When Rainbow Dash decides to pick up Scootaloo and hang out with her for birthday, she runs into something else. This incident leads Rainbow Dash to saving the filly.

Requested By: JourneyCatMLP

Inspired by the song: Metal Core Pony- Keep Faith

WARNING! Song contains screaming. If it's not your cup of tea, don't sip it. But if you're gonna try anyway, would you like a lump of sugar or two?

This is a sequel to: Keep Faith

I found a random image of Rainbow Dash and added my own little additions to it. I do not give or take credit for the image, nor, do I take any credit for the last image that I used for "Keep Faith."

This story is a sequel to What Have You Done?

Chrysalis, the Changeling Queen, has taken her prize, unhindered by Equestria's precious heroes. Celestia is little more than another prisoner of war now. The Bearers of the Elements of Harmony are lost, and the Elements themselves have turned away from Equestria's plight. As the world they once knew begins to crumble, a single question is asked among the people as they look up at their fallen heroes.

There is no such thing as "miserably ever after," for someone will always be fighting for things to change. Hope doesn't die just because someone's turned off the lights. Truth doesn't vanish when deceit begins its reign, and Harmony can only shine brighter among chaos.
Even as this world falls, we'll work to build it up again.
Even as you lose yourself, you can find greater things within you.
Even as fear rises up like a tidal wave, we'll forge a sanctuary to stand against it.
Even as you break, someone will always be standing there next to you to carry you through it.

Cover art is by Odin-odin.
Story theme (Equestria in Grey) is by Omnipony.
Main Characters are Twilight, Velvet, Discord, Nightlight, Luna, and Chrysalis, in that order.
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Words and actions can sometimes hurt more than we know, sowing betrayal and hatred where friendship and innocence lies. A single thoughtless action can be a tipping point, one fallen domino setting off hundreds. Look back, and answer me.

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Story theme is Chronophobia

Nightmare Moon has been banished, the day has been saved, and that's the end of it, right? Wrong. For 1000 years Celestia has not been idle, she has been recruiting anypony she can into a guild known as the Dream Walkers. The group's highest rank, an elite team known as the Nightmare Corps, have worked for 10 centuries, attempting to rid Nightmare Moon's influence from the Lunar Princess's mind. The tale follows the story of Dream Weaver, a member of the corps, who, after Nightmare's defeat and the coronation of Princess Twilight, finds herself in a rather different situation; Babysitting Equestria's biggest set of trouble magnets.

Rated teen for naughty words, violence, and adult themes

Applejack has always had a secret dream, one that some ponies would find strange for the tomboyish farmer. She's always wanted somepony to treat her to a special romantic night, while being treated like a real lady. Turns out all she had to do was have a certain rainbow-maned pegasus catch her in a dress. Such an awkward moment will lead them to a night neither will ever forget.

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Applejack travels alone down an old, dusty, well traveled road. The end of her long journey is near. Soon, she will finally be able to lie down and rest with her friends and family. She only needs to climb one final hill, so long as she can find the strength to reach its top.

But she just feels so tired.

A real hero doesn't brag?

Just because she likes to talk about how awesome she is means Rainbow isn't a hero?

After her friends revealed themselves to her, Rainbow Dash reacts to Applejack's words in a completely different way than what's expected, and things only go downhill from there. Tears will be shed, friendships will be broken, and knives will be twisted as everything that can go wrong WILL.

It's the End. Equestria has fallen. Her lands are black and sick. Her skies are dark and cold. All that lives is dead – or corrupted by a foe long thought gone.

Millions of lives are lost, among them heroes and princesses, with its remaining survivors forced to retreat to their last safe haven. For five years, they have struggled to survive, dealing with sieges, rebellions, starvation, and death. The Pony Race is all but doomed.

But hope may yet live.

Not all of the Elements have perished. Two survive, and these two final bastions of Ponykind will make an effort to ride into the coming darkness to end it once and for all...

...or be swallowed by it like everything else.

Written by Rated Ponystar and TwilightUCrazy

Edited by TimeLord_Whooves

The group of friends are stuck inside while the walkers slowly corner them. It was do or die time. They were getting to that truck and getting the buck outta this hell! One way or another. But as she charges through the front line, will Applejack survive long enough for her friends to make it?

Cover art belongs to Earthsong9405

It's well known the damage the Cutie Mark Crusaders can cause. But one day, their damage causes a near personal tragedy for Princess Twilight, which in turn causes her, in a rage, to ban Crusades ever again. Now the Cutie Mark Crusaders must find a new way to find their marks. But how can they, when Crusading is all they've known?