Twilight Sparkle has found herself feeling a bit lonely in Canterlot, even with Spike for company. And her first friendship council isn't scheduled to meet for at least another week. What's a princess to do?

Why, invite some of her other friends over for a sleepover at the castle of course. Twilight reaches out to her old Canterlot friends, offering them an opportunity to spend the night in the royal palace with her. They all accept.

Even though Twilight is the supreme ruler now, she still wants to make time for her friends and catch up. The rest of the group, meanwhile, are curious to know just what it's like to have an entire castle and its staff under your command.

Featured on October 3rd, 2013.

Princess Luna has returned to the Nightmare Night celebration and wishes everypony to have a good time. Unfortunately, nopony seems to want to be around her. It's only when she explains her concerns to Twilight Sparkle that she finds out the real reason why this is happening.

Not even the best dentist in all of Equestria will find it easy to freshen up the breath of a pony who hasn't brushed their teeth in 1000 years.

Done for Oneshotober, even though this idea's been floating around in my head for *way* longer than that.

Equestrian Listening Outpost Hotel Echo One-One (ELO HE1-1) is tasked with monitoring the sensor array located on the eastern end of Mount Massive and investigating any anomalous readings or activation of any sensor within the area.

Sofas and Quills Speedwriting First Place entry. Written in the span of an hour with the prompt 'Stepping through the door.'

Pre-read by Seer.

Edited by EverfreePony.

And thanks to all you fine folks who read the original edition during the contest.

Entry for the 2020 May Pairings Contest.

"So, my new sis-in-law. I've been meaning to ask you this: what happened to the three unicorns that tried to stop us when we left the caverns?" asked Twilight
"You mean the bridesmaids?" asked Cadance.
"Yeah."
"Well as I recall, they jumped after the bouquet that I threw into..."
the realization dawned on the newlywed Princess
"The depths of the caverns." finished the lavender mare, who also had the sudden epiphany.
"Oh. Crap."

Entrepreneurs of the modern era, Click and Clack hope to revolutionize the market of beverages by introducing their newest discovery. Coffee. Dreams of becoming rich already stuck in their minds, they find themselves opening their first shop in Ponyville, a quaint town that would be the start of their business' success. Unluckily for them, they haven't met the residents of the small town. They also didn't account for any attachments or entanglements, let alone anything other than business and profit. And they certainly didn't expect to be in any danger.

Minuettes feelings on being called a Dentist and being named after that Celestial damned toothpaste brand, but that's not her name nor her job, what and why do they call her Colgate when she is Minuette? Even back to her first days of school.

A mysterious series of storms have been rolling through the desert settlements of the Equestrian south. Every time a storm passes a town, the population decreases slightly. According to eyewitnesses, these storms are alive. Small black tendrils of clouds slither out of the dark fog that rolls over the towns and latches onto ponies. Once they're dragged within its embrace, they disappear. So far, no victims have been heard from. Princess Celestia sends one of her best investigators from the Equestrian Royal Guard to find out what is going on. With the help of a local time keeper, a musician, and a traveling petrologist, he will set about trying to stop these storms before everypony is dragged away into the abyss.

Some events depicted in show episodes may be referenced. However, the events portrayed in Episodes 25 and 26, Twilight's Kingdom Part 1 and 2 will not be mentioned. In essence, this story, and the universe it and my other stories take place in, occur between Season 4 Episode 24 and 25.

Adventure: For traveling to multiple locations.
Alternate Universe: For content used in previous stories that include, but is not limited to, Airships and the creation of a non-cannon nation to the north of Equestria known as Glacies, that may be brought up in this one. Note, that it will not interfere with the continuity of this story if you haven't read my previous stories before.

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Twilight finds a strange object far above Equestria. With the other princesses she created a vessel to traverse the luminiferous aether and investigate it. Twinkleshine, Moondancer, and Minuette are eager to prove themselves, and find a place aboard the ship to steer it to its destination. When they board the vessel, they find things are not safe, nor are they familiar.

Colgate is Ponyville's friendly dentist, the one everypony thinks is a sweet, caring pony with that beaming smile. Don't let that smile and those caring eyes fool you though. Deep down Colgate is irritated and holds a lot of resentment towards some of Equestria's residents. While her views may surprise you, she has damn good reasons for harboring them.

Rated Teen due to some profane language.

Another long night, and not much sleep to show for it, Berry Punch did not plan on doing anything much like the last few months. Staring at the ceiling or walls is better than thinking after all. Even if her thoughts have a difficult time leaving her alone. But a knock on her door from a concerned neighbor changes her life in an unexpected way.

Some Warnings: Scenes depicting alcohol usage and implied abuse, and talk/implications of (but no depictions) of suicide. Chapter specific warnings will be added here as chapters are posted.

Picture source: https://x.com/EscapistTwi/status/1333519380634800128#m. If this image isn't properly credited to the right artist, please let me know so I can fix the link!