Twilight Sparkle, prized student of Princess Celestia, has always been very good at magic. Too good.

This is the story of how she solves every problem all by herself, because she is the best pony and my favorite.

Ponies say that if you wait at a crossroads with darkness in your heart, you can trade your soul away for power.

Trixie thinks this sounds like a good deal. Surely her soul is worth much more than the average one. Certainly enough to afford revenge against that life-ruining Twilight Sparkle.

But maybe exchange rates for souls are not as favorable as she expected.

Rainbow Dash has made a trade in which she receives a Daring Do book if Fluttershy leaves Ponyville to train an orthos. She has come up with a way to carry out the trade and keep everypony happy. But her plan has an unforeseen problem.

Twilight Sparkle has accidently sent Rainbow Dash to the past and now Rainbow lacks the means to power the time machine that she came in enough to return to her own time. Fortunately, her friends are still there to help her find a way to return to the present, even if they aren't exactly the same friends that she left behind.

Obviously inspired by Back to the Future, but the plot of this story is only loosely based on that of the movie.

This, this is why I spend so much time in the archives, Twilight thought, holding a dusty old book close in her magic. Inside the book were a number of advanced spells, each one more interesting than the last in some sort of circular logic that Twilight could only assume went to infinity

Twilight galloped through the doors to her tower and leaped onto her favorite reading pillow on the balcony. She opened the book to the table of contents.

Oh my gosh! They’re all so interesting! Ooh, an age spell! That…might be a bit beyond me. But here right below it – a duplication spell!

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Ever wonder what characters are doing when they’re not in the spotlight?

They’re certainly glad you never knew.

Unfortunately for them, stories of their lives have come to light.

Defunct side stories to the Seeking Power series.

A forewarning, each short story may contain spoilers for the main series. Although they are arranged in chronological order, they are written in an arbitrary order and out of sync with the main story. It is possible that reading a story can reveal information that isn’t given until much later in the main series. Such stories will have a warning at the top listing the chapter at which spoilers are no longer in effect.

Art created from various sources. A full list of links is available here.

Twilight looked over to her dear mentor, Princess Celestia, and found she had once again fallen asleep mid-lesson. Her intense debate on awakening the princess was cut short when the decision was taken out of her hooves.

“Huh? Oh. Twilight, I am so sorry for falling asleep again. I think we need to reschedule this for tomorrow morning.”

Twilight nodded. After all, Princess Celestia was obviously overworked. If only there was something she could do to help.

Now with a dramatic reading courtesy of DRWolf.
Additionally, there’s a Spanish translation by Spaniard Kiwi over on Deviant Art.

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Art created from images by Tim015 and ShilaDaLioness.

Filly Twilight has read to many books, and to allow other fillies and colts the chance to win things is banned. But she get's something special for her efforts. It's what I think happens between Twilight seeing Princess Celestia raise the sun, and the entrance exam.

Art done by, Hinoratio

Twilight Sparkle, waking one morning from uneasy dreams, discovers, accidentally, that she can transcend time. What follows is her misadventures as she stumbles through different time periods and at least one alternate universe. At least she'll have company...

Princess Twilight Sparkle after many sleepless nights wondering how she was able to generate a seat belt for Spike during the Plunder Seed crisis decides to ask the other princesses. The answer was strange, but after a prank from Rainbow Dash, things go down to outright ridiculous.

This is Twilight's story.

Inspired by, this comment, and the fic that comment was made in.