Hope.

Even an ounce of it can make the hardest Journey it's own reward.

Yzma freed Cozy Glow from turning to stone, and now they're all up trying to get the formula of friendship just as Starlight, Trixie, Spike, Discord, Pooh and friends, Kuzco, Pacha, Fromhand and Simon saw it. They tried to take it, but it disappeared. Now they're putting a team together to find some way to get back the formula.

Only someone who stole the formula at the journey to the real world must stop it. And even Sunset, and the Equestria girls from CHS, Capper, Celaeno and her crew and Skystar came to get the formula back too and restore everything of Equestria, Disney and Pixar.

While on a visit to Labyrinth, the land of the minotaurs, Twilight hopes to convince the King to have a minotaur attend the School of Friendship. The King is against this and denies her. Still, Twilight won’t give up so easily. She reluctantly accepts to join the King to attend the Arena with him so she can have his ear.

It’s there Twilight finds out there is a heavily scarred bat-pony among the minotaurs fighting in the Arena. The minotaurs call her the unusual name Cathwulf and has their respect.

Believing this bat-pony may be the link on making friends with the minotaurs, Twilight requests to bring Cathwulf back to Equestria and teach her the magic of friendship. Hopefully, Twilight can reform Cathwulf and with Cathwulf’s notoriety, she can show the Minotaurs the path to a better life.

The King allows this, but has an ulterior motive. For he believes from Cathwulf’s severe brain damage from fighting, inability to speak and a predatory nature makes her immune to Twilight’s “brainwashing”. Making her the perfect candidate to carry out her King’s orders to kill Twilight.

However, Cathwulf may be more broken than the King and Twilight realize for either of their plans to work.

This story is a sequel to The Trials Of The Elements

Valiant has disappeared. As if that was not bad enough, now the other stallions have to meet the mares they are supposed to protect and all of them need to find their wayward friend. It is up to all of his friends to find him and bring him back, but something dark has awoken in his old town and it threatens all of Equestria. Join us in the conclusion of this exciting saga as we see the work of The Elements Of Equestria.

Note: I wrote this story just after season 3 finished, so there are some significant deviations from the show.

Cover Image is Sea Blue.

Side story to United We Stand

Joint Task Force officers Jasmine and Camila stand guard within a checkpoint protecting the nearby city of Bunker Hill from the "Dark Zone". Night has almost come and they are awaiting for the night shift to relieve them from a particularly mundane and monotonous day. However this day in the Commonwealth would not turn out to be so dull.

Homo Sapiens are the rarest species on the planet of Equus.

Although they lack the ability to use magic and they are physically weaker than other races, they hold mental capabilities that far surpass any other species, which cause them to be viewed as major catalyst for societal, cultural, and technological advancements.

As a result, they are often considered valuable and highly sought after creatures by rulers, nobles, and entire nations looking to improve their political stance on the global stage.

In essence, the ideas that Humans are able to generate in their heads, are equal to having a walking, talking, gold mine.

So when a human foreign exchange student, sent to study at Twilight's School of Friendship by the Yakyakistan royal family, is bullied by his peers to the point that he runs away; things quickly spiral out of control for the ponies as it sparks an international crisis between Equestria and Yakyakistan that threatens to unravel the very political order of the entire world.

With the clock slowly ticking for Equestria to find the Human before it is too late to repair its relationship with Yakyakistan, and other nations eagerly eyeing the opportunity to swoop in and take advantage of the situation, Princess Twilight reunites with old friends and uses everything at her disposal to insure that she gets the Human back before it causes irreversible harm to the world of peace and harmony that she has spent so many years trying to build.

But unbeknownst to her and everypony else in Equestria, the search for the missing human will uncover an ancient secret lurking in the Everfree Forest that will change Equus forever and reveal a dark forgotten chapter in Equestrian history.

With so much information lost to the murkiness of time, Princess Twilight will be forced to confront the only two remaining ponies on the entire planet who might have answers, and convince them to come out of retirement in order to help understand the full extent of the situation that she and the rest of Equestria has inherited.

With everything that transpires, it leaves the ponies with several questions...

How will Princess Twilight, her friends, and all the ponies of Equestria, come to view their country after they come face to face with the sins of their ancestors?

Are the creatures of Equus really as loving and tolerating to each other as they always thought they were?

What was the full extent of consequences that came as a result of Celestia banishing Nightmare Moon, so many years ago?

And most important of all:

Is the magic of Friendship and Love powerful enough to dispel a grudge and resentment that has lingered for more than a thousand years?

(The story takes place 15 years after Celestia and Luna retire and contains some romantic elements despite me running out of tags)

26 year old Atlas is physically and mentally scarred from a life hard lived on the other side of the bridge in South Canterlot. A survivor and a fighter who's only ever tried to do the right thing, Atlas has long since resigned himself to living the rest of his days without ever experiencing true friendship.

Meanwhile, in Canterlot proper, the Main 7 are now in college and living together, ignorant to the struggles and conditions of South Canterlot.

When Atlas and the girls cross paths, no one's life will be the same.

Nora Caldwell, a skilled blacksmith’s apprentice from the fantasy world of Valthorne, dreams of forging legendary artifacts worthy of her mentor’s legacy. But when she buys a mysterious, rune-etched hammer at a festival, her life is upended. A blinding light and a divine voice hurl her through a void of stars and fire, landing her in Equestria, a fractured, medieval realm where magic runs wild and pony kingdoms wage endless wars over unstable ley lines. Clad in enchanted silver armor and wielding Gorathar’s Hammer, imbued with the power of her world’s god of craftsmanship, Nora awakens as a paladin with a destiny she never sought.

In this chaotic Equestria, the Elements of Harmony are lost relics, the princesses mere legends, and monstrous creatures stalk the wilds. Guided by the fiery pegasus captain Stormblade and joined by a ragtag band a cunning unicorn thief, a grizzled earth pony blacksmith, and a shy pegasus healer Nora must navigate a land of scheming pony lords, rogue magic, and a shadowy force draining the world’s life. As she uncovers the hammer’s connection to the Elements, Nora grapples with her newfound powers, her doubts, and the weight of a prophecy that could either save Equestria or shatter it.

A Displaced Story.

During the search for an artifact powerful enough to help her defeat the ponies, one of Chrysalis's scouts brings the Crystal Mirror. Not knowing what it really does, she activates it and is sent to the world of CoD Modern Warfare, where she accidentally saves a main character, foils terrorist plots and gets her human disguise blown. Not exactly in that order.

Before leaving, she selects Pharynx as the temporary ruler, but after their Queen doesn't return in a few days the changelings start to worry, and Pharynx is forced to open negotiations with Equestria in the hope of getting the ponies's help to get Chrysalis back.

Spike has caught the attention and affection of a lost changeling with a unique quirk. With every form she takes comes a new personality, and all of them have their eyes fixed on him.