Guardians come in many colours and personalities, protecting others or misusing their power. Rainbow Dash is just one of them. As she encounters her favourite filly Scootaloo alone after dark, she soon finds herself tangled up in a complicated network of protégés and presumed protectors, both from the present and the past.

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Proofreader(s): twilight-the-pony (also The11thWonder, Nonagon )

Sequel: Lonely Mountains
Trigger Warning: non-descriptive (sexual) abuse of a minor
Rated Teen for adult themes and violence.

The events are set somewhere after Sleepless in Ponyville, but before the coronation.

This is my very first fanfiction (in the hope that this doesn't scare you of).

Image by DavidMRyan

It's been about twelve years since they all met. Applejack and Fluttershy have gotten married. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash have been together for four years [even longer in secret] and have had a child each, supposedly from the same father. Rarity has sworn of relationships after her romantic nature had been crushed by disaster after disaster of suiters. Twilight's been as usually, if not a bit more over-reactive to things in the last few months and Spike's starting to get annoyed with her.
It's AJ and Fluttershy's tenth anniversary and as usual Pinkie throws them a party and this is where everything begins.
This is basically a soap opera with ponies.
This is set in the future but does not contain Twilicorn. Not because of anything against Twilicorn but because this was started not long after S2 ended.

While this was originally meant to be mostly about Fluttershy and Applejack, it's kinda been taken over by Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. This has gotten alot longer and alot more complicated than I planned and then got even more complicated still.
I'm sorry to say that there IS one story line [out of about twenty] that does just drop off abruptly, but it's addressed in passing as to what happened.

This is a some-what dark story in what emotionally happens to each character. Betrayal, twists and some sad back stoires.

Contains The following ships
Apple/Shy
Pinkie/Dash
Twi/Mac
Sweetie/Spike
Rarity/OC
And various crosses between these as hearts break and mistakes are made.

With Spike having become an adult, Canterlot now plays host to dozens of mares from the the Crystal Empire set on attracting his attention. Rarity, faced with the prospect of having real potential competition for Spike's heart, is forced to confront her own long-developing feelings for Spike, and the question as to whether Spike still feels the same way about her. Meanwhile, Spike decides that the time has finally come for him to tell Rarity how he's felt about her and finally put the question of their relationship to rest, one way or another.

With both ready to confront their feelings towards each other, the question becomes, what could possibly go wrong?

Note: This story is part of the Guarded Emotions continuity.

Edit: Featured as of 2/1, Thank you guys so much!

This story is a sequel to Catch Me Before I Fall

So, you’re going to let her fall?

*Warning* This is a sequel, for your own enjoyment please read the original story first as you may be lost.

Note: This is only one ending of the previous story, if you’d like to see the alternate ending click here.

Luna has tried, really has tried, to live once again among other ponies. So far, all her efforts have failed. Does Equestria really need another princess?

Now with two different sequels:
Will you let her fall or will you save her?

Love can be a small tiny gust of wind or the most powerful force in the universe. Twilight and Applejack have been given a golden opportunity to explore these new feelings. A simple mistake will finally open one of their eyes to something amazing. Watch as as the two form a love strong enough that it wont only conquer time, it may even cheat death.

A shout out to my editor General Tullius
This is my entry to a Twijack contest please enjoy
artwork by AwesomeSauce78 here is his Deviantart

Applejack has had a secret crush. Not only that, she has another secret know to only her family. When Twilight was nearly raped because an old classmate was acting on false rumors from school, Applejack comes to comfort her friend. In doing so, the apple brandy (not AJ’s cousin) AJ brought to calm Twilight down allows Twilight to confess her deepest secret to Starlight Glimmer. But Starlight Glimmer is a lavender Unicorn, not the orange Earth Pony there with her.

A comedy of errors will fulfill four pony’s dreams.

Secrets can not always be kept secret.

Oh, and can you believe Princess Twilight Sparkle knew those words?

The sex label if for implied, not actual graphic. However, the attempted rape scene could be disturbing to some.

This story is a sequel to When Ponies Fly

Earth-pony Twilight Sparkle and her friend Rainbow Dash visit a realm of forest and magic. And find that all is not quite right, in the place where the unicorns dwell...

For more of this AU, check out the entire series, starting with:

• When Ponies Fly

Earth-pony Twilight Sparkle has always been a little "out there". But while testing her latest crazy idea, she finds that there are places even farther than that...

For more of this AU, check out the entire series:

• When Ponies Fly
• The Two Unicorns
• Pinkie Pegasus
• The Muse of Fire

We walk down our long roads of life, but what of the roads not taken? Twilight and Applejack are carried along a different path, where their fates were bound in new ways. Fresh sorrows and avoided crisis gives friendship's flower a new shape.

This story will make an alternative universe, but will start grounded in the world we know. Have you read my other works? I love canon. I will respect canon, but we are also changing a core fact, and its effects will ripple outward. Our beloved ponies will be changed, as they must. The stream of fate carries them on tides we never witnessed before.

Twilight, Applejack, I hope you're both ready. Come, the water's fine, and I invite you to swim with me. Let us see what would happen if Applejack's mother survived where fate had once demanded her end.

Done for a patron, will update 1/month with 4k chapters.

Cover art by Jowybean!