It has been several weeks since Twilight disappeared from Equestria, along with the mysterious stallion, known as the Medic. Twilight’s friends, while still upset at their friend leaving them to travel the universe with a mysterious Pony they don’t even know, but at the same time, they cannot fault her, given the vast learning opportunities that presented themselves to her. Still, they do miss her, as any friend would, put in their situation.

Up in space, a shape was approaching the planet. Stopping in place, as an observation platform window faced itself to look down upon the world underneath it.

Outside the ship, circular space pods detached themselves from the sides of the ship, and started to fly around the ship, patrolling it, others started to fly off in random directions, as they began their descent down towards the planet, below.

Approaching the viewport, a figure, clad in black armor, with it’s shoulders elongating further out, but the figure’s face was obstructed behind a helmet, which hid it’s identity.

From behind, a figure, adoring the same armor as the first, but with a light color, approached it.

‘’General!’’ Turning itself around, it turned it’s entire body around to face the newcomer. ‘’The ships are reporting in that they have begun making their run down towards the planet’s surface, and will be performing their bombing run, shortly.’’

‘’Excellent, this planet must be secured,’’ it replied, bringing a hand up, in which it was shown holding a cane, ‘’all resistance must be overcome, and construction on our fortifications must be made ready as quickly as possible.’’

‘’Yes, sir.’’ It replied, bring an arm to it’s chest, bowing it’s head.

From behind, a sudden glare of red fell upon the newcomer’s helmet, as it was bowing it’s head. Noticing this, the General turned itself around, looking out the viewport. On the other side of the glass, through the eyes of it’s helmet, the General watched, as bright, eruptions of light seemed to be exploding behind the clouds, their light lasting for not very long, but before they dissipated, completely, their place was quickly taken by another.

‘’Perfect, once we are in control of this world, it will be fortified to the teeth, being able to withstand all who should attempt to oppose us.’’

‘’Yes, sir!’’ The lighter-colored figure behind it replied, raising it’s head back up.

Standing behind a control console, a large screen, and a few control switches, making up most of it’s display. An operator pulled it’s eyes away from the screen, looking instead towards the General.

‘’General,’’ it spoke up, drawing the attention of both the General and the other, ‘’Bombing run has confirmed four-hundred casualties.’’

‘’Ours, or the local population?’’

‘’The local population, sir.’’

The General lowered it’s head, slightly, deep in thought. Slowly, it raised it back up.

‘’Order another Bombing run,’’

‘’B-but, sir-‘’ many other operators, attending to their own controls, turned their heads. Looking them towards the General.

‘’order them to attack the largest military installation,’’ it ordered, pointing it’s cane towards the operator, ‘’the cities are not to be touched unless necessary, I still want this planet intact by the time we arrive.’’

‘’Y-yes, sir.’’ It looked it’s head back down, continuing to order for another Bombing run, as ordered.

‘’Yes,’’ it turned itself back, staring down upon the large scale of destruction that was being inflicted upon this planet, ‘’we cannot lose…We must take this planet, no matter the cost!’’

Down on the planet, below, the pods, that had been deployed to the surface, flew over vast fields, large cities, and many of the vast swaths of land, they did, however, not dare to venture close to the borders of the Griffon, or Minotaur Empires. Choosing to instead just confine their bombing runs to the Equestrian Kingdom.

As a giant crescent form of explosions erupted on the surface, the General turned back towards his Lieutenant.

‘’Deploy Troops to ensure maximum surrender. Some Pod ships are to remain in-flight to provide air-support for the ground forces until they can secure the Capital city,’’ he paused, ‘’and even then, they are not to assume anything, until complete surrender has been made, all units will be on full alert.’’

‘’Yes, sir.’’ The Lieutenant nodded it’s head, looking back towards the General, through it’s helmet eyeholes. ‘’Request permission to go down with the Landing party?’’

‘’Granted,’’ the General replied, ‘’I need soldiers with experience for this mission.’’

‘’Thank you, sir.’’ It bowed it’s head, once again, before turning around, and going to carry out it’s given orders.

An alarm started to blare on the bridge loudly, but the crew remained busy with managing their respective tasks. The only who given some leeway on this was the General, who supervised the Invasion of Equestria.

In separate squads of five, each, armed soldiers moved to a small raised base, from which they vanished in a quick haze of light, permitting the next one to step onto the same base, it too, disappearing in a haze of light.

*Down on the surface*

In an old, abandoned, underground basement, a strange, box, hums to life, and one by one, the vanished soldiers re-appear, forming into a mannered formation. The Lieutenant, leading the charge, as they burst from the basement, and took to the streets.

Like a knife in the shadows, the alien force started to advance deep, and swiftly, through the streets, and alleys of Canterlot. Engaging, and killing all those who opposed them. Civil targets were rounded up, and instructed to head to designated positions throughout the, constantly, more and more, occupied city. The Lieutenant, personally, being the one to lead the assault on Canterlot castle.

Before too long into the battle, smoke started to rise up from the commoner-section of the famous city, as the struggle between Equine and Invaders intensified.

*Meanwhile, someplace else*

Running with all their might, Twilight, and the newly named, The Doctor, ran as fast as they could down the corridor, red, fatal, beams, shot after them, as they tried her best to dodge them. Performing full shifts of their bodies to one side, or the other, or just doing simple changes, like moving a body part out of the way, watching as the beam missed them.

Behind them, down the hall they were running from, rows of rows of armored figures were following behind them. Their arms were raised, aiming what must have been wrist-mounted laser cannons towards them, and firing after them. All around them, the entire corridor was erupting, as explosions shook the corridor.

‘’Seek, locate, delete! Seek, locate, annihilate! Seek, locate, annihilate!’’ Their pursuers seemed to be chanting, as there was still an effort made to try to cut down the fleeing individuals, as they tried to escape from them.

The ship bucked, losing stability, as it continued to fall out of orbit. Explosions rupturing through it’s hull, crippling it further, and undoing it’s occupants’ only hope of restoring it to full functionality.

Losing their pursuers, the Doctor and Twilight, made a sharp turn. The entered the Cargo hold, many of the supplies, and packed items that had been requested moved there, had all tumbled down, crashing in front of them…Except for one.

‘’The TARDIS!’’ Twilight exclaimed out of utter joy, as she laid eyes on it.

‘’Quickly!’’ he grabbed Twilight’s arm, and pulled her with him, as he ran towards the circular rectangle. He reached inside his pockets, and retrieved back out his keys; he inserted them into the slot, and turned. The door opened, and they hurried inside.

Outside the TARDIS, the groaned wheeze of it’s Engines humming to life sounded, it started to fade away, soon vanishing like it had never been there. Pieces of the ceiling collapsed, crashing against the floor, permitting the flames access into the room.

Meanwhile on the Warship’s Bridge, remained a lone figure, it’s appearance was that of a Pony, but it was clothed in black, the rest of it’s body, underneath, however, from torso down was nothing but a base, and a skirt with four-rowed hemispheres on them, it’s head was decorated with a control head-set.

‘’NOOOOOOOO!’’ it screamed out with a loud, howling, terrible, voice, ‘’DAMN YOU, DOCTOR!’’ It screamed out, as it had a front-row seat to the ship’s crash into the rapidly approaching ground in the viewport in front of it. The violent glare of the flames outside the ship, as it was burning up in the atmosphere, coming in at speeds far too great.

‘’I may have meet my end…but they will live on.’’ A smile settled on his face, his eyes closed, and he…he prepared himself.

With terrifying speed, the ship crashed down into the mountains, the explosions’ flames from the violent impact shattered the glass, and exploded into the Bridge, enveloping him, and incinerating him.

On the surface of the planet where the ship had crashed down, the intensity of the crash’s explosion was so rough, that when it unfolded, it could barely be seen from space.

*Back on the TARDIS*

While operating several of the TARDIS’ controls, the Doctor turned his head, looking to the side, he watched Twilight standing by herself. Her head hung low, and while he could not see her face, could sense an aura of sadness having clothed itself around her.

He cast a quick glance back, operating a few switches, and pressing a buttons.

‘’Doctor?’’ he heard Twilight’s voice speak to him, his head turned, staring his eyes back towards the Unicorn Mare, ‘’please take me home.’’

*Back on Equestria*

Five months later

Having traversed the Time Vortex, the TARDIS resumed it’s usual groaned wheeze, as it started to re-materialize back on Equestria, more accurately; Ponyville.

The front door opened, and the Doctor exited out through them, with Twilight following shortly after.

‘’Spike!?’’ Twilight called out into the Library, running around, as she tried to find her most trusted assistant, ‘’Spike!? Where are you!?’’

No response came from the upstairs to indicate anyone being there.

‘’Huh, must have gone out.’’

While looking around the Library, both, the Doctor, and Twilight, noticed that the entire Library was in somewhat of a messed state, books were strewn everywhere on the floor, furniture were everywhere, and it was just a generally big mess.

‘’Well, I hate to say it,’’ the Doctor trotted through a small pile of unorganized paper, and documents, picking some of them up, ‘’but if he’s had a party, I would say that it got way out of control, and he just didn’t want to clean it up.’’

‘’Could be,’’ Twilight’s head turned, looking around, as if she was looking for something, ‘’but I know Spike, and he wouldn’t dodge responsibility like this, even if it was something that might make me mad.’’ She brought a hoof up to her mouth, covering it. ‘’Maybe he would.’’

While looking around the room, a small beam of light shone down on his cheek, drawing his attention away from Twilight, and the mess of the Library, instead. He turned, and followed the beam, until he saw that it emanated from a hole in the wall, through which the light was permitted entry.

He turned himself to face it, narrowing his eyes, which stared towards the small hole with a peeked interest.

‘’Eh, Twilight?’’ He called out after her.

A ‘’Yeah, Doctor?’’ sounded from behind his back.

‘’Was there always a hole there?’’ He asked, pointing his hoof up towards the spot he was asking about. She turned to see where he was pointing, craning her head up, but as her eyes fell upon it, they widened, and her face paled.

‘’No, Doctor,’’ she shook her head, slowly, ‘’there wasn’t.’’

His head turned, meeting her worried face, as she looked back towards his’ suspicious one. His brow was raised, giving her a partially nervous glance.

Suddenly, the door was with powerful force slammed open. Twilight, and the Doctor, both, turned themselves to see what was happening.

In through the door, several Pony shapes ran inside, their bodies being clothed in old, torn, rags, with slight bits of armor on them, wielding something that looked like technically advanced Rifles, which they surrounded Twilight and the Doctor, and pointed at them with.

‘’Freeze! Don’t move!’’ They shouted towards two Ponies, keeping their weapons fixed on them in case they tried anything, taking no chances with these two newcomers, whom they had never seen before.

‘’Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!’’ He exclaimed, raising his hooves up into the air. ‘’Whatever you want, l-let us try, and talk it out, ey?’’

‘’Be quiet.’’ One of the armed Ponies said to him.

‘’But-‘’

‘’I said, be quiet!’’ He shouted, pointing his weapon even closer towards him.

‘’All right! No need to become so fired up over it.’’

He turned towards Twilight, meeting her confused gaze.

‘’Raise yours hooves.’’ He instructed her.

‘’Wh-what?’’ She asked confused. ‘’B-but, Doctor-‘’

‘’No ‘’buts’’. These Ponies seem to think that we are someone else, we have to show them that we are not who they think we are.’’ Twilight only blinked her eyes back.

She sighed, wearing a serious face, raising her hooves up.

Turning his head, he looked back towards the group of Ponies.

‘’There?’’ He said to them. ‘’Now, would you mind filling in some of the blanks?’’ He asked.

‘’Well, if you’re not, to quote you ‘’who we think you are’’ then who are you?’’ A voice spoke up from amongst the crowd.

One of the Ponies, lightly, turned his head to the side.

‘’Captain, stay out of this!’’ One of the Ponies who had their weapons fixed on the two detainees.

The Ponies parted ways, making way for a lone Pegasus Mare, who trotted up from behind the group. She, unlike the others, wore a full Military’ uniform, she looked to be around much closer to Twilight’s age, but the beginning of wrinkles was evident on her face, clearly indicating a developing age.

‘’Now,’’ she started to speak, ‘’I will ask you again, who are you?’’ Her tone was much sterner, and no longer, quite as welcoming as when she first spoke.

‘’I am the Doctor, and this is my associate, Twilight Sparkle.’’ He said, gesturing his left arm towards Twilight.

The Ponies all gasped at the mention of Twilight’s full name. Lowering their weapons away from pointing towards her, and this Pony called the Doctor.

‘’The Princess’ pupil’’ ‘’The Vanquisher of the Darkness of the Night.’’ etc

Twilight blushed at the mention of all titles that these Ponies had given her, and she not even known about them.

‘’R-really, I-it’s not necessary for you all to be so formal. I am not the Princess.’’

The Captain turned her attention from Twilight back to the Doctor, casting him a suspicious glare.

‘’And you are truly telling me that this is the Twilight Sparkle?’’ She cracked an eyebrow at him. He gave a calm nod of his head.

‘’This is the Princess’ star student, the same princess, who, single hoofedly saved Equestria when her own sun turned on her,’’ he lowered his head, hanging it low, ‘’only, it still tried to destroy her even after her own darkness had been subdued, and in doing so, all of Equestria along with it.’’

The Captains’ eyes widened in surprise at what she was being told, but her facial expression did not display sadness, rather, it displayed confusion, and shock.

‘’Eh,’’ she stuttered, ‘’you do know that she-‘’

‘’Captain!’’ A voice spoke from amongst the crowd. Turning themselves around, Twilight, the Doctor, and the Captain, all turned themselves towards the group of Ponies. Even some of the group turned.

‘’Incoming air assault!’’

All the Ponies looked away from the Doctor and Twilight, instead directing their attention towards the front entrance to Twilight’s Library.

‘’Men, take positions! Stall them! Do not let them reach the Library before we can manage to evacuate Twilight from here!’’

‘’Yes, mam!’’ The armed Equestrians said in unison, rushing out the front entrance they had entered through, disappearing from sight.

Turning towards Twilight, she had a worried glance on her face. She held up her arms, grabbing the side of hers shoulders with them.

‘’Listen to me; we have to leave, now! The Invaders’ aerial forces are almost upon us, and we have to get you to a safe location!’’ There a frantic worry in her eyes, and her voice.

At the mention of ‘’The Invaders’’ his curiosity was peeked, he stepped forward towards her. ‘’What Invaders?’’ He asked her, but she ignored him, and continued to hold Twilight by the sides of her shoulders.

‘’You cannot die on us, not now when we are so close.’’

‘’B-but, why?’’

‘’Because you’re our last hope in stopping the Invaders’ conquest of our planet…Now come!’’ She grabbed Twilight’s hoof, and started to pull her with her, but was shocked when Twilight resisted her, retracting her hoof back from her grasp.

‘’I am not going without the Doctor.’’ She moved closer to him, the Captains’ eyes followed her, shifting over towards the Stallion that she was moving closer to. ‘’If you do indeed believe that I, alone, can stop the Invaders from taking over our planet,’’ she smirked, turning her face towards the Doctor, ‘’then you have yet to see what we can do.’’

The Captain narrowed her eyes, gaining a sterner glare upon her face.

‘’Fine, he can tag along!’’ she reached for, and grabbed Twilight by the hoof, pulling her along with her towards the front door. ‘’Well? Come on, Doc!’’ Her telling him to hurry up was enough to make him to begin making it a reality, as he started running after her. They hurried out the front door, making a sharp turn to the right, and continuing forward.

‘’Whoa!’’ He exclaimed, as he looked out in front of him, laser blasts, and quick, large, shapes, flying across the sky. He lowered his gaze, seeing the dead bodies that laid splayed out on the ground, all around him, their still, motionless eyes, staring out in front of them at whatever they could see.

Up in the sky, several of the pods that were flying around, their internal control mechanisms started to bleep, loudly. The Pilots, having their original mindsets interrupted, looked down towards their ship’s screens.

‘’What!?’’ One, or more, exclaimed, behind their helmet’s eyes, their real eyes widened in shock. ‘’Three more life signatures have emerged from the aforementioned location. Their energy signatures must have been obstructed by the tree’s hide.’’

Pressing a button on it’s control panel static could be heard in it’s helmet’s Communications channel.

‘’Unit 156, report?’’ A voice spoke to the Pilot.

‘’This is Unit 156 reporting in. My scanners have just picked up three more lifeforms, two Equestrians, and a Foreigner, one of the Ponies’ readings is for the most part insignificant…But the Foreigner, and someone who I do not recognize, I have yet to get a proper fix on.’’

‘’Explain, Soldier,’’ the other Pilot instructed, ‘’why are you just NOW bringing this to our attention?’’

‘’Because their energy signatures were being very effectively hidden from our ship’s scanners.’’

‘’Very well.’’ The other Pilot on the other end of the Communications channel, pressed another button on it’s control panel, making the communication available to all the other ships.

‘’All Pilots, three new energy signatures have been detected. The creatures they belong to will be apprehended, and if necessary, brought back to Command!’’

The other Pilots in their pods all exclaimed a loud chant, as they altered their pods’ course, and started flying after the newly detected energy signatures, which they had been ordered to locate, and secure, because of these new objects, the ship’s guns were de-activated, and they became just normal pods.

Down on the ground, Twilight was still being pulled along by the Mare, her grasp being really strong on her hoof, and while he was keeping up with them, he was beginning to fall a little bit behind them.

His ear twitched, as he heard the sound of approaching ship’ engines, above them. Turning his head back, he caught glimpse of five, maybe six Pod ships coming after them.

‘’Oh no!’’ He whispered to himself, as he watched their pursuers’ ships beginning to catch up on them.

Through his ship’s screen, the Pilot smiled, as he watched, on the screen, that he, and his companions, were finally beginning to catch up with them. If it was not for the insistence that they were to be captured, he could have easily shot them from this range.

Grunting at the annoyance of having to refrain themselves from killing the trio, the Pilot caused a sudden speed boost, thrusting it’s pod forward, at which it was moving much faster than the others. They were completely caught off-guard by the Pilot’s actions.

Catching up to them, the Pilot’s screen showed the three equines, as they made sharp turns, both left and right, ducking behind houses, and performing many other tricks in a vain attempt to prevent their pursuers from catching up to them, but therein lies the beauty of technology.

‘’Hm.’’ He smirked, as he beheld them on the screen. ‘’Well, now that I am close enough to get a proper read, maybe I should-‘’

Suddenly, his helmet’s (ship’s) display started going frantic, beeping, the icons on his display going through many others, as it all went haywire.

His eyes widened, and his face paled, gaining a look of sheer horror.

‘’B-but that is impossible!’’ He exclaimed in protest. ‘’T-there is only one with that kind of energy signature.’’ He suddenly pressed several buttons in rapid succession. The display inside his helmet started to change, showing multiple landscapes of the surrounding town.

‘’No! S-she has to be here somewhere! T-there is no way that-…’’ He stopped himself mid-sentence, bringing his attention back to the group in front of him.

His look of fear was suddenly replaced with that of a smug grin. ‘’Yes,’’ he spoke, ‘’yes! If I am the one to bring her to Command, the General will reward me for sure…’’ His eyes looked to the side, and he grinned wide. ‘’But I cannot risk allowing the others to take the credit for her capture.’’

He tapped into the Communications channel, waiting for a secondary moment of static, before the voice of his superior sounded.

‘’Yes, report?’’

‘’Commander, I think you might want to hear this…’’

Running for their lives, Twilight was still being pulled, against her will, by the Captain. They were still putting some distance between themselves and the pods, none of them daring to look back. Almost all of them.

Turning his head back, the Doctor looked behind him towards the pods.

‘’Huh? What?’’ He muttered in confusion.

He stopped running, stopping his place, as he something he had not expected the pods to do, turn, and fly away from them.

‘’Hey, Twilight! Captain!’’ He called out towards them. ‘’They are no longer chasing after us, they are turning around, and flying away!’’

The two Mares, or rather, the first Mare who was running, whilst pulling on another, finally came to a stop, ending both of their movement. The both of them turned themselves around, staring their eyes up into the sky. Them too, bearing witness to this strange behavior that was they were witnessing first hoof.

Up in the sky, just now beginning to catch up on them, but suddenly, turning themselves around, and speeding back the way they had come, they watched as the spheres was going the exact opposite way of the one they were originally following.

‘’What are they doing?’’ The Captain questioned the others, equally as confused as they were.

‘’I have no clue, Cap’n,’’ his head turned, looking towards her, ‘’mind if I call you Cap’n?’’ He asked her, she looked towards him, but shook her head from side to side.

‘’Not at all…Doc.’’ He gave a gentle chuckle at her reply.

‘’But in all seriousness, Doctor,’’ Twilight said, turning her head towards him, ‘’what just happened?’’

His head turned, looking back towards her.

As Twilight’s voice reached his ears, they perked themselves up, and he turned his head back towards her. His face blank, and wearing a small hint of nervous fear.

‘No, it cannot be. They cannot have fled because of…Because of her…’

Turning her head, she looked her eyes towards him.

‘’Doctor?’’ She asked, softly, snapping him out of the slight trance he might have been under. He shook his head, blinking his eyes.

‘’Doctor? Is everything all right?’’ The Captain asked him next.

‘’No! Everything is fine, I’m all right.’’ he smiled back at them, reassuringly. Lowering his head, and turning it back to look in the direction that the pods had gone, his smile disappeared, being instead replaced with a serious frown, ‘’Everything is fine.’’ He muttered under his breath, as his eyes peered into the distance of where the ships may have vanished.

Wandering through the abandoned, and frankly, ruined, Ponyville, Twilight could not help but continually stare, looking out at all the destruction that had befallen her home.

While she was distracted with that, he was discussing things with the Captain.

‘’So, I need you to tell me everything that’s happened here.’’ He seemed to almost order the Captain. ‘’Who are these Invaders? Why are they here? And most importantly, what happened here?’’

She sighed, lowering her head.

‘’They happened.’’ She raised her hoof up, pointing it upwards. Seeing that she was pointing at something behind him, he turned himself around, and looked up in the direction that she was pointing. Looking as well, Twilight stared off in the same direction. But when both Twilight, and the Doctor, looked out in front of them, their eyes grew wide, their mouths dropped, hanging open, and the Doctor almost backed away.

‘’That is Canterlot, or what remains of it.’’ She explained. ‘’The Invaders first took control of our capital city, and added pieces of their technology to it, turning it into a fortress, unconquerable, unbeatable, resistant to any force we try sending at it…’’ She paused, before continuing. ‘’and that that is where they are holding the Princess.’’

At the mention of ‘’the Princess’’ Twilight’s head rotated towards the Captain, a pale, but terrifying face, looking back at her, before returning her head, and staring her eyes up towards the ‘’upgraded’’ city of Canterlot. She narrowed her eyes, glaring angered back.

‘’When do we start?’’ She asked stern.

The Captain’s head turned towards Twilight, giving her a victorious smile. She softly inhales some air, before letting it out just as gently as she had inhaled it.

‘’It’s good to be back on track to obtaining victory.’’ Her smile grew a little wider from saying that out-loud.

‘’I would be inclined to say the same,’’ a sudden voice from behind their backs, ‘’but then again, our victory was not already secured the minute we landed on this planet.’’

Like the Captain, Twilight and the Doctor, both turned themselves around to face the speaker. But the minute he laid eyes on the speaker, he was suddenly taken aback by fear.

The figure before them was dressed in a black full body suit, with armor on it’s upper body, and a helmet atop it’s head, which curved similarly in shape to an egg, with two half-triangular holes for eyes.

‘’No!’’ She spoke, shaking his head from side to side. ‘’No! It cannot be you…! Not here!’’ His growing worry attracted Twilight’s attention, who cast him a confused look.

‘’Doctor? Is something wrong?’’ He closed his mouth, but still looked on in fear.

‘’Y-yes, Twilight.’’ He paused, gulping down. ‘’Something is very wrong here.’’

In front of them, the darkly armored figure, stood itself up on it’s hind legs, folding it’s arms, as it cast them an overconfident smirk from it’s behind it’s helmet.

‘’Well, no need to flattery, cause it won’t save you.’’

He raised his arm, pointing a strange wrist-mounted device towards them.

‘’Bang.’’ It said, firing off a blast of energy from it’s wrist device. The blast shot through the sky, approaching the trio at a faster speed than even the most experienced of Unicorns.

‘’Dodge!’’ The Doctor shouted, as he leaped to the side, pushing two Mares out of the way. The blast flew past them, hitting one of the ruined houses behind them, causing that to explode instead.

‘’What!?’’ The darkly armored figure exclaimed, taking a step forward, as it clenched it’s hoof, striking a ‘’prepared’’ pose.

The Doctor, and the two Mares, crashed down into the ground, as the aftershock of the explosion brushed over them.

Standing himself back up, he looked down, seeing the two Mares coughing, as the dust cleared.

‘’Interesting development, is it not?’’ They heard it speak to them. His head shot up, and he turned, looking back towards the attacker. ‘’I detect a powerful energy level coming from the purple Unicorn…’’ It raised it’s hoof, pointing it towards him. ‘’But you, you are quick enough to dodge my attack. How?’’

Glaring back, he grimaced, as he cast a stern glance back towards the figure.

‘’Sontaran!’’ He shouted up towards the figure. ‘’I, the Doctor, of the Time Lord Race, demand to be told what you are doing here, and cease all nefarious activates, at once, and return back forthwith to your previous location before coming here.

The Sontaran chuckled, bringing a hoof up to in front of it’s helmet, placing it approximately where it’s mouth was.

‘’A warrior of Sontar does not surrender to a lowly lifeform, as yourself.’’ It returned to standing back up on it’s hind legs, raising it’s hooves, and holding them out, as it struck a fighting pose. ‘’It would be my honor to kill you, myself, or die in battle against our most notorious criminal.’’

‘’Oh, I am sorry, who has killed thousands of lives.’’

‘’Irrelevant, those lives were meaningless to our cause.’’

‘’Irrelevant?’’

‘’Yes, now if you would-‘’

‘’No life is irrelevant, and not one for you to take.’’ He raised a brow behind his helmet’s eyes, his smile growing wider.

‘’Oh? And who are you to judge? You are not my boss!’’ He screamed back, he raised his hoof, holding it out in front of him, as with a mighty leap forward, he charged towards the Doctor.

‘’Doc-‘’ Twilight screamed out, but her cry out for him was cut-short, as she witnessed him step out of the way of the creature labelled a ‘’Sontaran’’ charged towards him, the Sontaran, being equally as confused as she was about the whole thing. He tried turning his head, but considering his helmet was not supposed to be in a situation like this it was impossible to locate the Doctor.

‘’Alley-‘’ he started, as she side-stepped the Sontaran, ‘’-whoop!’’ He said, before swinging his hoof down, hitting it against the back of the back of his head, hitting the weak spot with such force that it, with no secondary thought, seemed to send the Sontaran into an immediate shut-down, before falling down onto the ground, unconscious.

Twilight and the Captain’s jaws hung low, held low, as they could not comprehend that which they had witnessed.

‘’Wow! That was amazing, Doctor!’’ The Captain exclaimed, over shocked by how he had just made that Sontaran go down, onto the ground.

‘’Where in the world did you learn something like that!?’’ Asked Twilight.

He scoffed, chuckling, softly.

‘’I was a fighter once, you know. I did learn a thing or two…’’ His smile grew was kept the way it was, as he paused, looking his eyes down. ‘’But it is how I chose to wield it that makes it valuable.’’ The Captain nodded, smiling back at him.

‘’Spoken like a true veteran.’’ His smile vanished, as a frown overtook it, and he shoot her a rather nasty glare. ‘’What?’’ She asked.

He did not answer her, but merely started to trot forward. Twilight trotted up towards the Captain, a saddened frown on her face.

‘’He has a history he is…’’ she turned her head, sighing softly, looking it after him, ‘’he’s not too proud of.’’

‘’Oh.’’ She turned her head, looking it after him, as they watched him trot ahead of them.

‘’Uh-…You do know that he is going the wrong way, right?’’ She raised an eyebrow, as Twilight, and her own, meet each other’s gaze.

‘’Doctor! Come back! That’s the wrong way!’’ Twilight called up after him, as she ran to try and catch up with him. The Captain gave a soft scoff, shaking her head, before she took to following after them.

Not too far away, in the shadows of a nearby ruined Ponyville house, a shadowy figure emerged. It’s eyes staring after Twilight, the Doctor, and the Captain.

‘’They have bested a Sontaran…But I fear that their trials have just begun.’’ It said, as it started to move forward, following after them, but only in the shadows.

Author's Notes:

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