It's been a few months after you and Rainbow Dash fought. Now that it's Hearts Warming, she arrives at your house and the two of you share a loving moment underneath the mistletoe.
When Fluttershy goes into the Everfree to pick some berries for her date, she finds an unconscious pony near death. Normally, she would help them straight away but there is just one problem... It's King Sombra.
After finding Discord hiding out in his closet, Twilight Sparkle soon learns the most horrible of truths about herself and the world surrounding her. And then she learns another truth. And another. And another.
Spike now harnesses the bloodstone scepter making him the ruler of all dragon kind. Of course he hands it off as part of an important lesson on friendship, right? Naw. He immediately goes mad with power.
Scootaloo, trying to comprehend the fact that Rainbow will be gone for a very long time, comes across a colt walking by the lake. He has a note. She finds it. She reads it. She discovers somepony loves her.