While exchange students in Japan, the girls get trapped in the hottest, newest video game, Sword Art Online. If you die in the game, you die in real life. The only way out is to beat the final boss in the Ruby Palace at the top of Aincrad.
Facing starvation in an endless winter, the young filly Celestia attempts to raise the sun... and finds a wonder that her cynical mind had never conceived.
Discord decides to retire and a strange being not only took his place as the new God of Chaos, but choose Spike to be it's new protégé. The age of Discord has ended. Thus rises the dawn of Maelstrom.