Redacted. Here to protect you in secret from the monsters that are invading Eqeustria.

By any means necessary.

Chapters to be posted everyday until complete.

Content Warnings will be noted at the start of all chapters. All Content is mild with no graphic depictions. Gore is tagged more to cover bases.

Entry to the 2024 Science Fiction Contest.

Edited by EileenSaysHi

Preread by The Sleepless Beholder and Dewdrops on the Grass

The day had finally come. Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle stand before each other in wedding gowns, prepared for the happiest moment of their lives. And as those two pivotal words draw near, they reflect on just what it means that they've made it to this point, together, and how they got there.

Winner of the Sunset x Villain "Tying the knot" contest. (Yes, Sci-Twi counts.) Pre-read by Dewdrops on the Grass and The Sleepless Beholder.

Featured on March 2-4, 2024.

In the many months since Twilight Sparkle transferred to Canterlot High, Sunset Shimmer's been to her house a good number of times, enough for it to feel reasonably familiar. So when she notices something she's never seen before -- a large, blue-tinted plush shark she calls her blåhaj -- on Twilight's bed, she can't help but ask about it. She's a little surprised to find Twilight looking a bit embarrassed about her stuffed animal -- but when Sunset realizes it might be emblematic of a sore spot in Twilight's life, she realizes it's up to her to restore the magic of the blåhaj.

Can be read as either platonic or shipping.

What's a blåhaj? Here's a summary. And remember the accent on "blahaj"!

Pre-read by Dewdrops on the Grass and The Sleepless Beholder. Featured 30 January-2 February 2024.

Sunset Shimmer doesn't live in Equestria. She hasn't for a long time. But she's been visiting, more and more, having found herself drawn closer and closer to the alicorn princess who once saved her from herself, and having also found her affections were reciprocated.

Now, Sunset's been invited to spend Hearth's Warming in Ponyville, together with Twilight in her castle. There's no doubt that Sunset's happy to do so, and every moment Twilight's there makes that clear. But as she looks out upon the snow-capped small town decorated in its bright lights, she finds herself still at a perpetual distance from the world she once belonged to, both in spirit and in body.

It's not a sentiment she'd expect Twilight to relate to. But there might be more in common there than she thinks.

Written for AFanaticRabbit for Jinglemas 2023!

Pre-read by Avery Day, Dewdrops on the Grass, and The Sleepless Beholder. Featured on 12/25/23.

To Gabriella, the gods have always been an unreachable wonder. They're present in everyone's lives. They protect the people, guide them, even bless them with magical abilities in some cases, turning them into legendary heroes. But they're still so far away from mortal sight, residing on the top of the tallest mountain, its peak hidden among the clouds. A simple meeting with them would answer so many questions people have about them.

So, Gabby decides to brave the mountain and reach them.

She'll only find one.

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns IV, using the prompt Starswirl/Knowledge.

Pre-read and Edited by the wonderful EileenSaysHi, Dewdrops on the Grass and daOtterGuy

Part of the The Goddess of Empathy canon, but not required for this piece.

Last spring, Luna, then-Vice President of Canterlot High School's student body, took the next step up and ran for President, winning in a landslide. With school back in session after the summer holidays, she was looking forward to a smooth first legislative session.

Emphasis on was.

Seething after finding her Cabinet unruly and inflexibly positioned against her, Luna, having departed in a huff as soon as possible, heads off to find the nearest phone booth. She needs one voice, the only voice she can count on for a semblance of sanity -- last year's Student Body President, who just so happens to be her older sister.

Takes place in a rough EqG equivalent of the late 1990s-early 2000s, at least in technological terms.

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns IV, using the prompt Vice Principal Luna/Unorthodoxy. Pre-read by The Sleepless Beholder and Dewdrops on the Grass.

Featured on 11/25/23!

Tomorrow is the 950th Summer Sun Celebration, and with it, the bond between a nation and its princess will be renewed once more. For the 950th time, Celestia will take up the burden of rule, the worries of her people, and the divine task which she alone can fulfill.

Tonight, Celestia reaches the end of one journey. Tomorrow, she begins again.

An entry in the Imposing Sovereigns IV contest, using the prompts Celestia/Persistence.

CW: Self-Harm tag included as a precaution for non mental-health induced events.

Pre-reading assistance by Dewdrops on the Grass
Cover art by Melody Libris

Fifteen years ago, the corporation that owned them ordered to hunt down their counterparts hiding in an old, dead world. A decade and a half of their virtually eternal lives later, the corporation has been silent, and their targets still evade termination. Is there truly nothing else for these murderbots to hope for the future?

Heavily inspired by Murder Drones.

Written for the Sunset X Villain AU competition (October 4th 2023 to November 2nd 2023)

Special thanks to:

EileenSaysHi for editing and advice.

Dewdrops on the Grass for pre reading and choosing the title.

This story is a sequel to Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Battered and bruised, Stygian is not long for this world, but a chance encounter with the Moon will save him and provide a solution to his monstrous mentor.

Part of the Corrupt Pillars Anthology

Content Warnings for the following: Body Horror, Blood, Claymation, Mutliation

Edited by: EileenSaysHi
Preread by: The Sleepless Beholder, and Dewdrops on the Grass

This story is a sequel to In Victory, We Are the Losers

Starswirl. Archmage of Pearl. Greatest Unicorn of a generation. He has amassed power in the name of creating a lasting legacy. After seeing a vision, he finds this facet of his person in jeopardy.

He will do anything to protect it.

Part of the Corrupt Pillars Anthology

Content Warnings for the following: Suicide, Blood, Death, Poison, Blood, Body Horror

Edited by: EileenSaysHi
Preread by: The Sleepless Beholder, and Dewdrops on the Grass