On the night he tests a new invention involving time magic, Midnight is somehow transported well over a thousand years into the past! Figuring out his circumstance, and realizing his invention is his one way home, Midnight must journey through the very history of Equestria, and along the way he witnesses various events minor and significant, causing others, and having adventures and overcoming obstacle after obstacle in his desperate quest to return to his own time and find his way back to those he loves!