Twilight Sparkle is accepted into Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and gets a little more than what she bargained for.

Illustrated by me.

(If you object to swearing, please skip chapter 6. That's the one chapter that bumps this story straight up to a Teen rating.)

SF (canon species only; no humans) Ponies were magically and genetically engineered to be the perfect servitor race. They are powerful, adaptable, intelligent and completely under the control of their creators. A laboratory accident frees one such pony from her mental chains, but how can one mare save herself and the rest of her kind if she doesn't even know she's a slave?
This is not the Equestria you know and these are not your little ponies... not yet, anyway.

Tags: Adventure, Diamond Dogs, Gryphons, NO HUMANS (did I mention that already?)
Other tags: historical, mind control, Clarke's 3rd Law, excessive use of high energy physics, before they were famous.
Detailed review by PaulAsaran.
Cover art by endrome , used with permission.
Russian translation (partial -- 'unofficially' completed in the comments)
A Soot-Covered World, book 1.

Im new. So excuse me for any mistakes I make. So this is the first fanfic I have ever made, and if you dont like it, feel free to tell me. I enjoy criticizem on my work.

Plot: Luna had been suffering from strange dreams which involve the Evergreen Forest in a way that Celestia trys to figure out. Celestia enlists all of Ponyville to try and cure whatever is going on.
But the dreams Luna have been having are no ordinary dreams. They will kill her in 2 weeks.

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With the help of forces beyond their control, six friends discover their true importance in Equestria’s timeline. With this new knowledge in hoof, they must try to figure out whom or what has crosshairs on their foreheads. The Elements of Harmony aren’t the only weapons of mass destruction in Equestria.

Twilight is stricken with insomnia, causing her to be victim to horrible visions and hallucinations. When she does find herself able to sleep, she is haunted by terrifying nightmares. Meanwhile, all across Equestria, magic users, including the Princesses, are beginning to have trouble harnessing their magical abilities, as it seems that magic itself is "running out"
It's up to Twilight to figure out if these mysterious events are interconnected in any way, and to solve the problem of the diminishing magic before it's too late!

[Normal][Sad][OC Pony][Slow Romance]
Full Size Cover image: http://zoltrioundz.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4c5o8y

Indigo Flash hasn't had the best life. In fact, while he was just a young colt, his entire life started unraveling at the seams. He lost his parents, was driven away from the other ponies his age, and wound up forced into a job that had nothing to do with his special talent, just after he found out what it was. Over time, he learned to live with it, and his life seemed to stabilize, perhaps even become normal. Which made it all the worse when everything falls apart in a single day, and he is left without even the ability to control his own fate.

Once everything is ripped away from a pony, can he ever return his life to the way things were? And even if he can, is it still worth fighting for?

~Compiled and edited by Twilight Sparkle, Royal Librarian

(This is a work in progress, and will be until completed. Please see my blog entry for more details :3 )

Celestia, Nightmare Moon, Discord, the Elements of Harmony. All things that once clashed 1000 years ago. What happened in that ancient time, whose echoes can still be felt millennium later? Was it truly just jealousy that changed Luna into the cruel Nightmare Moon? How did a mad being like Discord become the ruler Equestria? Just what exactly are alicorns, and how did Celestia and Luna come to be? There are many answers the history books and the princesses have not mentioned, or have choose to keep secret...

For one who does not count their lives in years or decades, regret can become an almost unbearable burden.

Featured on EQD February 27, 2012

After years of occult and magical studies, sifting through tomes of arcane lore and obscure history and myth, Twilight Sparkle arrives at a conclusion to her journey: an ancient, reconstructed ritual to try and penetrate the veil between her and the ultimate truths of the universe. Proposed background story fic for a picture by Equestria-Prevails

(Left 4 Dead crossover) Francis, being the idiot that he is, messes around with a computer, and soon finds himself, Zoey, and Louis in a strange land full of ponies, while Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack get transported into the human world, to find Bill and a city full of zombies.