The Great War is over but peace will not return. Old evils, once thought to be gone, have returned and want control of Equestria. Colgate will fight to keep her nation, but will face an enemy she never expected to see again.
The 7th part of the Terror in Equestria Series. The Great War is over and the allies believed that the world would return to being peaceful again but an unpleasant surprise appears in Equestria as old foes, once thought to have been vanquished forever, will return. A defector from Ponyville will travel abroad to warn Colgate and her allies of what has happened. This pony will join Colgate and her allies in the battle to re-take Ponyville and liberate the ponies of the world. The results of the final battle will not only determine the fate of the ponies of Equestria, but every living thing on the planet.
The world had just emerged from the worst war in the history of ponykind, a war which saw new, brutal interrogation methods, caused more civilian casualties than every other war before it put together and gave birth to a new era of horrific warfare. In Alicorn City Goddess Brevity Thrash, Queen Luna of the Equine Empire and Commander Scootaloo of Equestria were standing out on the royal palace's balcony talking amongst themselves about the recent events.
Scootaloo asked, "Brevity, I know you can sort of sense things that you can't see. What do you think is going on with the war in Neigh Zealand?"
Brevity replied, "Well Brevity senses that horrible, incredibly destructive spells have been used there. She believes that the war is over, Equestria was victorious and that Colgate will be bringing Lyra, if she wasn't killed, up here to answer for her crimes."
Just as soon as Brevity finished saying that she saw a fleet on the southern horizon sailing towards Alicorn Island. Brevity strained her eyes trying to figure out whose fleet it was. Once the fleet got closer she saw the Equestrian flag on all the carriers. She smiled and said, 'Well Scootaloo, it looks like Brevity was right. That is Equestria's fleet approaching us."
Thirty minutes later the fleet arrived at the port and docked. The first ponies to fly towards the palace were not Colgate and Fluttershy carrying Lyra. It was Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. The two looked up at the balcony and saw their friend up there. They immediately flew towards her.
Once they landed there Scootaloo ran to them and said, "Sweetie Belle! Apple Bloom! It has been so long! I am so happy to see you!"
The three engaged in a group hug and Apple Bloom asked, "Scootaloo, how did you feel when you captured Lemon Hearts?"
Sweetie Belle asked, "Was she begging for her life?"
Scootaloo replied, "Well I can't really discuss anything involving this until the court proceedings start. Since I captured Lemon Hearts and liberated the Equine Empire, I will have to share a lot of information that is currently classified."
Apple Bloom said, "Ah understand, I'm just glad you're ok."
Brevity looked at the three and asked, "Brevity takes it that you three are really good friends?"
Sweetie Belle replied, "Yes, we've been friends ever since we were little fillies over 4,000 years ago."
Brevity saw Colgate and Fluttershy levitating an angry Lyra out of the E.S.S. Colgate. Brevity said, "Come on ladies, it looks like Colgate may need our help with Lyra."
They flew down to the ship and when Lyra saw Brevity she shouted, "Oh YAY, it looks like I have to deal with the most narcissistic pony in the history of all ponies."
Luna shouted, "Lyra, just shut up and cooperate. It will make all of our lives easier."
Brevity just rolled her eyes and said, "Come on, let's get her into the throne room. Brevity wants to start this as soon as possible."
Twenty minutes later they had Lyra up in the throne room while Brevity went down to the dungeon to get Lemon Hearts. Once Lemon Hearts was taken into the throne room she immediately started shouting at Lyra. "You filthy wretch Lyra, I knew I shouldn't have went on with this stupid war you wanted so bad. This is all your fault!"
Lyra shouted back, "Nopony forced you to do this Lemon Hearts....."
Brevity interrupted, "Would you two shut up!"
This was the first time that the international court had to be used so nopony exactly knew how things should proceed. Given that she was the only pony with judicial experience, Luna suggested that she should be the judge. Brevity did not agree with this. Brevity said, "Luna, yes Brevity knows you have judicial experience but you were one of the leaders who was affected by this war. It would be a conflict of interest for you to be the judge."
Luna knew that Brevity was right. She replied, "Ok, your right Brevity. While you are part of our alliance, since Alicorn Island was not affected by the war, it would be best for you to be the judge."
Lyra shouted, "NO! IT WOULD BE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR HER TO BE A JUDGE TOO!"
Lemon Hearts added, "She is part of your alliance so she of course will be biased."
Brevity said, "Look, this is taking place on Brevity's soil so Brevity will be the judge, got it?"
Lyra and Lemon Hearts were not happy but knew that there was nopony else who could handle the proceedings. Brevity addressed everypony, "Ok, Brevity wants to have this operate differently than a regular court proceeding. Brevity thinks it is better if it is more like a regular conversation than a rigid court proceeding."
Colgate replied, "I agree, it will make things much easier."
Everypony involved in the war, not just the leaders but commanders and officers gathered around a large round table and started things off. Brevity started, "Lyra, Lemon Hearts, Brevity remembers you two storming out of the tri-millennial summit. What sorts of things did you discuss on the way home?"
Despite both of them being defendants and being on the losing side, Lyra and Lemon Hearts hated each other by this point so neither one would have issues testifying against the other. Lemon Hearts replied, "Well Lyra kept going on and on about how both Saddle Arabia and Neigh Zealand need to modernize and have militaries more like the allied nations do."
Brevity asked, "Alright, but what led to things going the way they did?"
Lyra replied, "Well I took her down to Prancington to meet my officers, my grand prince and talk about the formation of a military alliance."
Lemon Hearts interrupted, "We did but I feel like I was forced to do it!"
Brevity shouted, "ORDER! INTERRUPTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN INTERNATIONAL COURT."
Lyra continued, "Well after she met my officers and grand prince, her, my generals, my grand prince and my self sailed up to Saddle Arabia."
Brevity looked at Lemon Hearts and asked, "Lemon Hearts, what did she talk to you about once you two got to your capitol."
Lemon Hearts replied, "Well I introduced her to my officers and grand prince. One thing that really irked me though was that she kept on threatening to come invade Saddle Arabia and take it for herself if I refused to modernize my military and explore my land for natural resources."
Brevity asked, "Did anything in particular happen during your stay there Lyra?"
Lyra replied, "Not really. I do remember us sending our grand princes and officers up to Saddle Arabia's border with the Equine Empire to fix some fence."
Brevity asked, "Why did you do this? Shouldn't it have been Lemon Hearts who sent personnel up there to work on the fence."
Lemon Hearts was quickly becoming agitated. She shouted, "I should have but she just had to run the show. I saw her talking secretively to our officers before sending them out. Then three weeks later, the officers come back and tell us the grand princes had been killed by Luna's forces." Lemon Hearts paused for a minute, pointed her hoof at Lyra and shouted, "I THINK SHE TOLD THE OFFICERS TO KILL THE GRAND PRINCES AND BLAME IT ON LUNA'S FORCES SO I WOULD DECLARE WAR."
Luna glared at Lyra and asked, "So Lyra, are Lemon Hearts' accusations correct?"
Brevity added, "Remember Lyra, lying about this is a crime in itself."
Lyra rolled her eyes and replied, "Yes, what she is accusing me of is correct. I wanted this war, I wanted to force the three rich nations to spend resources on a war, I wanted them to lose military personnel, i wanted them to suffer civilian casualties."
Brevity looked at Lemon Hearts and asked, "So Lemon Hearts, Brevity assumes you did declare war. Is that correct?"
Lemon Hearts replied, "That is correct."
Brevity looked over to Colgate and asked, "Colgate, Brevity knows you have that eye you can see all using that eye. What did you see regarding the invasion of the Equine Empire?"
Colgate replied, "Well she ordered one part of her military to move up the west coast of the Equine Empire, destroying each city and killing as many civilians as possible."
Brevity glared at Lemon Hearts and asked, "Is that correct Lemon Hearts?"
Lemon Hearts replied, "Yes, it is. I will save Colgate some breath and admit to sending forces to surround Stalliongrad to starve them out."
Brevity said, "You know Lemon Hearts, for a pony who was initially so against war you sure gave your soldiers strange orders. You gave them the type of orders that a bloodthirsty commander would give, not a queen who was opposed to the war." She then looked at Colgate and said, "Continue."
Colgate continued, "Well when I saw her forces take Maredrid, I sent my own forces over there to intercept them at Braylin to prevent them from killing that city's residents, going up to Marescow and as Lemon Hearts put it, kill Luna and take her head back to Ridead on a platter."
Luna's eyes began to shine white and she aimed her horn at Lemon Hearts. She shouted, "YOU SAID WHAT? IF THIS WASN'T INTERNATIONAL COURT I WOULD KILL YOU RIGHT NOW!"
Brevity raised her voice and said, "Order! Calm down Luna, Lemon Hearts is answering for her crimes. No need to threaten her with death!"
Luna sat there with a scowl on her face while Colgate continued, "Well my forces did indeed stop them at Braylin. They were able to catch the Saddle Arabian forces off guard and massacred them. Scootaloo did quite a good job handling them."
Brevity looked over to Scootaloo and asked, "Commander Scootaloo, what happened in Braylin?"
Scootaloo replied, "Well when we arrived there I suggested that all the residents head further north, which after a bit of persuading, they did. When General Black Feet and his forces landed in the city they found that it appeared to be abandoned. So naturally they headed to the city hall to raise their flag. That is when I ordered my troops to attack. Like Colgate said, it was a massacre. We killed all of them except Black Feet, who I made sing like a canary!"
Brevity asked, "Sing like a canary? Could you elaborate on that?"
Scootaloo arrogantly continued, "Yes, I can elaborate on it! Well I asked him what Lemon Hearts' plans were and he refused to tell me so I decided to punish him to make him talk. First I beat him with chains and he still would not talk. I then slammed him up against a building using full force, still he would not talk. Then I decided to water board him. After quite a bit of waterboarding he finally sang like a canary!"
Lemon Hearts shouted, "WATERBOARDING? YOU MEAN LIKE WHAT YOU DID TO ME?"
Luna asked, "What the hay is waterboarding?"
Scootaloo laughed, "Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning." She paused for a minute and laughed, "I tell you, I had to waterboard him a lot to get him to talk."
Lemon Hearts shouted, "YOU MONSTER! YOU SHOULD BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES!"
Scootaloo laughed harder, "Oh my dear Lemon Hearts, there are no laws against using waterboarding as a form of enhanced interrogation."
Brevity said, "She is right. No form of torture is considered a war crime because since it has never been used before, it can not be punished. Now ordering the assassinations of two grand princes to start a war is, as is giving explicit orders to your soldiers to go kill citizens in specific cities."
Lyra asked, "So Brevity, what specifically does constitute as a war crime?"
Brevity replied, "Well, killing ponies based on what kind they are, ordering attacks on specific cities, manipulating other leaders into going to war in a case when they were initially against it and ordering the assassination of other high level officials to name a few."
Lemon Hearts broke down crying and said, "Fine, I'm guilty. I ordered attacks on certain cities, not just a whole nation in general."
Brevity said, "Well Lemon Hearts, since you admitted that you did commit war crimes, your sentence will be greatly reduced."
Lemon Hearts smiled while Lyra sat there with a scowl on her face. Brevity looked at Lyra and asked, "Lyra, you have pretty much admitted to committing war crimes when you said you did indeed order the officers to kill the grand princes to start a war. Do you wish to admit guilt? Your sentence will be greatly reduced."
Lyra, despite being angry, decided to concede defeat. Now it was a matter of what their punishments should be. The three allied leaders gathered in the corner of the room. Luna asked, "What do you think should be done with them. A lot of the ponies in my country were killed by them. I think they need to be executed."
Brevity replied, "Whoa Luna. Brevity told them they would get reduced sentences. Colgate, is there anything you can think of?"
Colgate replied, "Yes. I think that I should cast the most powerful loyalty spell on them possible. When I tested that nuke spell I tore a hole in the void. Queen Chrysalis already came and wooed some members of my military to join her up in the arctic. I think that if I can get them under my complete and absolute control, that they will be useful in our battle against Chrysalis and whoever else fell out of the void."
Luna shouted, "So you just want them to be free?"
Colgate glared at her and replied, "This would not be them being free. Physically they would be free but psychologically they would be under my complete and absolute control. I would send them into battles first, increasing the chances they would get killed. Does that make things better?"
Luna replied, "Fine. I agree to this."
Brevity added, "Brevity agrees to this as well."
The three walked back over to Lemon Hearts and Lyra. While the two were glaring at the victorious leaders Brevity said, "Lyra, Lemon Hearts, the three of us have decided that the punishment for you two will be aiding Colgate in any threats that may arise in Equestria."
Lyra looked shocked. She asked, "That's it?"
Colgate replied, "Yes it is. Now I need you two to get over in that corner if you know what is good for you."
Luna herded the two into the corner while Colgate stood in front of them. She began to glow a deep blue, her eyes were shining a deep blue, her cutie mark was glowing and her horn was glowing as she recited, "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."
Colgate's beam of energy was extremely powerful, almost as powerful as the energy she used to split the uranium atoms in the war. Like prior loyalty spells she used, the energy was absorbed into their bodies. After the energy was absorbed, the two stood at attention and said, "All hail Supreme Commander Colgate, our one and only leader!"
Colgate replied, "Good. Now we will have two more loyal soldiers to aid Equestria."
Brevity said, "Because of the way international law is Colgate, we all must stay here for two weeks to make sure the loyalty spells don't wear off."
Colgate replied, "Alright, well I was hoping to stay here for a little bit anyway so this works to all our advantage."
While Colgate did know that Equestria and Ponyville in particular had threats against them, she also knew that she could not violate international law. Doing so would result in her being tried and probably being imprisoned.
While areas west of the Pegasus Ocean have been suffering through horrible wars, events in Equestria have been rather normal. The Apple Family has been Applebucking, albeit more slowly since Apple Bloom and her adoptive sisters have been gone to war, Rarity has been fairly happy since sales have increased, Pinkie has continued to run Sugarcube Corner and despite Pegasus and Alicorn races being cancelled due to the foreign wars, Rainbow Dash has continued to clear the skies like she has for over four millennia.
It was a clear day in Ponyville when Applejack, after a long day of Applebucking, headed to Sugarcube Corner to get a treat. When she got there her friends had already gathered there. Pinkie could tell that she was exhausted. She asked, "Hey Applejack, do you want something sweet to eat?"
Applejack replied, "Yeah but could Ah have some water as well? I'm plum tuckered out."
Pinkie said, "Of course!"
Applejack sat down at the table with her friends. She had been working out in the hot sun and didn't smell fresh. Rarity asked, "Applejack, couldn't you have at least washed before coming here?"
Applejack replied, "Ya know what Rarity? I have been working my tail off all day, Ah'm hot, Ah'm hungry and Ah'm thirsty."
Rainbow interrupted, "Yeah Rarity, she has been working hard. She shouldn't have to 'wash' before she comes here just to suit you."
Pinkie got out with a few donuts and a pitcher of water and placed them in front of Applejack. Applejack said, "Thank you so much Pinkie. Ah really appreciate this."
Rarity asked, "Applejack, I don't know why you and your family don't just use your magic to levitate the apples off of the trees. You are all Alicorns after all. Why would you do it the old fashioned way anyway?"
Applejack glared at Rarity and replied, "We do it the old fashioned way because they taste a whole lot better. Ah don't know what it is but when you use magic to remove apples from the trees they just don't taste as good."
Rarity just shook her head when they heard screaming and panicking out in the streets. They looked outside and Rainbow asked, "What the hay is that? Why In Equestria is a green cloud drifting over Ponyville?"
Applejack replied, "Ah don't know what it is but it can't be good."
Over at the base there was more concern than panic as most everypony knew what the green cloud was. Captain Green Storm stood next to Colonel Black Mist, shook his head and said, "I knew this was going to happen. I just hope this fallout does not cause anypony to get deathly ill or die."
Before Black Mist could say anything the cloud drifted over the exact spot where Twilight and her minions were unmade. Five bright balls of light suddenly appeared. One was midnight blue, one was a pinkish white, one was solid white, one was white with a red tinge to it and one was purple. Ponies began to emerge from the balls. The first pony to emerge was King Cosmos from the midnight blue ball. Next was Queen Galaxia from the pinkish white ball, after that was Princess Celestia from the solid white ball and after that was LaurFa from the white ball with a reddish tinge to it. The purple ball began to shine brighter and two radioactive green dots formed in the center of it. It began to spin faster and faster. Finally the ball popped and down floated a larger purple Alicorn with radioactive green eyes. The Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, after over 3,000 years of absence, had returned.
The five levitated to the ground and as soon as they landed, Twilight headed to Sugarcube Corner. She was hungry and knew that her old friends would probably be there. Applejack was getting ready to go check out what was going on when a purple Alicorn blocked her exit. The purple Alicorn shouted, "I, your Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, have returned. Bow down before me!"
Everypony's jaws dropped open. The one they never expected to return had returned. Applejack asked, "Twilight, is that you?"
Twilight glared at her and growled, "You address me as DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE or die!"
Pinkie was trembling with fear. She knew that the Dark Goddess meant business. She asked, "D-Dark Go-Goddess Twi-Twilight Spa-Sparkle, wo-would y-you li-like som-something sw-sweet to e-eat?"
Twilight smiled and replied, "There is no need to be scared Pinkie, and yes I would like something sweet to eat."
Pinkie, even after so many millennia, remembered that Twilight liked donuts with extra sprinkles. Pinkie took the Dark Goddess three donuts covered in sprinkles which pleased her greatly.
She grabbed Pinkie, hugged her tightly and said, "Pinkie, even after so long, you still know what I like!"
"How could I forget what the Dark Goddess likes? She ordered it all the time!" replied Pinkie
Rarity asked, "So Dark Goddess Twilight, what are your plans now that you have returned? Are you going to banish us all to the void? Are you going to put everypony in chains?"
Twilight replied, "Rarity, don't start this crap already. You will find out soon enough. I am going to need you guys to follow me and my friends over to the base. I need to get us all back on the same page."
Rarity sneered, "So you are going to cast loyalty spells on everypony?"
Twilight replied, "Yes Rarity, you have a problem with that? If so, the void never runs out of room."
Rarity rolled her eyes and Twilight shouted, "OVER TO THE BASE, NOW!"
Twilight, her allies and her friends headed over to the base. When Twilight arrived at the base none of the soldiers knew who she was as they had never seen her before. Given that none of the soldiers had seen her before they figured that she must be an enemy. They began to fire energy at them. This sent Twilight into a rage. She fired a powerful beam into the center of the crowd, knocking all of them flying. She shouted, "YOU DO NOT FIRE ENERGY AT THE DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE."
The officers had heard Colgate talk about her and what a tyrant she was in the distant past. Colonel Black Mist asked, "Wait a minute, Supreme Commander Colgate has talked about you and how you were unmade long ago."
Twilight shouted, "Colgate is not your "supreme commander" anymore. You all bow to THE DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"
Black Mist shouted, "Never!"
Twilight had enough of this. She began to glow purple, her eyes were shining a radioactive green, her cutie mark was shining brightly and her horn was glowing as she recited, "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."
The power of her energy bolt was great. Rather than knocking forces backwards like they used to, they were absorbed into everypony's bodies, making the spell much more effective. After this everypony shouted, "All hail the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, our one and only leader!"
Twilight was ecstatic, not only did she make Colgate's army loyal to her, she strengthened the loyalty of those who were unmade along with her and she made her old friends loyal to her again, except one. Applejack, who was standing along the edge of the crowd, managed to escape the energy beam. She did know that she would need to pretend to be loyal to Twilight. She thought to herself, "As soon as possible, Ah have to get my family off to Alicorn City and warn Colgate."
Twilight stood in front of her newly loyal forces and shouted, "Thank you everypony! Your loyalty will be rewarded."
Everypony began to cheer loudly in adoration of their new leader. Twilight was thrilled over this. She stood there, smiled and waved. She then sped off to Colgate's black tower, flew to the balcony and went into Colgate's bedroom. When she got there she saw the one thing that made her the happiest, what used to be her bed. She plopped down on the bed and said, "Oh it's just as comfy as it was the first time I laid on it! I'm so happy!"
Twilight's friends flew up to her bedroom and saw her sprawled out on her bed. Rarity asked, "Twilight, I know you are happy but don't you think you should be careful? You are laying on Colgate's bed after all."
Twilight sat up, her eyes were shining green and she shouted, "THIS IS MY BED NOW! What I do is my own business!"
Applejack asked, "Dark Goddess, don't you think you should be careful? Colgate is extremely powerful."
Twilight replied, "What nopony knows is that with me reforming my powers are hundreds of times more powerful than they ever were before. Nopony could ever defeat me!"
Applejack sighed but knew better than to question her new leader. She replied, "Well alright Twilight, I'm happy to hear it. You know what is best for us all."
Twilight smiled and said, "Well everypony, I think we need to get the officers who are here, you four and those who were also unmade into a meeting. I really need to get caught up on everything." She paused a minute and asked, "Where is Fluttershy?"
Applejack replied, "Well when Colgate left for Neigh Zealand to go nuke it Fluttershy was the only one willing to go with her. Ah want to warn you, Fluttershy has become incredibly bloodthirsty."
Twilight looked shocked. She asked, "Nuked? What does that even mean? I've never heard of it before."
Rainbow replied, "Well for years Colgate was gathering this stuff called uranium out of the hills, which, when the atoms of it are split, it causes a lot of death and causes horrible effects on the area where the atoms are split."
Twilight smiled and asked, "Wait a minute? She found uranium and found a spell to split the atoms? I didn't even know uranium existed around here. Did she test this stuff anywhere in Equestria?"
Pinkie replied, "Yes, she tested it here in Equestria. Regarding the spell, she wrote it herself. I think she did it without any aid from materials in the library."
Applejack added, "She tested it in the arctic north. It must have tore a hole in the void or something because Chrysalis came down here not that long ago and somehow wooed some of the military to go north with her."
While Twilight realized that it was fallout from that explosion that allowed her to reform, she also knew that it was that explosion that tore open the void. She sighed, "Great, just great. Now I am going to have to defeat not just Colgate, but Chrysalis, Sombra along with everypony else who has ever been banished to the void."
Twilight told her friends to go down to the throne room while she headed to the base and rounded up the necessary personnel. She knew the world had changed a great amount but would be surprised when she learned about everything that changed.
Twilight had returned with her old higher-ups, she had brainwashed her old friends and Colgate's army. Now the time had come to get on the same page with them. Everypony Twilight wanted in the throne room for her first meeting in over 3,000 years had arrived. She stood before them, and in all her glory she started, "Well everypony, it is so wonderful to be back and to be the DARK GODDESS that I have always supposed to be."
Captain Black Ice, Colgate's old dark Alicorn captain said, "Your Majesty, I think there is much you need to know. The world has changed a lot since you were unmade."
Twilight smiled and replied, "I had a feeling that had happened. Oh, and since you are all part of my extended family, just call me Twily. Just like it was long ago, I would prefer that over the rigid traditions of the ancient past." She paused and then continued, "Chances are that none of the officers that are here were around the last time when I was in power."
The officers replied in unison, "Nope. None of us were around way back then."
Twilight asked, "Well then, could you all introduce yourselves or could one of you at least introduce all of you to me?"
Colonel Black Mist, the highest ranking officer remaining replied, "Well I am Colonel Black Mist." He pointed to the dark Alicorn to his right and said, "This is Captain Black Ice." He then walked over to the changelings and said, "These two are Captain Green Storm and Lieutenant Southern Haze."
Twilight was not thrilled. She growled, "This is it? This is all the officers that are here?"
Black Mist replied, "I'm sorry Twilight but the generals and majors went to war with Colgate, our changeling colonel defected and went north with Chrysalis as did our dark Alicorn lieutenant."
Twilight sighed, "Well at least I know spells to give regular soldiers enough self-awareness to make officers out of them. I just never imagined that so few officers would be here holding down the fort." Twilight stopped for a minute and then asked, "Is there anypony here who could tell me what all has happened in this world since I was unmade?"
Applejack replied, "Yes, Ah can tell you. Well, around 500 years ago is when things began to change. You remember how it used to be that nations produced all of their own goods and that nopony relied on imported products?"
Twilight said, "Yes, I do."
Applejack continued, "Well, all of a sudden international trade starts and after a while it really begins to separate the wealth of some nations. The nations which produced higher value products began to become much wealthier while the nations that produced products of lower value began to get poorer and poorer."
Twilight replied, "Oh and let me guess, Lyra, who was so against my tribute laws, was mad because Neigh Zealand produced primarily wool?"
Applejack continued, "Yes, she was extremely angry. She grew to hate Equestria, the Equine Empire and Alicorn Island because they all produced items of very high value."
Twilight asked, "And I am assuming this caused her to want to destroy the wealthier nations?"
Applejack replied, Yes, it did. Eventually the international summits got less harmonious and from what Colgate told us, during the last one Lyra and Lemon Hearts stormed out, forged their own alliance, modernized their militaries and waged war on Equestria and the Equine Empire."
Twilight sighed and said, "Well it doesn't surprise me with Lyra. She always did seem to be the one who wanted things that would aid Neigh Zealand, not caring what it would do to the rest of the world. I'm not surprised by her being able to brainwash Lemon Hearts though."
Applejack asked, "Why do you say that?"
Twilight continued, "Well back when the world's stewards voted to pass the tribute measure, initially she seemed opposed to it but I was easily able to convince her that it was needed. Lyra was and probably still is more powerful than her so I am assuming it was easy to get her on her side." Twilight paused and asked, "So what else has changed in this world?"
Applejack replied, "Well there have been many officers that have come and gone but General Dark Night has been a constant. He went with Colgate out to war."
Twilight said, "I remember him as a very loyal and competent general to all those who he served. I am wondering if I might be able to get him back on my side."
Captain Black Ice replied, "Well you can try but Colgate has an iron clad loyalty spell placed upon him, not to mention that he has hated you for a very long time."
Twilight laughed, "Oh a loyalty spell will fix that! I'm not worried." She then asked, "Speaking of loyal members of the military, are there any other soldiers in the nation or are these all the soldiers in the country?"
Applejack replied, "Actually Colgate has numerous bases throughout the country which means there are many, many soldiers who are extremely loyal to Colgate and that needs to be fixed."
Twilight looked at her four friends and asked, "Hey, do you four think you could travel out to these bases and tell them that Colgate wants them to return to Ponyville?"
Pinkie asked in return, "What if they ask us why?"
Twilight replied, "Tell them that they are needed for an important meeting. It will be very important, so while you will be lying about who wants them here, you won't be lying about it being an important meeting."
Pinkie said, "Okie Dokie!"
Rarity asked, "So when do you want us to go round all these troops up?"
Twilight replied, "I want you to head out tomorrow morning after breakfast. Besides, if Chrysalis and Sombra were to invade Equestria, they would come for Ponyville first. If it is well fortified, we can wipe them out and then be ready for Colgate when she and her minions return." Twilight looked towards the dining hall and asked, "What do you say we end this meeting and go have something more substantial than donuts?"
Applejack replied, "Ah tell you Twilight, Ah'm so hungry! Sounds good to me."
LaurFa added, "I haven't even got to eat yet. Some steak like you used to serve sounds so good!"
Twilight and all those loyal to her followed her into the dining hall. When they arrived the chef who came out to ask what they wanted for their meal was shocked by who was there. He had no clue who Twilight and the others who were unmade so long ago were. He figured that they were probably friends of Colgate's so he went ahead and prepared a massive feast for everypony anyway. He had no clue that he was feeding the enemy.
In the newly re-formed Crystal Empire King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis and Princess Cadence sat down in the throne room to discuss their plans. Knowing that Equestria is ruled by the military now they realized that things would need to be handled a bit differently, that things would not be easy like they were in taking Canterlot many millennia ago.
Chrysalis asked, "Sombra, out of all of us, I would think you would be the one to know the most about taking on a nation ruled by it's military. So what do you suggest we do?"
Sombra replied, "Well we need to get more of their soldiers to defect to us. Given that this Supreme Commander Colgate rules Equestria now, I have a feeling that she has troops stationed throughout the country. That is the difference between a military leader and a leader of royal blood."
Cadence interrupted, "Wait a minute, are you saying that this pony of non-royal blood is better than my aunts were?"
Chrysalis replied, "Now, now Cadence, you don't want to get banished somewhere now do you? Remember, you swore allegiance to us."
Sombra added, "Cadence, when it comes to handling military affairs, a military leader will always have a nation well defended. If I remember correctly, your aunts didn't even have a military, all they had was a royal guard."
Chrysalis sternly interrupted, "We are getting off topic here. We need to discuss how we are going to get more of their military to defect to us."
Cadence asked, "Chrysalis, instead of having to travel great distances between all the cities where they have their bases why don't we just duplicate the ones you brought with you. You said you remembered Twilight's duplication spells."
Chrysalis smiled and said, "I did say that now didn't I? Good suggestion Cadence."
Sombra suggested, "I have an old map of Equestria. I think we need to gather around the table and decide how we are going to take the country over. Despite us being able to duplicate our troops numerous times, I still think we need to go take care of their soldiers at the other bases."
Chrysalis threw her hooves up in the air and said, "Well that sounds all good but we don't even know which cities they have their bases in. That map of yours is older than dirt, who knows if any of these cities even exist anymore?"
The three realized that this was not going to be an easy land grab. They knew that even if they did conquer Ponyville and overthrew the leadership there, that Equestria would be far from theirs.
Over the next few days while Twilight's friends were out gathering all the Equestrian forces Sombra, Chrysalis and Cadence were wracking their brains trying to figure out what the best plan of action was when suddenly Cadence suggested what should have been obvious all along. She suggested, "Sombra, Chrysalis, I don't know why we didn't think of this a few days ago but why don't we just duplicate our forces to the point of where no force could take them out? That along with some powerful armor spells should guarantee victory."
Chrysalis replied, "Well it took us long enough to realize this but you are right and besides, I can continue to duplicate them after each battle."
Sombra asked, "You don't think that since Colgate knows we have returned, that she would have all her forces head to Ponyville to be ready for an attack do you?"
Chrysalis replied, "Well that would be awfully stupid on her part but with as arrogant as she is, I could see her doing it."
Cadence said, "Well then I think the best plan of action would be to duplicate our forces, have them engage in high intensity military exercises and then head down towards Ponyville. Once we get there, we can duplicate our forces more, cast powerful armor spells on them and then go in there and crush them."
Sombra was stunned by Cadence's suggestion. He was shocked because the plan she gave sounded much more like what a member of the military would suggest than a princess of royal blood. Sombra got an evil grin on his face and asked, "Cadence, you know the title princess doesn't sound very intimidating. I am thinking that with the plan you suggested, maybe you should go by the title of Commander Cadence instead."
Cadence stood there for a minute, realized that the old royal title means nothing and that she is smarter than she gave herself credit for. She replied, "That does sound good! Commander Cadence it shall be!" She paused for a minute, looked over towards the royal guard and asked, "What do you two think we should do with the old royal guard?"
Chrysalis replied, "Well they seem rather useless if you ask me but I have a feeling you have plans which would make them worthwhile."
Cadence said, "Yes, I do. I think that they could go in there as decoys. Colgate was never fond of the royal guard, or anything from Canterlot for that matter. Send them in, she would think they are enemies. While she and her powerful friends were handling them, the rest of us could go in there, DECIMATE HER TROOPS and then bring her down." She paused for a minute, began to lick her chops and replied, "I want to crush her. I want to devour her lifeless corpse. I will fight to the death if I have to."
Chrysalis and Sombra had huge grins on their faces. Despite Cadence having a lot of Canterlot influence in her, they realized that her hate for Colgate would work to their advantage. Chrysalis said, "Sounds good to us. Cadence, since you know the royal guardsponies better, why don't you approach them over this."
Cadence nodded and headed over to where the old royal guardsponies were standing. She looked at the tan guard and asked, "Hey boys, I have a favor to ask of you."
Flash Sentry, who had declared himself their captain, asked in return, "Yes Cadence, what is that?"
Cadence asked, "What would you think about being able to return to Equestria? What would you think about being able to be a royal guardspony again?"
Flash replied, "That would be amazing if we could. I just know that with Twilight being in power it won't happen." He paused for a minute, got a dreamy look on his face and continued, "Oh Twilight! How I wish she loved me. Do you know where she is?"
Cadence growled, "That bitch is no longer in power. Equestria is now governed by the military. This pony named Supreme Commander Colgate rules there now. As far as Twilight goes, I don't know what happened to her and I don't care. That bitch banished me to the void, just as she did you. How can you still love her? She never wanted a thing to do with you anyway."
Flash replied, "Well I will always have a soft spot for her, regardless of what she did to me. Regarding Colgate, I have never heard of her but I do know that a military leader will be much tougher to deal with." He then asked, "Now back to the original topic, what did you want us to do?"
Cadence replied, "Well, what the three of us want you guys to do is to fly ahead of the rest of us. Head into Ponyville first. Colgate hated you guys. You could go in and distract her. While the ten of you are distracting her, the rest of us can wipe out her army."
Flash became very angry. He shouted, "WE ARE SIMPLE PEGASI. I WANT TO TALK TO CHRYSALIS. SHE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE ENEMY."
Flash stormed away towards Chrysalis. She sees him coming and asks, "Yes soldier? Why are you so upset?"
Flash growled, "Cadence wants us to fly into Ponyville first. We are only Pegasus ponies. We have no power. How are we supposed to defeat this unicorn Colgate?"
Chrysalis shied back a bit and replied, "Colgate is not a unicorn. She is an Alicorn. Don't worry, I know armor spells that Twilight taught me."
Again just upon hearing her name Flash got all dreamy eyed. Chrysalis glared at him and shouted, "PAY ATTENTION! WHERE WERE YOU, DREAM WORLD?"
Just like with Cadence, Flash knew he could not talk to Chrysalis about his feelings about Twilight. He replied, "Oh, I just got distracted for a minute." He regained his composure and continued, "Well that is good that you have armor spells. At least we won't get hurt going in there first."
Chrysalis smiled and said, "You won't. However, I am going to have to have Sombra work with you on staying focused. We can't have soldiers going into battle who aren't focused." She then nodded at him and barked, "DISMISSED."
Chrysalis headed over to Sombra as she was ready to give him his wings. She knew that he was getting impatient and was frustrated being the only member of the military who can't fly. She approached him and asked, "Sombra, are you ready for your wings?"
Sombra replied, "You bet I am."
Chrysalis's horn began to glow green and she recited, ""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."
She fired a powerful bolt of energy at the unicorn king. Just like what happened when Twilight would transform unicorns into Alicorns, he was encircled in energy for three minutes. Finally the energy dissipated and Sombra began flying around using his new wings. Chrysalis was relieved that he had wings similar to his soldiers so that they would truly relate with him better. The way Sombra flew at first, one would think that he always had some pegasi in him.
Sombra landed next to Chrysalis and said, "Thank you Chrysalis. Now I won't be a weak link."
Chrysalis replied, "Don't mention it."
With Sombra's transformation into an Alicorn, they could finally begin to make legitimate plans to invade Equestria and take it as their own. While Sombra and Chrysalis would be more than willing to share power, they had their doubts about Cadence's desire to share power yet they knew, that unlike Twilight, she was a weak Alicorn and would be easy to handle if she tried to take more than what was rightfully her's.
Five days had passed and Twilight was standing on her balcony when she saw several swarms of soldiers flying into Ponyville. She looked closer and saw that her friends had rounded up all of Equestria's soldiers. She took off towards the base and landed on the platform she had addressed her troops on for three millennia before being banished to the sun. The troops flying in saw the purple Alicorn standing on what they believed was Colgate's platform. They began to fire energy at her believing she was an enemy.
This infuriated Twilight but realized that they did not know she was their new leader. She fired bolts of energy back at them, yet just weak ones so that she would not kill any of them. Finally Twilight's friends got them all down to the base where Twilight addressed them. She began, "Judging by your reaction to me, I take it you think I am an enemy."
Twilight was glaring at them with her green eyes, which struck fear into them. Instead of trying to take her out again they just stood there paralyzed. Twilight decided that lying to the soldiers before casting the loyalty spell on them would be the best thing to do. She continued, "Alright soldiers, I want to let you know that Supreme Commander Colgate has decided to not return to Equestria from the war and has put me in charge."
One of the soldiers asked, "Who are you anyway?"
Twilight, knowing that announcing herself as the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle would only cause them to attack her, decided to use a completely different name. She replied, "I am Commander Purple Star. I need all of you to gather together because there is something very important I must say to you."
Another soldier asked, "Why do we have to gather in a specific spot?"
The question angered her but knew that for this to work, that she would need to remain calm. She replied, "You just do."
They moved to the specific spot she wanted them to be. She began to glow and her eyes began to shine as she recited, "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."
The energy struck them and was quickly absorbed into their bodies. She decided to add a special kind of energy to this so that they would know exactly who she was. She saw them out there wiping their eyes and she asked, "Who are you loyal to?"
In unison they all shouted, "We are all loyal to the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle and no other!"
Twilight began jumping up and down like a school filly shouting "YES, YES, YES, YES!" She then calmed down, looked at her newly loyal troops and asked, 'Alright troops, I'm sure you are all wondering why I ordered the whole military to Ponyville?"
One of the soldiers replied, "Actually yes, I am. Isn't this going to leave us vulnerable to attacks from abroad?"
Twilight, knowing of the world's current situation replied, "No, it won't. The rest of the nations in the world are pretty much in shambles. Besides, there is a huge threat from the north that must be defended against."
Now many of these soldiers had never heard of Chrysalis or Sombra nor did they know that the Crystal Empire ever existed so the Dark Queen knew she would need to discuss things more like she were informing them of completely new enemies.
Twilight started, "Ok, in the far north of Equestria lies a closed off dome empire, it is known as the Crystal Empire."
Twilight gave her a glare that could kill so she decided to just be quiet. Twilight continued, "Ok, where I left off. Alright, the Crystal Empire. In this empire there are three leaders, Queen Chrysalis, King Sombra and Princess Cadence, all of whom are our enemies."
A soldier raised his hoof and asked, "Your Majesty, are they related?"
Twilight put her hoof up to her face but knew it would be best if she didn't get upset. She also decided to lie. She replied, "Yes soldier, they are related. Princess Cadence is the daughter of the king and queen and all three of them are vicious and brutal monarchs. Right now they are assembling an army that will launch an assault on Ponyville within the next week or two."
Captain Green Storm added, "So that means we need to start high intensity exercises immediately troops."
Almost immediately her army headed to the base and started the high intensity exercises. While this made Twilight happy, she knew that she would have to tap into the eye so she could monitor everything that was happening in the world. One bad thing though was that she could not remember the spell to get it to work for her. She looked upset as she headed to the black tower. Those who were unmade with her followed her. LaurFa asked, "Twilight, you look upset. What is wrong?"
Twilight replied, "I need to figure out how to tap into the eye again. I have to recite the activation spell so that I can see through it. I'm pretty sure Colgate has that spell hid in the archives."
Celestia asked, "Twilight, do you remember the spell to get in there?"
Twilight smiled and replied, "Luckily I do."
Twilight and her minions headed down towards the archives but would be greeted by a very unpleasant surprise as Colgate had not only changed the locks, she had put a different style of lock on their entirely. Twilight finally gets down to the archives and sees a different style of lock on it. It was in the shape of a hoof, one that matched Colgate's hoof entirely and could only be activated by her.
Twilight saw this and said, "What? I don't remember of this type of lock being on the archives." She frowned and shouted, "Damn it! She just had to change the lock now didn't she?"
Celestia replied, "Unfortunately yes, she did. I don't think the old spells will work on this lock."
Twilight arrogantly boasted that she would just be able to place her hoof on the lock and it would open for her. Galaxia asked, "Twilight, are you sure you should try that. What if it were to shock you really bad?"
Twilight, just like she used to in the old days when some pony would dare say something good about the enemy shouted, "Oh, so you are on HER side huh? Maybe I should just banish you to the void right now!"
Twilight puffed her chest out and placed her hoof on the lock. A huge surge of energy knocked her backwards, slamming her against the wall with great force. Stunned and a bit woozy, Twilight said, "I'm sorry Galaxia, I should have listened to you. We have got to figure out how to open this or I'll never know what is coming."
It took an hour for Twilight to finally get her bearings straight and be able to stand up on all fours. Cosmos got an idea. He asked, "Twilight, I am wondering if all five of us fired our energy at that lock at once if it might shatter it?"
Twilight, wanting to get in the archives no matter the cost, replied, "Sure, why not. What's the worst thing that could happen, we all get knocked backwards and get concussions."
Twilight nodded at her minions and they pointed their horns at the lock. They all began to glow, their eyes began to shine and their cutie marks began to glow. Twilight said, "On the count of three we fire, ONE, TWO, THREE!"
They all fired at once. The release of energy was great, it knocked them backwards and bruised them badly but Twilight didn't care. They were able to blow the lock off the door. Twilight smiled and said, "You see everypony, unless you take a risk you won't get anything done."
They headed into the archives and started going through the books. While she thought she knew right where the right spell was, it wasn't there. Colgate had rotated the locations of the spell books many times over the past four millennia. She then saw the door to the Starswirl bunker. It too had one of those locks on it. Twilight growled, "Ugh, what is she, the most paranoid pony in existence? Trying to blow that thing open in here will either destroy some of the material or the energy will be so concentrated that when it bounces off of it, it might kill one of us."
LaurFa reminded Twilight, "Well you're the one who said that unless you take a risk you won't get anything done."
Twilight knew she was right, nodded at them and said, "On the count of three.....ONE, TWO, THREE!"
They fired their energy at the lock. Given that they were in a much smaller, more confined space, the energy bounce back knocked them into the shelving, causing some material to fall on them. While they did not break any bones, they all stunned themselves. They laid there by the door for an hour before getting up to asses the situation. Twilight was stunned, they were unable to even damage the lock, much less destroy it.
Twilight started cussing up a storm. She went into a rage worse than any other she had ever been in. She shouted at her allies, "GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I KILL SOMEPONY!"
Her allies got out of the archives and headed back upstairs. Even being up in the dining hall, they could still hear Twilight screaming in her rage. Finally she began to glow brighter than she ever had before, her eyes were shining a radioactive green, her horn was glowing a bright purple and her cutie mark was glowing as she shot the most powerful beam of energy she had ever fired in her life. Her allies heard a crash down in the archives. They went down to check on Twilight and when they got there they found her laying unconscious under a whole pile of books. They were amazed to see that not only had she blown the lock apart, she had blown the door off entirely.
It took Twilight two hours to come to but when she came to and saw that the door was gone she gave a weak smile. She wearily said, "You see, when you take a risk, it is well worth it."
Cosmos said, "Twily, I think you may have given yourself a concussion. We can't have you falling asleep like that. You need to do something to keep yourself occupied."
Twilight's ears perked up, she jumped to her feet and happily said, "That's right! It's time to find that spell and also find a spell to make that eye green again." She started jumping up and down and said, "Yay, I'm so happy! I get to do some studying!" She then tripped over her own feet and fell to the ground. She wearily said, "Well I guess I should wait to jump up and down until I'm more with it."
After spending a great part of the day trying to get into the archives, Twilight finally finds the spells she needs to activate the eye for herself and turn it back green yet when she and her allies blew the locks off the doors she failed to think about how she would lock the archives back. As they walked out of the archives LaurFa asked, "Uh Twilight, how are you going to lock those doors back? We had to destroy the locks just to get in there."
This quickly caused a joyous Twilight to get a scowl on her face and go into another rage. She shouted, "DAMN IT! HOW THE HELL COULD WE HAVE FORGOT THAT?"
Her allies saw her begin to glow a dark purple,like she often does when she is deep in thought. She knew that not only would new locks be needed, but new doors would be needed as well. Given that she can create things such as doors and buildings on her own, she created two new doors, one for the Starswirl bunker and one for the main entrance to the archives. Her eyes began to shine a bright green as she pointed her horn at the entrance to the Starswirl bunker. She then sent a gentle beam of energy to the entrance and a new door with a new lock appeared. This pleased Twilight greatly.
She smiled and said, "A-ha! I knew I could do it!" The new lock looked just like the one that Colgate had placed on there, except this one could only be activated by her. Twilight walked up to it, placed her hoof on the lock and the door swung open for her. Like she often does when she does something successfully anymore, she boasted, "You see, as long as I'm taking care of it, everything will be fine!"
After locking up the Starswirl bunker, Twilight motioned for her friends to get out of the archives so she could fix the lock and door on the main entrance. Just as she did before, she began to glow a dark purple and her eyes were shining green as she sent a gentle beam of energy to the entrance. Like last time, a new door appeared with a horseshoe lock that only she could activate. She placed her hoof on the lock and it worked perfectly. Everypony breathed a sigh of relief to see Twilight so much happier than she had been earlier. After locking up the archives she said, "Come on everypony. I'm hungry. Let's go get some supper."
After a relatively normal supper Twilight headed up to what was once again her room and began to go through the spell books and scrolls. She finally got to the first spell she wanted. She pointed her horn at the jade Alicorn and recited the spell, "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."
Before attempting to change it back to green she attempted to tap into it and sure enough, she was able to once more see what was going on in the world. She was able to see far off to the west where Colgate and Brevity were sitting down to lunch and were simply talking about the weather. She then began to scan the north, where she could see the Crystal Empire. There she saw Sombra, Chrysalis and Cadence leading military exercises. She was shocked when she saw Cadence screaming and yelling at the royal guard, Flash Sentry in particular for not focusing enough on the task at hand.
She laughed, "Wow Cadence, I never knew you had that in you." She then began to think that when they invade instead of banishing or killing Cadence that she could cast the loyalty spell on her. She was even more amazed when she heard Sombra and Chrysalis referring to her as Commander Cadence. At that moment Twilight knew that if she could get Cadence's loyalty, that she would be a huge asset to her forces.
Twilight then knew that the eye had to be restored to it's original green color. She pointed her horn at the jade Alicorn and said, "The blue eye is not for me, for green is what it shall be, my influence shall return because it is my enemy who must burn, for now my power is complete, nopony will ever compete."
The eye quickly returned to the same color of green that it used to be and everypony in town knew that Colgate was no longer in power. Twilight stood out on her balcony and saw the whole town staring up at the top of the tower and much to her joy, the whole town began to cheer loudly, shouting "All hail the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle!"
Twilight was stunned. They were cheering for her despite most of them never even having heard of her. She smiled and waved at the adoring crowd for about five minutes before taking the spell books and scrolls back down to the archives. She felt that she had done her job. That night, for the first time in four millennia, she fell asleep with a smile on her face.
It had been four days since Twilight returned and the Apple family was sitting down for supper. Something just hadn't seemed right with Applejack since Twilight had brainwashed the army. Granny Smith had noticed this and she decided she was going to find out. She asked, "Applejack, something hasn't been right with you here lately. What's wrong with you?"
Applejack was nervous but finally decided to live up to her element of honesty. She asked, "You swear you won't tell anypony?"
Granny Smith and Big Mac both swore that they wouldn't tell anypony so Applejack decided to tell them everything. How Twilight had brainwashed everypony else, how she had been pretending to be loyal to Twilight and how she wants to get out of Ponyville. When she told them this both of them gasped. Granny snapped, "And where are we supposed to go?"
Applejack replied, "Look, Twilight will be going to bed soon. Ah think we need to head out west towards Alicorn Island and warn Colgate. Besides, then we can be reunited with Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo."
Granny Smith looked at Big Mac and asked, "Big Mac, what do you think? Shall we do this?"
Big Mac enthusiastically replied, "Eeyep!"
They had made their decisions. They began to monitor the activities around Twilight's tower. Finally a couple hours after sunset they saw her turn her light off. Applejack looked at her family and said, "Ahlright, let's go Apples!"
Big Mac and Granny nodded back at AJ and they took off to the west. They knew that they would need to hurry and get to the coast as soon as possible. After three hours of flying at a much faster pace than normal they land at the coast for a snack. Granny asked Applejack, "Applejack, how long will it be until we have to get going?"
Applejack replied, "Well Ah am thinking that Twilight will be getting up in a couple of hours. Ah know how her mind works, if we are still relatively close to the coast, she will send her army after us. If we are further out, she will just let us go."
Very uncharacteristically, Big Mac asked, "AJ, do you even know the way to Alicorn Island?"
Applejack replied, "Don't you worry Big Mac, I know the way!"
After thirty minutes of eating and drinking, they continue their journey to the west. This time they flew a bit slower so they wouldn't use up all their energy. A couple hours later in Ponyville, Twilight woke up. While she was hungry she decided to take a look at what is going around the world. As she scanned the planet nothing seemed out of the ordinary until she looked to the west. There she saw the Apple family flying towards Alicorn Island. This sent her into a rage. She started shouting, "THOSE TREASONOUS ASSHOLES! I AM GOING TO KILL THEM!"
LaurFa heard her going into her rage and headed up to her room. When she arrived she heard Twilight shouting every obscenity in the book. She had a dresser levitated in mid-air and was ready to throw it at the door when she saw LaurFa standing there. She set it down and LaurFa asked, "Twilight, what has you so angry?"
Twilight screamed, "The Apple Family has betrayed us! They are headed to the west towards Alicorn Island. They are probably going to warn Colgate about our return."
LaurFa asked, "How do you know that they are headed that way?"
Twilight's eyes began to shine green and she shouted, "HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK I KNOW YOU MORON? I TAPPED INTO THE EYE AND SAW IT FOR MYSELF!"
LaurFa screamed back, "You do not need to belittle me like that Twilight. We are all on the same side."
Twilight growled, "I'll do whatever the hell I want. I am in charge and you DO NOT challenge the authority of the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle!"
Finally after five minutes of them screaming and yelling Twilight was finally able to shut LaurFa up by threatening to banish her to the void. Things were very tense as the two headed down to the dining hall. Celestia saw Twilight's eyes a darker shade of green than normal and looked scared. Twilight saw this and asked, "What the hell has you so scared Celestia?" She paused and then sneered, "I'm surprised you haven't started bawling your eyes out."
Celestia shied back and replied, "Well I heard all the yelling and saw your eyes are a darker shade of green. What is wrong?"
Twilight decided to calm down since it was time for breakfast. She said, "I will tell all of you after breakfast. For now, let's eat."
After a rather tense breakfast Twilight led her allies and officers into the throne room and slammed the door behind her. She stomped up to her throne, glared at her allies and started, "Ok, you want to know why I'm in such a bad mood? I'll tell you. The Apple family betrayed us last night."
Lieutenant Southern Haze asked, "What did they do to betray us?"
Twilight decided to calm herself down so this meeting would run more smoothly. In a calm but stern voice she replied, "What I think happened is that they waited until they saw all the lights here in the tower turned off and headed west. Applejack knows how I operate so she most likely instructed her family to follow her west in the middle of the night."
Colonel Black Mist asked, "Twilight, where were they when you saw them this morning? Were they quite a ways out over the Pegasus Ocean?"
Twilight replied, "Yes, they were. That is why I did not have us go out after them. We will handle them when they are with Colgate during their attack."
LaurFa asked, "But what about my sister? She will probably just unmake us again."
Twilight smiled and replied, "If we do things just right, she won't be able to do that to us. I have a lot more power now than I did when she unmade us and so should the rest of you."
Galaxia asked, "So what do we do now?"
Twilight replied, "Well now Colgate will know to prepare her forces for war when they return. However, I think that the forces from the north will invade first, so let's prepare for that and then we will prepare for Colgate." She paused for a minute and continued, "DISMISSED!"
While Twilight was concluding her meeting the Apple Family saw Alicorn City off in the distance. Brevity and Scootaloo were out on the balcony when they saw three Alicorns heading their direction. Scootaloo was ready to fire on them when Brevity said, "Scootaloo, stop! It is your adoptive family."
Scootaloo got excited and asked, "Really? Applejack is coming?"
Brevity replied, "Yes, Brevity has a feeling that something bad has happened in Equestria."
The Apples landed on the balcony, Applejack ran up to Scootaloo and said, "Scootaloo! I'm so glad to see you're ok!"
Scootaloo replied, "Why wouldn't I be?"
Brevity asked, "Applejack, what are you three doing here? Has something bad happened?"
Applejack replied, "Yes, something very bad. I think we need to discuss this in a meeting."
The Apples nodded as they followed Brevity and Scootaloo into the throne room. There they were greeted by the rest of Brevity's allies. Before the meeting started though, the Apple Family ran up to Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom and engaged in a group hug. Applejack said, "Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Ah'm so glad to see you're ok!"
Just like with Scootaloo, they replied, "Why wouldn't we be?"
Colgate approached Applejack knowing something bad has happened. She asked, "Alright Applejack, what has happened?"
Brevity got everyone gathered together and called Applejack up to the front of the room. She asked, "Applejack, what has happened? Brevity wants you to tell everypony what has happened."
Applejack started, "Well everypony, Ah don't know how the hay it happened, but Twilight and her minions have returned."
Brevity was stunned. She gasped, "What? Brevity unmade them, how could they return?"
Applejack continued, "Well Ah don't know what caused it but this green cloud drifted in from the north. When it passed over the very place that they were unmade, five bright balls appeared and out of them came Twilight and her allies."
Colgate got a sick look on her face. She interrupted, "Oh shit, some of my officers might have been right. The fallout from my nuke test in the far north caused them to return."
Brevity snapped, "WHAT? YOU TESTED A NUCLEAR SPELL IN EQUESTRIA?"
Colgate replied, "Yeah, I did. I did it in the far north and that is what caused the void to be torn open. I never imagined that the fallout would drift that far south."
Luna, wanting to get things back in order, interrupted, "Look, we can't go back and change things. All we can do is keep our composure and ready ourselves for a nasty battle upon returning to Equestria."
Brevity still had a vicious scowl on her face but replied, "Luna is right, we have to remain focused." Brevity paused, looked at Applejack and continued, "Besides her returning, what else has happened?"
Applejack continued, "Well she has taken control of the great eye because it is back to being green. From what I understand she nearly killed herself blowing up the doors to the archives and she has brainwashed everyponyelse in Ponyville. Us three were the only ones who escaped falling under her spell."
Brevity replied, "Well at least three of you remain free of her spell."
Applejack finished, "Also, she knows about the return of Sombra, Chrysalis and Cadence so she is preparing everypony for their invasion, which she believes will happen within a couple of weeks."
Brevity replied, "Well good. Now we will know when a good time to leave for Equestria will be. Brevity will use her sixth sense to know when they are being attacked. At that time we will leave."
Everypony agreed with Brevity's plan. While Colgate is officially the one in charge of everything Brevity has knowledge and special abilities that nopony else in the world, perhaps even the universe has. With Brevity on her side, Colgate was certain that they would crush Twilight once more.
In the Crystal Empire the three leaders had decided the day to attack Ponyville had come. Sombra, Chrysalis and Cadence were all confident and ready to go, as were their army. Even the royal guard with the exception of one was ready and raring to go. The one pony who was really nervous was Flash Sentry and this irritated Sombra and Chrysalis. It made Cadence far angrier. She stormed over to the captain and shouted, "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SO SCARED? NONE OF THE REST OF THE GUARD ARE."
Flash was still angry because he had no powers. He shouted, "You know what Cadence, just forget it. I'm not going without any magic to defend myself."
Cadence slapped him so hard it knocked him to the ground. She shouted, "THAT'S COMMANDER CADENCE TO YOU!" When Sombra and Chrysalis saw this, they were beginning to wonder what was happening to Cadence. They knew for sure that she wasn't the sweet little princess that ruled over the Crystal Empire. She then headed over to Chrysalis and Sombra and said, "Well, it looks like somepony wants to die before the battle even starts!"
Sombra growled, "Let me handle this." Sombra believed that perhaps Flash couldn't handle a female authority figure so he marched over to him and asked, "So soldier, it appears as though you are causing your commander quite a few problems. What is your problem?"
Flash growled, "Look, I think you guys wanting us to go in there without magic is ridiculous. Yes I know you will provide us with armor shields but still, those aren't permanent." He paused and continued, "Unless you give me magic, I'm not going."
Sombra threw his hooves up in the air, walked back over towards his allies and said, "Well Commander, it looks like you are right. It looks like somepony is going to have to die before we head off to battle."
Cadence began to lick her chops dreaming of a pegasus dinner when Chrysalis shouted, "Stop! Cadence, before we kill him let's see if we can find a spell. The library here should have some sort of spell."
Cadence growled, "Alright Chrysalis, let's go into the library and find a spell. I just hope this doesn't push our attack too far back."
Sombra added, "You and me both."
They headed to the Crystal Library which has some advanced magic, but nothing compared to the black tower's library. The three looked through the books for five hours before Cadence finally stumbled upon something. She saw a book about transforming ponies into different races of ponies. She called for her allies to come over to her and they read through the book. Chrysalis patted Cadence on the back and suggested, "Well since you are an Alicorn I think it would be best if you worked on this."
Sombra added, "I'm not thrilled over this but we will have to wait until you get this figured out. We will wait to attack until you get the pegasus guardsponies transformed."
Cadence smiled and replied, "Well I'll make sure it doesn't take too long. I want to conquer Equestria just as much as you two do."
Chrysalis and Sombra knew that Cadence would need privacy to go over these books. After supper that night she continued to read over the book and through the spells. Finally around three in the morning it came to her. She said, "A-Ha! I will test these on them tomorrow, well I mean today and if it works, we can get going as soon as they learn how to use the magic!"
After getting a few hours sleep an upbeat Cadence showed up for breakfast that morning. Her good mood was irritating her allies and Sombra wanted to know why she was in a good mood. He asked, "Cadence, why are you in such a good mood?"
Cadence replied, "I believe I have this spell ready. I will need to test it first though."
Chrysalis smiled and suggested, "Well let's eat breakfast first. We can worry about the royal guard afterwards."
After a normal breakfast the three headed to the camp the guardsponies had gathered. Flash saw the three coming and was surprised to see Cadence as the one in front. They walked over to the royal guard and Cadence said, "Well boys, I have quite the surprise for you."
Flash was a bit nervous. He asked, "Uh, what is that C-Commander Cadence?"
Cadence gave them an evil grin and replied, "You'll see. I'm sure you'll like it."
Cadence ordered Flash and his comrades over into an open field and ordered them to stand at attention. She pointed her horn at them, she began to glow pink, her eyes began to shine green, she recited, ""The ones who can fly like to fly free yet they desire the powers that allow the unicorn to be, they wish so much to levitate and create, rather than berate, for the winged ones now have magic, without that it would be tragic."
As she recited the message a powerful beam of dark pink energy shot out of her horn along with green lasers from her eyes. The guardsponies were encircled in energy for five minutes before floating to the ground. Cadence saw the new Alicorn guard and was thrilled. They were shocked when they saw a change in Cadence's appearance. Flash asked, "Uh Commander, you're a darker shade of pink now and are your eyes supposed to be radioactive green?"
Cadence asked, "What are you talking about soldier?"
Sombra and Chrysalis walked around to the front of Cadence and were shocked by what they saw. Chrysalis said, "He's not kidding you Cadence. You are a darker pink and your eyes are a radioactive green, a green of pure evil."
Sombra and Chrysalis looked at each other with a nervous look in their eyes. They realized that since Cadence had used that much energy, darkened her coat and altered her eyes, that she was no longer their subordinate, that she was an equal, if not even more powerful."
Cadence had an evil grin on her face and asked her allies, "What's with the nervous look? They're Alicorns now and all we have to do is teach them to fire energy at the enemy and we can get on with this."
Sombra replied, "Oh we're just surprised by your new appearance. You ought to go take a look at it for yourself."
Cadence nodded and headed to the crystal tower. Chrysalis looked at Sombra and asked, "You know what this means now don't you?"
Sombra replied, "No, I don't. I am assuming that with those new eyes that whatever it is can't be good."
Chrysalis shook her head and said, "It isn't good. There is an ancient legend that if a pony does what she just did, using so much power that it darkens her coat and changes her eyes that color of green, that she is no longer a regular Alicorn."
Sombra gulped, "Don't tell me she is something along the lines of a dark queen like Twilight."
Chrysalis replied, "Well not exactly. She is a Dark Goddess now. I just hope she doesn't know about this old legend. If she does, she will know that she is more powerful than us and we will become HER subordinates."
While Sombra and Chrysalis were talking about Cadence's change, she was up in her bathroom admiring herself in the mirror. She saw that her coat was a darker color, her eyes were a radioactive green and the heart in her cutie mark had turned black. She smiled and began to laugh, "Well, well, well. It looks like we are a Dark Goddess now doesn't it?" She stopped laughing, glared into the mirror and said, "It looks like Dark Goddess Cadence is in charge now! Now we better go put our underlings in line after we study a couple more things."
Cadence knew that she was going to have to quickly learn loyalty spells, armor spells and duplication spells. While Chrysalis knew the duplication spell, Cadence wanted to know them all because she realized she was far more powerful than either one of her allies. After reading through the necessary spells for a couple hours she sped back down to the training grounds.
Sombra and Chrysalis were wondering where Cadence was when she came flying down towards them. Cadence's extended absence angered both of them but a different emotion began to flood their minds when they saw her flying towards them with those shining eyes, FEAR, which is something that neither one of the two have ever experienced, except for when Twilight banished them to the void.
Besides developing Goddess-tier powers, she had also developed the ability to smell and taste fear. She could smell it radiating from her allies so she swooped down and landed in front of them. She sneered, "What's wrong you two? Why are you so scared?"
Chrysalis replied, "What fear? We are-aren't scared."
Sombra added, "We've nev-never been scared."
Cadence knew they were lying. She stared into their very souls and asked, "Well then, why can we smell your fear so easily? Why were you so scared of Twilight back when she banished you.?"
Sombra asked, "How did you know we were scared of Twilight?"
Cadence laughed, "Oh, lucky guess." She glared at them and ordered, "Over in that field, NOW!"
Cadence pointed her hoof in the direction she wanted them to go. Once they got there her eyes began to shine green, she began to glow a dark pink, her eyes were shining a radioactive green and her horn began to glow as she recited, "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."
Like with what happened with the royal guard, Cadence fired a beam of powerful dark pink energy into her allies. The energy was quickly absorbed into their bodies. After a minute they stood up and looked at Cadence very attentively. She asked, "Who are you two loyal to?"
In unison they shouted, "I am loyal to the Dark Goddess Cadence and no other!"
Cadence had a huge smile on her face and replied, "Thank you, your Dark Goddess is most pleased to hear that!" She paused and continued, "Now where were we, oh yes, we were going to train the royal guard to fire beams of energy."
Sombra asked, "Your Majesty, who is going to be in charge of doing that?"
Cadence smiled and said, "You two have went through enough today. Let your Dark Goddess handle them. After all, your Dark Goddess transformed them so she shall train them."
Sombra and Chrysalis nodded and headed to the crystal tower. While Cadence began to teach the new Alicorn guard how to fire energy, Chrysalis was kind of confused with how Cadence was talking. Chrysalis asked, "Sombra, why is she talking about herself like she is talking about somepony else?"
Sombra growled, "Well she didn't start speaking that way until she used so much energy she became a dark goddess. Perhaps it is just a dark goddess thing."
Chrysalis nodded and the two headed to the crystal tower for a snack. In Ponyville Twilight was watching all of this and was not amused. She realized that this changed absolutely everything and what really bothered her was that Cadence was putting more power into all of her spells than she ever did. She decided that she better call a meeting with her higher ups as this was extremely important. She then realized that hearing Cadence's name may jog Celestia's memory so she realized that another loyalty spell may be necessary.
It was late afternoon and everypony had gathered at the base, her whole army, her friends who were still around and her allies. Twilight glared at her forces and growled, "Well everypony, we have a serious problem."
Rarity asked, "Twilight, whatever has happened?"
Twilight replied, "Well I have been monitoring what has been going on in the Crystal Empire and Cadence is FAR MORE powerful than I thought."
The very mention of Cadence's name made everypony who knew about her and how she was laugh. Rainbow Dash asked, "Cadence, really? That's a good one Twi. What happened, since she escaped the void have her love spells become more powerful?"
Rainbow's lack of seriousness did not sit well with Twilight. Her eyes began to shine green and she pointed her horn at her friend. Twilight shouted, "NO. SHE HAS BECOME A DARK GODDESS LIKE ME."
Black Mist asked, "Wait a minute? How the hay did she become a dark goddess?"
Twilight realized that screaming and shouting would accomplish nothing. She regained her composure and replied, "Well, here is how I think it happened. First, I think Sombra and Chrysalis have really rubbed off on her. Then the royal guard I banished when we went to get the archives in Canterlot needed to be turned into Alicorns, so Cadence found a spell to do that."
Pinkie asked, "Did she put a lot of energy into that spell?"
Twilight replied, "Unfortunately Pinkie, yes she did. She put more power into it than I did the hurricane spell I cast," She cast a glare in Rarity's direction and added, "Which I wouldn't have had to do if SOMEPONY wouldn't have committed treason so many millennia ago."
Rarity shouted, "Twilight, I was merely doing what I thought was right at the time."
Twilight rolled her yes and continued, "Well when she cast this spell her eyes turned the same color of green as my eyes but her coat turned a darker pink and the damn heart in her cutie mark turned black! So now I have a dark goddess I have to face."
Black Ice asked, "Has she done anything else besides that?"
By this point Twilight's mane and tail were a complete mess and she suddenly didn't have all of her composure. She replied, "Y-Yes captain, she has. She has cast an iron clad loyalty spell on Chrysalis and Sombra! How the hell she has that much power is beyond me, but she did it."
Her forces could tell that she was very upset. Her allies, who are more knowledgeable about things like this realized that Twilight's dark magic may not be enough to defeat the suddenly evil Cadence. They began to talk among themselves. LaurFa said, "Well this does change everything."
Celestia asked, "With Cadence being a dark goddess now, does that mean my Twily will have a harder time with her?"
Twilight heard them talking while she was addressing her forces and was very irritated. She fired a powerful bolt of energy at her allies and shouted, "YOU DO NOT TALK WHILE I AM ADDRESSING YOU!" Her eyes began to shine a bright green and she continued, "What, do you not think this meeting is important enough to give your full attention to? I ought to banish you to the void right now!"
LaurFa replied, "Twilight, you have to calm down. Cadence's transformation will make things more difficult for you. Two ponies with powerful dark magic may not be able to use magic to defeat one another. They may have to fight the earth pony way."
Twilight took off and landed right in front of LaurFa. She shouted, "Oh, and what am I supposed to do? Beat her with my hooves? Bite her? Kick her in the head? Look LaurFa, I'm not an earth pony. I will fight her MY WAY and if you don't like it, the void never runs out of room."
Twilight knew that things were going down hill. She shouted at her troops, "DISMISSED." Twilight took off towards her balcony and her room. She plopped down on her bed burying her face in her hooves. Despite her reaction to LaurFa out at the base, she knew that she was right. She could only hope that Cadence did not know that two dark goddesses can not defeat one another using magic.
Meanwhile in the Crystal Empire a much more confident and composed Cadence had called the entire empire to gather at the base of the crystal tower. She knew that she would need the loyalty of every military member and every civilian to accomplish this. She stood up on her balcony and began, "Citizens and members of the military, very soon we shall embark on an endeavor which shall result in us becoming a superpower!"
A citizen out in the crowd asked, "What is that your Majesty?"
Cadence replied, "Good question citizen. Tomorrow Sombra, Chrysalis and your Dark Goddess shall lead our forces to Ponyville to crush Supreme Commander Colgate and claim Equestria as our own!"
The whole crowd began to cheer as their newly transformed monarch was quickly winning their adoration. While this pleased her she knew that a loyalty spell would still be a good idea. She shouted, "Everypony, I need your complete and absolute, undivided attention."
Her forces and citizens looked up at their monarch to see her glowing a dark pink, her eyes shining green and her horn glowing. She recited, "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."
As she recited this a dark pink and black bulb formed at the end of her horn and then spread outwards, quickly being absorbed by everypony. Before she could even ask them who they were loyal to, the whole empire shouted, "ALL HAIL DARK GODDESS CADENCE, OUR ONE AND ONLY LEADER!"
Cadence stood up there on her balcony with an evil grin on her face. She looked down and saw that Chrysalis and Sombra, rather than being in the tower were down with the rest of the crowd. She was ecstatic over this as this made her control of those two even more powerful. She was rubbing her hooves together and said to herself, "This is perfect, soon the Dark Goddess Cadence shall not just rule Equestria, but the whole world!"
While Cadence was eating up all the attention a pegasus pony started floating up towards the tower and asked, "Your Majesty, I have some news that might change things. Could we talk for a minute?"
Cadence, who normally would not allow a pony to enter the tower like this, had a nagging voice in her head telling her to listen to the pony. She motioned for her to follow her into the tower, who was followed by Sombra, Chrysalis, Lieutenant Dark Crystal and Colonel Green Toxin. They all followed Cadence and this pony into the throne room. Cadence wanted to know all about this right away. She glared at the pony and asked, "Who are you and what is it that you have to tell your Dark Goddess?"
The pony replied, "Well my name is Pumpkin Pie and I do a lot of traveling across Equestria and I want you to know that Colgate is no longer in power."
Cadence asked, "Well, who is in power now?"
Pumpkin Pie replied, "Twilight Sparkle has returned to power and she is now a dark goddess."
Cadence's jaw dropped open. She asked, "Twilight Sparkle, a dark goddess?"
Pumpkin Pie replied, "Yes, a dark goddess. I have seen her and her eyes are the same color of green that yours are."
Cadence patted Pumpkin Pie on the back and said, "Thank you for letting us know this. Now we will know who to prepare for." She paused and asked, "Do you know what happened to Colgate?"
Pumpkin Pie replied, "Yeah, I heard that she along with this Alicorn named Fluttershy headed to Neigh Zealand to nuke it, whatever that means. After this pony named Lyra had her forces attack Equestria, Colgate declared war on Neigh Zealand. I'm sorry I don't know more but that is what I heard when I was visiting Ponyville."
Cadence remembered about how tender and sweet Fluttershy was. She was wondering if it was the same Fluttershy from so long ago. She asked, "Pumpkin Pie, is this Alicorn you are talking about yellow with pink hair and does she have three butterflies for a cutie mark?"
Pumpkin Pie replied, "Yep. I take it you know her?"
Cadence replied, "Yes. When I knew her she was a very sweet, loving pegasus. I have a feeling Twilight transformed her and Colgate made her bloodthirsty."
Pumpkin Pie said, "Well when I was down there both her and Colgate seemed to be thirsting for the blood of every Neigh Zealander. It was kind of odd, Fluttershy seemed more bloodthirsty than Colgate." She paused for a minute, got a nervous look on her face and continued, "I'm sorry that is all the information I have. I tried not to look like I was listening in because Colgate brutally punishes those she views to be a threat."
Cadence smiled and asked, "Why are you saying you are sorry? You have let us in on a huge amount of valuable information. Your Dark Goddess would advise that you avoid Ponyville for a while though, because after our invasion and takeover, it will not be the most pleasant place to be. Now we need to discuss some things so could you go back down to town? Oh, and don't tell anypony anything about what we discussed."
Pumpkin Pie nodded and replied, "Yes your Majesty." After that she took off back down into town and flew to her house. Luckily for her and Cadence nopony approached her about anything. In the tower Chrysalis and Sombra had nervous looks on their faces while Cadence had a more determined look on her face than ever.
She saw the nervous looks on their faces and growled, "What's wrong with you two? You act like you are scared."
Chrysalis replied, "Well we are just scared of Twilight. What if she banishes all of us to the void again?"
Cadence rolled her eyes and said, "You know, for two leaders who are supposed to be so evil you sure are chicken when it comes to Twilight. We aren't scared of Twily. We're ready to go in and crush her."
Chrysalis asked, "Your Majesty, she banished you to the void many millennia ago as well. Aren't you worried about her using her dark magic on you too?"
Cadence laughed, "Chrysi, dark goddesses can not use their dark magic on one another. I will have to figure out another way to defeat her." She got this evil grin on her face and continued, "Hmmm......Perhaps I could ram my horn through her heart! Magic won't work on her but brute force will!" Cadence began to lick her chops and finished, "Perhaps your Dark Goddess's victory meal shall be Alicorn steak!"
Sombra asked, "You'd seriously consider feasting on her corpse?"
Cadence was wondering why he would ask that. She asked, "Sombra, you are a dark Alicorn. Why would the thoughts of cannibalism bother you so much? I thought you would want to join us for such a tasty meal!"
Chrysalis and Cadence just nodded and said, "Yes your Majesty. It is whatever you desire."
Her allies knew that she wanted to get this taken care of sooner rather than later. Chrysalis asked, "So when do you want to go through with the invasion?"
Cadence replied, "Tomorrow morning after breakfast we will head out. We shall stop around ten miles away from Ponyville in the forest and rest for the night. The next morning, your dark goddess shall duplicate the changelings and dark Alicorns so we will have a large, strong army when we attack."
Sombra asked, "So are we still going to send the Alicorn guard in first?"
Cadence replied, "Yes, we will. All they know how to do is fire energy and if I know Twilight well enough, she will go after Flash and probably kill him while the rest of us wipe out her forces. Then Yours Truly shall take her out."
Chrysalis asked, "So Flash Sentry is pretty much going to be a sacrificial lamb?"
Cadence was irritated by this question. She glared at her and replied, "So Chrysi, since when have you become so soft?" She paused and continued, "Well no shit he's going to be a sacrificial lamb. His infatuation with her makes him a weak link, so we may as well get that weak link out of our mane." Cadence was starting to get hungry so she finished, "Come on, let's get some food in our stomachs. This negative talk is most unpleasant."
Cadence headed towards the dining hall and was quickly followed by her allies. Chrysalis and Sombra, while they were evil, did not much like the fact that Cadence would sacrifice a pony in such a cold hearted manner. They began to worry that she might see one of them as a weak link and try to take them out as well.
The following morning arrived and Cadence was ready and raring to go. She made sure that everypony had a good breakfast for the flight to the Everfree Forest that day. She saw that Flash Sentry was kind of standing around away from the rest of the army. She stormed over towards him and asked, "Flash Sentry, why the hell are you over here? Get with everypony else, we shall leave in a couple of minutes."
Flash replied, "Listen, I just don't like the idea of attacking Twilight. I can't help it, I love her and I always will."
Cadence pointed her horn at him and shouted, "Well that forever won't be for long if you don't join everypony else."
She had her horn pointed at him and led him towards the rest of the army. Once he was with the rest of her forces Cadence flew to the front and addressed them. She started, "Alright troops, today we embark on our endeavor. By tomorrow evening your Dark Goddess shall be in the black tower feasting on Twilight's corpse!"
Flash shouted, "No! I will not allow you to kill Twily!"
Cadence levitated him up to the front and asked, "What did you say soldier? Are you daring to disobey your Dark Goddess?"
Flash realized that he better not question her and just go along with her plans. He decided that once they attacked Ponyville, that he would defect and aid Twilight. Deep down he believed that he could win her heart and get her to want to marry him. He replied, "No your Majesty." He then got a angry look on his face and shouted, "Death to Twilight, let's take Ponyville!"
Cadence smiled and replied, "Good decision soldier. You must value your life more than we thought."
Cadence then looked at her soldiers and motioned for them to follow her. Everypony took off and while Cadence was in front, Sombra and Chrysalis were right behind her. While they did not like being subordinates to Cadence, they knew how powerful she had become and decided they would rather serve her than wind up in the void again.
It was mid-afternoon when they landed in the forest not too far away from Ponyville. The place they landed was perfect. There was a large lake and an abundance of trees and bushes bearing fruit. Cadence said, "Alright troops, here we can get ourselves plenty hydrated and there is no shortage of food, so let's feast!"
Green Toxin asked, "Your Majesty, what are you going to do tomorrow when you duplicate the drones and dark Alicorns? Won't they have to eat and drink before we head into battle?"
Cadence replied, "No they won't. The duplicates will be just as full and hydrated as the originals."
Cadence then walked over to Chrysalis and Sombra and said, "You two will need to help me keep an eye on Flash Sentry. I have a bad feeling that he may try to sneak to Ponyville tonight and warn Twilight of our coming."
Chrysalis replied, "Don't worry about it."
While Flash was drinking water Chrysalis flew over and covered him in ooze. He shouted, "What the hay are you doing? We're all on the same side!"
Cadence said to him, "We're just making sure you don't have a change of heart and go aid the enemy tonight. We know your feelings for her and your Dark Goddess just wants to make sure who you stay loyal to."
Flash grunted as he could only stand there covered in ooze. In Ponyville Twilight was watching all of this and saw that her enemies were not too far away from Ponyville. She quickly flew down to the base to warn her soldiers. While she wanted them to be alert, she did not want to go attack them in the forest, she wanted to bring her foes down in Ponyville.
Once she arrived at the base she shouted, "ATTENTION!" Everypony stopped what they were doing and gave her their undivided attention. Twilight was pleased to see that her friends and allies were also at the base as she did not wish to have a meeting after supper. She started, "Alright everypony, the enemy is only ten miles away in the forest. From the sounds of things, they will be attacking after they eat breakfast tomorrow morning. So you know what that means?"
Galaxia asked, "Does that mean that we will be attacking them in the middle of the night?"
Twilight replied, "No. We will be waking up early tomorrow to have a substantial breakfast. Also, I need some of you to get the civilians here evacuated. I do not want to see any of our citizens die."
With the way Twilight is, that surprised some but her friends she has had since she moved to Ponyville expected this. Rarity raised her hoof and said, "Twilight, I along with the rest of our friends can do it."
Twilight smiled and replied, "Thank you Rarity." She looked out at everypony and said, "That is all, you are dismissed. Just clear your minds and prepare for the battle tomorrow."
While Rarity and her friends were evacuating Ponyville, Twilight headed to her room to monitor the enemy some more. When she saw that Flash was covered in ooze she couldn't help but chuckle. She thought to herself, "It looks like nopony trusts Flash Sentry! What does it matter, I can see everything to start with." She then growled, "So Cadence, you want to kill and eat me? Bring it bitch, I'll be the one feasting on your corpse!"
Both armies were ready for battle. Cadence and her allies were relaxing by the lake making sure that all their forces got adequate food and water while Twilight had her meal delivered to her room that night as for the first time ever, she did not wish to be bothered by those she considered in her inner circle of the government.
The following morning was calm and peaceful. The sun was shining and there was no wind. It was the type of day where it seemed like everything was going to be perfect but that was far from the truth. Ponyville resembled more of a ghost town as all of the town's residents had been evacuated the night before and there was an eerie silence that made everypony nervous. Everypony had finished their breakfast and Twilight looked out at her troops. She motioned for the drones and Alicorn soldiers to move over to an open field. She asked, "You boys ready for this?"
Her forces replied, "Yes Twilight, we're ready."
Twilight nodded and began to glow. Her eyes began to shine green and her horn was glowing. She pointed her horn at them and recited, "From one to two, two to four and so much more, when one is simple mere, more and more shall appear."
Twilight fired her energy at her troops. She suddenly had twice as many as before. She continued to cast the spell until she had 5,000 of each. Twilight smiled and said, "Alright troops, we should be ready. All we do is keep our eyes fixed to the north and wait.
Rarity asked, "But Twilight, weren't you going to cast an armor spell on us?"
Twilight gasped, "I'm sorry Rarity. Thank you for reminding me!"
Twilight then cast the armor spell on herself and all her forces. She began to question herself at first because normally she would never have any self doubt, but soon that self-doubt would vanish when she engaged in battle against her foes.
In the Everfree Forest the weather was the same but it was far from quiet. Cadence was shouting rallying her troops. She asked, "Alright troops, what are we going to do today?"
They all shouted, "We're going to kill Twilight and put you on the throne!"
Cadence was smiling just gobbling up all the attention. She replied, "Hell yeah, and my victory supper shall be Twilight Sparkle!"
This was making Flash Sentry feel very uncomfortable but he knew that if he did not wish to be killed, that he had best remain loyal to Cadence until the battle started. Cadence pointed her horn at the few regular soldiers and said, "Alright troops, your Dark Goddess needs to duplicate you. We know that Twilight has duplicated her forces."
Her forces gathered into a somewhat open area where they could be duplicated. Cadence began to glow, her eyes were shining green and her horn was glowing as she recited, "From one to two, two to four and so much more, when one is simple mere, more and more shall appear."
Like with Twilight, her forces had doubled. However, with this happening within the forest, some would have to float above the ground for her to continue to duplicate them. She continued duplicating them until she had 5,000 of each. She smiled and said, "Alright troops, let's go!"
Cadence and her forces took off towards the south. At first Cadence was leading the charge but then she slowed her forces down until the Alicorn guardsponies were up in the front with her. She then told them to stop. She said, "Alright everypony, your Dark Goddess must put an armor spell on you. She knows that Twilight has done that with her troops already."
Cadence then began to glow a dark shade of pink, her eyes were shining green and her horn was glowing as she recited, "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."
A great burst of energy spread outwards from her, quickly being absorbed by the bodies of her army. She then motioned for the guardsponies to go first and shouted, "CHARGE!"
Reluctantly Flash Sentry led the guard in first, who were then followed by Cadence, Sombra, Chrysalis and the rest of her army. In Ponyville Twilight was looking off to the north and saw ten Alicorn stallions flying in. She ordered her forces to attack the incoming enemy. Her friends were the first ones to start firing at them. Very quickly the armor of most of them had been shattered. Flash Sentry had circled around to the back side of Ponyville as he wanted to confront Twilight at the end of the battle, not so he could kill her, but so he could profess his love for her.
Within a minute Cadence and the rest of her forces began to soar above Ponyville. Energy beams began to fly around the battle scene. Within ten minutes everypony's armor had been shattered. The drones and dark Alicorn soldiers began to fall from the sky as had happened in past battles in Ponyville. Cadence saw Twilight and took off after her as she wanted to crush her. Twilight saw her coming and shouted, "YOU WANT TO FEAST ON ME? BRING IT BITCH! YOUR ASS IS MINE!"
This caused Cadence to begin firing powerful bolts of energy at Twilight. Twilight very quickly was doing the same but to the dismay of both of them, their energy was not even affecting the other. Soon it hit them that with both of them being dark goddesses that they could not harm one another so they began fighting the old fashioned way, the way Pegasus ponies do. They began to kick one another, punch each other, swat each other with their wings, bite each other and use their tails to whip the other in the face. For the casual observer it would appear as though they were engaging in a prize fight from the days of old.
While the two dark goddesses were fighting everypony else continued to fight. Soon Twilight's forces were getting the upper hand in the battle yet Sombra and Chrysalis remained unscathed. Chrysalis tried covering Twilight's allies and friends in ooze but she missed. Rainbow shouted, "Nice try Chrysi." as she and Rarity fired powerful beams of energy at her vaporizing her horn and wings. Seeing her fall to the ground made her friends very happy.
LaurFa and Celestia had Sombra cornered up against the black tower. He was shouting, "You will never win this! You two are weak!"
He then began firing bolts of energy at the two Alicorns, leaving burn marks on them. When Galaxia and Cosmos saw this, they sped over to help the two. Their eyes were shining white and Galaxia was glowing a bright white and the two fired an immense amount of power at Sombra, vaporizing his horn and burning his wings badly. Galaxia then ordered Twilight's changelings to cover Cadence's allies in ooze.
Eventually all of Cadence's forces had been wiped out or captured. She was the only one remaining. While Twilight's allies could have easily taken Cadence down, they let the two continue their bout. They were punching each other when Cadence decided she would draw blood first. She launched herself at Twilight, got her in a powerful hold and bit one of her ears off. Twilight shouted, "OUCH!" Cadence was floating in front of her eating her ear, which made Twilight very angry. Soon the two were in a tight, strangling hold again when Twilight bit off one of Cadence's ears and ate it, causing Cadence to scream in pain. This only made both of them more thirsty for the other's blood. They continued to bite each other until both of them were covered in bite marks.
Finally Cadence wanted to finish this. She wanted to kill Twilight and feast on her. She was circling around to get a better chance to launch herself towards Twilight, but Twilight would be ready. As Cadence was soaring towards Twilight, she flew down to where she was underneath her. She then soared skywards and rammed her horn straight through Cadence's chest, severely injuring her but not killing her.
She quickly hit the ground and blood splatted everywhere. While she had some fractured wing bones and had blood leaking out of her wounds she still launched herself at Twilight, who had landed in front of her. The battle began again as they were rolling on the ground punching and biting each other. Finally after ten minutes of brutally punching, kicking and biting Twilight finally had Cadence pinned to the ground. Twilight asked, "So Cadence, any last words before I feast on your corpse?"
Cadence kicked her off of her and shouted, "You will be the one to say last words, NOT ME!"
Cadence again launched herself at Twilight but she saw it coming. She lowered her head and as Cadence hit her, Twilight's horn went straight through her heart, killing her. Cadence's body fell to the ground which pleased Twilight greatly. Twilight began to dance around the bruised and bitten corpse of her enemy, bit a hole open in her neck and sang "Sunshine, sunshine, lady bugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!" Twilight laughed and said, "Oh I'm sorry Cadi, I forgot with you being dead you can't clap your hooves or do a little shake!"
She jumped up and down like a schoolfilly in glee and laughed, "Well, well, well, I guess I know what I will be having for supper!"
Rainbow asked, "Seriously Twi, you're going to feast on your old foalsitter's corpse?"
Twilight was in too good of a mood to be mad over this question. She jubilantly replied, "Of course! I'm not going to let a good kill go to waste! Besides, now that I've tasted Alicorn meat, I want more of it!" She then bent down and licked some of the blood from Cadence's wounds. This grossed everypony else out but Twilight didn't care. She was victorious and that is all that mattered.
Pinkie asked, "Twilight, so what are you going to do with Sombra and Chrysalis?"
Twilight walked over to where Sombra and Chrysalis lay and replied, "I plan on sending them back to the void."
Sombra shouted, "Never! You will not send us back to the void again!"
Twilight laughed, "Oh, and who is going to stop me? You two are powerless now."
Chrysalis, having lost her powers could no longer escape from her own kind's ooze. She continued to try to melt the ooze off of herself but she just couldn't get rid of it. Finally she simply quit trying and decided she would beg Twilight for mercy. Chrysalis asked, "Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, I know you will probably not give it to us but could you please give us mercy? We promise we will be good."
Twilight glared at her and replied, "Mercy? Don't make me laugh." She then began to glow, her eyes were shining green and her horn was glowing as she recited, "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."
Before they could react Sombra and Chrysalis had been banished to the void. Rarity notices Twilight's bitten body and missing ear. She asked, "Twilight, did you know you are missing one of your ears and are covered in bite marks?"
This really upset Twilight because it was one of those no brainer questions. She growled, "Well no shit Rarity. I felt her bite my ear off and felt her biting my skin."
Galaxia asked, "Twilight, would you want me to heal you? You look magnificent regardless but I just thought I would ask."
Twilight smiled and replied, "I would really appreciate it Galaxia. Yes these scars and missing ear may make me look like I've been through a brutal fight but I'd rather look like I won this easily."
Galaxia began to glow a gentle shade of white, her horn began to glow and she sent a gentle beam of healing energy into Twilight. Soon the Dark Goddess was back to normal, her ear had been restored and her skin had the same appearance it did before her bout with Cadence.
Twilight began to asses the damage and bodies from both sides and realized that there were only nine Alicorn guard corpses. She was shouting, "WHERE'S THE TENTH? HAS ANYPONY SEEN THE TENTH?"
As she was shouting this an Alicorn stallion landed behind Twilight. He had a beaming smile on his face as he approached her. He truly believed that he could win over the heart of the dark goddess yet had no clue that things would not turn out the way he hoped.
Twilight and her forces were successful in defending Equestria from an attack by Cadence, Sombra and Chrysalis. She had already killed Cadence, banished Sombra and Chrysalis to the void and was assessing the dead. While she was walking around, she noticed that there were only 9 Alicorn stallion corpses when Cadence had brought ten with her to battle. Well that tenth Alicorn stallion was about to stun not just Twilight, but everypony.
She began to address her troops. She said, "Well troops, you have done well today. One battle down and now after a day or two of rest, we must prepare for the battle of our lives."
Rarity interrupted, "Uh Twilight, you might want to look behind you."
Twilight shouted, "How dare you interrupt me! You want to wind up with Sombra and Chrysalis in the void?"
Suddenly Twilight felt wings wrapped around her face and soon they covered her eyes. She went into a rage. She was shouting, "GET OFF OF ME. WHOEVER IS DOING THIS IS GOING TO WISH THEY WERE NEVER BORN. I'LL FEAST ON THEM JUST LIKE I SHALL FEAST ON CADENCE."
Twilight teleported herself out of Flash's embrace. She stood there with a scowl on her face and growled, "So Flash, you pathetic pervert, you were finally able to touch me. Well you shall suffer dearly for touching your Dark Goddess."
Flash smiled at Twilight and said, "Twilight, please don't be this way. There is something very important I must say to you."
Twilight shouted, "LISTEN FLASH SENTRY, YOU ARE AN ENEMY COMBATANT. YOU ADDRESS ME AS DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE!" She snorted and added, "Well make it quick, I want to get your punishment taken care of before supper time."
Flash embraced Twilight once more and said, "You don't understand Dark Goddess Twilight. I love you. I have always loved you." He began to cry and continued, "Despite everything you've done to me I still love you Twilight. I want to marry you." He then asked, "Will you marry me Twilight. Will you make me the happiest stallion in the universe?"
Twilight kicked him off of her and began to mock the Alicorn guard captain. She sneered, "Oh you don't understand. I love you. I have always loved you ever since I started molesting you with my eyes when you were a foal. Despite everything you have done to me, I still love you! Will you marry me?" Twilight started laughing and continued, "You're kidding, right?"
Flash continued to cry and said, "No Twily, I love you more than anything. I truly do want to marry you."
Twilight fired a powerful bolt of energy at Flash, vaporizing his horn. She shouted, "YOU DO NOT ADDRESS ME AS TWILY! YOU ADDRESS ME AS DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"
Despite the ruthless demeanor Twilight was using with Flash, his love for her was still as strong as ever. He continued his sappy professing his love for her when Twilight levitated some rope and quickly got Flash tied up to a gurney. He even had the audacity to say that he loved bondage and wanted her to dominate him.
This sent Twilight into a rage. She shouted, "What the hell did you just say? Do you seriously think your Dark Goddess is a slut? You're going to wish you were never born! The slow execution method it is!"
She began to ruthlessly beat Flash with chains. Hearing his screams of pain was making her very happy. Everypony just stood around watching what their dark goddess was doing in horror. Many wanted to leave but knew that if they did, they would probably face the same fate as Flash.
After thirty minutes of non-stop beating Twilight got sick of beating him with chains. She then picked up a whip and began to whip him violently, often times in the face to inflict the maximum amount of pain. He continued to shout, "I don't care what you do to me Twily, I will always love you!"
Twilight fired a bolt of energy at Flash, burning him badly. She then shouted, "WHAT DID I TELL YOU? YOU ADDRESS ME AS DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"
Eventually Twilight got sick of whipping him so she untied him. She then picked him up and began to slam him up against the base of her black tower as hard as she could. She could hear bones fracturing and as he was crying in pain she was sadistically laughing, "Oh Flashy, being a member of the royal guard I thought you would be tougher than this!"
Twilight then gathered some wood together, put it in a pile and set it on fire. She then got some water in a huge pot and set it on the wood to get it to a good boil. Before too long the water was in a good strong boil. Twilight levitated the pot over to where Flash lay and dumped it on him, burning him severely and causing him to scream out in pain. His skin burned so badly you could see it under his coat. Twilight got a beaming smile on her face and laughed, "You know Flash, red is such a good color for you! It symbolizes your evil perversion!" She then began stomping on the areas that were burned the most as he continued to cry out in pain. Everypony gasped as Twilight continued to laugh and violently stomp on him. Eventually one of her allies thought he had been punished enough. LaurFa asked, "Twilight, don't you think that is enough? He will probably die because of everything you have done to him so far before too long anyway."
Twilight began to glow a dark purple, her eyes were shining a bright green, she pointed her horn at LaurFa and asked, "So LaurFa, are you on HIS side? Are you on the side of the asshole who basically molested me with his eyes ever since I entered Celestia's school?"
LaurFa replied, "Well no. I just never knew you were this cruel and sadistic."
Twilight laughed, "Oh you haven't seen anything yet!"
Flash was laying on the ground moaning in pain but still giving Twilight loving eyes telling her how much he loved her. She quickly had him tied back up to the gurney. She then put a cloth over his face and began to pour water over it, giving him the sensation that he was drowning. Galaxia asked, "You're waterboarding him? But he doesn't have any important information to give to us."
Twilight laughed, "You don't need a reason to waterboard. I'm just doing this for shits and giggles."
Finally after an hour of waterboarding Twilight decided to stop. She shouted at Flash, "What do you have to say Flashy?"
Flash shouted, "I don't care what you do to me Twily, I love you and always will. You're the most beautiful, most sexy pony ever."
This only angered Twilight further. She used her magic to take a spear and plant it into the ground. She then untied Flash and levitated him over to the spear. She began to impale him so that it would enter him through his behind. She had to be careful as to not rupture any organs. He was screaming in pain as he was being lowered onto the spear. Finally the tip of the spear was visible coming out of his mouth. Twilight stopped moving him further onto the spear and began to laugh. Soon she was laughing so hysterically she was laying on her stomach pounding her hooves on the ground. Finally after a few minutes of laughter and twenty minutes of Flash groaning in pain Twilight decided she would remove him from the spear as late afternoon had arrived.
After removing him from the spear she levitated a butcher knife to herself and stood over a terrified Flash. She then began to cut him open the way you would dissect a frog. Blood began to squirt up and some got on Twilight's face. Flash saw this and felt bad. He said, "I'm sorry sweetie, I didn't mean for that to happen."
Twilight licked the blood off of her face and shouted, "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU CALL ME? I AM NOT YOUR SWEETIE YOU LITTLE BITCH. YOU ADDRESS ME AS DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"
While he was screaming in pain she pulled the wound open exposing the rib cage and the one thing she coveted most, his heart. He continued to scream in pain yet continued to profess his love for Twilight. He said, "Twily, I want to give you my heart! I want to be with you for eternity!"
Finally she pulled his heart out of the rib cage and had it in her mouth, still beating. She took the heart out and laughed, "You don't have to give me your heart, I'M TAKING IT NOW WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!" She laughed and asked, "Any last words bitch?"
Flash shouted, "Yes, I have last words." He paused for a minute and shouted, "I HATE YOU DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE! I UTTERLY DESPISE YOU! YOU ARE AN EVIL BITCH, A TRULY EVIL, SADISTIC, HEARTLESS BITCH! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN A STUDENT OF CELESTIA'S WOULD VIEW HERSELF AS TOO GOOD FOR ME LIKE THIS! CURSE YOU DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE, CURSE YOU!""
Celestia interrupted, "How dare you say that about my most successful student Flash Sentry. Twilight, make the bastard suffer during his final moments!"
Twilight replied, "Don't worry Celestia, that I shall do." She looked down at Flash with a beaming grin on her face and said, "FINALLY! I am free from your love! You have no idea how liberated I feel!"
Flash, in extreme pain asked, "Well, since I hate you now will you sew me up and let me go?"
Twilight replied, "Not yet."
She decided to take Celestia's advice and make him suffer more during his final moments. She began ramming her horn into him in the areas where the scalding water burned him the most. He continued screaming in pain and shouted, "I hate you Twilight Sparkle! I despise you! I should have hated you when you banished me to the void! Now will you just let me go?"
Twilight replied, "No, you're an enemy combatant. Good riddance you pervert."
Twilight was ready to finish him off once and for all. She placed his beating heart back in her mouth. He let out one final scream as Twilight clamped down on it and ripped it out of his body with her teeth. Blood was squirting everywhere. Blood was running out of Twilight's mouth as she devoured Flash's heart. She then licked her chops to get as much blood as she could. Her friends all had horrified looks on their faces. Only Colonel Black Mist, her highest ranking dark Alicorn officer was not horrified by this. Twilight saw this and asked, "So, are any of you going to want to help me eat these two for supper?"
Colonel Black Mist replied, "I will! I am honored that you would want me to aid you in consuming the corpses of two enemies."
Soon Captain Black Ice wanted to join as well along with her changeling officers Captain Green Storm and Lieutenant Southern Haze. Nopony else wanted to though. Twilight said, "Well that leaves more for the rest of us."
Twilight had one more plan for what was left of Flash, and while her army would find it humorous her friends and allies would find it sickening. Twilight took a sword, cut Flash's head off, levitated it and stuck it on a fence post. Using her magic she then began a conversation with the severed head. She asked, "So Flash, do you know why you were REALLY executed."
Twilight had the head emulate Flash's voice. She had the head say, "Yes Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, I was executed because I had been flirting with you and wanting you ever since before you matured."
Twilight asked, "So you finally admit the truth after so long. So Flashy, how did it feel to be brutally tortured by the pony you loved so much?"
Flash replied, "It was awful. There until the end when you had my heart in your mouth I still loved you. I guess it took you wanting to literally take my heart from me to see the real you. I hate you."
Twilight quit using her magic on the head. She turned around to her army and everypony else and said, "Alright everypony, you see what I did to him? This is what shall happen to dissenters. So I have some advice, bow down before me and worship me or you shall wind up like Flashy."
Everypony bowed and in unison replied, "Yes Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle."
Twilight began to levitate the bodies of Flash and Cadence and carry them to her tower. She motioned for her officers to follow her. That night they had quite the meal. Along with the meat of those who Twilight vanquished, they had several pitchers of cider and some cake to finish the meal off. They were discussing on who should get what. Twilight said, "Guys, I want the internal organs from both of them. I already ate Flash's heart so I may as well eat the rest of them and I want Cadi's as well."
Black Mist replied, "You've got it Twilight, there is plenty of other meat for us to have."
Captain Green Storm said, "Nothing like a good Alicorn dinner to satisfy the appetite of a changeling."
Twilight was sitting there eating the rest of both ponies' organs with blood dripping down her face. This really made her officers feel like they could truly relate with her. Seeing her feasting on raw meat not caring whether she gets blood on herself or not made them view her as much more like them than before.
They were all amazed at how good the meat tasted. Twilight smiled and said, "So this is what Alicorn meat tastes like! Hmmm.....perhaps our other Alicorn enemies should be on the menu? What do you think?" Suddenly Twilight began to think about what Celestia has done in the past and added, "Hmmm.......now I wonder how the meat of my former teacher would taste like? I suppose if she or anypony else caused me problems we could always eat them!"
Black Mist replied, "That would definitely keep them in line. You know Twilight, you are the best leader in the history of the universe. You are strong, fearless and not afraid to push the limits when it comes to punishing your enemies."
Twilight smiled and said, "Why thank you Black Mist. That comment makes us feel quite happy."
The rest of her officers agreed with her entirely. They, just like Twilight, absolutely loved the meal. Finally it was getting quite late so Twilight dismissed her officers from the dinner table. After that Twilight took a nice relaxing shower before heading to bed. While she was cleaning the blood from herself she thought to herself, "Well one battle down, one to go." She however realized that the next one would be far more difficult as her next enemies know her weaknesses very well and there is no love lost between them.
Ten days had past since Twilight defeated Cadence and her forces and in Alicorn City Colgate and Brevity were having a meeting with their forces. Brevity, with her sixth sense knew something had happened so she ordered everypony to the throne room where she would tell them about what she believed had happened.
After getting everypony rounded up, Brevity gave everypony a stern look and said, "Alright everypony, Brevity has a feeling that something very strange and brutal has happened in Ponyville."
General Dark Night, Colgate's longest tenured officer, asked, "What do you believe has happened?"
Brevity replied, "Well, Brevity believes that Cadence and her forces attacked Ponyville yet lost."
Lyra asked, "What would make that brutal? Battles happen all the time and massive amounts of death are normal."
Brevity replied, "That is not it Lyra. Brevity has this feeling that the dark goddess has done something incredibly gruesome, something that probably even Sombra and Chrysalis would never have done."
Colgate asked, "And what is that?"
Brevity replied, "Brevity has a feeling that Twilight Sparkle has killed and eaten both Cadence, who had become a dark goddess herself and one of the Crystal Empire's dark Alicorn guards, Flash Sentry."
Colgate laughed, "Are you talking about the same Flash Sentry that wanted her back in the day? The same one she banished to the void?"
Brevity replied, "Yes, he's the one."
The whole room erupted in laughter at the thoughts of Twilight eating Cadence and Flash Sentry. Brevity, who normally doesn't laugh couldn't help herself. She began to laugh harder than anypony else in the room. She laughed, "Well it looks like Twily finally got revenge on the pony she hates the most!"
Eventually Colgate banged her hoof on the table and shouted, "FOCUS EVERYPONY! WE NEED FOCUS!"
Everypony stopped laughing and Colgate continued, "Alright everypony, now we know what to expect upon our arrival in Ponyville. Unfortunately we really don't have anywhere to train our troops."
Brevity interrupted, "Brevity doesn't think that we will necessarily need to train our troops. They know what they are doing and have done much training during their lifetimes. Brevity thinks that while Twilight might still be recovering we should set sail now."
Applejack added, "Ah think that is a splendid idea. Let's get everypony rounded up and get going."
Everypony nodded and headed to the courtyard where everypony else had gathered. Despite this taking place in Alicorn City, given that the attack would take place in Equestria, Colgate took over. Colgate started, "Alright troops, the time to head home has come."
Lyra asked, "So will we be sailing to Equestria?"
Colgate replied, "Normally I would rather we just fly there but for this, yes we shall set sail. I do not want us to be exhausted when we reach the coast and have to rest. Twilight could easily send her forces out and attack us if we do that."
One of the dark Alicorn soldiers asked, "Supreme Commander Colgate, when will you duplicate us for the upcoming battle?"
Colgate replied, "You shall be duplicated when we reach the Equestrian coast and AFTER we eat and drink some water."
Lyra asked, "Why afterwards? Wouldn't you want to do it before so the duplicates will be able to eat?"
Colgate replied, "We shall do it afterwards because the duplicates will have full stomachs and be hydrated just like the originals." She paused and asked, "Any other questions?"
Fluttershy asked, "Don't get mad Colgate, but what if things start going badly for us? What if they are much more powerful and we can't use the same magic on them?"
Colgate got a scowl on her face but Brevity had a feeling that she may be on to something so she decided to answer this one. She replied, "Fluttershy, you make a good point there. I honestly am not sure if a pony can be unmade twice."
Lyra asked, "Seriously? You don't know if they can or not?"
Brevity replied, "No Lyra, Brevity does not know that. Just because we have been around since the beginning of this universe or longer doesn't mean we know every single little thing."
Colgate rolled her eyes and asked, "Well given that, Brevity, do you have any backup plans if things get dicey for us and we won't be able to defeat them?"
Brevity replied, "Actually yes, we do. While everypony sleeps Brevity has been scanning the universe and there is a planet across the galaxy that we could teleport us all to."
Sweetie Belle asked, "What does that mean?"
Brevity replied, "Alright, everypony that would be going with me, which would be ALL the Alicorns, our dark Alicorn officers, changeling officers and a couple regular soldiers of each type, all need to be close to Brevity."
Applejack asked, "So what is this here planet like?"
Brevity went into a long discussion with everypony. She told them of the ancient past of this planet when ponies first began to evolve from horses and let them know that the world they would be going to is in that phase of it's history. Scootaloo asked, "So would we be leading the evolving ponies into their new homelands like you and your tyrant sister did?"
Brevity replied, "Yes, we would be. We have visited that planet twice and it is a carbon copy of this world geographically, so naturally Brevity would take control of that world's Alicorn Island."
Lemon Hearts asked, "What about the other nations of the world?"
Brevity replied, "Well that we will discuss once we get there IF we have to go there, but let's hope that isn't the case." Brevity motioned for everypony to head to the ships." Brevity looked at Colgate and asked, "Brevity, Alicorn Island does need some sort of military. Would it be alright if we left Major Frigid wind, a few dark Alicorns, major Deadly Cloud and a few changeling drones here?"
Knowing that forces could simply be duplicated at the coast, Colgate reluctantly agreed to Brevity's plan. After notifying the majors of their plans they headed to their ships and set sail to the east. For the first time in her life, Brevity actually had her doubts about whether she would be able to overpower enemy forces while Colgate was certain that they could.
Twilight sees Colgate and her forces setting sail for Equestria and gets a smile on her face. She realizes that her enemies are not going to have time to get their forces trained while her's will. That night after supper she held a meeting with her Alicorn allies and her officers. She stood at the front of the room and started, "Alright everypony, Colgate and her minions departed Alicorn Island this morning. They should reach the coast in approximately four days, so what we need to do is have two days of high intensity military exercises and then relax and remain alert until our enemy arrives."
LaurFa asked, "So Twilight, what are your plans for the enemies if we are able to defeat them?"
Twilight, like she always answers to questions like this shouted, "What do you mean IF we are able to defeat them. Don't you mean WHEN we defeat them?" She sighed and continued, "You know LaurFa, sometimes I really wonder about you. First you claim that I was too harsh on Flash Sentry and now here you are questioning our ability to win this battle? Maybe I should just banish you to the void right now."
Celestia jumped in front of LaurFa and said, "Twilight, please stop threatening to banish everypony to the void when they say something that angers you. It isn't good for morale."
Twilight was angered that Celestia would dare question her actions but knew that she was right, so she decided to calm down. Twilight grunted, "Yeah, you're right Celestia. Maybe I do get a bit out of control every now and then."
Colonel Black Mist asked, "Twilight, what time do you want to start the exercises tomorrow? I will get them up as early as possible if need be."
Twilight smiled and replied, "Just start them after breakfast. Making them start before breakfast would be a bad idea, it would really hurt their morale."
Galaxia asked, "What about the rest of us? Those that are not regular soldiers?"
Twilight replied, "All of us, including myself, shall work with the soldiers. We all need to have our skills honed to perfection, and of course I will monitor the enemy as well."
While Twilight was holding her post-supper meeting Colgate and her forces were sailing east. Brevity and Colgate were standing at the front of the main carrier. Brevity asked, "Colgate, aren't you even the tiniest bit worried about this? You know that with them being re-made that they will be far more powerful than before."
Colgate glared at her and replied, "Brevity, you are by far the most powerful pony in existence. I don't understand why you would have an ounce of fear and why you would have a plan of action if it looks like we are going to lose."
Brevity said, "Well Brevity knows that any good leader always has a backup plan. She paused for a few seconds and continued, "Brevity is beginning to wonder if it would be better for us to start fresh on a new planet anyway."
Colgate asked, "Why is that?"
Brevity glared at the Supreme Commander and growled, "Because of your reckless behavior, part of this planet has been rendered uninhabitable." She then asked, "Colgate, if we do have to go to a new world, you can refrain from splitting uranium atoms can't you?"
Colgate replied, "Yes Brevity, I can. Hopefully there won't be any battles or wars on that planet IF we have to go there. Proper leadership over each nation will prevent that."
Brevity just rolled her eyes because she knew that eventually if a war erupted, that since she already knows the spell, that Colgate would not hesitate to use the deadliest form of warfare possible. She also knew that Scootaloo is a carbon copy of Colgate when it comes to war and would most likely use the same tactics.
The following morning arrives in Ponyville and after breakfast everypony had gathered at the base. Like she was in the past, Rarity was reluctant to take part in the exercises. She raised her hoof and asked, "Twilight, do those of us who aren't soldiers really have to take part in these? Can't we just fire energy at them?"
Rarity asking this brought back so many memories for Twilight, ones that were not very pleasing to her. She shouted, "Rarity, DO NOT start this crap again. I feel like it is four thousand years ago all over again."
Rainbow Dash added, "You know what Rarity, we need to be on the top of our game. We need to be as agile as possible and we may have to engage in old fashioned battle tactics, the type that earth ponies and pegasi engaged in long before magic was used in warfare."
Twilight was smiling over Rainbow's comment. She said, "Thank you Rainbow. I'm beginning to think that with that mentality, you should be my second in command."
This slightly upset her other allies, especially LaurFa, who is more qualified than Rainbow yet not as loyal. Twilight looked at Rainbow and asked, "So Rainbow, what would you think? Would you want to be my second in command and first in line to the throne?"
Rainbow was ecstatic. She never imagined that she would be elevated to that position. She replied, "You bet I would! Anything for you Twi."
Twilight asked, "With that being the case Rainbow, your first task will be leading every military exercise. Think you could get them started?"
Rainbow nodded and enthusiastically replied, "You got it boss!"
Something strange was beginning to happen to LaurFa. She didn't know why but she just couldn't shake this nagging voice in her head telling her that Twilight was not a true friend of her's, that she had done something horrible to her in the past, but she continued to be loyal to Twilight.
Time seemed to pass by slowly for both Twilight and Colgate as both were just itching to get this final battle out of the way. Finally four long days had passed and Colgate's ships made landfall. Just like with every other ship that had ever made landfall along that part of the Equestrian coast, those on board feasted on the apples that grow there. In Ponyville Twilight was watching their every move and decided that the time had come to warn her forces.
She flew down to the base where everypony else was resting. Twilight landed on her platform which caused everypony to stand at attention. Twilight saw this and said, "At ease."
Captain Black Ice asked, "Twilight, is the time near?"
Twilight replied, "Yes Captain, the time is near. They have just arrived at the coast. Whether they will attack today or wait until tomorrow is beyond me."
Rainbow asked, "Twilight, why would they wait until tomorrow? I would think that they would head in as soon as possible."
Twilight replied, "Well by the time they would arrive here it would be dark and I'm not sure how Colgate and Brevity feel about attacking at night."
Galaxia said, "Well if Colgate is as bloodthirsty as you say she is, I'm sure she would attack at night when we would be more vulnerable."
Twilight smiled and replied, "Good point Galaxia. Troops, we do not go to bed tonight, we remain alert and keep our eyes fixed on the western horizon."
Rarity asked, "Twilight, when are you going to duplicate the soldiers? After all, I don't think we have as many as Colgate will be bringing in with her."
Twilight rolled her eyes and replied, "I will do it an hour or so after sunset since our enemies will likely attack at night."
At the coast Colgate's forces were finishing their meal getting ready for the upcoming battle. Standing next to Colgate, who thirsted for Twilight's blood, were Fluttershy and Scootaloo, who both were equally as bloodthirsty, along with the unsure Brevity Thrash. Scootaloo knew that Brevity was rarely like this and asked, "Brevity, why are you so nervous? You are so powerful you could wipe them out easily."
Brevity replied, "Brevity is not sure Scootaloo. You know how we have our sixth sense?"
Scootaloo said, "Yes."
Brevity continued, "Well it keeps on telling us that since our enemies were remade, that they may not be able to be unmade again and that we could be cast in chains."
Fluttershy scoffed at this comment. She growled, "What? Precious little Twily defeat us? Well Fluttershy doesn't think so! We shall feast on Twily's lifeless corpse!"
It was bothering Brevity because everypony else seemed so confident, almost overly confident in her opinion. Fluttershy's comment about feasting on Twilight's corpse especially bothered her. She began to realize that she was becoming more like Scootaloo and Colgate in developing a taste for blood.
Finally everything is all set. Colgate and her forces are ready to fly east while Twilight and her forces had their eyes glued to the western horizon but one of Colgate's officers had a plan that could very well catch their foes off guard.
Out at the coast Colgate's forces were just about ready to leave when Applejack asked, "Colgate, so when are y'all going to duplicate our forces?"
Colgate replied, "I shall do that a couple miles outside of Ponyville." She looked at her forces and asked, "Any final questions before we head off to battle?"
General Dark Night raised his hoof and said, "Well this isn't so much of a question as it is a suggestion. I am thinking I know how we can catch them off guard."
Colgate sneered, "Oh, and how do you think we can do this? Wait until they are tired?"
Dark Night replied, "No. What we need to do is circle around Ponyville and attack it from the east."
Colgate smiled and said, "That is pure genius General. That way we can attack them with their backs facing us! Twily won't see that coming!"
Her forces began to cheer loudly and started chanting, "COLGATE, COLGATE, COLGATE" as they took off towards the east.
In Ponyville an eerie silence set in over the town as the sun was setting. Twilight was becoming nervous and her mane and tail had quickly become a mess. Rainbow saw this and decided to try to calm the dark goddess down. She said, "Twi, everything is going to be ok. You are far more powerful than you used to be. What if a pony can't be unmade twice?"
Twilight smiled and replied, "I don't know if ponies can be unmade more than once but I just can't help but be a bit nervous. While I am far more powerful than before I can't help but remember how powerful both Colgate and Brevity are."
Rainbow patted Twilight on the shoulder and said, "I understand you concerns but this time I think you'll be victorious."
Twilight smiled and for the first time in four thousand years, she gave credit to more than herself. She corrected Rainbow by saying, "You mean WE'LL be victorious."
Other ponies heard her saying this and realized that while she can be a total grump, that perhaps Twilight still had a tiny bit of niceness left in her after all.
Three hours passed and Twilight called all her soldiers together. She said, "Alright guys, we need a lot more than just a few hundred of you, we need around ten thousand of each type." She motioned for them to head over to an open field and without having to be told, they headed to the field. She began to glow a deep shade of purple, her eyes were shining green and her horn was glowing as she recited, "From one to two, two to four and so much more, when one is simple mere, more and more shall appear."
Twilight's energy beam was gentle but it did the job, it doubled the size of her forces. She continued to cast the spell until she had 10,000 of each type of soldier. Everypony had a feeling that their chances of victory were certain and shouted, "Glory to the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, our one and only leader!"
Twilight then ordered her forces to gather around her in a circle. She continued to glow as she recited, "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."
Knowing they had sufficient numbers and great armor caused her forces to cheer for her in adoration. These cheers of adoration helped build up Twilight's confidence, which had seemed to be in doubt. However, LaurFa was becoming less and less focused as she couldn't help but wonder about Twilight and what happened in the past so long ago. The nagging voice in her head started repeating void, void, void over and over. This was about to drive LaurFa nuts but she was unable to put two and two together as far as what the voice really meant.
Twenty miles west of Ponyville Colgate and her forces continued their eastward journey until Dark Night took off towards the north. Colgate shouted, "General Dark Night, what are you doing?"
Dark Night stopped and replied, "Colgate, we were going to circle around Ponyville and attack from the east, remember?"
Colgate said, "We did, didn't we?" She looked back at her forces and shouted, "Follow me!"
Colgate and her forces were soon soaring over the Everfree Forest towards the hills east of Ponyville. Once they got far enough east they turned back south until they were directly east of Ponyville and stopped. Colgate looked at her forces and said, "Alright troops, the time has come. The time has come for us to retake Ponyville, save this planet and to make sure she doesn't return again, I plan on KILLING Twilight."
Brevity asked, "But Colgate, what if she has become so powerful our magic can't defeat her?"
Colgate laughed, "I'll kill her the old fashioned way. A horn to the heart should do the trick and after that, Twily Steak will make an amazing breakfast."
Scootaloo added, "Woo-hoo! That sounds so yummy!" Fluttershy had the same mindset as Scootaloo and Colgate as she began to lick her chops over the idea of an Alicorn breakfast."
Brevity addressed them as well. She said, "While Colgate is quite confident we will win, if things start going bad, all of us Alicorns, our generals and a few drones of each type must gather around me so I can teleport us to safety."
Everypony nodded and realized she was right. Colgate, Scootaloo and Fluttershy did not like the idea that somepony didn't think victory was certain but decided to go along with Brevity's plan. Colgate looked at the regular soldiers and said, "Alright troops, the time to duplicate you has come. I need you to gather over there off to our left."
Her troops said in unison, "Yes Ma'am!"
Her forces gathered all together. Colgate began to glow a deep blue, her eyes were shining a deep blue, her cutie mark began to glow and her horn began to glow and she recited, "From one to two, two to four and so much more, when one is simple mere, more and more shall appear."
She fired her energy and her forces duplicated. She continued casting the spell until she had 10,000 of each. She remained glowing, stretched herself vertically and then recited, "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."
Her forces began to shout, "COLGATE, COLGATE, COLGATE! ALL HAIL OUR SUPREME COMMANDER!"
Colgate nodded, flapped her wings as to point them down and silenced her troops. She looked back and said, "Let's go!"
Before Colgate could take off Brevity said to the troops, "Remember what we need to do if things start to go downhill?"
Everypony nodded and Colgate shouted, "WE'LL BE FINE! CHARGE!"
Brevity added one more thing. She said, "If I think we have to go, I will flash my horn three times. If you see that, head to me as soon as possible."
Everypony nodded and Colgate's forces began to fly west towards Ponyville where a deafening silence had set in. Galaxia was standing next to Twilight and asked, "Twilight, is it just me or is this silence have an ominous feel to it?"
Twilight replied, "It does Galaxia. Believe it or not it is actually scaring me."
Some of her other soldiers and her friends heard this and were a bit relieved that Twilight was feeling the same way they were. Suddenly a few clouds drifted in front of the moon, making it pitch dark in Ponyville. Suddenly bolts of energy began to fly in not from the west as Twilight expected, but from the east."
Twilight shouted, "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! THEY TRICKED US!"
All of Twilight's soldiers very quickly went airborne to fight the enemy. They began to strike each other with energy to wear down their armor. Colgate saw Twilight and fired energy at her, yet all it did was get her attention. She landed in front of Twilight and laughed, "Well, well, well, who do we have here? Why it is Twilight Sparkle my dear!"
Twilight got up and growled, "So we meet again. The time for you to die has come!"
Twilight and Colgate took to the sky and began firing energy at one another but to the dismay of both goddesses, their energy was not even affecting the other. Very soon Colgate knew that she would not be able to use magic on her so she launched herself at Twilight and began to fight her the old fashioned way.
Colgate was shouting, "Your time has come Twily! I'm knocking you from the sky and killing you!"
Twilight shouted back, "In your dreams bitch. I'm killing you tonight!"
The two engaged in a brawl that involved many, many more punches than the one that Twilight and Cadence had. The punches were so hard that neither one could bite the other. They continued to fight and shout obscenities at one another while the rest of the battle went on as previous battles in Ponyville had gone for the past four millennia. Before too long though, an unexpected twist would remind one pony of who she is and change the focus of one of the goddesses as to who their true enemy is.
Colgate had initially caught Twilight and her forces off guard by attacking from the east but very quickly Twilight's troops gained their composure and were fighting to the death. Soon the armor spells on most of the soldiers had been broken and changeling drones and dark Alicorn soldiers began to fall from the sky which angered the higher powered forces on both sides. On the south end of the battle floated a nervous LaurFa, who continued to be tortured by the thoughts that Twilight had done something bad to her in the past. Applejack saw this and could sense the nervous energy from her foe. She flew over to LaurFa and asked, "Why are y'all so nervous LaurFa? Shouldn't you be out fighting? Aren't you afraid your little Twily will punish you?"
LaurFa had an extremely nervous look on her face and replied, "I don't know why Applejack, but I can't bring myself to fight for Twilight. I just feel like something bad happened between her and I, that she did something really bad to me."
Applejack asked, "Are y'all talking about that night in Canterlot when she drained you of all your powers and banished you to the void?"
LaurFa began to tear up as everything began to come back to her. She remembered how she used to be a goddess, the night in Canterlot, being drained of her energy, being banished, Twilight releasing her, her thinking Twilight was her mother, the restoration spells, the loyalty spell and everything else that happened. She flew over to Applejack and instead of attacking her she hugged her. She cried, "Thank you Applejack. Thank you for reminding me of who I really am." She paused and continued to cry, "I used to be a goddess but I'm not anymore. I hate her Applejack, I hate her."
Applejack smiled and replied, "It's alright. You'll help us defeat her and you can take your powers back from her." She looked out towards the battle and asked, "So what are y'all going to do now?"
LaurFa's cries quickly turned into shouts of rage. She shouted "I'M GOING TO KILL TWILIGHT! I'M GOING TO HELP COLGATE FREE THIS WORLD! I'M TAKING MY GODDESS POWERS BACK!"
Before Applejack could say anything LaurFa took off in the direction of Twilight and Colgate. She shouted, "Colgate, move!"
Colgate heard the voice and something in her head said to do as it said, so she moved. Just as soon as she moved a powerful bolt of energy struck Twilight, throwing her backwards. Twilight was stunned as she began to hear a wrathful LaurFa screaming at her cursing her for everything she had done.
Naturally this enraged Twilight. She began firing energy back at LaurFa shouting, "you treasonous bitch, when I'm done with you, you'll be on my dinner plate!"
LaurFa shouted, "You disrespectful little bitch, you thought you could control me forever but NOT ANYMORE. I am free of your control!"
Twilight fired a powerful beam of purple energy at LaurFa, knocking her from the sky. Twilight landed by the stunned LaurFa and asked, "So traitor, who broke you free of my spell? How did you remember who you really are?"
LaurFa stood up, pushed Twilight back and replied, "Applejack is the one who reminded me of EVERYTHING. She reminded me of that night in Canterlot and that brought back everything. You're going to pay Twilight Sparkle. The Goddess LaurFa shall rise once more and free the world of your tyranny!"
Twilight laughed, "You, a goddess? You haven't had goddess powers in 4,000 years and you'll never have them again! You're lucky to have what I gave you."
Twilight's laugh caused LaurFa to go into a rage. She launched herself at Twilight, puncturing her shoulder with her horn but that did not even slow Twilight down. She charged back at LaurFa and rammed her horn into her hind leg. LaurFa began to limp so she took to the sky again where Twilight took after her. While Twilight knew that she could eventually take LaurFa out with her magic she wanted to continue to fight the old fashioned way, as she was getting way too much enjoyment out of it.
Soon Twilight's soldiers were beginning to fight like they did back in the glory days. They were taking out Colgate's soldiers at a slightly quicker pace than they were losing their own. Brevity saw this and was not pleased. While she didn't feel that the time to go had arrived yet. She knew that it may be approaching.
Twilight's friends and allies had gotten into a brutal battle with Colgate's Alicorn allies. Rarity and Sweetie Belle confronted one another. Rarity was shouting, "Sweetie Belle you little tyrant, you do not attack your big sister! Join the side of the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle or die!"
Sweetie Belle, who was much more advanced in warfare, fired energy at her sister, knocking her out of the sky. Sweetie Belle swooped down and landed in front of her sister, who had suffered a broken wing and was covered in mud. She laughed, "Oh, you better go wash up, you got mud on you!"
Rarity began to levitate her younger sister and shouted, "I'm not like that anymore. Anything happens in warfare. Join my side or die!"
Sweetie Belle had become more powerful than her sister and easily broke free from her sister's hold. She fired a powerful bolt of energy at Rarity, throwing her clear across Ponyville and breaking her other wing, which basically took Rarity out of the battle entirely. On the northern edge of the battle, two ponies who were once great friends, were firing energy at one another. Commander Scootaloo had confronted Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow glared at Scootaloo and asked, "What happened to you Scoots? You used to be such a nice, sweet pony. Now you're just a bloodthirsty, mindless drone of Colgate's."
Scootaloo was not impressed with this question. She knew she was more powerful than Rainbow and could fly faster as well. She growled, "Me a bloodthirsty, mindless drone? Better be that than fight for a pony who will put you in chains later on!"
Rainbow shouted, "Twilight would never do that! She is as good of a friend as they come!" She then fired a bolt of energy at Scootaloo but missed. Scootaloo fired energy back and struck a direct hit on her former hero. Rainbow was stunned and saw an enraged Scootaloo coming after her.
Rainbow was flying as fast as she could but was quickly kicked out of the sky by Scootaloo. While she could have simply knocked her down with magic, Scootaloo was bound and determined to show Rainbow that she was superior in flight. Rainbow got her bearings straight and took to the sky again, albeit being a bit dizzy.
While Scootaloo continued to brutally kick Rainbow in the head to the point that she could no longer fly, things were not going so well for the rest of Colgate's allies. They continued to fire energy at Twilight's allies but they just weren't strong enough to knock them down. The most they could do was burn them and stun them. Very quickly everything seemed to be getting out of hand. Brevity saw this and decided that she would see if Twilight could be unmade again. She began to glow brighter than a thousand suns, causing the battle scene to be bathed in what seemed to be blinding light. She pointed her horn towards Twilight, who at this point had knocked LaurFa to the ground and recited, "For this object was created in ancient times, long long before nearly anypony's time, the atoms that hold this together are strong but that won't last for long, for what was made can also be unmade for even atoms ultimately will go to their grave."
Her powerful beam of pink energy struck Twilight, but did nothing more than knock Twilight to the ground. Brevity realized that ponies can not be unmade twice. When she saw this so she decided the time for her and her allies to leave this world had come. She flashed her horn brightly three times and shouted, "Come towards Brevity, the time to go has come!"
Even Luna, Colgate, Scootaloo and Fluttershy, who wanted to fight to the death knew that this world had to be abandoned. LaurFa saw all of Colgate's forces headed up to Brevity and realized what was happening. Before she could take off, Twilight landed in front of her and asked, "So LaurFa, where do you think you're going?"
LaurFa replied, "I'm leaving to go to a safe place, away from you!"
Twilight laughed, "I'll let you go under one condition."
Twilight's laugh angered LaurFa. She fired a powerful bolt of energy at Twilight, one almost as powerful as she did back when she was a goddess. Twilight fired back but just like she did 4,000 years ago, she at first felt her energy being shoved into her. Twilight's eyes then began to shine a darker green with purple outlining, she was glowing a dark purple and her horn had a black outline around it as she began to draw in not just LaurFa's energy, but her very life. Twilight began to grow further while LaurFa began to shrink again. Finally when LaurFa was the size of a filly, Twilight stopped the energy transfer.
LaurFa shouted, "Why? Why did you have to do this?"
Twilight replied, "Because you betrayed me. Now go with your precious sister before I decide to kill you."
LaurFa began to cry as she flew off towards her sister, who had almost everypony else still alive in her forces gathered around her. They were encircled in a bright pink ball. Before Brevity could begin to recite her spell, Scootaloo fired a powerful bolt of energy at the battle scene, knocking everypony, including Twilight flying and leveled every building in Ponyville except for the black tower.
Twilight had finally come to when she heard Brevity recite, "This world has become a bust, leaving it is a must, a new world we shall go to as saving this world is something impossible to do, now we shall go and let the death of this world flow."
While she was reciting this Twilight had a change of heart regarding LaurFa. She sped after her and began firing energy at her. Despite being drained to the size of a filly and having almost all of her powers taken, she was still quite agile. Twilight could not hit her and as the pink ball began to glow brighter and brighter Twilight finally hit LaurFa. It did not knock her out of the sky, but instead it threw her into the ball and as Twilight fired one final bolt hoping to destroy the ball, a bright pink flash rocked the very earth. Brevity and everypony left alive on her and Colgate's side, had been teleported to a new world.*
Twilight went into a rage knowing that she was unable to kill any of her enemies. Her cussing and screaming was soon calmed down when Celestia patted her on the shoulder and said, "Twilight, calm down. We won!"
Twilight stopped shouting and looked at the landscape around her. While she saw that Ponyville had been leveled she also noticed that of the foes that did not escape, none remained alive. She got a huge smile on her face, began to fly around Ponyville shouting, "YES, YES, YES! WE WON! WE WON! THE WORLD BELONGS TO THE DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"
Twilight heard some screaming off in the distance. She looks hard and saw Rarity screaming, "Somepony help me! My wings are broken!"
Cosmos flew over to Rarity with a concerned look. He asked, "Rarity, who did this to you?"
Rarity replied, "Sweetie Belle did it to me. I never imagined my own sister would be so cruel."
Cosmos said, "Well let's get this fixed." He began to glow a deep shade of blue, sent a calm beam of energy to Rarity and said, "Broken is the instrument of flight, for the wing needs to heal and provide might, the bones shall be fused so the wing can be used."
The energy quickly entered Rarity's bodily and her wings were immediately healed. She smiled and replied, "Thank you Cosmos, you are most kind."
Twilight floated down to the ground to assess the damage. Everypony could see her smile and this angered some of them. Rainbow asked, "Twi, I know you're happy about us winning but what about all this damage? It will take a long time to rebuild."
Twilight frowned at Rainbow and replied, "Remember I have magic Rainbow." Twilight then fired bolts of energy at where the buildings once stood and they were restored to their former condition. Twilight smiled and said, "You see Rainbow, everything is going to be just fine!"
Galaxia yawned and said, "Wow, I'm tired. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm ready to hit the hay."
Twilight yawned and replied, "So am I, let's get some sleep everypony. We can take care of the bodies tomorrow and once they are gone, we can bring our citizens back."
While Galaxia, Cosmos and Celestia followed Twilight into the tower to get some sleep, everypony else headed home. That night before she went to sleep, Twilight looked into the eye and scanned the world. She got a huge grin on her face as she saw no trace of her foes, realizing that they did indeed leave for a new world. She then said to herself, "How sweet victory is! Things are going to be so much better in this world with me in charge again!"
The following morning everypony, including Twilight was late to rise. Finally around 10 Twilight rose and flew down into town. She saw all the bodies of the dark Alicorns and changelings and wondered what to do with them. With it being a cooler than normal and cloudy day, they had not begun to stink yet, but Twilight had no desire to eat dark Alicorn or changeling meat, so she simply used her magic to disintegrate the corpses of those who had fallen. She headed over to Sugarcube Corner hoping to meet her friends there and sure enough, there they were, albeit just as tired as she was.
She headed in and was immediately greeted by Pinkie who was holding a plate with a dozen donuts with extra sprinkles. She said, "Good morning Twilight! I have something very special for you!"
The weary Twilight saw the donuts and a pitcher of cider on the table. Her ears perked up, she smiled and asked, "For me?"
Pinkie smiled and replied, "Yep, for you! Our Dark Goddess and victorious leader deserves the very best!"
Twilight smiled and replied, "Pinkie, I've told you guys many times, just call me Twilight or Twily."
Rarity smiled and said, "I'm so glad that everything turned out alright darling. I was so worried that Colgate would win and we would all be banished to the void."
Twilight didn't pay much attention to Rarity's comment as she was quickly devouring the donuts that Pinkie had made for her and guzzling the pitcher of cider. After she finished her treats she said, "Come on girls, I think we need to hold a meeting in my black tower to decide who shall rule where.
Rainbow asked, "So Twi, are you going to have a one world government and you will just place stewards across the world or are you going to make them all independent nations?"
Twilight replied, "I'll probably just give them independence. While both methods have had their problems, I just don't feel like ruling over everything."
As they headed over to the tower her remaining friends realized that with the exception of the green eyes, that the old friend they used to have for so long had returned, the friend who did not seek global domination, the friend who was not screaming and yelling at everypony or threatening to banish everypony to the void. Finally they arrived in the throne room where Celestia, Galaxia and Cosmos were waiting. Twilight stood at the head of the table, smiled and said, "You all did a great job. I am very proud of you!"
Galaxia asked, "So what is this meeting about?"
Twilight replied, "Well now that order has returned to this world, leaders will need to be placed around the world. After all we can't have the nations going leaderless."
Galaxia's jaw dropped open and asked, "Nations? We will be leaders instead of just stewards?"
Twilight could understand their concerns because of what had happened in the past. She smiled and said, "Yes, leaders. Whether you choose to be a princess, a queen or whatever title it is, each nation will be indepe.....OUCH!"
A rock that was loose in the ceiling fell from the ceiling, landing right on top of Twilight's head. Twilight fell to the floor for a minute but once she came to, she was not the same Twilight. Those green eyes of her were shining darker and everypony was worried. Rarity asked, "Twilight, are you ok?"
Twilight got a scowl on her face and shouted, "YOU DO NOT ADDRESS ME AS TWILIGHT! YOU ADDRESS ME AS DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"
Everypony sighed in fear as they knew that with her demanding a friend address her by her title was a very bad thing. Rainbow was the first to realize that the rock hitting Twilight in the head had unleashed a far more brutal, vicious and evil Twilight than had ever existed before.
She glared at her friends and allies and said, "Well now, where were we? Oh yes, we were discussing who would be the stewards and where."
Pinkie replied, "But Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, you said you were going to give every nation independence."
Twilight screamed, "YOUR DARK GODDESS HAS CHANGED HER MIND. OH, AND THAT OLD TRIBUTE LAW WE WANTED, IT SHALL BE ENFORCED!"
Galaxia shouted, "What? Are you kidding me?"
Twilight fired a powerful bolt of energy at her, knocking her backwards. She shouted, "NO, YOUR DARK GODDESS IS NOT KIDDING!"
Galaxia asked, "So what percentage are you going to be wanting out of their incomes?"
Twilight yelled, "JUST LIKE BEFORE, TEN PERCENT!"
Cosmos asked, "What about those who wouldn't have enough to survive if they pay the tribute or those who refuse to pay?"
Twilight growled, "Just like before, seize their assets, ALL OF THEIR ASSETS!"
Galaxia asked, "Oh and what are you going to do with this tribute money."
Twilight replied, "Your Dark Goddess might have gold statues of herself built all over the world, She might add on to Her tower, She might have labor camps to send ponies to that piss Her off. She is not sure yet."
Cosmos asked, "Twilight, there are not enough of us to be stewards over every territory? What are we going to do?"
Twilight got an evil grin on her face and replied, "That is right, so I have a better plan. We shall force EVERYPONY to relocate to Equestria and the rest of the world shall not have any ponies living there."
Celestia began to tear up and asked, "But what about my parents and myself? What about your friends?"
Twilight replied, "Well your parents can move into the black tower if they wish, your Dark Goddess's friends shall return to their homes here in Ponyville and depending on your behavior may live in the tower with your Dark Goddess and keep us company."
Besides the rock hitting Twilight in the head bringing back the truly evil side of her, it also brought out a part of her that had never existed before, a part that had a need for love and she now desired sexual activities, and LOTS of them. She gave Celestia a smile and said, "You know Celestia, you could always make me happy. Your Dark Goddess will always need somepony to massage her back and we do get lonely at night, very lonely. Your Dark Goddess wishes so much she had somepony to make Her feel loved, to make Her feel wanted, to dominate and to be intimate with, very intimate. She very much wants a lover who could someday become Her wife."
Celestia had this huge smile on her face. Back even before the coronation she had always found Twilight attractive and even when Twilight was so harsh with her over the past 4,000 years, she still had a soft spot for her. She asked, "Really?"
Twilight walked over to Celestia, gave her a gentle kiss and replied, "Yes, Celestia. Your Dark Goddess want you to be Her special somepony, lover and someday Her wife."
Celestia said, "Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, I will gladly be your special somepony. I don't know if you know this, but despite all the bad times between us, the times of us being enemies and the times of hate between us, I have always had a soft spot for you."
Twilight replied, "I know. You may find this hard to believe but I have had the same feelings for you." She paused and said, "Celestia, you can just call me Twily. I don't want my special somepony and lover being so formal with me!"
Celestia said, "Since that is the case Twily, you may call me Celly."
Celestia and Twilight held each other in a tight embrace and began to kiss, which kind of confused everypony else. While she was being harsh and mean with them, she was being sweet and loving with her new marefriend. After they broke from their kiss, Twilight looked at her friends and allies and said, "Could you go to the other nations of the world and round everypony up?"
Galaxia glared at her and replied, "What about you Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle? Don't you think that you and Celestia should come and help in this endeavor?"
While Twilight and Celestia wanted to spend more time together and create their first intimate moments, both of them knew they needed to go. Twilight replied, "Oh alright, but Celestia and I will be on the same ship together and nopony will bother us when we are in our bedroom together"
Rarity said, "Well maybe you should just ride on the ship with your officers. I know they won't bother you two."
Celestia smiled, looked at her new marefriend and asked, "Twily, I think that is a great idea! What about you?"
Twilight replied, "I think it is a good idea too Celly." She looked at everypony and said, "Well let's round up our soldiers and get going. I want to get this done as soon as possible."
Galaxia asked, "Twilight, how in the world are we going to transport all these ponies back here? Where are all of them going to stay? I don't know if you would want to have Equestria that crowded or not."
Twilight put her hoof up to her head and replied, "Well shit, you're right. We will do the steward idea after all and yes, I will demand the 10% tribute law be enforced."
Cosmos said, "But still, we won't have enough stewards to cover all the territories."
Twilight looked over at Colonel Black Mist, Captain Black Ice, Captain Green Storm and Lieutenant Southern Haze and asked, "Hey boys, what would you think of being promoted and becoming stewards?"
Black Mist asked, "Really Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle?"
Captain Green Storm added, "Yes, I would love that!" The other officers agreed with him, which made Twilight very happy.
She said, "Alright, there will be one changeling and one dark Alicorn steward each in The Equine Empire and Saddle Arabia. Galaxia and Cosmos, you two shall rule over Alicorn Island."
Galaxia asked, "What about Neigh Zealand?"
Twilight replied, "Galaxia, Neigh Zealand is a nuclear wasteland. We won't have to worry about that place for hundreds of years, and once we do, I'll assign a couple officers down there."
Cosmos asked, "So how are we going to go about this?"
Twilight replied, "Alright, this will be an around the world journey. First we will head to Alicorn Island. There Galaxia and Cosmos will take over. I shall give them an army and brainwash the majors that Colgate left behind. Then we shall head to Saddle Arabia where one officer of each type will take over there, and I shall also give them an army. I shall do the same with the Equine Empire and then Celestia and I shall return home."
Galaxia asked, "I take it this will mean we will only need to take one carrier since you know the duplication spells?"
Twilight smiled and replied, "Yep, this will make everything much easier."
Galaxia asked, "So when will we be doing this?"
Twilight replied, "Tomorrow morning we shall set sail but I have a couple of things I want to do right away."
Before anypony could say anything Twilight sped five miles to the west so that she would not damage Ponyville casting this spell. She began to glow purple, her eyes were shining green, her horn was shining purple and her cutie mark began to glow as she recited, "The sky is blue which is ok for some, but it just makes me numb, for I want it the way it should be, purple is beautiful to me, so that is the color it shall be."
A powerful bolt of purple energy was shot skywards. It exploded high in the atmosphere and began to spread across the entire planet's skies. It eventually closed back in on itself and there was a great purple explosion. The planet's skies had returned to the same shade of purple that they used to be. This made Twilight very happy. She flew back to her tower to an ecstatic Celestia, shocked allies and impressed group of friends. Rarity was the first to say something. She said, "Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, that looks absolutely magnificent!"
Twilight smiled and replied, "Why thank you Rarity!" She paused and continued, "Oh, and for those of you who are my friends, allies and members of the military, just call me Twilight. Don't call me Twily though, that is reserved solely for Celly."
She then looked off towards the west and said, "Come on everypony, let's go."
Black Mist asked, "Twilight, won't you need officers here in Ponyville to watch over things while all of us are gone."
Twilight replied, "Thank you for reminding me of that Black Mist. General Black Mist, go grab the five most aware dark Alicorn soldiers and General Green Storm, go grab the five most self aware drones so I can transform them into officers."
They went and grabbed the most aware of their soldiers and Twilight transformed them into officers. This made her happy as she knew that she would not have to do this once she got home. They then set sail. At each stop, Twilight gave the new stewards the necessary officers and soldiers they would need and naturally, she brainwashed them. Finally after a month out at sea Twilight and Celestia docked at the east coast. After an hour of eating they headed back to Ponyville and Twilight's black tower. Once they arrived, they headed straight towards their bedroom and had their first truly private, intimate moment.
Within a month the first tribute payments were shipped into Ponyville, which made Twilight very happy. Also, the new flags began to rise across the world, the flag of the Twilight Empire. Finally, what she had been groomed for since she got her cutie mark had been achieved, Twilight Sparkle, Dark Goddess of the entire world, had taken control of the whole world with absolutely no threats to change that.
Colgate had initially caught Twilight and her forces off guard by attacking from the east but very quickly Twilight's troops gained their composure and were fighting to the death. Soon the armor spells on most of the soldiers had been broken and changeling drones and dark Alicorn soldiers began to fall from the sky which angered the higher powered forces on both sides. On the south end of the battle floated a nervous LaurFa, who continued to be tortured by the thoughts that Twilight had done something bad to her in the past. Applejack saw this and could sense the nervous energy from her foe. She flew over to LaurFa and asked, "Why are y'all so nervous LaurFa? Shouldn't you be out fighting? Aren't you afraid your little Twily will punish you?"
LaurFa had an extremely nervous look on her face and replied, "I don't know why Applejack, but I can't bring myself to fight for Twilight. I just feel like something bad happened between her and I, that she did something really bad to me."
Applejack asked, "Are y'all talking about that night in Canterlot when she drained you of all your powers and banished you to the void?"
LaurFa began to tear up as everything began to come back to her. She remembered how she used to be a goddess, the night in Canterlot, being drained of her energy, being banished, Twilight releasing her, her thinking Twilight was her mother, the restoration spells, the loyalty spell and everything else that happened. She flew over to Applejack and instead of attacking her she hugged her. She cried, "Thank you Applejack. Thank you for reminding me of who I really am." She paused and continued to cry, "I used to be a goddess but I'm not anymore. I hate her Applejack, I hate her."
Applejack smiled and replied, "It's alright. You'll help us defeat her and you can take your powers back from her." She looked out towards the battle and asked, "So what are y'all going to do now?"
LaurFa's cries quickly turned into shouts of rage. She shouted "I'M GOING TO KILL TWILIGHT! I'M GOING TO HELP COLGATE FREE THIS WORLD! I'M TAKING MY GODDESS POWERS BACK!"
Before Applejack could say anything LaurFa took off in the direction of Twilight and Colgate. She shouted, "Colgate, move!"
Colgate heard the voice and something in her head said to do as it said, so she moved. Just as soon as she moved a powerful bolt of energy struck Twilight, throwing her backwards. Twilight was stunned as she began to hear a wrathful LaurFa screaming at her cursing her for everything she had done.
Naturally this enraged Twilight. She began firing energy back at LaurFa shouting, "you treasonous bitch, when I'm done with you, you'll be on my dinner plate!"
LaurFa shouted, "You disrespectful little bitch, you thought you could control me forever but NOT ANYMORE. I am free of your control!"
Twilight fired a powerful beam of purple energy at LaurFa, knocking her from the sky. Twilight landed by the stunned LaurFa and asked, "So traitor, who broke you free of my spell? How did you remember who you really are?"
LaurFa stood up, pushed Twilight back and replied, "Applejack is the one who reminded me of EVERYTHING. She reminded me of that night in Canterlot and that brought back everything. You're going to pay Twilight Sparkle. The Goddess LaurFa shall rise once more and free the world of your tyranny!"
Twilight laughed, "You, a goddess? You haven't had goddess powers in 4,000 years and you'll never have them again! You're lucky to have what I gave you."
Twilight's laugh caused LaurFa to go into a rage. She launched herself at Twilight, puncturing her shoulder with her horn but that did not even slow Twilight down. She charged back at LaurFa and rammed her horn into her hind leg. LaurFa began to limp so she took to the sky again where Twilight took after her. While Twilight knew that she could eventually take LaurFa out with her magic she wanted to continue to fight the old fashioned way, as she was getting way too much enjoyment out of it.
Soon Twilight's soldiers were beginning to fight like they did back in the glory days. They were taking out Colgate's soldiers at a slightly quicker pace than they were losing their own. Brevity saw this and was not pleased. While she didn't feel that the time to go had arrived yet. She knew that it may be approaching.
Twilight's friends and allies had gotten into a brutal battle with Colgate's Alicorn allies. Rarity and Sweetie Belle confronted one another. Rarity was shouting, "Sweetie Belle you little tyrant, you do not attack your big sister! Join the side of the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle or die!"
Sweetie Belle, who was much more advanced in warfare, fired energy at her sister, knocking her out of the sky. Sweetie Belle swooped down and landed in front of her sister, who had suffered a broken wing and was covered in mud. She laughed, "Oh, you better go wash up, you got mud on you!"
Rarity began to levitate her younger sister and shouted, "I'm not like that anymore. Anything happens in warfare. Join my side or die!"
Sweetie Belle had become more powerful than her sister and easily broke free from her sister's hold. She fired a powerful bolt of energy at Rarity, throwing her clear across Ponyville and breaking her other wing, which basically took Rarity out of the battle entirely. On the northern edge of the battle, two ponies who were once great friends, were firing energy at one another. Commander Scootaloo had confronted Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow glared at Scootaloo and asked, "What happened to you Scoots? You used to be such a nice, sweet pony. Now you're just a bloodthirsty, mindless drone of Colgate's."
Scootaloo was not impressed with this question. She knew she was more powerful than Rainbow and could fly faster as well. She growled, "Me a bloodthirsty, mindless drone? Better be that than fight for a pony who will put you in chains later on!"
Rainbow shouted, "Twilight would never do that! She is as good of a friend as they come!" She then fired a bolt of energy at Scootaloo but missed. Scootaloo fired energy back and struck a direct hit on her former hero. Rainbow was stunned and saw an enraged Scootaloo coming after her.
Rainbow was flying as fast as she could but was quickly kicked out of the sky by Scootaloo. While she could have simply knocked her down with magic, Scootaloo was bound and determined to show Rainbow that she was superior in flight. Rainbow got her bearings straight and took to the sky again, albeit being a bit dizzy.
While Scootaloo continued to brutally kick Rainbow in the head to the point that she could no longer fly, things were not going so well for the rest of Colgate's allies. They continued to fire energy at Twilight's allies but they just weren't strong enough to knock them down. The most they could do was burn them and stun them. Very quickly everything seemed to be getting out of hand. Brevity saw this and decided that she would see if Twilight could be unmade again. She began to glow brighter than a thousand suns, causing the battle scene to be bathed in what seemed to be blinding light. She pointed her horn towards Twilight, who at this point had knocked LaurFa to the ground and recited, "For this object was created in ancient times, long long before nearly anypony's time, the atoms that hold this together are strong but that won't last for long, for what was made can also be unmade for even atoms ultimately will go to their grave."
Her powerful beam of pink energy struck Twilight, but did nothing more than knock Twilight to the ground. Brevity realized that ponies can not be unmade twice. When she saw this so she decided the time for her and her allies to leave this world had come. She flashed her horn brightly three times and shouted, "Come towards Brevity, the time to go has come!"
Things had become really bad for Colgate's forces and even Luna, Scootaloo and Fluttershy who had wanted to fight to the end, knew the time had come to abandon this world. Everypony except one headed towards Brevity when she began flashing her horn, Colgate. Colgate was not about to simply give up as she believed she could still win this. She looked over towards the southern end of the battle and saw Twilight attacking LaurFa. Something within Colgate told her that LaurFa had defected to her side so she swooped down between the two. Her eyes were shining a deep blue and she shouted, "Twilight Sparkle, surrender or die!"
Twilight laughed, "Colgate, don't you see how this battle is going, my forces are decimating yours! Soon all that will be left is you and you will be easy to kill."
Twilight began to mock Colgate and her leadership skills. Rather than screaming in a rage back at her Colgate began to wonder if she could vaporize Twilight's horn. She began to glow a deep shade of blue and her eyes were shining a deep blue as she pointed her horn at Twilight. Twilight in turn began to glow and pointed her horn at Colgate. They fired powerful bolts of energy at one another and they met in the middle. While Twilight thought that with her returning from being unmade that her powers were stronger than Colgate's, she was mistaken, they seemed to be equal.
Both were putting as much power as they could into their energy beams. They were both grunting in frustration and pain as it seemed like they just couldn't put any more energy into their beams. While their energy battle continued Brevity said to those who gathered around her, "Get back out there and fight. Colgate may win this after all."
Once they headed back out into the battle things were quickly equalized as Colgate's higher ups began wiping out Twilight's dark Alicorns and changelings. On the ground, Twilight and Colgate continued their battle. Finally after twenty minutes Colgate reached as deep within herself as she could. Deep blue beams of energy shot from her eyes and the most powerful burst of energy she had ever fired came out of her horn, striking Twilight. The energy was so great that it shattered half of Twilight's horn, sent her flying and shattered her armor.
Twilight laid there completely exposed, her wings were broken and her horn had been mostly shattered, just leaving a stump. Colgate figured she could deal with Twilight later but decided this battle must end and a loyalty spell would be the best route. She pointed her horn towards the battle, began to glow a bright blue and as she fired out a huge ball of blue energy she recited, "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."
A powerful blue ball shot outwards and the energy was absorbed by the bodies of those who were still alive, not only making Twilight's forces loyal to her but strengthening the loyalty of those already loyal to her. The battle immediately stopped and Ponyville went silent. The only thing could be heard was Twilight's agonizing screams of pain. Colgate, Dark Night and all the other Alicorns flew over to where the Dark Goddess lay and surrounded her. Colgate looked down at her and shook her head as Twilight began to yell. She yelled, "This isn't over yet Colgate, I'll be healed soon and I will crush all of you." She tried to fire power out of what was left of her horn but all that came out were a few purple sparks, which caused everypony to breathe a sigh of relief.
Rather than laughing like she had in the past when she defeated Twilight, Colgate said in a stern voice, "Twilight Sparkle, ever since you were crowned as a princess you have done nothing but cause problems for Equestria. Tonight I shall finally put an end to that. I will make sure that once and for all you will never cause any problems again, EVER."
Twilight sat up and looked at those who she thought to be her allies. She shouted, "Aren't you going to help me you idiots? Aren't you going to help your Dark Goddess, the one you serve?"
Celestia walked over to Twilight, got in her face and screamed, "NO! WE ARE NOT YOUR SLAVES ANYMORE, WE ARE LOYAL TO COLGATE!"
Twilight angrily screamed, "Seriously, all of you?"
Everypony nodded their heads. Despite having no allies and having her horn shattered, Twilight still believed that she could rise back to power again. She continued to scream about how she would rise again and kill all of them. Colgate rolled her eyes and sighed, "I'm sick of this shit Twilight." She lowered her horn towards Twilight's chest and continued, "Any last words?"
Twilight laughed, "Oh what are you going to do? Stab me with your precious horn? Try to puncture my heart? Well it won't work, you can't kill a DARK GODDESS!"
Colgate replied, "Good riddance."
She rammed her horn into a struggling Twilight's abdomen and began to glow brightly as her eyes began to glow a deep shade of blue. She fired a powerful bolt of energy into the purple Alicorn, causing her to be blown to bits. As she was blown apart, a great amount of energy came flying out of her and entered LaurFa's body. She grew back to her original size and her goddess powers were restored. LaurFa knew it was Colgate's blowing Twilight apart that caused her powers to return. She rushed up to Colgate, hugged her and cried tears of joy. She said, "Thank you Colgate, thank you! Finally, I have been restored!"
Colgate smiled and replied, "You're welcome LaurFa." She looked at everypony else and said, "Well I'm going to take care of these bodies and damaged buildings tonight. I think we need to all hit the hay so we will be well rested so that we will all be alert for our meeting regarding restoring this world."
Everypony agreed and headed home while Colgate disintegrated all the corpses and caused new buildings to appear where the old ones once stood. While she was ridding Ponyville of the corpses and restoring the buildings, she heard cries coming from an injured pony. She headed that direction and found Rarity covered in mud and her wings broken. Rarity looked up at Colgate and asked, "Supreme Commander Colgate, could you heal my wings? They are broken."
Colgate was not sure as to whether or not the loyalty spell had been absorbed into her body. She stared into Rarity's eyes and asked, "Who are you loyal to Rarity?"
Rarity, in a completely calm and collected voice replied, "I am loyal to you Colgate."
Colgate was looking deep into Rarity's eyes as she told her this. Colgate could tell that she was indeed loyal to her. This caused Colgate to breathe a sigh of relief. Rarity continued, "Colgate, I have a question. What happened to Twilight?"
Colgate replied, "Twilight Sparkle is dead. After I had destroyed her horn and broke her wings, I rammed my horn into her, released a powerful bolt of energy into her and blew her to bits so she will never again be a threat to this world." She then lowered her horn down to Rarity and released energy into her which healed her broken wings.
Rarity jumped up and hugged Colgate. She excitedly said, "Thank you darling! You truly are a great commander. I am so sorry for rejoining Twilight's side."
Colgate replied, "Well she put a loyalty spell on you so it isn't really your fault." Colgate yawned, "You better get home and get some rest. I want us all to be alert tomorrow for when we have our meeting regarding restoring this world."
Rarity nodded and headed home to get some rest but more importantly, wash the mud off of herself. Finally around 0100 Colgate got to her room. Before finally hitting the hay, she restored the great eye to being blue again. She then collapsed on her bed and was asleep in a matter of minutes.
Morning came all too quickly not just for Colgate, but for everypony. Colgate wearily got up and before heading down stairs to the dining hall, she checked on the world looking through the eye. As expected, there was nothing out of the ordinary going on. She headed to the dining hall where she was greeted by her remaining officers, Scootaloo, Luna, Brevity and Fluttershy. She headed to the table and laid her head on it. Fluttershy saw this and asked, "Colgate, are you ok?"
Colgate replied, "I'm just dead tired. Releasing enough energy to blow Twilight to bits really drained me."
Dark Night asked, "So are we going to have the meeting you were talking about today?"
Normally a question like this would anger Colgate since it is a no-brainer but she was too tired to get mad. She replied, "Yeah, we are going to. I have ideas of who I want to rule where but something must be done about the Crystal Empire, it can not be left leaderless."
Brevity interrupted, "You could always send LaurFa up to the Crystal Empire. It is a special place and besides, Brevity will not, under any circumstances, share power with her sister."
Colgate replied, "I figured that and I don't blame you."
Very quickly their breakfast arrived and it was the most enjoyable meal they had eaten since their blow up with Lyra and Lemon Hearts at the tri-millennial summit. After breakfast Colgate looked at her allies and asked, "Could you guys go gather everypony and meet me at the base. I want us to get this world returned to normal as soon as possible."
Scootaloo headed over to Sweet Apple Acres where everypony was resting in the barn. She ran to them and said, "Come on guys, Colgate wants us to meet at the base for a meeting."
Apple Bloom replied, "Ah'm assuming it is probably going to be the last one since Twilight's dead."
Granny Smith added, "Well Ah sure hope so, I just want things to return to normal."
They followed Scootaloo to the base while Luna headed to Sugarcube Corner where for the first time in a very long time the five ponies who were best of friends for eons were gathered. Luna was greeted by Pinkie as she entered the sweet shop. Pinkie asked, "Hi Princess, do you want something to eat?"
Luna smiled and replied, "Maybe later. Colgate wants us over at the base for a meeting. Don't tell anypony I'm saying this but I have a feeling this may be the final meeting over 'business' matters."
Luna saw that Fluttershy was laughing with them and asked, "I take it all of you have mended your fences with Fluttershy?"
Applejack replied, "Eeyep, we know now that Fluttershy was angry about her homeland being attacked and we are closer than ever now."
Luna motioned for them to follow her to the base. In a matter of thirty minutes everypony was gathered at the base. Colgate stood up on a platform and addressed everypony. She began, "I want to say that I am so proud of those of you who fought on my side last night and for those of you who I released from Twilight's loyalty spell, I am happy to have restored you back to normal."
LaurFa shouted out, "And I want to thank you for restoring not just me, but all of us back to normal!"
Colgate continued, "You're welcome LaurFa. Now to the major issue I want to discuss. The world has been through a lot and right now there are nations that need leadership restored to them. I have some plans for this but I do want your input."
Luna very quickly jumped in. She asked, "Colgate, will I resume my role as queen in the Equine Empire?"
Colgate replied, "Yes Luna, that was what I had planned." She looked at Brevity and continued, "And Brevity, I am assuming that you will want to resume your role as Goddess Brevity on Alicorn Island?"
Brevity replied, "Of course Brevity wants to resume her role there! Her subjects absolutely love her!"
Colgate said, "Ok, now we don't have to worry about Neigh Zealand because that place probably won't be habitable for at least a thousand years. But, we have Saddle Arabia and the Crystal Empire that need leadership. Who would like to take care of those."
LaurFa was upset that she was not mentioned for leadership on Alicorn Island. She asked, "Wait a minute, I am a Creator Goddess too. Should I also be ruling over in Faustica as well?"
Brevity snapped, "First off, it is Alicorn City and second, Brevity will not share power. We remember what you did so long ago and despite you having your powers restored, Brevity is still more powerful than you and besides, it is a well known historical fact about how you betrayed Alicorn Island and joined Twilight's side so you would not be well received."
Colgate had a worried look on her face and realized that if Brevity and LaurFa started fighting, that things could go downhill in a hurry. Colgate interrupted, "LaurFa, I know it isn't Alicorn Island, but what would you think of ruling up in the Crystal Empire?"
LaurFa knew of the magical powers it held and realized that it would be a good place to go. She replied, "Yes, I would like to rule there."
Colgate replied, "Good. Now that leaves Saddle Arabia. I was thinking that perhaps Galaxia, Cosmos and Celestia could rule down there. What do you three say, would you be interested in doing that?"
All three of them enthusiastically agreed to it. Colgate was standing up on the platform with a smile on her face. She had one more thing to take care of before she would conclude this meeting. She looked at Dark Night and said, "Come on up here Dark Night, I have something special for you."
Dark Night flew up there and landed next to Colgate. Colgate said, "General Dark Night, you have served Equestria for a bit over 4,000 years." She took a medal and levitated it around his neck and continued, "I am presenting you with the quad-millennial service award. You have by far been the best officer I have ever had. I also want you to know that since this war is over that you are eligible for retirement. You may either retire or continue to serve in the military."
Dark Night replied, "Thank you for the award Colgate and I am happy to have been serving Equestria for so long. I do feel though as it is time for me to retire. I have been happy to serve for so long but I just want to relax."
Colgate hugged the general and said, "I completely respect your decision and after serving for so long, I can understand your desire to retire."
Luna interrupted, "We do have a question, what about armies? Are we going to have armies?"
Colgate replied, "Of course! Hopefully nopony will need them to engage in war but you all know you will receive them. I will give each one of you an officer of each rank of each type and one regular soldier of each type. You can then use the duplication spell to increase the size once you get home. After all, you will not have the resources on your ships to feed an army of a thousand."
They all had a massive feast for lunch before Colgate created enough officers for each type for all the leaders as they were getting ready to head for home. Before leaving Luna asked, "Colgate, are we going to have summits like we did after Twilight was unmade or not?"
Colgate said with a smile, "Of course we will! After all, I do think we should get together every year simply to touch base but I do hope we can just have friendly chit chats as well."
Before they left LaurFa walked up to Brevity and hugged her. She said, "Sister, I am so sorry about what happened so long ago. I look back at things and I realize that banishing you was not the best thing to do, that instead I should have tried to be more diplomatic with you, that I should have transformed Starswirl into an Alicorn."
Brevity replied, "Well LaurFa, we can't go back and change the past. All we can do now is move forward and vow never to wage war upon one another."
Colgate interrupted, "I think that should be the case with all of us. I do not want this world to fall into a state of warfare again. I'm sure none of this planet's civilians want it either."
They all agreed and in the middle of the afternoon they all parted ways. Colgate, Scootaloo and the retiring General Dark Night headed into the dining hall for a mid afternoon snack. After doing some thinking Dark Night had changed his mind about retirement. He asked, "Colgate, I know I said that I wanted to retire, but I have changed my mind. I want to continue to serve Equestria."
Colgate hugged her general and replied, "That is wonderful news Dark Night! I am glad you changed your mind!"
Scootaloo asked, "So Colgate, do you think that there will be any wars in the near future or the distant future?"
Colgate replied, "I don't think so Scootaloo. Luna and Brevity are both good, competent leaders who like stability. I highly doubt LaurFa will use her army to attack anypony and Galaxia, Cosmos and Celestia are far different from Lyra and Lemon Hearts. They are not going to go waging war over things such as deteriorating economic conditions and besides, they will explore their nation for things such as precious metals."
About ten minutes later their meal arrived and for the first time in four millennia, business matters were discussed while they were eating. Scootaloo emptied her mouth and asked, "So what will we do with Neigh Zealand once it becomes habitable again?"
Colgate let out a huge belch and replied, "I will probably see if Celestia wants to rule it. For now though, let's eat!"
Finally the number one threat to not just Equestria, but the entire planet was no more. The word of her death was met with much happiness across the world. Citizens across the planet realized that they could now return to normal life without having to worry about an evil pony seeking global conquest turning their nations upside down.
