Discord discovers that he has feelings for the Princess of friendship, but he also discovers that something is missing. Sombra is still alive and resides in the Crystal Empire under the watchful eye of Cadence. Chrysalis is still out in the open but has lost her changeling army. Luna is getting strange and peculiar dreams, and Celestia goes missing So what does this all mean? When paths cross and fate has other plans then destiny, Twilight and Luna find themselves in new light of things, with darker consequences.
Things are not always as they seem. Secrets must be kept. Sacrifices must be made, and things will soon fall apart.

Rainbow Dash ,being awesome, flies faster than mach three and drives Queen Chrysalis into the ground and saves her friends.

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Twilight Sparkle is returning to the Crystal Empire for the one-year anniversary of Sombra's defeat. The whole kingdom is preparing to celebrate.

But four crystal ponies are preparing a different celebration. The pieces are moving, and their plot is almost complete – Lord Sombra's last, most faithful servants will have their revenge. Twilight Sparkle and all her filthy kin will die.

Now, in the final hours of their plan, something has gone terribly wrong. One of the four is a traitor. Everything is in jeopardy. And once again, the fate of an empire will be decided at the Gate of Heavenly Peace.

Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer are the only two living ponies in the world that can lay claim to one of Equestria's most prestigious titles: the protege of Princess Celestia, ruler of the land of Equestria and perhaps one of the most powerful magic users to ever walk the face of the planet.

However, they are not the first: since Equestria's medieval ages, Celestia has held pupils under her tutelage. Some of these pupils went on to do great things, while others fell prey to their own ambition and power, but even though those students have been dead for years, Celestia still remembers every name that came before.

Her reminiscing becomes more than memories, however, when her very first pupil shows up on the castle steps. One by one, Celestia's former students begin to appear in the prime of their youth, their minds seemingly leaving off right after their deaths. It's up to Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer to find out why these ponies have risen from the dead, and what they're being drawn to...

Rated T for sexual references, profanity and violence.

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Back from another military campaign, Captain Rainbow Dash is entrusted with a less-than-ideal squad to whip into shape. Arguably worse are the strange kidnappings, the interspecies conflicts, and her friend Fluttershy repeatedly getting into trouble.

Many of these so-called ponies believe they were the first to discover the land that is now known as Equestria. They were wrong, of course. Those idiotic Humans, inebriated Dwarves, and the pitiful vomit-inducing, tree hugging, frolicking Elves littered the landscape first all the while living their simple, boring lives. The ponies and the other smattering of races moved here over time from some other land. If they were still here, the various original races meeting the ponies would have made for a bit of a chaotic first contact considering they used dumber cousins of the ponies as labor and mounts. It's too bad that didn't happen, oh I could have enjoyed watching that carnage with a nice bowl of salamander eyeballs.

But, well, one or one-hundred powerful wizards attempting magic beyond their capabilities on magical artifacts beyond their comprehension tend to make things go... explodey. In a single snap of my claws the entire human race, and all of the other "intelligent" races as well, were simply gone. Vaporized in a magical wave of energy. The landscape left even more magically scarred than when the Tower Heart of the old Dark Tower went kaboom. We minions fled back to the Netherworld from whence we came and waited for the land to heal, and hopefully for some other race capable of thought to come knocking at its gates.

We waited a long time for that and now we should really get around to finding a new Master, none of the races showed any real promise so we need to do this ourselves. Giblet seems to have found something promising while digging around the cave of a local dragon (the dragons seem to have gotten smarter too), so I'll have to go give that a look-see and pray to Darkness nothing weird comes out of it.

But as I always say... Evil always finds a way.

-Gnarl, the Minion Master, on the origins of Equestria

This story is a sequel to Oh God They're Dead They're All Dead They're All Dead They're All Dead

Starlight found a spell in a spellbook, specifically a book from a certain dark unicorn of the north.

With determination in her heart and mind she knows she can not only cast it, but improve it to benefit Equestria.

A sanctioned prequel to a story that was really good, but left too open.
I'm honored to do this.

I used to live a hollow life until I met somebody more hollow than me.
The shreds of what she left behind patched the void in my heart.

When Nova finds herself in a place she thinks she knows, without memories of her past, how she got here, and even missing some vocabulary, she is understandably confused. When a creature that she knows, despite her memory loss, is not normal claims she's brought hell unto Equestria, she's even more confused. With his help though, she'll get to see how everything led up to this, what happened to her, and why she looks the way she does.

One thing is for sure: something is very wrong, and somepony needs to fix it. Not the Elements of Harmony though.

As of now, possibly permanently cancelled, but not deleted because I may redo it entirely.

On one dreadful night, in the middle of summer, the skies shattered, and a thousand bolts of light rained down from the heavens, laying waste to the land below.

The world five years later is a changed place. The massive loss of life from the 1996VG1 Ulysses asteroid sent the world into a shock and panic from which it has only just begun to recover from. Large nations, like Equestria, are quick to rebuild and recover. For those without deep pockets, however, times grow hard.

Griffonstone, a nation already falling to ruin before the disaster. Nationalism begins to rise in the Griffon Kingdom. They blame their leaders for not protecting them. They blame Equestria for not providing support. And most of all, they blame their neighbors for the failure of a pact between the nations of the world to build a weapon to defend themselves against the stars.

And so, with fury and speed never before seen in modern warfare, they Blitzkrieg across the continent, destroying all in their path.

Rainbow Dash signs up as a mercenary pilot for a backwater nation besieged by Griffon forces, desperate to get away from Equestria. With a wingman who would rather do his own thing than follow orders, and the might of the Griffon Air Force hunting them down, everything Rainbow Dash knows about fighting is thrown out and replaced with one simple realization.

There is only one ultimate rule in war-

SURVIVE.