Equestria isn't all butterflies and rainbows, y'know, and when a bystander of a pegasus finds herself caught in the midst of an old feud, things are bound to get dirty and they'll get dirty fast.

Hollow Dreams is what could be considered a fairly average colt living in Ponyville, but with a shattered reputation and strange events following him everywhere he goes, the odds are far from being in his favor...

They would defend her from this new and confusing world. Or at least, she thought so. Betrayal hurts. Changelings weren't supposed to hurt. Changelings weren't supposed to feel at all.

When a glitch-filled update is installed on a corrupted bot at Biotech Laboratories, Wire Sparks is born, capable of expressing emotion and complete with a feisty personality for the scientists to handle...

So, our story begins with Pale Clouds, with no idea of where she is or how she got there... Until she sees the changelings...