Doctor Whooves: Savior of the Universe - Series 1

by veeSheep

Episode 11

Twilight awoke floating in a bright and colorful world, it resembled outer space, but pink and purple with yellow nebulae all around.

“Where am I?” She asked herself.

Back in the normal realm, The Doctor was carrying Twilight’s body to the TARDIS, followed closely by Chrome and several Children of Darkness along with the Father of Darkness.

“We need to get Twilight to the TARDIS’ medical bay and keep Twilight safe!” The Doctor said.

“Alright, I’ll keep them held back, take her over there!” Chrome responded. The Doctor rushed to the TARDIS, hoping it was not too late to help Twilight. Back in the pink space realm, Twilight was still drifting blindly around that world, until she landed on a platform with a thin layer of water over it.

“Hello?” Her words echoed through the empty pink universe, “Can anyone hear me?” She said, “Just nod, if you can,” Twilight added.

The Doctor entered the TARDIS and turned the cloister bell on, signifying that the ship was in danger. He carried Twilight’s unconscious body through the corridors of the TARDIS and into the medical bay, where he laid her on a bed and scanned her with his sonic screwdriver.

“Good, life signs, very weak, but they’re still life signs,” The Doctor sighed in relief. Chrome barged into the TARDIS and tried to keep the door shut, not letting the Children and their Father enter The Doctor’s ship, The Doctor also shut the door to the medical bay.

“Am I alone here?” Twilight asked, her words still echoing in the empty abyss of the world she was trapped in. Eventually, a ghostly white silhouette appeared from thin air, it looked just like Twilight and it got out of its hiding spot nodding its head, responding to the purple unicorn’s previous question.

“You are far from alone,” The shining white phantom said.

The Doctor was pacing around the room, hiding if he ever heard a sound outside.

“Twilight, wake up soon,” He said to himself over and over.

Chrome was trying to gun down the Children of Darkness, but her laser shots kept on being dissolved in their fog, which was slowly filling the console room, but her immortality helped her in this battle.

“Why don’t you take off your cloaks for once? If it’s to hide from everyone else, there’s just me in here,” Chrome said, The Father of Darkness was mildly displeased by the suggestion, but he obeyed.

“Very well, if you’d rather see out faces as you shoot us down, so be it,” The Father said, then ordering his army to remove their cloaks, all of them were people Chrome cared about, her parents, The Doctor, Twilight, her childhood friends, all of the Children were people she knew and loved.

“I won’t fall for this, it’s just a holographic memory scan, you read my mind and chose the best disguises to guilt trip me into not fighting,” Chrome saw through their plans and continued to shoot, despite her shots basically disappearing as soon as they left the barrel. The Children’s disguises went away and they showed themselves to be zombie-like in appearance, mangled and distorted face with missing parts, sickly pale green skin and empty white eyes, “That’s a little bit more like it,” Chrome said.

“You shall drown in the haze,” One of the Children said.

“That’s where you’re wrong,” Chrome said, she kicked a lever on the TARDIS console and some roundels at the top of the room turned open, revealing the ventilation system, which vacuumed the Children’s fog out of the room, allowing Chrome to hit them, she shot around five or six before the lever was pulled back down by an unknown force, allowing the cultists to use their mist once more.

The Father of Darkness was holding one of his front hooves up and an orange aura was around it, he had used telekinesis to close the ventilation.

“I can turn those things on all day,” Chrome said, kicking the lever back up so she could shoot them again, but the Children on the floor were acting oddly, their corpses were twitching and they soon got back up.

“Did you not think this through? My children cannot die, as they already are,” The Father said, he then used his fog to make knights that marched towards Chrome, another row marched past her and further into the TARDIS, but Chrome closed the doors before they could go inside.

“Who are you?” Twilight asked the ghostly white clone of herself.

“I am you, obviously,” The ghost replied, “Your Future, to be precise,” She added.

“And I am your Past,” Another ghostly figure appeared behind Twilight, “You are the present,” The Past said.

“I don’t get it,” Twilight said.

“I represent what is still to happen,” The Future began, “She is what happened already, and you are what is currently happening,” She explained.

“We must tell you about The Doctor,” The Past said.

The Doctor was hiding under one of the beds in the medical bay, occasionally peeking out of hiding to see if anyone entered.

“Doctor, can you lock all of the ship’s vents open?” Chrome asked through an intercom.

“I could try,” The Doctor replied, he used his sonic screwdriver on a nearby vent and all of them in the TARDIS opened up and stayed that way.

“Thanks, Doc, I’ll take care of these Children of Darkness,” Chrome said.

“You’re welcome,” The Doctor responded, he got out of hiding and scanned Twilight again, “Same as before, come on Twily, don’t be dead,” He said.

“Why The Doctor?” Twilight asked.

“His final battle approaches,” The Future said.

“What does that mean? What will happen?” Twilight continued to ask questions.

“Have you ever liked it when somepony told you about the ending of a big book you were reading?” The Past replied.

“Fair enough, but I need to at least have some idea as to what’s going on and what will happen,” Twilight said.

“In the outer realm, you are in a comatose state, ‘unconscious’ or ‘knocked out’ if you prefer,” The Future explained, “We may awaken you once we’re done talking,” She added.

“Then speak up,” Twilight responded.

Chrome and The Doctor met up in one of the TARDIS corridors, the former carrying a rifle.

“What’s that for and how did you get it?” The Doctor questioned.

“I found it in the TARDIS armory, how have you not found a way to get rid of it, being a pacifist and all?” Chrome replied.

“Good question, but I still need to know why you got it out of there,” The Doctor said.

“It’s for you to help me fight those cultists,” Chrome responded.

“But I don’t fight, especially not with guns,” He replied.

“They’re already dead, living corpses, you won’t be taking any lives, just putting them where they’re supposed to be,” Chrome explained.

“Yeah, re-killing people makes it so much better,” The Doctor sarcastically said.

“Just take it and shoot,” Chrome said, putting the gun strap around The Doctor’s neck. The Children of Darkness arrived and walked closer to them, the vents taking their fog away and rendering them harmless, Chrome immediately gunned them down with her blaster, while The Doctor hesitated, he tried shooting once, but missed.

“I can’t shoot them, I made a promise to myself,” The Doctor said.

“Just imagine they’re someone you really hate and destroy as many as you can,” Chrome encouraged him. The Doctor closed his eyes and when he opened them, he imagined all of the zombies as being his worst enemies, Daleks, Weeping Angels, among others, and he began to fight them on the spot, although reluctantly, “That’s the spirit!” Chrome enthusiastically said.

After the long battle, all of the Children were dead on the ground and The Doctor’s self-induced illusion faded away and he saw the carnage he helped cause.

“Why did I listen to you?” The Doctor asked, turning back to Chrome.

“I may have lied in saying that you’d be putting them back in the grave,” The gray mare said.

“What is that supposed to mean?” The Doctor asked, menacingly.

“Well, it’s because…” Chrome said, but stopped herself as the Children behind The Doctor got back up from the floor, “They can come right back up,” She finished her sentence.

“Indeed,” The Father said, “My children cannot be killed as easily as our master was,” He continued.

“Impossible, you must have a weakness,” The Doctor said as the Father laughed and created more knights out of his haze.

“As I said, The Doctor’s final battle approaches,” The Future began, “He shall travel to a distant, artificial world,” She continued, “You and the other girl will be with him,” The Future finished.

“What should I do?” Twilight asked.

“What do you feel you should do? What would The Doctor want you to do?” The Past said, “Will you sit back, hide and look pretty?” She asked.

“Or shall you truly help him in his time of need?” The Future said.

“I don’t know…” Twilight said, “Can’t you see what I will do?” She asked.

“Butterfly effect,” The Past said.

“What?” Twilight was confused.

“Your choices now will drastically change the future, I am unable to tell you about this type of event,” The Future explained, “but I can tell you the possibilities,” She added.

“Then do it!” Twilight shouted.

“You will either fail in saving The Doctor from his old foe, or you shall help him in the battle,” The Future said.

“Then I can save him?” Twilight asked, gaining hope.

“I’m afraid not, has he explained fixed temporal points to you yet?” The Future asked.

“Nope,” The Past replied.

“Well, it was nice talking to you, what’s going on out there now?” Twilight asked, a screen made of light rose from the thin water and it showed a camera in the TARDIS, The Doctor and Chrome were backing up, being cornered by the Children of Darkness.

“He is in danger right now, you must return and save The Doctor,” The Past said.

“But how?” Twilight asked. The Future went up to Twilight and whispered something into her ear, the purple unicorn simply nodded and was transported back to the real world, her dream realm collapsing into itself as she disappeared.

“Good luck in the next life Doctor, if these things don’t take it and however many you have left afterwards,” Chrome said as the Children closed in on them, they stopped to charge black spears of energy, it seemed like the end. Twilight rushed out of the medical bay and concentrated on a spell, her horn glowed brighter and brighter until a burst of sunlight came out of it, burning the Children of Darkness and the Father into dust and cloaks.

“Twilight!” The Doctor said in excitement, he rushed over to hug her and did so, “I’m so glad to see you alive and kicking!” He added.

“It’s also good to know you’re alive, Twi,” Chrome said with a smile on her face.

“It’s great to be alive too,” Twilight said, “You’re welcome for me saving you two, by the way,” She added.

“How did you even do that sun burst thing?” The Doctor asked.

“I was in a weird dream where I met my Past and Future, and my Future told me that I should think about the sun and its light while casting a spell and that’d happen,” Twilight explained.

“Did they say anything else, anything mildly important?” The Doctor was curious.

“They said that your final battle was coming soon, and no matter what I’d do to help, you’d end up dead…” Twilight said, losing her smile, “The Future briefly mentioned an old foe of yours, but I have no clue who it could be,” She included.

“So my time I coming, isn’t it…” The Doctor said, stepping away from Twilight and bumping his head on a nearby wall, “Where is it gonna be?” He asked.

“She just mentioned a ‘distant, artificial planet’,” Twilight said, which did not help the case.

The Doctor was silent and thought before speaking, “In any case, we should stick around in the TARDIS, let’s go to the console room,” He said. They got to the control room and Chrome sat down to have a nap, but an incoming message got her to wake up a moment after, “Another distress call already?” The Doctor asked. He turned on the video and it showed Dommy running away from something, he, obviously, was calling for help before a metallic hoof touched his shoulder and he fell down, dropping his communicator.

“Doctor, what even happened there?” Twilight asked.

“Well, it seems I have to fight them again,” The Doctor said, “Computer, track where the message came from,” He added.

“Message traced to Arkantus Prison Complex,” The TARDIS replied.

“Then that’s where were going,” The Doctor said, he took control of the ship and took off, keeping a stoic look on his face.