During Spike's travels throughout Equestria, he comes across a certain starving changling queen. Against his better judgement he decides to help her, this one act of kindness will put in motion a tale of loss and gain.
Spike's life is going along just how he wants it. Going to school, the odd run-in with bullies, whom he always outsmarts, and going home to play video games and study the necessary amount. But his comfortable world just got a lot more complicated.