The mane six take shelter in a place that is, for now, safe from a disaster occurring outside.

This gruesome tale of violence and death is not recommended for colts, fillies, or the faint of heart.

When your life is as dull a gray as the world that surrounds you, the mundanities can make it all seem meaningless. Sometimes all we need is a little color -- or six -- to reintroduce us to what truly makes life worth living.

*6-16-2017 Edit, added Rainbow Dash tag because it triggered knighty.*

This is a re-upload, I originally wrote this in 2016.

How hard is it to overcome the knowledge of your disability, especially one like this. Dinky tries to get over this dilemma, however she comes out of this could define the kind of pony she will grow into.

HAPPY MOTHERSDAY

~~~Pre-readers~~~

Guy_Incognito

DumdoDoor

~~~Art Work~~~

Equestria-Prevails of DevientArt

Ponyville is one of the largest cities in Equestria, a center for trade and finance, a melting pot of many races, tribes, and cultures. It is also a place where corruption is a way of life. Here, the cops that aren't on the take are forever chasing their own tails, citizens live in fear, and gangs battle for control of the streets.

Daring Do has just been released from prison after a year-long sentence for thievery, and no one is about to let her forget her place. Phillip Finder is a local private detective and the bane of the Ponyville Police Department. The new partners quickly find themselves at ground zero of a city-wide gang war; surrounded by dirty cops, mobsters, assassins, and bizarre crimes, they can only rely on each other and a few honest ponies for aid.

They're hardly heroes. Which means they may be exactly what Ponyville needs.

Updates every Wednesday. Proofread by Eagle—Paladin of Shadows

The first story of the Noireverse.

Sex and Gore tags for suggestive content and graphic descriptions.

Check out the theme music by The L-Train by clicking here!

Featured on 1/29/18! Thank you all so much! <3

A bit of background...

Three years ago, I introduced Phillip Finder in my first fanfiction, "The Pony in the Gray Trilby." Over the next many months, I kept writing and eventually turned my first work into a twenty-story series. I learned much and enjoyed the stories' moderate success, but unfortunately, I became dissatisfied with them over time. I realize that it's perhaps a bit of a cliche that many artists end up hating their own work, but for both Tchaikovsky and myself, it is the truth.

I initially planned to write this story as a prequel to the series, focusing on Phillip Finder and Daring Do. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I wanted to improve upon my work, but felt as though I was being held back by the original series. While I am proud of my first stories for what I learned and gained through them, I decided that the best course of action for me, what would make me the happiest, would be to wipe the slate clean and start again from the basic foundations.

That's where this story comes in. A semi-reboot of the original series, the adventures contained herein, set in a vastly different alternate universe and replete with a mixture of reinterpreted and original characters, are the culmination of all the experience that I gained writing the original series. This is Phillip Finder and company as I meant them to be.

I hope that you enjoy reading this story as much as I enjoy writing it!

Partway though her second year at CHS, Sunset Shimmer unexpectedly learns she's been appointed a princess of Equestria.

Also, her old homeland needs her to return immediately.

Prereaders of all or parts of the story: Kirtai, FanOfMostEverything, JP, Shirlendra, EileenSaysHi, Carlos S., Secret Artichoke, _{(I think I got everyone, but if I left you out, please send me info I can use to confirm.)}

While a thunderstorm brews outside the Zephyr Heights palace walls, a teenage Zipp Storm reads her sister a bedtime story.

Featured on-site 10/6/2022 - 10/8/2022
Featured on EQD 10/24/2022
Live reading by StraightToThePointStudios

* Proofread by LevelDasher
* Cover art by ScribblePotato
* Inspired by scenes from TYT & MYM
* Takes place several years before the start of G5

The legion of doom.
Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Chrysalis.
In the garden together. Forever. Just the three of them.
This is gonna be a miserable existence.