April, YOH 1505: Twilight Sparkle and her Companions have returned to Ponyville from Our Town. Now they must deal with the emotional price of their incomplete victory.
After being exiled from all of Equestria for a crime of conscience, and with all memory of her erased, Twilight attempts to force herself back into the public eye, and expose the truth about Celestia's noble goals...
When Twilight eventually wakes up, she isn't in her library. She isn't even in Ponyville. With a more minor case of amnesia and lots of questions, it becomes more and more clear, that Twilight isn't sane anymore.
The golden age of heroes is over. Those that didn't retire when they could ended up in prison or a shallow grave. But their criminal opponents still roam free, and the only one who resists is a young mare, who takes up an old mantle to fight back…
When Radiant Wish learns she's pregnant with a colt, she and her husband, Cloudshaper, are ecstatic. Every parent wants what's best for their children, so rumors of a village where everypony is accepted as equal piques the couple's curiosity.
Celestia believes that only true love can vanquish the darkness that has begun to corrupt Luna's heart. Luna, beset by her troubled mind, is approached by a lowly earth pony who immediately falls in love with her and tries to save her from herself.
Luna has been redeemed by the elements of harmony, but is finding that salvation is harder to come by. Perhaps the Moon, her prison for so very long, is truly where Luna belongs after all.
With the Apple family deep in debt, Big Mac climbs into the ring once again to save the farm. Now all that’s between him and the two-thousand-bit winner’s purse is some unicorn named Blueblood. Things are about to get ugly.
Applejack, despite her best efforts, has been watching red ink replace black in the farm's ledgers for over a year. She can't see a way out of her financial problems or the growing depression threatening to cripple her.
"Even as they lied to me, Even as I broke- Even as the world crumbled, Even as it died, Even then you searched for me, And tried to reach my side." Twilight Velvet is going to find her daughter. No matter what it takes.