Flash Acumen is dropped into the depths of the Everdark, a collection of deep tunnels beneath Equestria. With limited supplies, he needs to escape before he succumbs to starvation, exposure, or is devoured by the monsters of the deep.

Long before the adventures of Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash. Our tale occurred back in those early ages of magic and steel, when Equestria was still wild and untamed: a time of mighty warriors, cunning rogues.