During a blizzard in the middle of summer, a mysterious mare gives away her two daughters, Celestia and Luna, to an unsuspecting earth pony family. All she leaves them with are three words... 'Rise and shine.'
Monster finds problems fitting in and getting used to her new world in Ponyville. To help adjust, she reaches out to Princess Luna who has many of the same problems now that she is recovering from being Nightmare Moon.
Twilight Sparkle wakes up one morning, to find she's living with her family and is a filly again. She's not in Canterlot but in Ponyville though, and that's just the beginning of the changes. Like her new school, and the identity of the Headmare...
Twilight changes Star Swirl's time spell to travel back to the past once more. She ends up in the Pre-Equestrian era and unwittingly saves two fillies in the process. Little did she know what teaching them magic can do for the fate of Equestria.
Myths and Birthrights side-story: Velvet Sparkle recounts her younger years in a nation north of Equestria and the events leading up to her becoming the mother of Shining Amour and Twilight Sparkle
Twilight is unable to control her powers during the entrance exam to the School for Talented Unicorns, and in order to reduce the damage caused by her power surges, Celestia shrinks her down until she would later learn how to control her powers.
Filly Twilight writes an essay on what she thinks of the nobles on a scroll she finds in Celestia's room that turns out to be for a speech Celestia was about to read to all of Canterlot.
Last night, Celestia was surviving in the wilds of the land. The next morning she wakes up in a castle with everypony calling her Princess. Everything in her life is now upside down. Worse, her baby sister Luna is missing!
It has been six years since Twilight was shrunk to 1/100 of her full size so that her untamed magic wouldn't be a threat. Now it is up to Celestia to nurse her tiny student back to health while dealing with her uncontrollable magical surges
Twenty years before the Elements of harmony, before Nightmare Moon's Return, Celestia started a whole new slew of problems and headaches for herself and the ones around her. Thankfully Cadence doesn't mind foalsitting.
The world seen through the eyes of a child is a wondrous place. Princess Celestia is about to learn that the imagination of a young filly named Trixie has no bounds.
The past always comes back to haunt the present, there is no escaping the inevitable. For decades, Celestia has kept a secret from her student. A secret she made out of pain, and through pain will be revealed for all to see; for Twilight Sparkle is
Twilight, a filly firmly rooted in the Enlightenment, is assigned to read Frankenstein. One reading session later, she is determined to show the world what a great stallion young Frankenstein really was.
Celestia and Luna were born as earth pony foals in a dangerous world. They must rise from nothing to become the princess we know, upsetting chiefs, gods, and the very forces of nature in the balance.