Terror in Equestria 11: Death and Destruction

Colgate and Dark Night had just brutally attacked Faustica and wiped out not only a good part of their civilian population but every last guard. For the two, Colgate in particular, it was a sweet victory, it was the type of victory that Colgate believed would crush the psyche of her foes and make global domination much, much easier.

In Faustica however, sadness filled the entire city. The streets were cluttered with the bodies of civilians and guard ponies alike. Once Colgate and Dark Night had left, the royals began to assess the situation but the first thing everypony did was comfort the royal family from Unicornia.

The two were standing over the headless body of their son sobbing, "How? How could this have happened?" sobbed White Magick.

Ruby Heart was sobbing harder, "I know she distrusted us but to kill our son?" Her cries became more angry as she continued, "Curse that Colgate! When I get my hooves on her it shall be she who is headless!"

Galaxia was the first to approach the two and pull them into an embrace, "I'm sorry you two. I never once imagined that any pony would ever engage in things like this, not even the dark goddess. I never imagined that ponies were capable of such darkness."

Ruby screamed, "She is not a pony anymore. She has fused evil relics into herself and has become something else. She has the magic of Grogar and that black diamond in her! I don't know what you'd call her anymore but it certainly isn't a pony!"

LaurFa was roaming the courtyards and sobbing over all the blood that had been spilled. She began to cry wondering, "What if? What if I would have been out here, could I have stopped this?"

Even though Brevity still felt a bit of bitterness towards the fact that her sister had changed things back to how they used to be, she too couldn't stop crying. She knew that it was not the fault of the citizens that this could happen and did have some empathy for how her sister was feeling. She approached her, embraced her and said, "Sister, we know that this is hard on you but we can not mourn for too long. Right now our number one focus needs to be Colgate, our focus needs to be slaying her."

LaurFa flared her horn up in anger, "How am I supposed to do that? Many civilians have been slaughtered and outside of my personal guards, every last one of them is dead! We don't even have a way to protect ourselves."

Brevity yelled, "Look, we know this is saddening but standing around moping will in no way help us! We know Colgate is watching and she could show up again at any moment! With the way we are right now, she could easily slaughter us all!"

Celestia and Luna were watching the others beginning to bicker. Given the situation they were in, this began to bother and sadden them. Finally Luna realized something had to be done, "Stop!" Her yell got the attention of everypony else and she continued, "Right now is no time to argue! Much blood has been spilled and we have to remain focused."

Celestia added, "We need to make plans to bury the dead but also, we have to make plans on how to defeat Colgate and arguing isn't going to help us any!"

The others stood there for a moment and realized that Galaxia's daughters were right. LaurFa hung her head low, "I know, this is just so infuriating and saddening. It is so saddening to have lost most of my citizens."

Celestia replied, "I know but for now we must be strong. We must start making plans on what to do next."

Ruby agreed, "Celestia is right. I think we need to get the remaining citizens that are alive to assist in getting everypony buried and then start making plans on what we should do next."

Giving everypony a proper burial was something of great importance to Ruby and White Magick, "And what of our son? For us to give him a proper burial, he will have to be buried in Unicornia." said White Magick.

Ruby added, "After all, a Unicornian must be buried in his or her homeland for it to be considered proper."

Everypony else could see their point but there was one thing that they figured needed to be brought up, "How?" asked LaurFa, "The entrance to Unicornia lies inside Coastal Equestria and I know she will be watching. I know if you go there to bury him, she and her army could easily surround you and slaughter you."

For the two this was not an option. "No!" screamed Ruby, "We will not bury our son on foreign soil nor will we simply allow his corpse to decay before we can get him buried."

White Magick added, "LaurFa, I don't think you understand our culture. Our citizens must be buried in Unicornia if they perish if at all possible."

Ruby pointed towards her sword and the diamond she fused into herself and continued, "And I think that if she and her minions show up, we should be able to handle them." Her voice became more determined as she continued, "And if she shows up, she will wish she had never been born."

While Brevity could understand where they were coming from, she voiced her concerns, "Ruby, White Magick, we know it is important that thou buries thy son in his homeland but Colgate could create a massive army! Her changelings could easily cover thee in ooze and make thou easy targets for her."

Ruby flared her horn up in anger, "Brevity, that changeling ooze will be no match for me now! With this diamond I am the most powerful pony ever!"

Something about her statement hit not just Brevity wrong, but LaurFa as well. Brevity was the first to say anything, "Ruby, just because thou has that diamond fused into thee dost not give thee Creator Goddess powers!" Brevity then became angrier, so angry that she forgot to speak in the way that she had for eons, "You still don't have the same powers as me nor do you have the powers that my sister at one time had!"

LaurFa too was angry but for different reasons, "Ruby, just listen to yourself! You sound exactly like Twilight did when she was the dark goddess! You are proclaiming yourself to be the most powerful pony ever, just like she did!"

Ruby stood there in silence and let what the two had said to her sink in and realized that they were right, "You're right, I guess I shouldn't have said what I did but still, I want to bury my son in Unicornia as soon as possible."

White Magick added, "As do I."

The other Alicorns looked at one another and realized that there was going to be no convincing Blue Star's parents that traveling to Unicornia at that time would be a bad idea. LaurFa stepped forward and sighed, "Very well, go ahead and go but we are going to have to come up with plans for a counter-attack."

"So do you want us to travel back here to make these plans or what?" asked Ruby.

Celestia glanced at the others, nodded and said, "No, we shall travel to Canterlot and meet you there. It will make your journey back much shorter and I do believe that we could launch our counter-attack from there much easier."

"Sounds like a plan." replied Ruby. She then turned to White Magick and continued, "Well shall we, shall we get going?"

White Magick grabbed their son's body in his aura and replied, "Yes, we shall." He then turned to LaurFa and finished, "We shall see you in Canterlot when you get there."

The two then took off to the east towards their homeland. They knew that the flight was going to be a long and tiring one but they did not care. Getting their son's corpse home and getting it buried before it could begin to decay was their primary concern. They knew that to get to Unicornia they would have to fly through Coastal Equestria but Ruby figured that with her having fused that diamond into herself, that she could fend off any attack or capture attempt by Colgate.

Colgate had been monitoring the movements and conversations of her enemies and was delighted by what she heard and saw. She knew that with the royal family flying home, the time had come to go and spill some more blood and more importantly, hopefully crush the psyche of her enemies. She laughed to herself, "Well, well, well, it looks like the time has come!" Her laugh became louder as she continued, "When those two see their whole kingdom wiped out, they'll be so distraught that Ruby won't even think to use her diamond against me!"