Helping a lost filly find her way home should have been a walk in the park for Princess Twilight Sparkle, but this time things turned out to be a bit stranger than she was expecting.

In the last Sisterhooves Social, Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash won in a landslide. Now she won’t stop talking about how Rainbow is the coolest sibling in Equestria. But that’s just not true, Thunderlane’s the best sibling ever! After being indirectly challenged by Scootaloo to prove it, Rumble comes up with the best idea in his life. He and Thunderlane will win the Sisterhooves Social, he just needs to talk Thunderlane into wearing a dress.

Many thanks to the amazing Noble Savage for his great cover art. You did perfectly for this one

Turns out that I managed to predict the episode Brotherhooves Social a month and a half in advance! What a crazy coincidence. I guess great minds think alike. Though greater minds did said episode better than this story Either way, I'm still pretty happy with myself for coming up with such a premise.

Big Mac doesn’t say much. That’s just his way. However, when a routine medical exam reveals he’s going to lose his voice, he decides he’d better get his last round of speaking in while he still can. Saying a few last words to his friends (and asking out a certain schoolteacher) is all he planned on doing. If only he understood the full repercussions of opening his big mouth.

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The original version of the story took 12th place in The Writeoff Association's July contest, "A Matter of Perspective"

While Apple Bloom is waiting for her potion to take effect during Twilight Time, a picture of Twilight's family on a nearby shelf brings back long lost memories of her dead mother. She craves her mother's loving touch, and right before she's about to give up on her potion, its contents bursts into life.

Her confidence in her abilities restored and now armed with the necessary knowledge and skills, Apple Bloom is confident that she'll be able to bring her parents back from the dead. She enlists the help of her friends, but they quickly discover that some things are better left in the past.

Edited and Proofread by Alcatraz, Rated Ponystar, Manaphy, ROBCakeran53, and PatchworkPoltergeist.

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Set right after the conclusion of the episode "Maud Pie," Maud reflects on her life and how important Pinkie Pie was to her. She thinks of how she grew emotionally unavailable, and how hope can be beautiful as well as tragic.

All her life, Fluttershy felt different from the other pegasi. She preferred the ground to the clouds, and the simple love of her animal friends always seemed to refresh her... And she never really had to eat... She didn't remember her parents, either...

One day, though, her life changes forever, when she and her best friends find out what she truly is.

Apple Bloom's parents died years ago in an accident, when she was only a baby. That's what Applejack and Big Macintosh have always told her, and even though they must have suffered a great deal they still managed to raise her properly and give her all the love her parents couldn't.

But her brother and sister have been hiding a secret, through shame, ever since their parents' deaths, and now the time has finally come to tell Apple Bloom who she really is. But how will the youngest Apple react to what really happened? Can their family bonds survive the truth?

(Credit to the author known as Somber, who wrote the fantastic "Simply Rarity", for the inspiration for some minor details about Sweetie Belle's family history.)

Derpy Hooves died a long time ago. She was in Canterlot for the royal wedding, and was one of many unfortunate casualties of the changeling invasion. Her daughter was not there to see Derpy die, but a changeling was there to see the filly lost and crying, stumbling after her mother but not seeing the body.

There was something in those keening cries and those wails of anguish that compelled the changeling to wipe the blood from her mouth and take on a new form. She had meant to take the filly to safety, to her family, to anywhere...

But Derpy was the only pony that little Dinky had. So the changeling stayed with the filly. Day after day, she would tell herself that this was it, that she knew ponies who could take Dinky in, who would be more than happy to. But day after day, the idea of returning to the Hive seemed more and more like a death sentence. She meant to return, she really did.

Until she didn't.

It has been three years since the Canterlot Wedding. Changeling spies have found the renegade that abandoned them at the height of their invasion. Chrysalis intends to punish this rebellion, either by public execution or by forcing Derpy to lead a charge on Ponyville.

But before the sentence is passed, Derpy is given the chance to speak to the Swarm.

Tagged as Crossover for ponifying large parts of Charlie Chaplin's final speech from The Great Dictator. I claim no ownership of those passages or the words therein, regardless of the alterations I made.

Credit to Tumblr and DeviantArt artist Drawponies for the comic that inspired this.

Also, credit to DeviantArt user Brackets002 for giving me the idea to do this. http://comments.deviantart.com/1/515238804/3759395857

For a changeling like Iqqel, the Ceremony of Names is what getting a cutie mark is for a pony. It has a lot to do with your destiny and who you are meant to become. Iqqel dared to refuse all that and chose to shape her own future.

Reviewed by Chris and Matthewl419 here and by PaulAsaran here!

Queen Chrysalis decides to pay Fluttershy a visit.