To love somepony is easy. To let them into your heart, somepony you care for, somepony you want to protect, somepony you would do anything for. Letting them in is easy. The pain comes when you lose them. This is something Applejack is not unaware of. However, after suffering yet another crippling loss of life to one of her own, the well-known farm pony begins to lose herself, falling into a pit of despair, trapping herself in a cycle of self-blame, anger, and agony. Watching her friend do this to herself is unbearable for Rarity, who makes her way to the farm determined to try and help the friend who doesn’t want it. But she has to try. Because, isn’t that what friends are for?

Fusion Magic. A seldom used spell, since the result ALWAYS has a mind of her own. Fine Apple was conjured to do one job and then dissolve. She was NOT conjured to socialize while working. But hey, its not like a fusion has to stick around and face the consequences of their own actions.

This is an entry in the Snippet Series, an anthology of old oneshots that I (and my good buddy Str8aura) wrote based around interesting pics I found. New ones will be posted every other Thursday for the foreseeable future.

Come one, come all. It is The Great and Powerful Trixie's greatest show ever!

Teaching a small classroom of fillies magic can't be that hard, right?

New and improved Cover Art from some nice Anon in the Draw Thread.

Something's going on. First, Applejack comes in Thursday and says we should go to Manehattan this weekend, then the second she steps hoof off the train, she starts dressing up, drops the accent, and says we should take in a show. I'm not sure what's going on, I think it's got something to do with her snooty aunt and uncle, but whatever it is, I'm going to get to the bottom of it, or my name isn't Rainbow Dash.

Disclaimer: To readers not familiar with the Orchestra-verse, Sweetie and Scootaloo are the leads in their own story, and they've come a long way from their show counterparts. This story is perfectly accessible without reading those works, just know they'll be behaving differently than they would in the show (and are substantially older, though that's a bit more obvious in the story).

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As always, special thanks go out to Seether00 and EquesTRON for wading into the weeds of my drafts and hacking away at all the typos, grammar editors, and just plain bad decisions. My stories would be all the poorer without them.

Rainbow Dash finally takes notice of Scootaloo and brings her up under her own wing. With Rainbow Dash's new support, Scootaloo learns to be more than she had ever dreamed. But will the relationship she has just gained turn out to be more than they can handle? She quickly learns that not everyone's true self can be perceived.

Sweetie Belle has a problem, a rather tall problem.

Thanks to my wonderful editors CartsBeforeHorses and MarineMarksman for helping me on the story.

Applejack awakens with minor memory loss and hears soft laughter in the woods... Everypony is acting weird around her... avoiding her and even seeming afraid... why?

Cover by, http://gurugrendo.deviantart.com/

Rarity has been designing and making dresses for decades. It was what she was meant to do with her life, and she knew that from the moment she got her cutie mark. But time wears on us all and Rarity knew in her golden years that she would need some assistance to keep her creativity flowing... but was it worth the cost?

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Full cast audiobook can be found here

Artwork by MindlessSketching

This story is a sequel to When The Mare Comes Around

Rae Jay, the merged personality of Rachel Shelton and Applejack Apple, finally catches a break. After surviving all the attempts on Rachel's life, she's on her way to reunite with her friends in New York City, this time with governmental support. She's going to get a little shut-eye, reconnect with her friends, then take on Discord and bring Harmony to Earth.

Except, it can't ever go smooth.

One phone call later, and Rae Jay is up to another batch of thrilling heroics, deep in an enemy compound, facing down a small army of trigger-happy, pony-hating bigots, all to save her friends. With only the Element around her neck and a fangirl CIA agent at her back, Rae Jay's odds aren't looking too good. And that's just a warm-up before taking on a mad god of chaos, and who knows what tricks he has up his scaly sleeve.

Why can't it ever go smooth?

Conclusion of the PEV - PonyEarthverse canon.

Princess Celestia has failed.

A thousand years have passed since the greatest tragedy of her long life. A thousand years to search for a way to unlock the truth of the Elements of Harmony, and free her sister from madness. A thousand years wasted.

Now, as the sun sets on the eve of the longest day of the thousandth year, it falls to her to face the darkness once more. Assailed by doubts and fears, Celestia is certain of only one thing: that the sun will rise again.

Even if it means the moon must fall.

Set in the same timeline as the war with Sombra in the Season 5 finale.