When some ponies look at the Bearer of an Element, the Element is all they see. Fluttershy surely has no choice but to be kind, every time, no matter what. A belief which encourages that kindness to be abused.
Applejack and Pinkie have barely seen each other since Applejack's parents died. Pinkie is willing to do anything to get some time where she can help her only friend... and that friend will do anything to never leave the Acres again.
When Fluttershy is away on an Element-Bearer mission, she has a first choice for substitute caretaker: Snowflake. He can handle just about everything the job requires. Except for -- the rabbit.
...ain't nopony gonna sleep. Not while she's trying to manage the usually-automatic feat while within her first-ever bout of insomnia... and given that it's Rainbow trying to work this out, probably not even after.
For Bon-Bon and Lyra, the worst part of any holiday season is never the celebration itself. It's the day after. And when they both have something they're not talking about, it's everything.
Crusades have consequences. Some of those are financial, and so the trio turns to an emergency stable sale to gain funds for their future mark-finding attempts. But another price comes out of reputation, and the bill has just come due.
Winona just went into heat. Most of Ponyville's dogs are following Apple Bloom around. The Crusaders see no correlation between those two events. None whatsoever.
Adrift in a sea of fearful adoration born from residual terror, how can Cadance possibly hope to get honest criticism out of anypony? By making it mandatory.
The good news: having her false ID summoned for jury duty means Chrysalis' disguise is perfect. The bad: running out on it would break her cover. (Why do queens always wind up with the hard decisions?)
All Shining Armor has to do in order to make his mother's medical tests go smoothly is to make sure she doesn't eat or drink anything. It should be a simple task for a colt who's on his game. (Unfortunately, it's a night game.)
Is it really so much for Mr. Rich to ask, having his shopping carts occasionally return to his store? To keep a supply under hoof without causing difficulties, magical mishaps, and the occasional small disaster? Yes. Yes, it is.
While exploring Canterlot Castle, Pinkie and Rainbow Dash uncover a room filled with stone tablets connected to dials. Above each dial is the name of an alicorn. These couldn't possibly control an alicorn's power, could they?
In one last ditch effort to take over Equestria, Queen Chrysalis makes copies of herself using the Mirror Pool. Unfortunately, even copies of the Queen don't like being bossed around.
Word around Ponyville is that Queen Chrysalis is planning something. Something big. Something terrible. Something beyond imagination. If only Queen Chrysalis had any idea what that something was.
With Fluttershy's father about to visit, everypony is more than excited to meet him. Thing is... he's a bit different than what they expected. In that he's big.
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.
When you find yourself stranded in a timeline where Equestria isn't doomed, is it still moral to rewrite history to restore your home timeline? (Season 5 Finale)
Facing starvation in an endless winter, the young filly Celestia attempts to raise the sun... and finds a wonder that her cynical mind had never conceived.
Starlight won. She prevented the sonic rainboom. She stopped the mane six from getting their cutie marks. Unfortunately she did so at the cost of her own life. Twilight managed to tell Celestia and a younger Sunset everything before fading away. AU.
After Discord failed to break up Twilight's friendships, he decides to trade places with a future Discord where the Elements would no longer exist. A future where, unknown to him, Discord has been reformed...
After accidentally learning that each Princess has their very own secret rooms to retreat inside whenever they wish, Twilight Sparkle makes it her mission to uncover just what could be inside Princess Celestia's.
Suspicious about her actual relation with the rest of her family, Apple Bloom had some tests done in secret. The results were... unexpected, to say the least.
When Princesses Celestia and Luna visit a public art gallery, they come upon a painting of Celestia, banished to the moon. They react to this in the only reasonable way: artistic criticism and analysis.
After the birth of Cadance's fourth child, an adorable little pegasus filly, Princess Flurry Heart wants to know why none of her other brothers and sisters were born as alicorns. Her parents claim not to know why she's different. They're lying
Moon Gazer loves her job, she gets to spend her nights staring at the stars and her days charting their movement. The only blemishes in her life are a flirtatious coworker and persistent migraines, certainly nothing to worry about.
Career-criminal Silent Shadow has been captured again and is expecting another vacation at one of Equestria's rehabilitation clinics. Instead, she has a meeting with Celestia to learn why the kingdom is crime-free.
Starswirl the Bearded is not used to dealing with fans, not surprising since he never had one before. But when a certain purple unicorn of the distant future discovers time traveling, Starswirl soon finds his comfortable days coming to an abrupt end.
After Celestia humiliates her at a dinner, Luna storms off and ends up snooping around in her sister's room. There, she stumbles upon the journal Celestia kept immediately after the banishment of Nightmare Moon.
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