It's a seemingly normal day in Ponyville.
Right now, Spike & Smolder are doing some plans for something to come in a couple of months. It's something they want to be a big surprise. And they've been very careful about it too. Not even Pinkie Pie knows what's coming when Starlight, Trixie, Discord, and King Thorax are to be presented with the Hearts of Courage on Hearth's Warming's Eve.
Meanwhile, Twilight is having a date with Flash Sentry at the nearby hayburger cafe, while the CMC is at their clubhouse working on certain things. "The way I see it, if you and Silver Spoon want to pitch in, we could use more eyes and ears out on the town to see if there are more cutie mark problems." White Flame was saying to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. "It'd give you two some experience before you do anything more substantial."
Also elsewhere, Rainbow Dash was enjoying some time with Soarin; her own coltfriend; while the two were doing some Shadowbolts stuff. "So we're in agreement then? For our next show, we really emphasize the new tricks we've been working on and really sell our brand?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"That is indeed the case." Soarin said. "Look at us, we're in agreement." he side hugged his marefriend, causing Rainbow Dash to just blush.
Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was having great fun just in general with a visiting Cheese Sandwhich, meanwhile the cakes were dealing with the twins. Again. "It's nice to see Pinkie Pie having her own potential suiter. But perhaps maybe he'd be willing to help out with the foals sometime soon..." Mrs. Cake said.
"Tell me about it. It's difficult keeping up with both a pegasus AND a unicorn for twins." Mr. Cake said.
Blueblood and Derpy were up in Canterlot at the Parish District again, looking for more things from when White Flame was Gareth. "We've found a lot of artifacts, but I'm still wondering how exactly the ponies who lived here got the way they are." Blueblood said.
"You mean bloodlusty?" Derpy asked.
"I'm not even sure if that's even a word." Blueblood said. "But it would be accurate."
"Prince Blueblood; one of the excevators just yelled at one of the guards when they dropped their coffee." A guard said.
"...And on that note, pack it up for a bit. We need a break. There's obviously something about this district that makes people loose their sanity." Blueblood said.
"Now I'm really glad you convinced Princess Celestia to look after Dinky while we did some more exploring. I doubt a child could handle this place for long." Derpy said.
"That's exactly why I didn't want to take the risk." Blueblood said.
Still in Canterlot, Rarity had been checking in on her store there, when she came across an old photo ablem. With Sassy Saddles handling the store, Rarity would go back to Ponyville and spend some much needed time with her pony sister.
Little did every pony realize however, peace was about to become broken in ways no one would expect. A tyrant known as the Storm King was leading his forces to Canterlot, ready to enslave the ponies to his iron fisted rule. And he wasn't coming alone: Zanth was with him. It was clear as day, that the peace Equestria was experiencing right now, would be upended once the Storm King came knocking.
But for now, the equestrians have no clue that their peace is fixing to be threatened...