After her students release the spirit of Discord on an official field trip, Cheerilee finds herself out of a job. With no opportunities in Ponyville, the schoolmare takes a job offer in the inner city area of Canterlot's old mining town. Can even she overcome the insanities of her colleagues and apathy of her students in time to pass her next annual review? And who is the mysterious backwards-talking filly following Cheerilee around? Luna's School for Disadvantaged Youngsters will never be the same!

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James Kaughn is a member of the world's most elite fighting force, but when his team is sent in to rescue a captive family in Afghanistan the mission hits a snag. He stays behind to allow the others to escape, fully expecting to die, but ends up in an unfamiliar place. Join him as he meets new challenges and struggles with his worsening PTSD. Will he be able to actually make friends and not just teammates?

The Changelings have been defeated and Shining Armor and Princess Cadence have said their vows, but that still leaves the Mane Six and others with the issue of the strain on their friendships. And among all the guests present at the reception, a few of them are going to be suprised with what new relationships are formed.

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Twilight wakes up with a serious head-ache caused by her horn spontaneously growing due to a sudden increase in her magical power. Nopony seems to have an answer for it, but it has attracted the attention of an unusually powerful militant foreign nation intent on her capture and execution. When a string of events lands Twilight before Celestia's father himself he tasks her and her newfound magic with tying up some loose ends he'd left behind long ago, ultimately connecting with this foreign nation's goals. With their powerful enemy baring down on Equestria, intent on taking it in a stranglehold, Twilight and her friends have little other choice than to travel the world and hunt for the rest of Celestia's family and end several thousands of years worth of feuding to prevent the war coming to Equestria before they themselves are caught.

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Ech is a whiny bitch, but he helped edit a little I guess. (you too bats)

This story is a sequel to Avocation

Life in Ponyville has been relatively quiet recently, which is somewhat surprising, given that the town's librarian tried to usurp the Equestrian throne only a few months ago. Aside from the appearance of a grumpy pegasus who set up shop as a cloudsmith, the aftermath is so unnoticeable that most ponies aren't even aware that the incident happened at all. Unfortunately, all that's about to change, thanks to the return of a certain revenge-obsessed showmare....

This is the fourth story in The Petriculture Cycle; reading the first three stories, which begin here, is highly recommended.

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Fifteen years have passed since Littlepip brought peace to Equestria. But now, the clouds of a civil war loom on the horizon. Relations between the Grand Pegasus Enclave and a group of outcasts known as the Dashites are beginning to deteriorate. Fluttershy must find a way to mend the rift before all out war once again consumes Equestria. Enlisting the help of Airborne, one of the few Dashites roaming the Equestrian Wasteland, to solve the age old mystery of what Rainbow Dash's final fate. She hopes that if this question can be answered it might end the conflict before it begins. Airborne now has the task of preserving the dearly bought peace by finding out what happened to the greatest Pegasus in Equestria's history In order to do so he must travel through Equestria to uncover the what happened to Rainbow Dash after the Last Day. Failure is not an option.

Edited by Marlow.
Formatted by Tetragrammaton.
Cover art by Turtledude.

Stable: an underground shelter designed to protect and preserve ponykind in the event of a megaspell fallout. Or at least, that was Stable-Tec's definition. Stables were, in many ways, a bastion to ponykind... but those were the ones that proved successful. What many do not know, is that the Stables had another purpose. Many of the underground safe-havens were used as experiments--to figure out what went wrong, why ponies act the way they do and what led them to such a disastrous end. They were meant to fail. And fail they did.

When the Mane 6 first found out they were being secretly recorded by invisible cameras, they were a little freaked out. After some time, they got used to it. Now, Twilight, Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie watch the show regularly. But when Pinkie Pie shows them fimfiction.net, they are greeted by a mysterious message on Pinkie's fimfiction profile. Events are thrown into motion that cause the ponies to explore the darker side of fanfiction, while reading their way through some of the fandom's most infamous grimdark tales. Sort of MST-Style, but in the view of the ponies themselves, rather than the writer of the fic.

The mane six take shelter in a place that is, for now, safe from a disaster occurring outside.

This gruesome tale of violence and death is not recommended for colts, fillies, or the faint of heart.