No magic. No flight. No strength. No friendship. No hope. This is the world Sweetie Belle suddenly realizes she's living in. With hallucinations of a pair of supposed childhood friends becoming ever-more frequent and a visit from an old mare who seems to know what they're about, life just became a lot more complicated for this poor young mare. Can she find her old friends, rekindle their old friendship, and defeat a totalitarian regime before all of ponydom is plunged past the point of no return?

EDIT: I added a short paragraph to "Patriotic Duty" that shows Sweetie Belle giving spare change to a beggar. I had an idea about where to take the story that required the edit. The action itself is unimportant, but what it illustrates will be supremely important to the resolution of the story.