This story is a sequel to Phoenix-born rising - the ascension of Sunset Shimmer [1st ed.]

The rite of the phoenix is one of the most celebrated moments among the sun-gazers of Solaria. For with the hatching of a new phoenix, comes the ascension of a new phoenix-born: a mortal chosen by the phoenix to be its new life partner and guardian. Only those with both strength and purity of their inner fire can draw the attention of a hatchling phoenix, so only the best of the best can ever hope to be chosen.

To one young orphan girl named Sunset Shimmer, she could only dream of witnessing the ascent of one of Celestia's chosen. As the day approaches, she learns that she will be able to, as she has been selected by the crown as one of the girls to serve at the event.

Little did she know that this would be the seminal event of her life, and change her fate forever.

Book One - The Choosing
Book Two - The Trials

Original abridged version was my entry into FanOfMostEverything's Imposing Sovereigns II contest. This is the expanded, full version.

Cover art by me.

Grammar and editing provided by ArgonMatrix (Up to Ch 7 of the Trials) and Incandesca (The Trials Ch 16 and on)

Sunset Shimmer, once a bully and now a friend has a secret life, she is the wise-cracking hero, Solar Eclipse, but it's easier said than done, when dealing with bad guys, working for the local newspaper article as their photographer, high school drama and romance all while keeping her secret identity from her friends, she got this sort of.

Shining Armor bet Twilight Sparkle he could reform Queen Chrysalis of the changelings. But maybe he just wanted childcare for Flurry Heart while the Crystaller was out of town.

Princess Cadance confronts Shining Armor in the aftermath.

Era: After Season 9. (See an index of my stories, sorted by My Little Pony Season).

Content Tag due to implicit language. Intercourse does NOT happen. Not even for Flash Sentry. And certainly not for Flurry Heart.

An entry in this linked contest.

Cover Art: by me.

After being neglected and overlooked too much, Spike decides he needs a friend of his own that has nothing to do with Twilight or the rest of the girls. Seeing as how he knows every pony in Ponyville he decides the next best thing. Build a friend. With a robot friend and the girls realizing how much they hurt Spike can they make it up to the dragon before he decides that his robot is the only friend he needs.

Takes place following the events of season 7 and the MLP movie, but before season 8 begins.

Over Summer break, Sweetie Belle was surprisingly left with nothing to do. Usually she was out with her two fellow crusaders getting into various dilemmas and situations, but not this Summer. This Summer was a very uneventful one, and Rarity can agree. Not even a single trip to Canterlot was planned since it wasn't even necessary.

So what else was Sweetie to do but laze about and eat, eat, and eat a little more. This continued for a little longer until Summer ended and it was the first day of the sophomore year for Sweetie Belle. But as she got dressed for school, she came across something hideous. Something she couldn't hide for the life of her.

She had gotten fat. She panics and overreacts, but luckily her big sister knows just the words to tell her.

As the war between Autobots and Decepticons waged on, it became apparent to Optimus Prime that he and his team had to leave Cyberton in order to survive. However they soon found themselves awakened on a new world after centuries of sleeping. But this was no world with humans having advanced technology. This was a world that was powered by steam and magic.

Takes place after the MLP movie

Art: https://www.deviantart.com/guidoguidi/art/IDW-Transformers-Hearts-of-steel-Optimus-Prime-974853889

Starlight does a slightly better job at attempting to reform Chrysalis after freeing her friends and reforming the rest of the hive, and finds herself quite unexpectedly the new Princess of Empathy. Whether things go uphill or downhill from here will depend on who you ask. Twilight is thrilled, Chrysalis is miserable, Trixie is gay, and Starlight is just trying to cope with becoming royalty scarcely a year after being Equestria's most dangerous supervillain.

I've always thought Starlight more than earned her wings in the show, but, given that I also love Chrysalis, I decided to grant them in a way that ends with my two favorite characters not trying to kill each other.

This will be a series of mostly one-shots dealing with various aspects of Starlight's life after ascending, with a variety of tones; while it's marked as incomplete, the majority of chapters form complete stories. Obviously, there are an enormous amount of things to be done with such a premise, and, if you have anything you'd like to see explored—and also enjoy the story enough to comment—please feel free to request topics for future chapters!

Note: Chapters are usually, but not always, in chronological order. Where they aren’t, it will be made clear.

Queen Chrysalis, against her better judgement, accepted Starlight's offer of redemption after her hive, and her plans, exploded around her. Now, the next day, she wants nothing more than to go on with her miserable life. Her children have other plans.

This takes place in the same universe as my alicorn Starlight story The Tiniest Changes, but can be read on its own perfectly comprehensibly.

I'm marking this as incomplete, because I suspect I will revisit it when I'm in the mood to write Chrysalis, but the first chapter was written, and functions, as a standalone story.

Twilight Sparkle, a ward of the crown ever since she accidentally turned her parents into plants, is dispatched by Queen Celestia to the small hamlet of Ponyville; the Unicorn has expressed fear that an eldritch Alicorn of the past will arise there. And when Twilight Sparkle fails to defeat the fiendish NightMare Moon in the two Queens' former palace of Concordia Arbos, the planet is plunged into night on one side and day on the other. With only shards of rock to her name and a band of ponies at her side, she sallies forth to bring back the Sun. She will traverse field and mountain, desert and labyrinth if she needs to. Will she be able to solve the mystery of the Elements of Harmony? Who was NightMare Moon, and what evils come to Equestria apart from her everlasting night? And why does Queen Celestia believe that making friends takes priority over everything else for Twilight...?

Can be found on TV Tropes.
Has a YouTube reading by our own Alchemystudent.

The Elements of Friendship, Book I: Harmony
The Elements of Friendship, Book IS [interlude one-point-five]: Bonds
The Elements of Friendship, Book II: Chaoskampf
The Elements of Friendship, Book IIS [interlude two-point-five]
The Elements of Friendship, Book III
The Elements of Friendship, Book IIIS [interlude three-point-five]
The Elements of Friendship, Book IIII