Because it only takes one person to make Twilight Sparkle benevolent and nice and kind while everyone else is a dick.

There are earth ponies, like Apple Bloom. Pegasi, like Scootaloo. Unicorns, like Sweetie Belle. Alicorns, like... wait, what?

Caramel is a clumsy, forgetful blacksmith, who is moving from Hoofington to Ponyville with nothing with him but his things and his wits. Working on the farm of Sweet Apple Acres, he makes the first friends in his life, and might learn something too.

When you're thrown into a crazy new - or maybe old as time - world with nothing but each other and someone who could possibly be the most insane pony ever, what do you do? Well, the Cutie Mark Crusaders become CMC alternate-Equestrians!