After Bloom & Gloom, Apple Bloom finds that her shadow now talks to her in the waking world, too, and retains the power to make things go away. It only wants to help her.

A student of Twilight Sparkle knows dangerous magic when she sees it. And yet it is hers, unwilling to do anything truly bad without her command.

This secret can not keep forever. Given its host, it will not even keep long. What will those around her think when they learn of her power?