Pipp Petals has a big problem. She's fallen in love with Maretime Bay's Sheriff, Hitch Trailblazer. However, when the Book of All Stories is opened, Pipp and Hitch are brought backwards in time via the Time Stitch Crystal to help Barley Tender, Caramel Malt, and the one and only Daring Do rescue some of the pages from the Book.

Can Pipp and Hitch help save the pages from the Book? Will Pipp be able to confess her truest feelings for Hitch? All will be revealed in The Lost City of Abyssinia.

This story was written as part of the "Scattered Pages: Tales from the Book of All Stories" physical book that was sold at Ponyville Ciderfest 2023. It utilizes some elements of in convention lore and convention mascots, specifically the usage of the "Time Stitch Crystal", a plot device used to bring ponies forward or backward in time and its connection to the Pris-Beam Lantern.

This story also takes place during the events of Ponyville Ciderfest 2023, when Fizzy Glitch opens the Book of All Stories and sucks all of the convention inside the world of the Book.

Special Thanks to:
Skywriter, Sonicsuns (Editing)
LuckyStar (aka my wife) - for doing some super awesome cover art!

The Valley, a place only rumoured to exist, as the only surviving hoofful of documents were written by explorers, who uttered not more than a couple of words, lest the horrors returned to their mind.

When Daring Do first heard about it, she went to ask the only one who knew more than her about such things, the Guardian Ahuizotl, who merely warned her not to venture there under any circumstance...

The heroic life isn't necessarily glamorous. Ben didn't get to fight the most recent alien to pop out of a pocket wormhole, because it collapsed shortly after arrival. The weird quadruped (a hand at the end of its tail, eyes where its nostrils should be) is currently doing nothing more than sleeping the trip off. But the Plumbers need to know what it's doing here -- and as long as it's asleep, there's only one means of interrogation available. Which requires using one of his least-favorite forms, but... that's the heroic life for you.

It's just that someone's already invaded that alien's dream.

And she has no problems with telling Ben how bad he is at it.

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(Tagged AU as there's no evidence either way to suggest Ahuizotl was lying in "Daring Doubt". Featured on 2/02/2022.)

Daring Do is convinced she no longer has anything to fear from either of her greatest enemies: Doctor Caballeron and Ahuizotl. She has the Truth Talisman of Tonatiuh as proof, the artifact never lies.

Or does it? Not long after her latest book is published, Daring Do learns that someone is threatening the Tonatiuh Basin. And that someone turns out to be Ahuizotl!

But how was he able to lie to and fool Daring Do? And what is the real reason he'd want her out of the way? Like it or not, Daring Do will learn a harsh truth about her nemesis, not everyone is capable of changing for the better.

Legend tells of a land far from the once peaceful land north of equestria, where the laws of nature and reality are changed. Where ponies of old lived and were guarded by a mysterious relic said to keep their land from the wrath of a eternal snow. But when a thief of a mysterious land comes and takes the once precious artifact away from this land, plunging it into snow. One brave pony takes the long journey to find the only one capable to save them. Now on a mission and with limited knowledge Daring must venture to a unknown land in order to retrieve the relic and hope to stop the eternal snow from consuming all of equestria. But with no guidance and even assistance she may be out of her element and with time running out, can she save these ponies from freezing over.

(This takes right after season 7 of MLP)

Ever since that embarrassing loss to Daring Do and a meddlesome pony, Ahuizotl swears to have his revenge one way or another. To draw Daring Do into one of his traps, and perhaps collect a reward as a bonus, he devises a daring scheme that involves kidnapping a group of friends. But instead of going for Twilight and the other ponies, he decides instead to kidnap something more personal... their 'pets'. It starts off easy enough, as he quickly takes all the animals into his secret hideout. But little does he realize, the job of keeping prisoners is easier said than done. Expect many twists and hilarious moments.

Daring Do writes fictional stories about the hero she wants to be. She wishes she had the courage to confront villains and curses but the truth is she’s spent her whole life running from both. She studies heroes of the past so she can try to be like them, but when she discovers the phylactery of Queen Somnambula she learns she’s not the only one to fictionalize history and that some heroes are better left unmet.

All of my stories share a common cannon that splits after season 2. The official stories of The Pillars of Equestria exist but the reality is much different.

This is one of the 50 or so stories that has been kicking around on my hard drive for a while. I had to curtail it significantly to meet the word count of the Pillars Shipping contest and will add a few chapters once the contest is over. This expands greatly, and makes some minor retcons to Hunter and Prey.

Once again, my deepest thanks go to Awalex for providing the artwork. Check out his page for some amazing stuff.

Daring Do was in the temple of Arkaninja to obtain the treasure and bring it to another museum.

But as usual, Ahuizotl was hot on her hooves.

Unfortunately, Ahuizotl's a little smarter this time.

The Tenochtitlan Basin is not the safest place to be in the best of times. That's why the world's greatest adventurer Ditzy Doo always carries her towel with her, just in case. But when her sister, the hapless postmare Daring Do, disappears on a trip through the Basin, and the world is on the brink of annihilation, it's up to Ditzy Doo to save the day.

An entry for Reunions: A Swapped Role Writing Contest

Things already seem weird when both Pinkie Pie and Ahuizotl wake up on the Moon and find out that they're both the Chosen One. But when they encounter an army from beyond the stars, they'll have to put their differences aside and do battle on the Moon to save the world.

Written for the May 2021 Pairing Contest.