After the untimely passing of his mother, a young colt and his father move to a boomtown located in the Badlands, where he meets and befriends a group of ponies that will join him on the path to becoming the ultimate heroes, and defenders of Equestria. With their judgement skewed by events of their past, will they make the proper choices for the betterment of Equestria, or will they become the very things they sought to destroy?