While in Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle has come across a bat pony named Shadow Blaze, and he has his own ways of being tested by the daily trials of friendship. He has to see things in a different way than most ponies do. He may even teach Twilight and her friends a few things about friendship they didn't even know.

This is rated teen to be safe. Some ideologically sensitive topics will be present in this story.