Spike and Dr. Cabelleron head into the Badlands searching for a legend.

The original version of this story placed sixth in the March 2020 WriteOff contest with the nonsense syllable "Ot" as the prompt, and this rewritten version was my entry in the Original Pairings group's 2020 May Pairing Contest.

Marigold Martingale asks her father, Groom Q.Q. Martingale, how he met her mother, A.K. Yearling.

Contains DaringXCaballeron. Daballeron(?) I'm so sorry.

Caballeron's sources had led him to believe Daring Do would be found at this convention, but he was scarcely prepared for the outright celebration of his rival!

Not just the costumes, or the goods, but entire discussion panels devoted to those wretched Daring Do books.

Although... it seemed there was one panel devoted to him!

[Set during the events of Stranger than Fan Fiction, if it isn't already obvious.]

Discord went through a brief "arts and crafts" phase a few millennia ago, but even he knew some of his creations were too dangerous to be left lying around. So he buried them someplace where he figured nopony could ever find them again, and he moved on with his life.

He didn't count on the intrepid Daring Do coming along and messing things up...

Pre-reading, proofreading, guidance, and encouragement by OnionPie and Woolly!
Cover image stitched-together from here and here and here.
Trigger warning: Fluttercord

This story is a sequel to Trouble in Tiatarta

Reading Trouble in Tiatarta is not necessary to enjoy this story, but you should probably read Queen Chrysalis Reforms (Accidentally)

Rainbow Dash is certain she's about to have the best week ever! She's gotten a letter from her idol Daring Do, inviting her to an expedition to the ancient Centaurian ruin of Midnight Castle to retrieve a lost Equestrian artifact! A daring adventure with Daring Do? What could go wrong?

Well, for one thing, Doctor Caballeron could show up, chasing after the same artifact. For another, Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow could show up too, with their own nefarious plans. Wait, but they're supposed to be in Tartarus!

Maybe this isn't going to be such a great week after all...

Dr. Caballeron had once again taken hold of an artifact of evil darkness, and it's up to Daring Do to stop him and return the artifact to their daughter.

Contains DaringXCaballeron. Daballeron. It's now the official shipping portmanteau and you can do nothing to make me think otherwise.

The Exmoori: a mythic race of ancient warrior ponies who, according to legend, once ruled Equestria not by use of magic but by unspeakable technological creations. All legitimate archaeologists, of course, are aware of the fact that the Exmoor ponies are nothing more than a hoax or fairy tale.

Other entities, however, believe they were very much real.

A pair of mysterious albino Pegasi arrive at the ancestral home of Doctor Caballeron, bringing with them images of a carving in the ancient language of the Exmoori- -and promising him riches beyond his wildest dreams if he can bring them the artifact it mentions.

Simultaneously, a young and discredited academic arrives in Southern Equestria, bearing an ill-gotten fragment of the same text. He presents it to none other than Daring Do, who sets out to prove his theories true- -and to recover an artifact of profound and unknowable danger.

Cheese Sandwich walked a long, unbeaten path in the years after Pinkie Pie introduced him to his calling as a party pony. He wandered throughout (and beyond) Equestria, spreading joy to others while also trying to find her again.

But the danger of unbeaten paths is that you can get beaten on them, especially when crossing paths with a deadly and determined seeker of the legendary Alicorn Amulet...

This story took second place in the September 2019 'Friendship is Short Shorts' Writeoff, "Uncharted Territory."

It has been 800 years or so since a new layer of the dream realm formed, and in those 800 years a new visitor to Equis has been learning about the world from those inhabitants whom it can pull into it's realm.

Much to the surprise of Luna, this being is more than meets the eye and is certainly powerful, to an extent. Do they mean any harm, or do they have something more sinister planned? there is only one way to find out...

This story contains inspiration from bloodborne and in turn, H.P.Lovecraft with my own twists and changes to make it more my own.
spoilers for later chapters: this will be revealed as a human in equestria, though not via some kind of merchant or some such. death, gore, violence and swearing tags are for what will likely come in the future.

This story is a sequel to Daring Do: The Night Before

Contains spoilers from Season 9 Episode 21!

After years and years of being archenemies with little interest in reconciliation, all it took was one little adventure for Daring Do and Dr. Caballeron to bury the hatchet and become friends, resulting in them writing a collaboration novel under their aliases. But after a few months of traveling around Equestria to promote the book together, something happens when the pair are in Fillydelphia during a Daring Do convention.