The students at the School of Friendship resumed with their daily routines after the magic incident with Cozy Glow. They thought it was going to be an average day until static came from the intercoms.
"Attention students and teachers." Spike's voice said from the intercoms. "Please report to the main lobby for an important assembly. It will be given by our school's headmare, Princess Twilight. That is all." The intercoms turned off, leaving the students confused from the sudden announcement. All of the students and teachers exited the classrooms to make their way to the main lobby. Some of the students talked among themselves while walking.
"I wonder what Headmare Twilight will talk about for this assembly." One mare said to a classmate.
"She will probably say that Equestria is safe once again and she is grateful that we're all still safe and sound." One stallion replied.
"I'm glad that Headmare Twilight and her friends took care of that Cozy Glow, who would've thought she was a bad egg." Another mare included. Soon, all of the students were gathered in the main lobby where Twilight, her friends, Spike, and Starlight were all standing in front of the large crowd of students. The Young Six were also standing besides the school staff. Twilight made her way to a podium that was set up for the assembly. She cleared her throat through the microphone to get all of the students to quiet down. With that, she began to speak.
"Greetings, students. You may wonder why I had all of you gathered here for this assembly." The students mumbled to themselves.
"As you may know, Cozy Glow attempted to drain all of the magic from Equestria by using the magical artifacts I kept in the school. She would've succeeded with her plan if it wasn't for the efforts of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and these six students." Twilight said while pointing a hoof at the Young Six. They smiled and waved in response to their headmare.
"It was thanks to them that Equestria's magic was returned and Cozy herself is locked away for good." The crowd cheered in response to their victory over Cozy Glow. Twilight raised a hoof to signal the students to calm down.
"Although the victory was ours, there are still matters that we need to discuss with all of you. Although Cozy didn't possess any magical abilities or destructive power, she was still able to manipulate all of us to gain advantages. She was able to fool me and my friends into getting trapped in Tartarus. Cozy was also able to trap Starlight inside of a magical bubble. This allowed Cozy to run the school. Cozy even convinced all of you into putting six of our students into the same magic bubble Starlight was in." Twilight said the last sentence in a harsh tone. The whole room went silent from what Twilight said. Twilight continued,
"Starlight has a few words she would like to say to all of you about the incident." Twilight said as she moved away from the podium while Starlight came in.
"Thank you, Twilight." Starlight said before she turned to the student body. Her facial expression was in a calm manner. The students were concerned on what their guidance counselor had to say.
"I want to start with how Cozy was able to trap me in that bubble. She showed me the underground tunnels and told me that something was strange about it. So, I entered while Cozy was behind me. I soon found the magic circle along with the artifacts being part of the circle. When my mind began to wonder, Cozy kicked me into the middle of the circle where it activated and it trapped me in a glowing sphere." Starlight took a moment to breath heavily to calm herself.
"I was devastated to find out that our school's number one assistant was behind Equestria's magic draining. I was also extremely terrified for what she was going to do while being headmare on my behalf. That wasn't until I saw all of you with Cozy while she said that the Young Six were behind all of this. I felt disgusted from how easy it was for all of you to just attack those six students without having second thoughts." Starlight then glared at the crowd.
"I thought there was one friendship lesson Princess Twilight had taught all of you about never drawing to conclusions without proof. Seriously! Did all of you come here to learn about friendship or did you come here to seek fame or power!" The whole room went completely silent from Starlight's last words. Guilt built up in the students as what Starlight said was true. They just acted on Cozy's words and didn't consider what the Young Six had to say. Starlight stepped back from the podium to allow Twilight to take it once again.
"Thank you, Starlight." Twilight said before she spoke. "What Starlight has said is true. All of you acted without thinking that there was a possibility that the Young Six had nothing to do with the magic draining. When Starlight informed me of this, I felt devastated as I thought I didn't teach all of you enough about friendship. I also felt that I had to shut down the school because of my doubts." The students were shocked to hear such a thing from the princess.
"However, my friends were with me and it reminded me that friendship can still be taught to others. This school will go on to teach friendship, but changes will be made." The students felt scared as there might be a chance that they will get kicked out of the school or get detention for the rest of their school days.
"We won't punish any of you for your actions. You can continue to learn at this school, but all of you will have to relearn all of your friendship lessons and all of your grades will restart from scratch." The students felt surprised from what Twilight said.
"The purpose of this choice is to make sure all of you know the friendship lessons by heart so an incident like this won't happen again." Twilight said firmly. "If any of you are against starting over with your lessons, then you can leave this school. I will respect your decision. The choice is your's. Tomorrow will be when you relearn the lessons. All of you can return to your classes now." The students began making their way back to their classrooms while processing what happened throughout the assembly. Some of the students approached the Young Six to say sorry for accusing them and trapping them inside of that magical sphere. All of the members of the Young Six accepted the apologies and forgave the other students. The next day, the students relearned their friendship lessons and made sure that they understand it completely. This was a good start for the School of Friendship.
