After an experiment gone wrong, Twilight finds herself stuck in a body that's not hers, in a place she never wanted to be. Now she's in a race against time as Queen Chrysalis sets another one of her terrible schemes in motion, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

Editor: PiquoPie

Coverart commissioned from Evangel-Rising

Gilda, the High Queen of the Griffon Kingdom, the Restorer of Griffonstone, receives Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria. This first diplomatic meeting after decades of animosities makes her realize the price that she had to pay to see her nation rise to its former glory.

It all came down to a choice between two great treasures.

After waking up in a hospital bed, surrounded by her family, they try and convince her that she needs to return to Ponyville. But why? And what do them mean by return to? She'd never been to Ponyville. In fact she's barely heard of it, so why would she have friends there?
Begrudingly she takes a train there to meet her 'friends'. After an hour she decides that there must have been some mistake. How could she have ever been these ponies' friend? Who'd want to be friends with an over the top drama queen, a farmer with a southern drawl so thick it could stop a ball from rolling, a daredevil pegasus whose ego is bigger than her head, a logic and physics defying party pony, and a pegasus who's scared of her own shadow. Catching the next train back to Canterlot Twilight is ready to get back to her studies and doesn't care that she left her 'friends' in tears at the train station.
As tensions rise between the Elements, the Elements themselves start losing power. They try to fix their friendship with Twilight but start to worry about failing. Will friendship ever be magic again?

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On a dark night filled with even darker magics, an insane cult attempts to give Nightmare Moon a body and life of her own, utterly separate from Princess Luna. But, when the spell is interrupted by Celestia, something unexpected is created.

Now, a little black alicorn filly named Nyx finds herself living under the care of Twilight Sparkle, only to be haunted by memories and emotions from her past. Is she Nightmare Moon reborn or is she simply a doppelganger with a soul and mind of her own? Can Twilight Sparkle protect Nyx from those who refuse to see past her dragon eyes and black coat?

Or, will Nyx be forced to inherit the sins that may not even be hers and become the greatest evil Equestria has ever known?