Applejack has a voice that will not leave her alone. It isn't just some crazy magic or hallucination--she feels something physically and hears somepony speaking. Night after night, she's pushed it away, but it keeps coming back to try again. What is it that this voice wants from her? Why does her chest hurt so much? What does it all mean?

Ponyville Asylum has prepared Spike for a lot of strange things - but never for an appearance by the Great and Powerful Trixie. Fresh off of a massive wave of Hollyhoof fame, Trixie is locked up for reasons unknown, but is more than willing to share the tale of her rise to glory. From her first meeting with Ostentatious Clop to her hit See-Glass reality show, "Tagging Along With Trixie," the Great and Powerful one shares with her fellow mental patients the story of her epic adventures. "Prepare, now!" she demands. "Empty your minds! Open your hearts! Gird your loins!” Through loss, love, lust, ludicrous scenarios, laughably awful humor and lots of underhanded allegory, Trixie will inspire you to become Great and Powerful, too. Prepare, foals...

When Twilight Sparkle asks Spike to order her a computer, he thinks nothing of it. But when Twilight begins devoting all her time to the magical device and hiding her activities, things begin to get strange. Spike's fear for his best friend's condition increases as she cleans the basement all by herself - and demands that Spike stay out of it. The young dragon attempts to seek help from the rest of the Mane Six, only to find that they, too, are too enraptured by their computers to deal with Ponyville living.

A forced trip to the basement lands Spike in the middle of the answers he's looking for - and all the shocking revelation those answers entail.