In a deep corner of space, a tiny blue box hovered and twirled about. Inside lay an entire world of adventures. This blue box has saved countless lives, and the creature inside is considered the most feared being in the entire universe. This being is said to have ended entire races before. Inside, behind a large centre console, a cocoa brown stallion removed his necktie and turned the computer monitor to face him. Some ponies’ stories begin here. However, for this Time Pony, a story ends tonight. After undoing his necktie, the stallion looks down at his hooves.
"I don't want to go." The Time Pony sighed sadly, looking down at his hooves which began to glow a vibrant golden hue. He suddenly burst into flames consisting of pure energy. As he became engulfed in the flames, his physical form began to change. His mane grew itself out, his fur changed colour, and other physical aspects began to shift. When the flames dissipated, a slate grey earth pony with a dark grey mane stepped out.
"Ah!" The Doctor exclaimed, "I seem to be missing something." Glancing around quickly, the Time Pony began to prance around the console. He pulled one of the levers with his mouth, and the entire ship lurched to one side.
"We're crashing!" He exclaimed. As if things couldn’t get worse, the console exploded and flames spat all around the console room. The Time Pony held a mechanical device in his mouth, pressed down on the side button, and then the lurching stopped. In fact, although everything seemed to be combusting, the vehicle itself had landed somewhere. As such, the Time Pony trotted out of the blue box and stepped onto the cool grass below his hooves.
"Well," He started, "It still looks like Ponyville to me."
Looking around, the stallion noticed he had landed his blue box in some poor family’s backyard. He promptly turned around and tried to open the doors of the box. Unfortunately for him, the box locked itself. He began to gripe about the situation, until he heard hoofsteps behind him. Turning back to face the new pony, this stallion’s mind raced. Before him was a young unicorn cult. He had a midnight blue mane and dark grey fur.
"Who..." The unicorn started, and then switched to a different question, "What is that?" He asked, pointing at the blue box behind the Time Pony.
"Can I have an apple?" The Doctor asked, "All I can think about are apples."
The young colt dragged the raggedy Time Pony into his home. There wasn’t too much to say about the unicorn’s bungalow. From a first glance around the place, it appeared to be a two bedroom, one bathroom, one story home with a kitchen and a joint dining and living room. When they trotted inside, the young colt levitated a fresh apple to the Time Pony. He took a bite, and spat out the chunk.
"Apples are rubbish." The doctor stated as he bit into the side of the bright, red apple.
"Why did you ask for one then?" Midnight asked.
"You can't expect me to be in the right state of mind. I only finished regenerating." He stated.
"What’s regenerating?" Midnight asked.
"Nevermind. I have to do a test run on the TARDIS." He started, "Don't worry, I'll be back in five minutes." The Time Pony ran back outside to the blue box. Still smoking, he used the mechanical screwdriver to unlock the doors and he stepped inside. He turned around to see the worried expression on the colt’s face, "It will be only five minutes. Wait here."
With that, the doors on the blue box shut. The box whirred and wheezed until it simply vanished. The young unicorn sat by the landing spot of the box.
The Doctor was gone for more than five minutes.