Spike had never thought he would meet his birth parents, he had been with Twilight for quite sometime now and he was starting to lose hope that he'd ever meet them. But when he goes to the Dragon Lands to see the Migration, he not only meets a kind dragon who helps him through the place, but he also helps find someone he never thought would get to meet..

In the modern era, it has become common for foreigners to mock Equestria, seeing the pony nation as weak, naive, unwilling to commit to hard decisions. More belligerent neighbors often view the ponies as easy prey or targets, to have their magic stolen, to be devoured and pillaged, or conquered as a ready supply of slaves.

It was not always thus. In ages past, Equestria was a land of heroes and legends, of darkness and bloodshed. In time, the princesses learned to temper strength with mercy, power with forbearance, and righteous conviction with benevolence.

But now, a thousand years after the younger princess was banished to the moon, the long peace is drawing to a close. Forces both within and without Equestria awaken, seeing a nation weak and easily toppled. Seeing a people grown fat on peace and luxury, who have long forgotten the hardships of war and conflict, or the glory of bloodshed.

Woe betide to all who come to Equestria with ill intent. For in all these long years of peace, the Princess of the Sun has never forgotten the lessons of war, and her eyes watch over her beloved subjects with not only patience and understanding, but an implicit promise of protection.

The time will come soon, when those who would do Celestia's Little Ponies wrong will come to learn... That even an Empire of Mercy is still paved upon the bones of its enemies.

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Alternate universe story based on two main principals: First, that Rainbow Dash is taken in as Celestia's student in addition to Twilight. Second, that the threats to Equestria are both larger in magnitude, but also countered by a more competent and militarized Equestria. Also, it will follow my headcanon that alicorn's are gender neutral.

It is also somewhat based on my love of story threads that are disconnected but still intersect. The continuity will not really have a single group of main characters (Though it will start with mostly Rainbow Dash and Celestia), but rather a number of different story threads playing out simultaneously across the world. I have plans for the Mane Six, Celestia, Luna, Spike, Starlight Glimmer, and Scootaloo at the least.

I will be posting every 14 days on saturday, at least for the time being. Story is in present tense, third person. Genre will kinda be all over the place, parts of the story will include the whole spectrum from war story to slice of life to drama to who knows what else.

Forcing Twilight to move out of her old dorm room next to Canterlot's best libraries? A terrible, terrible mistake.

Be it ancient menace or new threat, diplomatic snafu or domestic concern, monster attack or friendship problem, Twilight Sparkle and her friends have always risen to the challenge.

That's a bit of an issue this time around, when the challenge is a marked absence of Twilight Sparkle.

In this retelling of the Friendship is Magic series, there will be many things different from the usual. Chief among them are the existence of three additional Elements of Harmony (which will be introduced later) and Spike getting more respect from the start.

This retelling is partially inspired by SuperPinkBrony12's MLP (What If?) series. (Start here if you're interested.)

My Little Pony (C) Hasbro.

On a late morning in ponyville, the inhabitants of the Castle of Friendship wake up long after the sun rises to make a startling discovery; Spike had inexplicably transformed into an Alicorn! Even stranger, nopony seems to remember anything about the previous day at all, to understand what had caused such a thing to occur.

Thanks to my darling cousin Leviathan and one of my best friends, silent_user, for getting me to write pony fanfiction. Cover art courtesy of twilight stock images, background from here: https://www.deviantart.com/limedreaming/art/Castle-of-Friendship-Part-1-517352041 , and pony maker for Spike. And also silent_user, for unrelentingly pestering me until I gave it cover art, because I wasn't going to.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders test the urban legend of writing to Princess Celestia at 3am. Everything goes wrong.

May you find many wonderfully atrocious grammar errors, if there are any o.o.

The intro to My Little Pony starts, but somepony's missing. And that pony is... Twilight Sparkle? Where could she possibly be?

Set in S2 (as you'll probably figure out if you read it).

Feat: March 31st. So, there's that.

A tired father gives his daughter the key to the city - I mean - he mistakenly gives his daughter the key to the royal armory. Somewhere in his sleepy mind, meant to teach her a lesson on what it truly means to become a guard. But without him there, life lessons can wait...Flurry has just hit the jackpot! She was now a zillionaire - her search for pirate treasure bore fruit! The lil' birdie could not hide this ginormous treasure horde in her tiny nest, but her dreams had come true, and her hopes had come to fruition. She was now the richest in all of Ponyland - the bandit now eyes a piece of metal, steel, crystal, bronze, gold, and silver that was recently shined seems increasingly inviting...Oooooh!

That polished set of Armor really seems to be Shining.

Written for the Shining is a Terrible Father Contest; though I had mercy on Shining so he's not that bad of a parent, just a bit silly and absentminded. Read more here!
Awesome Cover Art by: Inuhoshi on Deviantart!

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*Slight Fourth Wall-breaking abounds!

I hope you enjoyed my fanfic on this cutie! Also, I'm so happy that the contest deadline got extended - I was at least able to post one out of my three stories ideas for the contest! :D

(Ships include Cadance/Shining (Obvi,) & Spike/Rarity. There are also one-to-two-line passing mentions of Pound/Flurry, Cheese/Pinkie, and Flash/Twilight.)

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Happy Late Valentine's Day and Happy Late St Patrick's Day!

Happy Easter! Jesus bless you! :)

A troubled fourteen year old boy who's never heard of 'My Little Pony' or 'Twilight Sparkle' finds himself being abducted by the latter and taken to Equestria, in a form that's not even his own. What does his future hold? Why don't you find out?

Featured from 26/3/24 to 29/3/24. True.