I shall have you again soon, my precious.
"I don't want to tattle on my good friend Tirek, but..."
"...you might like to know he left food out. Again."
"I'll deal with it when I'm done."
"Don't trust anything that nosy little Pegasus says!"
"I don't trust anything any of you say."
Hopefully there are no more interruptions--
"Are you planning on attacking anypony anytime soon?"
"...I don't know why I'm wasting my time here."
"I am a queen, you know?" (Not anymore, you're not.)
"I'm leaving, since it's impossible to accomplish the work I need to do here."
"I suggest the three of you come to some kind of accord."
"Tirek always leaves the milk out!"
"Cozy Glow snores!"
"Chrysalis leaves her dirty laundry everywhere!"
"...but you must learn to work together!"
"Only then can we accomplish what you so greatly desire..."
"...the defeat of Twilight Sparkle and her friends!"
Cozy may be a psychopath filly...
...but she's a filly nonetheless.
Must... get... more... swole...
"You're gonna have to exercise a lot to get as big as you were..."
"...when you absorbed the life force of all those ponies."
Your cuteness will not work on me.
"And since Grogar left me in charge..."
"Someone's a real grumpy-taur today."
I will flatten you beneath my hoof, child!
"Fine! I'll join your meeting."
"It's not healthy to hold on to all of this rage!"
"I could lash out at any moment." (Do you realize that log isn't Mean Twilight anymore?)
"And how are you doing this fine—?"
"How do you think I'm doing?! I'm ready to exact my revenge!"
"Grogar left me in charge."
"There'll be cupcaaaaakes~"
...Fine. But if there's no honeysuckle nectar as well, may Celestia have mercy on your soul.
"Grogar wants us to work together to defeat our enemies."
"Which means we need to trust each other."
"Stop trying to absorb my essence!"
Whaaaaat? I wasn't doing that! >_>
"Do you know to whom you are speaking?"
That's kind of gross, Chryssy.
"You tell your log every five minutes."
You leave my log out of this!
"This is why Grogar left me in charge."
I have an idea, and it involves a song.
♪ A way that we can grow ♪
♪ Time to try something new ♪
♪ Trust is the way to go ♪
♪ And all we need to do ♪
♪ I feel the need to say ♪
♪ I guess we'll downplay ♪
♪ How bad you got your rear end ♪
♪ A better way to be bad ♪
♪ Do we really need a better way to be bad? ♪
♪ Combine all our strength ♪
♪ We'll go to any length ♪
♪ Once we have a better way ♪
♪ This time we're gonna win ♪
♪ The ice you're on is thin ♪
♪ So watch what you say ♪
♪ For all this pain and torture ♪
♪ A better way to be bad ♪
♪ Sounds like a long shot ♪
♪ This "better way" to be bad ♪
♪ We'll make those ponies so sad ♪
♪ Would you just go away? ♪
♪ Once we have a better way ♪
♪ We want to break their friendship ♪
♪ We want to make them weak ♪
♪ You want revenge on Starlight ♪
♪ You want that huge physique ♪
♪ So let's increase our chances ♪
♪ To crush our enemies to dust ♪
♪ And laugh as they all scream! ♪
♪ A better way to be bad ♪
♪ Just put me in charge ♪
♪ I'm the best of us three ♪
♪ A better way to be bad ♪
♪ You shall do as I command ♪
♪ I will rule this triad ♪
♪ Hey! This is my song! ♪
♪ Sorry, not any longer! ♪
♪ A better way to be bad ♪
♪ Now you're making me mad ♪
♪ Won't the ponies be sad? ♪
♪ That would make me so glad ♪
♪ Now we've got a better way to be baaaaaad! ♪
"Hey! You stepped on my cue!"
Uh-oh. Landlord's back, and the rent has come due.
Curse these fools - they drive me to drink.
"...you would've resolved your differences..."
"Of course I have a plan!"
"I have located an object of power, and it occurs to me this is the perfect test."
"...won't stand a chance."
"Each of you failed to defeat Twilight Sparkle and her friends!"
"...than all of yours combined."
"This is but a fraction of it! Understood?!"
"There ain't been ponies around here..."
"...in I-don't-know-how-many moons!"
Step 2: sad eyes and quivering lips.
"I'm just a poor lost pony looking for help."
"I'm so glad I found you. I need help getting to the top of the mountain."
"Nothing at the top but dangerous snow..."
"Basically, it's dangerous."
"A real friend wouldn't ask me to do something I'm not supposed to do."
"Says so right here in the Journal of Friendship..."
"...written by Twilight Sparkle and her friends."
Even in the Arctic North, Twilight's teachings torment Cozy.
"I didn't want to be friends anyway."
"Nope, not that way neither"
"Now, just calm down there, filly."
"Ponies are supposed to do..."
"...what I ask them to do!"
"It's, like, my thing! Okay?!"
Cozy Glow's rolling off again!
"Didn't make it to the top?"
"You didn't make it to the top either."
"It took about five minutes to deduce that Grogar was right."
"None of us could make it up alone."
"So, rather than subject myself to the elements..."
"...I decided to let you two face the danger, take what you learned..."
"...and use it to my advantage."
"...'I'm smarter than you' attitude in Tartarus!"
"I'd had enough of you trying to manipulate me..."
"...with that insincere, syrupy sweetness."
"At least now we can see the real you."
"This is not the real me!"
That's what YOU sound like.
"At least I don't talk..."
"...to my Gram-Gram when sleep."
"Don't you dare bring Gram-Gram into this!" (Or what, Tirek?)
Those eyes, they look familiar.
"I haven't eaten this well in ages."
"Just so we're clear, I didn't save you because I like you."
"I did it because... because I..."
"...corrupted my subjects..."
"Tricked him into helping me capture his..."
"...so-called 'friends'."
"Discord was really something until friendship ruined him."
"You should've seen Twilight's face..."
"She's so stressed out all the time."
"...I thought she was going to implode!"
"I wish I could've seen her face..."
"All magic was a little excessive, don't you think?"
"...it would've been worth it..."
"...just to see Twilight and her friends..."
Your daily reminder that Cozy Glow is evil incarnate.
"Who wouldn't love to see those prissy ponies..."
"...realize they lost everything?"
Well, wonder no longer, Tirek. Say hello to...
"I'm a pathetic pony princess!"
"I made a detailed list..."
"...of all the ways I'm a failure!"
"Do the patheyic princess thing again"
"Can you absorb it and make it go away?"
"I can only absorb magic from living beings."
"If Tirek absorbs your energy..."
"Then... he gives it back."
"How do I know you won't..."
"...take my magic and leave me?"
"Would we do that to you?"
"Okay, normally, yes, we would."
"I'll give you your magic back"
"It's not big enough for me!"
"Keep it open, or I'll be trapped forever!"
"Would that be so terrible?"
Sigh... It was nice while it lasted.
"I wasn't sure you were going to give it back."
A birth of a new friendship?
"Taking power from ponies..."
"When you use your power to help others..."
"The Magic of Friendship is like a disease!"
"An infection that spreads to those around you!"
"I watched it infect my hive!"
"I will not let it get me!"
"But... Grogar said we have to work together."
"Grogar is too powerful."
"Something must be done about that."
"Let Grogar think we're his loyal servants."
"In the meantime, we'll hatch our own plan."
"Ooh... I love a good backstabbing!"
"After that, we can go back to..."
"...trying to destroy each other!"
"In the meantime, what do we do with this?"
"You failed to retrieve the Bell?!"
"W-W-We're sorry, almighty Grogar."
"We worked together as you asked."
"We just aren't as powerful as you."
Not giving Grogar the bell? Smart.
"At least you did as you were told and worked together"
"Forget about that old bell."
"You were right. We're so much more powerful..."
"...when we work as a team."
Hiding the bell right under Grogar's nose? Not so smart.