"Congratulations, Spike! You're the new Rainbow Dash!" Twilight may have said those words in the heat of the moment, but what if it were true?

Discord, spirit of chaos and infinite jest, manages to play yet another trick on Twilight and her friends by making her hasty solution more real than she could have imagined... in his own rather idiosyncratic way, of course.

...But how will the original Rainbow Dash deal with her chaos-twisted, semi-official replacement? And can Spike really take the place of everyone's favorite speedster?

Short answer: Probably no.

Long answer: Well, read the story and find out!

A/N: This is kind of against my better judgement since I usually publish entire rather than serially, but let's see how it goes. I can always delete it all and claim it never happened, later. 8 D

(Illustrations in this story are courtesy of Unnoticeableperson. Warning, rest of gallery may not be as work safe as this image is)

The years have been kind to Rarity. A wonderful husband and great friends have softened the reality of time passing. Now in her old age she carries the weight of her limited time, but a chance encounter with an old foe may give her life a new unexpected direction.

Vinyl Scratch wakes up to find herself the personal student of Princess Celestia, sent to the obscure village of Ponyville to oversee preparations for the millennial Summer Sun Celebration.

Vinyl can only imagine two possible explanations for what has happened: she has tumbled into an alternate universe where she's Twilight Sparkle, or, after everypony telling her she'd do it eventually, she's finally gone and lost her mind.

Alternate Universe tag is obvious. Missing though, is the Drama tag (oh wait, they have that now--fixed!), and the "She's Finally Gone and Lost Her Mind" tag, which may be substituted by a CrazyPinkie emoticon.

Cover illustration based on a work by ThatsGrotesque. I'd love to see an artist include the versions of the Mane Six from this fanfic, though.

This story takes place after the events from the episode Power Ponies

Shining Armor and Twilight are spending a few days with their parents for a reprieve and one night the stallion walks into his sister's bedroom. There he finds an odd book labeled "How To Train a Princess" from the peculiar Enchanted Bookstore. Without realizing it he is magically transformed into an alicorn princess and now has to complete a course of strange classes within the tome. The courses will be hard and many will take days within the strange universe that this book constructed. He will have to pass a final test in which he may either turn back into a stallion or remain a princess alicorn forever.

Cover Artist: Pridark

After a crazy night, Spike wakes up to find that Twilight is now his assistant. The next day, Rarity has a crush on him. The next, Rainbow Dash wants to watch him do tricks. You get the idea.

The latest edition in the Power Ponies series is one that everypony's been waiting for. Crystalline Calamity.

The tale is focused around the Mane-iac attempting to seize a crystal with an otherworldly power tucked away inside. After grabbing the crystal from its' pedestal, she is confronted by the Power Ponies once more.

She tries activating the crystal to see what it does, seeing as there's nothing better for her to do in this situation, but the crystal has a very... intriguing power once it's used.

Now the 7 of them have wound up in Equestria, all of them youthened by the aftermath of the crystal's power. Yet for some reason, Mane-iac came out as a filly, whilst the other ponies came out as foals.

Lost, frightened, and with nowhere to go, Spike brings the 7 of them to Princess Twilight, who is more than happy to care for them in their time of need.

The picture comes from an artist called Beavernator. He's pretty famous for his foal pictures and foal comics. Check him out when you have the time, though you might just see him on Equestria Daily's comic panel if you're lucky.

Applejack thinks she's having a bad hair day. Her friends, however, think it's something else.

Guest Krillin: Zero Man

Now with sequel!

The unthinkable has happened. A new Draconequus has emerged, apparently intent on plunging Equestria into chaos once more. To make matters worse, Pinkie Pie is nowhere to be found, forcing Twilight and the others to scramble to find a way to defeat this new threat without the Elements of Harmony.

Meanwhile...

After strange dreams, Pinkie Pie awakes and finds herself in the body of a Draconequus. Between strange new powers that she can't control, and, for some reason, an inability to communicate with other ponies, Pinkie finds herself alienated from her friends... but finds help from an unexpected source.

In an effort to give creatures the power of other creatures Flim and Flam make a machine that accidentally fuses Gilda, Trixie, and Spike into a giant three-headed monster that begins terrorizing Ponyville. It's up to them to fix it before anypony realizes it was they who caused it.

Cover made by ZettaiDullahan

Twilight is a Vamp-pony, as is her mother, father and brother. But when out "Hunting" she likes to have fun.