My name is Silver Locks, and I might be telling this story, but it is by no means about me. She brings me along as an observer, somepony to show off to, and with the tiniest of evidence, the mysteries that have confounded thousands crumble to dust at her hooves. I don't know how she does it. I'd say it was magic if she wasn't an earth pony.

This story is a sequel to Iron Wing and the Demolition Crew

Everyone knows the story of the Iron Wing. They all know how fiercely she fought at the battle of Rainbow Falls. Soldiers measure their worth by where they were when she routed Sombra at the gates of Canterlot. Even now, there's a pilgrimage some take that follows her entire campaign.

And anyone who knows anything about the Iron Wing knows about the Demolition Crew. The story of the Crystal Collapse is one fraught with thrills and chills for fillies of all ages, and the closing of the Ghastly Gorge continues to inspire and terrify all who hear of it.

But legends seldom begin as the titans they become. Heroes are not born, but made, through fire and pain and loss. There isn't a pony alive who doesn't know the story of the heroes, but the story of the soldiers who became those heroes is one known only to them.

This is not the story of Iron Wing and the Demolition Crew. This is the story of Rainbow Dash and the Pie sisters.

There are many alternate universes.  Princess Twilight Sparkle found a number of them whilst she was duelling with Starlight Glimmer.  These alternative realities were perfectly genuine to those who lived in them.
This is a true story about an Equestria in which Queen Chrysalis had not been defeated when the Changeling Army invaded during the Royal Wedding at Canterlot.  Only a small group of free ponies is left to mount a Resistance.  The future does not look good, but a zebra has a plan.

This can be read as a one-shot or continued to its sequel https://www.fimfiction.net/story/384399/the-end-of-oppression, when Pinkie Pie mounts a rescue mission into the hive.

This story is a sequel to The End of Innocence

Pinkie Pie refuses to believe that Thunderlane is dead and wants to mount a rescue mission into the hive!
Meanwhile time is running out for the village and a changeling invasion is imminent.
How will Zecora lead ponykind through its last few days?

Now with an audio reading by Skijarama!

Now with a print version available for order!

A purple Alicorn shows up one night and then vanishes into thin air. Many wouldn't think anything of it besides how strange it was.

Not Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash has met that Alicorn before.

The implication it brings and the guilt that follows leaves Rainbow Dash with questions weighing on her mind.

Luckily, in the crushing pain of reality, she still has friends.

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Cover art created by the extremely talented invertigo and paid for by the amazingly awesome Shipmun. Oh my gosh it's just so cool.

One timeline after another, Twilight and Spike are thrown into a world of Starlight's morbid machination. Another tragic end to Equestria, another circumstance of failure.

The frigid wind does little to ease Twilight's thoughts as a simple question plagues her mind:

"What happened here?"

Takes place during the Season 5 finale.
Proofread and edited by Dreams of Ponies.
Third place in the Nightmare Moon 2017 Summer Contest.
Featured 8/6/17 - 8/8/17.

Pinkie Pie is tucking the Cake twins in bed, but they are too rowdy to sleep. So Pinkie decides to read them a few stories to calm them down. Using famous fairy tales for reference, Pinkie decides to put her own twist into the stories. That can only mean one thing:

Anything can happen!

One rainy day, Sweetie Belle is lured away from the spine-tingling, cloak-and-dagger trials and tribulations of the infamous Shadow Spade, by the only thing better than reading mysteries: living one.

Our heroine is pretty darn sure that something fishy is going on around Carousel Boutique. She's never had to help her sister with an order like this before. A dozen fancy dresses for some mystery foal, sight unseen? What's a filly to do, besides investigate? A very important commission is only the start of something so much more, as our pintsized gum(horse)shoe begins her new investigative career!

(for Estee's 'Swift Selections' contest)