At the end of the Accord arc, Starlight Glimmer managed to save herself and convince Accord to change back into Discord. But what if she had chosen to save another pony, one much closer to Discord?

Day Six of #FluttercordWeek2022: Alternative Ending

She's been all he can think about for weeks now. Try as he might, he can't get her out of his head. The mighty Rockhoof is in love. And not with just anypony, but with his fellow pillar in Mage Meadowbrook.

So it is that the pillar of strength sees fit to confess his feelings to the pillar of healing. A task easier said than done with how busy Meadowbrook is. But he has to do it!

As for Meadowbrook, she wonders why Rockhoof is acting so unusual around her. And she'll be surprised when she learns the reason behind his behavior.

Equestria is an old nation, and one that has had the luxury of the same, immortal, regime for centuries. While this has given them unprecedent stability, especially in a land that seeks to throw a world-ending threat at them every other Tuesday, it does come with a tendency for the rulers to not so much repeal laws as just ignore them and act as if they've been done away with already.

Most of the time, this works out just fine. Until another immortal--such as, say, a starving royal changeling looking for somepony to help her regain her strength--remembers these laws and invokes them to use to their own advantage. By arriving at Twilight Sparkle's castle and declaring herself a member of Twilight's royal harem.

And she's just the first.

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Scorpan, a gargoyle whose name is spoken throughout myths and legends, goes through another lonely day in the decrepit kingdom he called home. Why did he chose to stay there?

Well, it never mattered then, so why should it matter now?

Written for the No Dialogue Contest

Cover art by Huussii

In the aftermath of the Fall Formal, Sunset Shimmer has fallen. Her power in Canterlot High is gone, and she's been exposed for the monster that she is. With nowhere else to go and nothing she can do, she retreats to where she's hidden herself since arriving in the human world, a realm that links Canterlot High and Equestria. But she isn't the only one to know about this realm, on either side, and perhaps with a little help from her new friends and her old mentor, she can find it in her to rise again.

Cover Art by Alyssa Hartwick.

As much as she'd hate the comparison, Tempest Shadow has a lot in common with an Ursa Major: Incredibly powerful, incredibly dangerous, and incredibly easy-going if left to their own devices. After establishing herself in the Crystal Empire as a ranger, she was happy to spend her days on routine patrols and settling minor kerfuffles along the imperial frontier.

Then somepony had to go and poke the bear.

An entry in the May 2025 Pairing Contest. References events in issues #67 & #68 of the IDW Friendship is Magic main line, along with issue #4 of the movie prequels. All relevant details are mentioned in-story. Preread by Crack-Fic Casey.

It had been a simple, simple question. A natural one, even. One she was surprised she'd never asked before. So naturally, once she'd realised that she'd never asked it, Twilight Sparkle had to do the most logical thing and ask.

In her, relatively speaking, not too short life, she'd always thought that no question wasn't meant to be asked. No answer, no matter how life changing it could be, should have not been given. Truth was a principle above the needs of the individuals, and it was always the right thing to know more of it.

It was in those spirits that she went to Celestia and asked that questions. And once she received her answer she realised she'd been wrong. Very, very, very wrong.

A young alicorn, alone in the darkness. A unicorn, frozen in terror as her kingdom falls. They are millennia apart, and yet they are together.

An entry for FOME's Imposing Sovereigns III contest, with the prompt Cadence / Perseverance - though it could just as easily be Amore / Perseverance.

After leaving Ponyville, Tempest Shadow's travels have led her to settle down near the edge of the Crystal Kingdom - for now, anyway. She currently works at the Arctic Patrol office with her old-yet-new friend Glitter Drops. Together, they keep an eye on the border of the kingdom and look out for ponies living in the tundra of the Northern Wastes. It's a sedate and oftentimes lonely sort of place, but Tempest doesn't mind - in fact, she thinks it suits her.

This fragile peace is disrupted when a local pony complains about some sort of prank being pulled on them. When Tempest investigates, she's confronted with something much more concerning - and annoying - than she could have anticipated.

They were born from the depths, from rot and decay, from a dead tree in the mud.

It is in charge of caring for the smaller ones. For ensuring the hive lives and thrives.

And now, this creature is going to meet a certain pony princess for the first time.