For centuries, the pegasi of Zephyr Heights could not fly. That didn’t stop some from trying.

CONTENT WARNING: This is a work of fiction. I do not condone suicide. If you are suicidal, or have serious concerns about your mental health, I advise you not to read this story.

Help is available. USA Suicide Prevention Helpline: 800-273-8255. Website.

My entry in the Ponyville Ciderfest 2023 anthology book, "Scattered Pages: Tales from the Book of All Stories."

An all-powerful book of destiny, the Book of All Stories, has had its pages scattered throughout time and space. Containing all the stories of ponydom (past, present, and future), whoever has a page of the book can rewrite history and reality at will. One of these pages has sent Zipp Storm back to the time when Princess Twilight still reigned. If she's ever to get home again, she needs to recover that page with the aid of Rainbow Dash and Smolder. If not, whoever comes across the page can alter reality as they please, to potentially disastrous results.

Maretime Bay has been blessed with a thick blanket of snow, and five ponies friends are outside enjoying the view. However, one prank by a pegasus sister is about to turn this nice stroll into something else.

Inspired by the fanart Snowball Prank Gone Wrong
By artist InuHoshi-to-DarkPen

Amazing reading done by StraightToThePointStudio here

Ivory Cedar, "Balloon Pony" as most of Maretime Bay knows him, isn't handling the aftermath of his protracted flight very well. Thankfully, Zipp Storm is there to look out for him.

Hitch thought that the end of his shift was going to be normal; clock out, head home, shower, and go to bed. That was until his childhood best friend, and three new best friends decided that he was going to come to the Brighthouse to hang out with them, using Pipp as a weapon to get Hitch to agree, knowing he had some sort of crush on her.

The sleepover part however, didn't exactly go as planned.

Professional Audio Reading done here: Part 1 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYyn5bTZ_4
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0Oh00OgEM

There is now a sequel, called I Will Always Be with You, To the End of Time

(I couldn't find a better picture of Zipp in royal regalia)

Many moons have passed since Opaline's defeat. In that time, Queen Haven abdicated her throne, passing the crown to Zipp Storm. As ruler, she reaches out to the griffon kingdom, in order to reforge international relationships. However, due to ponies' tendency to split up by race, the griffon king wants nothing to do with them. But Zipp can't give in.

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns IV, using the prompt Zipp/Persistence.

As a timeless immortal being, I never understood death and loss. I was willing to make friends and play nice, I even fell in love. But then one day I lost the pony I loved most, and sought to escape my grief. It went fine for a time, until somepony restored magic to Equestria.

Hitch was having a pretty normal day, until a strange creature appeared on the road and transformed him into a mare. He kept going on about somepony named Fluttershy, before vanishing and imploding a few buildings. Hitch misses the days before he was a national hero in constant peril.

Shortly after the events of the movie, Sunny invites her friends to try a recipe she found. The conversation soon turns to wings.

Did you know pegasi lose theirs?

Now with a reading!

For years, Hitch Trailblazer believed many things about Unicorns and Pegasi that he now realizes were complete lies. After escaping Zephyr Heights, he sits by a campfire and talks with his former enemies. Can this be real? Yes, it is. And now it was time for him to do better.

But sleep? Ah, sleep is a more difficult thing to achieve when one has emotional turmoil. Wouldn't you agree? And what is more, looking back to the past can be most painful. Does Hitch have to face this guilt alone? No. There is one who may be able to comfort him.
A certain white pegasus princess.

(Hitch X Zipp Oneshot)

After magic has been restored everything should have gone back to normal and everypony was supposed to forget about the Royal families deception of Zephyr Heights... Except they didn't.

With Queen Haven going back home early to "straighten everything out" the sisters hope that they won't be landing in jail either, but that's not good enough for Pipp. Her second family, her fans, all the pegasi that called themselves the PippSqueaks felt betrayed and hurt by their idol.

Pipp wants them back more than anything, she wants to go back to Zephyr Heights and make it right with everypony and to do that she will have to dig deep into why she even is an idol and will end up doing something she has never done before to try to get them back. Open up on live TV.