This story is a sequel to Mechanical Aptitude

Six Elements of Harmony.

One hundred and eighteen Elements of the Periodic Table.

Let's see who blinks first.

(A collection of irregular short pieces focused on the ponies (and sundry) of Equestria dealing with the other fundamental building blocks of the universe -- more or less. Most of them will be part of the Triptych Continuum, which has its own TVTropes page, FIMFiction group, and a newborn character page: new members and trope edits are welcome. However, these can be read as standalones, and no knowledge of the others is required.)

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Open Concept: any author who wants to write and post a TEoE story themselves has my express permission to go for it.

A lab accident leaves Fluttershy, brilliant scientist and animal lover, with a condition that causes her to turn into a giant monster known as the Flutterhulk whenever she becomes angry. On the run from Shining Armor and his Equestrian Royal Guard, she lives in constant fear of herself and others. When Shining Armor brings in a new asset from the Griffon Kingdom, the game changes.

Special thanks to ashtrol for the cover photo. She's really great and you should check her out. She also did the cover art for Iron Mare

EqD Writers Training Ground stories for Season Five from Georg.

Week 6: Slice of Life - Lyra and Bon Bon Are Just Best Friends. Honest.
Bon Bon comes clean about her past. Now it’s Lyra’s turn.
Run, Lyra. Run.

Week 5: Castle Sweet Castle - And Now A Word From Our Sponsors
The new season of My Little Pony is bringing something a little different to make Twilight Sparkle’s new castle seem more like a home.
Product placements.

Week 4: Phineas and Ferb Tribute - Gummy the Gator - Secret Agent of O.W.A.C.A.
When Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie return to Ponyville to tell Twilight Sparkle all about their trip, they each have a somewhat odd idea of what Gummy has been up to while they were gone. A tribute to the last episode of Phineas and Ferb, which will air June 12, 2015.

Week 3: Cheerilee's Thousand Tribute - The Ooze at the Bottom of the Bin
Once again, one of Cheerilee's dates goes horribly wrong, although she gets to meet a celebrity: The Smooze.

Week 2: Starlight Glimmer - A Matter Of Complete Trust
A villain from Twilight Sparkle’s past returns to Canterlot. It’s time for Princess Celestia to teach her a lesson about redemption and trust.

Week 1: Short Legs and Tall Tails - Braeburn tells a bedtime story to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Can he keep his natural instincts for telling tall tales in check?

Editors: Tek

Lyra Heartstrings is a particularly lonely mare. Save for her best friend Bon Bon, Lyra doesn't really have many ponies that she talks to during the day. She maintains a relatively quiet lifestyle, but she doesn't really mind, or at least that's what she tells herself.

One evening, Lyra impulsively buys a neat looking decorative glass ball from a pawn shop. She is overjoyed at the find, until strange things start happening.

Every night, when she looks into the ball, she meets some kind of... thing... from a different world called Earth. These beings also appear to have found some kind of glass ball, just like Lyra.

Every night, the ball connects with a different person.

And they all have different stories to tell. Suddenly, Lyra isn't so lonely anymore, until the ball begins to take its toll on her.

Warning: This story contains some language. Whoops?

Thanks a bunch to Paradox Theory for prereading!

Coverart by Gsphere, and can be found here!

In celebration of 2015! We have made it, folks. We have made it to the Future!

"Little Lady, I swear you're going to be the first filly to ever be grounded before she was even born!" - A Very Concerned Father

Have you ever wondered what your life would have been like if you had become an engineer, a farmer, a heroic airship captain, a vet, the leader of the anti-robot resistance, a baker, or maybe the overlord king of Tartarus? Have you ever wondered what the future might have been if you had dated person A, had that fling with person B, married person C, became the faithful servant of goddess D or pissed off evil godlike entity E? Have you ever wondered where life would have taken you if you were destined to be the universe's last hope-...err, rather, sire the universe's last hope? I used to.

Now the products of all my possible life choices have come over for dinner. From the future. And they are adorable. And they are my children. Apparently they are each from different parallel futures where particularly excellent life choices on my part had led to various big evil monstrosities and demi-gods taking over the entire universe. Luckily, each timeline has one last hope - these little fillies. And they have come to save me from assorted assassins from their various futures who've come back in time to kill me to stop them from being born. To top it all off, these little fillies have got to fix what bit of history they haven't blown up by making sure I get together with their mothers so that they can actually be born. It doesn't help that they all came from different mothers. And choosing one may or may not create a time paradox that might erase the others...or the entire universe as we know it.

The universe is gonna be fiiiine.

Features slice-of-life filly-raising shenanigans filled to the brim with sugar and diabetes with a side of backseat romantic comedy and filly-powered swashbuckling action for good measure.

Cover Art - Placeholder picture from the Epic Animation Double Rainboom by Zachary Rich and FlamingoRich Studios. If you haven't seen it yet, go check it out. It is as awesome as it sounds.

Dragons are a reclusive species. Not often do the wild beasts be settling near settlements, and ponies clearly do not be wanting them. However, some are not so common in sense like the others. Gayl, a stallion with a wild passion for learning, always had dragons on his mind since he was a wee little foal, and as he grew up, he noticed there weren't very many credible research books on dragons. Being the scholarly, daring type he is, he planted his home base in Ponyville (infamous for attracting danger) and starts his quest to sate his thirst for dragon knowledge. But first, he'll need some willing volunteers to accompany him on his travels.

After all, to go where dragons be is a perilous life choice.

Inspiration, cover art and pictures in the story all courtesy of the PMV of the same name by the talented Loveless Nova, used with his/her permission and blessings. If you haven't already, check out the PMV - If I Were a Pony. It is awesome.

Queen Chrysallis died in the aftermath of that ruinous invasion of Canterlot. But Tartarus would not be my afterlife, and death not my reaper. No, Ponyville is to be my purgatory, and my socially-inept roommate, Moon-Butt, my rather overly-enthusiastic reaper. I now live on borrowed time at the whims of my layabout of a roommate. To earn my freedom I must be able to not only prove that a changeling can live as a pony but also earn affection as one. But in between trying to get used to the notion that friends aren't food and learning to join the flash mobs in song and dance, I find that there is more to being a pony than meets the eye.

That was the good news. The bad news? I swear by the Ancient Ones, this useless sloth I have to share a room with is simply using me as an excuse to be an incompetent freeloader away from her sister's watchful eyes. You know everything has gone hooves-up when I'm the voice of reason. But bills need to be paid, bits need to be earned, and I have to somehow save up enough to move out of this flat. For my sanity's sake.

Featuring the editing talents of: Not A Hat, and Brad The Brony. Be sure to thank them by checking out their pages and giving them a follow/liking their stories.

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Across the Seas By Citric Acid

Golden Graham is a young pegasus stallion who owns a bed and breakfast in the middle of Ponyville, and where he works alongside his childhood friend and all-around party-mare, Creme de Menthe. As the town's fame grows in the wake of all the goings on with the Elements of Harmony, more and more visitors begin to frequent their quaint cobblestone streets, and Graham finds himself swamped with work, finding it difficult to enjoy his free time anymore.

So finally, he decides that he's going to take some time off every week to enjoy himself and spend some time socializing with friends. And it just so happens that his old friend from high school, Higgs Boson - a nerdy unicorn who loves science - is looking to start up a Myths and Mayhem campaign.

Soon enough, Creme de Menthe gets invited to join, and she manages to rope her friend Lemon Meringue Pie, a professional pastry chef from Manehattan, to join the game as well during her weekly forays to Ponyville. The game also strikes the interest of a young foreign unicorn mare named Rising Sun, a visiting diplomat from the land of Haysia, as well as her escort, Stainless Steel - an obsessive compulsive pegasus who serves in the royal guard.

Art by GrandpaLove.

Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns is the center of magical research in Equestria. Since Apple Bloom developed a love of potion making and an interest in the theory behind magic, she recognizes what an honor it would be to study there. But that would also mean being the only non-unicorn student to ever attend, leaving her friends and family, and moving to a strange city... and that's if she can pass an entrance exam designed to select the most magically gifted unicorns.

Spike has never wanted more than to be Twilight's number one assistant. But when Twilight points out that there's a pony right in front of him who needs an experienced assistant even more than she does, it means considering a life where he's making the most of his talents... but one without Twilight by his side.

For both of them, facing hard decisions are just part of growing up.

Second place winner for the April Writeoff Association prompt "Great Expectations."

129 people.

They don't know why, or how, it happened. Everything was absolutely normal, until there are reports of people simply... "poofing" all over Earth. They left absolutely no trace as to where they went, or that they even existed, save for the memories of them those left behind bear.

These people have absolutely nothing in common, nothing to connect them all. These humans unknowingly turn up in Equus, a different land full of different creatures that they've never even imagined before. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of this world—as well as most of the visitors—panic. When a few of the humans prove hostile due to many series of different misunderstandings, they lock the all beings in jail cells until they can figure out what they are, why they're there, and what they're capable of.

129 people.

129 lives.

129 opportunities for redemption.

Can these humans band together to rise up, and break free from the shackles and burdens that this new world has placed on them? Just what brought them all there in the first place? Can they survive long enough to find a way home, or will they perish in their attempt?

Warning: This story contains some harsh language at times. Nothing too serious, though.

This story takes place in a world where My Little Pony doesn't exist. However, if it was, then it'd be taking place somewhere after the events of season 3