The young unicorn Bluebell leaves her home in Canterlot to make her way in a city half a continent away. Thrust into a new world, Bluebell must find her place as a member of the Manasazi city guard, a group of highly trained individuals who put themselves in harms way to protect the cities citizens. She may be small, but with the help of her new friends she is determined to succeed in her new job. Its either that, or get deported trying.

Queen Chrysalis, the champion of her race, is loosing her grasp on her hive. Changeling are starting to defect to other hives, or even abandon changeling life all together. Taking a lesson from an old friends, Queen Chrysalis disguises herself as a drone to learn why her subjects leaving her dominion, and to try and discover the fate of those captured by the Royal Guard.