There is a song that is more than a lullaby, a song where hope and sadness dance together, this is its story.

In the many years after the Conversion Bureaus' shutdown, Twilight Sparkle is tasked by the Princesses with finding the last living human on Earth, Isaac Hamilton, and learning the story of his past. What she hears is a tale of loss, tragedy, joy, and the discovery of one's place in the world. But how much longer would that place last with what Twilight has to tell him?

I've been working on a completely separate My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic story for the past year, and as of this blurb I'm about eighty thousand words into it, but it's not ready for publishing. Early on in the writing of that story (March 2011), I decided to write a quicker spinoff story of The Conversion Bureau, which I saw on the Equestria Daily blog. The initial story seemed to get mixed reactions, but regardless of how people felt about the story itself, folks were having fun writing spinoffs. I thought it'd be fun too, so here's what I came up with.

Contains a smattering of bad language and gun-related violence.

It's been a year since Nightmare Moon was vanquished, but Luna is still bent on overthrowing her beloved sister for her tyrannic ways, The time has come for war, and neither side is going down without a fight. Luna and her new followers will not rest until the Equestrian Empire becomes The Republic of Equestria. Cover by Beserkeroo on deviantART. Used with permission