Sunset Shimmer, at the end of her high school career, has to make a decision about where to go and what to do. The answer seems to be obvious, but is she ready to take that leap?

(edit 2018-04-26: Might deal with this again someday, but it's not at the top of the list.)

For Daring Do, it's not always about a grand conspiracy, or a world-ending apocalypse barely averted. It's not even always about a priceless artifact.

Some days, it's just about getting the right thing to the right place at the right time.

This is a different time. Equestria blooms with riches from beyond the seas that used to be its borders. Nightmare Moon's disruption of the Summer Sun Celebration is an event that never took place, and the Elements of Harmony are only a Hearth's Warming chant. Discord itself is more of a spirit of bad luck than a conqueror, sometimes thwarting weather forecasts and other times turning fields into candy corn.

But Equestria also used to be free. Many took to the sea hoping to recover some of that lost freedom and, for a time, it was good. Pinkie Pie's Sugarcube was the most reliable sugar cane trading ship of the Thirteen Seas. Thanks to her, Sweet Apple Acres always had what was needed for jam, the Cake's bakery of Ponyville Docks was a booming business, and even her own ship's kitchen had the freshest muffins on land or sea.

Until the sugar embargo.

With increasing frequency, Her Majesty's navy has been keeping an ever closer watch on the trades routes.

They should have watched even closer.

(edit 2018-04-26: Probably safe to say this experiment is done.)

This story is a sequel to The Coming Storm

Sequel to The Coming Storm, side-story to The Last Pony on Earth and Founders of Alexandria, both by Starscribe. Swift Quill, Sudden Storm, Jeff Reynolds, Karin Simonsen, Rich Leroy, and George "Serge" Coutts are the first settlers of Ponytown, in the ruins of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. They've banded together and established a community, and this is the story of that community's growth and involvement with other groups as life begins to return to normal - or as normal as it can be after the Event.

Twilight Sparkle enchanted a photo album so that she could relive the memories within simply by touching any of the pictures contained in its pages. What if Twilight's not the one in possession of the album, though?

Side story to Starscribe's fine works The Last Pony on Earth and Founders of Alexandria. Max Morley is a 34-year-old firefighter working in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, when the Collapse begins. But he doesn't know about it until nearly five months have passed.

Side story to Starscribe's fine work The Last Pony on Earth. The main character was on vacation when the Event happened and hands were replaced with hooves. An attempt to find food & shelter is made after the apocalypse.

Now with 100% more cover art! My good friend Lionheartcartoon, also known as half of the creative team on the PMV "Children of the Night", happily put this together for all to enjoy.

Bon Bon tries to figure out why Lyra still seems upset by her secret. Before she can straighten things out, her hoof is forced by circumstances beyond her control.

Short story created in response to the "Writer's Training Grounds" post on Equestria Daily for post-episode-100 story challenges.