Four CHS students spend a one week at East High during an exchange program. They each have their goals: Rainbow Dash really hopes to impress Troy Bolton with her basketball skills; Twilight wants to meet Gabriella Montez, star of the scholastic decathlon team; Pinkie Pie is excited to meet a lot of new people; and Sunset Shimmer just wants to get through the week. But when things don't go quite the way everyone hoped, can they still pull off one week of fabulous?

Things go wrong when the Crystal Empire builds a hospitality tower for visiting griffs (of varying species) and pegasi.

Written for Iron Author 2025 and presented with only light edits from its original form. Cover art by Shaslan.

Let's say that you're Rainbow Dash. Now, let's also say that one night, you found yourself with the ability to project outside your own body. Invisible except in bright light, phasing through walls, limited ability to touch things, etc. Neat, right? But what exactly do you do with this power?

Well, if you're Rainbow Dash, using it to bother a certain self-obsessed magician might be high on the to-do list.

Unfortunately, if you're Rainbow Dash, taking special care to not get caught might not be so high on that list.

Third Place Winner of the 2025 Iron Author Contest at Everfree Northwest! This year's contest entailed crafting a story based on the prompt words of "mighty", "lazy", "luminous", and "mob"; all stories were written in just two hours.

This story has been lightly revised for Fimfiction. Special thanks for Dewdrops on the Grass for pre-reading the Fimfiction version.

Featured on 4 September 2025.

This story is a prequel to Friendship is Magic - Extended Cut

It’s Hearth's Warming, and a young Fluttershy, Ponyville’s newest ranger, finds herself invited to Sweet Apple Acres. Will she be a gracious guest? Can she survive a crowded family reunion? Might her training come in handy?

Written for the Fluttershy is Best Pony contest, this story is a standalone prequel that fits into Admiral Sakai’s Extended Cut series.

(Takes place prior to the timeskip in "The Last Problem".)

Apple Bloom promised she wouldn't miss the annual Apple family reunion for anything, she promised that she'd be there no matter what. And Applejack is certain her little sister meant that promise.

So Applejack finds herself wondering just what could possibly be delaying Apple Bloom when she's the last Apple family member to show up for the reunion. After all, Applejack is very eager for the chance to catch up.

When at last the two siblings meet again, Apple Bloom will do her best to explain her late arrival. And the two sisters have something they want to share with each other.

After losing his father to a violent home invasion, Sly Cooper is placed in an orphanage and meets his life long friends, Bentley and Murray. He also meets Sunset Shimmer sometime after escaping from the orphanage, a girl whose annoyed with her sister while also showing the skills necessary to be a thief. Together the pair learn the skills necessary to be a master thief before going after the Fiendish Five to retrieve the Thievius Raccoonus, and to avenge his family name, all while Sunset deals with her own issues and six strangers that she keeps seeing in her dreams.

(Sly Cooper/MLP Crossover)
(Start of the World Traveler series)

Our Earth, near future. Life goes on, even though for half a century many, many people on Earth haven't been humans. Many never were.

Rowan Ashworth is the latter: a pony born from ponies. She doesn't even consider the events of what, for her, is ancient history — the Wave of '86.

Yet, her life is fine, and her world is mostly stable. People tend to overcome disasters, just as they overcame the Wave.

The story begins as a small, family related problem, a small crack in Rowan's routine. It won't end there.

I asked questions. I found it a habit that was rather hard to break. Some had called me an inquisitive fellow that looked in places nobody else did, but most had called me annoying and obnoxious.

But I don't think I've ever asked this many questions all at once. Why was I a tiny, disproportionate white horse? How could that zebra talk? How were these wolves made of wood? What the hell was the 'Everfree' and why were people so scared of it? Why were there talking horse cultists similar to me that used magic? Why did the purple horse keep insisting I use magic? Where the hell was I? What the fuck was Equestria and why had I never noticed it on a globe before?

And most importantly, how in the world was I not dead yet?

Now thrust—not to mention without my consent—into a world that hated me, with magical ponies and annoying, impressionable children, with nothing but my love for my adoration appertaining to the amazing art of alliteration, my mind that was holding on by a thread and downright eldritch changes to my body, how was I ever going to get an uninterrupted session of sleep that actually left me feeling rested?

I'm going to get a better cover image someday, I swear.

Don't like it? Tell me about it. Your banter, insults, compliments and criticism, both justified and not so justified, are all appreciated and welcome in the comment section of this story.

The Gore tag is for… well, gore. The sex tag and Profanity tag's there because the protagonist can't keep his mouth shut.

Thou hast been warned, reader. Good day to you!

*Don't be fooled by the huge dislike ratio, it's just toxic and rude people being jerks. Give the fic a proper chance*

-The Machines are back, stronger and more vile than ever, and still determined to wipe out all organics everywhere.

-Evil clones of the friends are fighters are causing trouble, all lead by a mysterious creature, who was created by an old friend.

-The Cutiemark Crusaders long for more adventure and excitement in their lives, which may lead them to step over a few forbidden lines, and getting into trouble.

-Cadance must not only face the pain of her deceased brother, but she eventually must help someone who is about to endure the very same pain and trauma that she did.

This story is a sequel to Chaos Mirrors – My Former Reflection

STORY TRANSLATED USING CHAT GPT AI

Chaos Mirrors – Friendship in Reflection

"Friendship in Reflection" is the tale of Meadow, tested within the world of mirrors. She must face her own memories, the shadow of Screwball, and the bond that ties her to Mellody. But mirrors reflect not only what was — they also reveal what can still be lost. Orange, tempted by golden threads, returns to the embrace of chaos, while Lemon stands before the choice of how much love for her sister may cost.

It is a story of the illusion of warmth — nurturing and binding at once — of pacts made with the “Mother,” and of hearts that never forget the taste of return. Meadow discovers that victory does not lie in defeating the mirror, but in what she chooses to see as the last image — even if it is bittersweet, filled with both pain and relief.
Screwball neither triumphs nor fails. She reflects. And hearts, even when freed, may always long to return.