Spike is growing up, slowly but surely. Age comes with benefits but some things get left by the wayside. Especially when it starts to hurt somepony's back.
It can be said that what Tempest’s old friends did was cruel. Contemplating everything, Tempest is left wondering if she’s really any better, and if it’s time to return home.
Rainbow Dash's first act of officiating a race as a Wonderbolt takes an unexpected turn that leaves her stranded in the middle of the desert with the last pegasus she ever wanted to meet again.
Lightning Dust's and Rainbow Dash's Wonderbolt training continues, but something is wrong. Lightning Dust hasn't been the change since she was forced to give up her lead-pony badge and both Spitfire and Rainbow Dash have taken note.
When ponies talk about Trixie, all they can see is the showmare. So many of them just dismiss her as a braggart and a fraud. They don't know her. They don't know how Great and Powerful she really is.
As Starswirl the Bearded ponders what stayed and what was forgotten on Hearth's Warming Eve following his disapearance, he finds that his two pupils might have forgotten him.