A dozen years ago Anon-A-Miss happened. Sunset was driven off, and by the time the truth came out, the damage was done: she was gone and friendships were sundered completely.

Five years ago, they invaded - aliens from beyond. With unknown purpose other than to kill and slaughter, they effortlessly swept aside most of the world's militaries. With 90% of the world's populace killed, humanity united to fight a desperate battle against an unknown, unyielding foe from beyond.

Now, with the world in the balance, a mysterious figure has appeared to fight the aliens. Cloaked and masked, she wields abilities only previously seen in fantasy against the aliens. Wherever she appears, she wins - and the aliens are hellbent on destroying this new foe. This mysterious savior is only known by the populace as The Queen of Knives.

But who is she?

That's what the President of the United States wants to know - and what he has tasked LCDR Applejack Apple, USN, to find out.

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Twilight Sparkle has been living in Ponyville for 7 years now. In that time she has faced great challenges, fought greater foes, and made even greater friends. But one day she finds a book. A book she had completely forgotten about. A book she thought had been destroyed. A book of necromancy. Will she submit to the darkness within her or will she stay true to her values and stay in the light; or maybe a bit of both?

Sunset Shimmer fled from Equestria in search of the destiny that Celestia sought to deny to her. She dreamed of finding great glory and power in a strange new world. But she emerged on the other side of the mirror in a harsh cruel world beset by demons and troubled by division, conflict and racial animus: the world of Remnant.

Now, years later, Sunset has completed her studies at Canterlot Combat School and is ready to attend Beacon Academy. She hopes that in the more progressive Kingdom of Vale her appearance as a pony faunus will not be held against her the way it was in Atlas, and she can rise as high as her talents permit and seize with both hands the destiny she still yearns for.

Sunset finds herself assigned to lead three fellow freshman at the Huntsman Academy: Jaune Arc, who dreams of becoming a hero elevated above all others; Pyrrha Nikos, a peerless warrior who has everything that Sunset wants and hates everything about it; and Ruby Rose, a simpler and more honest soul who simply wants to save as many people as she can, and who might just light the way to their salvation.

Together they are Team SAPR, and together they are plunged into a world of mysteries, magic, allies and enemies, robot girls and Atlasian black ops experiments. It won't be easy, but if they can work together, teach Jaune how to fight and maybe learn to get along as friends along the way, then they might just save the world.

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