The Doctor picked up the phone, "Hello?"

There was no answer, the Doctor looked at the TARDIS monitor

"A signal…" the Doctor muttered, thus deciding to follow it

He fitted in the correct coordinates, and released the handbrake

[…]

The mare sat silently in the throne room, her phone sending out the signal she prayed that would contact their last hope

Her eyes were tired, and she hadn't time to get cleaned up as evidenced by her non brushed slivery coat

Her black and blue mane was matted, and she felt as if it wasn't going to work. Once she had finally given up hope

*WHOOSH WHOOSH*

A blue police box began to materialize in the room, once it landed a familiar man stepped out of it

"What?"

"Doctor, you're okay!" The mare smiled, hopping to her hooves

"That's not possible" the Doctor did a quick once over, "Starlight, how are you here?"

Starlight frowned, "We need your help, daleks are causing a bit of trouble in the dungeons."

"Fine, right then." the Doctor shrugged it off

He followed the Celestial Guards down to the dungeon, there were mad cries of ponies demanding to be let out, how long had it been like this?

The Doctor then saw something in the corner of his eye, he turned and saw a mare he had to stop by

She looked up at him, eyes not showing much hope of anything

"Midnight" the Doctor squatted down to her level, "How did you end up in here?"

"The Purging" Starlight was behind him, "We removed every ounce of her from my body."

"What did she do though?" the Doctor stood back up, "Because from what I can tell, it was nothing."

"What is with your memory lately?" Starlight sounded annoyed more than concerned, "First, you don't answer my calls, next you act as if I'm dead and now you don't even know about the Purging!"

"Show me the Daleks" the Doctor ordered

Starlight complied, the Doctor followed her all the way to the entrance to the cell, and from what he could tell it was deadlocked

The Doctor took a deep sniff, then turned to a shadowy corner

"You're dead" the Doctor said matter of factly

"And yet, I am still very so alive." a man stepped out of the shadows

He looked almost like a mirror opposite of the Doctor, the only differences were he was missing the coat and tie, and his eyes were a light purple

"I sealed you away, how did you escape?" the Doctor demanded

"The universe you sealed me in, did you really think that it's walls could seal me?" the Univore laughed

The Doctor then was struck on the back of the head with a heavy object, right before he blacked out he caught an image of Starlight putting down a heavy barrel

[…]

The Doctor slowly came to, his vision coming to him the slowest. First he regained sound and touch

He was lifted off of the ground, suspended by his arms. The familiar coat was missing, however he still had the white button down on

"And you finally come to your senses" the Univore stood before him, wearing the coat and tie that the Doctor typically wore

"I would offer to help you" the Doctor said calmly, "But you've become too hungry for life, universes full of people. And for that I will stop you."

"With what?" the Univore smiled, "You're sealed in a deadlocked room and I have your TARDIS captured, you have no friends to help you this time Doctor."

"You took my coat and tie, you didn't need to take my form and yet you did. You didn't want my pretty handsome looks I'm betting, why did you take my form?"

"You don't know do you?" the Univore's smile looked more evil than ever

"You took my outfit, my TARDIS. You wouldn't need to do that unless..." the Doctor trailed off

"I see he sees my plans." the Univore turned around to leave

"Don't you hurt them, don't you DARE!" the Doctor demanded

"Send him in with the Daleks." the Univore ordered, then left

[…]

the Doctor hit the ground fairly hard, the room was dark and didn't get light from any outside source

There were several blue dots floating in the air, the Doctor didn't need to guess to know what they were

Two lights flashed above a dot, "Doc...tor..."

The Doctor snapped to his feet, "Yes that's me, hello."

"Ex...ter...mi...nate..." the dalek began to roll towards the Doctor

"Wait wait wait!" the Doctor began to back away into one of the corners in the room

the daleks kept rolling, with the Doctor being cornered by the daleks

"Hold on I can explain!" the Doctor shouted, dalek plungers inches from his face

"Then...Explain..." one dalek said

"Well, it all starts with this..."

[One explanation of inter-universal travel later]

"And we are expected to trust you?" the dalek demanded

"Now it's my turn" the Doctor ignored it, "What's with the ponies up there? They all seem pretty grumpy to me."

"They are our captors" a dalek in the shadows answered, "They are suppressing our race, saying we do not deserve to live."

"Well, what do you want?" the Doctor asked after a moment of silence

"We want to be free" the lead dalek exited the shadows

the paint was chipped and the gun looked unusable

"Well then" the Doctor clapped his hands, "Let's get down to it, I'll need to see if you have any empty dalek suits..."

[…]

Twilight was trotting through the roads of Ponyville when she was called to Canterlot, it was so sudden she nor her friends had time to pack anything

Once they arrived at the palace they met with Princess Celestia, who stood next to the Doctor

Twilight observed the Doctor for a moment, his expression seemed tight, almost forced. It was confusing that he didn't come to greet them but instead gave them a curt nod

Applejack seemed to be thinking the same thing, but kept her mouth shut because if she said any lies, anypony in the next mile would be able to tell

"I have called a meeting of the Elements for we have a grave situation" the princess said, "I have been told of a great meteor that will impact on Equestria, wiping out all life on this planet."

there was a stunned silence, but Twilight got thinking

"So, how strong is the TARDIS?" Twilight had asked the Doctor

"Oh, it can fly away from a black hole, impacts from your princess might only chip the paint." the Doctor had answered back

Why couldn't it handle this meteor? Something about this seemed fishy

[...]

The Doctor held his sonic screwdriver, well aware that this was the last time he was going to use it. He extended the tip and bent it enough to where the sonic cracked, exposing the sonic core

He then chucked it at the door, sending a sonic boom, and creating enough destabilization in the door for a dalek to blast it open with its gun stick

The Doctor rushed out of the room, passing confused guards and rushing to a prison door, unlocking it and yanking it open

Midnight had hopped to her hooves, unsure of what to do

"Come on, I haven't all day!" the Doctor said, to which Midnight complied

Midnight and the Doctor were rushing through the prison, daleks fighting guards at almost every turn

the Doctor stopped, he didn't just hear it, but he felt it

"Come on, this way!" the Doctor grabbed Midnight's front hoof and pulled

Midnight and the Doctor tore open a storage room door, more daleks and guards fighting, the guards saw the Doctor and began to fire magical blasts

The Doctor saw a blue box in the distance, and made that his target, he motioned for the box, Midnight nodded and they began to run

The daleks kept him covered, the guards shouted indistinctly and all throughout the Doctor paid no heed, he simply yanked the doors open and slammed them shut as soon as they were both inside

The Doctor looked around the room, the TARDIS no longer held that light blue the Doctor had gotten used to, in its place was a foreboding red, the metallic thrumming of the TARDIS was low and dull

The Doctor ran up to the screen, it read one thing

The Doctor has died

The Doctor sighed, "So that's how he got here."

"What do you mean?" Midnight asked

"The Univore moved into this universe by a switch, he swapped beings with my alternate self of this universe" the Doctor explained, "That's why he looks like me, he didn't have a choice! It's just how he ended up!"

"But what's wrong with the TARDIS?" Midnight looked around

"That version of the Doctor died, and the TARDIS knows it." the Doctor fiddled with the pieces that he had from the cell

the Doctor sighed, walked up to the console and whispered

"You know me old girl" he said softly, "I know you recognize me..."

part of the console beeped, it split into two halves, and from between it rose a scanner panel

the Doctor walked up to it, and places his hand on it

There was a sting of pain and then it was over, the lights of the TARDIS returned to their blue hue

Midnight laughed

"Oh yes!" the Doctor pumped his fist in the air, "We're back in business!"

[…]

Twilight wasn't sure where things went wrong, the Elements didn't work when they tried to use them. The Doctor had completely flipped his lid and now the unicorn was galloping through the corridors, trying to avoid getting caught by the madman

She turned left

The mad Doctor was standing there, waiting for her

"I see you've followed exactly what I expected." he walked up to her, eyes flashing purple

It was then that Twilight realized that he wasn't the Doctor, but something that she hoped to never see again

She hadn't realized she had run until she hit the throne room, once again he was there waiting for her

"Your precious little Doctor won't be here to save you anymore." the Univore taunted "I made quite sure of that..."

Twilight backed into a corner, unsure of what to do, was this the end?

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