All right! Guess whose back! Again! Oh, school has been torture on me, but I'm still working hard enough to give you guy's chapters. I hope you enjoy this one. SONGU is still my editor and he did an amazing job with my last chapter. Be sure to thank him, because I can't thank him enough.

Chapter 6 Rescue Party

Several hours later, everypony had finally made it to Derpy's house.

"Ok, that's the last time we're bringing you guys up here," Spitfire told all the ponies in the house. She, Derpy and Soarin' were getting extremely tired after having to walk through the caves and having to bring the ponies down to the ground and back up into the house.

"Don't worry," the Doctor started, "If everything goes according to plan, then you will only have to bring all of us down one more time."

Spitfire and Soarin' groaned, but they would much rather lift everypony into and out of the house instead of living in Discord's world.

"Ok, well what's our next plan of attack?" Soarin' quickly asked.

"Well, since I still don't have the technology I need, I guess we'll just have to time it correctly…" the Doctor spoke, but suddenly they heard a noise coming from upstairs, like a ZAP!

"Derpy? Are you here?" somepony said, from upstairs.

Derpy, Spitfire, and Soarin' flew up to the hall upstairs, followed by the Doctor quickly galloping to the location of were the noise emanated from.

There, they found a grayish, raggedy pony with yellowish eyes, a light blue bowtie, and a top hat.

The strangest thing, though, was that he had the exact same cutie mark as the Doctor's, just like Minuette did as well, but they pushed the thought on the coincidence aside.

He also had a strange device on his front leg.

"Hey! Don't look in there!" Derpy said, as the stranger was taking a peek into her room.

This mysterious pony stuck his head out, shouting her name "Derpy!"

He then noticed Spitfire's presence as well. "Spitfire! What are you doing here?"

Then he stopped when he noticed the Doctor.

The stranger's eyes went wide as he spoke out-loud,

"Shoot, wrong time period! By several years! Well, at least now I know how I got to this moment in my life. I mean, him!" he looked at the Time Lord. "How HE got to this moment! Exactly!"

"Who are you?" the Doctor asked this mysterious pony. He couldn't stop looking at the device on his leg. For some reason, it seemed… familiar.

"Oh," this new pony said nervously, "Um, my name is," he said, as he looked around the room, "um…, Sandy Time! That's it."

The Doctor looked at him curiously, "Well, 'Sandy' what are you doing here? In fact, a better question to ask is how did you get up here? You have no wings or magic, but we most definitely heard a noise that came from up here before you showed up."

'Sandy' showed up his device, "This vortex manipulator brought me here. I was looking for someone."

The Doctor looked at him wondering who the stranger really was.

'He could be a Time Lord from this universe, but then why doesn't he use a TARDIS then?' the Doctor wondered. 'Or maybe future ponies discovered the right technology to let anypony go backwards or forwards in time.'

One thing was certain though, this pony could not be a future him.

If it were, then the whole fabric of time would have ripped right then and there.

"You were looking for Derpy," he said still trying to figure out who this pony was. 'Maybe Derpy told him who I was,' he thought to himself. 'I thought I could trust her,' but then he shook the thought out and knew that he could definitely trust her whole heartedly, Spitfire as well. "You also know Spitfire, is that correct?"

'Sandy Time' said, "Well, it's complicated, but yes, I know them."

Spitfire said before Derpy could speak anything about it: "I've never seen you before in my life, Mister!"

She was sure of it; she would have definitely remembered a pony like 'Sandy Time,' or even a name like 'Sandy Time.'

It sounded cute, and she did also think this pony was cute too, but she had her heart set on the Doctor.

"Yeah, me neither," Derpy said trying to remember anything about this pony, but nothing came to mind. She was sure she would remember anypony as strange as this one, but Derpy was detecting something from him.

Something about his mysteriousness attracted her to him. The way he smirked at her.

He was pretty cute too, but her heart was locked with the Doctor.

"It's because you haven't met him… yet. He's from the future, or at least, your future, but he landed in the wrong time period, for some reason," the Doctor explained for them.

Spitfire and Derpy were slightly confused, but they decided to just go with it.

"Why were you looking for me?" Derpy asked, curious as to why she was involved in Sandy's life.

'Sandy' looked at her sadly and said, "You're one of the only two friends I have at the moment – or should I say, my moment, but I can't tell you anything else, can't risk a paradox. Right now I have to go to the right time and stop King Sombra," he said as he adjusted his vortex manipulator and was about to leave until Soarin' said, "Who's King Sombra?"

Sandy looked up and said, "You still don't know who King Sombra is?" then he remembered what moment he had arrived at, in the middle of the current villains team-up to destroy Equestria, how they actually succeeded, but things changed in the end, he thought to himself.

"Oh, sorry. You'll find out about him soon enough," he looked down at his vortex manipulator and remembered something else, "Oh, and you should be receiving a present very, very soon," then he clicked his vortex manipulator and vanished with another ZAP!

The Doctor was still trying to put the pieces to this puzzle together.

'Who was that pony?'

'Who is this'King Sombra' that is apparently involved with Derpy later in life?'

'Was it possible that there was a pony Time Lord who gave that pony the vortex manipulator? Or was it he that gave that pony the device?'

'What present was he about to receive?'

'And why would anypony wear a bowtie, in the first place?! Ties are so much cooler.'

He just decided to ignore all of this, since he would have enough time to figure everything out after he got rid of the current problem he had.

Then it all became night time.

The Doctor was already expecting that, he knew that Nightmare Moon would control the days and night now, so he didn't make a big deal about the whole thing, but he also knew that he wouldn't find the tunnels in the night time, so he had to wait until Nightmare decided to bring the sun back up which could be either in an hour or in three days!

'Oh, how I wish I had my TARDIS,' he thought. The Doctor looked out the window and whispered, "Please come back soon," quietly enough so nopony would hear him.

…

The Great and Powerful Trixie was sitting in her new 'home' (a cave), waiting for something to come to her mind.

It had been a couple of hours since she asked herself what she should or could do. 'I can't just break out one pony at a time, and I have no idea how to break out everypony at a time. I need help.'

She decided to check Twilight to see if the unicorn had any bright ideas.

A poof and she quickly appeared inside the cave that Twilight was in...

And she was sleeping! 'How could anypony sleep at a time like this?' Trixie wondered.

"Twilight!" Trixie unwisely yelled.

The purple unicorn quickly got up looked around the blurry room, "Who's there?" she asked. Once here vision was back to normal she noticed Trixie standing next to her cage, looking frustrated.

"Trixie!" she shouted. "You'll never believe what happened to me after you left."

"Let me guess, you fell asleep?" she said slightly annoyed. She had been thinking of something to do all day, and came back expecting Twilight to have done the same.

"What? No, two ponies found me! They said that there was a whole group of a dozen ponies looking for the prisoners. We could defeat Discord, Nightmare, Chrysalis, Gilda, and the Diamond Dogs!"

Trixie was surprised by this, "Really? So what should I do?"

"You should go see them, but make them trust you. It might be hard, but if you give them some information, then they might let you join them!"

Trixie nodded in understanding. "Ok, but you know they are most likely going to be mad at me for helping those monstrous villains… and Gilda."

Twilight actually laughed at what she said, "I didn't know you had a sense of humor."

"Well she is the only one more useless than I."

"Oh, come on, Trixie, you are not useless. You did manage to capture me, remember?" Twilight joked, but she knew Trixie was still hurt by that. "Ok, you'd better hurry. They could be on their way right now!"

"Oh, I don't think so. It's probably too dark to find anything right now, but it will take me awhile to find them."

"What do you mean, 'dark'? It's not supposed to be night time yet… oh.", Twilight said, seeing the look on Trixie's face. "Nightmare Moon is already messing with the Sun and the Moon, isn't she?"

"Yes, she is. And to make matters worse, I have no idea where the group could be."

"They are probably in one of their houses, but that might be a long shot," the prisoner advised her.

"Oh well. At least I'll have a place to start," she said as she backed away and was about to disappear once more.

"Thank you. I never thought I could count on one of my 'worst' enemies for help."

Trixie smiled at her then poofed away.

…

Spike had decided to wait with Rarity until everything was back to normal.

Luckily for them, there were no Diamond Dogs around here, but Rarity had told him it was because she kept complaining to them until they got tired of hearing her and left. Granted there still were really only two dogs guarding the whole cave, but he hadn't seen a single dog for the amount of time he was there.

They talked about each other while they waited for something to happen, just like the Doctor told him, but it was really hard waiting there for hours, though Rarity enjoyed the company she was receiving.

"Everything will be back to normal," Spike promised her.

…

Back in Derpy's house, it had been several hours since the sun had gone down. Every pony was sitting around waiting for the sun to rise, but then a mystical noise came out of nowhere.

It started slow, like some sort of animal breathing, but then it started to grow into a roar, cyclical, wheezing and groaning, echoing and reverberating though out the walls.

It was like the sound of the Universe's fabric ripping apart then sewing itself back on.

It was like music to the Doctor's ears.

A blue tall box suddenly appeared, shocking everypony except the Doctor and Derpy, who were both smiling.

"Oh, old Girl," he said to it, "I'm so glad you're back. You will make things so much easier for us!"

He opened the door and walked inside, then took a step back. His TARDIS had changed! It had been ponyfied, everything now was the perfect size and shape for a pony to control.

"Wow, you DO care, you sentimental thing… I seriously missed you."

Derpy walked in as well, taking Spitfire along.

At first, the Wonderbolt was amazed, but she had seen strange things, and this was clearly the work of magic.

"Whoa! I don't remember your ship looking like this," Derpy said, mesmerized.

Spitfire looked at her slightly hurt. 'So, Derpy had already seen this before? Why am I the last one to know about his life?'

The Doctor walked past them and put his head outside, "Everypony gather around inside the TARDIS…", but before anypony could walk in, a flash of light blue light startled everypony in place.

The Great and Powerful Trixie, one of the villains behind the villains' take-over, was now standing in the middle of Derpy's living room.

…

"What are you doing here?!" Minuette was the first to ask.

Trixie looked at everypony and couldn't help but notice the blue box in the center of the room that said, "Pony Public Call Box" at the top.

"I'm here to help you guys," she simply said.

"Why should we trust you?" Rose said, squinting at the pony that swore revenge towards Ponyville, and as far as they knew it, had just achieved it.

"I know you're going to save the Princess Sisters and the newlyweds," everybody was shocked to hear her say this, but then she quickly explained, "Twilight and I are friends now."

The Doctor pushed past Sea Swirl and Amethyst Star, suddenly getting awfully close to the blue unicorn.

Trixie did not know that pony personally, but recognized him from before, standing at the audience at that fateful night, the night that Twilight Sparkle showed everypony what a fraud she was.

His eyes stared into hers, and for a split second, Trixie did not feel so Great and Powerful anymore.

Actually, she felt she was staring into the eyes of a dragon, eyes both icy ancient and fiery menacing.

Looking down on her, unthreatened, like she was not even worth the effort of looking at.

She froze in the same way she did from the Ursa Minor.

No, worse than that. HE made her feel like she was staring at… at them.

The real monsters.

Nightmare Moon. Discord. Queen Chrysalis.

This pony, whoever it may be, was not your average pony. He was something else, like a storm of fire and ice.

"Say that again," he spoke slowly, and Trixie could swear the air grew colder around them.

"Twilight…and I. We… are friends," she gulped and added, "now."

There was a flicker of light in his eyes, or maybe she just imagined it, for the pony suddenly shifted into a nicer mood, "Ok, I believe you! Welcome to the team, Miss Trixie! Or do you prefer Great and Powerful? I'm not sure I'll be able to say that every time, especially with a straight face."

"What?!" everypony said at the same time.

"How could you trust her that easily?" Sea Swirl asked him.

"There would be no way she could figure out that we were going to free enerypony. Well, they could have, if they overheard us and maybe tortured any of the prisoners…", his voice came out slowly, as he took a peek at Trixie, but then returned to the previous joyful tone. "But don't worry, we can trust her, I made sure of that. Come along, we need to act now before Queen Chrysalis' army shows up."

"But it's too dark!" Lyra reminded him.

"Yes, it is, but now my TARDIS can take us wherever we want. It will be a snap to get everypony out, but we need to go, now, so everypony, hop inside!" he said as he went back into the box, straight to the controls of his ship, where Derpy and Spitfire stood, and got it ready.

All the ponies walked in and, as soon as the doors closed, the TARDIS was off.

…

Discord had wanted to check up on Celestia for some time, and since Chrysalis was readying her army, he decided he would act now.

A vase of chrysanthemums appeared from the ground, quickly bursting into pieces and revealing the Draconequus in a rather dramatic entrance, confetti included.

The great Sun Allicorn was just sitting there, where he left her before.

When he approached her, she looked up at him not knowing whether she should be glad he was there… or mad at him.

"Hello Tia," he teased her. "I'm sorry that it took me so long to come back, but I had to make sure I knew how far Chrysalis was with preparing her army."

Then he knelt and spoke very seriously. "As soon as I get everyone together, turn us into stone."

Celestia was taken aback, extremely confused.

"What?! You are helping me? Why do you want me to turn you into stone? I thought you wanted to be a hero?"

"Just because no one knows I'm a hero, it doesn't mean that I'm not one. No one will ever trust me again after what I did to Equestria three times. I just want you to know that I'm sorry for everything, by getting rid of every villain you ponies know of."

Now Celestia was crying, "I trust you now, you see? I know that you've changed, but is there anything you can do to stay with me? If I turn you into stone with the other villains simultaneously… then you will never be able to escape unless we free the other villains as well. Everyone will be bound by the same spell; your fates will be the same."

"I don't want ponies to think that there are still any threats out there. I need to do this, but I want you to know that I… I still love you."

Celestia smiled and wished that she could spend some time with Discord before she had to turn him into stone again.

"I'm sorry I ever doubted you," she said leaning closer hoping that he would kiss her again, but before he could do anything they heard a strange sound before they saw a blue box slowly appearing in front of them.

Discord actually smiled. Being a creature of Anarchy, he could sense so much delightful chaos coming from the strange artifact, the rebellious spirit of something so like him… no, someone!

But knew he could not stay there to learn more about it.

"What ever happens, don't tell anypony what I'm going to do," he said, before turning himself into sand and dispersing though the air.

Before Celestia could say anything, he was gone. She wondered whether she should have told him about the ponies that were trying to save her and the others, but she decided that if either one of them failed they would have a second chance.

…

Bon Bon and Lyra stepped out from the box, which in turned disappeared.

The Doctor had already left all the other ponies with the ones that they were tasked to release, giving each of them a special device that let them hear the Doctor no matter how far away he was. All they had to do was put it in their ear and that was it. The Doctor would tell everypony when they had to free everyone.

He made Octavia and DJ go after Pinkie Pie and Trixie went with Twilight so she could help her save the other ponies.

They found Spike still in the cave that Rarity was in and gave him one of the ear devices. This time, they had to knock out a couple of Dogs that got in the way, but it didn't take too long.

The Doctor, Spitfire, and Derpy had just arrived in Shining Armor's cave and quickly got the key.

He pushed a button on his own device, which let everypony hear him. "Ok, now!" he simply said.

Everyone at the same time unlocked their doors.

…

The Doctor had quickly picked up the team in his TARDIS as fast as he could, including the remaining Elements of Harmony.

After releasing Twilight, Trixie quickly teleported her to another cave, Applejack's this time, and then she herself quickly teleported to the last cave – Fluttershy's location.

The unicorn had a little bit of a hassle with the guards, and trying to convince the yellow pegasus she was on her side, but, finally, both were able to teleport back to where Twilight and Applejack were, just in time for the arrival of the TARDIS, a smiling Time Lord welcoming them inside.

…

Queen Chrysalis already had her army ready when she received the news of escaping prisoners from one of the diamond dogs:

"… and Trixie was also helping them," the dog finished telling her.

Chrysalis was truly mad, but it went away just as quickly. She knew that, even with all the ponies out now, she could still stop them. She now had the strength in numbers, she just had to quickly spread her army out.

"My children!" she called out to them. They all turned and waited for her orders, "Spread out, and take as much love as you can from any pony and every pony!"

As soon as she finished saying this they all flew up and spread out all over Equestria, a cloud of dark green blotting the skies.

Chrysalis smiled now, "There's no way they can stop all of us now," she declared and disappeared.

…

Gilda was sitting in Cloudsdale's Hall, ordering ponies to be her slaves.

She spit out some lemonade that some pony had just brought her to her side.

"You call this LEMONADE!? This is the WORST THING I have ever tasted in my life!" she shouted.

All the ponies in that room were staring in shock as to what Gilda just did.

"What?",she asked clueless. She expected them to be afraid of her, but it was almost as if they were not even paying attention to her. Almost like they were looking at something else entirely…

The she turned her head to see Chrysalis with lemonade all over herself. The Changeling Queen had just teleported at the wrong place and at the wrong time and got herself a spitted lemonade bath.

"Ah! Queen Chrysalis!" Gilda said, her wings suddenly folded in fear. "S-sorry, I didn't see you there," she said completely scared by what Chrysalis could and might do.

"Clearly," she said as she wiped the liquid off her face. She had bigger problems to worry about. "Never mind that, you fool. The ponies have escaped."

Gilda looked at her wide eyed, "What?"

Chrysalis continued, "And to make things worse, Trixie has joined them. But not to worry, my army is ready for battle and is already heading out all over Equestria. We can still beat them, but we need everyone's forces to fight against them."

Gilda understood, "Ok, I'll get Discord, you go get Nightmare Moon then we will round the Dogs up."

Chrysalis had the exact same idea in mind, "Ok. We meet in Ponyville," she said as she used her magic to poof away.

Gilda took off as soon as Chrysalis poofed away. She knew exactly were Discord would be, but she was extremely nervous about the fact that she would have to go up against those 10 ponies while she didn't really have any special power or anything that would guarantee her to win.

The only ones who could actually beat those ponies were Discord, Nightmare Moon, and Chrysalis with her army.

…

Chrysalis appeared on the tip of the tallest mountain in Equestria which was where Nightmare Moon would be controlling the Moon and the Sun.

Nightmare heard her poof in and asked her in a playful tone, "Why if it isn't the Queen of Love. What brings you up here?"

Chrysalis was slightly annoyed by the nickname, but she couldn't argue with the allicorn.

She did feed on love, and you know what they say, 'You are what you eat.'

"The ponies have escaped. All of them, with the help of Trixie. We need to fight them."

Nightmare Moon gasped at her now, "What? Trixie helped them escape?"

The Queen nodded.

The dark Allicorn look up into the stars. Chrysalis thought that she looked… hurt.

"Everyone betrays me in the end," Nightmare Moon spoke softly. "My Sister and now my own student."

She quickly recomposed, her back still turned, "Is your army ready yet, Chrysalis?"

Chrysalis smiled, "Yes. We have a strong chance of beating them, but we have to act now."

Nightmare Moon wiped something from face with her hoof, then turned to look at the Changeling Queen, her eyes cold.

"All right then. Lets get rid of our problems once and for all," Nightmare Moon said as she raised the sun so they could fight.

…

Gilda quickly arrived at the Canterlot Palace and went straight to Princess Celestia's room.

As she expected, Discord was lying on her bed.

Gilda was pretty sure that the Chaos Lord had some sort of relationship with the Princesses, but she decided not to push her luck.

Discord lifted his head up to see her, "What's up? You need more ponies to harass?"

"No, but we do have a situation."

Discord was confused by this, "What kind of situation?"

Gilda didn't know how to tell him without him ending up being mad, so she just went right on and said it, "The prisoners have escaped."

This completely shocked Discord, "What? How is that possible? Do you know who freed them?"

Gilda was surprised by the way he reacted. His voice was not totally angry. It was almost like his plan was ruined, but as far as she knew he didn't have any other plans with Equestria.

"It seems several ponies were involved, and we also know that Trixie was one of them. So now it's just you, me, Nightmare, the Diamond Dogs, and Chrysalis and her army."

This surprised Discord even more, "Chrysalises army is ready? I thought is would take her longer than this. She told me it would take her longer than this. That old hag!"

Gilda was confused, "That's good right?"

Discord realized who he was talking too, "Yes, well of course it is. Why wouldn't it be?" he said irritated, then changed tones, to distract the griffin, "I just don't like being lied to, dear Gilda… it upsets me so much…" he tried a menacing smile, but to Gilda, it came out like he was constipated.

Gilda didn't know what else to say, "Um, Queen Chrysalis will meet us in Ponyville, and her army has already been spread out all over Equestria."

'No. No! NO! This wasn't part of the plan!' he screamed inside, but only said, "Ok, I'll be out there as soon as I can. Go rally the Diamond Dogs," he said trying to sound excited.

Gilda was still wondering why he was acting like that, but she decided that chaos wasn't her strongest subject.

She quickly flew away and went to find the Diamond Dogs.

As soon as he left, Discord punched one of the walls, a chocolate fountain erupting out of it, with little rubber ducks floating on the stream. His chaos magic was running amok, but he did not care.

'GREAT! Now it will be a hundred times harder to get everyone together so the six ponies can turn us into stone.' Then he thought about it for a moment. 'If all those ponies could escape, then maybe they can help me, but that would mean revealing myself.'

He took one of the rubber ducks and threw it into his mouth, munching it like chewing gum.

'It is possible, now that they have Tia, Luna and Trixie as well, that they could beat us, but I can't take that chance.'

He swallowed the rubber toy and popped out of existence in the shape of a thousand colorful bubbles.

…

Everypony got out of the TARDIS, which landed in the middle of Ponyville.

Even though there were 23 ponies, and one dragon, that got out, the TARDIS could hold thousands of, well, any sorts of life forms.

The Doctor did a role count, just to be sure that they didn't forget anyone inside – that one time with Tegan and Adric had taught him as much.

"Ok, lets see, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, Shining Armor, The Great and Powerful Trixie, Spike, Octavia, DJ P0n3, Bon Bon, Lyra, Sea Swirl, Minuette, Rose, Amethyst Star, Soarin' Spitfire, and Derpy. We are all here and accounted for! And just in time, by the looks of it!" he said as there were changelings flying around and chasing any ponies that they could find.

It turned out that sun had come out too, now they would have had a better chance at beating the villains, except for one thing, or a thousand to be exact. 'The changelings are already out,' the Doctor thought to himself, 'This is going to be a lot harder than I thought it would be.'

And that's when, out of nowhere, Queen Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon appeared in front of them.

…

"Well look who's already here," Nightmare said sounding confident now. She thought that the ponies who rescued the ponies that were trapped would be some special type of elite force, probably some escaped guards, but it had been just a bunch of misfits.

Chrysalis detected the strong love between Shining Armor and Cadance, and the bright flame that came from the young dragon, but she also detected another strong love, from the brown pony, but it was twice as much as he should have had.

He was equally in love with the pegasi behind him, the grey mare and the orange one. Such a thing she had never seen happening before. Usually, a heart would have a slight difference between the amount of love for somepony who loved two ponies at once, one usually had to be higher than the other.

However, the colt loved both of them equally, with different reasons for each. This love was strange and was drawing her to him. She really wanted to feed on his love, but alas, she would have to kill them in the end.

If she could convince the others, though…

A lighting stroke and Discord appeared on the spot, his trickster smile in all its glory.

As soon as Princess Celestia laid her eyes on him, Chrysalis felt even more love bloom. 'Your feelings betray you, Princess. You really do have a crush on Discord' she thought to herself. Then she looked at Discord and he was giving off the same amount of love for her too, 'And it is mutual?! And still, he wants her to fail? Is he really that strange?', then she remember who she had allied herself with, 'Chaos is just too weird for me. Not that I don't like it, now I have two additional sources to draw power from!'

Time stood to a still. Gilda the Griffin landed on the side of the villains. A hundred Diamond Dogs popped out of the ground, behind their leaders. The Changelings buzzed and growled from above, the cloud descending more and more upon Ponyville.

Horns sparked and wings stretched. Hooves patted the ground anxiously and scaly claws were closed in fists of love and rage.

And the Doctor pulled out his Sonic Screwdriver, regretting another battle he could not have prevented.

They were all ready to fight.

All right, this was going to be the last chapter, but I decided to end it here and add one more to it. I hope all of you who have been reading have enjoyed this story so far. Stay tuned for the concluding chapter, literally entitled "?" Please review, fav, or follow, but I'd mostly like a review.