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// Epilogue 
// Story: Cozy Glow That Time Forgot 
// by 5u0myn0n4 
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Twilight Sparkle and Cozy Glow reappeared in present day Canterlot.

Cozy looked around, amazed at her surroundings. She couldn't believe she was back in a familiar time and place. The green grass and calm weather was a nice change of pace from what she'd grown accustomed to.

"Cozy? Are you alright?" Twilight asked.

"I'm fine... I just never thought I'd see Canterlot again..." Cozy said, amazed. "What a relief it was to see someplace familiar."

Twilight let Cozy wander around the garden, as she trusted her. It was nice and relieving to be able to trust Cozy Glow. As Twilight was in her thoughts, she was awoken by  a high pitched shriek.

"AHH!" Cozy Glow shrieked.

"What's wrong, Cozy?!" Twilight exclaimed.

"It's... me!" Cozy exclaimed.

Cozy Glow looked up, and saw the Legion of Doom's statue right before her eyes. Which included the entire trio, including herself.

"Oh no..." Twilight said, in a deep worried tone.

"Why are they here? Why am I still here? I changed my ways." Cozy said.

"My guess is it's probably because even though I brought you back from the past, you're actually from the far future. Nothing we did altered what we did to you three years ago." Twilight said.

"All this time traveling stuff has my head spinning, and has me a bit worried." Cozy said. "We can't just leave her... er... me in stone, can we?"

"I understand, but if we unfreeze her, then you won't end up in the future, and escape to the past like you did." Twilight said. "You might cease to exist!"

Cozy Glow gasped. All her experiences. Everything she learned, and everyway she had changed. All the friends she made, could all be erased if they unfroze Cozy Glow from stone. Such was the cruel consequence of these strange circumstances.

Cozy Glow flew up close to her stone self, but Twilight advised against doing so.

"I wouldn't even touch her if I were you. The smallest actions can cascade into big changes." Twilight said.

Cozy decided to heed Twilight's warning, and merely flew close to her stone self, and observed her. Cozy stared deeply into her own terrified stone eyes. Not everypony got the chance to stare at their stone body.

"Does my mane really look like that?" Cozy asked herself. She tapped her mane, and wondered about what to do.

Twilight weighed her options and thought about what to do. It didn't feel right leaving that Cozy Glow in stone, especially now that she'd seen what Cozy could become. Leaving her in stone didn't seem fair, but it did seem like the easiest solution, without invoking more convoluted time shenanigans. So the next best thing Twilight could do, was attempt to save face.

"How did it feel, Cozy? Being... you know. Was it over before you knew it? Did it feel like a relatively short time? Or do you remember experiencing every second counting by? Did it actually feel like eternity?" Twilight asked. But she got no reply.

"...Cozy Glow?"

Suddenly Twilight Sparkle heard a splash sound.

It was Cozy Glow submerging her head in a fountain of water.

Cozy Glow submerged her head in the water fountain, and then pulled herself out, plashing water everywhere. Her mane was wet, and flowing straight down.

"That felt so terrible, in all the right ways...." Cozy said, untying and removing the yellow bow from her mane.

"Why'd you do that?" Twilight asked.

"Well, if Starlight Glimmer changed her manestyle when she became your friend, I figured I oughta do the same." Cozy said.

Cozy shook her head dry, and splashed Twilight. Twilight giggled, and rolled her eyes in a polite way. More so conveying that she was happy seeing Cozy's playful antics.

"Well, if you want a new manestyle, say no more." Twilight said. "Follow me, Rarity knows a great mane stylist hair who can turn your mane into anything."

"Okay!" Cozy said, joyfully.

Twilight followed Cozy Glow through Canterlot, as they laughed all the way to the mane stylist. The two of them ran around Canterlot, happy to be in each other's company.





This Cozy Glow went on to live fun and a fulfilling life, but unfortunately that meant that they were forced to leave the other Cozy Glow as a stone statue. She was left in place, where she ended up being forgotten... for a long time... until the end of time.

The End.