Terror in Equestria 9: Return of Tambelon

Once they all arrived in Maredrid they headed towards the palace, where it had been like in other cities, they were greeted by guards. One asked, "Halt, who goes th.....?"

LaurFa was in no mood to go through the typical guard pony question game. She interrupted, "I am Goddess LaurFa and my company and I need to speak to Queen Luna right away over very important matters."

The guards looked over all the Alicorns before them and knew that it would be best to simply lead them to the throne room. He headed through the gate and ordered, "Follow me, I shall lead you to the queen's throne room."

They followed the guard but once they reached the throne room and Luna saw who it was, she immediately rushed to them, "Mom, Dad, Sister, it is so good to see you!"

Galaxia hugged her daughter and replied, "It's good to see you too Luna!"

Luna noticed that all of the other world leaders were present and asked, "What's going on, why is every leader here?"

Galaxia pointed her hoof at Colgate and replied, "I shall let her tell you since she is the one who first saw it."

As Colgate stepped forward Luna was pretty sure about what happened. She asked, "Colgate, he has returned hasn't he?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, he has." She looked around and continued, "Luna, I think we need to sit down and have a discussion about what we are going to do because not only have he and his minions returned, but they have taken Fluttershy's friends to Tambelon in cages."

Luna snapped, "And you didn't go and try to stop him the moment you saw this? You simply let him take them?"

Colgate did not take Luna's comment kindly. She lit her horn up in anger and yelled, "Look, he was already hauling them up there when I spotted it and I have plans on doing a whole lot more than a mere rescue mission." She powered down her horn and continued, "I plan on us marching on Tambelon and not only saving those five, but I also plan on taking my army in so we can slaughter every last one of them. I won't be satisfied until Grogar is dead."

Luna stood there in a state of shock hearing this. For as long as she could remember, villains had always been banished one place or another. She asked, "Colgate, that has never been the Equestrian way of doing things, we never slaughtered our foes. Wouldn't it be acceptable to banish him back into the darkness by ringing the city's bell?"

Colgate replied, "Look, banishing doesn't work as well as everypony thinks it does." She raised her voice and went on a rant, "Banishing sure didn't stop Twilight from returning now did it, banishing didn't prevent Sombra and Chrysalis from returning now did it, banishing didn't stop Celestia from returning now did it" she raised her voice and finished, "nor did it stop Grogar, Tambelon and his minions from returning either now did it?"

Luna could see where she was coming from so she sighed, "Well no, it didn't."

Colgate continued, "But one can not be brought back from being slaughtered." Her voice became more calm as she finished, "Luna, since you are part of the leadership of our world, I have come to ask you if you would be willing to aid us in this rescue and destroy mission."

White Magick added, "Please your Majesty, we need to save Twilight. I hate to think what she is going through right now."

Ruby nudged him and added, "And her friends."

Luna began to head towards the door and replied, "Yes Colgate, I will help all of you do this."

Colgate asked, "Good but do you think we could stay for supper and spend the night? We're all pretty beat."

Luna looked around at her companions and saw looks of relief on their faces. She also knew that if Colgate was wanting to spend the night, that they obviously were tired. Luna replied, "Of course you can!"

After supper they all headed to the throne room to discuss things further. Once they arrived Luna began, "Alright, we know now that Grogar has returned and that he has taken Fluttershy's friends captive. Do any of you know anything more in-depth about him?"

White Magick replied, "I do. Back in the days of Ponyland, my wife and I aided the ponies of Dream Valley along with Megan Williams in defeating him along with his minions."

Luna asked, "Oh and how is it you did this?"

White Magick replied, "My wife and I joined Megan Williams and the other ponies in our march on Tambelon, we freed those he took captive, Megan rang the bell in the city and it sunk back into the dark, deep places of the world."

Luna commented, "Well that sounds simple....."

Ruby interrupted, "Here is the thing though, Colgate has different plans for this though so we won't be able to ring the bell until after Grogar is dead."

Luna asked, "So what sort of special powers does Grogar have?"

Ruby replied, "I'm going to let you know he has incredibly powerful magic, magic more powerful than any of the unicorns of Dream Valley and he very likely had the most powerful magic of anypony at the time."

Luna along with everypony else got nervous looks on their faces except for one. Colgate stood tall and proudly stated, "That may have been true back then BUT he will be facing against ponies with both Ponyland and Equestrian magic so while he may have powerful magic" Colgate's eyes began to shine blue as she continued, "but I think we'll be able to handle him. We'll disorient him a bit, cut that collar off his neck and then we'll make mutton out of him!"

White Magick was not overly thrilled with what he considered an arrogant attitude. He replied, "Colgate, I know it may seem that way but cutting that collar off of him isn't going to be so easy. A mere steel blade won't do it."

Ruby added, "The only way his collar was removed in the past was when the bell rung so we may not be able to slay him."

Colgate sighed, "Well I'll do more reading on him and if I find any information on that collar, I'll figure out how to remove it and if that doesn't work, a spear to the heart or a good old-fashioned beheading might work."

Luna gasped, "Colgate, seriously, you want to behead him? Isn't there some less bloody way to take care of him?"

Colgate rolled her eyes, "Look, I want to make sure he won't return, alright? I know the rest of you are into banishment and that is how Equestria has done it for ages but I don't think simply banishing him or ringing the bell to send him and Tambelon back into the deep, dark places of the world will suffice, I want a more permanent solution to this problem."

Luna turned to White Magick and asked, "White Magick, is there any other way other than ringing the bell that will cause it to fall off? Is there anything at all that would cut it off?"

White Magick replied, "You know, I'm not sure...."

Colgate was doing some thinking and then something crossed her mind, something that she thought would work. She interrupted, "I've got it! I'll use the life draining spell on him! That will cause him to shrink in size and the collar will simply fall off, then we can exterminate him easily!"

While Colgate thought that would be a perfect plan, White Magick thought otherwise, "No, you can't do that. If you do that, his energy will be transferred to you and you will turn evil like him."

Colgate grunted, "Well maybe once we get back to Marentreal, I can do some studying because there has to be a way to remove that thing from him without merely banishing him and Tambelon back into the darkness."

Everypony sighed in frustration because Colgate was being the same old Colgate she had been since back when she was a dentist, stubborn, very stubborn. She heard their sighs and yawned, "Well I'm getting tired, how about we call it a night."

It was getting very late so everypony agreed that it would be a good time to hit the hay. As she laid there trying to get to sleep, Colgate knew that somewhere in her vast collection of books, that something had to be there. She said to herself, "If it is anywhere, it will be in what I duplicated from White Magick's collection.