If "The Birth of Harmony" chronicles how Celestia, Luna, and Cadance all arrived in Equestria, then this story details Cadance's life helping her Aunt Celestia during the thousand years of her aunt Luna's banishment.

On Thursday, Jan. 10th, 2013, Cold in Gardez posted "In the Garden of Good and Evil," a sequel to SleeplessBrony's Romance Reports.  I read it, went to bed, and woke up the next morning with this story pretty much fully-formed in my head.  So you should at least read "In the Garden" before reading this, but be aware: both the above-mentioned stories are very much "Rated: Mature."

Prince Blueblood dislikes being secret agent Double-O-Zeta, but since no pony does it better, the princesses won't let him quit.  Trailing the mad unicorn Green Briar to Ponyville, though, Blueblood runs into Rainbow Dash, already investigating the odd new pony in the area.  She resents this jerkwad of a prince suddenly butting in, and when circumstances force the two to work together, the unexpected feelings they arouse in each other might prove more dangerous than anything Green Briar has planned.

Inspired by TAW's Shipping Contest and finished with much thanks to Casca on mlpchan's /fic/ board, Aquillo and cheeze sauce over at Saltblock, and Bad Horse, Cloudy Skies and Skywriter here at FiMFiction.

Yes, the black and white pegasus who steps out of the glowing mirror seems very nice, but Pinkie's twitches tell her that this is her evil twin.  And when Pinkie makes her own journey through the mirror to meet even more Pinkies and even more Pies, well, that just means more fun!  Doesn't it?

I've been haphazardly planning this since March 12, 2011, the day my story "Pinkie Pie's Evil Twin" went up on Equestria Daily.  A year and a half later, a little rewriting has turned it into the first chapter here, and the rest will follow in due course.  Twelve chapters, maybe?  I guess we'll all find out together!

The friendship between Clover the Clever, Smart Cookie, and Private Pansy led to the founding of Equestria. But what can they do in the face of a new and chaotic menace who calls himself Discord?

Two events from December 2011 led directly to this story: the revelation in "Hearth's Warming Eve" that the princesses were nowhere in sight when Equestria was founded, and the announcement of the existence of Cadance, the third Princess.  Unfortunately, at the time, I was in the middle of several non-Pony related projects, but I wanted to get the idea written up before the Cadance episode aired and made canon-fodder out of the whole thing.  So I carved ten days out of my schedule in the middle of January 2012 and wrote it up in two parts.  It made Equestria Daily, but I've always felt it needed one more run through the word processor.  

So I'm suspending my usual "write it, submit it, move on to the next" rule and giving the story another spin.  I'm also, after a year and a half, giving it a sequel: "Calling You."