Since the earliest days, ponies have foolishly believed that the natural order of their world would never change. That there would always be magic for them to use. That the princesses would rule Equestria for all eternity. That nothing could change their happy and ordered lives.

They were wrong. An event, known as The Shift, caused the world's magic to weaken, and the days of Equestria's glory came to an end.

Now, many years after the cataclysm, the world is still broken. But there is hope. Some vestiges of magic still linger in the world...

30/12/2011: First chapters have been rewritten/heavily modified.

A Rainy day has trapped the Cutie Mark Crusaders in the Library, So Pinkie decides to tell the a story about a far away place where ponies stand on two legs and drive cars, shoots guns and find legendary treasure. Follow along as Pinkie tells from them opening the mysterious Vault, To fighting zombies and the Insane Dr. Flootershy (Not Dr. Fluttershy wearing a mustache), To Mad Trixxie's Underdome, And much more....

Note from Author: Thanks for your replies, I am amazed that this is really popular and I hope I don't disappoint. A word of warning that since they are characters of Pinky, they might be different then you expect.

Also Fanart by AppleDash: http://lellcious.deviantart.com/art/AppleBrick-287076295

UPDATE: A challenger appears BRANDISHING THE SAME COVER. While mine is a story, his is an Alternate Universe sort of deal. Check him out: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/12536/Ponylands

The legends told of their return.

For over a decade Equestria has been beset by the dragons. Every year more villages vanish in flames, and the lonely cities stand as our last redoubt. Winter has gripped the world, and our hope is fading.

But the legends tell of another, a light in the darkness. The Dragonborn, a mythic warrior reborn with the power of the Voice, the only one who can stand against the dragons.

But when she appeared, she was not what we were expecting...

Luna discovers something hidden from Celestia for twenty years, now, with emotions running high, she enlists the help of the Mane 6... but what seemed to be a single mystery, soon reveals a darker and much more complicated plot that will soon decide the fate of Equestria.

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Revised chapters edits and proofing (with many thanks) by: lammy, Trevor, Nick Nack, Fifth Alicorn

Hope is the faith of the young. Losing everything she holds dear, Puppysmiles embarks on the adventure of her life to find her mother, her hopes of meeting her again driving her through the horrors of a world not of her making. Too bad the Wastelands doesn't care about hope.

War comes to Equestria: with despair, with starvation, with suffering and with sacrifice. And the ponies must learn how to keep true to their values while surviving not just the rigors of battle, but the desolation of total war.