We extended these events to Fridays after many a request to Couch Crusader for more time. It looks like that brought about 30 extra stories too, so it works for me! Also Derpy. So much Derpy.
Head on down below the break to check them all out, sorted by genre. Hopefully you can get your pony fix after that one.
Normal/Slice of Life
[Normal] - 1847 words
Author: AffiliatedRonin
What it’s like to fly… for Bulk Biceps.
Flight Muscles
Characters: Bulk Biceps, Fluttershy, Scootaloo
[Normal] - 1531 words
Author: Quillin Words
"Flight...is a magical thing. And yet no unicorn can truly replicate the beauty of a pegasus tearing through the skies upon a pair of majestic wings." Soarin is approached by Spitfire with a burning question. Spitfire has lost sight of what she saw in flying. She had betrayed him, a teammate and close friend, for the sake of winning a competition. Confused, she turns to him, and asks him a question that has too many answers: "Can you remind me of what it means to fly?"
Painting Winds
Characters: Soarin, Spitfire
[Normal] - 1485 words
Author: Zeck
Bon Voyage is not a fast flyer. She's not into stunts or tricks either, but she can fly for nearly forever. When Jet Stream asked her to join Ponyville's long distance relay team for the Equestria games, she said yes. Now she's getting ready for her race in her own way.
Long Distance Flight
Characters: Bon Voyage
[Normal] - 1180 words
Author: Borg
Flight. The most defining ability of pegasi. Let us join one of them as she first claims this right.
Freedom
Characters: A pegasus
[Normal] - 1081 words
Author: Elden Andel
You are a pegasus on a mission. You've been preping for months for this very moment. The most daring insane stunt in your life. Will you soar? Or will all of your preparations been for nothing?
To fly
Characters: Oc
[Normal] - 1630 words
Author: SaiKimura
Shrieking Arrow climbs to 22 kilometers and willingly plummets from the stratosphere, letting gravity take hold of him. This is a challenge of skill and wits for the daring pegasus. Will he complete his objective? Will he wimp out and break the free-fall? Or will he miscalculate and collide with the earth below?
A New High
Characters: OC
[Normal] - 1320 words
Author: Joolzanfire
Cloudflight is just another pegasus pony living in Rainbow Falls. So when a random filly asks him of all ponies what it's like to fly, it takes him a while to reply. I submitted this to FiMFiction just now and it's still waiting for approval. Hopefully that won't be a problem, but just in case, here's an alternate link: http://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZxK9-Wx3- AJcG1zEA8sAEi3SeHwNVO- jnnyPG8e3EKg/edit?usp=sharing
Flight
Characters: OC Ponies, OC Ponies
[Normal] - 2895 words
Author: Sarcasmo
It's not easy learning to fly. Lucky for Twilight, Rainbow Dash just might have the words to tell her how.
Twilight Falls (...And Falls Again)
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash
[Normal] - 1013 words
Author: Ronin
The freedom of flight is what keeps some pegasi sane. It's always nice to share what moves you.
Skyborn Freedom
Characters: Ditzy "Derpy" Do, Dinky, Amethyst Star
[Normal] - 1328 words
Author: Starlit Skies
Rainbow Dash flies.
Flying Free
Characters: Rainbow Dash
[Normal] - 1191 words
Author: Goldymarg
"I haven't really thought about it, have I? Being up so high...I get so anxious just thinking about it." It all started with such an innocent question. No cynicism, no underlying motive, just a simple request from a friend. A request that was turned down, prefaced by a white lie. It wasn't that Twilight wasn't capable of at least trying, because she could. She was just unsure of herself. Something that was so mundane to everypony participating was something so much more to her. And despite everything that she had been though, past all the challenges and scrapes with death, past all her new responsibilities and worries...nothing upset her more than just sitting down and contemplating it.
Northwind by Moonlight
Characters: Twilight Sparkle
[Normal] - 1037 words
Author: AlwaysDressesInStyle
A look back to Fluttershy's elementary school days and her essay on what it's like to fly.
Flight Of The Fluttershy
Characters: Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash
[Normal] - 1030 words
Author: DouglasTrotter
A little pony asks a pegasus mare what it means to fly in the skies of Equestria.
Heart of the Sky
Characters: Derpy, Dinky
[Normal] - 1013 words
Author: Artsofallkinds
Gena, a griffon competing in the Equestrian Games, is taking a relaxing flight through the clouds. When suddenly, realization strikes: she's really high up. Starring the two female background griffons from the episode Rainbow Falls.
Flying
Characters: Other, Other
[Normal] - 1213 words
Author: RamboZelda
Fluttershy, once again, undergoes a flight training exercise from Rainbow Dash at her third Summer a Flight Camp. It isn't as bad as it sounds.
Summer Flight Camp
Characters: Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash
[Normal] - 1060 words
Author: q97randomguy
Long Haul's mail route takes him all over Equestria, barely giving him time to stop. He spends almost every waking moment in the air, and that gives him a unique view on the gift of flight most pegasi possess.
Leaving the Ground Behind
Characters: OC
[Normal] - 4212 words
Author: Silent Strider
As Luna hears Twilight wondering about flight, her own memories come back as a dream.
Flying with the Moon
Characters: Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle
[Normal] - 3148 words
Author: NotARealPonydotcom
It's taken so long and so much. Weeks worth of stretches. Months worth of flapping hopelessly. Days spent in frightening, pale offices with equally-as-frightening and pale physical therapists. Hours upon hours of wing-ups. And all of it for this moment. Finally, Scootaloo can do it. She can follow her up there.
Flight
Characters: Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash
[Normal] - 1820 words
Author: PWNsbey
Charcoal Line is a pretty average pegasus, and not an overly talented flier. When a friend questions her about this ability, however, she realizes she has taken flying somewhat for granted - and decides to go for a nighttime flight with a new perspective. What follows is an experience she will never forget.
Lines in the Skies
Characters: OC Pony, OC Pony
[Normal] - 2650 words
Author: Firefly2012
Flight means different things to different pegasi, but to a depressed pegasus pony who can't fly, it means everything. Can the Princess of the Night help Scootaloo before it's too late?
I just want to fly
Characters: Scootaloo, Princess Luna, Rainbow Dash
[Normal] - 3972 words
Author: Gofindnova
Fluttershy knows what it's like to be a pegasus. But she's not like that, so she's not going to talk about it. note: contains more than scene because I fail at reading the prompt.
What's It Like to Flutter?
Characters: Fluttershy
[Normal] - 1233 words
Author: Newtaloo
I hate flying. There's no telling what can happen a hundred feet up in the air, at the mercy of the elements. Yet here I am, in the heart of a storm I helped to create, struggling to stay aloft because I have no choice. Ponyville needs me, and there's no going back now.
Raindrops Rising
Characters: Raindrops
[Normal] - 2884 words
Author: GermanShepherd
After a pegasus pony is caught off guard by her earth pony friend asking what it was like to fly, she makes a special effort to put some of her experiences into words while on her flight home from Canterlot.
Night Flight
Characters: OC
[Normal] - 1516 words
Author: Blood Brandy
Spike asks a surprisingly deep question to a not so deep pony. Not really able to explain, she finds that some things can't be said, only felt...
I'll be Your Wings
Characters: Derpy Hooves, Spike
[Normal] - 4000 words
Author: Palm Palette
The Cutie Mark Crusaders test out a flying machine they built. Good luck with that—they're going to need it.
Poultry in Motion
Characters: Cutie Mark Crusaders
[Normal] - 2071 words
Author: Shade
Troubled by a question asked of her, Cloudchaser participates in weather duty during the biggest thunderstorm of the year.
Storm Drinker
Characters: Cloudchaser, Scootaloo
[Normal] - 1417 words
Author: terrycloth
Twilight Sparkle explains in great detail what flying is like. It's not just fluffy clouds and the wind in your mane. There's also crashing. Lots and lots of crashing.
Flying Hard
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, Cutie Mark Crusaders
[Normal] - 1677 words
Author: Tidepool
It's Fluttershy's first time flying since the accident. Can her desist father teach her what flying means again?
One More Step
Characters: Fluttershy, OC: Sunlit Aura, OC: Thunder Bolt
[Normal] - 1064 words
Author: Sea_Shimmer
All her life, all she wanted to do was fly. And when she gets that chance, she knows that she should treasure the experience her whole life. If she has a life afterwards.
Wishes Only Last a Night
Characters: OC
[Normal] - 1274 words
Author: Crowne Prince
Scootaloo experiences free fall.
Scootaloo's Dissent
Characters: Scootaloo
[Normal] - 2830 words
Author: TigerFang
When a messenger pegasus is dispatched with a time critical letter for Princess Luna he will let nothing stand in his way. As he struggles against the elements and travels in a day more than most ponies in their entire lifetime he is reminded that there is more to flying than reaching your destination.
To fly again
Characters: OC
[Normal] - 1151 words
Author: q97randomguy
Streamline flies above the land that would one day become Equestria. A question sits in the back of his mind, teasing him with its seeming simplicity. “What is it like to fly?” He had been asked hours ago, but he still had no answer. He would not land until he had one, not that he minded it taking hours more; that would only mean more time in the sky.
Life in the Air
Characters: OC
[Normal] - 2000 words
Author: Georg
Crippled at birth and unable to fly until she was cured at adulthood, Luna’s Nocturne Hoofmaiden faces a royal command to ascend into the sky she has always feared. Fortunately she has a handsome Night Guard to help her with lessons. Unfortunately, it’s Pumpernickel.
Graceful Ponies of the Night
Characters: OC, Princess Twilight Sparkle
Comedy/Random
[Comedy] - 1373 words
Author: D'Soul Pony
Houshou and D'Soul are twin brothers. Houshou, a pegasus, D'Soul a unicorn. After an accident, D'Soul asks his brother what is it like to fly. Houshou does his best to explain the Thrill of Flight to his younger brother.
The Thrill of Flight
Characters: OC Ponies
[Comedy] - 1364 words
Author: SacredSturgeon
Dash's day is made when Fluttershy flies for the first time!
Gravity
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy
[Random] - 1248 words
Author: Eddepicman
Diamond Tiara wants to make fun of Scootaloo some more, so she makes a flying machine and learns what it's truly like to fly.
The Second Earth Pony Flyer
Characters: Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon
[Comedy] - 5000 words
Author: HorizonLine
When Soarin' was a young foal, his dreams had always been beyond his grasp. He could never reach high enough into the sky to grab what tormented him from above. After years of practice and determination, and with a little motivation from an old Aviator, he had finally flown high enough to grab some of those dreams. However, there was still one dream that remained. Maybe tonight would be the night he will fly to new heights?
Taking Flight
Characters: Soarin', OC, Wonderbolts
[Random]- 1117 words
Author: Arkanoid1
Rainbow Dash intends to raid Sweet Apple Acres of its apples as an April Foal's Day prank. Even though the plan doesn't materialize as expected she gets some great flying and reflection time in.
Flight on April Foals’ Day
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Big McIntosh
[Random] - 4461 words
Author: Grand Moff Pony
Flight. A common part of life in Equestria, yet something that only the pegasi truly know and understand. Twilight has spent years watching her winged friends from the fields of Ponyville, and gazing at the stars from her balcony. But for one night, Twilight trades her notebook for the clouds, and her telescope for the stars themselves. Twilight already knows what flight is. Tonight, she'll learn what it's like to fly.
Unbound
Characters: Twilight Sparkle
[Random] - 1800 words
Author: TheBandBrony
Applejack wants to know what it's like to fly. The truth is heavier than she expected.
A Short and Violent Fall
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Applejack
[Random][Comedy] - 1550 words
Author: scorpion1m
what..... rainbow dash is famous i wounder if shes got cheese becouse we all know 5 is less then 1...?
the rainbow dash tail
Characters: rainbow dash, derpy, scotalo
[Comedy] - 1346 words
Author: Yukito
Trixie asks Lightning Dust what it's like to fly. Lightning Dust always felt that actions spoke louder than words.
What is Flight? Baby Don't Kill Me
Characters: Trixie Lulamoon, Lightning Dust, Spitfire
Adventure
[Adventure] - 2193 words
Author: Cie Cheesemeister
Xavier the Mule has a special diversity project assignment for school. He needs to interview a pony of a different kind than himself, so he chooses to interview Rainbow Dash. He ends up interviewing Twilight and Fluttershy as well. All of the ponies end up learning something new about one another as well as the world around them.
What It's Like to Fly
Characters: OC, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle
[Adventure] - 4089 words
Author: Aaron Loh
A story of a young pegasus's first flight and the challenges that he has to face when chasing his dreams.
Young Skyrider
Characters: OC
[Adventure] - 3017 words
Author: MistChance
Spitfire and Soarin attend the royal wedding of Princess Cadence and Shining armor, but are forced to fly for their lives when Queen Chrysalis and her changelings attack the city. Spitfire desperately fights against the changelings, but when Celestia is gravely hurt, and Soarin's life is in danger, can she fly fast enough to outrun her own despair? Contains some violence.
Fire, Fly, or Fall
Characters: Spitfire, Soarin, Changelings
[Adventure] - 2204 words
Author: ToonLink15
A very loaded question has one Pegasus reflecting on one of her most basic instincts: What is it like to really fly?
Question 6
Characters: Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle
[Adventure][Random] - 1000 words
Author: Moribundbunny
Rainbow Dash follows a mysterious light in the distance, and gets more than she bargained for.
Out of the Blue
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Princess Luna
[Adventure] - 3706 words
Author: AlphaOmega
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to fly? To see the world from the view of somepony fortunate enough to have gotten the ability? But flying does not just reveal the wonders of the world to all; it shows us the different ways we must see life in order to truly cherish and live our destiny. Follow the writings of an average pegasus in Ponyville. What she has discovered in one trip will lead her to realize how much one can take something for granted...and how important it is to see the world not just as a circle, but as a sphere.
Different Views
Characters: Derpy Hooves, Dinky
Dark/Grimdark
[Dark] - 1007 words
Author: Tiger|Pony
What's it like to fly? Commander Hurricane knows, and in this famous extract from Mere Player's Winter of Discontent, she lays out the hurt in her hate-filled heart, and epitomises a view of ponykind which we must be glad to see consigned to history.
We Alone
Characters: Commander Hurricane
[Dark] - 1049 words
Author: ArgonMatrix
What is it like to fly? Delve into the mind of a monster and find out.
They Call Me Flightless Fury
Characters: OC, Rainbow Dash
Shipping/Romance
[Shipping] - 1000 words
Author: A Hoof-ful of Dust
Fluttershy considers her non-flying lifestyle.
If I Fell
Characters: Fluttershy, Big Macintosh
[Shipping] - 2000 words
Author: Hurricane Relic
Flying is an amazing experience, sometimes it changes ponies, sometimes it offers a new perspective.
To the Sky
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Twilight
[Shipping] - 3397 words
Author: Pale Horse
As they both begin to mature, Spike and Rainbow Dash have a conversation about flying, life, and love.
Beneath the Big Blue Sky
Characters: Spike, Rainbow Dash
Sad
[Sad][Shipping] - 1959 words
Author: RenaissanceBrony
An elderly pony must comfort her lifelong companion when the time comes to leave home behind.
A Heart in the Sky
Characters: Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash
[Sad] - 2220 words
Author: Nat
Rainbow Dash has always been a pegasus, and flying was her passion. For years she knew the excitement and bliss that flying brought her - loving the emotion behind having more directions to go toward besides left and right... But that only makes it harder to answer a question that she is asked by the flightless orange filly Scootaloo.
A Feeling Beyond Words
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo
[Sad] - 2486 words
Author: Scarf Ace
Mr Carrot Cake always had a question that he wanted to ask his son. In the end, his wife has to ask it for him.
My Father's Wings
Characters: Cup Cake, Pound Cake, Pumpkin Cake
[Sad] - 2067 words
Author: Ebony Pen
After waking up in hospital, Snowy lies and stares up at the ceiling, unsure of how she ended up here, or even where ‘here’ is. As she is thinking over what it’s like when your world is truly turned upside down, another patient begins to speak to her. She learns that somepony can teach you some of life’s greatest lessons, even in a few short minutes, and that those few minutes can be some of the most precious you may ever experience.
The Gift
Characters: OC, OC
[Sad] - 1190 words
Author: Super Trampoline
While practicing flying, Twilight looks back on the wonderful life she's lived so far, and wonders what the future holds. Inspired by a line in Obsolescence's blog post On Being Prolific. If you haven't checked out his stuff, you probably should.
Twilight Thinks About Something for Ten Seconds
Characters: Twilight Sparkle
[Sad][Normal] - 1038 words
Author: TheCrystalRing
When Rainbow Dash was awakened in the middle of the night, she wasn't expected to be struck with tragedy. In the following flight, an unexpected visitor shares support for the griefstriken pegasus and helps her realize what it means to fly.
Bluebird
Characters: Rainbow Dash, Princess Luna, Scootaloo
[Sad] - 1036 words
Author: Treble Tech
A pegasus stallion remembers the emotions he felt when flying.
Memories of Flight
Characters: OC
Crossover
[Crossover] - 1800 words
Author: Orfearus
Scootaloo has always wanted to know what it's like to fly. After being told that she will never get to achieve her dream, she sets out to prove them wrong and do the impossible. A crossover of MLP with the short animation Kiwi! (found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs).
First Flight
Characters: Scootaloo
[Crossover] - 1202 words
Author: ClosetBrony00
This is a standalone short story related to Equestrian Rim, an upcoming fanfic that crossovers My Little Pony with the Pacific Rim movie and is loosly based in both stories. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- One day out of no where ponies from Equestria come to earth and destroy it, by reasons unkown. What ponies don't know is human know how to defend themselves and war last for years taking many lives in both sides. After several years of war and an unexpected turn of events a human and a pony must pilot a a human giant robot together, and before that they prepare by letting behind the stress the war has caused them.
Equestrian Rim Tales #1: Interspecies Drift
Characters: OC
Sci-Fi
[Sci-Fi] - 1100 words
Author: Super Trampoline
Twilight awakes from a coma after a horrible flying accident, and things are a bit... different. This is going to take some getting used to.
Galatea
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, OC (hasn't entered the story yet though), Main Six
