Twilight Sparkle is alone in a dark room. The fire is dead. The room is cold. Outside, the wind howls and the rustling of the leaves can be heard, but nothing else. This is the future of Equestria. This is Twilight Sparkle in a dark room.

I'll never forget that day. The day I forever changed a friend of mine. Fluttershy.....I'll be willing to share with you the odd things I've noticed about her since the incident at Sweet Apple Acres. I never really told any pony that I couldn't get over the mistake I made. How could I let this happen?! I've led this innocent pony to be devoured within animalistic insanity......I have a gnawing feeling that my spell did much more then I had anticipated.
I've corrupt her with a hunger that would never be satisfied. And a darkness that would never escape her.......

Vinyl Scratch plays a prank on her marefriend and housemate, Octavia.

Octavia shows Vinyl what she thought of the joke.

(A short story based on a short animation I made on YouTube of the same name)

"All I want to do is die for science. What's so wrong about that?"

Can Twilight find the answer to science in death? Or will this experiment be her last?

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-I do NOT own the cover art.

Based on Visiden Visidane's Upheaval series, which begins in Breaking Point, this story is non-canon with that story but written as a fan tribute to the series. I highly recommend checking out the canon series if you're a fan of adventure and military exploits.

Equestria is a peaceful realm, but one that has been kept in the dark about the price of that peace. The Heartland, as it is called, has been protected for generations by the Barrier Lands, a realm outside of Equestria that is occupied by ponies who make up a large army known as the Legion, controlled by the brother of the Princesses, Prince Terrato. This Legion has been fighting an ongoing war for centuries against a host of deadly enemy species that would gladly destroy Equestria if not for the Legion's efforts to keep them at bay.

After a series of events leads Twilight Sparkle and her friends to discover all this, the Barrier Lands and the Heartland are reunited, and the peaceful Equestrians told the truth. However this reunification is not entirely smooth and has with it a terrible price of its own; the draft. Equestrains who have never known a day of violence in their lives must now serve in the Legion, whether they want to or not.

Trixie Lulamoon, Blossomforth, and Coco Pommel are three such ponies, drafted into the Legion and sent to the Western Barrier Lands, where the dangerous bear-like race known as the ursans rule a vast realm of mountains and forest. Though their posting at Beartrap Fortress is meant to be a quiet one, out of the way of the main fighting, these three mares suddenly find themselves stuck in the forefront of an unexpected invasion. Ursans gather in numbers not seen in centuries under the rule of a new warchief, and it seems Beartrap Fortress is directly in the path of this new assault.

To make matters worse it seems there is an even deadlier new threat lurking in the shadows behind this invasion, one that could change the very dynamic of the Legion's struggle to protect Equestria.

Can a single company of raw, inexperienced Equestrian draftees make a difference in such a battle? Its time for the Legionnaires of Equestria to find out what they're made of, one way or another.

A remake of Friendship is eternal, mashing together the old chapters with more details and new stories throughout the tale. Sonic FIER (pronounced Fire. ain't i a stinker?)
Eggman has invaded Equestria to locate the elements of harmony and rule over everything, it's up to Sonic and his friends along with some new pony friends to stop him from fulfilling his wicked deed.
hope you enjoy

The plot is simple enough: Two eccentric-yet-sane human twins, Sylus James Harkens and Clara Belle Harkens, born in the Bells of Clarity Asylum, along with an insane girl named Pinkamena Diane Pie, try to escape when they are children. Only Clara does, and the other two are punished separately. Pinkamena was brutalised with the normal treatment, but for Sylus... Overseer Dash had something else planned for him. Something far worse than mere physical wounds. Far, far worse.

Authors: Me and Lord Sylus of Night.
Cover Artist: Lord Sylus of Night.

Non-canon prequel to The Enchanted Library

As a filly, Rarity's favorite bedtime story was about three princesses trapped throughout Equestria by a wicked spirit of chaos. How she dreamed of finding them all when she was older, especially the princess trapped in a library under a tree. She knew, however, that fairy tales weren't real.

Only when she grew up would she find out how very wrong she was.

Based on an AU a friend came up with in which Rarity stumbles across an enchanted library where Twilight is its spiritual guardian, and both form an unlikely friendship as she helps Twilight be restored to normal.

Twilight has come to discover that royal politics are complicated, but foreign policy is the worst. When the minotaur king decides to pay a visit, Celestia invites Twilight to be part of her first meeting with a foreign leader. This is her first big chance to impress on an international level... but the king isn't here to celebrate the Magic of Friendship, and he has more than a few choice words for the rookie princess. Twilight might just want to go back to world-saving after this.

Originally written for the write-off prompt "There's Magic in Everything." I was too late, then changed it up, and was left with... well, this. Brilliant!

Thanks to my prereader BlinkyPony along with my editors PaulAsaran and ultra1437 for all their help!

Cover art can be found here.

On this historic day, a small but proud nation to the chilly north votes on independence.

Unfortunately for Princess Celestia, that nation happens to be the Crystal Empire.

-Written to coincide with the Scottish referendum on independence.