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 An Apple Sleep Experiment

It’s been seven years since the great massacre, and ponies are still trying to cope in the aftermath. Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, and her friends (minus one obvious apple) are preparing for the annual memorial, when an unexpected castle guest threatens to disrupt the peace in Ponyville forever.

This is the OFFICIAL Sequel to my previous story "An Apple Sleep Experiment", both of which have audio/visual adaptations on Youtube! For the sequel, it will be in four parts, linked here:

Part 1:
https://youtu.be/E5RB92VTb-4

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozjdx76WOjs

Part 3:
https://youtu.be/gcyds853F6Q?si=lnllIymkUUuBitd_

Part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uZdFXoxI8M

It wasn't Eric's fault he hit the alien with his truck. How was he supposed to see a dog-sized horse walking down the highway in the pouring rain? His life would've been simpler if he just left the animal like any other roadkill. But in his injured delirium, the horse spoke.

This accident soon ends with an intimate personal knowledge of just how dangerous magic can be. An ancient rises, tied to a mysterious tome the pegasus was protecting on the night of the accident. A malevolent force grows within those pages, whispering louder and louder about the cleansing flame. But without the spells inside that cursed tome, Eric's humanity will be gone forever.

He has no choice but to master the words of power contained within, before his life is turned to ashes around him

A commission for Muziki. Edited by Two Bit and Sparktail. Cover by Zutcha.

The various artistic works created for this story are credited to their artists within the chapter they appear.

(A PoE story.) Additional Tags: (Slice Of Life)
All Twilight wanted was to give Spike a special gift for his birthday. Yes, it was a book, but it was a very special book. An Enchanted Book like that Power Ponies comic they had recently experienced.
Things went wrong when Spike startled Twilight as she was working the spell for his (secret) gift. Needless to say, startling Twilight while she's in the middle of a spell can be a bad idea - as certain frogs can tell you.
Twilight has every reason to believe that she is now trapped in a closed reality bubble fabricated out of her own magic, with no way out. She's lost in some made-up universe reflecting some random story line.
Mike, of course, has a different opinion about the matter.

WARNING: Both Twilight and Mike love talking technical and explaining things to each other.

Twilight's World now has an audio reading by No One and Nobody. Listen HERE.

This most excellent cover art was provided by Void Heart

Correction, abuses the living fuck out of them.

Twilight Sparkle is your regular unicorn mage, and one day she stumbles upon what seems to be a cache of energy weapons stored there by some friendly passerby. Definitely did not fall from the sky because of a meteor.

Read: Plot convenience.

And upon discovering them, she knows what she must do.

Take over Equestria so no one else would dare to use them to harm anypony else.

It's not like she could destroy them or anything, right?

The story is complete, two chapters releasing a day. I will not reveal how many chapters there are in total yet.

And by PresentPerfect's advice, I will not write stories like this by multiple stories in a series! It is multiple chapters in one story! WOOOO!

Celestia adopts a human boy as her son. He grows and changes over time, but one thing remains the same: His burning envy of Twilight Sparkle.

EDIT: Featured?! WOW! Thank you so much everyone!

By some cosmic happenstance, a young woman is transported to Equestria, and finds herself in a precarious situation. She's taking it in stride so far. Maybe because finding herself in an alien world and in an alien body is not the worst thing that's ever happened to her.

Some wounds, especially those of the soul, can take a long time to mend. What healing arts can the ponies of Equestria offer a scarred young woman? What can she offer them in return?

Timeline-wise takes place starts off in the later parts of season 4 but before the season finale. It also mentions events from the EG-movies and the comics, but neither of which are required watching/reading in order to understand this story.

Trigger-warnings:
- Human-turned-into-pony-
- Who's kind of okay with being a pony-
- And becomes friends with the Mane 6.
- Being a pony is pretty awesome.
- Has both slice of life and adventure.
- Equestria Girls happened.
- Like the source material, it has adventures.
- And Celestia is not a jerk.

Cover art by the extraordinarily skilled viwsrasputr.
The piece in particular has been uploaded here: https://derpibooru.org/1478347
Really cool art by Cyanjames2819. Also found here.
Leave a comment if you so desire. Simple praise also appreciated.

This is a collection of thirty twenty-eight short stories for the National Pony Writing Month I'm participating in.
Every story will be added as a new chapter, to create a big compilation of all the stories I write for it, and will be about different ponies, different locations and different adventures.
There could also be a variety in the length of the stories, depending on it how many ideas come to me while writing, but my general goal is to write 60,000 words, which means every story will have 2,000 words minimum.
I will add a description for each story below as soon as I have written it.

Note: The gore tag and the teen rating are only there because of the first story "Back from the Grave" and because this was the only way to getting it passed through moderation. All the other stories are suitable for "Everyone".

November 23rd 2014, 01:34 AM (MEZ): "Haunting for Two -Part 1-" reached 100 views! Thanks to everyone who read it!

November 24th 2014, 05:07 PM (MEZ): My NaPoWriMo compilation has reached 1,000 views! Thanks for the support everypony!

The cover image belongs to dm29.

Day 1: Back from the Grave (Dark)
After an attempt to create an own spell, Twilight suddenly has to deal with a horde of undead ponies in Ponyville. Will she and Apple Bloom manage it to safe the town or is everything too late? (Contains slight amount of gore!)
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, Apple Bloom

Day 2: Tears and Apologies (Slice of Life, Sad)
After cleaning up the mess she created in Twilight's library together with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle during their last Twilight Time, Scootaloo has to learn that some foals are more sensitive than her. Especially the ones who are younger.
Based on "Twilight Time".
Characters: Scootaloo, Pipsqueak, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle

Day 3: Haunting for Two -Part 1- (Dark, Slight Romance, Tragedy)
After spending some time with Rainbow Dash during the last Nightmare Night, Luna discovers some unexpected feelings for the fast pegasus. Determined to impress Rainbow Dash and to show her that they have similar interests, she invites her to a spooky trip into a haunted asylum in Fillydelphia.
Luna is sure that this is exactly the right way to attract the pegasus' attention.
Rainbow Dash likes scary things after all. Right?
Characters: Luna, Rainbow Dash

Day 4: Haunting for Two -Part 2- (Dark, Slight Romance, Tragedy)
Luna and Rainbow Dash continue their scary exploration of the haunted asylum. Will Rainbow Dash manage it to stay there until Luna's tour is over? And who is Shapy Cloud?
Characters: Luna, Rainbow Dash, Shapy Cloud

Day 5: Cuddly Cloudwatching (Slice of Life, Random)
After Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle blew up the barn while trying to get their cutie marks, they fear Applejack's wrath. While cloudwatching to relax themselves after their failed attempt, Sweetie Belle comes up with an idea how they could calm Applejack down.
An idea that involves a cuteness overload.....
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle

Day 6: How to Polish an Opal (Slice of Life)
Opal has a problem and it's Fluttershy's task to help her deal with it.

Have you ever wondered about it why we have seen Opal acting so aggressive in "Stare Master" back in Season 1, but then in Season 2 suddenly not anymore?
This fanfiction gives an answer on this question.
It also shines a light on the relationship between Opal and Sweetie Belle and gives a hint on it what they have in common.....
Set between the events of Season 1 and Season 2.
Characters: Fluttershy, Opal, Sweetie Belle

Day 7: The Pond Fairy and the Golden Helmet (Slice of Life, Comedy)
After having had a miserable day, Scootaloo has a mystical experience with a higher being and gets rewarded for her honesty with a precious present.
Characters: Scootaloo, The Pond Fairy, Diamond Tiara, Discord, Cheerilee

Day 8: Celestia sits drunk in a bar (Random, Comedy)
Celestia sits in a bar and drowns herself in alcohol. Why?
Because all those terrible peasants did not appreciate her sun. But she will show them! She will show them all!
If the alcohol lets her.
Characters: Celestia, Luna

Day 9: Just a Sunny Day (Slice of Life)
It's Pinkie Pie's free day and all her friends have to work, so she decides to make a walk through the town on this sunny day.
But after meeting a filly, her plans change, and she finds herself playing games in the Whitetail Woods.
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Dinky Hooves

Day 10: The Dragon of the Whitetail Woods -Part 1- (Slice of Life, Adventure)
Pinkie and Dinky continue to play in the Whitetail Woods. After a little roleplay in a cave they have discovered, Pinkie tells Dinky a story that she heard from her Granny, a story about a secret underwater cave down in the Whitetail Lake.
Together, they decide to find out how much truth is behind this old legend.....
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Dinky Hooves

Day 11: Some Chances Never Come Back (Slice of Life, Sad)
After spending the night with some other Daring Do fans, Rainbow Dash has to face something terrible the next morning. There was something she wanted to get, but she missed the chance.
A chance that will never come back.....
Inspired by real events.
Characters: Rainbow Dash

Day 12: The Dragon of the Whitetail Woods -Part 2- (Slice of Life, Adventure)
Dinky and Pinkie can find the cave from the legend. After entering it, they find it protected by several, magical traps.
Is the legend really true?
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Dinky Hooves

Day 13: Spike's Hearts and Hooves Day Surprise (Slice of Life, Sad)
It's Hearts and Hooves Day and Spike has planned the perfect present for Rarity.
But as the thing he wanted to buy for the mare of his dreams is sold out, everything takes on a different turn and he finds himself assigned with the task to take care of the foals in the Ponyville Kindergarten for one day.
Can Spike handle this task or has he bitten off more than he can chew?
Characters: Spike, Noteworthy, Honey Mood, Golden Grape, Snowy Breeze, Nasty Hooves

Day 14: Chasing Away The Nightmares (Slice of Life, Dark)
It's night and Sweetie Belle just had a terrible dream.
Woken up by her little sister, Rarity comes into Sweetie's room to chase away her nightmares.
Inspired by a fanart (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Sweetie Belle, Rarity

Day 15: Fluttershy's First Day in Ponyville (Slice of Life, Sad)
Fluttershy just moved to Ponyville. What adventures await her on her first day in the quiet, little town?
Based on a fanart (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie

Day 16: Fillies 'n the Hood (Comedy, Slice of Life)
After an unsuccessful attempt to get gamer cutie marks, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are left with no plans for the afternoon. As their boredom threatens to overwhelm them, a fortunate coincidence brings some money into their hooves.
Using this opportunity, they buy a big amount of ice cream and try to get cutie marks in ice cream eating, which causes unpredictable consequences for the three young fillies.....
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Cheerilee, Berry Punch

Day 17: Justice and Revenge (Slice of Life, Sad)
Dinky lashes out at Diamond Tiara for insulting her beloved mom and in the aftermath of their confrontation, Diamond Tiara suddenly has to face real consequences for her actions for once. But will the bully give up so easily? No.
What Diamond Tiara has in mind is revenge.....
Characters: Dinky Hooves, Diamond Tiara, Cheerilee

Day 18: The Future She Was Not Supposed To Know (Comedy)
The Equestria of the future is very different:
Futuristic skyscrapers, ponies who look like squids, cyber ponies. And no nature or free living animals anymore.
Discord saw this future, but he decided to keep it a secret from Fluttershy and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
But now Fluttershy is asking about the future that he didn't show them.
Will Discord manage it to prevent her from finding out about the future she is not supposed to know?
Contains spoilers for the 24th issue of the official Mane Series comics!
Characters: Discord, Fluttershy

Day 19: Something is following you (Dark)
After watching the premiere of a scary movie in cinema together with her friends and Rainbow Dash late at night, Apple Bloom makes her way home to Sweet Apple Acres alone.
She's a big pony and she was not scared of the movie, so walking home at midnight would be an easy feat for her.
But when she hears mysterious hoofsteps behind her and a voice whispering to her, she has to face what horrors the night can contain.....
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Rainbow Dash

Day 20: Woodpecker Day (Random, Comedy, Slice of Life)
It was Woodpecker Day on Sweet Apple Acres. The one day of the year every member of the Apple Family dreaded.
And it was all Applejack's fault. Sort of. Because all animals hated her.
But this year she was going to find out the reason for it.
Characters: Applejack, Apple Bloom, Big McIntosh, Granny Smith, Twilight Sparkle

Day 21: Ya Packed The Bug Spray? or How Applejack Met A Moth (Slice of Life, Adventure)
At the end of her camping trip to Winsome Falls together with Apple Bloom, her friends and their big sisters, Applejack has a strange encounter with a moth.
For other ponies, this wouldn't be too bad, but Applejack feared moths.
To her bad luck, this encounter should just be the beginning of a very unusual relationship with the hairy insect.....
A tribute to Fluffy (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Applejack, Fluffy, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash, Sweetie Belle, Rarity

Day 22: Berry Punch Origins (Comedy, Slice of Life)
Berry Punch was still a blank flank. But this was something that should change on this day.
As she returns hungrily from school and eats some cupcakes from the fridge, unexpected side effects are caused that lead the little filly to find her special talent.....
Characters: Berry Punch

Day 23: For The Queen (Dark, Tragedy, Alternate Universe)
After having herself locked up in her room because Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle found the letters she had written, a mysterious, bodiless voice starts to talk to Apple Bloom.
What does this voice want from her? And is it friend or foe?
Set in Slitherpon's "Moody Mark Crusaders" universe. Having read the comic is necessary in order to understand the story completely.
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Applejack

Day 24: A Good Cold (Slice of Life)
After having carelessly played outside in the snow on the first day of winter, Apple Bloom finds herself sick with a cold on the next morning.
Luckily, she has a good older sister to take care of her and very good friends.
Based on a song (see Author's Notes).
Characters: Apple Bloom, Applejack, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle

Day 25: In a Distant Land (Adventure, Dark)
After their time travel with Discord and Fluttershy, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle get a chance to see the Gryphon Kingdom, as Discord accidentally takes a wrong turn on their way back to Ponyville.
And as a defect of the time machine causes it that they can spend more time there than expected, they are eager to experience another adventure.
But as they meet a gryphon in the town who invites them into his home, they end up with more adventure than they desired.....
Based on the 25th issue of the Mane Series comics.
Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Discord, Fluttershy, Henry

Day 26: Derpy's Day: The Morning (Slice of Life)
Derpy lives a happy life with her two daughters Dinky and Sparkler and as one of the mailponies in Ponyville.
That's one of her days.
Volume 1 of a collection.
Characters: Derpy Hooves, Dinky Hooves, Sparkler Hooves

Day 27: The Path of Food (Crossover, Comedy, Slice of Life)
On a normal, quiet day in Ponyville, something unusual happens suddenly. So unusual, that even the local residents, who are used to extreme events, see it as that:
A certain gourmand from another universe lands in Equestria. And he is determined to continue to learn how to master "The Path of Food" there.
Much to Rarity's dismay.
A crossover with Final Fantasy IX (see Author's Notes for more infos).
Characters: Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Quina Quen, Zidane Tribal

Day 28: The Art Of Making Ponies Smile (A Tribute to Pinkie Pie's Smile Song) (Slice of Life, Sad)
Pinkie Pie just wants to make all of her friends happy. And in Ponyville, everypony is her friend.
This is her story.
Characters: Pinkie Pie, Apple Cobbler, Noi, Bloo, Big McIntosh, Apple Bloom, Applejack

At the end of the war, after Team Prime defeated Unicron and restored Cybertron, Shockwave had become wanted a war decepticon criminal for his various cruel experiments and creations during the war, including the Predacons, the Forged, and generally became a fugitive all over cybertron. Knowing he would eventually be found out, Shockwave retreated to his lab to activate an old project of his, a space bridge off of Cybertron that lead to an unknown world in the far outer reaches of space. Running out of options, Shockwave uses the space bridge, and winds up in a strange new world filled with strange new creatures. Now, Shockwave has the ability to study these creatures and experiment in peace, and potentially... Even befriend them. Of course, as long as it is Logical.

7/29/22: Featured boyos.

Note: This story includes lore from the Transformers: Prime series, Transformers: Cybertron Trilogy, and IDW comics.
I do not own Transformers or MLP.

Twilight gets a feeder to study birds.

She also bought a ton of seeds for it.

While she's frustrated at the fact her supply seems to be disappearing into thin air, she's about to realize that she has a much bigger problem on hoof.