The morning after the battle to end all battles had arrived and Supreme Commander Colgate was waken up by the sun. She had got very little in the way of sleep as nightmares of her past plagued her. Throughout the night, visions of ponies who were slain by either her or her creations haunted her. When she headed to the balcony, she was hoping that perhaps the battle had been nothing but a nightmare but that would not be the case.
Seeing the carnage in full daylight was very hard on her. She looked out and then held her head low and began to sob, "How could I? How could I have allowed myself to do this?"
As Colgate was standing there on her balcony, she heard a voice yell, "Colgate, are you ok? It is time for breakfast."
Colgate turned around to see that it was Dark Night. She replied, "I'm alright." She then headed for the exit and continued, "I don't know what we're going to eat. I don't know if we have much in the way of food around here."
Colgate followed Dark Night down to the dining hall where they were greeted by Lightning Storm who asked, "Colgate? What is for breakfast?" He then made a suggestion he figured that their leader would love, "I'm thinking we should feast on enemy corpses! There is no shortage of them."
When Colgate fused the heart into herself, it altered her in more ways than just one. Not only did it remove the darkness from her but it also removed her desire to feast on the flesh of her enemies. She replied, "General, I don't think I can bring myself to eat the meat of our foes anymore."
"Seriously?" her generals gasped.
"Yes, seriously." replied Colgate.
Colgate then headed towards the kitchen to see if there was much of anything at all in there that would sound good. As she was doing this, the generals began to talk among one another, "I can't believe she is turning down the meat of our enemies! Normally she would have been out there feasting on them before dawn."
Dark Night, who was closer to Colgate replied, "Lightning Storm, I think when she fused that diamond heart into herself, it changed her. I don't think she is going to be eating the meat of other ponies anymore, I think she values the lives of others now."
Colgate returned from the kitchen a bit irritated, "Well generals outside of a few haycakes and some bacon, we have nothing in here." She headed towards the exit and continued, "I may just fly into the forest and eat what the ponies of eons ago ate."
She took off towards the forest and while both Dark Night and Lightning Storm saw a buffet lying right outside of the tower, they figured it would be best to follow their commander, especially if in the event she wanted to discuss anything about what to do now that the other leaders are dead.
Colgate flew fast, very fast. She flew so fast that neither of her generals could even keep up with her. Once Colgate got to a small clearing in the forest, she landed near a pond with some fruit bearing trees. Colgate immediately began to feast on the fruits and guzzle the water. After what she considered to be a decent, filling meal she stared at her own reflection. While she did like her new appearance, something very similar to what she used to be, so many things still troubled her.
"All this death," she said to herself "all this destruction, all this evil, far too many years, many years more than I should have survived." She then heard noises and flared up her horn in the event she needed to defend herself but saw that it was just Dark Night and Lightning Storm. "Come to have some breakfast with me?"
The generals saw what Colgate had been eating and it did not look one bit appealing to them. "We'll pass." they said in unison.
"Well suit yourself." replied Colgate.
It was quiet between the three for several minutes before Lightning Storm broke the silence, "Colgate, so what now? Do you plan on using that resurrection spell on the other leaders?"
Dark Night asked, "Do you plan on restoring the world to what it was before all this happened?"
Colgate held her head low and replied, "If I could do anything, I would undo everything. If I could, I would undo everything dating all the way back to Chrysalis initially corrupting Twilight. If I could, I would undo everything that led to the world falling into so much turmoil."
Again silence returned, an odd silence. Dark Night soon found himself staring at Colgate's cutie mark and a thought crossed his mind, something that could make Colgate's desire a reality. "Time travel!" he exclaimed.
When she heard those two words, Colgate's head shot up. "Time travel?"
"Yes Colgate, time travel! Your cutie mark is of an hourglass so I bet you could just travel back in time and stop everything from going wrong." replied Dark Night
Colgate said, "Just because I'm a time lady doesn't mean that I can travel through time." She dropped her head momentarily before continuing, "But if I remember correctly, one time Twilight used Starswirl's spell to go back in time but that only went back a week and only worked for a tiny bit. I'd have to rewrite it to where I could go back as far as I wanted and stay as long as I wanted."
Lightning Storm asked, "So I take it that is likely a no? I take it that isn't an option."
Colgate began to become more enthused, "Quite the opposite actually. I've written plenty of magic in my life and altering this shouldn't be too hard." She took to the sky and ordered, "To the tower generals, I've got a spell to rewrite!"
They too took to the skies and followed Colgate back to the tower. They could tell by Colgate's sudden enthusiastic behavior that she was thrilled by the idea and that they may not see a ton of her, especially if it was to take her a while to figure out the right spell.