This story is a sequel to Love Hurts

Nearly a year has passed since Luna first turned to Fluttershy for healing, and through ups and downs, the Princess of the Moon has come a long way. Though, Fluttershy wonders, why does Luna keep returning to her cottage? She spends more time at Fluttershy's cottage than at the castle, since she can take care of ponies' dreams anywhere.

At a coffee shop the day before Hearth's Warming, Fluttershy is set on finding it out.

Cover art by Chub-Wub
Written for Miller Minus for Jinglemas 2023!
Can easily serve as a standalone without any prequel reading required.

Fluttershy is known by many to be shy, submissive and a total doormat. It has gotten to the point that she needs to do something before she loses her mind.

Then her therapist suggests a friend of his in a poorly named town help her, for a price he can turn her into the brave mare she's always wanted to be.

Question is, is she also ready for the trouble it may cause?

[This story was inspired by Scooby Doo: Legend of the Phantosaur, which can only mean one thing... Ultra Instinct Fluttershy!]

[I decided to make this funny little story as a means to pass time in the development of my bigger stories, and expect another one soon,]

In a world with normal, everyday ponies, chaos is breaking out as more and more ponies are mutated into chimeras. Twilight Sparkle, a scientist and college student, and her new college friends gather together, becoming superheroes, while also trying to find a cure and stop whoever is mutating ponies. Meanwhile, one of her friends, Fluttershy, befriends a gangster, not knowing his part in all of this...

Equus iocus.

Twilight ponders the fragile nature of her sanity in today's little adventure.

Sunset Shimmer visits Equestria and spends some time taking care of animals with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash is apparently not good with certain animals.

Sunset discovers very quickly that what you learn from the human world cannot be unlearned, ever.

Rated Teen and Sex for a pile of juvenile innuendo, though technically no bad language. Only technically.

After a chance encounter at the Starswirled Festival, Fluttershy realised that Sonata Dusk is also a Skull Crusher fan.

When the band's tour comes to their town, a night of fun is guaranteed.

It has been exactly ten days since what I can only describe as the start of Fluttershy's phenomenon.

In an alternate world where Starlight Glimmer is High Chancellor of Equestria, six public enemies interrupt a state-mandated live television broadcast to teach Equestria a lesson in individuality.

Spitfire - Captain, lead flyer and idiot-wrangler of the Wonderbolts - has a reputation. Whether she's whipping her wingmates into shape, keeping her trainees in line or sometimes-intentionally scaring little kids, it's hard for many to imagine her not either shouting or being ready to shout at a moment's notice.

That's not to say ponies disapprove. Even ignoring the many times the job or the crowd demand that sort of display, it's not unreasonable to assume she must be under a lot of stress, so few will begrudge her a bit of a raised voice. Still, regardless of the reasons, this does mean that, to most, she is a very scary mare.

It is therefore good, on multiple levels, that no one knows about her secret meetings with one of the most easily scared ponies in Equestria or about what truly happens within her cottage.

An entry in Bicyclette's Crackship Contest that... I'm not at all satisfied with and basically shamed myself into writing. Here's hoping I didn't screw it up too badly.

After an attempt at a triple sonic rainboom goes catastrophically wrong, Rainbow Dash wakes up on a beach with no idea as to how she got there, how she'll go home, or who the other pony towering over her is.

While Rainbow and her new companion attempt to answer the former's questions, Princess Luna goes on a mission to exact justice from the one who bestowed upon Rainbow the gift linked to the disastrous stunt.

Finally, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie use their connection to their friend in an attempt to find her, only for Fluttershy to find herself fighting to save Pinkie from sinking into a shattering abyss.

WDTP: S2/3

NOTES + CREDITS:
This is the first story overall in the Timeline-42 series, and is the first story of the Terminus & Exordium arc.
"Granfaloon" appears with permission granted by Alex Warlorn of Pony POV Series fame.
Most of the colour descriptions are derived from Procato's Color Map with Meaningful Names.
For best results, please read the next story of the trilogy after reading this one:
* "Ad Mortem, Ad Vitam"