It doesn't matter what a gift is. It's all in the presentation.

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A "non-entry" for https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1038499/dialogue-only-contest

I am not competing. Do not judge me. Or do, but not the story at least. Anyways, if you want to enter and actually compete, the rules are there and there's 175$ across three prizes (100, 50, 25) to be won. Good luck!

For every villain was somepony's hero ...

My entrance in the Dialogue Only Contest.

Technically a prequel to my other fic, The Twilight Prince: Redux, and uses common worldbuilding, but should be readable as a stand alone one-shot.

Herbie the love bug, Hera the modern VW Beetle, and Horace the Hate Bug, are sent to equestria after a mysterious portal whisks away all 3 of them. What will happen to these 3 bugs? Find out in this story "Adventures of a Love Bug".

p.s. this is inspired by Auditore 117's story "Herbie and Friends in Equestria".
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/411129/herbie-and-friends-in-equestria
Since it seems he will never get to continuing it, I decided to do it myself. Please don't comment about me stealing his Idea, I'm just doing it my own way.

This story is a sequel to The Pony Guard: Rainbow Rocks

It is time for the upcoming Friendship Games against their long time rivals, Crystal Prep Academy. But, when the Magic Mirror in Equestria begins acting strangely and traps Kion and Twilight at Canterlot High, the rest of the Lion Guard come on over in an effort to figure out what happened. Along the way, they meet up with Sunset Shimmer and the Rainbooms, who are also struggling to understand how the magical "pony-ups" work.

As if preparing for the games and trying to launch the investigation isn't enough, their discovery has come to them discover that the two curious also investigating the magic mystery happen to be both... Twilight Sparkle and Kion's alternate human forms.

In the battle of competition, who will win? Or will whatever strange magic flowing around will cause more problems and uncover something that might be too powerful and sinister for both the new Twilight and Kion to handle?

No outside help. Nopony knows where they are.

Just six friends using Brains, Hearts, Perseverance, Greed, Ingenuity...and Stubbornness.

Meh...they should be fine...

Princess Twilight Sparkle was just having her average day of meetings, studying and, of course, reading. Yet, the universe decided to make her day a lot more interesting. She must figure out how it works, or else her OCD might just kill her.