Orchid Mantis, a changeling, has come to the Crystal Empire, hoping to retire in peace. However, a terrible curse set by King Sombra as revenge for his defeat threatens the city, summoning monsters to raze everything to the ground... and only the power of love can stop them. The changeling, being able to tap into that power at will, has been drafted to help fight these monsters when they appear...

However, for a dedicated martial artist, defeating monsters is easy. For a changeling, raising a child is a much greater challenge. And building a meaningful relationship? Harder still...

Part of the the rebooted Cricket-verse, aka The Nonsense-Verse.

When one life was ended
Another will begin
With a body now mended
The shadows dwell within

Before he was weak and unable to act
In this new world he can change that fact
But these dark powers are not easy to control
In order to do so he needs a pure heart and soul

They see kindness as tricks
And his honesty as lies
A hatred they affix
His form they despise

Only one can understand
And assist with his plight
With experience firsthand
She will aid this creature of the night

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I own nothing but my computer
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro
Cover art by Pridark

post Twilicorn, pre Tree of Harmony and will not be using season 4 events
Will be adding category and character tags as the story progresses
Thank you to MP3Jack for editing and thank you to Zamairiac for providing feedback on the first 2 chapters. Check out their stuff, its good

Featured 10 Feb 14 - 13 Feb 14

After being stranded in Manehatten, a changeling is saved by a young filly who is being terrorized by a monster hiding in her closet. After the horror has been taken care of, the changeling and the young filly become close friends... and the changeling and the filly's foster father become something more...

The second story in the the rebooted Cricket-Verse, aka the Nonsense-Verse

Nopony knew Scootaloo was an orphan. Scootaloo didn't know who her parents were. After discovering her secret, Twilight casts a spell that can show the young filly her parents. The result will change both their lives forever.

Edited by LunaSol, Templar22 and Bpkyle777

Mole Cricket, former commander of the changeling swarm, finds himself stranded in Equestria, with no idea where the rest of his kind may be... and no intention of reuniting with the swarm, since the Queen would blame her failure in Canterlot upon him. After encountering a group of youngsters who, instead of seeing a monster, see a hero, the changeling decides to dedicate himself to an impossible goal...

To become the first changeling to attain knighthood.
Cover Art by SlashOpenTheSky

The first of five new stories for the rebooted Cricket-Verse... now renamed the Nonsense-verse.

This story is a sequel to Outlaw Mares 2: For a Few Ponies More

After the demise of King Sombra, the royal sisters seized his personal writings for study and eventually to seal them away. However, half of his journal is stolen by Golden Jubilee, a sorceress from the secretive organization called the Horizon Walkers. Team Trixie is hired to recover this journal before the Walkers can learn of the dark knowledge the late king had written within them.

As the investigation brings Trixie close to the Walkers, she uncovers how Golden knew of the hidden half of the journal and just what reason the Walkers want the second half. Trixie must confront a past fear as the trail leads her to an old artifact she is uncomfortably familiar with - The Alicorn Amulet.

A collection of short stories about Mole Cricket, and other changelings, attempting to fit in with pony society.
For more of the Mole Cricket-Verse, you can read Your Fangs Are Showing, and The Royal Interview: A Mole Cricket Story.

Concluded early in favor of a reboot.

Throughout all of time, the species known as the vampire fruit bat has been ridiculed and put down as an ugly farmer's pest, or a rodent, or a piece of vermin that needed to be destroyed. Never have they been treated fairly, with kindness, and so never have they felt included, which eventually led to their downward spiral as a species in general. The fruit bats themselves believed they were never meant to be anything but rodents that ate fruit. It was just how life worked, and life wasn't fair.

However, when one group of vampire fruit bats is brainwashed to deny the reason they believe they exist, what will they do next? Is it possible they could become a civilized species as opposed to a mindless group of fruit-eating pests? And what - or who - could possibly help them achieve this goal?

Magic Fall. A phrase that conjures in the minds of ponies, a time of great strife and death, when magic abandoned pony-kind and left them to fend for themselves in a hostile world. Luna now sits alone on the throne as she has for the last one thousand years and watches as technology slowly but surely fills the gap that was left.

The Worlds Fair is in full swing in Canterlot and with the launch of the first ever Celestia Class airship, 'The Harmony', many predict a new era of peace is to come. But when disaster strikes and nearly takes the princess out of the picture, one pony who dreamed of flight will take to the skies and save Equestria.

This is the story of RAINBOW DASH and her MARVELOUS MECHANICAL WINGS...

"Featured 7/8/2014! Sweet!"
ADOPTED FROM HIS ORIGINAL AUTOR, Zelkova48 TO BE CONTINUED

Jump into the rich and vast continent of Metallos! Where magic meets machinery and the sword meets gunpowder.
Join up with your friends. Together, become involved in an adventure undreamed of!
Be a group of hardened mercenaries, elusive members of a spy ring or even be a band of swashbuckling pirates!
Explore the world! Learn it's history! Battle nefarious villains! Stab your friends in the back! Hog all the pie!
Experience all of this in "Forge World!"

-Learn the basics or creating a campaign and understanding the mechanics of "Forge World"
-Learn the history and lore of the great continent of Metallos! From the frozen tundra of Silverus to the blazing sands of Bronza!
-Choose from several different race and classes to mix and match to be your very own! Be a unicorn magus, a diamond dog pickpocket, even a changeling spy!
-Outfit your character with all manners of weaponry and equipment! Learn all sorts of spells to blast your foes and assist your allies in combat!
-Detailed explanation on crafting and alchemy to further your adventuring experience!
-All with highly detailed illustrations and writing in this massive 432 page rulebook!

What are you waiting for? Those brigands aren't going to stop themselves you know? Into the "Forge world" you go!

Twilight continued to stare at the the back of the book cover before sighing in exasperation "I know I like books and all but this is outrageous, even for me"

Without even giving the book a second look, she quickly went and shelved it back to Spike's own personal bookshelf as she was cleaning up their room. As she was leaving the library, she only thought to herself

"How can somepony enjoy a book as ridiculous as that?"