The entire Mare Do Well event has left Rainbow Dash more emotionally scarred than her friends would have thought. With Twilight's help Rainbow begins to move down the path to recovery, but when her trust in her friends is called into question, will she be able to let go of what happened and move on? Or, will Rainbow lose who is quickly becoming the most important pony in her life?

My entry for the TwiDash group's first ever fanfiction contest! The rules can be found here.

Editing done by The Abyss & DarqFox

Pre-read by Nuukor

Cover art by bats

Jump into the rich and vast continent of Metallos! Where magic meets machinery and the sword meets gunpowder.

Join up with your friends. Together, become involved in an adventure undreamed of!

Be a group of hardened mercenaries, elusive members of a spy ring or even be a band of swashbuckling pirates!

Explore the world! Learn it's history! Battle nefarious villains! Stab your friends in the back! Hog all the pie!

Experience all of this in "Forge World!"

-Learn the basics or creating a campaign and understanding the mechanics of "Forge World"

-Learn the history and lore of the great continent of Metallos! From the frozen tundra of Silverus to the blazing sands of Bronza!

-Choose from several different race and classes to mix and match to be your very own! Be a unicorn magus, a diamond dog pickpocket, even a changeling spy!

-Outfit your character with all manners of weaponry and equipment! Learn all sorts of spells to blast your foes and assist your allies in combat!

-Detailed explanation on crafting and alchemy to further your adventuring experience!

-All with highly detailed illustrations and writing in this massive 432 page rulebook!

What are you waiting for? Those brigands aren't going to stop themselves you know? Into the "Forge world" you go!

Twilight continued to stare at the the back of the book cover before sighing in exasperation "I know I like books and all but this is outrageous, even for me"

Without even giving the book a second look, she quickly went and shelved it back to Spike's own personal bookshelf as she was cleaning up their room. As she was leaving the library, she only thought to herself

"How can somepony enjoy a book as ridiculous as that?"

Who would have thought a pony and a changeling could have children together.  I certainly wouldn't have.  This is Shining Armor, and I'm in a weird situation.  Chrysalis has shown up to my home and dropped a kid off stating that it was our son.  

What will Cadance think?  How am I going to raise a changeling child?  Why does Chrysalis keep coming into my life, and why am I finding it harder to keep her away?  Hopefully answers can be found with as little problems as possible.  Oh who the Tartarus am I kidding, my seed is a changeling!  There's bound to be a problem along the way.

Story inspired by Bakki's excellent fanart.

Spike has had it. It's not his fault the library is a shambles. In fact, he tried his very best to save it.

And now he's supposed to take the blame? Not this time! Until Twilight starts to fully appreciate his worth, Spike goes on strike!

Long after the wedding and the fiasco with the Changelings, Shining Armour and Cadence are finally settled in at home. But one bundle of 'joy' may just end it all.

Getting the help of his younger sis', Shining try's to keep the foal a secret from his wife. But how long will she remain a secret, and how will ice cream cones get involved?

Edited by: The Princess Rarity

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Lightning Dust has seen better days. She’s on the verge of becoming a full-blown alcoholic, and her career is in shambles. She’s gotten so desperate that she even found a support group to help her work through her problems, but the first meeting turns out to be nothing like what she expected. This isn’t the gathering of former antagonists that she was looking for. In fact, some of these creatures shouldn’t even exist!

Six months before the wedding of Cadence and Shining Armor, Spike meets the queen by chance. Taken aback by her quirks, Spike tries his best to become friends with her, to some success.

However, all things, good or bad, must come to an end, and Chrysalis's eventual actions at the wedding make that clear.

Spike has, in his hands, the ability to redeem this seemingly evil queen. Because... maybe she isn't as evil as everyone thought.

(Reluctantly toting the OC tag because of Chrysalis's disguise, and because of the fact that there will eventually be a true OC designed to help push the story along. AKA I didn't write the story around the OC, I wrote the OC around the story. I'm really paranoid about this pushing away potential readers, if you can't tell. ^^;)

(Character list have been further adjusted to mark what the story will become. The majority and focus of the story is the "encore", and, while it will have a "slice of life" feel, there will be important consequences to the actions taken; hence, it is an adventure.)

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A long time ago, even before Equestria was founded, there lived 2 living beings. One was an Alicorn, the other a Changeling. The first one was living the good life in the Palace of Creation and this together with her sisters, brother and her mother, the Almighty Fausticorn. But she was unhappy. Why you ask? Well, we can't spoil the story, now can we?

The Changeling was not so fortunate. After running away from her father's hive with 20 Changelings, she was now trying to survive. She needed love to survive, but most importantly, she needed a friend to be there for her.

Fate had some plans for them.

(They are foals.)

This story is written in the Team Awesome universe of Bonaxor and the story is based on a comic. In the comic they are foals, so they are also foals in my story. There are a few rules, which the creator of the comic told me to follow, and which I cannot break.

1. Ponies are afraid of Alicorns. They see them as monsters that can destroy the world.

2. Team Awesome never goes into town without a special disguise. It makes them look like other normal ponies.. just.. bigger.

- Celestia is a Unicorn in her disguise

- Luna is an Earth pony

- Dream (Nightmare Moon) is a Pegasus

- Discord a dragon

- Cadance is a pegasus

That are the two giant rules.

This will probably be a feel good story.

Edited by the wonderful arandompenguin.

Apple Bloom wished for her Cutie Mark. Instead, she'll become a hero! A magical talking compact mirror offers her the chance to save Equestria from the return of King Sombra. Unfortunately, in order to use the powers of the mirror, Apple Bloom must work together with Diamond Tiara.

Together, Apple Bloom and Diamond Tiara must set aside their differences to save Equestria from looming shadows, the Crystal Empire from it's own painful past, and especially their classmates from their own sorrows? They'll have to so they can transform into Filly Cure!

With appreciation to The Ferret who helped conceptualized this, and also Your Antagonist and Watts Man who helped edit this.

After living as an outcast for several months, Chrysalis longs to return home. However, the changelings are not so willing to take her back because of the conflicts her failures have brought upon them. Taking advantage of their situation, Chrysalis comes up with a plan that will leave them no choice but to accept her as their queen again. The changelings need love and she will bring them all they will need by creating a dating service in order to make more for them to feed from.

Disguised as a pony named Cherub, she settles in the town of Ponyville, thinking that it is the perfect town to go through with her plan. After realizing that the Elements of Harmony live there as well and avoiding their suspicion, she begins her business. However, things are not as easy as she had assumed and is at risk of failing. Out of desperation, she reluctantly hires Pinkie Pie, believing that her knowledge of everypony in the town would be a huge advantage. Chrysalis only hopes that her sanity can withstand the constant annoyance that comes from the pony she is now very dependent on.

Cover image created and permitted by FeliXao.