Equestria's first interstellar ship is crewed by the best and brightest Equestria has to offer. Twilight Sparkle and her friends are determined to uncover the origin of the mysterious alien Signal, no matter what it costs. A comment-driven story.
Twilight Sparkle was only a filly when Equestria detected the enigmatic Signal. A series of increasingly complex mathematical proofs, the Signal transformed from an intriguing curiosity to reliable evidence of extraequestrian life.
And as it happened, Equestria's exploration of their own solar system was nearly complete. With colonies orbiting every planet and large body, and an asteroid belt filled with miners and prospectors, Twilight's civilization was just about ready to turn its focus outward. The signal was less than ten light-years away, within reach of a daring, experimental voyage. A voyage Twilight Sparkle would lead.
Along with a small crew of the most skilled scientists and engineers Equestria could offer, Twilight is determined to uncover the mystery of the Signal, and brave the final frontier for future generations of Equestrian explorers.
A comment-driven, CYoA story. Please use the links provided in the author's notes of each chapter to vote, rather than the comments.
This story is a creative experiment of mine, one meant to explore the general idea that creativity is often most fostered by restrictions. As a result, I've imposed a number of restrictions on the writing of this story, which I'm stating explicitly here so I can be called out if I break any of them.
1. Brevity is the soul of wit No chapter may be more than 1000 words long. This wordcount only includes prose, and not the questions/rolls.
2. Every choice matters When a choice is offered in a chapter, at least one sub-optimal choice must be present, with no indication about which is which other than the prose itself. Every chapter should end with a CYoA-style decision tree when possible.
3. Fate is cruel and the universe is heartless The decision of the vote must be respected. This means any character could be killed, or the entire story could end in failure, if that's what the votes decide. Where numbers, stats, and randomization appear in the text, these elements are not verisimilitude, but are decided by public diecrolls in my discord server.
Note: Because of the unusual production of this story, its chapters won't be edited in the same way as my usual fare. Feel free to point out any mistakes you encounter.
Awesome cover by Zutcha as you can probably tell. Editing stuff by Two Bit and Sparktail, where applicable.
Anon is a changeling. At least, that's what his mom, Chrysalis tells him. He's been training (playing) with his 'siblings' for a long time, and wants to finally go on a mission. (Kinda RGRE?)
Anon is a changeling. At least, that's what his mom, Chrysalis tells him. He's been training (playing) with his siblings for a long time, and wants to finally go on a mission.
Strangely, Chrysalis is reluctant to send him out into the big wide world, and would rather he stayed and had fun in the hive instead.
...RGRE, maybe? Also kinda incest because the changelings all consider each other brothers and sisters but spoiler: Anon isn't actually a changeling.
Featured on my first day! Crazy and exciting, thank you all!
Heat season has given Twilight has an itch, one of those metaphorical six inch deep itches, and her metaphorical 'scratchers' are four inches in length. So she has to make due with what she's got.
Spike.
Contains: Semi consensual start and messy end, possible pregnancy.
Thank you red-demons-pony for inspiring this. Sorry it's not verbatim what you suggested.
In order to thank her for giving him a little more control, Discord gives Twilight a Vending Machine that dispenses bees... Yes, you read that right.
Discord has only been improving, and Twilight wants to reward him with a little more responsibility. As a thank you, Discord rewards her with a shiny new vending machine for the Crystal Tree.
The problem? That vending machine dispenses bees.
Twilight now has a castle full of bees that will attack of she thinks the wrong kind of thoughts... That being said, if she thinks the right ones...
Life has not been kind to Rarity. Dreams deserted and home lost, she works the streets of Canterlot for only the most elite clientele. The rich and the royal, everything short of the princesses themselves.
The changeling queen has been murdered, and Chrysalis, a simple male drone, is forced to take her place. She won't stay simple or male for long.
Sometimes, the ordinary are forced to do extraordinary things. When the Queen of the Changelings meets her untimely end, she only has moments to link the crown to another, the source of changeling power. Only, she doesn't have any time to explain what it does or how it's used.
A young, male Chrysalis is the one to pick it up. The drone has never been different or in any way special, but when he puts on the crown, his body and mind begin to rapidly change, until he resembles a queen inside and out. Such is the birth of Queen Chrysalis, a confused and inexperienced leader forced to protect her people and bring an end to the rebellion that resulted in the last queen's death, all while handling a delicate relationship with Celestia and attempting to understand her new mind and body.
No one said that any of it was going to be easy. But hey, being tall, sexy, and powerful must have some benefit, right?
Anon asks his friends about the fact that Rainbow Dash's house always moves around. Does this mean that she's the equivalent of a trailer park hoodlum?
Anon has noticed something strange. Rainbow Dash doesn't live in Ponyville or Cloudsdale, and her house never stays in one place. Because of this, it seems that she basically lives in a trailer home, making her... trailer trash! The implications of this realization are anything but pretty.
Please be aware, this is for silliness and for fun, not because I hate Rainbow Dash. Everyone knows I hate Spike, come on.
Thanks to Enigmatic Otaku for the idea. Art by BambooDog
Rainbow Dash sometimes flies high for Wonderbolt training, higher than almost any other pegasus. Up there, it's just her, the earth, and the sky. It's more than enough to give a whole different perspective on things.
Anon, now an irate, pint sized mare, comes to grips with her situation and newfound lustful urges...
Even though Anon never really wanted to be a small, pastel equine, she's beginning to adapt to her newfound situation. After having a long night to rest and recuperate from her transformation, and an initial, salacious encounter with one of the denizens of Ponyville, she decides to venture forth to get her horse business in order. Unfortunately, she runs into one of the only ponies she absolutely detests, Zephyr Breeze. Sadly, wanton debauchery ensues...
Kinks Include: Awkward Sexual Advances, Stupid Sexy Ponies, Male on Female, Female on Male, Oral, Vaginal, Musk, Creampies, and Poor Life Choices
The Main 6 did something really stupid. Really, really stupid. Now they're in trouble.
After a long night of drinking leads to massive mayhem, the Element bearers must face Celestia and confess...because they need her help fix something that shouldn't have happened. Ever.
Question is...will they live through their chat with her?
You never really did care much for bugs. So it'd figure that after being magically displaced into pastel pony world, you get kidnapped by pony-sized bugs.
Life's shitty enough when you get dragged from your home to a world of talking ponies so colorful your eyes start to hurt. Then throw in the fact that you quickly get kidnapped by a species of love eating bugs the size of ponies, and you're in hell... or are you?
(Featured! Holy crap! This is a first for me, thank you very much!)
Shortly after Dragonfly's emergence from her stasis cocoon she finds that her situation is still desperately in need of emotional and magical sustenance. The changeling will need to turn to new, lewd, methods of feeding if she hopes to escape mars!
Set just after Mars Ares mission date Sol 287, when Dragonfly, the plucky engineer changeling of the castaway crew of five Equestrians cohabiting with Mark Watney (recently stranded Earth astronaut), has emerged from her self-imposed exile in a long term cocoon.
She'd imprisoned herself out of concern for her crewmates when her stock of magical energies dropped so low that she found herself attacking Mark Watney to drain him of his delicious emotions and magic. Her months-long sentence helped her to recover... but not fully.
With nothing else to support herself with, Dragonfly turns to a forbidden source of magical and emotional sustenance, long-denied to changelings: lust.
Follow along as she desperately tries to convince Starlight Glimmer and Mark Watney to do the dirty deed together... so that she can refuel off their little tryst!
SPOILER: Contains human on pony action! If you find such things squick, look elsewhere!
Twilight asks Spike to take some photos of her and the girls for a calendar, but for some reason they're posing really saucily, and—hold on, are they all coming on to him?
Shining Armor, the effeminate stallion, is summoned to speak with Princess Celestia. Unbeknownst to him, the princess has big plans for the svelte, white unicorn...
After weeks upon weeks of submitting to his latent urges, Shining Armor is a changed unicorn. His body, once chiselled and muscular, is now supple and elegant. His trip, however, has caused him to miss a rather sizeable amount of time from the Royal Guard Academy. As such, the stallion is terrified when he receives a letter from Princess Celestia herself, calling for an audience with him. What she wants, he does not know; although, he can't help but feel a little anxious about the impending meeting...
Kinks include: Futa on Male, Oral, Anal, Double-Teaming, Cock Worship, Musk, Threesome, Size Difference, LargeColossal Insertions, Feminization, Cross-Dressing, Mind Break, Cum Inflation, Dirty Talk, Inordinate Amounts of Jizz, as well as a pinch of Foalcon and Incest
Long after the event stole all the humans from Earth, changeling queen Evoli is sick of the constant self-destruction of pony civilizations. Maybe if someone with real talent for leadership could take over, her swarm wouldn't go hungry.
Over a thousand years ago, every human on Earth vanished. The ponies left behind were forced to rebuild what they could, largely ignorant of their new abilities. When a devastating plague spelled the end of the first age of pony civilization on Earth, the changelings were forced to watch helplessly as their food supply withered away.
Queen Evoli's swarm is barely surviving on the measly drops of love they can scavenge from the slow-recovering pony population. But it wouldn't have to be that way, if only somepony who really knew how to lead was in charge. She is many centuries old now, with power and experience that ponies in their short lives cannot imagine. Maybe if the world had somepony like her to rule it, civilization would do better.
At least she wouldn't be going hungry anymore...
A Ponies After People story written for Sparktail on my Patreon, crossposted to Fimfiction. Updates daily until complete. Edited by Sparktail and Two Bit, and cover by Zutcha.
