The Doctor smiled at the six ponies that had come to him as twilight said, "Hello Doctor, I decided to take your offer."
"Well....that's good, I was a bit scared that you wouldn't say goodbye to me..." The Doctor said.
Twilight then hugged him crying as she said, "I'm sorry, Doctor...I'm so sorry, Discord changed me a-and...."
The Doctor stroked her mane and said, "Shshshshsh, it wasn't your fault. I know it wasn't..."
The orange pony then said, "So uh is what Twi said true, Doc? That your well....dying?"
The yellow Pegasus paled as the pink pony's mane deflated in a cartoon manner.
"Sadly...yes, I'm dying. But everything has it's time and everything must die, just like me...I honestly thought she would be here by now..." He said, while checking the time on a small gold fob watch with strange symbols.
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Flashback,
"Doctor?" asked a unicorn with light blue fur and a mint mane.
A young version of the Doctor pops up and answers, "Yeah, Lyra?"
The unicorn pointed a hoof at a old gold fob watch with strange symbols on top and asked, "What's this fob watch doing here?"
"Oh, well..." -he slowly got out of the door that his head was poking out of- "You see....this fob watch," -he picked it up and showed it to her- "it isn't just any old fob watch. It's my fob watch from Gallifrey, a chameleon arch actually." The Doctor explained.
"What is a chameleon arch?" Lyra asked with a curious look.
The Doctor muttered to himself in annoyance, "Ponies...."
"What was that?" Lyra asked with a confused look.
The Doctor quickly said, "Nothing, nothing! Anyway, a chameleon arch is something that's supposed to hide timelord's once they've proven themselves. It hides everything about them from their memories, two hearts, and takes away their biology making them appear as human."
"How do timelord's prove themselves and what are those strange markings on top?" Lyra continued with a inquisitive look.
The Doctor started to say something before closing his mouth and said, "You know....I actually never found that out, they never told us how at the academy. So we all just sorta assumed, I assumed it was when they did something that was relevant to their name. While others, The Master included that it was when they reached a certain age. As for these symbols...." -he continued as he looked at the front of the fob watch- "These symbols are Gallifreyan, the language of my people. The top one says, 'The Doctor'. While the bottom text says, 'When the time comes, you shall receive what you deserve...' I never quite knew what the messages on the different arch's meant when they gave us them at the academy.......but it's useless, just an old watch. Well....until I become a true timelord that is..."
Flashback End...
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The blue Pegasus looked confused and asked, "Who?"
They soon heard a voice that sounded slightly nervous, "Doctor?"
The Doctor looked behind the six ponies and saw a light blue unicorn with a mint mane, he smiled sadly and said. "Hello, Lyra..."
Lyra walked up to him and asked, "Why do you look so ol-?"
Lyra was however interrupted by a loud voice, "THE DOCTOR WILL BE BROUGHT!!! THE DALEKS DEMAND THE DOCTOR!"
The Doctor slowly got up and started walking towards the door into the night as Twilight asked nervously, "Doctor, where are you going?"
"Oh I don't know, just going on one last adventure I suppose...do something brilliant, do a speech, hope something good happens, and take credit for it. That's how it usually works...."
The white unicorn with a curly purple mane than asked nervously, "Doctor?"
The Doctor continued to walk towards the exit and said, "Not this time though....it's the end. The moment hasn't even been prepared for....and yet it's the end."
"NO!" Lyra screamed and hugged his torso.
The six ponies behind her looked very sad as Lyra cried and cried, while saying. "YOU CAN'T! Y-you j-just can't....YOU CAN'T DIE! N-not now....I've only just gotten to see you again....."
The Doctor stroked her mane again as he said, "I know and I'm sorry....I'm so, so sorry. I wish I could've proved myself a Timelord, then I could've regenerated and none of this would've happened....I'm sorry, Lyra. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry....."
He unhooked Lyra from hugging him and looked her in the eyes, "I've gotta go Lyra...it's my time to go."
Lyra hugged him again with tears streaming down her face as she said, "I don't want you to go, please don't go...."
The Doctor then said with tears of his own and a cracked/sad voice, "I don't want to go either.......I want to be here with you and all the people I've met, I don't wanna die....I just don't, I don't want to....I don't want to go..."
"WE REQUIRE THE DOCTOR!!!! YOU WILL BRING HIM TO THE DALEKS!!!" the voice screamed from a giant mother like space ship in the night sky.
He stopped hugging Lyra and looked at her with tear stains on his face, saying to her, "Goodbye Lyra....have a fantastic life and don't ever forget me...."
He then got up and walked out the door towards Ponyville's old bell tower where the mother ship was hovering the closest too.
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The Doctor slowly walked up to the steps of the bell tower.
Once he got to the top, he said. "Sorry, I'm a bit slow...you know how it is for old men like me...."
The voice boomed from the ship, "YOU ARE DYING!"
The Doctor walked over infront of the bell and said, "Yes, yes. It's true....I'm dying.....You lot have been trying to kill me for years and here I am, going of old age...."
"YOU WILL DIE AND THE PLANET WILL BE EXTERMINATED OF ALL INFERIOR LIFEFORMS!" The voice boomed as Daleks moved through the streets and some royal guard ponies prepared for battle.
"You still can't work up the courage to shoot me, can you? You! The most dangerous bloody machines in the universe and you can't exterminate an old man! Your afraid....aren't you? Afraid that I've got something in my pockets!" -he then waved a hand dismissively- "I've got nothing this time.....knock yourselves out....." he finished as he sat down on a conveiantly placed bench.
Some flying Dalek's soon exit the ship and start flying above the town, shooting guards and making citizens scream in fear.
The Doctor sat there and said to himself, "The one time I'm not able to save them and yet....I still wish I could. I wish I could help them somehow, to stop myself from dying and save them...I wis-"
He was quickly interrupted as a giant crack opened up in the night sky as a strange gold like mist with aglow floats a little out of it. The Doctor looks at it in confusion, before the strange mist moves towards him.
Then he realizes what it is and whispers in shock and amazement, "Timelord essence...."
The mist goes into his mouth and his eyes widen in surprise and his hands begin to glow as the Daleks scream out, "YOU WILL DIE NOW DOCTOR, THIS IS THE END OF YOU!"
The crack closes and the Daleks say, "THE RULES OF THE TIMELORDS AND REGENERATION ARE KNOWN! YOU CANNOT REGENERATE WITHOUT BEING A TRUE TIMELORD!"
The Doctor then said with confidence feeling slightly younger, "Sorry? I thought that I just heard you say the rules because I thought that you would've known by now, I never follow the rules!" -The Doctor raises his hands infront of him- "Do you know what this gold mist is?"
The clock strikes 1:00 A.M as the Daleks scream, "EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING! THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING!"
The Doctor starts to feel even more younger and says with a smile, "That's right! REGENERATION ENERGY!!!"
"ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!! THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING!!! ALERT!!!!" The Daleks scream as more fly towards and around the bell tower.
"Ohoho!!!! Look at this! Regeneration number one! We're breaking some serious rules! I'll tell you what! I'll give you a few tricks, since this is going to be a whopper!" The Doctor said as he walked back and forth.
"EXTERMINATE! ALERT!!! THE DOCTOR IS REGENERATING!!!! EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR!!!!" The Daleks screamed as more and more flew out of the mother ship.
"You bloody tin cans think that you can stop me now?!" -inside the doctor's left pants pocket his sonic screwdriver slowly starts to become real again, along with his physic paper- "HAHA! YOU WANT MY LIFE DALEKS?! THEN COME AND EXTERMINATE IT!!!!" He finishes as a slight burning sensation occurs in his right pocket.
A strange vroping sound is heard near Sugarcube Corner until a strange Police Public Call Box materializes fully, meanwhile the Doctor starts to wind up his right arm. After a few seconds of doing this, he fired a stream of regeneration energy into a couple of Daleks that were on his right.
"And for my next trick....." -he winded up his arm and shot another stream of regeneration energy, this time into five Daleks- "Regeneration Lasers!" He yelled with enthusiasm.
Twilight and Lyra then yelled out as they ran back towards Sugarcube Corner, "Everypony get inside! Quickly!"
Ponies quickly followed their lead and head indoors as the Doctor prepares a final blast and says, "Love from The Doctor, Daleks!!!"
A gigantic blast of regeneration energy is soon fired at the Dalek mother ship and it explodes, meanwhile the shockwave travels through the streets destroying any remaining Daleks on the ground and shaking the newly reappeared TARDIS a little. Then silence fell....
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Lyra slowly goes over to the bell tower and says a little uneasily to the front entrance, "Doctor?"
The door open and a old man with slicked back white hair wearing the same clothes as the Ninth Doctor did poked his head out with a stern, curious, and annoyed look
Lyra looks at the old man nervously as she says a little uneasily, "Uhh...hi
The old man then asks sternly, "What is it, what do you want, and most importantly who are you?"
Lyra's expression turns from unease to worrisome as she says nervously, "Doctor? Doctor is that you? What happened to you? You look different and old again.....
He then asks, "Who? Who's this Doctor you're talking about?"
Lyra's eyes turn to pinpricks as she realizes who this man is, "Oh Buck...."