Cloudchaser's sister has disappeared in Trottingham, and the Guard won't even lift a hoof to help her. Desperate, she calls upon an old acquaintance, and is pulled into something far larger than a simple disappearance.

A young changeling leaves the hive for the first time ever, despite his... lack of talent. His assignments: Spying on Twilight Sparkle, not being caught, not being a liability to the hive, not stranding himself. He fails at two of those.

An ancient evil, slumbering beneath Equestria since the beginning of time, awakens at last. Only the three Princesses know the true nature of the enemy, and must confront it with the help of the Element bearers. If only it was that simple.

A year after discovering herself and learning of Twilight's future, Princess Cadence is summoned to distant Los Pegasus by a strange outbreak of an unknown sickness that clouds not the body, but the mind.

Faced with having to get a real job and do something with her life, a young Miamore Cadenza hears whispers of something greater, and something far darker, in part one of this epic journey spanning milennia.