Cozy Glow was the first to awaken from her unprompted nap. She looks to her left and she spotted her comrades, asleep and chained up, with Terik gagged with two different color cloths. A little scared, she looked around the room. It appeared to be an office, bookshelves hanging on the dark brown walls, filled with books and other nicknacks. In front of her was a desk filled with papers, books, and a desk plate that read, "The Boss".

Behind this desk was a massive painting, one framed in gold and depicted many events of history: Grogar's reign and fall, the Earth ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasi's union under the banner of Equestria, the rise of the royal sisters, the rise and disappearance of the Pillars of Equestria, the royal sister defeat of Discord, the defeat of Sombra, the banishment of Nightmare Moon, the defeat of Nightmare Moon and the return of Luna, the second defeat of Discord, the defeat of Chrysalis, the second defeat of Sombra, the reformation of Discord, Twilight's ascension to Alicorndom, the defeat of Terik, the birth of Flurry Heart, Chrysalis second defeat, the return of the Pillars and defeat of the Pony of Shadows, the defeat of the Storm King, the union of all six races of Equestria and Beyond, the defeat of Cozy Glow, the final battle against Chrysalis, Terik, and Cozy Glow, and Twilight's ascension to ruler of all Equestria.

Cozy had to admit, it was beautiful, but there was one last part towards the bottom of the painting that worried her: The colorful background turned into a black ink texture, dripping down into a blood-red and a symbol sits at the bottom: A crown with two bleeding swords behind it. Cozy felt a little uneasy looking at it.

"What? What is this? Why are we chained?!" Cozy Glow looks over and sees Chrysalis and Terik were away, equally as confused, with Terik trying to ungag himself but failing to due to his chains being too short.

"I... I don't know." Cozy Glow looks at her chains; should be enough to fly a short distance and look around better. Cozy Glow jumps up to fly but couldn't feel her wings open, falling back to earth, "Oof... What?" She looks over to her back and sees her wings were clamped to her body. She looks over and sees Chrysalis has discovered a similar fate, "This could be bad..."

"You think?! We are in chains and I cannot change again!" Chrysalis huff, ever more frustrated, "This is probably a meeting with whoever captured us." Terik grunts and nods in agreement, "See, Terik sees where this is going."

"It's a good thing I didn't end up killing him then." A voice says. The three villains look over and see a snow-white unicorn wearing a black drape. She walks past the villains and sits in the boss chair, sitting in a very intimating pose, “that would have been a very bad thing, won’t it?” Before either of the ladies could reply, Terik starts grunting angrily, pointing at his gag, the chain, generally asking ‘why?!’, “Well... I couldn’t the magic draining centaur steal my magic, now could I?” Teirk groans in annoyance.

“Um... Miss.” Cozy Glow raises her hoof as high as the chains allowed her, “Chryisalles can drain love. Why isn’t she gaged?”

“Hey!” Chrysalis looked at Cozy with utter betrayal.

“I’m just asking, I'm not wishing it on you.”

“Well...” the unicorn started, “I made it a point to make sure I am drained of the emotional kind of love, the one Changelings can feed off of. I only fuel myself with lust-fueled love.” She smugly smiled.

“Hm...” Terik grunted.

Cozy merely gagged at the thoughts that were running through her head.

“Either or less, I took into account all of you and your abilities. Terik and his magic stealing, Chrysalis, and her changeling abilities and love stealing, and Cozy Glow." The unicorn pauses, looking at Cozy, "You uh... You're a pegasus. You have that going for you."

"Rude..."Cozy remarks.

"Enough talk!" Chrysalis charges towards the unicorn, only stopping when the chains don't allow it, "Who are you? Why did you free us only to imprison us in a cage and then chains?"

The unicorn raises a hoof to calm the situation, "Please. All will be explained, but for now, you may call me Rosie Plague."

"Rosie Plague? I think I heard that name before." Cozy thinks aloud, "Yeah... Weren't you that unicorn that could steal magic?" That caught the ears of Terik, who went from disinterested and annoyed to very interested in a split second.

Rosie giggled like a little school filly, "Oh those were the good old days. That bully didn't know what hit her when I stole her magic and gained my mark, while she lost her's. It was devilishly delicious. Then again, the doctors and professors never could figure out how I could steal magic. It was always a mystery. But why would I question such a blessing, when it's a key factor to my conquest?"

"Conquest?" Chrysalis questions.

"Yes. You see, I have a vision. A kingdom of my very own, one where I am recognized as a Goddess Queen, and I know that you want revenge on the princess and her friends for imprisoning you, so I'm proposing a deal: You help me and my allies establish a base of operations to rival Twilight, and I shall reward you for your endeavors something of great value: Power within my kingdom."

The three villains look at each other; this offer was too good to be true, and yet, too good to pass up, "Why?" Chrysalis speaks for the group, "Why do you need us?"

Rosie looked at Chrysalis and merely saw her for what she needed. She stands in her chair and goes muzzle to muzzle with Chrysalis, "Because I know you want to raise a brand new army. And an army is just what I need out of you."Rosie's voice was cold and collected, precise, and exact. She sinks back to her seat, "I'll give you the night to think about it. Accept, and expect a great reward. Refuse, and you may never see the light of day ever again."

With a spark of magic, the three villains were teleported back to the dungeon, without their bindings but imprisoned once again. Terik, for his part, rubbed his jaw, as the gag was finally off of him, "Finally. That gag was very uncomfortable."

"That pony herself made me uncomfortable..." Cozy Glow shutters. the duo look over to Chrysalis, who was sitting in the corner, silent, "Oh hey, what's wrong with you?"

"I... Don't want to speak about it," Chrysalis says with her normal attitude.

The other villains shrug and make themselves comfortable in the dungeon. That evening, they slept soundly, with Cozy using Terik as a heated mat, however, Chrysalis didn't sleep that evening, thinking about Rosie. How does Rosie think she could provide an army? She couldn't provide an army, it's been forever since she had any... That was a very sleepless night.

Author's Note

Hey guys! I’m going to take a little break from writing. Nothing wrong, I’m just tired. Need to mentally prepare myself for what is next!