It was 1130 and Colgate was up in her tower watching Twilight's movement and noticed that her envoy was moving along exactly as expected. She realized the time had come to cast both the armor spell and the spell to protect her forces from dragon fire. She flew down to the base where everypony was waiting. They all stood at attention when she arrived. She said, "At ease soldiers."
Colgate looked at them and continued, "Alright troops, you have all trained well for this. Everything we have done ever since Twilight returned to this world all leads down to this, the battle of your lifetime. Once we win this, we will no longer have to worry about evil returning to our world as we have different plans for Twilight and her minions this time."
Applejack asked, "So what kind of plans do y'all have for them this time?"
Colgate replied, "You will see when the time comes. Alright guys, the time has come for me to cast the necessary spells on you."
Everypony gathered together around Colgate. She began to glow a deep blue, her eyes were shining a deep blue and her horn was glowing a bright blue as she recited, "The one without armor does not stand a chance, so it is what we must enhance, the unarmed one will likely receive death, with armor he shall continue to draw breath, without armor he will be torn to shreds like a rag but with armor victory is in the bag."
Her energy encircled everypony and then was absorbed by their bodies. Next Colgate would cast the spell to protect her forces from dragon fire. Again she began to glow a deep blue but this time her cutie mark was shining as well as she recited, "Dragon breath shall result in certain death, yet we must continue to draw breath. His fire will make us burn but our death he will not earn. While he desires for our burned bodies to decay, we shall continue to live so we may fight another day."
After she had cast both spells her forces began to cheer and shouted, COLGATE, COLGATE, COLGATE, OUR ONE AND ONLY LEADER!"
Colgate replied, "Hey, we are all one well oiled military machine. They will be arriving within thirty minutes. Just stay calm, don't doubt your abilities and keep your eyes focused on the western horizon."
Twilight and her forces continue to head east and finally off in the distance Twilight can see Galaxia Ridge. She orders her forces to stop. She looks at them and said, "Ok troops, you see that ridge off in the distance?"
General Green Death replied, "Yes, I do."
Twilight continued, "That is Galaxia Ridge. Immediately behind it is Canterlot and then a few miles away is Ponyville. When we reach the top of the ridge we will stop and look off towards Ponyville."
Cosmos asked, "Why will we stop at the top of the ridge? Shouldn't we just continue on into Ponyville and attack them?"
Twilight glared at him because she thought that his question was stupid. She growled, "We will stop at the top of the ridge so we can take an assessment of what we will specifically need to do to wipe them out as quickly as possible."
LaurFa asked, "What about the armor spell that Colgate has most likely cast upon her troops?"
Twilight replied, "Ok, it will protect them for a while just as our armor spell will protect us for a while. Eventually after enough strikes on the armor it will start to weaken and eventually both sides will be vulnerable. That is why we need to be agile and be able to get out of the way of their bolts of energy. Alright, everypony gather around me. It is time to cast the armor spell."
All of Twilight's forces gathered around her. She began to glow brightly, her eyes were shining green and a bulb of purple and black energy formed at the end of her horn as she recited, "The one without armor does not stand a chance, so it is what we must enhance, the unarmed one will likely receive death, with armor he shall continue to draw breath, without armor he will be torn to shreds like a rag but with armor victory is in the bag."
The energy spread outwards from her and was absorbed by her forces' bodies. She said, "Alright, now let's fly to the top of that ridge so we can see what kind of forces Colgate has and how many soldiers we have. Let's go!"
They sped off to the east with great haste until they got to the top of the ridge where they stopped. Before looking off towards Ponyville Twilight looked off to the north and noticed that Canterlot was no longer there. She then looked down and saw a huge pile of rubble. She was not thrilled about this. She shouted, "What the hay happened to Canterlot?"
LaurFa said, "Twilight, I thought you didn't care about Canterlot. I thought seeing it as a pile of rubble would make you happy."
Twilight began to pout and screamed, "I didn't care for it but it is the fact that Colgate is most likely the one who destroyed it that angers me. I was the one who was supposed to destroy it."
Spike said, "Twilight, you might want to look off towards Ponyville. It appears as though Colgate has an army that is larger than ours."
Twilight looked off to the east and replied, "I'm not worried, I will just duplicate our forces one more time and then we will have the advantage and Colgate's demise will be certain."
Twilight motioned for all her regular soldiers to gather in one place. Once they were all gathered together she began to glow and recited, "From one to two, two to four and so much more, when one is simple mere, more and more shall appear."
After her energy hit her forces the size of her army had doubled. She now had 20,000 of each type of soldier. Twilight said, "Alright troops, we are ready. TO WAR, TO VICTORY!"
Her forces shouted, "GLORY TO THE DARK GODDESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE." They then sped off to the east towards Ponyville.
In Ponyville Colgate and her forces saw Spike, Twilight and her army speeding towards town. Colgate said, "Alright troops. Remain calm, stay focused and try to weaken and eventually shatter the armor spell Twilight put on them. FOR EQUESTRIA, FOR THE WORLD, FOR FREEDOM!"
Her forces began to cheer wildly and then focused on the enemy waiting for their arrival. Five minutes later Twilight and her forces arrived. Beams of energy began to fly back and forth between the armies to weaken their armor. Colgate and her other Alicorns began to fire energy at Spike to quickly weaken his armor and very quickly it shattered. After that Colgate's soldiers began to fire spears at the dragon quickly.
During the battle LaurFa and Brevity confronted one another. Brevity shouted, "This payback is eons overdue, the time has come for Brevity to crush her sister!"
LaurFa replied, "Oh I don't think so. Once we win this you will get banished to a much worse place than Titan."
The two Creator Goddesses began firing powerful bolts of energy at one another but it just bounced off of one another. Spike continued to avoid being brought down as he was breathing fire on Colgate's forces but he became angered when it was not even affecting them. He then decided to set all of Ponyville ablaze to kill everypony in town. What he did not know is that Colgate had evacuated the entire town the night before.
Eventually everypony's armor was shattered and dark Alicorns and changelings began to fall from the sky. Colgate's forces were firing at a much more rapid pace that Twilight's forces, which quickly erased any advantage in numbers Twilight had. Twilight saw this and shouted, "Fire your energy faster you idiots."
Colgate and Twilight finally confronted one another. Colgate glared at her and shouted, "Oh Twily, I thought we would never get to talk. It is such a pleasure to see you alive and well before I crush you!"
Twilight shouted, "You're the one that's going down you pathetic wretch. I'm not banishing you this time, I'm killing you!"
This sent Colgate into a rage, she fired a powerful bolt of energy at Twilight, leaving a burn mark over her cutie mark on her right flank. This caused Twilight to fire energy back but she just couldn't burn Colgate with it.
The regular soldiers continued to knock one another out of the sky. It was almost as though it was raining the corpses of dark Alicorns and changelings but Twilight's forces were being decimated much more quickly because Colgate's forces were more agile and more accurate. On the eastern flank of the battle Spike was breathing fire at an Alicorn that had gotten separated from the other Alicorns. He finally got sick of her surviving his breath so he swung his tail and knocked the Alicorn out of the sky. When she hit the ground she broke her wing. Spike was laughing as he was thrilled to take down one of Colgate's best Alicorns.
He stood before her laughing, "Well well well, what do we have here? Why it is Fluttershy, the Alicorn who used to be a shy pegasus. Hmmm...let's see, shall I eat you alive or shall I roast you and then eat you?"
Off in the distance approaching Ponyville from the east was a white Alicorn with purple mane and purple tail. She saw the dragon tormenting this Alicorn. She looked closer and saw that it was Fluttershy that had been injured. She sped so quickly towards Ponyville that she broke the sound barrier before landing between Spike and Fluttershy.
She looked up at the dragon and shouted, "You will not eat my friend you dirty old beast!"
This hit Spike wrong and he got a sad look on his face. He asked, "Rarity, is that you?"
Rarity shouted, "YES I AM RARITY BUT WHAT DOES IT MATTER. YOU WILL NOT TOUCH MY FRIEND AGAIN!"
Spike said, "Rarity, it is me, Spike. I always had a crush on you ever since Twilight and I moved to Ponyville. You are as beautiful as ever."
Rarity shouted, "Oh, and you think I would want anything to do with you after you broke Fluttershy's wing? You are just like all other grown up dragons. You are nothing more than a dirty old beast!"
Spike roared, "So that's how it is! I am going to eat both of you! Get ready to meet your death Rarity! Good riddance!"
Before Spike reared his head up to swoop down at them, Rarity saw Fluttershy's spear laying beside her. She levitated it preparing to fire it at the dragon. Spike reared up and swooped his head down to eat the two, but missed. When he did this, Rarity saw the bare spot. She said to herself, "Come on Rarity, when he does it again we will bring him down."
Spike roared loudly in anger after he missed. He was levitating just above the ground when he reared up. Rarity flung the spear with as much power as she possibly could. "ROOAR" screamed Spike as the spear plowed through his hide. Rarity levitated Fluttershy out of the way right as Spike crashed down to the ground. When Twilight saw Spike fall she went into a panic and started firing more errant beams of energy and was soon being pursued by Colgate.
Over where Spike and Fluttershy laid, Rarity walked up to Fluttershy and asked, "Fluttershy dahling, what did that dirty old beast do to you?"
Fluttershy replied, "He threw me down with his tail and I broke my wing. You need to get out of here, you don't have any body armor and I don't want you getting hurt."
Rarity replied, "Oh no Fluttershy. I am going to heal your wing. During my time in Manehattan I developed an interest in healing spells and I learned a spell to heal broken wings."
Rarity began to glow white and her cutie mark was shining brightly as she lowered her horn onto Fluttershy's broken wing and recited, "Broken is the instrument of flight, for the wing needs to heal and provide might, the bones shall be fused so the wing can be used."
A gentle, white flow of energy flew into Fluttershy's wing, healing it entirely. Fluttershy began flying around normally. She said, "Thank you so much Rarity, you are a life saver!"
They landed in front of Spike as he was groaning in pain. Rarity said to him, "This is what you get for hurting Fluttershy and burning most of Ponyville to the ground. May the rest of your suffering be painful before you die you old beast."
Spike began to cry and replied, "All I ever wanted growing up was your love Rarity, yet you always saw me as more of a cute child, nothing more. You have no idea how much that hurt me."
Rarity shouted, "Oh give it a rest Spike, I don't do inter-species relationships, that is just flat out disgusting."
Spike shouted, "You wretch, I should have known how snobby you would really be." Spike rolled over to grab Rarity with his claw but as he rolled over on his underside he rammed the spear further into his body, causing it to go straight into his heart, killing him.
Fluttershy asked, "Rarity, is he dead?"
Rarity walked up to him. She kicked him in the face but there was no response. She replied, "Yes Fluttershy, he is dead. Now let's go help Colgate finish this!"
Fluttershy said, "But Rarity, you don't have any body armor. I don't want you getting killed."
Rarity replied, "I am much more agile than I used to be. Let's go!"
They sped back into battle and started aiding everypony else in taking out what was left of Twilight's forces. Finally, around four in the afternoon all of Twilight's forces had been decimated. All that remained were Twilight, Celestia, LaurFa, Galaxia and Cosmos flying around the sky. Finally those five were shot out of the sky and landed in the middle of the charred remains of Ponyville..
Colgate saw that Rarity and Fluttershy had landed around Twilight and her minions. Colgate asked, "Rarity, what are you doing here?"
Before Rarity could say anything Fluttershy interrupted, "Colgate, please don't be mad at her. She was flying in from the east and she saw that Spike had knocked me out of the sky. She fired my spear into the soft spot on Spike's underside and killed him. She then healed me and we helped finish off the rest of Twilight's forces."
Colgate looked stunned. She asked, "Really? What caused you to come here Rarity?"
Rarity replied, "Well I had this voice in my head for several days telling me to fly to Ponyville. I took off yesterday and when I saw that Fluttershy was down, that angered me greatly. I would not let that old beast hurt Fluttershy, or anypony else for that matter."
Twilight began to shout obscenities at Rarity for killing Spike until Colgate smacked her.
Colgate shouted to her two remaining changeling officers, "General Lightning Storm, Major Deadly Cloud, cover them in ooze. We can't have them trying to escape."
Twilight and her envoy were covered in ooze leaving them immobilized and unable to use their magic. While the battle was bloody and fatal for tens of thousands, Twilight knew that the punishment that awaited her and her envoy would be much worse.