Cloud Kicker has fought her mother's killer to the death and ensured her family's honor was intact, but her cousin Star Kicker's role in the fiasco was far less noble: Her family-oriented idealism has left Equestria facing an unidentified threat with few avenues for answers. Now, she’ll have to team up with a few unlikely characters and be guided by a ruler trapped under a mountain of suspicion to find exactly who, or what, is threatening to invade her homeland.

This is my contribution to Chengar Qordath's Winningverse.

Huge thanks to Chengar for helping me wrangle this into something relatively cohesive (and for reining in my crazy nonsense), and many more thanks to both he and Comma-Kazie for creating such an in-depth and vibrant continuity.

Endless thanks as well to my editors and prereaders, without whom nothing in this story would be what it is:
Dusk Watch
Mrjerrio
Eakin
Jaketheginger
Luminary
Rodinga
621Chopsuey

Thirteen years before the return of Nightmare Moon, the Great Manehattan Inferno leveled nearly a third of the Big Apple's Downtown. But that was only the first misstep in the life of a young Pony who would grow to be a legend on wings...

Cover art by Inoeitall

Fluttershy has lived her whole life in the great city of Cloudsdale, until a fateful accident knocks her to the ground. Scared and alone, she finds her way to Ponyville, where she is introduced to Whispering Hedges, an Earth pony who lives on the edge of the nearby Everfree Forest.

Additional thanks to TheArcher20 for feedback and support, since without him I most likely never would have put this up here.