After lunch Twilight and the higher ups in her forces along with General Muddy Hooves held a meeting in the throne room. Twilight liked the idea that Muddy Hooves suggested about her duplicating herself, but feared that a duplicate would try to overthrow her, and thought that another way has to be possible.
Twilight addressed her higher ups. "Alright, the Equine Empire has been taken but now we need to set up who will take care of things since I obviously can't be in multiple places at once. Here are the things I will look for in a steward. First and foremost, loyalty is mandatory. You know what happens to those who are disloyal to me."
Dark Night asked, "How will you know if the steward here will be loyal to you?"
Twilight replied, "Well after our conquest is complete and I am back in my tower, I will be able to tap into the eye. For when I am not home, I have started to develop a sixth sense like my brother has. So whoever I give stewardship to, just remember, you will always be monitored, whether it be by my green eye or my sixth sense, so don't try anything to operate separate from my absolute power."
Lyra replied, "Alright Twilight, if you give me stewardship anywhere, I won't."
Muddy Hooves asked, "Twilight, I thought you were going to create duplicates of yourself to watch over everything?"
Twilight replied, "While initially that sounded like a great idea I then remembered that the duplicates are exact duplicates. Any Twilight created from me would be exactly like me. She would have the same ambitions that I do, the same desires that I do, the same knowledge that I have and that would be extremely dangerous. The results of that could be a horrible war that would destroy the entire planet. The worst thing this world could face would be multiple Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkles facing off."
Starswirl asked, "Besides loyalty, what else do you look for in a steward?"
Twilight replied, "Well, I also am looking for a pony who knows advanced magic, in the event they need to increase the size of their forces to crush a rebellion. Speaking of rebellions, a steward has to have the spine to go out and crush any rebellions, even if it requires using deadly force. In other words, I need somepony who will do the same things that I would do yet remain fiercely loyal to me."
Starswirl asked, "Twilight, do you think I have what it takes?"
Twilight replied, "When it comes to magic and loyalty, you bet I do. I really need to know more about how you would handle dissidents, protests and rebellions. Would you be willing to punish those who protest against you, me or our army even if it meant using deadly force?"
Starswirl asked, "What about banishing the dissidents to the void? Wouldn't that work?"
Twilight rolled her eyes and replied, "Yes, it would. But some dissidents, like the one out in the town square, have to be wiped out entirely. A steward needs to think of themselves as an employee of mine. They need to exercise the judgement that I would use and if that means killing those who oppose me, then that is what has to be done."
Even Twilight's dark unicorns and changelings began to wonder if Twilight didn't have too much of a thirst for blood. They knew better than to say anything because she could just kill them and create duplicates from those who do not question her authority or her decisions.
LaurFa raised her hoof and said, "Twilight, I would be more than willing to crush any rebellions and kill anypony that has to be killed for you. If you were to give me stewardship, you could count on me to enforce the laws of Equestria."
Twilight walked over to LaurFa and stared deeply into her eyes. Twilight has developed the ability to sense the eyes of a liar and the eyes of one who is honest, and she could tell that LaurFa was being completely honest.
"LaurFa," said Twilight "I think I have just found the steward I will have living here in Maredrid. It is obvious that you have what it takes and I can tell that you are not lying to me to get into a position of authority. Effective immediately, you are the steward of the Equine province of Equestria."
LaurFa replied, "Thank you Twilight! You can count on me. I will not let you down!"
Twilight said, "I can tell you will LaurFa. You have grown a lot since I rescued you from the void. You have went from being an innocent filly to being a strong, loyal mare."
Starswirl asked, "So what do we do now?"
Twilight replied, "We shall rest for a few days. I will help LaurFa grow into her job and then we will head off to Ridead in Saddle Arabia."
Lyra asked, "What will we do when we get there?"
Twilight planted her hoof in her face and sighed, "What do you think we are going to do when we get there? I'll give you a hint, we aren't going there for a social gathering."
Lyra replied, "Are we going to attack it and take it for our own?"
Twilight replied, "Well duh! What else would we go there for? What is this whole global trip about?"
Lemon Hearts shouted, "Global conquest! I don't know about Lyra, but I'm excited to see you rule the world!"
Twilight smiled and said, "Wow Lemon Hearts, this is a whole new side of you!"
LaurFa asked, "Twilight, so what all do you need to teach me so I can be a good steward?"
Twilight replied, "Well you seem to have the mentality of a tough, strong leader. Don't worry about the economic stuff so much because I am going to place the whole world on the Equestrian bit. Basically I need to make sure you will be tough as nails like me. This has been a long afternoon. Let's go get some supper."
Applejack said, "Ah agree Twilight! It is time for supper."
Twilight and her higher ups headed to the throne room for supper. LaurFa was thrilled knowing that she was going to be steward there. She truly believed that Twilight's way of ruling was the only way as she had no recollection of her time as the Goddess of Faustica.
In Ponyville Colgate was flying up to the black tower when Colonel Lightning Wasp stopped her.
"Commander Colgate, we have a serious problem!" said Lightning Wasp
Colgate replied, "Yes Colonel, what seems to be the problem?"
"I was doing a routine patrol of the area and I saw that there was a huge protest up in Canterlot being led by Prince Blueblood. What are we going to do?" asked Lightning Wasp
Colgate replied, "Well let's round up 300 changelings and 300 dark Alicorns and go take care of this. Canterlot is a short distance away. We should be able to crush this rebellion and get back in time for a late supper."
Colgate and Lightning Wasp flew over to the base to round up the forces that they would need. Colgate decided to take the two colonels with her along with 300 of their own type to go crush this rebellion with her.
Colgate shouted, "LET'S GO. I WILL NOT TOLERATE GARBAGE LIKE THIS."
Colgate and her forces sped off towards the west at a great speed. In Canterlot, Prince Blueblood was rallying the citizens there to take a stand against Twilight.
"We can not allow such things to happen within our kingdom! It is making not just the royalty of Canterlot look bad, but all of Equestria look bad!" shouted Blueblood
"HERE, HERE!" shouted the crowd
Blueblood continued, "Even worse, this self proclaimed dark goddess isn't even of royal blood! She took power through brute force and took advantage of my aunt's generosity!"
A pony in the crowd shouted, "What is that flying from the east?"
Photo Finish shouted, "It's Twilight. We must stand our ground!"
Blueblood said, "It can't be Twilight. Don't you remember that she is off conquering the rest of the world?"
The skies darkened with dark blue clouds and white lightning started flashing around the city as Colgate and her forces invaded the city. This caused massive panic and confusion which wound up causing Blueblood to trip over his own hooves and fall right in front of Colgate.
Colgate said, "Well, well, well, what do we have here? It looks like the little crybaby Blueblood."
Blueblood replied, "Aaahhh! Get away from me! A commoner is getting too close to one of royal blood!"
This did not make Colgate happy. She spit in his face and shouted, "A COMMONER? THAT IS COMMANDER COLGATE TO YOU, PATHETIC ONE."
Colgate saw a huge crowd charging towards her out of the corner of her eye. She flew up above them and fired massive amounts of energy at them, injuring them severely. Blueblood took off the other direction with great haste but it was of no use. Colgate grabbed him using her energy and slammed him up against the palace wall, cracking it.
"Ooooww!" screamed Blueblood "Why did you do that?"
Colgate shouted, "Because you are a whiny, snobby little ass that starts rebellions against those in power. That is why!"
Blueblood could barely move as Colgate had broken one of his legs and she had plenty more in store for him.
Lightning Wasp asked, "Colgate, what do you want to do with him?"
Colgate replied, "Well I don't know what Twilight would think of this, but I plan on killing him. He is a waste of space and is wasting air that some other pony needs."
Lightning Wasp said, "I'm not sure if Twilight would approve of that or not. I know she picked you to watch over things while she was gone but using deadly force might be going a bit too far."
Colgate replied, "Well I do remember Twilight authorizing me to use deadly force if it is necessary. I will just tell her he fired some energy at me."
Lightning Wasp said, "I don't think he knows how to fire energy. Well I don't think he did before she moved the capitol."
Colgate replied, "Well she can think he learned. I hate him more than she does. He's dying today."
Blueblood was listening to all this and said, "You will never get away with this. You're worse than Twilight! At least she lived in Canterlot at one point in her life. You've always been Ponyville scum!"
Colgate had enough of his whining. She began to glow blue and white, her eyes started to glow white and she fired a huge bolt of blue energy from her horn, incinerating Blueblood.
"Wow Colgate!" said Lightning Wasp "How did you learn to do that?"
Colgate replied, "Oh, I have my ways. I wrote my own spell involving root canals so I figured I would just harness enough energy to incinerate a Canterlot snob. Let's get back to Ponyville. Crushing that rebellion has made me hungry."
Once they returned Lightning Wasp asked Colgate a question. "Colgate, do you feel like Twilight has abandoned Equestria to go conquering the whole world?"
"Yes, Lightning Wasp, I do. I seriously wonder how she will manage to rule the whole world, even with stewards that are going to be loyal to her." replied Colgate
Lightning Wasp asked, "Would you ever consider challenging Twilight for control of Equestria?"
Colgate replied, "No. Being a high level commander and being a dentist at the same time is quite the magic trick in itself. Besides, if I could only choose one, I would choose being a dentist."
"Alright Colgate." replied Lightning Wasp "You do what your heart tells you to do."
While Lightning Wasp would not admit it, while he is loyal to Twilight, he is feeling a much greater sense of loyalty towards Colgate. He believes that she actually cares about Equestria while all Twilight cares about is global conquest yet he knows at the same time that Colgate won't do anything that would jeopardize her being a dentist.