Sweetie Belle gets curious about where babies come from, so she confronts Rarity about it.

When Vinyl Scratch gets invited to play at the royal reception, she and Octavia find that the event is no exception to the essential truism of fiction: where main characters go, trouble follows.

With a overdue storm on its way, Princess Celestia prepares to finish the day's business when an exhausted Rainbow Dash rushes in with an 'important message' from Twilight. When the contents of the message cause Rainbow to lose her temper, Celestia decides to teach her a special lesson in friendship.

8/20/13: Edited and updated version posted. Hopefully a long overdue improvement.

Twilight and her friends settle down in Ponyville after a crazy wedding crashed by a certain evil queen. On the way, Twilight realizes that she accidentally packed a mysterious device that isn't hers, something found after the ceremony ended. The large crystal ball has the oddest sort of rainbow-colored energy coursing deep inside and no sign of what it does. The six friends take a look. They tap on it, blow at it, and otherwise look for answers, finding no labels or anything else. Twilight accidentally opens it up, revealing a description written in some mysterious, alien-like language. She'll send it back to Celestia later, but for now she vows to find out more, deeply curious. She stays up studying to no avail.

Twilight wakes up to find her friends totally losing it, acting weirder than she's ever seen before. She decodes the ball, finding a cryptic message thanking Queen Chrysalis for buying the item. Noone knows how the Queen got this device, how to use it, why she brought it, how she lost it, and where the Queen herself is at the moment. Twilight must find a way to stop this insanity as well as get some answers.

Twilight makes an interesting discovery about the ponies in Ponyville.

Pinkie Pie has an existential crisis while painting her room. This self-parody is dedicated to Professor Piggy, who once told me that I could write a story about Pinkie watching paint dry and weave it into an incredible psychological journey. Let's see if he was right.

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Dramatic reading by MicTheMicrophoneZero.

Cover art by chaosdrop.

Deep within the perilous Everfree Forest, far past the point of no return, Rarity has gone missing. It's up to Twilight Sparkle and her friends to save her, but can they get past their bickering to rescue Rarity in time? Spoiler Alert, probably not.

Adventure! Daring! Mystery! Dialogue Tags! This story has it all! You'd be remiss to miss this story!

Princess Celestia tires of constantly being surrounded by decorum, deference, and formality, and decides to take a day off from being Princess. But visiting Ponyville incognito is harder than she expects. Will she be able to fit in and make friends without blowing her cover?

The Cutie Mark Crusaders ask Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy about what happened just after the events of the Cutie Mark Chronicles; specifically, what happened to Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash immediately after the race. Reluctantly, Dash and Fluttershy delve into a tale. A tale of a young Fluttershy's amazement at the world she had landed upon, and a filly Dash's desperate quest to save her from that most evil of places: THE GROUND.

With Queen Chrysalis still disguised as the bride, Cadance, and Twilight sealed in Crystal Mines below, things begin to go askew as the chaos she's causing has an unintended side-effect.

'Surely you could have done better than that, Chrysie.'

[Chapter Two is now up! However, being fresh, expect there to be a refined version sometime later.]

(Things will become clear soon enough.)

Looking for editors and pre-readers. http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/23471 Apply if interested.
Cover image (temporarily) by glancojusticar