A Cavalcade of Cards

by QueenMoriarty

Table of Contents

1. Special Education
Tags: Slice of Life, More Fantasy than Usual
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, OC
Princess Celestia always makes sure the first lesson of a new class sticks with the students.

2. Why We Guard
Tags: Post-Adventure, Dramatic
Characters: OC, Princess Celestia
Stalwart Sentry does her duty.

3. What Will Be Done
Tags: Drama, Vague Grotesquery, Moral Conflict
Characters: OC, Great Mage Meadowbrook
Something is suffering. Meadowbrook and the minotaurs have very different ideas on how to alleviate it.

4. The Gift
Tags: Drama, Historical, Worldbuilding
Characters: Commander Hurricane, OC
Commander Hurricane flies south.

5. An Excerpt from the Planeswalker's Field Guide
Tags: Worldbuilding, Comedy, Crossover (more than usual)
Characters: Tamiyo, Breezies
Every reason you should ever need on why not to visit the home plane of the Breezies.

6. I Have No Ears, And I Must Hear
Tags: First-Person, Drama, Crossover
Characters: OC, Twilight Sparkle
The story of an extraplanar refugee.

7. Even Less of a God
Tags: Thriller, Equestria Girls, AU (The Oversaturated World)
Characters: Trixie, Sunset Shimmer
Trixie wakes up in the back of a strange van. The situation deteriorates from there.

8. Weakness
Tags: Slice of Life, Pre-Adventure, Crossover
Characters: Coco Pommel, OC
Coco meets a most unusual customer.

9. After the Pact
Tags: Adventure, Random
Characters: Discord, OC
When Discord comes to clean up after somepony, you know it’s bad.

10. This Creature Has No Color
Tags: Drama, Backstory
Characters: Zesty Gourmand, OC
Zesty takes a tasting tour of Memory Lane, seasoned with the shreds of her reputation.

11. And Rohan Shall Answer
Tags: Equestria Girls, AU, Human Ponidox
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash
The human world’s governments react poorly to the revelation of magic. Harmony sends one of its best to help.

12. The Atlantis Complex
Tags: Sad, Dark, Apocalyptic
Characters: The Smooze, Other
Bow bow-bow, bow bow-bow…

13. Treachery Most Foul
Tags: Drama, Sad
Characters: Princess Celestia, Other
Celestia confronts an unexpected intruder acting another’s behalf.

14. The Heart of Equestria Burns
Tags: Crossover, Adventure
Characters: Elesh Norn, Princess Celestia
White-on-white conflict.

15. The Goat's Bells Ring
Tags: Drama, Dark
Characters: King Sombra, Other
Fleeing from his destiny, a young Sombra meets a monster from out of antiquity.

16. To Know is to Burn
Tags: Comedy, Worldbuilding
Characters: OC
Draconic internships present a lot of opportunities. Most of them don’t end well.

17. The Transported Pony
Tags: Adventure, Crossover
Characters: Starlight Glimmer, Other
Even Equestria enjoys pit fights.

18. You Put THAT In Your Deck?
Tags: Comedy, Crossover, Random
Characters: The Gatewatch (sans Liliana,) Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Other
What’s worse than an angry sun horse?

19. Knowledge Is Power
Tags: Dark, Crossover
Characters: Starswirl the Bearded, Sorin Markov
At the end of time and his rope, Starswirl has no choice but to ask for help.

20. When the World Was Saved
Tags: Post-Adventure
Characters: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna
The monster is defeated. Now what?

21. Perhaps Too Little, Definitely Too Late
Tags: Drama, AU
Characters: The Flimflam Brothers, Other
The saviors of ponykind confront some truly deplorable rumors.

22. Before You Die, You Will Kneel
Tags: Political Drama
Characters: Prince Blueblood, OC
Wherein Blueblood may be the least obnoxious stallion in the room.

23. My Favorite Dream
Tags: Adventure, Random, Crossover
Characters: Princess Luna, Lord Windgrace, Other
Luna finds her way into one of the most tumultuous dreamscapes in Equestria.

24. The Best Last Day Ever
Tags: Sad, Romance
Characters: Derpy Hooves, OC
Two ponies make the most of the day before the world ends.

25. The Old Guard and the New Guard
Tags: Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Flash Sentry, OC
The origins of Canterlot and the seniormost guards, along with why we never see the latter.

26. Indestructible
Tags: Slice of Life, Tragedy
Characters: Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Spike, Other
An unusual break in Celestia’s routine.

27. Civil Service
Tags: Slice of Life, Drama
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, Mayor Mare
The mayor comes to greet the newest Ponyvillian… among other reasons.

28. Twilight Sparkle's Greatest Idea EVER!
Tags: AU, Drama, Gore
Characters: Starlight Glimmer, Twilight Sparkle
Starlight witnesses the end result of one of her offshoot timelines.

29. Master of the Masquerade
Tags: Worldbuilding, Slice of Life, Crossover
Characters: Octavia, Other
Just another night for those who work in the shadows of the sun...

30. Back Then
Tags: Dark, Gore, Tragedy
Characters: OC, Starswirl the Bearded, Clover the Clever
Some history shouldn’t be remembered.

31. Last Night
Tags: Sad, Historical
Characters: OC
The night after Nightmare Moon’s banishment, nearly all of Equestria was too weary from the struggle to do aught but sleep. Nearly.