After the Royal Guard's failures at the Wedding of Shining Armor and Princess Cadence, Flash Sentry must overcome the shame he and the rest of the Guard was faced with for letting the changlings breach their security, and scar many innocent lives.
Everyone and everything in the Guard had changed since the attack, recovery was a long and painful road.
On his journey to recovery, A dark and cold Flash Sentry sets off to find his true identity after witnessing the strange actions of the changlings in battle.
As Twilight becomes more curious about Equestria's history, She discovers new and surprising, hidden facts that she would've never guessed. Why was Celestia hiding secrets in history? And how did Equestria become a powerful empire ruling a whole continent?
This is a story of Flash Sentry, a pony who lost his sanity, a pony who killed to survive, a member of the Royal Guard, a member of a long lost family, a pony who'd been scarred for life, on his journey to recovery.