"So let me get this straight," Twilight asked as she looked across the table at their current host. "You're a wizard, and you're also a duck." "I am," he replied. "I'm also a talking duck for your information." Twilight rubbed her forehead with a hoof. "You're a talking duck wizard." "And you're a group of pastel-colored talking ponies exploring the multiverse. I fail to see how this is weird at all. I deal with strange things all the time. This barely qualifies as such," he replied. "He's got a point Twilight. This aint the weirdest thing ever," Applejack added. Twilight just thumped her head on the table with a groan. "Starlight is goi

It was days like this that Twilight remembered why she hated making public speeches. In all her life, she had never felt comfortable doing so. And what she was about to say could affect the future of Equus itself. Hay, this could change the fate of the galaxy itself. The Primare Project was well under way, and even now her daughters slept in their gestation capsules. Given a few more months, they would be old enough to come out. And Twilight refused to see the girls sleeping below as anything but her daughters. She had seen what that other path lead to. Twilight would not see another Horus and his brothers if she could help it. Which lead

Normally Twilight Sparkle would be glad for a visit from Princess Celestia. They barely had time together now as their schedules rarely overlapped. But earlier that day, Twilight had received a letter saying that she would be coming that afternoon to talk about something she hadn't said in the letter. All that was said was that it involved the World Mirror. Now Twilight and her friends were reeling from the news Celestia had just told them. Even Starlight, who still knew little about it was shocked. "You're saying that the mirror opens to more than just Canterlot High?" Twilight asked, finally finding her voice. Celestia nodded. "Yes. Bu

One look in her bedroom mirror and was sure somepony had cursed it. She didn't look like a maniac, oh no. It was just lying to her. Before she could completely lose track of her thoughts though, Twilight took a deep breath and let, echoing Cadance's old breathing technique. The thought of Cadance made Twilight's heart flutter. It was for Cadance she was making herself so beautiful. Or at least she hoped so. This was a big step for them. Cadance had been her first true friend. And in a way, she was like the big sister Twilight always wanted. For a time after Twilight had become Princess Celestia's student, they had seen less of each other.

The moment Cosmos saw the look in Twilight's eyes, she knew something was very wrong. A quick pulse of magic confirmed it. "Why didn't you tell me?" She asked as Twilight's subtly twitched. But Cosmos saw it. Twilight's ears fell. "You have enough going without worrying about me. I thought I could hold it in or hide it. But it's getting worse." She pawed the ground. "I snapped at Sunset yesterday. I don't even remember what it was about. I was just so angry that I." Twilight couldn't finish the sentence as her head fell and tears gathered. "I was ready to kill her. I stopped, but I've never been so angry." She cast a pleading look at Cos

This, Pumpkin Spice decided, was the stupidest thing she had ever done. Even more so than leaving her life in Canterlot. Here she was, far north of Equestria, in some Celestia forsaken land, low on strength and the will to continue on. Whatever was calling her out here wasn't worth freezing to death over she was sure. The natives hadn't proven any more friendly than the weather. Yakyakistan was a joke of a country if she had ever seen one. What little she had been able to get out of them hadn't helped her mood at all. Something big had changed recently and the whole country was on edge. Or at least that's what Pumpkin had been able to gl

Starlight Glimmer was having a good day. Wait, scratch that. She was having a good year all around period, and nopony could say otherwise. Our Town hadn't grown as much as she had hoped it would have. In her more vindictive moments, she blamed the multiverse for hating her. But that was beside the point. Ever since the Battle of Ponyville, she couldn't hide her excitement at all that had changed recently. Even the ponies around her couldn't miss the literal spring in her step. Nopony commented on her change. That wasn't friendly, and they were all about friendship. All figured Starlight would tell them when she was ready. So when Night G

It was days like this, Rena Chiba thought with a smile, that she enjoyed the most the perks of what she had become so long ago. Wagreb had retreated into the private sanctum of her mind. Leaving Rena with free reign of this body for some time. It was a rare chance for Rena to be in her own body again. For most of the time, she only appeared as the head that crowned Wagreb's own. Not that she minded of course. She had long ago stopped caring about what had happened to her and so many more that night. She took great pleasure in the fact that she had been the one to kill the one responsible for that Black Sabbath. The night everything had c

Twilight looked over the necklace Queen Novo had given her before giving the queen a confused look. "What exactly is this?" Novo smiled. "Your own Pearl Necklace. Every one in Seaquestria has one. Within it is a piece of the Pearl of Transformation." Twilight looked up at where the Pearl itself rested. She knew what the Pearl could do, and why it was so dangerous to have. The power to transform into literally anything you could think was something that was both awe-inspiring and worrisome. It had been the goal of every invader to get their hands on the Pearl. If they had, they could rule all of Equus. Above and below the waves. None ever