket.

"Your what?"

"My sonic screwdriver."

"A sonic screwdriver? What does it do?"

"Oh, lots of things! Even more things than I usually care to remember."

"He usually uses it to unlock things," Derpy explained.

"So it unlocks stuff?" Twilight asked.

"That's one of its features but, sure, remember it like that," the Doctor replied as he walked past Derpy and Twilight. Suddenly, the Doctor came to a stop. "Wait a moment...do either of you hear that?" Derpy and Twilight raised their ears. Through the night wind, they could make out the sound of a female singing.

"Singing?" asked Twilight.

"Who would be singing out here?" Derpy asked.

"Let's find out!" the Doctor replied with a grin as he made his way down a nearby path. Derpy and Twilight followed cautiously.

As Derpy walked along the trail, she came to wish that she had changed out of her gown. She kept stepping on it and twigs and leaves kept getting caught in it. "Rarity's going to kill me," Derpy heard Twilight say.

"What?" Derpy asked.

"My friend Rarity made this dress for me to wear at the wedding. I'm going to have a hard time explaining to her how it ended up poked with twigs."

The Doctor quickly ducked behind a cluster of bushes and beckoned Derpy and Twilight to do the same. "What is it?" asked Derpy.

The Doctor put a hoof to his mouth and gave a soft shhh. He then pointed over the top of the bushes. Derpy and Twilight looked to see that the other side of the bushes dropped down into a little clearing between two hills. Within the clearing was a little circle of tents, wagons, and a wide assortment of camping supplies. A campfire was located in the center of the circle and a group of creatures was standing and sitting around it. All of the creatures in the circle had purple skin; thick, purple fur; and long, purple hair that stretched from their scalps to their lower backsides. They had wolflike faces with sharp, blue eyes that cut through the darkness like knives of light. Most of them were wearing simple clothes like tunics and loincloths. The one who was singing, however, was dressed in a long robe that covered her from neck to foot. The robe was decorated with pictures of stars and constellations. On her head was a beautiful head piece of sorts that depicted a replica the two moons suspended in the night sky.

"Humanoid, purple, wolflike aliens. How very interesting," the Doctor said quietly.

"I'm guessing these are the natives," Twilight deduced.

"Do you think they're friendly?" Derpy asked.

"They appear to be."

"Appearances can be deceiving. I suggest that we wait back here for a bit," the Doctor stated. The three ponies fell silent as they listened to the robed, female wolf sing. Derpy couldn't understand what she was singing about and she could tell that neither the Doctor nor Twilight could understand her either but what she could tell was that they all enjoyed it. The female wolf had a truly beautiful voice. Each word she sang echoed through the air like waves of gaseous gold. After a few more minutes of singing, the wolf fell silent and sat down in front of the fire.

"I'm guessing she's the leader of this group," said Twilight. "Like a buffalo chief."

"I wonder what she was singing about," said Derpy.

"Good fortune. Hope. Finding happiness in dark times," replied the Doctor.

"You understood her?"

"No. But I know a song about getting through troubling times when I hear one." Suddenly, a loud shriek broke the calm silence of the night. Derpy looked as a group of armored soldiers rode out of the darkness. The soldiers had the appearance of orange snakes with sharp, red eyes. They were riding on large creatures that had the heads, necks, forelegs, and upper bodies of giant, red lizards and the rumps, hind legs, and lower bodies of tigers. The wolves tried to escape but they were quickly surrounded.

"We have to help them!" said Twilight.

"Wait a minute," warned the Doctor. "They're armed." Derpy looked. The snake soldiers had futuristic guns held to belts at their wastes and long, thick whips held in their clawlike hands.

The leader of the group got off of his lizard/tiger hybrid and approached the leader of the wolf group. "Well. What do we have here?" he asked with a snarl. "A group of Nymphadorians trying to hide out in the wilderness?"

"We don't want any trouble, sir," said the leader of the wolves as she stood up and looked the snake leader straight in the eye. "My group and I are just living our lives out here. We're not doing anything that concerns you or your soldiers."

The snake leader pulled out his gun and pointed it at the wolf leader's head. "Anything that a Nymphadorian does concerns me as well as the rest of my kind."

"Your kind used to be Nymphadorians too."

"That was before we decided to stand up against the injustices that were forced upon us by those who looked down on us because we came from the smaller rock!"

The wolf leader looked up towards the orange moon in the sky. "My group and I have no interest in the war. We are not involved with it in any sort of way. So, I would kindly appreciate it if you and your men would go in peace."

The snake leader chuckled a bit more as he pressed the gun against the wolf leader's head. "I don't take orders from Nymphadorians."

"And I don't let Auranians walk over me." In a sudden, quick motion, the wolf leader grabbed the snake leader's gun, pointed it back at his head, and fired. There was an explosion of orange light and the serpent leader's head fell apart into a cloud of black dust. Before the other soldiers could respond, the other wolves turned around and managed to quickly overpower them. After a few seconds of struggling, there was nothing left of the snake soldiers but mounds of black dust, armor, clothing, and weapons. The lizard/tiger hybrids shrieked before running off into the night. "Take the weapons, my brothers and sisters. They should prove useful if we come across anymore unwanted visitors."

Derpy, the Doctor, and Twilight were silent. "I think I'm starting to see why the TARDIS brought us here," said the Doctor.

"Which is?" Twilight asked.

"They mentioned a war."

Twilight appeared to put two and two together before giving the Doctor a dumbfounded look. "Are you saying that the TARDIS brought us here to put an end to a war? You're going to try to bring an end to a war?!"

"Do you have doubts in me, Ms. Sparkle?"

"I barely know you so I honestly have no idea whether I should have doubts or not."

"Trust me. Ms. Hooves and I just recently put an end to a terrorist movement in the city of Atlantis."

"What?"

"Long story," said Derpy.

"Besides, I have a good habit for helping bring about the end of certain disputes," said the Doctor.

"Fine. But can we at least discuss this far away from the fighting alien wolves?" Twilight asked.

"Good idea." Derpy, the Doctor, and Twilight backed up and began making their way down the path when something flew past them and appeared right in front of them. It was the leader of the wolves, and she was pointing one of the futuristic guns right at them.

"Whoa!" gasped Derpy. "They're fast!"

"I thought I heard something and I was right. However, I didn't expect it to be three...ponies," said the wolf leader with a smirk of curiosity and surprise.

"Life's just full of surprises, right?" said the Doctor.

"Yes. I guess it is. Now, unless you all want to follow the fate of those Auranians, how about you explain to me why there are three Gaians on Nymphadora?"

Comments

[MariusIoannesP]

"That's not a name! It's a title! Doctor? Doctor who?" I always love it when that happens. In these fanfictions and on the show! The Doctor just can't avoid getting slapped by females, human and pony alike! What this story really needed was a little Twilight Sparkle! I really like the aliens that appear in these stories. They have a proper blend of science-fiction and fantasy that seems to fit the blending of Doctor Who and My Little Pony. Nymphadora and purple. Sounds like a Harry Potter reference! Sweet.

[thetravelingman]

why am i remembering the future spiecase in utopia from Doctor who now?

[Commander Jenna Cipher]

I must have MOAR... Uh, please...

[Hekate Sketch]

the dominant species here are worgen! lol jk, i just like WoW.