This story is a sequel to You Can Fight Fate

Time loops? The end of existence as we know it? Fate itself conspiring against you? Who has the energy to deal with that kind of thing?

Not Cloud Kicker, that's for sure. She's a mare who knows what she wants out of life. An easy job, a nice house, and an endless supply of potential banging partners. Then one day a simple little flower vendor moves in down the street and everything starts to change.

As a side story to the main Time Loop Trilogy, you can expect massive spoilers in the comments for both the original stories and unwritten chapters of this one.

Twilight isn't having a very good day. An experimental spell blew up in her face, an army of changelings is attacking Canterlot, and she just died. Yet somehow, it looks like it's going to keep going downhill from here.

Given the chance to correct what's gone wrong, Twilight swears she's going to fix all this even if it kills her. Which it will. Frequently.

Cover art by Pixel Prism
Spanish Translation
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Diplomacy has failed. Six years have passed Equestria's crowning of the princess of friendship, ushering in a supposed unprecedented age of peace and harmony. The concept of warfare is, to most ponies, nothing more than an unfathomable legend. They have let their guard down.

An unknown enemy has seized the opportunity to attack Equestria with terrifying new weapons of war, bent on taking the fertile land and restoring an ancient order. The valiant efforts of the Royal Guard have given Princess Twilight and her arcane scientists time to research and develop a response to their attackers, and the time has come for that response to be implemented. Utilizing weapons and tactics borrowed from another world, five squads under the command of Princess Luna will infiltrate the forests of the Equestrian Northwest to destroy a revolutionary magical matrix that Twilight refers to as the "radio" - a tool that allows enemy ponies to communicate across vast distances instantly.

Nightmare Two is comprised of three foalhood friends who, rather than be separated from each other in the draft, volunteer to become one of the five Nightmare squads. With their bodies forever altered to suit the needs of their mission, the three young mares join legions of ponies armed with powerful weapons to partake in a horrifying new breed of warfare - Equestria's first in over one thousand years.

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Heads up, folks. If you wouldn't mind leaving a comment alongside the thumbs-down, I'd appreciate it. This is my first foray into fan fiction and although it's a hobby I nonetheless wish to get better. :)

Got some FAQ's for you guys as well!

- Alternate universe in which the events of "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" did not occur. (As much as I loved it! :D)

- Numerical age tends to vary with headcanon, but the CMC here were just getting started with their adult lives when the draft went into effect.

- The war is pony v. pony, utilizing firearms and the Equestrian equivalent of a tank. The underlying headcanon is that ponies used firearms similar to muskets and tracked armored vehicles akin to our tanks in times of old, and what the enemy currently employs is essentially the natural progression of these technologies.

- There are no real-world weapons or equipment i.e. "Panzer IV," or "M16 assault rifle." Particularly acute details such as the caliber of weapons are also absent.

- Technology is based on that of WWI with some WWII elements. Firearms are primarily bolt-action.

- The "radio" spell matrix functions as what we know to be a radio, but is not identical.

- All four of a Night Mare's legs are permanently replaced by the augments.

- Night Mares are female. Stallions proved unable to properly animate the limbs.

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Hold up, now - fanart? You guys rock. Like, for real. Thanks a lot!

1. A great YouTube video coming from The_Pegasus_Box. Thanks, bud!
Check it out!

2. Click here for the collection on DArt.

3. https://derpibooru.org/740375?scope=scpeac921b191f688d04521575f31608785cbc3bbaa1
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Waking up in a dark, dank, tunnel miles away from home isn't the first thing Reign wanted to do, but soon to find out, him and his friends are part of something much, much larger of a divine plan to shape their destines,

For Better, or for worse...
Author: DJ Scratchjack
Editors and Proofreaders: BlackjackOrBust and Cooperdawg

Check out the wiki for the story!

Inspired by the Works of Somber and KKat, and all great writers of FO:E.

The griffon and pony inhabitants of Stable 44 had their share of issues and tension between them. After a coup, the victors formed a government free of Overponies or Overgriffons. A democracy. Now, trained in the fields of stealth and hunting, these stable dwellers will leave to find a destroyed world. At least now we're somewhat prepared. Sunny Gust, a young stallion from the Stable, and a group of other ponies and griffons, set out to make communications with any other survivors. Let's hope the welcome wagon isn't from raiders.

Stardust the Pegasus and a Zebra from stable 92, were nearly
killed during a slaver attack on their home. Stardust took
what they were looking for, but does not know what it is.
All they know is that they are in the wasteland now,
and it's not going to be easy trying to survive,
while making sure not to get their heads being separated
from their bodies.
Friendship is all they have left, and their only mission is
to keep their home safe, and to discover what to make of
the data they have collected... but they will soon have
another mission to take into their hooves.

This is the Tale of a young stallion named Elric Faelan, A Stable 132 resident and the the story of the day when the steel door to the outside is unexpectedly opened. A unknown force wreaks havoc to Elric's home as his thrust into a quest to uncover who is responsible for the attack on the Stable. As he journeys forward, he'll meet new friends, uncover a chilling secret from the past, and a unforgiving rage towards his fellow pegasi in the dark, dank sky.

(sexual themes are implied. You have been warned.)

Proofing: Lunello/Megan