Equestria has been an island continent in the Pacific Ocean for decades, and the world's nations have kept marching on.

Ivan and Katna, two Ukrainian orphans have been left by the wayside of society. In the daily struggle for survival, they've found themselves at the bottom, and their hope of a healthy future is kept from them: species transfiguration. To survive they must delve into the edges of society, go beyond the comforts of safety, and travel to the ends of the earth for each other.

Content information: science fiction, transformations, questions of personal growth, survival duo, and lots of journeying.

Editing Staff:
Chapter 1-3 Pre-readers: Scootaloser, Sorren, and Shadow_Fire.

Pre-readers: Blazing Rune and Pleaseworkforonce.

Editor: Sharp Logic.

Many years after the barrier has swept over Earth, one of the converted ponies barely remembers being human. But he does remember his conversion, when he needs to.

A new member of the HLF is captured after a failed mission and a ruthless PER pony decides what to do with him.

At approximately seven p.m. a young boy went missing from the local Conversion Bureau. The entire population of the Bureau moved to help find him. Including a particular pink earth pony.

Nimbus has been a pony for over five years, and has had to adapt to pony life quickly for the sake of her son. But one day, she realizes that memories of her life as a human have begun to fade, and becomes terrified of losing that connection to her past. Because if you cannot remember something happening, can you claim it ever truly happened?

The official story of the deadly Barrier's origin had never sat right with Andre. Thanks to his brother's unexpected engagement, he's suddenly found himself close to someone who might know the truth.

After most humans go through conversion, a convert I bullied in High school pays me a visit.

[[On HIATUS temporarily awaiting completion of another story, then a partial re-write]]
To save Humanity, would you be willing to bring about its end?
To preserve lives, is it viable to alter them so deeply?

See how it all began;
The Bureaus, the PER, the HLF...

This is not your granddaddy's Conversion Bureau.
Welcome to a TCB world where Equestrians aren’t high-hoofed moralists, but merely a species offering us friendship and an escape in time of need.

A world where humanity isn’t entirely a race of misanthropic proto-apes bent on ruining the planet, but a proud species, with a history of successes and failures both, who’s luck simply ran out.

A world where we haven’t completely given up on our other options.
Where the PER become more aggressive, more well equipped, and more well led.
Where the HLF rise to the cusp of gaining access to WMDs.

Where, one day, Ponies won’t be the only option.

But for now, they are the Threshold of a new era.

This is the prequel to Option Gamma.
It explores the inception of my take on the TCB universe.
(Option Gamma may be read before this (which will result in some very mild partial spoilers), or after. Either should be enjoyable. I hope.)

Two years after Equestria began its slow collision with Earth's universe, an opportunity to survive the barrier has been developed by the combined efforts of humanity and ponies: conversion. With conversion serum, or potion, a human can become a pony and survive the barrier that is slowly consuming the earth. However, Princess Celestia is all too aware that there are things other than life which humans value, and would reject conversion for. That is why she has summoned Twilight Sparkle to Canterlot to begin a daunting task in order to preserve humanity even further.

Written for the TCB group's Event XIII.

Set in Guardian_Gryphon's Gammaverse

Prequel to the story The Conversion Bureau: The First Choice

News of a new world across the sea has reached every corner of Equestria, and Princess Celestia has called for a massive exodus to this new land to help its inhabitants with any sort of aid. The most radical of such aid is the Ponification Potion that will turn the downtrodden and diseased creatures into happy and healthy ponies. Hundreds of Equestrians have answered this call, literally leaping at the chance to help those in need. Shimmer Sprite is one such pony, and before the week is done she will learn that sometimes the best way to help somepony in need is to leave them alone.