This story is a sequel to New Friends Between Realities

The day is finally here. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are ready to officially abdicate and pass the thrones of Equestria to Princess Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight herself is nervous. A part of her still isn't sure she's ready for all of this. But with her friends and family there to support her, she will not let all of Equestria down.

And before the night is out, Princess Twilight still has a few surprises up her sleeves.

This story is a sequel to Something New

Several months have passed since Pearl Rose became Princess Twilight's new Personal Student, and the young Pegasus couldn't be happier. Even if her teacher can be a bit quirky.

One day, while Twilight is out on princess business, Pearl stumbles across an odd book that she's never seen before. Not that unusual with the unofficial Princess of Books herself. But lies inside will open up a whole new world to Pearl.

A world on the other side of a certain mirror, and a brand new hobby that makes her usual reading look rather small by comparison.

Harry Potter is a lonly child who isn't treated verry kindly by the relatives he is living with. He Wishes for nothing more then a friend, or someone that is willing to be even more to him. Luckily for him, the spirits of the elements of harmony already knew of that a long time ago and set events into motion that will change his destiny forever.

I have read many HP/MLP Crossovers and realized one thing. In all of them Harry either ended up as a unicorn, a pegasus, or a changling, sometimes even as an alicorn, but never as an earth pony or a Thestral. Now, I think it's about time to fix this.

What if Sunset Shimmer was not born a pony? What if she was more special then she thought? More importantly, what if there was more to the world beyond the mirror portal than first thought?

Tags may change in the future, depending on content

Title Change very unlikely. Please PM me suggestions. Cover Art is also temporary but is of Lightning Sunrise.
Harry Potter, adopted as Lightning Sunrise, has spent from age 1 to 11 growing up somewhere other than with the Dursleys. How will this change things? Especially given he's a pony-adopted and raised changeling now.

Note: Death and Violence tags are for the opening and sparingly elsewhere.

Woo! Featured on both 2/22/2022 and 2/23/2022 for like 3 minutes each.

Research log #579

It's been over one and a half years ago since the last activation of the device, though the magical signature hasn't changed it seems... weakened, to such a degree that the re-activation is impossible.

As described in the notes of research log #249 any attempt at providing the device an artificial source of magic to power failed, the device simply needed more energy than even the combined magical power of both Princess Luna and Celestia were capable of providing. You must be wondering now, I've already described these circumstances in previous logs so why bring it up now?

Simply said I'm out of options, every attempt of reactivating the device have failed and I'm only left with a single choice. I'm going to have to reverse engineer the device in an attempt to understand the mechanics with which it operates...

...At the risk of maybe never being unable to reconstruct it later.

I'm so sorry Fluttershy, I never should have involved you or any of the girls in the exploration of this structure. I hope that if we ever see you again you can find it in yourself to forgive me.

-Twilight Sparkle

In the true sense of Mass Effect, this story will be CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) giving you the reader the choice to decide the action of our protagonist.

I hope you enjoy!

Every chapter past chapter 27 was edited by gerandakis

Mistakes have consequences. Right?

Why yes, they do. As a matter of fact, every mistake has consequences, proportional to the size of the mistake. As a result, when a determined young mage makes a terrible mistake by reaching for the Beyond...

The consequences are far larger than she could have imagined.

These are those consequences.

This story is ostensibly a rewrite of The Boy who Disappeared... except that it's so far different I'm not sure it actually qualifies as a rewrite, so much as a whole new story.

Updates Wednesdays.

Even the smallest magical accidents, as anyone in the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad can tell you, can have significant and far-reaching effects.

Especially if it wasn't Accidental Magic at all, but deliberate magic that was doing something that wasn't intended at all. Like, for example, the very trustworthy ancient magic of Hogwarts suddenly choosing to invite about fifty times as many students in one year as it usually does.

Naturally, when these small yet significant magical accidents happen, there is almost always someone that doesn't want it corrected for some reason or another. In this case, that someone is in a position of power, so it doesn't get corrected.

And over ten of thousand new students are officially admitted to Hogwarts in a single year. After all, these new students bring with them stories of things thought and even known to be completely impossible, in some cases, and the complete conviction that they are possible where they come from, wherever that is.

Naturally, Dumbledore expected that someone would make them possible. What he did not expect was the who and the how.

A rewrite and reimagining of the once-popular On the Implications of Parallel Worlds, which was itself a rewrite and reimagining of The Gate. This time around, it should be a little easier to avoid deadlocking the plot.

Written with the editing and proofreading assistance of Skittlebug (Former), Gerandakis, Rose, and Raven, and I can't be bothered to find links to their profiles right now- or even their full profile names...

As always, tags may be updated as the story progresses.

Will update weekly on Tuesdays, following the death of On the Implications of Parallel Worlds, or when ready on Patreon.

Cancellation planned for around chapter 85.

It could be argued that the phrase “based on a true story” applies to this story.