Through all their efforts, and most of the night, the ponies of Ponyville tried holding back the monster their princess once created. And through all of them, they still seem doomed for failure.

In their hour of need, it is time for a Deus Ex Machina in the form of a brown earth pony stallion to appear on the scene. And he is determined to give that overpowered shadow creature a good piece of his mind. The one thing he doesn't consider this time are his actions' consequences.