"Doctor! What's happening?!" Colgate shouted over the loud ringing of the TARDIS.
The Doctor ran around the center console of his impressive time machine, "I don't know!..." he answered frantically, "but this isn't normal."
Colgate flipped a switch and pressed a yellow button. She rolled her eyes, "Is there ever anything normal about traveling through a time vortex?"
The Doctor spun a red wheel, the console hissed, and a mist of white smoke spewed out. "Of course..." the Doctor began, "But that alarm is not one of those things."
The blue mare ran up to a bicycle horn that was suspended on a metallic rod, she opened her mouth and bit down on it three times. Once she was done with that, she ran to a lever, and began to work its knob down the zigzag shaft. "Can we make it stop?!"
"Don't know about that!" he answered while flipping a lever up and down.
"It's our ship!" Colgate scolded. "Make it listen to you, or take control of it, or something!"
The brown stallion pulled on a rip chord, the sound of a lawnmower stared, then stopped. "She's very complex. Sometimes she listens, sometimes she doesn't..." he turned a dial, and a ding was heard, "but she isn't responding normally."
"I didn't know a box, could talk," Colgate mocked him.
The Doctor raised his head from under the console and gave her a cold stare, "She's not a box..." he adjusted his bowtie, and gave her a smug look. "She's a: big, blue, sexy box, that can travel through time and space."
Colgate snickered, "That's what you called me on our first date."
The Doctor blushed, "Oh, well, I..." the TARDIS shook with great intensity. "Sorry, you know you're the only one for me!" he patted the console with his hoof.
Colgate slammed a button, "Stop flirting with your box!" she commanded.
The scrambling stallion patted the mare on the cheek, "Sorry dear," he kissed her forehead. "But something has her spooked, she's afraid and she's trying to run away from it."
She dialed random numbers on a keyboard, "What could possibly scare a flying blue box in a time vortex?"
The Doctor stared at a screen; his mouth flew open and his eyes grew wide, "Me."
"What?!" Colgate walked over to him. The Doctor never took his eyes off of the screen, she gave him a concerned look, then stared at the screen. Her eyes dilated, "Oh my Celestia, he's back! How is he back? We put him in that Atraxi prison!"
"Prisoner Zero is one thing, but he is three," the Doctor explained. He began flipping switches and pressing buttons madly as he ran around the console, "We have to shake him off!"
Colgate continued to watch the screen, a grey earth pony with the same look as the Doctor himself, but with tired, angry eyes clung onto the TARDIS. "You aren't suppose to be possible," Colgate said to the figure on the screen.
The other Doctor looked into the screen as if he heard Colgate, "Ello sweetie... Your lover's home!"
The TARDIS began to shake as the false Doctor pounded his hoof on the door. Colgate fell to the floor, as the Doctor grasped a lever to keep himself upright. "Come on sweetie..." he encouraged the machine, "You can shake him easily."
The TARDIS's lights began to flash, then fully turned off. The knocking stopped, then the lights turned on. Colgate found her way to her hooves and scrambled to the screen; there was no false Doctor. She gave a sigh of relief, "He's gone."
The Doctor kissed the console, "I love you! You magnificent piece of sexy beauty you!"
"Hey!" Colgate hissed.
The Doctor removed himself from the panel, and trotted over to the jealous mare, "Sorry..." he apologized, "I'm still new to this marriage thing," he pressed his lips onto hers.
After a few seconds she pulled away, "You don't always have to kiss me when I'm mad," she explained.
The Doctor placed a hoof on his chin, when he came up with an idea he gave her a confused look, "So, you don't want me too always kiss you. So how am I suppose to show you that I care?" he began to look around the control panel. "I mean I always saw Centurion and Pond kiss a lot, and that appears to be the only way they saw they care for each other, and they cared for each other a lot," he chuckled while saying this.
Colgate smiled as she trotted next to him, "Well, couples have many ways of showing their love." She rubbed her head on his, "Some cuddle, some take long walks in the park..."
"I took you to a park!" the Doctor interrupted.
"Yeah..." she answered sarcastically, "on Dextrox 4. You know, the one filled with acid pools, that almost melted my horn off."
"Well, if I can't take you to one of the most beautiful and deadly spots in all of the universe..." he walked away from her and flipped a lever and the TARDIS shuttered. "How am I suppose to show love?"
Colgate sashayed up to him seductively, "Well, there is one thing we could try..."
The Doctor tried to pick up on his wife's suggestion, "Well, I haven't found a planet that is composed entirely of tooth products..."
"No..." she put her hoof up to his mouth, "I mean don't get me wrong, that would be awesome," she looked into his eyes. "But, why don't we get rid of the bunk beds, and share one."
"But one bed is so cramped..." the Doctor complained, "With bunk beds we have enough space," he flipped another switch, and the famous vroomp noise could be heard, "And it has a ladder. It's like ascending to the stars every night. In your bedroom!"
She rubbed his mane, "I mean: remove the bunk beds, and share a bigger bed, you know like a queen's bed or something. You sexy, whacky, doctor you."
The Doctor blushed, "I do get a bit nippy at night, and the extra body heat could keep me warm." Colgate rolled her eyes and walked away from him. The Doctor looked confused, "Did I say something wrong?"
"Oh, no..." she snapped her ail, "I just love how my husband doesn't even know what his wife wants."
The Doctor messed with his mane anxiously, "I'm a time traveler, not a psychic. How am I suppose too know what you want?" She didn't answer him. "Ah! Why are mares so confusing?!"
"Then why don't I give you a lesson on them," a British voice mush like the Doctor's entered the room.
"What is that suppose to mean?" Colgate turned and questioned the stallion.
The Doctor began looking around furiously, "That wasn't me."
"But I heard you say it," Colgate reassured herself.
"He didn't say it..." the figure from the screen descended from the steps, on the other side of the control panel, "I did."
"How did you get in here?" the Doctor questioned him unphased by his presence.
The false Doctor smirked, "Easy, when you have a sonic," he pulled out a rusty looking sonic screwdriver.
"How did he get a sonic?" Colgate asked the Doctor.
"You mean when," the false Doctor began to move around the console, rubbing his hoof on it as he walked. "I found it in nineteen twenty-three, when we went to do the Jitterbug," he began to dance, and Colgate retreated towards the real Doctor.
"Is that really how I dance?" the Doctor said astounded, "I'm pretty good."
Colgate elbowed the Doctor in the ribs, "Would you stop flirting with yourself!"
"Sorry," the Doctor apologized while rubbing his ribs.
The false Doctor walked closer to the duo with an evil smirk. Colgate and the Doctor began to scoot around the outer rim of the console. "Do something!"
"Right!" the Doctor agreed, "Get out of here!"
"What would that possibly do for us?" Colgate deadpanned.
The false Doctor laughed maniacally, "Easy Doctor..." he pointed his hoof at Colgate, "I want her."
"Why me?" Colgate questioned.
"Because you left him standing at the alter," the Doctor explained. The false Doctor nodded in agreement.
Colgate looked at the false Doctor, "Would you let it go! I love him, not you!"
The duo continued to back around the panel as the false Doctor continued to advance, "Never my dear. You said you'd marry me, and I intend to have you as my wife."
"I never agreed to you!" she hugged the real Doctor, "I agreed to him."
"Actually..." the Doctor began.
"Not helping," Colgate stopped him.
Colgate's flank hit the door to the TARDIS, and it creaked open. The false Doctor smirked, "This will do."
"What may do?" the Doctor asked intrigued.
The false Doctor ran forward and rammed into the couple throwing open the door and sending the two tumbling out of the TARDIS. "Adios compadres."
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!" was the only thing said, before the Doctor and Colgate disappeared into the time vortex.