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// Justice is Served 
// Story: A Turbulent Change 
// by StormLuna 
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The following morning arrived and everypony was ready to get this over with.  They held one final meeting in the throne room before they would head out to administer Scootaloo's punishment in front of the whole town.  While most of the ponies had come to accept the fact that Colgate was not going to have her former commander executed, Brevity just couldn't accept it.  

Brevity asked, "Colgate, art thou sure that thou only wishes to banish her?  After all, she wanted to do so many horrible things to not just us, but thy guests and even worse, she wanted to kill thee!"

Colgate replied, "Brevity, like I said executing her would be going easy on her.  I want her to suffer and I believe being stuck in limbo for all eternity will be far, far worse.  Besides, she will be stuck in there always wondering and hoping that she will get free but never will.  It will consume her over time and she will eventually fall into despair."

Brevity gave her a smile, "Well Brevity can see where that would be worse than death."  

As the time grew closer to 0900 Luna asked, "Well, shall we go get our prisoner and notify the crowd of her crimes before serving justice upon her?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, we should."  She pointed here wing towards the door and continued, "Luna, I want you to help me in getting her.  Everypony else, go out and wait for us."

The rest nodded while Colgate and Luna headed down to the dungeon.  Their trip down was silent until they reached Scootaloo's cell.  When she saw them she sneered, "So, your Dark Goddess sees that you have come to punish her."  She glared at Colgate and continued, "What are you going to do, kill me like you did Twilight?  Are you going to have little miss Brevity unmake me?  Are you going to banish me somewhere?"

Colgate grabbed Scootaloo in her aura and sighed, "Give it a rest already."

Luna added, "You brought this upon yourself Scootaloo.  Had you not made treasonous plans like you did, none of this would be happening."

Scootaloo rolled her eyes as she was being led out of the dungeon.  As she was led out of the tower and to the platform, she looked at everypony with hate.  Despite not being able to use her magic, her eyes shined green and were filled with nothing but malice and resentment. 

When the crowd saw those green eyes they gasped in shock.  One pony asked, "Is she what I think she is?  Is she a dark goddess just like Twilight?"

Despite having a horn cap on and being surrounded by both Colgate and Luna she boasted, "Yes, I am."  She puffed her chest out and continued, "When your dark goddess breaks free she will punish everypony who doesn't pay homage to her!"  She glared at Colgate and sneered, "And your precious supreme commander will be dead!"

Everypony couldn't help but laugh at the powerless dark goddess.  Many knew about how Twilight behaved just over a year ago so a few chuckled, "Oooh, just like Twily.  You think you can rise again when you've been soundly defeated!"

Once Scootaloo had been led to the middle of the platform she faced the crowd for all to see, green eyes and all.  Almost immediately the ponies began to boo the fallen commander.  After a minute of non-stop booing and some heckling, Colgate raised and lowered her wings, causing everypony to go silent. 

Once the crowd went silent Colgate began, "Citizens of Ponyville, my guests, leaders from abroad, as you all know yesterday I was set to step down and transfer power to then Commander Scootaloo.  Because of unexpected events though, there has been a change of plans."

A pony in the crowd asked, "What kind of change?"

Colgate replied, "Well yesterday one of my guests"  she motioned for Scoots to come up to the platform before continuing, "one of my guests found some rather disturbing and damning materials in her quarters."

Another pony asked, "What kind of materials?"

Colgate replied, "After hearing my former commander talking to herself in a rather sinister way, the pony standing next to me, who happens to carry the name of Scootaloo decided to do some investigating and I'm glad she did."

Scoots blushed, "Oh it was nothing!"

Colgate replied, "Don't sell yourself short."  She faced the crowd and continued, "In her quarters this pony found a picture of the Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle."

The crowd immediately began to boo and scream the word "traitor" at Scootaloo.  After allowing them to boo for a minute Colgate continued, "And that is the least of it.  She also had a picture of my guests brainwashed by her and bowing down to her.  She also had a picture of all the world leaders in chains and her whipping us."

The boos began again and the words flung at Scootaloo were far, far worse than what they were calling her before.  Colgate again allowed it for another minute before continuing, "And the worst thing she found was plans that Scootaloo had for this world.  She wanted to banish all the world leaders to one place or another, she wanted to brainwash my guests, she wanted to enslave the world, she wanted to demand tribute just like Twilight did AND she wanted to kill me."

The entire crowd began to boo and one pony shouted, "Off with her head!"  Another yelled, "Burn her!"  Soon the crowd had moved very close to the platform when Colgate yelled, "Stop!  We don't need to resort to that kind of violence!  We can't make a martyr out of her!"

The crowd quieted down and moved away from the platform.  Once they moved back Colgate continued, "It was because of this material that then Commander Scootaloo was charged with high treason."

A pony yelled, "Convict her, burn her!"

Colgate yelled, "We're not going to burn her!"  She calmed down and continued, "Once this was discovered the other leaders and myself held a hearing and after hearing from Scootaloo and going over the evidence my guest found, we convicted her of high treason in a unanimous decision."

Another pony asked, "So what is her punishment going to be?  Will she be executed?"

Colgate sighed, "No she will not be executed.  While many of my fellow leaders voted for execution, the final say is up to me and I decided that execution would be going easy on her."  A pony began to say something but Colgate interrupted, "I have decided that an eternal banishment to the void would be far worse on her.  For all eternity she will be there in limbo wondering if she will ever get free and she never will."

While many ponies wanted to see her dead because of what she wanted to do, the crowd stomped their hooves in approval.  Colgate pointed her wing to her right and ordered, "Scootaloo, stand over there."

Scootaloo would not do as told though.  In an act of defiance she took to the sky but would be shot down quickly when Brevity hit her with a bolt of energy.  Scootaloo crash landed behind the platform and broke a wing.  She was screaming in agony as Colgate went to drag her back.   Once she got her back up on the platform she began to spank Scootaloo and laughed, "Bad Scootaloo, bad, bad!"

The whole crowd began to laugh as Colgate was spanking Scootaloo the way one would a foal.  After twenty spankings Colgate raised and lowered her wings.  She pointed to her right and again ordered, "Scootaloo, stand over there."

Scootaloo walked over to where she was ordered and awaited her fate.  As Colgate lit up her horn she asked, "Anything you'd like to say to the crowd traitor?"

Scootaloo glared at the crowd and sneered, "Well, it was nice serving Equestria for so long even though your tyrant Supreme Commander stabbed me in the back."  She began to yell, "She promised me that she would let me take over a couple days ago but no, she just had to delay it and now I bet she won't even step down!  She'll probably stay in power, go bat shit crazy and start a war!  She'll be the death of everypony!"

After her little rant Colgate pointed her horn at Scootaloo and lit it up.  She fired a bolt of energy at her and 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."

A black vortex opened up and began to swallow the screaming Scootaloo.  After a few seconds passed the vortex closed and Scootaloo was gone.  Colgate's guests watched in shock as things like this would never even be dreamed of in their world.  Colgate looked out into the crowd and said, "Well it is complete.  Her banishment shall be eternal and nopony will have to worry about enslavement or war."

The crowd began to cheer loudly and stomp their hooves in delight.  While Colgate was glad to see that everypony was happy, she hoped that the announcement she was about to give would make them equally as happy if not happier.