Doctor Who: The Equestrian Chronicles

by Dr Time Keeper

Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1: Arrival

It was a peaceful day in the land of Equestria, and no area was more happy than ponyville, there were many ponies who lived here but one was about to get a massive surprise.
“Oh, Spike I don’t understand, why is the princess not doing anything. The mare on the moon will return tomorrow and she wants me to make friends!” the voice in distress was a young purple unicorn by the name of Twilight Sparkle, the personal student of Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria, next to the purple mare was a little purple dragon, reading a comic book, relaxing unlike his pony friend.
“Come on twilight, maybe it really is an old ponytale but you still have some tasks, so my advice is ill help you get those done and then you can return to your research” Twilight looked at her dragon, with shock in her eyes.
“Wow, spike I didn't know you could think like that, I thought food was all you thought about” she commented surprised by her friends use of his usually one sided mind
“and that” the mare rolled her eyes and was about to walk out the door when a strange sound could be heard, Twilight could not put her hoof on it yet to her it sounded like, Pain.

“What was that!?” twilight exclaimed after the thunderous crash
“It landed in the west wing, come on spike” spike was terrified and wanted to run, yet he knew his owner would say differently.
“Don’t you run away from things like this” twilight shot a glare at the purple dragon to which he followed the mare into the west wing of the library. “What is that?”
“I don’t know seems familiar” to what spike was referring to was a large blue wooden box, that twilight thought that she had seen before, on the box was writing at the top (despite it being on its side) “police public call box, wonder what it is?” then as if on cue the doors swung open and out came a grey Pegasus with a crazy messed up mane and wearing ripped clothes that clearly did not fit anyway, the only item which seemed to be undamaged was a tartan tie tied loosely around his neck. Exiting the box, he tried to stand on his hind legs and attempted to wipe blood off his face not realising his hands where covered in more blood than his face, like he had just survived a slaughter or committed one, despite his appearance, he had a big grin on his face.
“sweet, a unicorn, never seen one before” the Pegasus was staring at twilight like she was some specimen, being observed, till he spotted spike “oh hold on, is that... no way A DRAGON!!!” and like a foul on his birthday began jumping up and down with joy...before falling on his stomach since he lost his balance, standing on his hind legs “ow, what the?, why did I fall over?” getting up he noticed his hooves and began to question his body “wait hold on, why do i have hooves?, AHHHHHH!!!!, I’m a horse!, NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” Twilight was tired of his nonsense and began to try and get some answers.
“Would you stop and tell me who you are?” the strange pony stopped freaking and stared wide eyed at twilight.
“YOU CAN TALK!!, THE f**K” he began freaking out again this time moving away from twilight, like we was staring at a monster “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!” he then looked at his hooves then back at twilight with fear in his eyes “what the hell am I” then as his voice lowered he collapsed unconscious followed, by golden vapour exiting his mouth. Twilight was shocked to say the least never had any pony reacted to anything like that before, spike however was still trembling.
“Twilight, what just happened?” the mare looked at her small friend and back to the supposed insane Pegasus lying on the floor.
“I don’t know spike, but I say we wait for him to wake up, then get some answers from him” knowing that this pony was far too heavy for both twilight to lift, she decided to use her magic to teleport him to the couch. Placing a blanket and pillows by him to make him comfortable twilight sat there staring at the crazy pony, who reacted like he had no idea who he was, and the fear in his eyes, it was worse than a frightened foul on nightmare night.
“What the hell am I?” Those words rung in her head, for what seemed like hours, not knowing what to do.
“Maybe I should call princess Celestia...no I need to get some answers first” after calming down spike both dragon and mare, left to complete the errands she was told to do.
Sometime later
Twilight returned to find her guest exactly where she’d left him, EXACTLY, he hadn’t moved an inch. Sitting in front of him again, with her suspicion turning to concern, spike on the other hand had hoped in his bed for a nap, since he was still just a baby.
“maybe we should call a doctor what if he’s ill” then the moment she finished, the Pegasus’s eyes shot opened and he got up and looked around, scanning the area, finally his eyes resting on the purple mare in front of him.
“Did you call?” to twilights surprise he had the smile he had when he first exited his box, yet this time he was cleaned up and...
“His wounds they healed up! not a scratch on him” she thought, unsure who this pony was
“What’s your name?” this pony was really strange first he freaks out about the most basic of things next the second he is conscience, he is asking personal questions.
“I’m Twilight, Twilight Sparkle” she answered him proudly.
“Well may I say that, that is a beautiful name, don’t believe I’ve heard it before” though she would deny it she was blushing from his complement, no pony had ever commented on her name before.
“Well thanks, may i ask what is yours?” the pony gave a cheerful smirk, like he knew what was coming next.
“I’m The Doctor” twilight had cocked her head what an odd name, yet she believed that it was just his title.
“Doctor Who?” she asked thinking she didn’t hear him correctly.
“Just that, The Doctor, I know it’s confusing but I’m been going by that for centuries” he was beginning to show the craziness he had displayed before.
“oookkkaaaayyy, you’re not going to freak out again are you?” the doctors eyes widened, not as much as they did last time, in fact he looked confused .
“What? Oh! No, no need to worry that was just a sever culture shock, I mean what would you do if your dragon over there could talk, ha-ha” he said with a chuckle not realising that Spike could indeed talk.
“He can” Spike said annoyed at the grey Pegasus.
“Oh snap, can all animals talk, or is it just horses and dragons” he said again surprised at a talking animal but unlike last time he didn’t freak out about it.
“Pony, and no quite a few animals can talk, but they way you reacted, it was like you had no idea, who you were” on her statement, the doctor began looking around his body inspecting it.
“that because I didn’t, I wasn’t a horse last time a checked” twilight had noticed he kept saying the word horses, when pony is the correct term it seemed he was going to be a annoyance on that.
“Pony, you’re a ...” before she could finish her sentence the doctor screamed like he did when he first saw Spike.
“Pegasus! I HAVE WINGS! AWSOME! And what’s this, a tattoo? Interesting never had a tattoo before” he exclaimed jumping up and down, a bit like pinkie when she gets excited before staring at his flank.
“That’s your cutie mark” the doctor had his confused face again, only this time he cocked his head.
“Come again?”Twilight turned around to show the doctor her cutie mark, which was 5 small stars, around a larger pink star, which was pictured sparkling.
“Your cutie mark, it’s a sign to show what your talent is” she said lowering her flank.
“Well yours seems to match you well, sparkle by name and by talent” again a blushing twilight turned her head in embarrassment.
“yeah, I guess so” The Doctor got up, with some difficulty and attempted to open his wings to stretch which to her amazement, was a very impressive wing span almost the size of Celestia’s wings “ sweet Celestia” The Doctor looked at Twilight again with confusion.
“Who?” It was now her turn to be confused, no pony had not heard of Princess Celestia.
“You don’t know who Celestia is” despite the seriousness for twilight, The Doctor didn’t seem to care.
“Nope, but I’m sure to find out later on, now what’s up?” he said now concentrating on Twilight’s reaction.
“What?” the doctor rolled his eyes like he had seen the same thing over and over and was getting tired of it.
“Humans, horses, there’s no difference! You said Celestia, when i stretched my wings, what about?” he raised his voice irritated for a bit before calming and tell Twilight about what he was going on about.
“Ohh! It’s you have an impressive wing span, I’ve only seen one other pony to have a wing span that big” this seemed to tickle the doctors fancy as he didn’t know he had such unique wings.
“Who?” He asked curiously
“Well...Princess Celestia’s actually” The Doctor raise an eyebrow and brought his hoof to his chin.
“Well, going by your reaction to my wings, and the fact that this Celestia is a princess; I’m guessing she is your ruler” Twilight nodded to confirm.
“And my mentor” The Doctor was again confused but decided to save it for another day. “One more thing your cutie mark, can I have a look at it”
“yea sure” The Doctor replied cheerfully, turning to show twilight the mark on his flank “not had a good look at it myself to be honest” upon looking at his cutie mark, Twilight had no idea what it was for, the mark in question was a galaxy. “a galaxy huh, i was expecting an hourglass, or a clock”
“Well, what is your talent” The Doctor again put his hoof to his chin and began to think.
“Well, I myself expected time to be my talent, but now i think about it, time has nothing to do with it” Twilight was reconsidering the insane pony idea.
“What are you talking about?” she asked The Doctor now getting sick of him not making any sense.
“well, miss sparkle, the box I came out of is a time machine/spaceship and I know it sounds crazy, but she is rebuilding so you’re going to have to wait, anyway my ship can go anywhere in the universe to any point in existence, but time is doesn’t exist, it just what we use to keep a record of said existence, my talent isn’t time fabrication but the ability to travel anywhere, any when in the cosmos I wish. That should sum it up” The Doctor explained this in about 30 seconds but Twilight seemed to be able to keep up with him, barley.
“Wow that actually made a lot of sense doctor” The Doctor then jumped up and landed on his four new hooves and attempted to walk “please don’t tell me you don’t know how to walk?” The Doctor had a frown on his face as he tried to get his legs to move the correct way.
“Like I said, I’m new to being a horse, not less than a day ago I was bipedal, now I’m a horse on all fours, plus I’m hungry” he revealed with a gurgling stomach in-between his explanation.
“Ok, I’ll help you walk and get you something, in return you give me some answers, deal?” She offered getting up and heading for the kitchen.
“On the food, deal, on the walking, no I’ve got it, it’s just like crawling, only I haven’t crawled, in over 400 years” he said revealing his age casually.
“Oh ok...WAIT! Did you say 400 years!” The Doctor looked at the shocked twilight, realising he should explain that feature.
“ahh, yea, might as well say I’m 462 years old” after Twilight calmed down, she made a few sandwiches and sat down next to The Doctor, ready to listen.
“Ok explain the basics” The Doctor cleared his throat after taking a bite of his hay sandwich.
“ok, my name is the doctor, I’m an alien to you, called a time lord, that box in the other room in my home/ space-time ship, called a TARDIS, which stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, time lords are a race of, I would say humanoid, but it won’t mean anything, anyway they are aliens who have, unlocked the ability to travel in time and space, since they live near temporal technology their live span became extremely long considering 100 years as being a child, but to top of the life span, we time lords have the unique, ability to change our appearance upon fatal damage to our bodies and so we change our physical appearance, the process is random and in result I have been turned into a Horse...” half way through his very long explanation Twilight had corrected him when he said horse instead of pony.
“Pony” The Doctor gave Twilight a look and decided to role with it.
“Pony, instead of the common bipedal-humanoid shape, so I have absolute no experience, as a...pony what so ever and it seems I am in a different world to my own as I have no knowledge of your history, and cultures. There done, any questions?” Twilight listened as best she could and now knew a bit about him be it not much.
“Actually, just one so far” she said calmly despite everything she had heard.
“What?” he said finishing off his sandwich.
“How did you eat, those sandwiches without stopping your explanation?” she asked pointing at the empty plate.
“I ate the first one, a bit the second and stuffed the last two in my jacket pocket for later, the one I was eating well, I’m a time traveller I probably stole it off myself in the future, speaking of its nearly sunrise, isn’t there a party, thing going on” he said motioning to the window which viewed the moon slowly setting.
“Yea, the summer sun festival, when Celestia raises the sun for the longest day of the year, how did you know?” she asked wondering who he knew important events yet never being here before.
“well I read that book on rulers of Equestria, guessed it was what this place was called, and it said something about Princess Celestia’s ability to raise the sun and moon, and well a galaxy is a celestial body, to I can tell the time of day, the weather forecast and the position of the sun in your solar system, by the way Celestia probably doesn’t raise the sun, but instead turns the planet to face the sun” he said with a little smile on his face, he seemed really interested in the workings of Equestria.
“Wow, you are really smart” The Doctor gave a cocky smirk.
“I dabble, now this is a once a year event I would very much like to see it” Twilight was actually Glad she had made a friend like Celestia had asked, and with is knowledge, he might teach her a few things that even Celestia may not know.
“Sure, let me just wake up spike” The Doctor jumped of the couch on to the floor and continued to the front door.
“Don’t bother, he got up and left a few minutes ago, when you were in the kitchen, I said we’d catch up later” he explained while getting up.
“you do think ahead” both ponies walked out of Twilights house and walked towards the stage that the ceremony would take place, both would continue to chat about different topics Twilight giving of a few giggles when The Doctor almost trips over. After ten minutes of walking The Doctor and Twilight walked to the crowd looking up at another chestnut coloured pony “that’s the mayor, mayor mare” while walking Twilight told The Doctor about several ponies he need to know about.
“Wait, mayor...mare as in female hors...uhh, pony” he said with confusion almost forgetting to use the proper term.
“yea, believe it or not, I’ve not been here long, in fact I arrived today” The Doctor could tell that his new friend was happy as well as everyone else, but he felt something...off, looking up he saw the moon and several stars which moved closer behind the moon.
“Dam it!” Twilight saw something was off about The Doctor, in such a short amount of time he seemed, more serious.
“Doctor, what’s wrong?” The Doctor turned to his purple equine friend.
“That book I read, it mentioned another mare that ruled Equestria and I think you knew already” that’s when it hit Twilight like a hammer on her horn.
“The mare on the moon, how did I forget?” she yelled but over the mass of chatting ponies she wasn’t heard.
“It was my fault, my arrival must have taken your mind off it” twilight was worried, till she realised that The Doctor actually believed in the mare on the moon.
“Wait you believe in the story” The Doctor had a serious look on his face that Twilight never knew he had due to his clumsy looking personality.
“in all my years, I have learned one thing about fairytales...” and if on cue the shocked reaction showed, something was not right “...and it’s that they are always, always truth behind them” following his final words was purple smoke flooded the stage and formed a Beautiful mare in dark armour, with a coat as black as the void, despite her intimidating look, she was slim and elegant.
“Oh, my beloved subjects, it’s been so long since I’ve seen you small little sun loving faces” fear had stricken everyone/pony, yet there was one certain rainbow coloured pony, was a bit too bold.
“What did you do with our princess?” Rainbow Dash shouted, being held back by the tail by Apple Jack.
“Hahaha, why am I not royal enough for you?” this dark mare was definitely the definition of the over the top bad guy, yet her mood was like lighting “don’t you know who I am” Like a growing itch, another pony started commenting, a bright pink one to be precise.
“Ohh Ohh, more guessing games, uhh, hokey smokes, how about Queen Meanie, no! Black snootie, Black snoot...” Pinkie Pie that was known to never shut up was silenced by Apple Jack with an apple while who was still holding Rainbow Dash back. Yet the dark mare didn’t pay any attention to her focusing on herself.
“Does my crown no longer count, know that I have been imprisoned for 1000 years” Twilight was getting agitated, seeing this evil mare terrorise innocent ponies no apparent reason.
“I have to do something” she began walking towards her, yet The Doctor stopped her remembering what someone had said to him, that no matter where he goes trouble will find him.
“No I will, I have experience in this sort of thing” he said coldly, not knowing much about how this world works he didn’t want any harm to come to his new friend
“But you’ll get hurt” Twilight had a vague idea of how dangerous this mare was but she didn't know him
“No I won’t...trust me, I’m The Doctor” reassuring Twilight with his cocky smirk he walked through the crowd to face his new adversary
“Did you not recall the legend, did you not see the signs” out of the group of ponies one grey coloured Pegasus walked out, to confront her with a dark yet warm look in his eyes.
“I did and I know who you are, mare on the moon or better yet...Nightmare Moon” the fact this random pony had knowledge of the dark mare made most ponies gasp, as nightmare moon is, the fabled mare of nightmare night (Halloween).
“Well, well, well somepony who remembers me, so you know why I’m here” her movements and voice tone would scare a pony, but Nightmare Moon wasn't talking to a pony.
“yea, yea, yea you’re here to bring eternal darkness and rule all of blah, blah, blah” The Doctor seemed to be treating this like a game, a game he played before, yet unlike his ruthless opponent he was one to show compassion “but I know what it’s like to live alone for a long time, let me help you, this is not what you’re meant to do” this seemed to strike a chord in the mare of shadows.
“You know nothing, and this is what I’m DESTINED to do, remember this day little ponies for it was you last, from this day forth the night shall last FOREVER!” every pony plus one dragon was frightened to the bone with the exception of the brave Rainbow and Time Lord