The Mane Seven are on a mission to spread friendship across Equestria. It sounds easy enough, but should they let their guard down?

Twilight is confident that she can cope with any situation. Maybe she’s right and there really is nothing to worry about... Maybe.

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Dude whoa.... That was powerful. It kinda reminds me of “If you love something” let it go. The type of pony that Twilight is I could imagine that losing her friends would make her go insane, and I know she'd do anything to still be with them. Great story. Mad I didn't hear about it until now. ~ Man on the Moon

Princess of Friendship by Bad Dragon is a great piece of work. ~ Stinium_Ruide

If Twilight can't find a way to save her friends, she'll make a way. And that works out about as well as one would think. ~ FanOfMostEverything

I hope Twilight can let go... eventually. ~ StormyVenture

I liked this story. It was heartbreaking, a bit confusing (in a good way), and overall enjoyable. ~ Heart Felt

it had the nerve to make me experience something you twats call “the feels,” but a nice enthusiastic walk in the woods solved that problem. ~ DR_LaZer

made me cry… ~ deli73

I cried. I didn't shed one tear, but a thousand. ~ Crystal_Chaos

Great story, definitely deserves the tragedy tag. ~ MustacheMerlin

This story really does earn it's tag as it presents a situation that cannot be won and that has no positive outcome, which is part of tragedy in it's strictest sense. ~ HapHazred

Brilliant. Both her plan and the story. ~ Unbridled Dolly

I love it when a story comes together--and I say that this one did, at least for philosophical egghead dorks. ~ Mahayro

I love the entire premise and the ending was perfect. ~ Curify - ChasingVerse

An accident reveals a secret that nopony ever knew....

Inspired by this picture.
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Rarity has convinced Pinkie Pie to spend a little time at the spa with her. Since she knows Pinkie can keep a secret, Rarity takes the opportunity to ask some rather... personal questions. Shockingly, Pinkie is quite forward with her answers, but what do you expect from the one and only Pinkie Pie? After all, she loves to make ponies smile!

*nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*

You know what I mean, right?

Edited by: Level Dasher

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Pinkie Pie has kept a secret from her friends, from everypony, for most of her life. She dares not share it, what would ponies think? Would she end up alone?

Pinkie has a horrible secret; she's a changeling. She has been for a while.

But she can't bring herself to tell anyone or anything, except a cheap journal. It's better if nopony knows, after all, and her lies aren't hurting anyone.

Not hurting anyone at all...

Notes: CH 1 edited by Sessaslisk.

When Twilight Sparkle makes a shocking discovery during a visit to Fluttershy, she may have to seriously reconsider her opinion of her friend.

Chrysalis is dying, and with her, the last of the Changeling race... but there might be a way to avoid extinction.

Some ponies just don't have any luck.

Twilight Sparkle is one of them.

Sure, other ponies might say she's the luckiest pony ever, being the personal protégé of Celestia, a well known pony in all of Equestria.

What they don't know, Twilight Sparkle isn't Twilight Sparkle.

Everything was perfect, her cover has never been blown. Until that one fateful day, the day Shining Armor, Twilight's brother, should have been married, the day of the changeling invasion.

The cleansing wave of love that send every changeling away...

There are only three ponies who know the truth, Twilight Velvet, Night Light and Twilight herself.

Edited by Jphyper, thanks for that.

This story is a sequel to Cocooned

I have so many good friends. And yet I'll have to say goodbye to them.
Chrysalis tried to rip them away from me prematurely.
She only solved my problem.

WARNING: HAS A LIGHT AND FLUFFY CORE!
This is both Cocooned from Twilight's point of view AND a description of the events that led up to it and what happened afterward. Won't always be in Twilight's PoV.

AU. When Shining Armor and Cadence's love shockwave vanquishes the Changelings, before being sent away Queen Chrysalis fires a poisonous beam at Twilight's chest that leaves her in a comatose state she might never wake up from. As the doctors fail to find a cure, and everypony starts losing hope, Shining Armor is determined to help Twilight return to them, but on the inside he is conflicted by the cruelty he mustered at her the night before and his failure to ask for her forgiveness before being shot. Shining won't be able to live in once until Twilight says she forgives him, but how can that be when she can't probably even hear him?
Will Twilight wake up and go back to her old life, or will Shining Armor's tortured memory forever haunt him?