Applejack finds a strange visitor in her apple orchard one day, with even stranger stories to tell...
MLP/L4D2 crossover. My first story on FiMfiction.net! May add more tags as story progresses.
Credit for the image goes to brokencreation on DeviantArt.

My name is Canvas. I remember because I wrote it in the corner of the white box. It takes twelve steps to get from the cot to the wall. And the lights hurt my eyes.

(Note: The story isn't in color because I decided to try this without the gimmick! But I still recommend reading the GDocs version.)

Twilight can not find her pillow.

Twilight Sparkle is a gifted student and scholar. When she attempts to harness her creative side by writing a science-themed sensual romance novel, however, things rapidly get out of hoof. Can her friends stage an intervention before she humiliates herself (and them) at a prestigious literature recital?

No. No, they cannot.

An accident with one of Twilights latest invention creates a dimensional rift sending, Trixie, Pinkie Pie and Bon Bon from Equestria to Earth, in Present Day Iraq. They find themselves right in the middle of a warzone at the height of the now dubbed second insurgency. The scales of power that are already unsteady threaten to tip completely, as their accidental arrival may threaten to ignite an already tense, global situation and push the world powers and mankind into its most devastating and horrific conflict to date. It is the beginning of the end.

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.*