After escaping the clutches of Queen Chrysallis, Prince Blueblood finds himself in the wasted Badlands. As a spoiled Canterlot noble with an inflated ego, it never occurs to him that he might actually have to get himself to safety rather than wait for the Equestrian guards to rescue him.

And in the boiling heat of those wasted lands without a drop of water to drink, the prince slips into madness...

... and the legend of Dawn Coyote begins.