Twilight Sparkle, becoming anxious at the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration, which she believes marks the return of Nightmare Moon, beseeches Princess Celestia to do something about it.

Celestia, however, has another, more important task for her; making sure that the Summer Sun Celebration goes off without a hitch. Every year, a different town is chosen to receive the honor of hosting the grand festival.

And the lucky city chosen this year, for this fateful holiday, is none other than the city of Manehattan...

Cover image by Conner Cogwork.

Twilight Sparkle must go to Ponyville to oversee the Summer Sun Celebration. She sends Spike to check on the preparations so she can study Nightmare Moon and the Elements of Harmony. She meets five unlikely ponies that may turn out to be her friends and the key to defeating Nightmare Moon, as well as other challenges.

How will Twilight deal with Nightmare Moon's return? How will she handle these ponies? And just how different will everything turn out? Read to find out!

Additional tags: [First Episode] [Different Mane 6] [Derpy] [Octavia] [Bon Bon] [Lyra Heartstrings] [Spitfire]

After years of plotting, Prince Blueblood has finally come up with the perfect revenge scheme against Rarity. Except Discord told him it was stupid and gave him a different one to use instead.
Unfortunately, he might never get to put that plan into motion, what with the alien invasion, that weird pony in a blue box, his hated rival Fancypants, and his idiot wife getting in the way.

Second story in the Discord's Evil League of Evil series.

Life has been rough for The Great and Powerful Trixie since that whole silly misunderstanding with the Alicorn Amulet. Now on parole, she's done her best to stick to the straight and narrow, but after Twilight Sparkle up and became an Alicorn, she really didn't have any choice but to become a villain again, now did she?
Now, with the help of the Talisman of Ekafatonyllatot she will defeat Twilight Sparkle once and for all, steal her powers, and make Twilight her love slave for the rest of eternity! There is absolutely no way whatsoever she can possibly fail at all.
Also, she learns the scientific name for Titin, the biggest protein known to ponykind.

Third in the Discord's Evil League of Evil series.

An Optimalverse story.

CelestAI creates worlds. Perfect worlds, perfectly suited to satisfying the values of the pony living in them. Every pony is different, so every world she crafts is its own work of art.

And every piece of art tells a story.

Sunset Shimmer, back from the human world through means she doesn't really care to dismiss, has returned to get revenge on Princess Twilight Sparkle and take her rightful place as ruler of Equestria.
Her plan is simple: shoot Twilight with a gun. What could possibly go wrong?

Fourth in the Discord's Evil League of Evil Series

In this alternate take on the ending to Season 2, Chrysalis actually triumphs, defeating everypony and turning Princess Celestia into a Changeling. However, almost immediately, Chrysalis's plans begin to go awry. For Changelings feed on love. And who is more beloved in Equestria than Princess Celestia?

THIS IS NOT MY STORY!

Well, not only mine, anyway. Each author is listed with the chapter. A lot of people like writing short fiction based on Friendship is Optimal. So, anyone who wants their work added here can PM me and I will make you your own chapter. The first one sets up an in-universe frame story, because the Optimalverse is all meta like that.

Credits:

Iceman for writing the original Friendship is Optimal
Eakin for spearheading the project of anthologizing these.
MegaSweet for the original artwork.
Lacon-te for the photomosaic work.

The Chalk Family Cemetery is said to be the most haunted place in all of Equestria. On Nightmare Night eve Miss Cheerilee's class take a guided tour of the cemetery. An old-fashioned ghost story.