//------------------------------// // Prelude: The Past 10 Millennia // Story: Terror in Equestria 10: The Return of Tirek // by StormLuna //------------------------------// Ten millennia ago, not too long after the ascension and coronation of Princess Twilight Sparkle, she had an unfortunate encounter with Queen Chrysalis and King Sombra. After the encounter, she became corrupted into a pony who had one mission, to conquer all of Equestria and eventually the entire planet. After taking Equestria, Twilight decided she wanted more, she wanted everything and to do this, she transformed not only her friends but also Colgate, Lyra Heartstrings and Lemon Hearts into Alicorns and it worked, she acquired the jade Alicorn, which allowed her to spy upon the whole planet. After acquiring the jade Alicorn and casting a powerful spell that transformed her into a dark goddess, the self-proclaimed Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle achieved her goal. With one final attack on Alicorn Island and the defeat of those who were on the side of good, the Dark Goddess achieved her objective, she united the entire planet under one banner, hers. Eventually, once Twilight started traveling the world more than doing her job, her second in command, Commander Colgate used loyalty spells to turn the military against the Dark Goddess, took Equestria for herself and granted independence to the other nations of the world. After this Twilight attempted to retake Equestria and the world but failed, she was banished to the sun along with Celestia, who she had banished after her victory that gave her the world for the duration of her sentence. One thousand years passed and while the world was at relative peace, everypony knew that eventually not only would Princess Celestia finish her sentence for crimes she committed when Twilight was a filly but so would a wrathful Dark Goddess. One thousand years later Twilight Sparkle and Celestia returned to Equestria and Twilight recruited Celestia along with then Equestrian Commander Shining Armor into aiding her in taking the world back into her possession. She believed that after Celestia felt that she didn't get the respect she deserved and defected from Colgate to Twilight, that she would have a much easier time retaking the planet but Supreme Commander Colgate, leader of Equestria and its military, discovered a spell to free an incredibly powerful Alicorn from ancient times to assist her and was easily able to recruit her into her forces. This pony, Brevity Thrash is a Creator Goddess and is the sister of Creator Goddess LaurFa, who after having had a loyalty spell cast on her, joined the Dark Goddess. While Twilight was sailing around the world and gaining allegiance from various leaders, Colgate decided to use psychological warfare upon her enemy and cast a storm spell so strong that she herself was transformed into a Goddess. Despite her spell being used for deadly and destructive purposes, she became a different kind of Goddess, a goddess of pure good. Eventually after gaining the allegiance of other world leaders, Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle launched an attack on Ponyville believing that she could reclaim Equestria and thus, the entire world. She failed and her punishment was severe, as was that of her allies. She along with the Creator Goddess LaurFa, Princess Celestia, Queen Galaxia and King Cosmos (Celestia and Luna's parents) were unmade using a spell that only Brevity Thrash knew, a spell that caused atoms to completely fall apart and it was this spell that returned the world to peace. While the world remained in a relative state of peace, after three thousand years had passed, the world had changed dramatically. Harmony and ponies working together had become a thing of the past as each nation had become militarized and international trade had begun to cause economic inequalities among the nations of the world. Some produced commodities of higher value while others produced ones of lower value. This economic inequality eventually led to envy, hatred and in the end, a global war. The nations that were at an economic disadvantage declared war upon the nations that were doing more well off but new and brutal tactics used by Supreme Commander Colgate and her second in command, Commander Scootaloo quickly brought what became the *axis powers to its knees, especially a uranium atom splitting spell that Colgate had learned. It was easily the most destructive and deadly spell in the history of Ponykind and after using it and rendering an entire nation uninhabitable, the war ended but peace would not return. Because of radioactive fallout from Colgate's nuclear testing, the five villains that were unmade and once deemed to be gone forever, returned. Unfortunately for the allied forces, their return occurred while Colgate was abroad and Equestria quickly fell under the control of the Dark Goddess and her allies. During this time, after many millennia of absence, the Crystal Empire returned along with three individuals who would wind up making the most unlikely of allies, Princess Cadence, King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis. After using a powerful dark loyalty spell, Cadence too becomes a Dark Goddess and declares war on Equestria. In what would be a rather short battle, Twilight killed Cadence and banished her allies to the void. After planning exactly what needed to be done, Colgate and her allies launched their invasion on Ponyville and when it was apparent that Colgate and her allies could not win the battle, they along with Brevity Thrash teleported to a new world, Eqqus 2 and after that, the primary world became dubbed Eqqus 1. Twilight Sparkle then held the world in her possession for another thousand years before discovering a sect of ponies that had avoided her detection ever since she rose to power and she sought to properly punish them since they had their own King and Queen. To her, this was unacceptable and vowed that they would bow to her and nopony else. These ponies would prove to be no pushovers as she was captured by them and had some of her military seized before she was released. Twilight however did not plan on leaving this sect alone but they made their own plans, plans to not only put an end to Twilight's reign but to end the era of the Dark Goddess entirely. Their leader held special abilities that nopony else did, a spell known as "the rite of cleansing" a spell that would eradicate the evil from her and return her to the state she was prior to her initial corruption by Chrysalis. It was a surprise attack by this sect and their leader, King White Magick, that caused Twilight Sparkle to not only fall but be cleansed. Along with this, all her loyalty spells were broken, those she had banished to the void were freed, all the magic she learned while she was corrupted was lost and the power that she stole from some ponies was restored to them. This event also caused her ancient dark tower to collapse and along with it, the destruction of the jade Alicorn that allowed her to see all. This event caused some of the ponies who fled to Eqqus 2 to return to see what had happened. In the end even King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis were freed from their evil by the cleansing spell. Not long after the cleansing of who were once three of Equestria's worst villains, fears surfaced that a much darker, more ancient foe from the ancient past may return and while Colgate had returned from Eqqus 2 for a brief time, she was convinced to stay since her time spells would prove to be valuable. This however would come at a price, the price of her not only taking part of Equestria from Princess Celestia and Princess Twilight to create her own nation, but all the knowledge that Twilight had access to, her own tower and a relic that would allow her to spy on the world, under the guise of protecting Equestria. Also after her cleansing, Princess Twilight developed a crush on King White Magick, who unfortunately for her was married. While Twilight was viewed very negatively by Queen Ruby Heart, Supreme Commander Colgate of what became Coastal Equestria, won the queen's favor and was allowed a very rare gift, one that would aid her dramatically in accessing even more knowledge so she could become the most learned pony on all of Eqqus 1. After Colgate established her new capitol and had all the books she could ever dream of, the ancient evil, Grogar, whose return was feared and predicted by some, finally happened. After that he captured Twilight and four of her friends causing Colgate to use her time magic to round up the global leaders and lead a march on Tambelon to slay Grogar and free those he took captive. During the attack Queen Ruby Heart died in action before Grogar was slain but in the end, they accomplished their mission and forever destroyed an ancient evil. Now it has been 5,000 years since the death of Grogar and 10,000 years since the coronation and ascension of Twilight Sparkle. While the world has returned to a peaceful state, the distrust and hidden hatred of one world leader and the risks of another ancient evil returning could not only put the very existence of Equestria at risk, but all of Eqqus 1. *axis powers. The axis powers played the roles the axis powers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan did in World War II.