Visit to a Different Ponyville

by StormLuna

Colgate's Decision

While arriving in Ponyville was fascinating and somewhat shocking for Colgate's acquaintances, going into her tower would be even more fascinating. They noticed that the tower's lights were much different than any that they had ever seen. Rainbow was the first to mention anything, "Colgate darling, how do these lights work? How are they able to give off light without anything being burned."

Colgate replied, "It is something that would be completely foreign to your world. We use this source known as electricity which is generated by a local dam."

Scootaloo had read about such things in fantasy books so she thought she knew how it worked. She asked, "Does it somehow use the energy of the flowing water to generate the energy to power these lights?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, it does." She paused for a few seconds and asked, "How did you know that? I didn't know such things existed in your world."

Before she could reply Rainbow interrupted, "Darling, they don't. Scootaloo likes reading fantasy books about worlds that are much more advanced than ours."

Scootaloo added, "And now I actually get to see a world like that in real life!"

They got to what appeared to be a door in the wall and next to it was a button, which Colgate pressed. The door opened and they headed into the elevator. Colgate pushed the proper button and they began to go upwards. Their guests were fascinated by this device as nothing like it existed in their world. Once the door opened they headed into the hall and then into the throne room where Colgate was going to break the news to everypony.

Before she could say anything Scootaloo gasped, "Wow Colgate! Your world is just like the ones in the books I like so much. Devices to move you up without using stairs, artificial lights and really tall buildings! What else do you have?"

Colgate sighed, "You'll learn more about this world the longer you are here but now for the reason I have brought you up here."

Commander Scootaloo asked, "Is it something regarding these four?" She glared at them and continued, "Did they invade Equestria? Do we need to put them in the dungeon?"

Colgate replied, "No Commander, they come in peace. In fact, it is them who have helped me come to a very important decision."

The commander's initial reaction to them unnerved the four, especially Cheerilee. She asked, "Colgate, is everypony here like her? Do they not trust many ponies?"

Colgate replied, "Cheerilee, you just have to understand Commander Scootaloo's nature. She has always had this rough and tough mentality ever since she was a filly, a very adorable filly!"

Commander Scootaloo yelled, "Hey, I was not adorable! I was never adorable!"

Colgate couldn't help but chuckle realizing that her second in command was trying to put up a tough attitude in front of their guests. Colgate decided that the time had come to change the topic to what she originally brought them up for, "Alright everypony, now for what I brought us up here for. I have decided the time for me to step down has come."

Scootaloo and the generals gasped in shock. They all knew how Colgate felt that she knew how to run things best and figured that she would likely rule Equestria forever. General Lightning Storm, Colgate's changeling general asked, "Seriously, you're going to step down?"

General Dark Night asked, "But why? You have brought stability to not just Equestria, but this entire world."

Colgate replied, "Listen everypony, I know I have brought stability to a world that was in a lot of turmoil for ages but you saw how I was becoming just a couple days ago. You saw how I was going into madness thinking that a pony I had killed over a year ago was out to get me." She pointed her hoof over to her guests and continued, "Just ask them, they saw the shape I was in when I unexpectedly arrived in their world."

Rainbow added, "Yes, the poor darling was a complete mess. Her mane and tail were messy, she kept on going off about how this pony named Twilight Sparkle had cast spells on everything, including us, to trick her."

Pinkie added, "And she accused this Twilight pony of forcing one of us to hide her."

Scootaloo continued, "And she thought she was in the castle so she flew in there and tried to find her."

Cheerilee finished, "And in her search she hit her head on the ceiling and knocked herself unconscious. We had her lay down and go to sleep for a while until we thought she would be ok."

This brought out a lot of concern from Colgate's second in command, "Wait a minute, she knocked herself unconscious and you have her lay down? Chances are she gave herself a concussion and if a pony has a concussion you are not supposed to let them go to sleep." Her voice became more angry as she continued, "You're supposed to make sure that their mind is kept occupied!" She lit her horn up, ready to attack and yelled, "What were you thinking? Did you want her to think stepping down would be the best option?"

Despite being a bit leery of her, Scootaloo replied, "Listen commander, what Rainbow did is what she thought was best. She didn't know that you aren't supposed to let ponies go to sleep in that situation. We don't have all this advanced knowledge that you have in this world."

Colgate could tell that things were going down hill in a hurry and she also knew of Scootaloo's nature. She knew that she would have absolutely no problems killing these four ponies so she tried to deescalate the situation, "Commander Scootaloo, while we know that a pony who has knocked herself unconscious is to not be allowed to go to sleep, these ponies did not know that. I don't think they had any ill intentions."

Commander Scootaloo kept her horn flared up and continued, "Colgate, I want to know what happened while you were asleep. Did you hear any voices or have any visions, such as them telling you to step down?"

Colgate replied, "No but I did have a nightmare that LaurFa had her army invading Ponyville and then she turned into Twilight and I couldn't kill her. Then something strange happened, Luna entered my dream. She ended the battle, restored everything to normal and then told me that such a battle really would happen if I stayed in power. She told me that she can sense that I want to attack somepony to bring war back to this world."

Commander Scootaloo calmed down and asked, "Is that true though? Were you planning on attacking somepony?"

Colgate hung her head low and replied, "Yes, I was making plans on doing to the Crystal Empire what I did to the arctic prior to the attack on Neigh Zealand. I was going stir-crazy just sitting here and doing nothing." She smiled at the four and continued, "It was Luna's advice in that nightmare along with advice from these ponies that helped me realize that for the best interests of this world, that I step down and allow you to take over."

Scootaloo's look of anger quickly changed to one of shock. She asked, "Seriously, you think that I am the one to take over? You trust me that much?"

Colgate asked in return, "Scootaloo, remember that day back when Shining Armor betrayed us and I promoted you to commander and said that if something happened to me that you would become Supreme Commander?"

Scootaloo replied, "Yes, I do."

Colgate said, "Even way back then, before you reclaimed the Equine Empire for Luna and captured Lemon Hearts, I knew you had what it took to rule over a nation. I believe that time has come now. Mentally I simply can't handle this anymore and I know you are the pony for the job."

While this made Scootaloo feel very good, she was very nervous. She knew that she had a lot to learn but one thing that bothered her the most was the fact that Colgate was something that she was not. She asked, "Colgate, how am I going to be able to do this as good as you? You're a goddess! I'm just a regular Alicorn."

Colgate replied, "Scootaloo, remember how I became a goddess simply by using a massive amount of power to create that hypercane to try to sink Twilight's ship? All you would need to do is put a massive enough amount of energy in a spell that causes beams of energy to shoot out of your eyes to become a goddess."

Scootaloo asked, "But what would I do? We don't have any enemies for me to launch an attack spell on."

Colgate replied, "We don't but I do think that with the proper spell you could cast is one to make Neigh Zealand habitable again." She saw her second in command's eyes light up and continued, "It shall be official then. I know how important it is to you that you have my level of powers before taking over so once you accomplish a task to elevate yourself to being a goddess, I will step down and Equestria will be yours."

While Commander Scootaloo, Dark Night and Lightning Storm were ecstatic, this unnerved Colgate's guests. While they were happy that Colgate had decided that she would do what she had to do to keep her sanity, Scootaloo's short temper and readiness to attack others over a simple argument did worry them. Without the future supreme commander seeing or hearing, Rainbow whispered to Colgate, "Darling, are you sure that giving her the job is that good of an idea? She has such a short temper. What if she were to find the portal, decide she wants our world too, takes her army in and takes it over?"

Colgate replied, "Don't worry, once you four decide to go home I will follow you to the cave and once you are back in your homeland, I will drain the portal of it's energy. That way nothing from our world will have access to your world."

Rainbow sighed in relief, "Well that is good to know but what if she was to start a war? How would she be stopped?"

Colgate whispered, "Listen, if she were to start a war, I would intervene, take back power and resume my current role until a pony who would not be so likely to start wars could be found to take over."

They stopped their conversation when Commander Scootaloo turned her attention to them. She asked, "So Colgate, when do you want me to cleanse Neigh Zealand of all that radiation?"

Colgate replied, "Scootaloo, I know you are excited about becoming Supreme Commander of Equestria, but there are a lot of things you are going to have to learn in the coming days. I am going to have to teach you how to get into the archives, I am going to have to teach you the proper spell so that you are the one who knows how to use the eye, you need to learn all the proper spells to ensure victory in battles and there is so much other stuff involved in being Supreme Commander that you must learn."

Scootaloo replied, "Well whenever you are ready to start teaching me, let me know!"

To be concluded....

Comments

[Violet Shade]

Another great story! Good job.

[StormLuna]

7517243 Thanks Twily, glad you like it.