Starlight gets in an argument with Rainbow Dash on what qualifies as a Pegasus. This leads her to trying out for the Wonderbolts.

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In the modern era, it has become common for foreigners to mock Equestria, seeing the pony nation as weak, naive, unwilling to commit to hard decisions. More belligerent neighbors often view the ponies as easy prey or targets, to have their magic stolen, to be devoured and pillaged, or conquered as a ready supply of slaves.

It was not always thus. In ages past, Equestria was a land of heroes and legends, of darkness and bloodshed. In time, the princesses learned to temper strength with mercy, power with forbearance, and righteous conviction with benevolence.

But now, a thousand years after the younger princess was banished to the moon, the long peace is drawing to a close. Forces both within and without Equestria awaken, seeing a nation weak and easily toppled. Seeing a people grown fat on peace and luxury, who have long forgotten the hardships of war and conflict, or the glory of bloodshed.

Woe betide to all who come to Equestria with ill intent. For in all these long years of peace, the Princess of the Sun has never forgotten the lessons of war, and her eyes watch over her beloved subjects with not only patience and understanding, but an implicit promise of protection.

The time will come soon, when those who would do Celestia's Little Ponies wrong will come to learn... That even an Empire of Mercy is still paved upon the bones of its enemies.

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Alternate universe story based on two main principals: First, that Rainbow Dash is taken in as Celestia's student in addition to Twilight. Second, that the threats to Equestria are both larger in magnitude, but also countered by a more competent and militarized Equestria. Also, it will follow my headcanon that alicorn's are gender neutral.

It is also somewhat based on my love of story threads that are disconnected but still intersect. The continuity will not really have a single group of main characters (Though it will start with mostly Rainbow Dash and Celestia), but rather a number of different story threads playing out simultaneously across the world. I have plans for the Mane Six, Celestia, Luna, Spike, Starlight Glimmer, and Scootaloo at the least.

I will be posting every 14 days on saturday, at least for the time being. Story is in present tense, third person. Genre will kinda be all over the place, parts of the story will include the whole spectrum from war story to slice of life to drama to who knows what else.

Be it ancient menace or new threat, diplomatic snafu or domestic concern, monster attack or friendship problem, Twilight Sparkle and her friends have always risen to the challenge.

That's a bit of an issue this time around, when the challenge is a marked absence of Twilight Sparkle.

On a late morning in ponyville, the inhabitants of the Castle of Friendship wake up long after the sun rises to make a startling discovery; Spike had inexplicably transformed into an Alicorn! Even stranger, nopony seems to remember anything about the previous day at all, to understand what had caused such a thing to occur.

Thanks to my darling cousin Leviathan and one of my best friends, silent_user, for getting me to write pony fanfiction. Cover art courtesy of twilight stock images, background from here: https://www.deviantart.com/limedreaming/art/Castle-of-Friendship-Part-1-517352041 , and pony maker for Spike. And also silent_user, for unrelentingly pestering me until I gave it cover art, because I wasn't going to.

Spike gets two special guests one sunny afternoon at The Castle Of Friendship, and soon Twilight's attention is taken by some very strange noises coming from his room. What could be going on in there?

This story is an alternate turn of events in the episodes Cutie Re-mark Parts 1 and 2

Starlight Glimmer's plan was to get revenge on the mane six by going back in time to stop Rainbow Dash from performing her Rainboom as a filly. This would cause a ripple effect and prevent the mane six from ever becoming friends, which meant they would never have ruined her plans for "Our Town." But when Starlight performed her time spell, she somehow screwed it up, not only turning herself into a foal but had gone further back in time than she intended. Now as a foal, she will need help from the baby versions of the mane six to help her fix her mistakes and get back to the future.

Editor Superpinkbrony12

Cover artist Pridark

The newest student to the School of Friendship, a diamond dog named Ruff, gets teleported to Cloudsdale.

Starlight is panicking, Twilight is upset, and Ruff just wants to learn about friendship. Hopefully Starlight can fix all this before Twilight tracks her down, right?

Story inspired by Axolotl222's comment on another fic of mine.

Art by vensual99 on Twitter. No link because their page is NSFW. Source goes directly to the collab this is associated to, though.

A week after she moves in, a guilty Twilight tells Starlight there are no funds in the bank so she'll have to pay rent... or she's out. What does the newly-reformed unicorn do? Start her own delivery service across time and space itself. As you do.

Why did you even have to ask? And what could possibly go wrong?

I think we all know the answer to that...

Congratulations to ZanyZapper who was the obvious winner when I set up a contest on this blog to see who could come up the best idea for a one shot.

Only problem is, now it's a two-shot. Or a three-shot. Or a...

Look, let's just play it by ear, shall we?

Tossed through a portal as the last act by Twilight; Chrysalis is all that is left, the sole survivor of a fallen realm. Now she finds herself in a completely mechanized version of Equus, against an enemy with an all too familiar face; her own. Nothing is as it seems, and as more is revealed, Chrysalis finds herself questioning how she ended up like this. The real question is can she handle the answers she unconvers?

Rainbow Dash has a GREAT investment opportunity for Starlight Glimmer this Hearth's Warming.

Written for GrangeDisplay for Jinglemas 2023