Terror in Equestria 11: Death and Destruction

After watching the global attacks, Colgate was pleased for the most part. The one thing that did not please her though was Rarity, the Witch of Greed, taking Saddle Arabia as her own rather than claiming it for Colgate and simply watching over it for her. To her, that was the ultimate form of betrayal, even worse than the tyrannical betrayal of Scootaloo. She knew that her former generals wouldn't be able to take on her foes alone but knew that their presence could help. She realized that the soldiers may work better if ones of their own kind were leading them and she realized that they, despite being held captive, had been giving her good advice. At that moment, she decided to head to the archives to see if there were any loyalty spells that were stronger than the ones that had been used for tens of millennia, loyalty spells that would never wear off.

She headed down to the archives and couldn't help but wonder, should she try and use a standard loyalty spell or should she use a darker one, one that would more closely resemble the types of energies that she now possessed. After a minute of thinking, she decided to go with a darker one, preferably from the Midnight Castle collection, so she headed to the back of the archives to find one.

She started in the very back and began to read through them. At first she was not finding any but once she got to the middle of the collection, she began to find them but something didn't seem right about them. Yes they were loyalty spells, iron clad ones, but as she was reading through them she couldn't help but wonder if they would eventually cause them to perhaps rebel and be loyal to a cause that would not be in her best interests, a cause that would lead to them trying to overthrow her. Once her paranoia had gotten great enough, she decided that she would do what she had one plenty of other times, write her own magic.

Despite it having been ages since she had cast the ages old loyalty spell, she still remembered it. She wasn't sure if she should simply use it and put more power into it or if she should add to the spell since modern spells were much, much longer and more complex than the spells were from the times immediately following Twilight's corruption. Eventually she came to the conclusion that a new one would need to be written, one that would be equal to other modern spells.

She sat there and began to think of the right wording. Over the ages she had always been good at writing magic but this one would not be so easy. She was becoming frustrated until words finally came to her,

"Currently their loyalty belongs to none
Without it though my quest is done,
Their loyalty is an absolute must
For without it everything will be a bust.

My plans for conquest are what must be
That is something everypony can clearly see,
With their loyalty everything will be fine
And all of Eqqus 1 shall be mine.

Hear me my troops
With your loyalty you shall never be out of the loop,
Your loyalty now belongs to The Goddess of Terror
To resist shall be a grave error."

After reading over it multiple times, she decided that it would work so she then went to do something that would make two individuals very happy and likely anger one. She headed down to the dungeon to free Dark Night and Lightning Storm. She was still fairly angry over how her former generals dared to question her actions but knew that once a loyalty spell was cast, that things would return to how they were for so many millennia.

She exited the archives and headed to the dungeon. When she arrived she would be greeted by an unpleasant snarl, "So Colgate, what are you going to do next? Are you going to turn me into a beast?" She then pointed at Dark Night and Lightning Storm and continued, "Are you going to turn them into beasts or come up with some other evil plan?"

Colgate ignored her, opened the cell that Dark Night and Lightning Storm were in and ordered, "Follow me generals, your time has come. Your time to resume your duties has come."

The two gasped in shock. It wasn't so much that Colgate mentioned that it was time to resume their duties but that she had referred to them as generals. Dark Night was the first thing to say anything, "Really, you trust us enough to do our duties again?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, I do. Now let's get to the base so you can get back in the loop of things."

The two nodded and they nervously followed Colgate as she led them out of the dungeon before she slammed the door, leaving Scootaloo down there, all alone. When they got back above ground and into the main part of the tower, they shielded their eyes. It had been quite some time since they had seen that much light. Colgate saw this and continued, "Don't worry you two, your eyes will adjust."

The light became much brighter for them as they headed outside. While the light was horribly right, they took in deep breaths as that was the freshest air they had been exposed to in quite some time. Once they arrived at the base, the other soldiers were shocked to see that their generals had returned. She pointed out to her soldiers and ordered, "Generals, join your fellow soldiers so I may address you all."

They did as ordered and awaited the speech from who they believed was still only their Supreme Commander. She was thinking about whether she should just cast the loyalty spell right away or perhaps go over everything that had been going on. It did not take long for her to decide that she would cast the loyalty spell to prevent any objections to her plans or any disobedience. She lit up her horn and ordered, "Stand still and focus on me."

They knew what was going to happen and knew what the punishment would be for not obeying orders. Once Colgate had their full attention, decided she would do things much differently than she did in the past. She decided that rather than simply firing the energy at them, she grabbed them in her aura. She then intensified her hold on them and recited,

"Currently their loyalty belongs to none
Without it though my quest is done,
Their loyalty is an absolute must
For without it everything will be a bust.

My plans for conquest are what must be
That is something everypony can clearly see,
With their loyalty everything will be fine
And all of Eqqus 1 shall be mine.

Hear me my troops
With your loyalty you shall never be out of the loop,
Your loyalty now belongs to The Goddess of Terror
To resist shall be a grave error."

As she finished reciting a spell, a great surge of energy flowed from her horn into the soldiers. She continued to pump the energy into them for a full five minutes before finally releasing them. Once she released them, they all gave her a salute and proclaimed, "All hail Supreme Commander Colgate, The Goddess of Terror, our one and only leader!"

This brought a huge smile to Colgate's face. It had been a very long time since she last had her army state that she was their one and only leader. Once they made their proclamation Colgate began, "Troops, first let me apologize for my neglect of you. I have been very busy as of late, busy doing what it will take to defeat our enemies."

One of the soldiers asked, "What sorts of things? Which enemies?"

Colgate began, "Over the years, many of the world leaders have grown distrustful of me and I have reason to believe that they are preparing to attack us. I have been watching through the eye and all of the leaders are planning some sort of meeting in Faustica regarding Coastal Equestria, except one."

Her generals knew exactly who she was talking about but none of the regular soldiers knew about the betrayal of Scootaloo. She continued, "I am not sure how many of you remember my former commander and current Supreme Commander of the Crystal Empire but she betrayed the citizens of Coastal Equestria and is currently in the dungeon."

The regular soldiers gasped and before Colgate could continue, Lightning Storm added, "Yes, Scootaloo has betrayed us, she has joined forces with the enemy."

Dark Night added, "We caught her exiting Unicornia in an attempt to lead the royals there, FORMER ALLIES, to Faustica for this meeting, a meeting to make hostile plans against us."

When her generals shared some information with the regular soldiers, Colgate could tell that they were ready to lead again and motioned them to join her in front of the army. Once they joined her she continued, "Yes, she was planning on joining them on a trip to Faustica. Luckily she is in my dungeon and as far as Ruby Heart and White Magick, they will wish they had never distrusted me, they will wish that they never betrayed Coastal Equestria when I get my hooves on them."

At the time there were very few soldiers since it had been ages since Colgate had to duplicate them. One of them asked, "So when will we be taking them on? When will you duplicate us so we can go and wipe them out?"

Colgate replied, "Not for a while. I want to spy on them when they are having their little meeting. Trust me though, once the time comes, I will duplicate you many times over and we shall crush our foes! We shall feast on their flesh!"

Her troops began to cheer loudly like they did in the past when such a speech was given, especially when feasting on an enemy's flesh was brought up. She began to head back towards the black tower and ordered, "Follow me troops, to celebrate the return of our generals, we are going to have an epic feast! We are going to have a feast bigger than we have had in ages!"

As the troops were following her into the tower, Colgate felt a great sense of pride. Not only had she cast a much more powerful loyalty spell on her forces and had rallied them up some, she had done something she felt was equally if not more important. She had got her generals to no longer have any fear of her because of her appearance. She felt as though, despite having multiple enemies, that things were looking up. She felt as though her chances of punishing what she viewed as an ungrateful world had increased many times over.