Scootaloo's eighth birthday is coming up soon, and her life is going pretty well. Sure, she can't fly and doesn't really have any friends, but she has two parents who love her and a nice home. What more could she want?
After finding a chess set in the library's storage closet, Twilight is eager to play a few games and turns to Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Teaching the two most competitive ponies in Ponyville a new game should be a snap, right? RIGHT?!
Sometimes life just smacks you upside the head. That happened today when life dropped a box that made me trip and fall on my porch. Turns out life didn't just hit me, it bitch-slapped me by giving me a DJ from a kid's cartoon.
With no other options left, Trixie takes a job on Humble Pie's rock farm. It's bad enough that she's been reduced to manual labor, but the longer she spends with Humble, the odder he seems to become.
Twist has her eye on a certain colt, and for once, books aren't telling her everything she wants to know. It's time for her to ask what it's really like to have a special somepony.