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// The Doctor rises 
// Story: Destiny Book 1: Dark Vengeance 
// by SirScribe 
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The 6 stood over the Doctor’s lifeless body. For a split second, Twilight didn’t see him coming. She was facing against Chrysalis when Sombra attacked. If he didn’t do anything, Twilight would be dead for real, and Equestria would fall for good. He had told them of the plan, but she didn’t expect him to jump in front of her like that.

This pony is insane! Twilight thought to herself.

Sombra, on the other hoof, was trying so hard to resist finishing all 6 off at once. While he was eager to regain control, he wanted them to accept what happened to the Doctor. Might as well break their spirits before they were obliterated.

Chrysalis still had fear in her eyes, but she was not focused on the lifeless Doctor. Her focus was on the blue box in front of her. She recognized it from a painting back in the Badlands. It hung from Chrysalis’s lair where she would stare for hours, wondering why she was fearful.

A pony born of flames destroyed our once great empire. He wore an endless mask and lived in a blue temple. Whosoever angered this pony, he would simply step from his temple and the earth would shake, she had read in the myths.

Discord looked upon the 6 with concern. His plan called for separating the Elements of Harmony and a clean takeover. He didn’t plan for death and destruction. While he was chaos, even he had guidelines when it came to something like this.

Twilight and Rainbow looked up. “YOU MONSTERS!” Rainbow bellowed out.

Sombra smiled. “A pawn that needs to be taken in the game. I have you in Checkmate, Princess Twilight. You cannot fight, not without the Elements of Harmony. Submit to us, and you all will not share your friend’s fate.”

The 6 looked at each other. Instead of backing down, the 6 stood together behind the Doctor. Sombra smiled. “Then I guess we will be legend after all. Behold, Discord. Tonight, the Elements die!”

Sombra charged his horn, ready to deliver a magical blast. Chrysalis, no longer in a state of fear, charged at the girls.

Twilight smiled as she hit the floor with a spell. The spell created a cloud of pink smoke that enveloped the Changeling Queen.

“Chrysalis, how dare you act without reason!”

The smoke cleared, leaving a very confused Changeling inside. Chrysalis looked around, not seeing any of the ponies who stood before her.
A loud cry echoed from the walls. Chrysalis looked up to see Rainbow charging at her. Chrysalis flew backwards as Rainbow crashed into the floor. Once she was out of the way, Discord sighed as he summoned king cobras from the floor. They slithered toward the cyan pegasus.

A yellow blur flew from nowhere and stood between the snakes and Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy stood strong as her eyes widened into the Stare. The snakes hissed at her and crouched for a strike.

The cobras lunged for the kill.

Fluttershy didn’t move, but the shadow of a horrible deviled monster appeared behind her. The snakes changed direction in midair and slithered away to the stained glassed windows. Discord sighed.

Chrysalis lunged for an attack. Before she got close to Rainbow, a mannequin appeared and stopped Chrysalis. The Changeling Queen sat on her haunches as more mannequins appeared and circled her. They marched in perfect harmony with each other.

Sombra cursed to himself. He fired a half-finished spell at the mannequins, but when one fell, two more appeared. Sombra looked around to see Rarity in the corner with her magic aura at work.

The King of Shadows growled as his pony body turned into black smoke and flew toward the fashionista. He opened his jaws, ready to deliver a killing bite.

“YEEE HAWW!”

A lasso appeared from behind the TARDIS and looped around Sombra’s neck. With his momentum aiding her, Applejack swung Sombra around, narrowly missing Rarity, and into the crowd of mannequins. The dolls were sent flying in all directions, leaving Sombra and Chrysalis in a tangled mess.

Meanwhile, Discord was at a standstill with Pinkie Pie. Whenever the Lord of Chaos summoned either moving piles of apples or cursed cakes, Pinkie simply fired at them with her Party Cannon. The deviled cakes splattered around the room with each explosion. Discord voiced his frustration as he snapped his claw, turning the cannon into a giant log.

Pinkie cried out by the surprise, but it lasted for a second. The party mare pulled deflated balloons from her mane and immediately began to blow. As the balloons got bigger, they got rounder and goldener.

Discord’s jaw hit the floor (no, seriously) as Pinkie held five golden cannon balls. Using her Earth Pony strength, she hurled each cannon ball at the Draconiquus. His slim body enabled him to dodge, but the aftermath was about as crazy as his ‘glass of chocolate milk’ gag. One cannon ball was close enough for Discord to lose his concentration for a second.

Twilight flashed in front of Pinkie and fired a spell at him. He flew through the air and landed near the throne. A second later, two more magic blasts sent Sombra and Chrysalis to his side.

Sombra immediately picked himself up. “You will not take our empire! Not again!”

Sombra’s horn emitted green electric arcs. Before he could fire the spell, Discord cried out. They all looked back at him. His snake-like form was spasming like he was getting the chills. His eyes glowed gold before he managed to calm himself. Sombra looked at him with concern. “What is the matter?”

“I don’t understand. There is a great magical disturbance in two different places happening at the same time. One in the Element Tower, and the other—”

“Where?”

Discord looked up at the lifeless Time Lord. “There.”

Everypony turned their eyes to the Doctor. Without warning, the ceiling caved in. Falling from the sky was Princess Luna. She was littered with minor cuts and bruises, but she was alive. Appearing next to Sombra was Nightmare, who was missing her helmet. She was scrapped in several places, especially around the face, but she was in better condition than Luna. “They entered the Element Tower. We have our children holding it against the pegasus intruder. She will not get the Elements. Now, what is the problem here?”

Sombra sighed. “Discord has sensed a magical disturbance where the brown pony lies. He is dead, Discord! There cannot be a magical field around him,” he said as he glared at the draconiquus.

“But I am serious about this. I’m picking up a surge of energy coming from that Doctor guy,” he said.

Chrysalis smiled. “You are probably picking up his soul leaving this world. There is no way that he—”

A struggled groan broke Chrysalis’s thought. The 4 looked over, and picking himself off from the ground was the Doctor. As he rose, a look of disbelief formed on Twilight. He took a serious magic curse for her that should’ve killed him. Once he was on all four of his hooves, he brushed off his forelegs like he rolled in the dirt. In the center of his chest was a burn mark.

Sombra was in disbelief as well. “But-but that was my most powerful spell. It’s supposed to be powerful enough to put down an alicorn!”

“Then I have a lot of questions for you, but first I must say: by all the stars in the sky did that hurt! I’ve felt a lot of pain in my days, but that hurt beyond everything else. Mainly because I’ve managed to cheat death for about 30 years or so. Yeah, that will take a lot more energy than I would’ve wanted to use.” He turned to the 6. “You all OK?”

All the ponies nodded their heads. “Sorry for scaring you like that, but if I mentioned doing that, you all would’ve tried to stop me. This is the only way I can help,” he said.

Twilight shook her head. “That was the most reckless thing I’ve ever seen!”

“Darling, you have a serious mark on you from that magic blast,” Rarity pointed out.

He smiled. “Want to see a magic trick?”

The Doctor took a deep breath. He moved his hoof over the mark, and as it brushed over his fur, the mark disappeared. He took a deep breath as he calmed his hearts. “Feel better now?”

The 6 said nothing. He shrugged to turn back to Sombra. His horn was charged once again. “How did you do that? You’re just a regular pony!”

The Doctor turned to the TARDIS. “Can regular ponies pilot the TARDIS? Can a regular pony have dashing good looks like me?” The Doctor smiled for emphasis. “No, I am not a regular pony! Regular is boring!”

Chrysalis looked on in fear. “That box, what is it?”

“It’s called the TARDIS. It stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space. It can travel anywhere in time and space, and it’s mine,” he said.

Applejack looked back at the TARDIS. Time machine?

Nightmare laughed. “Time machine? That is impossible, even with magic. Starswirl only completed one small spell to travel in time and that only works for a short amount of time. It is impossible.”

“Nothing is impossible, just difficult to complete.”

The Doctor fixed his stance. “I just find this all amusing that you have gone through all this just to be stopped by six ponies,” the Doctor said.

Nightmare laughed. “Us? We overpower those puny ponies. Separate, we don’t stand a chance against you all, but now with our assembled powers, you six will be destroyed!”

The Doctor smiled. “That is all I needed to hear. You threatening to destroy them, my friends, will not sit kindly with me. You don’t want to see me when I am determined to keep the ponies I care about safe. You have no idea what you are getting yourself into,” he said.

Sombra smiled. “You are trying to sound brave, but I smell fear on you. As the master in the art, I can sense if ponies have a particular fear. You have monsters you don’t want to resurface. 10 monsters are rising, Doctor, and I will gladly work with them to ensure that you will never raise your head again!”

Sombra reached out with his magic, grabbing all the minds of everypony in the room. Discord, feeling left out, pulled a wire out of thin air and plugging into Nightmare’s horn. The alicorn gave him an odd look as he shrugged it off. Even the Mane 6 was plugged into Sombra’s mind. The unicorn approached the Doctor, who was standing tall. “Let’s see what this Doctor fears, shall we?”

The rest of the 4 agreed. Sombra’s horn touched the Doctor’s forehead and the room was engulfed in a green light.

Instead of one pony screaming, there were 4 screams. Sombra and the rest of the 4 screamed in terror as the visions entered their minds. In them was a tall, hairless ape in a long brown coat. His mane was small and ruffled, but his eyes. Oh, his eyes burned with a great fire.

The visions showed at least one of the creatures, but they all were different. One wore a strange brown hat and scarf, another wore a white jacket with a celery stalk pinned on it. One wore a leather jacket and held a silver stick with a blue light. With a press of a button, the vision changed once more.

The Doctor forced the last image into his mind. It was the image of a tall man with a brown suit and jacket. He had spiky hair and he was the Doctor. He stood in front of an army of various creatures, all appeared to be in metal. Giant creatures in suits of armor, mysterious egg-like creatures with eyestalks, and many more monsters. Some were red with suction cups, others were slimy. Some were fat and…gassy. For a moment, Sombra thought he saw potatoes with big black plastic wands.

“I am not just a regular pony! Entire armies have turned and ran away at the mention of my name!”

The Doctor in the image took one step forward, and the army of monsters immediately turned and ran. Some tried to fight back, but the Doctor would not fall. So many of the creatures fired what appeared to be magical blasts at the Doctor, but he simply dodged them. Raising his screwdriver, the Doctor pressed the button. The remaining monsters turned to ash and dust.

“I am the survivor, nay, the winner of the last great Time War! I watched two almighty races burn and turn to dust! I have topples gods, raised empires, and burned stars with the words of my people! You are nothing compared to me!”

An image of a planet entered their minds. The planet burst into flames. The scene was enlarged and a vision of an elder man appeared to be shooting fire from his hands and face. As the fires rages, the man let out a blood-curdling scream. Entire structures fell and the egg-like creatures seen before were screaming in pain as the fires rages.

Twilight couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The Doctor was endless. His power in this new form seemed to surpass his power now. “I will not stand idle while you destroy this world. As the last of my species, I will never allow you to win!”

The vision died in everypony’s minds. Sombra looked up, and the Doctor was starting to emit golden smoke from his hooves. “But-but you still don’t have the Elements. We are still more powerful!”

Right as he said that, they heard a mare call his name. “DOCTOR!”

The 4 looked for the mare. It was Ditzy with a chest full of the Elements. Ditzy dropped the box off in front of Twilight, who gladly opened it. “Sorry Sombra, but it looks like this is Checkmate,” she said as she grabbed each of the necklaces.

“Time to get this party started!” cheered Pinkie as her Element was placed on her.

“YEEEE HAWWW!” cheered Applejack.

“Yay!” Fluttershy cheered.

“Well it’s about to get beyond 20% cooler,” Rainbow Dash said.

“This has gone on far enough,” Rarity said.

With all the Mane 6 with their Elements, Twilight’s crown began to glow along with the others. The five Elements started to emit magic to Twilight’s. The cracks on the jewel began to disappear in front of the 4, who were now struck with fear. The Element of Magic was now fully healed.

Sombra shook his head. “What are you?”

“I am not just a pony. I am a Time Lord! I am the Doctor! I am 904 years old! I come from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I am the Oncoming Storm, the Bringer of Darkness and your worst nightmare! Now it is time to say goodnight Sombra.”

The smoke completely engulfed the Doctor. His brown coat began to glow gold. “Well then, ALLONS-Y!”

With a swift motion, the Doctor rose on his hind legs. His entire body erupted into flames as Sombra screamed. Twilight started to feel the magic of the Elements take over. 

“Ready girls?”

“READY” the girls said in unison.

With her friends behind her, she was ready. The girls all raised up into the air as their Elements charged. The 5 fired beams of concentrated magic at Twilight, who fired them at the Doctor. The flames of his regeneration started to move toward the 4, who were paralyzed in fear. The flames engulfed the 4, and the screams of the former rulers of Equestria echoed through the halls.

Sombra was first. He looked down at his hooves, and he noticed that they were cracking like glass. Before he could say another word, his entire body exploded and reformed. His horn, the only thing that remained flew toward the ground. The broken pieces of the King of Fear began to turn into stone around his horn. The pieces created a stone pedestal and an octagon piece with Sombra’s horn in the middle.

Discord screamed as he felt his form cracked, but as he was about to explode, he felt time stop around him. The flames no longer burned his skin. The world became silent. The draconiquus looked around, wondering why the world became silent and still. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a pony wearing a giant blue hat and cape. His coat was white and he had a long beard that touched the ground.

Not here, Discord. Your destiny doesn’t end here. You are required for much bigger events. Escape now! The pony commanded.

Without arguing, Discord vanished into thin air. The pony in white fired a magical spell into the air, hitting everypony on the planet. Once the spell was performed, he vanished, restarting time. The flames continued to rage around Nightmare and Chrysalis.

Chrysalis turned to Nightmare. “You promised me victory, Nightmare Moon! You promised!”

Chrysalis’ form cracked and exploded. For her mark, the image of a chrysalis took the center of the octagonal stone piece. The statue was near completion.

Nightmare screamed before her last words echoed through the halls. “YOU WILL ALL PAY FOR THIS! I AM NEVER TRULY DEFEATED! EVERY DREAM HAS A NIGHTMARE!”

With those last words, Nightmare Moon’s form cracked and exploded. The crescent moon, representing her cutie mark, flew into the statue as the third and final octagonal piece built around it. The statue consisted of the three symbols of those who were defeated. Once the flames of the Doctor’s regeneration died down, the Time Lord crumpled to the floor. He was the same as he was before the regeneration. His coat still that chocolate brown that he grew accustomed to.

Twilight smiled as the Elements finished the job, but it wasn’t over. The world was still shrouded in eternal darkness. With the power still running through their veins, the Mane 6 burst through the ceiling and straight into the sky. Their charged forms left a trail of magic behind them.

The Doctor awoke from his regeneration. Without a second to assess the situation, he turned to his earpiece that he kept hidden. “Cadence, Shining Armor, do it!”

In the Crystal Empire, the royal couple had a group of ponies surround the Crystal Heart. Pouring their magic and love into it, the Heart began to awaken once again. It spun at a rapid pace, and with Cadence’s last bit of magic, the Heart exploded with magic, shooting a ray of magic into the sky. The beam diverted toward Canterlot in the south.

The Mane 6 saw the beam from the Crystal Heart coming toward them. Focusing their magic into the spell, both the Mane 6 and the magic beam collided and lit up the sky in the biggest Sonic Rainboom in existence. The explosion rocked all of Equestria at the same time.

In Canterlot, Trixie and the main cellist, Octavia Melody held back the Changelings and Shadow Ponies. When the explosion came above them, everypony stopped fighting. "EVERYPONY GET DOWN!"

The Rainboom ran above the city, and behind the initial explosion, the sky cracked. Behind what appeared to be the magical barrier was sunlight. A Shadow Pony happened to be standing when the light hit it. The Shadow Pony screeched in pain as it evaporated into thin air.

All the Shadow Ponies went into panic mode. They all attempted to escape the sunlight, but the sky was cracking faster than they were running. Shadow Ponies by the millions around Equestria began to evaporate due to the sunlight. Changelings also managed to escape, some turning into regular ponies to escape prosecution from whatever was going to hunt them down.

As the sun shined throughout the land, the Doctor and Ditzy smiled. With the sun hitting his face, the Doctor shut his eyes. Exhaustion swept over him as he fell asleep.

The storm was over.