*STORY UNDER REVISION*
With a homebrewn shrinking potion, Dash reduces her weight while keeping her wingpower. At the size of a mouse, flying through the Everfree is perfect to train her agility and reflexes.
But swimming in a pool of pudding and the sheer speed granted by shrinking are addictive.
And gathering more ingredients proves hard in ways she never expected.

Will the Poison Joke have the last laugh?

Ever since Discord promised to be a good guy he has become very bored. The once mighty embodiment of chaos is now reduced to a trickster who plays simple yet reality altering pranks, To put it simply he is bored out of his skull.
After a visit to Fluttershy, he decides to try to help her to be less afraid of everything.
What started as a small joke ends up in catastrophe, in his sleep he accidentally cast a curse upon Fluttershy.
So now whenever she get scared she shrinks in size.
Hopefully Discord will be able to cure her before she becomes so tiny that she no longer exists in the same universe as him. But fate has other plans. And Fluttershy is not the only one shrinking.

When Discord hears that his botanical creation, poison joke, continues to flourish in the Everfree, he simply cannot resist a good prank. Poison joke in hand, he storms Canterlot Castle.

Needless to say, the princesses are not impressed. But then, neither is Discord, since the joke also has an unexpected effect on him. And none of them know the cure.

When Twilight and Zecora create a magic potion to help Fluttershy, something goes awry and Derpy, Jeremy, and I must fix it while Isaac and Ben do... Stuff. In other words, they didn't help us and they went off to do their own thing.

2017 EDIT: *cringe* I actually wrote this crap...

After finally retiring from his full-time job as a caretaker for the Canterlot Petting Zoo, Snails finds himself lost in a void of uncertainty. No longer will he have to work a day in his life, but at what cost? Distraught and laden with melancholic dread the stallion hastily seeks the comfort of his dear childhood friend, Snips. They talk over their futures, and eventually, their very lives.

((Contains M/M Shipping
Special thanks to Dragon Emperor Geon for additional editing!
Featured on EQD on 5/25/2012))

After the Crusaders fail another Cutie Mark acquisition attempt they try a new tactic, research. While researching they stumble upon a secret that has been hidden for almost a thousand years, they weren't the first.

Now Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo must meet with their predecessors to learn the ways of their order. In the darkness an ancient enemy stirs preparing itself for a final strike against the Crusaders and all of Equestria.

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Criticism is always welcomed.

Special thanks to Conker for Proof reading and the cover art, this story would be riddled with mistakes if it weren't for you.
Original cover art by Tail Wind.

Who is Scootaloo? Everypony knows about her present, but when it comes to her past there are as many different answers as there are questions.

Is she the love child of two star-crossed lovers? The last hope for the future? The child of a broken home? A mysterious figure fighting a war no pony knows about? Or is it something else entirely? Is she even a pony at all?

Twilight Sparkle decides to ask everypony in Ponyville and find out about Scootaloo...and the stories, rumors and gossip she gets will leave her wondering how the truth can ever compete with fiction.

My thanks to Page Turner for the new story cover!

Now has its own TVTropes Page!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheManySecretOriginsOfScootaloo

And has a featured page in the Non-Canon My Little Pony Funny Page!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/TheManySecretOriginsOfScootaloo

Thanks to all my readers and fans for all the support and help I have gotten! I am truly touched.

Experience the battle between King Sombra and the princesses of the day and night; the very same that occurred over one thousand years ago!

Thanks for collaborating wiith me on this goes to SwiperTheFox, Rust, and KillJoy!

"It's called 'Shh'," said Fluttershy. "It's a game about who can be quiet the longest. Sound fun? I'm the world champion."

Fluttershy is not a pony who makes things up. She really is the world champion of "Shh," or The Quiet Game. And now it's time for her to defend her crown, with Twilight Sparkle and Rarity along for the ride.

After working on a major project for the betterment of Equestria, Twilight Sparkle brings her work to her mentor and princess for approval and funding, and her proposal is rejected outright without explanation or sympathy.

Devastated by Celestia's refusal, Twilight tries to determine whether she has failed her work or her teacher - and wonders what her special status and talent is worth.