There was an awkward silence for a moment as the Doctor stared at Time Turner and the three fillies.
"Well?" said the Doctor. "I'm sure your confused, so come on, one question each."
"Who are you?" Sweetie Belle finally said.
"I'm the Doctor, hello!" the stranger said cheerfully. "And please, don't say 'Doctor who.'"
"What are you?" asked Apple Bloom.
"A Time Lord," said the Doctor. "That's not fair, alright. I'm a being from outside your universe who's come here via..." The Doctor trailed off. "Actually I'm not entirely sure how I got here, hang on." He went back and flicked switches on the console.
"What's with the box?" Scootaloo seemed amazed at the room around her. "It's..."
"Bigger on the inside?" The Doctor finished for her. "Yup! Bit of dimensional trickery. It's called a TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimension In Space. It's my ship."
"Ship?" Scootaloo responded. "Where does it go?"
"Anywhere." the Doctor smiled. "That's the last time I answer a second question."
Only Time Turner was left.
"Well?" asked the Doctor.
"What is a Dalek?" Turner asked.
The goofy expression on the mans face melted away to show sadness beyond his apparent years. He began to look much older. "A Dalek Is hate, rage and fear all wrapped up in a mechanical shell. They were bred by a madman to end a war that couldn't end and then they were upgraded and improved so the could fight a war to end time. A Dalek is evil. Their creator pulped out whatever humanity was left in them until all that was left was hate, and if they're here, then a Dalek could easily be the end of your reality."
The large room fell silent. The three fillies were terrified. Time Turner had his eyes locked with the Doctor.
"How can you know all of this?" asked Time Turner.
"Because I was there." The Doctor said frankly.
Time Turner didn't doubt him for a moment.
"Right!" energy seemed to return to the Doctor as he sprung back to the console. "My turn to ask the questions now. Keep in mind that the answers can, and probably will have an effect on not only this, but in fact all universes. So please answer carefully. Firstly..." The Doctor Turned back to the four ponies. "You're all talking horses, what's up with that, then?"
There was a short pause.
"We are not horses!" Sweetie Belle said indignantly. "We're ponies!"
The Doctor nodded. "My mistake." He still looked thoroughly confused."Alright. What' are your names?"
"Time Turner." Turner said.
"Sweetie Belle!"
"Scootaloo!"
"Apple Bloom!"
"THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!! YAY!!" The three fillies screamed in unison.
The Doctor blinked and looked to Time Turner. "Should I ask or..."
"I wouldn't, no," said Time Turner.
"Okay! Next question." The Doctor said quickly. "What was a Dalek doing in your back room."
"I was hoping you could tell me," said Turner. "It showed up just moments before you did! I'm still not sure how it got there!"
"The only answer is that you have something a Dalek might want," the Doctor continued, thinking hard. "Something that he would risk breaking apart reality to get. What is it?"
"I run a watch shop!" Turner said indignantly. "There's nothing there worth ending a universe over. And who's 'he?'"
"Rarity's watch!" Sweetie Belle said in horror, "I completely forgot!"
"Sweetie Belle?" Scootaloo said. "Apparently the universe is being invaded by giant salt-shakers from another dimension. Bigger problems now."
"Right!" Sweetie Belle straightened up."Gotta focus."
"Not your shop," the Doctor explained. "Your world. Can you think of anything?"
"What would a Dalek want to to do?" Turner asked.
"Besides kill everything that isn't a Dalek?" the Doctor said. "Expand their numbers. There are very few Daleks left at the moment and they'd very much like to fix that."
"So what your sayin' is," Apple Bloom started. "This guys lookin' for somethin' that could turn one Dalek, into a hundred?"
The Doctor nodded. "That sort of thing."
The Cutie Mark Crusaders turned to each other and smiled. "The Mirror Pond!!"
"Yes!" Turner's eyes lit up. This was all very exciting.
"What's a 'Mirror Pond'?" asked the Doctor.
"It's a magic pool that you can use to make copies of yourself," said Sweetie Belle.
The Doctor shook his head. "He wouldn't come all the way here to chase a legend."
"Legend nothing!" Scootaloo said happily. "We saw it happen! Pinkie Pie cloned herself a bunch of times a couple of months ago."
"Where is it?" the Doctor straightened up.
"Somewhere in the Everfree forest," said Apple Bloom. "We never saw it ourselves, but we sure got a taste of what it could do."
"I was there." Turner chimed in. "With Pinkie all it was was annoying. With a Dalek..."
"Right." the Doctor flipped a heavy switch and the TARDIS began to grind. "We'll need to collect a little more information on how this thing works before we go messing about with it. Let's ask a few of the locals, shall we? Allons-Y!
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Applejack and Big McIntosh were holding pitchforks at the strange blue box that had just appeared in their basement.
"Alright," Applejack said to her brother. "Whatever comes outta there, we hit it before it can hit us, got it Big Mac?"
"Eeeyup." said Big Mac.
The first one out of the box was Apple Bloom.
Luckily they managed to catch themselves without skewering their sister. Just then a tall thin creature stepped out of the box.
"Hello!" The figure said cheerfully. "I'm the Doctor and... you deserve an explanation."
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He waited in the forest for news.
He was frail. It was a miracle he lasted this long. Pieces of his body had been torn off to help the cause.
But he didn't care. Soon he would be victorious. Soon his creations would take their rightful place as masters of reality.
Two Daleks returned to the clearing. "We have located the spacial anomaly" said one
"And?" he said in a weak, gurgling voice.
"Nothing" said the other.
"What?!" he said shocked.
"We entered the pool as you instructed. Yet our ranks remain unchanged" said the first. "You have failed!"
"No! Wait!" he said desperately, now reminded that he wasn't now, nor was he ever in control of his creations. "There must be another part of it. Some piece of the formula I'm missing. I beg of you, please don't throw away this chance to restore yourselves!"
The Daleks considered for a moment. "You have twenty-four hours. If you do not get the pool to function by then you shall be destroyed."
Just then a third Dalek entered the clearing. "Emergency! Emergency! The Doctor has been located! Emergency!"
He wheeled to face his creation. "He's here? Where has he gone?"
"The Doctor departed in his TARDIS with four local life forms. He escaped!"
He let out a weak and wheezing laugh. "I would suggest, my friends, that one of you search for the missing element we need for this 'Mirror Pool', the other two search for the Doctor. When you find him, bring him to me."
"What of his companions?" one Dalek asked.
He sneered.
"Exterminate," said Davros.