The innocent need protecting. That's why Hunter has come to Equestria! Well, he didn't actually have a choice. And would really rather be home. But still.
A fic starring a Navy SEAL and everyone's favorite cross-eyed blondie!

Derpy Hooves arrives at Dr. Whooves house after finding a note with the rest of her mail telling her to go there. After introducing herself, Dr. Whooves and Colgate let her in and do the same but in a very mysterious fashion. They explain to her that they're on a top secret mission for Princess Celestia. They want Derpy to help them on their mission but they need to ask for Princess Celestia's permission first.
The three make their way to Princess Celestia in Canterlot. After asking for her permission, she gives it to them, choosing to have faith in her subjects. She explains that their mission is to make sure the changeling threat is gone. Dr. Whooves, Colgate, and Derpy head back to his house and he begins to explain more. The only way to make sure the changeling threat is gone is to follow it from it's source. The source was when they attacked the castle during the Royal Canterlot Wedding. Because of this, they would have to go back in time so Dr. Whooves reveals the TARDIS to Derpy. After an annoyingly painful time trying to explain what the TARDIS was to Derpy, she finally ends up grasping the concept and heading inside of it with the others.

Dr. Whooves then takes the TARDIS to the wedding day and explains to Derpy that she can not tell anypony about the events of the future as it could result in a time paradox causing the very notion of existence to cease to exist. The three get closer to the castle and hear Princess Cadence (who they know to be Queen Chrysalis) singing the first part of This Day Aria. The changelings wouldn't be exposed for some time so they would have to wait, all while not exposing their identities of the future. After waiting awhile, the Queen Chrysalis and the changelings get defeated by Shining Armor and the real Princess Cadence's power. Now seeing their chance, the three head back into the TARDIS and follow them into a changeling colony. After they arrive, Queen Chrysalis looks unhappy to see ponies in her territory but figures she can't do anything about it now. Dr. Whooves makes Colgate and Derpy wait outside while he and Queen Chrysalis head inside a hut. He begins talking to her and his body begins changing, only to reveal that he is actually Queen Chrysalis from the future!

After some explaining, the past Queen Chrysalis joins with the future Queen Chrysalis. Colgate turns out to be one of the changelings from the army and brings Derpy to the dungeon. The two Chrysalises head into the TARDIS and go back to the time when the future Chrysalis first arrived. They managed to rope that Chrysalis in after making that Colgate take that Derpy to the dungeon in the changeling colony as well. As Shining Armor and Cadence were getting ready to defeat the changelings, the three Chrysalises burst in, scaring them for a second causing the spell to fail. Now, with four Chrysalises, they know that even Shining Armor and Cadence's powers can defeat them. The Chrysalises lit up their horns and so did Shining Armor and Cadence. Their power wasn't enough and the Chrysalieses won. All the ponies were laying on the floor.

Meanwhile, right after Colgate took Derpy to the dungeon, someone else appeared inside. It turns out to also be Derpy Hooves. The changeling colony had a protective time bubble on it so that things can go through it but not time. Any time alterations would not effect what happened inside the bubble. The Derpy who got thrown in by the three Chrysalis was there along with the first Derpy. They plotted hwo to escape and did. There was nothing two Derpy Hooves from parallel universes couldn't acomplish. The two ran to where they left the TARDIS and went inside. Now, out of the bubble, things from another universe couldn't exist anymore. Only the Derpy from the alternate universe could. The main Derpy faded away from existence and made sure the other Derpy would eat lots and lots of muffins. Now, this Derpy Hooves would have to defeat the Queen Chrysalises on her own.

The TARDIS suddenly headed for present time on it's own. When she stepped out of it, she was in Dr. Whooves' house again and heard noises from the closet. She found out that these were the real Dr. Whooves and Colgate and that Queen Chrysalis had thrown them in there earlier. They weren't affected by the timeline alteration, though, because his house also had a time bubble. Derpy looked outside and noticed that all the ponies were being used as slaves for the changelings. Dr. Whooves explains that the TARDIS also had it's own time bubble and that's why she wasn't affected either. He goes on a huge speech explaining what she must do to defeat them which is basically to go back in time, use the time bubble as an time explosion, and that should fix any errors made in time. The three risks with that is that she would have to do it before any time jumps were made which means before the Chrysalis Cadence was singing This Day Aria, she would have to go back to the present before the time bubble exploaded or else she would forget all her memory, and once back in the present, she would have to defeat Chrysalis and not get fooled by her again while in Dr. Whooves' form. Dr. Whooves then pulls out a recording device and tells her that he just recorded his whole speech. After time was fixed, he wouldn't remember anything so she would have to give him the recording to listen to. That's when changelings burst in his house and started using their magic against Dr. Whooves and colgate. Derpy ran for the TARDIS with the recording. He heard their screaming of pain and then complete silence, followed by a splatter of red liquid on a window of the TARDIS which she assumes to be their blood and begins crying. Banging on the door by the changelings scare her into place and takes the TARDIS back in time once more.

Once she was at the wedding day again, she realized that Dr. Whooves never told her how to detonate the TARDIS' time bubble. On her own, she comes up with an idea of creating a time paradox within a time bubble which might be enough to make it implode on itself followed by exploding. She finds her own past self and blindfolds her so that no time paradoxes would occur outside of the TARDIS. Otherwise, as Dr. Whooves said, it would result it everything ceasing to exist. Once inside, she takes the blindfold off and talks to her telling her not to do exactly what she was doing now, thus causing a time paradox. The bubble couldn't contain a universe wide paradox and exploded. She sent the TARDIS for the future at the exact same time and fell unconscious. Hopefully she would remember everything when she awoke. If it hadn't worked, even the recording might be lost. Luckily, she awoke all of a sudden but she somehow wasn't in the TARDIS anymore. Instead, she was flying and had a note in her hand to tell her to go to Dr. Whooves house. She had all of her memories and knew exactly what was going on now. She went straight for the house, helped Dr. Whooves and Colgate escape and then tackled Chrysalis in her Dr. Whooves form. She, Colgate, and Dr. Whooves then entered the TARDIS and headed for the Princess' castle. She played the recording for him and then he believed her entirely. They went to talk with Princess Celestia who told them they would need to find the Mane 6 if they had a chance of defeating Chrysalis. They went straight for Twilight's house first and she let them in.

The ponies then went looking for the other 5 of the mane 6. The first they found was Rarity and now she was helping them look. Meanwhile, Spike was still at Twilight's house. He opened the door for who he thought to be Rarity but was actually Chrysalis, as he later found out after she trapped him in Rarity's boutique. She then transformed into Spike and waited for them at Twilight's house. After all the ponies found each other, they headed back to Twilight's house, the location of which Princess Celestia said she would meet them. Once inside, Chrysalis in Spike's form trapped the ponies inside the house and made her way outside to the TARDIS. It wasn't hard for the ponies to escape because they had magic to teleport. They now surrounded the TARDIS and wouldn't let her in. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence, and Shinging Armor arrived who Twilight immediately hugged because she hadn't seen them since the wedding now that they were on their honeymoon. They all went inside the TARDIS and used their powers. The power of love, the Princess' power, and the Elements of Harmony. From inside, the power created a chain reaction which cased the time bubble to explode once more except this time it worked as a barrier for the changeling colony. The changelings were now trapped in their colony like a fish in a fish bowl and they had no way out. They had succeeded in finally defeating Queen Chrysalis. After thanking each other, the ponies went back to their homes and Dr. Whooves, Colgate, and Derpy headed back to his house.

Once there, Dr. Whooves told Derpy the full story about how at first he thought Princess Celestia was plotting something beyond the changelings and beyond Equestria. He thought she was planning a conspiracy but now knew he was wrong. He told her also about how he was recruited for Princess Celestia's mission. Afterward, they all went to Princess Celestia to officially make Derpy Hooves a part of their team. Princess Celestia frowned and apologized for what she was about to do but she couldn't have anybody know about anything that could possilby happen. She took out a pen that the three ponies looked into and Celestia used it to make them forget their memories - Men In Black style. She put them in the TARDIS and sent them back. What she didn't know was that Derpy had the recording device recording the entire time and Celestia might had soon be in for it. For now, however, everybody was safe and that was what was important. Even Celestia's secret was safe and if it were up to her, nopony would ever know it...

Meanwhile, as the ponies were partying at Sugar Cube Corner to celebrate Queen Chrysalis' defeat, Spike stayed in Rarity's boutique. Still trapped in the closet. With nopony to help him out.

This story is a sequel to Four Ponies & A Time Machine

WARNING: Some graphic crime scene description, especially in later chapters. No actual violence beyond action scenes. Some alcoholic beverage use.
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Sheerluck Hooves is the most peculiar stallion of peculiar ponies. He is always wearing an Inverness cape and a deerstalker cap. Always blowing a silly-looking bubble pipe.
But he is a genius, a world-renowned consulting detective from Trotland Yard in Great Bridleton. And, in a very mind-boggling way, he is a cousin to Derpy Hooves. And he is coming over to stay with the Hooves family for quite some time.
Sheerluck is partially based off the original Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He also takes personality traits from Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and my own persona. Sherlock Holmes is actually now in public domain, so it is perfectly legal for me to write about Sherlock Holmes and to use direct references to Doyle's stories. MLP is indeed copyright by Hasbro. I take no credit to ponies from the canon show.
This COULD be considered a ponification story, but it follows the rules of the 'SkeleVerse' and uses mostly original ideas. Lots of allusions to Doyle's work.

MANE THEME SONG: Twenty|One|Pilots - Isle of Flightless Birds

PART ONE - A Study In Scarlet
PART TWO - The Sign of The Four
PART THREE - Valley of Death

Expect Canadian changelings

This story is a sequel to Ordinary Nightmares

Derpy has had a lot of misadventures. Amid them all have been moments of happiness, sadness, hope, and despair. She has come face-to-face with mad scientist wizards, tea-loving pirates, changelings, ancient dragons, and even the breaking of reality itself. All along, there has been a pervasive sense in her mind that it was all beyond her; that simple little Derpy Hooves from Ponyville wasn't meant for moments like these. Somehow though, against all odds, she has succeeded time and again.
Now, that peculiar tendency brings Discord to ask her assistance in a unique crisis of his own making. Aeons ago, he made a machine with a unique ability: the power to invert the probability of the entire universe. It is a machine that makes the most unlikely the most likely, and the most probable all but impossible. If it becomes active, the consequences will be catastrophic in ways that defy imagination.
Only a pony with almost no chance of stopping such a contraption has any chance of stopping it at all. The best-laid plan will go awry, and the greatest hero will doubtlessly fail. Fortunately, there is one pony in Equestria who was never meant to be a hero.

Cover art by tarantad0 of Deviantart

This is meant as an alternate/speculative take on what Season 3 might be like, drawing heavy inspiration from the third season of ReBoot.

During Shining Armour and Cadance's wedding reception, Princess Luna speaks with Twilight in private, to warn her of an impending Changeling attack on Ponyville. She then assumes the role of Ponyville's military commander, with Derpy serving as her second in command.

Ponyville has become Equestria's first line of defence against the Changelings.

Using this map by Aurebesh for reference.

Cover art by Rando-Meeks

Note: This fic does not fit with the canon map of Equestria. In this, Ponyville is the westernmost settlement in Equestria, Appleloosa is the easternmost with deserts stretching beyond pony territory, and the Everfree Forest covers Equestria's western border.

Second note: As I started writing this before I heard anything about Season 3, there's no reconciling this fic with Season 3.

This story is a sequel to Becoming One With the Night

It was supposed to be a good day. Twilight and Luna were sharing the news of their relationship with their closest friends and family. However, Celestia's largest secret yet finally came out. Now, relations are strained between Celestia and everypony else. After all, what's Twilight to do when she finds out her second mother is actually her birth mother?

On top of this massive bombshell, soon Twilight will be sporting a pair of wings of her own. If she thought things were complicated now, just wait until Canterlot gets wind of a new alicorn. Life is about to become one giant nightmare for Twilight. But hey, at least she has Luna, right?

As stated above, this is a sequel. I highly encourage you to read the first story (the writing is extremely rough early on, mind you), but it's not entirely required to understand most everything that will be going on here.

EDIT: Takes place during S3, when it was originally conceived, thus the Alt. Universe tag. There was no redemption of Discord. There was no ascension. Yes, the Crystal Empire is back, and Cadance and Shining Armor are the leaders there. This should cover the more critical aspects of the season in regards to the story.

One crippled Equestrian society, one chance to save it, and fifteen-thousand potential heroes to live the legend. Join Twilight Sparkle as she lives a second life to defend Equestria one last time. Action, suspense, and Pony-Puns await you.

Thank you to Piecee01 for making this amazing artwork. Please go support his awesome artwork on deviantart!!

Secrets. Everypony has them, and as they get older the more numerous they become. Their benevolent ruler Celestia herself has lost track of just how many secrets she holds, but Twilight and Luna are going to find out quite a few of them. Follow Twilight and Luna as they discover things about themselves, and those dear to them, as memories and secrets are brought to the light.

Image - Done by Archonix.

Note - The writing is the earliest I have of what I've done. As such it's quite sloppy compared to my standards today. Slated for a rewrite/full editing in the future. At some point.

16-yr-old Twilight has been held in stasis for a millennia, ever since her mother was banished. Now, she must wait. Wait for her mother to return, wait for justice on Celestia and wait for a kinder world. After all, who would trust the Daughter of a Nightmare?
Inspired by Polaris501's story 'Heir of the Nightmare'
Currently going through an edit.

Celestia has become emotionally withdrawn and disconnected from her little ponies. The imprisonment of Luna compounded with the constant loss of any who got close to her, she has forgotten how to connect with another pony. Until a small, injured filly who is equally distant after the loss of her parents stumbles into Celestia's life. Now, both ponies will help the other heal and rediscover once more what it truly means to be a pony.

A 'Mommylestia' story, the concept of which has been in my head for some months. I will be sticking rather close to canon for events, the major differences are that Twilight's parents are dead, and Shining Armor is a few years older and already dating Cadance at the time of this incident. I plan to keep mostly everything else the same.