Terror in Equestria 9: Return of Tambelon

Morning Discussions

The night passed all too quickly for Colgate as the sun rose before she was able to get too much sleep but realized that despite her fatigue, she simply couldn't delay the invasion. She got up and looked through the eye and like always, she saw nothing abnormal except for in Tambelon. What she saw looked worse, the freezing rain had turned into a blizzard and lightning was flashing everywhere. Despite the terrible weather, Grogar himself was out punishing Twilight while her friends were being beat in the mine. She threw her hooves up in the air, grabbed her sword and growled, "Alright, that's it. Forget draining his life, I'm cutting him open and ripping his heart straight out of him."

Normally she would wait until everypony else got up but this morning would be different as she went pounding on the bedroom doors, ordering that everypony get up and head downstairs for breakfast. When they arrived they saw Colgate instructing the castle chef to bring them a large portion of food, of her choosing. While none of them objected to what she had ordered for all of them, it did frustrate LaurFa. She asked, "Colgate, you're ordering for us? Why the hay would you do that?"

Colgate gave her a scowl, "If you saw what I saw this morning, you would understand why I want to hurry up, get out to Tambelon and put an end to the torture Fluttershy's friends are experiencing."

At first Ruby gave her a slight glare but then realized that it was all of them that she sought to save, not just Twilight. She sighed, "Well I can understand that and besides everypony, Grogar has been an enemy of ponykind since well before the fall of Ponyland and he must be wiped out."

This caused Celestia to gasp, "It involves what they're doing to them up there doesn't it?"

White Magick added, "What are they doing to Twilight?"

Ruby lit her horn up in anger, smacked him and yelled, "I am so sick of hearing about Twilight this, Twilight that. I honestly can't help but wonder if you don't have feelings for her you shouldn't."

Their meal was coming and Colgate yelled, "Would you stop with the arguing! You know how I feel about business discussion over meals and after this, we're headed out." Her voice became more intense as she continued, "Look, if any of you are going to be overly emotional or fight with one another, just stay behind. I have no use for emotional weak links."

The room went quiet as their meals were served to them. Colgate sighed in frustration over their arguing. Out of all of them though, she was getting sick and tired of White Magick's obsession with Twilight and what she thought was a lack of focus on the overall mission. Despite this though, she knew that with him having dealt with Grogar in the past that he was a necessity to succeed.

Heading Out

After a hearty breakfast they headed out to the base where the soldiers were finishing up their own large meals. When Colgate arrived they all stood at attention waiting for her to speak, "Alright troops, the day has come. The day has come for us to launch our attack on Tambelon and rescue the five ponies who were taken captive."

The soldiers all began to cheer knowing that they would be aiding in this endeavor until Colgate continued, "I do want to let you know that not all of you will be going. Twenty-eight changelings and twenty-eight dark Alicorns will remain here to hold down the fort." She turned to her generals and ordered, "Find twenty-eight of your own kind to stay here and guard the tower."

They began going through their soldiers and picked the ones that would remain behind, led the rest up to Colgate and let her know that those were the ones that they would be taking. Once she had everypony, her soldiers and the other Alicorns in front of her she began one final address, "Alright everypony, it is time for us to get going. I need everypony to be completely alert and focused on this mission" she cast her gaze towards White Magick and Ruby and continued, "and I need everypony to keep their emotions in check. I do not want any arguing, I do not want anypony breaking down and crying when they see what is going on with those Grogar is holding captive and for goodness sake, remember our goal is to slay Grogar, Bray and every single trogal. Banishment is not an option, slaughtering our enemies is the ONLY acceptable way to handle this."

Everypony knew that Colgate meant business but one pony had a question. Fluttershy asked, "Colgate, I remember you used to do this a long time ago but are you going to be putting armor spells on us."

Colgate replied, "Yes, once Tambelon is within eyesight, we will stop so I can cast the armor spell on us. Yes it probably won't take anything more than a couple of strikes from Grogar to shatter it but it still beats nothing." She then took to the sky and ordered, "Alright troops, to war, to victory!"

Torture in Tambelon

The snow was raging in Tambelon and the lightning was flashing everywhere as Grogar and Bray were out making sure that the trogals were handling their prisoners properly. Like they had been since they were captured, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity and Rainbow were being forced to mine for iron in the cave that they had been working in. Grogar approached them and noticed that not nearly enough rock had been chipped away as he hoped. He smacked them and yelled, "Is this all you're doing you scum ponies? You have mined next to nothing for me, you are no better than your little princess I tied up."

They all shied back, except for one. Rainbow Dash stood tall and yelled, "When our friends finally come for us, you'll be sorry!"

Grogar lit up his horns and fired a beam of energy at her, burning her badly. He yelled, "Shut up scum pony, if I want to hear your mindless babbling, I'll speak directly to you."

Bray thought that his action was a bit extreme and asked, "My liege, was that really warr...."

Before he could finish his sentence Grogar picked him up and slammed him into the cave wall. He yelled, "How dare you question my actions you idiot." He fired a much more powerful bolt of energy at him and yelled, "You want to wind up like their scum princess? You want to be tied up in the cold and tortured like she is?"

Very weakly Bray replied, "No my liege."

Grogar glared at his trogals and ordered, "Make sure these scum do some work for a change." He picked up Bray and ordered, "You're coming with me to check on their princess so you can see what will happen if you challenge me again."

Grogar headed over to Twilight and would be delighted by what he saw. It appeared as though she was falling ill, had numerous wounds from the whipping and had numerous claw marks on her flank. He gave his trogals a smile and laughed, "Good job boys." He then threw Bray to the ground and yelled, "You see this you idiot, this will be you if you question me again."

Twilight heard his interaction with his assistant and asked, "Why must you always call him an idi....."

Grogar fired some energy at Twilight and yelled, "Shut up you scum princess. Do not speak unless you are spoken to."

The energy burned her to the point where it caused her to start crying. Grogar looked down at his trogals and ordered, "Smack her if she doesn't shut up." He then fired some energy at Bray and yelled, "Follow me, I don't want you providing that scum pony any comfort."

Attack on Tambelon

Nearly three hours had passed since Colgate and her forces had left her tower and despite there being a blizzard, she could make out the city. She yelled, "Stop!" Her forces did as ordered and she continued, "Alright troops, the time has come. I am going to cast an armor spell on you and then we head in there, slaughter every single enemy and then rescue those who have been taken prisoner.

Colgate ordered them to gather together and she lit up her horn. Once they were all together 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."

Colgate put enough energy that her eyes began to shine a bright blue and her body began to glow. After she finished the spell she asked, "Any questions before we do this?"

Nopony said a word so she turned towards the city and yelled, "To war, to victory!"

Her forces charged in and began firing bolts of energy, knocking trogals down. Colgate was not one bit pleased when she saw that their enemies were not being incinerated with one hit. She then realized that they were much tougher than they looked. Her eyes were shining blue as she fired much more powerful bolts of energy at her enemies and while they did a great amount of damage to them, it took more than one hit to kill them.

On the other side of the city, Grogar heard the chaos ensuing and saw that his city was under attack. He lit up his horns and began firing energy at his foes but the fact that they were not even harming them angered him, it angered him so much that he picked up Bray and threw him directly at Colgate. Colgate saw this and couldn't help but wonder if Grogar was in such a state of rage that he may not be focused enough and that she could perhaps take him out.

With her sword in her aura, she sped directly towards her enemy but he would not be as distracted as she thought. He fired a powerful bolt of energy at her, shattering her armor and knocking her from the sky. He grabbed her in his aura and threw her against the side of a building and laughed, "You scum ponies think you can defeat me, I think not!"

His comment angered Colgate but she knew that she had to keep her anger in check, she knew that she could not be emotional and become a liability so she grabbed her sword and sped skywards before swooping down and slashing the back of his neck. Colgate hoped that this would do a fair amount of damage to him but all it got was a minor scream and a minor cut.

Grogar again lit up his horns and began to fire energy at Colgate but could not score another hit. From the other side of the courtyard, Ruby saw this and knew that one Alicorn alone wouldn't take down Grogar. She sped towards the fight with her eyes and horn glowing. Just as she got within hoofs reach of him, she fired a bright bolt of energy at her foe, knocking him backwards and causing him to scream in agony. Colgate and Ruby smiled at one another, nodded and then took off towards their somewhat disoriented foe.

The two again sped towards Grogar and were shot down with his energy before they could reach him. He stood over the two and then took a closer look at Ruby. He growled, so it is YOU, it is the one who helped those Dream Valley ponies defeat me."

Ruby stood tall and proclaimed, "Yes I was and this time, I shall be the one who helps the ponies of this world defeat you." She fired another bolt of energy at him, knocking him backwards again. Colgate too lit up her horn and fired a powerful bolt of energy, scoring a direct hit and knocking him to the ground. This was when the two decided that they would go in for the kill. They soared skywards before taking a nosedive, burning him with more energy but just as the two were ready to fry him at point blank range, Grogar lit up his horns, grabbed Ruby in his aura and flung her head first straight into the side of a building.

Almost immediately Colgate's number one focus switched from being Grogar to being Ruby. She flew over to where she laid and was horrified by what she saw. She saw blood flooding out of her nose and her neck bent in a way that a pony's neck would normally not bend. She began shaking her calling out for her to respond but received no response. She felt for a pulse but was unable to find one.

Grogar headed towards her and laughed, "Ruby Heart, this is what you get for aiding those Dream Valley scum." He looked down at Colgate and continued, "And now I shall do to you what I did to her."

The fact that he had killed Ruby sent Colgate into a rage. She took off again and vowed to herself that she would slay Grogar, no matter what the cost, no matter the risk. She launched herself at him and before he could stop her, she plowed her sword into his chest causing him to let out a deafening scream. Unfortunately though, the stab did very little to stop him as his hide was very thick.

Colgate knew there had to be another way. For a brief moment she did consider stunning him long enough she could use the life draining spell but then thought about what he did to her friend and again realized that his death would be all that would suffice. He continued to fire energy at her but continued to miss. Then it hit Colgate, she wondered if she fired something powerful enough that if she shot light out of her eyes that perhaps she could blind him.

She again began firing powerful bolts of energy at him, burning him with each one. Finally she flew to where she was at eye level with him and powered up her horn. She again fired a powerful bolt of energy at him but continued to put more power into it until her eyes began to shine blue, she began to glow and finally, the light shot out of her eyes and went straight into his, causing him to be unable to blink. Despite struggling and thrashing about, Colgate was able to keep the light shining in his eyes. Soon he began to scream in agony as his eyes were beginning to melt.

Despite the situation he was in, he was still able to use his magic and realized that if he didn't do something, he would perish. He lit up his horns ready to strike but what neither Grogar or Colgate saw, was a figure standing on top of a building holding a sword. As Grogar wobbled closer to the building, the figure jumped holding his sword out. Right as he got level with Grogar, he reached his sword out and wound up cutting Grogar's collar off of him, completely disabling his magic.

When the energy from the collar hitting the ground shot out, it broke Colgate's hold on Grogar. She would be surprised when she saw who it was, it was Bray who had cut the collar off of him. She asked him, "Bray, you cut his collar off of him?"

Bray replied, "Yes, long was I under his control but no longer. I am free and I have you and your forces to thank for this."

Grogar, despite being unable to see, had stood back up and Colgate knew that the fight wasn't over yet. She cast her gaze at him and ordered, "Help me finish him off and I will see that no harm comes to you."

Bray nodded and began slashing Grogar's legs while Colgate went in for the kill. She reached her sword out and slashed his throat with as much pressure as she could, causing Grogar to go crashing to the ground. He continued to thrash as both Colgate and Bray pounced on him and continued to stab and slash him. Bray yelled, "No longer Grogar, no longer! No longer am I under your control!"

Grogar tried to yell something but would be stopped as Bray slashed his throat one more time, severing his carotid artery, killing him instantly. Bray began to celebrate over the fact that he aided in slaughtering his oppressor but the battle was far from over. Colgate looked in the direction of the battle and ordered, "Bray, the remaining part of the battle is no place for one without magic. You wait here behind his body while I take care of this."

Colgate took to the sky and when she arrived to the battle, she discovered that the trogals were very hard to take down as even the changelings were having problems with them. Colgate noticed that they always ran certain ways when energy was fired at them. She yelled, "Watch how they run, they always go the same way when you fire energy. Strike them there, strike them there."

Once Colgate joined the battle and her forces followed her advice, they began to make quick work of the trogals and it would not be soon until all of them were dead and the battle was over. When her forces stopped and returned to the ground, they looked around to see that every single trogal was dead and looking off to their left, they saw the much larger corpse of Grogar. They began to celebrate knowing that they had achieved the objective their commander had set, they were able to slaughter every single minion of Grogar's.