In a wintery war-torn city, one impoverished mare is going to put on a look of grim regard and set out to make it even worse

After being stranded by a mission-gone-wrong, two strange changelings have to rely on each other to escape ponies who want to kill them for crimes they did commit.

Trimmel is an up-and-coming officer in the Royal Vesalipolis Army. Dieter is an unwashed terrorist schizophrenic who might be able to see the future. They should hate each other... so why did they end up working together?

In the desolate nation formerly known as the Changeling Lands, one pony and four other ponies try to destroy one of the most dangerous fighting machines in history.

A member of the resistance against Changeling occupation winds up captured, but goes somewhere worse than jail.

While wandering the forests around his hometown, a woodspony finds the body of a mortally-wounded Queen Chrysalis. Having nothing better to do, he decides to investigate.