Twilight Sparkle discovers that the alternate timelines created by Starlight Glimmer in her misguided attempt at revenge did not, in fact, disappear when the original timeline was restored. Instead, they persisted as separate, parallel universes.

Never one to leave a job unfinished, she decides to employ the magic of friendship to restore those universes to a more harmonious state.

She begins with Nightmare Moon.

This story is the first in a series. The other stories can be found below.

1. For Want of a Horseshoe <-- you are here
2. A Big Brother's Duty
3. Healing

Cover art provided by the excellent Sini.

Rainbow has been feeling uncharacteristically down about herself lately. The ponies she's been interested in seem to gravitate towards more feminine mares, and she's convinced that if she wants to find somepony to love, she needs to work towards that ideal. In her efforts to improve her chances of finding love, she finds a book full of questionable spells that infects the mind of anyone who reads from its aging pages. She has no idea what the book may hold, but it promises to give her what her heart desires most.

Will her friends figure out what's happening in time to help, or will they lose the Dash they know and love forever?

Sweet, demure Fluttershy has been keeping a secret from her friends. Whenever Fluttershy finds that she has an afternoon to herself, she indulges in a guilty pleasure that she fears could change the way her friends see her forever if discovered.

So what will happen when Rainbow Dash and Gilda stumble upon her in the middle of it?

A bad dream leaves Rainbow Dash nervous to be around her close friend Pinkie Pie, will her seemingly irrational fear end their friendship?

Alternate ending of Cupcakes,

Trixie steps in some poison joke, to slightly humorous effect.

Meteors fall. There's a blaze of fire across the sky, a moment of impact and since everypony was lucky, nopony was hurt. It means there's a meteor embedded into the soil of the Acres and for just about everywhere else in Equestria, that zero-injuries landing would pretty much be the end of it.

But it's Ponyville. And for Applejack, the meteor was the easy part.

(Part of the Triptych Continuum, which has its own TVTropes page and FIMFiction group. New members and trope edits welcome.)

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Rainbow Dash usually had her head in the clouds, but she always thought she knew up from down. When an incredible revelation sends her life into a tailspin, she finds herself at the mercy of emotions she never thought she had, faced with hard questions and impossible choices.

Life is full of changes, but none of them are quite as disturbing as having a horn pop out of your skull…

Original Lauren Faust canon; non-alicorn Twilight, non-alicorn Cadance, no ascension. Diverges from the cartoon after season 3, with nods to later continuity wherever possible. Contains mature themes.

Fluttershy’s got a teesy-weensy bit of a secret. Nothing too bad, mind you. She’s not a psychotic killer, and she definitely doesn’t do anything…dirty. Unfortunately, what she does still teeters on the rather…frowned-upon side of the law. And to make matters worse, with the Royal Guards clamping down, she needs somepony to help her out.

And that’s where Rainbow Dash comes in. Of course, soon she’ll realize doing a friend favor sometimes isn’t all that easy. Especially when that friend runs an illegal animal smuggling operation out of the country.

But hey, if she gets caught…she’ll still look pretty darn good doing it.

This story is completely driven by user comments.
You wake up to find yourself stranded on nothing but a cloud, high in the air with nobody but Rainbow Dash.

I will be checking up on this story every few days or so to see what you all are saying. Whatever comments you make, regardless of how silly, stupid, or insane it is. I will make it happen.

The author is part of and approved the related story. See the first story here.

When Rainbow Dash and her friends get lost in the human world, they must find a way out. While alone in the forest, however, Rainbow discovers a child, who doesn't have the best home life