Show him mercy.
Soren rubbed his head as he and the Master stared at each other. Both were waiting for the other to make the first move. With his peripheral vision, Soren noticed that the ponies surrounding him and the Master were only watching, not interfering. 'Looks like these bandits have some honor,' Soren thought. 'Or they just want to see a good fight.' The Master chose to strike first and sent a laser at Soren again. The alicorn jumped out of the way and started casting fireballs at the Master.
"Die you little runt!" the Master yelled at Soren as the alicorn constantly dodged his shots.
Soren had no problems avoiding the lasers, but he did have trouble landing a hit on the Master. Both stallions were very skilled at dodging. Soren decided to create a slightly different form of a fireball. When this type of fireball hit the ground near the Master, it exploded into embers that flew from the impact spot. The Master was singed by a few of these; the spell irritated and slightly weakened the Time Lord. Soren ran up to the Time Lord and shot another splash fireball; this one was a direct impact. The Master flew onto his back onto the ground. Soren jumped on top of the Master and pinned him there. The Master twisted and turned but couldn't shake off Soren. He couldn't even use his laser screwdriver, for it was knocked away from him.
"Give up!" Soren shouted. "You lost!" The Master, ignoring Soren, was still trying to break free. "I'm giving you one last chance: give up and I won't take drastic measures." The Master instantly stopped moving and looked at Soren.
"Drastic measures? Since when does the Doctor use drastic measures?" he asked with boredom.
"I'm not the Doctor anymore; I'm Soren. You have caused so much mayhem that I'm through giving you mercy. Last chance: Give up or face the consequences."
Do the right thing.
"The voice is calling you, Doctor. Don't you hear it?" Soren was silent. "What will you do? Kill me or let me go?" Soren was surprised that the Master could hear the strange voice as well.
"What is this voice?" Soren lost some of his seriousness.
"Somepony is calling out to you, trying to guide you, and I believe I know who it is. You should know too. Who else knows how to communicate with us Time Lords?" 'He's right,' Soren thought to himself. Soren looked around and didn't see the pony, so he looked back at the Master with a very serious expression.
"Last. Chance." was all Soren said.
"Ha ha ha, you might as well kill me because I'll never give in to you." Soren raised a hoof, but just when it was about to make contact, the hoof was stopped. Soren looked at his hoof and saw that it was covered in purple aura. He looked around once again and saw Twilight Sparkle, horn aglow, standing there.
"I'm disappointed in you, Soren," Twilight said. "This isn't how we do things. I tried speaking to you telepathically to get you to stop, but I can see that it didn't work."
"Let me go, Twilight," Soren demanded calmly, looking at the pinned stallion. "The Master doesn't deserve mercy, not after all the things he's done to us."
"I know that the Master deserves what's coming to him, but you know as well as I do that death is never the answer. Do you know what the Doctor told me one day?" Soren, still angry, looked at her. "Violence doesn't end violence...it extends it." Soren's stare softened; he looked back at the Master, who still looked bored. Twilight removed her magic from Soren's hoof and wrapped it around the Master to pin him down. Soren stepped off of the Master. He then proceeded to sit on his haunches and bury his face in his hooves. Twilight walked over to Soren and sat next to him. Seeing that he was beginning to weep, Twilight hugged him.
"What's happening to me, Twilight? I've resorted to killing ponies. Why?!"
"It's ok. It's the world and Master that's getting to you. We'll leave soon. We just need to figure out what to do with him first." Soren broke the hug and wiped his eyes.
"You fixed the TARDIS?" Twilight nodded. "What was the problem?"
"That's not important right now. We need to deal with the Master. What should we do with him?" Soren stared at the magically-pinned Time Lord. He now scowled at Soren.
"Dump him on another deserted planet besides this one," Soren said with no emotion. "He deserves solitude and boredom."
Twilight nodded. She then lifted the Master off of the ground and started to leave the camp. Soren noticed that everypony took a step away from him and Twilight as they walked by. Looking forward, Soren and Twilight left the bandits behind and carried the Master back to the other community.
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At the community, a mare and a dragon were waiting for their two friends to return. They waited by one of the entrances to the camp, staring into the horizon for a glimpse of the two ponies. Just as the bandaged mare turned to walk back into the camp, the dragon exclaimed something.
"I see them! They're coming!" The mare turned towards the horizon and saw three ponies, one of them floating, heading in their direction. The mare sighed with relief, and the dragon started running to meet them, the mare following right behind him. The returning ponies saw their friends and picked up their pace. The friends met halfway and happily greeted each other. After greetings were exchanged, the ponies went back into the community to explain everything to the Leader.
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"So this is him? The pony who almost trapped you all here?" The Leader was addressing Soren and his friends in the Leader's tent.
"Yes sir," Soren answered. "The Master is a manipulative stallion that can get almost anypony on his side if they don't know him. We defeated him and now we're going to send him to a deserted planet where he belongs."
"As long as he's taken care of, I have no objections. Where will you all go now? I have been told by Twilight Sparkle herself that she has fixed your spaceship." Twilight faced her friends.
"The damage done to the TARDIS caused it to become stuck in an infinite loop. When we landed here, she was stuck between the first second of leaving and the last second of landing, thus causing an internal paradox, which I had to fix."
"Wait...TARDIS?" the Leader asked. "Your ship is the TARDIS?! Then that means..." The shocked stallion stared at Soren. Soren sighed.
"Hello...I'm the Doctor." The Leader wasn't the only pony in shock; Soren's friends were shocked as well.
"You know about the TARDIS?" Spike asked.
"But of course. Everypony knows about it. It is a thing of legends, as is the Doctor. However, you look nothing like how you are described in the history books."
"Yeah, regenerations can do that to a stallion. Anyway, Twilight, Rainbow, Spike, shall we take our leave?" Everypony nodded, so the friends, along with the still magically-pinned Master, began to leave. The Master was last out of the tent, so he whispered something to the Leader.
"You only survived because he is an alicorn." The Leader shivered.
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"Weren't we supposed to stop their conflict?"
"What conflict...?"
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Soren and Twilight stepped back into the TARDIS. They had just finished dumping the Master on a random, deserted planet. "So are we finally done?" Rainbow Dash asked. Soren and Twilight both sighed.
"We sure hope so, Rainbow," Twilight answered. "The Master won't be leaving this planet without some sort of transportation."
"Indeed," Soren said. "I just want to go home and relax for once. I'm tired of all these things that happen to us." Twilight walked up to Soren.
"I know you're exhausted, but you can't run away from danger all the time. It will come again one day. I just hope for our sake it won't be very soon." With that said, Twilight began to work on the TARDIS' console to send all of them home.
"Hopefully everything will be fine until Winter Wrap Up is over," Spike commented as they left for Ponyville. "I don't wanna miss another holiday because some evil pony decides to show up." Although it was meant as a joke, that comment only caused everypony to remain silent, the whirring of the TARDIS being the only sound.
(End of arc. Next arc: The Cloaked Mare)