Once upon a time there was a very lazy dragon who did not want to find a town to pillage.

So he decided to make one of his own.

Editors: Mitch H, Dlafrferg
Jake the Army Guy has done an amazing reading of this on YouTube
Excellent cover picture credit: Harwick on Fimfiction or Harwicks-art on Deviantart.com
Also, the Audio Project has done a reading of this and other stories on YouTube

Chance of Ponyville has spent his life studying how to reopen the Castle of Friendship, and has come to one conclusion. Unite the new bearers of the Elements of Harmony from all across Equestria, and perhaps in doing so, find the long lost Princess Twilight Sparkle.

In the year 2024 humanity once again broke the sky with fire as a new president gave funds to companies that were for space exploration. Within his first year he secured a deal with China, Russia and the rest of the superpowers come under a single agreement; the betterment of mankind. Within his second term we were working on machines to propel us farther than Mars and machines to look for detecting radio waves. Fifty years later we found nothing, we realized one of three things has happened we are the first intelligent species, we are the last intelligent species, or we are the only ones in existence. We cried, but we all knew what needed to happen we spread our wings and colonized. Now we discovered faster than light travel and our oldest need came back, the need to discover. One cycle of 24 hours (equivalent to one day and night on Terra/Sol 3/Earth) it all changed.

There is a secret in Equestria. A secret the newly crowned Princess Twilight Sparkle doesn’t dare to believe. Like puppeteers pulling on marionettes, they have influenced Equestria for better and worse since the fall of Discord. So far they have been benevolent, but their potential for evil is vast. What’s worse, she doesn’t know their name. She doesn’t know their mission. All she knows for certain is one thing.

That they all seem to be zebra.

Note: Rethinking the approach on this story. Will be made teen and other changes before I continue.

A young thestral has just recently completed his grueling training. Though he had thought he was ready for anything, nothing could have prepared him for the chain of events that were set in motion as he led his first mission.

"This story in based in what we would know as a Dark Age setting, though with ponies whose names we are familiar with."

After Princess Celestia appoints Twilight Sparkle and her friends to be ambassadors to Earth, they decide to introduce themselves to the humans by appearing in a horse show, but they need someone to get them ready. They call on Megan, the legendary warrior who guarded ponykind in days of yore. Megan has banished or slain countless demons, but can she convince the ponies to hold still long enough for her to braid their manes?

This crosses over with G1, but should be accessible to all.

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Editing and fact-checking by Horsegirl123. Additional editing by Portmeirion.

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Twilight gets sent back in time because of a magic mistake. She finds herself in the past when the Wonderbolts were founded. She needs to find a way to escape the past, without changing her future too much.

Luna finds two dead humans in the everfree. She also finds a child and decides to create a journal to record her findings on humans.

A head full of romance is what many Canterlot ponies would call a frivolous waste of time. Everypony was meant to play by the rules of high society: keep your nose in the air, laugh at important ponies' jokes, and attend all of the right parties. Upper Crust and Jet Set had been diligent in raising their daughter Crystal Wishes to be a pony everypony would know, but she wanted more out of life than that. She hoped she would someday meet a handsome prince and fall in love, just like in the stories she wrote.

Crystal knew life wasn't as easy as a foal's tale, but that didn't stop her from dreaming. All of the wishes, hopes, and dreams inside her heart escaped into her precious notebook as she wrote about princesses in power and dashing knights. So long as nopony found out her secret, she could continue to play the part of a dutiful daughter while waiting for her own love story to begin.

Itachi Uchiha finds himself, not in the after-life like he thought he'd be after stopping Kabuto; But rather instead, in a hospital room. As... A pony?