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// Crystal Pony 
// Story: True Facts About ... 
// by ShadowWalking18 
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These are the indisputable facts about Crystal Ponies.

Crystal Ponies are a rare subspecies of ponies, thought to have been wiped off the face of Equestria during King Sombra's reign of the Crystal Empire, said to have begun some one thousand years ago. Oddly, these ponies are sorely missing from that Hearth's Warming Eve pageant Celestia endorsed a couple years ago. Suspicious, indeed.

Despite the name "Crystal Pony", a crystal pony doesn't actually look like a crystallized pony. Really they look like somepony dropped a gallon of floor polish on an Earth pony, and the Earth pony said "screw it, I'm a crystal now"! But they can turn into crystals for a little while sometimes, and that's kind of cool. Still more impressive than an Earth Pony, anyways. 

Look, if you're competing with a pony that can turn shiny sometimes in a contest of coolness, you know you aren't all that impressive.

Besides being able to look crystally for a few moments, Crystal Ponies are also capable of spreading light and love across all of Equestria with an artifact known as the Crystal Heart. How this artifact came to be is unknown, though some suspect it involved a bypass surgery gone horribly wrong.

As well as being able to cause a minor form of mind control, the Crystal Heart also keeps the Crystal ponies home, the Crystal empire.....lot of Crystal in the names...warm and protected from the frozen tundra of their home. 

Not exactly a bright move if you ask me. I mean, artifacts like that are almost always stolen in the movies and then where would they be? Frozen that's what.