XCOM Record: Operation: Rising Star
11:52 am, 18th Febuary, 2016
Northwestern Territories, Canada.

Summary: Witness reports contact with extra-terrestrial creature. X-ray is unconcious and unresponsive. X-ray does not match description of previously observed species.

Response: Strike-One dispatched on high alert, orders are to recover X-ray alive. Alien Containment prepared for the new arrival.

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The war ended. They were beaten back, their mothership destroyed, their command structure in ruins. Lost ships and soldiers continued in vain, but thanks to XCOM, humanity won, and the world was saved. The Volunteer saw to that - everything changed because of one man.

And then suddenly, everything changed again. Only this time, it's not a man's doing - it's a mare's.

Proofreading by the aweome Setokaiva, entirely without me asking!
Tagged Dark and rated Teen: Gore, because there is going to be some blood shed by the end of this.

A different take on alicorn ascension. Sixteen years after arriving in Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle is excited to have invented a brand-new kind of spell, but it will come with consequences she cannot possibly anticipate. Meanwhile, threats in shadows around the world conspire to overthrow the Solar Throne. With her world turned upside down, she will have to come to terms with the role that fate has dealt her while straining to keep Celestia in power.

Now with a TVTropes page! Please show it some love! Also check out the official side stories, Designing Intrigue, and Love and Barriers! (With even more in my stories page!)

(Please Note: This story was started before any season three information was available. All episodes in season three and later are non-canon for this story, which also means there's no Crystal Empire in this one. In addition, the promotional map released close to the beginning of season three was also not available and is not compatible with this story. While the OC tag is active because there are OCs in the story, they're really just supporting characters. The focus is on Twilight.)

Also be sure to check out the Rites of Ascension Expanded Universe Group! We're working to develop the resources needed for other authors to try their hand at writing stories set in the Rites Universe!

The Book Two cover art was created by the amazing Silfoe! The original cover art can still be found at Violet Squiggle's deviantArt page.

Author's Notes, including proofreader's credits, can be found here!

"This is 100% Approved by Twilight's Library!"

The Elements of Harmony inflict a harrowing—and permanently damaging—injury on Princess Luna, leaving Twilight Sparkle to pick up the pieces.

Season 1 Premiere AU
Artwork by the Inimitable Paradise-Wonder

In an alternate reality, Twilight Sparkle awakens into a world she does not recall. Centuries after the clash of Sun and Moon, the planet of Equestria is besieged by an ancient foe and their mechanised armada.

Can she and a small host of newfound friends turn the tide of a losing war?

You can bet your cupcakes that they'll try.

Cover art by Woolly, edited slightly by a friend. You can find more of Wooly's stuff over at their Deviantart!
Font used therein created by Michal Nowak, also known as Neoqueto, and can be found here 1001 Fonts - Corruptor.

An idea which sprung to my mind a few days ago. Hope you enjoy it.

AND NOW A BIT OF ELABORATION!

Always been a fan of mechs, giant robots, gundam... call them what you want. Want me to buy something? Tell me there are robots and that you can fiddle with their weapon loadouts and the like and you have a sale.

Uniting it with a second beloved thing of mine, Friendship Ponehs, is therefore a welcome addition.

Bright Blade was happy, sure he may have no memories of his past before coming to Ponyville, but he was happy living with the mare who took him in and making many friends in the town he now called home. Unitl one day all that came crashing down. Now Bright Blade must use his mysterious powers to fight for his home and friends. Against a demonic army of ponies and against all odds, but with the Elements of Harmony at his side there's nothing any them can't handle. But all is not well as Twilight has doubts about her young ward, which may be due to the fact that she has no memory of even meeting or knowing Bright Blade. What could this mean?

It is a tale of war...
A tale of love and heartache...
Of sorrow and despair...
Of death and rebirth...!
This is War in Equestira: The Tale of Bright Blade

Inspired by the song This is War by 30 Seconds to Mars

Link to the Sequel!

There's only so much failure a changeling can tolerate. For Shade, once was enough. Years of training and preparation in the hopes of achieving a new life for himself and his colony wasted because of the negligence of their leader. It's time to try a different approach; if force won't work, then maybe peace and diplomacy will. What could go wrong?

A chance encounter in a creepy forest; A tree filled to the brim with books; A brief and sudden rain shower. These are all things that will change Shade's life forever.

A new Age has begun, and so have the adventures of Korra and the Mane Six.

After saving both the human, spirit and pony worlds, Korra has gained her wings and transformed into the very first human alicorn Princess! However, just because she has a crown now, that doesn't mean her job will be any easier. Magic and spiritual energies now flow across the human world, creating enormous spirit vines, granting ponies bending and anthro forms, and airbenders popping out all over the Earth Kingdom. But while Korra has her hands full, Twilight Sparkle is unsure about her role as princess in Equestria or if Korra really needs her now.

When the group heads out to find more airbenders and re-establish the air nation, they soon realize that three criminals from Korra's past are on the hunt for her. Questions circulate their motives as well as the mystery of the Harmony Chest, which has yet to be open, as well as a blossoming possible romance between Bolin and Asami. But will the new girl Opal get in the way of that? Will Korra manage to defeat these new criminals, or will they prove to be her most difficult and most terrifying foes yet? Or will another foe prove to be her toughest?

Get ready for yet another epic Pony-Fied retelling of a Legend filled with music, fun and adventure!

How would things be different if Twilight had never made it to Ponyville? Twilight Sparkle finds out just how different things could be when she is forced to travel to her own past while chasing down a mystery; a plot to erase Princess Twilight Sparkle from history.

Landing in a time just weeks after the one thousandth Summer Sun Celebration, she finds a world shrouded in an eternal night, where the Elements of Harmony were never recovered. Can she fix the things that should have, but didn't happen? Or is this Equestria destined to head down a different path?

Chinese Translation by Hell Organist

What if instead of a chest, The tree of harmony gave Twilight a book with strange writing and a heart shaped gem on the cover. After reading a mysterious rhyme: "When the time is right. Underneath the same light. A bond will ignite. At very first sight." The Mane Six, and Spike, are all magically sucked in and they travel to a world with no ponies or magic, but humans and...bending! People who can control the four elements of nature. With no way to get back home, they stumble upon a new friend: Avatar Korra, a fiery but big hearted young girl with an extraordinary destiny. Upon first glance, the Ponies all feel an instant connection with the young girl, who might also be the key to them returning to Equestria and uncovering the secrets of the book, while at the same time help Korra to defeat an evil masked man named Amon who vows to rid the world of bending with his mysterious and terrifying powers.

Now the ponies will need to adjust to their new environment: a whole new world where people seem to loose sight of friendship almost too easily, but Twilight sees that there is hope, as they show Korra the ways of Equestria and with that, the ponies and avatar start to change their world for the better, by helping everyone see that Friendship is exactly the kind of magic that this world truly needs.

Featuring new parody songs of all of your pony favorites. Experience a whole new side to the Legend and a whole new side to the Magic!

Read the one shot story “Cutie Troubles” staring Mako and the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and “Tales of Equestria”, a retelling of season 4 of MLP
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10264379/1/Cutie-Troubles
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11140115/1/The-Little-Pony-Legend-Tales-of-Equestria

Twilight has spent the last two decades fighting against the dark forces which threaten the peaceful kingdom of Equestria. As a Royal Alicorn Princess, she has no choice in the matter. She is the greatest magician Equestria has ever known, but it has all come at a cost, both physically and mentally. She resents her friends for the happy, carefree lives they've been able to lead. Somepony will have to breach her walls of isolation and sorrow before she does something foolish.