My entry to AppleDash competition #3: Competition!
We all compete in something, but it's not the competing it self that is important, it's the reasons we compete. Rainbow Dash was going to Canterlot to watch Applejack compete in the Canterlot rodeo, and then enjoy as peaceful 1 year anniversary dinner with her mare-friend. But as you might guess, things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, and instead, Rainbow Dash ended up learning a valuable lesson about competing and the things we compete for....

This story was originally based on this promt by Bookplayer:

Another already together story-- AJ goes back to the Canterlot rodeo, and does much better this time. Dash is there, and thinks that AJ should focus less on the farm because it's obvious that AJ could be a world champion rodeo pony if she focused on it. The conflict comes from the differences in how they see competition and how important it is to them.

But I don't really know how much of it that made it in the end.....
Thanks to my friend Follow Focus for prereading this and wasting so much of his precious free time to read my stories! :P

Alice Liddell feels like she's losing her sanity ever since she visited Wonderland. She feels like she's slowly breaking down with madness. Her sessions with her psychiatrist, Dr. Bumby, doesn't seem to be working for her. All she wants to do is forget.

But, when a mystical mirror brings her to a mysterious new world filled with talking ponies, what will happen to her? What will she do, how will she get back, will she go mad? We're all mad here.

(Edited by RagingPonyRider)

"To the fairest of them all". That phrase alone brings up the most bloody, heinous, and depraved horror Equestria has in the history books: A beauty contest. A contest fought tooth and hoof to find who's the most beautiful mare in all the land. But, unlike any normal beauty contest, the contestants play for a greater glory than just a sash and some flowers. They play for a sash and some flowers AND the Golden Apple of Accord. The very same famed apple that once bitten by the fairest of them all will grant her whatever she desires.

To the fairest goes the apple. To the apple goes the bite. To the bite comes whatever they want. All that remains now is to keep the apple out of the hooves of someone that would use it for something evil... And to show off how fine all the mares of Ponyville are! It is a beauty contest after all.

When the gym class teacher breaks her leg during a martial arts session, Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna have to turn to someone they didn't want to turn to from the beginning.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.

Rated 'TEEN!(?)'
Expect swearing. Lots and LOTS of swearing, and also sexual humour.
Set within the Equestria Girls universe. Set before events of Sunset Shimmer's downfall.

Im a simple mare. But I'm an alicorn. So what? I don't care. I know a lot of things and am one of the smartest, brightest ponies that ever existed. But... I don't know magic.

Follow me on my magic (failing) journey of learning!

Applejack loves her life on the farm and is known throughout Ponyville for being an honest, hard-working earth pony. When she injures her leg applebucking and is forced to stay in bed for a few days, Applejack ignores the doctors advice and attempts to get back to working, not trusting in Granny Smith's capabilities to organize the running of Sweet Apple Acres only to find the Apples making sure she can't get out of the room. If she wants to return to harvesting apples and enjoying her regular life again, she needs a plan...
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My first story! Hope it's alright...this particular fic is set during season 2 in case you were wondering!
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Huge thanks to BluegrassBrooke for reading over the first two parts and offering great advice!

A thousand years ago, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna fought for power. Both were banished by their mother to locations unknown.
Equestria has been peaceful for the last thousand years under the rule of Princess Maakera. With her faithful Captain, Time Twister, she sees to it that this remains so.
And in Ponyville, a certain yellow filly with a red bow in her mane watches as a new blue star appears in the sky, little does she know that this star marks the adventure of a lifetime, which will lead to a world where the moon shines on a frozen land...

Commander Thorn was just another clone out of millions. He was strong, he would never back up for a fight, and he would give his life for the Republic... Unfortunately that last thing became reality.

While on a mission to escort senator Amidala while she would begin negotiations with the Banking Clan, Separatist forces landed in the neutral-zone and began attacking Commander Thorn and his squad.

They were no match for the Droid forces and were all killed.

5 shots in the chest was all it took to put Commander Thorn down.

But what if his journey as a Clone isn’t over? What if this is just the beginning of something new?

Let's see how everypony will react to this Clone Commander.

He's got his blasters, he's got his armor, the only thing he doesn’t have is a way home.

but he will find a way home, of that he is certain.

" But then I look at her—at Adagio—I look at her and hear her and, god, constellations are bursting, fires are sparking, silence is deafening, the whole world is terrifying and I'm falling, god, I'm falling, I'm falling in love with her. "

Disclaimer; Cover art by Jack-a-Lynn at DeviantArt

Cadence and Fluttershy are two Pegasus sisters living in the small village of Canterlot. These two mares are the most kind and loved ponies in the whole village.

When their father, Soarin', tells them of the legend of the "Sleeping Princess" they set off on an adventure to save the far off kingdom of the Everfree Forest and help break the sleeping curse that Princess Twilight set upon herself...

Not to mention, find out what happened to her brother, Shining Armor and return him to the Royal Family.

Based on the Hello Kitty Special of the same name.

Cover art made by ChaosQueen

Edited by: BluegrassBrooke and myself