The pony who wishes to make friends with everyone.

The being who exists only to prolong his existence.
...
Chance brings the two together, showing each that there is always more to learn.

This can be considered a Starbound crossover, but it doesn't really hold relevance to the game beyond using a Novakid as the alien Twilight encounters, as evidenced by the cover art.

Please read the author's note at the beginning of Silence for information regarding the story's structure.

Spike's got three whole days to himself while Twilight is away at the Crystal Empire. Three whole days to be independent and free to do whatever he wants.

Or he would have, if a female dragon hadn't mistaken him for an abandoned hatchling. Now he's been snatched up and taken to her home to be "properly cared for."

Stuck in a cave with an overly-protective dragon intent on mothering him...maybe he should have just gone with Twilight.

Thanks to QueenCold for letting me use this picture of theirs as cover art!

A Dragon detective is called into action by a certain purple mare to recover some stolen property...

Author's Note: This is a Flash-Fic I wrote during a writing session with the #Equestria IRC channel on caffie.net. The prompt for this fic was "Mystery" and I only had thirty minutes to come up with and write a story based on the prompt. Slightly edited from its original version for grammatical purposes.

You ever feel like you just joined in on the end of an adventure?
Spike does.
All the time.
All the freaking time.
Living with Twilight and Trixie sucks.

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Sweetie Belle has a new idea for getting their cutie marks but Scootaloo and Apple Bloom brush it aside.
But maybe, just maybe, Sweetie was on the right path all along.

Twilight Sparkle has important friendship problems to solve. However, that's hard to do with a "reformed" villain following you around all day.

(Context for later readers: This is based on the old Season 5 buzz when Starlight Glimmer — who got beaten in the Season 5 opener but escaped — canonically showed up in the background of the café in "Amending Fences". It was a big deal at the time.)

Audio versions:
Livereading by mindlessgonzo and friend!
Reading by Pony&Wolf Productions!

Finalist in the July 2015 Writeoff! Now revised and expanded for FIMFiction!

"Highly Recommended" by MLPmatthewl419! * Other reviews: Present Perfect, Titanium Dragon, PaulAsaran, Ghost Mike

Applejack is chosen as The Nightmare's new host.

It really isn't that big of a deal. Until it is.

Applejack has lived a peaceful life on her farm. But everything changed when the lemon tree attacked.

Twilight finds a dusty old book full of puns and begins to use them, much to the dismay of her friends, considering her puns are slowing down their travels and they need to be PUNCTUAL.

There are a lot of ponies in Equestria.

Like, really, a lot.

A whole lot.

So many, in fact, that it's kind of hard for everypony meets every other pony. And that's not even factoring in those who are not, in the purest technical sense, PONIES.

Which is really rather sad, because if some ponies and some other ponies actually managed to get in the same area and interact some very interesting stories could be told. But it's incredibly unlikely that that's going to happen anytime soon. It's basically improbable to the point of impossibility.

And yet, fate has decided to play a little game. Join us in watching this series of oneshots meander through the most unconventional meetings plausible!