When the Element of Magic, Octavia Melody, came to the club it was a pleasant surprise. When she decided to recruit the cellist Twilight Sparkle and DJ Rarity to help her hunt monsters, the shock was far less pleasant.
In a steampunk reimagining of the universe, Twilight Sparkle finds perhaps the one pony as lonely as she is. It's rather unfortunate that they're on the moon.
When the windigos came, the only way to stop them was to end the acrimony. A thousand years later, Princess Twilight thinks that may have been a mistake. And she knows how to solve it.
My name is Sunset Shimmer. I am the strongest unicorn in all of Equestria, and my life is over. I'm in hiding and on the run, and I have no idea where to start putting things back together.
The POV of the five ponies who find the world is not the world they remember, nor the one their cutie mark is telling them. They were happy with their cutie mark before, what's changed? And how each of them got their cutie marks.