This story is a sequel to All-American Girl

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This law governs not only physics, but politics as well.

This is the story of one of those reactions, when the need to do something -- anything -- leads people astray.

Not every idealist is a hero. Not every villain is selfish. Not every cause is just . . . save in the hearts of those who fight for it.

This story is in an episodic format and takes place at various points in the timeline of AAG.

Cover image created by GIULIO.

Twice, they denied her a great victory. Twice, she was left humiliated and beaten by pony hooves. But if there's one lesson Queen Chrysalis surely learned, it was revenge. If there was a second, it was where to stick the dagger in a loving mother.

But there are some things even she can't foresee.

Thanks to RBDash47, Cynewulf, Timaeus, and Alto for enabling the brainworms that led to this.
Preread by Cursori, VioletRoseIntheRain, and Cynewulf.
Artwork by skippyrip and can be found here.

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.

I hope you all enjoy this. If there are any errors point them out so I can fix them! Please rate the story and leave a comment on what you thought of it. Constructive criticism is welcome!

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.

Featured on 4/14! Thanks everyone!

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.