Due to the persuasion of her friend Rarity, Applejack decides to go speed-dating in Canterlot. She becomes more comfortable around the kindly Heart Cross, but a secret he keeps threatens to tear the relationship apart forever.

In a universe where humans are quite shocked to find ponies that speak languages at all, let alone English, the startling discoveries never seem to stop for the poor crew of the SMS Verreiter IV, an old-warship-turned-exploration-vessel hybrid that's certainly seen better days. Heck, some even speak of times that it had days where all the systems functioned properly for hours at a time.

Either way, they're on a mission of exploration, which means they'll be visiting every Old Earth-sized rock they can find. With a motley consignment composed of few jittery scientists, veteran marines, an exasperated captain, and a combat-hardened, battle-forged crew with absolutely nothing to do besides repair their own ship from itself, it seems like it'll be a very long year of exploration.

Then they find a planet with some rather startling similarities to human society.

Like Manehattan, the apparent parody of the American district, ponies having developed the English language, and the use of human-like tools and buildings.

And when the ship's transmitter fails at the worst possible moment, Forschungsschiff Kapitan Arnhem Zorner has to decide how best to introduce his country and humanity to these beings. Who can levitate books probably as easily as they could levitate knives and hurl them at him.

He doesn't know whether to laugh of cry at the situation that's been thrown at his face.

After a intense magical accident, some of the Everfree's most feared creatures finally declare an attack on the changeling queen. The results are disastrous and are meet by banishing 23 hatch lings. Now will this rag tag group of changelings be able to tough out the worst of the Everfree and finally find a place called home?

NOTE: This is written in the real time flow, but the journal will capture his history, while his is also moving real time.
These are unedited for the most part, so I will try to edit them within a few days, while writing more.

My best friend, Veronica, had turned twenty-one today, and I wanted to do something nice for her. Everything was set: the food was ready, her gift was neatly wrapped on my desk, our apartment looked a hell of a lot tidier than it usually did – it was perfect. Until I realized that I'd forgotten to get a cake.

But then after braving the snowstorm that had blown in and getting to the bakery, I found two strange-looking, half-frozen butt-naked women on my way home.

This was not how I had expected the night to go.

[Background for the cover art by this guy on deviantArt.]