After George shoots Lennie, Lennie wakes up in Equestria. Celestia and Luna had brought him to their world for a chance at a better life.

Yes, Lennie is- and stays- human.
Note: Romance tag is NOT for Lennie.

Disclaimers:
Not to be confused with Shred_Hexstring's Of Mice and Mares, a ponified version of the novel.
If my depiction of Lennie ever becomes offensive to you, please note that is not and will never be intentional.
Original characters Lennie Small and George Milton copyrighted to John Steinbeck.

Crossover. However, I just take the basic idea of the video game and transform it. Playing the game yields no spoilers whatsoever. Meaning, you don't have to have played the game to understand this story.

Pinkie Pie is the Priestess of Regeneration: she has to go on a dangerous quest to heal the world, so says the Princess Goddess Celestia. She will be accompanied by her teacher, crystal pony Twilight Sparkle, and the mercenary knight Captain Spitfire. She will need protection from the Desians (a mixed-blood race of half crystal pony, half non-crystal pony) who wish to continue the scarring of Equestria, as well as the monsters who guard each Element of Harmony. There are six elements, and all are required to unlock the path to a tower built by the crystal ponies: the Tower of Harmony.

However, the quest gets complicated. Pinkie Pie's best friends Rainbow Dash and Trixie Lulamoon (Twilight's younger sister), through a cruel twist of fate are banished from their home village because they'd accidentally initiated an attack by the Desians. And, what's more, the five encounter a global conspiracy. The Exspheres, crystals that give you great power necessary to collect the Elements of Harmony, are actually made by draining the love and happiness out of ponies, ultimately killing them.

On top of that, they find that there is another whole world they didn't know existed. An assassin who had been trying to kill the Priestess, Fluttershy, turns out to be a protagonist, who wanted only to protect her own world. They find a second priestess of this other world, Rarity. And two more ponies whose lives were destroyed by Exsphere research: Applejack- one whose eyes contain no life- and 'Big' Macintosh- one who binds himself because of a past sin.

The one ultimately responsible for all the suffering is Night Mare Moon, the grieving sister of the Goddess who sleeps, Celestia. Can the ragtag protagonists convince Nightmare to redeem herself for all her wrongdoings? [Summary will be refined as the story is written]

Rated T for violence and moderate shipping*.

Featuring:
Martel- Celestia
Lloyd- Rainbow Dash
Colette- Pinkie Pie
Raine- Twilight Sparkle
Genis- Trixie Lulamoon
Kratos- Captain Spitfire
Sheena- Fluttershy
Zelos- Rarity
Presea- Applejack
Regal- Big Macintosh
Yuan- Discord
Botta- Gilda
Altessa- Zecora
and
Tabatha- Derpy

Ships are PinkieDash & RariShy (MacJack would be Squicky)

Main Plot: Applejack tells her family and friends that she is gay.
In her youth, Granny Smith was part of the movement giving marriage rights to interracial couples. Could you believe that, just forty years ago, many ponies considered it taboo for a relationship to exist between a unicorn and pegasus? Nowadays it's a different story: interspecies marriages happen all the time, and nopony bats an eyelash... as long as they are different genders. It seems that since then, the prejudice has shifted direction towards gay and lesbian couples now.
Lyra and Bon Bon are victims of this prejudice firsthoof, but regardless, they still got married a couple of weeks ago. Upon their return, Mayor Mare- an avid supporter of gay rights- finds herself swarmed with grievance letters from the handful of homophobic ponies living in Ponyville, which she addresses at a town meeting. The meeting... doesn't go so well. As differing viewpoints clash, many are caught in the crossfire, and buried secrets are revealed.
Friendships and loyalties will be tested, but others strengthened.

Romance tag for Applejack, LyraBon, and DerpTurner (aka DerpyDoc)

Rated Teen for allusions to sex. I will eventually write clop scenes (mostly LyraBon), but not right now.

Cover art by WhiteDiamondsLTD on Deviantart

Pinkie Pie couldn't have a more perfect life. Pumpkin and Pound Cake are with her half the day. When she doesn't have them, she's either working in a place she loves, or with her friends. She wouldn't change anything about it for the world. Fate, however, had a different plan in mind: Her employers and close friends Carrot and Cup Cake die in a gas explosion caused by one of the ovens.
The children are now left as orphans, and are in danger of being separated into foster care. However, Pinkie takes it upon herself to adopt them to keep them together. Now, she'll be taking care of the babies 24/7- with the help of her friends and the rest of Ponyville, of course- willing to sacrifice everything in order to preserve the lives of the two unlucky souls who lost their parents.

I'm contemplating PinkieJack PinkieXRoseluck shipping

The 9th Circle of Tartarus is not a pleasant place to be. Sombra can attest to that. It's especially worse when you were waited on hand hoof and foot other hoof by crystal ponies for a thousand years. Needless to say, he's mad as hell. Pardon the expression. This is not a ploy for sympathy. Sombra is, for the purposes of this story, an evil bastard who deserves a fate worse than death three times over. Why, you ask? I'll tell you why.

A small amount of magic rested in his horn after he died painfully exploded. With that magic, Sombra posessed Big Macintosh, forced him to murder (among other things) the CMC, and brought their souls down so he could free himself from his prison. His aim is to recruit every horrible monster from inside that place, and take over Equestria.

Celestia won't take this sitting down. She recruits a team: Princesses Luna and Twilight, Captains Spitfire and Shining Armor, and four mercenaries (Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and Zecora) to get down there, beat the living [REDACTED] out of him, and bring the fillies back to the living world. This is a generic revenge story does not go as planned, with tragic consequences.

Part One of a Trilogy: The Depths of Tartarus

Inspired by Dante's Inferno, Roguelikes (eg Pokemon Mystery Dungeon), My Little Mages, and features monsters inspired by the SCP Foundation.

Some shipping. Yes, most of it will be F/F.

[undergoing major MAJOR revamp]
Applejack is unable to help harvest apples for a month, the month in which she is needed the most. A storm of suffocating darkness creeps on the horizon, one that threatens to destroy every crop in Sweet Apple Acres. Big Macintosh calls on some old friends to help, in Applejack's stead.
Unfortunately, one of them is not as they seem, and means only harm towards a certain pegasus...

Prequel to my (unpublished) story, Guardian Angel (the title will make sense eventually)

[I swear this will be continued... eventually]

Time Turner goes missing: the Tardis doesn't return one day. Or the next day. Or, the day after that. After a week passes, Derpy and Dinky lose all hope of ever seeing him again. Then, things go from bad worse. Nine hundred years ago, Princess Celestia passed a law about custody suits, which contained a fine-print technicality that had never applied until now. The technicality was that if a single parent had a debilitating disability, they lose custody of the child to the state. Unfortunately for Derpy, her clumsiness and lazy eye were officially filed as symptoms of a mental illness. So, the FPS, Foal Protective Services, is forced to wrest her daughter away, much to the chagrin of the entire town of Ponyville. But, they won't take this lying down.

Cheerilee, who minored in law while she got her teaching degree, headlines the defense in the custody case. Can the unity of a town keep a shattered family from breaking even further? Or will the bonds between a mother and daughter be severed permanently...?

[follow user Nightcoremoon for an eventual reboot & continuation- written October 5, 2017]

Derpy and Pinkie fight over which is better. Applejack gives them the idea to mix the ideas, and soon, the two ponies have made nearly a dozen recipes. Upon discovering this idea, Twilight realizes that it could be a big opportunity for both Pinkie and Derpy, and advises the two to go into business.
However, neither really know how to finance a business. Unsure about how to manage such a thing, the idea is nearly scrapped: however, Twilight offers her services. She hypothesizes that it would be a great opportunity both for them and for herself: they would make tons of money, and she would be able to learn things about economics. Perfect material to send letters to Celestia for, right?
[No Twilicorn]