Written for the 2024 wonderbolts site-wide contest

A story of loss, of love, of betrayal? Who knows?
History is vague and unforgiving.

Rainbow dash and Twilight dwell over ancient manuscripts trying to uncover the secrets of Princess Celestia's favorite Wonderbolt maneuver.

On a night where Princess Luna decides to not go into the dream realm due to no nightmares occurring, she decides to take Megan Williams over to the castle and share her deepest and darkest secret to her even if it could get her into trouble. At first, she is told that there is common ground between them, but then is almost brought into a shock to find why she wasn't around for so long. Could sharing this secret make Megan feel more or less for Luna after knowing about it? This is a crossover between G1 and G4.

Proofreader: Majestic_Donut

Cover image: VulpesIncult

You know the story of Nightmare Moon. Or so you think. What many do not know is that before she was banished, she had a foal of her own. Many people do not know, not even the Princess. Which is good otherwise she would have seen right through my disguise. My name is Shadow Moon but everypony over the past thousand years have called me Twilight Sparkle and this is my story.

Covert art by Giulia Beck

It was thought to be the end of the world. The collapse of civilization by nature's own judgement - a firey meteor.

But it wasn't quite that for Equestria.

A second life, a new chance was born for them. But, in the modern day, the barrier's generator facilities have some new ideas hatched concerning it.

Cover art by me.
Proofread by my friends - GreyTheGriffon and Mechscout.

To the north, Queen Chrysalis' empire grows strong with conquest, industry, and fearsome new weapons.

To the south, Equestria sleeps.

But not Miss Harshwhinny. She is not a soldier, owns no factories, did not even know what a tank was before seeing a picture. She can learn, though, and she can see what is coming. And as the day of invasion draws near, she races against time to build for Equestria a weapon with a fighting chance.

(An Equestria at War fic.)

Now with a dramatic reading by Skijaramaz!

What do you get when you combine an empty Ponyville library, government cost cutting on strongbox locks, and a particularly mischievous unicorn? Sweetie Belle with a top-secret list of military tele-spell network addresses.

What do you get when you combine three clever fillies with terrible official password discipline? The Cutie Mark Crusaders with access to the central strategic armaments computer.

What do you get when you combine two-factor activation with a tremendously short-sighted and very arrogant Celestia? Nothing good.

Takes place in the same universe as, and is set immediately after (but isn't "canon" to), Fluttershy: Royal Game Warden (?). You don't need to read that one. You should, because it's a Certified Hood Classic, but you don't have to.

Death and Violence tags are general. No blood and guts, but if you're faint of heart, there's an intentionally squicky sequence that probably hits a lot harder if one has a fear of hypodermic needles, so be aware.

Every day Celestia shares light and love with all the ponies of Equestria. In turn, they share their love with her. Still, the princess senses there is something missing. Something her heart longs for.

Something her responsibilities have denied her for all these years.

As luck would have it, she’s given a gift that will let her experience her deepest hearts desires and take her to a place she may never want to leave.

Ever.

Inspired by the Alan Moore story, For the Man Who Has Everything.

During a school camping trip, the little fillies and colts of Cheerilee's class gather around a camp fire to tell each other scary stories. Some of them are boring and some of them are kinda silly. But then Diamond Tiara, the most malicious of the children, brings out a story guaranteed to scare everyone senseless. When Scootaloo decides to take a dare to go deeper into the woods alone, things go from innocent fun to a twisted fairytale abuse.

I didn't do it. They did. The voices and the eyes and the ponies I wanted to protect. No. Yes. Stop. Help. Please. I didn't.

In the Ponyville Railyard, towards the back, in a old siding by themselves, sit 6 old hopper cars filled with gray gravel. The cars are rusty, the letters on them having faded long ago. The cars have not been touched in ages, and seemingly serve no purpose. Scootaloo aims to find out why the cars are there, and what purpose they serve. Now she wishes that she'd left well enough alone, because when something has been abandoned, there's always a reason behind why it was........

(This is my first foray into the world of MLP horror stories, so hopefully this goes well)

Featured as of 5/4/22?! Holy cow. Thank you everypony!