Great and Powerful Trixie lands the performance opportunity of a lifetime. A kingdom and all its riches are hers - as long as her audience doesn't kill her first.

An entry for the 2024 May Pairings contest.

Being seniors at Canterlot High has some advantages. For the fall semester, Sunset Shimmer, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Twilight Sparkle won't actually be at CHS. Instead, the girls made it into a competitive foreign exchange program, which is sending them to Tokyo for the semester! Having taken Japanese as their foreign language credits, the girls joined the exchange program to open themselves up to a broader world.

Among the many experiences the exchange program exposed the girls to is the newest and hottest technology, the NerveGear, which brings virtual reality to a whole new level. Sword Art Online, also known as SAO, is the premier game soon to be released for the NerveGear. With their new friend, Ota Natsuki, they scored limited copies and get to be some of the 10,000 players to first experience Aincrad, but SAO is more than a game.

The girls are trapped, along with the other 10,000 players, by Akihiko Kayaba, the developer of the NerveGear and SAO. To get out, they must conquer Aincrad, floor by floor, until they beat the final boss in the Ruby Palace at it's summit. Then they all will be freed, however, if you die in the game, you die in real life.

The girls must band together with their new friend and face Aincrad, not just for themselves, but for all of the other players who can't take on such a challenge. After all they have been through, beating demons and sirens, a game should be easy, right?

EQG: Sword Art Online - Ruby Palace is not a sequel to EQG:SAO - Aincrad and, likewise, Ruby Palace is not a "rewrite". I chose to follow SOA Canon in Aincrad, placing the girls inside those events. Ruby Palace is a full crossover and Alt-U between EQG and SAO.

The Vignette Arcs are not required reading to follow the story, but they are recommended. The Pilot Episodes are the official start of the story.

Special Thanks to my editor, Void Runner and my beta reader, Cotton Sweet.
Artwork - Wing banners and page breaks are by Drytil.

Sword Art Online is created by Reki Kawahara.
My Little Pony is owned by Hasbro.

Maple Blush was just a simple pony trying to do what her cutie mark said she did best: help bring ponies together. She might not be the strongest psychic in Equestria, and she could barely afford to be in the yellow pages, but still! It all had to count for something, right? Seeing into ponies hearts to bring them together, that… That was her talent, no matter what else happened. So what happens when she’s hired to help a “love-sucking bug” tell her roommate she not only has a crush, but is another species?

Originally posted on DeviantART for TheNornontheGo's "Our Character" contest. Maple Blush belongs to her, not me.

Similarly, Vanilla Chai does not belong to me either. She was generously offered to borrow by Wintergreen Diaries (previously known as Cerulean1313.) All credit goes to him for allowing me the use of his character.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is owned by the great and powerful Hasbro, not myself. No copyright infringement is intended by this fanfiction. All rights reserved to Hasbro.

RATED TEEN FOR THE FOLLOWING CONTENT WARNING: The following contains discussion of transphobia and trauma. Reader discretion is advised.

Ink Scroll wasn't always a pony. She was once a human, struggling to survive and thrive as her authentic self. One day, a mysterious magical accident brought her to Equestria. After the initial shock, she became the chief curator of the Ponyville Historical Society and employed by Princess Twilght Sparkle herself. This is her first holiday season in Equestria, and she is alone. That is until a couple visitors appear at her door.

Fluttershy's always felt more than a little different from the other foals her age, but it wasn't until recently that she came to terms with one of the reasons why that might be. Her best friend, Jet Stream, has always supported her, despite how different they are...but he's been acting a little weird lately. Fluttershy wants to believe it doesn't have anything to do with her, but she's the only thing that's changed recently. Is she going to have to choose between her true self and her only friend, or is there something else entirely going on?

This story contains transgender themes.

An entry in Twilight Sparkle's diary recounting a time when Fluttershy experimented with her feelings, and discovered a new boundary to set for herself. Also WOW Twilight Sparkle is GAY.

"Shake-n-Break" or "Twi wants to be broken, but Shy can't stop shaking"

Self-made cover art (done in like 10 minutes so i had something)

A fluttertwi/twishy one-shot
Very sexually suggestive, but not explicit.
Content warnings: This story operates under the assumption that the Mane 6 are all trans women and are in a polycule (ponycule? ponycule). Why is it written this way? Because I am the author and I can do what I like (within the site's rules, of course).
Implied CNC (Consensual Non-Consent)
A single use of the word "kinky"
Anthro horse cuddles
Fluttertwi fluff
Twilightisms
Incredibly tame profanity

One fateful day, a simple man is ripped from his comfortable bed, and is swung across realities into a world not his own and a body eerily familiar to him.

He now has the eldritch powers of a certain pink earth pony. What will he do with said power? Only time will tell.

The shitposting and references have been doubled!

Thanks for the feature! 7/5/24 - 11/5/24 And nearly the top of popular!
Holy moly, featured again right after posting chapter 2. Thank you.

Here's the link to the original cover art image

[This will be randomly updated whenever I feel like it]

Sometimes you just need a friend to lean on. And sometimes, they need to lean on you.

Cover done by IrradiatedPirateBooty.

Thanks to PseudoBob Delightus for proofreading.

Thanks to Scriblits Talo for pre-reading.

This story is a sequel to Pinkie Pie’s Clone Wins a Game of Hide-and-Seek

Princess Twilight Sparkle helped Pinkie Pie clone herself to finish a giant gingerbread castle in time for the Gala. Twilight's going to find out which Pinkie Pie clone, with science. But somepony isn't happy to be pulled in as Twilight's research assistant.

This story can easily be read without reading the prequel.

Pinkie Pie's clone played a game of hide-and-seek with Apple Bloom. The clone does her best to win, and hides and overhears Twilight send the rest of the clones to the Mirror Pool, from inside a barrel outside the Golden Oak Library.

Seeing that Twilight was trying to send her to the Mirror Pool, the ponies in Ponyville don’t want her around, and that she wasn’t having much fun, the clone chose a new name, went to Manehattan, kept hidden, got a job, and did whatever she could to make sure that nothing and nopony could stop her from having fun.

Contains Death tag for references to sending other Mirror Pool clones back to the Mirror Pool.