Rainbow Dash thought she had hit rock bottom when she got the letter saying her mom had died and another one saying she would no longer be aloud to learn to be a pilot at the Wonder Bolts Academy. But after a fateful encounter she finds herself aboard the Sun Flair, a privateering airship headed south east on a mission to the New Lunar Republic. The only question is will she be able to strike it rich as a legal pirate, or will the danger of the job and craziness of the crew do her in first