
Heroes Never Die
The story of why this random human is the most diehard Shimmerist of all.
A virus that transforms the infected into ponies swept over the world. Despite her best efforts to catch this disease and go pony, Ari was not among those transformed. With transformation magic banned forever and demonized by most of society, it appears she's stuck as a human permanently.
Only one group is in favor of turning more humans into ponies: the 'Shimmerists'.
...But they are very pro-ponifiation.
This story more or less takes place in the Pandemic universe. However, it's been updated to take place in the real 2023 and I haven't read the sequels. It's essentially a non-canon spinoff from the original.

77922 words: Estimated about 7 hours to read
28 Chapters:
- 0 2023-04-01 20:31:38 UTC1648
- Part 1 - Alone 2023-04-01 20:31:46 UTC4104
- 1 - 2 2023-04-09 21:17:40 UTC4570
- 1 - 3 2023-04-11 16:56:03 UTC2037
- 1-4 2023-04-16 02:00:19 UTC2568
- 1-5 2023-04-17 17:21:34 UTC4614
- Part 2 - Shim-Curious 2023-04-24 06:43:08 UTC2402
- 2-2 2023-04-27 16:19:19 UTC1364
- 2-3 2023-05-08 04:05:40 UTC2775
- 2-4 2023-05-11 17:29:56 UTC2616
- 2-5 2023-05-14 00:34:07 UTC1643
- Part 3 - Propogandist 2023-05-14 00:41:16 UTC1591
- 3-2 2023-05-15 03:52:16 UTC1991
- 3-3 2023-05-15 15:22:08 UTC3617
- 3-4 2023-05-18 18:38:50 UTC1905
- 3-5 2023-05-21 04:19:57 UTC1303
- 3-6 2023-06-03 16:50:21 UTC2895
- 3-7 2023-06-11 18:42:44 UTC4213
- 3-8 2023-06-15 00:11:20 UTC2730
- Part 4. The willing pawn 2023-06-25 18:35:10 UTC3477
- 4 - 2 2023-07-22 18:33:13 UTC2564
- 4-3 2023-07-23 23:56:10 UTC2129
- 4-4 2023-07-29 18:16:36 UTC2722
- 4-5 2023-09-30 19:17:23 UTC2512
- 4-6 2023-10-30 21:50:57 UTC2384
- 4-7 2023-11-26 01:41:49 UTC3086
- 4-8 2023-12-11 01:33:32 UTC3296
- Part 5. Public Enemy 2023-12-16 17:43:47 UTC5166