A week after Starlight gives up her plans for revenge, Twilight finds her at the map with the time spell once again...

Thanks to TruthfulEB and Adda le Blue for prereading for me

Throughout Equestria, ponies cherish the unique symbols upon their rumps, which boldly represent their special talents and life long passions.

However, for a select few, gaining their cutie marks and realising what makes them special has caused nothing but heart ache and despair. It is these ponies who form the cutie markless; a group lead by Starlight Glimmer - a powerful unicorn with the ability to remove a ponies cutie mark, and replace it with one which represents nothing but equality.

So who exactly are these ponies? And why did they decide to give up something as precious as their individuality?

(Takes place immediately after the events of "The Cutie Re-Mark". Proofread by Smitty91.)

Starlight Glimmer should be happy. She has been forgiven for her past misdeeds, and has a promising future as a student to the Princess of Friendship.

But, she's not.

Despite her efforts to hide it, Starlight feels that she has been forgiven too easily. She shouldn't be forgiven at all.

While reflecting on these feelings, and deciding whether or not to tell somepony about them, Starlight recieves a visit from a filly that once trotted a similar path. And this visit, will teach Starlight a powerful lesson about forgiveness, and atonement.

Starlight now reformed, is now learning the lessons of Friendship under Princess Twilight sparkle's teaching.

Join in as she learns about friend ships and makes her own new friends and makes amends with an old one.

This story is a sequel to In Their Town

Starlight Glimmer has been taken under the wing of Princess Twilight Sparkle.

Now, with parchment in front of her, she tries to empty the broken heart she has carried for two decades, and writes to the only friend she had growing up.

(Written on a whim in the waning hours of Finale Fever.)

"Raise the Heavens!" - The Nightmare Knights' rallying cry.

Heroes are not born. They are made. And the Crystal War was a forge of heroes, hardened ponies who have stared into the abyss and emerged stronger. But six unicorns went further than any other and brought the abyss back with them. They were the same six who defeated the Night Queen herself, the six who bore Nightmare Moon's dark curse into battle against Discord, the six who quietly subverted Queen Chrysalis into becoming Equestria's secret pawn, the six most feared by both Equestria's enemies and her own citizens. This is the unsung tale of six unicorns, Twilight Sparkle N1, Starlight Glimmer N2, Sunset Shimmer N3, Trixie Lulamoon N4, Luna Eclipse N5 and Sunshine Smiles N6, and their nightmare-bonded commander, [OFFICER NAME REDACTED] N7. Together they lead Equestria's last hope, the fearsome legion of nightmare-bonded humans and their loyal nightmares, the [REGIMENT DESIGNATION REDACTED PENDING CORRECTIONS FROM THE VICEROY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS].

As always, proudly brought to you by our hardworking dream team, Not A Hat and Brad The Brony.

S5 Finale spoilers herein.

Story premise in a nutshell: In a world without the sonic rainboom, the sirens succeed in amassing an army of brainwashed humans to invade Equestria. Their invasion led them straight into the hooves of Sombra and his army of mind-controlled ponies. The clash ended with the Sirens defeated and Sombra acquiring a new source of mind-controlled soldiers - Earth. The fielding of Sombra's highly-versatile mind-controlled human minions in battle further pressured Equestria into a corner. With no end to the war in sight, Equestria resorted to desperate measures. Once prisoners of Equestria, Nightmare-infected ponies and humans are finally allowed to fight to earn their freedom. This is the story of the first six Nightmare ponies, their human commander and their part in the Crystal War.

This is a Crystal War story featuring squad-based heroics, camaraderie-in-arms and a touch of wartime field survival. Originally conceived as a thought exercise in explaining away the absence of all the other villains in the the Crystal War continuity.

Starlight was recently accepted to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. She looked forward to interesting classes and an overall exciting new life. She even made a great friend. She and her new friend become inseparable and seem like the perfect duo, but all foals experience different things from life that make or break them. When life seems to be bearing down on Starlight's friend, how will she confront the issue and will she be successful?

This story is a Starlight Glimmer headcanon, set before Sunset was banished, but not too long before. I would say Starlight is around 13 in human years.

The sad tag is very loosely used, but none of the tags really fit this story too well.

*Also, I would put in cover art, but I wanted to get this out before the season 5 finale airs and this headcanon is completely shattered. I will probably come back to set one later when I find a good pic.

Season 6 Spoilers.

Fluttershy's parents. The mysterious ponies who raised one of the legendary Elements of Harmony, no doubt as fantastically intriguing and full of character as the pony herself, right?

...Yeah, not so much. As for Fluttershy's brother...

How about no? Starlight Glimmer is full of no.

During the dead of night' Twilight Sparkle is awoken by the sound of the Crystal Mirror' trying to open its portal ahead of time. This will lead directly to one the greatest disasters in Equestrian History' and the return of an evil long thought destroyed' Nightmare Moon.

Timeline set between season 5 & 6

Cover art by Emerald Ray

Unable to move forward in her plant growing for Twilight Time, Apple Bloom attempts an old growing ritual… with Twilight’s approval.