This is a one-shot, off the cuff little story written for the sheer amusement of it. The mane six prepare for the shooting of their next episode and the gloves come off. Totally intended to be silly and written as a 1 hour challenge to myself.

This story is a sequel to Alternate Beginnings: Year Three

In the fourth year of Doug's arrival in Equestria, Applejack and Pinkie Pie expand the members of Herd Apple, with Fluttershy apprehensive but hopeful with her choice to be next. Rainbow Dash's venture with Sunset Shimmer takes a heavy toll, the pegasus now on the road to recovery.

Reading of previous books is not required, though some events from earlier years may be referenced.

Set Approximately four years before the events of MLP:FiM

Sex tag is for relationships between human and ponies (no clop)

Previous Year:
Alternate Beginnings: Year Three

Continued In:
Alternate Beginnings: Year Five

Your Hearth's Warming gift is the ultimate way to show your loved ones how much you care about them, so it's absolutely, positively important that you make sure it's the best it can be! At least, that's what Pinkie Pie says, and who is Rainbow Dash to argue with that logic? If you love your friends, you should go out of your way to make sure that their gifts are super special.

But when Rainbow starts feeling like her gift to Rarity might not be as perfect as she thought it was, she begins to worry that Rarity might get the wrong idea. Twilight's Hearth's Warming Eve party is tonight, so she'd better hurry and find something special!

To help Pound and Pumpkin cake get to sleep, Pinkie tells them fairytales with her own special little twists. Join Applejack as she journeys up the beanstalk on an adventure with a giant, a tuba, and a talking tree

Each has had their own hardship to face. Each has an attachment they need to keep. And each has only one night left to make sure their feelings are known.

Twilight Sparkle is leaving for a year, to travel throughout the world and study with masters of magic scattered across Equestria. Spike, after an accident that put him in a strange position, has had to choose between his oldest friends, or the ones he's made over the years. Pinkie Pie is reacting more violently than any of her friends thought she would. And Rarity, all the while, is trying to deal with reemerging feelings that she thought she'd not needed.

With one night before Twilight's departure, the four try to make their last night together matter, each in their own way. And in the end, they will come out of it changed for the rest of their lives.

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My one shot at a one-shot (oh god the puns!). I hope this is as good as I want it to be, which is selfish, but that's what this is about.

I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, yada yada yada, etcetera etcetera. I think you get the point, so I'll stop wasting your time and let you move on to the story.

Pinkie should really start reading signs more often. Anti-Earth Pony meetings are no joke.

Rarity and Pinkie’s whirlwind relationship was thought long dead and buried. But on the fifteenth anniversary of the spark that brought them together, the opportunity is handed to them once again

But can scarred hearts work together, and can they help to heal each others?

Coverart made for me by Jeanify on DA
Edited by Echo-off
Co-written with RC2101_Copey

Twilight decided that her time had come: after years of only owning books and reading books, she was finally going to write a book of her own.

Too bad her friends are more interested in getting alcohol poisoning than helping her with her research.

Entry for The Comedy (Is Serious Business) Contest under the prompt: We Learned Something, Alright.

Fluttershy just can't seem to get her wings down today and has to get food delievered for her animals. The worst part about it? She has to walk through the town with wings fully erect and nopony is leaving her alone.

This is rated for everypony becuase it's not really that bad. This is in no way meant to be taken seriously. I think that everyone who reads this can read the word "wingrection" without thinking that this needs to be a teen fiction. There are one or two inappropriate moments in the story, but nothing horrible. /)

Rainbow Dash has been suffering from recurring nightmares. Each time she closes her eyes, the dreams get more and more horrific. So far she's been able to hide them from most of her friends, but that all changes when she wakes up screaming in Sweet Apple Acres. Now, it's a race against time, with Dash's very life and sanity on the line. But what is causing her horrible night terrors, and how can they be stopped? It's going to take a bit of Pinkie Pie ingenuity, a little Zebra and Alicorn magic, and a very special kind of loyalty to save the cerulean speedster. A kind of loyalty most ponies know, as love.

Featuring eventual PinkieDash, RariJack, and a special surprise.

Inspired by this image by Don-KomandoRR and colored by AtomicGreymon