Cornered by Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends, who just got their Cutie Marks back, Starlight Glimmer thought Twilight was ready to "bore" her with a friendship speech.

However, thinking of how Starlight interrupted her earlier friendship speech attempt by yelling at her to be QUIET, Twilight wasn't planning to give a speech this time. Not least, not quite like the ones you would usually think of.

This may not end well for the former ruler of "Our Town" if she doesn't start running!

This takes places in part 2 of the season 5 premiere...obviously.

Rainbow Dash was on the battle field fighting against Sombra just like any other day since the war had began, until…

…a broken wing. Great.

That was what Rainbow Dash thought when she first heard the news. Something that she didn’t think about was to be sent towards a farm so she could heal.

Sweet Apple Acres. The place where they made the army’s applesauce and where the Apple siblings lived.

Dash would’ve never thought that she would laugh with a filly while war was occurring, nope, never. She would’ve never thought that she would enjoy home made meals from a not so talkative stallion, no siree! And she would’ve never thought that she would find something -somepony, worth fighting for... not at all.

Starlight Glimmer has gone back in time. Each time Twilight tries to stop Starlight, she fails and is flung back through the portal and into a broken, twisted Equestria, ravaged by wars or monsters, each version worse than the one before, barreling toward the destruction of the world. Until she lands in a version of Equestria that ... isn't worse. It seems unchanged, happy, normal. The only real difference she can find on the cutie map is that her castle isn't there ...

... but the library still is.

Editing by Formerly Committed and JetstreamGW.

Takes place after season 5, but before season 6.

One year after the reformation of her star pupil, Starlight Glimmer, Twilight Sparkle decides to look more into the forbidden mysteries known as Alternate Timelines. After tweaking around with Starswirl the Bearded's altered time spell, she tests it out in an open meadow.

But she honestly didn't expect it to work.

She honestly didn't expect to pull not one, but two blood-covered children from beyond the veil.

And she honestly didn't expect to find herself fighting for her life against a desperate monster.

Second place winner of Art for Fanfiction's 2019 Summer Writing Contest!

I do not own the cover art. All rights go to the original artist.

Alternate take on Season 5 premiere:

What if the Main Six followed Starlight into the cave? What if they caught her instead of letting her get away? What if there was also a human living back in Ponyville who had trouble making friends?

Inspired by Slave Starlight by titanictime2

EDIT: Featured 7/26/19 Alright! Two in a row!

For many years, Equestria has been locked in a deadly war with the Crystal Empire and its brutal overlord, King Sombra. But now, after so much fighting and hardship, the war is over. Equestria has won, and peace has been made. But to accomplish this, Equestria had to do something drastic to turn the tide. Something unprecedented. And as Celestia looks over the ruins of the once-beautiful Crystal Empire, she cannot help but ask herself some very important questions.

Takes place in the alternate timeline shown in "The Cutie Re-Mark".

This story is a sequel to Flash Sentry Chronicles: The Forgotten Darkness

When the castle gives our heroes a strange new relic, the group find themselves at the weirdest town in Equestria. There, they meet Starlight Glimmer, a unicorn that seems to be hiding something. Will this secret be the doom of our heroes?

Edited by KingJoltik

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Rarity has had questions for Applejack for months now, but there's never been a good time to ask them.

Well, not until tonight! With the Map having sent them to Manehattan, and their mission not finished until the last train had left for Ponyville, Rarity has a captive audience for several hours - and just the idea of how to get the information she wants!

Set post-S5E16, "Made in Manehattan"
CW: F/F Relationships, Breakups, and most depraved of all Snuggling

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In the wake of Twilight’s escape from her kingdom, Nightmare Moon sentences Rarity, her palace steward, to a terrible fate: bound in gold and priceless gems, she’s to be thrown into an ancient dragon prison to be messily devoured.

Except the prison isn’t what it seems, nor is its sole occupant. Rarity just might find her life instead of losing it, and alter the course of Equestrian history in process.

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