Terror in Equestria 8: A New Threat

by StormLuna


Informing the Troops

It was morning in Ponyville and Twilight was woken up by the morning sun. Like she always has, but especially since she banished Celestia to the void, she rolled around in her bed and stretched. She let out a huge yawn, "Well I better see if anything is going on." Once she got out of bed she laughed, "You know Twilight, I don't know why you do this. Nothing has happened in over a thousand years!"

Twilight headed over to the jade Alicorn and used it to scan the world. As she began to scan everything she said, "Well the Crystal Empire looks fine, Alicorn Island is looking normal, Saddle Arabia is boring as usual but when she looked to the east it was not the Equine Empire, but something closer to home that she saw. She was at first shocked by what she saw but soon became angry, "That bastard, that bucking bastard!"

Twilight began screaming every obscenity in the book which immediately caught Colonel Dark Storm's attention. He flew up to Twilight's balcony and asked, "Your Majesty, what is wrong? Why are you yelling?"

Twilight screamed, "Because we have an army marching on us. The leader of that sect of ponies is leading his army here, he is going to try and take the world for himself!"

Dark Storm knew how Twilight has acted in situations like this so rather than trying to calm her down, he let her continue screaming in a rage uninterrupted for fifteen minutes. Once she calmed down she was sweating heavily and had wore herself out. She looked at her colonel and asked, "Dark Storm, could you have everypony ready for a meeting at the base within the hour?"

Dark Storm replied, "Yes your Majesty."

Dark Storm took off towards the base but Twilight deviated from her normal morning routine. Rather than heading downstairs to have breakfast, she flew to Sugarcube Corner to not only have something sweet for breakfast but to do something that has not had to be done in over a millennia.

When Twilight arrived at the sweets' shop her friends were shocked to see her but at the same time they were scared when they saw her eyes shining a darker green than normal. Rainbow was the first to say anything, "Twilight, what's wrong? I haven't seen your eyes like that since we defeated Colgate."

Twilight replied, "I came to notify you all that effective immediately, you three are on active duty."

Rarity gasped, "Active duty? Twilight darling, whatever has happened to cause this?"

Twilight yelled, "I'll tell you when we have our meeting over at the base." She calmed down and continued, "Before we go over there though, could I have my usual Pinkie?"

Pinkie replied, "You bet! A dozen donuts with extra sprinkles and a pitcher of cider coming right up!"

Twilight sat down and her friends again began to ask her what was going on causing her to reply, "Girls, just like it was in the old days, no business talk during meals, especially when I'm having donuts!"

For the remainder of their breakfast, despite the three being very nervous as to why they were on active duty, they discussed normal things with Twilight such as what they had been doing recently. Once they were finished though Twilight ordered, "Alright girls, let's get to the base."

The four Alicorns flew off towards the base and once they arrived, Pinkie, Rainbow and Rarity landed down with the other soldiers while Twilight landed on the platform she had addressed them from for ages. Immediately she yelled, "Attention!"

Immediately she had the attention of every single soldier. Once they were quiet and facing her she began, "I'm not sure how many of you heard me yelling this morning but there is a reason for that."

Dark Storm asked, "What was it your Majesty? I know you started right after you started looking through the eye."

Twilight continued, "This involves those ponies who I along with our generals and a few soldiers headed out to force them to pay me the tribute they owe me."

Dark Storm asked, "The ones that brainwashed some of our troops I take it?"

Twilight replied, "Yes them." She began to become agitated, "Like I told you earlier I was scanning the world this morning and their king and prince have their army and they are marching on Ponyville! Their king wants the world for himself!"

Everypony she was addressing gasped in shock, especially her friends. Rarity asked, "Twilight darling, why would their king want the whole world? Don't they know what a wonderful leader you are?"

Twilight replied, "Well I think it involves us invading what they think is their territory and also I think it involves them thinking I'm evil and need to be done away with."

Again everypony gasped and Pinkie asked, "Why would they think you are evil Twilight? You're the nicest pony in the world!"

Twilight blushed, "Thank you Pinkie." She dropped the blush and continued, "I think it has to do with my green eyes and something is very odd with their monarchs, especially that king of theirs. They are Alicorns but the way they talk and what they talk about, it seems as though they are so old that they were here prior to the discovery of Equestria by LaurFa."

Green Death asked, "Seriously, they were here prior to the discovery of Equestria?"

Twilight replied, "That's what they claim." She then began to laugh, "And get this, from the way they talk they act like they were here back when Ponyland existed! Ponyland!"

While her soldiers knew nothing about ancient history or Equestrian mythology, her friends did. Rarity couldn't help but laugh, "Ponyland! They actually wanted you to believe in that myth?"

Twilight replied, "Yes they did but there is another thing that is odd about them, they seem to have something against Equestrian ponies."

Rainbow asked, "They do? Do they look different than we do and they think of us as inferior?"

Twilight replied, "No, they resemble us and have the same body structure." She began to become agitated again and continued, "Their king claimed something about LaurFa saying that ponykind would simply give them their space and claimed that we broke LaurFa's promise when we went there and that is why he suddenly had something against Equestrians."

Dark Storm asked, "Alright, we know about their king and what he told you but what about his army? What is the makeup of his army?"

Twilight replied, "Well besides him and his son, who is also an Alicorn, they have those soldiers of mine that they brainwashed and it appears as though he has roughly 300 unicorn soldiers."

One of the regular soldiers commented, "So you should be able to duplicate us many times over and we can easily take them out?"

Twilight got a smile on her face and replied, "Yes, that will be the case." She then puffed her chest out and boasted, "And your Dark Goddess shall slay their precious king and his son! The last thing they will see before they die will be your Dark Goddess's shining green eyes!"

Everypony began to cheer loudly seeing Twilight's old confidence shining through until Rainbow asked, "So Twi, are we going to fly out and kill them now or do you want to fight them here?"

Despite knowing that flying out and catching them off guard would be the best idea, she boasted, "I want them to come here and see your Dark Goddess's black tower. I want them to see the great green eye and I want to kill their king at the base of MY tower!"

Twilight's enthusiasm over wanting to kill them there in Ponyville caused all the dark Alicorns and changelings to cheer loudly while her friends were not so thrilled over her plans. They knew how things had been in the past and felt that Ponyville had seen more than enough battles in its long history but one of her friends was hoping she could change Twilight's mind on where the battle would happen. She asked, "Twilight, must Ponyville host another battle? Can't you and the soldiers just go out and defeat them?"

This did not sit well with Twilight. Her eyes began to shine a dark green and she yelled, "What did you say?"

Rarity repeated, "Twilight darling, I just want to know why you think Ponyville should have to host another battle? It has hosted so many over the ages."

Twilight flew over to where Rarity was standing and knocked her to the ground. She yelled, "Rarity, don't start this again." She placed her hoof on her and continued, "Are you with me or are you against me? Are you going to be with me like you were when we defeated Colgate or are you going to be a mouthy, disobedient little brat like you were when I went to get the jade Alicorn?"

Twilight continued to hold Rarity down with her hoof and yelled, "Which is it Rarity? Are you with us or are you against us?"

Rarity was terrified at this moment but still held out hope that they could spare Ponyville any more war. She defiantly asked, "Twilight, I don't get why you want to put this town through more war? We don't want it here nor do we need it here."

Twilight began stomping on Rarity and yelled, "Didn't you hear your Dark Goddess you disobedient little brat?" Rarity gave her an intense glare and Twilight realized that just like it was so long ago, that Rarity was a liability who would only cause problems. She grabbed Rarity in her aura 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."

As everypony stood there in shock and horror, a black vortex opened up and swallowed Rarity. Suddenly the base was so quiet one could hear a pin drop. Twilight flew back up to the platform and with a scowl on her face she continued, "You see that? Just like it has always been, anypony who dares to challenge me, question me or cause any other kind of problems will get sent to the void."

One of the changeling soldiers asked, "Seriously your Majesty? You'll cast anypony into the void just like that?"

Twilight pointed her horn at the soldier and continued, "Yes soldier, I will." She then cast her gaze at everypony in front of her and continued, "And if any of you have a problem with it, the void never runs out of room."

Again silence filled the air until Twilight continued, "For now your Dark Goddess shall continue to monitor the enemy and decide how many duplicates she will need and in the mean time, I want ALL of you to train as hard as possible." She glared at her friends and continued, "You two too. Your Dark Goddess does not want any weak links."

Everypony, including her friends shouted, "Yes ma'am!"

Twilight glared at them and barked, "Dismissed!"

As Twilight stormed back towards her tower, all the soldiers were nervously talking among one another. One of the younger soldiers, one who knew that Pinkie and Rainbow were good friends with Twilight asked, "Excuse me, if you don't mind, can I ask you something?"

Rainbow looked over by the tower and saw that Twilight was not on her balcony. She replied, "Yeah, sure."

The soldier asked, "Has she always been like this? Has she always banished ponies to the void that anger her?"

Rainbow replied, "Ever since she learned how to after her corruption, yes."

The soldier's jaw dropped open when he heard her say this. He asked, "Corruption? Do you mean to tell me that Twilight hasn't always been a dark goddess."

Rainbow replied, "Nope, over 5,000 years ago she was a normal pony like me. She didn't even know what dark magic was, much less use it."

The soldier gasped, "Seriously? She was a nice pony like you a long time ago?"

Rainbow replied, "Yep. It wasn't until she was corrupted by an evil unicorn king, King Sombra and a wicked changeling queen, Queen Chrysalis that she turned evil."

The soldier wanted to know more about the old Twilight. He asked, "So did Twilight banish ponies to the void back then?"

Rainbow replied, "Twilight had never even heard of the void back then...."

Before she could continue she heard an angry voice yell, "Rainbow Dash, get to training unless you want to join Rarity in the void."

Rainbow yelled, "Sorry Twilight." She then turned to the soldier and continued, "Well we better get to training."

The soldier nodded and both joined in on the training exercises that Pinkie along with the other soldiers were engaging in. Twilight stood up on her balcony with a scowl on her face as she watched her army preparing for the upcoming battle. She shook her head and growled, "If I catch her being lazy even one more time, Rainbow's going to the void."