Sunny Starscout is a mare with expectations. What she did not expect was to find her wife making out with... herself.

Written for the July 19 2023 Quills and Sofa's Changeling Contest.

After the defeat of Nightmare Moon the thestrals were scattered to the most remote corners of the world In deep caves and forgotten mountains they lived, isolated from the outside world. As a thousand years past the rest of the world forgot them, and the thestrals grew stagnant in their isolation.

As the outside world grows and expands, their once isolated homes become less remote. As outside forces begin to invade, one thestral is forced from her home to seek aid and reunite the fragmented thestral clans on the eve of Nightmare Moon's return.

Takes place a few months before episode 1.

Chapters 1-3 edited by SweetieBotError

**PLEASE COMMENT IF MY DEPICTION OF CHARACTERS FROM THE SHOW ARE INACCURATE!!***

***DISCLAIMER! VERY CRUDE HUMOR IN THE FIRST FEW CHAPTERS!***

My names Rimu and a nuke just got set off in my front yard! Crazy, I know. I'm a pretty big MLP:FIM fan, unfortunately I didn't finish the show before the nuke so I was pretty sad. Well I was until I woke up in a cave with a black screen Infront of me telling me that, "You've been selected for the program! Don't worry your the only one that survived!" Or some bullshit like that, I can't really remember.

Let's just skimp on the details, after I died I got reincarnated as a changeling queen. Thankfully I wasn't Chrysalis, the bad thing is that I may or may not affect the timeline. I haven't watched the episodes where they show the other timelines but I know that they ain't fun.

Well, now you know! My name's Rimu and I'm about to blow your damn minds!

Extra tag is:Random

Sex tag is for innuendos.
Heavy reworking of characters.
Scratch it, this shits a crack fic with a few bits of actual real story. Im so sorry if you guys got disappointed by the direction of the story, I'll try to do better.
Also AIwhisperer you inspired me to put the system in this fic, equis dreams is fucking awesome don't forget that.

This story is a sequel to Respect Existence or Expect Resistance

2 years is how long it's been since I began painting. 16 months is how long it's been since my accident. a year since it's been over. 2 months since I married.

Now I can just sit back and remember the good times.

It's been a month since the invasion of Canterlot, and the changeling forces are scattered and lost throughout Equestria. Labeled as little more than scum, staying in the nation is essentially impossible for them. Everypony is on high alert, and many of them have been hunted down and banished.

Thorax and Chitin are two young rank-and-file drones. Running from the Royal Guard in the Everfree and searching for their comrades, they never thought they'd get tied up with a legendary infiltrator.

Chrysalis realizes she will need all the backup they can get. First, they'll need to regroup their scattered ranks. Secondly, she needs to play every card in her hand. This time, she will not be denied.

AU label applies as this fic would only be canon disregarding Season 6 and beyond. Thorax is not the same Thorax from the show.

The land of Equestria is ruled under the iron hoof of Empress Twilight Sparkle and her ambassadors. The former ruler tries to take back her kingdom, but fails. In her escape, the old ruler finds herself taken to a version of Equestria very different from her own.

thanks to Zerochill for his help in helping me with this story (he's kinda like a co-writer, but not really)
Editor: Crimson Twilight

Edit: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Featured on Sept. 10th 2015

Two Alicorns, new to Equestria, Pay a visit to Twilight sparkle Princess of Friendship and bibliophile. The seek Friendship, answers on natural born Alicorns and hopefully an audience with the Rulers of Equestria.

Long Path, an earth pony living in Canterlot, and his best friend, a griffon named Free Agent, set out in the company of Twilight Sparkle to visit various places and species to look into what makes them different, and hopefully learn how to get along with them better. Things rarely go to plan though, and along the way, they discover things about themselves, and find love, drama, and laughter. Then Chrysalis changes everything, and the fate of the whole world might be at stake. Their lives will never be the same!

This story is set mostly after the events of Conversations in a Canterlot Cafe and builds on the fanon of the series, especially changelings, so you might want to read those stories first for background material.

A collab with KaBar41 with him writing his character Dante.

Two completely different humans. a country full of ponies and a doomsday cult. What can possibly go wrong?

A US Marine who grew up on a horse farm and an irresponsible soldier from a space-faring civ find themselves in Equestria. That's right, one of those Mondays.

Follow them as they try to survive the ponies, guards keen to arrest them for disturbing the peace and most importantly each other. Oh, and there's also a doomsday cult after them as well. Will they make it back home? Will the Marine be able to resist shooting his companion? Will Nigel be able to resist attacking everything that angers him? Will the insidious group of H.O.R.S.E bring about the end of the world?

Who knows? We sure don't.

Idol Hooves holds a special place in Equestria. He's probably the only exiled changeling to serve in the Royal Guard, or at least, that's what he expects, as exiles don't really broadcast that fact. However, it's well known that Princess Celestia loves all of her little ponies, and her guards perhaps more so, and that makes it one of the best ways for a changeling to discreetly feed.

But how does a changeling even get there, let alone get exiled in the first place? For that matter, why would it ever go to Canterlot? Set a number of years before the series proper, before Luna’s redemption, Idol details how he was exiled, the ponies he’s met, and the series of misadventures that led him to joining the Royal Guard, and should continue a good ways into the series, as something of an alternate perspective.

Soon, he’ll have to deal with a boisterous new princess to serve and a royal wedding in the works bringing a third to power. Will his old instincts bring this new life crashing down around him? What precipitates Chrysalis’s ill-fated assault on Canterlot? Is it really so wrong for a changeling to enjoy good craftsmanship to an obsessive degree?

New cover art provided by the fantastic Carnifex

And a TVTropes page here.

And an Ask Blog of questionable canonity!
Out of Idol Curiosity

Fanart by Norad2! Major thanks! Short For a Royal Guard

Art by Egophiliac of Idol and his Daring Duckie Please don't tell him what that brush is meant for.

Rating updated to (T), it's a bit darker than (E)
Comedy Tag added as well
And changed the character tags a bit.