Recently rewritten. Contains occasional adult humor and violence.
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On a request from Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the mane six explore an abandoned mansion located deep in the woods. While doing so, they unwittingly stumble across an enchanted mirror that scrambles their DNA and pops out three brand new bouncing baby ponies. Hilarity and drama ensue as the mane six must cope with being suddenly thrust into motherhood, as well as protect their new foals from a dark god that wishes to use them for his own sinister gain.

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Fanart:
The three foals. by Freefraq on Deviantart.

Meet Spike, Canterlot's greatest private investigator. How great? You've probably never heard of him. But he's had hundreds of cases, big and small. He's tracked down missing ponies, engaged in shoot-outs with smugglers, and almost single-handedly took down the Pastia, the biggest gang of organized crime to date (lawyers, politicians, and academics aside).

But he's put the whole P.I. game behind him, and he's ready to settle into a quiet retirement (or as quiet a retirement you can get in Ponyville). That is until a familiar mare pays him a visit about her sister's disappearance. Armed with with only a loaded CARA. millimeter and his years of experience and cynicism, he calls upon an old friend, a certain wall-eyed pegasus. He soon finds himself embroiled in one of his toughest cases to date, one that has the fate of Equestria resting on the shoulders of everyone's favorite purple and green dragon.

Author's Note: I suffer from an advanced case of Footnote Fever, and so I wrote it with footnotes. I am since discovering that every website doesn't have a good way of doing them. So I'm just making them silvery and putting them right after the paragraph they were in. Sorry 'bout that.

My name is Minuette, but a privileged few know me as Agent Colgate, Dental Practitioner. We hide in the shadows, ever watching out for pony's teeth. When cavities strike, we are there. Saving Equestria, one toothache at a time.

Ditzy explains to Twilight her feelings about the moon, but somepony else happens to overhear. It's funny how our words can help someone without even trying.

Cover art by me.

After a long day of delivering mail, Derpy relaxes on a cloud on her way home to Ponyville.

As read byThe Living Library Player Society! (YouTube)
Also a reading by Yoshi Reads/CHYD 2.0
And, Pony&Wolf Productions

Derpy drowns her sorrows after getting some bad career news... but when one door closes, another opens.

_{One of Equestria Daily's 22 Best Fanfics to Read for Derpy Day, March 2021}

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Time Turner is honored with the charge of overseeing Ponyville's timed dancing event, and has always taken this responsibility seriously in the past. But this time a certain grey-coated pegasus has caught his eye.

A prompt given to me by: John H.

This story is a sequel to Dinky Who

Pinkie Pie meets Doctor Whooves for the first time. He cleverly lies and says his name is Time Turner and he fixes clocks. He's surprised when she approaches him with a pocket watch...wait...those marks...is that Gallifreyan?
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Author's note: It's best to be a Whovian if you are to read this. While I try to write this as simple to understand as possible, it just makes the story a better read.

Also, this Doctor Whooves is based on The Doctor from the Doctor Whooves and Assistant series. This point is after Appleoosa and prior to the events of Wrong Way Backwards. Familiarity with source material will make the story better.
Thank you.

After Derpy is late home several nights in a row, Dinky makes a sad discovery about why her mother works so hard. Being the clumsiest pony in town can be a costly problem, but Dinky wants to help fix things for her Mommy.

Some might think Twilight Velvet is the luckiest mother in the world. Yet she hasn't seen her daughter since her little girl was crowned princess. Velvet isn't even royalty herself. How can she be a mother to someone so radically different? So far away? So unreal?

Worse, it's now Mare's Day - a day for celebrating motherhood - and the situation is so bizarre that Velvet is in the odd position of having to go visit her little princess in Ponyville, by appointment, to bring the flowers that Twilight will then give back to her as a Mare's Day gift.

Twilight Sparkle's mother, they call her. Always and always. Princess this and princess that. Wouldn't it just be nice if someone looked at her life from any angle other than "Twilight Sparkle's mother"? For a day, at least. A few hours. Anything.

So who should she stumble across in Ponyville but the oddest and most extraordinary mother of all: Derpy, a mail mare capable of looking from all kinds of angles indeed. Sometimes in ways other ponies can scarcely imagine...

Written for the May 2020 Pairing Contest. Full details can also be found here.