There's an old story told to foals about a train that goes to every place in the universe that ponies can imagine, and even more places that they can't imagine. It's a train that arrives only once a lifetime. It's a train that picks up lost souls and carries them to other realms.

Those stories say that if a pony rides it all the way to the final stop, they learn the secret that all alicorns know.

Inspired by Galaxy Express 999. Updated irregularly.

Has Rarity ever been a pony? She's very sure that she is, but her recent behaviors have been very...un-ponylike

Commission for Tailsic

Adagio Dazzle, the leader of the sirens, was defeated at the end of Rainbow Rocks. Now, her life a year later is much harder than it's ever been. Working at a night club, she's lost her connections with the only family she used to have, Sonata and Aria, and she's trying to make it through the world on her own by regaining her lost power. That is until Sunset Shimmer gives her advice that spins her view on the world upside down. Adagio tries to help her neighborhood and others to finally find the secret to happiness, but she finds that she needs to forgive herself before she can ever be happy. After giving Sunset Shimmer a gift, her heart starts to race, making her wonder what she was feeling. Did she finally forgive herself or was this love? Will Adagio let go of her hate for the world or let it grow? Can something more spark inside a siren's heart?

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This story now has a sequel titled A Shimmering Heartbreak~! I hope everyone decides to check it out!

Special thanks to a good friend of mine for the new cover art for the story!

This story is a sequel to Ranger

Can Lightning dust make it to Manehatten? Shane had put his trust in her, and she would not let him, or the Rangers down!

A short story done for EFNW 2019 Iron Author. No edit done and posted in the spirit of the event.

In the past, batponies had been hunted into near extinction. Their brave goddess Luna sent them into hiding before her banishment. There they have stayed, hiding and wasting away, dreading the day they are yet again discovered and forced into extinction.

One young stallion does his best to survive in a clan gripped with fear as he explores his limited world under the cover of darkness.

Got questions, comments? Leave 'em with my tumblr page askinkyarn

Tavi is gone. One day, she packed up all her things and left. Now I'm all alone, and I don't know what to do with myself. There's an ad in the newspaper promoting an experimental program called Project Rita. It says that it allows ponies to see the future of their relationships in alternate realities. Perhaps I could use it to see Tavi again?

1st place winner of the Right Back At It Again! - 2020 Shipping Competition.

Recommended by Seattle's Angels

Edited by MissytheAngle

Fifty years ago today, there was not a war. It was not one of the longest and bloodiest struggles ever known to ponykind. It did not claim the lives of hundreds upon thousands of ponies.

There is no such place as Shetland. It could not have been Ground Zero for Operation Petrichor because it never existed.

The Cloudsdale Massacre is a cheap horror flick, nothing more. Chemistry has no solid application in combat. The Non Sunt Dii has not existed since the first days of the Royal Sisters' reign.

Celestia is perfect. Celestia has never made mistakes. Celestia is not a coward.

Lightning Dust’s life has been a perpetual mess. As she struggles to put her life back together and repair her relationships, the last thing she needs is another version of herself appearing on her doorstep: young, stupid, and ready to make the same mistakes all over again.

Based on the almost incomprehensible album Stomachaches by Frank Iero.

Entry for FanofMostEverything's Ponidox Contest.

Edited by Holtinater, Seer, and EverfreePony.

Cover art by rice!

Dedicated to Moonshot (hope you're well) and wishcometrue (hope you feel better).

Featured on EQD 12/5/20!

Many moons ago, before Twilight Sparkle was Princess Celestia's pupil, there was another student, Sunset Shimmer. She left long before Twilight was able to go on and make several friends and save Equestria time after time. This is the last conversation Sunset had with her teacher.

Ignores IDW comic backstory involving Sunset Shimmer.

Edited by Brock Lesnar. Thanks for the help!

Twilight Sparkle and her best friends have been sent to the paradise islands of Iluikatliltik for over a month so that Twilight can learn the secrets of the ancient Iluikatliltik ponies—a tribe who have mastered Earth Pony magic like no other culture has.

Each of her companions has a role to play... although it just might not be the one they wanted.

But really, what else could Applejack's role be?

**This is a commission for GaPJaxie
*Additional thanks to The Masked Ferret for moral support and The Abyss for combing through the mess of words for mistakes.