For the first time in several hundred years, Twilight Sparkle–Alicorn of Magic, Princess of Friendship, and sole Ruler of Equestria–has a friendship problem to solve.
When a Rainbow Dash from another world crash lands near the Badlands Hive, Princess Twilight Sparkle, daughter of Queen Chrysalis, works to find a way to send her home.
Having been imprisoned for as long as anypony, including the Princesses, can remember, a villainous reindeer makes the best of his time inside his snow globe.
Twilight was surprised when a straight-maned Pinkie Pie showed up at her door on a cold, winter night. The pink earth pony had brought her a gift, but the meaning behind it went much further than a simple present.
Mister Lonely Heart is a self-styled "Grievance Counselor", a changeling who mimics ponies that his clients have issues with. When Twilight Sparkle pays him a visit, he finds out how painfully neurotic the Princess of Friendship really is.
Discord knew this was coming. He knew. So did Princess Twilight. They knew. They saw it coming a mile away. Yet they let this happen anyway. Why couldn't they just let things stay the same? Who's the bigger fool?
Twilight and Rainbow have just started a new life with their newly-adopted daughter, Scootaloo, but the filly’s old parents have returned with a vengeance.
On Remembrance Day, Equestria stops to look to its past to better preserve it for the future. It's a good day for everypony - or at least it is for those who will one day become memories themselves.
Follow Benkei as he tutors Twilight and her friends as their mentor, delves deeper into the true meaning of friendship, and displays his loyalty to his friends by fulfilling his true purpose for being sent to Equestria.
Twilight Sparkle thought that she'd succeeded in curing Fluttershy of the bat's influence, but she was wrong, and she must pay a nightly price to keep her friend alive.
Flash Sentry loves Twilight from afar. She can never know of his love. She could never return it. The two could never be. Such is the order—the way things are supposed to be.
The code of the alicorn is that only those lucky enough to be born that way will stay immortal. Those who ascend have the same life expectancy as any other normal pony. ["Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?"]