During one of her late night scoutings through Canterlot archives, Twilight Sparkle reads an ancient legend written over a thousand years ago

Snips gets flung back to the time of his childhood by a crazy time machine. Hilarity ensues

A private detective. A town full of colorful and suspicious ponies. A crime.

Twilight Sparkle has been captured and its up to Rainbow Dash and Applejack to bring her back