Oliver has had the worst childhood imaginable over the past three years of his life. He keeps getting left behind, abused and neglected by the people who adopt him, causing his trauma and depression to get worse and worse when he heads back to the orphanage, and the haunting memory of both of his parents getting murdered at age five.

But then, he met a young teenage girl who felt shocked when she found out about his dark past. Not only did it hit her hurt, but she never imagined out of all the kids she'd met at the orphanage, he had been through the worst suffering imaginable out of all of them. She took matters into her own hands by adopting Oliver, helping him heal from his emotional trauma while giving him the life he deserves. Along with the help of her friends, the Crystal Gems, and the bears.

Thanks to Daniyel099 for editing this.
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This is a reboot from the two stories I wrote in 2018. Poor Boy's Greatest Saviors & Honorary Dreams.

Twilight Sparkle rules Equestria as the new sole monarch.
Three years have passed since her coronation and the kingdom had enjoyed a time of relative peace under her watchful eye, while she and the rest of her friends went on to live their own separate lives without losing contact or forgetting their friendship.

But even with everything running smoothly, in the world of light there will always be a shadow that lurks beneath. The ancient darkness of Equestria, which was believed to be a little more than a fairy tale and known only by those whose lifetime transcends the Two Sisters, is about to re-emerge and has found itself agents through whom to execute its will.

Will the power of friendship be enough to stop the darkness, when there is no light to take its place?

Art cover done by Sky.

This story is a sequel to Day-to-Day Shopping

After one of Sid's "contraptions" sends both him and Twilight off to the middle of nowhere, they both embark on a long, exhausting, tension-filled, and humorous journey filled with twists and turns to return back to Ponyville without magic or technology.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Mane Six and Sid's minions have to work together to reverse-engineer the contraption in order to bring the two back.