Throughout the undying rule and lifespan of an alicorn, the lives and deaths of innumerable ponies would flutter by like waves crashing in an endless ocean, a price Twilight and Cadance could see behind the smiles and love their mentors always carried. A price they themselves knew they would face when invited to sit by them on the throne, to shape and operate the kingdom for millennia to come.

A price they never bothered to embrace till one night, when the elder princesses would invite them to pay witness to the last breath of life Equestria would ever know to a fragment of its fertile soil, no matter how tiny or insignificant it may appear.

On what is to be the one of the greatest achievements for the changeling army, and an invasion is declared on the crystal empire by an army of thousands...and one unwitting soul.

But on Crux' attempt to escape the army's trials, the very position he'd tried to escape lands on a power unlike anything he'd ever known before...

Contains: weight gain, muscle growth, and macro.

Based on the recent image "Empowered" by Clock-Face, whose permission I am grateful for.

For many years spanning to his prime youth, Spike had been on a search. To piece together the loose ends of his life, one of which had always been an empty space on the puzzle missing a single, stubborn piece.

But many years of searching had since tarnished his dedication to the lifelong task, until he finally takes the final few turns to the rest of his life.

Inspired by this picture and this tweet by MA Larson.

Applejack confesses her love to Rainbow Dash.

She can't imagine what happens next.

Credit for coverart goes to plasmagr3nade.

She raised me.

She taught me.

She loved me.

She helped me exist.

...Time to repay the favor.

A challenge I put on myself at The Writer's Group to write a story out of a single passage.

Thanks to Pearple Prose for the passage!

Despondent over another failure, Apple Bloom of the Cutie Mark Crusaders decides to toy with destiny to make her destiny advertised.

However, she can only guess the consequences of playing Faust with what is to be her ultimate purpose in life...

(Alt. Universe of Cutie Pox)

After Discord manages to free himself from his confines, he plans to unleash his most brutal attack on Equestria yet. How shall the elements cope with his most sickening plot yet?

(Alt. Universe tag for evil Discord, Rated teen for brief language)