Disclaimer: Background ponies may experience variations in character, ponies that are ponies as of Magical Mystery Cure will remain ponies (the human tag doesn't apply story-wide). This story is AU because it doesn't adhere to all the events in MMC/EQ.

There are an untold number of stars in the known universe alone, for nopony has had the will nor the patience to count them. But in the middle of fixing one of her greatest mistakes, Twilight Sparkle and her friends are whisked off to another realm that they would have shed sweat and tears to have been aware of long ago…

And they may still have to, for they are not the only residents of Equestria to land here, and not all of them are friendly.

When a pair of mysterious entities present them with a task where failure is death, as is refusal, what will they sacrifice to preserve themselves? Just what are the limits of friendship when rewards are promised to the survivor?

As if that wasn't enough, entire worlds hinge on the result, and these entities are bent on a positive outcome even if nopony agrees to play… For even they have rules.


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