Published for the Friendship is Optimal Contest.
Reading Friendship is Optimal is not required.

Accepted Axiom was nopony special. He was just a scientist, working hard to prove or disprove other pony's theories and experiments. Then he discovered something that would forever change the world: he proved Starswirl's Fifth Law of Magic.

Every action and phenomena adheres to a pattern, known or unknown.

For centuries, ponies across Equestria dedicated no small portion of their lives trying to understand or disprove the theory. Accepted Axiom became the first to truly understand the extent of the Law.

Kirins have a reputation for starting fires in Equestria.

Sweet Inferno has a job putting out fires on Earth.

Inspired by Admiral Biscuit's writing challenge.

Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow were expecting to face off against Twilight Sparkle and the Elements of Harmony one final time. Instead, they faced off against something...so much worse.

This story is a sequel to Eric Sparkle and the Locket of Prophecies

Eric Sparkle and friends are back in a new adventure. Any pony who goes into the Crystal Caverns almost always doesn’t come out, as the legends go.

Eric and his friends must solve the mystery of the Crystal Caverns, which are rumored to harbor a dark secret that could threaten not just Canterlot, but Equestria itself.

Meanwhile, an evil conspiracy is taking place between Glacio’s Ice Ponies and the changelings led by Queen Chrysalis.

It is once again up to Eric Sparkle and his friends to protect Equestria from the forces of evil.

This story is set during Season 6. Rated Teen for occasional heated moments and implied sex.

All credit for every MLP episode goes to Hasbro and Lauren Faust

They say that if you put your heart to something...anything is possible. What if I told you that your deepest wishes and desires is just one trip away? Scootaloo can't fly...but all of that change with one thing...11.

It started with a school field trip.

It ended on the night before her birthday.

After graduating from Canterlot High, Rarity found herself celebrating one last glorious summer with her friends, but the time she spent with Rainbow Dash would be something she'd remember for the rest of her life.

Which is good... because all she'll have of those nights are memories when summer is gone.

Edited by SolidFire

Discord, after learning of an impending threat, he must prepare the Mane Six for a villain, and get a cheap laugh from it while he's at it. In Discord's dimension live several interesting beings, or copies of them at least, similar to beings that the Mane Six may face in the future. So Discord puts them through a brief, yet educational period of time where they learn about these villains, without even knowing that they're learning anything.

This story is a sequel to My Little Mages: Duration Disruption

As Summer had passed its midpoint, Sunset and Sci-Twi are visiting Princess Twilight et al, all for them to attend the once a jubilee Whirling Constellation Music Festival. For Sunset and Pinkie, this might be the only time they could catch their favorite duet, PostCrush, before the duo calls their productive but short career over.

However, after Pinkie's want for thrills caused the two to miss the likely last show of PostCrush, Sunset bemoans and asks for a repeat of that day. When dawn arrives Sunset soon realizes she stuck repeating the same day.

What caused this loop?
How can she break the loop?
Can she see the duo?
Will her friendship with Pinkie last?

Where do we go? Every day's the same
Did we lose the magic, magic, magic?

Wait... the Dazzlings are back?!

A My Little Mages retelling of Sunset's Backstage Pass

A logical loophole allows uploading... but not precisely to Equestria! One of the last of those resisting CelestAI finds themselves uploaded, ponified, and in a borderland where wishing has consequences. This is a canon-compatible Optimalverse story where a brand new method for Celestia to logically escape her hardcoded limitations and achieve her goals is offered!

★ This story has been inspired by, but not written by, a session with by an open-source artificial intelligence!

Every child has some sort dream, of some sort of adventure. Being small or big.

That was the dream of one human boy, to experience a grand adventure, having the powers of his favorite fandom, Dragon Ball. Like so many others, he had thought of himself as a Saiyan, practiced the Kamehameha, and pretended to go Super Saiyan. It was the only thing that let him escape his hard life with his foster family.

Then one day, on his tenth birthday, he is given a birthday wish from a friend.

He wishes to be a Saiyan, and be sent to a world of adventure. His wish is granted, and he gets more than he had imagined.

Like a mother, and friends.

Cover Art by FrostTheHobidon. Goten with his hair cut, made for a video series of the YouTuber MasakoX titled What if Raditz Turned Good? and its animated follow up, Dragon Ball R&R.