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A pony of mystery in the darkness. Or I forgot to take the lens cap off. (They/them is fine.)

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Rainbow Dash makes a bet, without understanding the dangers.

Raven Inkwell discovers evidence of a secret, deadly crime.

Both confront their sovereign, Princess Twilight Sparkle.

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With thanks to Secret Artichoke for some prereading/feedback.

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Damn, Twilight became a real monster here. I suppose trying to reform her in the first place was not under the plate of the Princess of Friendship.

"She escaped and stole your magic to become an alicorn."

She was broken out by Discord.

She was broken out by Discord.

Yes, Cozy Glow USUALLY gets other creatures to help her. That's kind of one of her things.

But thanks for letting me know that I forgot to remind people about enough of the show canon in the right way, I guess

Twilight shook her head. "Cozy Glow has already escaped from confinement before. Once from Tartarus, and once already from petrification as a statue. And each time Cozy escaped, she attacked Equestria, and hundreds or thousands of ponies died. Pegasi losing their flight magic and falling out of the skies...other ponies crushed or impaled in the little wars her schemes created. And those were her first two tries, as a young filly. Imagine what more she might achieve, upon reaching full maturity. Adult ponies are generally more cunning than foals."

oh Twi, when will you learn, you can't just bury something and then call it a day, they always come back, take Sombra for an example
just wait til another villain or when Discord have some "boost confident" idea

what could make this worse is that if i remember correctly petrification can leave the person awake so if cozy is still alive and awake then what twilight has done could be even worse in both the ethics of it and what it could allow cozy to do. All that needs to happen is for one of the grains of her body to be touched by a magic artifact and all hell could break loose.
Imagine that! An army of cozy glows restored from each grain of sand with a magical regenenoration artifact. Sand can cover a wide area so its possible and would go in line with the thing in FIM where the only villens who dont become a threat again are those who are reformed. I mean the dazzelings were banished then actualy became a problem later and sombra was able to be brought back from what seemed like death.
but yea a story about a cozy glow who now has a good reason and determination to take twilight down could be fun

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By Celestia's left armpit, maybe I've spawned an army of fanfic sequels!

I'm NOT telling you NOT to do it. :twilightsmile:

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Celestia’s left armpit?

Hey, this is a T rated fic here, so I used a less naughty word in my comment. :trollestia:

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It's not entirely the same, but I know Mica's My Sister, Cozy Glow has a similar "Aftermath of Cozy's statue being shattered" plot point.

Other than that… Yeah, I reckon I'm just gonna leave y'all to this and that. I'm not qualified to poke those ursa majors.

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It's not entirely the same, but I know Mica's My Sister, Cozy Glow has a similar (spoilered) plot point.

Oof. I guess I should have gone with something weirder, although because I hadn't read Mica's story and didn't know that about it, I don't know whether the handling of the idea(s) turns out to be similar in practice or not.

Other than that… Yeah, I reckon I'm just gonna leave y'all to this and that. I'm not qualified to poke those ursa majors.

Oh, I'm just an ursa *minor*, and I thank you for the informative comment. :twilightsmile:

Once from Tartarus, and once already from petrification as a statue.

When was this second time exactly?

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She was broken out by Discord.

Yes she was. I wonder what this new, more ruthless Twilight is going to do to old vile guts anyways. Maybe a reform spell?

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It's not, don't worry. Giving a character the same death doesn't make it the same story.

Twilight shook her head. "Cozy Glow has already escaped from confinement before. Once from Tartarus, and once already from petrification as a statue. And each time Cozy escaped, she attacked Equestria, and hundreds or thousands of ponies died. Pegasi losing their flight magic and falling out of the skies...other ponies crushed or impaled in the little wars her schemes created. And those were her first two tries, as a young filly. Imagine what more she might achieve, upon reaching full maturity. Adult ponies are generally more cunning than foals."

Okay. Gettng out of Tartarus and stealing magic I'll give you. But when the hell did the rest happen? Or is this mostly made up for the story?

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Yes, Cozy Glow USUALLY gets other creatures to help her.

Well, she didn't exactly "get" Discord to help her escape. He did it completely without prompting.
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Her petrification escape was made up to try and justify the whole "grind a pony up" thing. Only through hyperbole of the threat Cozy poses can these things be passed off as the right chose.

As for Twilight going through all of this trouble to distribute the sand around the world... Why? Does she really think that if she just dumps the sand into a lake or something that someone will see it and realize what it is? Seems pointlessly overcomplicated.
Also did Twilight only grind up Cozy? Why not the other two? They're at least just as dangerous as Cozy is, if not much more so since they have actual powers of their own.

Wow, I guess that one way to see that Twilight has become Princess Twilight, and is making the hard decisions.

Its Halloween time.

Hmm. Considering pony personality and psyche should be quite malleable at Cozy age, Twilight choosing final solution is basically admitting she's neither good teacher nor decent mentor. Not enough to make something worthwhile out of capable pony.
THERE ARE reasons why children aren't usually given death sentence...

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Seems pointlessly overcomplicated.

It's Twilight. That's kind of her thing.

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Yes, Cozy Glow USUALLY gets other creatures to help her.

Yeah, Cozy sure was clever, tricking Discord into kidnapping her under false pretenses by standing around in prison doing nothing.

Dark...

Happy Twilight didn't do anything bad to Raven, so that she would keep her mouth shut...

Nice fic… except Raven’s name changes to “Quill” a fre times.

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Nice fic… except Raven’s name changes to “Quill” a fre times.

Aha! Those two places are now fixed, thanks!

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