Everypony knows the stories of Twilight Sparkle's adventures with the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony. Their heroism in cleansing Princess Luna of the Nightmare, their courage in facing Discord and his anarchy, their resolve to help Ponyville face its many disasters. What everypony doesn't know is that none of those stories ever happened.

This is Big Macintosh's story. And it is true.

I’m Princess Pipp Petals. And this is my dark teenage past that I’ve never told anypony about.

Until today.

I admit it. I’m a…

Legend has it that centuries ago, before Zephyr Heights existed, there was another desert town in the foothills, named Zephyr. It burned down long ago.

A companion, but by no means a prequel/sequel, to this story. My entry to 2023 Iron Author, with some edits.

Only a few years after the Three Tribes were reunified, northern Equestria was the bloody arena of the most terrible conflict in Equestria's history. An alien invasion shook the continent to its core, and hurled its residents into an unimaginable future. The resulting four years of war has forever marked Equestria as the land of the Missing.

Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war, we present the definitive account of events, told from the perspective of the harshest critics of all- those who survived it. This is the true story of the Great Extraterrestrial War.

Based on H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, particularly drawing on the 2013 film adaptation; however, it is not a straight adaptation of either. Takes place after Chapter 4 of Make your Mark, but was planned and written before Chapters 5 and 6 aired, and as a result takes neither into account.

Following the events of the movie, Tempest Shadow accepts responsibility for her actions and attempts to atone for her actions while serving under the Storm King.

Author's Note:

Chapters 11-15 were written at Canterlot KC 2017 in Kansas City, MO

Chapters 59-61 were written at CONglomeration 2018 in Louisville, KY

Edited by SuperPinkBrony12

This story is a sequel to Star Trek Online: A Larger World

The Temporal Cold War is over, Noye's defeat and capture has finally brought peace to the galaxy once more, as well as restored some of what was lost, and now Equestria can finally do what it has been waiting to do ever since their introduction to Starfleet: Exploration.

But things don't always go as expected, an ancient enemy of the Federation and the Klingon Empire has been causing strange tests and genocides of protomatter torpedoes on unknown, innocent worlds, the most recent being Draconis III. After getting a signal from a ship claiming to be a renegade of the attackers holding valuable information, Princess Twilight, Admiral Wyatt, and a small task force are dispatched to investigate, but what the alicorn and her friends are about to see there will hurt them more than anything they've been put through before.

[NOTE: This sequel will be more on the edge for content, and may be a bit gruesome for some. I won't go super far with it, but it definitely won't be staying safe for long. Nonetheless, I hope that I make this story good for those who read it. Thanks to those who stuck with these stories and I hope to continue later on. LLAP.]

This story is a sequel to Star Trek Online: Into The Multiverse

Ever since the battle against the Terran Empire in 2410, the Alliance has been on their feet lately, having recently formed a new branch in their forces known as the Universal Alliance, they have been keeping a watchful eye out for any and all intrusions that may be made into other realms. However, the job is proving difficult with the Temporal Cold War underway, dealing with the Na'kuhl marauders, Noye's growing Krenim army, and the recently revealed Sphere Builders have been quite some trouble over the past five months.

But one place in the multiverse has been left safe and sound so far, an old friend of Twilight Sparkle's, Sunset Shimmer, has grown worried over her friend's duties, due to her calls to Twilight having failed, she decides to call her former teacher in order to gain some knowledge about Twilight's absence. But what she is to hear will be something that she, along with her friends at Canterlot High, were woefully unprepared for.

After experiencing a humiliating defeat at the hands of Anne Boonchuy, a fragment of the Core enters through a portal that leads to Equestria. After discovering that the land is filled with the Magic of Friendship and has a new ruler, the Core plots to undermine it with a plan that neither Twilight nor her friends will be aware of.

Note: This happens after the events of Amphibia’s series finale “The Hardest Thing” and during the events of MLP: FIM’s “The Last Problem”.

A strange white thestral falls into Sweet Apple Acres barely alive. Nopony knows her, and no records of her exists. That is nothing compared to the strange devices that she brought with her from wherever she is from.

That is all Yolina Yvanova will allow them to know. She is aware she shouldn’t be here, and that this body isn’t her real body. What she does know is that some beast saw her dream walking as a danger and nearly killed her. It now bars her way home.

Thankfully, she has help. Not just in the form of friends from her home, but in the princess who guards the realm of dreams.

Cover art done by Little Tigress

Fluttershy can’t awaken from her nightmare, if it even is a nightmare. Nopony knows predators and prey better than her, but she'd never truly felt like prey before. She only has to make it until morning.

An entry in A Thousand Words Contest II

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