Mayor Mare was seen as the political matriarch of Ponyville. However, when the Foal Free Press uncovers an embezzlement scandal, Twilight Sparkle finds a line in the town charter that allows for recall elections. Election fever grips Ponyville as everypony tries to secure their fifteen minutes in the sun.

Izolovo moves to Equestria to live with his brother in the hopes that he will meet old friends and make new ones. However, what is he to do when old friends want nothing to do with (or use) him and true friends are hard to find?

Based on the 1976 Martin Scorsese film, Taxi Driver. Tabby Buckle is a lonely, depressed yellow rickshaw driver who spends each day ferrying ponies to and fro on the streets of Manehattan. However, of the millions who live in the teeming, cold metropolis, she is friends with not one of them. As news of Princess Luna's return seems to elevate everypony's spirits, Tabby slips further into darkness as she finds that she cannot readily relate to anypony around her. As her vindictiveness continues to boil she increasingly finds herself contemplating the worst. Where will this isolation take her? Can she be saved? Is there anypony out there who can teach her what friendship feels like?