When strange occurences begin to plague the world of Canterlot High, Twilight Sparkle must enlist the help of Discord to find the culprit! ... Much to her chagrin. A movie novelization in three acts!

A sculpture of Ponyville as it was. Do you remember it? That place as soft as feather-fall. The trees, the earth, the knowing. Remember the ponies? Cloud Chaser, Mrs Cake, Berry Punch, Cherilee, Carrot Top, Sassaflash, Lemon Hearts, Grand Pear, Minuette, Flower Wishes, Mayor Mare, Dr Fauna, Junebug, Big Macintosh, Sea Swirl, Amethyst Star, Dave the changeling, Muffins, Drizzle, Meadow Song, Granny Smith, and all the rest...and you.

Yes, you.

You were there, also.

A story about gargoyles, explosions, fashion shows, swamps, conspiracies, high school, government coverups, Trotsky, family, geopolitics, trust, home, and - of course - the enduring magic of friendship.

Title from a Stomach Book song.
Art from Gao over on Artmajeur.

This story is a sequel to A New Ending

This is a soft reboot/rewrite of my Endingverse story Endings and Beginnings, which I have put on hold for the present.

After the devastating invasion of Equestria by human turned Emperor Jason Wright, the truth about the reasons for Jason's actions has begun to come out. Ponyville has been completely wiped off the map, its once cheery buildings reduced to rubble, and with it, the happiness and joy of everypony there once they began to realize just how they were all to blame for it.

The Elements of Harmony have barely spoken to one another since that time, all wallowing in their own grief and misery. Pinkie has left Ponyville and has lost her smile, Rainbow Dash hasn't flown since the invasion, Rarity refuses to speak about it to anypony, Applejack hardly leaves her farm, Fluttershy never visits Ponyville and is only seen wandering the edges of the Everfree Forest, mourning the loss of one of her closest friends and many of her animal friends as well, and Twilight has been working tirelessly to help rebuild all of Ponyville. They've hardly spoken since that day, and their friendships are all but over.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, a second human has arrived in the dilapidated city of Gryphonstone. Unable to visit the land of Equestria, which had been his dream, and after accidentally recovering an item that holds special significance to the gryphons, Gregory Graystone settles in and makes friends and allies in the crumbling city, some expected and others unexpected.

As the months pass, questions remain. How will the world react to the presence of a second human? How will Equestria recover from the invasion of Canterlot by the changelings? Will Jason Wright find out about this second human?

I would like to go back to Endings and Beginnings at some point and change things, starting with a certain arc, but I wanted to do a parallel story with some elements changed.

Some chapters may seem very similar to the original but I may or may not have changed things around or added something to it.

Tags will be updated as events unfold.

This story is heavily inspired from S. D. Locke's SCP-001 proposal "When Day Breaks"

You take the perspective of a theater pony who is trying to find Princess Twilight Sparkle and get answers for the tragedy taken upon Equestria and beyond. The melting of millions if not billions of creatures turning into waxy looking horrors in only a disastrous minute, never being able to die, pegasi falling from the skies, no one will survive!

A majority of characters are original.

Ex-queen Chrysalis stumbled across an old Equestrian law. It stated that as long as she said a certain phrase, no pony, not even alicorn princesses, could fight or punish her for eating love.

Naturally, Chrysalis exploited the hay out of her new favorite law.

I've been stuck in this world for just over a year now. In that time I've run into mythical monsters, physics-defying ponies, and actual, real magic.

Oh yeah, and the rulers control the sun and moon.

But that doesn't matter, because I know the cutest pony that ever lived.

(Featured on 6/7/24. Oh my gosh! Thank you so much!)

On a snowy winter afternoon, Rainbow Dash discovers a rare Wonderbolts vinyl, Sparkling excitement within her since her new Marefriend, Twilight Sparkle. like always, manage to broaden Rainbow's horizons and try something new, which leads to a heartfelt afternoon.

Shout out's to Tape Deck and Pinkies Imagination for proofreading and editing my work

Light Snack has been living in Ponyville for a while now, and he has a secret he feels up to sharing. The catch is that he's not alone, and that secret doesn't make him particularly special, either.

I hadn't planned to make an entry for Perfectly Insane's Dialogue Only contest. Life had other ideas.

Victor had always been enamored with magic. And who could blame him? Haven't we all had fantasies of being able to solve problems with a gesture, or conjure and command the elements with a word?

Well, one day Victor Fremont finally gets his wish. Genuine, real, tangible magic power!

Too bad he never specified what source material that magic should be based on.