"Come again?" the light brown stallion questioned.
"The TARDIS is broken!" Rose said.
"What do you mean, the TARDIS is broken? I can't be broken!" he exclaimed.
"Sorry, but it is."
"But! How?! Tell me! How and why?"
"Well..."
BEEP! BEEP! The TARDIS went.
"What now?" Doctor Whooves asked himself as he ventured into the TARDIS, now a mess.
BEEP! BEEP! It repeated, as if it was answering him. BEEP! BEEP!
Doctor Whooves pressed one of the buttons on the control panel and a face came up on the screen. His eyes widened in surprise.
"Princess? Is that you?" he asked.
"Indeed, Doctor. It is I, Princess Luna. I have contacted you under extreme circumstances, as this is a problem only you can help us fix," the princess said solemnly, other ponies in the background nodding.
"Well alrighty then," Doctor Whooves said, "What's your problem? I swear, those Daleks can be a pain in the flank."
"No, Doctor. This is something much more dire."
"Weeping angels, then? I know just how to get rid of those!"
"No. A rip in the space time continuum. Ten ponies from the future are now trapped here in this time because of it," Luna said.
"Oh.." the Doctor said, "And how did this happen?"
"One out of four of these ponies is of the alicorn race, and she accidentally messed up a teleportation spell into another time zone. She had to combine a time traveling spell, but miscalculated, as well as had an unexpected magic surge."
The Doctor whistled.
"Well then!" he said, "I'm guessing you want me to help you?"
"Yes," Luna said.
"Very well then, I guess fixing up the TARDIS can wait, can it? I mean, from what I've heard, who knows when we're going to be able to get them home before it's too late?"
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"Oh my..." the Doctor said after being transported to the Canterlot Castle and hearing the full story from the future pre-teens themselves themselves, "Well, there's nothing I can't fix when it comes to time! Although this might be a challenge."
"Doctor Whooves, dear sir, before we start, I would surely love to thank you generously for all the help you are to give," Princess Luna said.
"One: just call me "Doctor". Two: it is my pleasure, princess! And for you all as a whole I would like to say that I do have a very nice companion, as she accompanies me on my adventures, but she couldn't come due to some difficulties with the TARDIS," the time lord stated.
"The what-what?" Rainbow asked.
"The-" Doctor Whooves was cut of by a certain pink mare.
"TARDIS silly! It's a super-duper cool space craft that looks like a police box from the outside, but from the inside it's all cool and time-y and tech-y and super-duper big because it's like inter-dimensional or something and it's bigger on the inside than from the outside because I guess that's just how Gallifrey works I guess, and the Doctor uses it to *GASP!* travel through space and other fun stuff like that, and to me personally it looks super-uber-duper fun to get to be in it and travel in it and yeah!" Pinkie Pie let out a big, hearty grin busted out from ear to ear.
Everypony just stared at her.
"What?" she asked.
"How in Equestria do you even know that?" Doctor Whooves asked, slightly creeped out.
"Well duh! As soon as you moved to Ponyville I made it my job to know everything about you!"
No longer was her smile happy. Instead, it was the reflection of Pinkamena, the psychopathic killer, although strangely enough, her eyes were almost unfazed.
Almost.
"Alright, darling, I think it's time for you to... cool of a bit, don't you think?" Rarity said with a slightly disturbed tone.
"But... I am cooled off..." Pinkie said, her voice turning demented after the "but".
"Uhh... whoa! Hey Pinkie! Is that candy over there?!" Rainbow Dash said quickly.
"Huh?!" Pinkie said, snapping out of it, "Ooh! Ooh! Where?!"
"Over there!" Rainbow said pointing to a random direction. Pinkie suddenly sprinted towards where Rainbow was pointing, Cheesecake suddenly in tow, with a seemingly equal amount of her mother's interest and taste.
"Wow..." Kamikaze said in a sarcastic tone, flying next to her Aunt Cadence.
"Dude! We have to try that on Cheesecake when we get back home!" Flight laughed.
"If you get back home," Princess Celestia spoke up.
"Oh yeah... right," he said.
"Well then! Lets get to it, shall we? First off: how do we get them back home? Second: how do we fix the rip in the space time continuum? And third: how much time do we have left to get these ten back home, before the time traveling and teleportation wears off?"
"That's what we brought you here for: to help us answer those questions," Luna said.
"Very well then, lets check a few things off. From my most recent calculations on this disastrous puzzle, one: I don't know. Two: it cannot be fixed. It has to heal on its own. And three: we have about a week, so we better hurry."
"Righty then! Lets get to workin'!" Applejack said with glee, yet a somewhat worrisome look was on her face.
"Yeah. Who know's how worried we are in the future?!" Twilight said.
"Wait... if you're you in the future, doesn't that mean that you remembered this whole thing? And if you're you from the future, can't we just go forward in time to get the answer to all of this?" Spike asked.
"Aha! No, we can't, because first of all, the TARDIS is broken, I guess you could say, and second of all, the only reason why Kamikaze was able jump back in time to this extent was because she had a fairly large-" Doctor Whooves was interrupted by Rarity.
"Fairly?" she asked. Doctor Whooves paused.
"A very large magic surge. She's an alicorn, and she traveled back in time. Imagine how much power it would take to do it vice versa!" he concluded.
"Well Twilight went forward in time," Spike argued.
"Yes, but my cutie mark represents magic. I'm the element of magic! Even with my power, I was only able to do it for a minute or less, and judging from the necessary correct answers to our questions, I'd need at least more than two," Twilight said.
"Well can't you just do it over again until you get all of it?" Rainbow asked, shrugging in mid-air.
"It doesn't work that way, Rainbow. A unicorn's magic is just like a pegasus' wings; both get tired. If you overuse them, you won't turn out so good."
"Oh. Well my wings never get tired!" she boasted.
"Do they get injured?"
"Uhh... yeah?"
"Well then, my point is proven."
"But that's not really the same thing!"
"True, but your cutie mark is your destiny, and your destiny is your athletic abilities and loyalty," Twilight concluded, a bit sassily.
"Whatever," Rainbow said, ending the conversation. There was a silence.
"Now what?" Violet Galaxy asked.
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"Easy: we solve the first, and final question," Doctor Whooves said.
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