The blue police box floated high above the planet Earth. This box was home to The Doctor, a thousand-year-old Time Lord sworn to protect the earth until his last breath, but now he was starting to reconsider his vow. He had defended earth for centuries with the help of the planet’s inhabitants. Lately, because of recent events, he had realized that him intruding on his companions’ lives had caused them many problems. Some had died, some had been trapped in alternate dimensions, and worse. His most recent companions had been displaced in time and space right before his eyes. “Maybe it would be best if I didn’t get involved with Earth’s problems as much.” He thought as he sat in a comfy chair with a book he had been reading.
He flipped through the pages lazily until he reached the final page. Before he could read a single word, he instinctively ripped it out of the book, crumpled it up, and tossed it behind him. This was one of the many eccentricities that the Doctor’s eleventh incarnation had. He hated endings and by ripping out the last pages of his books, he believed that the adventure would never have to end. Of course he knew that wasn’t the case, but old habits die hard for the Doctor.
Suddenly, the Doctor heard an alarm go off in the Tardis console room. “What is it this time?” The Doctor wondered aloud. He walked into a huge room filled with many strange machines and instruments and a large glowing pillar in the middle. A large screen was flashing alien symbols and complicated graphs that an average human could never hope to understand. The graphics were quite comprehensible to the Doctor, however. “An interdimensional rift!” he exclaimed. “I haven’t seen one of these babies in ages! And it’s only several million light-years away!” A smile returned to the Time Lord’s face as he danced around the central console pushing buttons and pulling levers. “I don’t have any plans right now, so I might as well go see it. Do some research. Take in the view. Just go to get it close enough.” The Doctor chuckled to himself as he pulled one last lever. The Tardis emitted a groan as it began to shake. “Geronimo!” the Doctor Shouted as The blue box began hurtling through time and space.
Derpy walked slowly down the road that lead to her house just outside of Ponyville. Today had been a particularly bad day for the grey pegasus. She was called into her boss’s office this afternoon to discuss the latest in a string of accidents she had made on the job. He had told her the moving company couldn’t afford to keep her on if she couldn’t stop dropping things. Derpy had been involved in similar incidents, but dropping a piano on the town’s librarian was the last straw. She had to be let go. Derpy sighed sadly as she looked up at the sky. “Why did I have to be so clumsy?” she wondered aloud. Out of the corner of her eye, Derpy saw a strange fire ball fall from the sky into the woods near Derpy’s house. “It’s too early for shooting stars.” Derpy thought. “I wonder what that was. I hope nopony got hurt.” Derpy, being the curious pony she was, ran in the direction the object fell. After running a few minutes, Derpy came across a bizarre blue box laying on its side, smoke billowing out of an open door in the box. “Hello? Is everypony alright?” Derpy asked as she cautiously inched toward the smoking box. Derpy stumbled backwards when a brown stallion wearing an oversized coat and a bowtie crawled out of the box and fell unconscious at her hooves.