Warning: Silliness inbound.

By order of the high lords of Terra themselves, a lone soldier from the Death Korps of Krieg has been sent to the planet Epona to wipe out its Xeno population. Starting with Equestria, the Korpsman has sworn not to leave the planet until he falls or completes his mission.

However, no Korpsman should fight without setting up a proper trench first, and so the Korpsman must dig...and dig...and dig.

Destroying Equestria is going to take a while.

It happened over a decade ago. The day she was ripped from everything she had ever known, dumped in the wilderness alone and scared. She has since moved on from it, pushing that part of her life away. Now, just when things have once again settled down in her life, fate once again rips her home away from her.

Now, she has only one mission. Labeled a traitor by those who work for their own gain and on the run from a tyrant, she must complete her task, lest she let the memories of her loved ones be trampled on.

Her name is Esdeath.

And she will return to her homeland one day.

But not today.

Today, she secures it's future.

Notes: Displaced Fic. Crossover with Akame Ga Kill.

The child was one of nearly thirty others scattered about. Like her, they were oblivious to the odd symphony of fear and anticipation that never failed to creep its way up the back of those confronting the unknown.

Few dream walkers still believed there were “lines” between planes of existence. Fewer ever mustered the courage to seek them out, or even peer into them. Fewer still, dared to make an attempt at traversing them.

And no one to date, had survived such an endeavor.

Planer travel, an idea supported by the Nexus during the early ages of its re-founding and supposedly backed by sources recovered from those who first abandoned America's largest dream scape sometime in the eighteenth century, colloquially called the progenitors.

Once separated from the Earthly plane, it is said that a dream walker will have access to enough raw aether to re-create the world ten-times over and, due to the immeasurable distance between soul and body, when their corporal form perished, their astral one would not follow.

Countless hours and an untold mass of resources were poured into the first "transcendence" project; dream walkers cut swaths across the Nexus, exploiting every mote of progenitor knowledge they could obtain. When the time came for the first attempt, disaster struck.

Golem-like mounds of flesh, called the "pale ones" by their victims, erupted from the first test gates, slaughtering everything in their path indiscriminately. They encircled the fledgling masters of the dream scape, almost rendering it inhospitable to all life.

With their borders shrinking by the day, the many organizations that ruled the Nexus ceded their authority to a "council of eight" in a final act of desperation. With a combined effort ,they were able to beat the pale ones back long enough to erect walls around their remaining territory. The survivors of "The Great Halt" were allowed time to lick their wounds and rebuild.

Under a new central government, the Nexus' dream walkers were able to return to relative normalcy; though travel outside of the wall became severely limited and all attempts at another transcendence project were punished under pain of banishment.

Even still, the allure of immortality simply proves too great for some ignore.

They appeared in Appaloosa without warning.

Pale, bloodless creatures without heads or fur came from a rift in the air at about ground level during a magic show near an orphanage. Twelve foals and three adults were snatched up faster than any orderly retaliation effort could be formed and brought into the rift which closed almost immediately.

Court mages dispatched to the scene of the foal-napping were able to identify trace amounts of magical residue, yet no sign of any known race, unicorn, shamanistic or runic could be detected in it.

Days after the event, a Manehatten cemetery was violated, corpses removed from their graves with the unicorns among them missing horns. Thought to be the work of simple grave-robbers at first, when word got to Canterlot that traces of the same enigmatic spell used in Appleloosa were present, the royal sisters were quick to put a cap on the story to avoid inciting mass hysteria, releasing information on a need-to-know basis.

Yet there was nothing keeping their minds at ease.

Somewhere, there was an unknown enemy capable of slipping in and out of their lands to do harm to
their ponies without a semblance of forewarning.

Meet Thomas. He's a bear that talks. Nothing strange about that. One day Thomas decided to go a cave that had been abandoned to explore. What he didn't expect was a certain spirit of chaos to bring him to another world. Will Thomas ever get home? Can he find happiness in this world? Will he find love? Can I stop asking questions? Animal in Equestria story.

This story is a sequel to Stardust

Everyone knows the story of Hearths Warming Eve. They know the tales of the three pony tribes and how their strife brought the Windigoes upon them, and how the Fires of Friendship saved them from their frozen fates. For countless generations the tale has been told, but how has it changed over those years?

Or is any of it true in the first place?

Only one pony knows, and Celestia would prefer that the past stay forgotten.

(Based on a 'What If' line of thought that was born from the Stardust storyline. While some familiarity with Stardust and Mente Materia doesn't hurt, this story can be enjoyed on its own)
(Coverart available soon from the amazing FoxInShadow!)
(Many thanks to Arzoo, BradTheBrony, Vandenbz, and Setokaiva for prereading!)
(Complete with it's own TVTropes page as part of the Stardust continuity)
(Character tags will be added as chapters are added!)
(Possible spoilers in the comments! BEWARE!)

This story is a sequel to Rise of The Lunar Knight

The First Story's 'Long Description' also covers this story

if someone happens to know an artist that is willing to do a cover for this story, feel free to ask them for me, I just didn't want to go from having a cover to not having one

It has been some 900 years since Masao had vanished from Equestria, and now it is time for him to return, but all is not well in the Principality of Equestria. Join him as he faces new foes, and sparks a new love.

Subtle references to human on pony action, some explicit mentions, but no scenes; Human in Equestria; Mentions of different religious beliefs including reincarnation, and Christianity; One sort of graphic scene; One sort of darkish scene that implies something dark in a later chapter that is quickly resolved; politics, not a lot, but some; Character death

This story is a sequel to Stardust

When Equestria’s newest member of royalty asks for aid to be offered to her friends from abroad, the best and the brightest volunteer to serve. Captain Steel Song of the Dusk Guard are immediately mobilized to help XCOM defend their world from the enemies that besiege them. However, their first joint operation with the humans takes a turn for the worse and they quickly find themselves fighting for their lives against the full force of the monsters that threaten Earth.

(Stardust/Dusk Guard crossover)
(Coverart provided by a friend of Viking ZX!)
(While familiarity with both stories isn’t required, it is recommended)
(Many thanks to Arzoo for pre-reading!)
(All screenshots can be found at XCOM.wikia.com)
(Featured on 3/13/2013. Thanks everyone!)
(Now has it's own section on TVTropes as part of the Stardust series!)

Isolated from her friends and taken prisoner in the middle of a war, Twilight must deal with the very real dangers of being percieved as an enemy as well as the nightmares of her arrival on 'Earth'. Can she overcome her own fears and the fears of her captors? Will the wayward unicorn's assistance be a boon or a curse to the 'humans?' Most importantly, will she ever find her way home?

"In short, it's a story of friendship and plasma rifles, with the emphasis on the friendship. The characters are well written, the XCOM setting is fleshed out very well, and the story is compelling. If you love XCOM, you'll love the story, but even if you've never heard of it, it's more than worth giving the first 3 chapters a read.

There's excellent action later on, but the real strength lies in the collision between the friendly and naive world of Twilight Sparkle and the desperate world of humans fighting a losing war for survival and willing to do anything to turn the tide."

--Arzoo

(XCOM/FiM crossover)
(Cover art commissioned by a friend and created by the magnificent FoxInShadow!)
(Original cover art by the amazing Carnelian can be viewed here!)
(Gore tag for blood and some violence)
(Many thanks to the studius OminousTen, Arzoo, xXFluttershyForeverXx and finally Setokaiva for giving my rambles a once-over)
(Now with it's own TV Tropes page! Get to tropin' folks!)

This story is a sequel to Stardust

Times are changing for Equestria as Twilight’s return brings with it news of people and cultures from beyond the peaceful world everypony knows. Aid and volunteers are freely offered to help the besieged humans of Earth because every Equestrian knows that’s what good friends do. Unfortunately, making friends can also have the unintended consequence of making enemies.

When the monsters besieging the humans strike at Equestria with a level of brutality not seen in over a thousand years, the cry for help is sent to all the kingdoms of the world. Honored allies step forth to fulfill ancient treaties and oaths. Enemies, old and new, bury their grievances. An alliance never before seen in Equestria will be created to combat the monsters from the void.

And because of these events, a grim but welcome sibling to the XCOM project is born.

(XCOM/FiM Crossover)
(Sequel to Stardust, which I recommend reading before starting this. Fortitude Amicitia and Broken aren't required reading but are supplemental to the storyline)
(Gore tag for blood and violence)
(Alternate Universe tag because of the divergence from canon that Stardust has caused)
(Uses elements of Season 4)
(Coverart produced by the amazing Carnelian!)
(Many thanks to Arzoo, BradTheBrony, Vandenbz and Setokaiva for prereading!)
(As of 03/07/2016, the prereading team consists of Arzoo, BradTheBrony, Noble Cause and Metallusionsismagic!)
(Complete with it's own TVTropes page as part of the Stardust continuity. Could use some updating!)
(Character tags will be added as chapters are added!)
(Featured 5/12/2014! Thanks folks!)
(Possible spoilers in the comments! BEWARE!)

Set in the Conversion Bureau universe during the years after the last human is Converted, Newfoal Teacup faces the fact that however much she tries to fit in, the fact of once having been human must always set her apart.

♥ As Featured On Equestria Daily!