After what Sunset had done she never expected anyone to forgive her, but there was always someone willing to give her a second chance and accept her for what she was.
Twilight Sparkle is lonely. So lonely, in fact, that she spends many months devising a plan to get Rainbow Dash to snuggle with her in the hopes that doing something so intimate would let Rainbow see just how much she cares about her.
Twilight Sparkle enlists Rainbow Dash's help in a "Fuzzy Muzzle Nuzzle" research project. The experiment only has three steps. That's not too much to ask of a close friend, is it?
"Cool ponies don't cuddle," Four words that have been ingrained in Rainbow Dash's mind her entire life, but with a friend like Fluttershy, maybe being cool isn't all it's cracked up to be.