It has been a week since Princess Cadence Sparkle returned to her Crystal Empire after enjoying her adopted uncle's time in his Foot lounge. He helps her relight her Crystal heart magic in her with a caring gift of a heart-shaped pendant. Now with World Summit taking away from her Crystal Empire because of an incident with a human republic ambassador that happens in the Crystal Palace. Lord Justice Silverlight returns to the Capital city of Canterlot and his Canterlot castle office to begin the reassigning of Solar Guards and Lunar Guards resources to the new location for the World Summit, unfortunately, Princess Celestia has not given him the new location yet.

As he waits for his fiancée Princess Celestia to give him the new location for the World Summit, he (or she) has decided to spend time together in secret why he there waiting for the new location. In an attempt to finish her overflowing royal paperwork's (back up by the eastern summit) Princess Celestia accidentally signs her name to a proposed royal budget in which it calls for the firing of her personal guard and fiancé Lord Justice Silverlight and replacing him with a small squad of royal guards (who might not be so loyal to her).

No pony knows that Princess Celestia pays her Personal Guard and her fiancé salary from her own personal account (which is quite vast from her one thousand years of life and continues to grow at this time). Her safeguard protects her from those noble wanting to use her personal guard to control her by threatening to fire her personal guard and denying his pay. That safeguard has huge risks for her personal life with her fiancé went Raven Inkwell. Her assistant discovered the accidentally signs royal budget that calls for the fire of her fiancé Lord Justice Silverlight.

Raven Inkwell took the signed document to Lord Justice Silverlight's Personal royal maid and private secretary, a Pegasus mare name Diane Sheer. Both mares are shocked went they see the signature on the pink slip. Both mares quickly plan to keep this information from Lord Justice Silverlight. This works for a while but soon goes south went Justice discovers the torn up pink slip in his trash went a pen falls into the garbage. He put together the torn pieces of the pink slip and using a fixed spell to fix it. Upon seeing the signature on the pink slip, he upset about it.