The Mare Who Loved Me (Boncord II)

"I don't think this is what Princess Luna meant when she said to tail her." Bon Bon complained with a roll of her eyes. She and Discord were shrunken down very tiny and riding around on Candy-Gram's back.

"Just be glad I agree that there's moral imperative to use my powers now." Discord huffed.

"Well why can't you just read her mind or something?" Bon Bon asked.

"Because some ponies are very difficult to read. Candy-Gram is definitely one of those ponies." Discord explained.

"And you're sure we won't get caught?" Bon Bon asked.

"Of course not. As long as my powers hold we will be nigh-imperceptible." Discord boasted.

"Great." Bon Bon rolled her eyes. "It's not like your powers get drained from you on a monthly basis by some lazy plot device or anything." She chided.

"Did you just break the fourth wall?" Discord asked gleefully with an adoring look in his eyes.

"Maybe we've been spending a little too much time around each other." Bon Bon teased.

Candy-Gram trotted casually toward the Ponyville town hall. Signage for the fundraiser was posted everywhere and tonight was rehearsal night. As she entered Lyra greeted her at the door.

"Oh! I'm so glad you could come watch the rehearsal!" Lyra beamed as she gave Candy-Gram a hug.

"You know, so far it doesn't seem like she's up to anything." Discord pondered.

"What were you expecting? For her to blurt out all of her intentions in a lengthy monologue? Ponies don't do that." Bon Bon lectured.

"Of course. Ponies lack that kind of dramatic flair!" Discord chided.

The soothing progression of a waltz-type melody from the rehearsal began to fill the air and Bon Bon gave out a sigh. Discord reappeared in a fancy suit and held out his paw to Bon Bon.

"Care to dance?" Discord offered.

"You know if we weren't riding around on my ex-marefriends-new-marefriends back while investigating her for possible links to a dangerous terrorist organization that might actually be a romantic gesture." Bon Bon huffed as she rolled her eyes.

"Everypony take five!" The Band conductor called out after the music number was complete.

Candy-Gram gestured to Lyra and the two sauntered off out the front doors of the town hall. They followed the wooden deck surrounding the building toward the back and looked around to make sure nopony was watching. When they were satisfied Candy-Gram grabbed on to a loose board and pulled up on it, revealing a hidden staircase.

"Now this is some suspicious behavior." Discord pondered.

"I can't believe this was here the whole time without anypony noticing." Bon Bon added.

"But why is Lyra going with her?" Discord stared at Bon Bon, expecting an answer.

"I don't know." Bon Bon said with a sigh.

"Agent Heartstrings. " Candy-Gram stated. "What you are about to see and hear is highly classified and you're to speak to nopony about any of it!" Candy-Gram ordered.

"Agent Heartstrings?" Discord flashed Bon Bon a confounded look.

"Candy-Gram must have recruited her into the agency." Bon Bon explained with a sigh.

"Can she even do that?" Discord raked his beard.

"Section 105 - Subparagraph B - Emergency Recruitment" Bon Bon repeated in matter-of-fact.

"Of course." Discord acknowledged.

"So, where are we going?" Lyra asked as the hidden staircase leveled off into an underground passageway.

"Terrorists are plotting to disrupt tomorrow's ceremony. I've set up a command center down here to monitor things. I need you to help make sure nopony interrupts my work." Candy-Gram explained as the two approached a large metallic wall toward the end of the passageway with a heavy metallic sliding door.

"Oh no!" Discord called out as he snapped his fingers- materializing himself and Bon Bon behind a large boulder in the passageway just in time to watch Lyra and Candy-Gram disappear behind the door.

"What is it?" Bon Bon asked.

"That metal alloy." Discord breathed a sigh of relief. "It's that anti-magic alloy we're all too familiar with. It would have blown our cover. It sure is growing tiresome as a plot device." Discord rolled his eyes.

"Why would The Sleepless Dusk use such an alloy? Wouldn't they just use more of those spell absorption runes?" Bon Bon contemplated.

"Then it stands to reason somepony else built this facility." Discord raked his beard. "The only place I've ever known to find the stone to make that alloy is Queen Chrysalis's throne."

"Well who worked on the cleanup after the fall of Queen Chrysalis?" Bon Bon asked.

Discord snapped his fingers and a file folder appeared before him, he flipped through it casually and pulled out a small invoice. "Says here a company called CGL Woozy construction was paid to do the cleanup."

"CGL Woozy?" Bon Bon pondered for a moment.

"More like a bad anagram for-" Discord started.

"Cozy Glow" The two said in unison.

"Isn't that the name of that filly who tried to steal all the magic?" Discord pondered.

"Maybe we should go pay her a visit." Bon Bon said in a confident tone.

Discord snapped his fingers and the two appeared in Tartarus standing in between Tirek and Cozy Glow's cages.

"Discord!" Tirek called out. "Long time no see."

"Save it, Tirek." Discord huffed at him.

"No hard feelings, right?" Tirek said in a slithery voice.

"I do believe they're here to see me." An adorable voice called out from the smaller cage next to Tirek's. Cozy glow pressed her cheeks against her front hooves as all eyes moved on her.

"Watch out for her." Tirek warned ominously. "She's a cunning little rat."

"Could we have a little privacy please?" Cozy Glow asked politely as she flipped her locks.

"With pleasure!" Discord snapped his fingers and a black screen encompassed the trio, blocking out the rest of the world.

"I was wondering when you two would finally get here." Cozy Glow chided in an adorable but condescending tone.

"So the bad anagram was deliberate?" Discord pondered.

"You just never know when an easily solved riddle will serve your needs." Cozy Glow beamed with an adorable smile.

"Well if you're so in control down here I have to wonder if getting caught was part of your plan?" Bon Bon asked in an ominous tone.

"It would be much more fun to let you figure that one out on your own." Cozy Glow squeaked gleefully.

"So what do you want from us?" Bon Bon asked.

"Now what's the fun in cutting straight to the point? I prefer the suspenseful approach." Cozy Glow taunted, adorably, as she fluttered her wings, floating up to eye-level with Bon Bon and pressing her face between her hooves. "What do you know about this?" Her tone became more serious as she produced a magazine and passed it off to Bon Bon.

"How did you get this!?" Bon Bon demanded; it was one of the classified issues of the Harmony Gazette- Season 3; Issue 19 to be exact.

"What is it?" Discord asked as he stretched his neck over Bon Bon's shoulder to see.

"Let's just say I've had plenty of time in here to figure out how to use this; power of friendship" Cozy Glow boasted as she fluttered high enough to look down upon both Bon Bon and Discord.

"What did you have to do with the Sire's Hollow Observatory Incident?" Bon Bon asked.

"Mister Discord." Cozy Glow pleaded adorably with a bright smile as she cupped her hooves together in a pleading gesture. "Would you be so kind as to use that powerful magic of yours to provide us with a stylish cutaway scene?"

"I suppose." Discord sighed and snapped his fingers.

Sire's Hollow Observatory- Mechanical Room- Season 3 Episode 19 Ultra Secret Bonus Feature; Behind-The-Scenes look:

"Shouldn't double-agent Candy-Gram be here by now?" A younger, smaller, squeakier Cozy Glow asked as she fluttered in circles around Colonel Blackmane. The mechanical room was filled with various machines with conduits and pipes running between them.

"She is on an assignment with Princess Luna." Colonel Blackmane replied in an annoyed tone.

"Good. So did the maintenance pony tell you how to remove the focusing prism?" Cozy Glow asked as she flashed a covetous, but adorable, expression.

"Yes. But he said removing it during the maintenance cycle would cause a big explosion!" Blackmane objected. "What do you even want with this thing?"

"I didn't hire you to ask questions." Cozy Glow replied curtly as she flipped her locks. "The maintenance pony was clearly just trying to scare you away." Cozy Glow fluttered over to an open conduit-like apparatus where a colorful prism was suspended within a stream of crackling arcane energy. "Remove the prism." She ordered ominously.

Blackmane reached over to a console near the open conduit and pressed his hoof against a sequence of buttons. A gust of vapor hissed out of a nearby pipe. He reached up and pulled the prism out and when he did the stream of energy became a chaotic torrent. The building began to shake and alarms began to sound.

"Oh no!" Cozy Glow pressed her hooves against her cheeks. "You must have done something wrong!" Cozy Glow said disingenuously.

Blackmane dived to the floor just in time as the conduit exploded, setting nearby machinery on fire.

"You said this would be safe!" Blackmane complained.

"Well I guess we better get out of here. Give me the prism." Cozy Glow said as she fluttered closer to Blackmane.

"You will pay me first!" Blackmane insisted as he held the prism protectively.

"Oh no!" Cozy Glow looked over at the doorway to the mechanical room. "Candy-Gram is coming!"

"And why is this a bad thing!?" Blackmane asked with a tone of suspicion over the escalating noise as conduits around them began to rupture- leaving the room filled with violent arcane geysers.

"Well you did all the work. I don't want to have to share the payment with her." Cozy Glow explained as she fluttered behind a nearby machine. "The money is over here."

"I don't see anything." Blackmane said in an annoyed tone as he followed her only to find an arcane geyser erupting from a broken conduit.

"Look closer." Cozy Glow said in a cute voice as she fluttered off behind Blackmane.

Blackmane strained his eyes against the arcane geyser. Cozy Glow darted at him from behind, knocking him into the geyser and instantly vaporizing him. The arcane focusing prism landed on the ground nearby and Cozy Glow picked it up.

"Cozy Glow!" Candy-Gram said, short on breath as she came running up to her. Cozy Glow turned around and stared nervously, unsure if she had witnessed anything. "Where's Blackmane?" Candy-Gram asked.

"Oh I uh." Cozy Glow squeaked as she looked around and then fixated on an open hatch, nearby. "He escaped through that maintenance tunnel there! You better hurry!" She urged as she fluttered over to the hatch. Candy-Gram quickly darted through the hatch as chaos and destruction sounded around them.

"Aren't you coming, too?" Candy-Gram asked as she descended into the tunnel.

"Nope!" Cozy Glow squeaked with a gleeful giggle as she slammed the hatch down behind Candy-Gram and fluttered off and out through a nearby window.

Back in Tartarus:
"It turns out the maintenance tunnel really was a safe place to hide. Oops." Cozy Glow said with a giggle.

"Wait. You worked for The Sleepless Dusk?" Bon Bon raised her hoof to her chin in contemplation.

"More like; The Sleepless Dusk worked for me. I couldn't steal that arcane focusing prism on my own. I was just a little filly." Cozy Glow said in an adorable tone as she fluttered down on to her hooves and flipped her locks.

"How old even were you back then?" Discord raked his beard.

"Let's just say I was an early bloomer." Cozy Glow said with an infectious smile.

"What did you even need the prism for?" Bon Bon asked.

"You just never know when an arcane focusing prism of that exact size will serve your needs." Cozy Glow said as she pressed her hooves into her cheeks. "And it turns out this gamble paid off." Cozy Glow said with a sinister smile as she placed her front hooves up on the bars of her cage. "I found somepony who could craft a weapon out of it. A powerful weapon. The problem is it required a power source that you just can't find here in Equestria. But he happily traded me some for my marble collection." Cozy Glow said with a gleeful giggle.

"So that was you..." Discord contemplated.

"Where do we come in to all this?" Bon Bon asked impatiently.

"Well I never got to finish my weapon. The weapon platform was behind schedule and about a million bits over-budget. " Cozy Glow said with an adorable sigh.

"The train robbery." Bon Bon and Discord said in unison as they looked at each other.

"I don't know how Candy-Gram found it. But word on the wire is that she's going to use it tomorrow night and when she is done the course of Equestria's future will be forever changed." Cozy Glow said ominously.

"But weren't you going to use it?" Discord chided.

"I was only going to flaunt it as a passive symbol of my power as Empress of Friendship!" Cozy Glow snarled back. "If Candy-Gram has her way there will be nopony left to be my friend when I get out of here. " She finished with an adorable frown.

"Well we've been to your facility but it's clad in that anti-magic armor." Discord complained.

"Ah, yes. It's completely impervious to nearly all forms of magic. You'll have to figure out how to stop it from the inside and without magic." Cozy Glow produced a blueprint and passed it off to Bon Bon. "There's a secret entrance, of course."

Discord and Bon Bon looked over the blueprint together.

"Take out Candy-Gram and I will make it completely worth your while." Cozy Glow offered, adorably, with a flip of her locks.

"We'll do it because it's the right thing to do." Bon Bon huffed. "Not because we have any interest in making deals with criminals." Bon Bon looked over to Discord, who then snapped his fingers causing the privacy screen to vanish.

"One last thing." Cozy Glow pleaded. Bon Bon and Discord looked over to her. "If the main cannon is about to fire yell grapefruit!"

"Grapefruit?" Discord pondered.

"Yes. Grapefruit. I needed a word that nopony has ever uttered before. Say it as loud as you can. Make sure that Shining Armor pony hears you." Cozy Glow explained with a burst of enthusiasm.

Bon Bon and Discord turned their backs and with a snap of Discord's fingers they made their exit.