It was a normal day for Twilight. Spike had just finished everything she assigned him to do for the day, and was upstairs relaxing. She hardly expected to get a visitor, but she got one anyway...

In a freak accident (while the mane six is on vacation to manehattan), Discord decides to twist space and time itself on April Horseshoes Day; meanwhile, the Vortex returns to destroy the Tides of Time in an attempt to lock Ecco in the Tides forever, giving them the chance to strip Earth of all its living inhabitants once again. The result? Twilight is warped to an ancient Earth, and Ecco is warped to Equestria. Can the mane six discover what has happened and get Discord to stop? Can Twilight survive the Vortex in a dark game which is virtually impossible to win? In the end, one thing is for certain - Ecco cannot bear Twilight Sparkle's element of magic to stop Discord, and Twilight Sparkle wasn't programmed to get retries for the levels in Ecco the Dolphin III's source code...

"You take the cover of two different disc holders. One is for a strangely unreleased MLP episode, and the other is a snatched Ecco the Dolphin III demo playthrough. The person who gave them to you told you to play them both at the same time on your computer, and line them up so that both CD's would hit 13:13:13 in their running times. He seemed a little weird, saying that through ahead-of-its-time quantum physics, dimensions could be crossed if the conditions were right - but for a strange reason, he didn't tell you who he was - he just told you that he wanted you to test the theory for him, because if he revealed his true identity, it could make serious headlines on the news and his career as a quantum physicist could be kaput. Having nothing better to do one Saturday night, you take the two discs, and slide them into your computer. But first, you read the descriptions on the back of their covers:

MLP:FIM-SEASON#EPISODE# "TWILIGHT'S MULTIVERSE THEORY MELTDOWN"
After Discord wreaks mischievous havoc once again in Equestria, it is up to Twilight and her friends to set him straight again. But this time, Discord goes too far, and he loses control of his own chaos.

Ecco the Dolphin III: Earth's Final Hope
After several years of Ecco's entrapment within the Tides of Time, the Vortex returns once again, vowing to have their vengeance on Ecco, and their victory over Earth, once and for all. Shattering the Tides of Time to pieces, the Vortex turns their eyes to have their way with Earth - but will Ecco really be trapped within the Tides of Time forever?

Rainbow Dash is hopelessly, head-over-heels in love. So, the obvious solution is to ask the mare in question out.

Easy peasy, right?

What do you get when Twilight finds a thing that has never been categorized in any book?

Shenanigans.

Not long after Twilight Sparkle being crowned as a princess and risen to Alicornhood, she moved to Canterlot to help spark a new golden age for Equestria. However, when she gets there, she notice that the other princesses are acting strangely and saying that Equestria will have a new ruler: Queen Chrysalis.

Shocked, she try to warn everyone and try to snap the princesses to their senses. But... She is too late. Chrysalis was there and is already prepared to add Twilight to her new kingdom.

This story is a sequel to Unnoticed

Do you know the mare? So many believe they do. A single glance is more than sufficient to teach them everything. And given that they now know everything, there's clearly no need to make any further inquiries. She is what they've decided her to be. No more, and it would take quite a bit of effort to create any degree of 'less'.

Do you know the pegasus? The mailmare, the single mother, the incompetent, the town's lowest-flying joke? Is that what you've told yourself?

Do you know her?
You don't.

(Part of the Triptych Continuum, which has its own TVTropes page and FIMFiction group. New members and trope edits welcome.)

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While this story is tagged as a sequel, it's just following up on her previous appearance there: no knowledge of that piece is required.

Celestia has been preparing for Luna’s return in exacting detail, most of which is being kept from the other ponies. Unfortunately, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Shining Armor wakes up one morning to discover that the entire Day Guard has quit, save for a single Pegasus named Cloud Skipper. Their reason: anger over thinking they're being replaced by the Night Guard, made up of a single Night Pony named Midnight Blossom. Before he can pull the situation together, Nightmare Moon returns. Still, one can only make the best of a bad situation.

But even after Princess Luna is restored, the problems don't stop. It's nearly impossible to recruit any more Guards, leaving the reparations in the hands of three ponies. Nightmare Moon isn't entirely gone, still haunting the dreams of Skipper and Midnight. Certain warlike cultures may notice Equestria's weakness and invade. And the old commander of the Day Guard, Cumulus, may have had other motives for his disbanding them...

Truths will be uncovered, identities will be questioned, and nightmares will come to life. But maybe, even in the eternal night, a light can be found and followed to the dawn.

Notes: British spellings used for all except names. Also, Hasbro owns My Little Pony, and Cloud Skipper and Midnight Blossom were originally created by Equestria-Prevails on Deviantart. The only thing I own is this particular story.
Rated Teen for blood and occasional uncensored swearing, but no detailed gore and no sex.
Written with pre-Season 4 information.

Feature dates: 17/08/14, 26/08/14, 13/09/14
Wait, how the hell did I get a feature by posting an omake?

Scootaloo and her friends used to hang out near an impossibly tall tree, one that maybe stretched out forever.

Scootaloo had never seen the top.

Until now.

Applejack is cleaning her attic and finds an ugly mask. She offers it to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, because they enjoy pranking ponies. Rainbow is first to arrive to check it out, and finds out there seems to be more to the mask than Applejack knew.
She has to have it, and she can't wait to try it out.

Rainbow Dash stumbles upon a disturbing truth about her relationship with Scootaloo. Deciding to act on this new information, she changes the way Scootaloo sees herself and her situation—and not for the better. Now Dash must find a way to get through to Scootaloo and start to repair the damage she's done.

A special thanks to my pre-reader and editors: DudeGuyOne, RaylanKrios, Replicant, and SpitFlame. Check them out. They're awesome.

Cover art used with permission by Neilikkaa.