Empire of Flurry Heart

Twilight was enjoying some time to herself. While her original six friends were getting up there in years, she had their children to help guide her for the time being. Thankfully, alicorns were not truely immortal beings, and Twilight was happy for that. She was worried what would happen to her if alicorns turned out to be full in immortals.

"...It's difficult to move on...isn't it?" Twilight asked. Discord was nearby.

"That's easy for you to say. I've already lived longer then most ponies have been alive." Discord said.

"...You say that, and yet, you can't hide it from me Discord. Even though you'll have your three daughters with you once she's gone, it won't be the same. I only removed your immortality because you begged so hard on it." Twilight noted.

"...I...okay, you got me. I'm worried that, should there be nothing anchoring me, I won't be able to control myself." Discord said.

"Could you at least hold yourself for long enough to see your girls grow up some?" Twilight asked. "I don't have the same luxury of only being able to stay as long as my children need a mother. Darn alicorn genes." She cursed.

"Too true. It's going to suck much harder for you, then me. But, I will promise you one thing: I'll let the girls know, you still care for them." Discord said.

"...That means more then you think." Twilight said. Suddenly in burst Cozy Glow holding an injured Flurry Heart. "Cozy Glow? Flurry Heart? What's going on?" The purple alicorn said.

"He...he just...he just came out of the ground..." Flurry Heart said.

"Flurry Heart, why is Cozy Glow free?" Twilight asked.

"I...I wanted to see if I could do what no one else could is all. I wanted to make you proud of me auntie. I thought if I could redeem Cozy Glow in secret, then when I told everyone the truth...I'd be able to show that I was able to redeem who was previously thought to be unrredeemable. And then who knows what would be possible from there." Flurry Heart said. "...It just sucks...that my secret project was discovered in the worst way possible..." Flurry Heart said.

"What do you mean? What happened to the crystal empire?" Twilight asked.

"It was just terrible." Cozy Glow said. "While Flurry Heart had me in a disguise so no one would know I was freed yet, we were looking into the crystal heart, and while we were doing so, this strange yellow earth pony stallion came up out of the ground." She added.

"Something...didn't sit right with me. I could feel something evil stirring in him just from looking at him. I tried to fight him as best I could, but..." Flurry Heart said.

"That stallion; despite being an earth pony; started tossing Flurry Heart around like a rag doll. I had the thought that if he was able to overpower Flurry Heart; an alicorn; what chance did I have? So I made a tactical decision: I shed my disguise, grabbed Flurry Heart, and we hightailed it out of there. But not before noticing the stallion doing something with the crystal heart." Cozy Glow said.

Twilight mused over this for a while. "Please auntie...we're telling the truth. You gotta believe us." Flurry Heart said.

"I'll be honest Flurry Heart, freeing Cozy Glow was a reckless endevour and you were risking her not being redeemable. However, if her assiting in your fleeing from the empire was any indication, I'd say it was a risk that turned out for the better. So while I am upset at you for going behind my back like this, I suppose I can't argue with the results." Twilight asked.

"And what would you have done if she did simply ask to try, Twilgiht? I doubt you, your brother, or even Cadence would've given the go ahead." Cozy Glow said. Twilight raised an eyebrow, which Cozy Glow noticed. "Hey, Flurry Heart said that you and Cadence hate being called Princesses by ponies that just want to be your friend. Flurry Heart's the same way." The pink pegasus said.

"It seems a lot of progress was being made..." Twilight said.

"I believe I was on the verge of getting her to understand that she was wrong to do the things she did, and get her fully redeemed. It's just...this had to happen." Flurry Heart said.

"Well Cozy Glow did the right thing. I'm just not sure if there's something I can do without seeing what's going on for myself." Twilight said. "I'll be back. Discord, come with me." She said.

"Right. Don't you go anywhere." Discord said and left with Twilight.

"...So those other five are almost dead...shoot..." Cozy Glow said.

"Wh-what do I tell Scootaloo? I wanted her and Rainbow Dash both." Flurry Heart said.

"As...much as I'm sure that would please her, you shouldn't go about doing things like turning back the clock just because..." Cozy Glow said.

"You...you don't understand...I was going to use my magic to make them become sisters for real. That requires Rainbow Dash to not be too old for the magics to work. I may be evil, but considering Scootaloo's been doing things of her own free will, she deserves some kind of reward." Flurry Heart said.

"...Huh...Guess we'll have to work fast then. Who knows how much time we've got." Cozy Glow said.

"We've got plenty. I made sure there would be a message delievered to Rainbow Dash specifically to tell her to grab the other five and have them come to the castle right away because some evil being had invaded the throne room. Which is where the next part of my plan comes into play." Flurry Heart said.

"Are you sure you want me to tie you up?" Cozy Glow asked.

"Only way to do this the right way, and to catch them all off guard." Flurry Heart said with an evil grin on her face.

"Oh I'm going to enjoy this then~" Cozy Glow said. "After all, I'm a really good actor." She added with an equally evil grin on her face.