Each year, twenty-four young ponies are chosen to compete in the Hunger Games, a brutal fight to the death created as a device to prove President Celestia's ultimate supremacy. The ponies chosen this year, however, are unique in the way their relationships tangle and wind around each other. As the stress and fear of the impending Games gets the better of them, some connections strengthen while others unwind, and these tributes find themselves turning to things they'd never have initially considered in the battle to stay alive. There can, after all, only be one pony who will emerge victorious from the 94th Equestrian Hunger Games.

After a chance encounter, Rarity's designs get the recognition she's always dreamed of, but hand in hand with fame is criticism, something she's not quite prepared for. Collection after collection is regarded as "boring" or "unoriginal," and she needs to find an escape route soon.