Twilight Sparkle has decided that she wants to be friends with Starswirl the Bearded.

Friends... with benefits.

And now Starlight has to hear her entire plan to do it, no matter if she wants to or not.

Written for the Pillars Shipping Contest!

Featured 7/8/2021!

This story is a sequel to The Pony Ghostbusters

Four months have passed since the Ghostbusters mission in Equestria. Now they must return to protect it from the ghost of Nightmare Moon who still desires to make nighttime eternal in the land. Will the boys and and ponies defeat this ghostly monster, or will all of Equestria fall into eternal darkness?

Continuation from The Pony Ghostbusters If you've not read it, then you will not understand this one.

When somepony announces that Princess Celestia has a cake addiction, she takes it about as well as can be expected.

She drowns her sorrows with cake.

Her sister decides it's time for an intervention and enlists the aid of the Bearers of Harmony.

Hilarity ensues.

(Story inspired by...well, actually, I don't know. It just popped into my head.)

It's tough to be young when growing up is all you're after.

You'll always want to reach for the sky, for that great big light above your head,

But as you are now, you just can't do it yet.

So you bide your time as the world opens up around you,

Watching and waiting, for that Star Overhead.

Growing up is hard.

However, thirteen-year-old filly Twilight Sparkle doesn’t quite understand that yet. Her life is a dull treadmill she can’t seem to get off of, as everything around her is shrouded by fog. Even when she looks up, the blue skies in Underhoof are always the same. Though, that all changes when she makes a simple wish upon a star at her best friend’s request. Life being hard is beaten into her head (quite literally) by a new force that changes everything in an electric and explosive fashion.

Star Overhead is a modern music video set to the soundtrack of life and sung by a filly who doesn’t understand the words. Things are unclear, the world won’t explain itself to you, and nopony understands anything.

The blue skies in Underhoof are always the same.

This story is heavily inspired by Fooly Cooly. For the best experience, please listen to the songs at the beginning of each chapter in the author's notes.

Now with a review!

=Based off the end scene of "The Last Roundup", MLP Season 2 Episode 14=

Y'know how Twilight tried to tell Dash she should go after Rarity and Pinkie after they got knocked out of the wagon? Dash's comment? "They knew what they were getting into!!"

So they got left to find thier own way home and Rarity was far from happy about it. On thier return, she storms over to give Dash a very large piece of her mind.

Yeahhhhhh...Dash really should have gone back.

Alternate ending for Magical Mystery Cure

All of the Mane Six become princesses.

Cover art byParfyWarfy

Rainbow Dash just wants a bottle of Dr. Pony from the vending machine. Is that too much to ask?

Discord, being the curious Spirit of Chaos he is, decides to bring in Jesus to explain what exactly Easter means. The answer is more surprising than you'd think.

Yes, a story about Jesus, chill out and roll with it.

Baking cakes is part of being Ponyville's Premiere Party Planner. It's a particularly important job when the cake is for frowny ponies, or the sort of folks who don't normally eat cake.

But it's something that Twilight Sparkle doesn't seem to understand. At least, if she understood, she probably wouldn't barge into Sugarcube Corner early in the morning, screaming about Changelings invading Equestria and covert smuggling rings and blah blah blah.

It wouldn't kill Twilight to show some decorum. She clearly needs to get her priorities in order.

EDIT: This is now the most likely candidate for the image source. Thanks to m2pt5 for the tip!

Stella finds a new world full of wonders, what starts as pure research becomes something life changing for her.
There are stories with characters dance around each other and finding each other just at the end of the story... this is not one of them. The focus is on their relationship.

"sex" tag because of all the sexual innuendo, without writing explicitly what they are doing.
There is now a mature version if you want explicit sex scenes. For science (mature version)

Picture made by the very talented PriDark (commission)