Terror in Equestria 11: Death and Destruction

Three days had passed since Colgate had sent out the summons to her riders and finally they were arriving at the tower. Colgate had been watching them through the eye and noticed that they had been being rather lackadaisical in returning to the tower. She was not sure why it took them so long but she was going to get answers out of them, no matter what it took.

Once they had all landed at the base of the tower and dismounted their beasts, Colgate grabbed her sabre and went out to greet them. When she arrived, they immediately turned their attention to her and waited for her to speak. The first one she approached was Pinkamena, who was holding the Crystal Heart. When she approached her, she held out the relic and hissed, "For you Master."

Colgate gave her a smile and replied, "Thank you Pinkamena, I was hoping you would bring this." She broke into a sinister laugh and continued, "Now a certain prisoner can know what happened to her precious subjects!" Her voice became more stern as she continued, "And now I would like to know why it took all of you three days to get here." She pointed towards their beasts and finished, "Even you Dash, it shouldn't have taken you more than a day and a half to get here."

The three stood there without an answer and Colgate began to pick up on something that should not be radiating from them, nervousness. She wanted to test their psychological strength so she held her sabre up against Rainbow's throat and ordered, "Tell me, why did it take you three days to arrive?"

She hissed in shock as the blade made contact with her. Colgate pulled her blade back and asked, "So you three, are you nervous with me holding my blade? Are you scared of me?" Her voice became more snide as she continued, "If so, I can wipe you out as quickly as I created you. I have absolutely no use for psychological weak links, none whatsoever."

The creatures then realized that they couldn't show any weaknesses if they didn't want Colgate to wipe them out. She then approached Applejack and asked, "Now tell me, what took you so long?"

"Uh, uh, headwinds! Yeah, I encountered some mighty strong headwinds. They were blowing at uh, uh 200 miles an hour! Yep, they were really strong!" she lied.

Colgate's horn began to glow black and she snapped, "Don't you lie to me. I made you to lie to others, but not to me....your Creator."

That then caused her to tell the truth, "Well I really wasn't wanting to come. I thought if I waited the battle would be over and then you'd send me back."

The other two wised up and gave Colgate the same answer and none of this sat well with her. She decided that rather than flying off the handle on them or eradicating them with her sabre, that she would simply cast her loyalty spell on them to make sure they didn't do anything such as either flee the battle or betray her and side with the enemy. She glared at the three and ordered, "Stand still and give me your full and undivided attention."

"Yes Master." The three hissed in unison.

Once the three had given their complete and undivided attention to her, she readied herself to cast her loyalty spell. She knew that it would have to be altered a tiny bit since she would be using it on her creations rather than her generals. Once she figured out what she needed to say, she flared up her horn 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 minions
With your loyalty nopony shall cast us out from my dominion,
Your loyalty now belongs to The Goddess of Terror
To resist shall be a grave error."

The bolt of energy she fired at the three was very powerful but much to Colgate's relief, rather than knocking them backwards the way incredibly powerful loyalty spells did in the past, it was absorbed by their bodies. Once it appeared they had their bearings straight, Colgate asked, "To whom do your loyalties lie?"

"To Supreme Commander Colgate, The Goddess of Terror and no other." the three hissed.

Colgate nodded before saying, "You three stay here. The time has come for me to make my final prisoner useful."

The three stood like statues while Colgate headed into her tower and down into the dungeon. She had a huge smile on her face as she knew how Scootaloo would react to her possessing the crystal heart. When she entered the dungeon a voice asked, "Colgate, is that you?"

Colgate laughed, "It is little rat." She then held the crystal heart up and continued, "So Scoots, what do you think of my new decoration? It is quite pretty isn't it?"

Scootaloo's pupils shrank when she saw what was in front of her. She screamed, "No, no! Without the crystal heart the Empire will freeze over!"

Colgate opened the door to her cell, grabbed Scootaloo in her aura and laughed, "Well let's take a look shall we?"

Colgate grabbed Scootaloo in her aura and began to drag her up to her chambers to tap into the eye. Scootaloo was screaming and yelling the whole way up there. While normally such noise would anger the supreme commander, she found it rather entertaining. Once she got up to her chambers, she slammed Scootaloo into the floor and ordered, "Just watch this rat, I'm sure you'll find it quite fascinating and rather enjoyable."

Colgate tapped into the eye and zeroed in on the Crystal Empire before projecting it so her captive could see what was going on. Scootaloo started crying the moment she saw what had happened. All she saw was ice and snow. Colgate began to laugh when a dark figure could be seen, struggling in a futile attempt to escape the ice and snow. Colgate smacked Scootaloo and laughed, "And to think, had you not betrayed me, your citizens would be nice and warm, not doomed to an icy grave!"

"You monster, you horrible evil monster!" she screamed. "You're worse than the Dark Goddess ever was, you've become everything you fought against and then some!"

Colgate again grabbed her in her aura and snapped, "You're coming with me rat. I need to get something and then make you useful!"

As Colgate was dragging her downstairs and down to the archives, she made sure that Scootaloo's head would hit the floor with each stair they hit. Once they arrived in the archives, Colgate drug her to the very back room where she was storing the rainbow of darkness. She placed the crystal heart on a shelf and placed the pouch around her neck. She turned to Scootaloo and asked, "Now do you know how I'm going to make you useful?"

"The Rainbow of Darkness!" Scootaloo shouted. "Those other leaders were right all along when you took it! You're using it for conquest!"

Colgate smacked her and snapped, "Well of course I am. You don't think I took those relics for the fun of it do you?" She got up in Scootaloo's face and continued, "I have long hidden this but the moment those other leaders distrusted me after killing Twilight and taking those relics, I decided a time would come when they would pay." She again smacked Scootaloo and finished, "And you shall be an instrument in my achieving my goal, wiping them all out and ruling this miserable world with an iron hoof."

Scootaloo then began screaming every obscenity and insult she could think of at Scootaloo but The Goddess of Terror simply ignored her and started dragging her upstairs so she could do what she needed to ensure victory. Once Colgate got her outside, she levitated her up to the hill where she had created her other minions. When they arrived, she threw Scootaloo to the ground and ordered, "Now stand still or you will experience never before experienced realms of pain."

At that moment Scootaloo realized that no matter what, she was going to become an instrument in Colgate's plans for conquest so rather than struggling, she stood still and gave her attention to Colgate. Colgate pointed her pouch at Scootaloo, flared up her horn and recited,

"The pony is currently loyal to none,
That is something that simply can not be done.
Her loyalty to me is a must,
Without it all shall be a bust.

Her loyalty now belongs to me,
Yet her size must be large for all to see.
A large beast is what she shall be,
One which is loyal to me and only me."

Once the Rainbow shot out of the pouch, Colgate poured some of her own energy into it as well so that her newly created beast would be worthy of having her at its rider. She wanted to make sure that this one would be larger than the others and could easily take out anything that Celestia would create.

When all the energy struck Scootaloo, she became encircled in a black ball, a black ball that began to increase in size as she did. After a couple of minutes, the huge black ball broke and a much larger, dark gray creature emerged. Colgate flew up to the creature's head and patted it on the cheek. The creature seemed to like it so Colgate figured that this was the creature's way of saying that it was loyal to her. She mounted the beast and ordered, "To the tower, now!"

The beast took off and it did not take even a minute for them to reach their destination. When the creature landed, the ground shook because of the force it landed with. While her riders looked at the new beast in curiosity, Dark Night and Lightning Storm rushed from the base to see what had landed.

When they saw Colgate fly off its back, they knew what had happened. Dark Night gave Colgate a smile and asked, "I take it your former ally is useful now?"

Colgate replied, "That she is and with her size, we can more than makeup for the absence of that tyrannical greedy abomination and her beast."

Lightning Storm, who knew less about the whole situation and how the huge beasts operate asked, "So how are you going to feed this thing? I don't know if there is enough food in all of Coastal Equestria for it."

Colgate couldn't help but chuckle, "The great thing about these creatures is that they don't have to eat to survive. They could go a whole millennia without eating a morsel and they'll be just fine."

"Well good." He replied, "I wouldn't want to see any of these things go and eat our citizens."

"Don't worry, they won't." Colgate reassured him. She then turned to the tower and continued, "Now to go and see what is going on in Canterlot. I want to see what our enemies are up to and see if they are ready to march upon us."

Colgate then took flight and headed to her balcony. Once she got into her chambers, she would be pleasantly surprised to see that it was a rather mundane day in the Equestrian capitol. She spied in on the leaders and was surprised to see them sitting down to a rather carefree meal rather than making any war plans. Colgate laughed, "Have they decided to just sit there and do nothing?" Her laugh became more serious as she continued, "If that is the case, then perhaps we shall go and destroy them. After all, I didn't acquire everything I have to not face off against them."