A leader can't be nice...that's a weakness. I learned that quite a few years ago. I don't know what I was expecting when I came to this academy... Not this. I'm not a leader. I'm just... Reckless
Trixie has a strict lunchtime regimen: One container of apple slices, with a dipping cup of caramel. Unfortunately for her, the school health officials just went screwing with the menu. Trixie is less than pleased with this latest development.
The suppressed thoughts, feelings and fears that lurk in the back of one's mind can manifest themselves into the most horrifying of dreams. And Lightning Dust is about to find herself locked in a dream she cannot escape from or control.
Lightning Dust insists that she and her twin sister, Runway Project, are nothing alike. She insists they don't get along. But will a couple of weeks stuck together with her sibling change her mind?
Lightning Dust's and Rainbow Dash's Wonderbolt training continues, but something is wrong. Lightning Dust hasn't been the change since she was forced to give up her lead-pony badge and both Spitfire and Rainbow Dash have taken note.
Lightning Dust had finally reached her dream. After years of practice, broken bones, and sacrificed, she had finally been accepted into the Wonderbolt's Academy. But, not every dream ends in a happily ever after...
Rainbow Dash gains leadership of the Wonderbolts. She quickly discovers that whoever coined the term 'the joys of command' must have possessed a twisted sense of humor. Scootaloo arrives with a familiar, cocky attitude, not helping matters.
To Lightning Dust, being a Wonderbolt isn't just about being famous, or being the best. It's about making her Mom proud. Lightning writes to her Mom everyday after arriving at the Academy and these are her letters.
Seeing as Lightning Dust is now a reckless, self-centered pony who throws caution to the wind, Rarity wants to ask her what happened -- where the time went and why she changed. But she won't. Because Rarity knows what happened. Life happened.