Paradise.

What does the word mean to you? A place with no hardships? Eden, Shangri-La? Equestria?

For years, people and pony alike dreamed of a crisp, pristine world in which they could live without the radioactive rain, the grey and brown washed out landscape, and the skeletons of a life long gone. But that was all they were. Dreams. Myths. Bedtime story promises to children that they would wake to a world of enchantment and wonder.

Ten years ago, an unicorn fiddled around with an unknown prewar experimental device. What happened next, no one knew. Some claimed she drank too much. Other say she hit her head. She herself says the land of harmony has been found. For the next few years, the unicorn went mad trying to find the promised land again.

She disappeared long ago. And Equestria was once more a story. But when the world turns and a new age dawns, the journey home may take a thousand steps, but nowhere does it say that you must step alone...

It occurred one peaceful night. Half of Equestria awoke to the sound like a double-shot thunderclap. A percussion heard in the skies and rattling windows from Apploosa, to Canterlot, to Ponyville. Nopony knew what it was or what it heralded for the world as it drew a line across the nation.

For Twilight Sparkle, this isolated incident might have faded from memory after a time, if not for the strange rumors of a creature sitting on the hill on the outskirts of town.

These are her thoughts given written form. These are Sparkle's Notes.

Report EVERYTHING to the Princess.

This story is a sequel to What if: Rarity from The Three Sisters met with Chrysalis

Choosing whether or not to visit Chrysalis has been bugging Rarity for a week since receiving an invitation to do so. But there seems to be trouble brewing in the Hive and Rarity now has little time to act. Either way, her family's future rests in her hooves.

Now with a TV Tropes page! Warning: Will Contain spoilers.

An object of unknown origins crash lands in the no-pony's land between Equestria and Gryphon territory. Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle race to beat the Gryphons to the crash site, but discover more to the crash than they originally thought.

The star system Omega Centauri was just another oddity on a map to scientists in the not too distant future. However when they found the star was orbiting an earth-sized, earth-like planet instead of a black hole as its motion had suggested, a mission was scrambled to investigate this most unusual of celestial behaviors.

Hamstrung by politics, and nearly crippled before it began, the 'Lone Ranger' mission was reduced to just one crew member and left to his own devices.

These are the logs of Arrow 18 and its lone commander. This information is classified TOP SECRET by the Global Space Agency.

Do NOT tell the princess.