The nightmares started… Twilight can’t remember just when. But they’ve gotten worse and worse, and why won’t Luna help, and now they’ve even stopped bothering her. That scares her more than any nightmare ever did.
In the community around the rock farm, it is tradition, upon coming of age, to venture out into the world and see if it holds more interest than home. Cloudy Quartz’s journey took longer than most.
“It seems to me that you never properly graduated,” Celestia said. And so initiates one of the most unusual experiences Twilight Sparkle has ever had. She will fight a war, go back to school, and work middle management, all to prove her worth.
Adagio Dazzle has a penchant for showing up at the wrong time in places special to Sunset Shimmer. School, the PostCrush concert, and now her favorite music cafe. Adagio doesn’t seem to be causing any trouble yet, but sirens only sing for one reason.
Princess Platinum relishes her duty of raising the moon, but in all the centuries of her predecessors, it had never spoken to them. And now Luna wants to take that from her.
Sunset Shimmer weathered the storm. She returned from the darkest depths, and now she has good friends. People like her. If I haven't sunk too far myself… maybe she'll help me. Then I can help Sonata and Aria. Please, Sunset.
Roam-springa: a period of self-reflection. At least that’s what Mom calls it. Who has time for that? Especially when Limestone is the one in charge. She doesn’t need a stupid waste of a couple weeks to know where she belongs.
Rarity never thought she'd be asked to reprise her role as Princess Platinum, especially not this way, and especially not involving her sister as well. But she understands the importance. Even if it might mean she can't be Rarity ever again.
A quaint old well, a shiny coin, the first star of the evening: all harbingers of good luck and happy wishes. But lately, several ponies can’t even remember making wishes. They certainly wouldn’t have wished for this.
Left only with a promise to keep in touch, Rainbow Dash struggles to convey her feelings, and to figure out what the words were that she couldn't say on that one last misty night at the train station before Twilight left.
Has Sunset actually changed? She’s nice enough around her friends, and one of them has become something wonderfully more. But what does her girlfriend see in her?
Twilight Sparkle enjoys her friends' visits. They only want to help. But when the line between dream and reality blurs, she must decide whom to believe, the ones she's known for so long, or the one she mistrusts the most.
In a yard, all alone, a pony whiles away the time caring for the lawn and the roses. Roseluck can understand that, to a point. And she's determined to help.
Pinkie Pie has always served admirably as Element of Laughter, and it's time for the princesses to show their appreciation. In fact, they have a special assignment, something they've never tried. It will be the best surprise she ever had.
Derpy always considered herself an unusual pony, but then so did everypony else. They just don’t know why: she talks to ghosts. As would befit an unusual pony, she encounters a most unusual ghost. Of course she’d want to make it her friend.
Pinkie has a secret. So far, she's kept it from everyone, but Twilight can tell that something's wrong with her. So she offers what vague support she can… until Pinkie takes her into the basement to show her.
Star Shine is a rare colt—some ponies believe him to be cursed. Detective Gumshoe doesn't believe a word of it, and he'll serve the Princesses he loves by finding out what's really been terrorizing the city.
Rarity's gotten herself in a rut, and to get out of it, she needs to design something so unique, so unmistakable that nopony could ever miss it. Her friends deserve that much. But nothing's free, of course.