Applejack takes a bounty in Dodge to bring back an outlaw alive, but some-pony else apparently wants that same bounty dead, and doesn’t care who gets in their way.

Autumn Blaze longs for words to the ancient songs. When the Ponyfolk arrive—homeless and terrified—their branch having been severed by the voracious Wyrm, she thinks she has found what she is looking for. But, the frightened and frustrated Ponies quickly wear out their welcome in the eyes of the other Kirin, and the threat of the Wyrm still looms.

This story is a sequel to Celestial Bodies

In the cold dark a bright tree burns, and turning in orbit around this golden star are the planetary ponies that sleep in the starry night. Upon the flank of Sol Celestia is the Citadel of the Mark, the oldest and largest city on both her, and her valence moon-sister. Higher up is the dock-side city of Aesir-Bilröst, founded by the unicorn seer Starswirl after receiving a vision from the sun-mother.

Explorers beneath the Rainbow-Tail have discovered a well and the scholars from the dock-side city can not resist the urge to map it out, but first it must be pried open. Starswirl and his apprentice, Celeste, make the journey down to solve this issue and chart the unknown, and in so doing advance a prophecy glimpsed by Starswirl during a long-ago war.

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon got their cutie marks so early they never actually learned what they meant. Now, some time later, the answer to that question still tugs at Diamond’s mind.

Wood-Shaper discovers something beneath the bark and wood of a mysterious tree on the edge of his property. Inspired for the first time in years, he revives his woodcarving talent in order to safely tease it out.

Written for the Arboreal Yearnings story contest.

Rainbow Dash leads an attack-wing of rookie pilots to protect one of the fledgling Equestrian Fleet’s Superheavy EM Carriers from a threat hidden in the eye of a passing storm, piloting experimental ‘Drakewing’ Interceptor Suits to counter the enemy’s high-tech Swarm-Drones.

This story is a sequel to Golden Origin

Celestia and Luna have been asleep for centuries when colonists, tired of their long exodus in the vacuum of space, begin to settle on their colossal forms. Yet when the harmony between settlers cracks and battle lines are drawn it falls to a young Starswirl to put things to rights before it is too late.

In need of models for her new line of summer clothes, Rarity turns to Fluttershy for help, but has to work up the nerve to ask first.

Angel Bunny must wake Fluttershy and urge her to get moving, lest they be late for a very important date.

With the emergence of portals throughout the unsettled regions beyond Canterlot City, the transdimensional Equestrian Defense Force has issued a rushed consignment of experimental ammunition to be used as a deterrent for the giant, anthropomorphic creatures that are coming through and wreaking havoc.

Vapor Trail works at a small airfield that has recently entered into a contract with the EDF and prepares to investigate the sudden disappearance of a radar balloon in the nearby river valley.