A vicious thunderstorm wracks a desert in Equestria. Torch is flying in said storm and is struck. Meanwhile Thunderhooves and his wife are dealing with a pregnancy while the world around them is storming. This is how they meet.
A family of one is as good as a family of none. Each voice it holds adds yet more richness and echoes to the depths of the cave, and it's often best to take a step back and listen to the song a family makes as a whole.
She has the day shift; he guards the night. One pegasus, one thestral, just trying to make things work. They've known each other since childhood, so meeting the family shouldn't be quite such a big deal. But then the family tree got involved...
Rainbow Dash is not a cheater. She's worked hard in life to get to where she is now, and she never, ever took the easy way out. So why does it hurt so much?
The newly reformed changelings have been given a mission by their visionary and benevelont King Thorax: they must snuggle all the ponies in Equestria. Most ponies take to this with gusto. Someponies are more... difficult than others.
One of the positive things about being enlisted in the Solar Guard is all the possible mares Rainbow Dash could chase after. A negative? The one she's really after is in the Lunar Guard, and she's pretty… batty.
Rarity – coming to realize that robbing the Diamond Dogs of house and home was quite rude – seeks to pay them back. She just has to mark a few extra caches each time. Easy, right? Wrong.
Rarity doesn’t have a name anymore. She’s only known as U-1746, which is the pin number on her uniform. You only had a name in the war if you mattered enough. She is determined to matter. ~ A Season 5 AU story.