Even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can't imagine.

The battle with Lord Tirek did not end the way it was supposed to. The centaur was still sent back to Tartarus as he should have been and Equestria and all of its' ponies were saved, but thanks to one final act of defiance, Twilight vanished without a trace not long afterwards.

One month after her disappearance, Twilight has returned to Equestria, but not in a state anypony was expecting her to. Now they're all filled with questions about what has happened to her, but what tale does she have to share with them? What is she willing and unwilling to tell them?

Can a battered phoenix still rise from the ashes?

Commander Shepard lives with a bloodstained past. All the choices he made leading up to the moment Death takes him for good.

At least that's what the Commander thought.

Finding himself in a land with all kinds of mythical creatures (mainly technicolor ponies), where war and violence have no place, he must choose to let go of the past be absorbed by Equestria's hidden darkness.
Little does he know that Fate kept him from Death for a reason.
A long vanquished enemy will return with a vengeance, shedding light on parts of history that were better left in the shadows.

[Breath of Fire III x MLP]

He was supposed to be going at a costume party, dragged away from his house by his closest friends. Being the typical anti-social teen who did not want to socialize, he came begrudgingly after he heard that the theme was supposed to be about your favorite video game character.

It was only after he bought a replica of a perfectly completed boxed set of his favorite character's Dragon Genes-- marble-like objects that hold spirits of slain dragons which the character can then use their power after finding them-- that everything went wrong.

On the night of the party, when the authentic looking diary that came along with the box opened suddenly without anyone touching it, he made the mistake of coming close to it as the pages began to rapidly turn on their own.

Now here he was, in an different land where his anti-social lifestyle was finally biting him in the rear, his body turned into that of the character that he was planning to dress up as, and no idea of how to get home. What left is there to do other than brood?

You know all those stories about cos-players disappearing? Well this is kinda like those. Jason Hughes was just a normal guy attending a con for the first time. Of course he had to buy that omnitrix replica right? Well now he's stuck in a world of talking ponies and has to learn what it means to be a pony.

**This somehow got on the popular stories list on 8/16/14, which is only a day after I published it. Thats a new one*

**So this got featured on 8/17/14 I have no idea how that happened but thanks everyone!**

Big thanks to m2pt5 for taking on the role of proofreader/editor. Also want to thank DuskShadowBrony for being my other editor.

Now with an amazing YouTube reading by the equally amazing AShadowOfCygnus!

During its two year search for Shepard, the lone Geth traveled across the galaxy, exploring worlds both known and unknown. After a blind FTL jump to escape from an Alliance patrol, it found itself in a previously undiscovered system, a system without a mass relay and completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy. It touched down on one of the worlds, a garden-like planet, with the intention of gathering data on any flora and fauna that may have been present.

Instead, it made a remarkable discovery.

Edit at 8:10 AM on 8/17/2014: Scanning...Featured Box Achieved! This unit humbly thanks all organics and fellow synthetics for their support!

A big thanks to my bloody brilliant proofreader AShadowOfCygnus. Don't stop being classy, buddy.
NOTE: This story takes place years before the Return, back when Twilight was just a filly.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro.
Mass Effect belongs to BioWare and Electronic Arts.

TV TROPES PAGE! Show it the love, people!

Tartarus: the fabled prison said to hold all of the demons of Equus at bay.

Few truly know what lies behind the impenetrable doors Cerberus guards. Some say that it is a pit, infinite in it's depth and darkness, from which there is no return. Other claim it to be a hellish plain, filled with fire and pain and suffering, to punish the demons for their sins.

All of them are wrong.

Tartarus is small. An inescapable cell for a single prisoner. But the tales about it's purpose are not false.

For this captive human holds the key to unleashing upon Equestria forces which have not been seen for centuries, forces which predate Equestria by many an age.

And soon, he shall be free.

EDIT: Featured on 5/25/14! SUH-WEEEEET!

[img]http://i.imgur.com/6MrWqNZ.png[/img]

(Fall end Throat of the World)
(The beginning of this story is inspired by Became a Dragon made by The Digital Guy. I also don't know who made that pic. Any information would be appreciated.
I have a rough dragon tongue, so feel free to point out the errors if you can see them)

Solv Skog is the last dragonborn. The fabled one to destroy Alduin, the World Eater, after his return. Solv was not ready, and this he knew. After great training, he eventually stood on the throat of the world and read the Elder Scroll which would teach him the words feared by even dragons, but that didn't happen.

Now he must return to his own world with the guidance of Talos and, perhaps the local divines as well, and discover the words of hatred...and, hopefully, avoid stepping on everything that is in this new world, as well as avoiding a foe that possesses the same power and ancestor as the dragons. This won't be easy, especially when one who strives to preserve life is reborn as a creature surrounded by the miasma of death, for this body is not his own, and two minds in one being never truly ends well.

Twilight Sparkle discovers something in the Everfree Forest. Something that nopony had seen for hundreds of years. A Stargate. A wormhole linking Equus to the rest of the Pegasus Galaxy, not to mention to the home planet of the bipedal race that used to be Equestria's biggest ally before the Equestrian government, headed by Princess Celestia herself, decided that it was time to shut it down for good.

But will that race still be there after all this time? Only one way to find out.

Fate Stay Night/ My Little Pony crossover (re-written)

Zelretch was in need of entertainment and realising that his students don't properly understand the concept of Friendship, decides to test them so they can learn.

Except the only dimension that places friendship above all else happens to ruled by a Diarchy and is called Equestria. Which is a world inhabited with intelligent Equines.

With Princess Celestia already having a student learn about the "Magic of Friendship", what is so wrong about dropping off two extra students?

Scootaloo's mother dies after a terrible storm, now the little filly feels alone, sad, pain, friendships will be loss and friendships will be gained.

editor/proofreader Never2muchpinkie

backup Editor RaylanKrios

(Just to let everyone know, this story takes place at lest a week after Twilight's kingdom)