Winner of Tchernobog's AppleDashLight Contest.

Applejack, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash could never have been said to be ordinary ponies. So it really shouldn't be all too surprising that they've managed to lead unconventional love lives as well. Love lives that they might have neglected to tell their friends about.

But they’re not worried; the magic of friendship has taught them well, and they are confident the bonds they've formed with their fellow ponies will result in nothing but heartfelt congratulations and acceptance when they make their relationship official.

They are stupidly, stupidly mistaken.

Cover art by the magnificent Conicer.

Edit: Was featured from 4/6/2014 to 4/9/2014. Thank you to everyone who read, commented, or supplied feedback.

Commander Button Mash has assembled a team of the brightest, toughest and deadliest allies in the galaxy, and the time has come for them to launch a suicide mission – to assault the Changeling Base and free his fellow Equestrians from the clutches of the dreaded Reapers.

He didn’t quite expect the ending, though.

(Spoilers for Mass Effect 2 and 3)

Scootaloo is puzzled when everyone ignores her. Are they being rude? Is she invisible? Is M Night Shyamalan in Ponyville? Let's hope not!

Can Twilight Sparkle stop the new menace that's suddenly taking control of her beloved home?

Spoilers: No

Scootaloo learned a lot in her seven years. She learned how to walk, and running came from that, at a very young age. She learned how to ride her scooter, read, write, add and subtract, when she was five. When she was six, she learned how to multiply and divide. She cannot remember a time she didn't know how to make friends (though, it did take her some time to find ponies who would be good ones), and very recently, she learned how to have a big sister.

Now she has to learn how to lose Rainbow Dash.

Dedicated to Edd Gould 1988-2012
Have fun in heaven, friend.

Twilight Sparkle has finally perfected a device allowing ponies to speak to each other over great distances. Unfortunately, the first call she receives is from Pinkie. Things go downhill from there.

“Trenderhoof, Ah’ve never had a stallion like-like me before, and Ah’m honored, really, but there’s just one tiny little problem: Ah like mares.”

Awkwardness ensues.

Mystery. Love. Magic. Murder. Truth. These are all important elements in the murder mystery Fluttershy has written, and is now asking Twilight to read. But the novel stars 'Twilight Sparkle', and she wrestles with the metafictional dissonance involved in reading a novel about herself and her friends. Twilight must do her best to solve the mystery, reconcile her own feelings about this ordeal, and figure out just what Fluttershy is trying to say by writing all of this in the first place as the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

This is a thematic crossover with the visual novel 'Umineko No Naku Koro Ni.' No prior knowledge of Umineko should be necessary.
Cover art commission done by SynCalio

This story is a sequel to A FLEet|ng LIght |n thE DArknEsS

Case Report: Summary of Events
Submitted by: Verdant Vines
Location: Ponyville
Date(s): April 16th to April 23rd
Case: Ponyville Mass Disappearance (#3467)
Classification: Top Secret

To whom it may concern,

What follows is an update on the status of the investigation into the disappearance of the entire citizenship of Ponyville.

Readings:
Nimbus Productions - First Chapter
Scribbler Productions - Full Story

I highly recommend both of them.

A print version of all the stories in this series can be found here. (There is currently a printing error I am working to correct. This will be available again soon.)