Chapter 7: Desperate Measures
=Gaia, Equestria, Canterlot, Canterlot Royal Palace, Great Hall, 1066 C.E. =
In a dark colored flash of light, the possessed Daring Do appeared in the middle of the room, looking quite angry. "I will take you all." She said bitterly. "If you will not allow this, you will be destroyed."
"Then I suppose we'll all be destroyed, then." The Doctor said defiantly as he rushed down the stairs and through the long room to the door, motioning for the rest of the ponies in the room to the same. They all hurried as fast as they could to make to the door, after which the Doctor closed them down.
"That's not even going to slow her down, is it?" Romana said.
"No. But we need both the host of Nightmare Moon and Princess Luna present and watching to destroy the last traces of the Nightmare Moon personality from Luna's mind, thus releasing everything and setting it back in place. Of course, once this works, I'm going to have to latch the TARDIS into the planet and turn it back a little so the rotational cycle of the planet won't be thrown off."
With that, Daring Do teleported to the other side of the door and reappeared next to them.
"Now we just have to keep her occupied for 3 more minutes." The Doctor said.
"3 more minutes! You never mentioned that!" Romana snapped
"Look up there." The Doctor said.
Romana looked up to see that the Moon had set and was no longer visible. Her eyes widened in realization. "That is crazy…"
"Of course it is, I thought it up!" The Doctor said gleefully.
"It will definitely work, though." Romana noted.
They dodged Daring Do repeatedly as she tried to charge them and grab tem, still waiting for their plan to take shape.
"Annnnnnndddd…" The Doctor said as he watched the hilltop. "Now!"
Everypony looked up to see whatever it was he was talking about, but nopony except the Doctor and Romana could have ever prepared themselves for what it was. Princess Celestia, Princess Twilight, Shining Armor, Princess Luna, Nightmare Moon, none of them. Their eyes all widened in shock.
Without any magical intervention of any sort, or help, the Sun began to rise over the hilltops by itself.
The Doctor threw up his hooves to bask in both the sunlight and the fact that his plan had already worked.
Princess Luna looked shocked beyond anything. Her body seemed to fizz as she completely passed out to the ground.
Meanwhile the other personality, still using the body of Daring Do, hissed as she lost her grasp on the body as she turned into nothing but smoke, which went into the air as it dissolved into nothingness, leaving Daring Do stumbling about as her eyes returned to normal.
Princess Celestia and Twilight seemed more shocked than anypony. They could only watch in total shock before they fainted themselves out of the shock.
Shining Armor seemed just as shocked and confused, but he didn't faint.
The Doctor walked over to Daring Do. "Do I need to catch you up?" he asked.
"Actually, I remember everything that happened when I was possessed." Daring Do said as she brushed herself off. "Sorry about that."
"So it's over then?" Romana asked him.
"Not quite yet." The Doctor said, and with that, they all walked away to the TARDIS. Shining Armor saw them and followed them.
After a short walk, they all walked into the TARDIS, followed closely by Shining Armor.
The Doctor flipped a series of switches, followed by a loud crunch. "We're now connected to the center of the planet." The Doctor explained as he pressed a dematerialization switch. The TARDIS dematerialized, taking the whole planet with it. As the TARDIS rematerialized, The Doctor pressed a small switch. "I just took the whole planet to about a few hours before sunrise." The Doctor explained. "Then I sent out a recently installed hypnotizing pulse that made Everypony on the planet go their beds and go to sleep. They'll wake up and think it was a dream."
"What about Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Twiley?" Shining Armor asked, making his presence fully acknowledged.
"Right now they're in the process of willfully repressing the memory of the whole day, because it was simply too much for them. Any more questions?" he asked.
Shining Armor shook his head no, and then reached forward to shake his hoof. "I won't tell anypony. Thanks for saving the day, quite literally."
The Doctor shook his hoof. "You're welcome." The Doctor said.
Shining Armor smiled and walked out of the TARDIS.
"Well, I didn't change the course of the entire civilization, but I changed the life of one pony. I suppose that will have to do." The Doctor said a few moments later.
Romana and Daring Do smiled.
"For now."
Daring Do just groaned.
The Doctor just smirked as he looked down at the console and dematerialized the TARDIS.
=The Time Vortex, The TARDIS, TARDIS Library, All of Time and Space =
The Doctor walked out of the doors to the TARDIS library and walked through the corridors. He had just finished reading all of Equestria's history, and it was boring.
Everything was almost always peaceful and serene. He liked peace, but he hated complete serenity. He rounded the corner and walked into a darkened room. He clicked a button on what looked like an old time printer.
The purpose of the device was to search through time and space and find something worth investigating, and this would be their next destination.
A newspaper page printed out of it, and the Doctor picked it up and examined its contents. A wide smile crossed his face.
To be continued in Episode 5.
Author's note: The main problem I ever had with other Doctor Who/ My Little Pony crossovers was that the Doctor immediately accepted that the ponies can do magic. The Doctor has never believed in magic. That's one of the reasons I chose the 4th Doctor. He has always been the least accepting of magic. So thus, humor is created. See you in Episode 5!