I got bored and wrote a detailed Shiny x Polaris x Two guards story, yay!

When young Strahlen 'Stray' Penumbra volunteered to take part in Equestria's first deep-space flight, this was not what he had been expecting.

When dealing with balance on a universal scale, third party intervention frequently consists of ripping something from one universe, and dumping it in another. When the intended result is to create chaos, that thing is usually a human.

a lost child, and a mercenary group driven to bring her home. An ambitous king threatens her home

When the Gods make war, nothing is unaffected. They rally their unwitting pawns, and choose one reality as their battleground. They are omnipotent and omnipresent, yet even they couldn't account for everything. Nothing could account for this.

Celestia did the same thing every day of every month of every year. One day she did something different. And then Everyone Didn't Exist.

This story is cancelled as of now, and is being replaced by a complete 're-imagining' that is in the works. In fact, I'm refusing to call the new story a 'rewrite' because so much has changed. Sorry for any inconvenience, but

Celestia must find her place in a scarred world, a world she nearly ended twenty-one years prior. Meanwhile, dark forces gather in the southern wasteland, and there are no Elements of Harmony to fight them.

Not all wars present you with a clear opposition. Sometimes, there are no heroes and no villains. Sometimes, we are all just soldiers. The same is true of the Gods themselves, and when they go to war, things are not always black and white...

The airship Australis and her captain, a pegasus scientist named Verdant Aurora, take off on a quest across Equestria. Along the way, they pick up a bat-pony mare, and fight their way through pirates and bounty hunters.