Terror in Equestria 11: Death and Destruction

One Last Transformation (Alternate Ending)

One Last Fusion

After a bloody battle that had claimed tens of thousands of lives, all was silent at the black tower. Colgate stood on the edge of her balcony looking over all the corpses with a smile on her face. She knew that while many of her forces fell, she had accomplished what she wanted, she killed the other leaders and their armies. She then looked at the diamond heart she was grasping in her aura and wondered what she should do with it, she wondered if she should lock it up or destroy the last relic of pure good in the world.

Her thoughts would then turn elsewhere, they turned to the one soldier she didn't see get killed, General Dark Night. She took the heart with her and began the search for her general. Given that he had been blasted by energy by Ruby right before she fought her, she went to the area where she battled her.

When she landed, the first thing she saw was Ruby's singed body. She kicked it and laughed, "Enjoying yourself down there?" Her laugh became louder as she continued, "Of course you are, you're good and dead!"

She then turned to the left and saw the one she was looking for, General Dark Night. She leaned down, shook him and asked, "General, are you ok?"

Dark Night opened his eyes and asked, "Ugh, what happened?"

Colgate pulled him up and exclaimed, "General, I'm so glad to see you're ok!"

Dark Night tried getting up on his hooves but fell multiple times before finally being able to stand. He looked around and asked, "I take it we won?"

Colgate replied, "Yes general we won. It came at a great cost but we were able to defeat our enemies." She then showed him the singed body of Ruby and continued, "And I punished the one who injured you severely."

Dark Night nodded but would then see the corpse of his fellow general. He pointed to it and sighed, "It is saddening that we lost Lightning Storm, he was a great general." He then saw Colgate holding something in her aura and continued, "What is that you're holding?"

Colgate held it up high and proudly stated, "It is the final relic of pure good in this world. It was what was keeping Ruby alive and now it is mine!" She then began to laugh and asked, "So what should I do? Should I lock it away or should I destroy it?"

Dark Night replied, "Well there is a third........"

He would be cut off when Colgate continued, "This is my world now and there is no room for anything like this! There is no room for something that is not what I represent. There is only room in this world for things like me, pure evil. Things that bring about terror and misery upon all is the only thing we should have."

Even after Colgate had cast that iron clad loyalty spell on Dark Night and Lightning Storm, her desire to bring about misery and suffering upon the world had bothered them. Whenever Colgate would discuss killing Ruby by removing the diamond heart from her, he couldn't help but wonder what would happen to her if she tried to fuse it into herself. He always thought that maybe it would purge the evil from her. For a very long time he was scared to bring it up but with every other dark Alicorn and changeling dead, he decided that he would have nothing to lose.

"I have a third option, what about fusing it into yourself?" suggested Dark Night.

Colgate's jaw dropped open when she heard this. She flared her horn up in anger and yelled, "What? You want me, the Goddess of Terror, to fuse an object of pure good into myself?" She turned towards Dark Night and screamed, "You're trying to get me to lose my powers, aren't you? You don't want me to rule this world the way I want, don't you?"

Dark Night did not shy back or show any nervousness, he instead came up with an answer that he figured she would like. "Colgate, you have always wanted more and more power. Just think about it, if you had the power of that thing flowing through you, it could make your dark powers even stronger. I am certain you could easily corrupt it to fit your needs and who knows, it could make you infinitely powerful! With that, you could conquer the whole universe!"

This brought a huge smile to Colgate's face. While conquering Eqqus 1 was her initial goal, the very thoughts of going for more seemed irresistible to her. She gave him a smile and replied, "Now that is an excellent plan." She held the relic high and continued, "And I even know the spell to fuse this into me." She then took to the sky and ordered, "You stay here. I have a feeling that this will unleash a lot of energy."

Dark Night did as ordered and Colgate flew to the same hill where she had done so many other things, where she had fused the black gem into herself and created her riders. She began to levitate it towards her chest to where it was right over her heart. She said, "Well here goes nothing."

Colgate began to go over the spell in her head but then realized something. She realized that parts of it would have to be rewritten because the wording of it was specifically for Ruby and nopony else. She groaned in frustration, "Ugh, who knows how long this will take!"

She then began to focus intently on the spell, thinking of what would need to be changed. She did know that anything involving a red heart would have to be changed to something involving the hourglass since that was what her cutie mark was of. She then came up with what she thought would be the right spell,

"With this gem comes love and light
The wielder of it shall possess a lot of might,
Harmony is what the diamond heart shall bring
The magic it possesses will make a great many sing.

The light and the heart of the hourglass shall become one
Against its power the chance of darkness is none,
Victory is guaranteed for the one who possesses the gem of light
Not even the darkest of the dark stands a chance in a fight.

The hourglass of gold must fuse the gem into her chest
After this the chances of defeat will be far less,
Love and light shall spread across the land
From everything from the tallest mountain to the very last grain of sand.

Once the fusion is done, the hourglass of gold and the gem shall become one
With the gem fused her time will never be done.
Yet if the bearer and the gem are ever parted
Immediate death is the thing that shall be started."

There was one thing that she did not like though, the very end. While she wanted all that extra power, she did not want there to be a chance of her dying if it was to be removed. She thought that if she could replace that part with something that didn't involve death, something that would involve the gem being unable to be removed, that it would work a lot better.

After nearly an hour of thinking of what would be great, she said the spell out loud,

"With this gem comes love and light
The wielder of it shall possess a lot of might,
Harmony is what the diamond heart shall bring
The magic it possesses will make a great many sing.

Once the fusion is done, the hourglass of gold and the gem shall become one
With the gem fused her time will never be done.
The diamond and the hourglass shall be one for eternity
With this union the love she spreads will be a certainty."

Colgate thought about it for a minute before finally deciding to try to use that spell. She had a feeling that this would likely cause her a great amount of pain. She did not care though, she wanted an infinite amount of power, she wanted to be able to conquer all of creation so she recited,

"With this gem comes love and light
The wielder of it shall possess a lot of might,
Harmony is what the diamond heart shall bring
The magic it possesses will make a great many sing.

The moment she finished reciting the spell, it began to fuse into her chest. For Colgate, the pain was unbearable and she could feel every ounce of her energy trying to fight the fusion. The pain soon became so bad that she began to shake and her cries of pain could be heard for a great distance. As the fusion continued and the diamond plowed its way into her chest, darkness began to leak from Colgate.

The pain only became worse for her as the black gem she had fused into herself began to crack. The gem was causing her even more pain as it was fracturing. The collar she had fused into herself too began to fracture, causing her even more pain. Soon the diamond would be mostly fused into her and as the fusion completed, the black gem shattered, the collar shattered and a great shockwave of dark energy shot out from Colgate, knocking her unconscious.

When Dark Night saw the shockwave, he flew up to the hill where Colgate was laying. What he saw was not the Colgate that headed up to the hill. The Colgate he saw was one similar to the one he first met, yet now rather than being almost completely dark, her body appeared to have a bit of a white aura to it. He shook Colgate and yelled, "Colgate, it's me Dark Night! Are you ok?"

All he got out of her was a few mumbles so he levitated her up to her sleeping chambers. Despite being a dark Alicorn, it was a challenge for him. Once he got her there, he got her into bed and sat there, hoping that she would eventually come to.

Colgate's Rebirth

Over the next three days, Colgate would have occasional bouts of painful screams which would then be followed by moments of silence from her. The behavior she was exhibiting concerned Dark Night as he could tell that she was experiencing a lot of pain.

Eventually Colgate's screams of pain got worse, they got bad enough to the point that Dark Night had to go out of the room and cover his ears. He was not sure what was going on with her but was hoping that with that loudest screams of pain, that maybe she would come to soon, he was hoping that this was maybe a rebirth for her.

After an hour of her loudest screaming, she went silent. Dark Night headed into her chambers and saw her open her eyes. She reached up, wiped them and saw that Dark Night was standing right over her. "Ugh, what happened?"

He pulled her up, embraced her and exclaimed, "You're alright! I was so worried about you!"

Colgate got out of bed and replied, "Well I feel alright." She then headed into her bathroom and saw herself in the mirror and was in a state of shock. No longer did she see a nearly solid black Alicorn, she saw a blue Alicorn that seemed to have a bit of a white aura to her. She gasped, "What happened?" She then looked at her chest and saw the diamond heart fused into herself. The first emotion she felt was shock but she would then be overcome with joy, "I'm free! I'm finally free of the corruption!"

She exited the bathroom and then a memory came to her, she remembered Dark Night suggesting to her that she fuse Ruby's old relic into herself. She grabbed him in her aura, hugged him and exclaimed, "Thank you Dark Night, thank you! Thank you for everything!" She set him down and began to jump around the room cheering in joy.

When Dark Night saw this, he was elated. What he saw was the Colgate that he thought he would never see again, a Colgate of pure good. That cheering would go quiet very quickly when Colgate headed to her balcony and looked out at the battlefield. When she saw all the corpses that littered the ground she began to cry in agony, "I'm responsible for this? I'm responsible for all this death?"

She then flew down to the battlefield and began looking at all the corpses with a great amount of sadness. Dark Night followed her down into the battlefield and saw that she was headed towards where she had her fight with Ruby. When Colgate arrived, she noticed that Ruby had been burned black and noticed a gaping hole in her chest. Memories began to flood to her about the things that had happened. She leaned down and began to talk to the corpse, "I'm sorry Ruby, I'm sorry for everything."

She then turned to her left and saw Lightning Storm laying there. The very first thing that crossed her mind was using the resurrection spell on him. She grabbed him in her aura and took flight towards the base of the tower. Once she arrived she sat him down and readied herself to cast the spell. She grasped him in her aura and recited,

"The fallen one's time has yet to be,
the fallen one still has many days to run free,
for potential the fallen one has a lot,
without life it would all be for not,
for life shall be renewed,
the fallen one's past decisions need not be reviewed."

Once she finished the spell, a bolt of bluish white energy shot out from her horn and caused him to be encircled in a white orb. The orb then began to lift off the ground and while the orb began to darken, Colgate knew that it was not anything bad, it was simply reflecting the color of Lightning Storm. After ten minutes of floating in the air, the orb popped and he floated to the ground.

The moment he saw Colgate he knew what had happened, he knew that Colgate had used the resurrection spell to bring him back. He rushed to her, embraced her and exclaimed, "Thank you Colgate, thank you! Thank you so much for bringing me back!"

Colgate yawned, "Well general, I value you a lot and I wanted to bring you back."

Dark Night noticed that Colgate was suddenly tired when she wasn't just a moment ago. He asked, "Colgate, why are you suddenly so tired? You seemed just fine a bit ago."

Colgate again let out a huge yawn, "I don't know why but casting that spell took a lot out of me." She looked up towards her balcony and continued, "Well I am going to hit the hay. How about you two take a VIP room because I do need to speak to you about something after I wake."

Her generals nodded and flew up to her balcony with her. When she got to her chambers, her generals headed to a VIP room. Once she was alone, Colgate decided to tap into the eye and see what was going on around the world. The things she saw troubled her greatly. In Saddle Arabia she saw what was once Rarity forcing her subjects to bring her gems and admiring herself in a mirror.

In Neigh Zealand, she saw the corrupted figures that were once ponies slaughtering the few remaining citizens alive. She saw nothing but a few citizens roaming around in both Faustica and Canterlot, she saw a dead and desolate Ponyville, she took a look at where the Crystal Empire once was and only saw a frozen wasteland. She then turned to Maredrid and noticed that while life seemed to be going on normally, their citizens seemed to be a bit paranoid and were questioning the fate of not only Applejack, but Luna as well.

The last place Colgate zeroed in on was her own capitol city of Marentreal. While she had always vowed that her citizens would come first, what she saw proved that during her time of darkness, she had not. She saw that the markets were empty and that ponies were having to go outside of town and eat what equines ate long before the world had become civilized, they were out eating grass.

As Colgate collapsed on her bed, she knew that something had to be done. She knew that this was no way for anypony, regardless of the country they live in, to live. She was trying her hardest to fall asleep, but just couldn't. Everything was keeping her awake it seemed. She just couldn't get to sleep knowing that she was responsible for not just the terrible conditions across the world but the mass graveyard that was outside of her tower.

To be Concluded.