"NGHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
The steel blade sliced through the air, forcing timberwolf to rebound. The tall pink pegasus clenched the blade between her teeth, looking back at her ally. Fighting side by side with a centaur again was unaccustomed. However, it wasn't to say he was bad at fighting. With every swing of his warhammer, he crushed tree monsters to splinters. Yellow eyes of timberwolves burned between the trees. Suddenly, a shout came from deep within the forest.
"Chrysie!" Cozy turned toward the source of the sound, ready to tear into the darkness, as suddenly there was a thud. Deep and short, it seemed to come from all directions. Then another, and another, and another. "Tirek, cover me!" Pegasus rushed forward, flying past the monsters. She dashed swiftly among the trees, leaving her comrade behind. Another second and she jumped out into an open clearing.
"Chrysie!" She was here. The beautiful changeling princess lay on the ground, tied up, with seven kidnappers standing beside her. The gang known as the Elements of Lawlessness.
"Oh, dearie, it looks like a hero have come for you, oh-ho-ho-ho!" The white unicorn dressed as an aristocrat laughed. Rarity, the element of patronage. Owning a network of brothels in Canterlot, she used them to cover her criminal activities and launder the loot. "In battle, she can only talk you to death. Zero threat." Cozy thought.
Knock
"Um... guys... can you get over with her quickly and help me kill that centaur... please... I don't know how long the timberwolves can hold him..." Fluttershy, the element of support. Her yellow body was covered in a web of ritual tattoos, and a necklace of bones dangled from her neck. She stood at a distance, swinging her hooves. Though she was a pegasus, she possessed some magical power, and with preparation she could control mystical animals.
"I need to eliminate her first, then Tirek could come to my aid." Cozy clenched the blade in her teeth. A tug. A whistle of wind. A blow. A dull pain ran down her face. Blow knocked Cozy into the ground faster than she could realize what happened. A moment later, she jumped up, dodging a second attack.
Knock
The blue savage pegasus was advancing, grinning viciously. Rainbow Dash, the element of cruelty. A native of the snowy lands of Cloudsdale, the embodiment of brutality. They say she didn't even take a cut from the robberies, she participated in them for the sake of the process. Dash roared forward. Cozy swung her sword. Too slow. Hoof flew into Glow's stomach, forcing her to retreat. Another swing. Dash dodged, flew away, landed, and made another dash. Cozy slashed her sword across the ground, raising a club of dust.
"What the?!" Dash growled, covering her eyes with her hoof. Slash. In a split second she reacted, ducking. Cozy swung again. BAM. The shot stunned both of them. Glow fell to the ground, holding onto her back paw.
"That's it, sugarcube, played out." Applejack. Devil of Ponyville. Element of power. Pony so unprincipled that even Apple's crime family kicked her out because of fear. She hung her gun on her back, approaching Rainbow Dash and Cozy Glow.
"How dare you. My prey. I handled it," Dash backed up, huddled on the ground like an animal. She was ready to lunge at ten royal guards, but even she recognized Applejack's authority and had respect for her.
Knock knock
The earth pony sat down next to Cozy. "Well, sugarcube, you're out of luck. I'd have shot you in the head if I had my way. But you raised the dust yourself. Now I have to give you to Pinky. She's gonna to go completely wild in the next few days without torture material." Perhaps Applejack was the scariest of the elements. Even the crazy Pinkie Pie, the torture element or the head of the group, Twilight Sparkle, the strategy element and her pet dragon weren't as frightening as Applejack. She just acted too normal. Cozy shuddered.
"Well, well, sugarcube, don't get so upset." Applejack wanted to put a hoof on her shoulder, but froze the moment she saw a smile on the pegasus' face.
"I was able to distract you idiots enough." Applejack turned around at the yelling.
"You take one step freaks, and I'll break her neck!" Chrysalis called out, holding Fluttershy with her telekinesis. The remaining elements stood around her, ready to attack.
"Oh you-" Applejack reached for her rifle, but immediately fell from a hoof blow to her back. Cozy grabbed the gun and tossed it aside. Chrysalis needed help now; she would not escape them alone. Cozy ran toward the princess.
"Freeze. Mine," Rainbow landed right between Glow and the elements.
"I can barely beat her on my full, and with a shot leg..." Cozy frowned, reaching for her weapon and... yelled in anger. "Where's my sword!?" She turned around, seeing Applejack pick up the blade she had forgotten. "Great. Now I'm wounded, unarmed, and surrounded."
A roar from the thicket pulled her out of her thoughts. Tirek jumped out from behind the trees, landing next to Cozy. "Did I make you wait?"
"Make more jokes, asshole," Glow chuckled, crunching her neck. "We need to help Chrysalis and run."
"Going to leave already? The fun's just beginning, silly filly." Pink pony in the gypsy dress cackled, pulling out a bent dagger. Where did she come from?
Knock, knock, knock.
"Don't discount me, partner." Applejack approached from the other side, holding Cozy's sword in her teeth. Somewhere in the background, energy attacks of the changeling princess and the underworld genius collided.
Knock, knock, knock- what was that sound?
The tension between the parties was building. Tirek took his hammer and-
Knock, knock, knock. It sounded like it was coming from everywhere. It seemed too loud, too real. Real?!
"Stop the game!" Cozy yelled, and the imaginary forest disappeared.
Glow opened her "eyes," gazing into the surrounding abyss. Golly, so much time had passed... she had almost forgotten that none of this was real. Cosy had almost forgotten that... well... she and Tirek and Chrysalis were villains, turned to stone, who had begun to tell each other stories to keep from going crazy.
"What happened?" Tirek asked. His voice seemed annoyed at the interruption of the story.
Knock, knock, knock. That sound, so familiar. It was the sound of... rocks breaking. It gradually shifted, rising from the very base of the statues and concentrating on the spot where Cozy and Tirek's sculptures were stapled together.
"Vandals?" Cozy squeaked questioningly.
"Let them try to pull something, and I'll-" Chrysalis roared, about to shout a threat, but given their position, an ex-queen could at best accidentally fall on her opponent.
"Perhaps we are being transported to another location again?" Tirek suggested. He tried to sound calm, though Cozy and Chrysalis sensed that he was as tense as they were. "Or we got stolen, like last time." Last time was not pleasant. So many slimy liquids on the surface of the statues...
Suddenly all three of them felt something. It was as if a crevice had appeared in their dark dungeon. And the closest it came was to Cozy. Of course, they couldn't see it for real, but all three of them could feel how a little pegasus slowly separating from the rest of the stone mass. "Am I... am I being set free?" a thought flashed through Cozy's mind. An absurd, stupid thought. Who would want to free one of the worst villains of the century? She didn't see the point in it. No, no, she didn't care. She should have rejoiced. Freedom, FREEDOM, without those two-
...
"I don't want to leave." What? How dare she think that? She wanted to leave, more than anything! Freedom, revenge... loneliness. Who cared about those two?
...
But maybe it wasn't release? What if someone just decided to try to break the statue so villains would never escape? Yes, that must be it! No. If they wanted they would do it long ago... Thoughts were confused by panic. What panic? She has a chance to free herself, she should be happy! But why she, she, no, I-.
"Cozy, listen to me." Chrysalis' voice drowned out her thoughts. "You have a chance to be free. And set us free. Don't even care about revenge. Find a way to set us free. I know you can." The changeling queen almost whispered the last sentence. Even in half a century, she could hardly show her sympathy. Cozy mentally sighed.
"Alright bastards, I'll get you out. By the way... don't continue this story without me, okay?"
The pounding of the stone became deafening. If the two villains responded anything, they could no longer be heard. Something had to be thought of. She is Cozy Glow, the pony who without magic almost took over all of Equestria. The pony who with magic almost took over Equestria. Almost, always almost. No, no, no time to reminisce about the past, she had to come up with a plan. She had to be prepared for any conditions after her release. For one thing, she could be released to be "redeemed." Then she could escape, find the right spells, and free others. In the second place, she could have been released for another punishment. Maybe society remembered that it was illegal to turn children into stone.
Were there even laws about turning to stone in Equestria? She wasn't shure. Or maybe she was set free for a show of execution... then the plan remains the same, only a little more complicated. Maybe some rich pony took a fancy to her and wanted to free the little villain for his own purposes. That's the worst case scenario. From what they might do to her, to the fact that escaping from the rich guy would be the hardest thing to do. Although there is also the possibility that they really have been stolen again, or her parents have remembered their daughter, or-
A bright light made little pegasus squint.
A tall purple figure looked down at her. "Cozy Glow," said the princess of friendship. "From now on, you will be my general."
Heh
And you can really surprise.