After several bloody years of war, we are about to defeat King Sombra. I almost wish we would have lost.

Caramel wakes up and goes to work.

It's a normal day, like any other.

It's raining.

But the sun's still shining.

And that's alright.

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On a clear and cloudless night, a young girl starts for home somewhat later than usual. She knows her parents aren't worried. They know she can be trusted. They know what a good girl she is.

The streets are empty, the stores are all closed...

...and someone watches from the shadows as a girl walks home alone at midnight.

There's a bug under my bed. Or at least I think it's a bug.

It says it needs to stay under there to hide.

I just hope it leaves soon. And doesn't eat me before then.

Artwork by sweetsing.

Same continuity as The Queen of the Dark.

Long ago, the old world was crumbling around the young Princess Celestia, but she had a duty to uphold: to confront Princess Luna.

It didn't go exactly as planned.

The problem with being an explorer in this day and age is that unexplored lands are few and far between. Almost everything's been charted, catalogued, analyzed, and what have you. But that's an almost; there are still those rare, blank spots in the maps, inexplicable, untouched by hooves, unsurveyed. One of those corners is Needle Vale in the far north. Supposedly cursed, yet everyone who's gone in has come back out. It has more stories about it than Celestia herself, yet every single adventuring group that's gone in has found nothing. Thanks to a nonstop snowstorm that's been blowing for centuries, no one's even been able to map it out.

Daring Do thinks there are too many stories about it to be a coincidence. Something is inside there. The source of the legends and of the snowstorm. And no one has a will quite as strong as Daring's (or so she tells herself). With a small team at her back, Daring makes a decision: she will go into Needle Vale, she will withstand the storm, and she will discover what’s going on in there.

But, as Daring is about to find out, there's a reason no one’s been able to pin down what's going on in that valley. Not everything that lies in the dark corners of the earth should be studied.

Loosely inspired by Annihilation. Has a dramatic reading done by Quinch.

In a freak accident from the Cloudsdale weather control team, Twilight is struck down by an errant lightning bolt. But the veil of death is relatively thin...

To Twilight Sparkle and Princess Celestia, it is a simple surprise visit to Canterlot. To the ponies of the Equestrian Civil Service, it is twenty-four hours of chaos, politics, weaponized dessert, politics, underhooved manipulation of media, politics, and things batrachian and tentacular. Who said bureaucracy isn't exciting?

On the night of the Grand Galloping Gala, Thunderlane couldn't be more annoyed. Dragged to the gala by his CO, he's content to be bitter and moody the whole time. But when he hears a soft melody played by a certain mare, he's intrigued enough to introduce himself to this "Octavia."

She's a nice mare. Sweet and polite, but with what she calls "a roommate complex." Now what could she mean by that?

Taking place after A Canterlot Wedding, Queen Chrysalis is none too pleased about this state of affairs. Battered, bloodied, and with only a fraction of her forces left, she immediately takes off to Ponyville, refusing to stop for anything, not even the welfare of her own army. In order to satisfy her own sense of pride, she ignores everything in favor of destroying that which Celestia holds most dear: her dear student, Twilight Sparkle.

But as the march takes its toll on her subjects, will she realize what she is losing before it is too late?

Dramatic reading by ObabScribbler!