• Published 30th Jan 2014
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Terror in Equestria 5: One Thousand Years Later - StormLuna



Celestia and Twilight finish their sentences on the sun and Twilight wants to rise to glory once more. She first must convince Celestia and other powerful ponies to help her to have a chance to do this.

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A Deadly Voyage

Finally the morning had arrived that Twilight and her envoy were ready to set sail. Before breakfast Twilight approached General Dark Hooves and asked, "Dark Hooves, is the ship all stocked and ready to go?"

Dark Hooves replied, "Yes Twilight, it is. I made sure that just in case, we have enough food and water for three weeks. Like you said, the weather can be unpredictable this time of year."

Twilight said, "Good job general. That is something I value very much, an officer who plans for worst case scenarios. Let's have one more good breakfast before we set sail."

They headed up to the throne room and were greeted by Shining Armor and her other officers. Shining Armor asked, "Twily, what kept you? I was getting worried."

Twilight replied, "Oh I was just discussing a few things with Dark Hooves. So, what is for breakfast?"

General Green Dust replied, "The usual, oats, apples, mutton and cider. You better enjoy it. From what I understand you guys will only have apples and water out at sea but I'm sure a very filling meal will await you guys in Faustica."

Dark Caves said, "Well I certainly hope so!"

After breakfast Twilight and her envoy headed to the ship. Shining Armor raised the anchor and they headed north towards the tropical regions of the Pegasus Ocean which are the most dangerous seas on the voyage. Shining Armor knew that their path would take them within eyesight of Dragon Island and he suspected that is where Spike now resides.

Shining Armor asked, "Twilight, do you know that our path will take us within eyesight of Dragon Island?"

Twilight's ears perked up and she replied, "Really! Do you think Spike might be flying around off the coast and see us?"

LaurFa interrupted, "Twilight, even if he were I doubt you would get a friendly reception from him. Remember how mad he was at you before you were banished? He would either attack us and set the ship ablaze or just ignore us."

Twilight replied, "You never know! He might have forgiven me by now. He has forgiven many who have done things that are bad before."

Shining Armor said, "Well we will find out tomorrow around midday if he is even out and about. That is when we will be making our closest approach to Dragon Island. I wouldn't count on even seeing him though."

Twilight walked up to the front of the ship with a sad look on her face. She knew that her brother was probably right but she could only hope. She also realized that it was her fault that everything had turned out the way that it did. She growled to herself, "If only I would have put Lyra or Lemon Hearts in charge while I was gone instead of that power hungry pony Colgate everything would have been fine."

Colgate was watching all of this from Ponyville and realized that her next three meals had better be much larger than any other meals she has eaten and that she better get plenty of rest, for the spell she was going to cast the next day would likely be the most powerful spell cast by anypony ever.

Scootaloo saw her looking off her balcony and asked, "Are you ok? You look like you are deep in thought."

Colgate turned around and replied, "I am just thinking about everything I need to do to be completely ready to cast my hypercane spell tomorrow."

Scootaloo asked, "What is a hypercane? Is it like a hurricane but more powerful?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, it is. It is a storm that is tropical in nature that has winds of 300 miles per hour or more. My goal is to have it's winds reach at least 400 miles per hour if not more. I want to destroy their ship and maybe kill either Twilight's dark Alicorn's or her brother."

Scootaloo asked, "Will we be having a meeting tonight since this is an important thing that will happen tomorrow?"

Colgate replied, "No. I need to be as well rested and have a nice, stress-free mind tomorrow. Any meeting might risk that. For now do you think you could just go and monitor activity at the base? I really need to just meditate and prepare for tomorrow."

Scootaloo flew down from the balcony to the base while Colgate continued to look out the window trying to find a good place to cast her spell from as it will cause a great amount of damage. She finally decided that she would wipe out the final traces of Canterlot. She decided she would cast her spell floating directly above the ruins.

The following afternoon Colgate was looking through the eye and saw that they were approaching the area she wanted to cast the hypercane spell. Dark Night was in her room with her and he could tell the time had come as she headed towards her balcony. Dark Night asked, "I take it the time has come?"

Colgate replied, "Yes it is. Don't worry, I will be going to a place far enough away the energy from my spell won't damage Ponyville. The ground might shake a little as I plan on doing this right above the ruins of Canterlot."

Dark Night asked, "Do you want me to warn everypony in town that there might be some shaking because of the collapse of the ruins?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, I do. I have to get going."

Colgate then took off towards the west with great haste because she knew she had to cast it at exactly the right time if she wanted the storm to slam them into Dragon Island. She finally arrived in the long abandoned city of Canterlot. She decided she would float above the old royal palace. She figured it would be fitting to cause it's collapse to destroy the rest of the city.

She knew it was time. She began to glow a deep shade of blue, similar to the blue in her tail and mane yet it could be seen from Ponyville easily. Dark blue clouds began to shroud Canterlot, her eyes began to shine a dark blue, her cutie mark began to shine and her horn was shining a bright blue as she recited, "The nice weather must come to an end, for without a killer storm the enemy will not bend, the wind shall be strong and my enemies won't last for long, a hypercane is a must so the tyrants will sink and go bust."

Colgate shot a powerful beam of blue energy and her eyes shot out dark blue laser beams towards where Twilight's ship would be passing. As she did this, powerful bolts of lightning struck the mountain that Canterlot had been built into, causing the entire mountainside to collapse. The ruins of Canterlot went crashing to the ground which made Colgate very happy, yet she was exhausted. When she returned to Ponyville she flew up to her balcony and despite being dead tired, she would watch the action involving her hypercane unfold.

It was a calm day out in the South Pegasus Ocean, everypony was out on deck enjoying the sunshine. Things were so calm and nice that even Twilight was in a lighthearted mood. She was talking with LaurFa over how her and her brother would fight when they were young.

Twilight said, "You know LaurFa, I haven't been this relaxed in ages. The last time I felt so relaxed was when Shining Armor and I were both using vases we stole from the neighbors for target practice. I remember that Shining Armor almost always did better than me on destroying the vases."

Shining Armor interrupted, "What do you mean ALMOST ALWAYS?"

Twilight laughed, "Oh come on big brother! You remember that one day when I was more accurate and destroyed the vases!"

Shining Armor replied, "Oh yeah, that was the day that we got caught and I got blamed for destroying them. Celestia punished me but not you. She claimed that you would never do such a thing!"

Twilight laughed harder, "Yeah she knew that I was such a sweet little angel, that I would never steal anything."

Shining Armor glared but then broke down laughing, "But you were the one who stole them! You weren't so innocent little sis!"

Before Twilight could say anything they saw a powerful dark blue bolt of energy soar across the sky accompanied with two dark blue laser beams. This changed the mood on the ship entirely.

LaurFa asked, "Uh, Twilight, what was that?"

Twilight got a terrified look on her face as she knew exactly what it was, except that it was vastly more powerful than her's was. Twilight replied, "Look everypony, Colgate has cast a hurricane spell."

Shining Armor asked, "Do you mean something similar to the hurricane you sent after Rarity and your parents?"

Twilight replied, "Yes but I can tell this one was far more powerful. Wherever she cast this from, is either a large crater in the ground or nothing but a huge pile of rocks."

Very quickly the winds began to pick up, the seas became rough and huge, dark blue clouds started to move in and blue lightning began to flash in the sky. Twilight yelled, "Get under deck everypony! Hurry, before it starts to rain!"

They were able to get under deck right before a heavy blue rain began to fall. Everypony was getting sick as the ship was rocking back and forth violently. Twilight knew that things were only going to get worse.

Dark Caves asked, "Twilight, you seem to know what is going to happen with this storm. How is that?"

Twilight replied, "I know because I have cast a storm spell like this before, except that the one Colgate cast is far more powerful."

Very quickly they could hear a sadistic laugh from outside the ship. It was Colgate's laughter taunting them. Finally the wind became so powerful it lifted their ship out of the water completely and began to carry it east.

Shining Armor shouted, "How the hay can this storm be so powerful? Did this happen with the storm you cast Twilight?"

Twilight replied, "No, it didn't. She must have put an unprecedented amount of energy into this!"

The ship began to spin around causing them to get thrown around in the cabin. Their cider bottles of water were shattering against the wall and their apples were slamming into them, bruising them. Finally the ship crashed into the side of a mountain of a nearby island.

When they crawled out from under the rubble the rain was pounding them and the lightning was flashing all around them. LaurFa said, "There is a cave! We must get in it until this storm passes."

Twilight and her envoy headed towards the cave but Shining Armor couldn't get up as some lumber from the ship was rammed through his torso. Twilight shouted, "Shining Armor! Are you ok? We have to get in the cave!"

Twilight levitated him into the cave with them. They got away from the opening of the cave so that the wind would not suck them out.

Twilight set her brother in front of her and she began to cry. "Shining Armor, why? Why did this have to happen to you?"

Shining Armor looked up at her and replied, "Don't worry about me little sis. You have to worry about ultimately defeating Colgate and reclaiming the world."

Twilight cried harder and shouted, "How can I even think about that when you, the only family I have left, might die right in front of me? You are more important than retaking the world."

LaurFa looked over at the Sparkle siblings and she realized that Twilight had not been completely corrupted. She realized that family was still important to her.

Shining Armor looked up at her one last time and said, "Twilight, retaking the world is your destiny, you were meant to control the world. Like I said before, don't worry about me, you have a mission to complete." Shining Armor then lowered his head and let out his last breath.

Twilight nudged Shining Armor with her hoof but realized that he had passed. She broke down into uncontrollable sobbing shouting, "Please no, please no, please don't leave me Shining Armor! NOOOO!"

LaurFa walked up to Twilight to try to comfort her but Twilight swatted her with her wing and cried, "Please just let me be alone with my brother one last time. CURSE YOU COLGATE, CURSE YOU!"

LaurFa didn't really know what to say at this point. Colonel Dark Caves said, "LaurFa, just let her mourn the loss of her brother."

The wind continued to howl, the rain continued to fall and the lightning continued to flash throughout the night until everypony had fallen asleep, except for Twilight who stayed up all night crying over the loss of her brother.

Author's Note:

Invisibility----"Whether it be one or a bunch of ones, nopony needs to see so that we don't have to flee, invisibility is the treat of not having to retreat."

Visibility---"The unseen shall now be seen, with their friends being present, hiding only shows resent, those who have disappeared shall now appear."

Duplication---"From one to two, two to four and so much more, when one is simple mere, more and more shall appear."

Banish to void--- "You have committed treason and that is not in season, you are a threat to me and I simply can not let that be, I can no longer be annoyed so you shall be cast into the void."

Loyalty spell---"From another to me, that is where your allegiance will now be, you thought your old commander loved you like pie when all they wanted was for you to die. With me all shall be great, there shall be no hate."

Giving drones a mind of their own---"those without a mind are in a bind, no longer shall they just be, but they will still be loyal to me, for officers they are now but they don't ask how."

Unbanish---"The one who has been banished has done their time, they are now forgiven for their crime, their time has come, now they need to contribute some, it is Equestria that they must serve or into the spiral of the void they shall curve."

Transform unicorn to Alicorn--- "The unicorn who has no wings is bound to the ground, they can not really get around, their smarts are great yet without flight they will be late, with these wings they will be great and they shall never have a bad fate."

Transform multiple unicorns to Alicorns--- "The unicorns who have no wings are bound to the ground, they can not really get around, their smarts are great yet without flight they will be late, with these wings they will be great and they shall never have a bad fate."

Transform Pegasus to Alicorn---"The one who can fly likes to fly free desires the powers that allow the unicorn to be, he/she wishes so much to levitate and create, rather than berate, for the winged one now has magic, without that it would be tragic."

Transform Earth Pony to Alicorn---"The pony without magic or flight is in a bind, for they feel like they have fallen behind, they work themselves to death, even to their very last breath, for now with magic and wings, great things shall be what life brings."

Increase size of pony---"The small one wishes they were tall so that they won't have to crawl, with height their future is bright and everything will be alright, for the small one is small no more, with height their happiness shall be galore."

Mature pony--"The innocent pony is unsure of who she wants to be, that may be cute but it is not what is good for me, she needs to mature if she is to be strong for without maturity she won't last for long, the naive one shall be so no more, for her maturity will carry her into lore."

Strengthen Armor---"The one without armor does not stand a chance, so it is what we must enhance, the unarmed one will likely receive death, with armor he shall continue to draw breath, without armor he will be torn to shreds like a rag but with armor victory is in the bag."

Activate Jade Alicorn---"The jade Alicorn will help me see all, without it I might miss a brawl, while the distances are great, I can see all the hate, wisdom is what comes along with the eye so that overthrowing me nopony will try."

Hurricane spell--- "The nice weather must come to an end, for without a storm the enemy will not bend, the wind shall be strong and my enemies won't last for long, a hurricane is a must so the tyrants will sink and go bust."

Fixing spell--- "The city was devastated by a storm, which is not the norm, their suffering is great yet we can not allow normalcy to be late, the city must be restored to the way it was before so they can pay taxes like they did before.

COLGATE'S SPELLS

Unlock---"The door is locked, but from me my information is blocked, a lot of learning I have to do, but with this locked I won't have a clue, now the door is open for me and infinite knowledge for me shall now be."

Lock---"Right now the door is not locked, from others the information is not blocked, the others must not be allowed to learn, for this is not theirs to earn, the door is now closed for all but me because infinite knowledge is not free."

Shatter Armor---"Our foes' armor is great, that is something I hate, with their armor they are strong, but them having armor is just plain wrong, now their armor is gone and it is time for them to say bye as they are struck by energy and die."

Return Blue sky---"The sky is purple which is ok for some, but it just makes me numb, for I miss the way it used to be, blue is beautiful to me, the normal sky shall be back and everything will return on track."

Drain pony---"The large pony is too big for me, for smaller the pony shall be, the size and knowledge will become mine, but the negative qualities is where I draw the line, for what must grow is my power, so that I may remain in the tower."

Change eye blue---"The green eye is not for me, for blue is what it shall be, the evil shall be banished as the good can not vanish, what shall return will be an eye of blue as it is the perfect hue."

Freeze time---"Tick tock, tick tock, look at the racing clock, what is short is time and being late is a crime, we must finish on top so it is time I must stop, with time froze, it is my enemies I shall bulldoze."

Unfreeze time---"Look at the clock, it is stuck in place, with this there can be no pace, everything is still but that does not fit the bill, for now the clock shall again run so everypony can have fun."

Time bubble---"A bubble is what we need, so from frozen time we can be freed, in this bubble we can move fast, while everything else is stuck in the past, it is frozen time which through we must pass so we will never be late to class."

Undo time bubble---"In the bubble time continues to run, but now the time outside runs and allows fun, the bubble must burst so we can quench our thirst, from the bubble we are now free and everything we can clearly see."

Release Brevity Thrash--- "She was banished long ago, but her power she will not forego, it is revenge she wants, it is her sister she shall taunt, for Brevity Thrash shall return once more and be more than just long lost lore."

PINKIE'S SPELL

"The changeling's power is good, but not great, they can fire ooze but not enough to make their foes lose, for them to be great, they must fire bolts of hate, the energy shall be strong so their enemies won't last for long."

Twily's dark Alicorns

General Dark Hooves
Colonel Dark Caves
Major Ice Wind
Captain Dark Sky

Colgate's dark Alicorns

General Dark Night
Colonel Black Mist
Major Frigid Wind
Captain Black Ice
Lieutenant Dark Crystal

Changelings

General Lightning Storm
Colonel Green Toxin
Major Deadly Cloud
Captain Green Storm
Lieutenant Southern Haze