What if pony princesses were actually highly social carnivores?

What if a National Geographic team began following them around to film a documentary?

What if nopony saw anything unusual about this?

A metaphor about growing up. Or possibly a metaphor about living in a surveillance society. Or maybe just a very, very weird idea that needed to become a story.

Everypony knows the story of the 'Mare in the Moon'; Younger sister jealous of older sister, blah blah blah- banished for a thousand years blah blah blah!
Prophecy states that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars would aid in her escape and she'd be unleashed on the world once more, but what nopony really knows is how these stars would aid in her escape, and what caused them to go to the moon.
This is the story of the four 'stars' that went to the moon, and Nightmare Moon's escape from her prison.

Skeletor is the evil dark lord of the evil Human Liberation Front. Skeletor fights for humanity's very survival against the good and friendly alien ponies that plan to invade Earth to turn all humans into ponies against their will.

Yes, the humans are the bad guys...

When Equestria appeared on Earth and discovered the MLP fandom, the initial reaction was of interest. Then they discovered the terrors of The Conversion Bureau, and there was only one way for them to react...

Rainbow Dash's latest flying routine was interrupted by a sudden mountain, and Twilight can hardly sleep at night. No pony should be this excited to play with necromancy.

Edited by Deceased and JustAnotherTimeLord.

Cover art courtesy of pony-berserker.

Dramatic reading by WritingStylus

Polish translation by atom2004
Spanish translation by Spaniard Kiwi
Russian translation by NovemberDragon

A hot dog vendor from New York gets teleported to the market square of Ponyville. And the person behind it? Doesn't care at all.

(Why did I do this?)

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are trying out their flag carrying skills. The enemy team is not happy about this, so they're hellbent on cramping these fillies' style. Permanently.

Absurd little crossover with Halo. Not Red vs Blue, awesome as that is. I just couldn't pass up the picture. How could anyone?

This story is a sequel to This date is going to be perfect!

After asking Twilight Sparkle out, Chrysalis waits patiently for the mare's answer.

This is their night!

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Edited and Proofread by Level Dasher, with props to Super Trampoline for a few notes as well.

"Like two peas in a pod we did everything together!" sang Twilight in the season finale. But what if she was letting on more than everyone else knew? What if Twilight really was a pea?

After countless failures, unkept promises, and horrendous public relations that have made changelings look like a swarm of mindless locusts, the Changeling Hivemind has fired Chrysalis as Their Queen. Now, They must choose a new queen, but in order to stop past mistakes from repeating, They decide to hold auditions and perform a thorough vetting of the candidates to find the best one.