The princess just finished her last task for the day. Spike is out of the castle on an official errand. You know how to slip by the guards without drawing attention to yourself. Everything is falling into place.

You have business to take care of, but you'll have to do the unthinkable first: You have to kidnap Princess Twilight Sparkle.

Uhh... why?

September 17th, 1862 became the single bloodiest day in American history when a battle was fought along the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Yesterday, Fluttershy hummed happily as she watered her garden.

The two events are not unrelated.

When the lover of Princess Celestia proposes to her, he doesn't get the reaction he expects.

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North Africa 1942. The combined armies of Germany and Italy hold the line in the harsh merciless deserts against the relentless advance of the British Imperial troops. For two Axis soldiers, every day is becoming more and more like the one before.
Until they stumble across three strange children, one human and two foals, trapped and frightened on the forbidding warfront and searching for any way to keep themselves safe and return home.

Cover art is made by the very talented Purple Patch and I like to thank Nightmare Darkness for proofreading. I also like thank to HumanSVD, for allowing me to use is 2 OC. If you want to read his two stories where they appear, go here and here
Meanwhile, fearing for the children and their families, Princess Luna sends one of her chosen knights to seek out the missing innocents and return them to Equestria. The knight hurries to their aid, unaware that a fearsome hunter from his past is watching, waiting to strike.

Trixie knows what it is to be determined.

She knows it better than anypony.

She’s always felt it, her whole life.

Doesn't always mean she has to like it.
 
 

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Ocellus is struggling with her feelings, new and old, and contemplating just who or what she is, deep down. Now is not a good time for making big decisions.

So naturally, when a beauty contest breaks out in the Hive, the decision is made for her: she gets drafted to participate. Silver lining? If she wins, she might win the affections of the one crush she's had so far.

It's Ocellus versus a bunch of crazy girls who can barely read and take everything out of context.

This can only end well for everyone involved.

Author's note: technically set in the same universe as My Fey Lady, but not a direct sequel, and no prior reading required.

Most ponies seem to love like the sun, a single spot of intense, blazing passion. Starlight Glimmer is different. Her love feels like planets in the night sky. So many scattered lights, so far out of reach, and so hard to tell from the fixed stars.

Fortunately, she has a teacher who's very good at astronomy.

An entry in Bicyclette's Polyship Contest, written at the last minute because that's when the idea came to me. Rated Teen for frank discussion of physical attraction and a brief mention of suicidal ideation. Takes place immediately after "Uncommon Bond" (S7E24, the one with Starlight's favorite board game.)

Now with a reading by The Mystery Fluttershy Fan.

Rainbow Dash has important news to share with her friends; she's pregnant. Obviously, this comes as a surprise to everypony, especially Twilight, given that the two are currently dating.

In other news, Twilight finds out she might be a morosexual.

(Rated teen for discussions of sex. No actual sex happens.)

Pre-Read and edited by Rimmer.
Cover art by ModMCdl because he doesn't like it when I don't use cover art.

Nightmare Moon spends a thousand years banished to the Moon, fighting herself and the Shadows both within and without. She watches civilization rise and spread, a quarter-million miles away.

Can she reclaim her power? Can she overcome the six champions her sister has sent to defeat her?

Why do three of the champions look terribly familiar to the renegade Moon Princess? Why does the sight of one, in particular, break her heart?

And why, as the battle continues, does she increasingly hope that she does not win?

This is an expanded version of the two-part Series Opener. From Nightmare Moon's point of view.

Now with its own TVTropes page!

If you want to find out what the Great and Powerful Trixie was doing in Manehattan, and what happened in some other parts of Equestria during the Longest Night, read An Extended Performance. The direct sequel, however, is All the Way Back.

Lt. Dusk Skyshine, fighter-bomber pilot, and the crucial attack on the Bridges at To-ki-rin that helped stop the final Nork offensive.

Ponies! Glory! Battle! Death! Exploding airplanes! A mash-up of MLP G2 and James A. Michener!

Takes place in the Age of Wonders, 1956 YOM, roughly 4070 years before Luna's return from the Moon.