Sadness, depression, guilt, darkness all these things can easily swallow a happy day. They can change ponies lives in a heartbeat. All it took was one of Rainbow Dash's pranks going a little too far. A over reaction to that prank forever changing the lives of everypony and one dragon, But as the days roll on, the abyss of guilt and constant self blame will consume one mare. Can she ever find forgiveness for her mistake, both mentally and spiritually? Most importantly, will she forgive herself?

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The Equestrian Industrial Revolution is in full swing. Rainbow Dash returns to a drastically changed Ponyville and to Twilight Sparkle, her last friend in the city. She must rekindle the bonds of love and friendship before the winds of change render the Elements of Harmony irrelevant. Even in a world of steel, fire and glass, loyalty is needed more than ever.

When Twilight gets a new Nutcracker, she soon finds reality breaking down on her and journeys through a new and unexplored world, all in the pursuit of one thing: The Nutcracker. Experience battles of rats, the travelings to a hidden castle and a secret that has yet to reveal itself to anypony but Princess Celestia in this riveting tale about Twilight and The Nutcracker.

Special thanks to Sytactics for the cover art!

Fluttershy is fine. Really, she is. Sure, she was a magically created fruit-sucking vampire hybrid a week ago, but now she’s fine. She’s seen a pair of fangs in the mirror now and then, but she’s fine. She drools at the thought of apples, but she’s fine. Nothing to worry her friends about.

It’s not like she has a problem or anything.

Everything. Is. Fine.

Monster attacks. Crime. Illegal hallucinogens made from electric fruit.

They say things didn't use to be like this. They say things were different, before Luna came back 60 years ago, but Detective Hard "Hardy" Boiled of the Detrot Police Department has never known any world other than that demarcated by the seedy streets of his beloved decaying metropolis; a world in which the coroners sing and dance, surveillance bugs have personality disorders, and the Chief of Police is a scarier entity than most of the eldritch things the city attracts.

The grey unicorn who turned up dead outside the posh High Step Hotel seemed like just another case, but her missing horn is the pointy tip of a very large and nasty iceberg. It's up to Hardy and his friends - a rejected monster hunter, a psychic cab driver, and an underground antiques heir - to find out what’s going on in an investigation that promises to stick more than a cupcake into the very eye of Detrot.

Especially if Hardy has anything to say about it.

By Popular Demand, there is now a Patreon

Additional editing by coandco Sig_Awesome, Hinds, Clint, and Raccoon!
Featured on EQD - 5 Stars!
Cover art by MisterMech (http://mistermech.deviantart.com/)
Now with TVTropes page here!

Remember back when you were a teenager? What dreams did you have? Did you ever wanna grow up to be famous, beloved and remebered, and were you willing to rebel as much as possible just to see that dream become a reality? This is a story about two friends who get separated by fate, who shared a similar dream, but later learned that life had other plans for them. This is a story about two dreamers: a rockstar who's career has been destroyed named Lewis Walker and a beautiful cellist who never got to go anywhere named Octavia "Melody" Brandis.

[Note: The Story switches between linear narrative and non-linear narrative]

This story is a sequel to "I'm so... so sorry..."

BOOK 2

What if someone's pain is our fault, but they don't know it? What if we are the cause of one's sorrow, yet we fail to tell them so? What if we are rejected for our mistakes?

How can we respond, when our loved ones reject us? When we have the guilt of a thousand sins on our backs, and no one will help? How do we survive?

Maybe this is our reason for living. To have a long, hard life, only to die in sorrow. Are we really going to live in happiness? Will we find peace in life? Or will we find death?

Will we survive?

Or will we give up?

For best effect, listen to this music while reading the story. If it stops while you are still reading, play it again. It really helps add to the effect.

This is the second installment of my Heaven's Tears series.

Look up at the picture. You know the one, the cover picture none of you care about. See that stallion in the background there? That's me. You probably didn't see me at first because you were too busy best-ponying over Sweetie Belle, but it's to be expected.

There's a reason I'm so sad, but then again, I guess being forgotten will do that to you. Take chances, they said. Ask out a mare, they said. It'll be a fun time, they said.

Yeah, well, they lied.

For Luna, nothing ever seems to go right. Except when it does, it's wrong.

This story is a sequel to Stardust

When Equestria’s newest member of royalty asks for aid to be offered to her friends from abroad, the best and the brightest volunteer to serve. Captain Steel Song of the Dusk Guard are immediately mobilized to help XCOM defend their world from the enemies that besiege them. However, their first joint operation with the humans takes a turn for the worse and they quickly find themselves fighting for their lives against the full force of the monsters that threaten Earth.

(Stardust/Dusk Guard crossover)
(Coverart provided by a friend of Viking ZX!)
(While familiarity with both stories isn’t required, it is recommended)
(Many thanks to Arzoo for pre-reading!)
(All screenshots can be found at XCOM.wikia.com)
(Featured on 3/13/2013. Thanks everyone!)
(Now has it's own section on TVTropes as part of the Stardust series!)