She's stuck in a spin cycle of nightmares and dreams, wondering when she'll be drowning again.

The world was almost at war some fifteen years ago. Almost. A last-second peace was declared, which left the new wartime inventions from machine guns to airplanes to rot. It'd be a shame to waste them. Every year, the world play-fights... in tanks!

Octavia takes a leisurely walk around the world, just trying to get home.

A light has left from her life, and happiness has faded in turn. One late night, with nothing else to do but run, Scootaloo hops onto her motorcycle with bags in tow, takes a corner past 5th Street, and leaves town for anywhere but.

High Flyer is hopelessly in love with Ditzy Doo. He plans on asking her out the next time she delivers a package to his door. He's basically a huge coward. He buys more packages. He plans more. He becomes broke.

Big Macintosh, wishing for some peace and quiet after a long season of Harvest—and a variety of problems he'd rather not touch on—heads north to stay by his lonesome in a wood lodge.

There's a new pony in Ponyville, today. He seems really nice, and he laughs funny, and *may* be a little insane, but he's here to stay. Let's just hope that Ponyville is ready for him.

The world of Equestria has been torn apart at the seams. An incurable famine has swept across the land. The sun and moon eternally butt heads in the broken sky above. Everyone has a craving for potatoes. Twilight made a spelling error.

He loved her all through their childhood. Then she went off with another, and simply vanished. It's been a few days since she showed up at his front door, on the breeze of a cold fall night, after ten whole years. This time will be better.

After countless apologies for ruining the Gala and an unhealthy amount of "free dresses", Rarity sits down and realizes: nopony truly knows who Octavia Philharmonica is, and what she does with her spare time. Wildly curious, she decides to find out.

There comes in every stallion's life the need to give a special gift to a special pony. And today is that day to Noteworthy. It wouldn't be a big problem, it shouldn't, but it seems he'll have to go through a lot for his special gift today.

Pinkie Pie has the greatest life anypony could ask for. A great job she loves, a town who couldn't be without her, and the best friends a pony could have. One day, she runs away from it all.

Opposing soldiers—a pair of ponies and a pair of griffons—have an unlikely meet-up on an unforgiving stomp through the horrors of No Mare's Land.

Above the clouds of a war-torn Equestria, guns blaze and cannons fire from opposing airships, the countries of Griffonia and Equestria waging a dangerous war.

Rainbow Dash only knew flying. Flying was her passion; something she'd practiced time and time again as she grew up into the awesome mare she was today. Worldwide war dropped hard for her country, but it came easy for her.