The rain falls endlessly outside the window of the blue alicorn child. Her spirits are doused and her mood is sour as her sister is too busy to notice her and her mother is the same. Endless boredom soon ends up changing as a new friend arrives in the form of a familiar looking pegasus by the name of Cloud Rayne. With nothing more than a large room full of empty space and their minds in kind the two do their best to keep each other sane during the downpour outside.

Sherlock knows that as a small colt the world does not take him seriously. He has not yet come across his big break in crime solving. But when a certain fan of a certain book series gets out of hand its time for Holmes to get to work once more on cracking a case that will get people to pay him some mind.
The series of crime novels known as the Palesbrook Detective is a set of literary works that the young Holmes greatly enjoys. His passion for solving crimes came from the first time he picked up one of the writer's, a Mrs Windy Weather, books and has not been able to put them down since. But when the young detective chances across a murder scene with the fourth and latest instalment of the Palesbrook series in hoof he begins to notice some similarities between the gruesome murder before him and the murder of a certain insurance broker Don Richie in the first Palesbrook instalment. Holmes quickly notices the structure and the pattern of the murder before the police and decides that he needs to do something before the Palesbrook Madman re-enacts the entire series of horrible crimes with the residents of Canterlot.

Moving to a new town has its benefits. New friends, new school and new opportunities. But it also comes with its drawbacks as high school student Peter Parker is about to learn. After leaving his hometown of Manehattan Peter is enrolled at Celestia's School for Gifted Minds in the capital city of Canterlot. Peter quickly finds that he fits in more than ever before in this school and things go well. But no city is without its dangers as Peter must quickly don the mask of Spider-Man once more in order to save Canterlot from a threat most ancient. The night is cold, and just as eager to squash this meddling spider at the first chance