After his battles with the greatest evils in existence, The Doctor and Company decide to take a short rest. However, rest isn't exactly an option for this Time Lord.
A dark secret of his home is brewing, and it's going to take all Five Doctors, and quite a few companions to stop it.
My favorite classic Doctor Who story, ponified and reinterpreted for your reading pleasure. If it goes over well, I may continue the process. But only for the classic series.
Major props to Woodchip8472 for the title card!
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Insta-Fave, and good story! I hope to see more!
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Thank you for your kind words, and not saying "first".
2032285 No problem! I kinda actually forgot to favorite this, but I just did! I HATE people who say "First!" IT adds NOTHING to the Author's skill to write, has nothing to do with the story, and is JUST. PLAIN. STUPID.
Awesome! Keep up the good work!!
The Master has always, to a greater and lesser extent, been a tool of the Council. At this point in his lives, he didn't realise that which makes it all the more pathetic to watch him plot and scheme not knowing that his every thought had been scripted out in advance for him.
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Indeed. But don't give too much away...
i was expecting that" i'm the doctor the original you might say " quote when one enters the TARDIS
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I'm trying not to be a direct copy.
2049681 but that would have been perfect for that moment
Nice as always! I love the banter with Five and One! It's so hilarious!
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It's all about The Doctors bickering. That's part of the reason I'm so excited for the 50th anniversary. Can't wait to hear Smith and Tennant talk to one-another.
2050140 Moffat's script for the 50th anniversary contains all eleven Doctors.
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I know!
2051834 ME SO EXCITED.
You've definitely caught One's attitude nearly perfectly: let us fully-evolved life-forms deal with the problems; the monkeys (or ponies, in this case) should be left to do what few things they are capable of doing. He was the coldest of the Doctors too, colder even than Nine. He was quite capable of killing an unconscious man to prevent contamination of the time-stream.
Again, very good. I've never seen The Five Doctors, so I'm really excited to find out what happens!
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Make sure not to spoil it for yourself. It's a really epic story, and definitely holds up 30 years later.
2063854 I won't, but I will see if I can pick up a copy of it after this story is done.
Good choice with Colgate as Romana. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Nice one
I might be able to oblige you with a cover for this story. Leave it with me and I'll see what I can do
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Much obliged. If you want a reference for The Doctor designs, I've been basing them and The Master off of Lissy-Strata's works on DeviantArt.
Love the reference to Nick Courtenay's role as Bret Vyon in The Daleks' Masterplan.
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I was hoping someone would catch that!
More "Whooves Classic"? Do the one where the Master kills the Fourth Doctor, please! I would love to see that!
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The way Logopolis is set up, I'd need to do The Keeper of Traken first and do Castrovalva right afterward. That's three episodes I haven't gotten the chance to watch yet. More details on how requests will work once I finally make that blog post.
2067248 Oh, okay. "The Daleks" then? If you can, that is.
2067071I'll look her up. thanks
When you think about it, really, it's quite brilliant. How best to hide a secret in such a way that everypony knows it but nopony knows it? The answer is that you put it in a children's nursery rhyme. Unless you know what you're looking for, it's meaningless but it's still there if you need it!
If I were the Cyberponies, I wouldn't trust The Master further than I could comfortably spit a bull rhinoceros. The problem is, at least for this villain types, is they tend to assume that they have control of a situation when they don't.
Having that number of Cyberponies running around is probably a bad idea. They are pretty effective killers.
Naturally, all the more dangerous things would be close to the tower. Otherwise, it would be too easy, wouldn't it?
Chronomancer friend... Colgate.
You wouldn't, by any chance, have read Chronomistress?
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I have, but that's not why Colgate is referred to as a chronomancer.
My logic is that Pegasi and Unicorns are incredibly rare on Gallopfrey, to the point where they are all but extinct. Couple that with the fact that not all Gallifreyans in Doctor Who are Time Lords, I operate based in the idea that in my version of events almost all Time Lords are Earth Ponies. Time Lords who are unicorns are called Chronomancers, because they can learn magic that manipulates time, which is how Colgate sabotaged the time-trap. Colgate is likely the only Chronomancer you'll see in Doctor Whooves Classic, save The Master, who was able to take on a false unicorn body. But more on that if I ever ponify Keeper of Traken.
The war-bot's Cyber-massacre was the first ever TV Nightmare Fuel moment in my childhood. Looking back, it was sort of ridiculous but, at the time, it was terrifying.
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Cybermen were vomiting up parts, being set on fire, and one got decaptitated. You are forgiven for freaking out.
Besides, the end goal was to get you to hide behind the couch.
Looking back, I now know that I need to worry about just when the system resets back to '3', because pi is a non-rational number and no number sequence is ever repeated.
If these are Davis-verse reset Cyberponies then the loss of the Cyberleader should buy Susan and Caramel some time - they'll need to upload the command codes to the new Cyberleader before they can do anything else.
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No. These ones, along with all other ones in Doctor Whooves Classic originate from Mondas, rather than the Cybus Dimension.
IIRC from the official "Discontinuity Guide", Rassilon was one of a trinity of leaders that shepherded Gallifrey into the golden era of the Time Lords that would last until the Dalek Empire rose in its final and most terrible form, precipitating the Great Time War and the Universal Reset.
Rassilon was the organiser, legist and politician. He had the brilliance, the charisma, the organisational ability and, frankly, the ruthlessness to turn Gallifrey into a unified, orderly and relatively benign neighbour rather than a bunch of high-power pseudo-gods throwing their weight around.
Omega was the builder, the creator of the Eye of Harmony and the architect of much of Gallifrey's technology, including the TARDIS.
Then there was the third, who has been generally left out of history. Known only as "The One", he was the humanist, the unifier and the conciliator. It was The One who persuaded the tremendously egoistic Rassilon and Omega to work together for the greater good. It was he who countered the other two Time Lords' frankly ice-cold attitudes towards 'lesser' species. It wasn't until The One disappears from the (generally spotty - Rassilon purged most references to his closest political ally from history) records that Rassilon turned on and ultimately exiled Omega.
Who was The One? Frankly, no-one knows but more than one fan writer has suggested that, whilst he is not The Doctor (the Doc is nowhere near powerful enough), he might be a blood relative. Certainly, many of the Doctor's attitudes mirror The One's attitudes and he shares similar methods and ethics. More importantly, The Doctor knows things about the era of Rassilon that almost no-one else knows and was excised from history by Rassilon to exaggerate his own role and minimise Omega's. This implies that he may have access to a family history or oral tradition that escaped Rassilon's editing pen. Is The Doctor the heir of The One? Was the Doctor's self-exile due to his unwillingness to pay lip-service to the Lie of Rassilon? Once again, no-one knows. If he is, then his role in Rassilon's final defeat and destruction is all the more ironic and falls under the heading of 'wrapping up unfinished business'.
If there was any Time Lord smart enough to escape the destruction of the Time Lords, it was The One. I wonder if he is out there, somewhere, waiting for The Doctor and The Master to finally join forces and try to find him.
As we see from 'The Five Doctors', much of the history of Rassilon was re-written with salving his ego as an objective. It is quite difficult to be sure who actually did what during the era of unification and the building of the Eye of Harmony beyond generalities that raise more questions than they answer. It is not clear if Rassilon ended The Dark Times or whether he was one of its primary architects and subsequently repented and destroyed that which he had built after forming his friendship with The One. Similarly, it is not clear whether Omega played a greater role than that of Rassilon's chief scientist because of Rassilon's editing of the history books.
Well, thanks for referring me over to this story from my own comments page. Glad you did.
It's a very promising start, taking just enough of the old story and changing just enough to be properly ponified. And I love the Five Doctors. I'm kind of not-so-secretly hoping that, without actually needing to get Tom Baker in on this, that you actually write him into the story. But regardless, a fantastic start. Allons-y and geronimo!
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I really wanted to going into this, but I wasn't sure how to alter the story to feature him more.
Once I do my next project, Happiness Patrol (because I want some Seven under my belt before I get to the episodes that actually deal with The Cartmel Masterplan), my plan is to do either Robot or Genesis of the Daleks.
"Godhood", why do they always want to be gods? Do they have any idea how much paperwork is involved in being master of the universe? I'm pretty sure that the reason Davros decided he wanted to blow everything up was because he realised that supreme power was boring and probably a bit repetitive after a few aeons.
Of course, in Borusa's case, it's an narcissistic megalomania thing. He thinks that he's going to lose his power so he's going to extreme lengths to keep it, because he thinks he's the only one who deserves it. Unfortunately, the Gallifreyans really did have this problem at lot with their leaders through the years. You only have to look at their last 'Lord President' and what he considered was a legitimate tactic to win a war!
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Ten Million Years of absolute power...
An amazing story, just like the original. I saw it ages ago, and was thinking about getting a copy to watch it. Really glad I didn't now, this was like my first time seeing it. Great casting choice, good description, and you wrote the Doctors so well sometimes I felt like I was reading an official story.
But, Firefly as Ace? Dis gon be gud.
I always felt that the end of The Five Doctors was a bit weak. It wasn't Rassilon's trap; I thought that was a nice bit of "be careful what you wish for" and fits in with this implication that Rassilon was a very nasty piece of work in his own right. The weak part is Rassilon needing the Doctors' approval to proceed and One seeming to know something the others don't. No matter how hard I try, it didn't seem to match up with the whole point of Borusa's quest to win the Game - that it was this achievement on which Rassilon would judge him, not others' opinions. The only explanation that I can come up with was that it was a rather flat-footed attempt to impress on the viewer that One was somehow wiser than his regenerations (though why that was necessary or even a credible escapes me). If anything, it would have been more realistic for Five, who had been the one to unmask Borusa, who might have a better idea of what Rassilon was offering.
So, this was a well-written ponification of the story but, because of its very nature it shares the failures of the original. This isn't your fault; I thought this was well-written but you had to remain true to your source material.
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also, wouldn't the other three (2,3,5) have remembered the encounter and therefore remembered what was going on? or was their personal timeline re-written afterwards?
(also, i'm a modern whovian, haven't seen the old doctors but am considering it)
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You're correct - as they were isolated from the time stream, everything that happened in the Death Zone was a 'special case' that didn't exist in the later regenerations' past (yet). That still didn't explain why One should know something or be able to deduce something that Two through Five didn't and so that scene rang somewhat false for me.
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ahh, that makes sense then. also agree that someone other than one would have figured it out
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My interpretation as to that was that One is supposed to be the wisest of The Doctors. In The Three Doctors, he's the one that Two and Three defer to, so his judgement and problem-solving ability is somewhat higher than that of the others. I don't know why, since he's technically the youngest, but that's how he's always been portrayed.
I absolutely love the fact that Shining Armor is the Brigadier. This is going to be a blast. Can't wait to find out who got the extremely prestigious role of Sarah Jane Smith. Or who will end up being the two non-contemporary companions that cameo later on: Jamie and Zoe. Heh, if the tenth Doctor were in this story, Rarity would make the ideal stand-in for Donna. Rainbow Dash would be best Ace. Applejack I can see being an eighth Doctor companion, but one from the audio series. Speaking of which, Mayor Mare would be best Evelyn. Sticking with the first five Doctors, I think Twilight would make the best Liz Shaw. Either Pinkie or Derpy would work well as Jo Grant. I got nothing for Adric.
I'm thinking about this too much...
Not real big on the one-heart thing for the first Doctor, since it's been confirmed in canon that Time Lords do have two hearts in their first incarnation. Besides, it's always been what sets the Doctor apart physically, aside from his ability to regenerate.
Good to see the Master's real name being put to use. It does make more sense than having the High Council--especially President Borusa--call him by his egotistical title. Too bad the original writers didn't think of that.
Quick question about Colegate: Is she supposed to be Romana in her first incarnation, then? Because the Romana in Shada was the second incarnation (and portrayed by Lissy-Strata as an earth pony, whereas Romana I was a unicorn, which I suppose is probably why you said it was her first incarnation). Clever using Colegate's magic as an explanation as to why Four got trapped in a "time eddy."
Thinking about it, Twilight Sparkle is the best pony to fit the role of Sarah Jane. She's analytical, just like Sarah Jane was, and while she can get herself into Distressed Damsel situations, she can also hold her own pretty well using her wits--just like Sarah Jane. I can also see her threatening to leave the Doctor, only to be upset when she learns she really does have to go. Yes, Twilight Sparkle is the pony most qualified to portray the legendary Sarah Jane Smith.
Classic Twilight, classic Doctors.