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Review by Ghost Mike
Review by undead_wanderer
Chinese Translation by Disharmony Tree
Audio Book Version by StraightToThePointStudio.

It's been thirty years since Princess Twilight's coronation. Equestria, now with an abundance of heroes, has pretty much become as peaceful as its ever been—and with Luster Dawn coming to full grips with the magic of friendship, Twilight can finally relax.

At least, she would if it weren't for Cozy Glow escaping from her prison every other day.

Twilight Sparkle has decided that she wants to be friends with Starswirl the Bearded.

Friends... with benefits.

And now Starlight has to hear her entire plan to do it, no matter if she wants to or not.

Written for the Pillars Shipping Contest!

Featured 7/8/2021!

This is an alternate take on Season 9 Episodes 24 and 25 "The ending of the End".
Here Cozy Glow feels remorseful for her past actions and wants to redeem herself and make amends with everyone she has hurt. Therefore she...

betrays Lord Tirek and Queen Chrysalis by joining Mane 6 to fight them in "the Ultimate Battle for the fate of Equestria". But her betrayal won't stop the remaining villains nor make them surrender...

They will find another way to defeat Twilight and take over Equestria

Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow have all been defeated, and worse yet, imprisoned in stone by the combined powers of Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Discord. Now that they are frozen in stone, they only have themselves. And the three are very quick to tell the other two as to why this is all their fault.

This is part of my 1K Challenge.

What if the events between seasons eight and nine went differently? What if Cozy Glow was actually good? Who would be there to redeem her? These are all questions many bronies have asked. This is my retelling of that time period.

After Equestria almost fell at the hooves of Cozy Glow, Twilight Sparkle visited the filly in Tartarus multiple times. She had been talking to her, tried to get to the bottom of why she almost singlehoofedly brought down Equestria by manipulating her fellow friendship students and attempting to banish all of its magic into another realm.
But no matter how often she asked or how much she probed for an underlying reason behind all this, Equestria's youngest enemy only kept reiterating that friendship is nothing but power for her.
Cozy Glow was a special case. But she wouldn't be the Princess of Friendship if she were to give up on a struggling friendship student. Maybe she really was not able to teach Cozy Glow the true values of friendship and neither were her five closest friends. But maybe others could succeed where they have failed.

And so, Twilight goes and assembles a team of ponies and creatures to teach Cozy Glow about Friendship, Villainy, Betrayal and the struggle to choose between Good and Evil.
The only catch was that Tartarus' security level has been increased.
But that's what letters are for.

Set between Season 8 and Season 9.

This story is a sequel to To Reform a Queen

Equestria has been about to lose all its magic. However, the light wins once again, and now Twilight is thinking about what to do. The filly in front of them understands what Friendship means; it's just the way she uses it.

Maybe, with a bit of help, she can get another chance...

Idea requested by JimmyHook19.

Cover art by VectorVito (he also has a FIMFiction account, and the name is "vito"). Go check his art!

All characters belong to Hasbro.

Chrysalis never thought Starlight Glimmer would offer to be her friend, so she accepts Starlight Glimmer's friendship and gains a new form of Changeling. Chrysalis is sorry for her actions, but the Changelings tell Chrysalis that she was only doing her duty as mother and queen of the changelings. Chrysalis decides she will live in Ponyville. Thorax accepts Chrysalis's decision, although he still thinks he isn't ready to be king of the Changelings.

Arriving in Ponyville, Chrysalis wonders with who she should live. Twilight offers Chrysalis to spend a day with each of her friends and with her, and who Chrysalis likes to spend time with, she could live with that pony. But over time, the friendship between Chrysalis and Twilight Sparkle may become something more.

Contains spoilers from the episode 25!

Twilight Sparkle always believed that Chrysalis had salvation, that is, she would surrender, would have a new form of changeling like the other changelings and would rule alongside Thorax. But when she realizes that all her hopes of believing in the changeling queen have gone nowhere, she wonders why she did nothing to help Chrysalis's redemption.