My special talent had turned my life into a waking nightmare of moral and life-or-death decisions. I hoped visiting cousin Apple Bloom, who'd survived her own cutie mark nightmare, might help me decide whether to keep my cutie mark... or remove it.
Babs Seed was thrilled when she first earned her cutie mark... and has since learned the hard way that it isn't what its all chalked up to be. Fortunately, when times get tough, her friends will always be there to bring her out of the dumps.
Babs Seed is a seed. And seeds can't fly. Babs know this, but she can't help but dreaming about the day, when she learn to fly and show everypony. She'll show them how much she is worth, through flying out and away, through becoming somepony.
When a doubtful Tangerine is chosen to be the school's new hall monitor, her cousin Babs and their new friend Featherweight help her to try and overcome her insecurities. Will it work and will it be for the better?
When a group of fillies and colts use their imaginations, their entire world changes to another one. Two young detectives, Clean Cut and Dallier Sluggard must apprehand the notorious Cutie Mark Criminals, a group of filly mobsters.
In an overrun Manehattan, Coco Pommel and Babs Seed cling to one another for survival and hope. At last a reprieve arrives, but what they think is their last hope may just be a horrible new beginning.
Babs Seed writes to her cousin about her life in Manehattan and the advancement of the Cutie Mark Crusaders there. Will things turn out as well at she hopes?
Coco Pommel, now free from Suri's influence, decides to right what she did wrong by not only saving Babs Seed from a terrible fate, but taking her in as her own adoptive filly. Maternal sweetness spiced with Bridleway melodrama.