There are those who say that marks are destiny. But there is one who believes destiny is a trap. And there is nothing she will not do to make the world free.
The Fire of Friendship that once united ponykind has all but faded. One thousand years ago, Equestria fractured... those who disagreed with Celestia's rule left under the leadership of Princess Luna to found their own nation, their own way of life.
Chrysalis won, and built an empire. No more hunger, education for every nymph. Breakthroughs in bio-engineering, industrialized love-production. Utopia – all built on the ruins of Equestria. “...Actually, ponies have been romanticized as of late.”
Even after moving to the idyllic beach town of Ponyville Rarity does not believe in the legend of the mermare that is said to visit the beach despite what everypony says. Reading a book on the dock one day though soon brings her belief crashing down.
Thirty ponies remained trapped in plastic shells as Twilight’s dolls. Lyra left them behind without a second thought. She joins Scootaloo to help rescue them, lest they be trapped for eternity as the last of Twilight’s sanity slips away.
When Twilight Sparkle went to bed, she had friends she loved and a life she enjoyed. But she awoke to hospital gowns and padded restraints. And the doctors, they keep telling her that she is sick and none of it was real. They’re lying, right?
Her friends had fallen away to somewhere where she couldn’t follow, and she never would be able to follow. They went behind a door to which it seemed everyone except her had a key.
Rarity survived The Deep Cold for more contiguous time than anyone in all of recorded history, but it's still in question as to whether she'll ever fully recover.
Twilight Sparkle, Celestia and Luna are transported into a strange alternate Equestria, the Land of Always Summer, where the day lasts forever and a terrible queen rules with an iron hoof.