Twilight has been in Ponyville for two years now. Under Princess Celestia's instruction she has investigated and wrote on the magic that is friendship. Her studious nature has made sure she kept up to what would be her normal curriculum, but recently she has begun to find advances spells far to difficult for her to use. To compensate she has been going to sleep later and waking up earlier. Spike seems to be getting distant as Twilight gets further enveloped in her studies and her friends are beginning to worry about her. But it seems that Pinkie Pie is there to save the day when she knocks on her friends doors before dawn to tell them that there is a new pony in town, and they "Have to be the first to greet him."