After years of being the runt of the litter (despite having no siblings), Spike finally comes into his own and starts to grow up and mature. The result is a unique bit of magic all his own, or so the theory goes: He awakens one morning to find words hanging overhead that call him [The Gamer], along with powers that let him 'live life as though it were a game'.

How he decides to handle all of this, and where things go from there? That would be a spoiler, and you all know how we feel about spoilers around here...

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Spike only wants things to stay the same. Time, however, has other ideas. He's going to need a lot of help... An everypony story.

(Cover image by Rannva)

Song lyrics by The Beatles and the always-amazing Jordanis.

Editing and advice from the helpful denizens of #fimfiction-spark

Cover image by lightybulb.

The Canterlot Archive decides to create a document listing the age of every pony in Equestria. It's impossible to mess this up.

The Canterlot Archive messes this up.

Proofread by Octavia Harmony.

Special thanks to Selbi for additional help.

Live reading by CaptainBron3y

This story is a sequel to The Dresden Fillies: False Masks

It's been a while since the girls have seen their good friend Harry Dresden. Discord escaped, Luna attended her first Nightmare Night, the Royal Wedding was crashed by hordes of changelings, and Pinkie Pie threw a statistically improbable number of parties. They tried inviting Dresden, but between his new job and new apprentice, he always claimed to be too busy. The solution was obvious; if he couldn't come to his friends, they needed to go visit him. Besides, they say Earth is lovely this time of year. What could go wrong?

When she was birthed with horn and wings she was thought to be a pegacorn, a rare and blessed blending of the tribes, whose long life and power brought wealth and stature.

Then the guards came, seeking the first alicorn born in over a thousand years.

An entry for The Most Dangerous Game contest
Now archived in Twilight's Library

When Princess Celestia asks Twilight to make an official, royal visit to Romaneia, Twilight dreads the inevitable succession of dry, boring diplomatic events. The charming Lord Bela soon wins her over, but Twilight is about to discover that all is not as it seems in Bela's apparently peaceful castle. (A story inspired by Carmilla, Dracula, and other classic vampire tales.)

Written for the BadassTwilight = Total Domination Twilight's Nightmare Halloween contest.

(Spoilers in comments.)

This story is a sequel to Javelin

A war against the dragons that was prophesied to occur centuries in the future has just reached its devastating conclusion.

Twilight Sparkle finds herself in the blasted ruins of Equestria, trying to remember what went wrong, and desperately hoping that she is not the last pony left in the world.

Two days earlier, Vinyl Scratch wanders the streets of Canterlot as an agent of Celestia, witness to a world turned mad by war and falling prey to riots and conspiracies.

A prophesy once stated that Vinyl Scratch would save Celestia and all of Equestria...but the power of prophesies has been broken forever.

This is the conclusion of the Betwixt Silver and Gold series, which began with "Javelin" and most-recently included "Whopper of the Year".

The story is Alternate Universe-tagged because the idea for it originated before Season 2 began. Well that, and it doesn't look like the dragons are going to declare war on the ponies anytime soon. The Crossover tag is for the return of some pastiches of Invader Zim characters that I've used before.

This story is a sequel to Javelin

Luna and the Elements of Harmony race to Canterlot to free Princess Celestia from being consumed by her own Nightmare.

But who cares about that! Let's watch Vinyl Scratch judge this year's Liar of the Year awards!

The "Alternate Universe" tag for this story reflects the fact that it was written between Seasons 1 and 2.

Sequel to "The Trial of a Time Pony". If you're all into trilogies, then Part One was "Luna and the Tree Ponies".

A Russian translation of this story by Litho can be found here.

This story is a sequel to Javelin

Having formed a semi-secret business partnership with Twilight Sparkle to manufacture CDs and CD players, Vinyl Scratch finds herself in Canterlot fighting a wicked slander that threatens to bring Equestria Acoustics to its little pony knees--a slander apparently uttered by Princess Celestia herself!

Additional Tags: Old-Time Radio Drama, MLP: Explosions Are Awesome

Sequel to "Javelin".

About the AU Tag: This was mostly written back before Season 2 started.

About the Crossover Tag: Some Doctor Who, in addition to the utter insanity of Chapter 9.