"I don't know! She just, showed up like this!" Ocellus said as she rushed with Twilight to the E.R.

"Did she say anything before she lost consciousness?!" Twilight demanded, carefully holding Cozy Glow in her magic, not wanting to worsen the pegasus filly's already dire condition.

"No! She didn't say anything important! I don't even know why she's here!" Ocellus said.

Twilight would have to question the pegasus filly when she awoke. "If she was able to get out of Tartarus there might be serious breach, and that could spell out all kinds of danger for not just Equestria but the entire world!" Twilight said as they came up to the hospital.

Nurse Redheart immediately ran over when Twilight burst into the room holding a very injured filly in her magic.

"This way!" She said, leading her to an open E.R.

"Get her stable, Redheart!" Twilight said as she placed her on the bed.

"That's my job!" Redheart said as she hooked Cozy Glow up to all the machines necessary.

She eventually pushed Twilight and Ocellus out of the room. "Go wait somewhere else! I need to concentrate to do this right!" She said before closing the door on them.

Twilight and Ocellus walked to the entrance of the Hospital, where all of their friends have gathered. They were all talking among themselves, wondering what had happened. This was when Twilight and Ocellus came out. Starlight immediately trotted over to them, extremely worried. "What happened!? Why did you to run off to the hospital out of nowhere?"

Twilight waited for all of her friends to gather around. She looked at all of them before sighing. "....Cozy Glow is back." She revealed.

Everyone present gasped in shock.

"Evil Pegasus back!?!" Yona shouted.

"How is that possible!?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"We don't know. But the fact of the matter is that she is back, and she is very badly hurt." Twilight said to all of them. "I don't know how she got out of Tartarus, and I don't know why she came to my castle or even why she is so hurt. But I can't just let her suffer. She needs medical attention."

Smolder huffed angrily, smoke blowing out of her nostrils. "If ya ask me, I think we should just let her rot! She betrayed us all!" She shouted.

Ocellus walked up to Smolder and held her, trying to calm her down.

Everyone was very conflicted on the matter of Cozy Glow, not knowing what to do.

"I think we should hear what she has to say. She came all this way to talk to you, Twilight. Maybe she's sorry? Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Isn't that what you taught me?" Starlight said, putting a tender hoof on Twilight's shoulder.

Twilight smiled down and her best friend and kissed her forehead. "You're right as always, Star." She said before looking at everyone.

She cleared her throat and spread her wings, giving out an official announcement. "Once her condition is stable, she will be placed under strict supervision. I will devise a rotation schedule, we will all need to do our part." Twilight announced. "Let's try to keep this quiet from the public. Last thing we need is ponies who are still upset with Cozy to come in and try to hurt her while she's recovering. She could have extremely important information regarding how she got out of Tartarus, and that is something we need to know!" Twilight said regally.

Everybody nodded and prepared to do there part. "We'll all pitch it. Right guys?" Sandbar asked his friends.

Ocellus nodded with a small smile. Silverstream bounced up and down, nodding furiously.

"It right thing to do." Yona said with her own smile.

Smolder and Gallus looked at each other, unsure if this was the right decision. They looked at their friends, who were looking at them expectantly.

"Ugh. Fine. Go team." They said with small grins of their own.

Twilight looked down at the ground. She was putting up a good enough act, but in reality, she was extremely worried. Something has gone terribly wrong, and she felt that Cozy Glow was the only one that could tell them what exactly they had to be on the look out for. But for now, all anyone could do was wait for her to regain consciousness, which could take Celestia knows how long.

A few hours later, Redheart came out of the room and walked her way over to Twilight and her friends. Twilight immediately stood up when she saw Redheart, everyone else following suit.

"How is she doc?" Rainbow asked.

Redheart looked over everyone and sighed. "She was in pretty bad shape. She showed signs of extreme fatigue and starvation. Her cheeks were sunken in a little and her stomach was very very thin. But the worst part of it all was her wings. They were practically falling off! I had to use stitches on them! If you hadn't gotten her here as fast as you did, she would've lost her wings." Redheart revealed.

This made everyone gasp in horror, the winged creatures present felt especially bad for Cozy now.

"I have her hooked up to some IV and all the standard stuff, and her condition isn't dire, but I recommend that you let her rest and recover here until she looks like she did last year." Redheart said. "She may be a messed up little filly, but she's still just a kid, and I'm not going to let her die." Redheart said.

Twilight nodded in response to Redheart's words. "I feel the same way, Doctor." Twilight told her.

Everyone was still conflicted on Cozy Glow, but they could all shakily agree that they didn't want to see her suffer like this.

"Anyways, I'm going to make that schedule now." Twilight said, teleporting a quill and scroll.

"I'll volunteer for first shift!" Ocellus said, raising a hoof.

Twilight smiled down at Ocellus and patted her head. "Alright, then. Is she able to go in right now, Doc?" Twilight asked as she began writing up a schedule for Cozy Glow's supervision.

"Yes, her condition is stable." Redheart said with a nod. "Though she won't be waking up today."

Twilight nodded and motioned for Ocellus to head inside.

"Alright everybody, I recommend that everyone stays in my castle until further notice about the Cozy Glow matter, it'll make things a lot easier." Twilight said.

Everyone gave their assent before heading off to do their own things for the time being. Twilight sighed as she filled out the scroll with everyone's names and cutie marks. She had hoped to see Cozy Glow again at some point in the future, but not so soon. And definitely not like this. Only time would tell how things would play out. For now though, she had a schedule to write.

Author's Note

This Story is very well received, much more than I thought it was going to be. I'm glad everybody seems to be enjoying this one so much

It feels good to be writing again, and I hope everyone enjoys this chapter as much as the last chapter.