I don’t question the “life” bar floating over my head, or my “EXP” gauge, or the little phantasmal boxes that appear whenever I look at an “equippable” object that show its “statistics.” It’s normal for small messages to appear in the sky every now and then, such as [System update in 2 hours.] My kind worships the Developers, higher beings that direct, create, and control everything we see. It’s all normal. This is how things have always been, since I was born. My father, my grandfather, my ancestors have all accepted and coped with these elements.

So why does everything feel so... fake?

My name is Twilight_Sparkle, and I know there’s something wrong here.

Co-Written by GaruuSpike and Chaotic Dreams.

(EDIT: This story is cancelled forever because someone sabotaged all of our attempts to write. You know who you are, and so do I, and I hope you're happy for killing it.)

These are the results of the Fimfiction Writes Ponies! project, in which almost a hundred users were allowed editing access to a single Google document, with the final goal of writing a coherent story about colorful ponies.

This... is their story. It is the tale of Mecha-Trixie. It is the tale of Lord Apep, who ate the sun. It is the tale of the shattered multiverse, the permeable boundaries of which may cause the end of all Equestria. Rarity may or may not be eaten by a ghost-shark at the end of things. It is enormous. It cannot be described in mere words. Read it.

Go forth, my friends, and know that this is what Fimfiction has wrought.

If you want to see the original thing in its unvarnished glory, feel free to check out the Google doc, locked for editing but now open to public viewing.

Credits for The Wonderful Folks Who Helped Make This Happen

The changelings are banished, the day is saved! Yet a victory for one must be a defeat for another, and this particular victory has left one changeling stranded in Canterlot, alone and broken. A certain pink party pony is also alone in the Canterlot night, hiding her depression from her friends. She cannot, however, hide her feelings from a changeling. What will become of this unlikely pair?

As featured in Twilight's Library.

Cover picture by Ruirik

Can Twilight Sparkle stop the new menace that's suddenly taking control of her beloved home?

Spoilers: No

"Sombra?"
"What?"
"I'm pregnant."
"...What."

Pinkie decides to prank Sombra on April Fools just to poke some fun at him, but her plan backfires when his reaction isn't what she thought it'd be.

Zuri is a Zebra, living on the planet Palosol. Palosol shares its sun with Equestria, the pony-dominated planet. Raised as one of the powerful Sand-Trancers, Zuri can manipulate the world around her via the magic ingrained in her blood.

On a quest for renown, she leaves her home city beneath the sands in search of something that will let her live up to the legacy of her widely-known family. Within hours of leaving home, however, she runs afoul of frontier ponies, and quickly finds herself up to her neck in troubles brought about by their colonization efforts. In short order, she breaks free from their internment, finds friends in a band of oddly loyal mercenaries, sets a young ruler free, and winds up right in the middle of a sprawling plot that threatens both the pony colonies and the entire zebra civilization.

Warning: OC-Centric, lots of non-descript murder

This story is undergoing heavy editing, and it may just end up getting deleted and reposted at a later date when I've gotten it to somewhere I like. Not dead! Just still being clunked through revisions. Watch this space.