Our protagonist Dawn, student of Princess Twilight, gets pulled deep into the crisis of Ponerheim and finds herself at an audience with Her mentor.Twilight is grown up and now (by law) equal to Celestia, but is still not as experienced as her. Being confronted with the crisis and the resulting absence of her former teacher, she struggles to keep the line between being Princess and being Twilight Sparkle. Meanwhile a mighty villain is rising with every passing moment.