Princess Celestia has commissioned dozens of expeditions across the land to plant new outposts to further the Equestrian Empire. But when one is threatened with disaster, she sends her faithful student Twilight Sparkle to intervene, bring order to the chaos, and perhaps learn a little about Friendship along the way.

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Dark and Gore tags are mostly just in case, since I have no idea where this story is going just yet.