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Post-Game Strategy

Cozy Glow had thought of the BEST idea for escaping Celestia's punishment! All Cozy needed to do was LET that big, fat, pointy-headed horse petrify Cozy Glow into a statue, and set the midget filly outside as a garden decoration.

A few nights later, a pony previously tricked into thinking he'd been hired as a 'night groundskeeper' would roll a wheelbarrow into the royal sculpture garden, and trundle Cozy Glow away.

A second pony would shove Cozy Glow through a secret interdimensional portal in the Everfree Forest. When Cozy arrived in the 'hyuu-man' world...she'd be in a world with no magic! Instead of a magically petrified pegasus, she would be an ordinary, unpetrified girl of flesh and blood!

Well, outwardly ordinary, at least. Her scheming mind and her evil heart would remain the same.

Her new world would never see her coming, until it was too late for its ape-like natives to save themselves.

***

"When I was little," Bellissima said, "I saw a beautiful doll in a shop window, so perfectly made it was almost exactly like a real girl. I asked my parents for it." Bellissima held Cozy's hand as they proceeded along the sidewalk together, Bellissima pushing the little girl forward. "My parents said, maybe for your birthday. But the next day, when my mother and I passed the same shop, the doll was gone."

Cozy Glow neither frowned nor smiled, but she seemed to nod.

"My mother tried to hide her reaction, but I could see she was surprised...and worried. I could be a very determined little girl when I put my mind to it. Sometimes, my parents were afraid of disappointing me, of making me angry."

Bellissima patted Cozy's shoulder. "You would never disappoint me, right? You would never let me down?"

Cozy nodded again, more emphatically this time, as Bellissima pushed Cozy's wheelchair over a bump in the pavement.

Bellissima stroked the girl's perfect curls. "When I grew up, I wanted to have a daughter of my own. But would you BELIEVE my OWN PARENTS told the adoption agency I shouldn't be ALLOWED to raise a child? They said I was domineering and controlling and would probably never give a child any freedom to be herself! How could my own flesh and blood betray me so?"

Cozy's head shook, as her chair shimmied through a rough patch. If Cozy hadn't been strapped into her conveyance, she'd probably have fallen out.

"Yes, they ARE terrible people," Bellissima remarked. "But I found a way. Who would ever guess that one day I'd be walking past the big abstract sculpture behind Crystal Prep Academy, and there would be a perfect little girl laying there? Pure and innocent and needing someone to care for her!"

Cozy's head wobbled a bit, as Bellissima pushed Cozy's wheelchair around a rock.

Bellissima smiled, showing her expensively flawless teeth. "It was fated. God KNEW I deserved a daughter as beautiful and perfect as myself. And you never dare to backtalk or disobey me, do you?" Bellissima bent down to kiss the top of Cozy's head. "You're the best and most obedient daughter anyone could ever hope for. I know you'll never, ever leave me. Not for as long as we live."

As always, Cozy was speechless.

Author's Note:

This story is either set AFTER most of MLP:FiM canon, or in 'AU / Alternate Universe.' I think either way works.

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