My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic -- Off The Record

by The King of Hearts


The Doctor

Interlude

The Doctor


Everything was wrong.

Something had changed.

The story had been rewritten.

The Doctor walked through the town square in Ponyville, reflecting on all that had happened in the past few weeks, It all started about a year and a half from now…

There had been a royal wedding in Canterlot. It had all been lovely, besides the attempted takeover of the kingdom by an army of changelings… But, they had been defeated by love. Kinda corny, but, it did the trick.

After the end of the wedding, and after enjoying some food at the reception, The Doctor decided to head back to the TARDIS. Derpy was still having a good time with her friends, so he decided to leave her be and get some shut-eye. She would find her way back to him in a few hours.

Walking into the TARDIS, the doors abrubtly closed behind him, and the entire ship started to shake in a way it never had before.

The Doctor was thrown around the cabin of the ship like a rag doll. Luckily, he seemed to hit all the soft spots, and managed to be more or less unhurt by the entire experience. Regaining his composure, he headed toward the doors to see what had caused all of this.

Taking a step outside of the TARDIS, he immediately saw a huge difference in the world. It was… Crazy.

The ground was in a checkerboard pattern, the sky was a dark red, and filled with brown clouds.

Just like when Equestria was almost taken over by… Discord.

The Doctor walked through the now deserted Canterlot, unable to stop himself from being a little frightened by the complete silence throughout the city.

What had happened? 5 minutes ago, everything had been fine. Had Discord somehow come back from his stone imprisonment and done all of this in the few minutes he had been in the TARDIS?

No, not even Discord had THAT kind of power. This had been done over time. It was almost as if he hadn’t been defeated at all... But how could that have changed? What had happened to the girls?

The Doctor’s train of thought was cut off as he entered the courtyard of the castle. In front of him stood the answer to his questions. Discord had taken his vengeance on the ponies who tried to stop him, by making them endure the same punishment as him. In front of him, were a large collection of statues. Each one sitting on a pedestal, and each one he recognized.

Only looking at a few of them, he was able to see Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Spike, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Big Macintosh… And Derpy.

The Doctor knew this wasn’t the time to get Emotional. He had to stay focused. As long as he had a time machine, he could change this. He HAD to change this. Turning around to head for the TARDIS, The Doctor was distracted by another pedestal, in the middle of the statues of the Ponies. An empty one. Walking forward, The Doctor read the plaque on the pedestal.

“Let this show the kindness and mercy of the all-powerful Discord,” The Doctor read slowly, “For he has spared the foreigner.”

Before the Doctor had a chance to figure out who this ‘foreigner’ was, he heard a voice boom from above him.

“Now who do we have here?” Said the voice from above, “Has somepony come to admire my collection of statues?”

Taking this as his queue to make a quick exit, The Doctor bolted away from the courtyard. He knew that was Discord talking. And he couldn’t afford to be caught.

“Come now! Do you really think you can run from a god?” Discord said arrogantly, flying high above the pony on the ground, “There’s nowhere you can go little pony.”

The Doctor smirked at that comment. He had somewhere he could go. A place where a god couldn’t possibly follow him.

Completely unaware the pony’s time traveling capability, Discord simply toyed with him instead. As far as he was concerned, this was just a game.

Making it back to the TARDIS, The Doctor ran inside and closed the door behind him, and quickly got to work on escaping.

“You’re going to hide in a box?” Discord said landing outside of the police box, “I was expecting more. Oh well.” He said as he shot a bolt of magic at the TARDIS.

Unfortunately for Discord, the magic bounced right off of the wood, and blasted his arm instead. “What is this?” He bellowed, suddenly very angry. But, before he had a chance to do anything else, the box started to fade, until it eventually disappeared.

The Doctor gave a sigh of relief as the TARDIS took him away from danger. He hadn’t gotten a chance to choose a destination. He told the TARDIS to lock on to the first noticeable changes in time, and to take him there, wherever, or whenever that was.

In the end, the TARDIS brought him to the day after Night Mare Moon had been defeated, in Ponyville. The town was still a mess after the party that had been thrown. That was where he started.

The first change he noticed in Ponyville was when a garbage cart covered the entire town in trash. That hadn’t happened before. But after asking around town, he couldn’t find the cause of it. So, he simply decided to wait for the next change.

The next red flag that went up were during the annual Applebuck season. Applejack being hurt in the stampede wasn’t something that had happened before. As he remembered, she stopped the stampede, and was honored by the town for it. But that had changed too. He just couldn’t figure out how.

He was careful not to ask too many questions. He didn’t want the force that had changed time to know he was looking for it. For all he knew it was an alien, or a monster or… something. Either way, he had to be quiet.

Another thing that he had noticed, was that he wasn’t here. Well, he WAS, but if he had gone back in time, shouldn’t there be a younger version of him here? There should have been. But there wasn’t. Something had made the past version of him disappear too, which only made things more confusing.

Even with the huge amount of questions that were being raised by all of this, he knew that he was closing in on the most important one. What really had caused all of this?

He would know soon. He could feel it in his gut.