Fresh cookies are a great start to a summer afternoon, and an unexpected surprise makes things even better. What's a little filly to do, though, when the best foalsitter ever is running late, her BBBFF starts acting funny, and her house is filled with molten rock?

Ponies like snuggles. Spike likes to give snuggles. But Spike is a five-hundred-foot tall dragon, and finds it difficult to give snuggles without accidentally popping the pony like an overripe tomato in a hydraulic press. Spike believes he has found a solution.

Part of the Hellpiercer 'verse, but knowledge of that story is not required.

Reviewed by TitaniumDragon!
Art by Harwick.
Featured on Equestria Daily and Fimfiction.

Twilight confronts the Tree of Harmony about the way it never sends her on Friendship Missions. The Tree explains itself. Kind of.

The original version of this story got 4th place in the Writeoff Association's 56th contest, "*Princess Not Included."

What is the worst thing your friend can say to you? Egghead? Leave me alone? I hope I never see you again? No. Those are only words, trifle without meaning, no weight, they are all forgiven and forgotten within a week. I know what it is. The worst thing a friend can say to you. I heard it from my number one assistant.

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Kirakina did a reading of this story, it can be found here. Cheers!

Twilight Sparkle has been a faithful student at the School for Gifted Unicorns for a number of months now. She has proven to be more than worthy of being Princess Celestia's apprentice and the time has now come to share with Twilight the importance of hatching Spike while eluding towards the future efforts in which Celestia hopes her prized student will accomplish.

ART BY- Lucca:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/lucca

Spike is the only dragon in Ponyville, friend to the elements of Harmony and Twilight's number one assistant. But when he gets left behind on an important mission by Princess Celestia, the dragon begins to contemplate past events and even dares to question his services.

Idea for story by Dr.Wolf

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and in Canterlot, that means it's time for the biggest Hearth's Warming parties in the nation. Going by the Gala, enough formal splendor is sure to attract Princess Celestia's attention.

Isn't it?

My gift to Petrichord in The Incredible Amazeballs Jinglemas Secret Santa Compilation, now with corrected typos that I really should've caught the first time around.

When Twilight is preoccupied by her duties as organizer for Ponyville, Spike is asked to fulfill an errand for her in her absence. However, when the errand spirals into a series of bartering and favors, Spike fears he might never get the task done on time!

Will Spike be able to finish his quest and be a hero for Twilight?

Artist: NoxidamXV

Edited and Proofread by jeray2000 and Kestrel.

It was supposed to be such a pleasant Sunday morning. Nothing could have brought down Twilight's mood on such a beautiful day, not even the fact that she ran out of oatmeal for breakfast.

But what do you do when your future self suddenly pops in for a visit? What do you do when several dozen more suddenly show up? And what do you do when you have no way of getting rid of them?

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon harass the Cutie Mark Crusaders again and they are getting sick of it.

What do the CMC do?

They go to the personification of chaos himself, Discord, for help to make their antagonists lives miserable for one day.

This story has two sequels:
A Ponyville Without Diamond
Diamond Tiara IS Special