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// Plans and Discussions 
// Story: A Turbulent Change 
// by StormLuna 
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Sinister Plans

After being told by Colgate that she would have to wait to change the locks on the archives until after she became Supreme Commander, Scootaloo was furious.  Colgate had told her that she would let her do it that day not that long ago.  She stormed into her quarters and began stomping the floor and mumbling about how Colgate had lied to her.  "Curse her!  She told me I could change those locks today but she lied to me!  Ugh what I wouldn't give to punish her somehow!"

After a few minutes of angry stomping Scootaloo realized that she better be quiet so she sat down and began looking at global maps and reminisced over her triumphs in the Equine Empire and Saddle Arabia.  She suddenly began to wonder that if she was to duplicate what would soon be her army, if she would be able to experience success like that again.  

She took a map of the world off her wall, grabbed a pen and began to draw her cutie mark on each nation, including Neigh Zealand, which she had yet to cleanse.  She laughed, "Hmmm....I wonder!  I wonder how the world would like it if a Supreme Commander ruled everything?"  She then realized that after she cleansed Neigh Zealand that she would have goddess tier powers.  She continued, "You know, Supreme Commander Scootaloo may sound good but Goddess Scootaloo would sound even better!"

As she sat there dreaming of a world where she was in power, she opened one of her drawers and pulled out something she had kept hidden from everypony, even Colgate.  She pulled out a picture of the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle.  Despite them being enemies for most of the war torn era, she admired Twilight as she was the first one to take war to the world and successfully take it all.  She gazed into those green eyes and continued, "Forget Goddess Scootaloo, how about Dark Goddess Scootaloo!"  

It then hit her, the reason that Twilight was able to become a dark goddess was because she cast her powerful, goddess worthy spell with a lot of malice, that this spell she will be casting will be out of pure good.  She groaned, "Ugh, what kind of spell can I cast that would be of pure evil?"

Then it hit her, she realized that Colgate's guests do not trust her.  She said to herself, "Hmmm....perhaps I could cast a powerful, no make that an extremely powerful loyalty spell on those four with evil intentions,"  she looked back down at the picture of Twilight and laughed, "I could become a dark goddess just like you!"  Her blood began to boil again as she focused more on how Colgate lied to her about changing the locks.  She looked down again and finished, "I will avenge your death Twilight.  I will bring upon this world a never before seen wrath!  All will bow to Dark Goddess Scootaloo and no other!"

As she was saying this she heard a voice ask, "Scootaloo, are you alright?  I just heard you talking to yourself."

It was Scootaloo from the other world and she realized that she had to stop talking so loud.  She replied, "Yeah I'm ok.  I'm just thinking and often times I think out loud."

Scoots said, "Well I was just wondering.  It is time for supper.  Let's go, I'm sure we don't want to keep Colgate waiting."

Scootaloo replied, "Just a minute, I'm coming."

Scootaloo quickly put her picture of Twilight back in her drawer and headed downstairs.  While she never imagined that anypony would hear her, she figured that her other world counterpart would not cause any problems.  She thought to herself, "Everything will be fine!  She is just an earth pony and what threat could she pose against a powerful Alicorn such as me!"





Suppertime Discussions

Suppertime had arrived and when Colgate's guests arrived in the dining hall, there was another dark Alicorn present that they did not recognize and two creatures that they had never even seen before.  While Cheerilee, Pinkie and Rainbow looked at them nervously, Scoots looked at them in awe, especially the changelings.  For a moment she sat there in silence before asking, "Colgate, I haven't seen these three before.  Who are they?"

Colgate replied, "The dark Alicorn is my other officer, Major Frigid Wind.  The ones that look like a cross between ponies and insects are my changeling officers.  The one on your left is General Lightning Storm and the one on the right is Major Deadly Cloud."

Scoots introduced herself, "Hello, my name is Scootaloo.  I am one of Colgate's guests from the other side of the portal."

Lightning Storm asked, "Portal, what portal?"

Before Scoots could say anything Colgate replied, "I'll tell you later about this.  This issue is not to be discussed during suppertime."  She then motioned for the other three to introduce themselves. 

Pinkie said, "My name is Pinkie Pie."

Cheerilee continued, "My name is Cheerilee."

Rainbow added, "My name is Rainbow Dash but most everybody calls me Rainbow."

Dark Night asked, "Everybody?  Don't you mean everypony?"

Rainbow looked kind of confused about the everypony term until Colgate interrupted, "General, the inhabitants of her world speak differently.  They don't use the term pony nearly as much as we do."  She cast her gaze at her guests and continued, "So, what all did you learn today when you were studying?"

Scoots was the first to say anything, "Wow, I never imagined that your world would have such an exciting past."  She became more enthusiastic as she continued, "LaurFa banishing her sister, the Nightmare Rebellion, Celestia banishing her sister, the development of things such as dams, the history of Discord, the defeat of Tirek and so many other things!"

Cheerilee added, "I learned that your world is much more violent than our world has ever been."

Pinkie continued, "I'm glad that we never had things like this happen in our world."

Rainbow added, "You know darling, the history of your world makes our history seem boring.  I don't think we've ever had any problems in our world at all, much less nearly having our world destroyed multiple times by war and evil creatures."

Scoots finished, "And that nuke spell!  How did you do it?"

Colgate chuckled, "Yeah our world has had its exciting moments but I am hoping that our future will become as calm as your world is."  She looked at Scoots and continued, "And the information regarding that nuke spell is classified.  I'm sorry but that is one thing that I must keep classified forever."

While they were talking Scootaloo just gave the four a smile realizing that after she cleansed Neigh Zealand and when the time was right, that she would cast a loyalty spell of pure malice on them to earn her "Dark Goddess" status.

After supper everypony except one continued their discussion, Scootaloo.  She yawned, "I hate to leave this early but I'm tired and I really want to get some rest for tomorrow."

Colgate smiled, "Good, I'm glad to see that you want to be fully alert for this.  After all, tomorrow is a big day for you.  If you cleanse Neigh Zealand, all we'll have to do is go and get the other world leaders, come home, introduce you as the new Supreme Commander to Ponyville and then to make it official, have you take over the great eye."

Scootaloo added, "And make it orange like me!"  She paused and continued, "And then change the locks to the archives so that only I can access them!"

Colgate finished, "And I can turn that duplex on the west side of town into my house and office."

Colgate's guests gave her a smile when she said this.  They realized that since she had already made plans for what she would do after the transfer of power, that she would stick to her word and step down.  Rainbow said, "Well you get some sleep darling, you are going to need to be alert tomorrow!"

Scootaloo left and while most everypony else continued the conversation they were having, Scoots just couldn't help but wonder what it was she heard.  Deep down she did not trust Colgate's second in command and decided that she was going to find out what she was mumbling to herself about.