The Doctor crawled towards the Tardis. He cursed how it took him days to get to his ship to die. Yes, die. Infected by a venom made to incapacitate the victim, but keep them alive, the creature which evolved this liked it's meet as fresh as possible. However, while the Doctor could move being more resilient to the antiseptic properties the other chemicals of this venom slowly killed him. His hand pushed the blue door open and his he pulled himself up to his feet before stumbling onto the console.

He pushed one button, activating a device he never used since his incarnation before last, the Randomiser. He looked up at the Tardis console as his hand reached for the take-off lever "Okay old girl, I'm too weak to set the destination I'm leaving it to you, just take me somewhere I can regenerate safely" he pulled the level down and slumped to floor as the familiar sound of the Tardis dematerialisation filled the control room.

Princess Twilight Sparkle reread the letter from Princess Celestia still confused. Spike her assistant and baby dragon friend frowned his eyes "Come one Twilight it seemed pretty straight forward to me"

"Why does Celestia think I need a guard? I've shown I can defend myself"

"Maybe," Starlight Glimmer, the Princess of Friendship's apprentice said looking over her mentor's shoulder to read the letter herself "It's more ceremonial, people would take you being a Princess more seriously with a Royal Guard at your side"

"I never asked to be a Princess, even now I'm still getting used to it" she moved on ahead as Spike and Starlight exchanged a look, the apprentice spoke "Do you think Twilight is taking the Princess thing too seriously?"

"Well," the young dragon said "I get being royalty is a pretty big deal but yeah, Twilight became a Princess by her own abilities, her knowledge, skills and her attitude to the situation, she earned it and," he sighed, glancing back to his oldest friend, someone he considered his older sister "I think she's putting too much hope on the title itself, like she expects to become a better pony simply by being a princess, when really she was already a great pony before she ascended to become an Alicorn."

Unbeknownst Twilight overhead this and began pondering. She didn't get to think about it long as she bumped head first into another pony "Sorry" she said rubbing her head.

"It's alright Princess" said a voice she recognised her eyes slowly drifted up to a face she both enjoyed and dreaded seeing.

Spike broke the silence a little shocked "Flash Sentry?"

The Pegasus stallion guard-pony stood before them in his golden armour, he returned his eyes to Twilight before chuckling "I've said it before, we've got to stop bumping into each so literally"

The Princess blink before recovering "Oh yes, off course" she looked around before returning to him "I take it you're my new guard?"

"I am, Princess Cadence suggested it"

"Why didn't I get a say in this? I should be able to pick who my guards should be"

"I'm afraid that wasn't an option, with the Royal Guard spilt between Canterlot and the Crystal Empire we're rather thin. We are recruiting more members, I even spent some time taking charge of an intake, it'll be a while until we have the numbers, I was the only guard with even the remotest availability," his eyes narrowed "or so Princess Cadence says"

Twilight rolled her eyes, her former foal-sitter and sister-in-law sometimes like to mess with other people, apparently the conformity of the Crystal Empire caused her to get bored, but with Flurry Heart, her baby daughter Twilight thought her occasional mischief would be forgotten, apparently not.

"Bro!" a young voice called and Flash turned as a foal with almost identical coat and mane, just slightly darker rushed up and hugged him, "Hey sport" Flash said returning the hug and ruffling the child's mane.

Twilight blinked 'Frist Base is Flash's little brother' she saw the little colt around the town and thanks to the Cutie Mark Crusaders she knew his name, but this took her by surprise, first at the fact itself and then for not making the connection before now.

The siblings let go of each other and Flash knelt down and spoke to his brother "Tell Mom and Pa to have an extra chair at dinner I'll be there"

"Cool, see you later" and the colt ran off.

Flash returned to Twilight, she spoke "You're from Ponyville?"

"Yeah," Flash said rubbing his hoof on the side of his head as he looked around the town "I went into training just before the Summer Sun Celebration when Nightmare Moon returned"

"A bit of a coincidence since…"

"You came to Ponyville that day yeah" he eyes turned to the castle "Your new home does stand out a bit"

"Yeah, Mayor Mare has spoken about rebuilding a few areas in the style, but we'd need help from the Crystal Empire"

"Well, I could message Princess and Prince, I mean as an officer I've got the privilege"

"You're an officer?"

"A lieutenant under Prince Armour, now I'm a captain under your command Princess"

"Please call me Twilight", he shook his head "Not when I'm on duty, it's protocol"

"It's little pointless bits of red tape like that which makes me want to have my fun" a voice said from a tree nearby and Twilight grimaced before trudged over to it "What do you want Discord?"

From the leaves the mismatched Spirit of Chaos appeared. Flash frowned his eyebrows and put himself in between the Draconequus and the Princess.

Discord frowned hurt "Is that anyway to speak to a friend?"

"Friends we maybe Discord but every time you've appeared you caused trouble in one way or another"

"The last time was to teach you a lesson remember, anyway to answer you rather rude question I…"

"Oh there you are Discord" Fluttershy flew up beside the tree "You left in a hurry, you hadn't even finished your tea"

"I am sorry my dear Fluttershy it's just I felt something interesting and random was about to happen"

"Random?" Twilight questioned "I hope to Celestia you're not the cause"

"I can honestly say Princess I'm not this time, I just felt a disturbance and knew something being caused by randomness would happen, quite what I don't know, all I do know is it'll happen here"

"That's not a lot to go on if we going to trust you this time Dis…" Twilight's words were interrupted by a strange warbling sound followed by a loud wheezing and groaning. Starlight and Spike turn around and backed towards the others as a light started flashing and an object slowly started appearing out of thin air. With a load bang it ended leaving a blue box.

Twilight turn curious and began to move towards it but Flash took her hoof causing her to look down and blushed. Flash retracted his hoof and blushed himself before recovering "Let me investigate Princess, it's my duty to keep you safe" he moved forward leaving a further blushing Twilight.

Flash inspected the box before knocking on the door "If anypony is in there can you come out", after a brief moment of silence and Flash knocked again "I repeat can you please exist?"

The door slowly opened and the figure who stumbled out surprised everyone. Twilight especially. The creature looked up at the group with a face full of pain and said "Run" before passing out.

"Well," Discord said "this was absolutely nothing of what I expected" and with that he disappeared.

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Twilight and her friends, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash sat on their special thrones in the Map Room discussing matters.

Starlight, Spike and Flash Sentry guarded the odd creature who rested on a sofa while a few other ponies made sense of the oddities.

Lyra Heartstrings, a self-taught expert on humans and one of the few outside of her closest friends whom Twilight told of her adventures in a human world, carefully looked over the man as she called him while her good friend Bon-Bon, or Sweetie Drops to some stood by with a little distrust at the strange creature. Lyra took a stethoscope and put it too her ears.

Doctor Time Turner, Ponyville's resident timekeeper, scientist and inventor extraordinaire examined the strange blue box.

Twilight just looked confused "I don't know how a human could come here. When I crossed over to the human world I became human and changed back to a pony on my return"

Rarity she turned to the man "I must say he has fine taste in clothing, simple but stylish"

Applejack turned to the box "I don't think that box thing is as it appears, me and Big Mac struggled to get it in here, and it's supposed to be wood"

"I like its colour" Pinkie Pie said "I hope the man wake up I want to through him a welcome party" she turned to Flash "I also need to plan a welcome back to Ponyville and congratulation for becoming Twilight's Captain of the Guard and promotion party Flash"

Flash grinned "Still the same Pinkie"

Fluttershy looked at the man worried "I hope he's alright"

"I'd like to know," Rainbow Dash said looking at the box "how that thing appeared out of nowhere"

"Great whickering stallions!" Time Turner exclaimed, everyone turned seeing the Earth Pony with his hoof on the box "It's vibrating, I, I think this thing is alive"

"Alive!"

"Twilight!" Lyra called "This man is not human"

"What, how cannot he not be human?"

"Well humans don't have two hearts", a hand grabbed her hoof and she turned to see the man face looking right at her then to too the other close by "I said run, I don't know what it'll be like this time, last few have been, dramatic" he let go and Lyra rushed over to Bon-Bon. Flash rushed to Twilight followed by Spike and Starlight.

The man looked down at his hand as it started glowing, energy started flowing out he shut his eyes.

Flash wrapped his wings around Twilight to shield her as the energy burst forth.

Before everyone else the man's appearance changed. He got younger, his face fine though apparently careworn. His greying dark hair turned a bright orange and spiky.

The energy dissipated and the man put his hands to his head "Oh, I have got the most splitting headache" even his voice changed, accent and all. He began rubbing his temples "Well, it's good to know it I've still got a head" he got up from the sofa and looked around the room "Interesting, a planet with an equine species, and other sentient beings from the reptilian" he began sniffing the air "Not any planet I recognise, something new, excellent" he then saw the faces of the gather and their surprise and confusion "I'm rambling to myself, sorry. I'll explain. My name's the Doctor, just the Doctor and I'm…"

Suddenly Pinkie Pie appeared before and spoke "You're an alien from a long establish civilisation with the power to travel through time and space but you wanted to explore and so you stole that time machine which is a whole lot bigger on the inside and travelled the universe helping people out and when anyone of your civilisation are mortally injured you can reset your body into something completely new which you just did" and she smiled, leaving a wide-eyed room.

Twilight grinned "Let me guess Pinkie, a hunch?"

"Uh-huh"

"If that was guess my dear," the Doctor said "then you are a genius"

"Thanks"

"Pinkie Pie a genius?" Rainbow scoffed.

"Excuse me miss," the Doctor said "but have you got a better explanation?" Rainbow faltered remained silent, the Doctor grinned and spoke again "Just to put the finer details on that explanation, my civilisation is called the Time Lords the elite of the planet Gallifrey, due to their intelligence or determination young Gallifreyans enter the Time Lord Academy and can become Time Lords themselves. That blue box is the Tardis, Time and Relative Dimension in Space. It's bigger on the inside thanks to Time Lord science, and it's a time machine"

"Time travel?" both Twilight and Tim Turner said, Twilight surprised and worried, Starlight turned merely worried, but Time Turner absolutely excited. Seeing the different expressions, he sighed "Under my vows I'm not allowed to divulge the secrets of Time Travel", the three ponies sighed Twilight and Starlight in relief, Time Turner in sadness but understanding, the Earth Pony quickly left, followed by Lyra and Bon-Bon.

"Well," the Doctor said clapping his hands together "I've introduced myself it's only fair that you do the same, I am your guest after all"

"You're right" Twilight said before looking down and blushing "Um, Flash you can let go of me now?" the guard blinked and looked down seeing his wings still wrapped around the Princess of Friendship, he quickly let go "Forgive me Princess"

"Princess?" the Doctor said interested.

"Yes, I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship and former student of Princess Celestia, these are my closest friends, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, my personal assistant Spike, my student Starlight Gilmer and my personal guard Flash Sentry"

"Very charmed" he stood up from the sofa and walked over to the Tardis "Down do business, where and when am I" he pulled out a key from his jacket and unlocked the Tardis. He pushed the door open and looked back "If you want you can come in, there's plenty of room as Miss Pie stated"

Pinkie rushed in "Oh wow!" she exclaimed, the Doctor chuckled, but kept his mouth shut so it came out from his nose, he stopped "Haven't laughed like that since my first incarnation, ah the classic, anyway who next?"

Twilight entered next and gasped "Look at all these books" Flash entered after as well soon followed by the rest, the Doctor entered and looked about the console room. He sighed 'Doesn't seem right anymore', he saw both Twilight and Flash taking out books from the shelves, the stallion also eyed the electric guitar nearby "Those are just the books I read most often, the main library is down the hallway turn right and then the third door on your left, if you get to the swimming pool you've gone too far" Twilight brighten up and almost ran, Flash grinning himself and followed on, Spike on his tail.

Starlight walked up next to the Doctor and look at the screen he pulled up "What are you doing?"

"Like I said finding out what I can on this planet. Name: Unknown. Rogue planet within the M83 Galaxy with a star and moon as satellites" he frowned his eyebrows 'Never known a star to orbit a planet, and a star that small? Could be artificial', he shrugged it off and switched the screen to something else "Chronometric scale, I see" he switched the screen off and noticed his reflection in the black "Wait, am I, a redhead?" a large smile crept onto his face "At last" he laughed, but stopped himself before going too far.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes "I've got training with the Wonderbolts, Starlight can you tell Twilight I'll see her later"

"And," Fluttershy said "Angel's going to get cracking if I don't get home soon"

"Alright," Starlight said "I'll tell Twilight when I see her"

The Doctor put his hands in his pockets but then looked over his attire "Doesn't fell right either" he walked up the stairs and passed Rarity "I need to find a new look"

"Perhaps," Rarity said making herself regal "as an expert of fashion I can assist"

"Could do with some help, haven't had a second opinion on my attire for a while, I hope I don't make a decision too terrible", with that the two walked further into the Tardis, Starlight by herself decided to join Twilight, Flash and Spike in the library.

When she entered she stopped in her track, her jaw went slack and she blinked eyes wide opened 'It's as big as the Crystal Empire library' five floors high with dozens of shelves on each.

Suddenly Twilight flew from one corner to another with Flash following on calling the Princess to slow down. Starlight rolled her eyes and walked away from the chaos happening. She passed a shelf and stopped in her tracks. One book stood out on a plinth, and from the looks of it recently restored, the later pages looking a whole lot newer then the first. On the cover read 'History of the Last Great Time War' She opened it, not feeling like any material she ever felt before, she tried reading it but she couldn't make out the language so she closed it and walked away, wondering about this Great Time War.

Flash finally got Twilight to calm down and the two started reading a book together. A thought struck him "Sorry if I offend you for asking Princess but how come you knew about humans?"

"Well, remember that thief who took my crown with the Element of Magic?" Flash nodded remembering it as the time they first met. Twilight continued "Well me and Spike went through this magic portal to get it back and we were sent into a world full of human counterparts of everyone, Celestia, Luna, my friends…"

"And me?"

Twilight blushed "Yes, you have a human counterpart there too, and I liked him"

"Liked him as in more than a friend?"

"Okay yeah maybe a crush, which is kind of why I wanted to avoid seeing you when I found out who you were"

"Avoid me?"

"I keep on wondering if we'd end up in a relationship together, would it out of my feelings for him and not you"

"I see, how long have you known him?"

"In all a couple of months" her eyebrows frowned "In fact I never really got to know him that much, all I knew was his name, the fact he seemed to like me and how good he played the guitar," she grinned "I saw you eyeing that guitar in the control room"

"I use to play in a band, Octavia never liked the music we made but Vinyl like it"

"You know them?" the two musical ponies lived a little out of town, Twilight even roped Vinyl into a cover-up when Celestia came for a visit, Twilight still regretted not trusting Starlight and Trixie, and Celestia's reprimand once the truth came out still haunted her.

Flash nodded at her question "We were in Miss Cheerilee's first class"

"First class?"

"The first group of fillies and colts she taught. Anyway so far you know more about me then you do him, if you want I can tell you more"

She nodded "I'd like a new friend, not just a new guard"

"You are the Princess of Friendship, though Princess your flying needs some improvement"

"Yeah, I get that sometimes, Rainbow Dash tried to teach me to fly but she got impatient and just gave up, at least I can fly"

"True, but from way you were flying you could easily be blown of course by a strong breeze"

Suddenly a high pitched scream echoed through the Tardis. Spike looked up shocked "Rarity!" he rushed to the door "She might be in trouble"

"Spike," Twilight said "knowing Rarity it's probably some terrible clothing she found"

"What in Celestia's name is this?" Rarity said with anger and disgust as she used her unicorn magic and push the coat into the Doctor's face.

The Doctor took hold of the coat and sighed "This is the coat my sixth incarnation wore" the coat in question looked like an explosion in a rainbow factory.

"You actually wore that?! It's utterly dreadful"

"I was a very different person back then," he but the coat on a hanger "unpredictable at the start, I had a more understated attire when I calmed down, but Mel like the garish appearance, have absolutely no idea why"

Rarity groaned and looked over the other pieces of clothing scattered throughout the large wardrobe room, she huffed "I'm sorry Doctor but none of these will do, if you wish I'll make you're a suit fitting someone with the title of Time Lord"

"If I wanted to look like a Time Lord I would where my robes, which I don't really want to, not since the Prydonian Chapter pretty much took over Gallifrey during the Time War, their cunning was suited to that conflict"

"Prydonian?"

"The Prydonian Chapter was the section of the Time Lord Academy I attended, very near my family home of Lungbarrow"

"I see, well still me offer stands firm"

"Fine if it'll please you, can't really see anything I like here anyway, let's find the others and lock the Tardis up"

After meeting up with Twilight and company they went looking for Pinkie Pie and Applejack.

"Stay close, the Tardis is nearly infinite in size, Kamelion spend years exploring the Tardis, never really knew how far he got"

"Hey Doctor," Applejack called out. They followed and found themselves in a room with an odd tree with white glowing fruit "What kind of apples are these"

"This isn't a tree Miss Applejack," the Doctor motioning her to step back "this is the Arch-Recon, the architectural reconfiguration system, it's the Tardis's healing system, anything important to her function is restored by this, it's important to her, don't touch" Applejack nodded and backed away.

"Doctor," Twilight said confused "you're calling the Tardis her, this thing is a girl?"

"Yes, well, she identifies herself as such, but the Tardis is alive and has feelings too, be on your best behaviour, even if she won't, now then let find Miss Pie"

It didn't take long, they found her splashing about in the swimming pool.

The Doctor locked the door of the Tardis, he smiled to himself, he let the Tardis choose a new console design.

Twilight, Flash, Spike and Starlight decided to stay in the castle, not only to guard the Tardis, but because Twilight wanted to write to Celestia about this revelation that they were not alone in the universe.

Pinkie of course went home to plan the party, and Applejack needed to get back to work at Sweet Apple Acres, leaving the Doctor and Rarity to walk to her Boutique.

The Doctor put his hands in his pockets and caught the odd expressions from the ponies they passed "What's up with them?"

"Well," Rarity said "they've never seen a creature like you before, and those that did see you when we moved you to the castle saw your previous appearance"

"Well if they can't get passed weirdness like that then they won't be able to handle the weirdness of outer space"

"What makes you think we'll ever go to outer space?"

"What makes you think outer space won't come to you?" Rarity stopped and turned back, the Doctor sighed "I've spent countless years and used up fourteen regenerations protecting hundreds of planets and thousands of civilisations in various ways"

She stared at his shocked "You've died fourteen time?"

"And I can die another twelve" he sighed, then he brightened up "but right now you've got that new suit to make"

Twilight waited at Spike's side for a possible letter of response from Celestia or perhaps Luna, the Princess of the Moon raised the object of her title and thus ruled over the night and the realm of dreams, she must know the night sky prefectly, to learn of a being from the stars would be a massive change in thought, she thought.

Suddenly the doors to the throne room opened and there stood both Princess Celestia and Luna. Flash and Starlight immediately bowed.

Celestia smiled "Rise my little ponies" she turned to Twilight "Forgive us for not messaging you but when we learned a Time Lord had appeared we knew we should meet him"

"Especially," Luna added "when you mentioned it was the Doctor" she turned to the Tardis and walked to and around it "So what was said was true"

"It appears so dear sister" the Princess of the Sun turned to her former student "Where is the Doctor?"

"Rarity is creating a new suit for him. You know of the Time Lords and the Doctor?"

"It was a secret passed down from Alicorn to Alicorn, right back to the creator"

"Creator?" Twilight exclaimed.

"Harmonia, the first Alicorn, she was a part of a pantheon of beings able to effect reality itself, Discord is a member of them"

Luna continued "The Great Old Ones, beings that pre-date this universe, when the old universe began to collapse they moved into a pocket dimension, but that pocket then joined the new universe, this one. With the different laws of physics in this universe to their original they changed. Many are evil, the Great Intelligence, the Black Guardian and Fenric. Other just wished to fool about, the Gods of Ragnarok, the Celestial Toymaker and of course Discord. Harmonia was one of the few benevolent, her and the White Guardian among other"

The four just starred. Celestia smiled "Quite a lot to take in, myself and Luna had the same reaction when we were told"

"What happened to Harmonia?" Twilight asked.

"Just the question I would expect from you my former student. After To'Koth, one of her friends died and called a truce between the Great Old Ones and the Doctor, Harmonia found this world, barren and lifeless abandoned in space and manipulated it to support life. She created the sun and the moon and created the means for life to form here. Multiple proto-lifeforms were born throughout the world but the last one she edited and made a race resembling herself. From that all ponies developed, first Alicorns like herself and then the three tribes"

"So she's the god of the planet?" Starlight said agape.

"I don't think she would like being called a god" Celestia chuckled "After the first natural Alicorn came she decided to leave knowing this world would be safe, however she created the gift of magic. Cutie Marks are tied into magic, our lives strength the magic she made as we learn our meaning in life and thus make are futures safer. She raised the Tree of Harmony, then put her six favourite jewels into it creating the Elements of Harmony and raised the Everfree Forrest to guard it. Where she is now we have no clue"

"So," a voice said catch their attention "just as almost everything on Gallifrey is named after Rassilon, almost everything here is named after Harmonia" The Doctor stood next to the Tardis and a confused Luna.

Twilight blinked "When did you enter Doctor?"

"While Celestia was giving the exposition, I entered the Tardis and got to complete my new look", he dressed in a single-breast tailcoat, the tail cut just above is knees, brass buttons, jewelled cufflinks. A brass brooch of circular Gallifreyan. A high-wing collar with a scarf-like cravat wrap round his neck and a waistcoat underneath the morning coat. In his hand he held an umbrella with a question mark handle.

Rarity walked up and examined him "Small additions, but suitable"

"Thank you very much Miss Rarity" he turned to Celestia "Pleased to meet you Celestia," he turned to Luna "and you must be Luna, a pleasure" he held out his hand, Luna put her hoof in it, the Doctor leaned down and kissed it. Luna smiled "No one has done that since I returned to Equestria"

"I believe I'm a gentleman in this incarnation," he paused for a moment "You know I really need to figure out my age," he turned to Twilight "Princess would you mind helping bring some books out, my old dairies and log books, and before the Tardis has finished her makeover"

"No not at all"

The Doctor thumbed through another dairy, a haphazard pile beside him, Twilight looked through some off them confused "What is this language?"

"Old High Gallifreyan," the Doctor said turning back page "very few Time Lords know how to read it, but I do" he put his finger on one page "Here we are, last record of age before the Time War, one-thousand, seven-hundred and twenty-five when my eight incarnation regenerated"

Celestia and Luna turned to each other "Does this mean you are older than that?" Celestia asked "Your eyes told me you were old, ancient, as I see those eyes in the mirror, but how old are you in truth?"

"I'm still working it out. Let's see, this entry says I planned to discount the years I spent in the Time War, since my war incarnation was a warrior not a doctor, however the war went on for nine-hundred years and I went back to fight in secret from the start, until four-hundred years in and I forgot the plan, so by the end I thought I was only nine-hundred years old"

"Only he says" Starlight muttered.

"Anyway I learnt the truth about my actions in the Time War so I can forgive myself for that. Anyway my next two incarnations after the war only lasted for about six years, so the add this from the last entry, two-thousand, six-hundred and thirty-one, and I'm not done yet. My as of yet penultimate incarnation claim to be one-thousand, two hundred before my time on Trenzalore, and I spent another nine-hundred protecting that planet, so adding another one-thousand, two-hundred equals three-thousand, eight-hundred and thirty-one, then I regenerated into the Scot Rock God, as I've decided to call my last incarnation"

Flash scoffed at the rhyme, the Doctor chuckled and continue then "Then after three years as him things get complicated…"

"Now things get complicated?" Starlight said with a glare "You've just gone through this long calculation and tell us your almost four-thousand years old and it now you say it get complicated"

"Yes" the Doctor stated, he then sighed and scrubbed his face with his hands "The Time Lords, or more specifically Lord President Summam Rasillon wanted me to make this confession on something I have no real answer for, anyway with the way it was set up the first room I entered included a teleporter and cloning machine, so whenever I died with the allowance of Time Lord biology I made it to the machine and made a clone of myself, I relived the same events for four and a half billion years"

Not a single eye failed to widened and not a single jaw dropped. The Doctor waited before speaking again "The complication here is that I technically in this cloned body lived through only a couple of weeks, but I was also present for those years. Which do I count?" the room remained silent.

Then Spike spoke "Well which would you prefer?"

"Good question, four and a half billion years is mind blowing even for me and really I myself only lived a few days, it was an epiphany that made me realise that I spent a second of eternity in my own nightmare"

"A second of eternity?" Twilight asked.

"It's a part of a story from one of my favourite planets, a Grimm's Fairy-tale from Earth. Nice gentlemen the Brothers Grimm, we've played dart. Still the story. There was a shepherd boy known for his wisdom, the Emperor of the land invited the boy and tested his wisdom by asking "How many seconds are there in eternity?", the boy answered, "Think of a mountain of pure diamond" Rarity looked up as the Doctor continued "It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain, and when the entire mountain is chiselled away the first second of eternity will have passed", quite the bird"

Twilight frowned her eyebrows "But the question was how many seconds are there in eternity"

Celestia answered "The point of the story is Twilight that eternity is too long to contemplate, an allegory of an unimaginably long time"

"Oh right, I can see why the Doctor doesn't want to count it on his timeline, so again how old are you Doctor?"

"Yes right, were did I get to? That's right, three-thousand, eight-hundred and thirty-one, discounting the second of eternity, I spent 3 years with Clara as Scot Rock God, right after that I spent twenty-four years on a planet, kind off of late honeymoon with River Song, adding in other adventures, I'd say two-hundred and three years, all in all as of now I am four-thousand and thirty-four years old" he leaned back in his chair, he glanced at the last diary on the cover '2000 Year Diary', he took hold of it and chuckled "Didn't think I'd have to update you so soon", he shook his head and put it down.

He stood up and picked up the pile "The Tardis has still got a while to finish," he put the book beside the blue box "so what can we do to pass the time?"

Twilight blinked "You just brushed off the fact your over four-thousand years old"

"Regular Time Lords have lived longer" he looked at the Royal Sisters shocked faces "I just doing this to see how shocked you can get; I love messing with authority figures"

Celestia grinned "What Harmonia said about you was true, it has been a pleasure to meet you Doctor, however I'm afraid myself and Luna must go"

"Of course, but before you go" the Doctor pulled out a card "Couple of ways to contact me, the Tardis telephone number, a link to my psychic paper and the Tardis telepathic circuits, be warned though she may not like her mind being invaded"

"I will keep that in mind, thank you Doctor"

"One last thing, this planet, does it actually have a name?"

The sisters looked at each other and Luna looked back "To be honest the thought never crossed are minds"

"May I make a suggestion then, name it Harmonia, after your creator"

"An honourable name Doctor, we shall consider it, though I am unsure if the other species of this world will approve"

"Feel free to come up with something else, but please tell me if you do"

"Of course, goodbye Doctor" and the Royal Sisters left. The Doctor turned to the other "Well, what are we going to do to pass the time?"

Pinkie Pie bounced in "Everything's ready Doc, ready for you Welcome to Ponyville Party?"

"I'm not really good at parties but if you insist"

The night rolled in.

In and around Sugarcube Corner, local bakery and Pinkie Pie's residence and place of employment almost every pony in town laughed, danced, sang, drank and eat as Pinkie's party for the Doctor reached full swing. Pinkie played the polka as the Doctor show of his best moves 'Dick van Dyke eat your heart out' he thought.

Twilight blinked in amazement at the Time Lord's footwork. Flash laughed "So much for not good at parties, he's the life of this one"

"I'd like to see you try"

"In this armour?"

"Well take it off and join in," she grinned "that's an order"

"One of the things you brother told me was that a Captain can refuse some orders"

Twilight smiled and rolled her eyes, "Can you at least take the helmet off?"

"That I can do", once off the front of his mane shot up, he noticed Twilight's surprise and became worried "Something wrong?"

"No, not really, just, you've, your mane is…"

"Just like the human me?"

"Yes, a little bit"

"I can try and get it changed if you like"

"No!" she said before calming down "No why should you change because of someone else?" she looked away for a moment, Starlight stood in a corner minding her own business, Twilight sighed "She not very good at making friends is she?"

"From what I learned about her Princess, she never really had any friends other than Sunburst, until Trixie of course" Twilight blinked and turned swiftly to him "You heard about that?"

He looked away a sheepishly grinned "I overheard Princess Cadence and Prince Armour talking about it after Princess Celestia sent them a message about it"

Twilight groaned and let her head fall onto the table "That's never going to leave me is it?"

"I'll try not to bring it up again Princess, I apologise"

"Thank you Flash" she sat up again. She looked past Starlight seeing another pony staying out of every-pony's way. Unlike Starlight however she kept herself hidden under a hooded cloak. She could make out some detail, tall thin, strong build in the front, similar to Princess Luna, grey coat with black around her mouth and black hooves. No bumps in the cloth so no horn or wings, an Earth Pony must likely. She turned to Flash "Flash do you know that pony?"

"She's been here as long as I can remember, I've seen her a few times around town, do you know her?"

"Not really, wait you know she's a mare?"

"I've heard her voice on a few occasion when she walked into town to buy things"

"This is reminding me a lot of Zercora"

"What did you mean by not really?"

"She came into the Golden Oak's Library every once in a while, she'd always look for books on other cultures pony or non-pony, Nippony especially, she would give me an annoyed look every time it did a re-shelving, in fact I never saw her after the library was destroyed by Tirek" she looked back at the mysterious grey mare, and notice a pair of dark blue eyes staring at the Doctor, those eyes expressed intrigue and awe. The mare gave a sigh and walked out.

Starlight walked up to Twilight and Flash "Weird pony don't you think?"

"I don't know," Twilight said "I'd like to know the story behind her?"

"Well," everyone turned as the Doctor stood next to them "Why do we talk to her?" The three looked at each other.

Walking over the bridge the hooded mare sighed. She heard hoof-step from behind her. She stopped and turned taking a fighting stance, before flinching at seeing the Princess of Friendship along with her new guard captain and the mysterious stranger. Quickly she got on her hooves and knees "Forgive me Princess, Doctor-sama"

"Get up dear" the Doctor said "You did nothing wrong", she did so. Twilight spoke next "Can you removed your hood?", she nodded and pulled it down showing her mane to be black and tied from the middle of the back of her head with similarly black strips of cloth creating a tail.

"What's your name, I always wanted to know since you were one of the few ponies to come to the library?"

"Shizuka Grey You're Highness"

"Please call me Twilight"

She shook her head "I must respect my superiors, Sensei told me. And you're Highness, sorry those glares before you became a Princess"

"It's alright Shizuka if someone rearranged the library without telling me I would be annoyed" Shizuka smiled slightly but felt the back of her cloak move, she snapped her hoof onto however stood behind her. The question mark umbrella hit the ground and the Doctor held his ankle as he hoped about in pain "Miss Grey that hurt"

Shizuka blinked and bowed her head "Forgive me Doctor-sama"

"Thank you" he put his foot down and move it about "Good job I'm still in the regeneration phase" he leaned down and picked his umbrella up "I notice you don't have a Cutie Mark, I believe it's called", Shizuka closed her eyes and looked down, she nodded, grabbed her cloak and took it off, indeed showing no such mark appeared on her flank.

The three other ponies all stared wide-eyed. Shizuka finally spoke "I never found what I was good at"

The Doctor took her chin and raised it "Don't be upset Miss Grey, it's common for someone never to find out there good at for a long time"

"Not here Doctor" Twilight said "Usually a Cutie Mark appears when were just a foal"

"Well sorry Princess I've never on this planet before"

"Planet?" Shizuka asked. The Doctor pointed his umbrella towards the night sky "I come from a world out there, beyond the sky" Shizuka eyes widened "Other worlds out there? What are they like?"

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning," Shizuka closed her eyes as the Doctor continued "where the sea is asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song", she looked up in awe, "somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice," she looked away in thought as the Time Lord finished "and somewhere else the tea's getting cold" he turned on his heal towards the castle "If you excuse me I've got work to do" he started to walk off.

"Wait," Shizuka called "can I come with you?"

"If it's what to want"

"To see new places instead of being stuck reading about them, yes"

"Well then follow me"

The Doctor unlock the Tardis "Now, let see what the old girl's given us", he clicked his fingers and the doors swung open. He smiled widely at what he saw.

The more open console room look like an amazing living room. Very reminiscent of the interior he used before the Time War, the Victorian Parlour as Ace called it. Immediately after the entrance a flight of stair, one of either side lead up to the walkway leading further into the Tardis. The walls made of wooden panels with the roundels of old carved in, the only exception being the bookshelf and the inbuilt scanner screen. At the corner of each wooden wall stood a pillar of green marble, much like Gallifrey during it's more understated period, understated for the Time Lord anyway. The Seal of Rassilon and the Seal of the Prydonian Chapter carved into the pillars.

The console in the middle of the room looked much the same, wooden panels, varies gauges, levers, dials, valves and glowing buttons, unlike the coral and copper consoles not all hazard, more like the previous neon look. As like before the Time Rotor connected to ceiling, this time to web of brass and copper web of pipes.

Close to the console a fleet of metal stairs lead underneath the hardwood floor and underneath the console where the glass in the floor would illuminate the individual.

The Doctor turned to Shizuka "Care to come in?"

The grey mare walked slack jawed. The Doctor walked in put the umbrella in the hat stand and waited at the console. After a short while he looked up seeing Shizuka studying the seals "You not going to say it's bigger on the inside?"

She turned to the Doctor "Sensei taught me, if you have nothing worth saying do not say it"

"The value of what you say depends on whose listening. I'll have to get use to you being a silent one, usually my companions have some type of witty response to my words, the most recent one anyway" he sighed and look over the console "So Miss Grey, all of time and space, everything that's ever happened or ever will, where do you want to start?"

"Anywhere, I want to meet people, learn about their world, their culture, I want to explore and record it all"

"May I ask; why did you never do that before now?"

"I'm very poor, I live in a shack outside of town, I couldn't afford to travel. Forgive me for asking but, are you going to charge me?"

"Not a thing"

She smiled "Thank you, to anyone out there, expect a visit" something tingled in her flank, she looked back and her eyes widened, her Cutie Mark appeared. A group of stars over which rested an open book with a quill pen writing.

The Doctor grinned, he looked back at the door where Twilight and Flash Sentry looking in smiling, the Doctor spoke "Tell Miss Pie she threw a brilliant party but we must dash, things to do, places to be, and all the time in the universe to do it. Ta-ta for now" he flicked a switch on the console and doors shut, he turned to Shizuka "Now Miss Grey I recommend holding onto something" he pulled a lever.

The Tardis took off to who knows where.

Author's Note

First off, I myself am not a Brony, I have watch enough of the show to have an appreciation for it.

Secondly a lot of the stuff involve the Doctor's age and Sammum Rassilon is my personal Doctor Who head canon. The Sixth Doctor said he was 900 years old in the first episode of the "Trial of a Time Lord", and the Seventh Doctor in "Time and the Rani" said he was 953. So I tried to work around the bad numbering of show.

I refuse to believe the Rassilon in "The End of Time" and "Hell Bent" is the same Rassilon in "The Five Doctors", so personally I think he's just another Time Lord named Rassilon. Sammum roughly translates from Latin into second rate.

Also that bit with Rarity and the Sixth Doctor's coat. I'm one of a few fan who likes the coat, everything else about the costume is terrible.

If you like this dear reader, then please favourite and review, I have ideas to continue this story.

Farewell.