After the events of When The Mare Comes Around, Rae Jay is looking forward to reuniting with her friends. Too bad a militia in the boonies, a surly FBI agent, and Discord all have something to say about that. Why can't it ever go smooth?
Does anyone know where Scootaloo lives? How about her parents? Anypony seen them? Rainbow Dash would sure like to know, but Scootaloo won't tell and the town only has rumors.
Fluttershy says she's just tired from starting her new band, but Twilight suspects something else is going on since Fluttershy is too meek for that. Is Fluttershy fine or should Twilight be worried about her friend?
Lemme tell ya about two years before. Before Harmony. Before I was the Element o' Honesty. Before a lot. Because behind every respectable mare is a story of how she made some bad decisions before she got to the right ones.
What's a person to do when she may be a pony? What's a person to do when the pony is Twilight Sparkle? What's a person to do when Equestria is doomed and only she, and five strangers, can stand in the way? What's a person to do?