You never know when evil will strike, but you can always be prepared for it. Seeing your heroes become the villains can be a disaster, but like wounds, disasters can heal. However, when heroes became villains once again, they won't fall for the same trick twice.

The Mane 6 once fallen to the dark side after exposing themselves to some water filled with dark magic and almost destroy Ponyville in their madness. They eventually were cured and return to their senses and cleanse the evil waters from its impurity.

However, a small bit of that dark water was saved and was given again to our heroes. With the Mane 6 fallen again to madness, it is up for other heroes must save them once again.

Assuming if they can this time...

Lovely cover art courtesy of Dilarus.

Returning from a trip to Manehattan, Trixie has a brand new magic trick that she's all too eager to share with Starlight.

Unfortunately, when things don't work quite as expected, Trixie and Starlight are forced to go on a journey across Equestria to find the pony that gave her the trick and make things right once more.

Gold Medalist in the "Has That Always Been There?" January 2017 Writeoff

When Celestia and Luna want some much needed alone time, they ask Twilight and Starlight to run Equestria from Canterlot for the day. Excited for the new experience, the two happily agree. Even so, Twilight can't help but worry that Starlight might fudge something up big time.

Starlight Glimmer has discovered a spell that could provide information about disasters affecting Ponyville in the future. The only problem: neither she nor Twilight Sparkle are entirely certain how the spell works.

Sometimes, forgetting is the hardest part of knowing.

Preread by toxbox and Prof Holly Oats.

Stardust was a average filly, love doing magic tricks, playing with her sister, but all joy was taken from her when her birthday resulted in her getting something that makes her different that other ponies can't see, a curse Cutie Mark known as a Faux Mark

Now, her life as a mare makes her feel different. Having to run a party store, accept her false talent, and worse, inflate into a balloon pony on & off. To her life wouldn't be the same till she met her new best friends. However, the endless painful memories of her ruined Fillyhood keep coming back, and the image of the Pony is permanently in her head. Can her new friends help her not be bothered by the Faux Mark, or will the on and off body inflating make her go insane?

Note: Contains Inflation (Balloon Pony style), if this doesn't interest you, please turn back.

Editing is done by Autum Breeze.

Celestia's personal dungeon. A thing of mystery. A thing of terror.

So just what does it take to get banished to such a deep, dark, horrific place?

Not much, actually.

Artwork by EvilbobO. Formatting assistance by ChappedPenguinLips, aka, The Best.

The mane six plan a vacation to the beach, and Twilight invites Starlight to go with them.

Balance.. harmony and chaos live in a constant balancing act with each other, keeping themselves in check, at least until Starlight tried to rewrite time... now the balance is gone, and the keepers of the balance are not happy... so they send one to correct the wrong, and do whatever it will take to do so...

Realizing the position they're in, the changelings decide on a different plan than the one their queen's giving.

Author's idearz: Some credit goes to this person. They did a thing and I decided to do another thing they did by basing it on the thing with this thing while they did their thing...

This story ignores Season 6 and splits from the universe from "The Cutie-Remark".

During the last bits of the Cutie Re-mark, a new portal opens unexpectedly, dragging Twilight and Spike into another timeline. Without the spell, they are stuck in a timeline with the smell of war everywhere, a place where the magic of friendship is no more. To return to her timeline, she has to fix this timeline and end this ten year war against Starlight's regime.

But Twilight will realize that sometimes, she has to get her hooves dirty and commit horrible crimes to better the whole world and save her friends.

"Twilight, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun.
Take it on the run, on the run, on the run.
Hear them calling you and me,
Every Mares of Liberty.
Hurry right away, no delay, go today.
Make Celestia glad to have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her mare's in line."

Parodied from "Over There"

Based on WW1.