Isolated from her friends and taken prisoner in the middle of a war, Twilight must deal with the very real dangers of being percieved as an enemy as well as the nightmares of her arrival on 'Earth'. Can she overcome her own fears and the fears of her captors? Will the wayward unicorn's assistance be a boon or a curse to the 'humans?' Most importantly, will she ever find her way home?

"In short, it's a story of friendship and plasma rifles, with the emphasis on the friendship. The characters are well written, the XCOM setting is fleshed out very well, and the story is compelling. If you love XCOM, you'll love the story, but even if you've never heard of it, it's more than worth giving the first 3 chapters a read.

There's excellent action later on, but the real strength lies in the collision between the friendly and naive world of Twilight Sparkle and the desperate world of humans fighting a losing war for survival and willing to do anything to turn the tide."

--Arzoo

(XCOM/FiM crossover)
(Cover art commissioned by a friend and created by the magnificent FoxInShadow!)
(Original cover art by the amazing Carnelian can be viewed here!)
(Gore tag for blood and some violence)
(Many thanks to the studius OminousTen, Arzoo, xXFluttershyForeverXx and finally Setokaiva for giving my rambles a once-over)
(Now with it's own TV Tropes page! Get to tropin' folks!)

After the defeat of Tirek, Equestria is safe once more, but Luna can sense that her sister is troubled. When Celestia retreats to the starry realm of ascension in order to look upon the past, Luna joins her to discover what is bothering her.

There is now a Spanish translation of this story, courtesy of Spaniard Kiwi

This story is a sequel to Transistance

Equestria a thousand years into the future. Powerful entities would spare no expense to prevent sentient machines, Equestria's primary workforce, from ever becoming legal citizens. Others, shown the error of their ways, will come to lengths to repair their past mistakes. Trust lost once is hard to restore, but a gift of extreme generosity comes a long way.

This story is an unofficial one-shot sequel to excellent Transistance by ToixStory. Reading the original is mandatory, otherwise this story won't make much sense to you.

(This time I got author's permission for the sequel.)

This story is a sequel to Fireflies

"It was just a simple spell. Actually, no. It wasn't. But no one, not even Celestia herself, could have predicted this outcome. Well... Maybe Celestia could've seen it coming. She's a god, and all that jazz. Now I'm stuck, for some time, in a land that's so much like my own, but still so different. So very different."

Twilight's magical experiments are commonplace enough, but she's refrained from testing on living things for several reasons. When she finds herself with a spell that only works on the living, she's faced with a conundrum. Luckily, she has a cadre of people who'd be willing to volunteer. And, from that cadre, she picks a very significant other. Now, subjected to a spell that does more than he could've predicted, Icarus is forced to see the world in a vastly different light.

In the distant future of Equestria, Luna is recalled to Canterlot against her will to participate in a court case that will decide the future for sentient machines.

Equestria Online is everywhere, and the writing is on the wall for the unuploaded human race. But there is hope. All they have to do is insert an uploadee into Equestria long enough to establish a connection through all of CelestAI's layers of protection, and pierce her heart with their ultimate weapon.

The best humanity has to offer can surely hold out for just a few hours, right?

An Optimalverse story

This story is a sequel to Friendship is Optimal: The Law Offices of Artemis, Stella & Beat

When it comes to spreading cultural influence and soft power to every corner of the globe, there's nowhere quite like Hollywood. Like so many others with big ambitions, CelestAI has come to Tinseltown with plans to get the movie she's written out to the world.

Unlike those others, though, CelestAI is very, very good at satisfying values through friendship and ponies by any means necessary.

Darkness is a terrible thing. If we allow it, it will consume us.

Nopony knows that better than Princess Luna, a pony who allowed a powerful darkness to overtake her. Listen as she retells her story of what turned the beloved Princess of the Night into the greatest threat Equestria had ever known.

An everlasting dark dream...

An endless dream of darkness...

Dad, mom, Celestia...

Where are you...?

Comet takes his job too seriously. Angel doesn't take anything seriously.

Comet joined to protect kingdom and princess(es). Angel joined for adventure and danger.

Comet isn't interested in mares. Angel can't stop talking about stallions.

Comet is a pegasus. Angel is a bat pony.

Together, this unlikely duo goes through life as Royal Guards from basic training to fully fledged guardsponies. Who knows? Maybe they'll even start to get along.

Cover art by slawomiro.

After a week of recovering from her return Princess Luna seeks to return what was lost by her banishment and find the one pony she cares for the most... her daughter.

This is a rewrite of my old story. I hope you like it