While most people are content with a low-tech shard, some are not. But what do you do when you have done all your shard has to offer? When you fully understand how it works, and can manipulate it to your will? What is left to do?

Set in the Optimalverse

This is an introduction to the research and investigation of a new sickness that started plaguing Equestria, there is little known to the moment but as head of the research team and the new born health department I Shadow Spark am on the proses of writing down everything that could be important to help to find a cure and or contain the spread of the disease. In this volume I should work explaining what we know at the current day, having never feel the need to keep time other than the pleasantries of knowing my date of birth and other things that are alike and of little importance there is no record of time and history seems to be just recording of mere memory, in order to understand the progress of our work I am beginning the very first record of time that is actually part of a serious attempt to record time in Equestria.

After being knocked into the ocean by batmans batmoblie, he's washed up upon the shores of Equestria

In a Lord of the Flies-esque story, 6 friends are stranded on an Island and a rift soon forms between them, seperating them into two warring groups. All OC Character's are based on me and my friends, so it's also sort of a role-play but scitpted for your enjoyment.

Big thanks to: Emma Ridsdale, Mitchell Snow, Katie Myers, Austin Dotey, and Tyler Whatever-your-last-name-is for inspiring your characters and helping me develop, well, yourselves.

Also extra thanks to Austin for "helping" me write this story (by which I mean being a complete idiot.

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Where do I belong?

Life fades from possibility as his inner self falls to despair. Without the will to live, there is no more reason for Horizon. no reason to keep going on. Like a fork in the road, a decision, of life and of death, can decide his destiny.

There are few things more potent than being told “You can't.” For some, it's the most destructive thing you could ever say, and could drive them to give up everything they've worked for; for others, it serves to inspire their ultimate effort in order to prove them wrong, even if they're hopelessly outmatched and seem to have no hope in Hades at meeting their challenge. This is the crossroad Twilight faced when she was told, “You can't beat me no way, no how,” inspiring her to train until she felt ready to face someone who could knock her out in one punch. As she gives her all to preparing for her bout in Las Pegasus, the one thought running through her mind is “Her hits make apples fall from trees! How in Equestria can I beat that!?”

When the Dovakiin wakes up in a strange place sorrounded by pastel colored horses who can talk. What could possibly go wrong.

At her boutique, a dragon was always there, assisting all he can. She sees how hard he tries. She notices these little things that the gentledrake does. Ear-to-ear smile whenever he's around or near her, his mood seems to light up whenever she looks at him. Over the years, they've become stronger, happening more often. These are all very clear to her and she knows how he feels about her. The only question is... Does she feel the same?

Her life has been a series of unfortunate events but a promise with her mother has kept her going. Even though she's been kicked around, abused and heckled, she's kept pushing through.

That is, until her whole life's work was literally crushed right before her eyes. Everyone has their limits and her unbreakable will is starting to grow weaker. Why won't anyone just give her a break? Is it too much to ask for?

At the opening of a religious war, after a desperate escape, a lone starship makes an emergency landing.  On this uncharted world, with a hold full of sleeping refugees, the crew of the T.C.S. Caledonia make humanity's first contact with alien sentients.

Can Captain Olivia Wrayburn make allies among these strange folk?  Can she keep a world full of innocents from falling prey to fanatics?  The true destiny of Equestria's youngest, still-untested Princess may hold the key.