Fifty ponies volunteered for a mission to travel deep into a cursed forest. Their mission is to find a way to end the war against the griffon kingdom and stop the bloodshed that is soaking their new homeland of Equestria. Fifty ponies took the word of an aging unicorn that hope rests somewhere deep in the heart of the forest, and that if this mission fails, Equestria will fall.
Now, only seven of those ponies are left. They must hold off a force several times their own size and battle the dangers of the forest. All while fighting with broken and scavenged equipment, little rest, less food, and private thoughts of racism that threaten to return them all to the ways of thinking that destroyed their old homeland.
Only one thought keeps these ponies together: If they fail, Equestria will crumble with them, and the ponies that survive will wish they hadn't.