In his imprisonment, kept in solitude away from the harmonious land of Equestria, Discord plots a new way to break the cycle of Order and Chaos. He will need heroes, monsters, and villains from beyond Equestria, beyond space, and even beyond time.

After a stormy night, Rainbow and Twilight awaken to find Pipsqueak missing from his home. With the attention and aid of Princess Luna, the three set out to find the young colt. But what forces, or what terrors, are truly at play around them?

As Dash takes a trip, she remembers the reason why it has become so routine for her.

Following the Mirror Pool incident with Pinkie Pie, Twilight is curious of the abilities for a pony to be properly duplicated. She just needs a test subject willing to let her cast the spell. She gets her mare friend, Rainbow Dash.

It's easy to lose sight of how far you've come when all you can see are the mistakes of the past. What happens when Twilight finds herself trapped, knowing that for every thing she's done right, she's done something else wrong?

Twilight remembers all the best times in her life, and when she thinks its the end, Dash disagrees.

Rainbow Dash and Twilight give each other the most important gift of all on Hearth's Warming Eve. In the end, it's the little things that matter most.

For all the pains one can endure, sometime pains can find themselves truly capable of breaking us. For Nightmare Moon, a tyrant who has felt every kind of pain, there exists only one more way to harm her, mind, body, and soul.