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// Doctor Dilemma Part Three 
// Story: Derpctor Who: The 6th Doctor 
// by TheDerpctor 
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	"Head... Hurts... Bad..."
Ponies swarmed the streets bellow the Doctor, and more then half of them had glowing horns. They started blasting her, she crashed herself through the nearest glass window to avoid them. Inside there was an earth pony who lunged at the Doctor as soon as he saw her. The Doctor grabbed a nearby lamp and smashed it into the stallion's face, with that as a distraction, she ran through the apartment and into the floor's hallway. The floor was filled with ponies who were leaving their apartments and the stallion from before was right behind her. 
Staying close to the ceiling, she flew to the stairway door and went in. There she heard doors opening on every floor, there was enough space for her to fly straight up between all the stairs and she launched herself up as fast as it was possible, ignoring ponies who were standing on the stairs trying to shoot her or grab her in mid-flight. 
On the very top she went through the door leading to the roof. Once on the rooftop she ran to the ledge of the building. Directly bellow her, who knows how many floors down, is her TARDIS. If she makes it there, she will be safe. 
Looking at the city ahead of her she saw pegasi, one by one taking to the sky. She followed them with her eyes, and high above her she saw a gigantic swarm of pegasi almost completely covering the sky. They all came together and like a tidal wave crashed down towards the Doctor. 
The Doctor leapt from the roof onto the adjacent building. The unicorns below were still firing their horns at her and so she crashed through another window. She ran through a room after room, kicking down doors, trying to get to the other side of the building. Then she felt the ground shake.
On the outside, the pegasi swarm changed direction from the apartment building it was targeting and crashed into the side of the building the Doctor was now in. Some crushed through the windows cutting themselves up and other crushed into the wall, the pegasi behind them kept pushing forward and squishing into already hurt ponies. The unicorns on the ground blasted the base of the building, with the force of the unicorns and pegasi, the building started to tilt. 
When the Doctor made it through to the other side, the top of the building hit the building right next to it and glass rained from all the windows on top of her. She flew across the street into another building, as the other building crashed onto it. The top floors took most of the damage as the rest of the rubble fell on the ground, blocking the way she came in. 
The Doctor hidden on one of the lower floors felt the ground shake even harder, and then everything was dark. One side of the building was completely totaled and the windows that weren't broken were covered by debris. Thanks to that, the Doctor was now in a completely dark room, but the other side of the building was fine so anyone could enter it from that side. There might even be other ponies nearby, but that's hard to tell in the dark and silence. 
The Doctor's head hurt a little, she was a little bruised and felt little cuts on her head and face. The coat was big and sturdy enough to cover most of her body and protect her from most of the glass. She didn't feel the bruises going away, so the regeneration was complete and she was stuck like this. 
"Feeling tired, yet, Doctor?" said the voices in the dark.
"Nah, I had worse, but maybe you can get me some water?" replied the Doctor.
"I can't figure out how to fly your ship and I don't think it would be easy to explain. It would be easier for us both is you just surrendered your mind to me."
"Maybe if you asked nicely, I would have helped you. If this is your attempt at asking me, then at least use the word, "Please"
"Don't mock me, Doctor. I have the whole city of Manehattan under my control."
"Then what's stopping you? Come and get me, I'm right here! And what happened with me flying you home, I can still do that if you agree to pay for the consequences of your actions."
"There will be no consequences-"
"There will be so! Your slimy trail is all over this mess, and if no one will punish you, then I will. I am The Doctor, a time-lord, I am the president of The High Council of Galligrey, if you think you can run then you have another thing coming!"
"You're going to use your fancy connections on me?"
"No, I will find you, and then you will wish I didn't."
"In any case, this whole mess is all your fault! When you attacked me, I had to retaliate. This destruction you caused, could have been averted."
Thinking back, Mestor used a very impressive form of mind control to get what he wanted. With that much power he could take anything he wanted and no one could get in his way, until now. That stunt with the pegasi was probably his attempt at reestablishing his power. He would never talk to someone who is weaker then he is. Is he afraid?
"How many died, Mestor?"
"I don't have time for this. Die, Doctor!"
The unicorns outside moved the rubble out of the way with their magic. The room the Doctor was in received some light. There were hoofsteps approaching from somewhere inside the building and the unicorns from the outside will soon be here.
"Die? Didn't you want me alive just now?"
"I will get what I want, while you sit still." 
There were five ponies from whom the voices came. They entered the room and circled the Doctor. Three of them jumped, and the Doctor dodged. Two others tried, but their attempt was as useless and a lot less vicious then the ponies from the outside. Some of them were unicorns but they didn't try to use magic. 
The Doctor avoided them and went outside through the path the unicorns cleared. They moved the rubble and turned what's left of the half-destroyed building to its side. All the unicorns were collapsed on the ground in exhaustion. Some pegasi could be seen among the debris and some also fainted around where they all tried to ram the building the Doctor was in. Because of the dust, it was hard to see who was a corpse and who wasn't.
A pegasus fell right next to the Doctor and she looked up to see a big group of pegasi trying to stay in the air. Some were trying to hover in place, but they were loosing altitude as their wing flapping became irregular. Some just glided in circles, conserving energy. They all just looked tired and eventually would give up and fall right in front of the Doctor's eyes. She tried to catch a few, but there were just too many and she wasn't fast enough. The city lights lit up the whole scene of the falling pegasi. 
Eventually there were no more pegasi left and the Doctor's head stopped hurting. All the mind-controlled ponies the Doctor passed on the street were laying on the ground with their eyes on her. She flew up and went to the Coco's apartment. 
The lights were off, but the TARDIS door was open and a light came from inside. The Doctor peeked through the door and saw Coco. She was in front of the console unit, gasping for breath, periodically pressing random buttons to see what works, and when nothing happened she hit the unit. For a moment she gave up, hit the console and put her hooves up to her head. Without seeing her face, the Doctor heard her cry quietly.
The Doctor came in, leaned against a wall and said, "Hello."
Coco jerked away from the console unit, her face and hair was a mess. 
"Yes, you! Show me how to fly this! Please! I need help!" Coco screamed at the Doctor, about to start crying again.
"No," said the Doctor.
"Do it! Or else I'll hurt you!" her face briefly lit with realization and she ran out, the Doctor followed. 
"I'll Jump!" she stood next to the edge.
"And I'll catch her," said the Doctor.
She looked down over the edge, then at the Doctor; whose face didn't show a speck of emotion. 
Coco broke down, hit the floor, and then punched it. Through snot and tears she took a deep breath and let out a wail. 
"You're a real piece of shit, you know that?!" she crawled to the Doctor, "You should die, just die!"
Without daring to look into the Doctor's eyes, she started hitting her on the chest, "Die! Die! Die! I hate you!"
The Doctor took it, Coco kept hitting her and crying. The Doctor looked down at Coco and said, "...I'm sorry."
Coco hit her some more and froze, she looked at her hoof and then at the Doctor. She quickly turned around and ran out of the room. The Doctor watched, then went inside the TARDIS.

The TARDIS materialized inside a cavern underneath Manehattan. The doors opened and there was light. The Doctor stepped out and walked to Mestor's body. She looked down at his face and he was still breathing. He had a big bleeding wound all over the side of his face and neck. He pressed his hand to it trying to stop the bleeding, but it wouldn't stop. His breathing was loud and erratic.
"...home ..." he struggled to say as he very slowly bled to death.
The Doctor looked down and said, "Not you."
The breathing stopped and Mestor died. The Doctor turned around and went to his TARDIS.

The room had walls of very light shade of brown. On the floor there was a broken wooden table with a broken red sewing machine, the chair was missing. Other things were scattered all over the room, almost everything she owned was there.
Coco washed her face and fixed her hair, she lay on the floor looking out the giant hole in the wall.
The wind picked up, screeching-vrooming sound, the box appeared. With a "DOOM" sound, the TARDIS materialized and the Doctor stepped out, closing the door behind her.
Coco turned her head away. The Doctor lied down and looked outside.
Without Mestor's control, the city became very loud. Outside there were ponies yelling and sirens were blaring. There was no more building across and there wasn't as much light as before, so more stars were visible.
"Breezy," said the Doctor looked at Coco, expecting a reaction but there was nothing.
She looked back at the stars and said, "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there’s injustice, and somewhere else... there's a pony crying."
Coco kept looking away.
The Doctor stood up and said, "I should have mentioned this earlier, but my spaceship is also a time machine."
No reaction.
The Doctor went on, "If you want, I could leave forever and you won't see me, or you could let me help you. I could give you all the time in the world you want, I could take you anywhere in the universe, and... also, I'm sorry."
There was silence, Coco took her time to think about it and when the Doctor started thinking about leaving she said, "Fine."
"You'll go?" said the excited Doctor.
"I just... don't know what else could possibly go wrong. This is rock bottom for me."
The Doctor pushed the TARDIS door open, stood aside, and gestured for Coco to come in. She sighed and went in.
The Doctor stood there with a grin on her face. The side of her eye caught something on the floor. It was a flower pin, almost like the one Coco wore in her hair but with less petals in it. 
The Doctor pinned it to one of her lapels and went inside the TARDIS.
The TARDIS soon dematerialized and they were gone.