Dr. Whooves: Chapter 1 : Disharmony’s Beginnings
#1 of Dr. Whooves: The Redemption Of Equestria
A short and ~unrefined~ chapter into an idea I had. This series is about Dr. Whooves (Dr. Who) who makes a few cameo appearances in MLP FIM. This story takes place in Equestria, during the uprising and rule of Discord before the two Alicorn sisters take the throne.
Dr. Whooves: ** Chapter 1**
Advisory: To know what the hay is going on you need to know a little about Dr.Who and a little about MLP. It is not my job to educate you on the basics of the two fandoms.
The Doctor shouldered his way into the Tardis as an energy bolt whizzed past his head impacting with sparks on the center console. "Not a very friendly greeting!" he yelled out to the alien creature that continued to take shots even as the door was closed. The Tardis sprang to life on its own, seemingly unhappy at being shot at. A distinctive noise was heard as the blue police box pulsed, fading from sight.
The Doctor rushed to the center console flipping a toggle and rotating a dial.
"And what do you think your doing?" he queried towards the machine. To this the toggle he had moved flipped back with a slam and the dial spun wildly. The Tardis became unsteady and the Doctor was pulled against the wall, just like a spinning gravity ride.
He attempted to use his sonic screwdriver, its whir barely distinguishable through all the noise. The Tardis leveled out and his feet slid back to the floor. It was then that he felt a familiar sensation as the Tardis forced a strange transforming energy into him. "Why Equestria? I'm in the middle of saving a solar system here... I don't need a vacation!" The Tardis resumed a more violent than normal motion, tunneling its way through to another universe and dimension. Equestria was a hard place to get to apparently.
The Doctor folded over in moderate pain as he shifted. His form slowly changed into that of an earth pony with a chestnut brown mane and a light brown coat. As the transformation completed itself he shook his head to forget the pain he had just felt. Apparently he had arrived, as the Tardis had ceased its motions. This pony transformation was only a temporary thing, it would last until the Tardis decided to change him back.
"Hooves?
Check.
Mane?
Still not ginger.
Teeth?"
He gave his jaw a good working to see.
"All good.
Clothing?
Different story."
He looked upon his ruined clothing and shook off his ill-fitting slacks. They weren't damaged as badly as the shirt though. He put a hoof into a tear hole and finished the job, letting it fall to the floor. Luckily his suit had fallen off earlier and was not ruined. He left the bowtie for good measure giving it a quick straightening. "Bowties are cool after all, even on a pony." He spoke to himself.
"Cutie mark? He finished his checklist and stared back at his flank, a sand filled hourglass upon it. "Still got it after all this time."
The Doctor reminisced about his first time accidentally finding this world. The transformation process was very startling to him that first time and as he emerged from the Tardis he found a completely new land. He had come there chasing a temporal anomaly that some beings that called themselves Windigoes had created. He had apparently come a while too late as the Windigoes had already wreaked havoc upon the nation. The ponies were starving, cold, and ready for war. A war none of them were prepared for. As the ponies grew angrier, the power of the Windigoes grew proportionately .
The Doctor couldn't fight them on his own but instead helped three important ponies; Private Pansy, Clover the Clever, and Smart Cookie realize the power of friendship. The three drove back the Windigoes together, removing their power, and the Doctor sealed them away, staying behind the scenes as normal. Sometimes even though the Windigoes were sealed away you could still hear their howls during winter, especially if one of them felt you were forgetting the power of friendship.
Equestria was formed, and the Doctor had quietly slipped away. He had been back to the land a few times taking a vacation from the constant chaos of the rest of the universe, but never with this face. His pony form changed just as his normal appearance with every regeneration. The only thing that stayed the same was his mark.
The Doctor opened the door to the Tardis, peering out he saw he was in the bowels of some cave system. The Doctor adventurous as always headed off into the dark. The tunnel eventually led to a large stone cavern, his hooves clacked against the ground sending echoes throughout the cave. The cavern was dimly lit with torches along the wall, and as the doctor advanced a gruff voice spoke out.
"Who would dare to disturb Lord Discord?" A large bipedal dog with short legs and long muscled arm approached him.
"Ooh! And what might you be." The Doctor queried unafraid. "I never have seen a creature quite like you."
"Allow them forward." A voice called out in the dark.
The Doctor moved through the dim haze peering at a shadowed figure on a twisted throne. A few torches flickered into existence as the Doctor got close enough. The figure on the throne was a mixture of animals, he had the foot of a dragon and the other was of a goat. One clawed hand of a bird of prey and the other of a lion. His yellowed eyes with red irises peered at the Doctor who seemed unafraid.
"A chimera!" The Doctor exclaimed almost happily. "I haven't seen one of your kind in quite a while, let alone a draconequus."
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Discord's attention was awoken entirely at the Doctor's last word. "Who are you to know the name of my kind?"
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"I'm The Doctor."
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"Doctor Who?!" The Chimera responded sounding annoyed
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"Exactly! Doctor Whooves!" The Doctor joked making a play on his name, chuckling to himself.
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_"And who is it you think you are that you do not bow to His Royal Highness, King Discord?" The Dog rebuked. _
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_"I've never been much for bowing." The Doctor replied. _
"Tell me Doctor, you are not from here am I correct?"
"Neither are you, from what I heard your kind was extinct."
"This world was... inviting. I have power here, unchecked, unfettered. I have more power here than anywhere else in the universe, enough for me to live for an eternity. And a world such as this needs balance, all this harmony needs a little chaos and destruction."
"I am sorry, but I have already helped save this land once. I cannot let it fall into the hands of a power hungry tyrant."
"And you think you can stop me?" Replied Discord angrily. "Kill him!" Discord yelled to the dog.
The Doctor backed up while pulling out his sonic screwdriver from under his bowtie strap, holding it in his mouth. He activated it, the frequency reverberating through the room. The dog ceased its advance, covering its ears at the sound.
The ceiling shook, rock debris began to fall. The Doctor turned, galloping back into the tunnel had come from. Just as he entered the tunnel a tremendous rockslide tumbled over the entrance. Whatever was inside was surely crushed, or so he thought.
"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy." The doctor sighed, tucking the sonic screwdriver back in his bowtie strap. It wasn't every day you were forced to finish the extinction of a race. He had hoped that this one could be saved. But Discord, as he had named himself, was just like all the others of his kind, tyrannical and now dead. The Doctor slipped his way back into the Tardis. "Come now, I'm finished here." He sighed to the living machine. It whirred to life and the Tardis vanished from view. The Doctor knew there must be something to be done in Equestria, something important otherwise the Tardis would never have forced him to come.
A clawed hand forced its way through the rubble, Discord was bruised and battered, but certainly not dead.