“Gonna hitch a ride,/Head for the other side,/Leave it all behind,/Never change my mind.” –Boston, ‘Hitch A Ride’

After yet another failure to get their cutie marks, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle find a strange blue box that belongs to a a peculiar brown stallion called the Doctor. Like any other adventurous youngsters, the Crusaders enter the machine and start it up, throwing them into a once in a lifetime journey.