Terror in Equestria 11: Death and Destruction

Colgate had been watching everything from her tower and when she saw Brevity and LaurFa fighting, she broke down laughing. She was laughing so hard that she fell to the floor and all the noise prompted Dark Night to go up to her chambers and check on her. When he arrived, he saw her laying on the floor pounding her hooves. While he knew that Colgate was in anything but a bad mood, he tapped her and asked, "Colgate, what are you laughing about? What is so funny?"

Colgate was having trouble getting up she was laughing so hard but once she did, she began, "Get this Dark Night...." she broke down laughing again, "They're fighting, LaurFa and Brevity are fighting!"

Dark Night gave a curious chuckle, "Fighting, fighting over what?"

Colgate continued to laugh, "Over who is going to go and retrieve the remains of Ruby's sword from what USED to be Unicornia! Isn't it hilarious?"

The fact that they were sending somepony to retrieve the remains of that sword was not funny to Dark Night, it was concerning. He nudged Colgate and asked, "Colgate, shouldn't we be concerned? What if they get the shards, take it back, fix it and do something to make it stronger?"

Colgate continued to laugh, "Oh that is their plan but get this, they think somepony may have to sacrifice themselves to do it...." she began to laugh so hard she was snorting, "and LaurFa suggested Brevity sacrifice herself for it! Isn't it hilarious?"

While seeing Colgate laughing like this did make Dark Night happy for the most part, for the first time ever, he thought Colgate wasn't taking a threat serious enough. He raised his voice and asked, "Colgate, aren't you even the least bit worried that they could do something to make that sword stronger than your sabre."

Colgate finally calmed down somewhat and replied, "Not really. If I have to I can use my magic to make my own stronger too." She then finally became more determined and continued, "And as we speak, Brevity is flying towards our newest acquisition and is being followed by Ruby since they realized that Brevity can't use her magic there." Her face became more grim as she continued, "And with both of them gone, the time has come for one of my creations to finally wipe out the one she has hated since the day she was corrupted."

"I take it Twilight's time for one final bit of revenge has come?" asked Dark Night.

"Yes, it has." replied Colgate. "And she will not be going along, Fluttershy shall join her. With both Ruby and Brevity gone, they can slay the rest and then I can handle the one I want most."

After she finished her conversation with Dark Night, Colgate headed to the throne room where Twilight, as ordered, had been standing guard silently. She approached her and asked, "Twilight, what would you think about destroying the one you hate the most? What would you think about destroying the one you have hated for twenty millennia?"

Twilight gave Colgate her attention and hissed, "Yes Master?"

Colgate was not thrilled that it sounded like a question but knew exactly how to get her creation's attention, "The time has come, the time has come for you to travel to Canterlot and slay Princess Celestia and her allies."

The moment she mentioned slaying Celestia, Twilight's head shot up and she gave out a more enthusiastic hiss, "Yes Master!"

Colgate gave her an intense look, "Follow me." She led her creation outside to where her beast had been waiting for quite some time to go on another flight. She pointed towards the beast and continued, "Now go. First you are to fly to Ponyville and get Fluttershy to aid you in this quest." She paused for a moment before continuing, "And if at all possible, have Fluttershy grab some of her pets to accompany you two." She then gave Twilight a smile and finished, "And when you two arrive in Canterlot, leave none alive! Slay them all!"

"Yes Master!" Twilight hissed.

Twilight quickly mounted her beast and took off to the west. Colgate watched with a smile on her face knowing that it would not be long until terror, death and destruction would rain down upon another capitol of her enemies. Once Twilight got out of eyesight, Colgate immediately headed up to her chambers to tap into the eye to make sure that her creation did as ordered before going to Canterlot and eradicating everypony there.

Twilight had been flying for roughly three hours when Ponyville came into the distance. She slowed the rate her beast was flying and began to circle the town, looking for the one that she was supposed to acquire. In the center of the town, next to the town hall was Fluttershy, her beast and her pets. She landed, dismounted her beast and approached her fellow creation.

"Fluttershy," Twilight hissed "I come to you with orders from the black tower."

"What orders?" hissed Fluttershy.

Twilight began, "We are to fly to Canterlot and slay everypony there, everypony." She then pointed to her pets and continued, "And you are to grab them, take them with us so they may feast upon the city."

Given that once they had finished off the rest of the population of Ponyville and had not had a lot to eat, she only had forty of them but this still was a fair amount to have to transport. Fluttershy hissed, "How? How are we supposed to transport them? There are too many for them to ride on my beast's back."

Twilight grabbed them in her aura and growled, "Like this." She pointed towards Fluttershy's beast and ordered, "Follow me."

Twilight took to the sky and was followed by Fluttershy. Given that Canterlot can be seen from Ponyville, it did not take long for them to reach the city. While Fluttershy simply saw this as an order from Colgate, Twilight couldn't help but be excited. She knew that the time would soon arrive that she would be able to wipe out the one she hated the most, Princess Celestia.

In Canterlot, it was a rather peaceful day. Many ponies were out and about doing their usual business. Some were dining, some were simply enjoying the nice day while others were at work. The ponies were so relaxed and focused on what they were doing that they failed to notice two large shadows over the city until they heard a noise that would terrify them.

SHRIEK!

When the citizens saw the two beasts flying above the city, they began to run around in a panic. That panic would be worsened when Twilight sat Fluttershy's pets down in the city and they immediately began their attacks. None of the ponies had ever seen such creatures before and with many of them, the creatures attacked and began to eat them before they could react. It would not be long until the unicorn guard arrived and knew that they had to start taking out the creatures.

One thing the guard quickly discovered was that while the creatures were vicious and had insatiable appetites for meat, they were incredibly easy to kill with magic. Before long, the whole guard arrived and very quickly incinerated every single creature. It was at this time that Twilight and Fluttershy decided to launch their attacks. They had their beasts soar high above the city before swooping down, grabbing ponies, flying back up and then dropping them to their deaths.

As the commotion got louder, the world's leaders finally heard the commotion and rushed outside to see what was going on. They were terrified when they saw the foul beasts with Alicorn riders. They all knew what was going on and while most of them immediately rushed out to begin repelling the attack, one would be hindered by a sharp pain where she had been stabbed before, Celestia.

When Luna saw this she shouted, "Sister, we have to take them down! We have to drive them away!"

Despite being in pain, Celestia followed her sister out into the courtyard to join the guard ponies in the battle. By this time not only had the regular unicorn guard arrived, but so had the armed guard. Armed with their swords, they would swipe at the beasts when they would swoop down but the most they could get was a slight swipe at their claws, which was not even felt by them. When one guard was picked up, he dropped his sword and at that moment Celestia realized that perhaps she could go after her long time foe and not just drive her away but take her down.

She looked up and saw the beast that Twilight was riding and immediately fired some magic before heading off to the right where there were not so many ponies running around in a panic. When Twilight saw this, she instructed her beast to land in the courtyard. She hissed, "Feast upon her flesh, finish her off!"

The beast immediately began going after her but despite being in a lot of pain, Celestia was quite agile and the beast just couldn't get her. Celestia then took the sword and began swiping it at the beasts head, hoping to cut it off. The beast continued to miss her while she continued to score hit after hit on it until she finally cut its head off. When she got its head off, the beast fell down to a lower level of the city and crushed many of the panicked citizens.

Twilight however did not fall with the beast. She flew up into the courtyard and landed in front of Celestia. She stood tall and hissed, "So you think you can rid the world of me? You think you can rid the world of the power of the black tower?" She approached her and continued, "You will never rid the world of the darkness." She aimed her sword towards Celestia and finished, "And now you must die!"

Luna was not too far away and knew that she could not allow this to happen. She shouted, "Sister!" She fired a powerful bolt of energy at Twilight, causing her to drop her sword and let out a loud shriek, a shriek that pierced all their ears, temporarily disorienting them. The energy though, had also disoriented Twilight and when Celestia got her bearings straight, she knew the time had come to not only rid this world of Twilight once and for all, but to prove to everypony that thought she may not be tough enough for battle that she was.

She picked up her sword, pointed it towards the disoriented abomination in front of her and stated, "I made the mistake of taking you in as my student over twenty millennia ago and you have done many bad things to not just me, but this world. That all stops now Twilight, good riddance!"

She then plunged her sword straight through the mask that covered Twilight's face and immediately Celestia was thrown back as a great wind began to blow out from what was once Twilight. The Witch Queen began to disintegrate and just as she was completely destroyed, one final blast of energy shot out, knocking Celestia completely back against a city wall and again disoriented her. Luna very quickly rushed to her sister and tried to get her back up.

When Celestia got up, Luna congratulated her, "Sister, you did it! You destroyed her!"

Celestia embraced her, "Thanks to you. Had you not blasted her with energy, I may not be alive."

The two approached the cloak and mask that remained and moved them. Underneath was a burn mark, Twilight's cutie mark inside of Colgate's. Celestia stared down at it and sternly said, "Well Twilight, it is game over." She raised her voice and continued, "I WON YOU LITTLE TYRANT, I WON!"

Luna nudged her sister and pointed towards the other side of the city, "Sister, you can celebrate later. We have one more to take down."

Celestia grabbed her sword and yelled, "Well let's do it sister, let's wipe that one out too."

In all the years the world had been in so much turmoil, Luna had never seen Celestia be so ready to charge into a battle. Celestia flew towards the other side of the city and immediately launched an attack on the other beast that had landed and began taking her sword to the beast's neck. This one would be more of a challenge as it grabbed her in it's mouth and flung her towards the ground. Celestia would be quick to regain her composure though. As she was flying back up, she remembered how her sister's energy stunned Twilight long enough for her to wipe her out.

She decided to fly behind the beast and fired a bolt of energy towards the rider, striking it and temporarily stunning it. She then took off to where she was in front of it and like it was with Twilight, she stabbed her sword straight into its face without even looking to see which one it was. Like it was with Twilight, a great blast of wind came from the disintegrating rider before it finally exploded and all that remained was its cloak.

The sudden absence of its master caused its beast to become more aggressive. Despite many ponies having swords and were trying to cut its head off, it began grabbing ponies and rather than simply throwing them to what would be their death, it began grabbing them and eating them. This sent many, Queen Galaxia in particular, into a rage. She grabbed a sword from a fallen soldier and began swinging the blade at it, scoring a couple of hits but not enough to do any real damage to it.

After getting a few minor hits, the beast grabbed Galaxia in its jaws and tried to pull her in head first. Galaxia began blasting it with powerful bolts of energy, causing it to groan in pain but it was not about to be denied its meal that easily. It clamped down on her harder but that wouldn't stop her from struggling. The more she struggled though, the harder the beast's bite was and despite LaurFa grabbing Galaxia with her energy trying to pull her out, she couldn't free her from the beast's grasp.

When Celestia saw that her mom was in its jaws, she cried out, "Mom!" She then did the only thing she could think of, she swooped down and slashed the beasts neck, cutting it off. As the head became detached from the rest of the body, Galaxia went flying out of its jaws and was flung to the side of the castle. Everypony then rushed to her to check and see if she was ok.

Luna and Celestia were the first to arrive. Both leaned down and Celestia began to cry, "No, please no! Please don't be dead mom, please don't be dead."

Luna pressed her hoof against her mother's neck and was unable to find a pulse. She leaned over and began to sob, "She's gone, she's gone."

Celestia broke down in agony, "No, please no! Please don't be gone mom, please don't be gone."

While Luna normally tried to be strong in most situations, this was one situation where she simply couldn't. Seeing the loss of her father was incredibly hard on her but also seeing her mother pass, especially the way she did, caused Luna to break down in a cry of agony, "No, please no." Her cries became more angry as she continued, "Curse her, curse that Colgate! When I get my hooves on her, she will wish she was never born."

At that moment the guards that remained and the few civilians knew that it would likely be best if they gave the two sisters their space but one decided to approach the two, LaurFa. "Celestia, Luna, I am sorry. I know this is hard but we have to focus on the matter at hand, we must focus on Colgate and defeating her."

This angered the two, "LaurFa, we lost our father to a tatzlwurm and now we have lost our mother to that thing. We can't just focus on Colgate alone right now." cried Celestia.

Luna was much angrier, "Listen LaurFa, I honestly don't think you even know what this is like. You are a Creator Goddess and are probably as old as the universe itself, you've probably never lost any parents."

LaurFa tried to get some words in but would be interrupted by the two, "Just leave us alone!" Celestia then pointed her wing outwards and yelled, "Just go!"

After LaurFa left the two alone Celestia cried, "Sister, I can't help but wonder. What if we hadn't told Ruby to go after Brevity? What if we hadn't brought up retrieving the remains of that sword at all? Could we have stopped this, would mom still be alive?" She then became more angry, "What if LaurFa had tried harder to free mom from the beast's grasp?" She then screamed loudly, "Why didn't she just teleport her out of its hold? Her magic is more than strong enough!"

Luna was a bit calmer but still sobbing, "Sister, we can't worry about that now. We need to be strong, we need to get mom buried and while I am not thrilled to admit this right now, LaurFa is right. Once mom is buried, we need to focus on Colgate and once Ruby and Brevity return, we need to make plans to take her down." She became angry and continued, "I know for sure that she is probably watching us through that eye and despite her beasts and minions falling, she is probably laughing." She then became more determined and finished, "Mark my words though dear sister, Colgate will not have faced the wrath of two sisters whose parents she took from them."

In the black tower Colgate was less than thrilled over the results of what happened. While she was furious that both Twilight and Fluttershy were destroyed and their beasts were killed, she did get some satisfaction out of watching Galaxia getting killed. In most situations Colgate would have gone into a mad fury over seeing her minions being wiped out but in this instance, all she could do was grumble to herself, "Miserable failures in life, miserable failures in death. Perhaps Dark Night and I should have done this ourselves."

She then figured she would share the news with Dark Night so she went to her balcony and flew down to the base where Dark Night was leading a garden variety exercise. She landed next to him and ordered, "At ease soldiers, at ease." She then turned to Dark Night and said, "Dark Night, I need to speak to you in private."

He gave her a nervous look and asked, "You want to talk about the attack on Canterlot, don't you?"

Colgate nodded, pointed her wing towards her balcony and ordered, "Follow me."

Dark Night did as ordered and he followed Colgate onto her balcony and into her chambers. She turned to him and asked, "You want to hear the bad news first or the good news first?"

Dark Night knew how Colgate would be if she finished with the bad news so he replied, "I will take the bad news first."

"Very well," Colgate began "well I am beginning to think that you and I should have went and took care of this ourselves."

"Oh, why is that?" asked Dark Night

Colgate began to become agitated, "Because not only did both of them get destroyed but their beasts had their heads cut off and then," she began to yell "it was Celestia who wiped them both out! It was the overly emotional crybaby Celestia who wiped them out!"

Dark Night gasped, "Seriously, it was Celestia who wiped them out?"

"Yes." Colgate screamed. She then calmed down a bit and continued, "But there is one bit of good news, you know Celestia and Luna's mother?"

"Queen Galaxia?" Dark Night asked.

"Yes," Colgate then began to laugh, "She fell in the attack. Fluttershy's beast grabbed her in its mouth and while it didn't eat her, it did kill her!" Her laugh became louder, "And right now her precious daughters are over there crying and whining!" She then began to mock them, "Oh our mommy is dead, wah-wah-wah! We can't just focus on Colgate right now, wah-wah-wah!"

Dark Night chuckled, "Well that does sound like Celestia but that doesn't sound like Luna."

"Well," Colgate continued "both of them have seen both their parents die in attacks by foul creatures." She then headed out to her balcony, looked west and continued, "and now I shall keep an eye on our foes who are going to what used to be Unicornia." She then pointed down towards the base and finished, "Now you may return to your exercise, I need some time to reflect on things and decide what to do next."

Dark Night nodded and followed Colgate's orders. Once he had returned to the base, she tapped into the eye and noticed that Ruby had caught up to Brevity and the two landed in the forest not too far away from the portal. She was watching them intently and said, "You two go in and retrieve that sword. Even if you do find a way to restore it and strengthen it, I can make my sabre even stronger." Her voice became louder as she finished, "My mission is going just as I planned for the most part and when you and your lackeys march on the tower, your flanks are mine!"