It had been a grueling past three months in Equestria. In the first month, Twilight and her friends uncovered the Pillars of Equestria, and dealt with the Pony of Shadows. After the pony of shadow's defeat, the group found a white knight chess piece in Twilight's chair at the Castle of Friendship.

In the month following that, a tyrant known as the Storm King appeared and threatened Equestria. With some thinking between Twilight and her husband Amiticia, Amiticia was able to secretly meet with the Storm King's commander and turn her to the side of Equestria. Tempest Shadow; otherwise referred to as Fizzlepop Berrytwist; is now currently undergoing both magical training and recruitment to become the captain of Twilight Sparkle's Royal Guard outside of the changelings.

"Seeing as how Pharynx is now married to Rainbow Dash, we think it's time your royal guard at the castle included ponies as well." Celestia said.

"Already, quite a few of the royal guards of both myself, my sister, and cadence have valentered to become part of the Friendship Guard." Luna noted.

"Besides, it was the only way to prevent Shining Armor from taking over Pharynx's position." Cadence said.

"Tell me something I didn't already forsee." Twilight said. The group had then arrived at the map room to find a black bishop piece in Amiticia's Chair.

"Another one of these?" Amiticia asked.

"Hmm...this may be the work of a pony the media has dubbed 'The Chessmaster'. Whoever this stallion or mare is has been leaving various chess pieces in royal seatings. But outside of that, it seems to be more or less the actions of a small child." Celestia said.

"I hope we find them soon then. After all, I'd rather have my own child not think that this is an okay thing to do." Twilight said. Suddenly the eyes of the other alicorns went wide.

"You don't mean..." Luna said.

"I think she does." Cadence said.

"Of course Cadence gets it." Amiticia noted.

"So then you really are..." Celestia began.

"Yep. I'm pregnant." Twilight said.

Now however, she and amiticia were in a meeting with Chancellor Nighsay which has not been going well in the slightest.

"Seriously, it's one thing to allow griffons and changelings onto something like this new interations of the Shadowbolts. I only allowed it because it's better to have them fighting with us then against us. But I refuse to let any creatures who are not ponies into a school what-so-ever!" Chancellor Nighsay said.

"Your not being very nice are you?" Amiticia said. Suddenly, a red chess piece; specifically a rook; spun it's way onto the floor in front of Chancellor Nieghsay.

"Another one? But aren't chess pieces normally white and black colored?" Amiticia asked.

"That's true. But that chess piece specifically is a rook. Statistically, the rook is known for being the MVP piece in chess, as nine out of ten chess matches are won by the rook or won using a strategy involving the rook. It's why the Rook in chess is considered to represent a very stratigic mind. The red coloring however, is different for a reason. I just can't think of what that is off the top of my head." Twilight said.

"The color red is about aggression; usually in relation to the emotion of anger." A very young female child voice called out. "How fitting is it, that I just so happened to spin a red rook piece in front of a pony blinded by obvious rage." The voice added. Chancellor neighsay suddenly gulped.

"You..." The stallion said as a pegasus filly suddenly appeared from behind a pillar in the room.

"So we meet again, Chancellor Neighsay." The filly said.

"Cozy Glow...I was wondering how long it'd take you to show up." Chancellor Neighsay said.

"I'm confused. Who is she?" Amiticia asked.

"Introductions are in order then, King Amiticia." Cozy Glow said. "To the common folk, they know me only as Cozy Glow, the youngest filly to ever master chess at a professional level, able to beat even the likes of Celestia nine times out of ten on a good day. But to Chancellor Nieighsay and his pony only education focus, I'm better known for being the loudest voice in the 'Education for Everything' education philosophy. Something I do quite well, as whenever he or someone from the EPA tries to shut down education for everyone who isn't a pony, I leave a little token of my voice in a royal seating." The filly said.

"So then, your the one who the media dubbed 'The Chessmaster'?" Twilight asked.

"Hey, I don't descriminate. I did leave a piece in Amiticia's chair after all." Cozy Glow said.

"But why are you now using a red chess piece? Is it because a red rook resembles your cutie mark?" Amiticia said, noticing Cozy Glow's cutie mark being of the very chess piece she just spun out in front of Chancellor Nieghsay.

"Something like that. I'm really getting fed up with this pony only education philosophy going on in the world. So, I'm doing something about it." Cozy Glow said. "So maybe I decide to gift a chess piece here and there to the seat of a royal. Last I checked, doing something like that isn't illegal in the slightest bit." She added.

"...Yeah I got nothing to argue with that." Twilight conceded, seeing Cozy Glow was right. "Seems chess is not your only field of expertise." The alicorn added.

"My mom is very well known amongst politicians. She wanted me to fix the pony only education policy someday and everything." Cozy Glow said.

"Whom you never once revealed the identity for no reason other than 'spoilers' which makes no sense to me." Chancellor Neighsay said. "Because how can the identity of your mother be a spoiler." He added.

"That is also a spoiler I'm afraid, but don't worry, you'll find out sooner or later." Cozy Glow said. "But for now, you say that friendship is only for ponies, well I propose a challenge." She added.

"...Go on..." Chancellor Neighsay said.

"Princess Twilight and King Amiticia will open a school of friendship here in Ponyville. If that school becomes very popular with non-ponies; and everything from ponies to griffons, to even dragons will be welcome to attend; then you are to shred your pony only education policy once and for all." Cozy Glow said.

"You do realize that should that school fail to do so after an appointed period of time, it will be seized and taken over by the EPA." Chancellor Neighsay said. "Like say three months." He offered.

"You do realize that that's hardly enough time. It takes at least a year to get any sort of feedback." Cozy Glow said.

"...Horseapples, I was hoping you wouldn't have known that." Chancellor Nieghsay said.

"And that; as they say; is checkmate Chancellor. Princess Twilight gets one full year to make the best friendship school possible for ponies, griffons, hippogrifs, dragons, changelings, and every other creature in the world." Cozy Glow said.

"...Whoever your mother turns out to be; and you can bet I'll find out one of these days; I will give a personal earful to." Chancellor Neighsay said before leaving.

"...Wow..." Amiticia said. "And I thought Twilight was the smart pony." He added.

"You have zero idea." Cozy Glow whispered.

"You say something, Cozy Glow?" Twilight asked.

"Nothing that's really important." Cozy Glow said. "But I'm going to stick around. Help you out. It's why mom wanted me to learn politics, so I could help you." She added.

"Your mother specifically wanted you to help me?" Twilight asked.

"You bet she did, Princess Twilight, soon to be Headmare Twilight." Cozy Glow said.

"Headmare Twilight...that has a nice ring to it." Amiticia said. "Not formal, but definatly not casual. It suits my wife to a T." He added.

"oh you have no idea..." Cozy Glow whispered.

"Did you say something, Cozy Glow?" Amiticia asked.

"Nothing that can't wait to be revealed at some point later down the line. It's not important to making a super awesome friendship school." Cozy Glow said.

Author's Note

So, the direction that Cozy Glow is being taken for this AU might be a little wierd at first, but trust me, I have a reason for making Cozy Glow be the way she is in this AU. While obviously not putting her in the role of villain like in the original universe, there is something Cozy Glow is hiding from everypony and every creature around her such as the mysterious identity of her mother.