Terror in Equestria 5: One Thousand Years Later

by StormLuna

An Unlikely Escape

Three months pass and Twilight and her envoy are still imprisoned in Ridead. Supper time arrived but it was not the generals that brought them their food. Instead it was the two majors, Major Deadly Breeze and Major Dark Caves. Shining Armor saw them come in and asked, "What happened to the generals that usually bring us our food?"

Dark Caves replied, "The generals and colonels are heading off to a meeting with the higher ups of the Equine Empire regarding some damaged fence along the border, so we are the ones who will be bringing you your food."

Deadly Breeze added, "It is so chilly in here. Isn't there any heating in here for you guys?"

LaurFa replied, "No, there is not. We have asked about that and Iron Seas yelled at us telling us that we are prisoners and that we should not expect comfortable conditions."

Dark Caves asked, "Where is Twilight Sparkle? I need to take her meal to her."

Shining Armor replied, "She is down in the dungeon. Be careful, she is always angry whenever anypony or anychangeling goes down there."

Dark Caves nodded and headed down to the dungeon. He used his horn to create some light since he had never been down to the dungeon before. Twilight began to get agitated believing that Iron Seas was coming down to mock her once more before giving her her supper. She saw that it was a different dark Alicorn. She asked, "Who are you? I can tell you aren't Iron Seas."

Dark Caves replied, "I am Major Dark Caves." He then continued "Why in the world are you covered in green ooze? You are no threat to anypony. Let me melt this ooze away."

Dark Caves fired some energy at the ooze covering Twilight and melted it away. Dark Caves then asked, "Twilight, what would you think about getting out of here?"

Twilight's ears perked up and she replied, "I would love it but how.......wait a minute, you aren't trying to set us up to get executed are you?"

Dark Caves replied, "No Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, I truly believe that you and your friends need to be freed."

Twilight asked, "How are you going to pull this off? Won't the generals and colonels catch you?"

Dark Caves replied, "They have just left for the Equine Empire to meet with the higher ups over there. Tonight when I come to pick up your dishes, that is when I shall free you."

Twilight asked, "Aren't you afraid of being caught by the other officers?"

Major Dark Caves replied, "No, I am not. I have this all planned out. Before I make my decision final, there is one condition that I have for your release."

Twilight asked, "What is that?"

Major Dark Caves replied, "You must allow me to come with you guys. If you guys are gone and I am still here when the generals and colonels return, they will kill me since right now I am the head officer in charge."

Twilight said, "You have yourself a deal. I think it would be great for you to come with us. After all, I can sense that you will be loyal to me and our cause."

Dark Caves replied, "Yes your Majesty, I will do anything possible to aid you in any cause you have."

Twilight said, "Well you can start by just calling me Twilight or Twily since you are on my side now.

Twilight asked, "But what about our ship? There will be no food or water on board."

Dark Caves replied, "Trust me, I have been sneaking food and water on board that ship during the middle of the night for the past four nights. Nopony else knows that I have been doing this. Well I must be getting back upstairs so nopony else thinks that something is up."

Twilight nodded as he headed back up to the main jail. For the first time in months Twilight was able to create some light with her horn to see to eat her meal. This made her very happy and she finally had hope that she would be free again.

Once he got back up to the main jail Dark Breeze asked, "Dark Caves, what took you so long? Was she being rather difficult tonight?"

Dark Caves knew that he would have to lie. He replied, "Yeah, she was being difficult. You know how prisoners are when they see a lower ranked officer serving them their meals."

Deadly Breeze had a skeptical look on his face but decided to believe his fellow major. He said, "Come on, we are having a party tonight since the colonels and generals are gone. You know we don't get to do things like that very often."

Dark Caves nodded and they headed back to the palace. LaurFa said, "Well it must be nice to be able to have parties while we are stuck down here."

It was around midnight when the party the lower officers were holding ended. Captain Green Cloud said, "Wow, we haven't had this much fun in ages. How long will the higher ups be gone?"

Major Deadly Breeze replied, "They will be gone for about another week, so we better enjoy it while they are gone and things are more laid back. Come on guys, it's time to hit the hay."

They all started to head off to their sleeping quarters. All of them except Major Dark Caves. Deadly Breeze looked at him and shouted, "MAJOR DARK CAVES, are you not going to go to sleep tonight?"

Dark Caves shouted back, "Look Deadly Breeze, I am the one that Iron Seas put in charge and I'm not tired yet. I will hit the hay when I am good and ready."

Deadly Breeze growled, "Whatever." Deadly Breeze had his suspicions about why Dark Caves was staying up but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.

An hour later when everypony else was asleep Dark Caves headed down to the jail to free the prisoners. When he finally got down there everypony was sound asleep, except for General Dark Hooves. He asked, "So, are you here to mock us?"

Dark Caves replied, "No, I am not. I am here to pick up your dishes. I must go get Twilight's first."

Dark Caves headed down into the dungeon where he found Twilight tapping her hoof on the bars of her cell. She growled, "Well it's about time. I thought perhaps you were lying about setting us free."

Dark Caves replied, "After me melting that ooze away?" Dark Caves opened the cell and continued, "Alright, let's get your friends freed and then get out of here. Dawn is six hours away."

As Twilight and Dark Caves headed up into the main jail her friends were stunned. Shining Armor said, "Twily! How did you manage to get us free?"

Dark Caves interrupted, "We have no time for playing twenty questions right now. Let's get going."

Dark Caves opened the cell and melted the ooze away from them. They then headed to the ship with great haste. Once they reached the ship Shining Armor raised the anchor and they continued their trip south hoping that they would not get re-captured.

Dawn arrived in Ridead and Captain Ice Wind and Lieutenant Dark Sky headed to the prison to serve their prisoners their breakfast. When they got there they were stunned to see that the jail was empty and that the door to the dungeon was open. Ice Wind ran down there to discover that the cell door was open and that Twilight was gone. Both knew that Dark Caves had stayed up late that night before.

Ice Wind ran back upstairs and shouted, "THAT TREASONOUS RAT! DARK CAVES WILL SUFFER DEARLY FOR THIS!"

Dark Sky asked, "Let me guess, Twilight is gone too?"

Ice Wind replied, "Yes, she is. We must re-capture all of them. Let's go get them!"

Dark Sky asked, "Oh and how are we supposed to know what direction they headed?"

Ice Wind replied, "Well I know they are headed to Neigh Zealand so we need to head south."

The two headed off towards the south at a great rate of speed. Out at sea Twilight and her envoy were enjoying a northerly breeze that was pushing them right along.

Twilight signaled for Dark Caves to come over to her. She said, "Dark Caves, I have some very good news for you. You are being promoted to colonel for aiding us in our escape."

Dark Caves bowed down before Twilight and replied, "Thank you Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle. I want you to know that I will do anything you ask of me to aid you in any quest you have."

Twilight replied, "Well the first thing I want you to do is just call me Twilight or Twily. You are part of my forces now. There is no need for you to be so formal."

LaurFa was looking off to the north and interrupted, "Twilight, I know you and Dark Caves are discussing things right now but you need to come take a look at this. It doesn't look good."

Twilight saw this and she became very angry. She shouted, "Damn it, can't we have just one voyage without something going wrong. It is Ice Wind and Dark Sky. Get ready to knock them out of the sky everypony!"

Dark Sky and Ice Wind were finally over the ship firing bolts of energy at the ship burning holes in the deck before Dark Caves and Dark Hooves finally shot them from the sky. They crashed on the deck right in front of Twilight. They looked up at her in fear knowing that they were in a world of trouble.

Twilight glared at them and said, "Well, well, well. What do we have here?"

Ice Wind asked, "Twilight, before you kill us or do whatever you are going to do could you let us explain why we chased after you?"

Twilight looked up for a minute and then looked down at the two dark Alicorns and replied, "You have three minutes to explain yourselves before I punish you, which will most likely result in your deaths."

Ice Wind said, "Well you see, we were the first ones to get up from our night of partying the night before so we were the ones who were going to bring you your breakfast. When we saw that you guys were gone we panicked."

Dark Sky continued, "The thing is, if the colonels and generals returned and you guys weren't in prison, they would have killed us. Please let us live, we won't try to re-capture you."

Ice Wind added, "It's not like we could anyway as we are vastly outnumbered."

Twilight shouted, "Then why were you firing energy at us. I know what you are saying is nothing but lies. I ought to kill you right now."

Dark Sky begged, "Please Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, there has to be some tenderness in your heart. Please just let us live."

Twilight realized that she could make the two loyal to her. She smiled and said, "Alright, I will not kill either of you. But before you can go there is one thing that I must do."

Ice Wind asked, "What is that?"

Twilight began to glow and her eyes began to shine as she recited, "From another to me, that is where your allegiance will now be, you thought your old commander loved you like pie when all they wanted was for you to die. With me all shall be great, there shall be no hate."

Twilight fired powerful green energy at them that knocked them backwards. They looked stunned at first but then they wiped their eyes and in unison they said, "Dark Goddess Twilight Sparkle, we swear complete and absolute loyalty and allegiance to you. We will aid you in any quest you have."

Twilight smiled and said, "That is wonderful to hear. First off, you two are getting promotions. Ice Wind, you are now a major and Dark Sky, you are now a captain. Also, I want you two to just call me Twilight or Twily. You are part of my forces now. There is no need for this formal stuff."

Major Ice Wind replied, "Thank you so much Twilight. We promise you that we won't let you down."

Twilight said, "Well that is good to hear. Now let's enjoy the rest of our voyage to Neigh Zealand."

Colgate saw all of this from Ponyville and went into a rage. Her screaming and yelling could be heard all over Ponyville. She started kicking holes in the wall and smashing things when Scootaloo headed up to see what was wrong.

When Scootaloo got up to the doorway Colgate was levitating a night stand and was about to slam it into the doorway when Scootaloo shouted, "Colgate, stop!"

Colgate slammed the nightstand into the wall and growled, "What do you want? What is so important that you had to come up here now?"

Scootaloo replied, "Well I heard you screaming and I heard you smashing things so I thought I would come up and see if you were ok."

Colgate kicked another hole in the wall and shouted, "Well I am NOT ok. Some goody-horse shoes dark Alicorn set Twily and her minions free and to make matters worse, the two dark Alicorns who set out to re-capture them have been brainwashed and are now loyal to Twilight."

Scootaloo asked, "Do we need to make any changes to our military exercises?"

Colgate had calmed down a bit and replied, "No, we just keep things going as we normally would."

Scootaloo asked, "So what are they going to do next?"

Colgate was a bit irritated by this question and replied, "Well you will continue to make sure things are running smoothly at the base while I keep an eye on Twilight and her minions along with repairing all the damage I did in here."

Scootaloo said, "Alright, I'm heading back down to the base."

As Scootaloo returned to the base Colgate used her magic to fix all the things she had damaged. Very soon though repairing damaged walls and furniture would be the least of Colgate's worries and this issue will make Twilight and her envoy being freed seem like small potatoes.

Author's Note:

Invisibility----"Whether it be one or a bunch of ones, nopony needs to see so that we don't have to flee, invisibility is the treat of not having to retreat."

Visibility---"The unseen shall now be seen, with their friends being present, hiding only shows resent, those who have disappeared shall now appear."

Duplication---"From one to two, two to four and so much more, when one is simple mere, more and more shall appear."

Banish to void--- "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."

Loyalty spell---"From another to me, that is where your allegiance will now be, you thought your old commander loved you like pie when all they wanted was for you to die. With me all shall be great, there shall be no hate."

Giving drones a mind of their own---"those without a mind are in a bind, no longer shall they just be, but they will still be loyal to me, for officers they are now but they don't ask how."

Unbanish---"The one who has been banished has done their time, they are now forgiven for their crime, their time has come, now they need to contribute some, it is Equestria that they must serve or into the spiral of the void they shall curve."

Transform unicorn to Alicorn--- "The unicorn who has no wings is bound to the ground, they can not really get around, their smarts are great yet without flight they will be late, with these wings they will be great and they shall never have a bad fate."

Transform multiple unicorns to Alicorns--- "The unicorns who have no wings are bound to the ground, they can not really get around, their smarts are great yet without flight they will be late, with these wings they will be great and they shall never have a bad fate."

Transform Pegasus to Alicorn---"The one who can fly likes to fly free desires the powers that allow the unicorn to be, he/she wishes so much to levitate and create, rather than berate, for the winged one now has magic, without that it would be tragic."

Transform Earth Pony to Alicorn---"The pony without magic or flight is in a bind, for they feel like they have fallen behind, they work themselves to death, even to their very last breath, for now with magic and wings, great things shall be what life brings."

Increase size of pony---"The small one wishes they were tall so that they won't have to crawl, with height their future is bright and everything will be alright, for the small one is small no more, with height their happiness shall be galore."

Mature pony--"The innocent pony is unsure of who she wants to be, that may be cute but it is not what is good for me, she needs to mature if she is to be strong for without maturity she won't last for long, the naive one shall be so no more, for her maturity will carry her into lore."

Strengthen Armor---"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."

Activate Jade Alicorn---"The jade Alicorn will help me see all, without it I might miss a brawl, while the distances are great, I can see all the hate, wisdom is what comes along with the eye so that overthrowing me nopony will try."

Hurricane spell--- "The nice weather must come to an end, for without a storm the enemy will not bend, the wind shall be strong and my enemies won't last for long, a hurricane is a must so the tyrants will sink and go bust."

Fixing spell--- "The city was devastated by a storm, which is not the norm, their suffering is great yet we can not allow normalcy to be late, the city must be restored to the way it was before so they can pay taxes like they did before.

COLGATE'S SPELLS

Unlock---"The door is locked, but from me my information is blocked, a lot of learning I have to do, but with this locked I won't have a clue, now the door is open for me and infinite knowledge for me shall now be."

Lock---"Right now the door is not locked, from others the information is not blocked, the others must not be allowed to learn, for this is not theirs to earn, the door is now closed for all but me because infinite knowledge is not free."

Shatter Armor---"Our foes' armor is great, that is something I hate, with their armor they are strong, but them having armor is just plain wrong, now their armor is gone and it is time for them to say bye as they are struck by energy and die."

Return Blue sky---"The sky is purple which is ok for some, but it just makes me numb, for I miss the way it used to be, blue is beautiful to me, the normal sky shall be back and everything will return on track."

Drain pony---"The large pony is too big for me, for smaller the pony shall be, the size and knowledge will become mine, but the negative qualities is where I draw the line, for what must grow is my power, so that I may remain in the tower."

Change eye blue---"The green eye is not for me, for blue is what it shall be, the evil shall be banished as the good can not vanish, what shall return will be an eye of blue as it is the perfect hue."

Freeze time---"Tick tock, tick tock, look at the racing clock, what is short is time and being late is a crime, we must finish on top so it is time I must stop, with time froze, it is my enemies I shall bulldoze."

Unfreeze time---"Look at the clock, it is stuck in place, with this there can be no pace, everything is still but that does not fit the bill, for now the clock shall again run so everypony can have fun."

Time bubble---"A bubble is what we need, so from frozen time we can be freed, in this bubble we can move fast, while everything else is stuck in the past, it is frozen time which through we must pass so we will never be late to class."

Undo time bubble---"In the bubble time continues to run, but now the time outside runs and allows fun, the bubble must burst so we can quench our thirst, from the bubble we are now free and everything we can clearly see."

Release Brevity Thrash--- "She was banished long ago, but her power she will not forego, it is revenge she wants, it is her sister she shall taunt, for Brevity Thrash shall return once more and be more than just long lost lore."

PINKIE'S SPELL

"The changeling's power is good, but not great, they can fire ooze but not enough to make their foes lose, for them to be great, they must fire bolts of hate, the energy shall be strong so their enemies won't last for long."

Twily's dark Alicorns

General Dark Hooves
Colonel Dark Caves
Major Ice Wind
Captain Dark Sky

Colgate's dark Alicorns

General Dark Night
Colonel Black Mist
Major Frigid Wind
Captain Black Ice
Lieutenant Dark Crystal

Changelings

General Lightning Storm
Colonel Green Toxin
Major Deadly Cloud
Captain Green Storm
Lieutenant Southern Haze