May The Quartz Be With You in this tale of ponies (duh), space, and property damage! A Princess must have a kingdom, and Her Royal Highness Princess Twilight Sparkle XXII - she read all about the twenty-one who came before her - is no exception. She is therefore granted ladyship over the town of Ponyville, much to the dismay of Mayor Mare. Despite constant Mane Six adventures that inevitably destroy half the town, the ex-Mayor has successfully and discreetly kept a lid on rising property insurance rates in the area... until now.

Now that Twilight's a Princess with twice as much destructive power as before (remember what those crazy Royal Sisters did to their castle?), and now that Mayor Mare is out of the picture, a massing army of insurance salesponies is ready to squash Ponyville once and for all! Can Twilight and her friends solve Ponyville's impending fiscal crisis by taking to the stars? Are her friends ready to become the first ponies in space for millenia? Can Mayor Mare somehow still save her constituents? Can Coco Pommel stop being Coco for Cocoa Puffs?

Instead of coming out chocolate rains blazing, Discord instead chose to bide his time in the wide world, slowly changing the land and the ponies around him. The timeline changed... Equestria became a depressed nation, both environmentally and economically. Octavia, one of many victims in this depression, meets and befriends another performer, one "The Great and Powerful" Trixie, setting the stage for one last bow.

Twilight Sparkle finds herself in a surprisingly lucid dream, pursued by a fearsome monster known as the 'Sandman'. Being its target, she has but two choices: Last until dawn when she awakens, or destroy the monster, preventing it from wreaking havoc on the innocent... for where is a creature more vulnerable than in its dreams? Not being one to shy away from heroics, Twilight sets out on an adventure through a vast network of dream worlds to defeat the beast, recruiting friends both old (and VERY old) and new to defeat it!

Discord spent the past thousand years trapped in his stone prison. He at last broke free... only to be petrified once more not a day later. It's generally considered NOT a good idea to thus antagonize a god, especially a god of chaos. Now, with a stalwart follower and an ancient mask acting on his behalf, Discord threatens to bring the moon crashing down upon the world, bringing about more chaos than anyone could possibly imagine. It's up to Twilight Sparkle and her trusty friends to stop Discord's ultimate act of chaos - his "Final Fantasy"!