Terror in Equestria 11: Death and Destruction

Evening Meeting

After finishing her supper and giving Scootaloo her less than stellar meal, Colgate decided the time had come to set her next plan into action. Before she would do so, she decided to tap into the eye and see what was going on in the world. As she scanned various parts of the world, everything looked normal and when she looked to the east, she noticed that the airship that Queen Luna and her other foes were taking to Ridead had encountered some strong head winds, slowing it down significantly.

When she saw this she couldn't help but laugh, "Excellent! The time has come for me to set the next part of my plan in action."

Night had already set but that would not stop Colgate from going to the base and notifying Dark Night. She headed to the base and she discovered that everypony and everychangeling was sitting around relaxing. Once she arrived she yelled, "Attention!"

Give that the sun had already set, the soldiers knew what something important had to be going on because Colgate was not the type of pony who would set out to do anything after dark. Immediately every soldier was standing at attention when Colgate began her address, "Troops, tonight I plan on setting in motion the next part of my plan, my ultimate plan."

Dark Night was the first to ask anything, "Colgate, what is this plan you want to set in motion?"

Lightning Storm added, "And why do we have to be addressed at night?"

Colgate replied, "Troops, it is an extremely long trip to our destination and I believe it would be best if we fly a majority of our trip under the cover of darkness. I need both of you to grab ten of your best soldiers so we can depart immediately."

Both generals were getting more curious about why she wanted to do this at night. Dark Night asked, "But why Colgate? Can't we fly during the day?"

For the first time in her life, Colgate lit up her horn in anger at her general. She yelled, "No, we must do this tonight." Her voice became more calm as she continued, "Now could you please go and round up some of your hoof soldiers. I want to get going now."

Given how she reacted to his question, he along with Lightning Storm immediately rushed and grabbed some soldiers, ten of each type. Once they returned, Colgate began to inspect each one to see if they truly were of the material that she was looking for. After a ten minute inspection, she turned to her generals and said, "Alright, let's go. It is a very long trip."

Once she took off, all her soldiers took off and followed her. As they were on their flight west, her generals couldn't help but wonder why Colgate not only wanted to do this at night but also why she was being so secretive about it. Never before had she been this way with a mission, normally she was rather transparent.

Acquisitions in Ponyville

After a long night of flying, the sun was rising and Colgate's target was on the horizon. When he saw this Dark Night asked, "Ponyville? What in the world would you want here?"

Colgate give him a sinister grin, "You'll see!" She then pointed towards the forest and continued, "Land in the forest, there should be food in there and it will provide us with cover."

Colgate and her troops landed in the forest and the first thing they did was begin to gorge themselves on berries. While it was not even close to what they would eat at home, it was sufficient. While Colgate knew exactly what she was looking for, her generals couldn't help but wonder why she continued to stick her head out from behind the trees and focus on what at one time was Twilight's castle.

After two hours of waiting, Colgate saw five ponies heading into the castle, five ponies that she wanted to acquire. Once they got inside Colgate turned to her soldiers and ordered, "Follow me troops, we can now acquire what I came for."

Her troops did as ordered and without anypony else noticing, they all charged into the castle to find that there was nopony present. She knew that she had seen them enter the castle and ordered, "Troops, fan out. We are going to search every last inch of this castle until they are found." She pointed her wing towards Lightning Storm and continued, "You and a couple drones stand here at the door. If they try to leave, cover them in ooze and wait for our return."

Lightning Storm nodded and a couple drones stayed behind with him. As for the rest, they followed Colgate in search of their foes. As they continued to search the castle, Colgate was becoming impatient that finding them was taking them so long but then something crossed her mind, "I've got it!"

Dark Night asked, "What? What is it?"

Colgate replied, "Today would have been Twilight's birthday. I can't help but wonder if maybe she wasn't buried down in what was her archives and they aren't paying her grave a visit."

Dark Night commented, "Perhaps so, maybe we should check it out."

Colgate nodded and ordered the soldiers that joined her, outside of Dark Night and a changeling drone, to remain upstairs. When they found the entrance to the archives and saw that the door was open, Colgate couldn't help but smile. As they approached the first chamber, the door was open. As they proceeded through it, they noticed the door to the second one was open as well. Colgate was pleased when she saw this but would then be even more pleased when she saw the door to the back portion of the archives was open. As she approached it, she heard voices, voices of the five ponies she had come to acquire.

She peaked around and saw them all gathered around what looked like a casket and decided to listen in on their conversation before acquiring them.

"You know Twi, I know you were evil for so long and including when you passed but we know deep down you were always a good pony."

"I'm just sorry that that meany-mean hooves centaur and his dark rainbow did this to you."

"Darling, I know we say this every time we visit you darling but we forgive you for everything."

"Uhm Twilight, we just want you to know that we all loved you."

"Twilight, I know you were corrupted in the end but we will always cherish our memories we had."

As they were talking, they heard a noise. Their heads all shot up and they wondered what it was. Before any of them could say anything further they heard a yell, "Charge!"

The five were in shock when they saw Colgate, a couple dark Alicorns and a couple changelings storming into the room and immediately the five began to fire energy at them. Much to their surprise, all it did was knock them backwards. Colgate yelled, "Cover them in ooze!"

Almost immediately, the five were covered in ooze, immobilized and were unable to use their magic. Once they were subdued Colgate approached them and laughed, "Well, well, well, what do we have here."

The five were not one bit pleased with their capture but Rainbow was obviously the angriest, "Colgate, what the hay are you doing here?"

Colgate laughed, "Acquiring what I need to set my plans in action." She then fired energy at them and put all of them in cages. She continued, "And now I have all of you."

Fluttershy asked, "Plans? What plans?"

Colgate noticed that Twilight's casket was under glass so she fired a bolt of energy and broke the glass. She then levitated it to herself and snickered, "Wow, you certainly went all out for a dark goddess now didn't you?"

The five gasped but Fluttershy became angry, "She is NOT a dark goddess!"

Rarity added, "And what about you. You're a lot bigger, you're a lot darker, your eyes are darker and that black gem you fused into yourself! If anypony is a dark goddess, it is you!"

Colgate couldn't help but laugh, "I've been a goddess for quite some time but thanks to this gem and siting on the throne of a villain I killed, I became much more."

Applejack asked, "What did y'all become then?"

Colgate replied, "You will find out in good time." Colgate pointed towards the five and ordered, "Dark Night, dark Alicorn hoof soldiers, grab these five while I handle the prize."

They were all grabbed in somepony's aura and they were visibly angry over Colgate holding Twilight's casket in her aura. Rainbow yelled, "What the hay are you going to do with Twilight?"

Colgate ordered, "Hold them harder troops. I don't feel like listening to them yap."

Her troops did as ordered and carried them back upstairs. When they arrived, the other soldiers were there waiting. Colgate continued, "Alright troops, let's get these rats back to the tower."

In unison they all yelled, "Yes ma'am!"

When they exited the castle they were confronted by a good portion of Ponyville. One pony yelled, "What are you doing with our friends?"

Another added, "And what are you doing with Twilight?"

Colgate sat Twilight down and began putting the ponies in cages. The ones that were not immediately captured began to run away and in the case of the pegasi, they took to the skies hoping to escape the fate that happened to their fellow Ponyville residents. Colgate then realized something, she would have to have some pegasi for her plan so she took off after them.

She knew exactly what kind of pegasi she wanted, strong stallions that were good fliers yet fired at all of them, putting each one in a cage as she struck them. The first to fall were the weaker mares, then the stronger mares and stallions of equal strength but eventually she was able to imprison the strongest of the stallions. Once they had all fallen, she approached the ones that were the hardest to imprison and inspected them to see if they had what she thought was necessary.

She headed to the largest cages and discovered good, strong stallions. As she approached one of them he yelled, "Who are you and why are you taking Twilight and her friends?"

Colgate did not answer. She grabbed his cage in her aura and headed to the next one where she would be received in a similar manner and like it was with the first one, she ignored his question and grabbed his cage in her aura and moved on to the next. Once she had all six, she returned to her troops and ordered, "Alright troops, let's get these scum back to the tower."

Dark Night noticed that a large part of the town was still imprisoned and asked, "Colgate, what about the rest of them? Aren't you going to free them?"

Colgate did a facehoof and snapped, "And why would I do that?"

Dark Night replied, "If you leave them like that, they will starve."

Colgate laughed, "And you think I actually care?" Despite carrying Twilight's casket along with six imprisoned pegasi, she easily took to the sky and ordered, "Come on troops, let get these rats back to the tower. I need to ready them for my big plan."

While the regular hoof soldiers and drones did so without questioning her, her generals couldn't help but wonder why Colgate would just leave the majority of a whole town to starve. They, Dark Night especially, had noticed that she had been getting darker and showing signs of evil but this time truly made him think. For the first time in his life, he began to wonder if continuing to serve under Colgate was what he should do.

He thought to himself, "She's worse than Sombra, she's worse than the Dark Goddess, should I defect and risk death or should I stay and continue to fight for a cause I think is wrong in every way?"