No pony is the same after witnessing a work-related death, no matter who they are. The victim was young, eager, fresh-faced, and recently hired. In his last breaths, he let out a scream so heart-rending that the employees who heard it had difficulty sleeping that night. And Rainbow Dash was no exception.

But she's not losing sleep over that. What disturbs her is something far worse—something she said afterwards.

Can a shark loose in Ponyville ruin the Cutie Mark Crusader's absolutely-no-eating-us party? Yes. Yes, it can.

Looking back, Twilight should have known better. She really should have. Starlight wasn't all there to begin with, and it took only a few words, spoken in anger at the wrong time, to transform her into a real monster.

Now trapped in an endless time-travel hell powered by the mad unicorn's fury, Twilight must hold on to her sanity as she chases the one thing that can free her from her torment and set the world back on its path.

For the sake of her friends, she mustn't break.

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Editors, pre-readers, etc:

GuyWhoWritesThings
Applejinx
Manaphy
Queue
Majin Syeekoh
Shardikku

Reluctant Brohoof wrote most of the long summary.

The cover art is A New Villain Appears by Lukeine.

The Dreamscape. A realm of pure, untainted magic, where your limitations are only bound by your own imagination. Luna guards this realm with her life, but when even her magic isn't enough to stop a malevolent force from infecting it and entering into the mind of a friend, she turns to Twilight for help.

They must enter Fluttershy's broken and tainted mind to stop the corruption before they lose her forever.

Editing done by Doccular42

Takes place between season 3 and season 4.

When Rarity's latest dress design is inspired by Pinkie Pie, she invites her to her boutique for a private fitting. But whatever is to be done with Pinkie's sneaking of cakes from her deliveries?

Image by the awesome ChibiQueen-Anna.

The day after she swears off her petty, villainous ways, Starlight Glimmer is finally ready for her very first friendship lesson! To mark this grand occasion, Twilight decides a walk through town is in order to let her new student make some friends the right way.

It turns out that Starlight Glimmer is exceedingly bad at making friends the right way.

Many thanks to Syeekoh and Kamikakushi for taking a big one and prereading this for me.

All of them. Every pony. They're all sad.

Proud winner of the "most controversial" award of the June 2016 Writeoff competition.
It did not make the finals. This made some voters sad.

A bolt of fire, a mighty crash
A demon turns to powdered ash
Remember the day that Tirek died
And also the day the Princess survived
―Equestrian Nursery Rhyme

Every year, on the day Princess Twilight Sparkle saved Equestria from its greatest threat, she mourns the loss of who she was.

Preread by Waterpear!

Edited by Dubs Rewatcher!

Top three reasons to always use hair conditioner:

1. Soothes hair cuticles for shinier-looking hair.
2. Strengthens the hair shaft and protects against breakage.
3. A unicorn will come and totally chew you out if you don't.

Now with a Spanish translation by Spaniard Kiwi!

Legends say that one hundred years ago, the mad Baron von Hoofenstein hid a cursed treasure hoard somewhere in his country mansion located near what would one day be Ponyville. To this day, none have managed to brave the long-abandoned manor's dark hallways for long enough to discover the baron's stash.

Twilight Sparkle doesn't believe in curses or ghosts, so she readily agrees to help Rainbow Dash hunt down the supposedly haunted booty. Unfortunately, something other than specters stalks the halls of the baron's mansion—something with rough skin and razor-sharp teeth; something with pointed fins and breath strong enough to make a pony gag; something wearing a pink bow-tie and a greasy black wig.

Something named Sharktavia.

Many thanks to the blood-thirsty Rainedash, Kamikakushi, and Waterpear, who each mangled this into shape. Further thanks to Lord Destrustor, who created the cover image that only I am using (and nobody else ever will seriously don't look at the front page I promise).