My Little Timelord 3 The Doctors Children

In the Torchwood institute, a stallion was staring deep into his computer screen. In his message center, the pegasus called over the unicorn across the room.
   "What is it, Clockwise?"She asked.
   "Look at the readings on the computer. We got an interruption near the satellite, but I can't seem to pick up what it is. Another wave is wiping out the signal to Torchwood, and I can't scan it."
   "Let me see this."The blonde unicorn said. She used her magic to scan around inside the computer, changing the setup to the satellite signal. Her eyes widened in disbelief.
   "Dinkelia, what is it?" Clockwise asked.
   "...Dad..."
   (Da da da da, da da da da, da da da da, DAA....)
  The TARDIS rocked around as their flight stopped midair. Everyone held onto something as tight as they could. "What just happened?" Ditzy asked. The Doctor didn't answer her, just looked in fear as the lights dimmed out, shutting the entire machine down. The emergency alarm hummed as the red lights calmly flashed about the console room.
  "Just...get into the library while I figure this out."The Doctor told everypony. The Master was first to kick the wall where the hall used to be.
   "Yeah, good luck with that."He said, his usual, bored expression taking place.
   "What?" The Doctor exclaimed.
   "Maybe if we try busting down the wall?" Rose suggested. The Master smiled.
   "I like the way you think." He laughed.
   "No, it's gone. All that's left is the console room." The Doctor said.
   "Then, what do we do now?" Ditzy asked. Just as she did, the TARDIS began to move again, throwing everypony to the floor, as they were falling through space. Ditzy held onto the Doctor as he held here in his arms. The TARDIS began to break through the atmosphere, pulling more and more pressure down on them. They could feel the walls compressing as they neared the ground, then hearing the outside bust up as the machine crashed through the roof of a building. Then, everyone was thrown across the room as the TARDIS landed on her side. Though the inside of the machine was upright since the gravity was set, it still made everypony feel uneasy.
  They were all bunched up on the wall, moaning in pain and sickness. Though trying to stand up on all fours, none of them could. In the middle of them all, Ditzy excitedly popped up. "Let's do that again!" She said. The Master looked up at her with the, I'm-going-to-kill-you look. Ditzy nervously smiled and sunk back down into the pile of ponies. The Doctor could feel the TARDIS'S sickness seeping into his own mind, making him feel the same way. His vision began to blur as the room began to spin. The sick feeling in his stomach overwhelmed him, causing his eyes to force themselves to shut, and his head fell against Rose's shoulder.
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   His vision was blurred, and The Doctor felt as if he were going to be sick. He pushed himself to walk across the room, his eyelids heavy from having to stand up so quick. He lifted his hoof to open the TARDIS doors, surprised to see the floor just at his reach. Stepping out, he heard the sounds of weapons clicking, ready and loaded. He breathed heavily, looking around the room, to see a familiar face coming into the area, and his expression lit up. "Dinky!" She gave him a cold look for what seemed like a long time. Taking a deep breath in, she still didn't look away from him.
   "Let him go." She said seriously. The Doctor simply smiled as the guards put down their guns and walked out of the room.
   "Well then. Hello." He said in his quiet tone. Dinky still gave him a child stare.
    They heard the TARDIS doors creaking open, seeing the blonde made stepping out. Dinky's expression lightened up a bit, though Ditzy seemed confused.
   "Who's she?" Ditzy asked, and Dinky's mood sunk a bit.
   "This,"The Doctor began, pointing towards Dinky, then messing up his hair in the back. "This is Dinkelia."
   "So, she's a friend of yours?"
   "Yeah...a friend. More like family." He sighed. Dinky went back to the cold look in the eyes.
   "Are there any more?"Dinky asked. The Doctor turned to the TARDIS, motioning the others to come out, seeing that they had woken up. Dinky watched as they all stepped out, Rose, Jack, then seeing the last one come out of the box, she raised her weapon. The Master just took a step back. "How is he alive?!"She screamed. The Doctor put a hoof up, while still protecting the other Timelord.
   "Leave him."The Doctor said. Dinky just glared at him, and walked out to the Master, gun down. Instead, she took out the cuffs from her satchel, holding him against the TARDIS.
   "Ah, well then."The Master said, irritated, and rolling his eyes. When Dinky turned him around, still holding him against the box, he just gave her the bored look. "If you wanted to hold me back,"he started, looking around his back to the cuffs, watching as they unlocked on their own."The leash is on the TARDIS console. Just go get it." His town sounded as of he were demanding her to put him on a leash, seeing how he was already wearing the collar. Dinky left him, going inside the TARDIS. "I'm surprised I'm not the one related to her."
   Ditzy, of course, changed the subject back to Dinky. "Related? So, she's your sister? Who is she?" The Doctor took a moment, thinking of a way to explain the situation."
   "She was my daughter." He answered.
   "Was?"
  "Yes, was."
  "I can't really see you as a parent." She admitted.
  "I was a dad once."
  "Did you give her up? Or something?" The Doctor looked surprised at what she said. "The Master said something about being related. Did you do something?" The Doctor looked over to The Master, who looked extremely weirded out. "So?" He still looked over t the Timelord, who was backing away, obviously scarred.
    "No." He replied, finally.
   "I mean, you two are alien, so how should I know how this works?" The Doctor still looked sick by the thoughts going through his mind. God, they were bad.
   Dinky, coming out of the TARDIS, took the leash and connected it to the dog collar around The Master's neck. "Why do you wear that, exactly?"Dinky asked.
   "It's a fashion statement, deal with it." Just before she was about to open her mouth again, The Doctor stopped her.
    "Best not." He suggested.
   "Now then,"Dinky said, coming over to The Doctor, and she cuffed him as well.
   "Wha- what's this for?" He asked, how high pitched tone he used when confused. Who Clockwise came into the room, along with a few guards who were going back to work.
   "Dinkelia? What's going on?" He asked. Dinky looked at her father with a dangerous expression, as Clockwise was confused on her attitude towards their parent. "You're dangerous to Torchwood, to the world. You could destroy a life by the look." The Doctor looked surprised. "Lock him up."
  "What?!" He exclaimed in that same tone.
~~~~~~~
  The Torchwood guards threw The Doctor and The Master into a cell down underneath the building, with Dinky behind them. She looked at the two of them with her cold stare.
    "Sonic. Now." She demanded. The Doctor sighed, reaching his now uncuffed hoof into his pocket, throwing the sonic across the floor and under the bars. The Master still remained his bored expression.
   "Why am I here?" He asked.
   "Don't think I don't remember what you did." Dinky replied.
   "That wasn't me." He said, darkly. The Doctor looked over at him, confused.
   "What do you mean?" He asked, just as Dinky had left. The Master sighed.
   "Think about it, The-" He stopped, so close to saying his actual name, remembering how he shouldn't do that. "Think about it, Doctor. Any of us, before the Time Wipeout. Did it seem...real?"
    "Of course it did. What are you saying?"
    "Alright, look at me, for instance. Do I even look like that? Before the wipeout, I looked nothing like normal. Also, my voice? You didn't notice that? Also, the way you looked, the way you talked? It isn't the same, is it?"
    "Stop it."
    "Doctor..." He focused on the The Doctor's sad eyes, seeing how he truly didn't understand. "Look at me now. Then remember the old Master, whoever he was. Because he's not me. The only part of him that was the slightest bit of me, was our own little battleships. Our little fights, but they were only because you wanted them to happen."
    "What are you talking about?!" The Doctor said that a bit louder than he expected, his eyes shining and wet from the tears he was holding back. The Master sighed again.
     "I was only real those few last moments you were in Equestria. Before that, all that time, I was alone. I was in the void. Dark, and alone, but I found an escape when the time lock opened again. All that time, waiting for you." The Doctor looked back at him, and the Master bit his tounge from the inside of his mouth. "But he wasn't you. Not the Doctor I knew. Not the Doctor I lo-" He stopped right there. He didn't need to say anymore. The Doctor was already so confused and broken down in tears, he didn't want to hurt him more. He simply moved closer to him, resting his head on The Doctor's shoulder.
   "I don't understand...all that time, what was it?" The Doctor choked the words out.
   "A life you invented. Something you've always wanted, someone to be there. I'm just glad I was at least there for you, in your own mind."
   "Just...stay with me..." The Doctor tilted his head to rest against The Master's, closing their eyes.
   
    Nearly an hour after they had fallen asleep, the heard the clicking noise of the keys in the lock. The Doctor opened his eyes to see Who Clockwise, opening their cell. "Hey dad."He said. The Doctor couldn't help but feel guilt when seeing his son. "Sorry about Dinky, she's going through a lot."
   "I noticed."
   "So, how 'bout mom?"
   "She- she's fine."
   "I heard you stutter."
  "Yeah...about that. She doesn't exactly remember you..."
   "Well, that seems appropriate. The time wipeout, and everything. But back to Dinky. She's actually been focusing on something, something quite peculiar."
   "What do you mean? Just, show me."
    Who pulled out his Torchwood security computer, bringing something up. "See right there," he said, pointing towards a symbol. "We don't know what it means, but it follows her everywhere online; email, work, almost everywhere." The Doctor and The Master recognized the symbol.
    "But, that's in Gallifreyan. How is she getting messages in Gallifreyan?" Just then, Rose came around the corner.
     "Well? What does it say?" Who asked.
     "...He awoke to the sounds of his own screaming. What does that mean?"
     "The Cybermen. Just the other day, what the Cyberman said. He awoke to the sounds of his own screaming." The Doctor looked as if he were thinking very hard on the subject.
     "But who? Who did?"
     "An old enemy? You've mentioned the Daleks once or twice in the TARDIS."
     “No, the daleks are always coming back. No, no, this has to be something worse.” The Doctor looked as if he were in deep concentration.

   Just then, Ditzy came over to see what they were doing.
    “Oh, hey mom.” Who said, not really paying that much attention. The Doctor struck a surprised look at him, and Who had realized what he just did. Ditzy just looked confused, luckily. But then, she had to come back at him. She glared at The Doctor, then grabbing him by the ear with her mouth. She dragged him across the room and into the hall, with a dangerously serious expression written plain across her face.
   “YOU. You tell me RIGHT NOW what is going on!” The Doctor sighed, tilting his head down. “Don’t you give me that! I see how you work! Try to swing me up, catching my attention! Don’t think I’m just a another chavy blonde!” The Doctor looked up at her, not knowing what to tell her. “Tell me what’s going on!”
  “They’re yours.” He finally said, a dark tone in his voice. Ditzy’s expression lightened from confusion.
  “What?”
  “Those two kids. They’re yours.”
  “But...with who? I’ve never been with anyone! Not like that, anyway.”
  “Me, I suppose.”
  “You suppose?”
  “It- it’s too difficult to explain.”
  “What do you mean, you suppose?!” The Doctor simply shot her a dark look.
  “They’re not really my kids. And they never will be. It wasn’t me, just a stupid equine version of me. Someone I never want to be again.”
  “But...why? Why don’t you want to be him?”
  “Because he wasn’t me. He was someone else.” He didn’t want to say anymore, so he began to walk away. But Ditzy wasn’t done just yet.
   “Doctor!” She yelled so loud her voice echoed down the hall. “I don’t care if you say you’re a different pony! You’re still these ponies’ father!” The Doctor stopped, and sighed, closing his eyes as if he were irritated.
   “Ditzy, I can’t. I just can’t.”
   “What is THAT supposed to mean?!” The Doctor turned around, staring at her right in the eye with his dark expression.
  “I am not their father. Time Turner was your husband, their father, though he never knew it.”  Ditzy took a step back when he realized who he said he was. She had no idea he way her husband, even now, her husband Time Turner had just died only months ago. Now, here was The Doctor.
   “But, can’t you at least be there for them? They need you!”
   “No. No, that’s EXACTLY where you’re wrong.” He got close up to her face in anger. “They don’t need ME. They don’t need, The Doctor.” He said his name as if he were disgusted in himself. “They need their, “father”.” Ditzy took a step back, afraid and confused as hell. But mostly scared. “And he, was NEVER, The Doctor.” He had finally had enough, and Ditzy had learned her lesson, allowing him to walk away.

  

   When The Doctor had met up with Dinky and Who once again, he simply pointed towards the TARDIS, and demanded that they get in. They didn’t bother to question, just did as he told. This was mainly because they sadly overheard he and Ditzy’s conversation. More like an argument than a conversation.

  As the rest of the gang got in, they stayed silent in the other room. After The Doctor left, leaving them in the TARDIS, they waited at least half an hour waiting for him to come back. The Master way already in the console room as The Doctor walked through the doors.
  “Where are they?” The Master asked. The Doctor waited a while, taking off his coat before answering.
  “Gone.”
  “You didn’t…” The Doctor paused again before responding.
  “I had to...like you said, they were never real.” There was a deep, sad look in The Doctor’s eyes, as they looked over to the hall entrance, already knowing Ditzy way overhearing them. “See? Now that you know the truth, you forget it. NOW.”
  “What did you do?” She asked nervously.
  “Took them to a parallel world. The TARDIS would usually disagree with that, but even she knew what had to be done.” He sighed, then started jumping around the TARDIS console, as if nothing had happened. But The Master could still the sad look in his eyes. But then, The Master felt a pang of fear strike his hearts when he read the date on the monitor.