Doctor Whooves

Born Again

Welcome back, I choose to start this season with a Children in Need special from 2005, continuing right from where we left off.

"Alert! Tardis materializing!"

"What've you done?"

"I looked into the Tardis, and the Tardis looked into me."

"I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence and I divide them."

"I will not die! I cannot die!"

"I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex, and nopony's meant to do that."

"Hello," the new stallion said cheerfully, his accent similar to Roseluck's, "Okay oh…" He felt his teeth, "New teeth, that's weird. So, where was I? Oh that's right, Barcelona."

Cue the theme song!

The stallion turned to the Tardis controls, "6 pm, Tuesday," he turned a knob, "October, five thousand and six, on the way to Barcelona!" He stood up and looked over at Roseluck, smiling like crazy.

"Now then, what do I look like?" he asked. Roseluck stared at him, speechless and terrified. "Wait, no no no no no no no! Don't tell me." He looked down at himself, "Let's see, two front hooves, two back hooves, no wings… Short tail…" He reached up and felt his mane, "Hair! I'm not bald! Oh oh, big hair… Still not a unicorn, blast. Sideburns? Oh I've got sideburns! That or really bad skin… Little bit thinner, give me time I'll get used to it." He looked up and grinned at Roseluck, "Go on then, tell me. What do you think?"

"Who are you?" she asked meekly. He looked surprised, "I'm the Doctor."

"No," Roseluck said shaking her head, refusing to believe. "Where is he? Where's the Doctor?" she demanded, her voice rising to a shout, "What have you done with him?!"

"You saw me, I-I changed," the Doctor said, "Right in front of you."

"I saw him sort of explode, and then you replaced him, like a, a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something." The Doctor stared at her, at a loss for words. Roseluck stepped forward and glared at him, "You're not fooling me. I've seen all sorts of things, nanogenes, Gelth, Slitheen." Her eyes widened, "Oh my gosh are you Slitheen?"

"I am not a Slitheen," the Doctor replied calmly.

"Send him back," she ordered, "I'm warning you, send the Doctor back right now!"

"Roseluck it's me," he pleaded, "Honestly it's me. I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body, every single cell but, it's still me."

You can't be," she whispered. He took a few steps forward and looked straight into her eyes, "Then how can I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you, trapped in that cellar, surrounded by shop window dummies. Oh, such a long time ago. I took your hoof," he gently grabbed her hoof, "I said one word, just one word, I said 'Run.'"

"Doctor," Roseluck whispered.

"Hello," he replied. Roseluck stumbled back, as if the realization of what just happened had hit her. This brand new stallion was the Doctor.

"And we never stopped did we?" asked the Doctor, galloping around the console, "All across the universe, running, running, running. And that one time we had to hop! Do you remember?" He started hopping up and down, "Hopping for our lives? Yeah? All that hopping… With the," he stopped jumping, "No?"

"Can you change back?" asked Roseluck.

"Do you want me to?"

"Yeah."

"Oh."

"Can you?"

"No," the Doctor seemed a bit disappointed, "Do you want to leave?"

"Do you want me to leave?" asked Roseluck shocked.

"No!" he replied quickly, "But, your choice, if you want to go home." Roseluck didn't reply. He turned to the controls, "Cancel Barcelona. Change to, Hoofdon, let's say, 24th of December. Call it a gift from me." He flipped one last switch and stepped back, "There."

"I'm going home?"

"Up to you," he replied, "Back to your mum, it's all waiting. Chips, pies, cakes and such, no it's the holidays, fruit cake! Although, having met your mother, nut loaf would be more appropriate." Roseluck smirked ever so slightly, she looked away to try and hide it.

"Was that a smile?" asked the Doctor.

"No."

"That was a smile," he insisted.

"No it wasn't."

"You smiled," he teased.

"No I didn't," Roseluck replied.

"Oh come on, all I did was change I didn't-" suddenly he gagged, the Tardis shuddered violently.

"What?" asked Roseluck.

"I said I didn't-" he choked again, this time worse. The Tardis rocked again. "Uh oh."

"Are you alright?" asked Roseluck, concerned despite herself. The Doctor exhaled, a cloud of golden gas came out. His eyes were wide with fear.

"What's that?" asked Roseluck.

"Oh, the change's going a bit wrong," he said. He gagged again, this time falling to his knees as the Tardis shook around them.

"Maybe we should go back, let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do," Roseluck suggested, scared.

"Nah he's busy!" the Doctor replied impatiently, "he's got plenty to do! Rebuilding Equestria!" A lever on the console suddenly caught his eyes, "Oh, haven't used this one in years." He flicked it on causing the Tardis to jerk so hard it flung him and Roseluck into the console.

"What're you doing?!" cried Roseluck, officially terrified.

"Putting on a bit of speed!" the Time-Pony replied crazily, "That's it oh my beautiful ship come on faster! Thatta girl! Faster!" he cried, "Wanna break the Time limit?!"

"Stop it!" protested the earth mare.

"Oh don't be so dull, let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through that vortex!" he caught her eye just for a moment, "The regeneration's going wrong, I can't stop myself." The Doctor grimaced in pain, "Ah my head, FASTER! Let's open those engines all the way!" A bell began ringing wildly.

"What's that?" asked Roseluck. The Doctor appeared next to her, "We're going to crash land!" he cried happily, laughing like mad.

"Then do something!" Roseluck called back.

"Too late!" the Doctor cried, voice rising hysterically as he galloped around the Tardis, "Out of control! Oh I love it! Brilliant!" He hopped in the air excitedly.

"You're gonna kill us!" Roseluck yelled.

"Hold on tight, here we go!"

To be continued in A Hearth's Warming Invasion…

Me: here's the link to this actual episode if you haven't seen it. Hope you enjoy.

watch?v=uKoSbpSdx1U simply plug it in and voila!

Next week, we watch our duo crash land in Hoofdon for the first time with our 10th friend. See you then.