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// Season 1 Episode 5: First Date (Sorta) 
// Story: Doctor Who: The Equestrian Chronicles 
// by Dr Time Keeper 
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Doctor Who:
Equestrian Chronicles
Ep 05
First Date (Sorta): shadow of the future


Black Hole Prison (The most secure prison in Equestria)

Far in the future, by request of a certain hero a prison was built to contain the most dangerous criminals, but even after 30 years only 12 prisoners were ever sentenced here, one was so familiar it reminded the inmates of who built this hell.
“Well, well, well look who we have here” a black Pegasus stood in front of the cell of the most dangerous Criminal in Equestrian history, the criminal in question was a Pegasus but he hid in the light so all the black Pegasus could see was the scar on his left eye accompanied with the hatred that kept him alive for the entire live of the prison he was in, he was Prisoner Zero.
“What do you want” he said in a voice that would cause the prison to go berserk if they heard him on the bottom floor.
“I want to make you a deal, i want you to help me remove your doppelganger from the picture, permanently” the Dark Pegasus stood with elegance and might and spoke with a cold but calm voice.
“HA! He is no doubt the most powerful being in this s*** hole of a world” Zero laughed manically as the dark Pegasus knew he needed convincing.
“Yes but he isn’t the most powerful, that goes to his daughter” the news shocked Zero as he knew very little about the outside world the past 30 years.
“A daughter!? I thought Time Lords were sterile”
“He solved the problem years ago, the wedding you attempted to use to ruin his live just fuelled his love for the bride, they have had two children a son and daughter, both extremely powerful, but the girl was born an alicorn and has enough magical energy that her power is equivalent to the Elements of harmony, hence her name” now informed about the family Zeros nemesis has made he wondered what this mysterious Stallion had in mind.
“What’s in it for me? Freedom won’t do it i only have one live left and i will need to regenerate to stand a chance and i can’t risk losing if i can’t survive because he WILL kill me if he finds out who i am” Zero asked and explained while standing.
“I can give you a new cycle, and the means to take him out, so do we have a deal?” the dark Pegasus asked with a smirk on his face.
“Two conditions, how do i take him down and who are you?” unlocking the cell freeing Zero, the dark Pegasus walked away from the cell heading for a black box which looked like an elevator, standing next to the box was a beautiful grey earth pony with black hair, opening the door to the black box revealed a large room just out of Zeros view “a TARDIS!”
“How you take him out i’ll leave to your discretion as for my identity you can call me The Valeyard” as he said his words the box doors slid shut and the Black TARDIS disappeared like all the rest but its sound was broken like it was as twisted as its pilot but on the floor was a note and a watch like device, the note read.
Don’t look for me, ill find you, Professor
The Valeyard
“Well then, its time to pay a visit to my Doctor”

PRESENT DAY, ONBOARD THE TARDIS

They mane six where currently at rarity’s to get ready for the Gala, The Doctor told them he would meet them there as he was taking the TARDIS, he was currently in his wardrobe trying on the TARDIS blue suit Rarity had made for him, even the TARDIS made the Pockets bigger, he was looking at himself in the mirror.
“I look like my father just missing the spiky hair and the brown coat…ignoring the fact I’m a pony” after ogling himself he walked back to the console room and set the controls to Canterlot.
VWROP, VWROP, VWROP

CANTERLOT CASTLE

As the TARDIS landed near the Canterlot gate, The Doctor stepped out in his dashing suit turning the heads of a few mares, reaching the main gate two guards stood to check tickets.
“Excuse me sir but unless you have a VIP ticket you’ll have to wait in line” looking as the guard with a smirk on his face he pulled out his Gala ticket which was signed by Celestia herself “my apologies sir i had no idea”
“No worries my good man just doing your job, here is a little something” giving the guard a gem, passed him and into the palace to look around, after a good sweep of the ground floor he came to the grand stair case with Celestia and Twilight greeting the guests that came to the gala.
“Doctor!” Twilight greeted The Doctor as he walked up the stairs.
“I am glad you could make it Doctor, Luna will be glad to have a friend to spend the night with” Celestia said with her usual elegance.
“Well i got to say and no offence, it looks pretty boring, please Celestia let me arrange things next year” Celestia gave a small giggle and nodded in confirmation “of course Luna is in her room” she raised her hoof to signal a guard, who was a white unicorn with a blue mane similar style to Twilight’s. 
“Hi Twily” he greeted his sister first as he had not seen her since she moved to ponyville.
“Shining Armour, its great to see you BBBFF” of course the phrase BBBFF stumped The Doctor making Twilight role her eyes at her alien best friend “Big Brother Best Friend Forever” she explained.
“Oh, fair enough, nice to meet you Shining Armour” The Doctor greeted the captain of the royal guard him giving a nod and turning his attention to Celestia.
“Princess what is it you require?” he asked the princess in a casual manner, most soldiers no matter what rank would address royalty with the upmost respect but this captain was calm and relaxed this as another example of Celestia’s rule, she ruled with care and kindness.
“I would like you to escort The Doctor to meet my sister” according to Twilight she never gave an actual order, instead she asked more often but ether because she is so kind and polite or because of her position no one will say no, even if they did she would forgive them and sort the issue out.
“Of course Princess, Princess Luna’s Room is this way” he addressed The Doctor and both left the presence of the Princess and her gifted student “bye Twily, i’ll see you soon” Shining Armour waved good bye to his little sister before walking off
“Remember to have fun Twi, but don’t do anything i would do...in fact i should of told that to pinkie but oh well” The Doctor also said goodbye to his dear friend as her only brother escorted him to the reason he came here in the first place.
“Bye you guys and i will, see you soon BBBFF and don’t cause a stir Doctor” Twilight said as both Pegasus and Unicorn left the main hall.

CANTERLOT CASTLE CORRIDORS

As both stallions walked the halls, Shining Armour was thinking about this colt that he had to escort.
“Who is this guy, Twilight has never mentioned him unlike her other friends, the way he talked to her, it was almost like the way we talk to each other, this pony better not be involved with my sister in any way other than friends” Shining was being the cliché Brother concerned about the friends his sister makes “so how did you meet my sister?” Shining asked trying to get as much info as he could about the grey coated Pegasus.
“Its a long story, but to dull it down in the shortest sense, i crashed in to her house and ever since she was kind enough to let me stay” that was the most odd way a guy ever met a girl making Shining eyes widen.
“So Mr Armour was Twi always as paranoid as the way i know ...” before he could finish his sentence Shining pulled out his Sword and pointed it at The Doctor who just stared at it and back to Shining like it was a normal occurrence.
“Let me get something straight, you better not have any funny ideas about my sister and if you ever hurt her in any way i will hunt you down and kill you my self” as both stallions stared at each other for what seemed like hours, The Doctor raised his hoof to lower Shining’s sword.
“Listen Shining, i do not like your sister in that sense, i am a lot older than i look so for me that would seem just wrong” he explained giving a shiver “plus in the time i’ve known her i see her the same way you do, as a sister and nothing more” now understanding where The Doctors loyalties laid, he sheathed his sword and turned around.
“Ok, I trust you but i stand by my word if you hurt her” he spoke with darkness in his voice, to which the loon that was The Doctor gave a salute and both continued to walk to Luna’s room “i want to know why Luna wants to see him of all people, he’s a complete nut but Twily seems to trust him, so ill let it slide”
Arriving at a large door marked with the symbol of the moon, Shining gave a small knock followed by a young female voice “enter” opening the door both shining and The Doctor saw Princess Luna at her window watching the moon and the party below.
“Princess Luna, you have a visitor” turning her head to the door she saw The Doctor standing with a small smirk on his face, Luna had changed her look making her mane longer and transparent like her sisters, Shining had seen her like this plenty of times before but The Doctor only saw her like this once and she was asleep and ill at the time not to mention she was in probably the best designed dress in Equestria and The Doctors reaction was priceless.
*Pomf*
It seemed that only The Doctor noticed it happening and he quickly brought his wings down but couldn’t fold them.
“Bloody wings why are you being awkward now!” he thought to himself with mental sweat pouring down his face.
“DOCTOR! it is so wonderful to see thou could come” Luna shouted (no royal voice, still pretty loud) then she ran over to him and gave him a hug, returning the hug The Doctor saw Shining smirking trying hard not to burst out laughing and The Doctor had no clue what Shining found so funny, till he saw one of his wings sticking up.
“Dam it wings!, i’m going to cut you off and feed you to a dragon” The Doctors mental rage against his wings put his mind off Luna and his wings lowered, which made The Doctor think “wait was i just aroused?...how odd” after Luna broke the hug The Doctor tried not to be distracted by the attraction he was having for Luna, an attraction he couldn’t understand “its good to see you Luna, how have you been?” he said caringly.
“Not the best, in fact thy duties haven’t really changed since i last performed them” Shining left the room closing the door behind him and letting the two chat each other to death.

TWO HOURS LATER (AND A LONG EXPLINATION)

Both Alicorn and Pegasus sat side by side on the balcony, enjoying the Night sky as both The Doctor and Luna’s talents had some thing to do with the stars.
“So thou change your appearance when thou are close to death?” The Doctor had just finished explaining where he came from and how he looks like he is and had just explained regeneration.
“Yea, that’s pretty much the jist of it, the thing is i don’t know if it will happen next time, this world is so different but i will probably still live my natural live span, so at least i can live knowing two of my friends won’t die of old age” he explained everything in a cheery mood and Luna knew that it was all for show, she knew that the thought of this regeneration frightened him, living for 1000 years was bad enough but having to change your entire body, it must of been horrifying.
“We never knew what it felt to outlive friends and loved ones, as we didn’t have any” Luna was now depressed as she remembered her lonely childhood, her only friend being Celestia but after time had been to busy with her new royal duties to play with her.
“Least you had a childhood, i joined the Time Lord academy at the age of eight and for the next ninety-two years i did nothing but learn, then after that the war started” Luna was again shocked that both had shared similar childhoods but he did not hear the last part and before she could ask The Doctors spirit sparked once again “also what’s with the thou and the we?” Luna was a bit confused as no one commented on the way she spoke before but then again she had only been back 4 months.
“It is the royal we and this is how thy speakest” The Doctors eyes spoke for him and he knew something had to be done about that.
“Well i think we need to twitch that i tiny bit” he said pulling out a Canterlot dictionary and Luna’s eyes went wide with horror “oh no, not school”

THREE HOURS LATER AND AN UNWILLING STUDENT

“Ok now repeat the sentence” The Doctor said pointing a metal stick to a chalk board with some writing on it.
“Hello my name is Luna and i am the Equestrian princess of the night, i have an older sister named Celestia... Doctor this is a Childs lesson, you don’t have any reason to tell me how to speak, i don’t even need it” Luna had sat on her bed listening to The Doctor for three straight hours and she was sick of it.
“Huzzah, not the sentence i made but you used modern words! And let me say from personal experience that speaking like you did just confuses people but still your done” he said pressing a button on the chalk board which made it fold up to fit in The Doctors pocket, Luna on the other had was confused she was now speaking more modern and it was a strange experience for her.
“Oh your right i am speaking like a normal pony, oh this is spectacular” she exclaimed with so much joy.
“Well at least you have a large vocabulary” The Doctor said with sweat dropping down his face as a reaction to Luna’s excitement, then he felt a small vibration in his pocket “huh?, what the?” pulling out his psychic paper, it flashed in a bright blue light which drew Luna’s attention.
“Doctor, what is that?” Luna asked as she had never seen anything like The Doctors Psychic paper, in fact no pony has, it was a human wallet after all.
“it’s called psychic paper, it allows the holder to fool the viewer to what they want to see but it can also be used as sort of E-mail system” he spoke with precision and concern at the thought of who could send him a message on Psychic paper “probably my step mother”
“What’s an E-mail?”After asking her question The Doctor snapped his head to face Luna, then he relaxed after realising Luna had been on the moon the past 1000 years and that the only computer he knew of was the TARDIS monitor.
“Uhh, how to explain, ahh you know how you send letters to people” he said hoping that she will get the idea.
“Yes, why do you ask?” she spoke slowly as it was common knowledge.
“Well it’s like that but electronically but never mind that now I need to read this” still unsure what the alien Pegasus was on about she walked behind him and while looking over his shoulder, read the note in his hand
*We need help, come quickly
From Harmony*
The Doctor looked up from the paper and directly at Luna, making her blush a bit since he was so close and both were in direct eye contact.
“Do you know a Harmony by any chance?” he asked cocking his head, which Luna found adorable giving a small giggle given the near awkward moment, yet she didn’t have to think very hard about his question.
“My apologies Doctor, I do not” she said sad she couldn’t help him out, but The Doctor jumped up onto the table with his face full of determination and a sense of purpose.
“Well then, we have no choice” he spoke with pride in his voice, Luna’s heart was beating faster and she didn’t know why.
“Why is it getting hot in here? The window is wide open” The Doctor then leaped of the table and walked to the balcony ready to leap off the edge, “DOCTOR STOP!!” Luna would have tried to stop him but she had forgotten that he could fly but before he jumped he turned to Luna with a massive grin on his face and his eyes sparkling in her moon.
“well come on then!” saying his words he fell backward off the balcony and soared off from the Gala and realising that there was nothing better to do, she ran for the window and she too took off into her domain of the night sky. Looking all over for the Time Lord Luna spotted him standing next to his Box once she landed she walked over to him slowly and she didn’t look very happy “well that was fun wasn’t it?”
“Doctor never do that you scared me to death!” she yelled whacking him on the head.
“Oww! HEY!” complaining about the growing bump on his head, the TARDIS door opened revealing the temple like room that resided inside and Luna nose up disapproval walked in first with The Doctor walking in after her.
“So where are we going anyway?” she asked still annoyed at The Doctor who could feel her cold heart a mile and a day away.
“well, a clever way to contact someone from the past is to send it to a place you know the receiver will be and the time they’ll be there and this message is the opposite, it was sent from the future going back to point where the message was appropriate” he explained very quickly but like always he begins to ramble.
“That does not answer my question” she said coldly and in the background the TARDIS made some noises which to The Doctor’s surprise Luna seemed to, like himself understand the old girl “huh? Who was that?”
“Wait you can hear her!” The Doctor said with shock in his voice.
“Hear who?” now confused with what was going on around her, she never spent long in the control room only a brief few minutes.
“The TARDIS, you can understand her!” he said with wonder as this has never happened before and along with his glee the TARDIS gave another series of sound which both The Doctor and Luna identified as a hello.
“Uhh, hello to you too…TARDIS, but any reason Doctor you still didn’t answer my question” she asked once again.
“Ahh yes, well like a letter a psychic message has a sender and therefore an address” placing the psychic paper on what he called a scanner which resided under the keyboard below the monitor “coordinates set, ready Luna?”
“For what?” she asked with worry in her voice.
“Adventure, AVANTI!” pulling a small leaver the entire room began to shake and the cylinder in the centre began to move, on the outside several ponies had gathered at the sighting of Princess Luna with a grey stallion, even Celestia and Twilight arrived to see what the commotion was about.
“What is going on here?” Celestia spoke softly but at the same time demanding, since she wasn’t happy about rumours especially about her sister, one of the guard who arrived before Celestia walked over bowing to her before reporting the situation.
“your highness, guards have reported seeing Princess Luna and a unknown Pegasus airborne and according to the public have both been seen here entering that box over there” he explained pointing in the direction of the ‘box’, Twilight looked over only to see the top have of what looked like the TARDIS
“but all I see is the TAR…DIS” she immediately realised that half the rumours where true as the other half was debatable as some said it was a kidnapping and other said it was Luna spending some time with that special somepony, but Twilight knew and didn’t know of a way to explain it not only to her mentor but without the crowd hearing about the TARDIS, remembering The Doctors request from after the nightmare moon incident.
“Twilight, please do not under any circumstance tell anypony I don’t know about my origins and the TARDIS” The Doctor seemed pretty serious about it and Twilight knew what time travel could do in the wrong hooves so from that day on, she swore never to reveal the TARDIS or its owner to anypony including Celestia.
“Every pony! I would like to put rumours to rest, my sister Luna is currently in her room preparing for the gala but was delayed due to her duties of guarding the night I can confirm this as I spoke with her before coming here, so please return to the gala and enjoy the rest of evening” knowing that Celestia was no liar the crowd began to disperse but as soon as they left a bright light shined in the night and the unmistakable sound of the TARDIS came to life and the Blue box disappeared  but for some reason no pony noticed, only Twilight and Celestia herself saw the disappearing act of the Time machine.
“Princess, I can explain” Twilight had become even more paranoid at the clear fact of the TARDIS’s existence.
“No need my dear student; I know of The Doctor and his mastery of time, it is why he called himself Time Keeper many years ago, I appointed him the royal keeper of time and the name stuck, oh I do hope Luna will have fun with him and I also hope she comes back safe” Twilight was gobsmacked but she guessed that since The Doctor could travel in time he must of met Celestia at least once in the past but that was also his future, as Twilight tried to think this through she dismissed her thought and returned to the gala with her mentor.
“Be careful Doctor”


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