The world spins, years pass, and everything comes to an end. Except Celestia. She sits on the shore of the last ocean, watching and waiting for her own chance at death. Because everything comes to an end if you wait long enough, and Celestia is patient indeed.

Rainbow Dash flies east.

Trixie finds Pinkie Pie irritating... at best, but when a parasprite finds its way into Ponyville and begins multiplying, she and the Luna Six need her help to contain the plague before it gets out of control... or more out of control than it already is.

Part of the Lunaverse, created by RainbowDoubleDash. Takes place about a week before Boast Busted.

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And thanks to Emeral Bookwise for the theme song used in chapter two.

Sometimes, everything has its own place.

Hope is the faith of the young. Losing everything she holds dear, Puppysmiles embarks on the adventure of her life to find her mother, her hopes of meeting her again driving her through the horrors of a world not of her making. Too bad the Wastelands doesn't care about hope.

Nightmare Moon won the first battle, but luckily the Elements of Harmony turned into guns.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders, frustrated with their lack of success, begin searching through Twilight's library in an attempt to find out more information about cutie marks themselves in the hope that they will finally understand the way to get their cutie marks. However, the trio runs across an ancient book containing evil spells and they attempt to get their cutie marks in the worst way possible...
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Now with its own TV Tropes page! http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheCutieMarkCrusadersBringAboutTheApocalypse

In the beginning...

This is a story of how Pinkie Pie shaped and guided the world in order to form Equestria.

My name is Minuette, but a privileged few know me as Agent Colgate, Dental Practitioner. We hide in the shadows, ever watching out for pony's teeth. When cavities strike, we are there. Saving Equestria, one toothache at a time.

Rarity has tea with Jesus and absolutely nothing objectionable happens.*

*Untrue. A gnat perishes.