Story updates! We have a ton. Check them out below.
Story: Hard Reset (Update - Sequel Part 5!)
[Adventure][Dark] "While the basic premise of this story may be familiar, the engaging style and technical skill of its author make it more than worth your time. And, y'know, the explosions and changeling fights help a lot too." - Pre-reader (/\)
Author: Eakin
Description: 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.Hard Reset
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.
Story: Twisting in the Sheets (Update Part 2!)
Author: HoofBitingActionOverload
Description: When Rarity’s friends discover that she has been secretly meeting with an escort, they begin investigating, and soon discover a web of lies and unrequited romances none of them ever could have expected.Twisting in the Sheets
Story: Black and White and Red All Over (Update part 4!)
[Adventure][Shipping]
Author: SuperGiantRobot
Description: A journey made, a green eye caught, a quest begun, a treasure sought...Black and White and Red All Over
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Zecora, the zebra shamaness has lived in the Everfree Forest for some time, but has never gone beyond except for the sake of finding roots and herbs for her potion that her woods cannot supply. But upon making friends with young Applebloom and later Twight and her companions, she has taken it upon herself to travel beyond for a time.
Stopping at Sweet Apple Acres for a minute to speak with Applejack, she catches the eye of Macintosh. The stallion falls for Zecora at first sight and then does something very poorly thought out to prove himself to her...
Story: Celestia in Excelsis
[Sad][Adventure] "What this story does with the history of Equestria and Princess Celestia's origins is nothing short of spectacular. I'll be eagerly awaiting new chapters of this story." -Pre-reader Air Pirate
Author: Kolwynia
Description: Long ago, the great wizard Starswirl the Bearded stood against Harmony. The power of friendship chose for itself a pure champion: the young unicorn Celestia. For a thousand years she has been the one heroic princess standing between the Arch-Enemy of friendship and all her little ponies.Celestia in Excelsis
Story: Researcher Twilight (Update Part 12!)
[Sad] [Adventure] [Dark]
Author: NATOstrike
Description: Twilight Sparkle has been a student, personal protege, and friend of Princess Celestia for many years. However, when the Princess appoints her to be the new Grand Magus of the Equestrian Royal Court everything changes. Celestia becomes reluctant and unwilling to teach Twilight anything more advanced than what is absolutely necessary to perform her new duties.Researcher Twilight
What is Celestia hiding? What is the Princess protecting?
Celestia's attempt to withhold knowledge from Twilight tragically backfires, pushing the student to learn everything she can about magic and the workings of the world. No matter the cost, no matter how forbidden these areas of study are, Twilight is determined to learn the truth.
Twilight is taking the first steps of a journey that once started cannot be taken back.
Story: Hope and Changeling (Update Part 8!)
[Adventure]
Author: FrontSevens
Description: The newest resident of the changeling hive feels out of place. He can't remember the last time he had wings, holes in his arms, or talking bugs for friends. What is he? Why is he here? Will he find his way home? Will he survive in a world without coffee?Hope and Changeling
Story: Asylum (Update Part 8!)
Author: Derek (Daemon of Decay)
Description: When Twilight Sparkle slipped beneath the covers last night, everything had been fine. She had friends whom she loved, a teacher she adored, and a bright future ahead of her. But when she woke up, her blankets and quilts had been replaced by hospital gowns and padded restraints. Everything is wrong and nothing makes sense; even her friends have changed. The doctors, they keep telling her that she is sick, that none of it was real and it was all in her head. They’re lying. She remembers a life far beyond the hospital walls. She couldn't have made it all up on her own. They must be lying… right?Asylum
Story: Flash Fog (Update 12!)
[Adventure]
Author: Kwakerjak
Description: When Fluttershy received her certification as a fog specialist, she only wanted a plausible excuse to write off the expenses associated with her ground-based house on her taxes. However, when an accident in Cloudsdale sends a blanket of industrial-grade clouds rolling towards Ponyville, Fluttershy suddenly finds herself in charge of coordinating the response, mostly because she's the only fogFlash Fog
specialist in the area. Can our heroine step up to the challenge at hoof, or will she risk facing the wrath of the Equestrian Revenue Service?
Story: Snow and Shadows (Update Part 8!)
[Adventure] [Dark]
Author: The 24th Pegasus
Description: It has been twenty years since the fall of the Cirran Empire, and Commander Hurricane has led the pegasus pony tribe into a comfortable role in accordance with the Tri-Pony Compact. But a supernatural blizzard without end brings forth the suppressed hatreds that have festered among the three tribes, and the resulting famine threatens to eradicate all; earth pony, unicorn, and pegasus alike. With a bloody war looming on the horizon and the fate of their ponies at stake, the three tribes must find a way to survive together, or they will assuredly die alone.
Sequel to "Of Skies Long Forgotten." Reading of that story is not absolutely necessary to understand what is going on, but it is strongly recommended for you to get the references.
Snow and Shadows
Story: Freeze Frame (Update Sequel Part 2!)
[Adventure] [Slice of Life]
Author: ToixStory
Description: “If you can make it in Fillydelphia, you can make it anywhere,” or so the saying goes. When a young mare comes to the big city with dreams of being a reporter, she is instead thrust into a world of corruption and squalor where she will need the strength of friends to survive.Freeze Frame