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// A Letter from a Sappy Bug 
// Story: Letters to Cozy Glow 
// by Fluttercheer 
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Dear Cozy Glow,



my name is Thorax. I am the new leader of the Changeling Hive.


“Oh, really? The new leader?” Cozy perked up. “What happened to the old one? Did some good old backstabbing happen?” She wiggled her eyebrows.


Once, I was like you. I was a threat for Equestria and I stood loyal at the side of my former queen, Chrysalis. I was committing crimes against ponies in her name. But one day, this changed.


“So, another former villain..... Well, isn't that nice,” Cozy Glow grumbled and stuck out her tongue. “Please tell me that you at least backstabbed her and that you overthrew her in a bloody and merciless battle for dominance!” Cozy stiffled a yawn.


I was attacking Canterlot together with Chrysalis and my people. I was always a timid changeling, different than the others, and when I saw Princess Twilight and her friends fight for Equestria, I knew I couldn't do this anymore.


“Princess Twilight here, Princess Twilight there..... Get to the point!” Her voice became shrill at the end.


I was hiding until the battle was over. And after our army was defeated and we had been chased out of Canterlot, I got separated from the rest of my hive. I used the chance to run away and I never turned back. I have never returned to my hive, until the day Chrysalis was defeated.


“Now we're talking!” Cozy Glow had begun slumping in the middle of her cage, but now she sat up straight and her mouth formed a vile grin. “It's time for backstabbing!”


Chrysalis had kidnapped Princess Twilight and her friends, the royal family of the Crystal Empire and even Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. I managed to reach Ponyville and I led Discord, Starlight Glimmer and her friend Trixie through Chrysalis' hive. And when we arrived in Chrysalis' throne room.....


“Yes, yes, what happened then?” Cozy's eyes were glowing and she seemed like in trance.


…..I did the opposite of what Chrysalis has taught me. Instead of stealing love, I was giving love. And the other changelings followed my example. We all gave love to Chrysalis and this transformed us into a new kind of changelings.


Cozy Glow looked at the paper in her hooves, dumbfounded. “Gee, sappy like this? That's the most boring way of backstabbing someone I ever heard about.....”


The changeling hive blew up by all the love energy. Starlight Glimmer offered Chrysalis forgiveness and a new chance among us, but Chrysalis just mocked her, swore revenge and fled. And then we.....


“And then you lived happily ever after as a commune of sappy bugs.....” Now, Cozy finally yawned, loud and demonstrative. “You really bore me, Thorax, I can't even read until the end..... Your letter puts me to sleep.” She crumpled the letter to a ball. “Maybe Cerberus wants to play with it,” Cozy spoke and tossed the ball out of her cage. It landed right on Cerberus' nose, whose six eyes looked down in surprise.
“I'm taking a nap now, I bet this won't be any more boring than your excuse of a letter, Thorax,” Cozy said while she curled up right where she sat. A second later, the walls of Tartarus echoed her snores.