The Cutie mark crusaders believe they have tried everything to earn their cutie marks. When they go around asking for ideas, all they hear is "be patient." They get furious and frustrated with hearing those two words & decide to silence those who told it to them... Permanently!

When a mishap occurs with Celestia's bathroom scale, an ancient protocol that may just doom Equestria is set into motion. With the entire palace staff now conspiring against her, the sun goddess must not only contend mountains of paper work, dancing celery sticks, and steroid pumped stallions, but a sister who will take this chance to torture Celestia any way she can as payback for her banishment. Lock the cupboards and barricade the fridge! It's the Royal Diet!

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In an alternate reality, Discord found his love of chaos came in handy for babysitting young foals. For two thousand years, since he and the princess' were kids, he's babysat nearly everyone in Equestria. Now he's babysitting the cutie mark crusaders, and while he does he recounts with them his many babysitting jobs of your favorite characters as fillies, one by one.

A long forgotten and believed dead enemy, now more powerful than ever, is returning to Earth. Lead by the circumstances, its protector sends him to a distant land. Weak and with an unfamiliar body, the proud warrior will search for a way to retrieve his old life back, but not without meeting some unique characters on the way.