Rainbow Dash hates letting Rarity plan their dates. When she does, they always end up going to lame places like fashion shows, the spa, and exotic boutiques.

Or places like Fashion Land, the most boring, annoying, fru-fru frilly amusement park in Equestria.

Rainbow Dash hates letting Rarity plan their dates.

Rainbow Dash has a wonderful life. A great job, wonderful friends, and a beautiful mare she loves to come home to. At least, she used to love coming home to her.

What do you do when it feels like the chain has slipped in your relationship? Rainbow Dash doesn't know, and until she finds out, her wonderful life isn't quite as wonderful as it seems.

Twilight's new pet owl, Owlowiscious, is exactly what the doctor ordered for those late nights when Spike isn't there to help her. Now her biggest concern is making sure her Number One Assistant can get along with the newest member of their little family.

She totally didn't have to be concerned.

Many thanks to Syeekoh, Poo-san, and Kamikakushi for prereading this fic. They should've just put it down.

In the dark the hands come, reaching out to her. Claiming her. She'll never be alone.

The day after she swears off her petty, villainous ways, Starlight Glimmer is finally ready for her very first friendship lesson! To mark this grand occasion, Twilight decides a walk through town is in order to let her new student make some friends the right way.

It turns out that Starlight Glimmer is exceedingly bad at making friends the right way.

Many thanks to Syeekoh and Kamikakushi for taking a big one and prereading this for me.

When a noblemare meets an attractive young pegasus, she questions whether her commitments are promises worth keeping. Of course it doesn't help that this pegasus is hungry for more than fancy hors d'oeuvres.

Legends say that one hundred years ago, the mad Baron von Hoofenstein hid a cursed treasure hoard somewhere in his country mansion located near what would one day be Ponyville. To this day, none have managed to brave the long-abandoned manor's dark hallways for long enough to discover the baron's stash.

Twilight Sparkle doesn't believe in curses or ghosts, so she readily agrees to help Rainbow Dash hunt down the supposedly haunted booty. Unfortunately, something other than specters stalks the halls of the baron's mansion—something with rough skin and razor-sharp teeth; something with pointed fins and breath strong enough to make a pony gag; something wearing a pink bow-tie and a greasy black wig.

Something named Sharktavia.

Many thanks to the blood-thirsty Rainedash, Kamikakushi, and Waterpear, who each mangled this into shape. Further thanks to Lord Destrustor, who created the cover image that only I am using (and nobody else ever will seriously don't look at the front page I promise).

Baking cakes, selling cakes, baking more cakes—it's all in a normal day's work for Pinkie Pie when the Cakes take the day off and leave her in charge of Sugarcube Corner. All she wants now is to prove that she's capable of handling anything life throws her way.

Just so long as life doesn't ask her to go upstairs.

Thanks to TGM, Rainedash, Kamikakushi, and Dubs Rewatcher for delving into the dark to preread this for me.

Death is a natural part of life. Exploding out of your anus, however, is not.

Dedicated to TGM, Rainedash, and Kamikakushi, who gave their lives in the prereading of this work. May they rest in peace.

The average pony would be delighted to wake up and find an adorable little bundle of joy on their doorstep—even more so after having learned it's been delivered by Princess Celestia herself! Now, imagine that this new foal has been chosen by fate to save Equestria's future, and you have a scenario beyond any would-be parent's wildest dreams. How absolutely wonderful would that be?

On a related note, Twilight Sparkle is now a mother. She isn't happy about it.

Written for F*** This Prompt, because no way would I write something like this otherwise. Probably. I think.

Many thanks to Kamikakushi and Dubs Rewatcher for pre-reading.